The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

SOUTHAMPTON, Sunday Night.

The screw steamer Cossack, Capt. F. H. Ford,
from Li,bon on the 10th inst., arrived at 9 p.m.,
bringing £1,357 in specie, and a cargo of fruit, &c.
" The Ministry carried the Address in reply to
the speech from the Throne by 77 contra 51 votes,
in the House of Deputies, which has silenced the
reputed reorganization of the Louse Cabinet, and
given greater stability to Portuguese Stock, which
the dealers now buy freely at 47i to 471, and are
backward in selliag at 471.
4‘ The Financial Department was not attacked
during the debate, as had been indicated by the
accusations promulgated in the Opposition journals,
and therefore the Minister of Finance did not use in
reply the documents with which he was prepared,
but in resume stated that the country, after spend•
ing £1,800,000 in roads and /2,000,000 in railroads
of which 500 kilometres are figished, had raised the
revenue, as his budget would prove, to 15,000 con-
tos, abuut £3,330,000, being an increase of 5,000
contos, or £1,100,000.
"The absurd differential duties maintained in
favour of Portuguese ships, in return fot England
opening her trade to their flag, and reducing all
duties upon their produce, wine, fruit, &c,, is now
doing a palpable injury to their trade with London.

" Since the cessation of the Peninsular and Ori-
ental packets there are no regular steamers to carry
oranges to London, the best English market, which
enables Mediterranean ports to supersede Lisbon,
and it is impossible to get up any regular line
of steamers to London while the differential duties
gives the Portuguese flag the preference for tea
and other valuable cargo which pay the best freights
from London to Lisbon. These articles are imported
with great delay and great extra expense in Portu-
guese sailing vessels, which find it difficult to com-
plete their cargoes—they derive little or no benefit
from the trade, while the price of tea is unrea-
sonably increased for the common in Portugal, and
a great prejudice is done to its export of fruit.
" The exchange this packet, at three months,
was—L9ndon, 54 to 54i ; Paris, 528 ; Hamburg,
48x; Amsterdam, 421; Genoa, 524. Three per
Cent. Stock, 47-k, to 47k. Bank of Portugal Shares,
553 to 555; Oporto Bank Shares, 254 to 256.
" The foreign vessels of war in the Tagus when
the Cossack left were H.M.S. Revenge, Resistance,
Defence, Warrior, Black Prince, Trinculo,' and
Virago, and the French steam transport Bretagne•
"Admiral Smart's squadron is expected to Jetty,
the Tagus for England about the 17th inst."

ECCENTRIC MISQUOTATIONS FROM DICKENS.—
On Saturday last, strange to say, we catch both the
London Review and the ~aturday Review tripping
when referring incidentally to the pages of the most
popular writer of the age. The latter (i.e., the Saturday
Review), talking of" Mrs. Jai vis's waxwork show," when
every reader of the "Old Curiosity Shop" surely remem.
hers it well enough to be " Mrs. Jarley's." More flagrant
still is it to find a London Reviewer referring to Mrs.
Bardell with her friends—Mrs. Mudberry " which kept a
mangle," and Mrs. Buukin " which clear-starched." These
hitherto unheard of females representing, we ',resume, the
historical forms of Mrs. Saunders and Mrs. Cluppins—a
forgetfulness of whom is nothing less than an outrage to
every true Pickwickian.
A PAPER COFFEE CUP !—Any one who happens
to desire a cup of tea or coffee finds that even when
he at last seems likely to obtain the object of his wishes, he
has still, before he can quench his tothrist,is tea
solve an almose,
h
insoluble problem. How can he drinkhot within
the space of three minutes ? As a matter of fact, only a
courageous fraction succeed in accomplishing the feat, and
rows of scarcely tasted cups testify the general failure.
Some ingenious German, who ought particularly to be com-
mended to the notice of Mr. Gladstone, has
invented a paper
cup, which will completely hold a draught of the hottest
liquid, and can be bought for a farthing. By means of this
invention, the good people of Berlin take up and drink rb,
heir ease, as they go along the railroad, the cups of coif,.
which comfort-loving Englishmen find it impossible to
swallow Without 'Scalding their throats,—Landon Review.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 14.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Princess Louis of Hesse, walked and drove in
the grounds this morning.

SUNDAY.

The Queen, the Prince and Princess Louis of
Hesse, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, and Prince
Leopold, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting,
attended Divine service this morning in the private
chapel. The Rev. Dr. Stanley, Deputy Clerk of
the Closet, officiated.

