The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-15 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

By the Royal mail steam-ship Thames, Captain
William Strutt, which arrived at Southampton yester-
day, we have dates from Buenos Ayres, January 2 ;
Montevideo, January 5 ; Rio de Janeiro, January 14 ;
Bahia, January 18 ; Pernambuco, January 21 ; St.
Vincent's (Cape Yards), January 31 ; Teneriffe, Feb•
ruary 5 ; Maderia, February 6 ' • Lisbon, February 10.
The Thames has experienced strong north-east winds
from the period of leaving the Brazil coast till her ar-
rival at Southampton. She sailed from Rio de Janeiro
four days after the departure of the South American and
General Steam Navigation Company's steamer Lusi-
tana, which reached Liverpool on Friday last. The
Thames called, however, at two ports in addition to
those touched at by the Lusitania, and hence the advan-
tage of the voyage is in her favour.
The Royal mad steamer Camilla left Rio de Janeiro
for the River Plate on the 12th ult. The Great
Western, with the outward mails of the 9th of January,

sailed from St. Vincent's for the Brazils on the 211 u.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's steam(
Mauritius, bound to the Cape, was at St. Vincent's co
the 31st, as also the screw steamship Cleopatra, fro?
Australia, bound to Liverpool. The steamer Brasileii
had arrived out at Bahia in 20i days from Liverpool.
From Buenos Ayres we have accounts to the 2d
January. The news is, on the whole favourable. The
money-mark-et continued quiet, with a slight downward
tendency, The Minister of Finance had presented the
budget for the current year ; the estimated expenditure
was about 50,000,000 currency, leaving an estimated
deficit of nearly 5,000,000.
Her Majesty's ship Locust and United States' steamer
Savannah were at Montevideo ; her Majesty's ship
Vixen, at Buenos Ayres ; at Rio de Janeiro, her Ma-
jesty's steamer Centaur (Rear-Admiral Henderson), her
Majesty's steamer Sharpshooter, the Madagascar, and
brig Express. The Russian frigate Diana, of 50. guns,
was also lying there. The United States' brig Bain-
bridge sailed ou the 14th of January for the River Plate.
Her Majesty's steamer Trident was at Bahia. At St.
Vincent's, the United States' frigate Constitution, from
the African Coast.
WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Plata arrived at Southampton yesterday with the
West India mails. Her dates are—Chagres, Jan. 23 ;
Demerara, 25 ; Trinidad, 25; Jamaica, 27 ; Barbadoes,
28; St. Thomas's; 31. She has on freight 500 ounces of
silver, 36381. in specie, 20,1791 b. gold dust, and a usual
cargo.

The cholera at Nevis had abated; also at St.Thomas's.
At Tortola it was still raging.
At Antigua yellow fever of a mild type had presented
itself.

Nothing of great importance had occurred at Jamaica
in political matters. The Assembly had re-assembled.
Mining operations were still progressing satisfactorily.
The weather was very breezy, but no epidemic disease
prevailed.

Rear-Admiral Sir G. Seymour had sailed from Port-
Royal for Bermuda, to wait the arrival of his successor,
Sir Wm. Fanshawe, C.B.
The supplies in the market were ample, but produce
was quiet.

Exchange was quoted for bills on London at 90 days,
at per cent. prem.; 60 days, 1 do.; 30 days, do.
A strike of the field labourers had taken place at St.
Vincent's for an advance of wages.
At Grenada all was quiet.
A disturbance had arisen at Dominica, and troops
had been sent for from Antigua. The militia corps re•
fused to turn out.

St. Kitt's and the other islands are reported as healthy

TTTI PENINSULAR MAILS.

ADMIRAL CORRY'S FLEET.

The Iberia arrived at Southampton yesterday.
Her Majesty's ships Prince Regent, Duke of Welling-
ton, Sauit Jean d'Acre, Imperieuse, Arrogant, Am-
phion, Tribune, Valorous, and Odin, were at Lisbon on
the 9th.

Her Majesty's ship Desperate sailed for England on
the 6th with invalids and promoted-officers.
Admiral Corry has officially notified to the captains
and gunnery officers of the squadron that we are on the
eve of a war with Russia, and he will expest4O find
that the ships are perfect in gunnery. Every attention
has been paid to this important point of the service
throughout the fleet.

It is rumoured at Lisbon that the British Government
has asked the Portuguese Government whether it will
furnish a contingent of twelve thousand men for this
occasion ; but it is believed that no effective aid can be
expected from Portugal, as the Government there is
completely Russian ised.

Her Majesty's ship Prince Regent is to come to Eng-
land to be paid off, that her crew may be transferred to
one of the screw line-of-battle ships.
Exchange on London at Lisbon 54. Discount of
notes two and one-third per cent.

MARKET NE WS-(T.1118 DAY..;

CORN EXCHANGE.

Although the supply of English wheat on sale in to-day's
market was very limited, the demand for all kinds was in
a very inactive state, at Monday's currency.
Upwards of 10,000 quarters of foreign wheat have come
to hand since Saturday. The trade was dull in the ex-
treme, at barely stationary prices.
Floatiug cargoes were dull.
We had a heavy sale for barley and malt, both of which
articles were lower to purchase.
The oat trade was heavy. In beans, peas, and flour so
little was doing that the quotations were almost nominal.

