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SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1863.

NO. 22,304,

Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
T" WIFE'S EVIDENCE.
By W. G. WILLS.
"A remarkable novel. It has a marked, earnest purpose,
urged with the utmost power. It is a story of rare and in-
tense interest."—Morning Post.
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DO NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT.
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QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 20.

The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, from Boston
on the 9th and Halifax on the 11th icst., arrived
here at two a.m. to-day. She brings 58 passengers
and 30,955 doll. in specie. She landed 57 sacks of
mails and six passengers and proceeded for Liver-
pool at 2.30 a.m., all well.
NEW YouK, Dec. 8, Afternoon.
General Foster reports from Taze well, Tennessee,
on the 7th :—" General Longstreet is in full retreat
up the valley. Cavalry will pursue him. Yester-
day my cavalry attacked that of the enemy in one
of the passes of the Clinch Mountain and was pur-
suing them vigorously. Couriers from Knoxville
arrived here last night. The road is clear, a man
having arrived here yesterday.
The official reports state :
General Longstreet commenced his siege opera-
tions against Knoxville upon the 18th ult., and
raised the siege upon the 4th inst., retreating to-
wards Bristol, via Harristown Railway to Rich-
, mond, and south from Bristol, along the north and
south banks of Holston River.

Now ready, illustrated by Millais, ss. bound,

land, was captured by 16 Confederates, who left
New York in the steamer as passengers. They
landed the captain and crew at St. John's, but they
killed the second engineer. A large number of
steamers have left New York in pursuit.
Congress has unanimously passed a vote of
thanks, and voted a medal to Gen. Grant.

It is rumoured that General Pleasanton has super-
sbothAlea Meade,
refused Generals Sedgwick and
Warren
re nGeneral
b avingpp
ointment,
The New York Tribune and Times applaud Pre-'
a sident Lincoln's Message.

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The New York TVorld thinks the Mcssage to bo
good as an electioneering document, but considers
his plan for a reconstruction to be absurd.
The New York Herald believes the President's
plan for a reconstruction win be a failure.
News from Charleston to the 7th inst. reports
matters quiet.
Money tight. Gold, which has fluctuated since
Monday between 52 and 47, closed to-day 50-1- per
cent. prem. Exchange on London, Bankers' bills,
161; on Paris, 3.40. Stocks steady. New York
Centrals 132, Illinois Centrals 1161, Erie 1041,
Six per Cent. United States Bonds 1071. Cot-
ton—Heavy middling Upland, 78c. to 79c. Flour
advancing ; wheat, good inquiry ; corn, large spe-
culative sales ; provisions, steady ; coffee very firm;
sugar, limited demand; molasses very dull.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9, Afternoon.
Money tight. Gold 484 per cent. prem.

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NIEMOIRS OF JANE CAMERON,
FENIALE CONVICT. By a PRISON MATRON,
Author of " Female Life in Prison."

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JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL D'OPERA.
IY_IL • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, M. Jullien's celebrated Quadrille Baud of

NO T I C E.—,WEADOWLEIGH, the New
Novel, by the Author of "The Ladies of Bever
Hollow," is now ready at all Libraries, in two vols., post Bvo.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

110 Performers.
Conduotor—M. JULLIEN.

Doors open at 0. Dancing will commence at 10. Supper
will be served at 1 o'clock. .

LORD MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
Complete in 8 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait and brief Memoir,
price 48s. cloth ;or 84s. bound in tree-calf by Riviere ;or
each Volume separately, price Gs. cloth,
THE HISTORY of ENGLAND from the
ACCESSION of JAMES the SECOND. By the Right
Hon. Lord MACAULA.Y.

Ball t,ckets, 10s. 6d. each. Dress circle, ss. ; Gallery stalls,
4s. ; gallery, 2s. Private boxes, from four guineas.
Tickets may be obtained at Jellien's, Regent-street; at the
Box-office of the Theatre; and at the doors during the
evening.
N.B.—No person will be admitted in Clown, Harlequin, or
Pantaloon costumes.

Foster's cavalry is pursuing on the south, and
Sherman's on the north bank. General Longstreet
has 36 hours'start. Sherman's advance has reached
Knoxville.

