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

SWITZERLAND.

The National Suisse publishes the following
note :—" We read in the Courrier de Bienne, the
Berlin journal which we cited yesterday was wait_
informed. Prussia has just lodged a protest with
the Federal Government against any interference
on its part with the affairs of Neufchatel."
The Revue de Geneve announces that one of the
Counts Pourtales has died of his wounds. This is
not, we believe, the Count Pourtales who was the
leader of the insurrection.

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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 flalberdiers, 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 Lieut. Hay, R.N.,
Admiralty agent, we have dates from Gibraltar,
Sept. 6th ; Cadiz, 7th ; Lisbon, 9th ; Vigo, 10th.
Tha Aden brings 29 passengers, and on freight

12 packages of specie, and a cargo

consistin-r; of 1,357 boxes of raisins, 453 boxes of
grapes, 30 cases of almonds, 137 boxe3 of toma-
toes, 26 packages of palm baskets, :;J) boxes of eggß,
441.b.)xes of lemons, &e. _ .

During the voyage this packet experienced
strong head winds. On the evening of the 10th
passed the steamer Albania.
_ _ _

When the Aden left Lisbon on the 9th inst., the
French steam-ship Prince Jerome and Spanish
steamer Homan Cortez were the only foreign
vessels of war in the Tagus.
The Lisbon exchanges for 3 months are quoted
this mail at 531 on London ; Paris, 5.30; Amster-
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 46i
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 receive by this packet news direct
from Oporto respecting 12 Portuguese ships engaged in
the Brazil trade, which the Lisbon Board of Health
ordered to bo 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 Opprta have long
been upon the worst terms with the Board of Mealth',
and attributing its orders in this case to arbitrary
persecution rather than real necessity, a strong ra•
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.

"th-e Ministers lost no time in conferring with the
Board of Health, which refused to withdraw its orders,
and the Governthent, not wishing to assume the respon-
sibility of doing so, directed the Marine Superintendent
of Oporto to see them carried out, bat 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, bat 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, Pombinha, Damao, Au-
guAto, 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 mortan 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 scarcely 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 annal-;
of Portugal in conjunction with Fernandez Thomaz and
Borges Carneiro, whom he
joined, and formed one of
the three chiefs of the first constitutional movement at
Oporto in 1820. M. Silva Carvaibo emigrated several
times upon the restoration of absolute government : he
was one of Dom Pedro's Ministers at Oporto, and sub-
sequently at Lisbon, having always supported the con-
stitutional charter.