The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-10 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

ARRIVAL OF THE LUSITANIA.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, 8 A.m.
By the steamer Lusitania we have advices from
Buenos Ayres to the 31st Dec. ; Montevideo to the
2d Jan. ; Rio Janeiro to the 10th ; Bahia to the
14th ; Pernambuco to the 16th ; St. Vincent to
the 22d ; and Lisbon to the 4th of February.
The fine new paddle steamer Argentina, belong-
ing to the same company as the Lusitania, had
been lost in the River Plato.
The Lusitania, has brought several passengers,
and three parcels of diamonds, value unknown.
The steamer Braziliera arrived at Bahia on the
14th of January, in 20 days from Liverpool. The
ship Sobraon, from Liverpool, for San Francisco,
had put into Bahia for water.
The United States frigate Constitution was at St.
Vincent's, with a slaver they had captured.
From Lisbon there is no news of importance.
The following vessels of war were in the Tagus :
—Arrogant, Valorous, Prince Regent, Duke of
Wellington, Amphion, Tribune, Imperieuse, De-
sperate, and Odin, all English ; and the French
steamer Newton.

The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Iberia ar-
rived at Lisbon on the 2d, and sailed for Gibraltar
on the 3d inst.

From Montevideo and Buenos Ayres we learn
that the political state of affairs in the Oriental
Republic had not experienced any material altera-
tion since the sailing of the last steamer. General
Flores continued his exertions to suppress the dis-
affected party, and several skirmishes of trifling
importance had occurred during the month, in one
of which Colonel Borez, a chief belonging to the
latter party, was killed.
The demand for manufactured goods had been
very slack for some time, and until tranquility was
restored little improvement could be expected.
Produce was scarce, and prices high. Exchange in
Montevideo, 41 to 411.
The accounts from Buenos Ayres are in general
satisfactory, but the differences with the provinces
remained in statu quo. General Urquiza had been
elected Constitutional President of the 13 Provinces.
Exchange, 665. 3d.

From Rio Janeiro there was no particular news.
Freights to the Channel, 80s. to 85s. ; Liverpool
and London, 60s. to 70s. per ton. Exchange, 28d.
The Royal mail steamer Thames arrived at Rio
on the 6th, after a passage of 28 days.
From Bahia we learn that the weather was un-
usually wet, and sugars were coming in very slowly.
Freights to the Channel, 80s. to 85s. ; Liverpool,
60s. ; and London, 70s. per ton. Exchange, 274.
From Pernambuco we learn that sugars were
coming in more freely. Cotton nominal. Freights
to Channel, 955. ; Mediterranean, 115 s. to 117 s.
6d. per ton. Exchange firm at 28d.

ROW TO TAKE SEBASTOPOL.

A "Traveller" suggests that if we may escort
Ottoman troops from one Turkish town upon the
Black Sea to another, in the present relations of
the Porte with Russia, we are fully entitled to in-
tercept the transport of Russian troops between
two Russian towns. If it is right that we should as-
sist Turkey in her warlike arrangements, it is equally
clear that we should impede like arrangements on the
part of Russia, otherwise we are simply encouraging
fighting and keeping up the spirits of the weaker
party, while we are at peace with both—a line
of policy utterly indefensible. If this is the
case, then, it is difficult to perceive why our '
fleets are at this moment lying in Beycos
Bay, instead of cruising off the roads of Sebas-
topol. If we can give orders to the Russian fleet
at all, surely we may see that they obey them, more
especially when it is of the most vital importance
that they should do so. It is evidently a primary
object to intercept all communication between Odessa
and Sebastopol ; it will make all the difference to
our blue jackets a month hence, whether that for-
tress be garrisoned by ten thousand or by fifty
thousand men. In all probability the garrison has
been considerably increased within the last few
months, but to stop at once all further communica-
tion with the mainland by sea and force it round
by way of the Isthmus of Perecop would be of in-
calculable advantage, while it would involve upon
the Emperor the disagreeable necessity of taking
the initiative, or, in other words, commencing the
war in downright earnest—a responsibility wich,
in spite of all his bluster, he seems somewhat re-
luctant to incur. Upon the same principle, if
we may convoy troops to Georgia, why may
we not ferry them across to the Crimea ? The
time has surely arrived when that mountain-
ous peninsula may be occupied by a Turkish
army. With the Russian fleet safely cooped up
n Sebastopol, and the only troops which could op-
pose them retained within its walls for the defence
of the fort, there would b 3 nothing whatever to
prevent Ottoman soldiers from landing in the mag-
nificent and capacious bay of Theodosia, and occu-
pying the entire Tauric Peninsula ; a whole army
might disembark at Theodosia before intelligence
could possibly be conveyed to Sebastopol, a dis-
tance of 120 miles. The intervening country is
composed of successive ranges of calcareous cliffs,
the highest point of which exceeds 5,000 feet ; the
features of the country are bold in the extreme, and
the history of those wars which have already at
former periods devastated the Crimea prove how
well adapted for defence are its narrow gorges and
inaccessible fortresses. Theodosia lies at the ex-
treme eastern point of the limestone ridge, which
is hero easily turned, and then the undulating
steppe stretches away to the capital of the Crimea,
Simpheropol. Here, however, there are no troops
regularly stationed. The distance from Simphe-
ropol to Sebastopol is 40 miles. Immediately to the
south of Simpheropol and parallel with the coast
runs the first range of cliffs, beyond which an
extensive and luxuriant valley is bounded on
the south by a still higher range. The only
entrances to this vale, now thickly inhabited by
a Mahometan population, are through gorges
sometimes so narrow that the bed of a stream
forms the only pathway. A magnificent road
leads along the southern shore at the base of the
second range ; but this would not be available
for Russian troops so long as a powerful fleet was
cruising off the coast, commanding it at every
corner, and threatening with instant destruction a
line of noblemen's chateaux, picturesquely perched
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upon every available pronio-ntory. It would be,
therefore, a safe route for an invading army. If a
strong body of Ottoman troops, in health and con-
dition (after only a two days' passage across the
Black Sea), aided by an entire population in revolt,
and supported by an invincible squadron, after hav-
ing possessed themselves of the undefended crags
of the Crimea and its luxuriant valleys, could not
reduce the wretched garrison of Sebastopol in a few
days, the Emperor may be right in supposing that
he will ultimately conquer the allied fleets and
armies of Europe ; and whilewegaste the precious
weeks in waiting for " the initiative," we certainly
cannot wonder that he indulges in a delusion which
our present conduct only serves to foster.

DESTRUCTION OF A GLASGOW COTTON MILL. On
morning the Oakbank spinning factory, near
was burnt to the ground, nothing being saved,
Glasgow, Saturday
with the exception of a couple of stories at one of the
ends. Three hundred workers will be thrown idle by
the disaster,