The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The Capuchins, who have been expelled from tho
canton of Ticino, have petitioned the Grand Council
to be re-instatcd in their convent; and the muni•
cipality of Avegno has also petitioned for their
return.

TIIE PENINSULAR MAILS'
SOUTHAMPTON, Tusonsnsio NiG 111.
Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's stc4rn.
packet Tagus, Captain Itussell, has arrived here, with
the usual mails. Her dates are: Gibraltar, lite. Li;
Cadiz, 17th; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto and Vigo, 20th.
She brings 43 passengers, specie value 2,41/, sad
on freight 1,200 half chests of oranges, 1.50 boxes of
raisins, 116 barrels of dates, 160 casts of tggs, and t 3
packages of general merchandise.
According to Lisbon letters of the 19th in:
stant, the elections hate been generally (*lronic
able to the governinuit candidates and ad:
verse to the ultra-l'rogres,istua and ultra-Car.
list" who formerly acted in concert with Count
Thomar, but can no longer be fairly designated
" Cabralistas," as the Count fruitlessly counselled
them to take no pains in these elections,und did not
himself interfere in them. The Minister of Finance,
M. Fontes, had been returned for Lisbon, Oporto,
and several other places; the brothers Cabral had
not been returned, neither M. Jose Passes nor other
chiefs of the ultra-Progresista fraction ;hut the large
number of the moderate part of that party, elected
as government candidates, is not calculated to alto*
the ministers to luxuriate in a bed of roses when the
Cortes meet.

A telegraphic despatch from Paris had certified to
he Portuguese government the arbitration of the
French government in favour of Portugal, and
against the United States, on the question of the
General Armstrong claim, consequent upon its des-
truction at Fayal in 1814.
Admiral Corry had been joined on the 11th by the
Vengeance, Phseton, and Fury, from Gibraltar, and
on the morning of the 19th got out with those vessels,
as also with the Prince Regent, Rodney, and Terms-
grant, for Portsmouth, after being delayed in the bay
below Belem four days by bad weather and an unsate

Two French steamers were in the Tegras when the
packet left, as also the Sanspareil and Inflexible
steamers, Captain Hums having received un admi-
ralty order to winter in Li4bm, were it was said a
French fleet would soon appear.
The Lisbon exchanges fur three months' bi!la
are quoted by this mail at 541 on London, with
a scarcity. of money, the Board of Public Credit
being principally taken, and having remitted
10,0001. on divident account. Paris was at
525 ; Amsterdam, 434. ; Hamburg, 4117. ; and Genoa,
524, with little doing upon any of those places.
Portuguese Five per Cents., 39 to 39k ; Four per
Cents., 32 to 324 ; Bank of Portugal shares, 215 to
210 milreis per share discount. These rates are is
Lisbon bank notes, discountable at 2: per cent., and
the state of the share market was dull, with few
buyers, and a :declining tendency, except for the
Oporto Bank shares, which were at 15 to 18 milreis
premium per share on metal.
Our Oporto lettere state that the elections in the
neighbouring provinces had all gone off quietly and
in favour of the government.
The British Mediterranean
.squadron, under
Admiral Dundee, comprising Britannia, the Vet.
pence, Albion, Trafalgar, -Bellerophon, Phaeton,
with the steam-frigate the Sampsoa, the Tiger, and
the Fury arrived at Gibraltar during the 7th and
Bth inst., from Malta. The Tiger and the Phaeunt
left on the 10th, and the Vengeance and the Fury
on the 11th, for the eastward.
The following British ships of war were lying it
anchor in Gibraltar Bay when the Tagus lett: The
Britannia, the Albion, theTrafalgar,the Bellerophon,
the Arethima, the Retribution, the Tiger, and the
Antelope.

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