The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-22 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Montrose steamer arrived at Falmouth on ,Satur•
day. We have received files . Veninsulav, paper, .as
well as correspondence from Li;hun. The Mottiff.,:..e al
rived at Gibraltar on the 9th in,t. the ttielica!
,erived there on the leet tor MAL, the 611-
The burvie Arri,p4l t h., 9th
irom Allii ill 1)1'11,:lio:, t.l n ,41.1 'Aids
Al,,iest.v ,hit. t. 31.4111- baN 11.'
.11‘ Itold:•,,,10.:- hod
..it{{ wesit

When tiles" Were all placed in dinar:Mane. :le-
veral meetings had peen held at the health-office, awl it
was understood that some means would be vdopted to
remove the men to another vessel, the ma,t,or 1 1 the
Magnet having. died of. plague before her arrival at Git,_
raltar. The steamer's dates are—front Gibraltar Ilth,
Cadiz 12th, Lisbon -15th, elf Oporto 16th, Vigo 17th. en
the 13th, off Lisbon, she passed a French Government
steamer g dug southward.
Lisnos, Nov. •15.—The Finance Minister's budget,
which had al:eady been approvad of in the lump by the
Chamber of Deputies, las since underrate a pro jig out
examination in detail, the result of which has been the
approval of every one of its items without the slightest
alteration. The follou tog are in round numbers, the
principal heads of expenditure • COlitos.
Home department
Finance ditto
Justice ditto • • 447
Alarine and Colonial ditto
Foreign Affairs ditto 232
General charges 1,428
Board of Public Credit for payment of interest -
on home and foreign debt—viz., for home 4,215
debt
For foreign ditto 1,075
War department .. 2,953
Extraordinary charges (instalments on the Pal-
merston claims, and others) 694

The total amount of expenditure for the year is esti-
mated at 10,984 contos, and the revenue, suppo.:ing the
new taxes to produce the sums expected from them, at
10,332 contos.- The deficit would therefbre appear to be
only about 659 contos ; but considering that no new
source of revenue in this country has ever brought into
the treasury more than two-thirthr at the very utmost, of
its estimated produce, it is fair to presume that the same
will happen in the 'present instance, in which case of
course the deficit will swell to a much larger tigurc.• One
of the opposition.- journals, in a series of calculations,
supported by very-plausible -reasoning, rates it as high
as 3,786 contos. In this, probably, there is some exag
geration.
The Cortes were to have closed on the 13th instant,
but did not, as the budget question could not be got
through the Senate in time. They are, however, to be
closed to-morrow or the day after. The difficulty of
mustering a sufficient number of senators to form a house
has proved all along a great hinderance to the despatch,
of business. Three days out of four nothing can be done
on that account. -

The expected recognition of this Government- by
Russia, Austria, and Prussia, has not yet formally taken
place by the appointment of diplomatic agents to this
Court. Russia and Prussia have not yet named any; but
Austria, I learn, is about 'to send Baron Mareschal as
Envoy Extraordinary to the Queen of Portugal. The
Ministers to be sent from hence, besides the Marquis de
Saldanha, who has already set out for Vienna, through
Madrid, are Baron Rendulfe to Prussia, and M. Ferreira
Borges to the _Russian Court, both as arges d'Affaires.
These new appointments have added considerably to the
expenditure of the Foreign Affairs department
- There have been several more failures here. The
English house of Boughton and Co., and two Portuguese
firms, those of Borges and Bastos, stopped payment last
week. A great proportion of the loss in all these three
cases, as in the preceding failures, has fallen upon the
British merchants here. This has, indeed, been a most
disastrous year in Lisbon.

DECREE RESPECTING THE PAYMENT OF THE

PORTUGUESE FOREIGN DEBT.

We publish the following translation of a Royal de-
cree, dated Nov. 9, 1841, • respecting the nature of the
revenues to be applied to the payment of the Foreign
Debt in Portugal :
" We, Donna Maria, Queen of Portugal, &c., do
hereby make known unto all our subjects, that the Ge-
neral Cortes have decreed, and we have sanctioned, the
following law :
" Art. 1. The Board of Public Credit is to be hence-
forth charged with the payment of the interest on the
external Consolidated I)ebt, in conformity to the first
article of the law of the 15th of July, 1837, whereby
that Board was created.

" Art. 2. In order to meet this new charge, the Board
of Public Credit shall be endowed with the following ad-
ditional revenues—viz.,

" 1. The decima impost on the interest upon the Con-
solidated home Debt.

" The decima on the salaries or other allowances of
persons employed by the Board, or in departments sub-
ordinate to it.

"3. The Siza impost upon the sale or barter of real
proper ty.
"4. The additional three per cent' to be collected at
the sea port Custom-houses, and 'four per cent.' at the
Sete Cazas ' (or land-port Custom-house) of Lisbon.
" 5. The annual -ten of 100 contos paid from the cof-
fers of the 'Sete Cazas.'

