The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

arrest of TEr;CEIR.a and.,the outbreak of- a revolution
in the northern provinces; indeed it appears as if
Lisbon was the only part of the kingdom in which
the QUEEN'S authority was at present acknowledged.
The Opinion gives the following extract from a
letter received from Lisbon :

LISI3,;N, OcT. 13 —lt is now four in the afternoon.
The official account has arrived of the insurrection of
Oporto. Terc,ira is imprisoned in the tower of the Fez.
The Junta of Oporto has proclaimed Don Pedro the
Fifth, declaring the Queen excluded from the throne.
The Marquis of Loule, husband of the Infanta Donna
Anna, has put himself at the head of the. Junta of
Coimbra; the Condo das Antas presides over that of
Oporto.
" They have organised four battalions at Coimbra,
which are to join the forces of Aveiro, in order to march
upon the capital.
" All the steamers—those of the state as well as the
mercantile ones—have placed themselves at the orders
of the Junta of Oporto."
The King, FERDINAND, has taken the command of
the troops in Lisbon, with SALDANIIA as his aide-de-
camp. The Court, it is said, has applied to Spain for
assistance, and the Spanish Government has ordered
the Gallician corps to be marched to the frontier,
Braga has joined the insurrection, as well as Oporto
and Coimbra, and the troops of PEDRO V. are pre-
paring to march upon Lisbon. The official journal
of Lisbon, of the 13th, publishes a decree betraying
the embarrassment and apprehensions of the Govern-
ment. The officers and soldiers dismissed in 1842 are
recalled into service. Those who comply are pro-
mised reward, and those who refuse threatened with
being treated as deserters.
MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 19.--The Three per Cents. were
done at 351/4 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 21%; the
Five per Cents. at 213% ; the Debt without Interest, at
; the Vales non Consolidados, at 83/4 ; and the Coupons,
at 201/2.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday.
They are filled with accounts of the destructive
effects produced by the inundations in every part of
France. The Loire has burst its banks at several

places along its course. The principal streets o

Tours are under water, and all direct communication
between that city and Paris is cut off. The Orleans
and Bordeaux Railway is impassable, except from
Orleans to Blois. At Nantes the Luire was rising
rapidly on the 23d; since that day all communica-
tions with Nantes and Angers have been cut
off by the inundation. The SaOne at Lyons
had, according to the last accounts, reached
an alarming height, and it was feared that steam-
boats, which since the commencement of the inunda-

tion had formed the only means of communication
with some of the districts of the country, would no
longer be able to ply. The progress of the Duke
D'AUAIILE to Bordeaux from Madrid, had been inter-
rupted by the heavy rains. He only reached Bor-
deaux on the 23d, twenty-four hours later than the
time fixed for his arrival. The Duke and Duchess
DE MONTPENSIER were expected to arrive at Bayonne
on Monday. The floods have completely put a stop
to all the fetes with which they were to have been
welcomed in the south of France.
The Courrier Francais observes—
"Their Royal Highnesses, it is said, have, in conse-
quence of the desolated condition of the provinces, de-
clined all the rejoicings which were in preparation, and
which form too great a contrast with the general suffer-
ing. Consequently thefetes are countermanded, and the
funds voted by the municipal councils to celebrate their
arrival are, by their express desire, to be applied to the
relief of the people who are deprived of food and
shelter."

Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and on
Sunday, over which the KING himself presided, to
deliberate on the means to be adopted for the relief
of the sufferers by the inundations. The Minister of
the Interior was in the district of the Loire at the

time of the inundation, and he ordered funds to be
placed at the disposal of the authorities in the several
districts which he traversed in his route to Paris.
It is impossible to calculate the amount of the pro-
perty which has been destroyed by this fearful cala-
mity, but that is not the worst—the loss of life, too,
has been fearful.

The papers still continue the controversy on the
Spanish marriage, but no new arguments are pro-
duced on either side. The only article of permanent
importance in any d these journals is one in the
Debuts, on the advantages to the public and to the
revenue of a reduction of the duties. The writer

