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Vol. XIV. RIO DE JANEIRO, I^ARCH 5th, 1887

Qfficial QirectoryAMERICAN LEGATION.—157, Rua das Larangeiras.

CHARLES D. TRAIL,Charge d'Affaires.

BRITISH LEGATION;—Travessa de D. Manoel, No. 8.H. G. MACDONELL,

Minister.

AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL— N? 42 Rua doOuvidor. H. CLAY ARMSTRONG,

Cônsul General.

BRITISH CONSULATE GENERAL.—N? 8, Travessade D. Manoel. GEORGE THORNE RICKETTS,

Cônsul General.

Church DirectoryCHRIST CHURCH. —Rua do Evaristo da Veiga. Divine

Service every Sunday at 11 a.m. and 011 the 2iid and 4U1Sundays in each month at 7.30 p.m. Holy Communionon the first Sunday in each month at eleven, and on theGreat Festivais at nine, in the morning. Holy Baptismevery Sunday after the morning Service.

N. B.—All notices should be sent to the Clerk.FREDERICK YOUNG, M. A.,Cliaplain.

157 Rua das Larangeiras.ALBERI ALLEN., Clerk. No. 6, Rua Hnmaytd.

MKTHODISTBPISCOPALClíURCH-LargodoCattete.English sentices: Sunday School at 10.1.111; preaching at11:30 a. m. 011 Sundays, and at 7:30 p. m. on Fridays.

•\ H. C. TUCKER, Pastor.: Portuguese sentices: Sunday School 10 a.m., preaching

7.30 p.m. Sundays; pr;iyer-meeting,7 30p.n1. Wednesdays.J. L. KENNEDY, Pastor.

v Residence: Rua Senador Corrêa, Bi.PRESBYTERI AN CHURCH.-NV15 Travessa da Barreira.

.. Services in Portuguese at it o'clock, a. in. ,and 7 o'clock,Ni<j^>m'.';, Sundays: and at 7 o!clock p, m., Tliursdays.

BAPTIST CHURCH.—Rua do Conde d'Eu, No. 121.Services in Portuguese every Sunday at 11 o'clock, a.m.and V 30 o'clock, p.m: and every Wednesday at 7 30

.X¦.-¦; o'ck>clcp.m. Sunday School atio.p!elock,a.m. íüigU.;h.«enrices on lhe ist 17 p.m.I and Vrd fit a.nil Sunday ofeach month. E. H. SOPER, Pastor.

LlBRARIES, M USEUMS, &cBRITISH SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.-Rua do Hos,

picio, No. 1, ist floor.BIBLIOTHECA NACIONAL.-Rua do Passeio No. 48.BIBLIOTHECA FLUMINENSE.-No. 62, Rua do Ou

vidor.MUSEU NACIONAL-Praça da Acclamação, cor. Rua da

Constituição.GABINETE PORTUGUEZ DE LEITURA. - No. ia

Rua dos Renedictinos.

me&iral IHmtort)Dr. Custodio dos Santos, Surgeon and Physician-Residence: Rua do Haddock Lobo, No. 70. Oflice Rua doRosário, No. 131, from 1 to 3 p.m.Dr. W. J. Fairbairn; M. D. Edin; Surgeín andPhysician. Office: Rua de S. Pedro, No. 21; from 11 to1 p.m. and 4 to 4:30 p.m. Residence: N. 130 Rua de S.

Je«e«e\Botef°go, Med. Director of Euuitable Life Ins.Co.of N. York.

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FREITAS' HOTEL* 186 RUA DO CATTEIE

J. F. FREITAS, ProprietorRecently enlarged and refitled.

IGREJA EVANGÉLICA FLUMINENSE.-No. 175. Ruade S. Joaquim. Sei vices, in Portuguese at 10 o'clock,a.m., and 6 o'clock, p.m., every Sunday: and at 7 o'clock,p.m., every Wednesday. Sunday school at 4:30, p.m.

R IO .SÉAMENS' MISSION AND READING ROOM.*-Open daily. No. 89 Rua da Misericórdia- Divine Service011 Sundays and wednesdays at 7 p.m. Sailors free andeasy on 'luesday Evenings at 7 p.m. Gifts of papers,books, left off clothing, etc, may he sent to tlie aboveaddress, or lhe Missiouary will gladly call for them.

THOMÁS HOOPER, Missionary.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN I.IHI.E SOCIETY.-OepotatNo. 71, Rua Sete de Setembro, Rio de Janeiro.

BRITISH BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.-Subscriptions areearnestly solicited, Communications slmuld lie addressedto the Hon. Secretary—D. Roberts, Caixa do Coireio, 75.

Tmveller'S £)irectoryrailways.

DOM PEDRO II.—Through Express: Train leaves Rioat 5 a. in.; and ísdivided at Belém into Central, and S. Paulobranch: former arrives at Barra do Pirahy 7:20, Entre Rios9:49 and Lafayette (terminus) at 5:30 p.m: latter arrives atBarra at 7:40 a.m. and Cachoeira, where passengers for S.Paulo must change, at 11:53. From Entre Rios train leavesat 9:59 a.m. amving at Porto Novo da Cunha at 11:56.DowHwatd, trains leave Lafaytte at 7:30 a m: Cachoeira(S. Paulo branch) 1.10 pan: Porto Novo at 1:15: Entre Rios3.07: arrive at Barra at 5:10 and 5:15 p.m. and Rio at 8 p in.

Limited Express, leaves Rio at 7 a.m.; arrives at Barraat 10:25; Entre Rios ata: 23 and Marianno Procopio (terminus)at 6:58 p.m. S. Paulo branch leaves Barra at 11:30 and arrivesat Cachoeira at 6:95 p.m. From Entre Rios traiu leaves at3:15 p.m. and arrives at Porto Novo at 6.05. Downwàrd,'train leaves Marianno Procopio at 5:50 -a m: Cachoeira 6:45and Porto Novo 6:30, arriving at Barra at 1:25 and 1:37 p.m,reach Rio at 5:10 p.m.

Mixed Trains, leave Rio at 8:35 and 9:20 a.m. 3:45 andp.m; first goes to Entre Rios arriving at 8.03 p.m; second

and third to Barra arriving at ato a.m. and 3:55 p.m. andthird to Belem arriving at 7:32. Downwàrd, trains leave EntreRiaaat 4.30 ».m. arriving at Barra 9:17 and Rio at 3:20 p.m:leave Barra at 4 and 5:30 a.m; arriving in Rio at 9:15 a.m. and1: is p.m« and leave Belem at 5:10 a.m. arriving in Rio at 7:50.

Nifkt service ; Train leaves Rio at to p m. every Friday,arriving at Barra at 12:30 and Porto Novo at 5 a. m. Down-ward, train leaves Porto Novo at 10:50 p. m. every Momiay,arriving at Barra at 3:15 and Rio at 5:50 a. in.

S. PAULO AND RIO.— Train leaves Cachoeira at 12111.arriving at S. Paulo at 6; 10 p m. Downwàrd train leaves S.Paulo at 6-4sa.n1. and amves at Cachoeira at 12:46 p.m.when pasaengert change to the D. Pedro II line.

CANTAGALLO R.R.— l-eaves Nitherohy (Saiit'Anna)6.30a. ra., arriving at Nova Friburgo 10:35: Cordeiro (1 hourper tramway firom Cantagallo) 12:48 and Macuco 1:48 p. 111.Return train leaves Macuco 10:05, Cordeiro n;o6 and NovaFriburgo 1:08 p. in., arriving at Nitherohy 5:00 p. 111.A ferry boat run* between Rio and Sant'Anna,connectiiig withtreina.

CORCOVADO R. ff.—Trains leave the Station at CosineVelho, Larangeiras, at 6, 8, 10, and 12 a. in. and 2, 4 and

p. m. on Sundays and holidays: and at 8 and 12 a. m. andat 4: ao anfi ti ao p. m. on week-days

PBTXOPOLIS STEAMERS and R. if.—Steamers leaveTrapiche Jlat.J at 4:15 p.m. week days and 7 a. 111. Sundaysand holidays. Kel irning, trains leave Petropolis at 7; 15. a.m.week days, and 4 p in. Sundays and holidays. Mixedtram: fpmrard ia m.; downttiarJ (fiom Pciropolis) ía.«<p. m-, week days only.

TJOTEL BRAGANÇA ,PETROPOLIS.

ANTÔNIO PEREIRA CAMPOS, Proprietor.The_oIdest and best known hotel in Petropolis. Centrallysituated and specially adapted for transient vjsitors. .....;

/BRANDE HOTEL ORLEANS

PETROPOLIS.ANTÔNIO PEREIRA CAMPOS, Proprietor.

A new and elegantly furnislied hotel, charmingly situated,and provided with every convenience. The largest establish-i.ient of the kind in Petropolis. Specially adapted forsummer visitors.

TJOTEL DO GRÃO-PARA.PETROPOLIS.

No. ço, RUA DO IMPERADOR.(In front of the Imperial Palacc)

GEORGE BERESFORD, Proprietor,

JJOTEL LEUENROTH.NOVA FRIBURGO,

(Province of Rio de Janeiro)

CARL ENGERT, Proprietor.Tliis first class Hotel, established 40 years ago, opposile the

railway station, with fine gardens and excellent cold baths,the healthy and favorite summer residence of the nobilityand gentry ofthe Capital ofthe Empire.is magnificently situated3000 feet above the sea-level, at 3% hours distance from thecity and port of Rio de Janeiro. All principal langiiagcsspoken. Information furnished hy Messrs. Alves Nogueira& Dalziel, Rua d'Ouvidor 46. Rio de Janeiro.

V ILLAV RICHMONDRUA BRAGANÇA, No. 6.

PETROPOLIS.This first class establishment is fitted up with every regard

to cotnfort, and eqtials the best hotéis of other countries, as toaccommodation and table. Especially desiroiis of atiractingthe custom of families and respectable persons, the. service,table, wines, etc, are all of the very best déscription. Thewines are importai direct. Kor further inlormatioii apply atNo. 74, Rua i" de Março, ist floor.

ÜALMEIRAS.(DOM PEDRO II RAILWAY)

On the 25th inst will be opened a new

HOTEL-SANITARIUMwith good accommodalions for families, baths, etc. Fourtrains up and down daily, and return tickets for eight days.

Apply for iinformation toMrs WltXlAMS, Propiietress,

Palmeiras,or to Messrs Ckashlev 4. Cu36^. 67, Jlua dò Ouvidor.

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GILSON, SONS & CO.,(LIMITED)

2, PRAÇA DAS MARINHAS,RIO DE JANEIRO.

AGENTS 01?à*

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mtoiPacific Steam Navêgatton Company,United States & Brazil Mail S.S. Co' &c. &c,

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Commevcial Union (Fire Sr Marine)Assurance Co., Limited.

Coal.-Wilson, Sons & Co. (Limited) have depôts at St.Vincent, (Cape Verde) and Montevidéo, and at the chiefBraiil Ports; and, amongothers, supplv coal under contract,to:

The Imperial Brazilian Government;Her Britannic Majesty's Government;

The Transatlantic Steamship Companies;The New Zealand Shipping Companies;

&c.

Insuram-e.—Fire & Marine Insuiaiiceseftecledaiitiodei.nte rates.

Bonded Warehouseson the Island Mocangnê Pe-queno for the storage of Mercliandise in transit.

Tug Boms aiways ready forservice.

John L. Blsset,Manager.

EBtablishmente: Wilson,' Sons & Co. (Limited),London, St. Vincent, (Cape Verde) Rio, Bahia, Pernambuco,Parahyba Jo Norte, Santos, Montevidéo and Buenos Ayres,

T OHN MILLER & C0. 7"

Iínporters* and Commission Merchants,Santos and SXo PaiTi.o.

^RAPICHE VAPOR.Receives Goods in boud according lo Table No. 7 of

the custom house regulations.

Rua da Gamboa No. io & 12.Telephone Call, No. jq.

w R. CASSELS & Co.13 Rua Primeiro de Março,

RIO'UE-JANEIRO,and

CASSELS, RING & Co.191 ('alie Maipu,

BUENOS AYRES.

Imporias and Agents for Manufaçturers.Ifiirlher Agencies, suitable to theii lines of business—Hard.

ware, Domestic goods, Specialtíes, etc, etc.—are respectfullysolicited.

w KNCKSLAU GUIMARÃES vV Co.

WINE MERCHANTS.Importe rs of

Oporto, l.iiino and Lisbon wines oi tlie hest qualiiiesin bottlcs .ii* in casks, aud under the private maiks of lhe house

Sole Agents forA. I/.IIIKU GonsAivks,

Kxporiei of Madeiia Wine-.;G. 1'kki.i.kr & Co., Bordeaux,

Exporter of llordeaux Wines;li. Kkmv Maktin&Cu.,

Exporter of CognacDealers in

l.uiKHM.Iy, Kliineaiid Mosel wines, Slierues, Chailipagiie»(.'ognncs and l.iqueursof the best brands.

R-ftwa da Alfândega, 8).

UliBER HAND STAMPSand

Metal-Bodied Rubber Type.S. T. I.ONr.STRETH,

No. 67, Rua do Ouvidor.Caixa 110 (oiteio No. 906. Kio de laneirn

G F. BASSET & CO.No. 5, Rua Fresca.

Ship Chandlers and Commission Merchants.«Jse Scott'* aiid \Valk1115 u..ie-

Cable address: "Basset" P- O. Box 39».

AMERICANBank Note Company,

78 TO 86 TRINITY PLACE,NEW YORK.

BuslneM Founded 1T96.IaNiforatcd aader Uwi of State ef Kew Yerk, Mia.

Keoisaalaed 18»9.ENGRAVBRS AND PRirfTERS OP

BONDS, POSTAQI * REVENUE STAMPS,LEOAL. TENDER'AND NATIONAL BANKNOTES ofthe UNITED 8TATE89 and forForaltn Qov«rnm«nté.

• ENGRAVING AND PRINTING,BANK NOTES, SHARE CEUTIFIOATES, BONDSrOB «OTXRNMEJfT» AND OOBPOBATIONB,DBAFTS, 0BE0K8, BILLS OF EXOHANOK,(STAMPS, 4se., U th* là«M «sd moat srttttte atfU

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8AFETY COLORS, 8AFETY PAPERS.Work Ezeentei Ia Flreproof Building*.

