The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-04 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

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LISBON, SEPT. 27.—A very serious failure, and one
by which most of the English cotton firms here will 'be
large sufferers, has been announced this week. The great
Spanish house of Corpas, Garcia, and Co., has stopped
payment. It had become the subject of conversation be-
fore the departure of the last packet, this day week, that
a large amount of their bills had been returned unpaid
from Lon ion, and had not been taken up ; but it was
thought at first, from the great number of respectable
firms interested in supporting the house, that an arrange-
ment would be made to allow them to go on. A meeting
of their creditors took place on Saturday (the 25th) when
a statement of their debts and assets was produced,
by which it appears that their engagements amount to
upwards of 480 contos of reis (120,0001.), while their as-
sets are stated at 504 contos ; but of the latter only 280
contos are set down as goods on hand, and good debts.
Their " bad debts " are stated at 125 contos, and
" doubtful" ones at 98 contos. They offered to pay
50 per cent. in four years (viz. nothing in the first,
25 per cent. in the second, and 121 per cent. in each of
the third and fourth), which the creditors refused ;
and 'another meeting is called for to-morrow. I hear
that they have since offered the following proposal—
to pay 15 per cent. on the 31st of January, 1842; 10 per
cent., Jane 30 ; and 10 per cent., December 31, 1842 ;'
5 per cent., June 30, and 5 per cent, December 31,
1843 ; and 5 per cent., June 30, 1844 ; total 50 per
cent. These terms are much better ; but there is no
guarantee that they would be executed. The house of
Corpas and Company formed the chief medium between
the English houses and the Spanish smugglers ; buying
upon credit from the former, and selling on credit also to
the latter; who were accustomed to take an assortment
of cottons, &c., over the Spanish frontier, and when dis •
posed of, returned to pay for them, and get another cargo.
The rigorous and unprecedented measures adopted by
the Spanish authorities against the trade haste contri-
buted very much to bring on the present catastrophe, of
which, however, the immediate cause is said to be the
failure of some firms at Manchester and London. The
Portuguese firm of Ribeiro da Silva and Co. hold, it is
said, 80 contos worth of Messfs. Corpas and Co.'s bills ;
the great bulk of the remaining obligations are due to
English cotton firms. This failure has caused great
consternation here, and will be matter of serious incon-
venience to many. Some of the older firms had Molted
shy at their bills for these twelve months past ; but they
continued to get goods on credit up to the last.
Mr. Knowles has also stopped payment, and called his
creditors together, both in his own name, and also as
procurator for the Brazilian house of Vicente Ferreira.
da Silva. Mr. Knowles had been largely concerned in
bill transactions with Corpas and Co., and was a creditor
on that firm for some 20 contos of reis.

The Senate has 'voted the Bill which went up last
week from the Deputies to enable the Government to
receive and apply according to law the revenues clue up
to the end of June next. By this vote the Govern-
ment will be able, according to Senhor Avila, to meet
all its expenses without a loan, to which he is op-
posed. He intends raising small'sums from time to
time on the Decima, as it falls due. There was. a sum
of 200 contos (50,0001.), which was to be paid in London
on the Ist October, about which much anxiety prevails ;
I believe the bank has agreed to furnish it, but am
in doubt whether it will have reached England in due
time. Senhor Avila is indefatigable, and really deserves
great credit for the resources he has raised since he came
in, which is owing, in a great measure, to the personal
confidence-felt in him. It is reported also that some of
the Receivers-General, who have long been in arrear,
have been forced, to cash up. Certainly, by some means,
money has been found, and all classes have received
something; the Court, I believe, least of all.
A band- of forty guerillas (mounted), that had had the
boldness to traverse the Alentejo, and having crossed the
Tagus to penetrate into the province of Hera, were fortu-
nately met at a village called Amarillas by a detachment of
cavalry, and completely routed, on the 14th instant, nine
being killed and several made prisoners ; while the others
jumped off their horses, in order to escape and conceal
themselves ; twenty-six horses were captured by the
troops,at the time, and eight guerillas, as well as thir-
teen more horses, have since been taken by the inha-
bitants of Sarzedas. The people of the neighbouring
districts were all up in arms in pursuit of them, so that
it is to be hoped feo of them will escape. The 28th
Caeadoresi 400 in number, have arrived at Olhao; Al-
garve, from Oporto, by the Vesuvio steamer, so that the
course of the southern banditti will be arrested at length.
Marquis Saldanha is expected to leave for Madrid in a
day or two. General Macdonnell leaves to-day by the
Braganza steamer for England.

