The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-06 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

FALMOUTH, OCT. 4.—The Seagull packet, Lieu-
tenant Smail, Commander, has just arrived with the
Brazil mails, having left Rio Janeiro 16th August,
Bahia 24th August, and Pernambuco 30th August.
She brings on freight about 24,0001. and the fbllow-
ing passengers :—Messrs. Ellis and Davidson,
Mrs. Piget, and Comte Zabirlo, late Russian
Consul-General in Brazil. At Rio nothing
important of a political nature had trans-
pired ; business transactions for the month
of July were characterised by much flatness ; the
march of European politics continued to impede that
activity which might otherwise have been expected in
produce. Of imports the receipts were moderate,
and the arrivals were principally confined to the last
week of July; the market, in the interim, was with-
out animation, and its monotony only occasionally
relieved by some inquiry for re-export. The busi-
ness in exchange was to an average extent, but in
other respects transactions in the money market were
-very restricted.
From the Ist to the 16th of August more activity
had prevailed with coffee and exchange, as well as
some articles of import in demand for re-export ;
whilst of others, previously scarce, the receipts were
excessive, and prices had sensibly declined. An
active inquiry for coffee (principally for Europe)
had caused a material advance in prices. The sales
from the Ist to the Bth of August had amounted to
73,000 bags. In freights the transactions had been
likewise extensive, but the rise in coffee and exchange
had caused a reduction in the respective rates, and the
number of disposable vessels exceeding the quantity
of produce in the market, a further decline was looked
for. The rates paid had been—Channel 403. to 50s. ;
London, 553. ; Havre, 50f. to 53f.; United States, 70c.
to 80c. In specie the rate of exchange had impeded
business, and quotations were nominal. Exchange at
Rio, 26 ; Bahia, 25} ; and Pernambuco, 26.
The Seagull left the following ships of war at Rio:
—Her Majesty's steamers Hydra and Crescent ;
American, Brandywine, 60 ; French corvette, S6ri-
euse, 28, and brigs Chasseur and Entreprenant, 14,
frigate Algeria, 48 ; store ship Chandenay ; Portu-
guese corvette, Iris, 18, Vasco de Gama 80. Her
Majesty's ship Apollo arrived on the 7th August, and
sailed on the 10th fur Ilha Grande to land troops and
clean the ship, she being in quarantine. The Kestrel
arrived the 7th of August with the River Plate mails,
whence she sailed the 23d July; she left again for
the River the 15th of August with mails. At Per-
nambuco were—her Majesty's steamer Griffin ; Bra•
ailian ship of war Euterpe, 20, and brig Capiheribe,
10 ; schooner Legalidade, 8 ; Canope, 6 ; steamers
Guapiassu and Thetis, 3 guns each.

EXTRAORDINARY EXPLOSION 02 FIRE DAMP.—
A curious though serious case of explosion of fire damp
or gas occurred on Sunday last, in a house in Gidlow-
lane, Wigan. On Sunday night a messenger was dis-
patched from the house in question to Mr. Winnard's
surgery, and it was stated that a Mrs. Crook had been
severely burnt by an explosion of gas iu the cupboard.
Mr. Winnard was absent at the time, attending to an
urgent cholera case, but Mr. Hutchinson, the medical
gentleman from Liverpool, who had been engaged to
assist Mr. Winnard during the prevalence of the epide-
mic in this township, was in attendance, and it is said
that he received the statement of the messenger with an
amount of incredulity, which is only to be accounted for
by his inexperience in a colliery district. A woman
burnt by an explosion of gas from a cupboard—he could
not believe it! However, he proceeded to the house,
where he found Mrs. Crook in great suffering, having
been severely scorched about the face and neck? It was
stated that she was going to the cupboard with a lighted
candle in her hand, when the terrific explosion of fire-
damp took place. Mr. Hutchinson, it would appear, was
still " hard of belief," and Crook, the husband of the
woman wh) was injured, asked him if he would wish to
see a repetition of the explosion, stating that it would be
attended with no evil consequences. Mr. Hutchinson
assented, and we may be sure that be exercised no small
degree of caution when the cupboard was opened and
the light applied. Crook, however, was unfortunately
less apprehensive, and a tremendous explosion taking
place, ho received a serious burn on that very sensitive
organ of the human physiology—the nose. The people
in the house screamed, and the greatest consternation
prevailed. It is stated that the body of flame ran along
the ceiling and escaped out at the door, but Mr. Hut-
chinson says that he did not observe this phenomenon.
We should state, for the information of those who may
be unacquainted with the locality, that the house is
situated immediately over a coal-mine, and the gas must
have made its way through the earth into the cupboard.
The woman, we are sorry to say, is still in a very preca-
rious state; but Mr. Crook's nose is, according to the
last report, in a state of convalescence.— Wiyan Times.
Habit eats so deeply into man's humanity, that
instead of constituting no more than his second nature,
it expels the first, usurping the sovereignty. Our minds
may turn their eyes so long in the same direction, that
never again can we look quite straight. Thought?, pas-
sions, affections, are domesticated by custom, till, like
barn-door fowl, they will always eat their meat from the
same platter, and sleep upon the tame roost.—Bliza
Cook's Journal,

