The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-15 00:00:00

Rivas was at Leon with 700 men

PENINSULAR MAIL.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT )

SOUTH:k.MPTON, SATURDAY,

The steam-ship Aden, belonging to the Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company,
Captain Week, arrived here this morning with the
usual Peninsular mails, in charge of Lieutenant J.
Hay, R.N., Admiralty agent. The Aden, during
the voyage, experienced heavy head winds, with
very heaVy S.W. swell on the coast of Portugal.
She brings twety nine passengers, *Seventeen
first class, seven second class, and five deck;
besides a general cargo, consisting of 30 boxes
Of eggs, 441 boxes of leMons, 30 of almonds,
118 bags orehelia, weed, .137 boxes tomatoes, 26
boxes Palma baskets, 453 boxes cf grapes, and
1,357 boxes raisins. She has twelve packages of
specie on freight, valued at £3,280 sterling.
The dates by this arrival are—Gibraltar, Sept.
6 ; Cadiz, 7 ; Lisbon, 9 ; and Vigo, 10. H.M.S.
ships, Vesuvius and Ariel, were at Gibraltar. On
the evening of the 10th inst., the Aden passed the
screw steam-ship Albanian, steering to the N.E. ;
and at noon on the 11th, saw the screw steamer
Sultan, steering S.W.
The Lisbon exchanges for three months are
quoted this mail at 531 on London ; Paris, 5.30 ;
Amsterdam, 431; Hamburg, 48; and Genoa, 528.
The business done on London was rather more
than the previous market,
,and on other
placeS continued scarce. The atom market has
ttdeclineh ine
e oprices,
change
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pbeerencdenutlsl awtea 8
were
to 46 coupons ; 46 to 46 registered , and 241 to 25
deferred; Bank of Portugal shares, 50) to 002 mil
reis each ; and Oporto Bank shares 19 to 20 per
quoted e d a
cent premium.
Our Lisbon correspondent informs US that great
preparations are being made for the approaching
election of a new Chamber of Deputies. Four
electoral committees have been formed by different
parties, and three of them have just published
their manifests, viz, the Royalists, the Cartistas, or
Conservative supporters of the charter, and that
proportion of the Progressista party which opposed
the late cabinet and supports the present ministers.
The committee for the other portion of the
Progressistas which acted with and formed
part of the late cabinet, and also gives its
support to the present administration, has
issued an advertisement for a public Meeting of the
electors of Lisbon, to be held, by perniission of
the Government, at the Theatre of San Carlos, on
the 11th inst., for the purpose of appointing a
committee to conduct the election of such candi
dates as support the principles the meeting may
discuss and adopt. Although the Government
declines at.present to take any direct part in these
electoral proceedings, I have no doubt it will step
in at the last moment, and, by its influence secure
the return of a good portion of the candidates upon
whose support it may best rely.
We have intelligence from Oporto respecting 12
Portuguese ships engaged in the Brazil trade,
which the Lisbon Board of Health ordered to be
immediately sent out of the Douro, in consequence
of their being reported to have carried the yellow
fever to that port, where 30 to 40 cases are said to
have occurred, mostly fatal, within the last three or
four weeks. The mercantile body of Oporto have long
been upon the worst terms with the Board of Health,
and attributing its orders in this case to arbitrary
persecution rather than real necessity, a strong
representation upon the subject was discussed at a
public meeting called by the Commercial Associa-
tion, and forwarded to the Government by tele-
graph. Private letters from Oporto deny the
existence of yellow fever at all, while the reports
made to the Board of Health contain certificates of
post mortem examinations which declare that
decease to have been the cause of death. Hitherto
it does not appear that any case of yellow fever
has occurred at Lisbon, and those of cholera do not
amount to a dozen per diem, with scarcely any
deaths.