The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-28 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

We have received accounts from Lisbon of the 2151
instant.

Agrarian disturbances had broken out in the province of
Minho. The constitution was suspended on the 20th inst.
for a term of twenty days, the press suppressed, military
tribunals created for the trial of all offences against the
State, and summary proceedings were to be instituted after
the fashion of those in Spain—those condemned to be pas-
sados par as arenas, though not merely on identification, as
by the orders of Narvaez. It is not very complimentary to
Sir Robert Peel to find his Irish Coercion Bill quoted by the
Portuguese Minister for an example in his country, and a
justification of his atrocious measure.
The following are extracts from our correspondent's
letter :
" This country was placed under martial law yesterday,
the 20th inst. The present Government has been four years
in office, and in that brief period the constitution has been
suspended three times. The province of Minho has been
the scene of agrarian outrages for &the last twelve days,
arising from the attempt to put in force the new system of
taxation by repartition, and to levy imposts in the agri-
cultural districts, under the new bill of health, particu-
larly burdensome and oppressive. One of the first tumults
was caused by a refusal of the local authorities to suffer the
burial of a poor peasant to take place without obtaining a
certificate from a medical officer, who is empowered by this
oppressive law to exact a sum for his signature little short of
ten shillings sterling. The friends of the deceased in vain
pleaded their inability to pay the sum in question. The
rites of burial were refused; the women of the district rose
en 'nesse ; the troops were marched against them ; resistance
was offered, and it is stated that several women and children
were shot by the valiant soldiery, but not before some of
the latter were routed by these exasperated women. The
peasants of the districts of Guimares, Porado, and Penella,
the _Mario of the 17th states, revolted on the 14th
instant, entered Braga, attacked the barracks of the
eight regiments in a most daring manner, ' and were
repelled with a loss of many wounded and a sufficient num-
ber of dead—muitos feredos e bastantes mortos.' The Go-
vernment organs have abstained from giving any detailed
accounts of the further tumults and their results, but it is
acknowledged that two other desperate attacks were made
on the quarters of this regiment, that scattered detachments
in adjoining districts have been assailed, and in one or two
instances repulsed by the armed peasants, in some places in
bodies of upwards of two thousand men—that the houses and
offices of the local authorities, whose duties are connected
with the carrying into operation of the new system of taxa-
tion have been broken open, the schedules of those taxes
destroyed, and that the cries of the insurgents were Vivas'
for the Queen and for religion, and Morras for the Mi-
nistry.
" Senhor Jose Bernardo Cabral, the Minister of Justice,
left his portfolio yesterday for the seat of war,' via Oporto,
accompanied by the 16th Regiment.
"The accounts from Minho this day are, that the move-
ment is extending to Tres os Montes, and that a detachment
of soldiers, proceeding from Chaves to the chief scene of dis-
turbance, had been obliged to retrace their steps. The pro-
bability is, however, that order will be restored, but at a
very dear cost to the interests of the country and of the
Throne.

"Five per Cent. Inscriptions, 661/2 67 ; Four per Cent.
ditto, 57 58 ; Apolices Old Five per Cent., 68 69 ; Ditto Four
per Cent., 5814 5834 ; Bank Shares, Lisbon, 768 milrees;
Union Ditto, 112 milrees; Confiangs, 971/2-10 per cent.
Exchange on London, 90 days, 541/x."—Chronicle.

LORD LINCOLN AT FALKIRK.—Lord Lincoln is, it
appears, to be opposed; Mr. Wilson, a Liberal free-trader has
started as a candidate, and published an address to the con-
stituency. The election takes place on Wednesday, and the
contest will be a severe one.
A novel display of Italian Sculpture, recently arrived
in this country, is announced for public sale at Robins's
Auction Rooms, in Covent-garden, on Thursday next. The
exquisite talent of the modern sculpture is sufficiently shown
by the beautiful figures, copied from the most renowned
models in the galleries of Florence and Rome, whilst the
splendid marble tazzas, vases, and fonts, sculptured in the
rarest marbles of Italy, cannot fail to please the most
fastidious connoisseur.

