The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-25 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LisaoN, APRIL 13.—Portugal is tranquil. The def.th of I
Prince Augustus has not occasioned the slightest disturbance,
though it at first seemed calculated to re-kindle the embers of
Miguelitism. But the fact is, that the whole nation, and Don
Miguel's former adherents in particular, have suffered so much
from him and on his account, are so tired and sick of him, and
have so little confidence in his talents, that they are quite in-
different respecting his future success, and wish nothing more
than to remain quiet. Besides, his principal resources in
former times, the Church, convents, and ecclesiastical pro-
perty--the high nobility, their commendas, military orders,
tithes, and sinecures, are cut up root and branch, have passed
and are passing into other hands, so that the very elements of
resistance or rebellion against the legitimate Government, and
the nerves and sinews of civil war, are totally paralysed and
destroyed. The monks are dispersed, powerless, reduced to
beggary, and without any influence—the nobility is partly
exiled, partly beggared, or apprehensive of becoming so. The
usurper's former officers and soldiers remember to have been
invariably defeated, when they were embodied, united, and
disciplined, furnished with arms and equipments, and had pos-
session of all the strongholds of the kingdom. They are now
scattered, abandoned, dispirited, and utterly incapable of form-
ing at any point in sufficient strength to prevent their being im-
mediately crushed and exterminated.
Both sides of the Chamber of Peers and Deputies support
the Queen, and have voted the perpetual exclusion of Don
Miguel. Another secret Session was held on Thursday, on
the motion of M. Barjona, to consider the Queen's new mar-
riage, and to fix the succession, in case of her demise without
issue ; when only Princes, not connected with the Holy Al-
liance, or with powerful States, were declared eligible candi-
dates for her Majesty's hand.
On Friday a mixed Committee of the Chamber of Peers and
Deputies sanctioned the sale of national property, and the ad-
mission of titulos, founded on the grand principle of fidelity to
the Queen and Charter. It approved the Ministerial plan of
indemnities, and rejected that of M. Sanches, by 68 votes
against 29; approved the substitution of the Home Secretary
by 93 votes, and rejected the second part of M. Sanches's
amendment, by 63 against 31 votes. The nation will have to
pay all the damages caused by the war, even in uncertain cases.
The Cortes likewise dispensed with the 90th article of the
Charter that the Queen may marry a foreign Prince. M.
Leonel moved an amendment that the Cortes should approve
the choice of the personage, which was rejected, and M. Bar-
jona's original motion approved.
It is also reported that a partial change of Ministry will take
place after the breaking up of the Cortes—that the Duke of
Palmella means to retire, and, as a Minister of War must be
appointed, there would be two vacant portefeuilles.
Saldanha is said to have refused the War Office. M. Freire
has gained much popularity since he filled the Home Depart-
ment, both in the Chamber and out of doors. having dismissed
17 Provedores in one week, who had misconducted themselves
in their office, which is a very important one, a Providor having
more power and influence than even a Capitan Mor. All
exequatur and municipal acts must be countersigned by him.
He has the superintendence of the passports, police, the in-
spection of priests and parsons, of charitable institutions, the
registration of civic processes, depositions in criminal matters,
and is the right hand of the Government.

On Saturday, Count Taipa moved in the ,Chamber of Peers
that a humble message be sent to the Queen, soliciting her
Majesty to adjust her marriage, which was agreed to, and the
Marquis de Loule, Fronteira, Valenca Carnet, Paraty, Lin-
hares, and Luniares, Viscount Serra do Pillar, Messrs. Mar-
giochi, Brancamp, Machado, Gamboa, and Liz named for that
purpose, to supplicate her Majesty to overcome her repug-
nance, and for the benefit of the kingdom, to contrnct another
marriage. . .

