The Sun. — London, England, 1832-08-25 00:00:00

.~ ~. ~. _ DON PEDRO'S EXPEDITION. (From the Times Correspondent.) FALMOUTH, THURSDAY, Q 3. The Columbia steamer, from Lisbon and Oporto, has jest arrived, and the information brought by her is in one respect important. She annonnees the return of Doh Miguel's fleet to the Tagus, which they had all lately en tered on Saturday, the 18th,—the day the totumbia sailed. In Lisbon all was tranquil, well no great danger of the people being roused to resistance by foreign intelligence, As all vessels of all toOntries are prevented from entering Portuguese poets, Den Miguel thus volnOtarily undertak ing the thuet Admiral Sartories has in vienn, by Mock wting himself. The following is an account furnished by a rentleman who was aboard the Columbia nut and home. She arrived on her outward passage off Oporto et al-lid-night, August the 14th, communicated with his Majesty's ship Stag, and got under weigh in the morning, Don Miguel's fleet having then stood Close in to Oporto. With respect to the skirmish between the squadron, the account is, that on the 10th instant, Don Miguel's fleet was about 40 miles off shore, at half past 9 p.m., the Dourado frigate, of 44 guns, being a-head of the squr.ficon ; Admiral Sartorius observing tbi., bore dow't With the in tention of cutting her off. She immediately tacked, and came under the lee of the .Dan Jett°. Sartorius with his frigate passed under the stern of the latter, poured in broadside, then shot up and took a position on her bow, with the Donna Muria on her beam, and ah engagement ensued. The ship of Admiral Sartorius received a 'shot which struck the fish of her mainmast about six feet above the gunwale, but did no material damage, Another shot from Don Joao entered a port, killing two and wounding three men. Sartorius then at In hours 45 minutes hauled off, it being very dark, and be being afraid he should fire into his consort, the Donna Maria. Next morning ob served that the Don Joao had lost her main top-mast. The number of killed and wounded aboard her not yet known. The total nut:oiler of killed and wounded on the side of Sartorius,-2 killed, 8 wounded, 5 of them since dead. Miguel's fleet, according to all accounts, consists of seven sail, the, Don Joao, a frigate, the Dourado, 54 guns, 3 corvettes, and 2 brigs, while Sartorius had with him only the two frigates, Peinha da Portugal and Donna Maria. Don 111ignel's squadron kept close together, all the smaller vessels clustering round the Dcn Joao. The sailors liken her to the hen, and the others to the chickens seeking her wings for protection. his evident they labour under excessive terror of Sartorius, otherwise, with such an immense superiority of force, they would not content themselves with merely repelling an attack. On the 14th they stood close in to the bar of Oporto, and the day after it fell calm, upon which Sartorius was taken in tow by his steamer, with a view of closing with his opponent. Before he could get up, however, a top gallant breeze from the N.B. sprunr, up, n hich enabled Aliguel's squadr on t o escape an d run o b ff the land, Sartorius afte- them, but keeping to windward, to be between them and shore. He continued cruising off Oporto until the 16th. On the 17th, at 7 o'clock, p.m. they arrived off Cascaes Bay, and the Providence brig went off at once up the Tagus, and on the next day the rest of the fleet followed, and came to anchor in the Thy of Pa go dos Areas. The reason assigned for their return is shortness of provisions, as they sailed from Lisbon on the 2d with only a month's provision and water. You will see that is hut an excuse, as they had been out barely a fortnight. Sartorius anchored off Oporto en the 17th, to water his fleet and get a reinforcement. According to present accounts, Don Pedro's squadron there consists of. 2 fri gates, 46 and 42 guns ; two brigs, 14 ; and 2 schooners. In the river Douro, 2 corvettes ready for sea, and two fitting, which would be ready in a wreck. As regards the army and the situation of Oporto, nothing slew bas occurred ; all is quiet in the town ; and the army in good spirits. The number of the troops around for Don Miguel, persons ashore but for an hour in Oporto could not judge of. They were necessarily obliged to take such accounts as were given them, and these, if to be de pended on, are favourable, as they bring down the blockad ing army to 25,000, and increase Don Pedro's to 14,000 men. The town is strongly fortified, and the utmost vigi lance preserved. Attacks were expected ; but this is a matter of course, where there are two armies watching each other. The Briton frigate sailed from Cascaes on the 18th, in the afternoon, to relieve the Stag, ordered home. EXTRACT or A LETTER FROM A SEAMAN ON BOARD THE REINHA DA PORTUGAL :-..- " At Sea, off Oporto Bar, Aug. 14. " The first engagement we had with the enemy, at sea, was upon the 3d of this month, about 11 o'clock at night. We only fired three broadsides; our only force being the Donna Maria, 36, and our own ship, the Reinha da Portugal, 42. The second was fought on the 10th ; from llto 1 at night. The Admiral turned the hands up, and told us that he was determined to give the Don sham, 74, a warming. We answered him with three British cheers. We made all sail, and stood for the centre of their line, when the whole of their force, consisting of one 74, one 52-gun frigate, three corvettes, and two brigs, opened fire upon us. We kept all fast till we got within pistol range, and then the word was passed, Are you ready ?" All ready ?" Fire.' And we kept it up for one hour and 15 minutes, after breaking their line, ourselves and the Donna Maria, the small craft being ordered by the Admiral to keep to windward. We had two killed, and three wounded; the Donna Maria, one killed, and five wounded, and