The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-09 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 7.—Her Majesty's packet Crane,
Lieutenant Lewis commander, has arrived direct with
mails from Rio de Janeiro this afternoon. Her dates
are Pernambuco the 11th, and Bahia the 16th of
October, and Rio the 2Gth of November. She brings
on freight about 36,0001., and four passengers, includ-
ing Captain Willis, late of Her Majesty's ship Frolic.
The exchange at Rio was 25.
There is 110 news of importance by this 'conveyance,
matters rernabling in state quo at the seat of Govern-
ment. At: Maceio there had been some little out-
break of the ordinary Brazilian character, to check
which a new President, Senor Lopez Gamy, and a
considerable number of troops, had been dispatched in
the Regeneracaio corvette, with two brigantines, and
two steamers, and it was expected that the province
would be speedily pacified.
The English brig John Dalton, from Sydney, was
driven on sh( ire in a gale of wind, on Cape Negro,
the 16th of :November, and the mails which wei
transmitted the next day to Rio de Janeiro, a.e
brought to England by the Crane.
Her Majeisty's ships Frolic, Viper, and Spider,
were ordered to proceed to render assistance, arid by
the latest ace ounts before the Crane sailed the vessel
was expected to be got off with little damage. A lady
passenger, rei)orted to be called Stevens or Stevenson,
had been unfortunately drowned.
There were at Rio when the Crane left—Her Ma-
jesty's ships Alfred, Collingwood, Dolphin, and Cres-
cent ; the French corvette Coquette, and the Ameri-
can frigate Ra ratan and corvette Boston.
The Express packet, from Falmouth, arrived out
at Rio de Janeiro on the 18th of November, and her
Majesty's sch( ioner Cockatrice sailed for Portsmouth
the 11th eodenl.

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According t a the Rio Mercantile Journal of No-
vember 23, business in imports has been dull in the
extreme durin g the week, particularly as regards the
most importata articles, such as flour, piece-gad',
and wines.

The arrivals with cargoes consist of 2 ve,st-ls ith
coals, 1 with (.11als, 1 with fish oil, 3 with flour, 1 with
jerked beef, 1. •with lumber and dry goods, 5 with salt,
1 with wax twit oil, 2 with wine, 1 with wine and
sundries, and with sundries.
In coffee the business had been moderate during
the week, and -prices had been fully supported, second
good and first ordinary being quoted, the former
10Ors., the lancer Mrs. in advance of the previous
price. The sales of the week may be estimated at
20,000 bags. Of these there were exported-5,253
bags to Antwi !rp, 3,535 to Baltimore, 3,017 to Bos-.
ton, 4,104 to ..aremen, 1,673 to the Cape of Good
Hope, 3,932 to, Falmouth, 3,260 to Hamburgh, 2,860
to Malta, 1,625; to Marseilles, 8,598 to New York,
2,064 to Philael( Iphia, 20 to River Plate; in all (16th
to 22d) 39,942 bags. Shipped since .Ist instant,
103,463 bags.
The quantit y of sugar arrived was 437 cases of
Campos, and 24 0 bags and barrels of Pernains ; the
sales for export; were about 1,500 barrels for the River
Plate, and for -consumption about 160 cases. Ex-
ported-1 case 'to Africa, and 19 to the Cape.
In hides con: siclerable activity has prevailed luring
the week, in w hich the market was cleared. 16,500
heavy, old stoc'ic, were taken at 170r5.; 11,300 as-
sorted, heavy, •medium, and light, at 190 rs. ; and,
this day, 6,250 •at about the same price, establishing
our quotations 07F 180 rs. heavy, 195 rs. medium, '205
to 210 rs. light.
A fair amo• 1l it of business has been done in
freights, at abo tit previous quotations. Large vessels
have been takei somewhat below the current rates.
In the Monej r Market discounts have been steady
at 7 per cent.
In exchange,. part of the transactions usually ef-
fected for the j )ae het took place prior to the departure
of the Cockatr ice, since when the market has been
flat at 25-4- to. 25 upon London. Altogether about
80,000/. has "hi ten negotiated, of which 25,000/. at
25, the remain der at 25d., the closing quotation this
day. Upon Pa ris 80,000 f. has been passed at 373
and 375, prim ;Tipsily at 375. The business upon
Hamburgh has been trivial, at 700 rs.
Stock steady • at 73, at which several sales hay
been effected.

Within the last few days before the Crane left
several purchases •of bullion had been made for ex-
port, and the 'mime both of silver and doubloons has
advanced.

