The Sun. — 1840-05-02 (London, England)

NEWS FROU PORTUGAL.  ( From a S'cond Edition of the Morning Post.) LIsUON, APRIL 23, FoUR P.M. The departure for England of the steam ship United Kingdom, last from Gib:altar, in three days, affords me the °ppm turrity ofaddreas;ng 3ou. The Tagus landed the London ruin! of the 18( h at Oporto, at 7 a.m. this morning, so that we may expect her here by daylight to-morrow. The opposition of the majority of the Chartist party to the existing Administration continues to develop itself. Letters received from Oporto yesterday describe the discipline among the troops of that garrison as absolutely impaired, and the arrival of Count das Antas, to assume the military command, has been hailed as a blessing. Th Gallant Count had hardly arrived in time to prevent some disgraceful scene cf riot and attempt at murder; the son of General Schaulbaek and two other office's, having escaped with their lives, but very badly wounded by others of their colleagues of the Municipal Guard.! assisted by many rioters. Eighty arrobas, say 2.5601b5. of gunpowder had been captured by the police in the very act of being clandestinely introduced into the town of Avein, where, as well as in other places, forge portions are supposed to be concealed. A disagreeable occurrence took place the other morning in one of our principal streets, between Captain Ximiner, a gallant A. D. C. of Marshal Saldanha, during the late civil war, and the Deputy for Angola, M. Meneses, preprietor and editor of the " Paquete de Ultramer," in c-n-quence of a paragraph in said journal which censured the Marshal's appointment as first A. D.C. of the King, Don Fernando, tie Queen a consort. Blows were exchanged, and the Hon. Deputy had the worst of it. We have received accounts from Angola to the 29th January, stating that the Portuguese corvette Urania, under the command of Captain Amanal, a gallant onearm officer, had captured on the 18th, at the very mouth of the river, the Brazilian brig, under Portuguese colours, Nymphia, belonging to A. P. Corton Sarnion, of Rio Janeiro, while in the act of receiving from nine large boats 268 slaves, which had been safely lodged in the castle of St. Michail : the number of slaves lately rescued in this manner by the Portuguese cruz-rs, amounted to 932, which were all at Angola The Isabel Maria corv,.tte had arrived on the 17th January from Benguela. Considerable discontent prevailed in the colony. The following is said to be the census of the continent of Portugal tor 1831, viz.—there were 827,947 dwellings, with 3,334,747 inhabitants, of whom 513,017 were under seven yeas of age—the births had beer. 99,097, the marriages 23 598, and the deaths 67.541. The religious feelinns acid projudices of the Lisbon inhabitants were put to the leq on I ist Saturday, being the last day in Lent, by the Dot Carlos Trwarre's be rig c averted into a masqu-rade f,r theevening. It was likewise on that d,.% that a resoce'abl" British resident here abandoned the doetrinrs or the Church of kngland and embraced those of Rom,, an event which has caused some sensation lire. The ste,m frigate Cyclops, from Pik mouth, with Lady Charlotte ilei keley and other pasietigc Is on armed the 15tti. and oroceeden on the 17th. Gretrat.raa.—The Orrto steamer, in i"4B h irs f..em arrived on the 18th. boa. (1