MADRID AND VALENCIA RAILWAY. —On Saturday
Mr. Chadwick, the Chairman of the Madrid and Valencia
Railway, and the Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P., accompa-
nied by Mr. Kirkham Powell, the Secretary of the Company,
had the honour of an interview with his Excellency the
Duke de Sotomayor, the Spanish Ambassador. His Excel-
lency condescended to discuss the present position of the
Company, and expressed the great interest which his Go-
vernment felt in this undertaking, and the disposition to
render effectual assistance to the promoters in any plan
which they might suggest for tl,a Pa nipletion of the pa•njo.kv
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—SPLENDID ARRANGEMENT OF
LOOKING-GLASS, producing the effect of a long arcade, and of
bewildering as to cause a doubt whether you are in London or
in old Rome.

"Arch follows arch, and pile succeeds to pile."
This unique apartment is devoted to cutting and arranging the
hair in, and with another having a beautiful view of Naples, are
on the ground-floor. In calling attention to their establish-
ment, Ross and Sons beg to notice the advantages of their
system—viz., they never take apprentices nor young men from
the country, nor object to customers asking for the same man
to wait upon them ; every person has clean brushes, they never
being used twice, without being washed ; and parties are not
pressed to buy things they do not want. Address, Ross and
Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A BAD LEG AT
HOBNCASTLE, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—A few days
since Mr. John Simpson, a highly respectable bookseller in that town,
states that a gentleman of his acquaintance had been suffering for
many years from one of the worst description of bad legs, frequently
enduring the most excruciating pain. He had been under the care
of several medical men, without obtaining the least benefit. This
gentleman, however, has just been cured by these invaluable medi-
cines, after every other treatment failed. The Ointment will cure
1 hdilblain.s and chapped hands in a few hours. Sold by all druggists,
can at Professor Holloway's, 244, Strand, London.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGHT AND HEARING. 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Newly-invented Spectacles, Tele-
scopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Patronised by Generals
Sir Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Sir John Beatings, Maiston,
Frederick Goodfellow, Clayton, Grosvenor Morrison, Dyott Robert-
son, Mackenzie, Galway, Biggs, Woolf, Murray, Walker, Fox,
Price, Lindsay, and Thackray ; Major Generals Sir H. Elphinstone,
Sir John Ross, Sir James Cockburn, Achinty, P. Fyers, D. Macleod,
Bouverie, Sir J. Macdenall, Sir R. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, and Sir
Wm. Eustance Admirals Lord John Hay, Sir G. Cockburn, Sir
George Munday, Sir George Martin, Sir James H. Whitshed, Sir D.
Gold, Ross, Alexander, Curzons, Tompkinson, Hollis, and Price;
Vice-Admiral Sir F. Austen; Rear-Admirals Brown and Ribouleau,
&c. Messrs. S. and B. Solomous, Opticians, have invented Spec-
tacle Lenses upon a new construction. Immediately they are placed
before imperfect vision, that mist and dullness which appear before
the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes clear and distinct,
so that the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant,
and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Also,
Achromatic Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, Invisible and all
kinds of Acoustic Instruments, for relief of most extreme deafness.
Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solomon, Opticians, are not in any way
connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neigh-
bourhood. To prevent mistakes be cautious, and Observe—Only to
be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel.
FIRST SPRING MEETING AT NEWMARKET AND
CHESTIR Races.—Bell's Life in London, of Sunday next, May 3.
Full report of the First Spring Meeting, 2,000 Guineas Stakes, 1,000
Guineas Stakes, and every event of the week—The Cliester Cup and
other important races—Foregatherings by Pegasus—Horses arrived,
and latest speculation—Angling—piscatorial Sermon on Fly-fishing,
by Ephemera—Chess Problems and Games—Cricket opening arrange-
ments at Lord's—Aquatics—Pedestrianism, and every class of British
Sports, and the usual summary of Foreign, Domestic, and Political
News. Price of Bell's Life (40 folio columns), 6d. Bell's 1,0 is re-
gularly published in time for all the Saturday afternoon railways.
THE NERVES OF THE EAR.—Mr. Curtis, a few days
since, gave a clinical lecture on this subject at the Royal Dispensary
for the Diseases of the Ear. The lecturer stated that within the last
thirty years more had been effected for the core of diseases of the
car than had been done during the last 500 years, and mentioned
formerly
fact that now many cases arc admitted of relief which were reorenut y
beyond the reach of medical art. Ile traced the course Like
acoustic nerves from their origin at the base of the
and
ex.
termination, showing their ramifications and chstribitti
rubbing stimulating liniments on the nape of the neck and spine.
planted how these nerves were effected and deafness °relieved by
great use in cases of infant (leaf
These applications he considers of
and dumb (dumbness being the sure concomitant of dettfriCi in in•
fancy), and says they should always be tried where no structural
defect arises.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 31, 1846.—War —Arm
Harry, and St. G call
Arm !—lt is, it is the Cannon's Opening War—Follow up your
down
with
Enghtiletral Cass has beeneCiralnakinge— US
Charge—Cry,
R the
otholel,r
w"erWaspreeeis ihn.evirtaobrlehip"wardsG
of
two
hours
he
poured-forth a
stream of facts, figures, :tropeS, similes, metaphors, illustratices,
quotations, authorities, incidents, poetry, rhetoric
such a miscellaneous, homogeneous stream of beantiful imargainages,enant—d
horrid phantoms, and dazzling bubbles,
for many
eve have not heard
—many a long day. It was a beautiful speech it
was more —it was a powerful speech a patriotic'speech a
great speech. He bound the grim visage of war in evergrqsns,
put such a display of shining drapery around the old heathen, that
and
he really looked like a passable sort of imposter. The General pre-
sented him with the strongest credentials ; but it was clear the Sena-
tors around had no desire to cultivate the acquaintance of the
stranger. But old Mars was there, the god of war, and a sensible
aroma of gunpowder pervaded the atmosphere in his presence. He
kept towering aloft in height, and expandiag in his proportions, as
the Senator continued to speak ; se that, at the conclusion, the shoul-
ders of the war god were against the sky-light, and his head outside,
overlooking the country around.—Nero York Herald.
FIRE IN HouNDsDrrca.—Last night, shortly before
ten o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Cantor,
an india-rubber and sponge merchant, The flames, when first dis-
covered, were raging in the basement, amongst a quantity of India-
rubber and feathers. The inmates attempted, but in vain, to subdue
the fire ; for owing to the dense smoke that ascended the stairs, they
were unable to get down to the room in which the flames were
burning. Information having been sent to the engine stations, nu-
merous engines shortly arrived, and a supply of water being ob-
tained, the fire was confined to that portion of the building in which
it originated. The origin of the fire could not be learned.
RUNNING MATCH FOR £2o.—Yesterday the foot race
between Mitchell, the London Lurcher, and Jones, the Marylebone
Pet, came off near the King's Arms, Acton Bottom. The distance
was 150 yards, and the stakes 101. aside. At the start the Pet took

