The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-12 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

Accounts have been received from Lisbon to the 7th.

The CABRALS seem to have resigned themselves to
the political annihilation to which they have been
doomed by the last elections.
Not only has the Estandarte, the journal of JOSE
CABRAL, ceased to appear, but the press and types are
advertised for sale, and JOSE CABRAL himself is about
to quit the country.
The Miguelite Peers have consented to take their
seats in the Senate, and it is understood they will
support SALDANIIA'S Government. A creation of
ten or twelve new peers is expected.—Great
consternation has been produced in the financial
world by the publication of a Royal decree to the
following astounding effect—to wit, the capitaliza-
tion, Ist, of the dividends due on the National
Debt, both internal and external, for the second
half-year of 1850 and the whole of 1851,
and of those yet to become due for the first half-year
of 1852; 2d, of the interest of the debt due to the
Bank of Portugal for the first half-year of 1852 ; 31,
of the whole of the arrears up to July last, due to all
classes of civil cmployies and pensioners; 4th of all
sums yet due for supplies to the army of operations
in 1846 and 1847. All these debs are to be capi-
talized, or funded, by giving the parties Four per
Cent. Inscriptions at par for the full amount of their
claims, and the resources thus left at the disposal of
the Government are to be applied to the redemption
of those branches of the revenue which have been
anticipados or mortgaged. In the long preamble,
signed by all the Ministers, by which this decree is
ushered in, the plea of urgent and inevitable necessity
is set up in justification of so bold and sweeping a
measure.

The celebrated Padre MARCO, the Queen's Chap-
lain, died on the 6th.
The Count Das ANTAS is dangerously ill.

GERMANY.

The Vienna and Berlin journals which arrived this
morning contain no news of importance. There is
nothing in them to indicate that the Governments of
Austria and Prussia have any reason to apprehend
that the enemies of order in these countries will re-
sort to open manifestations, but every precaution has
been taken to repress any attempt that may be made.
The Federal army of observation has received
orders to take up its position on the Rhine. Austria
and Prussia each furnish 15,000 men ; Bavaria,
Hesse, and the other states 10,000 men ; so that the
effective force of the corps darmie will be 40,000.
The Baden Gazette states that the soldiers sent on
furlough on the Ist of October have been sum-
moned to their colours by the order of the Minister
of War.

The Hanoverian Chambers met on 2d December,
and immediately received very comprehensive pro -
jects of law from the Government. There was also a
letter from the KING of the following purport, which
will require an address:—That it having pleased the
ALMIGHTY to remove from this mortal scene his late
Majesty King ERNEST AUGUSTUS, it had been the first
care of his Majesty King GEORGE V. to convoke the
states. He had confidence that they would aid him
with the same loyalty and affection which they had
manifested to his late father ; that the patent of his
accession had been deposited in the National Archives ;
finally, the KING implored the blessing of GOD that
the bond between KING and people might be consoli-
dated, and cordially greeted the Chambers, and wished
them GOD speed them in their work.
In the sitting of the 3d both the Chambers pro-
ceeded to the election of their President, and it must
be confessed that the first act of the Hanoverian
Chamber was a vote of want of confidence in the
present Ministry. In the First Chamber, the late
Ministerial President Count Benigsen, the late Vice-
President Hausmann, and the Councillor of the High
Court of Appeal, were chosen candidates, from whom
the KING will have to select one. The Second
Chamber chose the late Minister of the Interior, M.
Lindemann, the late Minister of Religious Affairs,
Dr. Theodore Meyer, and Dr. Ellisen. M. Linde-
mann had .55 votes of the 69 members present, and
10 papers were blank. In the sitting of the
4th a Royal Message confirmed the nomina-
tion of Count Benigsen as President of the
First Camber, and of M. Lindeman❑ as Presi-
dent of the Second. M. Weinhagen moved the
address of condolence and congratulation in the Se-
cond Chamber. He considered that the chief point
for condolence was that the late KING bad been
taken from them before he had been able to fulfil his
promise of introducing the new organisation which
he had granted his subjects, and that the remainder
of his days had been embittered by the conduct of a
small part of his subjects. That with regard to the
congratulations to be addressed to the son of
the late KING, it was but to express the
earnest hope of the Chambers that he would
immediately carry out the organic laws gua-
ranteed to the country by his lather. The Hon.
Member concluded by passing a severe censure upon
the new KING for having unwisely, as he
termed it, availed himself of his constitutional
privilege of dismissing his father's Ministers, and
appointing a new Cabinet. Several members fol-
lowed on the same side, but M. Lehzen protested
against such an unheard-of address, by which the
Chamber would at the very outset be assuming a
hostile attitude, not only highly unbecoming, but most
impolitic, because, though it was true that the KING
had made use of his right to appoint a new Ministry,
it by no means followed that he thereby intended to
rescind the last promise made by the late KING to his
people. The President, M. Lindemann, took the
same view ; and after several other members had
spoken, the Chambers appointed a committee of five
members to prepare a simple address of condolence
and congratulation. A similar scene took place in
the First Chamber.— Hamburgh Correspondent,
Dec. 7.