The Lord Chancellor and the Rev. Dr. Stanley
arrived at the Castle yesterday.
The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir
Chas. L. Eastlake, and Mr. Cnbitt, M.P., the com-
mittee appointed by her Majesty to assist in the
selection of a design for the National Memorial to
the Prince Consort, attended yesterday at Windsor
Castle, where the designs have been placed, and had
the honour of an interview with her Majesty.

THE ROYAL MARRIAGE.—We understand that
the Danish Royal family and other illustrious fo-
reign visitors who will be present at the marriage of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will not remain visi-
tors at 'Windsor Castle for any length of time, but will take
the earliest opportunity of commencing an inspection of
the wonders of the great metropolis. Arrangements will be
made for their accommodation at the Palace Hotel, close to
Buckingham Palace, and the Queen's carriages, horses, and
servants will be placed at their disposal. A similar arrange-
ment was made on the occasion of the marriage of the
Princesa Royal; but the Court authorities did not then
possess the accommodation of having a first-class hotel close
to the palace.—Court Journal.

Re erring to the fact that at the evening meeting
of the Royal Society on Thursday last, the Prince
of Wales was unanimously elected a Fellow of the Society,
the Atheneeton observes—We believe that his Royal High.
ness, following the example of his illustrious father, will at
tend at some coming meeting of the society to sign his
name in the Charter Book, and be formally admitted. We
should hope that whenever the admission take., place, there
will be a goodly muster of the Fellows to render due hon-
-)ur to the occasion,

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
official residence .ot the First Lord of the Treasury
in Downing-street. The Ministers present were—Viscount
Palmerston, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl
Russell, the Duke of Newestle, Sir G. C. Lewis, Sir Chas.
Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of
Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right
Hon. Edward Cardwell, and the Right Hon. C. P. VilHue.

THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Hon. the
Speiker gave his Fiist Parliamentary full-dress
dinner on the evening of Saturday, Feb. 14, to the follow-
ing :—The Right Hon. Viscount Phlmerston, K.G., Vis-
count Bury, Viscount Castlerosse, Right Hon. Sir George
Grey, G.C.8., Right Hon Sir Charles Wood, G.C.8.,
Right Hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Right Hon. Edward
Cardwell, Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Right Hon. Sir R.
Peel, Right Hon. William Cowper, Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, Right Hon. F. Peel, Right Hon. T. E. Headlam,
Right Hon. William Hutt, the Attorney-General, the
Solicitor-General, Hon- Henry Brand, birWilliam Dunbar,
Mr. T. G. Baring, Mr. Massey, Col. White, Mr. Knatch-
bull-Hugessen, Mr. Charles Gilpin, Hon. F. Calthorpe
(mover of the Address), Mr. Bazley (seconder), the Rev,
Charles Merivale (chaplain), and Mr. Alfred Denison
(secretary).

PARLIAMENTARY BAN QUET.—The Right Hon. B.
Disraeli gave a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday,
at bi residence, Grosvenor late. There were present the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of
Coventry, Lord William Grantham, Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, Col. North, Mr. Wm. Legh, Mr. Seymour Fitz -
gerald, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. Hopwood, Col. Dunne
Major Parker, Mr. Papillon, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Collins, Mr.
Malcolm, and Mr. Whitmore.
By the latest accounts from Grantham we learn
that the Duke of Rutland is progressing most favourably,
and hopes are entertained of his ultimate recovery.
The nirquis d'Almasey, Count Nickoline, end
Colonel and Madame de Lapriere have left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris.

The Eli.' and Cour, teas of Lanesborough have
arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street from
Swithland Hall, Loughborough.
Tne E trl and Countess of Devon have arrived
in town from Powderham Castle, Exeter, for the season.
The Countess of Caledo❑ has arrived at her re
sidence, Carlton-house-terrace, from Caledon-hill, County
Tyrone.

The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait entertained
a select party at dinner on Saturday evening at London
House, St. James's-square,

Lori and Ltdy Proby are expected in town in a
few days from Elton Hall, Oundle, fur the season.
Baron de K Ltte, the newly-appointed Secretary
to the Prussia, Emba-sy, arrived at Prussia House a few
days since from Berlin.