UTHOeWHIO AMD VtPE MWniVtJ.UA1LWAT TICKETS OF.IHPROVED STTLKS.

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BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE

WORKS,PHILADELPHIA. PENN.

(Established, 1831)-BURNHAM.PARRY, WILLIAMS & CO.,

Proprietors,These locomotive engines are adapted to every variety of service, and are built accurately to standard gauges and templatesLike parts of difterent engines o» same class pérfectly interchangeable.

tPauengerand Freight Loeomotum, Mine Loeomo.Um, Narrow Gauge Locomotives, Steam Street Carsetc,etc.All work thoroughly guaranteed.,

Illustrated catalogue furnished on application oi ciistouier».Sole Agents in Brasil:

Norton, Megaw <£* Co.No. 82, Rua /«> de Marco.

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NOBEL'S EXPLOSIVES Co.LIMITED.

Blastiog Gelatioe and DynamiteI n cases of 60 lbs. ea., nett wel«ht

Also patent Detonator caps and Blckford's patentuse. Eor finther iiiforniniioii and price, apply to the

Agents for Brazil :Watson, <küchie &* Co.

No. as, Rim Theophilo ÒtloniHio de Janeiro.

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ESTABLISHED 1847.A. WHITNEY & SONS,

PHILADELPHIA, PENN., U. S. A.Chilled CAST WHEEL8 for RAILWAYS,

TRAMWAYS and MINE ROADS.WIIKK1.SIN KOUOII, HOKKI),OR KIT'1'KI) ON AXI.KS.

THE HARLAN & HOLLINGS-WORTH Co.

Wilmington, Delaware, U. S. A.Manufaçturers ofall kinds of Railway Passenger and Cargo

Cars, for broad and narrow gauge roads.Orders promptly and carcfully executei!.

* Norton, Megaw âr» Co., Agents.No. 82 Kua i° de Março.

Steam Laünches & TugsNona Empresa de Bonds Marítimos d vapor. For the

transport of passengers ô* luggageon board Steamers. Also towage of Vessels.

For information at the oflice ofthe Company, No. 6, Praça38 de Setembro, (antigo Largo da Prainha), Telephone 435,with Snr. Valente on the Caes Novo do Largo do Paço.

or withSwamvick & Gordon,

39, Rua General Camara. Telephone No. 427

JOHN H. BELLAMY & Co.IMPORTERS AND COMMISSION

MERCHANTS.

88, Rua 1.° de Março,RIO DE JANEIRO

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Contains a summary of news and a review of Brazilian aflairsa list ofthe ãrrivals and departures of foreign vessels, the com.mercial report and price current ofthe market, tables of stockquotations and sales, a table of treights a-id charters, a sum-mary of the daily coflee reports from the Associação Com-mercial, and aU other information necessary to a correctjudgment on Brazilian trade. *

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SSo Paulo and Santos.

Rio de Janeiro. March 5th, 1887.

The telegram reeeived here on the morri-ing of the 28th ulto. from Petropolis an-nouncing that H. M. the Emperor had beenattacked by congestion of the liver andconsiderable fever, caused us, in commonwith H. M's subjects profound regret. Thelater telegrams show that the disease hadassumed a remittent form complicated withjaundice, but the physicians in attendancedo not express any fears of a serious result.We most sincerely offer our best wishesthat H. M. may very shortly be restored toperfect health, in which we feel confidentwe are accompanied by the foreign residentsin the Empire. We may add. that it mustbe considered somewhat imprudent for H.M. to spend the week at Petropolis andcome to the city on Saturdays for thedespatch of business, which causes his deten-tion over night, and may very possibly leadto unfortunate results. Surely the weeklycabinet meeting could be held at Petropolis,and in this manner H. M. spared anypossibility oi incurring risk, to which he incommon with residents in Petropolis isexposed to àt this season of the year in ourcity. We can see no objection to thisaction, and if there be one, it is that theministers will be placed to some slightinconvenience, which we presume theywould willing consent to.

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The question of immigration is one ofapparently unfathomable complication andblundering. Recently the minister of fin-ance has found it necessary to advise hiscolleague of agriculture that the fiscal ad-ministration of the colonies is in a veryunsatisfactory condition, and that it isadvisable to place this matter in the handsol* Treasury agents. He is unable to statejust what the indebtedness of colonistsamounts to. but gives a partial list, whichIbots up a little over 4,600,000$. -Besidesthis, it appears that there has been nouniformity in the prices charged for lands,the average in one province alone varyingfrom 31$ to 187$. Clearly the bureau of"colonization and public lands" of thiscapital is responsible for gross derelection ofduty and misgovern ment in this matter.We assume that the blame lies with thisbureau, because it is charged with thegeneral control of these two importantservices and receives large appropriationsevery year. Instead of attending to hisproper duties, the director of that bureauseems to think that he is employed to carryon propagandas in Europe for the acqqpsi-tion of more immigrants, and his time is

therefore spent in preparing illustrated wallmaps of the Empire and in wríting flowerydescriptions of a country whicH is actuallyunable to take care of the iioor peoplealready here. This question cf colonists'debts is one of grave impor ance. Nocolonist, we believe, can get a title to hisland until it is ali paid for—anc even thenthe title is not always forthconing. Ongeneral principies we believe it a mistakenpolicy to permit colonists to ren ain in debtin this way. The lots sold are small andthe prices are notso high but what theyought to meet every obligatioi. in a veryshort time if the conditions of life are halfas favorable as represented. It can hardlybe claimed that immigrants, as 1 class, aredishonest; therefore only two ponclusionsare possible; either the government ofiicialshave been remiss in making their col-lections, or thet colonists have been unableto earn more than a bare livelihood. Ifofiicials have neglected to collect the am-ounts due, it must be considered an anom-aly in this country, for business men findthem always on hand to pick up delin-quents. The conclusion, we fear, is amplywarranted that making money in a colonyis an extremely difficult matter. As a rulethe Germans who go to the United Statessoon acquire farms and pay for them. Wehave known them to purchase cultivatedfarms and pay for them with the annualproceeds of their labor. Here, however,they do not appear to be able tójpay eventhe insignificant sums charged for the un-cultivated lands sold them. What is thereason? There can be no difference inthe people for they come from5the verysame localities whence come those whosettle in the United States. 'There is

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something in this question of Brazilian im-migration which fertile lands ánd sunnyskies fail to answer for. What is it ?

If ofiicial figures as published in relato-rios in Brazil are worthy of any confidence,the accumulation of wealth here must bevery considerable The figures of ourexports and imports show constant balancesin favor ofthe empire, and wnat becomes ofthe money thus produced seems myster-ious, for Brazil is constantly appiying toforeign markets for assistance. Even dur-ing the Paraguayan war, when the resourcesof the nation were taxed to the utmostextent, the ofiicial balance of trade wassteadily in favor of Brazil, and what becomesof these balances is a question worthy oftheserious attention, not only of legislators,but also of tax-payers. It will at once besuggested that the needs of government formeeting engagements payable in bullion,the remittances of dividends on Brazilianstocks and shares belonging to foreigners,and losses on coffee shipments, more par-ticularly, will have absorbed these apparentbalances, and that while in governmentcalculations the balance due the empire oninternational trade is large, in piactice thisbalance is against, not in favor of theempire. We do not propose to deny that adebtor country will always show in its in-ternational commerce an apparent favorablebalance of trade, for its payments abroadcan only be met by an increased exporta-tion; but Brazil is in a peculiar position asregards this question of balances. Thestate is the great debtor as to bullion liabil-ities and needs exchange, or produce, whichis the same thing, to meet its engagements.But this produce is not the property of thestate; it belongs lo its producer, and to thisproducer the state must furnish some equiv-alent, whether in paper currency, bonds,or whatsoever form of obligation, and thisequivalent will have been added to theresources of the producer. Therefore thefact of the state, as represented by theTreasury, absorbing a certain quantity of

produce becomes merely a commercialtransaction, where the state, as any otherexporter, gives value in some form for thepurchased produce. Remittances on ac-count of dividends are not materially differ-ent from those for account of the state.Value in some form is given for the. produceshipped, against which the exchange isdrawn, which the agent of the holder ofBrazilian secúrities remits. We then haveto inquire whether trade losses absorb thisapparent balance òf trade in favor of Brazil.We confess we cannot trace these losses tothe producer, the actual owner of the mer-chandise shipped, which produces thesebalances. As far as the coffee trade atleast is concerned, the planter's engage-ments are met by his coffee; if he owe hisfactor, the debt will be dedueted from theproceeds of his produce, or his debts toother merchants in the same form will besettled. The factor will reduce his liabilityto the bank, where he has arranged ac-comodation, the other creditors will settlewith importeis, and the balance of foreigntrade is in no manner affected. If thelosses we refer to be made by exporters,the case returns to the same basis as that ofgovernment remittances; value in some formmust be given to the producer, or his im-mediate representaiives, and the effect isprecisely the same; capital is added to theproducer's means. We may therefore con-sider that a very large sum, although it beonly in paper currency, is annually addedto the resources of our producers, and thisbeing the case it would be interesting toexamine into the position of these pro-ducers whose constant cries to save themfrom annihilation have become ridiculous.If Brazil can show balances of 300,000,000$in nine years on its foreign trade, it wouldappear evident that something is radicallywrong in its statisties, or that the agriculturalinterest is not by any means deserving ofthe fostering care bestowed upon it by theruling powers. If the planters are debtorsto a large extent to factors and banks, theculprits it would seem to us are these samefactors and banks. A purely agriculturalcountry that can show such accumulationsof wealth as Brazil professes to show, shouldnot only be free from debt, but absolutelyrolling in wealth, and why the empire is instraitened circumstances is > a feature ineconomies that, as we say above, needs theurgent attention of both legislators and tax-payers. We may annex the following tableto render more forcible our observations:Exports 1874-75 to 1882-83 1,832,647,000$Imports 1,531,619,000

Balance 301,028,000$

THE COFFEE MARKET.The quotations as furnished by the

brokers have shown that the weight of ourstock has at last brought dealers to an ap-preciation of what is requisite to induceexporters to enter the market. Quotationsare some 300 reis per arroba lower than thelast prices quoted by the brokers, but thisdecline does not yet seem suflicient to in-duce any considerable purchases, and theprobabilities seem to be that holders muststill further modiíy their ideas, if they aredesirous of opening the market, and ofrelieving themselvès of a part of the verylarge stock, that has been allowed to ac-mulate here, and which taxes tb the utmostthe resources of dealers and factors. Ex-porters seem careless as to new engage-ments, and the impression seems to be,that the accumulation of stock here, andthe decline in prices will be most unfavor-ably reeeived in consuming markets. Thatthe statistical position of coflee is strong,few, if any of those interested in the tradecontradict, but there appears to be an un-willingness to enter freely into the market,

that must cause uneasiness to holders, andtheir representatives, who are unquestion-ably doing their best to sustain, or advanceprices abroad.

A very serious feature also is the actionof Santos,, where the holders seem to havemore properly appreciated the position, andto have quietly met the demand, thus leav-ing Rio in the lurch. It may be true thatthe American markets prefer Rio grades ofcoffee, but if it be a question of price thechances seem to be that Santos will supplythe consuming markets, and Rio will havestupidly sustained prices for the Santosmerchants' profit.

Just here we may refer to Messrs. Lacerda& Co.'s circular dated 3 ist January last.The boldness with which the firm showsthat, provided consumption continues asheretofore, the probable supply can notmeet the demand, is admirable. But, ifonly some 14,667,000 bags of coffee canbe produced for the 18 months ending 30Ü1June, 1888, it seems quite out of thequestion that 18,000,000 bags can be con-sumed. Consumption can not exceedstocks and produetion, and if every ounceof coflee held in consuming markets is tobeused up, and the markets stripped ut-terly bare, adulteration and restrictèd con-sumption are as inevitable as is death tothe human organization.

It absurd to estimate consumption atsome 3,000,000 bags over the possible pro-duetion, and Messrs. LacetdaV figures forstocks on 30th June, 1888, will most prob-ably be completely nullified. A journalisfsduty however is to give every one's ideas,and we attach Messrs. Lacerda & Co.'sfigures. We do not believe in them, butas the expression of interested parties theywill prove of interest to the trade.

Crçps 1886-87 bags.Rio, crop 3,500,000, less receipts to 3ist

Dec. 2,250,000. 1,250,000Rio stock 3 ist Dec. 150,000Santos crop, 2,500,000, less receipts > -a *«•-¦-,¦'-, ,v

tojistDec, 1,540,000 960,000Santos stock 3ist Dec 380,000Other producing countries .. 2,000,000European stocks 3ist Dec....a 2,100,000American stock do .. 300,000

Ctops 1887.88 (estimates) :Ri» 2,500,000Santos 1,500,000Java—government 450,000

private. 175,000 625.000

Pa.lang.etc. 207,000Ceylon.... 100,000índia 250,000Manilla 88,000La Guayra, etc 750,000Costa Rica '. 150,000Guatemala, ele 627,000Hayti 400,000Porto Rico 230,000

14,667,000Estimated consumption for 18 months

from ist Jan., 1887 to 3oth June,•888 18,000,000

Probable déficit 3,333,000

RIO GRANDE CATTLE.The sudden increase in the number of

cattle killed in the Rio Grande slaughterhouses after the prohibition of jerked beefimports from the Platine republies, led usto inquire, in one of our January issues,where these cattle carne from. Knowingthat the produetion of jerked beefin RioGrande had greatly decreased during lateyears the natural inference was that stock-raising was also on thè decline ; and seeingcomplaints in the papers about the ran-ning of cattle across the frontier fromUruguay into Rio Grande another inferencewas that the slaughter houses of the latterwere drawing their supplies from the former,in violation of sanitary restrictions. Inresponse to our inquiry we have reeeivedthe following communication from a pro-minent merchant of Rio Grande, who

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^—-In cine of your January issues,referencie is made io the slaughter of hornedcattle iri Ais province (now reaching115,000 heàd) and you ask:—"Where didthe cattle come fróm ?"