her nsizen-mast all but gone. We received many shots about the hull, masts, sails, and rigging. The next morning, about ten o'clock, we were about four miles to windward of the enemy, trying to find out what damage we had done to them, when the Don Juan's maintop mast went over the side. We gave three cheers, and stood down to them. Unfor tunately for us, it fell a calm, or else we would assuredly have had her in tow. We are now off Oporto. Two steam-boats and a cutter have come out to us, the latter of which brings this letter. The Admiral has told us to day, that the moment that we can collect our force to . gether, he will again show fight. Why don't they do it ? —seventy two ! Don Miguel's fleet is now standing for Lisbon. We are in chase—only two ! We have beard from the Leveret British man-of-war, that the enemy sus tained great damage." (From tbe - Morning Herald.) OPORTO, AUG. 18. The town is about three miles from the bar, and all the oper.itions of the fleets can be seen from many of the windows. The house where lam stationed commands an excellent view of the whole bay. Last night I went down to the bar to see Sartorius' vessels at anchor about two miles from it. The enemy had gone to the westward, and it was said, by way of joke, that they were off to retake Terceira and St. Michael's. It should be under stood that Pedro's squadron are worked principally by English sailors, and commanded by English captains, while Don Miguel has only Portuguese, who are good sailing sailors, but cannot be depended on in action. The main question would in a great degree be affected by the result of an action, and I heartily wish they would come to close quarters, for the purpose of bringing things to an issue, or of enabling us to see our way out of the mist in which the prospects of the expedition are now involved. I should not fail to report that Sir Thomas Troubridge and the English ships are acting with the strictest neutra lity, always getting under weigh when the hostile fleets are in sight ; but the steam-boats work under English colours, and the transports which brought the troops from St. Michael's all carry our flag, and during the fighting of the second day, when the steam-boats came into the river to cover the crossing of Don Pedro's men to Villa Nova they had the English colours flying,—circumstances which may lead to some misapprehension of the part taken by our navy in this contest. With regard to the land operations since the battle of Ponte Ferreira, or Vallongo, which, stripped of all ridi culous exaggeration, was extremely creditable to Don Pedro, his troops have but once crossed fire with the enemy, and the result was to his disadvantage, amount ing to nothing less than actual flight and defeat, though the Miguelites did not follow up as they might have done. Don Pedro is confined to the city of Oporto, and the circuit of about two miles, to which he pushes his picquets, and there is at present no possibility of his ex tending his operations beyond it. I have been to the advanced posts to see the nature of the service, and the ground on which the rival armies have to act. The whole country in this vicinity is broken into a mass of irregular hills, covered with fine woods, so that every hundred yards there is a fresh position and shelter on every side, and the two actions which have taken place have been more those of bush-fighters than of regular troops. The Miguelites have abundance of cover of wood, and stone-walls, which they availed themselves of at Vallongo and Sonto Redondo—and unless where they were charged by the foreign brigade, there was nothing approaching a regular combat. I have forewarned you, from old experience, what Portuguese warfare was likely to be—and I find that hitherto I am correct in my anti cipations. Don Miguel's troops are not in force in the immediate vicinity of Oporto, though the country is open to them; but they push their advanced pcs's within a mile or two of ours, and the English sentinels ti 11 me they occasionally st e their patrols:on the hits in front. It is diffic u lt h ere to ascertain the correct situation of the Miguelites; but I i # understand that Santa Nlartba is between Baltha and I'se nafiel, with about 8,000 men, and that Gen. Pavoas is in the south of the Douro, about 6 miles from this, a little to the'eastward of the Lisbon road, with about 7,000. The condition of these troops I am not able to judge of, and hett, of course, every one speaks in their disparme7- Merit; but the English brigade tell me that at Porte Fer reira they fought much better atm was expected. How ever, it is evident tbat . tl4Y or their leaders are without much of wlia - t we can ptuck, as they keep at so civil a die tance, and allot: Don Pedro's handful of men to occupy the Second city of the kingdom. Every day a new report ti'.'ses of their determination to attack the town ; but, nothing like a demonstration is as yet elicited, and we are in the same gate on lint, a's tie are at sea, waiting for their Himont's to dratv by the onrtain and begin the play. Don Pedro's forte consists of about 8,000 regular troops, nsmtly, 6,000 of the line, 1,000 volUnteers or ernizrants, brigaded altogether; 400 English, more than half of which are acting i'a marines in the fleet, and 350 French. Colonel Hodges commands the English, and the Count St. Leger the French ; Schaulbach, a German, the {,fight Division ; hut the only foreign men are French and English. The two latter are high in the confidence of Don Pedro, and they, with one regiment of Portuguese, have the whole advance posts of the northern and eastern roads in their hands, the other side of the Douro being given to the volunteers and the Light Division. There are about 4,000 National Guards now drilling in the streets, among whom the musk-ts, shipped by the Brocklebank from London, with