The Sun. — 1841-03-01 (London, England)

PORTUGAL. LISBON, FEB. 22.-1 he debates in the Cortes this wee:_ have born of very little interest. The discussion on the AT__„ rican Treaty has not come on. The question of contirciurt: the national battalions remains also undecided. The G° ; , ment project on the subject was referred to the War Coled tee, who will report in favour of it, and it seems elf°. s; that it wi.l pass with, perhaps, some slight mod The Ministerial question still remains in static quo, the It cant places being not yet filled up, and no immediate prcsPne-e apparently of a definite arrangement taking place. Saner ' Aguillar, the new Spanish Minister here, intends procee t• from Madrid to Lisbon by way of the Douro and Orrooroi That part of the country, as well as this, has suffered g deal from inundations. he weather bete is now one •, the chief seat of the jaw:. dations of the Tagus was abort Vallada, three leagues airdVilla Nova, and eight fr,,m Lisbon. The large tract of slyer on the south bank of the Tagus, called the Lezirias, been entirely under water, and its appearance from I, a Nova, two or three days back, was miserable cut:o4l;4 score of houses in different parts being almost the araY,,,tonts perceptible above the water. Gt eatly exaggerated ae‘" nee had reached Lisbon of the state of the country in coniaque"ed of the rains. Various subscriptions have been set on fa11,'.14.d &oil° the Marquis of Fa3al, who has estates near Vallada, f°"°'-ith the example of the Government by sending a steamer slded sum lies for the sufferers in that quarter. 'I he Queens ugFeibuher balls, andsent three contos of reis (7501.) as her cant° tion to the relief fund. „,,buro' On Friday last, Diogo Alves and Antonio Martins ticm—Ths' the two principal parties connected with the murder at Ce; Andrade's, a year and a half age, were hung at the usual P 7,0, • of execution at the Cars de Tojo, after the wual previous Pof cession from the prison, and through the city. mother: ,0 • their companions, called the " Enterriador," wai Oracle:1o; , suffer with them ; but his confessions, having verj3 tributed to make the case clear against jOg° nuera and the rest, his sentence was commuted by the " The for that, of transportation to Africa for life• d Kos woman Gertrudes, who lived with Diogo Alves an .0,11 acquainted with all the proceedings of the Ptegi, ecer also be banished to Africa for life. Diogo Alves did not hoe fess his crime till the very last moment, and is said t° offered violence to the priest who visited him in prison t°lovg duce him to confess. His companion confessed every' hing in before. It appears that both these persons were concernet; to the murder and robbery at Mr. O'Neill's, where, in erdeosa get into the house, they actually sent to Galicia for 6 opt called Joao do Alho, who had some time back been IV°. 01there, and mede him the instrument of their plans. I‘l°,oe diers who had belonged to the same gang were executed ssd $ months back, and the bringing these men to justice has h very beneficial effect here. The guerillas in the Algarve are again on the increase 'ee., gang a few days since, lying in ambush, attacked a fiYinileiret lumn of 20 of the Queen's troops, killing a Lieutenant ; ca. of the sth Cacadores ; after which they entered Cassor`Aelr chopo, and Martin Longo, and obliged the respective tic inents to retire within their small forts. Chl° Two overseers of the parishes of Andreas andV ,po $ have been assassinated, the latter while in the act of 'els' ° • recruit, who transfixed him with a javelin. 741911C' MR.