Your ihquiry, >I presume, is made insearch for informátion. . Thusl beg to saythat the number of cattle (horned) in thisprovince is estimated at about 12 milíions.

Rio Grande do Sul, 16 Febr'y, 1887.

If this estimate is correct, Rio Grande isone. ofthe most wonderful countries in theworld. The province has an área of about138,500 square miles, or 88,640,000 acres.Assuming a half of this to comprise wateráreas, barren lands (the coast zone etc.)and cúltivated lands, there remains 44,-329,000, acres .available for grazing. Are-cent writer in HarpeSs Magazine, in anarticle ort "Cattle Raising onthe PÍairià"states that in the semi-arid belt the grazingrequirement is 25 acres per head, while inthè fertile Yellowstone valley it was caí-culatèd that only 15 acres would be required.Giving Rio Grande an allowance of 10acres, which the character of the pasturewill hardiy warrant, and we find that theprovince can graze only 4,332,000 head.How ia.it possible, then, that the provinceactually possesses nearly three times thatnumber ? ^

Again, according to the census of 1880ttoe total number of horned cattle in theUnited Ststfes, including milch cows andworking oxen, was 35,865,511, or less thanthree,, times the number claimedi for RioGrande. For the whole River Plate country(Uruguay and Argentine Republic) in 1880Mulhall gives the total as 18,390,000 head,or only 50% more than Rio Grande. Inhis annual report for 1885, the Üruguayanstatistician Mr. Honoré Roustan estimatesthe number of horned cattle in Urugay at5,89a,000, which is probably an over-estimate, and yet while Rio Grâride exportsno jerked beéf and supplies only aboutone-twéntieth thé quantity consumed in aliBrazi.; thé republies of Uruguay and theArgéiitine Republic supply this empirewith the remaining nineteen-twentieths,export largely tò the Wést Indies and arenow shipping fresh beef to Europe. Withia milíions of cattle Rio Grande ought tosupply ali Brazil and do a large exportbusiness besides. Even with a millionhead of cattle, the province ought to killnot less than aoo, 000 a year, instead of thesmaller and decreasing number of late

years. With ia milíions of cattle the

jerked beef industry ot Rio Grande oughtnot to be in the state of decay of the lastfew years, and the province ought to berolling in weath. Twelve milíions of cattlerepresem a value of over 200,000,000$,with which the province ought certainly tobuild its own railways and improve itsown bar.

Another comparison. The great cattle-raising state of Texas, which has an área of170,000,000 acres, or very nearly twicethat of Rio Grande, had a total of 4,084,605head of horned cattle in 1880. On thisthe writer in flàrper's Magazine, beforereferred to, says: "The number of cattlein Texas is so great, and so near thecapacity ofthe land to carry, that duringthe decade ending in 1880 from 500,000 to700,000 cattle, old and young, male andfemale, weredriven from the state annually."Does our correspondent think that RioGrande can dò better than this?

FOREIGN TRADE OF HIO.The following are thé oflicial figures of thè

imports to arid exports from our port for the first halfof the fiscal years 1886-87, 1885-86 and 1884-85 ascompiled from the Boletim da Alfândega.

Imports.Countries «886-87 -885.86 1884-85

Great Britain. 39,289,364^331 iS.oaojaófooç 17,614,3881153Brith. poss'ns. 993,144 533 1,060,796 868France...... 6,073,090313 7»Ó3MS8 5«9 6»70i,J33 977Uruguay.... 3,335,*738 490 4.3*>,44o 864 3,600,683 taoGermany.... 6,399,303 133 4,021,633 934 3-737.697 693United States 4.3*8,795 99» 3.435,73° 3°3 4.«39.997 09»Portugal and

3.573.47» "** 3.397,494 64» 3,»77.3»4 *S»2,903,157 133 3,503,416 320 1,638,374; 3<»91,733,397 183 3,465;548 708 1,506,483 750

453,3» 353 39»,544 »3> as8U'5& 5*7

possessions...Belgium......Argent. Rep.Italy.........SwedenÁustria.......Spain and pos-sessions......RússiaChili...HollandDenmark....Paraguay....

233.632 233'96.736 5»5

35,757 36035,339 00065,325 06656,678 71634,596 667

122,172*50166,233 534

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126,083 58432,220 6674,230 616

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Totais.. 52.577»7«8*i3i 47,o68,407$565 4*.86i,709$673

Exports.; Countries 1886-87 1885-86 -1884.85United States 3t.954,»74$963 36,587,8B3$9*8 3^977>49^$534

had been divided into 69 rural, 52 suburban and124 toWn lots, of which only 31 rural lots wereoccupied.

The Cannas plantation in the Lorena municipal-ity is divided into 78 rural and 120 town lots andhouses are prepared for the immigrants. Only 9lots are occupied.

There, are three centres in addition to the twoabove referred to, ali in the municipality of thecapital, arid which thè president considers wereeniãncipated precipitatèly. The president in re*ferring to a trip to thé head waters of the Juquiásays: "I was convinced however that the distancefrom a market, where a ready outlet for producewas' available, the isólátion, the pròximity to thewilderriess (sertão), arid above ali the lack of fit-nessin the recently-arrived European to strugglewilh the labor in the virgin forest, without resour-ces for his original establishment, were ürísur-mountable obstacles. It is necessary for thepresent, that these lands be surveyed for sale tonativès, who penetrating thè wilderness will pre-pare the ground, as is the case in the United States,for the later establishment of European colonists."

Germany.....France.......Áustria....»Great Britain.C. ofG.HopeBrith. poss'ns.BelgiumArgent. Rep.Italy........ 1,047,076 020Uruguay.... 284,824 979Portugal.....Channel f. o..Çhüi........RússiaMediterran'n.Peru...AsiaMinor...Sweden......Spain *47>»34 5»5Paraguay...HollandTurkey

9,454,334 3" 6,655,846 143 6,875.191 5*34,243,445 852 4,528,214 434 3,734,662 4"3,703l«45 824 3,146,690 885 3,627,454 1465,126,528 543 .2,805,443 o2o" 3,847,043 459

614,696 858 638,307 315 1,026,323 0402,640 000 300 000

t>479»«3 «3» '»*78,"35. «99 «,601,108 91a1,095,261 899 816,280 963 1,0x7,41a 148

756,101412 668,968823325,58961* 39*,4*8 873121,953 682 333,*75 46495,94000060,945 94» 5»,034 78924,360 000 182,736 000ai,6oo 000 1,031,610 56818,150 00012,000 000

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34 3865,820 0006,090 000

4,855 >43843 530

Totais.... 6©,467,966$453 57,794.767$9»4 6i,373,38»$o59

To which must beadded the valueof re-exports:

Foreign...... 52,516 865 109,884$! 56 3M,45«$463Domestie... 100,503 357 i7*,447 376 194,651 058

Totais.... 6o,6ao,986$675 s8,o77,099$4S6 61,883,4841580

From the figures for 1886-87 it would appearthat coffee shipped to Lisbon f. o. is included inPortugal and that shipped to Gibraltar f. o. iriSpain.

AN exehange publishes the estimates of the 1885*86 and .1886-87 sugar crops. The production ofcane sugar in 1885-86 was 2,197,000 metrical tons,and for 18864(7 the estimate is 2,368,000 metricaltons. Brazil figures as a producer of 210,000 and220,000 tons in the respective periods. Beet wasestimfled to produce 2,127,000 tons in the firstand 2,530 tons in the latter period.

IMMIGRATION IN SAO PAULO.

The following abstract from the last telatorio ofthe president of Sâo Paulo, Barão de Paruahyba,on the immigration will give a fair idea of theviews held by the best and most liberal mèn of the

province. The president is himself a planter andlarge landholder and is considered to be a warmfriend of immigration and free labor.

The president is opposed to the system of smallholdings. Land suitable for the cultivation of ali

produce other than cofiee is ohtainable and cheap,but the immigrant has no funds, and in two cases,viz., the Cannas and Cascalho colonies where 10hectare lots are obtainable for 300$ in cash, or

400$ in four equal payments, but very few of thelots are occupied. "The present system shouldnot be altered, as it is the best for the immigrant.Arriving in the province free of debt, for his pas-sage is paid by the government, he will find on the

plantations a house for himself and his family,food, for he will receive the necessaries, for whichhe will afterwards pay up to the time lie harvestshis crop, a person to care for him in illness, andfinally one who will conduct arid guide him duringhis apprenticeship. He finds immediate employ-ment, for which he ispaid, and with the facultyand entire liberty of action, not even, as a generalrule being restrained by any written contract.Within the first year, his apprenticeship completed,acelimatized and understanding the method ofworking, the ownership of land and ali those

practical notions necessary to agricultora, he pos-sesses his savings, which he deposits at interesteither in savings or other banks, or with the land-lord; and thus progressively becoming independenthe may, as hu oceurred on an important scale,become in his turn a landholder." The presidenthad contracted with a party for the introduetion of

4,000 immigrants, of which 1,000 should be in

preference Swedes, Danes and Germans. Underthis contract 1,777 persons had arrived, of which1,411 are from thc Canary Islands. Another con-tract for 6,000 had been made with the "Associa-

cjio Promotora da Immigraçlo."Referring to centres of colonists {núcleos rela-

mães), the president refers to the purchase uf theCascalho plantation for 60,000$. , The plantation

spring at Neuquen which is said to have cured aidog of hydrophobia.

—During last year there arrived in this country93,116 immigrants and 19,292 other passengers,by 475 vessels.

* —A new light-house 32 feet high burning aWhite light, visible in clear weather at a distanceof 5# miles, is to be erected at Punta Amarga,between Olivos and San Isidro (Buenos Aires.)

—It is nice to be a president. The ProvincialBank of Santa Fé presented Dr. Juarez Celmanwith a $100,000 house on New Year's day, and byway of ackriowledgement, doubtless, ofthe factthat it is allòwed to print an additional 2 milliondóllars in inconvertible notes. The president hadpreviouSly treated himself to a 300,000 dollar housein Calle 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires.

—The private and municipal schools in this citywill be reopened nèxt month (February.)

j —Thè gefe político oi Rosário has sent in hisreport to the minister of governnrent, by which wesee there have been 940 deaths from the cholerahere from the Sth of November up to December3tst ult. ! *'.* 1

—The' president of the nationaí department ofhygiene has informed the prefect of marine thatquairantine on arrivals from the rivers has beenabolished. Let us hope that we may soon see theriver steamers coming here as of yore.

—According to the register of the lazar-houseof the popular commission 304 cholera patients,outof 516 admitted (Jan. 25U1), have died. Thisresult showing abóut 40 per cent. saved, is highlycreditable. Can the English lazar-house show as

good returns ?—A newly married man has been murdered in a

duel in Buenos Aires. When our judges seek re-dress for injuries at the muzzle ot a pistol whatcan be expected from the rag tag and bob tail ?

—There have been several new and fatal casesof cholera during the week [Jan. 291b] at con-ventillos and rooms in the 7U1 and Sth section swhich have recently been reoccupied after havinghad cases in them. No precaution in this respectcan be too severe. Unless we are very careful wemay have the cholera back as badly as ever beforethe summer is over.

—We have received a table containing the dataestimated sufficient for the taking of the census ofthe province of Santa Fé from which we extract thefollowing interesting figures. It is estimated thatthere are in the province, 230,648 inhabitants;2,294,060 head of cattle; 3,302,475 sheep; 423,-879 horses, etc.; and 93,802 swine. Its extent is

4,697 square leagues, scattered over which thereare 84 towns and villages. Rosario's share in theabove is put down as follows: 59 square leaguesof land; 3 towns and villages; 74,480 inhabitants;118,850 head of cattle; 759,000 sheep; 14,300horses and mares, and 7,130 swine.

Fram du Buenos Aires Standard. February sth.

—Advices from Montevideo report a stir andbrisk movement in exporting circles, due to therumor that the government has determined to raiseexport duties.

—The Central Entre Rios railway between Pa-raná and Uruguay will be inaugurated on the istof next month. It will be a great day lor that

province.—Advices from Rosário announce the move-

ment in shipping there unprecedented. There areupwards of a hundred steamers in port at presentand nearly a quarter of that number in Santa Fé,besides innumerable sailing vessels, ali taking incereais.

—Advices from Cordoba announce the smash ofa sugar factory in Tucuman, owing to the lossescaused by the epidemic.

—The government of Santa Fé seems determinedthat people shall not get too rich through theirindustry in this province. It has accordinglyclapped an additional 25 per cent. on ali patentes,thus making it impossible for many to continue inbusiness without increasing the priees of ali theirgoods.

—Drs. Gil, Kyle, Puiggari and Berg have beennamed by government as a committee to decidewho is to get the 25,000 nats. premium for discov-ering real coal in the republic. There are half adozen claimants.

—The tremendous rainstorm at La Plata haslaid thé whòlè place undêr water, and from tlietrain nothing can be seén except rancho roofs andanimais of ali kinds vainly endeavoring to savetheir lives. No aceurate informátion however asto losses and damage has yet been received. It isalmost a parallel to the delugè iri 1884.

—Advices from the sugar districts of Tucumanare most distressing. Owing to thè cholera thereitisnext to impossible to get laborers, and theythat are to be had do not begin to make good thenecessities of the situation. Under these circum-stances, it is to be feared that many evils scarcelyless dreadful than the cholera await Tucuman forthe coming winter.

—The movement of cereais in Santa Fé is some-thing tremendous. No less than 21 ocean vesselsare loading grain at Colastiné, and in Esperanzacolony it is said that they are behindhand with theharvest owing to the want of hands to work thethresuing machines, so many having been sweptoff by the epidemic. The net yield is calculated asworth $10,000,000 m/n.

—The cholera epidemic broke out in November,reached a maximuiri inortality in December, de-clined steadily in the last two weeks of January,and may disáppear this month. The cholerafigures foi* the last three months are as follows :

months, cases.November 183December 712January 596

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the cases in the city proved fatal. In this regard,thè figures of the so-called Casa de Aislamiento, orlazaretto, will be found interesting:

Cases taken in.... 844Deaths 444

The figures of the lazaretto show a death ratioof about 52^ per cent. of the cases, which is moresatisfactory than the general average for the town,but it must be borne in mind that fully 25 °/0 ofcases of cholera escape the notice of the author-ities, and the only reliable barometer of the epi-demic is the daily number ot deaths.

