The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the Bth contain nothing
of much interest. General Zavala, ex-Minister of
Foreign Affairs, was spoken of for the command of
the Halberdiers, and M. Gonzales Bravo for the
Embassy at Washington. The Hojas Autografas,
a semi-official organ, says that the situation of the
public treasury is very satisfactory, and that the
taxes are paid with such "surprising punctuality"
that it is not necessary to have recourse to coercive
measures. The state of siege had been proclaimed
in the Canary Islands, in consequence of that
measure having been adopted for all Spain, but
the National Guard had not been disarmed.

PORTUGAL.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY MORNING,

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's new
screw steamer Aden, Captain Weeks, with the
,Peninsular Mails in charge of Lieut. ay, R.N.,
Admiralty agent, we have dates from Gibraltar,
Sept. 6th ; Cadiz, 7th ; Lisbon, 9th ; Vigo, 10th.
Tho brings 29 passengers, and on freight
12 packages of specie, value 3,2801., and a cargo
consisting of 1,357 boxes of raisins, 453 boxes of
grapes, 30 cases of almonds, 137 boxes of toma-
toes, 26 packages of palm baskets, 30 boxes of eggs,
441 boxes of lemons, (tr,c.
During the voyage this packet experienced
strong head winds. On the evening of the 10th
passed the steamer Albania.
W hen the Aden left Lisbon on the 9th inst., the
French steam-ship Prince Jerome and Spanish
steamer Hernan Cortez were the only foreign
vessels of war in the Tagus.
The Lisbon exchanges for 3 months are quoted
this mail at 531 on Loudon ; Paris, 5.30; Airster-
dam, 431 ; Hambro, 48 ; and Genoa, 528. The
business done on London was rather more than the
previous market, and bills on other places con-
tinued scarce. _ _ _

The stock-market has been dull at a small decline
in prices, and Three per Cents. were quoted at the
close of change 45i to 46 coupons; 46 to 46
registered ; and 24i to 25 deferred ; Bank of Por-
tugal shares, 500 to 502 mil reis each. ; and Oporto
Bank shares 19 to 20 per cent. premium.
Our Lisbon correspondent writes as follows on
the 9th :

" You will probably rreeive by this packet news direct
from Oporto respecting 12 Portuguese ships engaged in
the Brazil trade, which the Lisbon Board of Health
ordered to be immediately sent out of the Douro in con-
sequence of their being reported to have carried the
yellow fever to that port, where 30 to 40 cases are said
to have occurred, mostly fatal, within the last three or
four weeks. The mercantile body of Oporto have long
been upon the worst terms with the Board of Meelth,
and attributing its orders in this eve to arbitrary
persecution rather than real necesity, a strong re•
presentation upon the subject was on Saturday dis-
cussed at a public meeting called by the Commercial
Association, and forwarded to the Government by
telegraph.
"The Ministers lost no time in conferring with the
Board of Health, which refused to withdraw its orders,
and the Government, not wishing to assume the respon-
sibility of doing so, directed the Marine Superintendent
of Oporto to see them carried out, but he telegraphed
back to Lisbon `that the owners of the 12 ships had
withdrawn the crews, and that he could not send the
ships out of the river without a supply of sailors from
Lisbon.'
" What will be the result of this extraordinary affair
I cannot say, but you may probably learn by direct
news from Oporto, where it appears some of the ships
had arrived from Brazil two months back, discharged
their cargoes, and been placed in the shipwright's hands
for repairs, preparatory to a new voyage. Their names
are as follows :—Fulmineuse, Pombinba, Damao, Au-
gusto, Alfredo, S. Jose, S. Manoel, Brachareuse, Flor
de Porto, Lima, Duarte IV., and Santa Cruz.
"Private letters from Oporto deny the existence of
yellow fever at all, while the reports made to the Board
of Health contain certificates of post mortem examina-
tions which declare that disease to have been the cause
of death. Hitherto it does not appear that any case of
yellow fever has occurred at Lisbon, and those of cholera
do not amount to a dozen per diem, with scsrcely any
deaths.
"The Councillor of State, Joze da Silva Carvalho,
President of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, died here
a few days ago, having been long in a very delicate state
of health. His name will be remembered in the annals
of Portugal in conjunction with Fernandez Thomaz and
Borgas Carneiro, whom he joined, and formed one of
the three chiefs of the first constitutional movement at
Oporto in 1820. M. Silva Carvalho emigrated several
times upon the restoration of absolute government : he
was one of Dom Pedro's 111inileters at Oporto, and El.*
sequently at Lisbon, having always supported the con-
stitutional charter.
"I have often heard him say that he had signed, as
Minister, so many decrees for new titles that he consi-
dered it the greater honour to decline one for himself,
retaining his own name to the last, and I have no doubt
it will long be gratefully remembered by the Liberal
party, which now enjoys the Constitutional Government
he, in his younger days, risked so much to inaugurate.
" Great preparations are being made for the approach-
ing election of a new Chamber of Deputies. Four
Electoral Committees here been formed be different
parties, and three of them have just published their
manifests, viz., the Royalists, the Cartistas, or Conser-
vative supporters of the charter, and that proportion of
the Progressista party which opposed the late Cabinet
and supports the present Ministers. The com-
mitee for the other portion of the Progressistas
which acted with and. formed part of the late Cabinet,
and also gives its support to the present Administration,
hasissued an advertisement for a public meeting of the
electors of Lisbon, to be held, by permission of the Gm.
vernment, at the Theatre of San Carlos, on the 14th
inst., for the purpose of appointing a committee to con-
duct the election of such candidates as support the prin-
ciples the meeting may discuss and adopt. Although
the Government deelees at present to take any direct
part in these electoral proceedings, I have no doubt it
will step in at the last moment, and, by its influence,
secure the return of a good portion of the candidates
upon whose support it may best rely."

A letttr from Solingen, in the Cologne Gazette,
says :—" A French agent, M. Goldenberg, has
been here recently charged by his government to
make an inquiry into the produce of our manufao-