The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-04 00:00:00

PENINSULAR MAILS-

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING, ELEVEN,
A.M. - The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Iberia, Captain C. F. Burney, has just
arrived here with the usual Spanish and Portuguese
mails.

Her dates. are—Gibraltar, September 26 ; Cadiz,
27; Lisbon, 29 ; Oporto, no communication ; Vigo,
October 1.

She brings eight packages of specie and a large
cargo of grapes, lemons, &c., and 25 passengers.
Our accounts from Lisbon are to the 29th ultimo.
The artisans who had struck for wages had quietly
returned to their work. The discount on Lisbon
bank notes had declined another six per cent. in con-
sequence of judicious steps taken by the Minister of
Finance to stop the sales of those notes on Govern-
ment account. The discount is now quoted 25 per
cent.

Reports were prevalent that M. Avila, the Finance
Minister, would be forced to retire from the
Cabinet, although the Diario di Govern() declares
that the best understanding existed between the
members of the Ministry, yet it was maintained by
well :informed persons that such was far from being
the case. The Count de Thomar was absent from
Lisbon at his estates in the country. An Oporto
company had presented proposals for the Lisbon
water contract. Rains had set in very heavily, and
had stopped all further grape packing. On the Lis-
bon Exchange a large amount of bills on London had
appeared, with few takers. The quotation was 54
for three months' paper. Portuguese Five per Cents.,
524 to 53f ; Four per Cents, 43 to 44 ; Bank of Por-
tugal shares have declined.
We learn from Gibraltar that a French line of bat-
tle ship and two war steamers had dropped anchor
in Tangiers Bay on the 25th ult.

BATHS AND WASHHOUSES IN LAMBETH.—On
Tuesday evening last a meetirg of members of the dif-
ferent parochial boards of this parish was held at the
Vestry-hall, the Rector in the chair, to consider the
propriety of taking steps for the erection of baths and
washhouses for the benefit of the poor inhabitants of the
parish. It was unanimously decided that such an ar-
rangement would be highly beneficial to the parish, and
under the Divine blessing might have the effect of greatly
diminishing the sickness and mortality among the lower
classes, if the parish should ever again be visited by
such a pestilence as during tho present year. The
churchwardens were requested to give more than usual
publicity to the notice of the vestry, which, under the
provisions of the 91h and 10th Victoria, cap. 74, it would
be necessary to call, in order to consider the expediency
of taking advantage of that Act for erecting the baths
and washhouscs.

DAVIS' STRAITS WHILE FISIIERT.—The following
intelligence has been brought by the Truelove, 'thick
passed Peterhead on the Ist inst.:—The 'Truelove, of
Hull, 13 fish, a full ship; the Prince of Wales, of Hull,
lost; the Lord Gambier, of Hull, not seen; the Lady
Jane, of Newcastle, lost; the Regalia, of Kirkaldy, 19
fish, 150 tons oil; the Chieftain, of Kirkaldy, 16 fish,
85 tons; the Alexander, of Dundee, 20 fish, 130 tons;
the Horn, of Dundee, 17 fish, 160 tons; the Advice, of
Dundee, 20 fish, 170 tons; the Princess Charlotte, of
Dundee, 23 fish, 233 tons.; the Joseph Green, of Peter-
head, 18 fish, 140 tons; the Superior, of Peterhead, lost;
the Dublin, of Ptterhead, not seen. The Abram, of
Hull, is also engaged in the fishery, but she has not yet
been seen. She left Hull very late in the season, about
the 12th of June last.