The Morning Herald

FOREIGN.

BRAZIL.

DULLNESS OF TRADE—NO MORE MONEY IN THE TREASURY—A PRINCE.

RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 9, 1878.—With the excessively hot, dry weather of the past fortnight sickness has increased and yellow fever deaths in the city has got up to twelve a day, exclusive of those occurring among the seamen.

TO IMMIGRANTS.

Immigrants from Russia and the Mediterranean are arriving in hundreds almost every day; but the Minister of Agriculture has adopted the plan of transferring them from their steamers direct to the coasting steamers and of sending these steamers out in time to intercept the European steamers and tranship the immigrants outside the port.

STAGNATION OF TRADE.

The Donati, advertised for the 2d, only leaves to-day, in consequence of the absence of freight. Of course, so long as cargoes from the United States cannot be counted on, unsubsidized steamers cannot be expected to keep fixed dates. We hear that besides the New York line and the projected Philadelphia line, a New Orleans line is being organized in the States; but it is to be feared that for several years they will lose money. We hear also that if the Roach line does not run, owing to Congress refusing a subsidy, a British line will run a monthly steamer to and from New York for the Brazilian subsidy of $100,000 granted to the Roach line.

NO MONEY.

The Treasury, unfortunately, is not so; in fact, it is without money, and has also been so for some time, the greater part of its payments having to be made in six to four months' Treasury acceptance, with six months' interest. It looks as though a longer continuance of the late Cabinet would have soon led to a complete collapse, and the present Cabinet has a hard task to put matters to rights. The Ministers, however, are stopping all expenses and cutting down in all directions. It seems, however, that the late Cabinet cared for nothing but to spend all the money possible, for the stores of the navy were crammed with useful material in excess, and large quantities of useless material, while government agents in Europe were still purchasing on a great scale for both navy and army.

THE KNIFE HANDLERS.

The capoeiras of Rio, whose amusement is to cut and maim with knives and razors and rip up stomachs in the crowds assembled by processions or public functions, are kept now in hot water by the new Chief of Police, who hunts them down vigorously and has already passed two hundred into the lockups. These scoundrels are in the main mulattos, and, owing to their usefulness in controlling the elections of the city, were protected, so that former chiefs found themselves powerless before the influence brought to bear by the protectors. Fortunately this state of things has at last come to an end, and the capoeiras are beginning to find this out.

AN ORGAN RUN DOWN.

A first class daily, the Diario de Rio de Janeiro, has suspended its publication, being unable to live without the printer's work and Senate subsidy it is no longer likely to receive since the downfall of the party of which it was an organ.

A PRINCE!

The Princess Imperial Isabel, Countess d'Eu, was safely delivered, on the night of the 20th of January, of a son, her second living child, and both are declared by the doctors to be out of danger, although instruments had to be employed.