The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-04 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OE THE DOURO.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Douro, from
the Brazils, passed the Needles at 6.15 a.m. to-day-.

THE BRAZIL MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 4,

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Companies steam-
ship Douro, with the above mail, has arrived here.
She brings 100 passengers, £1,724 in specie, eight
packages of diamonds, value not stated, and 1,500
packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cotton,
coffee, and tobacco.
The French ship Nouvelle Pauline, with 7,000
bags of coffee from Rio de Janeiro, was wrecked
on Rio Real on the 23d. The crew were saved and
landed at Bahia. It was expected the ship and
cargo would be a total loss.
Screw British ship of war, two United States,
three Italian, five Spanish, two Frenoh, one Russian,
and one Portuguese were at Monte Video.
Admiral Samandare, with iron-clad gunboats
and Monitors, had arrived at Corrientes.

The Allies had not yet attempted to cross the
Parana for the invasion of Paraguay.
The Paraguayans seemed determined to hold out,
and their daring incursions, having twice crossed
the river in canoes and attacked the vanguard of
the Argentines, showed the resolute resistance the
Allied army must expect to encounter.
The inactivity of the Brazilian squadron during
these engagements caused serious complaints.

Hitherto the movements of the Allies have been
so slow, and those of the enemy so rash, that until
the Allied army has crossed into Paraguay it is im-
possible to say how long the war will last. If the
Paraguayans hold true to Lopez, it must be long
tedious, and expensive.

It is understood that the passage of the Parana
will be undertaken immediately, and iu all proba-
bility will only be effected with great loss to the
allies.

In the interior provinces everything was quiet,
and the local Governments were busy with indus-
trial projects.

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At Buenos Ayres trade was good. Gold ruled

firm, and paper money was scarce. Sheep farming
was prosperous. Exchange on London, 510. per
silver dollar. Freights to the Channel, 455.
Rio DE JANEIRO.—The Imperial Chambers
opened on the sth. The Senate sat on the 7th, but
no important business was taken up. A quasi
Ministerial crisis had occurred, but the only change
made was the retirement of Pedro Diaz de Carvalho
from the post of Minister of Finance; the vacancy
has been filled up by Joas da Silva Carsao.

A concession for the formation of a branch rail-
way from Escada to the Rio Grande station has
been granted to Baron de Mana.
Since the attack by the Paraguayans no serious
collision had taken place.

General Flores has returned to his detachment,
and important movements of the allies were ex-
pected. The fleet at Corrientes numbers 32 ships.
The commissioners appointed by the British
North American Provinces with the view of de-
veloping trade, had arrived.
The bark Hermit, from Liverpool, had been
wrecked off Tocondina. The crew were saved.
The Ministerial crisis at Monte Video had been
resolved by the retirement of Senor Gomez, the
Minister of Finance, and the appointment of An-

tonio Maria Marques.
In Pernambuco and Bahia societies had been
formed for the promotion of immigration.
Various offences against the public peace had
occurred in the province. Money in Rio was Bto
10 per cent. premium. Government stocks 6 pre-
mium. Bank of Brazil shares $lO discount. Ex-
change on London, 2s. to 2s. ld. ; on Paris,
382 to 388 reis ; on Hamburg, 722 to 735.

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 3d (Evening.)

The Governor of the Bank of Spain has published
a letter explaining the reasons which induced him
to tender his resignation. He maintains that the
Government ought to procure means for the in-
crease of specie in the treasury of the Bank, and
asserts that the general uneasiness is the reason of
the difficult position of that establishment.
The resignation of Senor Rios Rosas, as Presi-
dent of the Council of State, has been accepted.

Rumours are current that endeavours will
shortly be made to contract a fresh loan.

