The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-13 00:00:00

tombined operation of the taritfwould be aredu•_ltion in
- - c.a't of living-equal to the three per cent. taken
• by the income-tax. He would- ventitie to say that
the measures which had been iiassed during the pre-
sent year, though they were opposed by some of the
shipping interest, would be more beneficial to that
ve7 interest than any that had been passed for the
list fifty years. With respect to the article
oil, -about- which some- - fears had been
:.'TfxPrestecl: those engaged in the trade, the
effect tif:the 'tariff had been a saving of 8691. in the
--udventure of -one -ship. With respect to timber,
`' tbtsugh sortie- building contracts had been postponed
-1 it the last two Months,' in consequence of the altera-
notcotaing- immediately into operation, he had
been - told there would be a very. considerable
_saving .• on -a single building. ft was neces,
- sery • he • should use the utmost caution in
'flaking assurances which he might not be able to
•• realise. He had not the slightest doubt that if he
• Issued ]l.-notes, made a large issue of paper, and en-
- uraged hankers to take the same course, the conse-
quenee 'would he a temporary prosperity, but it would
• he a delusive one also.
THE PROROGATION.
L Here the Usher of the Black Rod advanced to the
tlble, and summoned the House to the House of
Lords, to hear the Queen's Speech.
The Speaker, accompanied by several Members,
immediately proceeded to the House of Lords, and
after a short absence returned, and announced that
the House had been to the House of Lords to hear
her Majesty's Speech from the Throne—(for which see
i. Lords' report). The House then rose.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
PARIS, AUG. 11.—The Bureau have choien the fol-
t, lowing members to form the Commission of the Re-
gency Bill :—Dufaure, Lacrosse, Thil, Hebert, Gil-
lot], Salvandy, Sebastiani, Dupin, Lawrence, being
two of semi-Opposition, the rest Ministerial. The
Commission on the Enquete concerning the elections
Is not so evenly balanced ; there are on it four Oppo-
t,, sition Members—Barrot, Courcelles, Beaumont, and
another ; five are Conservatives.
The Chamber did not commence the discussion of
the Address till a late hour, being occupied in the
Bureaux with the Regency Law. M. Thiers declared
• himself entirely for the Bill as it stood; some objected
to its being too general.
'• All the Paris journals of Thursday condann the
project of the Address as far too poetic and ill-written.
Nevertheless, the first four paragraphs of the Ad-
dress were put to the vote and adopted.
Three per Cents., 78E 55c.

PORTUuAL.
Advices from Lisbon to the 2d inst. have been re-
ceived, by the Alban Government steamer (from the
coast of Africa and Madeira), which left the Tagus
two days later than the regular packet. The Cham-
bers had been finally constituted on the previous day,
her Most Faithful Majesty having selected (as previ-
ously announced) Senor Gorjao, from amongst the
five candidates whose -names were sent up by the
neputies, for the Presidency of the Lower Chamber.
Gorjao stood first on the list. The Miouelite Albano
had the next highest number of votes. Padre Marcos,
the Queen's Almoner, stood low on the list. Another
ecclesiastic, the Bishop of Malacca, received a few
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totes for the post of one of the Secretaries, but was
not successful.

A new commercial treaty with Brazil was likely
to be very speedily on the tapis. The late French
Ambassador, M. de Varennes, was also expected at
.the French Ambassy, to resume very speedily the
post which he was supposed to have finally vacated.
£he Lynx, her Ma esty's brig of war, had removed
temporarily from the Tagus to Gibraltar for the
Purpose of provisioning. The Don Pedro, Portu-
tuese frigate, had proceeded to the colonies. Joso
.stevao, the noted Septembrist le-ider, and a con-
..hadta on the Opposition side in the Cortes,
been posted in the .Diarie " a slanderer, a
Man of base passions, and unconscious of the feelings
of a gentleman."
Senor Aguilar, the Spanish Ambassador, just
arrived from Madrid, has had an audience of the
Puke of Terceira, in which he unfolded in his official
Pacity the various complaints of the Spanish Go-
4,,svernmeat against the Portuguese. These had refe-
'7, I,,enee to the incursions of bandits from the Portuguese
"61 the. Spanish territory, to the employment of two
allegos some months since at Oporto to assist in the
execution of a man named Magalhaes, and to the removal
31 all depots of British manufactured goods from the
frontier towns. The answers upon the first two points
Were so satisfactory that even the most unprincipled
-• hostility could scarcely insist further upon them. As
announced to us two days previously, the offending
band had been cut to pieces at Castello Branco by the
Portuguese authorities. The Gallages at Oporto
Were proved to have been free agents, and a further
Pecuniary compensation was offered, while, with re-
gard to the third point, the pretension was so mon-
strous that it could not be for an instant sustained.