The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-07 00:00:00

THE AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's ship Jupiter, Captain Meehan, arrived at
Southampton on Thursday, at noon, with the usual
Spanish and Portuguese mails.
Her dates are—Gibraltar Dec. 28, Cadiz Dec. 29,
Lisbon Dec, 31, off Oporto Jan. 1, Vigo Jan. 2.
The Jupiter brings 29 passengers, and 265 pack-
ages of oranges, 11 packages of specie, 86 boxes of
eggs, 10 boxes of walnuts, 34 packages of grapes, 5
casks of wine, 42 boxes of chestnuts, and 27 packages
of sundries on freight. _ _

Her Majesty's steamer Hecla left Gibraltar for
Englard on the 28th ult., and her Majesty's steamer
Polyphemus sailed to the eastward.
The Spanish frigate Villa de alboa was at Cadiz
on the 29th of December.
At Lisbon on the 31st of December, there were
her Majesty's ships St. Vincent, Queen, Howe,
Canopus, Amphion screw frigate, steamers Scourge,
Dragon, and Comet, and brig Alert ; the French cor-
vette Psyche, a steamer and brig, and the usual Por-
tuguese squadron.
The Peninsular steamer Montrose was signalled
entering the Tagus on the 31st ult., at half-past five
o'clock, P.M.

On the Ist of January, off the bar of Oporto, in
signalising for a boat, the signal-gun of the Jupiter
burst, and killed Reginald Bligh, A. 8., and severely
wounded Henry Hayward, apprentice. A Spanish
deck passenger also died during the voyage.
The Jupiter brings no additional intelligence re-
specting the loss of the steam-frigate Avenger ; full
particulars will no doubt be sent from Malta by the
next mail via Marseilles.

THE DEAN AND DR. HAMPDEN.
There was an old Dean in the West country,
A cause of offence his Rev'rence had found;
'Twas all about filling a vacant see,
Upon what he consider'd was his own ground,
With his plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay.
His Deanship resolved the Queen to sue,
For what he considered his rightful due;
Likewise to beg her favour and grace,
In hopes she would give him the vacant place,
With his plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay.
The Queen his petition did refer
To Lord John Russell, her Pre-mi-er;
But Lord John Russell said, " I've in view
Another, my very good friend, than you—
With youg plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay."
" Is it that Doctor whom you mean
To make a Bishop of?" cries the Dean;
" There lives a person—l won't say where—
More fit for a Bishop than that chap there
With his plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay."
Thereon the Dean whipp'd out his pen,
And sent the Queen a letter again,
Imputing error and heresy
To Lord John's Bishop that was to be,
With his plural rural cure a lural ural lural lay.
Against that choice he did protest;
But her Majesty thought that John knew best;
For his mitre and crozier she left him to whistle,
And gave him no answer to his epistle,
With his plural rural cure a-lural urallural lay.
To Lord John Russell then he wrote,
And bade him take heed and note
That he purposed, without hesitation or fear,
Opposing her Majesty's conye d'elire.
With his plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay,
To him replied the Minister—
' I have received your letter, Sir,
In which your intention you intimate
The law of the land to violate,
With your plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay."

So now the Dean had ph dged his word
To do a thing that H as quite absurd;
And when the election day came ou,
He recorded his vote 'gainst the man of Lord John,
With his plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay.
But there he stopp'd—the wisest way—
And Lord John's Bishop gain'd the day :
And though with the Chapter he disagreed,
The Dean set his hand and his seal to their deed,

With his plural rural cure a-lurul ural lural
And so the Dean has preserved his stall,
His goods and chattles, and livings, and all ;
Ot a pramunire he's out of fear,
And we wish him sincerely a happy new year,
With his plural rural cure a-lural ural lural lay.
—Pnnch.

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went up and collared them both. On perceiving that
Mr. Stacey was unarmed the fellows tore themselves
away from his grasp, and took to their heels. Mr.
Stacey resolutely pursued and captured one of them,
who in vain called to his comrade to come to his assist-
ance. Mr. Stacey then called up his servants, and
marched the fellow, whose name is Burgess, into Maid-
stone, where he was given into the custody of the police.
to whom, out of revenge for the cowardice of his com
panion, he divulged the name of the latter. Policeman
Head immediately went in search of him, and took him
about seven o'clock—a well-known character, named
Jobn Blunden. On examining the state of the premises.
the hen-house was found broken open, and on the spot
where Mr. Stacey first challenged the robbers, three
fowls and a rabbit were found. The fellows were taken
before E. Burton, Esq., the same day, when Burgess was
committed for trial. There being no evidence ageilit
Blunden, than the statement of his accomplice, Mr.
Stacey being unable to identify him, he was discharged.
—Maidstone Journal. In the
SINGULAR DISCOVERY NEAR DUBLIN.
course of last summer and autumn a canal, or rather a
broad drain, of about a mile in length, was cut through
Ballybetagh, townland seven miles south of. Dublin,
to the right of the
and three-quarters of a mile
the supply of
Enis-
kerry-road, for the purpose of. increasing
water at the three largo factories in the neighbourhood.
The work having for a month or two proceeded slowly
through some hard manly ground, was pushed with
vigour in the peaty soil of a pond, whose waters were
drained off in the process of digging, and week after
week objects were revealed which excited great curiosity
and wonder. These objects were no other than the
' remains of reindeer and Irish elk, the latter of immense
size and in considerable quantities. As usual, conjec-
ture dates their immersion so far back as the deluge.
But the supposition is open to objection. The number
exhumed, and the limited extent of the spot where they
lay—a curve of fifteen feet wide, and three or four hun-
dred yards long—leaving room to conclude that further
search at either side would have exposed a great many
more to view. Add to this, that amongst the extra-
ordinary quantity of thirty-two skulls, and numerous
principal bones, not a single skeleton has been found
entire, or can be artistically completed.—Dublin Free-
man.
FATAL ACCIDRNT AT THE NEW HOUSES OF PAR'.
LlAMENT.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at
the Westminster Hospital, on the body of James Webb,
agen 27, a stonemason, employed at the new Houses of
Parliament. The deceased,was engaged in the central
hall of the edifice. On Saturday morning, as he was
leaving the s‘ orks to go to break tS.st, to stepped off the
platform, oiy, cling to set hz.s toot oa tles ladder, tut it
had been removed, and he tell down a depth of teu feet.
He was removed to the hospital, and died on Monday-.
, Verdict, " Accidental death. ',