The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-14 00:00:00

The Lisbon Gazettes, from Ow 31st January
to the 4th February inclusive, were received this
morning; they are entirely without interest.
The fullowingoare extracts :
Ltsnow, JAN. 30.

All the difficulties being now removed that hindered the dia..
tribution of the prizes made during the Peninsular Virar, hie
.slajesty has been pleased to appoint. a Commission, composed
of five .o.fEcers; to proceed immediately to the allotment of the
said prize-money.
FEB. 2.—The Gazettes of the let and 2d Pebruary contain
a very long series of regulations approved by the King of
Spain, for the service of five ships (fluartla Cokes) on the
coast of Catalonia, for the purpose of pursuing and destroying
all smuggling, piratical, and rubel ,iesseli. These regulations
are in more than forty articles.
FEB. £—The Gazelk contains at great length the sentence
of a desperate band of robbers, who had committed numerous
excesses in the province of Alentejo. One of them, a youth of
19, haying been guilty of murder under very aggravating cir-
cumstances, was sentenctli to tleath, and executed, notwith-
standing his minority. Another was condentned to banishment
for life to a Presidio in Africa, and to be liable to capital pu-
nisliment if ho should.return ; four to ten years' banishment to
Angola ; and five to five years' banishment to Cupc Verde.
Exchange on London, 52j .

We congratulate the Country on the termina-
tion of the talk iu Parliament on the question of
the Country Bankers Notes, and the Bank of
England Charter. A more profitless debate, or
one out of which less was elicited, never took
place within the walls of Parliament ; for al-
though the House sat until a quarter past two
o'clock, our readers will look in, vain for any ad-
ditional information in the long and wearying
speeches 'with which our columns are filled.
The issue, however, has been favourable to.
the Minister, and notes for ono and two
pounds will be withdrawn from circulation,
and the Charter of the Bank curtailed,
in pursuance of-the plan of the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHE6EU. 'What effect this plan is likely
to produce upon the commercial interests of the
country, we shall presently see. In the mean
time the distress is proceeding
with fearful ra-
pidity, and appears not -in be in the remotest
degree checked by the measures. the Govern.
ment.are now taking. The issue of Exchequer
Bills to the merchants is another expedient of
Ministers to arrest the progress of the evils but
it should seem that little good can be expected
from it, for even now these securities are at a des-
count, and any augmentation of the number In
circulation must naturally tend to depress their
value iu the money market. With a view to avoid
the effect, it is now proposed, we hear, that the
Bank shall make advances upon these Excite.
quer Bill's, and thereby money will be at 011C0
put into circulation, and the dreaded fall. in
the value pf. Government paper prevented. This
anticipation is correct ; let us, however, have a
cure; a stretching of the prerogative is not with-
out,precedent ; and .however dreadful was the
power assumed by the. Minister in stopping the
stamps upon small notes, we CatillOt have forgotten
that an Order in Council, prohibiting the Bank
from paying cash, WO been before now issued
and acted upon, and indemnity subsequently
I allowed,