The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Siu,—Your London is the place for exhibi-
tions, from a fasting man to an earthquake, from
any dust to " devil's dust!" All are sure of at-
tention and admiration. A Mr. Ferranti has been
showing off his talents in the wonder way to
" the wisdom" of the nation ; and verily he has
contrived to make a considerable stour, liberally
mixed with a commodity of his own invention,
but to which he has attached the name of a
worthy not celebrated for his strict adherence to
truth. Whether the nomenclature is to be con-
sidered a casual circumstance, or as the result of
any smirking sympathy fur the characteristics of
the good father, does not appear. But, seriously,
it is lamentable that a man, professing to be a
legislator, should be capable of such buffoonery
as this Mr. Ferrand, and still more so, that a
British House of Commons should be found so
ignorant about the manufactures of the country,
as to listen to his wild and childish harangues.
This Member is evidently a young man, bent
on showing how little he requires to know of '
any matter to enable him to talk on it; but that
his displays of vanity and lack of common in-
formation should have elicited applause from
many others, is truly remarkable. What was it
lie told them ? Just what anybody could, to
better purpose—that flour was used for stiffening
calicos, and that woollen rags were reduced to
materiel for making coarse cloth of, and that,
when made, the manufacturer sells them ! Does
this gentleman know anything about the price
these stiffened and s' devil's dust" fabrics are
sold for, or does. he suppose that all cloths
are one and the same price? One might think
so, if the charge brought against the:makers is
to be taken for aught else than idle vapouring.
It is not held a crime for a party to manufacture
coarse goods, unless he palm them on the buyer
as of good quality, and take a price accordingly.
Had this wondrous wise gentleman stooped to
think of the money paid for the starched calicos
he treated Lord John Russell and Sir Robert
Peel to specimens of, even he might have been
led to consider it as somewhat astonishing that,
at such prices, they were there at all. But that
was a trifle beneath his notice. Enough for him
to prove the main fact—that he could produce a
piece of cotton cloth starched with flour. Why
does he not pull up his shirt collar, and at once
demand a Select Committee to investigate the
wickedness of his laundress for stiffening it with
flour I The one case lies more, at least, in his
way, than the other, and would be equally edify-
ing' or diverting. But then the very sapient and
Honourable Member has discovered, that in
preparing those fabrics some dusty aye, " devil's
dust," is let loose, and seems to think that no
one but himself has a right to raise any dust in
manufactures of a small value. Such exhibitions
are disgusting. It is no wonder,indeed, that the
Legislature has little respect from the country,
but it is only surprising it returns any, when such
fantastic tricks are suffered to be played by its
Members, nay, applauded by many of them.
What are we to expect from such men ? Are
we to be asked to repose confideece in them ?
Carlisle, March 9, 1842. X.

ANECDOTE or Mn. JUSTICE CRESSWELL.—About
two years ago, when Mr. Justice Cresswell was at the
bar, he was eicamining a sailor as a witness, who ever
and anon called him "My Lord," on which the Learned
Counsel said, "I am not my Lord. That's my Lord,"
pointing to Mr. Baron Alderson, who was trying the
cause ; on which his Lordship added, " lie is speaking
prophetically, Mr. Cresswell." It is somewhat singular
that Mr. Cresswell should so soon afterwards be entitled
to be addressed " My Lord."
M. Mehus, the banker and brother of the Director
of the Bank of Brussels, is arrived in Paris (says the
Constitutionnel), for the purpose of founding a project for
a railroad from Paris to Brussels on solid bases, and so.
that it may bearried into immediate oxecution.
SAGACIOUS AND HUMANE OFFICIAL.—A boy in
Indiana was recently arrested for robbing the mail.
While he was in prison, the Sheriff entered the room,
and levelled a pistol at his head, threatening him %ith
instant death if he did not confess the crime. The boy
thought that confession was
.better than death, so he
pulled the money out of the lining of his cap, and gave
.at up. The next day the boy was seized with epilepsey,
and will probably never recover.
A petition has been agreed to by the seed growers
of Coggeshall against the alteration of the duty on
foreign seeds.—Essex Herald.

