The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By the Tay, Lisbon dates are to the 12th inst.
Captain Robinson, of the Arrogant, had, whilst
senior officer of the steamers in the Tagus, been too
stringent in his orders, and placed such restraints on
the captains and officers as to give rise to a letter of
remonstrance from them.
The finance committee had, by its majority of ul-1
tra-liberals, laid before the Deputies at Lisboa a sub-
stitution to the capitalization decree of the 3rd of
December providing • limited and uncertain
amortization fund that is only calculated to pay off
2 per cent. per annum upon the four dividends, ar-
rears of salaries, paper money, and other State debits,
for which it is proposed to issue bonds without inte-
rest to an immense amount. Such bonds would na-
turally be nearly valueless, and become an easy prey
to the audacious principle of robbery contemplated in
the Bth clause, by which the committee proposes that
the government shall buy them up at the market
price.
M. Avilla, ez-Minister of Finance, had moved a
much more reasonable substitution, which would
place Portuguese bondholders in the position they
held before the decree of the 3rd of December, pay-
ing the dividend of December, 1850, by a temporary
boa ape 4,000 contra, or 1,000,0001. of new insenp•
tires, sr Four per Cent. Bonds, and providing for
thas.... of the dividend of June, 1851, and fol-
lo divilsada by the usual revenue restore(' to the
of Public Credit on the let inst.
The deputies had not come to any decision when
the Tay left Lisbon.

Our Paris correspondent writes:
The Portuguese commander, J. da Oama de Castro,
in a letter to the Union, dated Paris, July 14, states
that he has received a protest from the " king his
I maatee Don Miguel, against the violence of which
he is the victim, and is counquence of which the
legitimate heir to the Portuguese crown is about to
be born in a foreign land. This protest, sent to
the Union to be published for the information of
Europe, is dated Langeneelbold, June 18, 1832. It
states that Don Miguel has never renounced the
rights that Divine Providence has annexed to his
person. That, on the contrary, in his proclamation
of May 27, 1834, and his protest made at Oenoa on
the 20th of June in the same year, he solemnly
claimed all the personal and political rights which
belonged to him by the fundamental laws of the Por-
tuguese monarchy. Now that his dearly beloved wife
the Princess D. Adelaide Sophia Amelia Louisa Jane
de Loewenstein Wertheim Rosenberg Rochefort is
about to present him with a first-born child; he
renews his protest spinet the irresistible violence of
the quadruple alliance =eluded at London, April 22,
1834, which alone forced him to quit Portugal. He
claims the the prince or princess about to be born, as
well as for all his other future issue, the full rights
of his legitimate heir, and solemnly promises in the
Ace of Europe that he will give them that Portu-
guese education which is befitting for princes and
princesses of his blood. He will bring them up by
the aid of Portuguese tutors in the principles of the
holy catholic religion, in the love of their absent
country, and with the tulip and manners of the Por-
tuguees nation, so that their fellow-countrymen may
find nothing either in their persons or conduct to re-
call the fact of their birth or education upon a foreign
soil, unless it may be that their hearts will feel more
intensely the value of that country from which they
are temporarily exiled by a hard necessity. The
protest is witnessed by Viscount de Quelus, Jose da
Beira Tavares, and Augusto-Antonio da Mate E.
Solve.

SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.
The Rotel West India Company'. Mail packet
Tay, Captain Moss, from the Brazils, &e., arrived at
Southampton last evening. Her dates are:—Buenos
Ayres, June 3; Monte Video, 6; Rio de Janeiro,
16, 8 a.m.; Bahia, 20; Pernambuco, 22; St. Vin-
cent's, July 1; Tenerife, 6 ; Madeira, 8; Lisbon, 12.
The Tay brings in specie and bullion from Monte
Video, 9,1641. ; from Buenos Ayres, 3201.; from Rio
de Janeiro, 26,6111.—T0ta1, 34,9031. Diamonds on
freight, value 36,2011.10 e.
The following is the copy of a letter, written on
the 11th July, by Jas. Philippe, Esq., her Majesty's
vice-consul at Lisboa, relating to the rumoured lon
of her Majesty's steamer Harpy :
The Portuguese ship Flor do Porto, Ceptaiu Manuel
Antonio dos Raatos, from Rio de Janeiro in 60 day , arrived