The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-24 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1862.

PORTUGAL.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, Yawn 22.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship
Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the Peninsular
mails, has arrived. She brings nine passengers,
seven packages specie, value 3,0001.; also 730
boxes oranges, 341 cases eggs, one package precious
stones, and eight packages sundries. During her
passage sbe encountered, from Lisbon to Vigo,
strong south-east winds, thence to Unbent strong
south-west to south-east gales and high sew, and
up the Channel heavy north-east winds and
head sea.
Her Majesty's ship Investigator has sailed for
the coast of Africa.

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The Royal Mail Company's steamer Magdalena,
with the English mails of the 9th, sailed on the
15th inst. for therßresils at 7 a.m.
(mom oos ow' ooamaromniar.)

LISBON, 11Asca 17.

The late modification of the ministry has not
giVen general satisfaction? and political quidnunc'
call the meant the Carnival cabinet, and expect
it will disappear during Lent. The voting in the
Cortes on the first project of law of any moment
introduced by the new minister—that of the imp-
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little room for hoße that the Marquis de
Loahl can count upon a majority in the Deputies ;
and, certainly, in the Chamber of Peers his chances
of influence are very slender. Political matters are in
• very embroiled state, and it is quite impossible to
indict the turn which affairs will take. There
one thing certain, that the present cabinet
ave not the confidence either of the people or the
Cortes, and that they are considered a ministry of
transition, to pave the way for others. We do not
suppose that the Cortee are opposed to the law re-
specting the religions establishments, but the oppo-
sition choose to make political capital of it, and
there the question lies in a nutshelL
The King Dom Luiz is now residing at the
Palace of Pedroncos, and has several times shown
himself in an open carriage in the streets of Lisbon;
be appears to be in capital health and spirits. His
brother, Dom Augusto, is said to be sadly shattered
by hisyrotracted attack of fever, and his physicians
recommend a sojourn in a milder climate—at any
rate, a change of air.
Therecent voyage of the Portuguese sailing vessel
Alipetbe, from London, has put in a strong
light the iniquitous and injurious results
of the laws of differential duty which
the Portuguese government so absurdly
per-
sist in maintaining in all their integrity. The
Alipede was loaded with tea for Lisbon some six
months ago, and it was only the other day she
turned up here, after having put into almost every
port in the south of England ; appearing with •
damaged cargo, and • large average to be paid on
the nail ; for it is notorious that these Portuguese
vessels are always ill found, and always get a new
it out of sails and spars at the cost of the oon-
signees. There are few merchants in the City of
London who will not endorse these statements, and
yet such matters go on, and the Alipede makes her
voyage, and collects her average, and other Portu-
guese bottoms after her will do the same. These
transactions are called considellas in good Portu-
guese ; but what are Earl Russell and lir Arthur
Magenis doing ? I suppose they wish to leave the
broad principles of free trade to the common sense
of the Portuguese government, and trust they will
adopt them in time. The Greek Kalends will come
and go often enough before that auspicious event
takes place.
COMMlzur? AL DITELLIGENCE.
The weans' ...tame wet and stormy, and the winter
has been anumelly severe. Tads still continue dull in
Lisbon, and money is scares. There is great difficulty expo-
rienad in effecting salts, and the country trade has been
paralysed by the continua's of bad weather.
Exchange on London, at thus mouths, is quoted 531
Paris, 530; Hamburg, 47.75; Amsterdam, 4860;
_Genoa,
528. Renter, Three pre Oat., 461 ; Coupons, 46f ; De-
ferred, 431 ; Lisboa Bank, 666 ; Oporto Commer-
cial Bank, 262 ; and Oporto Manantile Bank, 252 militia.

