The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM FALMOUTH.

By the Iberia steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Tues-
day with the Peninsula mails, we have received despatches
from Lisbon and the other ports of the Peninsula. The dates
of sailing of the Iberia are, from Gibraltar the 3d, Lisbon the
6th, Oporto the Bth, and Vigo the 9th inst.
At 5 p. rn. on Tuesday afternoon, her Majesty's packet
Penguin, Lieut. Luce, also arrived at Falmouth, from the
Brazils, having sailed from Rio de Janeiro on the 2d of March.
She brings sixteen days later dates than those received by the
Stag frigate recently arrived from the same quarter. The
Penguin has 33,0001. on freight, and the exchange at her de-
parture was 30d. No intelligence of impOrtance that we can
gather has been received by the Penguin. Affairs in Rio
Grande are still in as unsettled state.
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was prevented arriving in due time by the following circum-
stance. She left Gibraltar at
the usual time for ddiz, with
a passenger taken up at Gibraltar who was in the last stage
of consumption, and who died
on the passage to Cadiz. The
authorities at Cadiz refused
of health for Lisbon, withon this account to give a clean bill
ot which the steamer would have
had to go into quarantine iu
refused, on the Admk"e. And further, I hear, they
Gibraltar with the coirrpsealty ,and
bringts proposing to go back to
another clean bill of
health from there—in any case to give
consequence was that the lberiatuernei another at Cadiz. The
backi to Gibraltar,
whence she came direct here, without touching
arrived at nine o'clock last night ; and the rrrifaialt
by Cadiz,orri and
the Admiralty agents, closes at eleven o'clock this m
ornine,rs of
Senhor Miranda, Minister of Marine, expired at five yester-
dayc morning, and the funeral ceremonies will take place to-
day at Jesus Church, and the corpse will be probably interred
at the Prazeres burying ground. Guns are now being fired
every fifteen minutes in honour of the deceased.
The Special Finance Committee has been completed, and has
alreadymet under the presidency of the Duke of Palmella, whose
quarrel with the Queen about Count Taipa's introduction was set.
tied by that gentleman's writing to say that under no circum-
stances would he have entered the Committee in question. We have
nearly had another arsenal row. The men, being some six or
seven weeks in arrear, were instigated to strike. and refused on
Thursday to resume their work, to the number of six hundred
or above. An older, it appears, had been previously issued
for payment, but somehow or other it had not been carried into
effect, perhaps owing to the serious illness of the Minister of
Marine, Senhor Miranda. Counts Bomfim and Rodrigo Ilfagal-
haes went to the arsenal arid investigated the ease, and the men
have since been paid a portion of their wages.
The :Spanish minister (Senhor Aguilar) had a formal au
dience of the Queen, to present his credentials on the 31st
ult. Recent occurrences gave somewhat of interest to the
language in which Senhor Aguilar expressed himself on the
occasion

" Senhora—lt is very gratifying to me to have the honour
to present to your Majesty the credential letter, by which the
Regency of Spain, governing- the monarchy during the mino-
rity of my august mistress, Queen Isabella 11., has accredited
me to your Majesty as its envoy extraordinary, and minister
plenipotentiary.
"In fulfilling this duty "I have an especial charge to make
known to your Majesty and to your Government the senti-
ments which animate the Regency, of sincere and cordial
friendship towards your Majesty and the noble and generous
Portuguese nation, as well as the reciprocal interest which
the two peninsular people have in drawing closer their rela-
tions, identified as they are in political principles, and equally
lovers of their legal liberty and of their independence.
Having now, for the second time, to reside in this Court
as representative of Spain, and having merited from your Ma-
jesty s august grandfather (may he be in glory) all considera-
tion and esteem, I flatter myself that, animated as I alw
am by the same sentiments, I shall deserve the same benevo-ays -