From the Buenos Aires Standard, February ao.

We notice increased activity in tbe export offrozen meat: two vessels are now loading 60,000sheep carcases for England, and the business islikely to assume before the close of the century amagnitude surpassing that of wool or even of aliother exports combined. This country is destinedto supply 10,000 tons of meat weekly to Europe :it is only a question of time.

—Disclosures of a more or less disgraceful char-acter have been the order of the day lately. Oneman gets a commission of ,£60,000 to get a bus-iness through the Government House, anotherdetects a pile of forged bills [drawn on imaginaryparties] in the Provincial Bank, another points outthat the Mortgage Bank of Buenos Aires has beenloosely managed. None of these disclosures havecaused any sensation, as everybody believes therehas been a deal of corruption in the last four orfive years.

—We have the happincss to announce the ces-sation of the cholera, after a duration of threemonths, during which 1,600 cases and 900 deathswere recorded. It is rcmarkable that epidemiesinvariably last about 100 days, and the death-ratefrom cholera in lhe present instance has been thesame as commonly in Europe, say 55 per cent.But it is rare to see so large and populous a cityas ours, under most un favorable sanitary condi-tions, escape with so slight a penalty. The casesrecorded barely reach 4 per cent. of the populationthe deaths have been little over 2 per cent. Com-paríng this with previous epidemies we find inround numliers as follows: cholera of 1868,population 166,000, cases 13,000, deaths 7,000;being 4 per cent. mortality to population. Yellowfever of 1871, population 202,000, cases 50,000,deaths 26,500; being 13 per cent. mortality topopulation. Cholera of 1887, population 400,000,cases 1,600, deaths 900, or 2% per cent. ofpopulation.

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remote quarters. It is observèd that where itsravages l)ave been worst the water-supply is eitherdefective or polluted, and we may hope that thisterri ble lesson will lead to the establishment ofproper water-supply in every town of the republic.

The most painful circumstances in connexionwith tlie present visitation is not the sickness itselfbut the atrocities committed on poor emigrantsfrom Europe under the name of sanitary super-vision. It is almost incredible that such thingscould oceur in a Christian country, where we seesuch efforts for schools and the mareh of civiliza-tion. Europeans would do well not to come toBuenos Ayres when quarantine exists.

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Provincial Notes—It is said that the stock of the new water and

drainage works company of Campinas, São Paulo,amounting to 2,500,000$, has been ali taken.

—Among the exports from Ceará last year were2,118 litres of caju wine, '2,359

litres of cattle and123 litres of horses. A curious manner of estim-ating live stock.

—The viçar of a parish in Minas has just beengranted a privilege for gold mining and diamondhunting near Diamantina. Fancy a clergymangoing in for a search after filthy lucre !

—The receipts of the Victoria, Espirito Santo,custom house during the half year ending 3istDecember amounted to i8i,443$352. For thefiscal year 1885-86 the receipts were 216,3211366.

—The São Paulo Correia Paulistano of the25thult. state that coffee trees in the Serra Negra regionare loaded with extemporaneous flowers, the treeshaving at the same time fully developed fruit. AFebruary blossoming is an extraordinary oceur-rence, and it will be interesting to note what theresult will be.

—The Coneio de Santos is informed by a gen-tleman who has been travelling through the prov-ince of São Paulo that the district about RibeirãoPreto, São Simão, etc, on the Mogyana railway,will produce an enormous crop of coffee, the treesbeing heavily loaded with fruit. There has been anabundance of rain in this district.

—A eorrespondent of the Jornal at Parahyba doNorte writing on the i4th ulto. gives a bineaccount of the silting up of the river in front ofthe capital. He prophecies that ere long vesselswill be unable to reach the wharves. The creationof a port at Cabedello becomes daily more neces-sary. The Comte d'Eu railway was extending thisbranch.

—The report of the inspector general of instruc-tion in the province of S. Paulo, dated i8th Decr.last, states that in the last fiscal year the expensewith schools reached 775.713$- There were 1,041public schools, or 645 for boys and 396 for girls.There were 15,934 boys and 9,074 girls entered,and the attendance was 12,363 of the former and7, «69 ofthe latter.

—The province of Paraná seems to be strugglingwith deficits also. On the i7th ulto. the presidentstated that receipts in 1885 estimated at 827,840$only produced 676,746$, while expenses were1,206,793$. The difference was partly met by theissue of bonds, but the déficit carried to 1886amounted to 226,162$. Up to December 3ist lastthe déficit had reached 396,432$.

-The Diário Mercantil, of São Paulo, of the22nd ult., complains oí the large number of boysof 12 to 18 years of age who are without oecupa-tion and who are habitual loafers about the streetsofthat city. The Diário is quite right in callingattention to the evil. Boys of the ages specifiedought to be in school, or learning some useful trade.Street loafing is only a cheap nursery for criminais.

-The province of São Paulo has paid out thefollowing sums in three years for the passages andéntertaihment of immigrants :

"if3"?* iio.284*9o6fgfg 358,534 «40l885-»o 332.529489

—The Campinas tramway carried 19,045 passeng-ers and the receipts were 3,775$3$0 in February.

—The auditors of the Porto Real central sugarfactory state that the last crop year left a loss of43»i°3$672.

—The Provincia de S. Paulodiamond fields have been discovered near Franca,in that province.

—Up to the ist inst. 6,711 sjaves had beenregistered at Campinas, S. Paulo,sexagenarians, who are liable tolabor.

—On the very day that the pnjvincial assembly

exclusive'of 118various terms of

of S, Paulo passes a law to abo' ish lotteries, thepresidency issues a new scheme for these samelotteries. A veto seems clearly to be meant forthe law.

—Enginéers Crokatt de Sá an^ Smith de Vas-conceitos have contracted with the president ofMinas Geraes to furnish a map bf lhe province.The cost is fixed at 8,000$, and the province is toreceive 1,000 copies.• —The Paulistas think it might be just as well tolet up on the 26th February as a holiday. It ap-pears that the Emperor and Empress visited theprovince on this day, and since the imperial visit'the day is observèd as a holiday.

—On the 25U1 ulto. the S. Paulo court of appealsconfirmed the decision of the jury condemning JoséPinto de Almeida Júnior, the Campinas murderer,to death. This murder was surrounded with fearfuldetails, and the motive was robbery. .

—The Diarto da Bahia states that a marine onthe gunboat Traripe received 300. blows, on the9th ult. and that he was in a deplorable condition.-om the punishment. We are waiting to bear

that the commandant of that vessel has been"suspended for three months from the exercise ofhis profession."

—The idlers in Campinas, São Paulo, had afree exhibition on the I9th, in which the nationalinstitution was seen to perfection. A slave belong-ing to a man named Joaquim Celestino de AbreuSoares was mercilessly flogged, by his master . ownhand, in his master's own drawing roòm, and withthe windows to the street ali open. The poorwretch's cries attracted a large crow<£in the streetwho saw nearly the whole performance, the flog-ging being finished in another rooá. Probablythis is the patriarchal feature of thef institution.

—The minister of finance has ndtified his col-league of agriculture that the debts òtrfjpg on theirlands by immigrants ought to be collected bytreasury agents. From the figures, given (Jornal,Mareh ist) it appears that the colonists of SantaCatharina, Espirito Santo and Rio Grande do Sulare owing the following amountlon their lands :Blumenau (S. Catharina) \.. 594,3181128Bms*ae - 304.058490AzambuJa 127,310693Espirito Santo colonies 629,230 094RioGrnnde 2,959.461 829

—On the 28th the S. Paulo provincial assemblypassed a law abolishing lotteries and to establish atax of 12,000$ on dealers in lotteries of otherprovinces.

—According to the Jotnai do Recife, Pernanvbuco has the champion Tanner of the day—an oldmàn, 80 years of age, who has been fasting forthree months. Hé drinks water, sweetened withsugar, at night—and that is aU. Ií*appears, how-ever, that he is confined ih the penitentiary for thecrime of murder, where he has been secluded for18 years.

¦'. "_ "¦'¦ A ' ¦ . K—The city of Campos is rapidly gaining an

unenviable reputation for disorder and" crime.During Carnival a fight between two rival societiesled to the killing of one man and the wôunding ofseveral others. Then on the last day of Carnivala man named Cassalho was assassinated in thecrowded dining-room of the Hotel Francez by ayoung fellow named Osório, who was captured.The city is full of capangas and the population livein constant fear.

Railroad JSJotes

—The December traffic receipts ofthe Natal andNova Cruz railway were iitni%$pand expensesI7,029$2I4, leaving a déficit of 5,8_3${S84.

—On the 4A the government agent in Europewas authorized to purchase four locomotives forthe D. Pedro II railway at a cost of £8,000.

—The balance sheet of the União Valencianarailway dated 3_st December last shows a paid upcapital of 1,080,173$, debentures 600,000$ andreserve fund 36,937$. Rolling stock figures for181,868$, and the lines from Valença to Desenganoand to Rio Preto 1,398,042$.

Local Jjòtfis

*>i.349*235-According to a statistical table published in

lhe Diário do Gram Pará the exports of rubberfrom Pará in 1886 amounted to 13,311,417 kilo-grammes, officially valued at 32, _92,444$63o. Theofficial value oí ali other exports amounted to2,748, i66$6i4, making a total exportation of 34,-94o,6oo$744. The rubber exports showed a greatincrease over 1885, but a decrease is shown inother produets.

-The relatório of the president of S. Paulo statesthere had been in the year (1886?) 328 trials byjury, of which 89 were for murder and 55 assaultwilh intent to kill. There were 116 condemna-tions and 291 acquittals. Of the condemnations, 3were lo death, 13 to flogging and 12 to the galleysfor life. There had been 5 bankruptcies broughtbefore the courts, of which 1 was fraudulent. Theasseis are stated to have been 4,499,648$ and

liabilities 5,546,866$.

Total 4,014.379*234The minister states that these figures do not

include aU the amounts due the state, because ofthe confusion existing in the records. He alsocalls attention to circunístarice that the prices oflots are not the same in difterent colonies. Inthe Rio Novo and Castello colonies of EspiritoSanto the lots are charged at an average of 1873550,while in that of Santa Leopoldina, same province,they figure at 31 $250.

-The relatório of the president of the provinceof Minas Geraes, dated ist January, states that thereceipts for 1884.85 were estimated at 3,272,740$,while the actual receipts were :°rdinary 3.028,192$

!nte7st-; 8,442Legal costs... 13,804Illegal collections Ij04IIssue of bonds " SW*

4,164.629$The expenses were fixed at 3,272,740$: they

were:Ordinary expenses 3,371,479101ddebts 16,537Déficit 1883.84 67t883Interest and subsidies to railways and

central factories 420,420

3.876.328$The figures for 1885.86 can only be verified in

Mareh next and the amounts collected are given asfollows :Ordinary revenue 3,561,865$Issue of bonds 937,165

4.499.030$Comnaring the ordinary revenue as above, with*he ordinary expenses, or 3,381,171$, there remains

a balance of 180,694$ to be carried to 1886-87.The receipts for 1886.87 are estimated at 3,263,-242$.

—Traffic on the Rezende and Arêas railway wasresumed on* the 23rd ult, after a long interruptión.

—A Campinas paper says that the Paulista andMogyana lines aré refusing to continue collectihgthe tax on passengers.• _—During the three days of the carnaval thesuburban trains ofthe D. Pedro II railway carried28.333 passengers.

—The fiscal engineer ofthe Campos.and Ca-rangola railway reports receipts for November40ji70$22Ò and expenses 27,255$307, leaving abalance of I2,9i4$9i3.

—The, January, receipts of the Macahé andCampos railway were i09,35o$220. Expenses arenot given. Foi\the same month last year receiptswere n8,8o9$83o.

—A telegram to O Paiz dated 27H1 ulto. statesthat the railway from Antonina to Assunguy, pro-vince of Paraná, was inaugurated on that date. Theconcéssion is provincial.

—On the i8th ulto. the Treasury agency atPernambuco was instrueted to pay to the GreátWestern of Brazil railway 14,371$, duties paidon material imported from January, 1880 toJune, 1881.

.,;— On the 24H1 ulto. the president bf Rio deJaneiro authorized the director ofthe Cantagallorailway to order through the government agent inEurope, machinery and waggons to the extentof 220,000$.

—The January receipts of the Bragança railway,of Pará, recently purchased by that province,amounted to 4.579$6oo, and the expenses to9>6o4$i7o, leaving a déficit of 5i024$57o.

—The November receipts of the São Paulorailway amanted to 910,190^580 and the ex-penditures to 325,6i8$36o, leaving a balance oí584,581 $220. This increases the balance since istJuly to 2,o6i,926$98o.

—By an aviso of the 24Ü1 ult. the minister oíagriculture authorizes the payment of 100,000$ tothe São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro company onaccount of guaranteed interest for the second halfof last year.

—The meeting of shareholders of the Bahia andMinas railway called by order of the legal autho-rities on the 26th was not attended by thedirectory, nor were the books produced. Thebusiness is becoming more and more complicated.

—The traffic receipts of the Principe de GrãoPará railway in 1886 were 793.5o8$i8o, andexpenses 407,oi7$49Ô. The dividend; was 16$per share against 18$ for the preceding year. Thebalance sheet shows 4,768,913$ as cost of steamersand railway, and 283,742$ cost of the steamerItamataty. Rolling stock is 589,690$. Capital paidnp is 2,500,000$ and debenture debt 3,859,800$.

-Bythe inauguration ofthe Jahú station, theRio Claro, S. Paulo, railway is completed. Thetotal lengthof the lines, with terminiat Araraquaraand Jahú, is about 264 # kilometres, and the cap-ital oí the company is 5,000,000$, on which 37I400per share in dividends has been distributed and12$ additional was earned up to 3151 Dec. last.The company has no assistance from government,and is a proof that paying railways are possible inS. Paulo, at least.

