The Sun. — 1840-08-03 (London, England)

EDITION.  ito be the great business of the Legisii;,•.!ure, Lae not yet tlilltoixe ad llobwyetdhe to sit much Constitution,lonvgizer., come. ibe before the Chamber. It is not likely tn;.! the ,`:".:ortea tthhraerretrontmhisal;;Zrlausrnioonlas that term is completed, they expect to be prorogleed till January next, and should this be the case, the estimate- 4, according to the now usual course hero, will again have tv I be voted n a lump, and the Government will perhaps ark for a vote of co2fidence, in order to raise means to pay the half d:vidend next Christmas; for after Senhor Florido's last letter to Mr. Thornton, I cannot suppose the session will be allowed i.,0 pass without At least so much being done. But as to the " permanently fixing the state of the finances," which the Deputies talk of in their address to the Throne, there seems but little chance of its being done this year. The Senators are still discussing the reply to the speech 14i46rn the throne. The relations with Spain and Brazil', have bdel discussed at great length. As to the island in. the Guadiana, Senhor R. de F. Magalhaes admitted that everything was just in the same state as when it began, the Commissioners appointed not being able to come to any conclusion. Petitions have been presented 'against the Douro Navigation Convention, not against that particular measure alone, but impugning any measure of the kind. A very long discussion took place about Brazil. Baron Tojal advised that they should not wait for treaties with Brazil so as to prevent their concluding treaties with other countries, which had a much greater capacity of to king their products. Viscount Sa attacked the duties imposed by Brazil upon Portuguese wines, and, incidentally adverting to the projected treaty between England and France, said that they ought to open negotiations with the countries liable to be af.tcted by such a treaty, viz., Sicily, the Rhine provinces, and, wove all, Spain, and get them to join in measures of reprisals agronst us, in case the treaty was carried into effL et.  Ihe Marquis de Saldanha is said to persist in holding himself aloof from either party, both the Ministry and the! opposition being desirous to secure his assistance. The; Duke of Palmella has also hitherto refused office, and seems disposed to assist in keeping things as they are for the present. Were the Duke to come in with ,Saldanha, a strong government it is thought might be formed ; but in that case Bomfin would have to retire, as it is not likely that either would serve under him. Several mectint:s have lately been held, and the Duke of Palmella gave a dinner to a large party of members which the Rev °lacer. de Septembro says was to recive the whole party ; but adds, that the ultra-Chartists, J. A. Magalhaes, Seabra, &c., have committed themselves too far to recede. Aguair has :,vidently gone over to the Government, and will perhaps come ink the Home Office, R. de F. Magalhaes keeping the Foreign office, which he now holds, ad interim. A mercenary asOssin, named Queijo, was executed at Oporto; he had been the terror of the district of Basto for two years, being wont to extort money under the threat of assassination, and u 5,74 to put any one out of the way for nine cruzados (li.). A murder was committed on ihe road to centra on Saturday night, on a young man who was proc,:eding that way on root with his dog and gun, on a sporting' expedition, and his dead body was discovered by his own father, who was following some hours after on the same road I  It is thought that the harvest here, both in corn and oil, will be found considerably under the average this year. The olives, indeed, are quite a failure in several districts ; the wine growers are expected to come off better, and there will be a good deal made this year.— Morning Chronicle.  EV EN