The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-06 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Auo. s.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer; Royal Tar, Captain
Henry Foster, arrived this day, at two p.m., from
Gibraltar, bringing the following ;nails :—Gibraltar,
July 27, 7 p.m.; Cadiz, Sunday, July 28, 10 a.m. ;
Lisbon, July 30 ; Vigo, Aug. 2, 4 a.m. Her dates
of departure are as follow:—From Gibraltar, July 27,
7 p.m. ; Cadiz, July 28, 10 a.m. ; Lisbon, July 30,
5 p.m.; Vigo, Aug. 2, 4 a.m.
Ships ofWarlying at Gibraltar.—Her Majesty's ship
Formidable, with flag of Sir E. Owen, the Caledonia,
the Albion, and the flecla steamer; the Albion and
Hecla left at 10 a.m. for Tangiers. The Danish
frigates Geflon, Thetis, and brig Mercurius ; the Nor-
wegian frigate, Freira; and three French steamers
of war.

Vessels passed off the entrance to Vigo.—The P.
and 0. steam-ship Tagus.
Specie on board.—About ten packages.
List of Passengers.—Lieutenant Anson, R.N., Mr.
Burney, Mr. Goodsir, Mr. Murdock, Mrs. Murdock,
Captain and Mrs. Beale, Mr. Ledsame, Lieutenant
Lord C. Butler, R.N., Mrs. Gordon, and four Misses
Gordon, and servants, Lieutenant Douglas, RN.,
Mrs. Garcia, Mrs. Richardson, Mr. Daral, Lieut.
De Plas, (French Navy), Mr. Furby, Mr. Kendall,
Mr. Custance, Mr. Javares, Mr. Castilho, Mr. Demen,
Mr. Murdock's two servants, two soldiers of 79th
regiment.

LISBON, JULY 30.
By the ship Desengano, which arrived here from
Angola (on the western coast of Africa) on the 25th
inst., accounts have been received from Loanda to the
sth of June.

On the 27th of May an armed boat from the Por-
tuguese corvette Urania, had captured the Brazilian
brig Caqador, at the mouth of the river Dande, with
850 slaves on board. The prize was taken to Loanda
to be judged. Another Portuguese ship of war had
captured the Brazilian schooner Francelina, which,
though without any slaves on board, was found com-
pletely fitted out for the slave-trade.
The endemic fevers were raging violently when
the Desengano left Angola, and several Europeans
had fallen victims to them, amongst whom was Mr.
Thompson, one of the English Members of the Mixed
Commission. Mr. Clinton, the other English mem-
ber, having very imprudently gone out shooting seve-
ral days in succession, during the greatest heat, was
seized with the fever, in the delirium caused by which
he destroyed himself by cutting his throat with a
razor. Ile was buried at Ponte d'lzabel, near his
own residence, and was attended to the grave by all
the principal people of the place, the pall-bearers
being the Governor-General, the Chief Civil Magis-
trate, and the two Portuguese Commissioners.
The Portuguese officers, who emigrated into Spai#
after the suppression of the recent revolt at Almeida,
have been informed by the Spanish Government, that
they must either quit the country, or submit to be
sent to Majorca and Minorca; and in consequence
of this intimation many of them have applied for pass-
ports to proceed to France. This step, there is no
doubt, has been taken at the request of the Portu-
guese Government.

The Finance Minister has succeeded in obtaining a
loan from the " Union Commercial," of 350 contos, to
be repaid out of next year's revenue, with the enor-
mous interest of upwards of 30 per cent.
The heat at present here is intense, the thermome-
ter being every day as high as 98, and some days up
to 100 in the shade.

The Duke de Palmella is recovering from his severe
illness.

UNITED STATES.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY EVENING.

The Great Western, Captain Matthews, which left New
York on the 20th of July, arrived here to-day, at noon,
with sixty-five passengers, after a run of fourteen days
and sixteen hours.

