The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-24 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, JAN. 17. The Braganza steamer arrived
here last night from Falmouth, having, amongst other
passengers, the Pope's Nuncio, Monsignore Cappacini,
commissioned at this Court to regulate, in conjunction
with her Most Faithful Majesty, the ecclesiastical affairs
of the kingdom, which, ever since the breaking out of the
war of succession have been in a most unsettled state.
Some prospect is thus afforded of the hostility of the
Church in Portugal, both to the reigning dynasty and
the actual Government, abating in its intensity, and of
that great corporation becoming reconciled to the exist-
ing order of things. Hitherto the influence of the prin-
cipal Church dignitaries has been added, with
that of the Miguelite partisans, to the weight of Oppo-
sition. The large confiscations of ecclesiastical property
which have taken place of late years hare added fuel to
the flame; but the still sufficient provision which is
awarded to the service of the parochial churches has in
some degree reconciled the most inveterate hostility ;
and it is hoped that, with prudent management, the pre-
sent mission may beget peace and a good understanding,
in the room of jealousies and endless contentions. Mon-
signor Cappacini will make a considerable stay in Por-
tugal, and has taken the mansion and elegant gardens in
the rua Sao Felix, lately occupied by M. Van Zellar.
The first accounts of the results of the municipal elec-
tiun.; have reached Lisbon during the present week; with
the single exception of Aveyra, they will all go in favour
of the Government.

On Friday his Excellency Senhor Rodrigo Da F. Ma-
galhaes, her Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
gave a grand dinner to the Ministers and members of
the diplomatic corps. At his right sat Lord Howard de
Walden, the longest resident Foreign Minister in Lis-
bon, and on his left the French Ambassador. At the
other end of the table the Prime Minister, Senhor Aguiar,
presided, supported on hie right by the Duke of Ter-
ceira, and on his left by the Duke of Palmella.
The embarrassment which the Government is encoun-
tering in reference to their capitalization project is
greatly increased by the conduct of the Directors of
the new Company, who are literally backing out of
the terms of their own contract. Instead of giving
money to those Empregados, whose titulos are stated
at 56 per cent., they merely permit them to subscribe
and send out their runners into the market; with a com-
mission to offer from 48 to 50 per cent. in cash for these
same tituies, so that the Company may be enabled to
pocket the difference. This conduct, which is little short
of roguery, has produced universal disgust. The Govern-
ment shares the obloquy, although not fairly responsible
for it; and the chief blame rests, not with the Bank Di-
rectors, but with the universally unpopular tobacco
contractors.

Portuguese politics present little to instruct or amuse
during the past week. The only thing of considerable
note which has occurred, is an unsuccessfully and very
quietly exploded attempt on the part of the ultra •Chartists
in Oporto to proclaim the Charter of 1826, in its original
purity, and divest it of the additions made to it by the
revolution of September, 1836. The attempt was exceed-
ingly silly, and even with reference to the principles of its
abettors, illusory, since it could effect no change either
of men or of measures which could at all compensate for
its disastrous consequences, even if successful.
The weight of obloquy which Ministers have drawn
down upon their heads by the late financial operation is
tremendous. It is not alone that the battery which was
opened at first by the Opposition Journals has since kept
up an incessant fire, and that in coffee-house saloon, and
public lounge, they have encountered the most invete-
rate hostility, but amongst their own friends, and in the
circle of their most immediate followers the measure
has awakened a rancorous spirit of resistance. It has
revealed the fact, not even suspected before, of a most
extensive traffic in the titulos, about which so much has
been said, in the most improbable and improper quarters.
The jobbers in question have in many instances been Go-
vernment officers, highly placed. The needier class of Em-
pregados have been tempted to dispose of their titulos for a
trifle to other Empregados, more fortunate in their position,
and possessed of some command of money. The confidential
employes, to whom these remarks refer, did their best
to depreciate the value of the poor underlings' titulos by
preaching the final insolvency of the Government, and
their peculiar facilities of information made their repre-
sentations readily believed. They thus brought up the
inferior functionaries' papers for a song, chuckling in se-
cret ever the success of the manoeuvre, and entertaining
the secret conviction that they would be finally paid to
the uttermost farthing. But behold them caught in
their owa trap. The very event which they painted
to others, but disbelieved themselves, to trick their
dupes out of the documents representing their hard-
earned gains, has in reality occurred, and through their
own underhand dealings has visited their own doors.
The tardy arrival of the Braganza, which should have
been here on Friday, and did not reuch till Sunday night,
is the only cause which delayed Senhor Aguilar's de-
parture for Madrid. His Excellency is an Andalusian
by birth, and makes this coasting detour for the purpose
province en route. There is a eon-
of visiting his native
siderable affinity between the Andalusian and the Gascon
character ; and it is no wonder, therefore, that his Expel-
lency should have been heard tp brag that he Will shortly
be back again in Lisbon in the same capacity (query,
incapacity ?) of Ambassador, and that be, forsooth, is not
to be removed at the beck of Portugal. In the language
however, of the Gascon and quasi-Andalusian, Thiers,
the final removal of Senhor Aguilar from the diplomacy