A project for a new coinage on decimal principles was also
submitted and approved, after a careful examination at the
Mint of the weight and value of the coins. This was the work
of a Member of the Opposition.
A message has also been drawn up by the Deputies to the
Queen to remove all Miguelites from their employments and
public functions, as the Ministers have neglected to accom-
plish this desideratum, notwithstanding their constitutional re-
sponsibility. Count Farroba (BaronQuintella) is the richest
Peer in Portugal, having besides large landed estates and pro-
perty in the funds, an annual income of 25,0001. sterling from
the tobacco contract, which he has sublet at this profit without
the slightest trouble or risk. He obtained it by advancing
several considerable sums to Don Pedro during the blockade
and siege of Oporto, in 1832 and 1833—when the Exchequer
was empty, and credit low, and the Baron himself obliged to
fly from Don Miguel's persecution, on board a British ship of
war, he being deeply interested in upholding the Queen's
cause, as the Usurper was about to confiscate the whole of his
property, and outlaw his person had he triumphed. Baron
Quintelia, acting on the principle of self preservation, as well
as of liberal ideas, supplied Don Pedro in his greatest need
with money to pay the army and Sartorius's fleet, after it had
mutinied, and was rewarded for these services with the tobacco
contract for a number of years, and reised two steps in the peer-
age, receiving the rank and title of Count Farroba. He
formed a corps of Volunteer Lancers, and was appointed their
Colonel. However, a degree of coolness having arisen between
him and the Government, the Count joined the Opposition in
the Chamber of Peers. The corps of Lancers was dissolved,
with -nermission of forming itself into Volunteer Dragoons and
the privilege of choosing their own officers. But the Count
had latterly lost the good opinion and esteem of his officers and
men by compelling them to do duty outside of his country
scat of l'Arangeira at Bemfica, where he gave his private
theatricals and bails, without periritting them to participate
in the entertainments. The corps resented this cavalier
treatment by offering to his Lordship the rank of a corporal
in the new cavalry, they were permitted to form, which
Count Farroba declined ; but, not choosing to serve in the
infantry of the National Guard, he preferred to be a privata
in the volunteer cavalry, and accordingly on the occasion of
the funeral of Prince Augustus, turn.:d out, for the first time,
as a full private, mounted on a superb English charger, with a
star glittering on his breast.
On the Queen's marriage, the Count is said to have ap-
plied for permission to sport a carriage drawn by six horses ;
the request was refused ; and I sac- him, accordingly, drive
four beautiful grays only, with two outriders, mounted on fine
English steeds of the same colour, which at a distance looked
like a coach and six. I know not whether the application,
the refusal, or his mode of resentment, were the most child-
ish, for the Count having been disappointed in the exhibition
of his intended splendour and gorgeousness at the Prince's
marriage, would not put his servants into mourning at his
funeral.

Those petty sumptuary laws and regulations of etiquette,
are unworthy of a liberal Government; a commoner, and not
even a Baron, I believe, is allowed here to drive four horses,
nay, I have heard that an English merchant (Mr. F.), once
presuming to appear in a carriz..ge and four, had actually his
leaders taken out of their harness by superior order ! ! To at-
tract wealthy foreigners, and establish a four-in-hand club,
these Gothic regulations should be abolished. The King of
England's dignity is not lessened, by his subjects driving four
or six in hand ; why, then, should that of the Constitutional
Queen of Portugal suffer by such an invasion or approximation
to the privileges of Royalty ? Brewers, distillers--nay, black-
ing manufacturers—exhibit their four bloods in Hyde-park, or
on the road to Salthill; but here, where you carriages drawn
by oxen stand at the palace gate of Necessidades, la morgue
Aristocratiquc et .Royale, cannot endure plebeians, or even the
lcwer nobility's using an additional pair of horses. If Portu-
gal means to advance in the career of civilization, these anti-
quated notions must be exploded.
Account of paper issued and cancelled, during the Ministry of
his Excellency Jose da Silva Carvalho, commenced on the
4th of December, 1832:

ISSUED.
Loan of Oporto, and contribution denominated
National Loan
Loan of Jose Henriques Soares, of Oporto...
Loan of Lisbon, of the 9th of August, 1833...
Warrants for Half-pay, and Salaries
Certificates admissible for duties in the Cus-
tom-house, at Oporto
Bonds issued in London, by the decree•of
Oporto, of the 13th of June, 1833, 200,0001.
at ex. 60d.
Loan of 1833, 2,000,0001. at par
Loan of 1834, created for the operation of
the paper money, 1,000,0001. at par.
Paper money, some ready, other printed, but
not completed for issue

487,61011797
44,00011000
802,0 C 011000
373,09811437

218,95611038

960,00011 000
8,333,33311 333

302,54811 800

15,688,21411121

CANCELLID.
Amounts, according to the Map of the Com-
mission of Public Credit, dated the Ist of
the present month, and published in the
Government Gazette
Paper money, burnt at Oporto on the 26th
of March last, according to a note of the

same Map
Bonds cancelled in London and in Lisbon,
of the creation of the 13th of June, 1823
200,0001. at ex. 50d
Bonds of the Foreign Loans, 164,9001. at par 687,08311333

