The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-08 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN POR

TUG AL.

The Royal Tar steamer arrived at Falmouth on Saturday
with the Peninsular mails. Her data are, from Gibraltar
the 29th ult., Cadiz the 30:h, Lisbon the 2d inst., mid
Oporto and Vigo the 3d.

•13y this packet we have received the following letter
from our Correspondent :
" Lisbon, April 2, 1839, 8 o'Clock A. M.
" The debate fur fixing the future numerical force
of the standing army has brought about a total re-
signation of the Ministry. On Wednesday last it was
made a Ministerial question, when, it being put to the
vote, they were left in a minority of 20. Ministers,
finding themselves totally foiled in a measure upon
which they had placed the most implicit confidence,
immediately repaired to the Palace, and placed in her Ma-
jesty's hands the seals of office. These were accepted,
upon the conditions that successors be previously found,
and the Viscount de Sada Bandeira has been charged to
form a new Administration ; but up to the present it does
not appear that any individuals have been found to take
office ; their Excellencies consequently continue to hold
their respective portefeuilles.
" The number of men composing the standing army,
upon the motion of M. Silva Pereira, has been ultimately
fixed at 21,080, instead of 27,000 proposed by Ministers,
and 15,000 by the Opposition ; thus forming a medium, as
anticipated in my last communication.
" The Senate has been occupied exclusively in various
projects of law uninteresting to the foreign reader.
The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house, Excise.
office, and Custom-house of Oporto, fur the month of
February last, paid in titulos, debentures, ex-paper money
and coin, amounts conjointly to 343,410,482 rcis (equal to
78,6981 4s. Bd. sterling), showing a deficit on the preced
ing month of January of 6,8741. 4s. 7d. sterling.
" It is rumoured that her Most Faithful Majesty is again
enciente.

" It is fully expected that her Majesty Queen Adelaide
will, on her return to England, visit Lisbon at the end of
this month, and with this view the Palace at Belem is
being tastefully fitted up for the Royal sejour.
" The mails from Oporto and Spain, which ought to
have arrived yesterday, were robbed ; the latter by some
guerrillas, two leagues distant from Elvas, who took the
horses from the Lancers escorting it, and rode off.

General Cordova arrived in this capital on the 25th
from Badajos; it is stated that he will remain here to
it the issue of his Court.martial.
" Exchange on London, at 30 days' sight, 55id. per
milrei ; discount on ex paper money, 47 per cent.

The prize of a sword, with appropriate inscrip
tion, usually given at Woolwich, at the examination of
cadets for commissions in the Artillery and Engineers, has
just been presented by Lord Bloomfield to Mr. John
Bayley, R. E., son of Captain Paget Bayley, of Gosport.
While at Dr. Burney's Establishment at the Royal
Academy, Gosport, this young gentleman had only a few
weeks notice to prepare for the strict examination now in-
stituted at Woolwich, and which he passed in the most
satisfactory manner.
The engagement between Averbe and Cabrera,
at Cortes, near Segura, on the 23d. was in reality a
serious and well fought action, in which the Christinos
were successful. Ayerbe had 7.000 foot and 900 horse,
with which he drove Cabrera himself, who had equal
forces, from a most advantageous position, well fortified
with parapets. Cabrera's loss was infinitely the greater;
and he was compelled to retreat, though he did so in good
order, and was unable to prevent the Christinos from ap-
proaching Segura. This town, however, requires heavy
artillery to reduce it. Melilla,.on the coast of Africa, ash
also been recovered from the insurgents.
The General Steam Navigattnn Company's
packet the Cz)lunibirie, front R,, t( r(1„,11, arrivedoft' the
Custom-house pesterday.