the Tower mirk, are distributed; and who, though cot formidable in appearance, will do for food for powder as wall as better. These, with only 50 cevairy, and eight pieces of cannon fully equipped, consti tute the whole force of Don Pedro, and with which the conquest of this country is to 1e attempted, with what pro.pecr'of success you can reason as well as I. The town is an open one, but every road to it is com manded by rocks and hills, on which cannon have been planted; barriers of stone and mortar are erected at cer tain distances within two miles of it ; the opening and centres of the principal streets are defended by similar posts, or barricades, with deep trenches cut outside of them, and as touch as it is almost possible to do to put an opn town in a state of efficient defence has been carried into execution. So much so, that the citivas who have joined Don Pedro are perfectly at ease for the secu rity of thews , lvse and property, and undoubtedly if the garrison valid to their arms, an assault from any but a regular army would have but a poor chance of success. The Miguelites are not equal to the attempt, but it re mains to be seen whether they can bring up fresh troops from Lisbon and Coimbra sufficient in number and well handled enough to dare the trial. There are four roads to Oporto on the north of the Douro, where all those pre- Cautions have been taken ; and though Villa Nova, a southern suburb, is equally protected, it is supposed that the river, over which there is only one bridge of boats, which c,n be destroyed at pleasure, is a sufficient protection on the south. It is the opinion of every person with whom I have spoken, among whom are British officers who served in the Peninsular war, that Oporto is able to resist any force likely at present to he brought against it. If, however, Don Miguel could bring up from 20,0000 to 25,000 men, and attack it on the four roads north of the Douro at once, Don Pedro's troops are not sufficient to resist them. They are equal to meet one assault, however formidable it may be, but the chances are very doubtful against a well-directed combined approach on the four roads I speak of. Independently of the regular troops, Don Miguel's Generals are attended by a horde of guerillas, who come within three mi'ea of Oporto to plunder always during the night, and who vanish at the show of resistance. They are a valu,ble assistance to his operations, and in case the city should be carried, it is from them that pillage and excesses of every sort are to be apprehended. From all this it is evident that Don Pedro's situation is not a very flattering one, and I do not see any means that he has of improving it, unless he gets foreign assistance on a large scale, both of men and money. It is in vain to deny the truth, however painful it may be to proclaim it. Don Pedro does not feel safe to advance on the road to Coimbra, where, if any where, there is a Constitutional party. If be advance from Oporto it would be instantly occupied by the Miguelites from the north ; so that he is reduced to the cold policy of intrenching himself here per haps for the winter, trying to collect horses, and to drill a National Guard. I have heard it said the troops are more than two months in arrear. Don Pedro draws about 3001. daily from the sale of the Oporto Wine Company's stock, and the receipts of the Custom House and local taxes. Don Pedro is making wonderful exertions—he is up and stirring every roorniag at five o'clock, working with his own hands in the arsenal, visiting the advanced posts nr inspecting the barracks, and setting an example of ac tivity to every one about him. All his orders and regula tions for the government of the city are judicious, and give great satisfaction ; and, so fir as the maintenance of good order is concerned, nothing can be more efficient or less coercive than the means he has undertaken to secure it. The town is quiet both by day and night, and, were it not fi)r the few military demonstrations in the streets, a stranger would not imagine that he was in a place under a state of siege, or in a country where civil war existed. There are various rumours in circulation this morning of Constitutional Guerillas having shown themselves in the neighbourhood of Coimbra, and of the prisoners that were removed from hence to Almeida having risen and secured that fortress; but they have not been traced to any good source. The conduct of Don Miguel's Generals is most unac countable. It is understood that Don Miguel ordered that the expedition should be allowed to land, in order that it might be crushed with his preponderating force ; and, indeed, I am old by our squadron it was impossible that he could prevent the debarkation, Pedro's ship of war lying in deep water, close to the land, and covering the whole movement. But why Santa Martha did not attempt to cut off the army on the march to Oporto is most wonderful. With 5,000 men he could have done the most important service to Miguel's cause, as the road lay through a wild country, and in one place through a defile, where the men were obliged to pass in single files. The Miguelite army are in force on both sides of the river, within a few hours' march of the town, and they do not prevent Don Pedro to go on, fortifying the ap proaches to, and putting it into such a state of defence as will take them, in a few days, double the number of men to reduce it that would have sufficed a month, or even two weeks, ago. They have a flock of gue rillas at command, but they have made no attempt to cut off the supplies of the town ; and the bread for the consumption of Don Pedro's army, as well as of the city in general, is brought from Valongo, where the mills and bakehouses have been established for years without inter ruption. There is abundance-of all sorts of provisions in