LEST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
£ a. S. J X a. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 'lOO 0 0 204
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11%
Clydesdale Bank- •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 12%
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 165
Eastern Bank.. •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 9 91. 7s
Edinb.k Glasgow Bank 6/. percent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Ezehangeßnk of Scot.. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 21
Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. )0 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Northof Scotlandßank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 31.0 s
North British Bank "••
Royalßank of Scatlind 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 127
Unionßank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 84
Western Baiak•• •• •• 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73%
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7% /.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 2
B. Accord. Life and Fire 20 0 0 0 10 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 4/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 9s 6d
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 7s
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18%
East of Scotland Life lO 0 0 015 0 93.0 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0
Insur. Co. of Seetlnd•• Al. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 it. egi
Mercantile Life .. • • 41. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 3s. 6d.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 120 s. 6d
North British Incur. •• 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 23%
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. 20 0 0 0 11 0 -
Scot. Dias. and Gen. Life 0 0 015 0 -
Scottish Union Inarnee. 6141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 11. 23
Standard Life •••• .. • . 51. per cent. 60 0 0 4 5 0 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 MBA-4
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
Z. s. d. 1 X. a. d.
Australian Agriculturl U. 100 0 01 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint ll. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 -
Ditto, Half Shares.. - 2 10 0 -.
Canada ... •• . .•• 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 -
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. percent. - 89
City Navigation .... - - 90
Comp.CpprMersEng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Equitable Reveraienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 1100 0 0 104
Gen. Steam Navigation 11. Bs. lt 0 0I 14 0 0 241,(
London Institution ... - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - 126 5 0 -
PeninslrBc Orient.Stm. Si. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 74
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam•• .. 61 18..4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 -
South Australian ..... 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17
Van Dioman's Land.. 100 0 0, 23 0 0 -

TAE INTERIOR OF THE LONDON COAL EXCHANGE.
—This building, now nearly completed, at the corner of
Lower Thames-street and St. Mary-at-Bill, under the
direction of Mr. Bunning, architect to the corporation,
presents considerable novelty both in design and decora-
tion.merch
merchants,
60 includesfeet in acidrciaumlaertear, w
area
with
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run-
ning round it, which communicate with suitable offices;
and the area is covered by a glazed dome, the eye of
which is seventy-four feet from the floor. The galleries
are peculiarly constructed, and entirely composed of iron,
embellished with symbols of the coal trade. The
stauncheons, brackets, ribs and eye of the dome are
also of iron, and the panels (twenty-four in number) are
ornamented with paintings of the plants and fossil re-
mains found in the coal series, from drawings made by
Mr. Melhado, a pupil of the architect, from specimens
in the British Museum, and painted by Mr. Sang in en.
caustic. The eight smaller compartments are filled in
with implements used in the coal district. The panels
in the galleries contain figures of the miners, which are
less satisfactory in execution. Each rib, of which there
are all about
cmh ef of
onosi,.
are thirty-two, is 42 feet 6 inches long, and is.ncastinone
length, averaging in weight 2 tons: there
h3roaOcktoentss, oafeiron,
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galleries
haere
to boor. The cupola is glazed with ground plate glass,
a gullyb o plates,about l 2
feet a fur no
and the eye with amber coloured glass. The ornamented
portions of the stauncheons, gallery railing,
soffits, ic.,
display in almost too great profusion the rope form. The
floor of the area represents the mariner's compass, in
the centre of which are the City arms, composed of
different woods. A portion of the decorative part of this
floor is formed with part of an oak tree which had been
found imbedded in the river Tyne. The cost Of this
Exchange will be about 40,0004—Builder.