The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-12 00:00:00

PORTUGAL

(Par Tartar, aid Southampton.)
LISBON, SIFT. 7.
The works throughout the city to fête tho arrival
of the future Queen are rapid'y progressing.

Triumphal arches are erected in the principal
streets.

The King and court are residing at the Palace
of Mafra.

At a special sitting of the Cortes, a deputation
has been appointed to wait upon the King, to ex-
press the sentiments of satisfaction with which they
regard his alliance with the Princess Maria of
Savoy.
News from the Azores states that the recent
tumults there had subsided.

The intelligence received from Angola is not
satisfactory.
Business here is dull. The late arrivals of grain
have not met a market, some of last year's stock
being still on hand. Money scarce.
Exchange ou London, 90 days, 5411 ; Rentes, 46J
Coupon ditto, 46.

SOUTHAMPTON, Sim 12.

The Tartar, from Lisbon on the 7th inst., has
arrived. She brings 23 passengers and 3,152
packages of cargo, consisting principally of fruit.
The Tartar experienced head winds along the
Portuguese coast, and across the Bay of Biscay.
At 11 a.m. on the 9th inst., 2&i miles north-east of
Usbant, she passed the steamer Murillo, of Glasgow,
bouLd north-east, labouring heavily, with her top-
mast carried away. The sea was too high to admit
of speaking.

THE PRINCE OF WALES AT BRITSF3ELS.
BRUSSELS, itrxr. 11.

The Prince of Walee and the Princes and
Princesses of Denmark, with their suite, visited
the held of Waterloo yesterday, and inspected the
ruins of the Abbey of Villers to-day.

We are informed that at the urgent request of
several English friends of Italy, a surgeon of emi-
nence (Professor Partridge) has left London for
Variglano to offer his professional assistance to
General Garibaldi.
THE BHLTWELS SOCIAL SCILNCE Copmaisis.—The
Brussels meeting of the International Social Science Aso-
ciatioo, which is to take place on the 22nd instant, pro-
mises to be a complete success, 800 member from different
' countries being already inscribed to take part is the pro-
ceedings. From what was said by Lord Brougham at the
Social Science Congress in Landon, it is confidently anticipa-
ted that he will attend at Briniele, where his presence
is looked forward to with the most lively interest. Great
preparations are being made for the reception of the
numerous foreigners expected to attend the meeting, for the
of which the government has appropriated the
purposesu Palace, formerly the residence of the Prince of Orange.
On Hooday.the 22nd, the Circle des Arts will offer the mem-
bers a splendid fitte in their beautiful building on the
Grand Place, called la Maiaon du Roi ; and on Wednesday,
the 24th, the city of Brussels will give • magnificent enter-
tainment in the Hotel do Ville, when the whole of that
noble example of Gothic architecture will be thrown open.
The proceedings will be wound up on the following evening
by a grand banquet, also to be Riven at the Hotel de Ville.
The experience of M. Gorr Vandermaeren in similar organi-
sations, of which those who visited Brussels in September,
1856, have • lively recollection, is a guarantee for the suc-
cessful carrying out of the pmeramme, io which recreation
and opportunities of fraternisation are judiciously blended
with the more serious objects of the congress.
WHAT BECO3IFR OF ALL THE PINS I—Any of our
male readers sufficiently domesticated to feel interested in
the solution of this mystery may satisfy their curiosity and
become martyrs to discovery by visiting a sewer which has
just been opened for repairs in Res-street The sewer is
one of the oldest in Birminghem. At the bottom of it
there is • deposit as hard as the " slag" from a blast
furnace ; and in this deposit millions of pins are imbedded.
A piece about the sise of a man's fist picked up at random
on Wednesday fairly bristled with them, and this was but a
specimen of a great mew of such matter. In another way,
too, the deposit is • minority, for, independently of the
pins, it encloses • heterogeneous collection of old pocket
knives, marbles, buttons, and other articles of the kind,
that were probably wept over as lost when the "oldest in-
habitant" was being whipped at wheel To persons of an
investigating tarn of need, sot gifted with too acute
olfactory nerves, • posed or two of the deposit will &Hord
an hours harmless asnamemeat --Bieniphas Poet.