The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-21 00:00:00

TO THE NORTH OF OPORTO,

Villa do Conde, SO Milicias,
Vianna, 150 Milicias.
Braga, 150 troops of the Line; 220 Milicias and Guerillas.
Penafiel, 700 troops of the Line, 87 Cavalry—Head.quarters
of Count d'Elinar.

Baltar, 750 troops of the Line.
Santo Thyrso, 350 volunteers, guerillas, and 100 Cavalry
Lancers.

Say, in all, 2,587 Infantry and Cavalry.
TO THE SOUTH OF OPORTO.

Guge e Souto Redonde, 300 Militia of Feira.
San Joao de Madeira, 1,000 Infantry Cacadores; 40 Cavalry
Lancers.

Oliveira dos Azemeis, 200 Militiamen ; 30 Cavalry, No. 6.
Aguida, 70 Guerillas.
In all, 1,640 Infantry and Cavalry.
At Coimbra, 100 Volunteer Urbanos; 150 Militia of Soares ;
80 ditto of Coimbra and Figueira.

At Pombal, 150 Volunteers of Pamela; 150 ditto of Leyria ;
350 'ditto of Louzao ; 400 troops of the line, No. 10; 1,000
ditto, ditto, No. 11, 12; 70 Cavalry, 4 field pieces.-2,450 In-
fantry and Cavalry.

From this it appears that in the neighbourhood n'
Oporto there are not more than 4,227 men, and even
counting those at Coimbra and Pomba', only 6,677 men.
No that a simultaneous movement from Oporto and from
Leyria, if a few more troops were sent thither, would in a
few days rid the whole of the country of the Miguelites,
and I trust that it will be so done. The garrison at
Oporto, including the Volunteers, is so very strong, that
they could very well spare .5,000 or even 6,000 men for
ouch a purpose. The garrison at Figueira has not, I find,
been taken into the account, and it is about 200 men by
the last accounts. The Miguelite Conde de Ibbadella
receiv.-d two lance wounds in the engagement of the 18th,
but be is doing well.

MARCH 10.

Since writing u hat precedes we learn by the telegraph
that yesterday the 4th Cacadores, and I Ith and 12th
Infantry of the Line, arrived at Sant trem from the north,
upon which Don Miguel reviewed his troops and spoke to
them at some length, endeavouring to encourage them by
telling them that they would soon be in Li,bon, as he in-
tended to attack the Liberating army almost immediately.
This is cow a capital opportunity for the people from
Oporto to march down a part of their force, by which
means a great portion of the Portuguese territory which
is still suff,ring under the Usurper would be made in•
dependent.
The City of Edinburgh steamer is come back front
tAing the Belgians to the Algarves ; they immediately
upon landing went to join Bernardo di Sa, and it appears
tnat he is about making a move on Beja, which will be
sapported l.y troops from Setubal and other parts on this
side of that town.

After closing my other letters I go on hoard the Carron
steamer to write these few lines while she is under way,
to ware that in consequence of a telegraphic columunca-

tion 320 British and 380 native troopS,.infantry, and 130
Lancers have left this for head-quartets. -
I also encb-se an official statement, by which you will
observe that 236 men came over from the Aliguelite army
to the Liberating troops last month ; also an account of
an engagement on the 18th ult. near Amareeja, wi.ere
the enemy left 84 killed, and 21 prisoners. I believetbat
orders go by this day's conveyance to OportO, in ordCf to
mike a move on the advance towards Col:Mira and Pori-tbal.
A. 0.

OPORTO, MARCH 4.

The steamer Lord of the Lies arrived here yeateiday
from Lisbon, for the purpose of carrying away the 'r::
mainder of the battalion of Volunteers whietAistinguislielt
its..lf in the defence of the Serra Convent. All the single
men of this corps were removed 1:::me time since to St.
Une's, ancrthe Minister of War now makes a demand for
the married ones, to be expended on some sitita4le
occasion.

The cutter Scorpion, with • clothing and ammunition
either for Don Miguel or Don Carlra, has got safely into
Camina, and landed her cargo. tier commander, who is
said to be a lieutenant in the 13ritisli navy, was made pri-
soner by the Spaniar is, on the ground that he was con-
veying supplies to the Carlist rebels. The 12tii tt,oll9th
I,giments of the enemy have been marched from St.
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has Leen illuminated in consequence of the victory (?)
pined by General Leutos over Saldanha on the 18th Mt.

