The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-14 00:00:00

BRAZILS AND TilE PLATE.

SOUTHAMPTON AUG 12.
7 AUG. The Royal Brazilian mail packet Thames, Capt.
passengers.
Strutt, Admiralty agent Lieut. James Inglis, R.N.,
has arrived with the South American mails. Her
dates of sailing are---Buenos Ayres, 2d. July ;
Monte Video, sth ; Rio de Janeiro 15th ; Bahia,
rd72iLtde es diamonds of the
19th ; Pernambuco, 22d ; St. Vincent, 30th ; Tene-
rife, Aug. 3d ; Madeira, sth ; Lisbon,
Bth.
; silver coin and
jewellery, 8351.
At Rio de Janeiro, Mada
value TheTh e
ofThamesfreight
8o 1 n.
brings;bogao ld , 35, 353/ .
gasear (Commodore
Finch), harpshooter, and Bonetta ; at Bahia,
Express Sat Lisbon, Prometheus.

Ayres to to 4th July.
Monte Video
RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 14.
to BthyetshtehC,
There is no news of importance.
aamnidllafrwomehßauveendoasteAs
The Monte Videan
.Government.. had authorised
the circulation of foreign coin with a view to the
relief of the monetary crisis.
. It had also ordered
60,000 patacoons to be coined. A Brazilian force
of 5,000 men still
.remained in the republic, which
might be said to be in the enjoyment of profound
peace. The Government was generally obeyed and
accredited, and great hopes at length were enter-
tained of a peaceful and prosperous future.
From Rio we have nothing important to com-
municate. Two Russian merchant vessels were
offered at auctionion the 10th in the Exchange, but
found no bidders. This was in consequence of the
Jornal do Comercio having published an article
some days previously, stating that the sale of Rus-
sian vessels must have been made before the de-
claration of war, to exempt them from ca-
pture ;
therefore they will probably be broken up or al-
lowed to rot in harbour. . _

Since our last by Lusitania about 30,000 bags of
coffee have been sold at our quotations, except the
finer qualities, in which an advance of 200 re's per
arroba has been obtained. Good coffees are much
looked for, and we expect to see them much
higher, but the reverse will be the case with the
great bulk of our actual stock (about 40,000 bags).
Arrivals are very moderate.
Exchange may be quoted firm at 261 d. Since
the Lusitania about 160,0001. have been passed.
Freights are higher on account of the large pur-
chases of coffee.
We quote as follows :
MONEY, AND SHARE MARKET.—Exchange on London,
26id., firm ; ditto Paris, 365 to 370 ; ditto Hamburg,
670 to 675 ; Six per Cent. Stock, 1051 to 1064 • Pro-
vincial Stock, 101 to 102: Commercial Bank Slares,
850,000 ; Brazil Bank ditto, 270.000; National Bank
ditto, 122.008 prem. ; Gas Shares, 300 prem.
C9mE.—supgrior, 4,00 to 4,00 ; good fiat, 4.000

The Spiteful, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Commander
Kynaston, left WoolwiCh shortly after two o'clock p.m.,
on Saturday ; and, her compasses having been previously
adjusted, she will proceed direct to the Black Sea, call-
ing at the western ports to take out the mails for the
Mediterranean stations and Turkey. The crew of the
Spiteful was paid in advance at Woolwich •by the pay-
clerks of the Admiralty, at twelve o'clock on Friday.
On Saturday last the Hornet steam-sloop got up steam
and proceeded down the Swin for trial of her machinery.
It' appeared throughout to ,act well. The great and
serious fault appears to be the inefficiency of her boilers
to generate steam enough to keep her up to her,regular
working maximum.

His Netherland Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-corvette
Curacoa, two lieutenants, Commander De Bronno, three
days from Helvoetaluys, for.Surinam, entered Plymouth
Sound yesterday morning to obtain a supply of fuel.
Die Mauritius steam-transport, now fitting at South-
amptOn, has been taken up to convey the 34th Regiment
from Portsmouth. to Corfu. She is to call at Queen.
-stown to embark a detachment of the 57th for the same
destination. She will afterwards convey the whole of
the 57th Regiment to the seat of war in Turkey.
The Rajah,
left fo
hired
Ledosndteoanm
Ports-
mouth on Saturday from the Baltic, and, having landed
.-transport, arrived at
her mails,

THE NEW GUN-BOATS.
Rear-Admiral M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., First Naval
on
Lord
Fri dof the Admiralty, visited Woolwich Dockyard
ay afternoon to inspect the Arrow screw
despatch gun-boat and the
other boats of the same
olass now in progress of being fitted for sea at Wool-
wich. The Arrow, Lieutenant-Commander Jolliffe,
was taken out of the basin the same afternoon,
and. tried , down the river for a short distance to as•
certain her speed, which was considered, in the absence
of a fair trial, to be about eleven knots with the tide,
and about nitre and-a-half knots against tide. The Arrow
was taken into the basin again on Saturday afternoon.
It would be judicious to try the new powerful oval 68-
pounder guns on Lancaster's principle with live shells,
between the Nore and Mouse Lights, to ascertain the
effect on the vessel when a projectile weighing about
1001bs. is discharged from a large gun weighing 95 cwt.,
at a high angle, with a charge of 121bs. of powder, to
carry the shell a distance of 5,000 yards.
The Wrangler, screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieut.
Commander Risk, is the next farthest advanced of the
gun-boats. She is now in one of the east docks, and
has completed the coppering of her bottom, and her
masts have been put in and the rigging put up, and the
sails bent. The advanced state of these two gun-boats
is owing to the crew of the Myrmidon being turned over
to the Arrow, and the. crew of the Tartarus to the
Wrangler.

