The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-21 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Nov. 14.—Affairs here are far from b • being
in a satisfactory state. There is danger from two
sides : the old revolutionary party is at work, and on
-the other hand it would not surprise me were a body
'of troops to march• to the Palace and demand the dis-
missal of Ai. Dietz. An incendiary paper, written in
an-out-and-out revolutionary spirit, has been pub-
lished under the name of " Letters from G racchus to
Tullia," in which the Court is reminded, among
other things, that " from the Necessidades Palace to
the Caes de Tojo (the place of execution) it is a
straight line," and the destruction of Royalty alto-
gether is counselled, as being both expensive and.
useless. The ravings of the revolutionary party
would, however, be merely contemptible in so :Mo-
narchical a country as Portugal, were it not for the
dissatisfaction that exists among a large portion of the
garrison here, who have become, in a great measure,
alienated from the Court by the conduct it has unfor-
tunately pursued since the late restoration. M Dietz,
is a very honest man, and sincerely attached to the
Royal family, and the late reforms he has effected in
the interior of the Palace have been very useful, but
still he is disliked by all parties, and has no friends :
the Opposition papers are glad to seize hold of the
recent proclamation against him and to attribute it to
thcsta Cabral'" Cabritlistaast C' ,'
oinurtoi:debrut ntoaoi one says' a word ad intriguea,gainisnt
Co
favour of Dietz.

The affairs in contest with the Pope are very likely
to bring the Court here into trouble; there is no
party which could make a tolerable show in the
Cortes that would not oppose the encroachments
which Lomish policy is ever trying to make, where-
ever it has roomenough in the beginning to thrust in
the end of the wedge. Whether it be Costa Cabral,
or R. F. Magalhaes, or Sada Bandeira, there is no
one that will give way to the demands of M. Ca-
paccina, while the Court, it is said, is mightily afraid
of coming to a rupture with him, and would go a
great way towards sacrificing the rights of the Crown
and the Church rather than do so. M. Dietz is sup-
posed to support these views, which find little echo in
Portugal except among some old women of both sexes,
and others who hope to convert the schism that results
from Capaccini's doings into apolitical engine in favour
of Don Miguel, or some other scheme of the kind.
With respect to the tariff question, there are reports
here that the English Government has rejected the
last offers of Portugal ; but no communication has
yet been made on the subject, and that instead of
either at once accepting or rejecting their proposals,
it is much more likely that sonic further proposition
will be made by our 'Government to that of Portugal,
whose last proposition must be .considered as unsa-
tisfactory; and it will then remain with the latter to
purchase the very considerable advantages offered by
our Government in exchange for reductions . on our
manufactures, or to keep things far the present as
they are.
A small loan has, it is reported, hem' negotiated in
England, in order to work out the as stem of Exche-
quer bills. The efforts of the moneystd corporations
who are opposed to these papers, assistrd by the op-
position papers, who, of course, decry an 7 plan which
gives resources to the Government, directed to
pryent the circulation of these bills, wliich it is re-
presented Witt' riever-be 'Nost-, the Board
of Public Credit, it is decreed, is to diseoutit them, if
required ; and it was necessary to raise funds for the
purpose, which it appears has been done in E. ondon to
the amount of 200,000/.
The effects of the late flood here have be. Tai singu-
lar enough. At Collares the devastating efft lets were
very great ; and at Celleiros, on the Mafra v. ad from
Cintra, many vineyards were destroyed. The Island
of Madeira was visited with a similar infliction to-
wards the end of the last month, and the dan Cage at
Funchal alone is estimated by the Civil Govei nment
at 500 contos of reis, or above 100,0001. A woman
and two children were drowned. The Americans brig
Creole went aground in the gale and was lost
butrthe crew were saved; the English ; schooner
Wave was lost, crew saved ; the Portuguese
vessel Novo Beijinho went aground, and three of the
crew were drowned ; and the English brig Part also
was driven ashore, but all the crew were sexed ; the
Sardinian polacca Gloria was lost with all her crew.
There had been heavy rains for some time, arid, on the
24th, a deluge of rain came on with a heavy - gale of
wind, and torrents of water rushed down from the
mountains, carrying large masses of stone alosug with
them, and great part of the town of Funchisil was
overflowed. The inhabitants in the streets of Alialcoes
and Santa Maria had to save themselves in boats,
getting out by the windows. In the neighbo. Taring
streets some houses fell down, and many were gr, ustly
injured. Wine stores and shops were destroyed, . snd
the neighbouring vineyards completely ruined. Vile
water rose to the height of twelve feet in the Pra:;a
do Pelourinho, where two wine stores and many'
pipes of wine were lost; and the same occurred int
many other districts, according to the official report-
of the civil Governor. A large piano was washed
out of the drawing room of Senhor Monteiro, carried
over a passage and a garden, and deposited in one of
the rooms of the municipal chamber. The water rose
to the height of seven feet and a half in :Mr. Short-
ridge's wine stores.
