The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

PENINSULAR MAILS.

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pa Peninsular and Oriental steam-packet Tagus,
I),P4lllRussell, arrived at Southampton last night
the usual mails. Her dates are—Gibraltar,
Feeniber 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 19th ;
Porto and Vigo, 20th.
She brings 43 passengers, specie value 2,8411.,
d
on freight 1,200 half-chests of oranges, 150
to-"es of raisins, 116 barrels of dates, 160 cases of
'?, and 63 packages of general merchandise.
elections
to Lisbon letters of the 19th inst., the
Lections have been generally favourable to the
ve
rninent candidates and adverse to the ultra-
Ititul.gl.° sista and ultra-Cartistas, who formerly sided
ie 1., Count Thomar, but can no longer be fairly
signated " Cabralistas," as the Count fruitlessly
,a 111,111selled them to take no pains in these elections,
did not himself interfere in them. The Minis-
CVf Finance M. Fontes, had been returned for
`4.„711, Oporto,' and several other places ; the
s'w-Lers Cabral had not been returned, neither M.
lo
Passos nor other chiefs of the ultra-Progre-
k: fraction; but the large number of the mode-
Part of that party, elected as Government
illdates, is not calculated to allow the Ministers
keet
Ilzuriate in a bed of roses when the Cortes
.

1114. telegraph dispatch from Paris had certified to
?,, Portuguese Government the arbitration of the
e1:1011 Government in favour of Portug, and
fried al
the United States, on the question of the
k4el'al Armstrong claim, consequent upon its de-
„etion at Fayal in 1814, reported in the Times
Awae sth of July, 1850.
41:`,drairal Corry had been joined on the 15th by
1" eugeance, Phaeton, and Fury, from Gibraltar,,
Ni4' ou the morning of the 19th got out with those
4e,18) as also with the Prince Regent, Rodney,'
li -termagant, for Portsmouth, after being de-
jed in the bay below Belem four days by bad
kther and an unsafe bar.
'fie we French steamers were in the Tagus when
Packet left, as also the Sanspareil and Inflexi-
ateamers Captain Dacres, having received an
traralty order to winter at Lisbon, where it was
i,l, French fleet would soon appear.
e Lisbon exchanges for three months' bills are
ili
k4ted by this mail at 541- on London, with a
ki City of money, the Board of Public Credit being
eiPally taken, and having remitted 10,0001. on
tq`iend account.' Paris was at 525 ; Amsterdam,
j, tiara:burgh, 481 ; and Genoa, 524; with little
~h'ilg upon any of those places. Portuguese Five
i' Cents., 39 to 39i • Four per Cents., 32 to 321; 1
'th44lltiz of Portugal Shares, 215 to 210 milreis per
e discount.. These rates are in Lisbon bank-
-74) discountable at 2± per cent., and the state
i e share-market was dull, with few buyers, and
Leelining tendency, except for the Oporto Bank
Tyr tes which were at 15 to 16 milreis premium
share on metal.
ticol-lr Oporto letters state that the elections in the
khl3hbouring provinces had all gone off quietly
Iju favour of the Government.
S
'lchange transactions for this packet at 541 to
and a good deal of paper remaining over.
14. ere was no improvement in the cotton or
Lllen trades.
kl,ll the vessels in harbour were engaged with full
Pee. Wine freights to London were 40s.
~,'`oother flood had taken place on the Douro.
k.le British Mediterranean squadron, under Ad-
kZal Dundas, comprising the Britannia, the Ven-
toe., Albion, Trafalgar, Bellerophon, Phaeton,
eVhe steam-frigate the Sampson? the Tiger, and
11Fury, arrived at Gibraltar, during the 7th and
!millet., from Malta. The Tiger and the Phaeton
otilou the 10th, and the Vengeance and the Fury
',toe 11th, for the eastward.
kiln, e following British ships of war were lying at
Ill'uor in Gibraltar Bay when the Tagus left :
I: Ilritannia, the Albion, the Trafalgar, the Bel-
kr°Plion, the Arethusa, the Retribution, the Tiger,
the Antelope.
Thektri French war steamer Chimere, from Toulon,
til '''ed at Gibraltar on the 7th inst., and left on
ehlOth.
.`"et Egyptian frigate Taid Gahaal, five days from
iitikwiampton, bound for Alexandria, arrived on the
1,4 and left on the 15th.
14" e Swedish corvette Naden left Gibraltar on the
hfor the Mediterranean.
The,, Austrian steamer Calcutta, nine days from
iler'uoti, touched at Gibraltar on the 6th inst. on
hway to Trieste.
kittle screw steamer Orontes, ten days from Alex-
l4‘ewla, , and four and a half from Malta, arrived on
01-oth on her way to Liverpool.
t,xt the 12th inst., the French brig Marie Eliza-
iiio'Q, bound from Ada to Dunkirk, came into colli-
ko4 with the Greek brig Triton, when off Cadiz,
c: mink immediately afterwards, the whole of the
iqt, (with the exception of the master, who clung
he bowsprit of the vessel rescued) perished.
gt Gibraltar, exchange on London was quoted
ki to i•' Spanish pillared dollars, 2 to 3 pre-
-4121.
Zile British steamer City of Norwich, bound to
ti. tto, was under repairs at Vigo on the 20th in-
1;4.?,,fr Belem on the 19th.—The Harper, bound to
uO4.
a°,ff, Oporto on the 20th.—The British schooner
A-4utee.
I,i`k, London correspondent, in a postscript to his
t 4,74. of the 19th inst., contradicts the statement
h ' a definitive concession of the Portuguese Rail-
kj has not been made to Mr. J. D. Barry and his
I,()ciates. The matter is not yet settled, as the
ekosed company has not hitherto been able to
'4l the conditions required.