The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-16 00:00:00

THE PRESIDENT STEAIII-SHIP.

Throughout yesterday the office of the British and
American Steam Navigation Company was besieged by
the numerous relatives and friends of the crew and pas-
sengers on board the long-missing steam-ship President
for the purpose of ascertaining whether there was P
truth in a report, very current in the City, that pP
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her crew had been picked up at sea.
On our reporter making inquiry at the Cr
spacious office in Billiter-court,
ampany's
yester-
day afternoon, he was politely informed lay.,
J'itacgregor
Laird, Esq., the Managing Director of 'thy;
that, unfortunately, there is no truth in the
had been occasioned by the following pp
xagmpli in the
Halifax Royal Gazette:— ":eport, which
"Arrived May 25, the schooner Corsair, norrisey, from
Fortune Bay (Newfoundland), in seven dPys. Six days
before sailing a boat belonging to Fortr.ne Bay arrived
froM St. Pierre, the skipper of which reported that a
vessel from France had arrived at than island, which had
picked up the captain and sixteen setrmen of an Ameri-
can steamer, and had reported that fifty-six other per-
sons, who had been in the steamer, were lost, the sal&
vessel having foundered, in consequence of running
against an iceberg. The skipper stated that he had seem
the captain of the steamer at S. Pierre."
• The Halifax Royal Gazette of June 2 contradias this
report, by stating that the persons picked up belonged to
the William Brown, whose fate, and the throwMg eve r-
board of several of the survivors from her boats, witho at
any lots having been cast, we have already published.
The Arab, Captain Thomas, from Dundee, arrived at
New York on the 27th May, and reports that on t. ae
10th of May he experienced a heavy gale from LS.I!:.
to N.N.W., which lasted twenty hours. On the 112;
May, in latitude 40 42, longitude 55 9, he -passed two
boats bottom up, one of them was a le,ng boat, also.
several pieces of wreck, bulwarks, &c. On the 19th,
latitude 58 53, longitude 64 40, saw a large mast, with •
gaff topsail and rigging attached to it,
This seems to be the explanation. of the intelligence
as to the fate of the President Winch the Standard of I
last evening published a second edition to announce.

PORTUGAL.
The Queen has addressed the following letter to the
Patriarch of Lisbon, announcing her recognition. by the
Court of Rome :

" Most illustrious and reverend Father in Chiist, Patri-
arch Archbishop Elect, much esteemed bynie as a brother :
I, Donna Maria, by the grace of God, and by tie constitu-
tion of the monarchy, Queen of Portugal and the Al-
garves, &c., send yoit many salutationc,', as one whoin I
greatly esteem. Having, since I attained to the throne of
my ancestors, employed the most assiduous and sincere
efforts to restore completely between these my kingdoms
and the Holy Apostolic See the political relations unfor-
tunately interrupted for some time, to the grief of both
Courts, and to the great injury of the true interests of
the holy Lusitanian Church, and of the peace and con-
cord of her sons ; and the most Holy Father Gregory
XVII., having now attended to my instances, wall the
paternal and apostolic benevolence which was to be
expected from his high and sacred ministry, and
from his eminent personal virtues, receiving in
public and solemn audience my Minister Plenipoten-
tiary, and thus opening a wide road towards the termi-
nation of the religious differences which have been so
noxious to the peace and the temporal and spiritual hap-
piness of these realms ; I have thought it right to commu-
nicate to you this pleasing announcement, which I know
will be highly gratifying to you, from the zeal and ardour
with which you have desired it. And „I reco.nmend to
you to make it duly known in the churches of this pa-
triarchate. Most Illustrious and Reverend Father in
Christ, Patriarch Archbishop Elect, my much esteemed
as a brother, our Lord preserve yor.r person in his holy
keeping. Written in the Palace of Necessidades, Ist
June, 1841. (Signed) " THE QUEEN.
(Countersigned)
" ANTONIO BERNARDO DA COSTA CABRAL."
Similar letters have been addressed to the Archbishop
of Braga, the Bishop of Augra (Azores), and the various
vicars capitular of the untenanted dioceses.

BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-My attention has
'just been called to a report in
the Morning Chronicle of this day, that I intend to be-
come a candidate for the borough of Lambeth at the
approaching election.
To my father's long and consistent support cf Liberal
principles in that borough, anti my own active co-opera-
tion in all its political contests, I can readily trace the
origin of this rumour, which I feel it my imperative
duty immediately to contradict.
Cordially concurring with the present patriotic Mem-
bers for Lambeth on all questions of civil and religious
liberty and progressive reform, no consideration would
induce me, übder such circumstances, to disturb that
union, which I trust will be firmly cemented for their
support amongst all classes of Liberals, should a Tory
be rash enough to oppose their return.
The Queen, by the advice of her Ministers, is about
to call on the people to decide whether they will in future
have extended commerce, improved resources, and re-
newed'prosperity, or baneful monopoly, depressed indus-
try, and increased taxation.
At such a crisis, that man would be the worst
enemy of the great cause at stake, who, by provoking
a division in the Liberal ranks, afforded to any Tory
monopolists even a faint hope of misrepresenting a
borough which has always held a prominent position in
the struggles for freedom.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. HINDI?, PALMER.

Reform Club, 15th June.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.--About a quarter before
three o'clock on Sunday morning last an alarming fire took
place on the extensive premises belonging to Mt ssrs. Fairburn
and Co.' engineers and boiler-makers, situate near the river
side at M 11-wall, Poplar, opposite Deptford Dockyard. It
appeared to have commenced in the I:aiut workshop, a small
wooden building detached from the main premise,,and was not
extinguished until the place was entirely burned (limn. The
los& will fall on the Sun Insurance Office. At the time the fire
ng.at Astley's Theatre on Tuesday morning last, another
was ragi
broke out in Church row, at the back of St. Luke's Church,
which bunt with great fury for neatly an hour, and wholly
destroyed the premises No. 5, an unoccupied Imuse, theproperty
of the Ironmongers Company.