The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

LISBON, SEPT. 19.
The Portuguese steamer Dom Pedro 11. reached
this port on the 16th, with 204 passengers, who
had free pratique. Her dates are :—Rio de Ja
neiro, Aug. 20 ; Bahia, 25th ; Pernambuco, 27th ;
Teneriffe, Sept. 6 ; Madeira, 13th.
The quotations of produce and exchanges in the
Brazils xary so little since those by the Tamar,
given in The Sum of the Bth inst., that it is un-
necessary to repeat them.
At Rio de Janeiro no additional news is reported
from the River Plate. After the departure of the
Tamar, business had been checked by holidays and
rainy weather, so that no coffee sales of importance
had taken place, while the stock was increasing
daily by arrivals ; and should purchasers hold back
a decline was anticipated.
At Bahia the weather had become fine. Freights
for Liverpool id., and 30s. ballast ; London 40s.
Tonnage scarce, several of the last arrivals having
been chartered for the Mauritius.
Great progress in the-prosperity of the province
wai anticipated from, the energy of the new Presi-
dent. A large ball had been given upon the retire-
ment of his predecessor, M. Moncorvo, at which
1,200 of the elite of the city attended. The town
and province were healthy.
At Pernambuco a few bags of very inferior qualify
of new sugar bad come to market, and been sold at
2,600 to 2,700 reis, notwithstanding the last un-
favourable news from Europe.
The French steamer Franc-Comtois, from Havre,
had arrived on the 25th. The passengers by that
vessel, as by the Laia 111. from Lisbon, had to
perform six days' quarantine, in consequence of
the cholera at this port and Madeira.
At St. Vincent the Dom Pedro 11. found great
difficulty in coaling, the greater part of the inhabi-
tants having either abandoned the island or died
from a virulnt epidemic of cholera, attributable to
the heavy rains which set in shortly after the
Tamar's dates, no rain of consequence having fallen
in the island for the last seven years. After two
days' detention the Dom Pedro was coaled by some
Spaniards, who had been wrecked, and did the
work upon condition of being brought on to Lis-
bon, the coals being supplied by the English ship
Birmingham, which had put in leaky. It appears
probable that the English packets will now have to
depend in a great measure upon their own crews
for coaling at St. Vincent.

At Madeira cholera still exist-d, but less fatally-
in the interior, and at Funchal it had entirely ex-
hausted itself, in consequence of which a solemn
Te Deum had been celebrated on the 7th instant.
It was calculated that about 6,000 people, or one-
third of the inhabitants of the islands, had fallen
victims to the disease.

Tho island of Porto Santo was also suffering
severely, 90 deaths having taken place in a week,
out of 1,800 inhabitants.

PORTUGAL AND THE BRAZILS.

sourFILIMPTON, w EDNESDAY MORNING.

Sultan has just arrived, with the Peninsular
mails. She left Lisbon on the 19th.

The steamer Duke of Wellington, carrying the
flag of Admiral Dundas, had arrived at Lisbon.
The gunboatb Osprey and Wanderer had also
arrived. They were bound for the South. The
Cressy had also arrived at Lisbon, in search of the
Admiral.

The cholera is disappearing rapidly.
The day for the formal opening of the railway by
the King has been postponed.
We have news from Brazils by the Sultan up to
the 20th of August. The Brazilian Chamber of
Deputies has passed a bill authorising the Govern-
ment to cpeu a credit of GOO contos, to be applied
in promoting colonisation, and for other public ser-
f vices. A bill had also been passed to regulate the
strength of the naval forces, and another establish-
ing international copyright between Portugal and
Brazil was under discussion.
The additional articles of the bill of the Maria
Railway and the Amazonas Company were sanc-
tioned; but the chamber, at the suggestion of the
prime minister, had resolved to frame a new project.
to prevent its being embarrassed in its progress
through the Senate.
Exchange at Rio 27 to 27i.
At Pernambuco business was dull. There had
been no sugar shipped since the Tamar left.
The Brazil steamer Tyne arrived at St. Vincent
on the 21st ult.
Exchange at Lisbon was quoted at 53g. to k.
The choera is raging fiercely at St. Vincent.
The medical men had fallen victims, and the in-
habitants were left without assistance. The dead
bodies were left unburied in the streets. The ac•
counts from Madeira were favourable.

The Earl of Derby is much better in health, but the
noble earl has been obliged to forego a series of visits in
the north he intended to make with the countess and
Lady Emma Stanley.
EXTENSION OF THE TILBURY AND SOUTHEND RAIL-
WAY TO COLCHESTER.—A meeting of the corporation and
principal inhabitants of this borough was held at the
Town-hall, Colchester, on Friday, forth© purpose of hear-
in.' an explanation from Sir S. M. Peto, with reference to a
proposed extension of the Tilbury and Southend line to
that town. The proposed line would give the district another
line o 1 railway communication wiAt the metropolis, and
give an independent Ipineetforoemnte irreairinitioatoth
somelcioevtvaeii.tioft
to Lndoof
the
proposed
line, which would encourage the trade
Sirlin
of the port and secure a material reduction of the pas-
senger and goods rates. It i 4 stated that the exten-
sion will branch off the Tilbury line at Southend, take
in Maldori, and then come on to Colchester.
THE ANGLO-ITALIAN LEGION.—Four non-commis -
sioned officers and twenty-nine private soldiers of the
Anglo Italian Legion recently sent from Malta, on their
arrival at their homes in Tmeany, Parma, ar.d the
Austro-Italian states, have been at once committed to
the states prisons. The Lombards were sent under mi•
litary escort to Mantua, to be tried by court-martial for
taking service under a "foreign" power. The Legion-
aries now in Piedmont will be compelled to remain there,
list punishment await them for having served England !
The English Ministers at Parma and Florence have pro-
tested against these arbitrary prcceeding9,