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PARIS.-THE GRAND HOTEL,
Boulevard des Capucines, Place de, Nouvelle Opera,
opposite the Rue de la Paix, and near the Theatres.
Has been opened since July, 1862. It contains 700 bed-
rooms, priors from 4fr. to 251 r. ; 70 drawing-rooms, from sfr.
to 30fr. ; a magnificent salon, capable of dining more than
300 persons, and where there is a table d'hote at six o'clock.
Dinners and breakfasts are served a la catlc in. the-coffee
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tions, a music-room, and a drawing-room for the use of tra-
vellers without any additional charge. There are also baths,
billiard-rooms, smoking. divans, post-office ; cabs, carriages,
and omn buses going to the railway stations. The servant
speak all languages. This superb hotel, possessing all that
modern luxury and comfort can combine, and situated in the
mo't fashionable part of Paris, is recommended to the atten-
tion of travellers.
Independently of their Two Hotels, the Compagnie Immo-
biliere has established an extensive Private Furnish( d House
on the Boulevard des Capucines, opposite the ROTUNDA of
the GRAND HOTEL, where Families can reside as in their
own private residences, and where they may rely upon find-
ing the utmost comfort.

The Fedorals are preparing for the Tinter de-
fence of Chattanooga and Lookout Mon...in.
Boats are running to Kingston, and r
being completed to Bridgeport.
The Confederates captured 15 Federal forage
waggons, 12 miles from Chattanooga.
General Bragg has been relieved from his com-
mand at his own request. He was serenaded upon
the 2d at Dalton, where he made a farewell
address. No successor has been appointed. Gen.
Hardee commands temporarily. Bishop Polk has
been ordered to command the department of the
Southern Mississippi.
General Forrest is encamped 15 miles from
Holly Springs with 10,000 men.
Western Tennessee, Western Kentucky, and
Northern Mississippi, as far as Tallahatchie, have
been formed into one Confederate department.
Great preparations are being made to defend it.

JAPAN.

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NEW YORE, Dee. 8, Afternoon.

Advicee received here from Kanagawa, Japan, tc,
Nov. 1, state that great excitement prevailed there.
Another European had been murdered. An armed
force from the fleet was guarding the city perma-
fiently.

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This day is published,

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SOURCE OF THE NILE.

By JOHN BANNING SPEKE,
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In one large volume, octavo, price 21s.

With a Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa by Captain Speke ;
numerous Illustrati .ns chiefly from Drawinv,s by Captain
Grant; and Portraits Engraved on Steel of Captains r:peke
and Grant,
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

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This day, Never before Published, price 25.,
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POLYTECHNIC.—Patron : RR H. the PRINCE
of WALES.—C HRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—The Ghost
Effects and Spectral Illusions, being Professor Pepper's
adaptation of the original and most startling. illusion of
Henry Dircks, Esq., C.E. The Illustrated Fairy Tales, the
Shadow Pantomime, the Christmas Tree, the Improved
Chinese Fireworks. The Entertainments and Lectures pro-
vided this year are on the most bberal scale, and commence
on BOXING DAY, December 26, 1833.
N.B.—The Institution will be closed on the 22d, 23d, 24th,
and 25th December, in order to make the very extensive pre-
parations required for the Christmas Entertainments.

Five thousand Confederates are reported to be
advancing on Maysville, Kentucky.
The Confederate General Macpherson has issued
a conscription order in Tennessee, similar to that
issued by General Hurlburt.
General Lee has made no attempt to cross the
Rapidan in force, but Stuart's and Mosley's cavalry
keep up their raids north of the Rappahannock.
It is supposed Meade will go into winter quar-
ters some distance north of the Rappahannock.
The Confederates have captured Thomas Francis
Meagher.
Advices from Charleston are to the 4th instant.
A slow fire is being kept up on Fort Sumter.
The firing upon Charleston has ceased, but the
Federals are remounting more guns bearing upon
the city.
Southern papers assert that Gillmore's Greek fire
is easily extinguished. General Beauregard visited
Fort Sumter upon the 2d inst.
The Confederates, in strong organised bodies, are
impeding the navigation upon the Mississippi.
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation that,
in consequence of receiving reliable information that
the insurgents were retreating from Tennessee,
under circumstances rendering it probable that the
Federals cannot heretifter be dislodged from there,
and esteeming this to be of high national conse-
quence, he recommends the people to return public
thanks.

MEXICO.

NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR. OF " SACKVILLE CHASE."
In the January Number (ready Dec. 21) of the
ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE will commence
THE MAN IN CHAINS.
By C. J. COLLINS.
London : Kent and Co., Paternoster-row.

THE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and
Preserved by ART.
By M. C. ROGERS, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist.
London : 18, New Burlington-street, W.