thus argues his case:—
" The advantages that may result to the consumer, the
treasury, the shipping interest, and the naval force of
the kingdom, from a well-orgauised system of impost,
have been proved by experience. All that is gained
politically by proportioning taxes to the intrinsic value
of things, and to the resources of the greatest number
of men, is rendered evident. But what arc the applica-
tions which France can make of this principle, and what
is the aid that may be obtained from it for the develop-
ment of French navigation ? Englund, with twenty-
eight millions of population, consumes at least
sixteen millions of kilogrammes of coffee, or
about six-tenths of a kilogramme per head ; she joins
to that 20 millions of kilogrmmes of tea, of which about
a fortieth part is consumed in France. Belgium, with
41 millions of population, consumes 13 millions of kilo-
grammes of coffee, or about 2 2-3 d kilogrammes per
head, or fife times as much as England. The reason is,
that Belgium taxes coffee only at 10f. the 100 kilo-
grammes, and she derives from it a revenue of
1,290,000 f. France, with a population of 34i millions,
only consumes 141 millions of kilogrammes of coffee, or
4.loths of a kilogramme per head. The cause is, that
in France the duty is far more elevated than in Belgium,
and if it is found to exceed but little the English duty,
' it mu4t be borne in mind that the amount which is mode-
in
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where
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worth
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then did not amount to more than the third or
fburth part of the value of the merchandise. If this pro-
portion
was recurred to, it is indubitable from the ex-
ample of Belgium and England that the consumption
duty
yg at 80f. per drty,
100,
be at its
would be much.augmented. And as 1 kilog. of coffee
produces the consumption of 3 kilog. of sugar, it may be
conceived what encouragement our navigation would
receive from a diminution in the duty on coffee. In
place of 81f. on an average, let it be placed at 25f. or
30f. Take for the increased consumption in consequence,
only 1 kilog. per head—a moderate hypothesis certainly,
only the third of what is consumed in Bel-
gium,less than England consumes of tea and coffee
suinneict andedi.t is
In this waylhe merchant shipping would gain
ort tons of coffee and 60,00gions of
suga ; the reserved navigation of our islands Wcornes
almost doubled, and the treasury, in place of expe-
riencing any falling off, acquires an increase of revenue
by the double sources of coffee and sugar. It is thus
that the idea of the maritime aggrandisement of our
country, if well understood, may be connected with the
improved condition of the people, and bring into the trea-
sury, in place of being a charge to it. Such are the true
principles of political economy, and works in which such
ideas are strongly supported are worthy of the most
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of the Ministry ,is determined on ; that Marshal
SOULT will retire, and that M. GUIZOT will be
ap-
pointed President of the Council.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 82f. 80c. ; the Five per Cents., 117 f. 90e.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,255 f. ; Rouen, 920 f. ;
Havre, 700 f.; Great Northern, 690 f. ; Avignon, 895 f.;
Vierzon, 587 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 547 f. 50c.; Basle,
222 f. 50c.; Dieppe, 357 f. 50c.; Paris
and Strasburg, 4951'.;
Tours and Nantes, 503 f.; Paris and Lyons, 520 f.; Lyons
and Avignon, 495 f, ; Bordeaux and Cette, 480 f.; Spanish
Domestic Debt, 33%.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, OCTOBER 27. r
and
Barbadoes, %—Dstch uhenisn,sq—East Indian, %—Namu
ad 12—West Flanders, 3.
Liege, —Northern of France Constitut

FATAL ACCIDENT.—This morning, at nine o'clock,
an accident, attended with a fatal result, occurred to a
young man named Robert Richardson, in the employe ofof IVElxrsm.
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standing upon a high ladder, in the act of.hanging up
some clothes for sale outside the shop door, when, by
some mischance, his foot slipped, and he wasiprecipitated
to the ground, his head striking with such violence
against a large metal fender which was outside for sale,
as to break it into three parts. He was taken up in a
state of inensity, and conveyed to St. Bartholo-
ra'w's Hoss pi
bili
, but before he reached it he had ceased
to exist.
THE CITY THOROUGHFARES.--On Monday even-
ing
thoroughfare was re-opened throughout for the passage
the paving in Chcapside being completed, that
of vehicles. To-day Newgate-street will be clostd for
the purposes of paving.
LONDON YACHT CLUB.—Yesterday this acquatic
club held their monthly meeting, at the clubhouse,
Strand. Several motions were made in reference to time
for tonnage of yachts, and John Heseltine, Esq., of Brom-
ley, end George Hunt, Esq., of the City, were admitted
members of the club. The annual dinner of this club is
fixed for the 18th of November next.
PRESENTATION OF THE BELT TO THE CHAMPION OF
THE THAMES.—Yesterday Robert Coombes, the cele-
brated scam-, was presented with a richly made belt, to
be worn by him as champion of tuehe TArms , hames.
Dartmouth-
The cere-
mony was performed at the Qen's
street, Westminster.
The llen Clay, New York packet ship, com-
manded by Cry aptain Nye, left New York on the 7th, aEd
arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, one day after the
ste AM. ship
Great Western.