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

PORTUGAL.

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 THOMAR
Ministry would nut be able to stand, notwithstanding
the support given them by the QUEEN, v, ho is the
most decided Cabralista in the country.
On the 11th instant a petition, praying the QUEEN
ICI dismiss Count Tuomaa from her councilF, and
bearing the signatures of the Marquis of Lounz,
Counts DAS ANTAS, DE MELLO, and VILLA REAL,
and Messrs. IJEANCAMP and SAMPAIO, was presented
to Her ALt.rEsTr. The petition dwells at great length
on the corruption of which THOMAR is alleged to
have teen 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 const-quence,
had not the Duke of SALDANIIA come forward to
back them, and to recommend the immediate dis-
missal of THOMAR, and the appointtaent of PALMELLA
to the Premiership. TIIOMAR has 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 refusid to a British subject at
the instigation of the Count DE Tuontas. 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

I; the year 1834 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 150,000/. The
Baron verbally promised to give his daughter a por.
Lion of 20,000 L, but a disagreement having occurred
some time after the marriage between him and his
son in law, he refused to fulfil his promi3e. 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, aad no such manifestation could,
therefore, be made. Some time after, however, the
old gentleman married a young wife, upon which
C., judging that the proper moment had
arrived for comp!ying with the required formality,
came forward to do so, but the Court to which she
2pplied for the purpose decided that it could not be
done until after the death of her father, as, con-
sidering that his wife W 23 young and likely to have
a fninily of childnn, it was only then that it could
be knov.-n what her share of the inheritance would
be. This deei,ion was cordirined by a superior
court, and finally approved by the Supreme Tribunal
of JuAce. In 1847 the Baron died, leaving two
children, and Mrs. C. then again came forward to
im.ke the required registration, but was stopped
at once by an objection set up on the part of her
step mother, on the ground that it was too late,
and that the required condition not having been
performed during the lifetime of her father,