The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-03 00:00:00

17/. 19s. 6d. ; call in January, 2561., leaving a balance
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, loan, Bce., 145/. 10s.; dividend on 19th September, 3,154,1.;
reserve fund, 3151=4+,5751..125. sd, - Balance last account,
301. 19s. 5d.;:--64/. 15s.
,jcl.--Received on call, 44/. 14a,
3an7d,4: l:4 IL alricsh.
6cdo.s t;
At Tincrffannual meeting, o i Wednesday, the accounts
351. and merchants'lss. 8 l
.;Fbeibl I.s,
Qs. 11 d. ; interest on
' 9181. 95., Id. ; copper ore sold, 26,600/. 13s. 9J.; tin ore,
13,2861: la ; arsenic, 421/. 1 Is. Id.: leaving a balance to
At New East Crowndale meeting, on Tuesday, the '
tiheixstmaicoceousanitd, 35498/a
1. :Ls.
of
fl Atooppe the tin
copper ore,
tvicakluee2g2, on Thursday,
901 .
ac-
counts showed-Received on call, 180/. 165.-Balance from
last account, 37/. 12s. 6d.; labour cost, &c., f x February and
March, 35/. 65.; merchants' bills. 71/. Ils. 9d. : leaves ba-
lance to next account, 36/. ss. 9d. ; with arrears of call, 24/.
A call of 2s. 6d. per share was made, and a resclation entered
into for the immediate erection of a 30-
in. cylinder pumpingengine.
At Great Sheba Consols meeting, on the 28th of April, the
accounts showed-Valance from last account,
124/. 4s. 9d. ;
•
.; , further
aiis.
sd.
A call of 11.
n account, 1001.
calls, 597/.--a---721/.•45. 9d.-Cost for Januaory, 989/. 18s. lid. ;
February 2401. 4s. 5i les-ees
leaving a, balauce to next account, /-
per share was made.
6161. Is. 11d.; calls, at./.=--
showed-Balance, lest abcoceotunfro,
for February, 1971. Os. Id. ;
At West Phoenix meeting. on Tuesday, the accounts
LW. 12s. 6d.; on account of cost
March, 167/. .s.; sundries, ,
666/. 'ls. 1 . d.-Cost s
of engine (3, - f
of twelve shareholders were
AT/ ) 1,0/. ; leaving balance to next account,
81/. 4s. 4d. A committeei.
Consuls Meeting, on Monday. the ac-
At Heignston D.Will.
. d a balance in hand of 310/. Ils. 4d. The mine
counts showed chosen. A call of per share was made.
is in an improving state.
At George and Charlotte meeting on the 23d of April, the
accounts
showed-Costsfrom Dec. to end of March. 2391. 58.
By balance from last account, 51. IBs. 7d. ; call, Lio/.; leaves
balance to be carried to next account, 1101. 6s. sd. A call of
10s. per share was made.
At the Appledore meeting, yesterday, a report was read
from Captain R. Dunstan, giving very satisfactory news re-
specting, the progress of the mine; a call of 10s. per share
was made, for the purpose of paying 2001. on account of en-
gine and materials lately purchased from South Aluiton, and
4i I. 153 for the two last months' Working, which leaves a ha.
larce of 270/. ss. in hand.
At Bodmin Consols to eting, on Monday, the balance o
assets over liabilities was 1,452/. 18s. 7d., and the finance
committee was authorised to look out, for a suitable steam-
engine, the flattering 'prospects in the mine fully warranting
its further prosecution in depth, and a very sanguine expec-
tation seemed to tie entertained of the result.
Shares in the following mines have changed hands during
the week: - West Caradon, Trelawny, Mary Ann, Devon
and Courtenay, Herodsfoot, Tamar Consols, Bedford United.
;East Gunnis Lake, East' and r".outli Tamar, Garreg, East
Rumen, Black Craig, Tincroft, ' West Providence, West
Treasury, Treleigh Consols, South Tolgus, Brewer, Tregur•
den, West Alfred, Alfred Consols, and Wheal Carpenter.
In Foreign Mines sales have been effected in the Cobre,
Copiapo, and United Mines.

AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.

