The Sun. — 1825-03-07 (London, England)

THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] A Brazil mail arrived last night, bringing Rio Papers to Jan. 8 ; and, if their contents form a good criterion of the state of that empire, no country upon earth can be more free from matter of an extraordinary or agitating character. The papers contain absolutely nothing beyond the substance of an imperial decree for the suppression of crimes, which, it is said, has reached such a height, particularly those of robbery and murder, as to render necessary police regulations of a very rigorous character, anti which are in consequence to be tried, as soon as the proper means are organized for the purpose. However, they are only an imitation of the armed patrole system, which has been long established in almost every part of Europe ; with this difference, however, that there is much less occasion for them than in the countries from which they have been borrowed. There is, further, an account of the acquittal of Lieut. Pascoe Grenfell, of the Brazilian naval service, on some charges instituted against him for alleged misconduct whilst on duty at Para. Of these charges the Court Martial has acquitted him in the most honourable manner. We have now supplied the whole of the intelligence brought by this mail ; and it is no uninteresting phenomenon, that a country, which has but just emerged, we might say, from a semi-barbarous state, and, what is perhaps worse, her dependence on a remote and jealous Power, should, by the mere force of her new Institutions, acquire in so short a space of time such an appearance of political consistency as is manifest in her present situation. Yet this is one of the States which, according to the insolent dicta of the Holy Alliance are unfit to govern themselves : but they have refuted the charge in the most triumphant way imaginable, by the constrast between their condition and that of the parties who have ventured to prefer it. If superior prosperity, as well as a better system of rule, form a title to precedence, it is the Governments of the New World who should controul the Members of the Holy Alliance, instead of being dictated to by that Body, whose stupid prejudices are only surpassed by the blind infatuation and head-long violence of its proceedings.  What little speculation was entered into on Saturday was on rather higher terms than on Friday, owing to several Expresses from Paris, with letters of Thursday last, which state, that the French Funds on that day had experienced an advance of nearly I per cent. It would appear by the report of those private Messengers, who come by way of Boulogne, that they were stopped by the Police at that Port, who inspected all their letters and papers, under the expectation that they contained some correspondence respecting the Greeks, of an offensive nature to the French Government. What this correspondence contains, at which the French Government could possibly take umbrage, we cannot understand; but a report to this effect was extremely current in the City. It was likewise said, that the negociations between Mr. Stratford Canning at St. Pstersburgh, and the Russian Government, with respect to thel recognition of the independence of Greece, had taken a very ' unfavourable turn. Consols for Account, which in the morning had risen to 94, fell to 93i, and for Money to OA. Credit was not generally attached .to this story, or .the funds would have closed consideralaly lower. Any rumour, bearing the least semblance of probability, creates alarm among the holders of stock It the present high quotations ; and it is not at all unlikely that the funds will, for the present, remain rather heavy. The continuation in Consols to the Account, which terminates on the Plith April, has advanced from kto per cent., which indicates Usat the public opinion is, in favour of an improvement, and that the decline has been occasioned very much by the demand for ruoney.—(