" 6. The annual sum of 340 comes, paid from the cut-
ters of the chief Custom-house of Lisbon.

" If the revenues of which this article treats should
not produce sufficient for the full payment of the first
dividend to become due after the publication of the pre-
sent law, the Board of Public Credit shall, from the day
on which said dividend becomes due, receive directly
one-third of the revenues of the Chief Custom-house of
Lisbon and Custom-house of Oporto, until the sum re-
quired for the said payment shall have been completed.
" Art. 3. The revenues which, in conformity to the
dispositions of the preceding article, are to form the
additional endowment of the Board of Public Credit,
shall be administered and collected by the same Board,
with exclusive application to the ends fur which they are
intended, and not on any principle be diverted there-
from, under the same pains and penalties imposed by the
9th article of the law of the 15th Ju1y,1837, in regard to
the revenues applied to the payment of the interest on
the Consolidated Home Debt.

" Art. 4. In order that the payment of the new charge
incumbent upon the Board of A'ublic Credit, in confor-
mity to the present law, should be effected with the
punctuality indispensable, the Board is authorised to
issue bills or bonds payable at three months' date, and
to realise upon them, by discount in the money market,
the sums required, provided such discount should never
exceed half the annual interest on the respective loans.
" Art. 5. If this new incumbency should render it ne-
cessary for the Board to employ a greater number of
clerks, the Government will transfer to the Board, from
the Treasury or any other finance department, such►
number of clerks as may be- absolutely necessary, pro-
vided that there shall in no wise result therefrom any
increase of expense, however small, nor any injury to the
service of the Treasury or other department.
" Art. 6. All legislation to the contrary is repealed.
(Signed) " The QUEEN.
(Countersigned) " ANTONIO JOSE D'AVILA.
" Palace of Necessidades, Nov. 9, 1841."

WOOL W ICH—SAT URDA Y.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Devastation steam-frigate, Commander Hastings
sielaegtilniiasidaftilernan,.'trill
labregteldql)u'actottn4leor tdatolltdarnedalslyheil.ulsr
were put on board this morning from the loyal Arsenal.
The Ifev. Michael Solomon Alexander, Bishop of Eng-
land and Ireland in Jerusalem, and suite, are expected
to embark at the Woolwich Dockyard on Tuesday next,
and sail immediately afterwards fur their destination.
The original intention of the reverend divine to , embark
at Porstmouth has been altered in consequence of the
daily expected confinement of his lady, who, with her
family of six daughters,
.the eldest not above 13 years of
age, will have ample accommodation on board this splen-
did vessel, and avoid the fatigue of travelling by railway
to Portsmouth..
The Monkey, steam-vessel, Second Master W. Bryant,
arrived on Wednesday from Chatham, and to-day got
her steam up for the purpose of conveying Captain
Greenwood's company of the Royal Artillery, under
orders for China, to Portsmouth. In the course of the
forenoon, it was notified to. Mr. Bryant that the company
would not be ready to embark before Monday.
The Fearless, steam surveying vessel, Capt. F. Bullock,
ha,sr been
Mastiff,eenttike n into
guns, surveying
basintolay up for the winter.
wander G. Thomas, and the Wlo.eosdslealr' Master
k her tender,-
Cnodnr
arrived from the Orkney Isl d land
e'-,
an s on Satun ay last,
will remain here during the winter. -
The Meteor, steatn-vessel, is hourly expeeled from
Yarmouth, in charge of Commander Slater and the crew
of the Lightning.
The Falmouth arrived from Plymouth on Saturday,
and will sail for Portsmouth and Plymouth about the
latter end of next week.
The Comet, suam-vessel, Lieut. Commander Frederick
Chevalier Syer, will be paid off early next week.

Among the numerous disasters occasioned by
the late floods in Dauphiny, the following is related :
A large farmhouse, near the bridge at Tronchebourse,
in the Isere, belonging to a M. Gras, was invaded and
ultimately washed down by the force of the increased
current of the 1)olon. One of the men, in endeavouring
to save the cattle, was carried away and drowned. M.
Gras was with him, but could not save him. Ills wife,
eldest daughter, and female servant were in one of the
rooms, while two younger children were asleep in an ad-
joining one. The water came in so strong that they
found it impossible to open the door, and %were soon
obliged to get upon a table. This soon began to float,
and the only means they had of keeping it steady was by
pressing with their hands again the beams of the ceil-
ing. M. Gras, hearing their cries for relief, managed, by
knocking some bricks out of a wall which separated a
hay-loft from the room next above it to make his way
into it. Here he tore up two boards of the floor, broke
a hole through' tht, ceiling, and by it drew his wife, his
daughter, and the servant up to him. As soon as these
were safe, he descended, got to • the room of the other
children, and rescued them also. The eldest, a boy two
years old, was sleeping in his bed, and the.other, .a little
girl, not more than ten months, was equally tranquil ' ll'
her cradle, although it was actually afloat. tranquil