PORTUGAL.
COSTA CABRAL HERO OF THE LATE PORTU-
GUESE REVOLUTION, BY WHICH THE CHAR-
TER REPLACED THE CONSTITUTION.
His Excellency Bernardo Antonio da Costa Cabral was born
at Villa d'Algodres, of very low origin, and took his degree at
the University of Coimbra. In 1828 he was at Oporto when
the revolt broke out against Don Miguel, and the unfortunate
result of that affair drove its authors from their native land,
and with them Costa Cabral. He emigrated to France, whence
he arrived at Oporto, forming part of Doe Pedro's expedition.
As soon as the civil war was at an end; he was appointed by
Silva Carvalho (then Minister of Finance) to the post of Ma-
gistrate in the Azores, and ultimately was elected Deputy to
the last Chartist Chamber which was dissolved in 1836.
In 1837 he sat in the Constituent Congress as a Deputy, and
gave his adhesion to the party which supported the revolution
and the Passoz Ministry, which he abandoned, as being too
moderate for him.

In July, 1837, a part of the 4th Regiment of Chasseurs, pro-
claimed the Constitutional Charter of 1826 in the village of
Barrea, and in the month following Marshals Saldana and Fer-
reir also declared themselves for the same charter in the village
of Loriez ' • but not being sufficiently supported, they were
obliged to fall bat k upon Villa Franca.
On the 22d of August, the Constitutional Congress pub-
lished a manifesto against the Chartist revolt, and the Deputy,
Costa Cabral, who had so lattO declare d himself in favour of
the Charter of 1826, signed the manifesto against the Chartists.
General Bomfim was sent against the insurgents, and then
Costa Cabral, doubtless wishing to see revived the good old
days of the French Na ional Convention, offered to accompany
the Septembrist army which was going to defend the constitu-
tion of 1838. In his manifesto, dated Oporto, Jan. 27, 1842,
Costa Cabral declares that this same constitution did not pos-
sess the sympathies of any political party whatsoever.
By dint of Costa Cabral's exertions the Chartists were de-
feated at the plains of Feira. They then proposed an armis-
tice, and accordingly a meeting of the Cioniimissienerse ap-
pointed by the two parties, took place on the 30th of August,
at Alzuburrota, in order if possible to make arrangements for
the termination of the civil war. The Commissioners who
represented the Marquis toaldanha, proposed " that the consti-
tutional charier of the monarchy, accepted and sworn to by the
nation in 1826, should I.a proclaimed, and that the Cortes con-
voked by the terms of the same charter, should be authorised
to make the necessary refo. ma." Costa Cabral, as Commis-
sioner representing the September revolution, replied, " that
no alteration should be made in the constitution of 1838, -ex-
cepting such act should emanate from the constitutional Con-
gress."

Hostilities recommenced on the 18th of September, on the
plains of Reivaez, hen the Chartist army laid down their arms,
and accepted the conditions dictated by the Viscount Das
Antas.

Costa Cabral thus crushed the Chartist revolution, and on
arriving at Lisbon he became the idol of the patriots, who
placed implicit confidence in his promises. In the Clamber he
became a violent democrat, declaring that the September revo-
lution was iu danger of being betrayed, and at length became
the po.iular speaker of this day. Without the walls of the
Chamlier he let loose his thunder upon the moderate party,
and went about the cafes, excititv every one to revolt, until at
length the Ministry had the weakness to appoint him to the
post of Civil Administrator of Lisbon,
General tiernlim, who was the Minister of War, had pre-
sented to the Queen a list containing the names of officers who
deserved promotion for their good conduct displiyed on severed
occasions against the Chartists. To this her Majesty refused
her sanction. The battalion at the Arsenal became incensed
at this refusal, and assumed a hostile character, but being
obliged to desist from thi-ir pretensions, they were disbanded
ror this breach of discipline.
On the 13th of llla, ch a portion of the National Guard fol-
lowed in the wake of the battalion at the Ars nal, and a skir-
-1 ish took place in the streets of Lisbon, between the troops of
the line and the National Guards. Several were killed, and a
great many wounded on both sides, but order was at length,
with some difficulty, re-established.
Another emeute to..k place in the month of June, and the
7th, Bth, 14th, 15th, and 17th battalions of the National Guards
were accordingly disbanded. All these r‘ volts had been previ-
ously organized in the masonic clubs by Costa Cabral. He
was the author of all these disorders, as well as of those of
Mach 13, as his object was first to compromise the National
Guards, and then to get them out of his way effectually, by
causing them to be disbanded.
The Extraordinary Cortes opened in December, and Costa
Cabral took his place as a Member, having resigned his post of
Genet al Adminitti at or at Lisbon. Iris position in the Chamber
was exeessivel) equivocal, as he found himself obliged to fight
single hand, d against the attacks of all parties. Things went
on this way until Nov tuber, 1839.
The Saborosa Ministry being completely undermined by ins
tiigues, was compelled to give way, and the Fonseca Magalhaes
Ministry imm, diateiy replaced it. Costa Cabral obtained the
portfolio of Minister of Justice. His first act was to rid him-
self of his old colleague the Count de Bouafim, who was then
Minister of War. lie substituted in his place the Count de
Villa Real, as he found himself continually thwarted in a.l his
projects by the presence of honest and honourable men. lie
nest enlisted in his service all the officers who had been dis-
tnissed by the Convention of September Is, 1137. With this
band of malcontents he inundated the country, filling it with
mischievous secret societies, by which means the army was
corrupted. and a train laid for the events of January last ; and
on the '2lst of that month, without having ever resigned his
post in the town of Oporto, supported by his bayonets, he pro-
claimed the Charter of 1826.

