The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

THE BRAZIL MAIL.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 29.—The Express Tv,clict, Lieute-
nant Lory, arrived last evening with the Brazil mails.
She sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 15th of October.
Her passengers are, Sir Manuel Rodrigues do Oliveira,
Blanc.), Messrs. Cauto and Meyer, Captain Bunce,
and three miners. She brings in freight about 120,0001.,
a considerable porticn from the River Plate and the
Pacific.

On the 7th October the late Government retired,
when Viscount de Olinda was commisioned to form a
new Ministry, which had 6ee3 completed from the high
aristocratic party, but the only name ri ported whe❑ the
packet sailed was Senor Joaquim Jose Rodrigues Torres,
Minister of Finance.

The Exchange Market was anima'ed on the 6th and
7th, when 50,000/. were negotiated upon London at
231(i. to 24d., of which 20,000/. were taken by the
Treasury, since which dates little was done to the time
of the packet's departure. Bills to a moderate amount
had paseed upon Paris at 400 reis, and upon llarnburA
at 720 to 739 reis. Discounts confirm( d env at 6 to 61
Stock little ding at 86} to 87, and at 85i to 86 for pro-
vincial. In specie, business was tolerably brisk, several
large parcels had been sold. Doubloon at 31,550 dolls.
to 31 800 dolls.lars at 2,020 dolls. to 2,050 dulls.
Old Portent 18,500 dolls to 18,750 dolls. Sovereigns at
10,000 dolls.

In the freights little doing; some few vessels had left
in ballast, but the quantity of foreign bottoms still at
Rio Janeiro was enormous, and amounted to 160, of
which 110 without destination.

COFFEE.—The market was brisk, chiefly for the
United States. The sales from the sth to the 14th Oct.
amounted to 40,000 bags. Tho exports since the sth
were:—For Antv.erp, 6,910 bags; Copenhagen, 2,583;
Falmouth, 1,900 ; Genoa, 1,631; Gottenburg, 2,004 ;
Hamburgh, 1,742; Havre, 4,502; Jersey, 2,952; Lisbon,
1,281; Malta, 3,263; New Orleans, 19,630; New York,
8,210; Philadelphia, 4,000; Trie,te, 2,513. The price
of washed coffee on board was 295.; superior, 235. 4d.;
Ist good, 225.; Ist ordinary, 20s. 2d.; 2d good, 18s. Bd..
SUQAR.—The receipts of Campos, all packages in-
cluded, amounted (from the sth) to 230 cases, and the
/ales to about 400 cases, of which 150 were for Portugal,
and the remainder for home consumption. White, 2,800
dolls.; brown, 2,100 dolls. to 2,200 dolls. for new.

THE DEAD SEA.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l read in your issue of the day before yesterday
(the 21st) a short account of Captain Lynch and the
American expedition to explore the Dead Sea, from
which it would appear that the detuent from the Lake of
Tiberias to the Dead Sea by the Jordan had now for
the first time been accomplished. But, Sir, this is not
the case. Our gallant countryman, the late Lieutenant
Molyneux, of her Majesty's ship Spartan, two years ago
conveyed a small boat overland from Caipha to the Lake
of Tiberias, and thence by the Jordan to the Dead Sea,
upon which he remained two, if not three days; he then
took his boat by Jerusalem to Jaffa. Poor fellow! he
died six weeks afterwards at Beyrout of fever contracted
during his journey. The difficulties encountered by the
American expedition were mere child's play compared to
those which poor Molyneux met with and triumphed
over. On one occasion the three seamen he had with
him were separated from him, and were- seized, beaten,
and stripped of their arms aud clothes by the Arabs, and
found their way almost naked and with difficulty to
Tiberias. Still Molyneux persevered, although he had
literally to fight his way down. When at Jerusalem in
April I saw a letter from Captain Lynch, in which he
speaks of fully appreciating Molyneux's daring and per-
severanco, and in which he refers to his having the same
Arab pilot who was with Molyneux. I never met Lieu-
tenant Molyneux; but as I thought the impression might
go abroad that the Americans were the first to navigate
the Jordan between the two lakes, wh.,reas an English-
man had preceded them, I have taken the liberty of
troubling you with these few lines.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Cheltenham, Nov. 23. W. E. E.