The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-07 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By titc 'ngu:s steamer, arrived at Falmouth wl!'n the
M .lta and Pcnir.gula mails, the Queen of Portugal's
sT,each elosinr, the extraordinary session of the Cortes
bas been received.
" LISBON, Nov. 30.—This day the session of the Ex-
traordinary Cortes, which hus lasted rather better than
six months, was closed at one o'clock, p.m. by her Ma-
jesty in person, who delivered the fallowing Sf.,ecli from
the' _ .

Senbores---I come to close the Session of this long
azd laborious Legislative Assembly, which has been so
useful in aiding the first public necessitii!, and in discus-
sing anrvoting organic laws of the greatest importance.
The nation will be sensible of your zeal, and bless the
wisdom by which you have been ,cwided. It is to be
►amented that the urgent business which has occupied you
has nut left sfficient time to condiude the discussion of
the budget, ela to treat as amply as could have been de-
sired the different branches of the revenue.
" ' My Government empowered to provide for the cur.
rent expenses and to satisfy the extraordinary demands
which have unavoi:htblv occurred, as well as to establish
the nicaus now practicable of paying the foreign dividends,
will unceasingly (L vote itself in preparing all labours and
siece,stry inferwation to be laid before you from the open-
ing of the urclii,ry ses.sion, in o:der that you may be able
opportunely to fix our t xpenaes when knowr, and to ame-
liorate the mode of the receipts of the State. I do not less
expect that you will continue to dedicate yourselves, with
equal efficacy, to the important affair of the navigation of
the Douro, which also, from want of time,: it was not
pessitla to terminate. I congratulate myself with you
upon ti.e complete re- establishment of public peace, which
during the session was disturbed. I thank you for the
io::fi±eacs which you hare placed in my Government, by
gratating the extraordinary Facers it solicited. The
moderate use which they made of it will justify this
c. 4.4) tide ace.

Without interrupting its labours the Curtes have
efficacioudy co-operated with the Government in enlight-
ening the public opinion upon the true interests of the na-
tion, arid thus affirded the greatest and most secure sup-
port that the legislative body can give to a constitutional
Goseruinent.

During exis period my life was in imminent danger,
from which it plrased Divine Providence to save me. The
proofs of sincere affection which upon this occasion I re-
ceived generally I glory to have merited from the Por-
tuguese nation, whose happiness is the greatest object of
my cat c, and whose liberty I consider as the most solid
basis of my Throne. The session is closed.'
" Her Majesty proccoded to the Curter in full state,
an I after reading :he Speech in an auditle and distinct
voice, returned in the same manner tO the Palace des
Necesaidades. Fiont the circumstance of several of the

northern Senators and Doritsutics having loft yesterday in
the Vesuvio steamer for Oporto, the Chamber on this °c-
ession presented but a small number of Representatives.
The snuttnig of this Legislative Assembly was, it is
firmly believed, ha.tencd by the discussion of the river
D.,uro regulations, which (as I have observed in my
previous conitiaanications), if pressed through the house,
would, in all probability, overthrow the present Adminis-
tration. the outcry of the agricultural interests and the na-
tional L.:cling in general being unfavourable to the inert-
This question appears to be a vital one for the
country, the Corn-laws here being similar to those in
England. flow Spain will take up this matter, after so
oiLiar's and assurances that the convention with its
enactments would b,s approved, remains to be seen. It is
vutoriously public that the Marquis de Saldanha was in-
structed to persuade the Madrid Cabinet that no other
than the present Ministry would be able to carry the treaty
in question through the Chambers.
•"f Ix modifications upon the hierarchy of Judges, sent
from ;he Senate to the Deputies, was discussed and dis-
p,scd et :311 the :23d inst., and on the same day Ministers
,ere empowered to raise in the most convenient manner
600 .!onto-. de reis (138,0001. starling) upon the dccima of
the first six months of the economical year 1839 to 1840.
The law fur the payment of the British claims (civil
and commissariat), as recently adjusted in London, of
1,325,1;10,839 reis, or 309,2011. 17s. 3d. sterling, accord-
ing to the-course of exchange that may prevail as the in-
stalments may fall dtv, the last on the Ist of September,
1z.4411, has received the Royal assent, and was published in
the Diurio do Guverito of Tuesday last. The means to
Le raised to fulfil these engagements are to be specifically
voluted out in the respective budgets frcm 1840 to 1843.
A modlicatio.n, or rather re-organization, of the Ministry
;s on the t,pis. The most probable reports are, that the
Deputies, M. Augiar will take the pory'cuille of the In_
t.ez-i,ar, and M. Jervis do Attoguia that of Marine ; the
Lf Finance, M. Florido, tc give way to make
room fur M. Gomes do Castro, M. Rodrigo da Fonseca
~‘lsgalhaes to remain with the Foreign, and M. Costa
Cati-al with the Justice Department. Owing to a mes-
*age to the Crown which passed the Chamber of Deputies
on Thursti.ry last, humbly praying her Majesty to appoint a
more competent person as an advisee of the Crown than
the Count de 13cmfim, his Excelleacy, it is understood,
is to be moved out of the war bureau for the Duke de

Irreeira or Vac Baron- do Leiria, ahculd not the gallant

Alsr.hal accept; tiiis last arrangement may perhaps be
productiYa of carious consequences, Count do Bomfim,
"Ai() *tan, it is said, already rely upon a certain military
pary to uplioisi liirn, being bent on keeping in place."