The New York herald., 1872-11-25

York directory wields all the power without the
risk. whether these allegations be or be not true,
and the shareholders are proposing an indigna-
ton meeting and an application to the Courts to
force the managing director to submit the books to
experts. 1t is the more noticeable, this affair, as
both the general public and the government have
Brazil and the efrect is that new Brasiiian enter
prises with directorates In the United States may
be considered, for the time, as impossible to realize
here.
The government has been issuing considerable
number OF concessions, railroad, mining, &c, OF
OUT Tn' The present @ per Minister may however, is
showing less facility than his predecessor,
and has denied concessions to host OF applicants
Among the few real concessions Is one with En-
gineer N. Coutinho for the surveys OF the extern
sion OF the Pernambuc0 Railroad TO the San Fran.
with Engineer Bulhoes for the extension OF the
Bahia Railroad TO the same river-namely, $3.50 per
inch gauge line, and $3.50 per kOmetre for
metre gauge line.
OF Pernambuco last season turned out nearly
double OF what they We're the preceding season,
and those OF this season promise to be still larger
Tne sugar crop OF last season was about 600 tons
OF 2 240 pounds and the cotton crop 800 tons. In
1861 the sugar crop was TO- tons and the cotton
The crops OF san Paulo also manifest rapid in
crease, as shown by the exports from Santos, the
port for foreign trade. In the three years ending
june 1862 the export OF coffee was 81 S04 tons, and
OF cotton ton; while the average OF the three
years ending June last was-.coffee, e6,so5 tons |;
crcase-namely, from 463 tons to Ills TONS
The Ministry ofMarine has given notice that the
the Reis Magos, Rio Grande do Norte. % began "n to
shine on the 9th OF September, and that the Bra
gansa para lightsmp win be Withdrawn tempo,
rarily on the 23d OF November, but will be replaced
by vessel hOisting white light.
decree lately issued, granting permission to
the Presbyterian congregation of Rio to incorp0
rate and hold real estate, with demise to the New
YORK Presbyterian Missionary Society in case OF
the dissolution OF the congregation has received
as displaying the tolerant and liberal spirit OF the
TITULAR PROMOTIONS.
The Emperor has given titular promotions to all
the effective members OF the Council OF State be-
low marQuses. Thus, ViscOunts Sapucahy and $.
Vicente are now marquises Senator Souza Franco
Is Viscount Souza Franco, Senator Carnclr0 de
Campos is Viscount Carayelas, senator Leite
RiberO Is ViscOunt AraXa Senator Sayham LObatO
is NiscOunt Ncheroy, Senator Torres HOmem is
Viscount Juhomirim, Baron de Murtiba is viscount
and Baron das Tres Barras is ViscOunt Jaguary.
The only councillor who mas not received title is
Senator NaDucO, who declined that OF viscOunt
from considerations regarding titles in general
but consented to take the Grand Cross Of the high
Imperial Order Of Christ.
A bottle is said to have been found on the I'd Of
October upon the San Paulo coast, containing q
statement dated July 81, 1872 board the steamer
Republic, bound from London to New York, upon
n whaling voyage, twenty-seven days out, and
signed "John Moore, Dupon, Gevel and Guplen,n
declaring that they had encountered severe storm
overheard. The statement concludes by vOwinE to
st. George all the and wax candles to be
found in the first port reached.
The coffee merchants and SackerS have agreed
on a sack OF sixty kilogrammes to take the place
on and after July 1873 OF the present sack OF five
arrobes 162 pounds, the Introduction of the
metrica system OF weights and measures prescrib-
ing new standard of sack. The new one will,
therefore, be only about 1SO pounds and the cost Of
Sackng IL to be reduced to 600 res or thirty cents
Mr. Theodore b. Myer Hanson, United States Min
ister has been named Knight OF the Imperial Order
of the Rose in acknowledgements OF his gaantry in
saving two drowning seamen OF the Guerriere In
Rio harbor in 1869. :. s1-ss ta.:.'--.
- DIPLOMATIC CHANGES.
:, Conselheiro Areas, Baron de Ourem, has been re-
neved at his own request, from the post OF Resi-
dent Brazilian Minister in London. Baron de
Onrcm has long suffered from the sapping attacks
OF consumption, and for Gbont year past he had
practically been unable to Perform the duties of
chief OF the legation. He was previously Inspector
ot the Rio Custom House, and was considered an
able and safe administrator AS to his successor
there is some talk OF Baron de PenedO, who his
predecessor and speaks English with some 1uency,
but the matter appears not yet decided by the
government and IL is likely no nomination win oc
mission though the Paris one is that which comes
in best with the tastes Of Brazilian diplomats.
The affairs OF the legation are going on
regularly under the attentive conduct OF Charge
Colonel Richard G. Shannon, who is showing that
regular foreign Office training, which we see pro-
OF diplomatic snobs as general result, Is not
needed to obtain useful public representatives for
the United States. Colonel Shannon has undOubt-
edly found his meter In diplomacy, and under
future German mission by studying Hoch Deutsch
from the ruby lips and in the bright eyes of a
charming German nd,uei1, at present denizen of
the diplomatic wales Of Petr0polis. The lady, be-
sides her charms OF mind and body, is reported not
to have been left without share in the French in.