For some time previous to these events, Costa Cabral had
been the in .itispring, the life and soul, of the Ministry. Ile
was all and every thing; but his ambition was not yet gratified.
There was a power still above him upon the throne—he as-
pired to be Dictator. To obtain this post he knifew he must
play most foully—he must stir up the raging billows of revolu-
tion over his country. But he was not a man to stick at trifles.
The Minister of the Crown, who had sworn to serve faithfully
and to protect his Sovereign, abandoned her—put weapons
into the hands of her own soldiers to fight against her. She
resiited ; but in order to save the effusion of blood, she deter-
mined to make a noble sacrifice, and allow herself to be crushed
by the traitorous rebel. Even at the last moment the daugh-
ter of Don Pedro addressed these words to the traitor Minis-
ter :—" Were my august father still alive, he would have re-
fused to listen to traitorous propositions, supported by corrupted
and misguided troops lie would have displayed the same
fig mness which be manifested under similar circumstances at
a memorable period of his life. I will never yield to the
abusivs exigencies of auy party, and I cannot but consider
as such pretensions which are founded in fraud and dis-
order, and supported by violence. I can never recognise as
true friends to the it Sovere gn those who attempt to die •
tate to her ; and 1 am therefore determined to resist your
pretensions :o support the dignity of my Crown, and to re-
fuse my adhesion to aught that may compromise the esta-
blished order of things." The voice of the Sovereign was
however, unheeded amidst the din of rebellion, and the traitors
triumphed. It is in vain that Costa Cabral attempts to justify
himself—none of his protestations can be listened to ; his pro-
' mises are sneered at, and, traitor to all parties, he is detested,
mistrusted, and despised by all abodes of political parties.
Even the Janissaries, who have raised him to his present bad
eminence, will find themsAves kicked off, laid aside, and be-
trayed, as soon as he has no longer any occasion for their venal
services. Who would have thought, in 1833, that the noble
blood which was then abed under the walls of Oporto, would
have prepared the way for another revolution? We fear not
for the people—a people cannot be easily wiped away from the
face of the eartl•—but we cannot repress our fears for the
safety of the Throne, for the daughter of the Duke of Bra-
ganca, who is now compelled in her palace to receive the
peremptory orders of a plebian dictator, who, on the pia self
Teira, wantonly shed the blood of the noble defenders of
the 1826 charter, tie self-same identical charter which he
has lately dared to bind himself with the solemnity of an
oath. The page of history may be turned over in vans
to find so flagrant an instance of atrocit3. Surrounded b 3 his
mercenary troops, Costa Cabral compels the Queen of Portugal
to swear to a cede, the pages of which have all been dictated
by him. A re-action here is inevitable--it must sooner or
latter take place, as all that is brave, noble, and loyal 'in the
land detest and de.pise the traitor, who has in his turn con-
scientiously betrayed every party who had confided in his pro-
mises, and lent him their support. The greatest insult you
car heap upon a man in Lisbon at present is to accuse him of
being a friend of Costa Cabral's. His only present supporters
are his mercenary soldiers, and their support is ever open to
the highest bidd-r. They have lately proclaimed liberty and
absolution, and to-morrow they would declare for the Grand
Turk, if they were well paid for their trouble. He has just
purchased the services of the Baron de Santa Maria, by the
grand cordon of the order of Christ, but we hear that this
brave soldier is still standing out for something more, in the
hope that he may exact better terms.

