The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-17 00:00:00

LATEST FROM PORTUGAL.

The Iberia steamer arrived With the Peninsular mails at
Falmouth on Monday. She sailed from Gibraltar on the
4th ; Cadiz, the 6th ; Lisbon, the Bth ; Oporto, the 10th ;
and Vigo, the 11th instant. The Ministerial Interregnum
still continued on the Bth.

MM. Joze Caetano de Campos, actual President of the
Chamber of Deputies, a moderate Septembrist, and Antonio
Joaquim de Magalhaes, late Envoy at the Court of Rio de
Janeiro, a moderate Chartist, were conjointly charged on
Saturday last by her Majesty to form a Ministry, in which
they have been unsuccessful, and they will wait upon her
Majesty during this day to deliver up the trust she had
honoured them with.

The 20th anniversary of her Majesty's birthday was not
celebrated on the 4th inst. with its usual splendour.
The President of the Cortes was deputed by its members
to wait upon her Majesty with the subjoined congratula.
tory address :

Senhora,—The Chamber of Deputies come by depu-
tation, of which I have the honour to be the organ, to con-
gratulate your Majesty upon the anniversary of your natal
day, as also to congratulate the King and the rest of the
Royal Fatuity.
" This is also the anniversary of the day on which your
Majesty deigned to accept and swear to the political Con-
stitution of the Monarchy, and upon this happy coincidence
the Portuguese look upon the day so truly national as the
dearest objects of their love and veneration.
" Upon the preservation of your Maj esty's precious life,
and the maintenance of the fundamental law, doubtless de-
pend the well-being and prosperity of the Portuguese na-
tion ; and as such, may God permit that a day so propitious
be renewed for many years to come l
" Therefore, may your Majesty be graciously pleased to
receive this sincere assurance of respect and loyalty from
the Chamber of Deputies."
o which her Majesty replied—
" I receive and acknowledge with the greatest satisfac-
tion the assurance which the Chamber of Deputies ad-
dressed to me by deputation, congratulating me upon the
anniversary of my natal day, as also congratulating the
King and all the Royal Family.
" By the most happy coincidence the Chamber has joined
this felicitation to that of the anniversary of my taking the
oath to the political constitution of the Monarchy. The
Chamber may rest assured that it will ever find me ready
in promoting to the utmost of my power the entire main-
tenance of the fundamental law which contains within it-
self the future happiness of the Portuguese."
It having come to the knowledge of the Government that
the late Governor. General of Angola, Colonel Manuel
Bernardo Vidal, had not only contravened the fulfilment of
the decree of the 10th of December, 1836, prohibiting the
the traffic in slaves, but connived at the same by receiving
douceurs of 800 milreis (2001. sterling) from every vessel
that loaded slaves at that place, her Majesty the Queen has
commanded that a criminal process be iustituted against
' him.
Exchange on London at 30 days' sight, 554 d. per mitre.
Discount on ex-paper money, 47 per Cent.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute have re-
turned to their villa, at Camden Hill, from the Marine Pa-
rade, at Bognor.