FRANCE..
BOURSE, April 3, Three o'clock.—The market
closed at the following quotations :-
41 per Cents 9B
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 67 75
Do. end month 67 70
Credit Mobilier 642 50
Do. end month 640

Unis
Do. end month

Heir,

Bank Shares 3560
Italian Loan 57 90
Do. end month 57 30
Mexican Loan 46
Do. Bonds 283 75
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
Cash.

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

Acct.
865

- - 1125
- - 880 -
- - ... 542 50

- - ... 532 50
- - ... 105 -
- - ... 385 -
- - ... 401 25
- - ... 160 -

- --- ... 205 -

87 50

THE L OR i HIIMBERL AND.

It was not possible yesterday to make any fur-
ther attempts towards moving this ship. Had a
high tide occurred everything was ready enough to
push her off. The wind, however, was against the
flood, and at four o'clock, when it was high water
at Millwall, it was six inches lower than on the pre-
vious day, so nothing whatever was done. After
high water a consultation was held, at which Sir
John Hay, Mr. Langley, the general manager, and
Mr. Reed, the Admiralty Constructor, were present,
to decide upon the best measures to be next taken.
It was then unanimously agreed that no further
efforts should be made until Monday, the 16th of

April, on which day, according to the nautical alma-
nacs, the tide will be the highest of the year, and
give nearly 25ft. of water under the Northumber-
land's sternpost. In case of a favourable wind it

may even rise as high as 26ft.—a depth that would
place nearly eight feet of water under her bows.
This in itself would be almost sufficient to float her
off, but, but as, in spite of the assumed infallibility
of winds and tides, neither can be totally depended
on, it is intended to take every possible precaution
against the contingency of low water by adding
such powers of flotation to the ship as will enable
her in a great measure to get off without an un-
usually high tide. To effect this it is intended
to dispense with the use of the lighters, which
have hitherto been chained under the Northumber-
land's stern, and have certainly not worked alto-
gether satisfactorily. Their efforts have been irre-
gular, and at the most critical times the best have
broken adrift. In place of these, therefore, two
small frigates will be lashed astern at the low water
, preceding the high tide. Each will be chained to

he immense iron hull in such a way as to have, so

to speak, an independent action, while every pre-
caution will be taken to enable them to slip their

fastenings and get clear away the instant the vesse
moves quickly. In addition to these eight more
very large pontoons are to be built and placed close
under the stern, four on each side. These eight
new pontoons will have a greater floating power
than that of the whole ten now under the vessel.
Chained also, as they will be, at the extreme end of
the stern, they will exercise their greatest power at
the greatest advantage, and exactly where it is most
needed.
More important still than any of these changes is
the decision which has been come to to remove the
" bilge logs" under the midship portion of the ship,
and thickly grease the ways afresh. To understand
this it may be necessary to explain that the term
" cradle," in which a ship is launched and slides
over the ground ways, consists of one long massive
timber framework, the ship being held up at the
stem and stern by the two tall, powerful, timber
" cradles." These two cradles, however, are, in
reality, one, and are firmly bound together under
the ship's bottom by the framework called the bilge
logs. It is beneath these latter that it is sup-
posed the Northumberland has jammed upon the
ground or launching ways. It is, therefore,
proposed to wedge her up slightly in order to re-
move the bilge logs, and coat the ground ways
thickly with grease before replacing them. The
foremost part of the cradle also, under the bows, is
to be removed by short lengths at a time, to ascer-
tain if any accidental or maliciously placed impedi-
ment prevents her moving. Here also, as the tim-
bers are removed, all the surface of the ground-
ways will again be coated with grease. Two addi-
tional hydraulic rams of great power are also to be
used on the 16th of April next to start her. We
venture to think that instead of again using the
timber battering-rams half a dozen 68-pounders
fired simultaneously from her port broadside would
contribute far more towards " starting" her from
the ways, and do far less injury to the ship than the
use of the beams must inevitably occasion. As is
always the case when these unforeseen hitches arise,
the usual mass of correspondence has been for-
warded to Mr. . Chichester, the secretary for the
works, containing hints, advice:., sugges-
tions, offers of patents, &c. Why some of these
letters were ever let pass by the keepers under whose
care their writers must evidently be it is difficult to
conjecture. One ingenious gentleman, for instance,
devotes a long manuscript to showing how if a dock
is built round the Northumberland, and carefully
filled with bales of cotton, on which scalding water
is to be poured, the expansion must infallibly make
the vessel rise !

