The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-28 00:00:00

PORT UGAL.

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to
the 21st.
There had been no change in the Ministry up to
that date, although it was thought that the TnoMAE
Ministry would not be able to stand, notwithstanding
the support given them by the QuEEN, vlho is the
most deolthd Cabalista In the country.
On the 11th instant a petition, praying the QUEEN
to dismiss Cohnt Tuoman, from her councit,, and
bearing the signatures of the Marquis of LOULE,
Counts DAS A NTAS, DE MELT,O, and VILLA REAL,

and Messrs. BRANCAMP and SAMP.4IO, was presented
to Her MAJESTY. The petition dwells at great length
on the corruption of which TUOMAR is alleged to
hare Leen guilty, in selling an order of knighthood
for a splendid carriage and horses. No answer has
been returned ; and as the petitioners are all of
the Opposition, perhaps the prayer of the petition
would not have been regarded as of much consequence,
had not the Duke of SALDANRA come forward to
back them, and to recommend the immediate dis-
missal of THOMAIt, and the appointment of PALMELLA
to the Premiership. TMOMAR his in the meanwhile
created nine new peers, in order to secure a majority
in the Senate.

A disagreeable affair has occurred in Lisbon, in
which justice has been refused to a British subject at
the instigation of the Count DE THOMAR. Lord
PALMERSTON has, it is said, already interfered, and is
determined to obtain redress for Mr. CROFTS, the
gentleman alluded to in the following narrative, which
we extract from the columns of a morning Con-
temporary :

In the year 181.34 Mr. C., an English gentleman
resident here, married a Portuguese lady, the only
child of Baron 8., a man -of immense wealth for
Portugal, being worth upwards of 150,0001. The
Baron verbally proMised to give his daughter a por
tion of 20,0001., but a disagreement having occurred
some time after the marriage between him and his
son in law, he refused to fulfil his promise. Thence
arose a suit, the result of which was that the lady
was declared to be entitled to the promised portion,
on condition that if it should exceed that share of
her father's property to which she would be law-
fully entitled at his death, she should register or
manifest such excess in the manner prescribed by
law in-such cases.
As Mrs. C. was at the time the only child and
sole heiress of the Baron, and her marriage portion
instead of exceeding, fell far short of her expected
inheritance, the requirement of the law did not
apply to her case, a..d no such manifestation could,
therefore, be made. Some time after, however, the
old gentlemen married a young wife, upon which
!Ts. C., judging that the proper moment lied
arrived for complying with the required formality,
came forward to do so, but the Court to which she
applied for the purpose decided that it could not be
clone until after the death of her father, as, con-
tidering that his wife was young and likely to have
a family of children, it was only then that it could
be known what her share of the inheritance would
be. This deei,ion was confirmed by a superior
collrt., and finally approved by the Supreme Tribunal
of Justice. In 1847 the Baron died, leaving twe
children, and Mrs. C. then again came forward to
make the required registration, but was stopped
at once by an objection set up on the part of her
stepmother, on the ground that it was too late,
and; that the required condition not having been
performed during the lifetime of her father,l