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FIRE AT CLE aIEENWELL.--This morning, shortly,
before one o'cloi ke, a fire of unusual fierceness was dis-
covered by polic e-constable Nicholls upon the extensive
premises known . as the Princess Royal, in St. John's-
street-road, at t. tie corner of Corporation-row. When
first perceived, t he flames had obtained a strong hold of
the bar and par' ocir, and they were bursting through the
fanlight. Fortu ni ttely one of the fire-escapes, which
was stationed in 2.1 le vicinity, was taken in front of the
flaming premitaas, se id two females and a male were taken
down the same. S 3yeral engines soon arrived, the sup-
ply of water was ea aple, and the firemen made great ex-
ertions ; but their efforts were in vain. The interior of
the building was e ntirely destroyed, and even the walls
are in a totterii ea. state. At one time it was reported
that a young ma n had perished, but it was subsequently
believed that he had not returned home when the fire
commenced. T' de origin of the calamity is unknown.
SUSPECTED CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday after-
noon, just abou t dusk, as a policeman of the M division
was going his ro and in Sparrick's-row, near Maze-pond,
in the Borough, lit saw a bundle lying on the ground,
which ho found to crntsin the body of a newly-born
male child. Aa the body was quite warm, the officer
thought there might `, yet be life in it, and he conveyed it
to Guy's Hospital to ascertain the fact ; but upon exami-
nation by the surgs eons, it was pronounced to be quite
dead. From its als pearance it had not been long born,
and the another had not evidently been attended by any
professional person..
A PANTHER KI J. LED DY A GIRL.—The La Grange,
Texas paper, give s the following incident, which oc-
curred near Dougl an, Nacogdoches county:—A panther
came into a house ;in which there was no person but a
young lady and her little brother. The young lady,
being very busy a' :tending to her little household affairs,
did not see the pa other until he had entirely got into
the house; but so soon as she discovered him she seized
holdiof him and c: died to her little brother to bring th,
axe. After waitit g• some time for this weapon, still
holding on to the i sal ether, the young lady then told her
brother to bring he r a smoothing-iron, with which she
soon succeeded in pul ting the intruder to death. The
screams of the heroine during the encounter were heard
by some of the neigh bours, who went immediately to
learn the cause; but vt then they arrived they found hf-r
the conqueror, and vie wiag with much composure the
lifeless body of the frig ;htful intruder.
HERRING Fxsant o ..—There has yet been no ap-
pearance of herrings on the coast of Skye, or in the
lochs by which that ibland is so much indented. The
season may now be / ,coked upon as entirely lost to the
poor disaprointed fir therman. Should herrings appear in
the dead of winter, t he quality of the fish would be so
inferior, that it won lid in no respect remunerate the
trouble of securing. Few seasons have been so very un-
favourable for herrin ,fishing in tho Hebrides as the
now expiring season of 1844. The " take" has been in
some bygone seasons re ry limited, and in consequence
has been complained ( )1' ; bat when there is no " take '
at all, the condition o. :t, lie poor fishermen is by no.'mea ns
an enviable one, as un,i€ •r these circumstances they and
their families must live o: i credit, which is now tilin•istas
difficult for them to pros are as it is to procure the
ca-
pricious fish, which soul d leave them alike comforta
and independent.—Ross- shire lndpendent.
The French Princes on Monday gave the spectacle
of a stag-hunt to the Arab chiefs in the forest of
.St.
Germain. The Kalifs of Constantia followed the dogs
close, and his horse at last run off with him ; the rider
endeavoured to pulls hi m in, but the bit breaking, the
animal went off, and elk [not stop for three-quarters of an
hour. The Princes.. fe at ing some accident, sent to seek
the chief, and the) )u'V. 116 d'Aumale went to meet him.
The Kalifs was f coming back in safety. Being
asked how he liked the h ant, he replied that "it was ex-
ceedingly fine, and 'wort t iy of a king."
STATE or Tlt; AD:TE
.—The improvement which
we noticed in this., ma rket last week was fully sus-
tained yesterday, wh(e t the deman I both for yarn
and goods was. 0') osidl .rable ; and the market being
y
bare of; se; ock, purchasers were coinpelled
eedi
in some eases, to giv
i
,r imait diato delivery, an advance
of d. to ld. per lion Ind
on yarn, and of lid. to 3d. per
piece on 40-inch sh irtir igs. Many co 'tracts fur future
delivery have also b eee made at full previous rates.—
ROCIMILE FLANN EL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 6.
The market has b i better attended to thy than i•-;
usually the case at tai, ; time of the year, and pieces have
been sold at i small k
.vance. W, O. continues in good
demand, and the deals rs are asking better prices.—Mae-
chester Gulrdiqn.
The Foundling Cb ape], which has been the source
of attraction for the I ast eighty years, is now closed on
Sunday evenings, at) dan afternoon service has been
substituted. ' -