The Beagle, screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieute-
nant-Commander Hore, is in the basin at Woolwich,
under the shears, having her masts put in.
The Lynx, screw steam despatch gun-boat, Lieutenant-
Commander Luce, is in one of the east docks, and has
completed putting the copper on her bottom.

DEPARTURE OF THE HARBINGER.
The hired screw steamer Harbinger having embarked
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Montagu Stopford and Com-
mander Gordon, and specie valued at 100,0001., sailed
from Plymouth for the Black Sea on Friday evening.

MILITARY.
• The 18th Royal Irish Infantry are under orders to
relieve the 46th, now in garrison at Windsor. The first
detachment of the 18th are expected, to march from the
barracks at Canterbury either this day or to-morrow.
According to present arrangements, the following
changes will take place on the Ist of next month in the
household brigade :—The Ist and 2d battalion of
Grenadiers, from St. George's and Portman-street bar-
racks to the Wellington barracks, St. James's Park, and
Ist battalion occupying Buckingham Palace and doing
duty at the Magazine, Hyde Park ; the 2d battalion of
Coldstreams, from Wellington to Portman-street bar-
racks ; and the 2d battalion of Fusiliers, from Wellington
to St. George's barracks.
A great many men have volunteered from the 48th
Foot to join the 57th, under orders for Turkey.

SERJEANTS' REDUCED GOOD-CONDUCT PAY.
Admiralty, July 28, 1854.
My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are pleased
to direct with reference to the regulation for good-conduct
pay, dated 16th Jan., 1849, that from and after the Ist
June, 1851, any serjeant, or staff-serjeant of the Royal
Marines, who shall be reduced from that rank, shall be
entitled to the same privileges in regard to the good-con-
duct badge and pay as if his previous service had been
wholly rendered in an inferior rank, subject, however, to
the forfeiture of one penny a day for ono year from such
good-conduct pay for the offence for which he has been
red übed.

Provided always that such serjeant has not been sen-
tenced by court-martial to forfeit all or any part of the
good•conduct pay which may thus occur from his former
service.

By command of their lordships.
J. PARKER,
To all Commanders-in-Chief, Captains, Commanders,
and Commanding Officers of her Majesty's ships
and vessels.

111ISC ELLANEOUS.
The Fairy Royal steam-yacht, Captain the Hon.
Joseph Denman, embarked the Queen and Court in
Portsmouth harbour on Saturday evening at seven
o'clock, on arrival from London, and conveyed them to
Osborne under the usual salutes and ceremonies.
By the death of Rear-Admiral Charles Hope in
Frande, Commodore Henry Eden, just appointed Super-
intendent of Devonport Dockyard, becomes Rear-
Admiral of the Blue, and Captains Patton and Ait-
chison become retired Rear-Admirals. An appointment
as Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen is thus at the dis-
posal of the Admiralty.
On Saturday Sir J. Graham was sufficiently recovered
from his recent indisposition to • attend the Board of
Admiralty.
Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Weaver (1854) has been
appointed to the Prince Regent, 90, serving in the
Baltic.

An experiment is to be tried on board the steam-ves-
sels' coal depot here, for discharging the cargoes from
the screw steam 'colliers by machinery for the supply of
her Majesty's steam-ships.
FALMOUTH, Saturday.—The Polar Star troop-ship,
Captain Walker, from London for New Zealand, has
put in, owing to contrary winds.
THE PARAGUAYAN NAVY.—On Tuesday last the Para-
guayan war-steamer Jacuare was launched from the
yard of Mr. Thompson, in the River Thames. She is
a paddle-wheel steamer, on the same lines as the Ban-
shee, Government despatch-boat, of 500 tons burden,
and 140-horse power. She is to mount two pivot guns,
32-pounders, and four 24-pounder carronades. She is
166 feet long, and 23 feet beam, and will carry 100 men as
a crew. The son of President Lopez is now in this
country to arrange a commercial treaty, which will
open up the resources cf this splendid min-.
try. The Paraguayan Government is also building
a small flotilla for the protection of their trade. Com-
mander Morice, formerly master attendant of the dock-
yard at Deptford, is to take command of the Paraguayan
navy, and is to be employed also in the establishment of
a small dockyard and victualling establishment on his
arrival in that country.—Plymouth, Mail.

ARRIVAL OF THE HIMALAYA AT MALTA. I
A letter from Malta, dated the 7th of August, says :
"The French steamer from Alexandria is just tele-
graphed. On the 2d of August the Himalaya, from
Liverpool the 26th of July, reached this port a little
before midnight, with the 2d Dragoons on board (Scotch
Greys). Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, the
forts were lined with the troops in garrison, who re-
ceived their comrades with vociferous cheers.
" The following officers arrived :—Lieutenant-Colonel
Griffiths, Major Sullivan, Brevet-Major Clarke ; Cap-
tains Williams, Boyd, and Freeman ; Lieutenants
Miller (Adjutant), Sutherland, Buchanan, Edwards,
Woddrop, and Hunter ; Ensigns and Cornets Nugent,
Prendergast, and Handley ; Quartermaster M`Bean ;
Assistant-Surgeon Choffie, Veterinary-
Surgeon Gardjer,
299 troopers, and 367 horses. None died.
Besides the above, there were on board Lieutenant-
Colonel Stracey, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Quartermaster
Doherty, 38th Regiment ; Lieutenant Stopford, Royal
Engineers ; Lieutenant Locke, Bengal Cavalry (proceed-.
ing to organise the corps of Bashi-Bazouke) ; Assistant-
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