—A eorrespondent of the Caneta de Notíciasthinks that some arrangement should be arrived atby which coffee desüned to Rio might be broughtvia the S. Paulo and Rio and D. Pedro II railways.The question seems to be how much S. Paulocoffee is destincd to Rio. As the S. Paulo andRio railway owes some 6,000,000$, and apparentlynever will be able to pay the Treasury this amount,would it not be sensible to disappropriate theline, and work it yider the D. Pedro II system?

-Telegrams dated yesterday (4th)at nightdesenhe the Emperor _ condition as more favorable,although the jaundice continues. "

-The latest touch in lottery advertising is toput a band in a waggon and perambulate thestreets.

-Mr. Mackenzie says his sewing machines are•silent singers», or, to paraphrase, «songs withoutwords. _-The Barão de Guimarães, chief of thépatent

bureau, is credited with an intention to patentleather boots. A-AA--Préliminary work has been commenced on theRio Flour Müi and Granaries property. The millwill be built on Rua da Gamboa.-The theít oí anything over a hundred contoswill soon confer as many privileges upon a man asa commenda in the Order ofthe Rose.-The Correio Paulistano félicitates the provinceof S. Paulo on the selection of its proprietòr and

editor-in-chief as senator in the place of the lateJosé Bonifácio. , ? »

-An exchange says: «Trying to do businesswithout advertising is like winking at a girl in thedark. You may know what yon are doing, but noone else does.">

-If under hypnotic influences you feel inclinedtoannex alien property, a smart rubbingof thescalp reheves the symptons. A brick-bat wouldappear a specific remedy.-Amerigo Vespucci died on February 25..15». We were not personally acquainted withhim, but it is generally supposed that he gave aname to the Western hemisphere. '*'

"7The *% press is i_aícing great fim of thepadres, because they do not wear unmentionablesunder their petticoats. Why not let the» leave oftthe skirticoats ? The weather is so very warm.

-How about those two monuments to Caxiasand Osório, for which so much money was raisedamong business men in this city? I, there noway to make these commissions givean acountofthemselves ?-A death oceurred the other day from «fraqueza

evidente» or "evident weakness»-at least so thedoctor reports. Taking the medicai nomenclature«nto consideration, the obituary reports are notnear as serious reading as one would naturallyexpect. 7

-The post office authorities do not seem to beup to French; a letter to the cônsul of ««Sa Magestétres fidele," was sent to St. Fidelis. What greatdifference can there be twixt tweedle dom andtweedle dee.

-The minister oí agriculture has appointed acommission to entirely reform our postofficeservice. As the amount to be expended is limitedto 2,000$, the results are likely to be in the sameproportion.

—A thief, who had hired himself as a waiter ina family here, and who availed of the first oppor-tunity to follow his profession, was recently arrest-ed. His career seems to have been prosperous,for among the various operations attributed to him•re; 16,000$ in one case, and three others ofimportant amounts in money and jewellry.

-The ««soiled clothes» of Senator Afonso Celsoand Deputy Cesario Alvim are still being washedin public-bot the stains will not «at. The cool-ness with which they call each other lim .«dknaves is simply astounding. The clímax wiU bereached when they call each other "no gentleman."-By an imperial decree ofthe a__h ult DeputyAntonio da Silva Prado, minister of agriculture,commerce and public works, was chosen senatorfrom the province of Sio Paulo. This is the second•enatorship secured by the present cabinet, andleaves but one representative oí the lower hooac.with one vacancy to fill.

-We regret to note that the sanitary inspectorapprehended and destroyed, on the aóth ult., aquantity of spurious "canned tomatoes" of doAetticproduction, but bearing the label of a well-knownLisbon export-r. The contento was a mutue ofpotatoes, colored, kitchen salt and cochineal. * i _distmsing to see how unpatriotic this inspector is!

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—Urgenl; repairs to the extent of 230$ at theSenate Chamber have been authorized.

-Ah exchange says a BÍue Ribbon meeting ¦*-*-completed spoilt by the orator endeavoring to blowthe fróth off a glass of wàter..

THE RIO NEWS.

-Pn the 28th ulto. the service of carrying yellowfever patients to tfc Jurujuba hospital was com-menced. The launches leave Palace sqüare. ¦ A ¦

-The Jornal hears that Dr. Fernandes Pi.nheiro, the government purchasing agent in Eu-rope, has been ordered to fix his residence inLondon. instead of Paris.

-The repor' is that the new minister fromUruguay is to come prepared to setlle the debt dueby that republic to this empire. It is about timethat the business was liquidated.

-The minister of empire has shut down on anexpense at the Imperial. Chapei denominated* "Anno de Morto.» We do not know what it is,but Barão de Mamoré evidently considere it dis-

, pensable. ..—The commission to «arrange the Missions

boundary question is likely tobe expensive. Thechief is to have 3,000$, thé commissarios 2,000$and the assistants 1,400$ each for mWeàge (ajudasde custo.) *

—About a year ago a Bahia fort fired on theFr. str. La France and killed a passenger. Thebusiness seems to have been settled by the steam-ship company paying 2,000 francs and the Braziliangovernment 4,000 francs.

—The statue of Buarque de Macedo was dulyinaugurated on the ist inst. The statue was des-tined for thé unfinished fountain in the Largo doValdetaro, but was finally placed in the S. Diogostation of the D.^edro II railway.

' —In the S. Anna ward here, an association hasrecently been formed to convert irregular marriagesinto regular matrimonial contracts, to furnishspiritual assistance tosick people and also to fur-nish moral and religious instruetion to children..

—The custom house has come in for a share ofattention, for complaints are daily made as todelays in the examination of goods. When acustom house officer is also a sub-delegate of police,it does not seem strange that one or tlie otherservice must suffer.

A"-l ,'"*nj'''*—O Çait of the 26th ulto. hears that the Banco

Internacional had leased the property on thecomer óf Ruas da Alfândega and Primeiro deMarço for 25 years at an annual rent oi 13,500$.At the expiration of the lease the building to beerected and the land will revert to the landlord.

—The amount of swindling and defaulting inthis city at the present moment is positively alarm-ing. It is fast becoming necessary to do businessdnly for cash in advance. And the worst of it isthat there is a large aud increasing number ofmen who look upon the payment of a debt as afavor conferred.

—In satisfaction ofthe insults to which St. Sebastian, our patron saint, was subjected by the sinnersof the carnival, on the 6th there is to be a massand general communion in the Capuchin conventop Castle hill,

—The cargo of jerked beef per Alvington whichcaused so much writing and seemed likely to causea diplornatic question was finallydischarged on the4th. Some hundred bales only are said to hávebeen condemned.

-A Sr. Martins claimed to have invented anilluminating bomb shell and eight of them wereexperimented on the night of the 3rd at the gun-nery school. The result was negative, for theshells did not illumine a bit.

—The minister of marine thinks there are toomany superior officers of thenavy on duty attheAdjutant GeneraPs department, and orders thatsome changes be made, either in appointing them tovessels, or reducfng their gratifications. •

--On the 4th the minister of agriculture ad-dressed a circular* to the presidents of provincesasking for information as to the decadence ofmining interests in the empire, which informationis to be brought before the legislature with a viewto the correction of the evil.

-One of the reforms already accomplished bythe new 3oth of February gerente of the UniãoTelephonica is the publication of a monthly resumeofthe subscription list by which.it appears that theFebruary increase amounted to 5. The personalsohcitations of the new gerente among his friendsought certainly to have produced better resultsthan, this.

-The Havas Agency has again covered itselfwith glory. On the 26th it sends us a Washingtontelegram of the 26th ult. stating that "the 4th ofMarch has been marked for the closing of thesessions of the American Congress." Did we notknow that the Congress expired by limitation onthat day, and that the Congress assembles im-mediately after, we should feel that something hadhappened.

—The Argentine ironclad Patagônia arrived hereon the night on the 3rd, 45 days from Trieste.After a short stay in our port the vessel proceedssouth.

—The Jornal of the ist relates a story about a-man who held two bills against another for 4,000$..Seeing that the debtor could not, or would notpay the whole sum, the creditor offered to discountthem at 40 per cent. On the 26th ult. this ofter wasaccepted, and the debtor, one Augusto José Lopes,took a roll of money from his pocket to count,requesting the creditor to pass a receipt on thebacks of the two bills. After the bills were pro-perly receipted, Lopes suddenly discovered that hehad not money enough. He hurried out after thebalance, carrying the money with him, saying thathe would retum in 15 minutes, but his viefrimis still waiting. On the 28th he advertised the billsas lost.

—The February receipts at the Rio custom house were:Importation i.iúPort dues 3>093,482Í|i652

16,885 950Exportation „afl ,Sundries ^

„3 W

Surtax of 5 per cent.2,968 900,

'55.M7 587

3.556,649103624,670 634

27,644 004Internai Revenue receipts .; 446,443 52,

Deposits...Restitutions

FORTNIGHTLY BULLETIN OFOF BROKERS.

THE BOARD

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MARRIED.Barras-Wilmot.-At Rio Grande do Sul on

S" t2IÍÍ February' Harry Haywood Barrar,

M. I. M.E., Locomotive Superintendem, SouthernBrazilian Railway, to Alice Helen eldest daugh-er of the late Gendall Wilmot, Rio de Janeiro.

I5TH REBRUAKY.

Exchange passed.£683,360 at *t%-22% d.Francs 1,465,577 422-437 reisR. Marks 127,342 528-538 reis.

Coffee sold,72,816 bags weighihg 4,368,960 kilogrammes.

CommercialRio de Janeiro, Màreli 4th, 1887.

Par value nf the Brazilian mil reis (i$ooo), gold 27 d.do do do do in U. S.

coin at $4 84 per £1 stg....... S445ci.s.$100 (U. S. coin) Brazilian gold -.$837

of £istg. in Brazilian gold.. 8 889

Bank rate of exchange on London to-day 22udPresent value ofthe Brazilian mil reis (paper)..

69no

600$6

60

333873

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—The Buenos Aires Standard is informed that aTucuman planter is abont to try the experiment ofcoffee-growing. It is anticipated that coffee canbe grown, but whether as cheaply as in Brazilremains to be seen. If it can be grown at aU, aproteçtive duty will probably be invented to coverthe difference in cost of produetion, which in theend will come out of the pockels of the unhappyconsumers.

—The new gerente of lhe telephone company hasbeen impelled. under the complaints of the press,to announce that no one but his predecessor is toblame for bad service, as he took charge only inFebruary. It was pretty near the lieginning ofFebruary when the Banco Auxiliar put Victor Diasout and Mirandola Filho in, and as the complaintsincreased toward the end of February it is difficultto understand the force of the explanation.

—The Diário de Noticias of the 4th hears thatthe following companies have been denounced fordoing business in the empire without the aúthorityofthe government: "Hamburg Steam Navigation"and the "Kosmos," also of Hamburg, the Fiorioand Rubattino and "La Veloce" of Genoa, and theNew Zealand Shipping and Shaw Savill aud Albioncompanies. Various insurance companies are alsoreíerred to. The Singer sewing machine companyhas been fined 2,000$ and ordered to pay in theamount within eight days.

—A table recently published in the Gazeta daTarde gives the following figures of receipts oicoffee in (1,000 bags) in Rio and Santos for eightmonths of crop years:

Rio¦-Wi-to. a,8oi

-The Jornal of the 27H1 ulto. states that anepidemic, with ali the symptons of beri-beri hasappeared nt the government powder mili nearEstrella, on the way to Petropolis. The districtfrom the bay to the foot of the mountains has longbeen known as a hot-bed of agne, and the newepidemic is attributed to the abandonment of thecountry by farmers, through which ali drainage hasbeen neglected. Yet not so many years ago, thewhole of these lands were cultivatèd and veryproduct ive. *

-A colleague lias noticed that when a tali and ashort man meet on a rainy day, the short oneinvariably lifts his umbrella over the long one. Agoose will dip his head to go under a triumphalarch, and for the same reason does the short manllft his umbrella, vi/, because he is a goose. Streetscenes are amusing ali over the world A story iscurrent of a man who was startled to hear a res-pectable old gentlemen immediately in front of himsoy in a loud tone: "Well I I am d-d.» Whetherhe had that moment abandoned ali ho-x» of futuresalvation, or merely left his keys at home, thestory does not explain.

—The city of Buenos Aires has been served bytwo telephone companies for the last five years,through whose competition charges have been keptdown to a moderate figure. Recently a consolida-tion was effected through the organization ofa newcompany which bought out lioth of the oid ones.Charges were at once raised about 50 per cént. andthe manager announced that no reclamationsthrough the press would be attended. As theservice was getting bad, this attempt to "bulldoze"subscribers aroused a great deal of iodignation,and steps, were at once taken to organize a co-operative company, the subscribers being share-holders. In one day some 5,000 shares weretaken. How would a co-operative company do inRio, to teach the União Telephonica that thepublic is to be served, not fleeced ?

—The Jotnal is the aúthority for the followingtables showing the movement of passengers duringthe three Carnaval days :Villa Isabel tramway...... ... 60808S. Christovão do 12)507Carris Urbanos do 146 114Jardim Botânico do 107147D. Pedro II railway (suhurbs) 28,334Riodo Ouro „ |49Kerrybo»«s 27,335

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1882^3..¦883^4..«8M5*.1885^6..188647..

3.30*2,4433»oi*3.0972*733

SantasI,l6o1.3211,4211.4151.3391,882

Totai

3.9614.6*33.8644.4274.4364.615

Fromffhese j( appears that the current crop re-ceipts have only been exceeded in 1882-83.

Total 493.684The dead-keads numbered:

Villa Isabel tramway 3,603S. Christovão do 16,105Carris Urbanos do IflgjJardim Botânico do 10,345

8iors.golddo do in U. S.

coin at $4 8oper.ii stg 442501..-.Value of $1.00 [$4.8oper £1. stg.] i„ Brazilian

currency fpaper] , a6oValue of£, sterling ., ,o(|!84_

EXCHANGE.February _3._Thc market opened at 22 on London at the, banks, but the Internacional in the afternoon advanced itsrates to 22 i|i6 on London and 431 on Paris. A fair bus-mess was reported at .2 -22 1,16 for bank sterling and atmH-m 3|i6 from second hands. Commercial was quotedat aa 3I16, 22JÍ and .2 s,,6. Commercial francs 426-427Sovereigns closed with buyers at n$o6o, sellers at -.$,00.