Oporto, meat being as low as 3d. a pound. The greater part of the friars have been expelled the town, and their convents converted into barrack.. It is said that some few lurk in disguise among the people, exciting them against Don Pedro; and a proclamation has just come out, instituting severe penalties for those churchmen who do not wear the customary dress of their orders. The guerilla parties who are now scouring the environs are paid, and said to be principally urged on, by these gentry. Don Pedro's fleet, who were anchored off the bar las night and this morning, are strengthened by the arrive of some small vessels from off Lisbon; but still Sartoriu is unequal to attack the whole of Don Miguel's. The. latter have not been seen yesterday or to-day, and there is a report that they have put into Vigo Bay. The mail for England closes at four ; but A Cronica, which should appear at two, is not out, and therefore you will not find it with your papers ; but if it contains auy article of interest I will find means of getting it to the steam -boat. Colonel Hare, wbo came out with Lord William Russell is at the head-quarters of Don Pedro—l presume a military correspondent to our Government. The only other British authority at Oporto is Mr. Crispin, the Consul. Sunday, Four o'Clock. The steam-boat from Lisbon is in • sight off the bar. There is not a single new incident ; we are all perfectly quiet, and I have nothing to add to my letter of yesterday. Sartorius is at anchor off the bar, and there has been no account of Don Miguel's fleet since Friday. Extract of a letter from Admiral Sartorius, to a friend• in London : " On board the Rainha da Portugal, "off Oporto, Aug. 14, 1832. " lam now waiting for the arrival of the City of Edinburgh steamer, and shall then seize the opportunity of doing sonnthing. All my vessels are dispersed. Those fitted out at Oporto have never joined me. When they do, I shall be able to attack the enemy unsparingly, for you must bear in mind that I feel great reluctance to at tack without a strong probability of success, as I am bound to consider the cause I serve, as well as the honour of my British companions in arms, who are now engaged with me. " All my men behaved like noble fellows. Their en thusiasm and courage is not surpassed by the brightest periods of our own service, whenever the enemy is in sight, or when there is a prospect of fighting. They have not been in their hammocks two nights fur these last three weeks, and still they are cheerful, contented, and of ad mirable behaviour. I have never witnessed any thing that can be comp tred to them. The other night we had to contend with our 88 guns against 240 pieces of artillery of much heavier metal ; but their firing wts infamous, though by no means deficient in rapidity, and this was the cause that tie bad only two killed and two wounded in the Painha da Portugal, and one killed and four wounded in the Donna Maria. Finding that they formed in a close line, I regained the weather-gage, and I am now sticking close to them, to avail myself of any chance that may turn up. " The object of tilt , Outlay appears to be, 0 cruize of Oporto for the purpose of co-operating with his troops on shore; but they never permit any of their ships on any account to go out of pin-shot from the Don John VI., as well from fear of being cut off as from the danger they apprehend of 'heir joining Donna Maria's forc:2s. At all events, I shall be able to prevent this clumsy lubber from giving any effectual assistance. It is probable that the enemy may get into Lisbon again, if my small fry does not jlin us in time ; but, I hope, not without losing some of his vessels." The officer of Cag tdores, who caused the partial disas ter of the p ith, by retreating without, or contrary toi or ders, has been tried by a Court-martial, was foun I guilty, and condemned to death ; but the Emperor commuted his sentence, spared his life, but ordered him to be broke, stript of his honours, epaulettes, and uniform, and doomed him to hard labour on board the squadron, by way of an example. OPORTO. The Monica Constitudonal of the 15th, 16th, and 17th of August, contains no news either of the navy or the fleet. Hts Majesty's aide-de-camp, Bernado di la Noqueira, military governor of Oporto, had issued two orders : by the first, the inhabitants are informed that the guards of the barriers are ordered not to suffar any carts with corn to pass out of the city. Inhabitants of the suburbs who want to send corn for the use of their families, may do so on giving proper security. In the second order he states, that " In the night after the glo rious action at Punta Ferreira, cries of tenor and alarm were heard in the city. Teat this may not be repeated, and that the tranquillity of the place may not be inter rupted, I order all the inhabitants, without exception, and especially the police-officers, immediately to apprehend and bring before me any individual whom they find spreading terror. As to the wretches who are induced to utter cries of alarm, I inform them, that in time of war the law decrees to that crime the penalty of death. " So long as the present circumstances continue, the inhabitants of this city, who are not armed, are forbidden to leave their houses in the night, when there is a move ment of the troops or an engagement with the enemy. " Oporto, Aug.. 15." An account, dated Coimbra, August 8 and 9, says, that a constitutional guerilla of 500 men, well armed, was formed near that city—that they had captured the baggage of the 7th and 13th regiments of infantry, to provide them selves with ammunition—that they were endeavouring to gain the Serras that command the road to Lisbon—that the militia sent from Coimbra has been beaten, and that the inhabitants of all the places from Coimbra to Lisbo❑ were longing for the liberating