The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-16 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. in. 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.
PORTUGAL.
LISBON, APRIL 6, NINE .A.M.—The Iberia steamer which
in the ordinary course should have taken this mail yesterday ,
was prevented arriving in due time by the following circum-
stance. She left Gibraltar at the usual time for Cadiz, 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 on this account to give a clean bill
of health for Lisbon, without which the steamer would have
had to go into quarantine here. And further, I hear, they
refused, on the Admiralty agents proposing to go back to
Gibraltar with the corpse, and bring another clean bill of
health from there—in any case to give another at Cadiz. The
consequence was that the Iberia turned back to Gibraltar,
whence she came direct here, without touching at Cadiz, and
arrived at nine o'clock last night; and the mail, by orders of
the Admiralty agents, closes at eleven o'clock this morning.
Senhor Miranda, Minister of Marine, expired at five yester-
day 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
already met under the presidency of the Duke of Palmella, whose
quarrel with the Queen about Count Tape's introduction was set-
tled 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 order, 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 I3omfim and Rodrigo Magal-
haes went to the arsenal and investigated the case, 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 rhich 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.
fulfilling this duty 7,1 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 genehro which
Portuguese nation, as well as the reciprocal interest w
the two peninsular people have in drawing closer their re la-
lovers tions, identifie as they are in political ples,
lovers of their d legal liberty and of their independenace.equally
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 always
am by the same sentiments, I shall deserve the same benevo-
lence from your Majesty, your august Consort, and your Go-
vernment, of which I trust lam not undeserving, from the
constant interest which I have felt, even as a private individual,
in the prosperity of your Majesty and the Portuguese nation."
The Queen's answer was as follows
It is highly agreeable to me also to receive from your
hands the credential by which the Provisional Regency of
Spain, in the name of her Catholic Majesty, gives me anoei•
proof of the desire to draw closer the relations that unite, and
I hope will ever unite, the two Crowns
.and the two nations,

MORNING EDITION

whose happiness very much depends on a constant and good
harmony between both their Governments." ~,"", I 1
With respect to the Portuguese tariff, it est/ff....t0 be view.
t
with relation to the state of things previon
„Ousting. The
former duties on British goods were nomi olvdoubt, fif-
teen per cent. ad valorem, but, with the e 1.141fg. cottons, -c•:_:.
which were valued here according to the etr#4son of the
importers, the Portuguese Government havi ,ias;k4Sekt the ! ~.). /
option of taking them by paying ten per cent.s.zo9ethiLtisate--*-_--
valuation ; all other British manufactures, Szclrgret-sialte,gAt:4
according to a scale adopted some sixty years ago, 11M Ala
classed them at prices enormously higher than the real value
at the present day ; the effect of which was that some descrip-
tions, earthenware for instance, instead of 15, paid 70 to 100
per cent. ad valorem; and hardwares, in some instances,
150 per cent. under that system. The change to fixed duties
was so far a change for the better, that it got rid of
the old absurd scale of valuation, though some of the du-
ties substituted afford grounds for complaint and for altera-
tion, it is to be presumed, in any future commercial treaty
between Portugal and England.

BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, APRIL 12.—1 t is expected that we shall read
in the Moniteur of to. morrow the following Ministerial arrange-
ments :
Foreign Affairs—Count Muelenaere.
The Interior—M. Nothomb.
Public Works—M. Dumon Desmaisieres.
Finance—Count de Briey.

Justice—M. de Cuyper.-
The Journal du Commerce d' Anvers says, we are afraid
that his Majesty, William IL, has just adopted a resolution by
which all officers are struck off the lists of his order who left
their colours in 1830, without having been previously released
from their oaths.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 13.—We expected to find the names of
the new Ministry in the Moniteur this morning, but this ex-
pectation has not been realised.
His Majesty bid a Levee this morning, which was very
numerously attended. At noon he appeared in the balcony,
and was greeted with the most cordial acclamations. We un-
derstand that his Majesty will not stay beyond Thursday
morning.
The Moniteur of the 14th of April, in publishing the Royal
decrees accepting the resignation of Ministers, with the ex-
ception of that of M. Buzen, gives the following list of names
as comprising the new Cabinet :
M. de Muelenaere, Foreign Affairs.

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M. Nothomb, Minister of the Interior.
M. Desmaisieres, Public Works.
M. de Brie)', Minister of Finance.
M. Van Volxem, Minister of Justice.
And M. Buzen remaining the Minister of War, in order to
render a statement of his accounts.
The Administration of Public Instruction and the Sciences
will henceforward form a portion of the duties of the Minitlrr
of the Interior.
M. Charles Liedts, Member of the Chamber of Ilepre—o-
tatives, is appointed to the Governorship of the Provinc of
Hainault.
M. Mathieu Nicolas Joseph Leclerc will resume his func-
tions as Procureur- General to the Court of Cassation.
By a decree, elated April 13, and countersigned Nothomb,
the Legislative Session of 1840-41 is closed.
BELGIAN k UNDS—Baustarts, Arait I.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO4
Loan orl'hirty Millions, 4 per Cent
:3 per Cent
70%
ICO i.,
Loan of City, 1832, 4 persCent ............
Society of Commerce, 4}q per Cent lll
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ......... CO
National Society.
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, April 13.
DUTCH FUNDS.—ANISTEGUAM, APRIL 13
None-. /31111.
tctual Debt, `:*,i per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Syndic,4}i per cent 4 90 tq
Ditto, ditto, 3 s per cent 723,4 73
Commercial Company, 4! 1 per cent l6i;yi :67
Ditto (1835. and 1537) 5 per cent.
Loan 1:37, 5 per cant.
Exchange on London, One month l2 071
Two months
Dutch Papers, April 15.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIR'INA, APRIL 5
flee per C,nts. Metalliques • 166%
bora per Cents. 98%
Three per Cents.
Bank :Mares lO6
..11zemrine Zcitung, April 10
HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, APRIL IQ
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares 16.35

Thirty.ecven.

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Anido-Itussian Loan 10764 107%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Cortiticate
Inscription, Ist Se:i,s RAN,
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series 97 90%4
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1840) 87% 5714
Dutch Actual Debt, 2,4 pei tent :;o3ii 49T'8
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds Bonds
New Itcket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 74%
N.stwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per C..0z...
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. l6l,
PRUSSIAN FJNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL D.
Bing. Money,
St. Schuh!. Sch., 419 per cent. lO4 10:114
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 percent 10074 100%
Kxchmge on Lendon, three months 6 19%
—Prussia-3 State Gazette, April 11

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
We cannot undertake to answer legal questions resembling
those put by our Norwich Correspondent.
" X. Y. Z. of Liverpool" has our very best thanks.

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