The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-07 00:00:00

LISBON, JUNE 29.

The uncalled-for attempt of this Municipal Chamber to em-
barrass the Government by its repeated threats of resigning at
this particular Inment has been checked by Don Pedro and
his Mi'fisters in a very masterly manner, well showint.:
preverly they appreciated the real motives tlr,,,er which it
acted. The following comr:iunication has been published :
" His Imperial Maje;ty, Regent in the name of the Queen,
duly received the tlree memorials from the Municipal Cham-
ber of Lisbon, (1.-cited 27th of May, and 9th and 19th instant,
asking in the first, and insisting in the two last, for a decree
dissolving it. His Imperial Majesty directs the Chamber to
be informed, that he respects, in each of its members, the
honourable choice made by the loyal inhabitants of this capi-
tal, and that he will only make use of his right of dissolving it
whenever the welfare of the public, which is the sole object of
his thoughts and actions, shall imperiously require it.
" BENTO PEREIRA DO CARMO,
" Minister for the Home Department.
" Palace of Queluz, June 21, 1834."

Notwithstanding the above, the Municipal Chamber has the
undoubted right of resigning, and yet up to this moment re-
sort has not been had by any of its members to this alternative
thus making it rather apparent that they were not in earnest
when they applied to Government upon the matter. I have
the pleasure of being acquainted with several of the gentlemen
belonging to that body, who are highly respectable and es-
timable men in private life, but were evidently led by some
mischievous perso-n. Here the matter has dropped, to the no
small satisfactifjn of the thinking part of the public, who could
not understand what the pretended grievances were. The
Revista Semanal of last Sunday, which I enclose, contains a
very sensible article upon this subject.
A decree relative to the English-Portuguese loan has been
issued by this Government, and it would be perfectly useless to
take up your time with any remarks upon the satisfaction it
must give to the English creditors : it speaks for itself. You
are of course aware that the sum it refers to exceeds 1,600,0001.
sterling.

Another decree has also appeared relative to the future re-
gulations of the trade of Madeira, with the most essential par-
ticulars of which I am induced to trouble you, as so much
British capital and industry are engaged in it :
" All such goods and merchandise as are admitted to pass
through the Custom-houses in Portugal, shall have the same
privilege at the Custom-house of Funchal, in the island of
Mcdeira.

