The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-18 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

LISBON, 'MARCH 17.
The Messageries Imperiales Company's steamer
Bearn arrived here at 6 a.m. to-day from the
Brazils.

She left Rio on the 25th ult. Exchange was
quoted at 251 to 25,1; on Paris, 370 to 375.
Coffee, 6,900 to 7,000 reis. The shipments since
the last mail amounted to 92,200 bags, of which
38,200 were for the Channel. Stock, 140,000 bags.
At Bahia exchange on London was quoted 261.
Sugar, 2,600 to 2,750 reis ; brown, 2,0J0 to 2,150
reis,

Exchange on London at Pernambuco was quoted
251 to 26. Sugar, 4,600 ; brown, 1,750. Cotton ,
11,400 to 11,160 ; seconds, 10,400 to 10,600.

COLLECTION OP THE REVENUE.

A return moved for in Parliament by Mr. Hors--
fall, giving an account of the Customs revenue,
shows the heavy charge for salaries and expenses
at some of the ports. At Cardiff the Customs
duties collected last year amounted to £12,937,
and the expenses were £5,201; at Harwich the
amount received was £1,746, and the expenses
£1,263. At Milford the duties collected produced
only £645, and the expenses were £1,337, and in
several other places the expenditure far exceeded
the receipts ; in some parts of Scotland it was
ten times greater—at Wigtown £705, and the
receipt only £54. This may be unavoidable, but
it is a great burden upon the tax. The House of
Commons has just voted £335,000 for poundage on
the collection of Inland Revenue; this return shows
what proportion of the commission the distributor
of stamps gets. At Lincoln this officer received
£1,009 last year; at Shrewsbury, £1,198; at other
towns still more, at Liverpool, £2,214. A large part
of the return is occupied with a statement of the
number of forms of documents used in the
Revenue Departments, and it is not a little surpris-
ing. In the Cu&toms no less than 11,177,581 forms
were used in the last year. At Dublin, where the
Customs duties collected amounted to rather
more than million, 135,629 forms were used;
but at Bristol, where not quite a million and a
quarter were collected, no less than 239,679 forms
were used; and at Liverpool, where the duties
collected are not four times those of Dublin, the
forms used were nearly 14 times as many. At Wig-
town, where the £54 were collected, 4,808 forms
were used; and at Campbeltown, where the collec-
tion amounted only to £l7, no less than 3,053 forms
were used. In the Inland Revenue Department
25,448,790 forms were used in the year, but this
includes receipts given on payment of the land,,
assessed, and income taxes. In the two depart--
ments together Customs and Inland Revenue
(without the Post-office)-117,000 forms of docu-
ments on an average were used in every working
day in the year, 15,000 of them in internal manage-
ment, nearly 1,800 in communications with the
Board of Trade and miscellaneous business, and,
above 100,000 in transacting business with the
public.

DISCOVERY ()F DATER AT THE
WARREN FARM WELL, BRIOIITOIV.

A:second edition of the Brighton Times, published
yesterday, says :—" The long-sought for water has
appeared at the Warren Farm Well, much to the
exultatip and delight of the persevering board of
guardians. Early this morning the intelligence
spread like wildfire throughout the town, and it is
now the universal theme of rejoicing among the
inhabitants. We despatched our special reporter to
ascertain the most correct and authentic information,
when it appeared that last night (Sunday) the men.
on night duty, as usual, came up for refreshments.
On going down the shaft to resume work, they
were amazed to find that water to an abundant
`degree had come at last. Their escape was most
providential. On measuring the depth of the water,
it was found to have risen to the height of 400 ft.
This has kept on increasing till, according to the last
account, it has reached 700 ft. We are credibly in-
formed that the water is still rising at the rate of
100 ft. per hour. The town is in ecstacy. The
weekly expenditure has been at the rate of £lOO.
The main depth of this celebrated well is supposed.
to be 1,282 ft. from the surface. From the speci-
mens of strata produced, at the board of guardians
last Tuesday, and which are now lying before us,
the appearance of petrified wood and clay is really
discernible, and on testing this with fire, it has all:
the appearance of a slatey substance mixed with gas
or gunpowder."

ThE SUPPOSED MURDER OFA YOUNG

WOMAN IN THE REGENT'S-TARE.

Last evening Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner for
West Middlesex, and the jury empanelled on Mon-
day last, reassembled at the Buffalo's Head Thvernt
Marylebone•road, to resume an inquiry into the
mysterious circumstances attending the death of
Martha Hunton, aged 19, of Cuthbert-street.
park, Paddington, whose body was found in the
Regent's Canal, with various marks of external
violence, on the 25th ult., as previously detailed in
our columns.

Charles Stephenson, 16, Cuthbert-street, Hall-
park, deposed that he had known the deceased for
the last two months, and had been in the habit of
meeting her at the theatre. He last saw her alive
on the evening preceding her death at the Maryle-
bone Theatre. They drank a little together, after
leaving the theatre, at the Sailor publichouse, where
she said to him " Lor, Charley, what a pretty ring
you have got ; let me try it on, will you." lie
allowed her to place it on her finger, and when she
got it on she said she could not get it off again, and
he then said " Never mind ; don't make a bother
about it ; you had better keep it." He then wished
her good night, and parted. It was at that time'
about a quarter-past 11. She appeared in excellent
spirits, but not quite sober.

The ring, which was of plain gold with a single
red stone, was here produced by the beadle, and
identified by witness as the one he allowed her to
keep.

Thomas Morgan deposed that he had no particu-
lar address at present. He followed the employ-
ment of a clerk. Knew deceased very well ; the last
time he saw her alive was about half-past one en the
morning of the 25th ultimo, which was scarcely au
hour before her body was found in the canal, when
she called at the house of Mrs. Edwards, 12, Little
Church-street, to see him. Directly he saw her he
told her that she had been drinking, and she replied
"If I have it is not at your expense." She appeared
to be very jealous of him at the time, and apparently
of another girl whom she fancied he was cohabiting
with. She stayed there but a few minutes, and
suddenly ran away in an excited and jealous state
of mind. He immediately ran after her. 11e!,
aving„
lost sight of her he returned within five
afterwards. She had often threatened to commit
suicide. minut

A Mrs. Edwards, and a woman described as her
servant, corroborated the last witness's evidence, and
both testified to the jealous and excited state the
deceased was in at the time of the interview as
above stated. Mrs. Edwards was of opinion that
she went away with the intention to commit self-
destruction. She had threatened self-destruction
on former occasions.
Other evidence was adduced, but it threw no ad-
ditional light upon the case.
The jury deliberated and returned an open ver-
dict, " That deceased was found drowned in the
Regent's Canal, but how she came into the water
there was no evidence to show."