SINNING OP A AUSSIAN MANIA AND SUP-

POSED LOSS OP ALL ON BOARD.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

A telegram received this morning from Constan-
tinople announces • collision between • British and a Rus-
sian steamer. and the total loss, it is feared, of all on board
the Russian boat. The despatch is dated March 21st, and
states that the screw steam ship Laconia, bound from
Liverpool to Constantinople, bad arrived at the latter port
in • most disabled condition, she having her bow stove in
and other damage to her bulwarks and rigging. Captain
Harem, of the Laconia, states that his vessel was in contact
with a Russian steamer, supposed to be the Band* bound
for Salonica, whichaank immediately after the collision.
Many lives were lost. The telegram is vague, and leaves
room for people to suppose that all on board the Russian
ship perished.
The following telegram has been received through Mr.
Reuter's office :

" CONSTANTINOPLE, 11AEcs 21, Emma.

" A collision took plum last night in the Sea of
Marmots, between the Liverpool steamer Laconia and the
Russian steamer Colchis. The latter sunk. Fifty-two lives
were lost."

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A special Court of
Aldermen was convened on Saturday, to receive the return
of the election of an alderman for the ward of Castle Bay-
nerd, in the room of Sir Henry Mnggeridge, Bart., resigned.
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided. The minutes of
the proceedings of the last court were read and agreed to,
after which Mr. Orton, the attorney in waiting of the
Lord Mayor's Court, read the report of the election on the
13th hot., which declared Sills John Gibbons, Eeq., citizen
and salter, to have been duly elected as • fit and proper per-
son to fill the vacant office lately occupied by Sir Beau
Muggeridge, as alderman of the ward of Castle Rayner&
The report having been read, Mr. Gibbons was led into the
court by the mama crier, accompanied by Mr. James
Smith. The new adoring.; having taken the necessary
oaths, received the hearty congratulations of each member
of the court.

w..IIII37IEPRMENTATION OF KIN:ULM—A rumour
is current that Sir Jobs Arnett is about to resign his seat
in parliament for Meade, and that the Attorney-General
is likely to solicit the votes of the eoestitnency. The Irish
government is now without a law officer in the house, and
they find it next to impossible to find a safe election for
one of their officials, and of cause an opening at Simile for
the Attorney-General would be gladly availed of.—Cork
Herald.
MEMORIAL STONE TO THE LATE MR. BRAIDWOOD.
—The ceremony of uncovering the memorial stone erected
by the M division of police to the memory of the late
Superintendent of the London Fire Brigade in the west
wall of the chief entrance to Mr. Sowell's Wharf, Tuley.
street, Borough, took place on Saturday afternoon, in the
memo, of a large number of the friends of the demised.
On the stone being uncovered the Rev. Dr. Cumming de-
livered s warm eulogium on Mr. Braidwood. The stone Ma-
ogee the fact that it was near that spot Mr. Braidwood war
killed, in the execution of his duty, eels great fire on the
22nd Jule, 1861.
' Aronswoassis'-HALL —The following gentlemen
gparreeedd their examination in the science and practice of me-
nd received certificates to practise, on Thursday
last :—Henry Hicks, St. David's, Pembrokeshire ; Edward
Marls Barnes, Stradbrook, Suffolk ; John Brown, Old-
bury, Worcestershire ,• William Holman Barbey, London
Hoasppiital ; Edward Bodolphua Hodgkinsou, Calcutta; George
F ;•tric.k Leigh, Hyde, Manchester.
ROYAL RECOGNITION OF MEDICAL SCTENCL—..
The members of the medical profession will be glad to learn
that the King of Sweden has been pleased to wafer upon
Mr. R. Wilde, of Dublin, rumen ocean in ordinsry to
her Majesty, and Mee president of the Royal Irish Academy,
the Order Of the Pole Star.
During the time a party of convicts were em-
cteat Chatham Deekrul as Saturday afternoon in
Ing no cam of the slid Meek of war now beim
taken to SOON near IR. Mary's Creek, three desperate
aharaders, named Jobe
11:71 titanic, Loseaa, Robert Har-
die* Beres, end J Jena% alias Rothwiii, oar
Ito effect their mope a may &ring manner by
Pimples into a beak wee lying due to the eimile,
;In which they semi the river. Berm% however, they
had reesbed the comae deb dais owe was esernered,
I ead they Wire given dam to, and rem. ed es they were
meklag meet. eanwley.