The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-20 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.

Lord Talbot is to have the Garter vacant by the
death of the late Earl of Lonsdale,

Lord Granville Somerset has a seat in the Cabinet,
retaining his present appointment of Chancellor of the
Duchy -of Lancaster.
Sir Thomas Fremantle. succeeds Sir Henry liar-
dinge as Secretary at War, without a seat in the
Cabinet.

John Young, Esq., M.P. for the county of Cavan,
and one of the Lords of the Treasury, succeeds Sir
Thomas Fremantle as Secretary to the Treasury.—
Herald.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

PORTUGAL.
OUTRAGE ON A BRITISII SUBJECT.
(Abridged from a Second Edition of the Times.)
By her Majesty's steam-packet Pacha, G. Wilson, Com-
mander, which arrived at Southampton yesterday evening,
we have received intelligence— from Gibraltar, May 10;
Cadiz, May 11 ; Lisbon, May 13 ; Oporto May 14 ; and Vigo,
May 15. The Pacha has brought 44 passengers.
LISBON, TUESDAY, MAY 14.

A fresh, anti, if possible, more atrocious outrage upon the
rights of British subjects than that in the case of Mr. Fletcher,
arising from Senhor Cabral's "suspension of the guarantees,"
is now in the course of perpetration upon a victim of equal
respectability, Mr. John Alfred Tozer, of Coimbra, brother
to the British Consul at Figueira. Mr. Tozer has now been
thirty days under arrest, and dragged during that period
through no fewer than six Portuguese prisons ; one the com-
mon felons' calabonco, or dungeon, at Coimbra; another the
Limoeiro, or ordinary felons' gaol, in Lisbon, sickened with
noisome exhalations, and literally covered with vermin from
the persons of his convict associates, a fact which can be proved
on oath ; and up to the present moment no formal act of accu-
sation nor specific charge has been preferred against him,
nor any allegation but the vague one that he was concerned
in bribing some soldiers at Coimbra to join the insurgents in
Almeida, a charge which, on the two sergeants who affirmed
it having been a second time questioned, dwindled down to
the still vaguer statement, that he was present when money
was offered them. Mr. Tozer is an independent merchant,
with no motive whatever to mix himself up in the conta-
minating politics of Portugal, and the secret of his arrest and
degradation (for no arnende can prove a compensation to
feelings outraged by a forced association during 30 days with
the felons, foul air, and vermin of filthy Portuguese dun-
geons, of six of which he has now had experience) will be
probably found in the fact of his having in a manly and
English, but incautious manner, expressed in society his
opinion of the unconstitutional and despotic proceedings of
the rulers of the day. From the first, Mr. Tozer demanded
to be brought to immediate trial, a demand which, on va-
rious pretences has been systematically refused to the pre-
sent time.

The correspondence between the British Consul at Figueira
and the Civil Governor, produced no results, and Mr. Tozer,
has been sent to Lisbon, and is confined in the Castle. This
is the fou:teenth day of his incarceration in the metropolis :
and so active have been the movements of the authorities,
both Portuguese and British, that we are not yet informed
whether any steps have been taken to transfer his case to the
Conservatorial Court. It is stated, that as the case has been
referred to the Government, he cannot be released without a
Royal order.
A circular has been Issued from the Home-office to various
municipal chambers, acknowledging their congratulations
upon " the termination of the civil war newly
kindled in the country by the most scandalous am-
bition." The decision to postpone the meeting of the
Cortes to the Ist of November has been prudently re-
voked, it being held too monstrous to falsify Senhor Cabral's
solemn declaration that he would "immediately render to
the Chambers an account of his use of the extraordinary
powers conceded to him." We shall have stormy debates on
the 23d inst. Baron Tozal has secured the active co-opera-
tion of the leading members of the Finance Committees of
both Chambers now in Lisbon, by which means his financial
projects will have undergone an attentive consideration pre-
paratory to the meeting of the Cortes, and fresh delays will
be avoided. The regiments which participated in the late
revolt are thus punished by Royal decree :—The 12th In-
fantry and Ist Rifles have their numbers changed respectively
to the " 17th Infantry " and the "9th Rifles." The existing
corps are nominally dissolve but will be immediately re-
formed, and consist of the same loyal characters. The 4th
Dragoons, who originated the rebellion at Torres Novas, are,
without change of designation, to have their head-quarters
henceforth at Santarem, and the Bth Dragoons to have theirs
in Castello Braves. Great apprehensions bad prevailed that
the continued drought would have a bad effect on the har-
vest, but several showers lately have removed these fears,
and restored prices which were rising to their usual level.
The orange crop has however been ruined.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.)
William- James Birdseye, a cab-driver; badge 3,319, was
charged with fUrious driving.
It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday evening
last the prisoner was driving so furiously down Exmouth-
street, that foot passengers and truck-drawers were obliged
to leave the road and crowd upon the pavement. One
of the waggons of Messrs. Pickford, the eminent carriers,
was coming down the street, and the driver of it had just
time to draw in by the footway, so that the shaft of the
prisoner's cab nearly grazed the breast of Messrs. Pickford's
horse. The cab, however, came in collision with the cart,
and with such violence that two of the springs of the cart
were broken, damage being done to the amount of 1/.
The prisoner was remanded.
J seaman, named Thomas Moran, was charged with being
drunk and assaulting police-constable 262 N.
_ _

In three weeks the prisoner contrived to spend the sum of
151., which he earned in a voyage to and from the East
Indies. Last night he was fighting with some Irishmen,
when the officer interfered. The prisoner struck him on
the face.—He was fined 55., or three days' imprisonment.