" 2. The Custom-house at Funchal will be regulated in
every respect by the practice of the one at Lisbon, excepting
in anything which may be peculiar to that island.
" 3. Its wines will pay a duty of 3 per cent. when exported
to Portugal, and of 8 per cent. when to foreign countries, upon
the valuation of 60 milreas per pipe ; all other produce of the
country, such as fruits, salt fish, sweetmeats, &c., will only
pay 1 per cent. on exportation.
" 4. Each pipe of wine which may be ripened by storing
shall be subject to a duty of 2 milreas per month."
N.B.—The reason assigned for this is, that the Government
consider the quality of the wines injured by this process, and
they wish by the imposition of this tax to discourage its con-
tinuance. The other articles are not of any general importance.
You will hardly believe that up to this time the linen manu-
factured in the province of Minlio was subject to the payment
of a duty of 23 per cent., which enabled foreign importations
to compete with theirs in this market to considerable advan-
tage. An order of the Regent, countersigned by Jose da
Silva Carvalho, dated the 23d inst., does away with this ex-
traordinary anennaly, and reduces the import duty thereon into
all the ports of the kingdom to 3 per cent., under the denomi-
nation of derecho de fragatas ; by these means, the increased
manufacture of it is encouraged.
It is whispered that the detention of the Royal Tar steamer
for 48 hours has been in order to enable M. Mendizabal to
take with him some other decrees which have been, during
several days past, under discussion before the Council of State,
but notwithstanding my persevering inquiries, I have only
been able to ascertain that one of the measures agreed upon is
the admission of bonds of the loans contracted for in England
as cash at par, in payment for the purchase of any national
church, encomienda, and convent properties. I have heard
the particulars of others which were in contemplation, but
until I hear positively that they have been acceded to, it would
not be right or proper in me to say any thing further, because,
if Incorrect, my information might mislead.
I beg to inform you that a very good understanding seems
to prevail at last between. Lord Howard de Walden and these
Ministers. I have it from good authority that both M. Freire
and M. Silva Carvalho have told his Lordship that if he will
at all times coriimunicate with them verbally in a friendly way
upon any thing which may occur, previously to writing angry
official letters, he will find them perfectly ready to do every
thing in their power towards meeting his wishes, whatever
they may happen to be, in an open and candid manner. His
Lordship is stated to have met this declaration in a corres-
ponding conciliatory spirit, and the consequences cannot but
be advantageous to both countries, particularly in a mercantile
point of view. Both his Lordship and Admiral Parker have
within the last very few days received proofs of this friendly
spirit, in the une instance by the Government immediately
setting at P.'oerty a midshipman of his Majesty's brig Scorpion,
serving as a packet, who was caught in the act of conveying
on hoard, without a permit, 641 b. weight of silver in bars,
and it is not needful to mention the other.
I have every reason to believe that my former conjectures as
to the prevalence of a good understanding between the Duke
it a 131181 en a and. t.ho
outu not be surprised o see him join the Ministry With
all its present members ; but, be this as it may, the circum-
stance will go a great way to prevent the necessity of a very
large creation of peers, as his influence amongst that class is
great, and they all look up to him as their leader. His ex-
cellency has at last given up the idea of going to England for
the present, probably as he finds that being required to be back
by the 3d of August next, in order to make the preliminary ar-
rangements for the meeting of the House of Peers, of which
most likely he will be appointed president, he would hardly
have time to be a fortnight London, unless he had the cer-
tainty of a steamer to br.ng him back. At a meeting which
most of the nobility P,nd other influential persons have had,
the Duke of Terc'"ara has likewise declared his approval of the
measures of Do,n Pedro and his Ministers, as well as his de-
termination tA support the government so long as the same
path was coatinued. You are no doubt aware that the object
of the opposite or moderate party is to remove Don Pedro
from the regency, to support him in which his present minis-
ters and their friends stand pledged, and it appears from what
I hear from the interior, that the general feeling there is one of
gratitude to his Imperial Majesty for the success of his efforts
and perseverance to rid the country of the despotic sway of
Miguel. The Miguelites, I mean such as are incorrigible and
still adhere to their former opinions, are using their utmost
endeavours in order to socure the return of some of their friends
as members to the Cortes, of course with hardly one chance
of success. Their principal object in this no doubt is to oppose
the decision of the Chambers as to the indemnities which, it
is imagined by many, will then be ordered to be paid out of the
properties of the principal Miguelite leaders, who in fact have
been the cause of the ruin of so many families.
Colonel Pizarro arrived in the packet from England on the
23d inst., and as the amnesty, according to general report,
does not reach him, he was instantly put under arrest, but not
before he had attempted to fire upon the persons sent to take
him into custody. Marshal Saldanha, who had been his great
friend up to very lately, has declined to interfere on his behalf
upon this occasion.

As I all along anticipated, it is now established beyond a
doubt that there has not been a single case of cholera morbus
in Lisbon this year, and the kind of typhus fever of which
spoke in my last has, thank God, disappeared. The Go-
vernment was, consequently, rather hasty in giving notice to
the foreign Consuls not to grant clean bills of health, which
ought to be discontinued now.
The appointment of Count Toreno to the Spanish Ministry
has produced general satisfaction here ; his unflinching con-
stancy to the cause of constitutional liberty, his splendid
talents, and enterprising genius, his great perseverance, as
well as his determined character, are all considered as so
many guarantees that so long as he continues to direct the
councils of the neighbouring country, so long will he contri-
bute to strengthen the union between the two countries, and
increase their intercourse to mutual advantage, and so long
will their liberal institutions be secure from any attempt at
mutilation. There is no man whose nomination could at the
present moment inspire more confidence to these good people.
The Vigo letters inform us, that M. Llorente, deputy to the
last Cortes, and M. Acevedo, formerly political chief of the
Asturias, both lately returned from their emigration ev'zr since
1823, were likely to be elected procuradores or m embers of
the Spanish Chambers for the province of Tuy, ;A opposition
to the Marquis de Valladores and M. Ballesteros, the notorious
ex-Minister of Finance of Ferdinand VII., who are likewise
candidates. A report is going about, I know not how far cor-
rect, that the Portuguese Minister at Madrid has been in-
structed by this Government to request the removal from
Lisbon of one of the Secretaries to the Spanish Legation
here, M. Carnpuzano, who was in Lisbon during some part
of Miguel's reign of terror, and did not then take any pains
to disguise his ultra-conservative principles, as well as his ad-
miration of the Usurper's acts.
Don Pedro's health is rather improving, and he avails him-
self of every favourable opportunity of taking horse exercise,
in the early part of the morning as well as in the evening ;
but he is nervous--the least thing affects him. The event of
of his sister's disagreement with her husband, the Marquis of
Louie, has annoyed him very much. Their Imperial Ma-
jesties, as well as the Queen, intend going to Oporto about
the 10th or 12th of July.
The merchants of this capital, amongst them some who were
considered to be opposed to the Ministry, have written a very
handsome letter of thanks to Silva Carvalho, for the late va-
rious mercantile measures of free port, &C. His Majesty's
ships Hastings and Revenge, the former bearing Admiral
Gage's flag, arrived this morning, and were saluted by the
batteries and the different ships in the harbour. Lady Howard
de Walden and family came passengers in one of them. Ad-
miral Parker, to the great regret of the merchants in general,
will leave us on Tuesday in the Asia, on his return home to
take his seat at the Admiralty Board. The Spanish frigate
Perla arrived on Tuesday, and a French line-of-battle-ship is
at anchor in Cascaes Bay, outside this bar. The Scotch Fu-
sileers, under Colonel Shaw, left us last Monday for St.
Übe's.
I learn this moment that Funchal, in the island of Madeira,
is about being declared a free port, and that the government
will be ready to receive tenders from any one who will be wil-
ling to offer to erect the necessary piers, break-water, &c. In
consequence of the seizure of silver in bars which was made
the other day, M. Silva Carvalho has taken the matter into
consideration, and, in conjunction with the other ministers, it
has been decided that hereafter all gold and silver in bars,
or foreign coin, may be exported with a permit, but not other-

