The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-02 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

LISBON, APRIL 16.—Official. The Commission created by
the decree of July 4, 1835, to draw up the new general Tariff
of Customs, having concluded the important labours confided
to it, and a permanent Board of Customs having been esta-
blished, conformably to the third article of the decree of
10th January last, I hereby dissolve the said Commission,
created by the decree of 4th July, of which Jose Xavier Mou-
sinho da Silveira was President, and the other members being
Senors Luiz Antonio Rebello, Francisco Morato Roma, Anto-
nio Joaquim de Carvalho e Oliveira, and Henrique Daniel
Wenck, who have duly and worthily performed the task com-
mitted to them, for which they deserve my Royal consideration.

THE QUEEN: -
MANOEL DU SILVA PASSOS.

Palace das Necessidades, April 6, 1837.
A report from Baron de Vallongs, April 10, states that nothing
had occurred to interrupt the public tranquillity in that dis-
trict, but that he could not say the same of the district of
Guieda, where a numerous band of robbers had committed
various excesses.' A detachment being sent against them,
succeeded in taking eight prisoners, but being attacked by a
party which attempted to rescue the prisoners, the detachment
was reduced to the cruel necessity of putting the prisoners to
death, which ought not to have been, except by the sentence
of the Tribunals.
In consequence of the above statement her Majesty has
ordered the Baron Vallongo to institute the most rigid inqu►ry
into the circumstances which induced the troops to shoot the
eight robbers, whom they were conveying to prison.
APRIL 17.—A dispatch from the Colonel commanding the
Bth Military Division in the Serra, gives an account of some
operations in pursuit of the Guerillas, and tho voluntary cur-
-1 ender of a few-of the robbers. No information could be ob-
tained of the place where Remechido was.
Aram 21.—The Diario publishes the 221st, 222 d, 223 d,
and 224th lists of National Property in the districts of Port-
alcgre, Coimbra, and Beja, to be sold by public auction for
the benefit of the National Treasury.-_Diario do Govern°, to
22d April inclusive.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MAY I.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breezes.—Arrived
the Gilmore, Lindsay, from Bombay ; Latona, Mann, from
Cuba; Julius, from St. Kitts ; and Lady Middleton, from
St. Michael's.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY I.—Wind W., fine.—Arrived the Ruth,
from Sierra Leone.

FALMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind W. S. W., strong gales and .
squally.—Arrived tho Camden Packet, from Lisbon, sailed
the 23d ult. ; and Juno, Patterson, from Gonaives.
MARGATE, MAv I.—Arrived the Nocton, Hubble, from the
South Seas.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 30.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrived the
Otterpool, Richardson, from Canton ; Mary, Lloyd, from Per-
nambuco ; Alexander, Stewart, from Jamaica ; Corsair, Irwin,
from Barbadoes; Elizabeth Moore, from Portobello; St.
Leon, Westcott, Warsaw, Hill, Willmott, Johnson, Bashaw,
Tucker, Dorothy, Gales, and Gerard, Lambert, from New Or-
leans ; Grampus, Hayard, and Josephine, Popham, from Mo-
bilo ; Wakefield, Swallow, from Savannah ; John Taylor, from
Charleston ; and Beverly, from St. John's.
CLYDE, APRIL 9.9.—Arrived the Rowena, Reid, Savannah.
HASTINGS, MAY 1..-:-.Arrived the Flora, Leveque, Jamaica.
SOUTHANIPTON, MAY I.—Arrived the William Gray, Gray,
from Oporto.
BRISTOL, MAY l.—Arrived the William Thompson, from
Jamaica; Adelaide, Brooks, from Tobago; and Arethusa,
White, from Barbadoes.

LEITH, APRIL 29.—Arrived the Hoffning, and Woolfurt,
Meyer, from Kiel.
HULL, APRIL 30.—Arrived the Charlotte Dorothea, Stettin.
STROMNESS, APRIL 26.—The Dee, of Aberdeen, with seven
fish and about 60 tons of oil, arrived here this evening from
Davis' Straits. She got out of the ice the 16th] ult., in
lat 62., together with the Grenville Bay and Norfolk ; the
master and 36 of the Dee's crew are dead. The Thomas, of
Dundee, was lost on the 13th December ; nine of the crew
died on board of the Dee. The Advice, of Dundee, it was
supposed, would get out of the ice about the same time. Fell
in with the Washington, from Dundee to New York, off Flan-
nel Islands, which vessel towed the Dee into Hoy Sound.
There is, lam informed, another of the missing whalers off
Holyhead.

The Friends, from Swansea, was run on shore in a sinking
state at the entrance of Helford Harbour the 3d ult., haying
struck on the Manacles.