army. (From the Cronica do Oporto of the 18th of Aug.) ORDER OF THE DAY ADDRESSED TO VICE-ADMIRAL SARTORIUS, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE AR3IADA, BY THE SECRETARY OF MARINE AFFAIRS. " SlR—His Imperial Majesty, the Duke of Brazanza, Regent in the name of the Queen, being made acquainted with the praiseworthy efforts made by the officers, sailors, and soldiers of the squadron of her Faithful Majesty, the intelligence, zeal, and activity manifested by them in the opei ations which preceded and during the debarkation of the troops in Portugal, their devotion in the affair at the mouth of the Douro, and, more recently, their very proper conduct at the mouth of the Tagus, when opposed to a very superior force, I have the gratification of being made the official organ of the thanks and commendations which his Majesty, in the name of the Queen, has ordered to be transmitted to you ; to whom it will properly belong to apportion them amongst those under your command who may seem best entitled to them. " I have further to inform you, that his Majesty, with a view of rewarding merit, and in accordance with the canons of the charter, has created the order of the Tower and Sword, and is desirous of obtaining, through you, the names of such officers, seamen, and soldiers of the squadron, as upon the occasions referred to, entitled them selves to so honourable a distinction. " Signed and accredited with the usuo formalities." OPORTO, Atm. 17.—We have the satisfaction to an nounce, that Vice-Admiral Sartorius has re-united all his forces, and that all the officers, soldiers, and crews of the squadron of her Faithful Majesty, llama Maria 11. ani mated with the best spirit, are panting for the moment when they may be again led against the squadron of the usurper. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BURTON-UPON-TRENT, Au°. 22. The Two-year-old Stakes were won by Mr. Peel's Frenzy, beating Mr. Lacey's f. by Chateau Margaux, Mr. Scarisbrook's Georgiana, and Mr. Beardsworth's f. by Scamper. The Bradley Handicap of 10 soya, each, and 100 added by Lord Chesterfield, won by Her Highness, beating Douglas, Sir John, and four others. A Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, and 10 added, won by Mr. Hobson's Admiral, beating Sailor. Match, 100.—Mr. White's Sailor beat Mr. Wood's Midnight. PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock 199 Consols, 3 ner cent. Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 90% Ditto, New 9 0 34 per Cent Gov. Deb. 3% per cent 85% Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. - COURSE OF EXCH., Amsterdam C.F 12 6 Ditto, at sight.... ........... 12 4 Rotterdam 2 U 12 61 Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg M. B. 14 01 Altona 14 N. Paris, 3 days' sight 25 85 Ditto 0 U 26 10 Bordeaux 0 6 15 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 155 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective ft. 2 M. 10 13 Trieste d 0....... 10 14 Madrid 15% Cadiz 351 Bilboa Barcelona 35% Seville 3 54 Gibraltar 4714 CANTERBURY RACES, AUG. 23. The Bridge Stakes of 20 sovs. each, was won by Con script, beating Lord Sondes's Roulette. A Plate of 100 sovs. was won in two heats by Mr. Sbackell's Hindoo, beating Zatioa, Donegan', and Black Diamond. The Steward's Plate of 501. was won by the Witch beating Hiniloo. BANBURY RACES, AUG. 21. A Handicap of 25 sovs. each, was won in two heats by Mr. Smith's Black Will, beating Mr. Sadler's Design. A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 30 added, was won by Major Wayland's Lady Bird, beating Mr. slerry's Pink of Fashion, and two others. A Sweepstakes of 2 sove. each, and 45 added, was won in three heats by Lady Bird, beating Camilla and four others. WINCHES TER RACES, Aua. 24. A Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, and 25 added, was won in two heats by Mortimer, beating amazelli. Match, 50.—Mr. Gamblett's Gabina received from Mr. Shard's Miss Littleton. A Cup, value 100 gs., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, was won in two heats by Changeling, beating Kate and the Whig. Don PEDRO'S agents have, during this week, been very successful in raising recruits. At a public house in Gardener's-lane, Westminster, no less than sixty men were enrolled yesterday : they are all old soldiers, and the major part of them served in the Peninsular war. Another place of rendezvous has lately been opened in Spitalfields. It is expected that several hundreds of these men will embark for Oporto immediately. They appear in good spirits. The first annual meeting of the Political Union of Wolverhampton took place on Thursday last. Sir C WOLSELY excused himself on account of the cholera mor bus being in the neighbourhood, an excuse which created much laughter. On the motion of Mr. R. FRYER, the sum of 51. was voted to SUMMERVILLE, of the Scots' Greys. A declaration in favour of Poland was next carried; and a memorial to Earl GREY, on the present distress of the town and neighbourhood, was agreed to. Thanks were voted to Mr. O'CONNELL and the rest of the Irish Members, fur their eminent assistance in carry ing the English Reform Bill. At four o'clock, about 500 members of the Union dined together at Mr. To- LM'S Repository, after which a great number adjourned to the Peacock Inn, where the evening was spent in con viviality.— Wolverhampton Chronicle. SIR WALTER SCOTT.—TiIe strength of our great countryman gets daily weaker and weaker. We fear the thread of life will give way before many days.— Cale donian Mercury. The Commissioners for the improvement of Glasgow have obtained au Act for a Lottery to raise funds for the undertaking. NORTHERN DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF WlLTs.