the lead at a clipping pace; his opponent made a struggle and etime.
up, and after strenuous efforts for the goal, Jones ran in the winner.
THE FUNERAL OF THE EARL OF ERROLL.— The re-
mains of this lamented nobleman were removed from Portman-
square yesterday morning at eight o'clock, for interment at Wimble-
don, attended by the present Earl of Erroll as chief mourner; his
widowed Countess and her three daughters, Viscountess Campden,
Lady Agnes Duff, and Lady Alice Hay ; also by his sister, Lady Isa-
bella Wemyss, Lady Mary Fox, the brothers and brothers-in-law,
Earl Munster, and other near relatives. The solemn ceremony WAS
performed by the brother-in-law of the deceased, the Rev. C. Wede-
house. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, and the other branches of the Ilol'al
Family, graciettsly offered their carriages to follow in the procession,
'eh was Te-
and also many noblemen and friends of the deceased, '''''---s- ex ress
spectfhlly declined, in consequence of his late L IT
°rdslilvate. PHer
wish and direction that his funeral should be striegitEcir inqtriries,
dheoantohjui.rsedquarteheonCwouedntes.ds of
Majesty and Prince Albert have been unremitting
visatsetlexdeuirtiendg
, and met the
f the Noble Earl, and
both during the ilium and since the
her Majest7 the Queen Dowager
r,e^ ay,
Erroll with a visit of condolence in Portman-square
hithse
long
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amiableverownaosnsci
trhesepoectintedostncobunclenc4;l.uman mfta4yintrath
approach of death with a colmness that evinalecipeeanateme OorfaltweooUreacgte:
andF AR perfect
ENca resignation
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green Covent-garden
peas marketfor syaesetierandayo by.01.1.:41wf.440
the vender demandedP
24 101.