MARCH 9.
List week's mail will remains on board the Orestes, as
the bar has been impassable, although every high w.ter •
!mats have been enabled to put off and land on
the coast
near the mouth of the Douro.
The 10th and 18th Infantry were reviewed the day be..
fare yesterday, and made a fine appearance. Teese corps
are the only troops of the line left in Ooorto, and their
united numbers, on this occasion, did not reach SOO men;
therefore we have little for, e here for offensive operations.
Tee steamer, Lord of the lairs. sailed }e.tetday for
Lisbon, c:rrying away contingent-, and in fact
all the use!, se rutditsh in the shape of soldiers in the place.
General Macdonald arrival at Ciinibra from Figuelra,

un the Ist 41,4., and alter rt.viewing the ts ()vs there, pr..
seeded to Santarem. It is confidrntly asserted . that he is
.:pin restored to the commend in chid' of Iliguelie army,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

There are some ugly symptoms beginning to
show themselves, and we grieve to say, in both
houses of parliament, with regard to the con-
victed boroughs. As the bills for enlarging the
constituency of Hertford and Warwick, for the
total disfranchisement of Stafford, and for that
of a portion of the Liverpool electors, have
advanced in their progress through the House
of Commons, the advocates of corruption ap-
pear to have recovered from their stupor, to
have resumed their ancient system of party tac-
tics, and to have got up a show of opposition
to all the above measures for defending the
future purity of election in the towns alluded to,
as a mask to the more serious resistance meditated
in the lords, that the majority of the latter assem-
bly may not be chargeable with any thing quite
so odious to the people of England as the defeat of
bills protective of the rights both of constituents
and representatives; on behalf of which the House
of Commons had been unanimous. There is
reason to suspect the recent opposition to these
bills, as we have already said, to be but a
preliminary manoeuvre or precursor of the
more successful and more fatal hosti-
lity of the Upper House of Parliament to
an unfettered discharge of its duties by the
elective power of the nation. It is obvious at
first sight, that the branches of the consti-
tuency which have thus disgraced themselves,
and frustrated, to a certain point, the great ob-
ject of a representative system, are those left
either totally or partially unreformed by the bill
of 1832, and that the measures for their entire
disfranchisement, or for their purification by an
admixture of a better class of voters, are no more
than necessary supplements to the law of re-
form, and beneficial applications of that prin-
ciple, the enforcement of which Lord Grey
professed to be his most cogent motive for ac-
cepting the office of Prime Minister. We
do not permit ourselves to doubt for a moment
the continued zeal and solicitude of that noble
Earl for the fulfilment of every promise compre-
hended under his original pledge, that Parliament
should be thoroughly reformed, and corrupt in-
fluence effectually rooted out. It is, therefore,
notwithstanding any sinister appearances, our
full persuasion that Lord Grey will afford his
honest and uncompromising aid to the passing
of the disfranchisement bills through the House
of Lords ; and will not, by weak or ambiguous
concessions to the views of Tory jobbers, bring
into question his own fidelity to that public
cause of which he has claimed to be the patron.
The fact is, however, that the cause of reform
needs no longer the pa'ronage of Lord Grey;
and that if, through careless inconsistency or
timid vacillation, his Lordship should present
himself to the people of England as indifferent,
or worse, to the fate of those bills, by which
corrupt constituencies are to he purified or pu-
nished, the desertion can be but a tran-
sient inconvenience di the reform interest,