February »4.-Rates at the banks were 22 ,,,6 on London43*-43» on Paris and 53S on Hamburg at 90 d|s; 2Í27Ôon Néwí York at sight. The official rate at the Englishbanks was on head offices. From second hands banksterling was reported at 22% and at this rate on head officesalso. Commercial sterling was quoted at 22 3116-22^ andfrancs at 426. The.market was quiet. Sovereigns closedwith buyers at ji$o8o, sellers at n$I00.

February a5.-The market was at a stand-still, and rates atthe banks ünchanged. The English Bank was a drawerat 221116 on bankers. Commercial sterling was quoted at"Jí-a-i 3I«6- Bank francs were reported at 431 and com-mercial at 426. Sovereigns closed with buyers at u$o6o.sellers at u$ioo.

February 26.-There was no change in official rates, andvery little doing at 22 r|i6 for bank and 2. 3116-22 y4 forcommercial sterling. From second hands, bank sterlingwas quoted at 22^. Sovereigns closed with buyers atn$o6o, sellers at n$i2o.

February 28.-There is no change in official rates and themarket is quiet. Some little business was reported inbank on head office at 22Jj, and from second hands at22}*—223116. Commercial sterling was quoted at 223116-•«#. Sovereigns closed with buyers at it$o8o, sellers atn$i4o.

March 1.-Oflicial rates at the banks were 22 i|i6 011 London,43» on Paris and 534-535 on Hamburg at 9òd|s; 2$26oon New York at sight. Market quiet with bills on headoffice quoted at 22% and commercial sterling 223*16aajfí. Bank francs were done at official rate and comnicr-cialat 426. Sovereigns closed with buyers at n$o8o, sei-lers at 11$ 140.

March 2.-Rates at the banks were advanced 1022^london, 430 on Paris and 532-533 on Hamburg at ood|s ;-$2Óo on New York at sight. The English banks weredrawers on head offices only. From second hands banksterling wa» reported at 223116, and commercial wasquoted at 223|i6-22K. Bank ou Paris was reported at430 and commercial francs at 435. Sovereigns closed withbuyers at 11 $070, sellers at ii$i5o.

March 3.-Rates at the banks are ünchanged and there isvery little doing. From second hands bank sterling wasreported at 22 3-16, and some trifling amounts of commercialat the same rate. Commercial francs 427. Sovereignsclosed with buyers at 11 $080, sellers at u.*|!iSo.

March 4.—Rates at the banks are still 22J& at the Englishbanks on head offices. Commercial sterling is quoted at22 3116-22Jí, and although there is a scarcity of bills themarket is considered firm.

SALES OP STOCKS AND SHAKE8.February 23.

Five percent. apólices....dod°

Banco Commercialdo ........

Grão Pará R.Rdo 26th ,do subsid.......

5° Lealdade insce26 Commercio e Lavoura

February 24.9 Five per cent. apólices33 do .._"_"

1,000$ do l..'.'.'.6,500$ Gold Loan, 1868 6?0

9a Banco do Braüil...250 Banco Internacional56 deb. Leopoldina R.R. 200$ lio5° „ S. Antônio de Padua R.R...45 „ Ferry Co .."43 hyp. notes Banco C. Real do Brazil

ÍKold 5%] 1 series 86 000February 25.

Five per cent.5o do

Moo$ ,io800$ d0

. 979 000

980 000

97J-Í %232 000233 000

205 000205 000

15 00011 000

210 000

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978 000

97Jé %1,300 000

256 00060 000

180 000204 000

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97lA %40 Banco Commercial

""" 97'780 Banco Internacional...

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Leopoldina R.Rd«-'b. do 200$.

320 000118 000180 000

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7° .. do•6 •• wnna> C. Real do Brazil

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February 26.

40 Five percent. apólices.

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.. Sorocabana R.R. 100$..Vigilância Insce

*oo hyp. notes Banco Predial302 >• do .....".

ii Banco C. RealIgold 5%

February 28.90 Five per cent. apólices66 Banco do Brazil13 Banco do Commercio45 Banco Industrial

3*!o deb. Sorocabana RR. ,00$00 Jardim Botânico tramway...

Brazileira de Navegação _*lgbyp. notes Banco Predial ....'. ^Banco C. Real do Brazil [(,%] 77 o*,Md 5% I 2 series 86000

March 1.

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8 Commercio e Lavoura60 hyp. notes Banco do Brazil.

226 .. Banco Predial...March 2.

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31,236It woubl Ih; inleresting to knowf how many of

these 31,236 dead-heads were on public service.

-On the 26th ult. the two English banks despatched650.000$ in money to Pernambuco and Bahia.

-On the 23rd ult. the Banco Delcredere made a further icall of 15 per cent. or 30$ per share, payable up to the i6th !inst

—The R. M. S. Lapiata arrived at the Lazaretto on lhe*yd ult brought ^16,000 ín gold to this port from the River IPlate.

—Messtrs. Michel Calogeras, Luiz Vidal Leite Ribeiro andCândido Alve* da Silva Poito were re-elected directors o! theCarris Urbanos tramway on the 28* ult.

—At the general meeting of the shareholders of lhe Ser-viço Marítimo (lighter* company on the *8th ult Mr. HenriLeuba was elecled a director and Me-sn. E. W. May, yilmido Rego Macedo and E. P. Fwjik, «uditors.

Five per cent. apólices _-8260 Banco Internacional ......"

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LA TEST LONDON QUOTA TIONS OF BRA ZILIANSTOCKS AND SHARES.

EXTRACTRD FROM "THE StATIST" AND "RAILWAY NEWS"

OF FEBRUARY I2TH.

Government Stocks.

1863 \% per et, Loan1865 s ^,, >» 1871 ., 1875 1879 4% >> 1. 1883 \yz „ „ 1886 „ '

paid Railways.

20 Alagoas, Lim. 7 P« <* guarantee....oo do deb. o ,, ¦";""""'20 Bahia a S_Francisco7 per et. guar2020 ,, In»P

Ioo Campos & Carangola deb. s^Peret20 Conded'Eu,Lim./7P««. guar,100 do deb. Jjf'per ct.;; —IOO2020IOO20IOO20IOO

99—101IOO—102

95—9998—100

93—95

90—9296-97

i4~xS103—ios

22^—33»

Brazilian Great Southern. Jv-ZuImo Cent. Bahia viyA—2iyi

do deb. 6 per et.. 103-105-'¦--— 102—104

15— »698—too

D. Thereza Christlna *deb.

sH percent... 9*-94do 7 per et. guar VA—*/tG"lWt"?pí.»'. \Z£.XZr- .3=»<¦

Mi"„! ^"âAífSSmS^z::::: '%?$SKíe^

*V-,00 Recife a ST Francisco 7 per et. guar..'.... 103-105,00 do deb. 5JÍ Pér et.. -20 S Paul07Per et. guar.. ...... .£2},.

10o do deb. stock s% per et, !2T!2I,00 S Paulo & Rio deb. 6 per et «*-im

do ;.; do and series ™6-w820 South Brzaihan .í5L..,R

,00 do 6perct. Irred " ,"100 West. S.Paulo deb. 7 per et 112-114

Miscellaneous.paid

' , . —oU15 Amazon Steam Navigation 9»10 English Bank of Rio, Lim.. ..— -tf—!?.,10 London & Brazüian Bank, Lim i6J4--*7»

Rio City Improvements • •<do deb. 5 per

Braz. street tramways, LimBraz. Submarine

¦: : ¦;.

10»5

1002

1010015

7ií1%IOOIOO

IO10020IOIO

IOO

et.—37—ios

yays,L,im... ••••• 1$~"'XK/Tei..... •• io}á—10JÍ

••¦••••¦•do bonds 5 per cent

Wést. &Braz. Tei. Limdo prefer

, do deferdo deb. A 6percent...do do B do.

London, Plat. & Brazil Tei; Limdo 6 percent. deb

Bahia Gas.............••¦Pará do .......SS o Paulo doS. John dei Rey gold mme.

.••••••••

104—1077#-7#

102—104101—104

3-3fc100—103a3-»44-4 %,

30—33

MARKET REPORT.Rio de Janeiro, Mareh 4th, 1887.Exports.

Coffee.—The market has again ruled quiet, and althoughreceipts show a further decline our stock is increased by some20,000 bags. On the 28A ult. quotations were reduced tothose we give below, at which the market is said to be quiet,exporters not as yet showing any marked desire to purchase,and with the steady increase of our stock,' a further declinedoes not seem in any manner impossible. The publishedEuropean telegrams are generally unfavorable, but those fromthe United States appear to be rather more stimulating.That the dislocation of stocks is not yet appreciated eitherhere or abroad seemrfevident to us. Consuming markets seea visible supply available within a short periodby the im-

provementsof communication, and calculate on the needs ofholders forcing lower prices on them. Dealers and factorsàre kept firm by the cessation of business and believe thatthe necéssities of consumers will oblige them to meet theview of holders. As it seems almost impossible to combinesuch widely different opinions, the market is hkely to drag,and the means of endurance must be exhausted on one, orthe other side, before the business is settled.

The sales as reported since our last have been:33,218 bags for the United States

V981 ,, Europe... Cape of Good Hope

10,823 Elsewhere

48,022 bags.The clearances since our last issue are:

UniteaStates.- , „ '-i i bais'

Feb. 24 Baltimore Amer bV. D. Pedro II ....i 10,00325 New York Br str Biela M.374

Mar. do „ Tltames .... 3.7°'Europe:

Feb. 23 Channel f.o. Dan bg Margrethe........ 2,50026 Hamburg,Gr str Tijuca.......: 66828 Mediterranean Aust str Ste/ante 75°Elsewhere:

Mar. 1 River Plate Br str Tagus2 West Coast

Receipts for the past nine days have averaged 8,272 bagsperdaj, against 9,346 bags forthe precedingnine days.

The daily average in February was :10,576 bags

against 9.593 .» xnl°°68,718 ,, „ 18859i734 .1 '524 í9.859 .. ¦. '8833.9°* .. >> '882

14,627 „ 1881

Brokers' quotations this morning were:pet 10 kilos. pèf arroba

nominal nominaldo ;dodo do

5$99o — 6| 130 8$8oo — 9$ooo5 790 — 5 920 8 500 — 8 7005 450 — 5 650 8 000 — 8 300

Total clearances oí Coffee from Rio during eight monthsoferop-years. .

DESTINATION

United StatesNewYork •BaltimoreHampton Roads f. o—SandyHookf. o...RichmondCharleston •••Savannah Mobile - •New OrleansGalveston

1886-87

Bags.1,034 489

«94 377

1885-86

164 48539 398

Total.

EuropeChannel f. Havre..Antwerp... •¦•••,••North of Europe & Baltic.England •••Bordeaux. •Lisbon t- o..... - ••••••••Gibraltar f. ••-•Portugal.Mediterranean.-

Total.

ElskwhereCape of Good HopeRiver Plate & West Coast.Rio & Coast

1,432 749

19 59°8166362579

252 871158836

42843180413 008

86218872

843593

Bags.1,299 966

318300

42039252

265 23146298

1884-85

Bags.1,189 94»

39° 8iS

426637 000

242 56859200

1.943 250 1,932 187

74808251376 339

299 71583 35515032

1739303 417

8695901

Total.

United States.EuropeElsewhere....

Totais.

6927734508

103785

M3* 749843 593103 785

2,380 127

44 407,34 o*6

3 5oo53 23»80594

303 443136 98716511

7 290

3 299355'67

960 022

6r 24034 4O0

78 433

1.943 250869 590

78 433

2,891 273

95640

1,932 18796002295640

2,987 849

...» 4,738Britannia 228

Total clearances of Coffee from Rio for Januaryand February:

Turpentine.—Receipts are 100 cases per W. A. Mar»òurghom Baltimore. In February we received 55° cases,against nil in February, 1886.

Bran.—There are no receipts of foreign, and brokersquote at 2$5oo—3$soo per bag. In February receipts were3,056 bags, against 11,922 bags in the same month last yéár.

Codfish,—Receipts are 1,180 cases per Paranaguá andi,6os per A rgentüui from Hamburg. Retail quotations arei6$ooo—i8$ooo for cases and 23$ooo — 27?000 for ,tubs.Last month receipts were 2,430 packages of Canadian and 4,563cases Norwegian or 6,993 packages, against 617 packages inthe same month last year.

Hay.—There are no receipts and we may continue Çuota-tions at ns—120 rs. per kilo. Receipts in February, largeand small bales were 2,881, against 11,906 bales in February,1886.

Cement-There are no receipts reported and we con-tinue quotations, viz: British 6$8oo—7$ooo, German 6$30o—6$5<Jo and French 7$3oo—7$5oo per bri. Receipts last monthwere 2,800 British and 30 American, against 2,033 brls. forthe same month last year.

Indian Corn.—There are no receipts of foreign, whichbrokers quote at 3$8oo—4$2oo per bag. Last month re-ceipts of foreign maize were 13,145 bags, against 3,208 bagsin February, 1886.

Coal.—There have been no receipts. In Februarythe arrivals were 3,819 tons British and 3a tons Belgian»against 20,982 of ali sorts in the same month last year.

Rice.— Receipts are 1,350bags &t Argentina toam. Ham-burg. Brokers continue quotations for first quality at 9$ooo—9$3oo per bag, and second quality at 8$9oo—gfooo, in lou.

DESTINATION 1887

DAILY COFFEE REPORTS.

Rio Associação Commercial daily cablegram to New York

regarding-position and quotations of the Coffee market.

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3-í» 1 fi' 5 »•3" \X a. S <£

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WashedSuperiorGood firstRegular firstOrdinary first...Good second....Ordinary second 4 77°—.5 240Capitania nominalEscolha

7 000 — 7 700nominal

3 950 — 4 220 5 |po — 6 200Stocks were thismorning estimated to be 465,000—466,000

bags. The usual deduetion of 6,000 bags for local con-suniption in February has been made.