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Ranger Packet, Lieutenant Turner, arrived at .10(1)1:0
on Friday from the Brazils in 47 days, having sa' boss,
Rio de Janeiro on the 17th of February. She has 111
about 15,0001. on freight, but no particular news' toss,.
pears that affairs remained much in the same filiabsf,Pi
the last advices from Rio de Janeiro; the rate 0' %tat'
had, however, somewhat improved, the latest club-e
bl
being from 30 to 301 Buenos Ayres continued t°, Oren
kaded by the French, and the insurgents in Bl°
oe
stilt held out against the Government troops. 1001"
THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—The USLIa'-f
return of the liabilities and assets of the Bank tjotisrlda
gland, embracing the period from the Bth of dada:l4e
the 24 instant, which appeared in last Fridaysof:r
gives the following results, viz. :—That the averslibe
month ceding the 2cl instant, as compared viitb .1100 is
rage of the month ending the Bth of Januarys Prettsso,
increase in the circulation of 219,0001., a ,decibe She
the deposits of 2,856 0001., and a decrease le os
of bullion of 3,099,0001. Wherefore it aPPesoci
pef
the decrease in the liabilities is 2,637,0001', ot.
represents the decrease in the total quantitiA witb the
in the month ending the 2d instant, as compare'. odo j,
month ending the Bth of January, in so far as
erefoso
administration of the currency by the Bank 01 oftge
The yeatly comparison is as follows :—The ave,rafdeorrid
month ending the 24 inst., as compared with tu'ocreilto
of ti-c month ending tLe Ist of May, 1838, show's!, der of
in the circulation of 786,000 L, a decrease in t",oliObe
of 1,155.0001., and a decrease in the stock of was tie
3.630,0001. Wherefore it appears that the deere,eoeresse/d
liabilities is 1,941,000/, and this represents the
the of,
the total quantity of money in the month en of Poo
instant as compared with the month ending the 1 cage
1838, in so far as regards the administration of the
by the Bank of England.—Times. U ti
THE WEATIIXR IN LONDON.--- ; door-oe
easterly wind still remains with us. The gittf:nbadtblll
down .to 39, and to-day about one o'clock rjOb'
snow. Yesterday we had a small instalment ef genets
the alternative balmy showers and bright sun th!tb
accompany Aptil seemed postponed indefinitivelPosPoi
THE PROVINCIAL PRESS AND THE r coo p
MINISTRY.—We have to-day seen almost all tbeor of 10,
papers in England, and we conclude from the to 0 ebe
remarks they contain that though, as little attach:, of tp,
sible to concede either to the men or rnessuroalri it
Melbourne Administration, our friends in the cur be§1
010
pear now to be fully sensible of the injury. to 014
terests, which is inseparable from Tory
two parties (which appear to be regarded as role, .o,gr
evils) the Whigs are regarded as the most eou,,,tleo golhd
LORD WARD.--A paragraph has verdibiPhriti
moruisteroporP
the round of the papers, ailed to that his L°,; cele4eo
lost to a Noble Earl and a gentleman of spertiflbbave ith
the sum of 200,0001., which paragraph seams to
ort, If 0,
copied from a Worcester Paper. The same rgatedi,P ti
the addition of the names of the supposed ilr,P„,3 r. 1.-dcl°e4
tie., appeared in a scandalizing Sunday al"-tiag
Ward in a letter to the Times, says—" The Earl giorbroa
to I have met in society, and the gentleman, eyer
CI
celebrity in the field, but with neither have have
engaged in play for one moment, nor to either
lost one farthing." CO to la
CORN IMPORTATION.—The officers uioncri of
at Falmouth, have received from the Colootreaftefalt
London a Treasury minute relating to arrivals_rthe
_1704;
grain cargoes at this quarantine station froT 00 colPri to
Sea, &c., whereby it is ordered that the vessels _ace t.
subsequently ottl"
in to take up their clearances may subsequ floe , tbe
other port to discharge (which for such Pfri, ano..tel
ever, be declared by the masters or age,vt sanal',he
goes, under such circumstances, will be toe led Lle
duty which r" siderw
.0 entry at the particular rate of _ 000
day of arrival at the first port. This will be a
accommodation to the corn importer. Sattl
a lab°, a eas
ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. ‘-l"
tiring in al
ding n`
'n ugh ate
morning, about half-past seven o'clock,
named Michael Foot, was employed ,00„,y cr „not
boat at Bankside, Southwark, when a o"ranef fell siTate
earthenware, that was being raised by a ,o__nsible
him across his loins. He was carried in an rsv
to Guy's Hospital.