The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-01 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Liverpoel steamer arrived at Falmouth at two o'clock
a.m. on Sunday, from Gibraltar July 21, Cadiz 22, Lisbon
23, off Oporto 26, Vigo 27. Passengers—Lieut. Kibble, Mr.
G. Brown, R. 31., Mr. and Mrs. Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Shaw
and child, Mr. Santa Silva and family, Mr. M. F. Gavius
Mr. Cummins, Mr. Stalforth, Slr. Shortridge, Mr. Sauruda,
Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Berne, also about forty seamen Aso had
been employed in taking a hulk to Corunna ter the purposes of
the West India Steam Company's vessels. The Formidable
and Geyser steamer were at Gibraltar ; the latter on the morn-
ing of the 20th sustained some damage to her machinery when
getting under way. At Cadiz were the Thunderer and Jas-
sent three French brigs of war and a Sardinian frigate. At
Lisboni the Lynx and a French corvette.
LISBON, JULY 25.—The Cortes have not yet proceeded to
the business of the session, being still occupied in examining
the validity of the returns, and in other preliminary matters.
The committees appointed in the Chamber of Deputies for the
first-named purpose have reported favourably upon all the re-
turns, with the trifling exception of those from one of the elec-
toral colleges in the Lisbon and Estremadura district, in which
some irregularities are alleged to have taken place on the occa-
sion of voting for the electors, oho in their turn were to elect
the Deputies.
I understand that the Portuguese commissioners, appointed
to take into consideration the subject of the alterations to be
made in the Customs tariff; havealready proposed to the Govern-
ment extensive reductions in the duties upon several articles of
British manufacture, and particularly upon cotton goods, the per
centage upon which they pretend to say would he reduced to lees
than it was under the treaty of 1810. It is necessary to observe,
however, that as they take the maket value of the article after pay-
mentofdnties and oi herexpensesas the basis of their calculations.
instead of the declared invoice value, the rate per cent. in
raality would turn out much higher than they compute it. To
take
eon the
rectify this erroneous mode of calculation it is, that Lord
Howard de Walden purposes submitting the subject to the
consideration of a Committee of British merchants in this city.
Government respecting the reductions to be mutually made by
before he concludes any arrangement with the Portuguese
Great Britain and Portugal in their tariffs of import duties.
It is currently saki that the Duke de Terceira wishes to re-
tire from office, and that his place, as Minister of War, wid be
filled by Baron Campanha. It is likewise reported that Baron
Tojal will take the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, anti resign that
of Finance into the hands of M. Silva Cabral, brother to
pa m e Dictatorna, oofnPbt:ritnugg a
recentlyl . Thep
rceasusesed
Costa Cabral, the present Minister of the Interior, and de fticto
removal from the Finance-office is said to be a quarrel between
him and M. Gomes de Castro, the Vi;e-Preaident of the Trea-
sury Tribunal. I learn from a good source, 'that the Duke de
°tot.
Fo-
reign Affairs positively refused to do so, alleging as Ins reason,
that he will not serve in the same Administration wtth Costa
Cabral. IpsOiratiBlioexoPef expected

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passengers in the Clarence
steam-ship, that left Brown's Wharfs Poplar, on Saturday
eveniag, for Edinburgh.- Caep‘t-a.ini\Lr.inigiel,mthscel