The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-05 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

LISBON, Ju 28, 4, F.M.
" The discussions in the Chamber of Senatars have been
devoid of interest, a sufficient number of members not having
met during the past week to enable them to proceed in any
case to a vote.

" In the House of Deputies, on the 22d inst., a select com-
mittee was appointed to examine into and report upon the
financial project presented by the Government on the pre-
vious day ' • its members are—the Bishop of Leiria, Bernardo
Miguel de Oliveira Borges, Laurenco Jose Moniz' Thomas do
Aquino de Carvalho, Joaquim Jose da Costa de Simas, Baron
de Albufera, and Joao Rebell() da Costa Cabral. On the same
day was discussed the proposal of the Finance Minister, in
which he solicited an authorization to receive the public
revenues up to the end of September next ensuing, and to
apply their amounts to Treasury payments; also another, to
realize, in a manner which may be thought most convenient,
upon the product of those receipts, the sums of money neces-
sary to meet the current expenses during this time. Upon
this part of the project much discussion took place ; the Hon.
Deputies concurred with the' first for the authorization, but
strongly objected to the raising a sum of 200 contos (46,0001.
sterling), upon the product of the receipts referred to in the
second article. This debate was renewed on the following day,
and the proposal in the second article carried by a majority of
42 votes in favour of Ministers.
" Ministers have not adopted the capitulation of the
national debt, as recommended by the Finance Com-
mittee, their plans being directed to new taxes and a re-
duction of the general expenditure. Among the pro-
posed imposts 10 per cent. upon the interests of the
internal national debt is the foremost ; the same on the sala-
ries of public employes in actual service, and 20 per cent, upon
Monte Pios or widows' and orphans' pensions, and all sorts of
allowances to the inactive classes. The interest due on the fo-
reign debt already consolidated will be in future paid by the
Board of Peblic Credit. These proposals have been referred
to Committees, whose members are all Ministerialists. The
Foreign Secretary, M. Rodrigo da Fonseca Magalhaes, an-
nounced to the house on Saturday last the recognition of her
Most Faithful Majesty by the King of Prussia, and that the
same is soon likely to be followed by the otber European Mo-
narchs who have not, up to the present, done so. '1 he new
customs tariffs, with their next to prohibitory duties, will come
into operation on the 21st of August next ensuing.
The trial by jury of four of the persons implicated in the
robbery and murder committed about two years since, in the
house of M. Joseph M. O'Neil in Rua da Emenda, took place
on the 21st inst., when, after a lengthened investigation,
which continued without interruption until the following day,
Jtize Benta Alfaia, the assassin, was sentenced to be hanged,
and the other three transported for life to the coast of Africa.
" Their Majesties honoured the annual fete of bullfighting
at Alhandra by their presence on the 25th and 26th instant,
and returned to town yesterday.
" In very recent conflicts between the Queen's troops and
the Guerillas in the Algarve, four of the latter have been
killed, and the notorious Tenente Cartista, and seven horses
captured.

"Exchange upon London at 30 days' sight, 54d. per milrei."

