The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-20 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LisnoN, At6t:st 113.-1 emechido's courage failed him the
moment that he heard the sentence of the court-martial that
he should be shot within 2'4 hours, and he prayed hard that
her Majeety'S order, should be waited for before it was carried
into executint; He subsequently gave evident marks of his
sincere repentance fof the Many and various crimes of which
he had been guilty, acknowledgitig eoine, the details of which
are too horrible and disgusting to admit a f thieir insertion in
this letter. It is said that he wrote a letter to his ton, recom-
mending his acceptance of the amnesty which her Majesty
would now grant to him as well as to those who still continued
in arms against the Government.
We hear from the Algarves that the Miguelites, under
Baion, have not been seen anywhere since the capture of Re-
mechidl—their number used to be near fifty ; so that quie'
has been restored in that quarter, at least for the present.
The elections for Senators and Deputies at the next Cortes
commenced yesterday throughout the country. The public
tranquillity of the city has not been in the least disturbed, and
it is to be hoped that the same order and quiet will continue
until i;:e whole proccdings are over. The most prevailing
oprriS* in retard to the _lower Chamber is that it will repre-
sent four if:i?lfios, viz., the qtartis, ttiti " Ordeiros," or
friends of good ordefe as they are called, the moJerate Sep-
tember men, and the Ifitra,Liberal September party, vti!,.7arly
called the Arsenal or Dock-yard party. Should it really so
turn out, there would be four minorities in the Chamber, and
no fixed steady majority, which would make it exceedingly
difficult for any Administration to carry on the public busi-
ness with credit to itself.

The official journal of the 1 Ith instant published two diffe-
rent lists of candidates, which the people understood were of
the choice of Ministers; but a supplement of the said journal
was published yesterday, stating that one of these lists, which
it again published, had been inserted without the sanction of
the proper authority. Little doubt is entertained of Viscount
Sada Bandeira's return, because his name is in all the lists,
with tht exception of that of the ultra- Chartists : and M. M. A.
Carvalha, the Minister of Finance, stands nearly as good
a chance of being returned as the Gallant Viscount.
The Tagus and Liverpool steamers arrived on the 10th and
11th with the respective mails from London and Gibraltar;
the former proceeded for Cadiz on the 11th, and the latter
starts at six r. m. this afternoon ; say within one hour of the
present time.
Admiral Noroulia, the new Governor, Captain-General
of Angola. will start almost immediately for that colony,
and after the most scrupulous inquiries regarding this officer's
character, I am able to state that there is very good reason to
hope that bre will do his utmost to put an effectual stop to the
traffic in slaves. Indeed it is his Excellency's intention, at
least such is the current report among his friends, to put a stop
to the present trade in emigrants to the Brazils, rather call it
a traffic in white salves, which is now carried on to a frightful
extent many vessels quit the Tagus with 200, 250, and even
300 of these emigrants, and a Company which is established
at Rio Janeiro pays, on the safe delivery of the same, at the
rate of fifty thousand milreas Lisbon money for each, inde-
pendent of the cost of passport. These poor people are of
course compelled to work out their freedom out of the hands
of the Company, which they cannot well do until they pay off
the balance against them.
The Editor of the Aurora has been condemned to four
months' imprisonment, and a fine of 50,000 milreas, for its se-
ditious writings.
Her Majesty's ships Mafficienne and Espoir sailed yester-
day for the southern coast. Exchange on London,
Morning Post.