The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-06 00:00:00

BRAZILS

By her Majesty's shiir Rover we have received the Bra
zilian mail with dates from Rioe de Janeiro to the 18th or
May. It appears by those advices that the government con-
tinued to gain ground in popularity, and that the public
business was proceeding very satisfactorily. The elections,
particularly in the southern provinces, were greatly in favour
of the former regent. The chambers met for business on the
3d of May. when the minister of the finances laid his report
before them, which is not a very favourable expos& It ap-
pears that the deficiency of the revenue for the year ending
with 1837, estimated at about £130,000 sterling, had advanced
to about 1:380,000. This defalcation was attributed to the
disturbajjces which had prevailed in Bahia and Rio Grande,
but for ilittwirrent year, calculating- the mean of the exchange
on London at :30 dollars, the minister of finance considered
that the deficiency would not-be more than £140,000, whilst
he states that the annual remittances on account of the de-
vidends from the Brazils to London amounted to £369,000
sterling. This ezposj of the minister is rather more explicit
than most of the documents of the like nature usually laid
before popular assemblies, and the minister concluded his
address by saying—" This statement may not be over-flatter-
ing to your feelings, but surely it is better that government
should prefer frankness (though it may not always command
flattery) to dissimulation; and, with the agricultural richness
of our country, the best of all securities, (this would serve as
a hint for Mr. flume on his agricultural notions,) there need
exist no fear that we shall ever he found •to want credit so
long as we attend to the just fulfilment ot' nor present as well
as our future engagements. A meeting of merchants had
been held at Rio, when it was resolved to establish a new
bank there, and a provisional committee, consisting of
Messrs. Emery, Ratton, J. F. Los Santos, and others, was
formed to carry the plan into effect. The Six per Cent local
Stock had advanced about two-per cent., being quoted at 89.
The exchange on London was 291

RAILWA YS.

ABSTRACT OF A BILL TO PROVIDE FM: THE CONVEYANCE. OF
THE MAILS BY RAILWAYS.
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I. Postmaster• General may require Railway Companies to
convey the Mails, together with Guards or other officers of
the Post-office, either be ordinary trains of carriages, or by
special trains, provided- at the expense of the Companies;
such carriages to be subject to,stich reasonable regulations as
to speed of travelling, placer, times, and duration of stop-
pages, and times of arrival, as the Postuffice-General shall
direct.

2. If required, carriages to be applied exclusively to con
veyance of Mails.

3.
Railway Company, if required, to provide seperate car-
riage, or carriages, for sorting letters, tilted up as the Post-
master, or any person deputed by him, shall direct, and sub-
ject to such reasonable regulations as the Pustmaster-Gene-
ral may appoint.
4. Postmaster-Genrrra I may direetMuils.t6 be carried along
the Railway in mail coaches in lieu of Company's carriages.
5. -Company to be subject to such directions iespecting the
conveyance of the Mails, Ste., as the Postmaster shall tom
Lime to time give.

6. Postai.4ster-General,.or person deputed by him, may ob•
ject to engines or carriages provided by Railway Company,
and direct others to be substituted in their place.
7. Amount of remuneration to Railway Companies, for the
conveyance of Mails, to be tixei: by agreenient between Post-
master-General and the Company, or, in case of difference
of opinion between them, by arbitration.

8. Agreements between Postmaster-General and Railway-
Companies as to amount of remuneration, &c., may be altered
on notice being given by the L'ostmaster•General, that an ad-
dition to, or diminution of, the services of the Company, will
be required; terms to be settled as before-mentioned.
9. Postmaster-General may terminate services of Railway
Companies on notice of three calendar months.

10. If without notice, then a full and fair compensation,
fixed tiv arbitration, to be made by the Company.
11. Postmaster-General way provide or hire engines or car-
riages, Scc., for conveyance of Mails on Railways, in which
case no rate or toll is to be charged by the Company, pi ovi-
ded that the consent of three Lords of the Treasury he ob-
tained, prior to the running of such engines.,
12. Engineers or servants employed by Postmaster-Gene-
ral in the management of engines or carriages provided' by
him, to have free-access along Railway.
13. Railway Company enjoined to render services or ac-
commodation, if demanded, when Post-office engines or car-
riages are employed; for which special remuneration, to be
fixed as above, is to be given; in all such cases a fair com-
pensation to be made for the tear and wear of Railway.
14. Royal arms to be painted on engines or carriages pro-
vided by Postmaster-General.

15. By-laws of Railway Companies to be of no effect
against any provisions of the present act.
16. Companies to be liable to a penalty for refusing to con-
vev, or obstructing conveyance of Mails.
17. Postmaster-General may require Railway Companies
to give security by bond to her Majesty for the doe perform-
ance of the duties imposed upon tbetri by this act.
18. Notice to be held good if served upon any Director,
Secretary, or other officer, agent, or servant of the Railway
Company, or if left at any station of the Company,
19. If Postmaster. General and Railway Company cannot
agree upon the amount of remuneration to be given for tear
and wear. or for any services performed by the Company, the
case shall be submitted to the arbitration of two persons-- one
to be named by each party; and if they cannot agree, then
to the umpirage of a third, to be appointed by them, whose
award shall be. final.

20. Construction of terms in this act to be according to the
•espective interpretation of the terms contained in the acts
fo• regulating the Post-office, passed last year.
21. Act may be amended or repealed during the present
Session of Parliament.