We have to record the death of Lady Olivia Ber-
nard Sparrow, who had attained her 88th year.
The deceased lady was the eldest daughter of Arthur,
second viscount, afterwards created Earl, of Gosford, and
ma ried, in 1797, Brigadier-General Robert Bernard Spar-
row, who died early in the present century, leaving a son
and a daughter.

The farewell concert of Mr. H. Pnillipa, which
Is fixed for the 215'h, in addition to the interest at-
taching itself to his leave-taking, will also introduce two
daughters of the redoubtable basso, a soprano and % con-
tralto, who have studied for their profession out of Eng-
land.

OXFORD MUSIC HALL.—Mr. Morton ventures
more tuna any other mortal English musical mana-
ger. It should make some of the fraternity who pro-
Less so much and perform so little, el foolish to read in
the " Oxford" bills of the week an announcement of the
music to Gluck's " Alceste."

MR. BICKLEY'S GALLERY OF PICTURES.—Tae
important collection of ancient and modern pictures formed
by the late J. L. Bickley, Esq., of Westbourne-terrace,
was disposed of on Saturday last at the rooms of Christie,
Manson, and Woods, in King-street, St. James's, and
realised £2,300.
A PROFANE TOWN IN CALIFORNIA.—In the
northern part of California is a stream called Yuba
River. Across it some enterprising individual built a
bridge, and on the banks somebody else built three or tour
houses. The inhabitants called the place Yuba Dam.
Three bars were instantly erected, and the to xn increased
rapidly. About noon one cold day, a traveller and a sojour-
ner in the land passed this flourishing locality, and seeing
a long-legged specimen of humanity in a red shirt smoking
before one of the bars, thus addressed him :—" Hello I"
" Hello 1" replied the shirt, with vigour, removing his
pipe from his mouth. " What place is this ?" de-
manded the traveller, whose name was Thompson.
The answer of the shirt was unexpected. " Yuba Dam."
There was about fifty yards between them, and the wind
was blowing. Mr. Thompson thought he had been mis-
taken. " What did you say f" he asked. " Yuba Dam "
replied the stranger, cheerfully. " What place is this ?"
roared Mr. Thompson. " Ya-ba Dam," said the shirt, in a
slightly elevated tone of voice. " Lookeo here," yelled the
irete Thompson, " I asked you politely what this place was;
why in thunder don't you answer P" The stranger
became excited. He rose and replied with the voice of
an 80-pounder " Yu-ba• dam 1 Do you later that ?" In
a minute Thompson, burning with the wrath of the
righteous, jumped off his horse and advanced on the
stranger wi h an expression not to be mistaken. The
shirt arose and assumed a posture of violence and de
fence. Arrived within a yara of him, Thompson said, "I
ask you, for the last time, what place is this ?" Putting
his hands to his mouth, his opponent roared—" Yu-ba-
dam 1" The next minute they were at it. First, Thomp-
son was down; then the shirt; and then it was a dog-fall—
that is, both were down. They rolled about, kicking up a
tremendous dust. They squirmed around so energetically,
that you'd have thought they bad a cozen legs instead 01
tour. It looked ligs a prize fight between two pugilistic
centipedes. Finally, they both rolled off the bank and
' into the river. The Hater cooled them. They went
down together, but came up separate, and put out for the
shore. Both reached it about the same time, and Thomp-
son scrambled up the bank, mounted his warlike
steed, and made tracts, leaving his foe gouging the mud out
of one of his eyes. Having left the business portion of the
town—that is to say, the corner where the three bars were
kept—ho struck a house in the suburbs, before which a
little girl of about four years of age w, 8 playing. " What
place is this, sissy P" he asked. The little girl, frightened
at the drowned -rat figure which the stranger cut, streaked
it tor the house. Having reached the door she stopped,
tuned, and squealed—" 00-bee-dam I" " Good heaven- 1"
said Thompson, dig:;ing his heels between his horse's ribs,
" Good heavens, let me get out of this horrid place, where
not only the men but the very babes and sucklings swear at
inoffensive travellers."—New York Iribune.

THE PLANET MARS,—The position of the planet
was such last autumn that the entire circle of snow
around the South Pole could be distinctly seen, and with
such a well-defined edge as to have led to the conclusion
that it terminates in a cliff. The equatorial region is occu-
pied by a broad greenish belt binged with deep bays and
iolvts, which may perhaps be water. In one place it is re-
lieved by au island, which exhibits the same ruddy colour
as the hemispheres ou eacb, side of the central belt,