The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-03 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
25, off Oporto 26, Vigo 27. Passengers—Lieut. Kibble,
G. Brown, R.M., Mr. and Mrs. Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Shaw
and child, Mr. Santa Silva and family, Mr. M. F. Gavius
Mr. Cummins, Mr. Stalforth, Mr. Shortridge, Mr. Sauruda,
Mr. Godfrey, Mr. Berne, also about forty seamen who had
been employed in taking a hulk to Corunna for 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.
seur; three French brigs of war and a Sardinian frigate. At
Lisbon 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 fur 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, who 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, have already 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 be reduced to less
than it was under the treaty of ISIO. It is necessary to observe,
however, that as they take the maket value of the article after pay-
ment of duties and other expenses as the basis of their calculations,
instead of the &elated invoice value, the rate per cent. in
raality would turn out much higher than they compute it. To
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,
before he concludes any arrangement with the Portuguese
Government respecting the reductions to he mutually made by
Great Britain and Portugal in their tariffs of import duties.
It is currently said that the Duke de Terceira wishes to re-
tire from office, and that his place, as Minister of War, will 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
Costa Cabral, the present Minister of the Interior, and de facto
Dictator of Portugal. The cause of Baron Tojal's expected
removal from the Finance-office is said to be a quarrel between
him and M. Gomes de Castro, the Vice-President of the Trea-
sury Tribunal. I learn from a good source, that the Duke de
Pamella, on being recently pressed to take the portfolio of Fo-
reign Affairs positively refused to do so, alleging as his reason,
that he will not serve in the same Administration wtth Costa
Cabral.

HyrocnoNuatactsm.—There is a gentleman of
rank and tontine at present residing in Dublin, who
fancies one of his legs is a Papist and the other a Protes-
tant, and very frequently puts the unfortunate Popish leg
outside the bedclothes to punish it for its religious •, Tors!
In the days of rotten boroughs, Lord Camelford
intended to have caused his black servant to be returned
for Old Sarum, who was to be instructed never to open
his lips in the house but for the purpose of saying "I sa-
cond Massa Wilberforce."
Captain Eyre`, the Rev. Mr. Lumsdene, Lieute-
nant-Colonel Henderson, Captain Pringle, the lien. Captain
A. Stuart, and Colonel Frazer, were passengers in the Clarence
steam-ship, that left Brown's Wharf, Poplar, on Saturday
evenieg, for Edinburgh.
SOUND AND LIGHT.—Sir John Herschel says that
thunder can scarcely be heard more than twenty or thirty miles
from the flash, but that lightning may be seen at a distance of
200 miles.
The Augsburg Gazette states that Count Flahaut,
the French Ambassador at Vienna; will visit Paris
for the purpose of accompanying the
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the summer,