The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-01 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

The screw steamship Sultan, belonging, to the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, Captain Neil
Cook, arrived at Southampton at 5 30 p.m. yester-
day, with mails of the 27th ult. from Lisbon, and
the 28th from Oporto and Vigo. She brought 14
passengers, £4,221 in specie, 314 half-chests and 24
boxes of lemons, 193 cases of eggs, 52 boxes of po-
tatoes, 116 bags of orchella weed, and 28 packages
of miscellaneous merchandise. During the voyage
the Sultan experienced variable winds and hazy
weather as far as Vigo, and thence to Southampton
variable winds and fine weather.
July 27th, at 11 55 a.m., the Sultan exchanged
signals with the screw steamer Arno, steering for
Lisbon, Cape Roca, distant onolnile ; 29th, at 3 30
p.m., with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamer Behar, all sail set, steering S.W., in lat. 44
57 N., long. 8 7 W.; same clay, at 6 45 p.m., the
Company's steamer Tagus, all sail set, steering
S.W., in lat. 45 92, long. 7 53 ; 30th, in lat. 46 58,
long. 6 30, an English ship, showino. 3d distinguish-
ing pendant, No. 2,965, steering S.W.;° 31st, in lat.
47 27, long. 6 11, the bark Calypso, steering S.W.
When the Sultan left Lisbon news had just been
received that the Portuguese steamer Duke of
Oporto, from Oporto, bound to Lisbon, lost her
screw and commenced filling, but was beached off
Peniche lighthouse. All hands saved but one, who
was drowned.
The usual Portuguese squadron was lying in the
Tagus.
The Lisbon exchanges for three months are quoted
this mail on London, 521 to I; Paris, 542 ; Amster-
dam, 411; Hamburg, 461. Three per Cent. State
registered, 471 to 4 ; coupons, 461 to ;3,, ; deferred,
321 to 33. Bank of Portugal shares, Bto 8 per
cent. per annum ; Bank of Oporto, 24 to 25 per
cent. per annum.

'flu; following letter from Lisbon, is dated July
27 :

"It was hardly possible that the subjects of
his Majesty Don Pedro V. could haw shown
a greater or more general sympathy than
that which has testified their feelings upon the
sudden and lamented death of the late Queen
Donna Estephania. Independent of the official
programme for the funeral procession it was spon-
taneously accompanied by the members of the dif-
ferent corporate bodies and associations, including
the British merchants, accompanied by Mr. Vice-
Consul Meagher, who equally with the others held
a meeting for the purpose of preparing an address
of condolence to his Majesty. The King has, how-
ever, published in the Marto do Governo his thanks
for the demonstrations made at the funeral, and the
different associations, having ascertained that his
Majesty wishes to go to his favourite retreat at
Chafra to-morrow without even receiving the dip-
lomatic corps, have resplved to forego all addresses,

which may add to his present distress of mind and
naturally melancholic disposition.
The late Queen, who has been so suddenly taken
off, had during her brief residence of 14 months in
Portugal greatly endeared herself to the people by
her unostentatious charity, and kind and amiable
disposition. The attachment between her Majesty
and the King appeared to be more that of lovers
than of husband and wife. Her lamented death is
attributable to her having persisted, contrary to
his advice, in accompanying the King in a walk
across a sandy and excessively hot district on the
south side of the Tagus, when the sun was almost
scorching. Thus the cold and sore throat were
acquired which has ended so fatally.'
OPORTO, JULY 27.

The exchange for the packet for bills on London
at 90 days' date was done from 53 to 53:;:. Some-
thing was done in Brazil paper, but the major part
of the transactions, which were neither limited nor
over extensiue, took place in local paper, and it may
be said that neither money nor paper remained
over.
Wine shipments continue almost in a limited rou-
tine, principally by the steamers, whose usual quan-
tities latterly have been from 300 to 400 pipes each
voyage. The Aurora sailed last evening, taking
(besides other merchandise and 120 head of
oxen) 392 pipes ; one or two sailing vessels
are also loading, and will carry between them
about 600 pipes. The wine freight latterly by steam
has been 275. 6d., and by sailing ship 15s. to 17s. 6d.
" The wine trade here, as far as regards old wines,
remains in a state of apathy, f3w or no transactions
taking place in wines of the last vintage.
" Large quantities of apples have latterly been
sent to the London and Liverpool markets, and the
shipment of onions is now about to commence, the
crop of which is both large and of superior quality,
and prices not likely to be so high as in former
seasons.
" The shipment of cattle has very much increased
from the port, notwithstanding which the quantity
of oxen in the country has by no means decreased.

DEATH OF TILE EARL OF MINTO,G.C.B

We have to announce the death of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Minto, who expired at 12.30 a.m.
yesterday at his residence in Eaton-square, after
a protracted and lingering illness. His lordship's ,
lengthened innisposition had in some degree pre-
pared the members of the family for the mournful
event. A decided change for the worse took place
on Friday last, and the earl continued rapidly to
sink, when at the hour above named he breathed
his last, apparently without the least pain, in the
presence of Viscount Melgund, Lady John Russell,
Lady Dunfermline, and the Ho'. George Elliot.
The deceased, Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmond,
Earl of Minto, Viscount Melgund and Baron of
Minto, county Roxburgh, in the peerage of the
United Kingdom, also a baronet of Nova Scotia,
was eldest son of Gilbert, first earl, by his wife
Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir George Amyand
Bart.; and was born Nov. 16, 1782. His lordship
married, Aug. 28, 1806, Mary, daughter of Mr.
Patrick Brydone, by whom (who died in 1853) the
late peer leaves surviving issue Lady Dunfermline,
Viscount Melgund (now earl), Lady John Russell,
the Hon. Henry George, Captain the Hon. Charles,
Lady Elizabeth Romilly, the Hon. George, Lady
Charlotte Portal, and the Hon. Gilbert, in the Rifle
Brigade. The late peer succeeded to the earldom on
the death of his father, June 21, 1814. By the
lamented demise of his lordship the family honours
and estates devolve on his eldest son, Viscount Mel-
gund, born March 19, 1814, and married in 1844 to
Emma ',Eleanor, only daughter and heiress of the
late Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, G.C.B. The late earl
was a fellow of the Royal Society, an &der brother
of the Trinity House, and deputy lieutenant of Rox-
burghshire. In 1834 he was nominated a knight
grand cross (civil division) of the order of the Bath.