The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-28 00:00:00

THE PENINS'ULAR MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 27.—The Little Liverpool,
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship, Cap-
tain Birnie, arrived in our docks this morning, at
eleven o'clock. She brings the usual mails, and
twenty-two passengers.
The Little Liverpool brings very little information
relative to the French and Morocco affair. Her Ma•
je-ty's steamer Hecla arrived at Gibraltar on the eve
of, the dEparture of the Liverpool, with dispatches for
Government. She reported that the French had
taken a small island, within shell range of Mogadore,
and -were fortifying it with the intention of bombard-
ing that place. Matters are quiet at Tangiers.

The Formidable, Sir Robert Owen, was at Gib-
raltar. The Vesuvius, steam-ship, left that place on
the 18th for Mogadore. There were also two Danish
frigates and a Danish steamer at Gibraltar.
The Little Liverpool exchanged colours with a
French brig of war on the 20th, and on the follow-
ing day with her Majesty's ship Caledonia.
The Royal Tar left Lisbon on the 21st fur the
south.

LISBON, AUG. eraintry is on the eve of
a crisis, which must soon , terminate, either in the
downfal of Costa Cabral's power, or the triumph of
his policy, by the restoration of absolutism. The
decree respecting the judges which is, obviously, to
render thm completely dependent upon the Crown,
has excited so much alarm, and raised so determined
a spirit of opposition, that the Ministers will find it no
easy matter to stand their ground against it.
The Judges in the Supreme Court of Justice in
this city (seventeen in number) have addressed a
strong remonstrance to the Queen against the
decree. Having met for the purpose of draw-
ing up the address,
,they previously in-
vited the Attorney-General, Mr. Ottolini, to be pre-
sent at the meeting, in 744-ler to state whatever rea-
sons he might have to allege in favour of the decree.
That officer appeared accordingly, and instead of de-
fending the decree, acknowledged that he could not
say a word in support of it, as it was manifestly a
violation of the Constitutronal Charter; but that, as a
servant of the Crown, he cou'd not sign the represen-
tation against it. The address of remonstrance hav-
ing then been put to the vote, and carried unanimously,
was sent to the Offie 3 of the Minister of the Interior,
and Mr. Silva Carvalho, as-President of the Supreme
Tribunal, was deputed to proceed with a copy
of it to Cintra, for the purpose of laying
it before the Queen—a _thankless office, as he SOOB
foun 1 to his cast; for, besides having been most un-
graciously received by her Illajs•sty, he was, on the
very next day, dismissed from his situation as Presi-
dent of that Court. Similar addresses are in prepa-
ration from the Tribunal of Commerce and the other
courts of justice, and although the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, Gomez de Castro, is gone to Oporto
for the express purpose of preventing, if possible,
a similar step on the part of the judges of that
city, it is thought that they will follow the ex•
ample set by their Lisbon colleagues. But the "most
unkin-'.est cut of all," and, narhaps, the severest, has
been from tlys Duke ornmella, who, after some
days' delay and apparent- hesitation, at last went
boldly to the Queen, and
_told her that, both as a
member of the Priry Council, and as a Peer of the
realm, he protested against the measure, considering
it to be a mostglaring infraction of the charter, With
all Cabral's energy, it is not likely that ho will be able
to overcome so powerful. an array. The Cortes,
which will meet next month, will soon decide the
question, unless, indeed, Cabral should take it upon
himself to prorogue the meeting for one month, or six
months, or sine die, which is not at all unlikely.
M. Gonzales Bravo, the new Spanish Minister to
this Court, arrived here on the 15th inst.
ABG. 21.—The Royal Tar arrived yesterday from
England, and the Liverpool came in this morning
from the south, and will proceed with the mail at
4 P.M. to-day.
Costa Cabral and his colleagues are determined not
to give way ; in proof of which, this day's Gazette
contains a republication of the obnoxious decree, ad-
dressed to the army in the form of an Order of the
Day from the War-office. The reason of this is, that
the same deeree likes+ attacks the independence
of the military officers, inasmuch as it makes them
liable to be put on half-pay without any form of
court-martial, whenever it shall pleaie the Govern-
ment so to do.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, Auc. 28.
TriERMOMETEP., Lowest, 45; highest. 66; Noon, 60.
BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, W.N.W.
Scrrx.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the
f—ezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is
uy ,ally placed opposite 30, and rain at 29.