The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Chambers were opened on the 2d inst. by
commission, the Queen having been prevented by
slight indisposition from attending personally, and,
there was, therefore, no royal Mpeech on the occa-
sion. Many of the deputies from the provinces not
having yet arrived, it may be some time before a
sufficient number can be to form a house ;
besides which, a fortnight or more will no doubt
be wasted, as usual, in the appointment of com-
mittees and settlement of other)preliminary matters,
the whole of which might with common diligence
be got through in less than half that time.
The long-expected revision of the tariff, or, more
properly speaking, the new tariff, as it embraces
all the articles mentioned-in the old one has
lowered,
has made
its appearance. The duties, instead of bein
are in almost every instance raised, especially on cot-
ton and woollen manufactures, many articles of which
will thereby be shut out from the Portuguese markets.
On some things, certainly, they are lowered ; but
those are precisely such articles of luxury as the
revising commissioners (sly rogues) are likely to
require themselves : harps
and pianos for their
daughters, and carriages and Champagne for their
own use and delectation. Under the impression
that the duties upon cottons, woollens, hardware,
(tc., would be lowered, the British merchants here
had for some time past been keeping back as much
as possible from clearing their goods inwards
through the Custom House, and the consequence is,
that they will now have to pay the higher rates.
Count Santa Maria has been appointed military
governor, in the room of Viscount Fonte Nova,
lately deceased. The count is what the French
term a sabreur, and has never turned his attention
wanting
i
to politics, or to anything else but his own profes-
sion. Some amusing anecdotes are told of him.
On
to speak of a polygon,
and Greek derivations, he called
it a cornered circle. On another, he said that it
was a waste of money to macadamise the down-hill
streets, as it would be quite sufficient to macadam-
is
the up-hill ones.

GERMANY.
The Universal German Gazette, under date sth
inst., says :—" The police are keeping up a special
surveillance over such persons as took part in the
revolutionary movement of 1848. It recently ar-
rested an ex-deputy of the Frankfort Parliament,
M. Hermann-Kudlich, and seals were placed on
his papers. M. Kudlich was an employe in the:
administration of mines. He is accused of having
kept up a correspondence with the political refugees
in Switzerland and London. Domiciliary visits
were made at the residence of his father, and also'
at those .of some of his friends, but they led to no
Frankfort for a consi-
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derable sum." of M. Kudlich there

The Augsburg Gazette states from Darmstadt
that a prosecution has been commenced against the
deputy Muller Melchiors, on a charge of high
treason.
The same journal publishes the text of the letter
of the Marquis de Tallenay to the President of the
Germanic Diet, announcing the accession of the
'Emperor of the French to the throne. The lan-
guage is the same as that employed by the other
French Ambassadors at foreign courts. It states
that the efforts of the French Government will
always -tend- to the maintenance of peace, and that
it has a 'firni confidence that-its intentions will be
in accord with the sentiments of foreign govern-
ments, and that thus the repose of the world will
be
,secured.. .

The three superintendents of the. Grand Duchy
of Hesse have just addressed a circular to the
pastors, enforcing on them the necessity of using
their 'utmost exertions to strengthen the °van-.
gelical creed in the minds of the people, at a time
when the prejudices against it seem to be re-
,
newed. '

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