HOW TO PREVENT APPLE STEALING.—Our old
minister Joshua Hopewell had an orchard of most particular
good fruit, for he was a great hand at buddin, graftin, and
what not, and the orchard (it was on the south side of the
house) stretched right up to the road. Well, there were some
trees hung over the fence, I never seed such bearers, the apples
hung in ropes, for all the world like strings of onions, and the
fruit was beautiful. Nobody touched the minister's apples ;
and when other folks lost theirn from the, boys, hisn always
hung there like bait to a hook, but there never was so much as
a nibble at em. So I said to him one day, Minister, said
how on airth do you manage to keep your fruit that's so ex-
posed, when no one else can't do it nohow ? Why, says he,
they are dreadful pretty fruit, an't they ? I guess, said I, there
an't the like on em in all Connecticut. Well, says he, I'll tell
you the secret, but you needn't let on to no one about it. That
row next the fence I grafted it myself, I took great pains to
get the right kind, I sent clean up to Roxberry, and away down
to Squaw-neck Creek (I was afeared he was agoin to give me
day and date for every graft, being a terrible long-winded man
in his stories) ; so says I, know that, Minister ; but how do
you preserve them? Why I was agoin to tell you, said he,
when you stopped me. That are outward row I grafted my-
self with the choicest kind I could find, and I succeeded. They
are beautiful, but so etarnal sour, no human soul can eat them.
Well, the boys think the old Minister's graftin has all suc-
ceeded about as well as that row, and they sarch no farther.
They snicker at my graftin, and I laugh in my sleeve, I guess,
at their penetration.—The Clockmaker ; or, Sayings and
Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville.

Yesterday morning a; a Mr. Dakin, an agent of the
Religious Tract Society, was proceeding to town by the rail-
road, he was suddenly taken ill, and died in five minutes. A
surgeon was promptly in attendance, and attempted to bleed
the deceased, but life was quite extinct. Thomas Burnett, a
person connected with the railway, was immediately dispatched
to the deceased's residence, No. 3, Greenfield-place, Grove-
lane, to inform his friends. His wife received the melancholy
intelligence better than was expected. She said he had hur-
ried himself at breakfast, having to meet a gentleman in town
on important business. The body of the deceased was taken
out, and carried to the house of Mr. G. Williamson.

The Leicester Mercury contains an account of a
disgraceful attack which was made on the relieving officer's
house on Wednesday night. Every pane of glass in the house
was broken. Though the destruction of property was consi-
derable, and several articles of furniture, pictures, &c., were
more or less injured, it is consolatory to know that no person
was hurt, the children who were sleeping in the chamber being
fortunately removed before many stones were thrown into the
room.
A bazaar was held at Newark, in the County Hall,
on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday last, in aid of the funds
for the new church. The,amount of ladies fancy and useful
work, and other contributions, sent to the receivers-general
for the bazaar, exceeded 5001. About 1,000 persons, it is sup-
posed, were present, and the proceeds realised 4671. Sir Ro-
bert Howe Bromley, Bart., has signified his intention to pre-
sent the communion plate to Christchurch.
Goons OF LIFE.—The greatest pleasure of life
is love ; the greatest possession is health ; the greatest ease je
sleep ; and the greatest medicine is a true friend, to observe
and tell one of one's faults, whom one has reason to esteems
and is apt to believe.—Sir William Temple.

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BIRTHS.
On the 29th ult., Mrs. Francis Watts, of Vincent•square, of a
daughter.
On the 27th ult., the wife of J. Bacon, Esq., 9f Bedford-place,
of son.
On the 26th ult., at Canonbnry-square, Islington, the lady of j"
Jeaffreson, Esq., of a son.
On the 27th ult., at My(idleton-square, Mrs. H. Drury, of a sigh

MARRIED.
bird
On the 20th ult., at the British Embassy, Paris, Flora, t•-•-daughter of the late Wm. Mitchell, Esq., of Harley-street, to Al'i
phonso Beral de Sedaiges, second son of the Count de Sedaiges, of
Aubergne.
-
On the 25th ult., at St. Bride's Chapel, the Rev. Henry Christ
mas, B.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, to Elila Jane, se'
coed daughter of John Fox, Esq., of Bridge-street, Blackfriarh
and of Herne-hill, Surrey.
On the 26th ult., Mr. H. F. Metcalf, eldest s.on of R. 31etealft
Esq., Camberwell-grove, to Mary, youngest daughter of James Bun'
yard, Esq., Maidstone, Kent.
On the 27th ult., at Marylebone, John, only son of W. Cugliire'
Esq., of Bakeham House, Surrey, to Mary, eldest daughter of " '
Bailey, Esq., of Shenley House, Bucks.

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DIED.
On the 27th ult., Mr. Jacob Erat, of Berners-street, Oxford-
street, aged 37.
On the 18th ult., at Geneva, aged 91, Bartholomew giber
Strutt, Esq., nephew of Mr. Necker. -
wife of.
On the 27th ult., at Knightsbridge, aged 81, Thomasin,
the Rev. J. P. Ashe.
, bet
On the 22d ult., on board the " Monarch " steam-ship, r
voyage from Edinburgh to London, Mr. John Drew, F,,,econtto"'-e
of that vessel.
On the 231 ult., Gertrude Richmond, infant daughter of G.
Gray, of King-street, Cheapside.
On the 14th ult., at Cheltenham, Ch.lmpernowne-Hele-. d
youngest son of Captain R. S. M. Sprye, of the Indian Aro)", an. • •
of Ugborough, Devonshire. of
At Leeds, Colonel James Cassidy, many years, Lieut.-Colonel
the 31st Regiment. r
On the 26th ult., Mr. Ed-ward Frederick Long, of
Rye-terrace-
Peckham, and Mincing-lane.
On the 27th ult., at Norlands, Kensington, aged 71, Junes
ham, Esq.
rd.
On the 27th ult., Mr. Jacob Erat, of Berners-street, vlrfl
street, aged 37.
On the 27th ult., in the Quadrant, Regent-street, Mr.
Simpson, aged GO.
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