THE SULTAN and 'MEHEMET ALL
The Sud of Marseilles has the following from Alexandria,
under the date of the leth ult.
the night of the 7th, the Russian steamer Siladj came
into this port, bringing Kiamil Effendi, one of the Grand Vi-
zier's officers, bearing the new Hatti Scheriff, which was ad-
dressed by the Porte to Muhib Effendi. It has been accepted
by Mehemet Ali, and should no unforeseen incident occur,
the Egyptian question is definitively settled. The investiture
of the Pacha was performed in the morning of the 10th, with
all the accustomed ceremonies. With the Hatti Scheriff, the
Sultan transmitted the Gantt Insignia of the Order of Nicham
Eftiar. Many civil and military officers were present at the
ceremony, and, to render it more brilliant, the Government
permitted two battalions of the Guards to enter the city, and
t The Effendi
form a double line, through which Muhib Effendi passed
ofrfom the RazEclotiunni wryh.e r e thh e e
was accompanied by Osman Pacha, commander-in-chief of
the Guards, Samy Bey, one of the Pacha's privy councillors,
and by AhemetlAza, Capigi Bachi, of the Porte, lately from the
hadfrm arrived the
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daysthe before, palace
Hedj is, where he had been on a special mission, bearing the
case containing the jewels of the order, which the Pacha kissed,
as a mark of his veneration before he put them on. When the
Hatti Scheriff had been read by Kiamil Effendi, it was saluted
from all the batteries on land, and the ships in the harbour,
which, at the same time, were dressed in their flags. On
account of the plague, as we believe, the Consuls were not
invited to this ceremony, which will comilence a new and
happy era, as it brings peace to a country which has so long
stood in need of it. The tribute is not mentioned in the fir-
man, the Porte fearing a refusal, on account of its excess, of
which it is sensible, having made it the subject of a distinct
communication from the Vizier. In fact, the Pacha has ob-
jected to the amount (40 millions of piastres) as out of propor-
tion to the revenues of Egypt, and he hopes to obtain a reduc-
tion, through a negotiation, with which Muhib Effendi
will be charged, on his return to Constantinople. His mis-
sion here being fulfilled, he is expected to take his departure
very shortly, in the steam-packet I'sile, which the Government
has placed at his disposal. It is probable that the Viceroy
will remit a sum of money to Constantinople, on account of the
tribute, being aware of the distressed state of the Sultan's
treasury. Ilazzi Ali Pacha, ex-Governor of Koniah, lately
named by the Porte to the, same office at Mecca, has arrived
here, and been received with all the honours due to his rank,
by the Viceroy, who assigned him one of the splendid resi-
dences which adjoin his own palace. Hazzi Ali was also pre-
sent at the investiture. The Russian steamer is gone back to
Constantinople with the announcement of the acceptance of the
Hatti Scheriff. One circumstance attending her stay in this
Constantinople
port is worthy of notice. The Captain, a Greek by birth,
joined the other ships in firing a salute on the publication of
favourable to the Turks. This is
the Hatti Scheriff, but afterwards complained, through the
Russian Consul, that his mark of respect was not answered by
very
ynees of the Porte. Forß several
the guns of the fort. The Government replied that it con-
ceived his remonstrance was unfounded, but referred this:ques-
tion of etiquette to the Captain of the steam-ship Gorgon,
whose solution was noff
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Francais, on the same subject, says : *
t, The whole of the Hatti-Scheriff has not been published,
and besides that which has been officially notified, there is
another, in which the Sultan promises to shut his eyes to the
non-execution of the official :firman, if Mehemet Ali will
frankly aid him in putting down the insurrections, which
threaten not only the the Turkish Empire, but also the Maho-
metan religion. What is certain is that the Turkish Envoy is
on very good terms with Mehemet Ali, and that the latter has
neither disbanded the army nor the National Guard, nor sus-
pended for a moment the proceedings on land for reort/Thising
the army, or in the arsenal. As to the monopolie's, they exist
as hitherto ;in a word nothing has been cbtriged Mehemet
Ali is doing what he can to get himself entreated to restore
order in Arabia, which, it appears, is in a state of great anar-
chy. A caravan from Mecca has arrived in a sad plight,
having been plundered on the road, and half the pilgrims
having been assassinated. The Hedjaz is in open insurrection.
The European Consuls and travellers at lljedda have hastily
left a country in which they were in such great danger. The
army has not quitted its cantonments. Ibrahim Pacha is on
a tour in Upper Egypt."

A very uneasy feeling is prevalent in the City,
and reports of various failures are current this afternoon,
but we cannot trace them to any authentic source.
Messrs. Ladbrokes the bankers have intimated to their
customers, their desire to decline business after to-day ;
proposing at the same time a transference of their busi-
ness to Messrs. Glyn. Messrs. Ladbroke have. it
derstood, been long anxious to retire. h-- • is all"
diminished , ...iving gradually
their business into ~- -and having now brought
their transaetion.,
~.., small a compass as to render its
-• _ ..,i me manner proposed an easy matter. All the
liabilities of the firm will be fully discharged, and the
partners are understood to
. . retire with considerable
! wealth.—Sunday paper.
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