The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL-ADJOURN-ED DEBATE.

On the order of the day for the adjourned debate,
Sir DE L. EVANS said that he could not detain the
House at any length, but he would state his
opinions briefly and precisely upon the subject.
He begged leave to say, in reply to the statement of an
Hon. Member, that it was a mistake to suppose that the
civil war in Portugal was provoked by her Majesty's
Government. The fact was that the war in Portugal
had not been caused by the Government of the
Right Honourable Gentleman or by the pre-
sent Government, but when the present Government
came into office a civil war existed in that country.
He believed that there was no doubt that a
civil war was raging in Portngal for the last two
years. The Hon. Gentleman to whom he here
alluded, inquired if the people of this country had
added anything to their military reputation, or obtained
any advantage from their interference in this war. He
did not mean to say that any commercial treaty had been
obtained by the course adopted by her Majesty's Go-
vernment in their interference in the civil war of Portu-
gal. But that interference had led to the important
results that had taken place. As to adding to their
military renown, it could not be supposed that the trans-
cendant military reputation of this country could derive
any additional lustre from an engagement in this contest.
Various statements had been made by Hon. Members of
the superiority of the British troops, and the higher
abilities of British officers, but he (Sir De Lacy Evans)
could refer to the victories achieved by General
Espartero,as being unsurpassed by anything effected by
British arms upon the continent. The Noble Lord the
Member for Lynn and other Hon. Members spoke in a
florid and exaggerated strain of the evils to which these
civil contests had exposed the countries of Spain and
Portugal. They described these countries as degraded
in their population, and almost ruined in their agricul-
tural wealth, as destitute of trade and of commerce, and
they traced these evils to the effects of the civil warfare
that had prevailed there.
(LEIT SPEARING.)

SCULPTURE FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Several
packages of Assyrian sculpture, intended for deposit in the
British Museum, have arrived aethis port in the vessel Gre-
cian, from Bombay, and have been landed from the importing
ship and delivered, by the special directions of the Treasury,
free of duty.
A letter from Rome of the Ist instant announces
the return of the Pope on the previous day from Subiaco,
where he went to take possession of the
Abbey, of which he
has appointed himself the Superior. An immense crowd
went a distance of several miles to meet his Rohness, and ac-
companied him t 9 139 ate.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION:HOUSE.
A foreign Jew, named Morris Fryer, was brought
before Alderman Musgrove, charged with having stolen
a great number of gold and silver watches, diamond
rings, &c., tne property of Hersch Landsberg.
Mr. Daniels attended as solicitor for the prosecution.
The prosecutor said—l reside at No. 5, New-street,
Bishopsgate, and am a dealer in jewellery. The pri-
soner lodged in the same house. I had deposited in a
travelling-box sixty-five or sixty-six gold and silver
watches, several diamond rings, pins, and brooches, and
other property of considerable value. I saw the pro-
perty safe on the 25th of May, at five o'clock in the
afternoon. The prisoner saw the contents of the box at
the same time, and asked me when I was going to the
country. I told him it was my intention to go next
morning. Soon afterwards the prisoner, another per-
son, and m) self played cards in my room. We went
out together at the same time, and I left my box locked
in the room, but the door of the room was not locked,
there being no key to it. When we left the house, the
prisoner and the other man asked me which way I was
going, and when I told them they went in a cot trary
direction. Upon my return, at nine o'clock, I missed
the travelling box which I had deposited in a blue bag.
At eleven the prisoner returned, and I gave him into the
custody of an officer.
Miss Parish, daughter of Mrs. Parish, of No. 5, New-
street, Bishoptgate, landlady of the house in which the
prosecutor and prisoner lodged, stated that after they
left the house about five minutes the prisoner came back
and went into the prosecutor's room. Witness knew
that he entered the prosecutor's room in consequence of
the peculiar noise made by the opening of the door. He
went out afterwards.

Mrs. Parish, mother of the last witness, said she heard
the steps in the prosecutor's room after prisoner returned
to the house, and expressed surprise at so odd a circum •
stance.

John Sullivan, a boy 13 years of age, stated that he
saw the prisoner come out of the house on the evening
in question, and, joining another man, turn round the
corner and pass away rapidly. The man who accom-
panied the prisoner took off his hat and put on a cap.
The prisoner had with him a blue bag, which appeared
to be at the bottom four- cornered. Both of them ran
as fast as they could, and witness followed them, but
they got down a court, and witness lost sight of them.
Witness went to the Compter afterwards, and from
amongst twelve persons easily picked out the prisoner
as the man he had seen with the four-cornered blue bag.
He observed that the prisoner and the person who ac-
companied him appeared to be frightened when he saw
them on the day the robbery was committed.
Tollet, a porter, who was in the Compter when the
prisoner was charged, deposed as to the remarkable con-
duct of the prisoner there. The prisoner upon that oc-
casion stated, that if he was discharged, as he expected
would be the case, he would try the weight of the box,
and that if it were broken up it would not produce more
than half the value of it.

The prisoner said he knew nothing at all of the goods,
and that all his conduct towards the prosecutor was in-
fluenced by nothing but fair and honourable feeling.
The ALDERMAN said the evidence, although merely
circumstantial, was such that he considered it to be
necessary to send the case to a jury.
Mr. Daniels said the prosecutor had every reason to
believe that all the property had been melted down by
this time, so that there was no chance of the recovery of
any part of it.—The prisoner was then committed for
trial.