The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-01 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.—By the clipper ship Sword-
fish, arrived in the Mersey, we have received advices
from Rio Janeiro to the Bth, Bahia to the 18th, and
Pernambuco to the 25th of August.
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From Pernambuco we learn that the stock of sugar
was v y much reduced, and. the balance of the old
crop arriving at market was of ordinary and damp
qualities. The weather was very favourable for the
growing crop, which would commence to make its
appearance in November. About 800 tons had been
purified for shipment within the week ending
August 27, at 20s. 3d. for whites, and 15s. 10d. per
cwt. for browns ; in cases, 21s. 3d. to 235. for common
assortments ; in bags, 193..1d. to 19s. 6d. for low, and
15s. ld. to 16s. sd. for muscovadoes—all free on
board.

The weather having latterly taken up, the receipts
of cotton were on the increase ; but the demands
being active at 4 15-16=1. to sid. per pound, free on
board, it was purified almost immediately on arrival ;
and, as , several vessels were waiting to load, and a
speculating purchaser was operating freely, prices
were not expected to go lower for the present. The
stock was reduced to 1,000 bags.
Freights were 255. to 30s. per ton for sugar, to
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ballast ; and 7-16 d. to id. and 5 per cent. for cotton.
The rate of exchange had advanced to 26d. The
Thomas and Henry and Sobraon, from Sydney, sailed,
for London on the 26th of August.
In Bahia the stock of sugar was 5,000 cases, and
of cotton 3,000 bags. Prices were 17s. 64d. per
cwt. free on board, for muscovadoes; 21s. 2d. for
white sugars. 4,500 to 4,800 reis per arroba for
cotton.

Freights were dull with a limited demand, the
quotations being 455. •to 603. for sugars to the
Channel, and id. and 5 per cent. for cotton to
Liverpool.
Exchange was firm at 25d.
At Rio exchaage was quoted at 254 d.

The stock of coffee we; 30,000 bags, and superiors
could be shipped free on board at 29i. 11d. to 30s. Bd.
per cwt., firsts at 28s. 4d. to 295. id., and ordinary
at 265. to 265. 9d.

Freights were improvirj, several vessels having
been taken up at 455. to 50s. per ton for the Channel,
and as high as 60s. paid for a few small English ves-
sels. The Archimedes and Alice Brooks were load •
ing for London, and the Cynthia, Sarah, Commodore,
and John Murray for the Channel.

SINGULAR GENEROSIT —A Mr. Brooks, fruiterer,
residing in the Edgewar found on Thursday
afternoon, he 27th ult., on his counter a pocket-book
containing 5001., and hiving served a lady :with some
trifling articles some short time before, who stated that
she was going into the country, he immediately called a
cab and went to the Great Western Railway and ex•
amined all the carriages to endeavour to find her among
the passengers who were about starting by the four
o'clock train, but she was not among them; so he re-
turned and examined the book to ascertain if there was
any mark by which he might trace her, and finding a
grocer's bill whose residence was in the City, he took an
omnibus and went there, but with no more success than
he had at the railway. He returned home and gave up
the search, it being seven P.m, intending to advertise it
in the public papers the next day if she did not make
inquiries for it. The next morning the lady came end
asked the tradesman if he had found such a book, for she
said if be had not she must have lost it in the streets or
been robbed of it in an omnibus; Mr: Brooks was very
glad the owner had made her appearance to receive it,
so he calk-El in a n&ahbour to witness his giving it up,
and to his surprise saw her take it up and walk off
without expressing the ka:t gratitude for its restoration.
Mr. qG right, the neighbor; said, " Surely, madam, you
will pay Mr. Brooks his expenses in seeking you." She
directly asked how much it bad cost; he said 2s. 3d., she
laid down 35., and then waited for the 9d. change.—
Sunday'Paper. -
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, SEPT.
29 .—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's ship Sultan, Captain George Brooks, sailed
this afternoon for Gibraltar, Malta, Smyrna, and Con-
stantinople. She had 29 passengers, and on freight 465
tons measurement goods, principally for the Turkish
market, and jewellery, value 1,5001. The Erin, Captain
T. S. Russell, is to sail for Constantinople on the 15th of
October, there to relieve the company's steamer Tagus,
Captain Joy, employed in running on .the Black Sea
between Constantirople, Samsoun, Sinope, Trebizonde,
&c. The Tagus is ordered hone for repairs, It is not
expected that the Ripon, Captain R. Moresby,' with the
East India, China, and Mediterranean mails, will reach
Southampton till Monday night or Tuesday. The Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Dce, Captain W.
Allan, is appointed to take out the West India and Mex-
ican mails, and she will accordingly depart at the usual
hour on Tuesday next, the 2d of October. The next
West India and Pacific snails, due on the 7th proximo,
will, in all probability be brought by the Medway, Cap-
tiin W. Symonds; she may be expected about ast sth or
6th. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Euxino, Capt.
R. W. Evans, from Constantinople, Smyrna and Gibral-
tar, will be due here on the 7th of October; and the
Iberia, Captain F. W. Burney, on the 4th, with the
mails from' Gibraltar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and
Vigo. The United States mail steamer Washington,
Captain G. W. Floyd, with dates from New York to the
20th of Semtember is looked fee off Cowes, en route to
Bremen, about the 4th or sth of October. The packet
brig Eclipse sailed yesterday for Madeira. Southamp-
ton, Sunday, Sept. 30.—The packet-brig Capt.
Newton, arrived here this morning with dispatches and
ship-letter bags of the 22d instant from Madeira, after a
fine passage of seven days and a half from Funchal. She
brings intelligence of the foundering at sea of the brig
Jahe, of Sunderland, from Liverpool, with a general
cargo, bound for California. The master, Captain Hub-
bert (who has come home in the Brilliant), in'orms us
that on the Bth of September the vessel sprang a serious
leak in consequence of pitching and rolling in the heavy
cross seas for several days; the leak gained so fast that
he decided upon abandoning her, and the crew accord-
ingly took to the boats, not being able to save any of
their personal effects, shortly after which the vessel sank.
On the: 9th of September they were fortunately picked
up-by the American barque Roderick Dhu, from New
York, bound to Madeira. The Brilliant has also brought
hoine Roberts, of the brig Louisa, of Guernsey, bound
to Havannah, who, in consequence of melded illness, was
141 at Madeira. The weather was remarkably fine in
Madeira, and arrivals of invalids were taking place. The
crop of grapes was expected to be a very short one
throughout the island. A Russian 50• gun frigate was
lying at anchor at Funchal, in attendance on his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke of Leuchtenberg, whose
health was improving. There were no British ships of
war there. her Majesty's brig Flying Fish sailed on the
21st of September for the coast of Africa, and her Ma-
jesty's 'brig Crane- sailed on the evening of the same
day with the mails for Brazil and Rio de la Plata. The
Brilliant spoke the barque Fanny, of London, yesterday,
off the Lizard, .steering W.S.W.
FLOATING ISLAND IN DERWENTWATER LAKE.—
The Floating. Nand in Derweutwater Lake, which we
last week mentioned as hating made its appearance on
the surface of the water, remained visible for two days
only, at the end of which it again sank below the sur-
face, proving a source of disappointment to numerous
visitors.—Carlisle Journal.