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T H E
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R, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the
following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA FORZA
DE L DES'! INO— Verdi ; by the following talented artistes ,
—Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, ‘l, almsley, Tyrrell,
and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, finish, Kimberley, Stuart, &a
Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOITI COLLINS, the
celebrated English Violinist.
Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant.
And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL
PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor.
Comedy, by UNSWORTTI (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Madigan, and the marvel-
lous Gymnast, J. Henderson.
In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas Eve, sup-
ported by the entire company, a new and original Cantata,
entitled " King Christmas." written by Litchfield Moseley,
Esq., and composed by W, Meyer Lutz, expressly tor the
e3tabUshmeut.

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Change of Programme Nightly. Morning Performances,
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Admission—Private boxes, one guinea ; Reserved seats, Is.;
Stalls and Balcony, Is. ; Pit and Promenade, Is. ; Gallery, ed.
Box-offize open daily.
On Monday, Dec. 2 • st, first appearance of M. Jules Perez,
from Madrid, the Greatest Rider of the age.

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During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at Her
Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY
EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, is.

Manager—M. GRENET.

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Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman and
Wife; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the
Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,0J0 Models, Natural Pre-
parations, ..tc. Egyptian Dlummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Megrera screw troopship, Commander Edward Mad-
den, is hourly expected to arrive at Spithead from the West
Indies with the Ist battery of the 7th brigade, Royal Artil-
lery, on board, together with a number of military and naval
invalids and time expired men. The battery of Artillery em-
barked on board the Megrera at Jamaica on the 25th ult.,
and on disembarking from the ship at Portsmouth will be
quartered at Fort Brockhurst, near Gosport.
On Friday the Grew of the screw steam frigate Topazo,
39, Commodore the Hon. W. S. Spencer, just returned from
the Pacific, were mustered and inspected by Vice-Admiral
of the Red Sir C. H. Fremantle, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief at Plymouth. On Saturday morning the frigate dis-
charged her powder and then proceeded from the Sound
into Hamoaze, and was placed alongside the jetty of the
Devonport dockyard. To-day the duty of dismantling will
be commenced, preparatory to paying off the crew.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, with seamen, from
Queenstown, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth.
The iron screw steamship Resistance, 16, Capt. W. C.
Chamberlain, having been repaired, was put out of the
Prince's Dock at Devonport on Saturday, and removed from
Hamotize into the Sound. After taking an experimental
run outside the breakwater, she went to the Admiralty an-
chorage and shipped her powder and shell, and is now ready
for sea.

The Admiralty, it has just transpired, sent an officer to
America some time ago to inspect and report upon the guns
in use there. The officer intrusted with this mission is one
of whose ability there can be no doubt.
The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Commander R. Wells, to the Immortalite
—Commander R. A. Parr, to the Lyra—J. G. Mongan,
master, to the Asia, for the tender—lt H. Hawes, confirmed
as master of the Perseus—G. B. Moore, surgeon, to the
Rattlesnake—F. Bunn, paymaster, to the Lyra—E. A. M,
Chaffers, assist.-paymaster, to the Resistance—H. Marsh,
clerk, to the Lyra--William F. 'Woods, clerk, to the Im.
placable—T. 0. Johnston, assist.-clerk, to the Canopus—
and John Hawkins, second-class assist.- engineer, to the
Salamander.

General Butler has issued a proz.lamation saying,

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the recruitment of coloured troops having become a
purpose of the Government, and as the best use dur-
ing the war for able bodied coloured men, both for
themselves and their country, is to be soldiers, Go-
vernment officers must not employ negroes to work
at higher wages than soldiers' pay. Every possi-
ble provision will be made for negroes.
Congress met yesterday. The Democrats were
divided on the choice of a candidate for a speaker,
, and Colfax, a Republican, was elected speaker of
the house. This secures to the Republicans an
opponent of standing committees.

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Notico has been given of a bill to suspend the
Canadian Reciprocity Treaty.
The Russian officers are being feted in Wash-
ington.

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, Evening.
General Longstreet has retreated from Knox.
vine towards Virginia.

General Hardee is falling back from Dalton with
Bragg's troops.
Breckenridge is not dead.

Congress met yesterday, and the President's
Message will appear to-morrow. Mr. Lincoln is
reported better.
The Sasonia and liedar have arrived out.

NEW YORK, Dec. 8, Afternoon.

Intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 21st ult, an-
nounces that the French had occupied Queretaro
without opposition. Juarez had left San Louis di
Potosi for Taucaucas. His army was scattered, de-
moralised, and offering no resistance.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAG'.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX,

NEW YORK, Dec. 10, Afternoon.
President Lincoln's Messege says that the British
Government, as was further expected, has exercised
its authority to prevent the departure of new hos-
tile expeditions from British ports. The French
Emperor, by similar proceedings, promptly vindi-
cated the neutrality which he proclaimed at the
beginning of the contest.
Blockade questions have been discussed and
accommodated in a spirit of frankness, justice, and
national goodwill. Our Prize Courts, by the im-
partiality of their adjudication, have commanded
the respect and confidence of maritime Powers.
An important question, involving the maritime
jurisdiction of Spain in the waters surrounding
Cuba has been debated without reaching agreement,
and it is proposed to refer the question to the arbi-
tration of a friendly Power.

The rights of aliens in America are partially
defined by treaties with some Governments. In
no instance, however, is it stipulated that in the
event of civil war foreigners residing within the
lines of the insurgents are to be exempted from the
rule which classes them as belligerents, in whose
behalf their Governments cannot expect any privi-
leges or immunities distinct from that characttr.
Such tlaims, however, have been put forward on
behalf of foreigners residing here the greater part
of their lives.
The Message states that the receipts during the
year from all sources, including loans and the
balance in the Treasury at the commencement of
the year, were 900,000,000 dols. The disburse-
ments during the year were 695,000,000 dols. The
receipts from the Customs were 69,000,000 dols.,
end from the internal revenue 37,000,000 dols. The
amount received from loans was 776,000,000 dols.
The disbursements in the War Department
amounted to 590,000,000 dole., and for the Navy
Department to 63,000,000 dole.
Over 1,000 vessels have been captured since the
blockade was instituted. The naval force consists
of 518 vessels, 75 of which are iron-clads.
100,000 freed slaves are in the Federal service,
half of them bearing arms.
Mr. Lincoln declares that whilst he remains in
his present position he shall not attempt to retract
or modify the Emancipation Proclamation,
nor
return to slavery any person who is freed by that
proclamation, or by any act of Congress.
The Message further says
" In the midst of other cares we must not lose
sight of the fact that war power is our main reliance,
and that to that power alone we can look for a time
to give confidence to the people in contented regions
that the insurgent power, will not overrun them.
Until that confidence is re-established, little can be
done anywhere for what is called ' reconstruction.'
Hence our chief care must be directed to the army."
President Lincoln's proclamation contains the

PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9, Afternoon.
Accompanying President Lincoln's Message is a
proclamation, suggesting the -following terms for
the reconstruction of the Union :--
An amnesty will be granted to persons in rebel-
lious States who take the oath of allegiance to the
United States, and an oath to support all the acts
passed by the Federal Congress, and all proclama-
tions issued by Mr. Lincoln since the rebellion, in-
eluding the Emancipation Proclamation.
This latter oath, the President observes in his
Message, is subject to the modifying and abrogat-
ing power of legislation and supreme judicial deci-
sion, if one-tenth of the legalised voters of any re-
bellious State take the oaths above cited and form a
Republican State Government. Such Government
will be recognised and receive constitutional protec-
tion from the Federal Government.
Persons who have held office under the Confede-
rate Government ; those who held rank in the army
above the rank of colonel, or in the navy above the
rank of lieutenant; those formerly holding judicial
positions, or Who resigned the Federal service and
joined the rebellion; and those who have treated
coloured soldiers otherwise than as prisoners of war,
are exempted from the amnesty.
The proclamation does not refer to the States
which throughout the rebellion have maintained
the loyal Government.
Mr. Lincoln says that the mode proposed in the
proclamation is the best the Executive can suggest,
but it must not be understood that no other possible
mode would be acceptable.
The Message declares that foreign relations are
lion, Friendly,
contains but, beyondnothing the accompg proclama..
important.
NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (Morning).
President Lincoln's proclamation accompanying
the Message grants not only an amnesty but a full
pardon and restoration of the rights of property,
except slave property, to those taking the oaths
described in the proclamation.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (Morning).
The Secretary of the Treasury has imposed an
increase of duty on distilled spirits to 60 cents, per
gallon; on tobacco to 20 cents. per lb on leaf, and
from sto 12 cents. on manufactured ; and of 10
cents. per gallon on petroleum. Money tight.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (Evening).
The of the secretary of the Treasury
Says : report
"It will bo necessary to raise by loans
460,000,000 doll to cover the expenses till July,
1864. I twill be necessary to provide 545,000,000 dole
for the expenses from July, 1864, to July, 1865.
The State debt in July, 1865, is estimated at 2,200
million dollars. The Secretary proposes to increase
the deposits for temporary loans and the certificates
of indebtedness, but will issue no more Treasury
notes.