Vessels loading and to load. bagsNew York Amer lug E. S. Powell n.ooo

do Br str Délambre 8,300do Br str Ptolemy •••!.. —do Amer str Finance • —

New Orleans Br str Merchant r!*'.9°Southampton „ Mondego !—Hamburg Gr str Paranaguá 500Mediterranean Fr str Poitou —

United States.New York.... ¦•;.BaltimoreHampton Roads f.o ....SandyHookf. RichmondCharleston....Savannah.Mobile..New OrleansGalvestonPort Eads f.oSt. Thomasf.

TotalEUROPK.

Channel t. riíivrc •••••••••••••••• •'••AntwerpNorth of Europe & Baltic.EnglandBordeauxGibraltar f.oLisbon f. Portugal •Mediterranean

Bags.167 34247400

34 '385 000

1886

Bags. I369706

79 254

5.652

69 28011 200

1885

Bags.27525388804

16780

8671623 700

Total.

DAILY RECEIPTS AND SALES OF COFFEEA T RIO DE JANEIRO.

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ElsewhereCape of Good HopeRiver Plate & West Coast...Rio and Coast..... •¦

253880

250076524023

21 5927152i3'7

4 000

20753

68989

Total.

United States.EuropeElsewhere

Tatals.

535092

3 58o12894

5 77549 43417 4563691

98455 9*6

491 a53

50016961

32145 4646509

49»

24969407

149 73o

10,0003 348

13348

253 88068981i3 34l

336 217

5 5077064

12 57»

535092«49 73°

12 57»

146902

30404 58i

7 621

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WEEKLY SUM MARY.Feb. »6th

Sides for United States during the week 20,000 bagsSales for Europe etc do do 2,000 ,,Sailing clearances for tlie United States 10,000 .,Steamer clearances do (O «4.o°° »•Clearances for Europe and elsewhere 6,000 „Freights by steamer 3o c- * 5%

do sail t7|6&5%Steamers loading for United States 2

Stock at Santos this morning 340,000 bagsReceipts during week to 25th Feb 47»°°° «Sales for United States during week 23,000 „

do Europe do 22,000 „Shipments to United States do 32.000 ,.

do Europe do. 8,000 „Market quiet : Good Average 5$55°Steamer) loading for United Siaie» »

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Imports.Brokers report that lhere is little doing and the markets

are very quiet. The non-arrival of vessels has no doubt,restricttd business, for there are no receipts to work on, andpending the arrival of supplies the import markets are likelyto be dull and uninteresting for some time to come.

Flour.—Receipts since our last report are:W. A. Marburg from Baltimore;

Castilla 1,672 brls.Codorus 687 „Chesapeake 687 „Araby 700 „Crystal 500 „Rockland 200 „Cordova 175 „Mt. Vemon 125 „Edgewood 125 „4,871 brls.

Receipts and withdrawals for the same period are about8,400 brls, and stock in first hands is estimated to be:

34,500 brls. American1,500 ,, Chili

36,000 brls.Brokers report the market quiet and weak at the following

quotations:

Shipping News.ARRIVALS OF FOREIGN VESSELS.

FEBRUARY 24.Baltimore—Amer lug William A. Marburg; 678 tons;

Pillsbury; 40 ds; sundries to Levering & Co.; MARCH 2.

Itajahy—Dan bg Maria Petreus; 112 tons; Beck; 9 ds;sundries to Queiroz, Moreira & Co.

DEPARTURES OF FOREIGN VESSELS.FEBRUARY 23. •

Ilha do Sal—Port bk Alice; 997 tons; Azevedo; ballast.FEB. 24.

Falmouth f. o.—Dan bg Margrethe; 181 tons; Kolsty;coffee.

Barbados—Amer bg JoseJa; 470 tons; Snow; ballast.Aracaju—Port bk Izolina; 254 tons; Barbosa; do.

FEB. 25.Baltimore—Amer bk D. Pedro II; 47a tons; Johnson;

coflee.Dhlawane Breakwater—Br ship Parthia; 1527 tons;

Eaton; ballast.FEB% 26»

Boa Vista—Port bk Leonor; 446 tons; Fonseca; ballast;Pernambuco—Port bg Lidador; 177 tons; Moraes; do.

FEB. 28.Paranaguá'—Br schr Abeja; 192 tons; Johnson; sundries.;

MARCHuPernambuco—Br bg Brothers; 173 tons; Vibert; ballast.

MAR. 3.S. Francisco do Sul—Dan bk Richatd; 390 tons; Jorgen-

sen; sundries.Victoria—Br bg Anua Maria; 243 tons; Fiuwalter; bai-

last.

CLEARED AND READY FOR SEA.Penedo—Br bk Dolphin sundries.

¦Nor lug Eliezer do-Swed bg Brage do

Pernambuco—Nor bk Premier ballast.Swed lug Nau ti Ins do

——Br lug Hornet doBAHiA-Brlug Flash Light do

.J**»

Trieste,Richmond ist

do 2ndRaltimore ist

do sndWestern & Int.ChiliRiver PlateNew Zealand

nominal16 500—16 75015 500—15 75015 500—15 75014 750—15 25014 250—15 50013 000—13 500

nominalnominal

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Receipts in February were 40,971 brls, ali American, against13,474 brls. of ali sorts in the same month last year.

Pitch Pine.—The cargo ex Longfellow about 612,000feet referred to in our last, is reported sold at 4o$ooo per doz.Brokers quote the market firm at 39$ooo—40$000 per doz.Receipts in February were 1,085,492 feet, against 687,442feet for the same month in 1886.

White Pine.—Receipts nil. Brokers quote at 115—120 rs. per foot. Receipts in February were 20,385 feet,against nil in February, 1885.

Spruce Pine.—Nothing whatever to report. No re-ceipts last month, nor in the same month last year.

Swediah Pine.—No receipts since our last reportand quotations are nominal. Receipts in February were 1,183doz. against 422 doz. in the same month last year.

Kerosene.—Receipts nil. Brokers report the marketflat at 5$5oo per case. Receipts last month were 27,816cases, against io,oo> cases in the same month last year.

Lard.—The IV. A. Maròurg brought 400 kegs fromBaltimore. Wc may quote invoices at 340 ts. pet lb ; steady.Receipts in February were 2,550 kegs and 15 caies, againstnil in the same month last year.

Rosin.—There are no receipts. Brokers continue quota-tions at 4$800—io$oco per bri. as to quality and weight.Receipts in Februaif were 560 bil«. against 101 brls. for thejjnic momh in iSSó.

FREIGHTS AND CHARTERS.Since our last report the following charters are given in:

Amer lug E. S. Powell, coffee to New York, £380. Brsch Abeja and Dan bk Richatd, Paranaguá and Valparaiso, :mate, itf reais for the first and £400 in full for the latter.Br bg Anna Maria, Victoria and Channel £0., coflee, 40*. .Br lug Flash Light, Bahia and Montreal, sugar 22)6 andBraz bg Regalara, Paranaguá to Rio, or Santos, timber,2,100$.

Freights—steamer :NewYorkNew OrleansLondonLiverpoolAntwerpHamburg ¦HavreMarseillesTriesteGenoa

sail:United States, North

do SouthChannel f. o.Lisbon f. o. j....

30c per bag30c do30X per ton301 do30* do301 do40ÍCS do«ofes do

40 les do

lor—17(6 per toanominal 1716—so» do

... nominal 30»—3716 do

VESSELS AFLOAT A» LOADING FOR RIO.

Aeronaut BaltimoreAlliança *...|. OportoAmai LimpoolAnnie Burrill CardiffAuguste CardiffA. D. Bordes NewportAldine RichmondAntonia CardiffActiv liverpoolififHkttMt ..••••••¦••••••••••••••. SWUMCA

Bto Bio «CaidiftCerro Alegre CardiflCharles Cox BrunswickCora at DoverCarrie Dela} PugetSouadCherbourg PensacolaChieftain New YoikDtucalion NewcastleDora LiverpoolDictator CardiffEdith Mary HamburgEllidaD. CardifTEmma Sims CardiffEpisolon SwanseaFtrda Saritla River

t$ Jan.16 Jan.4 Feb.

it Jan.

6 Feb.

10 Ja».

7 Jan.ai Jan.

• Feb.

f /

;: THE RIO NEWS.

Glimt MarseillesGfi-v-w-t............... ......... GlasgowGuiana...".-•••••••-•'•'•• •••••' . GardiffHtrtig Oscar Frtdtrik. BrunswickHermann Lthmkuhl...... GardiffHtros.............*.-............. BrunswickIda OportoIdun... Middlesboroíndia LiverpoolIthurül........ DoverJacob PensacolaJurgen......... Hamburg/Caie Burrill CardiftLady Elibonk LondonLottie PensacolaMoonbeam BrunswickMagnolia. CardiffMinerva.............. BrunswickMane Kuyper MarseillesMaria Carolina... OportoNevada '. ..- CardiffNor.. PensacolaOtinoco New York -Pttrarch.. AntwerpPrince Arthur....... CardiftPrime Henry CardiffPusnaes LiverpoolQuillota... Leith '-.Springwood CardiffSenator Wtber NewportSt. John St. JohnStella Witst. HamburgTheodor •.••••- LiverpoolThontas S. Falck HamburgTittid Satilla RiverWilliam Gordon LiverpoolVentct..:....... MobileZaritm ..... HamburgZenobia :.... Marseilles

16 Jan.*2 Jan.29 Jan.

ai Jan.

ao Dec.

14. Jan;

4 Jan.27 Jan.

10 Feb.

36 Jan.

11 Jan.

Feb.8 Féb.

2a Jan.

Feb.

28 Jan.15 Jan.

30 Jan.

9 Feb.

ARRIVALS OF FOREIGN STEA.UHKS-

NAMK WllftKK-KKOM CONSKiNKI) TO

Feb. 23 Comte d*Eu Fr Havre* *8d A. Leubá & C25 Tijuca Gr Santos 18I1 E. Johnston & C25 Stefanie Aust do 24b do26 Berlin Gr Bremen* 22a H. Stolt* & C27 Tagus Br South*ton* i8d Royal Mail28 Thames Br Santos Walter, H. & C28 V. de Bahia Fr do i8h A. Leubá & C*

Mar. 1 Argentina Gr Hamburg* 24d E. Johnston & CChatham Br P. Alegre* 9a Norton, M'w & CBritannia Br Liverpool* 2id Wilson Sons & C

2 Coptic Br Lyttletoii 24c! doTriumph Br Bluff 34a do

, 3 V. de Ceará Fr Havre* 2?d A. Leubá & CParanaguá Gr Santos 18I1 E. Johnston & C

DEPARTURES OF FOREIGN SI EAMERS.

IIATK - NAMK WIIKHK TO CAKGO

Feb. 93 S. Marco Ital River Plate Sundries23 Ptolemy Br Santos do34 Canning Br Porto Alegre* do24 Paranaguá Gr Santos do35 Rheingold Gr do do26 Kate Fawcett Br do do37 Tijuca Gr Hamburg* do,27 Biela Br New York Coffee28 V. de Bahia Fr Havre* Sundries28 Comte d'Eu Fr Santos do38 Berlin Gr do do

Mar, 1 Stefanie Aust Trieste* doThames Br New Yoik CoffeeTagus Br River Plate SundriesCoptic Bi London do

3 Britannia Br Valparaiso do3 Argentina Gr Santos do

CalliiiK ac iiitermedisite ports.

FOREIGN SAILING VESSELS IN TI lli PORT Ol-RIO DE JANEIRO, MARCH ..\\, 1887.

IIAMK

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SS I-7.

WIIHKKKltOM

CONSKSNKK

A intricou

lug E S. Powelllug W.A.Marb'g

British

lug Flash light.sp Celtic Chief..stp Northsp PoonahbkGiftbk Alvington ...bk Dolphinsp Haddon Hall.bk Veronabg Roíella Smithlug Hometlug Severabk Lydiabk Longfellow...

Danish

bg M. Pelreus..

German

lug M.Breckw'dt*

Norwtgiau

bk Premier.lugEliezerbk Shaktpeare.bk Elieterbk Dovresp ('hry-tolite...hg Gordon.....

Portuguese

bk Zulmira. ...bkV.daGama..bk Quiteria...bk Sereia.bk Margarida..

Spanish

bk Guayaquil..

SwedishbgBrage lugKobettlug NíuüIus ..

558678

57°•749129511992873»4»93

14166495094074464*4811

348

109030063a44°428311•3*

866549333397393

3'3

Feb. 11 Baltimore..24 Baltimore,.

Jan. 6302829

Feb. 8889

10111112* «520

Mar. 2

London.Cardiff..Cardiff..Cardiff..NewportMontevid'oPenedo..Antwerp...Brunswick.New York.Kichmund.New York.New York.Pensacola.

Itajahy—

Feb. inHamburg.

Jan.Feb.

Jan. 3334

Feb. 8•518

Feb. 18

»3« Feb.-.76

Phipps Bros & CLeveriug & C

Mansell & Cm réNorton, M'w & CNorton, M'w & CMess. MaritimcsB. Rodrigues & CFrias Herm. & CV.J.f..Monteiro&CE. Pecher St CF. Clemente & CPhipps Bros & CPhipps Bros & CMonteiro, II. & CF. Clemente & CF. Clemente & C

Queiroz, M. & C

H. Sloltz & C

Newport..Montevid'oSwansea..Baltimore.Baltimore.Liverpool.Rio Grande

Brunswick.Oporto..Oporto..Oporto..Oporto..

Brunswick.

S-xlerli.i 11111Mentel...