—The apathy of the county voters t o gett i ng registered was very great in this distri c t unt il within a few days of the 20th, principally on account of the shil ling, when the Unions of Bradford and T row b r id ge, i n conjunction with several ot h er individuals, exerted them selves, and succeeded in registering great numbers of staunch Reformers. The anticipated scarcity of grouse is not alto gether borne out by experience, though many sportsmen great fatigue and little success upon th e York. complain of shire moors. The birds are certainly too strong on tt e wing for the Cockneys.....Leeds./ntelliyencer. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1832. We have news from Lisbon to the 18th, and from Oporto to the 19th : full particulars will be found in another part of The Sun. We regret to learn that MIGUEL'S squadron has effected its retreat into the Tagus ; but the accounts from Oporto are on the whole cheering. We have received by express the French Papers of Thursday. It appears according to the Courrier de Lyons that the Helvetian Diet h as given orders to the cantons to place on the war footing at the first signal 150,000 men. Of the 22 cantons 18 voted for this measure. The canton of Berne offered to rise in mass, in case Switzerland should be attacked. At the Swiss Federal Diet on the 16th the President, on opening the Sitting, announced that the Austrian Ambassador had delivered a note from Prince METTERNicH, setting forth t h e great surprise felt at Vienna by the warlike preparations of the Swiss. These were su pposed to have been undertaken from the presence of an Austrian corps in the Vorarlberg—but that corps had no other object than to prevent the disorders apprehended from certain popular movements in the neighbourhood of the Austrian States. The note went on to state that Austria had no intentions whatever of a warlike or aggressive character ; but merely wished for peace. How far this assurance may be satisfactory to the Swiss, remains to be seen ; but the Consti tutionnel considers, that although the display of military force made by Austria on the frontier, o f Switzerland may be primarily intended to overawe Baden: and Wirtemberg, there is also the ulterior view of fostering the despotic and aristocratic factions in all the Swiss cantons, in the ultimate hope of destroying the independence of the Confederation. There were some trifling disturbances at Nismes, between the Carlists and Constittl tichialists, on the 15th, but they were soon sup pressed ; and accounts to the 20th, by express, state that order had not been since disturbed. The news from the East in these papers con- tinues to be unfavourable to the Porte. A naval action is said to have taken place on the 18th July, between Budeum and the Island of Cos, in which the Turks were defeated. One Ottoman ship of the line is stated to have been burnt, three smaller vessels sunk or driven on shore, and four frigates taken by the Egyptians. The Temps gives the following letter as having been ad dressed by the ex Empress Maria Louisa to the mother of Napoleon, on the premature death of the Duke of Reich stadt. This is the first time since 1815 that the widow of Napoleon has written to his mother, and yet makes no allusion to the fate of her husband : " MADAME,—In the hope of assuaging the bitterness of the mournful intelligence which unhappily falls to my lot to communicate to you, I would not intrust the painful task to any other hand. On Sunday, the 22d, at five in the morning, my beloved son, the Duke de Reichstad', sunk under the cruel sufferings he had so long endured. I had the consolation of being at his side in his last mo ments, and that of being convinced that nothing hid been neglected which might have preserved his life. But the resources of art were unavailing against a disease of the chest, which the physicians from an early stage deemed to be of so dangerous a nature, that it could not fail to bring to the tomb my unfortunate son, at an age when the most flattering prospects might have been entertained. God has pleased otherwise to dispose of him, and we have only to submit to his supreme command, and mingle our tears and our regrets. Accept, Madame, on this distressing occasion, the expression of the sentiments of attachment and consideration of your's affectionately, (Signed) " MARIE LOUISE. " Chateau of Schcenbrun, 25th July, 1832." Lebeau, a working man, on Monday had the brutality to throw his wife out of the window of his lodgings, on the third story of a house in the rue de Paon. Her life is despaired of. Lebeau was immediately arrested and corn • mitted to prison. A few days ago a person died at his apartments, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, under the following pecu liar circumstances had an appointment in a public office, with a salary of 2,000 f. a year, and had friends with whom he dined almost every day, and constantly contrived to carry away with him pieces of bread, &c., which served him for such meals as he took at home. His clothes were completely threadbare, and full of patches, and he wore his shoes high and his pantaloons very long, in or der to save him the necessity of wearing stockings, when he did not dine out. He had been ill for several months, but would not ask leave to remain away from his office, lest some portion of his salary should be retained during his ab sence. One of his friends not having seen him for several days, made inquiries after him, and learnt that he had not left his room cluing that time. The door was then broken open, and the miserable man found dead, and in a state of decomposition. The furniture of his apart ment was worth about 3,000 f., and in a wardrobe was found a quantity of very fine linen, which the deceased used to wear when a young man, at which period of his life he used to dress very gaily. In a closet were also dis covered a great many very valuable books; in other places boxes