The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

PORTUGAL:

Advices have been received from Lisbon of the 19th.
Serious differences had arisen between the Govern-
ment and the Bank, in cons, quence of an attempt
made by the Government to divert, by decree, cer-
tain funds, which had been set apart for the payment
of a debt due to the Bank, to other purposes. The
Bank have published a protest against " the legality,
validity, and effect of said decree, and against the
Ministers who signed it, as having thereby acted in a
most arbitrary and unconstitutional manner."
Madame STourz and CLARA NOVELL() are engaged
as the prime donne of the Lisbon Opera.

GERMAN Y.
Intelligence has been received from Berlin to the
23d. On that day, in the sitting of the Second
Chamber, the Polish deputies, who have hitherto re-
fused to take the oath to the Constitution, declared
themselves now ready to do so. They state as their
reason for so doing, that they have now been elected
by the people according :to the Election Law of the
Constitution as revised; the
people having thus vir-
tually recognised the Constitution by exercising the
political duty it lays upon them, the deputies have no
reason for withholding their recognition.
The Committee for drawing up the address was
appointed ; among the members of it are M. Camp-
hausen, M. von Bodelschwinghs M. von Kleist-Ret-
sow, M. von Patow, M. Harcourt, and M. von Vincke.
The Committee is to sit this evening, and the address
will probably be ready by Monday. The rest of the
business was confined to the appointment of secretaries
and other formal matters. The First Chamber held
no sitting.
The Holstein question remained undecided, and in
Hesse Cassel afairs remained in statu quo.
The intelligence from Vienna is to the 21st.
The Wiener Zeitung publishes an Imperial rescript
submitted to the EMPEROR by the Minister of the
Interior, in the name of the Cabinet, prohibiting the
publication, either in public journals or in any other
printed publication whatever, of all communic 1-
tions relative to the movements of the troops in
the empire, their strength and position, the trans-
port and depi sof military stores---in fine, every
similar communication whichis calculated to
tn,ke known the plan and the tendency of military
operations. Under this prohibition such intelligence
only is exempt which is made public by the official
j.,urnals of the country. The first transgression of
this law will be punished by a fine of 500 guilders ;
the second offence will be subject to a judicial prose-
cution and the total suppression of the newspaper.
The Court of Inquiry where the prosecution will bz9
carried on may determine as to whether the sup-
pressed journals shall be permitted to appear again,
and at what time.
The editor of the Lloyd has been fined 100 florins
for having inserted a military communication.
The Wiener Zeitung offi Aally contradicts the
reported illness of his Majesty the Emperor FER-
DINAND.

It was rumoured in Vienna that Kossuna had es
taped fr..m Kutaiuh.
The movement of trooos still continued.

ALLEGED POISONING OF THE SULTAN.
It was stated in Vienna that a telegraphic dispatch
had been received from Constantinople, announcing
that Sultan ABDUL MESCIIID had bee❑ poisoned.
the rumour, howevtr, was not credited.

ACCELeRATION OF THE: OVERLAND MAIL To INDIA.
—The Penksular and Ori.ntal Steam Navigation Company
are now con; racting to build two paddle-box eteatners, each
taoillishbeuolv.deeenn
saonudthBaonoiplticn
horse Fewer,
Aelre,x indria. These
c nvey the
vessels will be as swift as the mail packets that run between
Liverpool and America, and the passage between Southamp-
ton to Alexend is will be reduced from 16 to 10 or 11 days,
including stoppages'at Malta and Gibraltar. A communicA-
lion will then be effected with Gibraltar in 4l days, and with
Malta m 8 days. Letters from India, which now reach
ra
Southampton about the 25th and 26th of the month, Ivill
ittl.iethnisarrivebte in time
inl
e andt to
be answered by
leaves London by way of Marseilles on the 24th of the month.
enterprisingcompthately accomplish thelndian mail that
speed named above, they will actually supersede altogether
the Admiralty "slow coaches" between Marseilles and
Malta, and frequently we shall have our dispatches from
India by the long sea route from Malta, via Gibraltar, be-
fore we obtain them by way of France, although the sea dis-
tance is so short.

The Guldamith's Company have offered 1,000/. to
be distributed in prizes for various pieces of plate, to be ex-
kibit94 itt the Great Exhibition.