The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The steamer Minho has ar, ived at Liverpool,
with Lisbon dates of the 14;11 inst. The only
foreign vessel of war in the Tagus was the French
steamer La Bourdonnaye, on her way to the West
Indies.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tamar
arrived at Lisbon on the morning of the 13th,
landed mails, and proceeded on to Rio de Janeiro
on the afternoon or the same day.
The stock market was dull and prices were look-
ing down, but with no decided alteration. They
were quoted as follows ;—Three p:r Cent. Regis-
tered, 47 to 471 ; Coupons, 461 to 4 ; Deferred,
284 to 29 Rink of Portugal Shares, 8 to 9 per
cent, premium.
The exchange on London was still looking up
and some transactions had been effected at 544 for
three months' date. _

The Cortes were closed on the 11th inst., by His
Majesty Pedro V.
Af er complying with the usual formalities, his
Majesty read his speech, in which he thanked the
members for their zeal and attention, as also for
putting at the disposal of the Government the
means for carrying out measures of public utility,
and specified as the most important, and as
exercising the most direct influence in devt loping
public prosperity, th• project for uniting Oporto
with Lisbon by means of railway communication.
He lamented that shortness of time preventt d their
adopting any plan of public instruction, thanked
them fur the, liberal allowance granted to his future
Queen, and concluded by expressing his satisfaction
at the amicable relations which existed with the
Allied Powers, the state of internal peace of the
country, and the prospect of a better harvest for
the present year.

A letter from Bucharest of the 10th in the
Bourse Gazette of Berlin says :—" We have had a
foretaste of the election for the Divans in the mu-
nicipal elections, which has ju,t terminated to the
advantage of the Government party or the mode-
rate Liberals. Prince Demetrius Ghika and M.
Papa obtained the majority of votes for.the presi-
dency of the municipality, but as the form: r pre-
ferred keeping his post of prefect of police, M.
Papa was nominated president. Both parties put
forth all their strength in the strnggle."

A Vienna letter in the Augsburg Gazette says :
"A resolution of the Diet of the Empire of the 7th
Sept., 1848, decided that territorial property
should
be relieved, on payment of an indemnity, from all
land-charges of feudal origin with which it was loaded.
This resolution was confirmed by an Imperial de-
cree of the 25th Sept., 1850, and a commission was
appointed to settle all the points of detail specified
in the decrees. This commission has just couple ed
its labours. The indemnity is to be paid in mort-
gage bonds, which have been issued to the extent
of 560 millions of florins, of which 207 millions are
for the empire property, so called, and 353 for
Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Gallicia."
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Stockholm journals state that the health of the
King of Sweden has so greatly improved that it
was believed that his Majesty would renounce
going to Soroe for sea bathing.

THE DESIGNS FOR THE NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES.
—We have been requested to correct a misprint of the
name of the gentleman who gained the first prize in the
recent competition for the plans for the new government
offices. The successful candidate was M. A. Crepinet,
of Grande Rue de Vaugirard. Parie, architect, sad in
lipeotot of tie work! it the koom