The tt eaty for the annexation of Texas, although
thrown out by the Senate during the late session, is in-
tended by Mr. Tyler to be the ground upon which he
again claims to be continued during another term in the
Presidential chair. The candidates in the field, Messrs.
Clay and Polk, are both, if not opposed to, neutral on
the subject of annexation, but it is a darling scheme with
the retiring President, and accordingly, he has pub-
lished in the Government paper, the Madisonian, a
number of " secret" documents which he sent to the
Senate while that body, with closed doors, was debating
the project, with a view to induce them to pass it. First,
there is a " a message," from Mr. Tyler to the Senate,
in which he strongly expresses his own opinion in favour
of the treaty, as the only remedy of keeping Texas out
of the clutches of England ; the message also shows,
that General Jackson entertains the same sentiment as
Mr. Tyler himself, and all this is strengthened by the
testimony of Mr. President Houston. A letter from a
Mr. Allen to a Mr. Walker, dated Houston, March 1,
1844, shows the feeling in Texas in favour of the annexa-
tion, and that "if the effort fails, President Houston
will make a free trade treaty with England." Finally,
there is a " circular," addressed to the French, Spa-
nish, English, and Russian Ministers, by an employe of
the Mexican Government, in which the Santa Anna
version of the project is put forth. This document goes
at considerable length into the subject, and shows that
the treaty, if effected, would be an act of gross injustice
to Mexico, as that country has never acknowledged the
independence of Texas, and still regards it as a province
of the mother country.
The floods on the Mississippi had receded ; not, how-
ever, without doing serious injury. In many districts
what are called by the Americans " bottom lands" had
been much injured by the great deposit of sand, amount-
ing in some instances t. 5 five feet deep, having been left
when the floods receded,

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The riots in Philadelphia continued to be discussed in
every part of the union, eliciting a variety of opinions,
according to the views of the respective parties, An in-
vestigation had taken place, and the cirewnstances will
occupy the attention of the courts of justice. Some of
the wounded party had died in the interim, and the
affair appears to have left behind a rankling feeling
between the Irish and the native American people, the
results of which will, in all probability, lead to serious
collisions hereafter in other quarters. One of the pri-
mary causes of the rioll--;tlie-alasenee of a police force
4afticiently strong to` Veep the peace—appears to have
been overlooked in the discussions with which the Ame-
rican papers teem.
The Toronto Examiner of July 17th Contains a long
eeeount of what might have proved a very serious and
liloodY riot, between a number of Orangemen and a large
party of Roman Catholic labourers, who assembled in
the neighbourhood of that city. It appears that the
Orange party had formed the ilitentier, of going on board
a steamer, with their party colours, music, and deadly
weapanq, to tha Falls of Niagara, where they intended
to have passed a gala day, and dined at the hotel, on the.
British side of the falls. The Roman Catholic lahourers
assembled, to the number of 1,5 N, and declared that
unless, the badges of the Orange party were suppressed,
the arms thrown away, and every symptom of an offen-
sive character taken from them, they would prevent the
excursion. The Orange party, fearing the consequences,
consented, and thus a breach of the peace, which, had it
occurred, would have been of a deadly character, was
prevented. The labourers were armed with muskets,
bayonets, scythes, reaping hooks, and every inlaginable
instrument of destruction. These party broils between
the Catholic and the. gralliao parties are giving much
annoyance to the local authorities in Canada.
The following is the commercial summary of the New
York Commercial Advertiser for the week eildim the 20th
of July
" The appearance of business indicates greater activity
in the commercial circles than has prevailed for the last
few weeks, and there is every prospect that the commu-
nity will be actively engaged at a period earlier than
ordinary in corresponding seasons., The imports fir
the fall trade are now touting in
quite freely, arid as the
West and South have hitherto bought but moderately,
and are not supposed to have large stocks of merchandise.
on hand, it may reasonably be expected that the sales to
the country will exceed those of either of the two or
three previous years,
" During that time the country has been recovering
from the effects of the great revulsion, and progressively
improving its condition."
The New York Express says:--
"The weather wince the sailing of the Britannia has
eontiuued fine, and there' has been nothing received in
the city in relation to the harvest to lessen the prospect
of a most abundant crop of wheat, corn, &c. The far-
mers will thus be able to send a lam amount of pork
and beef to market,"
In Canada the crops are represented as being above
an average, a part of which will go to swell the large
amount of grain and produce generally, that can be
exported to Europe, in the event of a demand in that
quarter,
14c4ANGN.---Tbere hai been a fair amount of busi-
ness- in foreign bills for transmission per the Great
Western. The transaction in bills on London have been
at from 109 to 1094. The latest quotations are 109+
to 1094. Some drawers ask 1094, and somo small bills,
with first-rate names, have been purchased at 10D:1, but
bhe nfattot cannot fairly be quoted at over 1094. On
Paris we quote at sf. 74 to 5E 261.