The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-25 00:00:00

THJ! PENINSULAR MAILS.

Tho Alhambra steamship, belonging to the Pen-
insular and Oriental Company, Captain J. D.
Steward, arrived at Southampton yesterday, at
1.30 p.m., with the above-named mails, in charge
of Lieut. Barrow, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are, Gibraltar, May 15 ; Cadiz, 16 ; Lisbon,
19; Oporto, 20 ; and Vigo, 21. She had light
breez.s and fine weather on the outward voyage,
and fine weather home. _

On the 19th, at 11 a.m., the Alhambra spoke an
American ship, showing third distinguishing pen-
dant, steering for Lisbon ; 20th, off Oporto, the
steamer Vesta, bound in ; 21st, the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, at Vigo.
The Alhambra brings 41 first-class passengers, 8
second, and 1.9 deck. Included in the number are
15 of the passengers and 14 or 15 of the crew of the
wrecke 1 African mail steamer Candace, who em-
barked ita the Alhambra at Cadiz. On freight she
has 12,5801. in specie, 480 half-chests of oranges, 2
boxes of tangerines, 11 casks of wine, 300 boxes of
potatoes, 163 boxes of eggs, and 17 packages of
general merchandise.
Gibraltar advices have been anticipated by the
Indus.

The Alhambra left the following ships of mar at
Lisbon on the 19th ius.t. :—The usual Portuguese
fleet ; the British steamers Renown, Diadem, and
Curagoa ; the Brazilian steam gunboats Tiete,
Mearim, Ibicuy, and Itajahy ; the French steam-
ship Flambeau.

Exchamge—London, 521 ; Paris, 542 ; Amster-
dam, 411 • Hamburg, 461 ; Genoa, 538 ; Bank of
Portugal ;hares or 560 milreis. 7.-r3 to 81 urernium :
Bank of Oporto shares of 200 mitre's, 25 to 26 per
cent.

THE KLVG OF PORTUGAL'S MARRIAGE.

LISBON, MAY 19.
The Queen of Portugal, after haying put into
Corunna, in consequence of the boisterous state of
the sea upon the coast, arrived here in the Portu-
guese steam corvette Barth°lomeo Diaz, on the
17th, al6.ich anchored opposite the palace at six
o'clock in the evening. The King could not, how-
ever, get on b )ard to see his. interesting bride
before 3evan o'clock, as he had to meet the Minis-
ters and Councillors of State at the Arsenal, who
accompanied him on board. Their visit being a
mere !natter of ceremony was soon disposed of, and
his ALjesty, with the rest of the Royal family, re-
mained on board, dined with the Queen, and re-
turned to the Palace.between 10 and 11 o'clock.

Yesterday was appointed for the Queen's land-
ing, and the King having gone off to fetch her in
his state barge, their Majesties landed about noon
in tie Commercial-square, better known by t_ ng-
lishnen as Black House-square, and after receiving
an address from the municipal corporation pro-
ceeled in one of the beautiful antique State car-
riages to the church of St. Domingo; where they
took the sacrament, ratified the marriage vows, and
ullituat'Ay reached the Palace of Necessidades about
five o'clock, when they appeared in the balcony to
sea the troops file by, and were then le't to the
u;mparative quiet of the domestic circle.
Tee Royal family has been most carefully brought
up, anl having hitherto formed a very united
domestic circle I have no doubt the new Queen
*ill find in it a happy home. It is useless to state
bat the King and Quees were accompanied during
the processions and ceremonies of the day by the
King's father, Dorn Fernando, and by his brothers
and sisters, by the Queen's brother, Prince Leopold
of Hohenzollern, and by the Ministers, Councillors
of State, Corps Diplomatique, &c., since all these
were duly set forth in the programme, but the pro-
gramme could not state the impression which the
Queen male upon the many thousands of her new
subjects who assembled to greet her for the first
time. I have no hesitation in stating that the
impression was universally of the most favourable
nature.

Toe weather has thus far been most propitious
for the marriagefestivals, which are to be continued
for five days, after which, I doubt not, their Majes-
ties will repair to the cool shades of Cintra. The
British ships of war gave them hearty cheers when
they left the Bartholomeo Diaz, and those cheers
were cordially repeated by other vessels in the pert ;
but on shore :the Portuguese are not in the habit
of such boisterous conduct, and its entire absence
is, consequently, no proof that I am in any way
Inc rcect when I repeat the new Queen was well
received, and that her new subjects are well
satisfied with her—even more than they expected
to be, since the print shops had exhibited for E eve-
ral days nothing but caricatures instead of likeness s
of her Majesty, who was, consequently, not ex-
pected to be either so pretty or so amiable as she
evidently is.
The Marquis of Bath and suite arrived the day
before the Queen in the Diadem frigate, with the
Orttli of the Garter for his Alajosty Djlll Pedro V.,
and the investiture, which could not take place
before the marriage, will come off iu a few dap.

THE PALDON OF LIEUTENANT DE MERCY.—The
Emperor has coinmutod the sentence of death on M. de
Mercy, a lieutenant, who murdered his subaltern some
months.since, to imprisonment for life. An enmity of
long standing x'ated between De Mercy and Lis victim,
Sub-Lieutenant R.,sier. Oa the let of January last he
enticed him into his room, and some time after came
running out crying out tti:-.t he had killed R ,sier in a
duel. The otlief.rs fl Joked into the room, where Rosier
lay Fluting in Lie blood. Ii murmured '' Le lache !
I'aesaeeiu !" and ,4.ied, All Mercy's cornea log gave anec-
dotes ,A liis temper anti character, highly discreditable
to him. Oa ont., occasion he had, during a long
march, hal a sick soldier who comp Lined of diffi-
culty in walking, fastened by the wrists to a
lug4og3 wagg,,b. Ho was also in the habit of •
slaughtering his dog with his sword ; and one of his
mesemates who lived near him deposed that from a know-
ledge of his character and drunken habitß, he never
passed his room at night without ascertaining that his
sword played freCy in its scabbard. When the officers
heard of the death of Resler, they one and all exclaimed
_it Mercy has murdered hico." Mercy, however, main-
tained to the Let that Rosier had fallen in fair fight, but
two ecurts martial that succesively investigated the
case were of a different opinion, and sentenced him to
death ; and that judgment was generally approved of
both by the public and the army. A°, however, there is
a bars possibility of a duel having taken place, it is im-
possible to di approve of the Emperor's clemency.

* puree sent across the Gooutteo truder.Sir J. Outr..m :
Lieutenant-Colonel I.)'Agnilar'o troop R.II. A. ; Blajor
Remington's aed Captain McKinnon's troops, R. A., under
Lieutenant-Colonel F. Turner; Captain Gibbon's and
Middleton's Light Field Batteries, Royal Artillery and
Head-quarters Field Artillery Brigade; her Majesty's 2d
D.G. (B Lys) ; her Majesty's 9th Lancars ; 2d Punjab
Cavalry; detachments Ist and sth Punjab Cavalry, under
Captains Watson r.r,d Sandford; 3d Infantry Divisi,n,
under Brigadiyr-Gen,:ral R. Wal;;ole ; sth Brigade, Briga-
dier Douglas, C. 8., her Majesty's 23d Fusiliers, her Ala,-
j,tsty's 79th Highltviders,lst Bengal Fusiliers ; 6th Brigade,
Brigadier Horsford, C.C. 2d Battalion Rifles, 3d Brigade,
Battalion ditto 2d, Punjab Infantry.