The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-27 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LAlVrEthurP,o
JO.L, M'Gowan,
The steamer Prince
brings dates of the 17th instant from Lisbon, where
she had put into the previous day for coals on her
way from Alexandria to this port. The steamer
Ignez de Castro had arrived on !the 16th from
Glasgow ; and from Malta her Majesty's ship Prin-
cess Royal, Captain G. Giffard, which had gi winded
as she was anchoring, but got off with the evening
flow tide. This vessel, with the French steamer
Phenix, anchored at Lisbon, and the ship Auster•
litz, in Passo d'Arcos Bay, were the only foreign
vessels of war in the Tagus.
Rear-Admiral Sir R. C. Dundas's squadron had
left on the 16th for a fortnight's cruise.
Further advices received at Lisbon stated that
the steamer Queen, Captain D. Mecklereid, bound
from Lisbon for London, which ran ashore on the
12th near Viana, was a total wreck, and was to be
sold on the 24th inst. The crew, specie, and great
part of the cargo had been landed, and hopes w
ere
entertained of saving the rest.

On the 16th the English bark Sir Charles Napier,
Captain W. Balsellie, from Leith to Trinidad, had
put in for repairs.
On the 16th the French war steamer Flambeau,
from Goree and Madeira to Brest, put in for coals;
and a
with Bremenese
leak bark, from Bremen to New York,
emigrants, y.
The Lisbon correspondent does not report by
this steamer any political news of importance.
The House of Deputies was still engaged in preli-
minary proceedings ; and, though many of the
elections had been held valid, it was probable that
the electoral process for Beija, under debate when
the correspondent closed his letter, would be an-
nulled.

A Vienna letter, in the Elberfeld Gazette, says
It is stated that the Imperial Cabinet has
made serious representations to the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of Sardinia, with respect to the
demonstrations made by the democracy of Lom-
bardy and Turin against the
presence of the empire
in Milan."

The Belgian
Government has just presented to
the Chamber of Representatives a demand for a sup-
plementary credit of 770,638 f. for the national fetes
celebrated on the occasion of the 25th anniversary
of the accession of King Leopold. The total official
expense of the fetes in question is stated to have
amounted to 1,070,658 f.

A letter from Stockholm says that the Minister
of Justice had transmitted to the Supreme Court
for its opinion the bill relative to religious liberty
mentioned in the speech from the throne, but that
the court was opposed to the bill. The letter adds
that a proposition had been submitted to the. Diet
for the establishment of a submarine telegraph be-
tween the Swedish coast and that of Prussia. The
distance from the extreme point of Soania to the

Isle of Rugen is 12 German miles (56 English), and
the expeLse of the telegraph is estimated at 300,000
rixdalers.

The following is the explanation given by an
Athens paper of the recent affair at Corfu, men-
tioned in a telegraphic despatch :—" Some soldiers
of the artillery in garrison in the Isle Vido, in
which is the powder magazine} having been ill-
treated by a non-commissioned officer, resolved to
avenge themselves by blowing up the magazine,
which contained 3,000 barrels of gunpowder. They
placed a quantity of straw before the door, but
some soldiers of the 3d Regiment, learning what
they were about, drove them away."