The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-10 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.
The Hamburg and Brazilian Steam Navigation
Compan)'y steam-ship Teutonia, Captain Malchin,
arrived here to-day, bringing dates from Rio de
Janeiro to Febru,ry 1 ; Bahia, 7 ; Pernambuco,
10 ; St. Vincent, 21 ; and Lisbon March 4. She
has a ship letter mail, 16 pass urgers for SAttliamp-
ton, and 7 for Hamburg, besides having landed 150
at Li bon. The Teutonia brings no c trgo for this
port, but has 1,200 tons for Hamburg, consisting
of 11,090 bags of coffee, 1,700 bale,s of tobacco, and
a quantty of ivory and other goods.
There is no political news by this arrival.
Corm-nerd-a advices from Rio are to the 31st of
January. In coffee limited supplies had kept the
stock continually at a low figure, being barely suf-
ficient to meet the demand, and prices had in con-
sequence slightly improved. Exchange operations
had been of some importance for this conveyance
—London chiefly at from 271 d. to 28d. ; Hamburg,
650 reis ; Pads, 343 to 345.
The Teutonia encountered strong head-winds
with heavy head-seas, all the way from lat. 2 N. to
lat. 36 N.

Between 2 and 3 o'clock on the morning of Satur-
day last in the Bay of Biscay the schooner Smug-
gler, of 47 tons, Capt. Young, of Cardiff, bound to
Corunna with a cargo of coals, came in collision
with the Teutonia, and went down directly. The
steamer's boats were instantly lowered, but could
only succeed in saving the captain, who was in the
water three quarters of an hour. Three men and a
boy were drowned. The mate was Wm. Stephens,
of Plyinou-h, who has left a wife awl family in Jer-
sey ; one of the sailors was Robert Jerrim, of South-
ampton ; the other's name we would not ascertain ;
the boy was James Do wnham, of Aberdeen. The
captain, who came here in the Teutonia, lost every-
thing lie had on board. The schooner belonged to
Mr. E. P. Carrel, of Cardiff.

PORTUGAL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 9.

The st-amer Teutonia brings Lisbon dates of the
4th inst., when she left the following vessels of war
anchored in the Tagus :—Her Majesty's screw ships
Duke of Wellingivni, Rear-Admiral Sir R. C. Dun-
da,s ; the James Watt, Captai❑ T. V. Anson ; the
Prince ,s Royal, Gaptain G. Giffard ; and the
French screw ship Austerlitz.
The English brig Haidee, W. Simpson, which
had left Lisbon on the 28th of February, in ballast,
for Swansea, was towed back the following day by
the French steamer Helvetie, with the loss of her
mainmast.

. The Hamburg steamer Petropolis, from Ham-
burg and Southampton, had arrived on the Ist,
and had steam up to proceed for the Brazils on the
4th, whon the Toutouia left the Tagus.
No a'teration had taken place in exchanges since
the news by the Sidney Hall steamer, already pub-
lished.

PiIOPOSED ALTERATION OF THE ClR-
cuim AND LAW TERMS.

A series of alterations are about to be suggested by the '
Council of the Incorporated Law Society to the Common
La v Judicial Commission, as being desirable to be made
in the present circuits and law terms. Considering the
long interval of eight months betwee❑ the summer and
spring circuits, it is submitted that there should be
a third circuit in every year throughout England and
Wales, for the trial of civil causes as well as criminal,
and that the terms should be reduced to three ; and
either Easter or Trinity term be abolished. Each term
should be immediately followed by the nisi prius sit logs
in London aid Westminster, and a circuit should take
place immediately after the termination of the sittings.
This disposition of the terms, sittings, and circuits, the
council say, might be re arranged as to leave a vacation
in the autumn immediately preceding the Michaelmas
Term of about the same length as at present. Each
term and each sittings after term should occupy about
the same time as the present terms and sittings, and
each circuit occupy about seven weeks. It is further
submitted that any addition to the circuits, unless a
term intervene between each, woul I be of comparatively
little utility in civil business, while it would entail great
expense and inconvenience to the public and to the
several counties, and that it could be so arranged that
one judge should sit at nisi prius throughout the term
for the trial of co:nmon jury causes, which would, it is
thought, allow of the sittings after term being shorter
than at present. As the length of time occupied by the
various circuits is very unequal changes might be made
in many of the circuits so as to shorten them. In car•
rying into effect the proposed changes the council sug-
gest that' the present arrangements be retained with
slight alterations in regard to Michaelmas and Trinity
terms, and the sittings at nisi prius in London and Mid-
dlesex after those terms—Easter term being the term
recommended to be abolished.

