The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-15 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

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SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Iberia,
C. F. Burney, R.N., Commander, arrived here this
morning with the usual Spanish and Portuguese
mails, in charge of Lieutenant Fuge, R.N., Admiralty
agent.
The Iberia brings 20 passengers, and on freight 10
packages of specie, 578 boxes of oranges, 204 boxes
of eggs, 8 cases of wine, 14 barrels of dates, and 31
packages of general merchandise.
Her Majesty's ship La Hogue, Captain MTiougall,
four days from Lisbon, and ten hours from Tangier,
arrived at Gibraltar on the 3d inst. The screw steam-
ship Nile, six days and a half from Liverpool, arrived
on the 3d inst., and cleared for Palermo, Alexandria,
and Beyrout. Her Majesty's steam-frigate Dragon,
four days and a half from Malta, arrived at Gibraltar
on the 4th. The troop-ship Resistance, eighteen
days from Malta and ten from Tunis, with invalids
for Gibraltar and England, arrived on the sth. Her
Majesty's steam-sloop Janus arrived from Tunis on
the sth. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer
Euxine, Captain R. W. Evans, from Southampton,
hound to Constantinople, arrived at Gibraltar on the
sth, at 5 P.M.
The Iberia left the following British vessels of war
in the Tagus on the 9th :—the Prince Regent, 90 ;
the Leander, 50; the Arethuss, 50; the Dauntless,
33. The Rosamond steamer had coaled at the
Tagus, and proceeded to Madeira, en route for the
West Indies. Le Newton, French steamer, was the
only other foreign vessel of war left at Lisbon by the
Iberia.
The Lisbon exchanges for bills at three months are
quoted by this mail at 53i for London ; Pis, 532 ;
Amsterdam, ; Hamburgh, 48i Gearnoa, 531.
Bills on London had continued scarce, and money re-
mained over at the above quotation, something having
been done even at 531.
Nothing had been done in stocks after the ap.
pearance of the capitalization decree on the 4.11,
when the quotations wort—Five per Cents., 47 to
471 ; Four per Cents., 37k to 38k ; Bank of .Portu-
gal Shares, 88 to 86 milreis discount per share in
Lisbon Bank notes, which had risen from a discount
of lk to 31 per cent. Oporto Bank Shares were still
at 16 to 18 milreis premium in metal.
The Iberia brings letters from Lisbon of the 9th
instant, when the public panic respecting the capitali-
zation of dividends, Ste., had in a great measure sub-
sided. The Cortes were to meet on the 15th, when
that and other decrees, with a Ministerial project of
law for the reform of certain articles of the Charter,
would be submitted for the approval of the House of
Deputies.
An Oporto letter states that transactions to the ex-
tent of from 6,0001. to 8,0001. were done in exchange
on London at from 531 to 54 for ordinary paper,
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TEE LATE AMBASSADOR AT FLORENCE.—iIer
Majesty's ship Ganges, 84, now en tante to England from
the Mediterranean, has on board the remains of the late
Sir R. L. Sheil, who died as our ambassador at Florence.
Orders have been issued by the Admiralty that on the
Ganges arriving at Devonport a steamer is to convey his
body to Dublin.—United Service Gazette.
FIRE AT THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FREE RAGGED
ScHooLs. —Yesterday evening, about a quarter to five
o'clock, the Ragged School, situate No. 1, Rose-street,
Covent-garden, in connexion .w it% the " Oratory" in King
William-street, was discovered by Mrs. King, a woman living
next door, to be on fire. The damage is comparatively
trifling, the flooring and tome of the school %tinge only
being destroyed.