while to his Lordship's political character and
power it will be inevitable death. Lord Grey
has no firm support in this country but the peo-
ple, and the people only, so long as he faithfully
serves them. He may, in his perplexities, turn
for protection to the Court—the Court ! But
be it so ; and what can that avail him ? What
ground has the Court itself to stand upon but
the affections or esteem of the nation ? Lord
Grey may appeal to his own magnificent
"order," and in the unfortunate recurrence to
a former pledge that he would " stand by them,"
he may expect that " his order" will stand by
him, should his hour of Ministerial agony ar-
rive. Alas for the noble and venerable earl if
such should be his expectation ! Lord Grey
ought to be aware that he has already offended,
wounded, exasperated the House of Lords past
all hope or chance of forgiveness. His Lordship
ought to feel—for he has been made to feel this
truth more than once. Yet there is a phrase
attributed to the noble lord—an old, a hack-
neyed phrase, and more than any that could
be employed, unpalatable to the people of
England, such as that " it is his duty to avoid
bringing the two houses into collision." We
have heard that jargon before ; it was made an
instrument for embarrassing and retarding the
general Reform Bill in its passage through
parliament, and now it is resorted to as an im-
pediment to the separate bills for completing the
work of reform. If the houses should be
brought into collision, whose fault is it ? The
Home of Commons approve the Disfranchise-
ment Bills, and Lord Grey and his colleagues
allege their own approbation of them. The
House of Lords, it is assumed, will try to throw
them out. Then, let us ask, who is it that
ought to avoid " a collision"—the party opposed
to the wishes of the country, or that which boasts
of coinciding with them ? Must he who is in
the right give way, anti yield the wrong-doer a
triumph ? In that case, there is no act of sub-
servient cowardice that might not be reconciled
to the conscience of a weak-minded man. In that
case self defence, or the protection of innocence,
or the performance of any the most solemn act
of justice, might be abandoned, and the offence
excused, by the fear of risk or vexation. The
language, if—which we cannot believe—it have
really been used by Lord Grey, is utterly un-
worthy of him. It is unworthy of the King's
minister to flinch from his duty, lest the dis-
charge of it should bring him into trouble ; for
that, after all, is the meaning of the anxiety to
shun a collision of the houses. If the Tory
lords feel no such terror, why should the liberal
minister Lord Grey, with the whole British
nation to support trim ? The way to deter the
.Tory peers from a collision, is for Lord Grey
to show them that he is not afraid of it. The
way to succeed in a just cause, is to set its
opponents at defiance. Nothing great, nothing
noble, nothing worthy of immortal honour, was
ever yet accomplished by sacrificing a prin-
ciple, in order to conciliate a public enemy.—
Times.

CACHNIERE SHAWI.S.—The great mart for
the wool, of which the shawls are made, is at Kilghet,
which is said to be a dependency of Ladak, and situated
twen'y days' journey from the northern boundaries of
Cashmere. There sre two kinds of it; that which can be
rea.tily dyed is white, the other sort is an ashy colour,
wh:ch being with thffieully changed, pr at least improved
by art, is generally woven of its natural- hue. About two
pounds of either are obtained from a single goat once a-
year. After the down his been carefully separated from
the hairs, it is repeatedly washed with rice starch. This
process is reckoned important ; and it is to the quality of
the water of their valley that the Cactlimerians attrittute
inimitable fineness of the fabrics pro-
f Kilghet the best taw wool is sold for
pound. By the preparation and wash-
loses one-hall; and the remainder being
weight of the thread is considered
" Shawls are made of various forms,
bid' are wrought separately, with the
been to the differint markets. Those
I to be of the softest and most. delicate
,nil coutarrpanes are lA:it:ate,' of the
of th, w001."...../11001/0)/le)y Martin's
ifish Cavities.

BANKRUPTCY COURT, MARCH 20.

(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
ALEXANDER AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.

A meeting of the creditors of this extensive East India
agency and banking firm was held to-day for the further
proof of debts. . _

Mr. Mauroti appeared to enter claims on behalf of the
executors named in the will of the late Colonel Rabou for
70,000 sicca rupees. The facts are shortly these :—The
executors of Colonel Rabou sent out, in February, 1831,
a power of attorney to Messrs. Alexander and Co., of
Calcutta, containing instructions that it was advisable
the firm should take out letters of administration in the
Ecclesiastical Court of Calcutta. This was done by Mr.
Alexander, and the difficulty was that of allowing the
bankrupt to prove against his own estate for the p.operty
he became executor to in India.

Mr. Commissioner FAKE was of opinion that the right
of proof vested in the executors, and he directed that a
proof for the full amount should be entered upon the pro-
ceedings.
A proof under other circumstances for 29,179 sicca
rupees was then tendered on behalf of the executors to
the will of the late Mr. Millock. In this instance no ad-
ministration had been taken out in Calcutta.

The COMMISSIONE& could not admit the proof until
the authority of the Ecclesiastical Court was shown to
authorize it.

Mr. HUGHES did not see the necessity of taking out
probate here when the property was in another country,
and beyond the control of the Diocese of Canto-bury.
The COMMISSIONER said the applicant must take out a
probate for a debt due by a firm represented by a partner
in this country.
After some further discussion relative to the liability of
executors, situated as those above were, to the probate
and legacy dutiei, the Commissioner said as the question
was one of considerable importance he should take time
to consider it.

Ps oafs mere entered on the proceedings to the amount
of 138,151 sicca rupees, and claims to the amount of
67.722 sicca rupees.
The further proceedings were then adjourned.

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