We by no means attached credit to the accounts
brought by. ti -e last mail to some of our contemporaries
from Portugal, and .which represented the rebellion of
Saldanha as hopeless. With such a mass of diseontent
in the country,-with a Ministry of the most despotic
principles and the most prefllgitte political character,
obstinately maintained in power by the Court against the
wishes and opinions of every independent and every
honest man, we should have considered any insurrection
as,very promising of success. Saldanha counted upon this.
He thought the mere declaration of a veteran general
against Cabral must suffice for his downfall. And he
therefore undertook to carry through the revoluta n,
independent of the great fib. red or Septembristic party.
In this he reckoned without his host; tne activity of the
King, and the inertia of the liberals, alike disappoin.ee
him. And, like most moderate politicians of our time,
who seek to swim between the arbitrary principle of a
court and the extravagant demands of au unieformed
people, he well nigh sank; until the Liberals saved him,
It is as remarkable as unfortunate, the universal
failure of moderate or middle paroles, who seek to
steer constoutionally and independent of extremes.
The Constitutionalists in Germany have failed so
uiterly as to have b:csme a bye-word. The French
sailed fur Civita, courting upon the existence of such a
party in Rome; but the very la .ding of a foreign power
bad the effect of annihilating such a feeling, which no
longer survives in Isly, except in Piedmont, where it
can only live, as poiteinaires, by rule, and by the most
scrupulous care. In France Emile de Girarain has pro-
claimed it aloud that there is no malium between So-
cialam and Legitimacy, which one would not mind so
much from one mouth, however talented, if the remark
was not .echoed as something too true. Even in our
own Parliament, never was moderadoism put to such
shifts to live. Lord John Russell, who is its hero, has
run this very session the gauntlet of a thousand difficul-
ties, with a thousand more before him ; nor can he save
himself, unless, like Saldanha, he flings himself bravely
into the liberal camp. We would be sorry, however,
to compare the liberals of England with the Septem-
bristas of Portugal, or even Lord John with Saldanha.
Personal pique and wrong, rather than any public
principle, seems the ruling motive with the General, who
made himself the tool of the court in putting down the
Septembriatas, and even breaking his word to them,
hoping, as he then did, that the return of Cabral was
impossible. No sooner, however, had Saldanha enjoyed
a year of peace, which, the by, he sadly abused, than
Cabral pushed him from his stool, and has reigned since
in his place. Personally, Saldanha has every right to
complatu; and, according to Portuguese
_notions, every
right to conspire. And he certainly did so in such a
manner as would substitute himself for Cabral once
mere, and leave the:old machinery of government un-
touched. Id this he has been disappointed. He has
been obliged to fling himself into the hands of the Sep.
tembrist party, who are once more masters of Oporto.
Thus have Portugal aed its Queen returned precisely
into the sell'-same difficulties in which they were in
1847, from which it cost the British Government and
Lord Palmerston so much trouble and so much
loss of character to relieve them. The result
of that intervention was pretty much the same to
England as it was to Saldanha, a complete trickery
arid a falsification of every promise. It was the
British fleet that put down the Junta of Oporto for the
Queen of Portugal, and she repaid the service by in-
stalling in power-the most decidpd enemy of British in-
tetests, commerce, and 'deem If even in this her Ma-
jesty had shown any wisdom ; had she kept her
throne secure, her army faithful, her grandees
contented ; had she kept her court and her
country independent of Spanish politics and Spanish
interference, England might have been contented
to waive influence and lose even ancient rights
in Portugal. But to be called to protect every three or
four years—to restore by military power a Court and a
Government that know not how to consolidate them.
selves, and .that repay every service by ingratitude, is
really too bad. If her Majesty were left to deal with
her own subjects. as she could, without foreign aid or
interference, she would then be compelled to submit to
what Kings of England and France have long since
submitted, a genuine - constitutional government,
with Lull freedom and influence to popular opinions.
If the constithtional dynasty of Portugal be not taught
such a lesson as this, and allowed to derive the true
benefit from it, the result will.be that Donna Maria
will be but keeping the place warm for Don Miguel,
as Louis Philippe did for the Duke of Bordeaux. We
trust that Liberal Members of Parliament will lose no
time in enforcing non-intervention on the Government.
they do not, a hundred motives will induce the
contrary. The Court of Madrid will be alarmed
at the resuscitation of the Oporto movement.
France will fan the fears of the Spanish Queen. Nar-
vaez will make it a pretext for getting back to head a
military occupation of Portugal, and restore thereby
his in luence in the Peninsula. We shall commence, as
usual, with professions and pretensions of aiding the
liberal ,side, but the adrit marceuvres of these countries
will soon trick and pervert the support from the side it
was intended to support, to the very opposite one of
despotiem. So was it in 1847; so will it be in 1851, un-
less Ge.erninent Le wary, and Parliament watcbfal.—
Dai(y News.