The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By the Tagus steamer, which arrived at Falmouth yesterday
with the Peninsula mails, we have received Lisbon papers to
the 19th inst.
" LissoN, APRIL 19. 4 p. m.—The law and regulations
for issuing 600 coutos de reis, 138,0001. sterling, of Exchequer
Bills, were published during the past week. They arc as Jul-
low :

"FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
" Exercising the power conceded to Government by the 2tl
article of this decree of the 20th of March of the present year,
I am pleased, having heard my Ministers in Council, to decree
the following :
" Art. 1. The public Treasury is authorised to make and
issue, to the amount of 600 contos de reis, livehequer-bills
admissible fer their nominal value as current money, in all
the pay arid receiving-offices, in payment of the part not con-
tracted for of the deeima of the economic year of 1839 to
1840, and other recites due and which may become due up to
the 30th of June next ensuing, except those of the Custom-
house, and those that make part of the foundation of the Board
of Public Credit.
" 2. The issuing to be made by a series of 200 contos de
reis, divided in a certain and determined number of bills of
1,000, 1,500, 5,000 and2o,ooo reis each, which are to be signed
by the Finance Minister, and delivered to the Board of Public
Credit, to be by it negotiated, as it may think convenient,
af,er being completely sealed and registered by the same.
" 3. To secure to the holders of these checks their effective
amortization, by the revenues assigned for the same, and
which are received in the various finance pay and receiving
offices, the Board of Public Credit is authorized to effect, by
means of purchases in the market, with the product in money
of these revenues, the amortizations and destruction of the
cheeks, which may not have been entered in the finance pay
and receiving offices referred to, and the sums which may be
received in the above offices to remain at the disposal of the
board, to be applied to the purposes for which they were destined.
6" 4. The Board of Public Credit will make known through
the Diario do Governo the amount of the checks which it may
receive from the Treasury, agreeably to the second article of
the present decree, as also the product of the operations realized
both as regards their issuing and their respective destruction
and amortization.
" "The Minister and Secretary of State for Finance has thu
understood, and will cause the same to be executed. .
" ' The QUEEN.
" Barao do TOJAL.

" ' Palace of Necessidades, April 7, 1841.'
" The frequent conferences Ministers have had, more espe-
cially those for the Foreign and Finance Departments, lately at
the hotel of the British Envoy, Lord Howard de Walden, have
been looked upon by well-thinking persons as too subservient
on the part of the individuals in power to foreign influence ;
and it is surmised that the renewal of a commercial treaty with
England, which is intended to be laid before the Cortes soon
after they shall meet on the 25th of next month, as well as the
devising of some plan to pay the interest and dividends due to
the holders of Portuguese bonds, were the primary objects.
"'f he Governor of Portuguese India, M. Lopes Lima, owing
to his having published a decree making Goa a free port, and
subjecting the importation of opium in bond to a duty of 1 per
cent. only, has been recalled ; his successor has not yet been
appointed.
" The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house and Excise-
office, and Custom-house of Oporto, for the month of March
last, paid in debentures, ex-paper money, and coin, amounts
conjointly to 343,179,816 reis, equal to 78,6451. 7s. Id. sterl-
ing, showing an increase on the preceding month of February
of 26,048/. 2s. sterling.
" The French Minister at this Court, the Baron de Va-
rennes, left this for Havre de Grace on leave of absence, in the
Tago merchant steamer, on Wednesday last, and the Chrge
d'Affaires of the United States' Sir. Kavanagh, will depart
also on leave of absence, by this day's steam-packet, the Tagus,
for Boston via England,'
'I he Oporto esiaffette was stopped on the 16th inst., near
Carvalhos, and robbed of 320,000 reis (941. sterling. )
Exchange upon London, at thirty days' sight, 534 d. per
milree.