The Revolneao says that the city, sittinte under-
neath the mountains, is watered by three rivers, which
descend from the heights, and which by flve r.m. had
Overflowed their banks, destroying every thing before
them, and that more than 200 houses were thrown
down or completely ruined ; the pintas were reduced
to a bare rock, and most of the year's vintagse, which
was in the stores where the inundation reached, was
entirely lost. The English steamer Dec arrived safe
with fifty-two passengers, on the 24th. It was in a
gale on the 26th'that the other vessels went ashore.
The French Princes returned from their tour on
Thursday last, and the Duc d'Aumale left in the
Asniodie steam-frigate yesterday, for Gibraltar and
Algiers. The Prince de Joinville, remains here at
present, with the Belle Poule and other vessels.
The long pending case of " Shortridge v. Manoel
Jose d'Oliveira," has been decided in the Court of
Ilelacao here, in Mr. Shortridge's favour. The sentence
annuls all that had previously been dogs- in the case,
which M. Jose d'Oliveira must now, if he chooses to
go on with it, commence again de novo.
Senhor Jose da Silva Cabral is about to prosecute
the _Nacional, for the assertion that he was .the author
of the proclamation against M. Dietz, in which, not-
withstanding his protests to the contrary, the Nacional
appears still to persist.
News have been received front Goa of tihe arrival
there of the new Governor-General Conde dins Antas,
who had issued a proclamation to the in.babitants on
taking possession of the government, dated from the
Palace at Pangein, 19th September last, .congratula-
ting them on the state of tranquillity in which he findi
them, and announcing his determination to observe
strict economy, and direct all his attentiott to repair
their finances, which are in a most disastrous state.
The Customs of Lisbon and Oporto, and the Site
Casas of Lisbon, brought in 367 contos of re.s in the
'Last month, or near 90,0001.

THE NIGER EXPEDITION.
SeEpti.tr2a6e,tlB42
from:
—a letter dated Cape Coact 0 istle,
" The Wilberforce, you will recollect, was hort.in
March last, at which time Captain W. Allen was p
re-
paring to re-ascend the Niger, to look after the
• Model Farm' people, and if possible to do someth iig
to retrieve the fame of the expedition. He proceed %I
hence to Fernando Po, to fit out the Soudan, to act-
company him. While he was still lying there thei
Kite steamer arrived with orders from Government
that only one vessel was to go up the river, and that
she was only to have on board four or five white
men at most. Her only object in going up was to
be the bringing back the people left at the farm.
On receiving these orders Captain Allen and most of
his officers and crew went on board the Kite for
a passage to England. The other Commissioner
(Cook) went home by the Golden Spring. The Nil.
berforce,
(Lieutenantun under charge
.proeef
ehedered present commander
the river,
compelledrvde
a very
with
iol‘ni.°dell'h}e'arblmac'ksawl.eorKaPlOiebeeeent leftmo d
ae
tl
it,of dfoisuonrgd
atiliiiesa;
having plenty of cowries (a species of I
as money) and goods, voted themselviesditaosilbeell
hleolimnearnthhbeeinlyinsgelf
pendent country gentlemen, and managed to get hold
iundseed.
of a lot of natives, whom they
Omeaf,occihmelgldeiNNfiarn;
Justice
driver'su s ce whip,of
Sierra
Lbeeotnt eel); toentfoorcewoobrkedoienntchee. femme,
icthooallycamt,adore
ssllaa%vvas-
had, as it afterwards
ghthteawmayouth (Carr, brother of the Chief
nearbrou
those of the latter belonging li never been heard of, and
appeared, b,een. killed somewhere
of the river. The Wilberforce
farm implements, people and all, and
to this place are now
being discharged here. The steamer got on a rock in
the river, where she remained Lye days, and came
down with a hole in her bottom, which now compels
her to go home. So much for the last speech and
dying words of the far-famed Niger expedition. A
more mismanaged piece of business from beginning
to end is not, I will venture to say, to be found re-
corded in any history."
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SUDDEN DEATHS or TWO GREENWICH PEW..
SIONERS.-011 Saturday two inquests were held at
74, y,
00 view of the bodies of Thomas Stevens,
Job neatly, aged 84, who died sud-
aGgreeden7w4
denly in the hospital on Thursany evening. The
surgeon deposed that both the de ceased had died of
apoplexy, Stevens being seized whilst in bed, and
dying almost instantaneously ; and neatly, as he was
going down the steps fell head foremost to the bottom,
and died very shortly afterwards. Verdicts of Na-
tural death worc returned.
PRICE OF BUTCHER'S MEAT.? —Boiled beef Com-
manded eight pence the lair p late, and there we
some small transactions at siizpe ace. Mutton in Pie!
(sinking the offal) was to be boa rathey
d-
selnglY,
MiXtUre
twopence the patty; but there -Was a
of inferior auimals.--Punch. , •