The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
..._

Discount of Bank notes, 40 per cent. Exchange, 30
days, 53k; 90, 54; sovereigns, 4.490; dollars, 920.

EXTENSIVE FIRE THIS MOENING.—As police-
constable 267 N, was on duty in High-street Stoke
morning
he between two and three o'clock this
he discovered a fire on the premises of Mr. Lucking, a
fruiterer. Instant alarm was given, and messengers dis-
patched to the various fire-stations, but before the en-
gines arrived, the flames had obtained a firm hold on the
adjoining premises, and were spreading with fearful ra-
pidity. Several engines arrived, but though they suc-
ceeded in preventing the communication of the flames to
other premises, three houses were entirely consumed ;
a china-shop occupied by Mr. Rawlings, Mr. Lucking's,
and a cheesemongers occupied by Mr. Miles.
MILITARY FORCE IN IRELAND.--The following is
the official return of the present military force in Ire-
land:—Cavalry-2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards,
Clonmel and Newbridge; 6th Dragoon Guards, Dun-
dalk; Ist Dragoons (or Royals), Cahir; 2d Dragoons,
Athlone; 4th Dragoons, Dublin; 6th Dragoons (Ennis-
killen), Newbridge; 7th Hussars, Dublin and Drogheda;
Bth Hussars, Ballincollig; 13th Light Dragoons, Long-
ford and Dublin; 17th Lancers, Dublin. Infantry-2d
R
;3d Regiment (Buffs), Dub-
lin Regiment, 2d Battalion, Fermoy ; 7th
Regiment
e Nnta of s ;
Regiment, Depot Company, Dublin ; 13th Regiment,
sFo6otht, Athlone
Birr; 16th, Depot Company, Youghal; 19th Regiment,
Castlebar; 26th
Regiment, Buttevant; 34th Regiment,
Depot Company, Waterford ; 38th Regiment, Depot
Company, Boyle ; 40th Regiment, Galway ; 41st Re-
giment, Mullingar and Clare Castle ; 44th Regi-
ment, Ist Battalion, Newry ; 2d Battalion, Cork ;
47th Regiment, Clonmel ; 48th Regiment, Enniskillen;
49th Regiment, Dublin ; 55th Regiment, Templemore ;
59th Regiment, TemPlernore ; 64th Regiment, Lime-
rick; G6th Regiment, Depot Company, Cork; 67th
Regiment, Ist and 2d Battalion, Cork ; 68th Regiment,
Mullingar ; 70th Regiment, Fermoy ; 73d Regiment,
Depot Company, Birr; 74th Regiment, Belfast; 75th
Regiment, Dublin ; 77th Regiment, Depot Companies,
Nenagh ; 79th Regiment, Depot Companies, Mullingar;
83d Regiment, Kilkenny ; 85th Regiment, Dublin; 88th
Regiment, Depot Company, Tralee ; 92d Regiment,
Dublin and Limerick; 95th Regiment, Depot Companies,
Naas. Royal Artillery-15 Companies and six troops
of Horse Artillery. Besides the above are the embodied
battalions of Chelsea Out-Pensioners and the local
armed police force. Several regiments are under orders
for the disturbed districts in Ireland, and a portion of
the A division of the metropolitan police, which will
make an armed force of from 40,000 to 45,000 men.
METROPOLITAN CHURCHYARDS.—MT. Walker has
given notice to the Government, that he shall keep a
watchful eye upon the floor of the House of Commons,
and if it is overcrowded with the bodies of the Irish
Members; who have threatened to die there, he cer-
tainly shall do everything in his power to remove the 1
nuisance. If he could do it before they die, we should
not mind.—Punch.

COURT-MARTIAL o LIEUT. CROWTHER, OF THE
63D REGIMENT.—The General Court-martial on this
officer at Chatham Garrison, which commenced its in-
quiry on Tuesday, the 14th inst., will, owing to the
number of witnesses warned on the trial, occupy the
Court for at least three days. Mr. Richard Frail, soli-
citor, from Rochester, appears on behalf of the prisoner.
Lieutenant-Colonel Pole, commanding-officer of the
regiment, being the prosecutor, briefly addressed the
Court, and said that it was with feelings of deep regret
that he appeared before this Court as the prosecutor on a
trial of an officer of his own regiment, especially on
charges of so serious a nature. There are limits if passed
over without notice which would destroy the foundation
and principles of military discipline, and, as he felt most
desirous not to occupy the time of the Court more than
was absolutely necessary, he would at once give an out-
line of the circumstances upon which the charges have
been founded. Colonel Pole then commenced reading
from a written paper, when he was stopped by the
Court, and ordered to be sworn,
as it appeared that he
was going into the merits connected with the charges.
The Colonel was then sworn, and examined at some
length, as also Captain Charles E. Fairflough. Captain
S. F. C. Annesley,
and Lieutenant and Adjutant H. M.
Walmaley, in support of the prosecution. We refrain
giving the evidence in consequence of an injunction
placed on persons present connected with the public
press by the President, Colonel C. Middleton. At four
o'clock the Court adjourned till the following morning,
when it again assembles.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has presented a
beautiful miniature carriage, or " barouchette " capable
of carrying four children, to his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales and his royal sisters and brother. The
carriage may be drawn by one or two ponies.
CALAMITOUS FIRE IN FRANCE.—The large manu-
factory of M. Cumenge, of Salvages (Tarn), was burnt
to the ground nn the night of the 6,11 inst. Th. pre,
raises contained extensive paper works, a woollen thread
factory, and machinery for cork cutting, all of which
were destroyed. The loss is calculated at about 750,000 f.
Fortunately the property was insured.