filled with mouldy crusts of bread and bundles of small sticks, he had picked up in the streets; and, in a secretary, two bags filled, one with liards and the other with sous. In a separate box there was a number of es sence bottles. The lodgers in the house stated th it a woman had lived with him, to whom be allowed four sous a day for her support, but that she had lately died of cholera in the Hotel Dieu. The amount of the property he has left has not yet been ascertained. Count Malachowski, the veteran of the Polish Generals, arrived at Strasburg on the 16th inst. On the 14th inst. the responsible Editor of the Gazette de 1' Ouest was condemned by the Court of Assizes at Poitiers to nine months' imprisonment, and a fine of 1,500 fr with costs, for an article inserted in that Journal, containing an insult against the King's person._ On the 15th inst. the Marseillaise was called for at the theatre of Arras. Several officers, and among them the son of General Dormier, joined their voices to those of the citizens who demanded this patriotic song, which, after some hesitation, was sung. The next day M. de Latour Maubourg, who has the chief command at Arras, ordered Captain Dormier to be put under arrest. FRENCH FUNDS.--PARIS, AUG. 22.-Five per Cents., 99f. 15c 20c. 15c. 10c. 15c. 20c. 15c. 10c. sc. 99f. 99f. sc. 99f. 99f. sc. ; Loan of 1832, 100 f. 20c. 25c. ; Four-and-a-half per Cents., 91f.; Four per Cents., 83f. ; Three per Cents., 69f. 20c. 15c. 25c. 20c. 10c. ; National Loan, 991: 25c. • Bank Actions, 1,655 f. ; Rente de Naples, 81f. 35c. 30c. 20c. 313 c. 25c.; Roman Five per Cents., 80%; Rente d'Espagne, 1214 % % 13; Royal Spanish Loan, 7814 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 57% 34 54 ; Belgic Loan, 77 76% ; Haytian Loan, 195 f. Exchange on London-One month, paper, 25f. 75c.; money, 251. 75c. ; Three months, paper, 251. 65c.; money, 25f. 60c.-Cours Authentique. FRENCH FUNDS, PARIS, AUG. per Cents. 99f. 98f. 95c. 98f. 90c. 95c. 90c. 85c. ; Loan of 1832, 100 f. 20c. 10c. sc. 10c. 15c. ; Four per Cents. 83f. ; Three per Cents. 68f. 95c. 90c. 95c. 69f. ; National Loan, 991; 15c.; Bank Actions, 1,657 f. 50c. 11 , 55 f. 1657 f. 50c. 16551; ; Rente de Naples, 81f. 15c. 81f. 8011 95c. 81f.; Roman Five per Cents., 80% 54 ; Rente d'Espagne, la 12% ; Royal Spanish Loan, 78% % 4 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 57!i % ; Belgic Loan, 76% ; Haitian Loan, 200 f. Ex change on London, one month, paper, 25f. 75c. • money, 25f. 75c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 65c. ; money, 25f. 60 c.-Cours Authen tique. The cause of Poland, which is the cause of humanity, is daily gaining strength in England. Many influential towns have already recorded a strong opinion on the subject, and on Wednes day last, Manchester, resolved not to be behind hand, agreed on a petition to his MAJESTY, imploring him to exert his influence with the Russian Government on behalf of the Poles, and to require the fulfilment of the treaties by which a national existence and constitution were guaranteed to them. The meeting, on this occa sion, was remarkably well attended. Lots of strong, racy, pungent truths were also told, espe cially as regarded NICHOLAS, to whose Imperial character the utmost meed of justice was awarded. His MAJESTY, we believe, if not in the constant, is at least in the frequent, habit of seeing the French and English journals, and it must act as an agreeable stimulus to his Imperial nerves, to read the many fine things that are there daily said of him. But above all things must he be excited as with the shock of a gal vanic battery, when he takes into his Imperial consideration the fact that the sentiments of the French and English journalists are those of nine out of ten of their respective countrymen, and that, moreover, they are at this very moment workinga silent but perceptible influence through out Europe, which at no distant date will give him one of those rough, rude shakes, which sometimes have the effect of restoring great Mo narchs to their senses. In England the sympathy with the Poles (and we believe it is the same with France) is no longer confined to the select few—to the refined —the educated—the sentimental—or the heroic. It has laid a giant's grasp on the common sense and common feeling of the nation. It has struck to their very heart. They look on Po land as a sort of outpost, and say naturally enough, if such posts, no matter how distant, are surprised and taken, what is to prevent the con queror from making still further aggressions, and carrying the war ofdespotism into our very citadel? Has not the subjugation of Poland been already followed up by the subjugation of Germany ? And will the despots stop here ? Will they not rather try their strength on the throne of the French barricades, and so, with the assistance of the Ultra party in England, contrive, on some appears pretence or other, to involve all Europe inextri cably in war ? Such reasoning, which to have been uppermost at the Manchester meet• ing, is legitimate enough ; indeed it is the only safe and fitting way to look at the Polish question We say, therefore, unhesitatingly to the people do not falter, do not hesitate, do not delay, bu continue day after day to pour in your petitiew to the Throne. The Poles, aori knows, have been neglected long enough ; it is time now to be up and stirring in their favour. Ministers car no longer plead the embarrassments of Reform That question, at least, is out of leading-strings and will soon run alone. Lord DURHAM, we are aware, is now busy remonstrating with NICHOLAS, bearding, we hope, the lion in his den ; but with how mud more effect will he act, when enabled roundly to declare that he speaks the sentiments, not o this party or of that party, not of this class or tai that class, but of the whole united