The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

LISBON PAPERS.

The bullet:4;s of his 11ajesty's health, from the 12th to
the 19th of December, announce, in the same terms as
before, that no change has taken place.
" Dec. 10, One o'Clock,

" Having examined to-day his Majesty's fractured limb,
we had the satisfaction to find that the bone was united,
and the limb without any &fortuity. His Majesty, will
continue to keep his bed for some days, in order that he
is get up with perfect security.
Pidaec of Queluz, Dec. 19, 1528."
(Signed by the four Medical Attendants.)
Dxc. 21.--iesterdzy being the first time since forty
days that his Majesty Was totally free from indiseosition,
the loyal Senate of this 4 city canspd a solemn Mass and Te
Dcum to be performed in the church of St. Antonio.
After Maw the Rev. J. A. de Macedo pronounced an
eloquent discourse, arid in the evening the Senate House
was illuminated, and also many parts of the city.
DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
TO THE ROYAL BOARD p TRADE.

The Charge d'Affaires of Portugal at the Court of Rio
de Janeiro having informed this office, by k despatch of
the 27th September htst, that the Ma: quis Aracaty, Mini- I
ster of Foreign Affairs, bad signified to him, on the part of
his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, that notwithstanding
the changes which have lately taken place in them, the
commercial relations would continue without any inter-
ruption, for tile mutual interest and convenience of the two
countries, and that the said Charge d'Affaires would be ad-
mitted to treat in that Court of every thing concerning those
relations whit+ subsist in conformity with the Treaty of
the 29th August, 1925, the King our Sovereign has been
pleased to order this information to be communicated to
the Royal Boatd of Trade, ac., which I communicate to
your Excellency to lay before the said Board.
Viscount De SANTARENT.
To Senhor Marquis De Torres Novas.
Pal:lLe of Queluz, Dec. IS, 1829.

It is not irue that the Officers of the Police
have been, during the week, by order of their superior•,
watching the movements of ope or two eminent actors who
were on terms of intimacy with Mr, ,Stephenson, under the
impression that these gentlemen knew of his retreat. The
wily banker was too cunning to trust them with hi:, secret—
these actors " tell all." -

THE VALUE OF LAND.—The season for
Auctions, which generally commences with the Meeting
of Parliament, will soon put to the test the sound reason-
ing of those who believe the late advance in agricultural
produce will necessarily enhance the value of land.'.-we
think it must—but there is a still more powerful reason
to be urged " the exceedingly high price of the Funds."
It would be accounted in former times an anomaly that
sod should pay a higher interest than the Funds, and yet
Bac,ii. fact, the latter being subject, on the bare whis-
per of war, 0 a severe diminution of capital, while the
same cause woul'lNP gp instant increase the annual value
of land in the same pr.opp:Pion. It appears to us that
such a view of the ease txu.ist neeezwily incline the Fund.
holders to invest (at least) a part of their iii,ealth in land.
Our paper to-day promises to such very great
Jack Johnstone, the late inimitable .corm-
dian, by his retirement from the stage, left his peculiar
and exclusive department in the drama unoccupied. It is
remarkable that the same state candlesticks which illumi-
nated the chamber in the house where Johnstone's re-
mains were deposited previously to their removal, were
used at the funeral of Mr. GarriAk, lA*: he lay in
state at his house on the Adelphi-terra,cß„ 'The fAther
Mr. Page, the undertaker employed by Mrs. Walluek, con:
ducted Garrick's funeral, and on that occasion employed
in the procession 33 sets of horses, six horses in each set,
besides private carriages, which included those of the most
distinguished nobility and geMxy of the land. The line
was unbroken from the Adelphiptermac to Westminster
Abbey.