IMPORTATION OF EGGS.—On Saturday a return
was published, showing that in January and February
last as many as 42,180,120 eggs were imported into the
ITuiteEingddola.

-mon, 1100.

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HER MAJESTY•

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Tuesday.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena,
the Princess Leiningen, and Princess Hohenlohe
La,ngenbourg, drove out yesterday afternoon in a
carriage and four, and went out in the grounds this
morning with Princess Louise.

The Prince of Wales, attended by Major Grey,
went to Weybridge yesterday, and was present at
the funeral of the late Queen Marie Amelie.

Funeral of Queen Marie Amelie of France.

Yesterday Marie Arnelie, for seventeen years Queen of
the French, was laid side by side with the King, whose
throne and whose exile she glared, in the mortuary chapel
situate in the grounds of a house of humble pretensions
belonging to Mr. J. M. Taylor, a London solicitor.

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Early in the morning there was a Requiem mass in the
private chapel at Claremont, which was attended by the
family, Bishop Grant being assisted in the celebration by
his Vicar-General, Canon Danell, and a deputation of
clergy from the French chapel. The body of the ex-
Queen, which lay in a kind of State in the chapel, is en-
closed in four coffins, the outer one being of oak, covered
with velvet cloth, the nails and handles being silver. The
simple inscription is—

MARIE AMELIE,
Née IL Casette (Deux Siciles)
le 26 Avril 1782 ;
Morte b, Claremont (Comte de Surrey, Angleterre)
le 24 Mars 1866.

Esher was all alive long before ten o'clock as far as
regards carriages and pedestrians, for the shops and pri-
vate houses were altogether or partially closed. The bell
at the church tolled all the morning, and the sombre ap-
pearance of the place was strikingly different from the
scene of three years ago, when the whole village kept high
festival on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke de
Chartres.

The hearse was not an open one, with the coffin, &c.
exposed to view, as is customary in some foreign countries.
It was a plain hearse, of the English kind, drawn by
eight black horses, and the only external ornament
was the crown and royal arms of the deceased,
with her initials, M. A., emblazoned. In the carriages fol-
lowing the hearse were the princes of the house of Orleans
—the Duke de Nemours (chief mourner), the Count de
Paris, the Duke de Penthievre, the Duke de Guise, his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Duke do Chartres,
the Count do Flandres, the Prince of Saxe-Coburg, the
Prince of Wurtemburg,:and the Prince de Joinville. These
princes alone wore mourning cloaks. Those who fol-
lowed the princes were the ambassadors of Austria and
Prussia, and the ministers of Belgium, Bavaria,
Italy, Portugal, Saxony, Spain, Brazil, and Mexico ;
there were also four officers who took it by turns to wait,
three months each in the year, on the Royal family at
Claremont—General Count do Montesquiou, General
Count Dumas, General Count do Houdetot, and
General Count de Chabannes ; Ministers of the ex-King
Louis Philippe, MM. Guizot, Thiers, Counts Remusat,
Joubert, &c.; M. Eloin, Count de Jarnac, Lieutenant-
General Sir Edward Cust, Captain Morhain, General
Changarnier, Count de Gronsfeld, M. Fortunate, M.
Phrognon, Dr. de Mussy,' M. Octavo Borol de Bretizel,
M. Busson, M. Asseline, M. Laugel, Count de Pontois,
Baroi de Bussiere, Marquis de Richijecourt, Marquis
Gouvion do St. Cyr, M. Paravey, Baron do l'Espeo, M.
Dumont, M. Hebert, Duke Pasquier, Prince Albert de
Brogli, Duke de Casas, Count Paul de Segur, M. Casimir
Perier, M Vitet, Count d'Haussonville, General Louis de
Segur, Baron de Berthois, M. de Moerkerque, M. St. Marc-
Girardin, M. Antoine Passy, M. Lisboa, General Jullien,
Marquis d'Harcourt, MM. Regnier (pare et fils), M. Fleury,
M. Gauthier, M Mesnard, M. Faure], &c.
Most of the ladies went to Weybridge Chapel by a
shorter route, through Oatlands Park. Among those
present at the ceremony may be named the Countess de
Paris, the Duchess do Chartres, the Princess Marguerite,

