The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION OF THE KING OF
PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Barr. 17.
Yesterday, Dom Pedro V. assumed the sceptre
of Portugal. It seems probable that he may
rule undisturbed by the opposition of a rival
claimant. The political horizon is unchanged :
all parties are on the tester-hooks of ex-
pectation, and anxiously bend their eyes to catch
some of those forecast shadows which mark the
coming events of the new reign; but his Majesty,
although possessed of undoubted parts and opacity,
sedulously keeps his own counsels, not even admit-
tieg his father, Dom Fernando, to be the confidant of
his intentions. It is said that he has besides great
firmness sad decision of character ; and this, coupled
with as impression that be has already framed a line
of policy, causes all parties to watch the Jesus of
events with attention.

At 8 a.m. there was an extraordinary miss of
both Chambers at the Cortes, and soon dam
Pedro V., aceoinpanied by the Eing-Reheat a** tbe
royal falsity, entered. The King-Regent them U
Minneed an allocution to the swath:Ll whisk be
flitemide his Mlles to the as-
ambled Paste and Deplutruliali
The Holy Evangelists were then given to the
King by the Cardinal Patriarch of Lisbon, who was
'imported by two noble youths, and the following
forts of oath was sainiaistered--" I swear to main-
tain the catholic and apostolic religion and the in-
tegrity of the kingdom • to observe and to cause to be
maintained the political conatitation of the Ports•
pees nation, and all the other laws of the kingdom,
aad to promote the general good of the nation, as far
as in me lies." The King then addressed the
assembly, and in a long oration gave assurance of his
fealty to the terms of his oath, and that nought on
his part should be wanting to render hie reign of
benefit to his people. The royal standard was thee
unrolled, and the Patriarch, in a ism address,
congratulated his Majesty on his seemed=
to the throne, and at the end proolaimed
three times in a loud voice that Dom Pedro V. was
I become King of Portugsl. After the high officers of
the crown had made their reverences, his Majesty
and the royal cortege, brilliantly equipped and accom-
panied by the nobility and foreign ministers,
proceeded to the cathedral, where a grand Te Dews
wee anat. The cortege from the cathedral passed to
the Commercial-square, where the keys of the city
were resented to the King, in a magnificent tem-
porary pavilion, by the President of the Municipal
Chamber, which terminated the ceremonial.
All that Lisbon owns of rank and beauty wen
congregated within the old conventual walls of the
Cortes ; and when the King was proclaimed, the
air was rent by acclamations. The Commercial.
Naar* woe beautifully decorated with hundreds of
flags sad trophies. At night, when illuminated
with transparencies and jets of gas, its appearansel
was dazzling. In Idle evening the King went inl
state to the theatre of Donna Maria 11.
The glorious news of the capture of the maw..
Tower was brought by the steamer Madrid, the
Spanish overland mails being behind time. It excited
great enthusiasm among the English residents sad
many of the Portuguese, whose sympathies, with
the exception of a few of the adherents of Don
Miguel, are with the allies on this question. The
subsequent notice of the taking of the south side el
Sebastopol was communicated to the government by
the land telegraph from Madrid, and served to ea.
halm the general rejoicings of the proclamation.
The differences between the Central Penises.
lar Railway Company and Messrs. Shaw and
Waring Brothers, the contractors, are still un-
settled, the works being prosecuted under
proteet by
.the government, whose interests ap-
pear identical with those of the company. It
is, however, the general opinion that a compromise
will be made sooner or later. Messrs. Shaw and
Waring Brothers' workmen are still paid by them,
although they are without employment; it is also
said that they have carried their case to the British
chargé d'affaires and Sir R. Pakenham, and that it
will be represented to the Foreign-office without
delay. Many conflicting rumours are afloat respect-
ing the nature of the misunderstanding between the
parties.
The steam tug Sultana put in for orals, but has
again left for the East. The Minpho, screw steamer,
has arrived from Liverpool. Her Majesty's screw
steamer Sanspareil arrived on the 15th, and coaled.
She was bound south; but, as the Neptune did not
appear, she was detained by the British minister to
do the honours, in case that vessel should be delayed.
The Neptune and Rosamond however arrived yester-
day morning, and their guns added greatly to the
salvos of artillery, being clearly distinguishable.
The Rosamond leaves for Spithead this afternoon
with a mail. The others stay here a few days before
going south. The French war steamer Newton is
also hers. Her Majesty's ship St. George and the
war steamer Malacca arrived on the afternoon of the
17th instant.
Sines the arrival of the Brazil mail some paper has
been negotiated on London at 5460 days, and 64i, 90
days, at which rates money still offers. Some holders
of bills held out for 641 at 90 days; bat at this rate
nothing of any importance has been done. On the
continent the rates continue as per last packet. But
little paper is offered. The rates are : Hemburg, 3
months, 48/ ; Paris, 100 days, 530; Genoa, 3 months,
528 ; Amsterdam, 3 mouths, 43.