ARRIVALS THIS WEIR.
Barley. Malt.
4,430 3,360
1 550
10,320 1,250

Wheat.
1,420

English ..
Irish
Foreign ..

Oats. Flour.
1,990 860
9,640
2,640 5 ,630 brl
100 aka

WHITECHAPEL.

Eeach kind of meat moved off slowly, as follows :
Beef from 38 Od to 4s Os ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; veal,
3s 8d to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the.
Carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.
We have a moderate inquiry for most kinds of hops, at
last week's currency.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

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LONDON, Feb. 15.—Wind this day at Noon, N. li4kt
breeze, and dull, hazy weather. The barometer has fallen
considerably since yesterday.
RAMSGATE, Feb. 14.—Wind, W. by N. Arrived—
Alexander Hall, from Callao, for Aberdeen.
FALMOUTH, Feb. 14.—Wind, N. Sailed—Volante, for
Terceira.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. 14.—Wind, N.E. Sailed--Lady Sale,
for Rio Janeiro.

GLOUCESTER, Feb. 14.—Sailed—Pride, for Melbourne.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 14.—Wind, W. Arrived—La Plata
(a), from West Indies. Sailed—Argo (s), for Cape of Good
Hope.
NEWCASTLE, N.S.W., Nov. 15.—The Fanny (brig), in
going out of the harbour at high water, Nov. 12, struck
on the Oyster Bank, and became a total wreck ; crew
saved, but two men drowned in attempting to save them.
BOSTON, Jan. 26.—The Elizabeth Bruce, from Liver-
pool, to Mobile, went ashore at Bey West, near Carysfort
lighthouse, Jan. 14; part of cargo saved.
A wreck, supposed to be that of a British ship, timber-
laden, painted black, with a white streak, and a large
statue as her cutwater, with masts cut away, decks gone,
and the deck beams leaking, as if they had been burnt,
was seen on the 24th Jan. by the Gaston, which arrived
at New York on the 26th.

SIR FITZROY KELLY'S BILL.--We are informed that
the committee of the Ballot Society have considered this
bill, and have passed a resolution that its tendency will
be to increase, and not to diminish bribery, corruption,
and intimidation at elections.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 3 per mine discount (according to the last tariff),
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100; per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25•094 ;
and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being
24.971, it follows that gold is about o'4B per cent dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the
price of gold is 423 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives
an exchange of 13.31 ; and the exchange at Hamburg
on London at short being 13•31, it follows that gold is
0.18 per cent. dearer in Hamburg the in London. The
course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1091 per cent., and, the par of exchange
between England and America being 109 23-40 per cent.,
it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.33 per cent.
against England ; but, after making allowance for
charges of transport and difference of interest, the pre-
sent rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold
either way between the two countries. • s TRANSPORT CONTRACT.—The tenders for vessels to
transport cavalry horses to Malta were opened at lhe
Admiralty this afternoon, but no selection could be im-
mediately made, owing to the large number sent in.
RAILWAY BILLS IN PARLIAMENT.—Yesterday the
examiners passed the following bills in conformity with
the standing orders :—Festiniog Railway, Londonderry
arivvadkCefioleeld, and.aine Londonderry
;derry and Enniskillen, Bradford,
Hull
ona)n,dDel!ldb°ys
ebr s
Derbyshire,
Border
Counties (North Pyne Section), Derbyshire, Stafford-
Stafford-
shire and Worcestershire Junction, and Universal
Electric Telegraph Company.
CHEAP EDITION OF MADAME TYABBLAY'S
IV° observe, with pleasure, that a Cheap Edition is an-
nounced of the celebrated " Diary and Letters of Madame
D'Arblay." The work is to published in seven monthly
volumes, price only 3s. each, elegantly boird,compiencing
on the let of March, in which cheap an attractive form
it will doubtless find thousands of purchasers.—" Madame
(says Macaulay in the Edinburgh view)
which
is seldom se
Time setonherftamexe, bitcepetfoorne
thea
`l'velnivtehdetnoceb,etabactlassesicsl.
ic
fame of the departed.
All those whom we have been ac-
customed to revere as intellectual patriarchs seemed chit.
dr e when compared with hei ; for Burke had set up all
night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced
her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a school-
boy, and Southey still in petticoats. Her Diary is written
in her earliest and best manner ; in true woman's English,
clear, natural, and lively. It ought to be consulted by
every person who wishes to be well acquained with the
history of our literature and our manners."

BIRTHS.
OF A BON.
On the 13th inst., the lady of J. Dizon, Esq., of Astle
Hall.
On the 14th inst., Mrs. Joseph Allen, of 6, Middleton•
terrace, Merton-road, Wandsworth.

OF A DAUGHTER.
On the 13th inst., at 24, John-street, Bedford-row, the
wife of W. Grimwood Taylor, Esq.
On the 13th inst., at Tongswood, near Hawkhurst, the
wife of Major Stevenson.

On the 13th inst., at S. John's, South Hackney, Mr.
E. 8. Garrard, of Hackne, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr.
James, York-street, Southwark

DIED.
On the 13th inst., Edward John, second son of Mr. C.
E. Tomalin, of Richtnoni-terrace, Banal:mu, aged 27. On the 14th inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Arundel -square,
the wife of E. Veneer Sidebottom, Esq., aged 67.

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