The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-25 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, JULY 24'
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steaul-sliih
Madrid, Captain Weeks, arrived here this morning alt
the usual Peninsular mails, and dates from Gibrio,,
the 14th ; Cadiz, the 15th ; Lisbon, the 19th ; ()pay"
the 20th ; and Vigo, the 21st inst.
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The Madrid brings on freight 6 packages of s2c:
(Tot:1?-7e0hebsotxsesofofleemggosn,s,a3n6d boxesa
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of genet
me rchandise. ,
When the Madrid left Lisbon on the 19th, her Ma'
jesty's steam•sloop, Bloodhound captain Christie*
from the coast of Africa, was coaling in the Tagus,
route for Portsmouth. There was no other foreign vege..'
of war in port.
The Lisbon exchange quotations by this mail are---
London, three months, 544 ; Paris, 528 ;
484- ; Genoa, 527. On the continent little business had
been done, and bills on London continued still rat
scarce, notwithstanding the arrival of the Brazil 01
so that money remained over at 54k. Business had te.;,,
more active in stocks and shares at 404- to 41 for ,xlr,
per Cents. ; Four per Cents., 324- to 334- ; Bank of -r!3O
tugal Shares, 163 to 150 milreis discount per share, th`,,t
rates being in Lisbon bank-notes, subject to the curreli
discount of 24- per cent. Oporto Bank Shares were 01
at 4 to 5 per cent. premium in metal.
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Our Lisbon letters and papers by this mail contain t
particular novelty. A Royal decree had decided the
the Cortes should remain open until the sth of Aug,o9"
when little doubt existed that the money bills, it°4
Hamburghl
would have passed the upper house.
The Queen and Court had taken up their summer re;
sidence at Cintra, as also the Duke de Saldanha,
was still unable to transact business at the War DePa::
ment. There appeared no chance of his Grace's snyi
pressing, as he had promised, the command-in-chief °
the army he has held, instead of the King, since the
surrection of 1851 ; and it is notable that the Liber!:
in the Cortes no longer clamour against an expendito;
they formerly decried, particularly as the Duke's unt!to
ness for active duties is now an additional proof of
being unnecessary.
• A petition from different Portuguese manufactories
had been made to the Chamber of Deputies to reconsicierf
the reductions made in the tariff last year. They, t)„
course, want more protection, but make out no ene'',
and conveniently dispense with the demonstration day.;
;
fact applicable to any particular trade by stating that
"all the circumstances are so obvious and genera,l
known as to render superfluous the mention of all
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them." No doubt the facts best known and most eases
demonstrated would, in any other country, lead to
much larger reduction of the Portuguese tariff, but that
is not likely to take place.
The following letter, dated Oporto, the 19th inst.% gives an account of the appearance and progress of the grape disease :
" The most important subject now afloat is the discs°
that has recently appeared in the vine ; there are
n3ni.l3•,
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exaggerated opinions and reports about it, but the I° , ,
lowing description may be inserted as truly authentic;
--Last year there were instances of the
vine disess
both in this neighbourhood and in the Douro distrit
it then made no progress, and caused little alarm ;
has again appeared within the last three weeks lore',
and in the Douro, and many of the northern districts'
It is said to be pretty general, but the number ofvines
affected in the same vineyard is not at present grec,i,
except in one or two situations. It is universally 3'
mitted to be a new disease in this country, and no 01
doubts it being the same as that which has desolate
Madeira, and, with the fate of that island before theta:,
people are naturally in a state of alarm calculated tf
produce exaggeration. Prayers against the ravages .t •
parish
the disease have been offered up in many of the
churches—a proof of the opinion entertained by the
farmers. If within the next ten days it remains near'Jg
we may fairly hope that we shall save till
ut if it extend rapidly, we shall have eves
reason, stationary,i
tlge ;b
reason, to fear that it may do incalculable mischi
between the end of this month and the first week °
October.

‘‘ The Civil Governor of Villareal has appoint
• ea il
commission to examine the report."

THE GREAT LONDON SUMMER POULTRY SHoIV.,;;
was fixed for the reception of the vario"
n
Saturday
ens of poultry, &c., to be exhibited at the 01;
theda
ig London hummer Poultry Show, to take place d,
, King-street, Portman-square, on Wets
needs Thursday, and Friday next, the arrangement"
being finally completed. Amongst the contributors 14„
Lord Berwick, Lord Hill, Lady Georgiana Codringte„l
Lady Caroline Legge, Hon. Mrs. Astley, Hon. nia
Rev. Edward Keppel, Hon. Mr. Hill, Sir Archibald
Macdonald, Captain Hornby, R.N., John Farlie,
J. C. Adkins, Esq., &e. The entire area of the bakiiii
excepting that portion where a large amount of lifbe
is not obtainable, is now fitted up with pens for t
birds. The specimens which have arrived have anionil
them some of the finest breeds in the kingdom. I° °n
class alone there are no less than 150 pens of chickens'
and, including the pigeons, geese, ducks, and turkelo.
the number of birds to be exhibited will exceed 6,Clu
The judges make their awards of the prizes, whoa
amount in the aggregate to several hundred pounds,,
Tuesday, and there will be a private view on that ore n
of
ing. Amongst the competitors are a large number
oto
amateurs, who have never taken any part in Preyiex-
shows, and the specimens they have contributed are dis-
ceedingly fine. Instead of the course adopted o'ttes,
tinguiahing the prizes by red, blue, and white rose
be
as was the case at the winter poultry show, they Will&-
recognised by cards, printed in different coloV
scribing the character and breed of the birds. sod
only
to the comfort and convenience of the public, notfor
will a portion of the gallery be tastefully fitted uP in
the purpose of refreshments, but arrangement! ~were
course of progress for introducinc, evergreens and.. 11,"
throughout various parts of th; WWl'
have a very pleasing effect.

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