I9> 15 Pei-edj

Wilson Sons & CV. Clemente & CE. W. MayF. Clemente & CW. Guimarães & CGas Co.Faria & Cunha

W. Guimarães & CJ. A. G. SantosC. Abranches & CVeiga Pinto & CVeiga Pinto & C

Sou/a Irmão -S*. C

C. Hecksher & CC. Hecksher &CJ.J. do* Reis &C

GOVERNMENT AND PROVINCIAL BONDS«MISSION

339Í«7S»,«>o''pooo50,000,000 0002,158,40b 000

199,600 00030,000,000 00051,885,000 00010,213,100 OOO

CIRCULATION

3 36,003, ioo$ooo>

50,000,000 0001,997,300 000

119,600 00030,658,100 00043,683,000 0007,989,600 000

1,679,000$ 0002,591,400 0003,169,200 000-4.597.-5oo 0006.053,300 000

DRNOMINATION

Apólices Jan. Julydo do d° do do do do do

Gold Loan of 1868 Apr.,OctI do 1879. Jan., Apr., July, Oct.Province of Riu de Janeiro Jan.,July

HYPOTHECA R V. NOTES.Brazil.» June., DecCredito Real do Brazil Jan., Julydo gold do

do de S. Paulo Apr., Oct[Predial May, Nov.

INTKHKST

i 6°/c5546

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NOMINAL VAI.IJK

i,ooo$ooo200—800

500—1,0001,000 0001,000 0001,000 0001,00o 000200—500

ioo$oooIOO 000

£",5*IOO 000IOO 000

LAST SALE

l,0OO$000100%

978 000

1,300^0001,120 000

99 °/u

99 "/«>76 0/0Sf.ifocx)8C '%

70 '%

LAST QUOTATIONS

978^000— 980^000

-1,315 0001,115 °°°—

99% -

— IOO %74 90—77 9o

.... —86 5008S %-.-..

69 % -J0'A %

DEBENTURES" AND SHARESCAPITAI. SHARKS 2 i

NAMKS

500,000$ 2,50033,000,000 165,00012,000,000 60,000

2,000,000 10,00012,000,000 60,000

20,000,000 100,0005,000,000 100,0002,000,000 10,000

£ 1,000,000 50,0006,000,000 30,00020,000,000 100,000£ 1,000,000 50,0001,000,000 5,0004,000,000 20,0008,000,000 40,0001,000,000 5,000

12,000,000 60,0006,000,000 —1,300,000 —

10,000,000 50,0001,500,000 —

400,000 2,0001,600,000 8,000

£70,000 -1,500,000 7,5001,300,000 —8,735.800 43,679

11,264,200 56,321>5.398>4°° —

£ 493,600 _8,000,000 40,0003,071,000 _8,100,000 40,500

970,000 —1,000,0001,200,000 6,000

4,400,000 —6,500,000 32,500

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THOMAS N_OLD REGULAR LINE OF^SAILING PACKETS

BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES AND|BRAZIL PORTSEstablished in 1863

Loading Beith ; CovetedPier No. P?, East Rivet.

For Freight and General information apply to

Thomas Norton,104 Wall St., New-York.

JttSMtfMCJe.^UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE

INSURANCE CO.

Agents in Rio de Janeiro

Smith & Youle.No. 62, Rua in de Março.

LONDON AND LANCASHIREFIRE

INSURANCE Co.

Agents 111 Rio de Janeiro

Watson Ritehie & Co.No. 25, Rua de Theophilo Ottoni.

MmtaèMps.

LIVERPOOL, BRAZIL AND RIVER

PLATE MAIL STEAMERS.UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE

BELGIAN and BRAZILIANGOVERNMENTS.

March Departures:To New York:

I Every SaturdayJ

Delambre [Loading also in Santos].. Mar. sthPtoltmy [ do do |'__ ,, i2thRosse f do do ].. „ 19.-1Bessel [Loading also in Santos].. „ _6th

Extra steamers as may be needed.

To SouthatnptoM:. Temporarily stispended on account of quarantine res-

trictions.

For Other Ports:Herschel New Orleans Mar. 15Ü1

To Rio Grande Ports:Cavour > n>. _Chatham >w/y a^or Canning fWednesday

ganks. !____-_.'

PHCENIX FIRE OFFICB:.

Established 1782

Aj>eWl in Rio de Janeiro M'.

E.W{ May,RUA DO GENERAL CÂMARA No. 2,

Comer of Rua Visconde de llaborahy.

H OME AND COLONIAL MARINEINSURANCE Co.

Agents for lhe Empire of Brazil

Norton, Megaw & Co.No. 8a, Rua 1" de Março, Rio de Janeiro.

HK MARINE INSURANCE COM-PANY LIMITED.

Ciipilal ^1,000,000 steilinu

Reserve fund.... £ 440,000 ,,

Agent in 'Rio de Janeiro

E. IV. May,RUA DO GENERAL CÂMARA No. 9,

(.'ornei- of Rua do Visconde de llaborahy.

cOMMERCI AL UNION ASSURANCECOMPANY, LIMITED, OF LONDON.

FIRE AND MARINE.Fire RiHke

Autlioriaed 1870Marine Rleka

AuthoriMd 1884.

Agents for the Empire of Biazil

Wilson Sons ãr Co. Limited.No. 2 Praça das Marinhas,

LAMPORT & IIOLT,21 Water Street, Liverpool.

ARTHUR HOLLAND ô- Co.,

17, Leadenhall Street, London

For freight and passages apply to

Agents:—Norton, Megaw & Co. '•

No. 82 Rim iV de Março

Broker:-Sl.ert Slvertsen,Rua 1" de Março No. 35.

ROYAL MAILSTEAM PACKET COMPANY.

Under contracts with the British and BrazilianGovernments for cartying the mails.

TABLE OF DEPARTURES,

1887

pNGLISH BANKOF

RIO. DE JANE I RO(LIMITED)

HEAD OFFICE IN LONDONBRANCHES:

Rio de Janeiro, Pará, Pernambuco, Santos,São Paulo and Porto Alegre.

Capital £ 1,000,000Ditto, paid ap £ 500,000Reserve Fund..... / 100,000

Draws on

THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK,and transacts every description of Banking business.

LONDON AND BRAZILIAN

BANK, LIMITED.

HEAD OFFICE: LONDONbranches:

LISBON, OPORTO, PARÁ, PERNAMBUCO, BAHIARIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS, SÃO PAULO,

RIO GRANDE DO SUL, PELOTAS, MONTEVIDEO,AND NEW YORK.

Capital.... £ 1,000,000Capital paid up ,, 500,000Reservefund ,, 250,000

Draws on:

Messrs. GLYN, MILLS, CURRIE â>' Co.,London,

Messrs. MAL LET FRÉRES &> Co., -f v

Paris,Messrs. J. H. SCHRÓJ)ER &> Co.,

Hamburg,

• CRASHLEY & Co.,Newsdealers and Boohellets.

JIemorandumsand other blank forms used in business

òffices art much more convenient when putup in ilocks, for which purpose the new

ELASTIC CEMENTis much preferable to the paste med by

binders. AU commercial forms printedat the

TYPOGRAPHIA ALDINAcan be put up in blocks with this Cement at

a slight additional expense.

c. T. DWINAL,34 RUA DA QUITANDA

Dealerin

Se-w-i__n.g MaolLlxLes,and ali articles pertaining to their use.

Also materiais for lightning condúctors.

Board and Residence with a Myin a very healthy locality. Baths, garden, etc, etc. Laran-geiras, Rua do Cosme Velho, No. 61. s-7-

WSff ÍM© (MRM,of ali sizes and styles, executed

with dispatch atN? 79, Rua Sete de'Setembro,*

1.° Andar.

Date

Mar. 9

., 16

Steamer

Mondego.

Tamar

Tagus....

Destination

Southampton and Antwerp, calling atBahia, Maceió, Pernambuco, Lisbonand Vigo. (entering the port)

Santos

Southampton and Antwerp calling atLisbon.

This Company'» steamers leave Southampton 011 the9th and 24U1 of every month and arrive in Rio de Janeiro onthe a8th and i6th, the former proceeding to the River Plateafter the necessary delay. The latter stops at Santos andreturns, calling at Brazilian ports.

The homeward bouiid steamers continue to leave Kio 011 the9th and a^h ol every month.

For freight and passages apply to

E. W . MAY, Superintendem.Rua do General Gamara No. 9,

(Comer of Rua Visconde de llaborahy)

Subscriptioiisreceivedforalltheleading English and Amer.ican newspapers and periodicals. Agents or

The European Mail.

A large assortiiient of English novéis, ofthe Tauchnitz Edi-tions.ofthe Franklin Square Library and ofthe Lovell Libraryconstantly on hand.

Views of Rio and rieighborhood.

Orders rec.ived for Scientific and other books.

Agents >or Longstreth's Rubber Stamps.

Uealeisin A tkiiisorís,Piesse&LubirísandRoyal Pertntiiertetand Pear's Soap.

No. 67, Rua do Ouvidor.

v^Esroíta,"B.A."

mmm&

COFFEE TABLES,Compiled expressly fro this market by an old exporter,

and calculated in American and English currency,

For Sale at this officePrice 2$500.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY,

LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.Cnpil.nl /,2,000,00oAcciinnilnletl KiiihIs ,_5>245.i°4

I usines against tlie lisk o( fire, houses, goods and nierclian.dise ul every kiml al reduced rates.

John Moore â>' Co, agents.(Aigenis for l.loyds) No. 8, Kua da Candelária.

BRITISH & FOREIGN MARINEINSURANCE COMPANY, LIM'D.

Capital /1,000,00o sterling

u NITED STATES AND BRAZILMAIL STEAMSHIP Co.

Agents in Rio de Janeiro

Szvanwick & Gordon,3U, Rua General Câmara. Telephone No. 497.

N ORWICH UNIONFIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY.

Established 1797

Losscs paul /5,500.00o

Agents in Rio de Janeiro

Swamvick & Gordon,39, Rua General Câmara Telephone No. 417.

CARRYING THE U. S. AND BRAZILIAN MAILS

SAILINGS FOR NEW YORKALLIANÇA, Capt. Beers, ãlat Mar.ADVANCE, Cnpt. Lord, 20th App.

Tlie fine packet

FINANCE,will sail íoth March at 10 a. 111. for

NEW YORKcalling at

Hahia, Pk.knamhi.co, Maranmam,[entering the two last named ports|

Paka, Barbai, o es and St. Thomas

Reduced Passageseabin fteerage

To Liverpool $280 gold„ New York $14!) $78 „

Fui passages and infoiiiiaiion apply lo

Wilson, Sons &- Co., Limited; Agenis. , No. * Praça ria. MarinhasAmi for cargo to

W. C. Teck.No. 6, Plrfy* _u CoMI.l.clilu

Orçhids, etcCollections filled and shipped on short notice, suitably

packed for transportation to ali parts of the world.Address: Peter Turl,

Care of The Rio Nkws,Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

WINES-Port, Slxexrry _______ Madeira

Imported by

Andrew Steele & Co.3(>-7 No. 7a, Kua 1.0 de Março.

THIS valuable rtmedy has now txeen prom*inently before the people for fifty.seven

years, the manufacture and sale of it havingbeen commenced in 1829. Its popularíty andsale have never been so large as at the presenttime, and this, of itself, speaks loudl y as to itswonderful efficacy.

We do not hesitate to say, that in no singleinstance has it failed to remove worms fromeither children or adults who were «fflicted bythese foes to human life.

We are constantly in receipt of testimonialsfrom physicians as to its wonderlul efficacy.Its success has produced counterfe'ts, and thebuyer must be particularly careful (o examinethe entire name, and see that it is

11B. A. FahnestockV Veitnifuge.

The Rio News.HAND-BOOK OF RIO DE JANEIRO.

The Editors of this paper have in pre*paration, in English, a pocket guide*book of this city and vicinity, which willindicate and describe ali places of in*terest, and direct passengers frompassing steamers where to go in orderto best spend the brief time they mayhave in port. Thousands of English*speaking travellers pass through thiscity every year, and to ali such theHand*book will be invaluable. A few

First-Class Adverti sc mentswill be inserted, those being preferredwhich have a special interest for travei*lers. Applications should be made forterms and space before the end of thecurrent month. .

Q.

The Rio NewsPublished three times a month for the Amei ican aua

European mails.

Thk Rio Nkws was established under its present title .and management 011 the ist of April, 1879, «icceeding theBritish and American Mail. Although the style, titleand freqiiency of issue were changed at the time of trans-fer, the designations of number and volume were continuedunbroken. At the beginning of 1881 the style ofthepublica tion was still further changed by an increase fromfour to eight pages, and a diminution in the size ol thepage. 1 his change not only largely increased the size oftlie publication, but it added greatly to itsconvenience foroflice and reference use.

The policy adopted by Thk Nkws at the outaet was thatof stnct iiidependence and impartiality. The editora hadwell-grounded conviclions on pòlitical and economic quês-tions, and as they believed that alliuch questions had adirect or nidirect influence on co_am*cial and financial tr,-terpnses they decided to discuss tjkem just as far as theirrelative unportance made it desiraole. In this line of policyIiikNkws has been successful even beyond ali ei.Dec.tation. "^Wilh the beginning of iu 131I1 volume (January, 1886)the editors feel themselves warranted in «calling attentiontolhe uniform and general«isfaction wilh which theii

policy and management havaSus far been received, and inadvismg lheir patrons thta ¦ deviaúon whatever fromlhein will be made. TmI Mws will seek to keep itsreaders fully and accurately rlforrned on ali comncrcialquestions, and upon ali matlers of Brazilian news or policywhich may have more or less bearíng upon aay and alienterpnses and invesunenu. In iudiscusiions it will treatevery question frankly, and for the opinioos expresaed theeditors will hold themselves personally responsible lails news columns it will seek to keep ita readera fully __.fonned nn ali matlers and occiirrenccs throughout Brasil.

In addition lo a large circulation in the United Statesand Europe, where ils commercial repotts ate much ap.nreciated, Thk Nkws has a wide circulation throughoutl..?zil, thus making the paper a valuable ad<)_r_k__i_>médium, 'lhe rates charged are 15$ per inch per quarterwith a reduction of _o»0 for additional space and time!

TERÃtS:One yr.ir'« Mibacriplion ao|oooEngli_h and American subscriptions _£a or )io

Alt subscriptions should mn with the cmbndmr ytmr.rtUSlNKSS AND EDITORIAL ROOMSt-

79, K»a Sete de Setembro.1'OSIUihHCE ADDKESS.-CánnoComio, A.

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