The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-14 00:00:00

EXTRACTS OF LETTERS.

The civil functionaries and state pensioners hive re-
ceived no pay for 39 months.
The arrears of the officers' pay on active service amount
to 10 months, that of the soldiers to three, and in many
in‘tances to five months.

The arrear of pensions paid to retired officers and others
from the " Mont de Piete" amount to nearly six years—
no payments having been made since March, 1827.

The army is supplied by means of what they call em-
bargoes," by which the people are not only robbed of their
goods fur the service of the troops, but forced to find the
means of conveyance, and on delivery of the articles thus
seized, they are forced to decline receiving payment by the
police and territorial magistrates, when their names are
inserted in the Gazette as voluntary donors. If they in-
sist upon payment, they are termed " Malhados" (an op-
probrious epithet applied to the Constitutionalists), im-
prisoned, and their property sequestered.

The army is thus clothed : —The Intendant of Police,
by a decree of Don Miguel of the 21st of November last,
obliged all the woollen-drapers, tailors, and slop-sellers, to
give 75 yards of cloth each, to convey it themselves to the
military arsenal, and to pay Sd. each for receipt of delivery.
At the same time all linen•drapers and haberdashers, Sze.,
were ordered to furnish 150 varas (IS7I yards) of linen
each. All this was effected in 21 hours, and those who
have not complied are mulcted for double the amount, and
their goods sequestered. The tailors were then ordered
to make the clothing gratis.

The Board of Commerce at the same time, by means of
a commission, and by virtue of an avizo from the Conde
de Lourencao, levies 200,000 milreis (40,000), by means
of an assessment, which includes all those thus robbed, and
the most insignificant huxters, journeymen, &c.

The state of public opinion is such, that the troops in
garrison in the capital remain under arms all night, from
the dre id felt by the Government of the people.
No boat is allowed to approach the ships of war in the
Tagus, by day or night.
The fishermen are not allowed to go out to fish. The
provision shops are closed at sunset, and the streets are
deserted except by police, Realistas, Crcetes, and beggars.

We have received accounts from Charleston
to the 19th ult. inclusive, by the Nimrod, arrived at
Liverpool. The proclamation of President JACKSON had
been received there, and had of course excited extraordi.
nary attention. The Nullifiers, nothing daunted by the
hostile demonstrations of the General Government, were
as violent as ever. The Unionists had, however, t tken
advantage of the opportunity to endeavour to arrest the
progress of disunion. They had got up a declaration
against the projects of the Nullifiers, and it had received
the signatures of very nearly 200 of the first men in the
State. The State Legislators of the different States had
assembled, and issued declarations in favour of the Gene-
ral Government, which they were determined to support
in defence of the Federative Union. Business was dull
at Charleston when the Nimrod sailed. The next ac-
counts from Charleston will be important.
The venerable Earl of EGREMONT'S con-
valescence is the subject of general congratulation
amongst the professors of modern art, of which his Lord-
ship is a liberal patron. The noble gallery at Petworth,
besides vast treasures of ancient art, both in painting and
sculpture, contains modern works for which the Earl has
paid artists now living, and others recently dead, very large
sums. The heir presumptive to his Lordship's vast
estates in the counties of Sussex and Somerset, is the Hon.
PERCY CHARLES WYNDHAM, Secretary and Clerk of
the Council of Barbadoes (duty performed by deputy),
who, at the advanced age of 75, is unmarried, which
leaves the succession open to Captain GEORGE WYND-
HAM, of the Royal Navy.
The Reform Bill has been ascribed to the
declaration of the Duke of WELLINGTON. It was a mis-
take : Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE, Sir THOMAS Good s,
and the country gentlemen preceded him. When they
raised their voices against extravagance, which for twenty
years they had sanctioned, then was the battle turned in fa-
vour of the Reformers. In their- pockets did they feel,
and in the bitterness of their feeling exclaim against the
former gods of their idolatry.—Westminster Review.
A NEW RAILROAD.—It is with no small
satisfaction that we have perused the prospectus of a pro-
posed line of railroad, to be called Cornwall Central Rail.
read, extending from the deep water in Falmouth Harbour,
at Adevora Vear, near Ruan, to the ninth mile-rtone on
the Bodmin and Truro road on Tregoss Moor, with a
branch to Roach, which appears to offer many advantages
and a profitah!e investment of capital to those who may
embark in the undertaking. Further particulars o' this
great and most desirable improvement will be given in our
next...Co/Twat Gazette.