kingdom ? England's unanimous declaration is the one thing wanting to give point to the remonstrance of out Ambassador. Mr. PRENTICE truly observed " the battle of the Poles is our own battle. It is our own fight. If that people could have remained unshackled, we should never have seen the bar. barian hordes of Russia ravaging all Europe, and the Ca'mucks and Cossacks of the despot bivouacking in the streets and gardens of Paris." This sight, unless England and France do their bounden duty to Poland, we shall, we suspect, soon see again. As for remonstrances, scarce half breathed in a courtly whisper, either by one country or the other, such humbugs will never do. Russia is used to such child's play, and well knows its meaning. What she now needs, is a rude shake of the shoulders—a hearty slap on the back. Such a remonstrance she can under stand, for she can feel it, and to such remon strance only will she pay the slightest attention. The Coventry Herald contains a long ac count of the proceedings of Sir GEORGE CHETWYND at Nuneaton, the county voters of which city lie has been canvassing as a candi date for the northern division of Warwickshire. We wish Sir GEORGE success, for he is a man of integrity, who had ability to read the signs of the times,—to see the neces sity of Reform ; and, further, had the good sense to support the Government through out its late arduous struggle with the corrup tionists. We have to regret, however, that not only himself, both in his speech and in his printed addresses, but Mr. HEMING, a co-can didate for the same division of the county, has fallen into an error on the subject of free trade, still common, but which we had hoped the repeated explanations which have been given of it would have prevented being put forward in the promi nent manner it is by many aspirants to Parlia mentary honours. Sir GEORGE CHETWYND in his address to the county voters resident in Coventry, says " I shall consider it my duty, whether in or out of Parliament, to use every ex ertion in my power to relieve the ribbon manu facturers from the unjust and mischievous com petition to which they are at present exposed." Mr. HEMING, following up the same strain, says, "I will support an inquiry into the depressed state of the Silk Trade, and the adoption of legislative remedies, approved by practical men; believing as I do that the ruin of the manufacturers and the starvation of the weavers have, in a great degree, been caused by applying to this branch of industry the pernicious theories of Free Trade." Now both these gentlemen know, or ought to know, that the theories of free trade have not been applied to the ribbon trade in particular, or the silk trade in general— that those branches of our manufactures have not, through free trade, been ex posed to any competition whatever. The fact is, that before the reduction of the duties which took place a few years back, the silk trade was exposed to an equal amount of competition as at present. The only difference now is, that the competition is between our ma nufacturers and fair shopkeepers, instead of between them and smugglers. Is it not notorious that when the high duties existed French silks and ribbons were as common as they are now ? Who has forgotten that Mr' HUME pulled his handkerchief out of his p oc ket in the House of Commons, declared it to be smuggled, and asserted, without contradic tion, that so were those of the great mass of the Members ? But the impossibility of at taining the object the silk-weavers have in view, by means of a high duty, is now so well understood, that the mode more generally hinted at—for it is hardly yet demanded —is abso lute prohibition. If all our producers were at once to call out for the prohibition of foreign produce,—and if one class is entitled to it, so are all classes,—it would not be necessary for those who occupy the insigni" ficant position of consumers to say a word, for the absurdity of the proposition would answer itself. Let the silk-weavers recollect that they can ask for no fancied protection which every other producer in the country has not an equal title to call for. It is our intention, in the course of next week, to return to this subject more in detail, for if ever there was a time when it was important that the people should be rightly instructed upon their real interests, it is the pre-,. sent, when they are a b out to h ave the contro l 0 ' the House of Commons placed in their hands. New York papers have been received to the 2d Umtata. The cholera continued its ravages in that city with much more severity than in a ny other part of America. The news from Mexico, to the 17th of June , is very satisfactory. The contending factions , headed by Generals SANTA ANNA and CA l ' .. DElloN, had agreed on a convention preparatory to a general peace. Accounts from Madrid, of the 13th August , profess to state that a stormy interview had taken place between the Spanish Minister and th e English Ambassador, during which the former threatened to send a Spanish army into Porto' gal. The British Minister dared him, hinting► al, the same time, that France was ready to a ssist England in punishing Spain, if the occasion re" DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Rank Stock lB9 814 3 per Ce!,t. Red B4'; '7l 3 ocr Cent Cons. S3 4 3 per Cent. 1):tto Red 92 IA New 3% per Cent. 914% 3 lin Cent Ann. 1721 i - 1 per Cent. 1826 - Rank Long Ann. to expi re Jan. 5,185 n • • 16 15-1 6 7 4 H OeL 10, 1859' • 16 1346 Jan. 5, 1860 " - Jan. 5, 1880 - Aptil 5, 1880.. Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds B9 Belgian Bonds... ........... Ditto Account '76 5% Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account 49 Buenos Ayres Bonds 22 Ditto Account Chilian Bonds nitto Account Columbian Bonds .. . 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