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAIL.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 30.—Two individuals, named Fre-
deric Grandneux, born at Cambray, aged twenty-eight
years old, a cabinet-maker, and Louis Adolphe Gigot,
born at Dontilly (Seine and Marne), thirty years old,
both from Paris, are imprisoned in the Petits Carmes.
These two persons, who are kept most strictly secluded
from all intercourse, has just been subjected to a long
examination by the Chief of Police.
It appears that the arrest of these two persons is con-
nected with the late attempt on the lives of the French
Princes.—lndependent.
OSTEND, SEPT. 29.—Their Majesties the King and
Queen arrived here this afternoon at four o'clock, accom-
panied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, to
see her on board the steamer in which she will embark
for England.
BRUSSELS, OCT. I.—A storm which raged almost the
whole of yesterday, obliged the Duchess of Kent to delay
her departure for 24 hours.
ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. .6.—Mehemet Ali is still here,
Hiring. in a country seat near the city. M. Krupmer, the
Russian Consul, has not been officially presented but pro-
bably will be before the Viceroy goes to Cairo. Mea-
sures are now taken in earnest to give up the Syrians; in
the Pacha's service. They are to receive their arrears of
pay before their departure. Their number is estimated
at 10,000. Napier is very active in this matter. The last
French steamer brought orders to Mehemet Ali to give
up the expedition to Arabia (for which, however, nOpre-
parations were made.) It seems that this is owing to the
influence of the English, who look with a jealous eye to
all that passess in the Red Sea.
Achmet Menikli Pacha, formerly Minister of War, has
resigned.

TIM HAGUE, SEPT. 28. The Emperor of Russia
left Warsaw on the 21st, to return to St. Petersburgh.
The Central Section of the Second Chamber of the
States-General had a sitting to-day, in which a Report
was made on the proposed Budget. The Report is very
long, and many retrenchments are proposed.
The vote of the First Chamber, or the Chamber of
Accounts, has caused a great sensation. An amended
project of law is expected in the next sitting of the
States-General.

THE HAGUE, SEPT. 30.—1 n the sitting of the Second
Chamber of the States-General to-day, at which the
Minister of Finance was present, a message from his
Majesty, dated Sept. 29, was received, accompanying a
new project of law, containing instructions for the Ge-
neral Chamber of Accounts. It was reported to the
Sections. ,

According to letters received from Berlin, :,his Ma-
jesty Ring William Frederick, Count of Nassau, has
given up the intention, which we noticed some time ago,
of spending the winter in the Prussian capital, and will
come with the countess of Oultremont to the Loo, and
probably very soon.

- DUTCH FUNDS.—Ame'rekoate,liCer. 1.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Jitto, ditto 5 per cent.
Amort Syndic,4% per cent 92 9236
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent...... ............ - 7 b% :6%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent l5l '543y
Ditto (1335 and 1537) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. . 073, 98
Exchange on London, One month l2 0714
Twomenths ......., II 07%
Hamburgh, One month 35 68%
. Twomonths 3.5 43%
Dutch Papers, Oct. 2.
BELO! AN 1! UNDS—Bnueene , OCT. 1.
Actual Debt, 236 per Cent..
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOll4
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. 92%
3 per CenL .....
--Thirty.seven -- 71%
(1.341 lOl%
Loan of City, 1032, 4 per Cent. 90:0
Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent 9314
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Col.
National Society. s. —
Exchange on London (short)
Brussels Papers, Oot. 1.
A USTIII A N FUNDS.—VIENNA, Sem% 23
Five per Cents. Metailiques
Four per Cents. ..... -..... ....... ...........
Three par Cents
Sank Shares 1561
—Altgemeine Zeitung, Sept. '2i.
HA MBU KG BORSENHALLE, Om LI
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ......... 107%
(lank Shares 1605
Anglo_Russian Loan lO-3{ 108%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, let Se:ies lOl% 101%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series ... 991% 93
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840)
Dutch actual Debt, 2)4 pet Cent 50%
Ditto s per Cent --
Polish Bonds
New ticket e. 15936
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% '75%
Nnwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 15%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, OCT . 1.-13 7.—Two months, 13 5%
Pcmasnunan, Sem% 24.—Two months, 311 1- 16 pence.
RIGA, SEPT. 1.3.-Three Months, 3911 .
bTOCKHOLD.I. serr.r24.—Seventy-five days, 12, 0.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.— BitaLirs, Sere. V..
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Money
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. lu;3. 11:4
Prussian English Loin, 18311, 4 per eent 10:3 r-
Xxeriange on London, three months 6 13% -
-Prussian Stale Gazette. Sept. 29.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.—Yester-
day morning, at • eight o'clock, as Gilbert's omnibus
was preceding to the Great Western Railway, one
of the passengers was taken suddenly ill. The driver,
who was called to, -immediately pulled up, when
a gentleman apparently between forty and fifty years
of age, was lifted out and conveyed in a state of insen-
sibility to Jones's coffee-shop, in West-street, where he-
expired before medical assistance -could be procured.
The deceased gOt in at the Bank, and from some con-
versation which he had with a person who sat nest to
him, it appeared that he was going by the train to
Southall. In his possession were found a silver watch,
and upwardS of Cl. in cash ; but there were no papers
Upon him by which information could be gained relative
to his name or place of abode.
ALLEGED FORGERIES.--It is nIMOUred that
forgeries to a considerable amount have been committed
by a member of an old and highly respectable family in
the western part of this county, on the branch of the
Provincial Bank of Skibbereen.—cork Reporter.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
-packet the Ocean, J. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived' off
the Custom-house yesterday, with the Dutch Mail, after
a favourable passage of 22 hours ; also the Neptune,
\Vhittingham, from Hamburgh, with titre Hamburgh
Mail, after a favourable passage of 53 hour&