FASHIONABLE IN TE LLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Dowager Duchess of Beaufort and Sir Walter and
Lady Mary Farquhar, in Grosvenor- street, from Brighton;
Lady James Bay and the Hon. Miss Hay, at Crawley's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from the North ; Sir Richard
Comyn, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from
Malta ; the Earl of Munster and the Hon. Frederick
Fitzclarence, at the Grosvenor Hotel, Cork-street, from
the Continent ; M. Fox,. Talbot, Esq., at Lady Eliza-
beth Fielding's, Sackville-street, from Lacock Abbey,
C.:ippenham ; Lord James Browne, at the Marquis of
Sligo's, Mansfield-street, from Westport House, Sligo ;
Sir Walter and the Hon. Lady Stirling and family, at
Lord Strafford's, in Portman-square; Mr. and Mrs. Der—
ing, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, from Brighton..
DEPARTURES.

The Hon. G. li. • Ciii'efidish and Lady Louisa, on az
visit to Lord and.- Lady Waterpark, Doveridge
Derbyshire ; Mr. Ffolliott, M.P., for Wood Park, Kings-
town ; Captain Villiers Hutton, M.P., for Dublin ; the
Dowavr Countess of Belmore and Captain Corry, R.N.,
on a visit to the Earl of Belmore, at Castle Coolo ; Mr.
Hutt, 11. P., for Gibside Castle, near Durham ; lion.
Grantley Berkeley, M.P., on a Nish to Earl Fitzhar-
dingo; at Berkeley Castle ; Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt, for
Waterloo-crescent, Dover ; Lord Lovairie, on a visit to
Mr. and Lady Emily Drummond, at Tite House, Den--
ham, Bucks ; Mynors Baskerville, Esq., M.P., from Cw
Burlington Hotel Cork-street, for his seat in Heref
'aarii-
shire • J. S. Leigh, Esq. (Mayor of Liverpool), from
ditto, for Liverpool ; Lord and Lady llosebery and the
Ladies Primrose, for Warren Wood, Herts, forlie recess.

CHICKASAW MURDERS.- The Eagle, published at
Fort Pickering, states that a serious rupture occurred
near Fort Towson, at the trading establishment of.
Colonel Felix Lewis, and of 1)e Soto, between ,Lire
Chickasaws and Colonel Lewis and one or two c'Awks_
A misunderstanding occurring between some of the.
thiels and Colonel Lewis, respecting some AUssissippi
land claims, Colonel Lewis was attacked anti wounded,
and his clerk interfering, was killed, and the goods and
trading-house, strewn to the winds. Colonel Lewis not
having since been heard from, it is feared was seized and
despatched by the Indians.
FIRE IN PORTLAND.-•-:WC learn from the Ecuteew
Argus; that On Monday night a fire broke ont in lt ,co_
street, in a building occupied by L. Stowell as a gricery,.
and destroyed goods to the amount of, 6,000 or 17,000,
and building, valued at 12,000 ; also the books,ot Frost,.
Waterhouse, and Co., who previously occupiathe build-
ing. The goods and building were insure,.'
DicKENs.---This gentle Man arrived in Phi-
ladelphia on Sunday afternoon, and has taken lodgings
at the United States Hotel.

As a Polish refugee officer was, two days agorr
passing across the Rue des FrondeUrs, 1w was, throuch,
the carelessness of the driver, knocked down by the pole.
of a carriage, and received so seTcre an internal iniumy•
that the blood gushed from his mouth, besides having
his right foot crushed. He was carrid to his Aesidence.
No. 20, Rue de la Miehodicre, in as alarming state.
The bearskin caps now worn by the Household
Brigade are to be discontinued, and helmets substituted
in their place ; the helmets are to be made of German
d
-
silver ; those of the Ist and Life Guards are to he
distinguished by a white plume of horse-hair placed ix:
the socket in the centre of the skull ; and those of the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, by a red plume. They
are to be e orn for thz: first time on her Majesty's bktbday