The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-19 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 17.—The Swift packet, Lieutenant
Douglas, commander, arrived this morning with the Brazil
mails, having sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 25th of April ;
Bahia, on the sth ; and Pernambuco on the 12th of May She
brings on freight about 8,0001. in gold and diamonds, and the
following passergers, viz.: Messrs. Archibald, Prince,
Branscombe, Wilson, Melly, Cox, Hogg, and family, Felippa,
and servant, Yeyler, Brachado, and Mrs. Brady. This
packet brings no news of any importance from Rio, ten days
having only elapsed Between her sailing and that of the
Penguin. The accounts from the River Plate are rot so re •
cent as those brought by the Pnilomel, which arrived here
on the 7th inst., direct from that quarter. Prior to the
Swift's departure from Pernambuco, information had reached
that pace, by the steamer, of the Emperor's arrival at. Rio
from Santos, on the 26th of April, the day after the sailing
of the packet. Exehange at Rio was 26M to 26%2; and
Stock, 76M to 76%; Provincial ditto, 73. The Swift left
at Rio tlu, Crescent and Crane packets.
The American frigate Columbus arrived on the 21st of
April from the River Plate, with dispatches fur the British
Minister.

Freight as follows :—London, 405.; Antwerp, 20s. to 30s. ;
Channel, 271. 6d. ; Haintvali, 20s. to 305.; Havre, 40f. to
45f. ; United States, 40c. to 50e.

ALARMING ILLNESS OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL•—
We regret to learn that the Duke of Bedford and Lord John Russell
have received accounts from Genoa, announcing the painful iiitelli-
pence of the serious illness cif General Lord William Russell. But
faint hopes are entertained of his recovery, and the tenor of the let-
ters from his Lordship's medical attendants have prepared the mem-
bers of his family for the worst. On Monday last further advices
were receive', and the reports were then more favourable. It was
the cause of the postponement of the Dowager Duchess of Bedford's
intended series of fetes at Campden Hall. Lord Wm. Russel ,it will
be recollected, was many years the British Minister to the Court of
Prussia.
NORTHERN RAILROAD.- The number of persons in-
vited to the inauguration of the Northern Railroad who left Paris
ti
amounted to about 1,500. They were to be join d by the authorities
of Lille, the Belgians coming from Brussels, and It was amei
papers,
that 3,000 persons would set down to dinner atrlAlwa.bang
give a statement of the immense preparations for
Li
ie.
w.i.,:SoL.let. :rhe2:
instance the orders for glans and china made a, 11 _
other j a weregtasse7,
000 w.ne and
follow :-28,000 plates, 600 decanters.
300 salt cellars, 30) fruit-dishes. of gilt chi 5. If the
4P-0 other pieces
round dishes, 140 oval ones, d in the lir-t
200 roUnd and oval baskets, 512
the others. At dessert it is
information he exact, 900 dishes were to be serve
number in
course and a corresponding , cheer s,
and the same nunatribeiraollf
stated that there were 180 iced
ilsileo-apples;
2,400
dishes of oranges, strawberriessa,mccheprrrolepos,rtiaols.p
sorts of sweets were
illh theoa ve been used.
pounds of Ice were said T
STREATHAM.—For SOMO time.
BADGER "uw-r Amade in the poultry yards at
chile beenhaving been obtained to the delinquent,
1 great destructaionny
Streatham, without
surmised the thief tnust be a dog or other animal'
1 althou•he
from
h iji-07,1 i.sand plucked feathers generally found near the hen:
I frrooost:. Same feathers having been fold near a stack of wood the
pile was removed, and on getting near the bottom, out bounded what
at first appeared to he a fox, and which took refuge in a field of
rye.
and
it
i terminated in the capture of a full grown badger, which was s
ithe
1 quently ascertained to have made its escape from a beer-shop in the
1 neighbourhood.
WOOD PAVEMEV
y h
TIN THE CITY.—The
wooden pave-
ment in the Old Bailey has been removed, by order of the City
Commissioners, and replaced
!Mt Ci the Carts, witt granite+, wept a mall perti9u ill
_ . .