The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

SOUTILIMrTO'N, TUESDAY.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Iberia,
Captain F. Burney, R.N., Commander, has arrived
here with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails,
and dates from Gibraltar to the sth ; Cadiz, 6th ;
Lisbon, 9th ; Oporto, 10th ; and Vigo, to the 10th
rlst. The Iberia brings forty-two passengers, and
cargo of the usual character.

Lisbon advices by this packet have been an-
ticipated twenty-four hours by the Brazil mail
steamer Tay, which vessel left the Tagus one day after
the Iberia had sailed.
Oporto letters quote the rates of exchange for this
packet on London at 55 to 551, with some transac-
tions in first-rate paper at 5-li. A good many Bra-
zilian bills were expected by the steamer then due,
which would tend to support the present rate. The
revenue of the Oporto Custom-house for the last
month amounted to 183 contos, less 16 contos amor-
tization of notes.

A report was current at Oporto that the Govern-
ment was about to equalize the export duties imposed
on wines shipped to America and England. The
precise intentions of the Government were not
known, bat it was suppoped that the export duty
per pipe would in future be from eight to ten milreis,
while that on wines hitherto shipped to America
and other ports out of Europe has been merely
nominal. St ippers were consequently dispatching
large quantities previous to the new arrangements
" taking effect, several hundred pipes having passed
entry for shipments at the Custom-house, while an
entire stoppage was, for the present, put upon ship-
ments to England. Heavy exports of wine were made
daring March to Great Britain.
The cotton and woollen trades remained un-

changed.
We have no political news from Oporto, where
public tranquillity was undisturbed on the 9th inst.
There is nothing additional by this packet in rela-
tion to the news of a military insurrection in Portugal
brought by the Tay.
We have accounts from Gibraltar to the sth inst.
TI-.e British steamer Grecian, twenty-three days from
Constantinople, arrived on the 31st ult., and cleared
for Liverpool.
The steamear Waterwitch, 14 days from Palermo,
arrived on the Ist instant, and sailed for Liverpool.
The screw steamer Astrologer, 7 days from Liver-
pool, arrived on the 3d inst., and proceeded for Kilta
and Beyrout.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Euxine, five days from Southampton, arrived on the
4th, and sailed for Malta and Constantinople. The
steamer Shamrock, bound for the same ports, ar-
rived the same day, in five and a half days from
Liverpool.
The quarantine hitherto imposed at Malaga upon
vessels arriving from Gibraltar has been remojed.
At Gibraltar on the sth inst.' exchange on London
at 90 days' date was quoted 50 and to 51 ;on Paris,
Sf. 29c.; Spanish pillared dollars, and premium.

GERMANY.
The Frankfort Journal of the 10th, says—
" The annual meeting of the German Association for
National Trade was opened yesterday
by "eProtection of
PrinceN Felix o f alluhenlohe.
" The Prince,in the speech which he made upon the
occasion, said that the essential tendency of the associa-
tion should be to labour at the grand politico-commercial
union of Germany and A.' stria while it at the same time
conscientiously maintained the union already obtained by
the Zollverein, and by introducing into it the necessary
reforms.
" Before the closing of the afternoon sitting, a long dis-
cussion ensued on the question of the A ro-German
customs and commercial union. The Assemblyn made the
following declaration on the subject:—
. " The Assembly proclaims in principle the necessity
of an Austro-German customs and commercial union,
based on the maintenance of the Aollvereia, and on the
principle of the protection of German trade. It invites
the President of the Association to use every means in
his power to accomplish this work, by endeavouring to
remove the difficulties which still oppose that union.'
" The Easter Fair was opened on the 9th, and will
not be closed till the second Tuesday after Easter.
There was an abundant supply of articles, especially from
the states of the Zollverein, but it was apprehended that
the lair would not be good, from the present state of
political affairs."
A letter from Berlin, in the bulipendance of Brus-
sels, says that Austria has laid down conditions for
the opening of the Diet of Frankfort, and that the
principal of these is that the Diet shall ratify all the
decisions taken by the Assembly at Frankfort, al-
thougn neither Prussia nor her allies were represented
But it was considered that the negotiations
bu"rcci into
n thnisthe 1 subjst May.ect will not prevent the open-
log of the Diet o
Chamber Prussia, in its sitting of the
11th, in the
Cdiscussion on the Bill on Ministerial re-
sponsibility. adopted an amendment, to the effect that
when one Chamber shall have resolved to impeach a
•
shall inform the other
turn, and that if such
other Chamber of it, in
' order that it may vote in i
Chamber shall not vote for the resolution, it shall not
become definitive until after the former Chamber shall
have declared that it persists in it' f
KalieliP sthe
e n
A Bohemian journal, under date o
inse., ecn
states that several arrests have
at Warsb aw.
made in Poland, and
particularly
rest
literary men.
Among the number are some priests and
though
It is stated in a letter Hanover,from
the Chambers have been prorogued to the btu
between
the hostility that although
"a
Com-
mittees of the Chambersutli continues to t
b ande the wns
very sharp,
chiefly with respect to the demand of the hereditary
e
nehles to maintain the privileges they possess. The
latter are supported by the Government.