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

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

The Alhambra steamship, blonging 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. he 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 Tagup, at Vigo.
The Alhambra brings 41 first-class passenger, 8
second, and 19 deck. Included in the number are
15 of the passengers and 14 or 15 of the crew of the
wrecked African mail steamer Oindace, who em-
barked in 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, 165 boxes of eggs, and 17 packages of
general merchandise.
Gibraltar advices have been anticipated by the
Indus.

The Alhambra left the foll)wing ships of eiar at
Lisbon on the 19th iu.st. usual Portuguese
fleet ; the British steamers Renown, Diadem, and
Curagoa, ; the Brazilian steam gunboats Tiete,
Mearim, Ibicuy, and Itajahy ; the French steam-
ship Flambeau.

Exchange—London, 521 ;IParis, 542 ; Amster-
dam, 411 ; Hamburg, 46:t ; Genoa, 538 ; Bank of
Portugal shares of S:JO milr pis, 71 to 8,1 premium ;
Bank of Oporto shares of 200 milreis, 25 to 26 per
cent.

THE KING OF PORTUGAL'S MARRIAGE

LISBON, MAY 19.
The Queen of Portugal, after having put into
Corunna, in consequence of the boisterous state of
the sea upon the coast, arrived here in the Portu-
guse stetin corvette BArtholoinee Diaz, on the
17th, which anchored opposite the palace at six
o'clock in the evening. 1110 King could not, how-
ever, get on bard to see his interesting bride
lefore seven o'clock, as he had to meet the Minis-
ters and Councillors of State at the Arsenal, who
accompanied him on b ;ant Th.ir visit being a
mere matter of ceremony was soon disposed of, and
his Majesty, 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'c!ock.

Yesterday was appointed for the Queeti's land-
ing, and the King having gone off to fetch her in
his State barge, their Majesties landed about noon
in the Commercial-squaro, better known by r ng,
lishmen as Black House-square, and after receiving
an address from the municipal corporation pro-
ce,Aed in one of the beau,iful antique State car-
riages to the church of Si Domingos, where they
took the sacrament, ratified the marriage vows, and
ultimately reached the Palace of Necessidades about
five o'clock, when they appeared in the balcony to
see the troops file by, and were then lett to the
cmparatiya quiet of the domestic circle.
Tire Royal family has been most carefully brought
up, and having hitherto formed a very united
domestic circle I have no doubt the new Queen
will find in it a happy home. It is useless to state
that the King and Queel were accompanied during
the processions and ceremonies of the day by the
King's father, Dom Fernando, and by his brothers
and sisters, by the Qleen's brother, Prince Leopold
of Hohenzollern, and by'the Ministers, Councillors
of Sta4e, Corps Diplomatique, &c., since all these
were duly sat forth in the programme, but the pro-
gramme coul I not state the impression which the
Queen made upon the many thousands of her new
subjects who assembled to greet her fcr the first
time. I have no hesitation in stating that the
imilcssion was universally of the most favourable
nature.

The weather has thus far ben most propitious
for the marriage festivals, 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 ehips of war gave them hearty cheers when
they lac the• Bartholomeo Diaz, and those cheers
were cordially repeated by other vessels in the port ;
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 )rrect 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 fur seve-
ral days nothing but caricatures instead of likeneal s
of her Majesty, who was, consequently, not ex-
pected to be either so pretty or so awiablo as she
evidently is.
The Marquis of Bath and suite arrived the day
before the Queen in the Diadem frigate, with the
Order of the Garter for his Majesty Dom Pedro V.,
and the investiture, which could not take place
before the marriage, will come off iu a few days.

THE PARDON OF LIEUTENANT DR MERCY.—The
Emperor has commuted 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 ex'sted between De Mercy and Lis victim,
Sub-Lieutenant Rosier. Oa the Ist of January last he
enticed him into his room, and some time, after came
running out crying out that he had killed II ,sier in a
duel. The officers flocked into the room, cvLere Ilorier
lay panting in his blood. He murmured "Le lathe I
l'assassin !" and died. All Mercy's corarales gave anec-
dotes of his temper and character, highly discreditable
to him. Oa one occasion he had, during a long
march, had a sick soldier who uimpl tined of diffi-
culty in walking, fastened by the wrists to a
lugeago waggon. He was also in the habit of
slaughtering his doge with his sword; and one of his
messnaates who lived near him deposed that from a know- ,
ledge of his character and drunken habits, Le never
passed his room at night without ascertaining that his
sword played freely in its scabbard. When the offi cars
heard of the death of Rosier, they one and all exclaimed
—" Mercy has murdered him." Mercy, however, ma;n-
tained to the last that Rosier had fallen in fair fight, but
two courts martial that successively investigated the
cave were of a different opinion, and sentenced him to
death ; and that judgment was generally approved of
both by the public and the army. AP, however, there is
a bars possibility of a duel having taken place, it is im-
possible to disapprove of the Emperor's clemency.