The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-22 00:00:00

361: 315 . 102

rndependent of the further pro-
ceeds of the Customs for the
Junta of Public Credit of ... 29 : 004 - 235

Total . - 337 or £90,000
which is considerably more than what was generally ex-
pected, and, as the trade of this country generally is falling
off at rather a rapid rate, it can only be ascribed to the
greater vigilance on the part of the Custom-house officers
to prevent smuggling. There is very little doubt that a
very considerable smuggliag trade has heretofore been car-
ried on with Portugal : it was principally from France and
Holland.
• M. Mareio, the Deputy from Santarem, and Editor of
the Government Journal, has addressed a very well-written
letter to the various Journals, wherein his appointment to
the sinecure office of Director of the Royal Printing-office
instead of M. Jose Libcrato had been harshly censured.
If the doctrines therein laid down were to be followed by
these people, Portugal might indeed be a happy country.
He recommends their dismissing from their minds that there
ever were any Chartists, Juste-Milieu men, Septembrists,
Arsenalists, or other parties, and hopes that they will all
rally round the new Constitution.
The Journals belonging to all the different political
parties demand the immediate meeting of the Cortes, but it
is very much doubted whether the Ministers will feel dis-
posed to yield to this general request before the usual
time of meeting, about the 2d of January, and they are,
perhaps, consulting the good and welfare of Portugal by
acting thus.
You will observe that a portion of the revenues is set
apart for the Jura.' of Public Credit, and I should also
state that this establishment receives funds in various
other ways, by which means it is enabled to pay, though
slowly, the dividends on the internal debt of the country.
Admiral Noronha will start almost immediately for An-
gola. The French frigate La funon arrived on the 10th,
in five days from Brest ; her Majesty's ship Tribune re-
turned yesterday from a ertfze. The Liverpool steamer,
with the London Mail, and the Sartorius steamer, in-
tended for the internal navigation of the Tag-as, arrived era
the 12th and 14th, from Falmouth ; and the Tagus, with
the Mediterranean Mail, came in late on the 14th, and
continues for Vigo and- England at ten a.m. this day. I
understand that General Bacon and the Marquis de
Aranda, a grandee of Spain, go by her, the former on his
way to the north of Spain.

One of the Miguelite Colonels of the Evora convention
has published a very sensible letter, in order to acquaint
the public at large that although the Cortes have inva-
riably voted the required supplies for their regular pay, it is
now upwards of four years since he or his companions have
received a farthing. M. Casal Ribeiro, a Miguelite of great
note, who lately came from England, is, I understand, on
the eve of returning, because he finds the country rather
" too hot for him." General Viscount Santa Marta has
lately arrived from England.
Young Remechido Rachado, passed lately through Porto
de el Rey with 23 cavalry-men and 19 horses they had
stolen in sundry villages, and we hear from the northern
provinces that scarcely a day passes without one or more
robberies being perpetrated. The two Evora National
Guards who shot Baioa have bad 300,000 reals each given
to them.

M. Quadros, and the other individuals who were ac-
cused of participating in the riots of the 14th of June, were
tried yesterday ; but, in order to protect the witnesses from
being insulted by the mob, no less than 3.50 men were placed
under arms in the neighbourhood of the Cardaes de Jesus,
where the trial took place. I understand that they were ac-
quitted, but I am not quite sure of it.
Exchange on London, 54i ; Five per Cents., Internal
Debt, 7.5 ; Exchange, paper money, 52 per cent. dip.. The
Tagus is getting under weigh.

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BRISTOL ZUGAR MARKET, OCT. 19.—The
market is flat and heavy, and very little selling. The mer-
chants have submitted to a decline of from Is. to 25., and there
is every prospect that they must yield a still further conces-
sion, which will be hastened by the fact that the refiners are
alive to the state of the market, and are slackening work._
Bristol Mercury.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN PRINTING-HOUSE-
SQUARE.—About half-past seven o'clock on Saturday evening
a fire broke out in Printing-house-square (near the printing-
office of the Times newspaper), in the house No. 2, situated
in the south. eastern angle of the square, used as workshops in
the occupation of Mr. M'Lauchlan, a carver, gilder, and look-
ing-glass manufacturer, residing at No. 3, next door. The
fire was first discovered in the back rooms of the upper, story,
and the flames extended thence with the greatest, rapidity to
the floor beneath, and from thence to the upper part of the
residence of M . M`LauchlEn, wh'elt was also used as a work-
shop. The first engine that arrived was a small one belong-
ing to St. Anne, Blackfriars, which was closely followed by a
similar one from the Fdrringdon street station of the
hose
0 brigade,the
and a larger one belonging to the parish.
The
ecase of No. 3,
two former were instantly conducted up
the
erest being no lack of
se o
andon
in
the arriving,
lane,
aanned
and the engines speedily got into play-
water. The large engines of the
the
being judiciously placed, bath in
immense stream of water was, in the rear of Earl-street. an ova!
which having about a quar-
ter by the falling in of the
kept pouring upon !he,.brigade, qt square r
lock so far subdued as to allay
s by nine o c
roof of No. 2, wa
ter past eight o'clock been , .
d• ,r, further. The engines, were,
play upon the ruins until a late hour.
all fear of their. exten n.,, .
however, kept
nearly totally destroyed, and the house of
mac damaged by water and removal..
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h
• /bee, on the other side, fortunately escaped any
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serious damage. The stables of Mr. Smith, from which the
horses were immediately removed, also escaped damage, ex-
cept from vater, as also his residence, which is in the rear
of Mr. Russell's premises. The buildings and property are
mostly insured.
STEAM FUEL.— Experiments have been tried in
mixing pitch with coal fur steam navigation, and it is said to
have answered most effectually,—Litervy Gazette.