cargo, consisting of cotton, immediately ignited. The
captain and crew, in all 16 persons, not being able to
extinguish the fire, abandoned the ship, and succeeded
in gaining Treguier in their boat. The Robert Shaw
was on her passage from Charleston to Havre. This
was, no doubt, the vessel seen by the Tagus on fire
on her late passage to Southampton.
The Journal des Debats announces the death, at
Constantinople, of typhus fever and cholera, of Count
ST. FERREOL, attached to the French embassy in that
city.

The line of railroad from Marseilles to Avignon is
to be opened in January next.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Tuesday, at 75f. 30c. ; New Loan, 76f. 40c. ;
the Five per Cents., 116 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 1,197 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 908 f. 75c. ;
Havre, 471 f. 25c.; Great Northern, 550 f. ; Avignon,
5601. ; Vierzon, 547 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 4851. ; Bou-
logne, 375 f.; Dieppe, 260 E; Basle, 1621. 50c.; Paris
and Strasburg, 412 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes,
3931. 75c.; Paris and Lyons, 387 f. 50c.; Spanish
Three per Cents., 30.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14311--Namur and Liege, 51/8—
Northern of France, 111—Paris and Lyons, s,A—Paris
god Orleans, 461,42—Paris and Rouen, 34%—Rouen and
Barre, 19.

LISBON, DEc. 9, 1847.—The elections for Estrema-
dura are over, and on Sunday next, the 12th instant, the
electors will meet in this city to name deputies to repre-
sent the province. According to what I anticipated in
my former correspondence, the majority of the electors
belong to the Cabralist party, and thus their nominees
will be of the same political colour. In all the other
provinces the same thing has occurred, and, conse-
quently, upon these elections a complete Cabralist Par-
liament will be elected. This proves too much, and, in
good logic, it proves nothing. In fact, the system of
violence and fraud countenanced by the military force
has given this result.
The Central Committee of the Opposition is preparing
for publication a statistical table of all the electors that
were registered as having the franchise against the law,
and who were admitted to the ballot. This table will be
framed on the various reports given by the sub-commit-
' tees which were organized in every parish of the capital.
Besides this table, another, of the citizens unduly dis
franchised, is to accompany the report. Amongst the
electors illegally admitted in fifteen districts appear the
volunteers of various battalions, the petty officers, the
baud and drummers of the garrison, the scavengers of the
town, the workmen of the arsenals, the crew of the
registry vessels of the port, the porters of the custom-
houses, the letter carriers of the Post-office, and the men
employed its the lighting and paving departments.
Upon an average the votes of such individuals are near
upon three thousand. It to those we add nearly two
thousand electors illegally disfranchised, more than one-
half of the voters for the province were manufactured
fcr the Cabrals, as part of them voted unduly, and the
other part by the exclusion did not vote at all ! With
such foul means the victory is easily gained.
The Cabralist party are mad with joy at the result of
the elections—the object being gained is sufficient for
them. They neither calculate the consequences or the
evils to come—to tread under foot the established laws,
to reject all evidence, to lay the foundation of anarchy
in the administrative departments, is a matter of no
consequence. Justice is all a chance—truth is a thing
belonging to the other world ; they trouble not them
selves with its reality here below. The Cabrals con-
sider they have gained a victory which will elevate them
to power, and, intoxicated with their triumph, they care
for nothing e:sc, as they make sure of the fruit of the
campaign. There it is that they may expect to be un-
deceived in the end—there it is they will have to en-
counter the difficulties they despise—it is there they will
meet the beginning of the end of their delirium.
Ecce omnia tibi dabo say they of this kingdom ; but can
they fulfil the promise, and convert the stones into
bread? Can the party that, like the fabulous teeth of
Cadmus, spring up into twenty thousand men from the
earth, armed and organized in opposition to them, be
considered extinct? Can the Cabrals really suppose
themselves the conquerors, after having called three
powerful nations to disarm their foes ? Indeed, ambi-
tion cannot reach to a higher degree of infatuation.
It is not for the Cabrals to re-establish peace in Por-
tugal, because their former discredit has now increased
by fresh and undisguised ambition, and renders them
unfit to govern. Different sort of men are required in
the present day, mon who possess moderation, who have
energy, friends of economy, and, above all, honest men.
The position which the Cabrals attempt to take up, and
which they prepare to struggle for alone and in spite of
the protocol, is the rock upon which they will split.
On the 3d inst. the baptism of the new born Prince
took place at the Royal Chapel. He was christened
Augustus. The diplomatic body, a few of the nobility,
and the high functionaries of the State, were present to
witness the ceremony.
Some disturbances and conflicts between the people
and the soldiers took place during the past week at
Aldea Gallega and Castello de Vide, in the province of
the Alemtejo, In both places the insubordination of the
troops and the ill-treatment of the people at the last
elections, were the causes of the entente. Most impro-
perly some fresh troops were ordered to both places, and
this measure, instead of allaying the bad feelings of the
inhabitants, will irritate them more, and bring perhaps
a new crisis.