400,00011000

9,157,38411 306
By comparing these two sums, there appears an increase of
the debt of 6,530,929,815, during the whole Ministry of M.
Carvalho, extending over a period of nearly three years of
vicissitudes and misfortunes, which have few parallels in
history.
This amount is about equal to 1,600,0001. sterling, and is
rather less than the sum that has been applied to the extinc-
tion of paper money, which furnishes the most conclusive an-
swer to those declaimers who paint Portugal, in consequence
of the operation of this Ministry, as being plunged in the most
overwhelming ruin. The national properties, which have been
valued with a view to their sale, as soon as the law authoriz-
ing it shall be passed, are of immense value. Those in the
province of Estramadura, of which the map is already pre-
pared, amount to 8,400 contos ; and with the Lezerias of
Rabatejo, which are not included, as well as many convents
which are now occupied by troops, some of which will natu-
rally be sold, the national property of this province may be cal-
culated at 10,000 cantos.

It may be observed, that the whole of the national property
at the disposal of the Government, is estimated at 10,000,000
at the present low price, the natural consequence of a long
civil war.

ARCHITECTURAL MAXIM.----When the first im-
pression made by a building is of an undecided character, so
that we feel at a loss what to say of it, the presumption is that
it is bad. There is evidently, in such a case, a want of unity of
effect and of decision of expression which always accompany
real beauty.--Architectural Magazine.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1835.

Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE has been elected for the
City of Nottingham. This is the first of the elec-
tions rendered necessary by the Ministerial arrange-
ments, and we hail it as a good omen—as an earnest
of the success of those which are to follow. The
Tories, no doubt, will say, with their usual impudence,
that there is no great cause of triumph in the return of
the President of the Board of Controul, because the
Right Honourable Gentleman was not opposed. But
why was he not opposed ? We want an answer
,to that question. Was there any want of incli-
nation to oppose him ? Is he so great a
favourite with the Tories that they could not
think of disturbing the peace of his mind, or lighten-
ing his purse by a contested election ? Or do
they rate his character and talents so low that he can
add no ',strength to the Reform Administration, and
therefore did not consider it worth their while to make
a stand against him ? They had, doubtless, substan-
tial reasons for the course they have pursued, but it
must not be imagined—Heaven forbid that such a sup-
position should ever enter a human brain—that weak-
ness—conscious weakness—had anything to do with
the exemplary forbearance which they have exercised
on this occasion.

Sir JoHN HOBHOUSE'S Speech from the Hus-
tings—after his election—will be read with un-
mingled satisfaction by the, Reformers of Great Bri-
tain. The Right Hon. Gentleman does not disguise
from the electors of Nottingham, nor from the people
of England, whom he addresses through them, the
vast obstacles which the new Ministers have to sur-
mount in the powerful opposition of the Tories
and their abettors in the House of Commons,
and in that hostility to every thing liberal,
which is so deeply rooted in the majority of the
Upper House. With a candour worthy of himself,
he points out the full magnitude of the danger. But
does he shrink from it ? Does he skulk behind any
pitiful subterfuge to avoid it? No. Sir JOHN was
not educated in the Tamworth school of politics. He
is no disciple of those " juggling fiends, who palter
with us in a double sense." He and his colleagues pay
some regard to principle, and set some value on charac-
ter. He therefore honestly and boldly declares that
they expect to stand only by the support of the people
—that their measures will be such as shall merit
that support, and redeem their own pledges to the
country. Hear his own emphatic words :—" How
are we to contend with that Opposition ? I will
tell you how the present Administration intends to make
head against that formidable minority, and why we hope
to succeed.—(Cheers, d hear, hear.) In the first place
we intend to be true to our own characters, and those
assurances which we have given to the people, WHAT-
EVER MAY BE THE EVENT. By pursuing such a line
of conduct, we hope to secure from you and our own
consciences, that approbation which, after all, must
be the proper reward for those honest public men who
shall endeavour, uncompromisingly, to do their duty.
I can assure the Noble Lord who proposed, and my
Honourable Friend who seconded this nomination,
that we do not intend TO TRUCKLE TO ANY PARTY
IN THE STATE WHATEVER—(Cheers)—.but we
shallfearlessly propose good measures, carry them if we
can, and if we cannot, let thefault anafailure rest upon
the heads of our adversaries.—(Cheers and Hear)."
This is the true way to demolish Toryism, and we
may venture to say, that if the determination here an-
nounced be carried into effect—if the MELBOURNE
Administration persevere in bringing forward un-
pared—undiluted—unstinted . measures of Reform,