PRICES OF STOCKS THI,
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Red. 92 lA,'
3 per Cent. Cons 9154%%
3Y4 per Cent. -
Ditto Red 99q% t 4
New 3}4 per Cent. 9Sg -84
Assented toolg%
4 per Cent.lDissented
Bank Long nnuities to expire
Jan. 3, 1860 17 3-16 5-16
Oct. 10, 1859 l7 3-16
Jan. 5,186 e -
Jan. 5, 1880 -
April 5, 1880
Jan. 5, 1870 -

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Balgian Bonds 98441%
Ditto Account 9B
Brazilian Bonds 79 801
Ditto Account 79 8% WM
Buenos Ayres Bonds 32
Ditto Account 32
Chillian Bonds 33

Ditto Account 33
Columbian Bonds 29%
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, l8•l1 33►4 2.74
Ditto Account 32,4
Danish Bonds

Ditto Account
Greek Bonds

Ditto Bonds, 1923

Ditto Account -
, _
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Sty
Ditto Account 3414
Ditto, 6 per cent. 46
Ditto Account 46
Neapolitan 04!4

Arrived.

0 America 0
0 Brazil 0
0 Buenos Ayres 0
0 Carthagena 0
2 Dublin
1 Flanders 0

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

New 5 per Cent
--
India Stock -
Ditto Bonds 27 26 pm.
South Sea Stock
„.. IU3A

Old Annuities --
New Ditto B9N
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151—
Exch. Bills, £1,000.... ..... 52 53 pm.
Ditto 500 52 54 pm.
Ditto Small
. .

Ditto Commercial — pm.

Ditto Advertised — pm.
Bank Stock for Account 216%
India Stock for Acc0unt...272% '7l 73
Consols for Account 93,4 I

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds 2B
Dit• o Account 2B
Portuguese Bonds 8614 7 %
- B7

Ditto Account
el 0 .
'A r-4i
Ditto New Bonds 86y4 •,
Ditto Account 83 91A 814%
Prussian Bonds 11,14
Ditto Bonds, 1522 lOl
Russian Bonds, 113',
Ditto Account 105%
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds!... ...... 49!f, 87f, 04
Ditto Account ,9!i 8% 9/8%
Ditto Bonds, 1833 464
16

Ditto Account 4l
French, 5 per cent. 107 f. —c.
4 per cent :lsf. 40c.
---- 3 per cent......• —f. —c.
--- Exchange —f. —c.
Dutch, 2 per cent. 52 i. 2
Ditto Account
Ditto, 5 per cent tEN3:,
Ditto Account ps4

Due.

0 Lisbon 1
0 Malta
0 Mexico 1
0 Ostend 0
1 Sweden 0
2 Waterford 0

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