of Lisbon may be considered " tat fait accompli." The
new Spanish Charge d'Affaires, Senhor Tehran, has
already arrived. This gentleman has for a considerable
time past been an attache of the Foreign-office at Ma-
drid, and is said to be a competent person.
Amongst the numerous objections which have been.
raised against Senhor Avila's financial plan is the fol-
lowing, viz.—That of the holders of the 2,373 contos of
Portuguese bonds in London, a portion of which it is
proposed to convert into the "internal debt." Many will
not consent to the operation.
Contemporaneous with this great financial operation
is an extensive sale by auction of national property, con-
sisting of convents in Lisbon and other places, together
with confiscated property, and property accruing to the
Crown in default of legal heirs. This sale is in pursu-
ance of a law passed on the Bth of June last year. It
commences this day, and will continue during the space
of a month. The ecclesiastical property which is thus to
be disposed of is very considerable, and consists of the
convent of our Lady of Mount Olivet, reformed Augusti-
nians in the suburbs of Lisbon ; convent of our Lady of
Grace, Augustinian eremites in Torres Vedras ; convent
of St. Dominic in Lisbon ; monastery of Santa Cruz in
Coimbra ; monastery of St. Mary, of the order of St.
Bernard, in Alcobaca ; convent of -St. Francis in Caria ;
and house of the order of Christ in Castro Marifn.

Exchange on London at 30 days' sight 53id. per milrei.

DUTCH MAIL.

THE HAGUE, JAN. 19.—The anniversary of the birth-
day of our beloved Queen was celebrated to-day in this
town in the usual manner. At noon there was a brilliant
parade of the troops, which was favoured by the finest
eath

We hear that the English Ambassador at this Court
intends to give a splendid entertainment on the occasion
of th, baptism of the Prince of Wales.

We le;rn, from accounts from Java, that on the 10th
of July last 3-tar a convention, recognising the Nether-
lands authority, was concluded in Macassar with the
newly-appointed Prince of Tunelle in Celebas, and signed
by him and the inferior Princes of Tunelle in the presence
of th• Governor of Macassar, the military commandant
the officers of the garrison, the civil authorities, and the
principal inhabitants. This may be considered as a fa-
vourable sign of the establishment of peace in the island
of Celebas.

HANOVER, JAN. 17.—The evening before yesterday
his Majesty the King went to Othfreden to meet the
King of Prussia as he passed through that place. The
King of Prussia arrived on the following morning at ten,
o'clock. The two Sovereigns breakfasted together. After
stopping a couple of hours, the King of Prussia continued
his journey, and our King returned to this city yesterday
evening.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, JAN. 21.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 51% 52
Ditto, ditto 6 per cent.
Amor t Syndic,4% per cent............ ......
Ditto, ditto, 3) percent. 76 76%
Commercial Company, 4% per
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent.... ......... ..... 97 98%
Exchange on London, dne month ..... 12 10
Two months
Harnburgh, One month 35 65 %%
Two months 35 43%
Dutch Papers, Jan. 22.
BELGIAN e UND3—Bnissuir.e. JAN. 22:
Actual Debt, 14 per Cent.
Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent ...... ......., 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 pa Cent. .....
--- 3 per Cent. —
----..Thirty.seven •• 73%
--- (1540) 1(X11.4
Loin of City, 1432, 4 per Cent. 95
Society at Corrnneree. 4 %per Coat B5
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent. .... .....
NationalSeciety. ...... .......... ..... ....
Exchange on London (shot t) -
-Brussels Papers, Jan. 22.
AUSTRIAN FLY NDS.—VraNsia. JAN. 14.
five per Coats. lietalliques
boar per Cents. ..... ........".......... ..... ... .......
Three par Cents.
Bank Shares .... ....... ! ........ ...... ........
..... Aligemeine ZsUung, .... n. 17.
HAMBURG BOItSENHALLE,'„IAN.IB.
Bills. Money
Austrian 5 per Cents. ... 107%
Bank Shares 1628
. .

Anglo-Russian Loan 109;. 109%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series lO3
Russian 5 per Cant. Hope and Cam. 3d and 4th
Series —

Ditto in Cortilicates
Ncw 4 per Cent. (1840) 84% :158 4
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 50% 50%
Ditto 5 per Cent. —
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. 7B 77%
Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Ceni 1( 336 1021.
S2:nish, New 5 per Cents
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, JAN. 18.-13 8 k .—Two months, 13 63(
STOCKHOLM. JAN. H.—Seventy-five days, 12. ES.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Boaun, JAN. 15.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld. 3ch., 46 per cent, 1043(, 104%
Prussian English Lean, 1830, 4 per cent. 102% 10 %
111xchange on London, three months 6 21ii%
—Prussian Slate Gazelle. Jan. it

FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.
IMPRO VEMENTS IN CLEANING COTTON.--Whit-
ney's cotton gin seems likely to be superseded by a new
machine for cleaning cotton and wool, which appears to
have been introduced with success at Lowell, Mass.
It consists of a common feed apron from which the
cotton passes through the rollers, is thence taken by a
common picker and thrown into comb-teeth arranged
on a solid iron cylinder, and is then taken forward under
a revolving floated wheel guard. The fibres of cotton
are then doffed from the comb-teeth by revolving
brushes, and turned out freed from all foreign sub-
stances. The secret of the success of this machine in
cleansing cotton lies in the ingenious arrangement of
the floated wheel-guard in connexion with the comb-
teeth. The advantages of this machine over Whitney's
cotton gin, may be easily seen. The latter has been in
use successfully ever since its invention, but does not
leave the cotton perfectly clean, and injures the staple
in some degree. With this machine there is no chance
for foreign substances to pass through ; and the opera-
tion of it shows that the cotton is much better cleansed
by it, and with far less injury to the staple. Even cotton
waste, no matter how much dirt it contains, may be per-
fectly cleaned and rendered fit for use.
THE AMISTA D AFRICA letter from Port
Principe, Cuba, to a gentleman in this city, dated No-
vember 18, says—" The Captain General of the Island
bas demanded of Mr. Carries all his accounts, including
interest, damages, &c., of the negroes of the Amistad ;
and insists that Mr. Carries shall be paid the whole of
it. And it appears that the Captain General intends
to deduct the amount from $70,000 which the Spanish
Government has to pay to the United States."
The Philadelphia papers report a case as occurring
lately in Delaware, which discloses more barbarism than
we believed extant in the United States. It is as follows :
The Court at Newcastle county, Delaware, was in ses-
sion last week. Several persons were convicted of lar-
ceny, and sentenced to receive twenty-one lashes on the
bare back. One man pleaded guilty to three indict-
ments, and was sentenced to receive twenty-one lashes
for each indictment. But a more extraordinary sen-
tence is that of a young girl, who pleaded guilty on
ten different indictments for larceny. She was sen-
tenced to pay twofold value of goods stolen to the
owners, to wear ten T's on her outer garment, and to
receive twenty-one lashes on the bare back, well laid
on, in each case, making 210 in all. The Governor,
who was prabably shocked at the idea of a young girl
being stripped, tied, and scored with a whip, humanely
remitted the corporeal punishment.
LATEST FROM BARBADOES Kingston, Ja-
maica, papers of the 30th ult. we learn that the distress
which has been experienced in Jamaica, and the heavy
taxation to which we are subject, seem to be equally
felt in Barbadoes. In a petition to the Governor, pray.
ing that a vacancy in the Magistracy might not be filled
up, there appears the following paragraph :—" That the
state of the country at this time is one of unprecedented
depression, and the distress which pervades all ranks,
but presses with peculiar severity on the poor and mid-
dle classes, is greatly augmented by excessive taxation
to support an extravagant expenditure, created within
the last few years, and maintained without due consi-
deration of the actual wants of the country, or the pecu-
niary ability of the inhabitants."
BARQUE AMERICA FROM SICILY Stmc.—Yester-
day morning, about ten o'clock, the pilot-boat Phantom,
while off Sandy Hook put a pilot on board of the barque
America, Captain Faulkner, from Sicily ; at which
time the barque was leaking at the rate of four feet of
water an hour, with ber pumps in such a bad condition,
having been in constant use for fifty days, that it was
impossible to make any use of them. The pilot disco-
vering that he would be unable to get her into port, im-
mediately hoisted a signal of distress, which soon brought
the pilot boat alongside the barque, notwithstanding it
was blowing very heavily from the northwest. The
America at this time was filling very fast, and all on
board had to make their escape so precipitately that
not a soul belonging to the barque saved anything ex-
cept what they had on. She went down about twelve
o'clock, only a few minutes after all hands had got safely
on board the pilot boat. The captain and crew came
up to the city last night in the Phantom. The barque
had been out ninety-five days, being unable to carry
sufficient canvass, on account of her leaky condition.
On the 23d inst. Eyvan Nyhn, one of the crew of the
America, fell from the maintopsail yard into the sea,
and was drowned,

By order of the Minister of War, considerable
works of defence are to be undertaken at Cherbourg
during the present and five following years. A credit
of eight millions of francs is allotted for this purpose,
without comprising the expense of military buildings.
THE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ACT.—
On Saturday at the Petty Sessions, holden at the Holland
Arms, Kensington, Mrs. Riddell was charged with hav-
ing a weighing machine of an unjust standard. The
machine was produced, and was of the most clever con-
struction ; it appeared perfectly correct until the weights
were added ; but upon a 41b. weight being placed in each
scale a false draught of 4oz. was discovered, and there
-:vas a gain of one ounce in the draught upon every
pound beyond. The defendant said she had recently
taken the shop, and the scales were a part of the fix-
tures. She solemnly declared her ignorance of their de-
ficiency. It appeared that the defendant was a respect-
able deserving woman, and the Magistrates fully excul-
pated her from any blame, and only fined her a shilling
and the costs, which were, however', generously declined
by Mr. Connell, the clerk.
MASONIC BALL.—A Masonic ball, in aid of
the Freemasons' Asylum, will take place on Tuesday
evening, which it is expected will be very numerously at-
tended. We understand that the members of the fra-
ternity present on this occasion will appear in the col-
lars and jewels of their respective grades, in compliment
to the Royal christening.

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