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

r‘TINSITLAR MAILS.

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milisuLlr and Oriental steam-packet Tagus,
,illlissell, arrived at Southampton last night
, .4sual mails. Her dates are—Gibraltar,
ir 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 19th ;
1,414 Vigo, 20th. •
thugs 43 passengers, specie value 2,8411.,
of4'eight 1,200 half-chests of oranges, 150
raisins, 116 barrels of dates, 160 cases of
ko
'1..63 packages of general merchandise.
' g to Lisbon letters of the 19th inst., the
have been generally favourable to the
lei_ltt candidates and adverse to the ultra-
% 'l4 and ultra-Cartistas, who formerly sided
tilit Thomar, but can no longer be fairly
114 " Cabralistas," as the Count fruitlessly
ki them to take no pains in these elections,
Viot himself interfere in them. The Minis-
, 14„ nee' M. Fontes, had been returned for
vloorto, and several other places ; the
p Cabral had not been returned, neither M.
44808 nor other chiefs of the ultra-Progre-
tion ; but the large number of the mode-
of that party, elected as Government
s% is not calculated to allow the Ministers
.tia.
to in a bed of roses when the Cortes

:;gl.aPh. dispatch from Paris had,certifi.ed to
igliese Government the arbitration of the
t the
in favour of Portugal, and
'iAle 'United States, on the question of the
4rtnstrong claim, consequent upon its de-
at Payal in 1814, reported in the Times
4.11 of July, 1850.
• Corry had been joined on the 15th by
lance, Phaeton, and Fury, from Gibraltar,
he morning of the 19th got out with those
1,,_48 also with the Prince Regent, Rodney,
iiiaga„ nt, for Portsmouth, after being de-
„ the bav below Belem four days by bad
1 n... 21 .'
3,:tici. an unsafe bar.
'reach steamers were in the Tagus when.
't left, as also the Sanspareil and Inflexi-
*Ll erg, Captain Dacres, having received an
er
r order to winter at Lisbon, where it was
I,cll eh fleet would soon appear.
'Bbon exchanges for three months' bills are
,'I this mail at 54k on London, with a
°f money, the Board of Publie Credit being
a Y taken, and having remitted 10,0001. on
``a•ceou.nt. Paris was at 525 ; Amsterdam,
burgh, 48# ; and Genoa, 524 ; with little
Pa any of those places. Portuguese Five
•41,. 139 to 39-i ; Four per Cents., 32 to 32i ;
,Portugal Shares, 215 to 210 milreis per
onnt. These rates are in Lisbon bank-
Countable at 2i per cent., and the state
14te-market was dull, with few buyers, and
',... tendency, except for the Oporto Bank
which were at 15 to 16 milreis premium
Oil metal.
~Porto letters state that the elections in the
jifialsing provinces had all gone off quietly
11,11'011r of the Government.
milge transactions for this packet at 54 to
a good deal of paper remaining over.
4 was no improvement in the cotton or
trades.
B vessels in harbour were engaged with full
liiii Wine freights to London were 40s.
Lie flood had taken place on the Douro.
lritish Mediterranean squadron, under Ad-
11s, comprising the Britannia, the Ven-
obim, Trafalgar, Bellerophon, Phaeton,
L'' steam-frigate the Sampson, the Tiger, and
.', arrived at Gibraltar, during the 7th and
k i?. from Malta. The Tiger and the Phaeton
he 10th, and the Vengeance and the Fury
ql'h, for the eastward.
(.1/410wing British ships of war were lying at
.14 Gibraltar Bay when the Tagus left :
,tlt4 •
40 allia, the Albion, the Trafalgar, the Bel-
:',..the Arethusa, the Retribution, the Tiger,
p4xatelop e.
4 reach war steamer Chimere, from Toulon,
tkhkt Gibraltar on the 7th inst., and left on

Atil.e37l),tian frigate Taid Gahaal , five days fromi4,ll),tou, bound for Alexandria, arrived on the
..s_ieft on the 15th.
tc;,; edish corvette Naden left Gibraltar on the
k'he Mediterranean.
141 listrian steamer Calcutta, nine days from
touched at Gibraltar on the 6th inst. on
iLto Trieste. .
A 'l. eir steamer Orontes, ten days from Alex-
f}'illtl: four and a half from Malta, arrived on
t 4 ou her way to Liverpool.
boe 12th inst., the French brig Marie Eliza,
titlllad from Ada to Dunkirk, came into colli-
V,. the Greek brig Triton, when off Cadiz,
('' immediately afterwards, the whole of the
I 1 % the exception of the master, who clung
(,414'spiit of the vessel rescued) perished.
t, iraltar, exchange on London was quoted
'; Spanish pillared dollars, 2/ to 3 pre-

)British steamer City of Norwich, bound. to
Was under repairs at Vigo on the 20th in-

alum on the 19th.—The Harper,, bound. to

1 Ns_
tto on the 20th.—The British schooner
tlf don
correspondent, in a postscript to his
he 19th inst., contradicts the statement
11,.tiriefi.nitive concession of the Portuguese Rail-
Aot been made to Mr. J. D. Barry and his
o• The matter is not yet settled, as the
he Company has not hitherto been able to
e Conditions required.