The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-26 00:00:00

noticed -the nonsense just now put forth upon
this subject if it did not acquire some factitious
importance by being supposed to emanate from
the Foreign-office, to mystify the public mind
during the stoppage of the machinery of proto-
cols. Since writing the above we find by the
Court Circular that a meeting of the Conference
has taken place, but, judging the future by the
past, we cannot say that we are prepared for any
conclusive result, notwithstanding that the Mi-
nisters of the different Powers have resumed
their functions. It will be time enough for us
to alter our opinion when they shall have suc-
ceeded in completing their task.—Morning
Herald.

A Morning Contemporary doubts the circum-
stance of General Bourmont being at Santarem
on the 12th, alleging that he could only have
arrived at Coimbra on that day. Imperfect as
are the accounts from the interior of Portugal,
there are, nevertheless, some leading facts known,
which enable us to judge pretty correctly ofthc
strength as well as the progress of the troops ad-
vancing upon Lisbon. Authentic accounts
from the Douro are in town, stating that on the
morning of the 2d 5,000 picked men, under
General Almer, took the Coimbra road in the
most efficient state. The distance from Grijo,
the point of departure, to Santarem is only 37
leagues, or, calculating at four miles per league,
148 miles. What ! and could not that distance
be performed in a week ? With forced marches
and an enthusiastic population to aid them, this
. first division must have reached Santarem on
the Bth or 9th. It was followed by more troops
from the southern bank on the 3(1, 4th, sth, and
>6th, when Bourmont most probably started ;
but it does not follow that he lingered on
the road to superintend the march. It is in-
deed most probable that he journeyed on
to the Duke de Cadaval's position as fast
as he could, and there from the 10th on-
wards the second portion of the marching troops
would begin to arrive. As regards the force
destined to attack Lisbon we have every reason
to believe that our letter published on Saturday
was substantially correct. To show the very
imperfect idea which our Morning Contemporary
has of the rapidity of marches in cases of emer-
gency, we beg leave to remind him that the
advanced guard-and cavalry of the army under
Sir Arthur Wellesley left Coimbra May 7, 1809,
on their way to Oporto, and halted the whole of
the Bth, in order to afford time for Marshal
Beresford, with his Portuguese corps, to arrive
upon the Upper Douro. The British Com-
mander, nevertheless, reached and took Oporto
by the 12th. His dispatch, detailing the parti-
culars, bears that date, and vet the distance from
Coimbra is estimated at twenty leagues, and the
British confessedly do not bear the road so well
as the Portuguese. We do not on the present
occasion expect the same rapidity of movement,
nor do we anticipate the same quick results ; but
we will say, as we have s•tid before, adkuc sub
judicc fis est, so that before Don Pedro's Go-
vernment, for in this stage of the affair it would
be hypocrisy to call it Donna Maria's, takes root
in Lisbon, there must be a little more fighting.
The national spirit in Portugal is evidently
rising, and if we had no other proof of the fact
we could confidently appeal to the Lisbon letter
insetted in another part of our paper.—Morning
Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

On Saturday a fisherman was charged with having
fished with an unlawful net. One of the water-
bailiff's men proved that the net was small enough
to catch the smallest f►sh, and, of course, calculated
to do great mishief in the river.

The prioner never would have thought of using
such a net, if he had not been entreated to catch a
few gudgeons for a young lady who was bad with
the cholera morbus.—(A. laugh.)
Mr. Hamm was afraid that such an excuse
would not do, although it was one which might
affect the sympathies of a great many.
Fisherman—l assure you, Sir, that I intended to
stop the moment I had caught the gudgeons.
The line was remitted, and the net, instead of
being condemned, was ordered to be detained till
March, when it will be a lawful net, and be given up
to the defendant.
MARLE OR 0 UGH-STREET.

A little bald-headed old man, of filthy and ragged
appearance, described in the police sheet as " Dr.
Arthur Balburnie, of Hampstead," was brought
before Mr. DYER on Saturday, on a violent
suspicion of having incurred the penalties of a " dis-
orderly," through a too ample indulgence in his
afternoon potations.
The policeman who took the Doctor into custody
found him lying at a late hour on the step of a door
in Regent-street, and having with some difficulty
roused him from his slumber, desired him to get up,
and move on. The Doctor stoutly resisted this
mandate, and insisted upon his right to rest himself
until he had recovered a little from the fatigue he
had undergone during his professional peregrina-
tions.

The police►nan, suspecting from the fumes of gin
and tobacco which exhaled from the Doctor's per-
son, that it was not fatigue alone which incapaci-
tated him from proceeding, dropped a hint of his
opinion,whereupon the Doctor became so uproarious
that it was found necessary to convey him to the
station-house.

Sir," inquired Mr. DYER, "_what are
you Me, Sir," said the defendant, with an
important air," I'm a physician; I dispenses advice
graciously to all classes of his Britannic Majesty's
subjects."

" Do you mean to say," said the Magistrate,
" that you were educated for the medical profes-
sion ? Doctor—Oh, dear, no ; not exactly educated
in the regular way. My system is entirely original,
and all invented out of my own head.
" What class of disease do you profess to cure ?"
said the Magistrate.
Oh, responded the doctor, I'm quite as good at
one sort of disease as another. I cures everybody
as comes to me for advice, and though I sholdn't
say it, as a professional man, none of my patients
were ever hrard to complain after they bad been
under my hands for a short time. The fact is,
that the papers say the cholera morbus is very
much about London now, and as I cures it effectu-
ally with my infalliable pills, I came to town on
purpose that people may come to me. Look here
(holding up a greasy bundle), this is full of my
prescriptions, all ready made up ; and I'll assure you
them as takes 'em never need be afraid of dying of
cholera morbus. I left my practice at Hampstead,
where I've lived a long time, and cured vast num-'
hers of patients, and if you send you'll find if my
reputation is not well known.
I should have thought," said Mr. DYER,
"that no class of persons would have been gulls
enough to resort to you."
" Gulls, Sir!" said the doctor, warmly ; "my
patients gulls ? No, Sir, I'm none of your quacks,
like some as I could name, as rides in their car-
riage., and gets their thousands a-year. I'm a sci-
entific inan, and to give you a proof that I know
something about medicine, I'll give your worship a
prescription of my own making."
" For what complaint ?" inquired the Magistrate.
why, if your worship happens to get drunk any
night, just get this prescription made up, and I
know by experience it will cure you. (Here the
doctor detailed the Ingredients of his specific, de-
scribing at the same time the effects, which, how-
ever, were of a nature too ludicrous for description.)