The stewmer Ch!..oqieithe, from: New York to For'

following additional provisions for State Govern-
ments formed in accordance with the terms of the
proclamation
" State Governments may make any provision in
relation to negroes which shall recognise and declare
their permanent freedom, provide for their educa-
tion, and which may yet be consistent as a temporary
arrangement with their present condition as a
laborious, landless, houseleas class. State Govern-
ments may retain the name of the State, and the
same boundary, constitution, and general code of
laws as existed before the rebellion, subject to the
modification made neeessary by the conditions of
the proclamation."

THE BRAZILIAN AND RIVER PLATE
MAILS.

BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 12.

The long-talked-of National Debt Bill has at
last been passed. Holders of claims, &c., against
the late National Government will, on proving their
demands, be entitled to receive 6 per cent, bonds,
which, it is thought, will be ultimately introduced
on the London Exchange.

The currency has suffered a still further deprecia-
tion, owing to the rejection by the Chambers of the
bill authorising a foreign loan. The discussion of
the bill excited strong party feeling. The measure
was rejected, from the conviction that if the loan
was obtained in England, even on the most favour-
able terms, so long as the Bank was left under the
control of the Government the public had no suffi-
cient guarantee that the proceeds of the loan would
be applied for the purposes for which it was
made.
The works of the Buenos Ayres Northern Rail-
way are almost finished to San Fernando, and the
company is doing a large business. The. Western
Railway has over ten miles of the extension com.
pleted, but owing to the scarcity of hands the works
progress but slowly.
The state of the interior provinces is without
change. In the distant parts of the Republic,
Penaloza still defies the authority of the National
Government. In the province of Corrientes cotton
pleating is the sole topic, and a very good
crop is
expected.
It is stated on good authority that Br?zil is con.
centrating large bodies of men at various points on
the Oriental frontier, and that 10,000 Brazilian
troops are about to enter the Banda Oriental to
assist the lawfully established Government of the
country to put down the revolution.

The Buenos Ayres Standard of the 11th says :
" We are happy to assure our readers that there i 8
every probability of peace being concluded through
the mediation of President ilitre and the Brazilian,
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have been sent to the Government and Flores. We
hope in a day or two to be able to assure our readers
the revolution is all oven'

Business is rather brisk ; both importers and
shopkeepers are doing well. Money is easy, and
buyers abundant. The new wool has come to
market. The quality is said to be inferior to that
of last year. Shearing is progressing in Banda
Oriental ; es yet none of the wool has arrived in
market. The highest price paid this year for me-
rino wool has been €6 dols m.c., and for mestizo
90 dais m.c., but these prices are difficult to obtain.
The country is still suffering from drought in
many parts. The wheat crop in Chivilcoy is com-
pletely lost for want of rain, and in several districts
of Entre Rios the cotton plants are suffering from a
fly, which eats into the stalk and destroys the plant.
PERNAMBUCO, Nov. 30.

The accounts received by the Parana will, it is
fearrd,
cause a further advance upon prices, already
Order
too high to afford the prospect of much profit any-
where.
competition
are very large, and there is nothing
to ship ; and for what now comes to
market is excessive.
The entries are about '75,000
bags Paraiba. 4 000
bagso realised 2 dols 400 per
arroba. The arrivals f
cotton
are increasing, and
about 6,000 bags to hand this
vision
mouth,sails
The English barque
with 2,000 bags on board, and English barque
the
for Liverpool,
Victoria, with 1,000 bags on board, for Havre. The
Envoy, wit about 1,800 bags for Li : Liverpool • the
Ronald, with the same quantity, for Liverpool;
the Zone, with about 900 bags on board, and
also for
Liverpool. Sales of Paraiba cotton since' the 13th
have been at 29 dole and 29 dole 500 per arroba, free
on board. Sales of Maceio cotton since the 13th
have been at 28 dole 500 to 28 dols per arroba ; also
f.o.b. Stocks at the above ports are small, but an
active business is expected before the year closes.
Dry salted hides sold at 175 rs per lb. Sales of rum
small. Exchange transactions for this conveyance
amount to £lOO,OOO sterling, at 271 id to 281 d and
28id ; the rate closes firm at 28d per dollar. Dis-
counts easy.
The Parana, from Southampton, arrived on the
29th, and proceeded to the southern ports the same
day. _