the Princess de Joinville, the Duchess d'Aumale, the
Duchess of Wurtemberg, the Princess Salerno, the Mar-
chioness de Lastigne, the Baroness Finguerlin, the Countess
de Chabannes, the Baroness de Beauvoir, Mdlle. Muser,
Mdlle. Boerio,Madame de Parquet,Mdlle.Bernard,Countess
Barnels, Baroness Wangenheim, Mdlle. St. Aubin, the
Marchioness d'Harcourt, the Duchess de Galliera, and
Madame do Libboa.

Notices were issued by order of the Princes that their
Royal Highnesses would be happy to see at Claremont,
on Monday afternoon last all friends, of the house who
did them the honour of attending the funeral, and
this day at Claremont, at Orleans House, and at York
House, Twickenham, in the afternoon and evening.
The Princess expressed themselves as glad to notice
the honour paid to the ex-Queen by their friends,
but in compliance with her Majesty's expressed desire the
ceremony was to be conducted with the greatest simplicity
(la plus yrande simplicite), and, except for the family, at-
tendants, and special friends, no carriages could be pro-
vided. No fewer than 85 carriages followed the funeral
procession, and it need hardly be said that there was not
room for half of their occupants in the grounds of the
mansion itself.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Duke of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar arrived at Miss Taylor's residence
at a quarter to one, and were received by Miss Taylor and
Mr. and Mrs. James Molyneux Taylor. The chapel is
one of very small dimensions, with no pretensions to
beauty, external or internal ; it can scarcely accommo-
date 30 persons anyhow. It is a mortuary chapel, built by
the late Mr. James Taylor, who died in 1846, and who lies
in the vault on the right of the entrance, on the left being
the Duchess of Orleans and a Princess of Saxe-Coburg.
At the end of the vault is the resting place of King Louis
Philippe and Queen Marie Amelio ; the King's coffin, ex-
posed after nearly 16 years, appearing as fresh as when it
was first placed there.
The body was received just before two o'clock at the
gates of the mansion by the Right Rev. Bishop Grant, of
Southwark (who worn a white silk mitre and embroi-
dered cope), the Vicar-General, Canon Danell, the Rev.
Dr. M. P. Clifford (of Great Ormond-street), tho Rev. J.
Ainsworth (of Kingston), the Abbe Vasseur, the Rev.
Joseph Berchili, and the Rev. Mr. Toursel (from
the French Chapel, Portman-square), with the Domini-
can monk who has been preaching the Lenten course
in King-street. Headed by the cross-bearer, Mr.
Kelly, they marched into the chapel at the head of the
procession, chanting the "De Profundis " and
" Miserere." In the chapel Bishop Grant gave
the absolution over the hody, and then went with his clergy
into the vault and blessed the piece of sepulchre. The Royal
Family, the illustrious visitors of our own Royal Family,
and the friends of the house of Orleans, passed slowly down
to the vault, and each was offerad by General Dumas (who
stood by the coffin) an aspergillum, or brush dipped in holy
water, to sprinkle the coffin with in passing. This last
tribute took a very long time. At the close General Count
Dumas superintended the closing of the vault in which
King Louis Philippe and his saintly Queen sleep side by
side.