EMIGRATION TO AIISTRALII.—The Black Ball clipper
War Spirit, Captain Gray, sailed from the Mersey yes-
terday morning for Melbourne with 250 passengers and a
full carg ).
The story of the death in a Vienna hospital of Mme.
Heinef-tter, the singer, which lately went the round of
the Fr, nch and English papers, appears to have been
a canard. It is now stated that she is living in easy
circumstances in a villa near Baden-Baden.

In the general business of the port of London during
the past week there has been little change. The num-
ber of ships reported inward was 122, being 22 less than
in the previous week. These included 31 with cargoes
of grain, See., 7 with cargoes of sugar, 5 with cargoes of
dried fi uir, and 2 with cargoes of tea—the latter incla l-
ing 31,170 packages, 21,399 of which were brought by
the Earl of Eglinton, 12,545 of her cargo being chests.
The number of ships cleared out ward was 117, including
12 in ballast, showing a decrease of 14.
The last papers from Sydney call attention to a matter
of great importance to English underwriters. It is
stated to be a frequent practice on the part of some
consignees to get perfectly sound goods condemned as
" damaged by sea water." Honest importers are, of
course, unable to compete with these fraudulent persona,
and a number of respectable Sydney firms have appealed
by an advertisement in the Sydney Herald t 3 the London
insurers to appoint some person in the col any to protect
their interests.
GLASGOW, MARCU 7.—COTTON.—The business in our
cotton market during the week just closed has been
considerably impeded by the Parliamentary election, but
where transactions have taken place the tendency in
price has been upward. Goods and Yarns.—There is
more doing in the markets for goods and yarns, and,
from the lightness of stocks and the dearness of the raw
material, prices look as if they would still tend upwards.
Iron.—Througbout the past week our pig iron market
has been very firm, with a large business done in war-
rants from 765. to 763. 6d. cash. T. -day we are qniet,
but very steady, at 765. Shipping iron is quoted—No.
1, 765. 6d. ; No. 3, 735. 6d. ; No. 1, Gartsherrie, 80e.
MR. SPEAKER LEFEVRE.—Mr. Speaker Shaw Lefevre
was elected to his high office on the 27th of Al ay, 1839,
by a majority of 18 votes, over the late Right Hon.
Henry Goulburn, the numbers having been 317 and
299. The right bon. gentleman was subsequently re-
elected to the chair nem. dis. in the three enccessive
Parliaments of 1841, 1847, and 1852. His term of
office has been nel.r!y 18 years. His predecessor, Mr.
Abercromby, was elected in 1835 by a majority of 10
over Mr. C. Manners Sutton, afterwards Viacouut Can-
terbury, and held office about four years.
CASUALTIES AT SEA —BELFAST, March 9...—The Royal
Mail steamer Stag, of and from Glasgow for Belfast,
with a general cargo, and 90 passengers, during the
snowstorm yesterday morning ran on the rocks near
Blackhead. The Cambria, from Ardrossan, came to her
assistance, and took off the passengers. The Sag then
backed off, and with the assistance from the Cambria,
reached tee quay, with the food compartment full of
water. Tee screw steamer Semaphore, of Belfast, from
Liverpool for Belfast, when off the Calf of Man yester
day morning, was struck by a heavy sea, which stove in
the front of the cabin on deck, and nearly filled it with
water.
FEARFUL SCENE IN A CHAPEL—SUIELDS, March 9.
—A. dreadful scene occurred last night in a new chapel
opened by the Wesleyan Reformers in North Shields.
The Rev. W. Griffith, a popular preacher in that body,
was preachine one of the opening sermons. The chapel
was crowded', the aisles as well as the pews being filled
with peop'e, when in the middle of the rev, gentleman's
discourse a cry was raised in the gallery of " Fire !" and
on looking up to a dome-light in the roof the congrega-
tion saw that the gas had set fire to the ceiling and was
licking its way along the woodwork in an alarming
manner. They appeared to be fascinated for a moment,
and then amid screams and shouts a general rush was
made to the doors. Many women fainted, and the scene
that followed was of the most alarming and fearful cha-
racter. Several of the officers of the church, however,
are seafaring men, and, with the usual promptitude
of their class, they kept back the crowd. By
a fjrtunate coincidence, Mr. W. Gray, a shipbroker,
was le; tin; a woman and child out of one of the front
doors at themndomheentthrheewheitarodpethne. crowd rushing
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was also comine, in by the other front door, and h®
threw A open, so that the crowd had free egress. Three
or four hundred persons were also got out by the back
doors, arid—what is, perhaps, almost unprecedented in
a panic of this character—the whole of the densely
packed congregation was got out without the least per-
The preacher and the officers exhibited
B:lantB;llyincjJuurrya.ge and self-possession during the whole of
the trying scenes and they deserve every credit for the
spirit they showed in resisting
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dune to the chapel.