The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-13 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Sett. 12.
Time is confirming tho truth of my previous coni-
munications--the Count do Sobral is dismissed from
the civil governorship of Lisbon, as well as the secre-
tary, and Count de Taverede is appointed in his
place; while the Count de Pont° (I/on John) is ap-
pointed civil governor of Oporto—a disposition ap-
pears to dismiss many administrators and Regedores,
and supply their places with Cabralistas. Although
this does not go to the extent of a unitin with the
Cobralistas, yet it may have as bad an effect ; it may
cause a return to tho new chamber of men which
will give to that party the preponderance, and the
effect is perfectly easy to conceive. The Count de
Thomar is not a dead letter, as he would
have been had regeneration fairly progressed
,
but is up and stirring, and actually in print,
having addressed a declaration to his adherents. He
says it is my opinion that we ought to abstain from
interfering at the approaching election for deputies,
leaving the decision of the electoral contest to the
regenerators and to the Junta of Oporto.
the state of the country is frightful, every post
adds to the list of robberies and assassinations.

The squadron which came in on the 28th has
sailed. The Arethusa on the 2nd, and the Prince
Regent, Rodney, and Leander on the the Sth ; the
two former having been towed out by the Archer,
which remains. In reporting their arrival I erred
as to the Albion, for which the Rodney was mis-
taken. The Retribution sailed to Madeira imme-
diately on her arrival to protect British interests. On
leaving the British channel the Arethusa happily
escaped destruction ; it was blowing fresh when sud-
denly the rocks off &illy were discovered, upon
which she must inevitably have struck, but the den-
ger war as suddenly averted. It arose from her
having mistaken the light on the rock for the signal
of the Admiral's mast bead. On the retain of the
Retribution the Archer goes to England.
An announcement has been made that tho pay-
ments ordered by amortisation fund direction
will not be impeded; the decree, therefore, will not
affect them, nor any sums which the fund produces
till the various authorities of the kingdom and
islands receive notice of the decree.

A routine meeting of the Company of the Douro
having taken place, opinions sufficiently hostile to
the ends the appointment of the government com-
mission is supposed to have in view were expressed.
Exchange, 64. Discount of Bank of Lisbon notes,
21, I.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Barr. 10.
Our Berlin correspondent, in a letter of the above
date, mays that his prognostications with regard to
the Zollverein affair receive daily confirmation. All
parties, he declares, begin to see that the decision of
the question lies between Austria and Prussia, and
that the coalition has become a mere puppet, the
wires of which are pulled in Vienna. puppet,
Court
Zeffieop, which, of all Austria's organs, is regarded as
e • with least reserve the wishes of the Vienna
ea in says :--" The Zollverein is en anomaly within
the Germania esetederatimi ; it must be set snide, in
order that Berlin may cease to join a centre for the
customs legislation and the commercial intercourse
of the majority of German states." "Thu centre
must be removed," it continuos, "to Frankfort,
where the South German League, In connection with
Austria, will do the rest." " Whet Austria aims at,"
observes our correspondent, "would have the effect
of ousting Prussia from Its mot among the great
powers and leaving proteetanies without &represen-
tative in the supreme council of centlasstal poten-
tates." The appointment conferred, in M. Von
Manteuffel's absence, on General Von Radowits, of
head of all military education, is mentioned as a se-
vere blow to the minister's authority. The minister
tendered his resignation, which the King refused to
accept; but as head of a divided cabinet, the
minister cannot impose an energetic policy.
General von Radowits has declared that the interest
of the church of Rome imposed on him higher duties
than those Connected with national ties, and his
appointment, therefore, is a portentous sign of the
tures.

The Pest Owes of Frankfort says that the
members at the Coalition of Darmstadt and the
Prussian government have been informed that the
Austrian cabinet consider the reply of Prussia of the
30th ult. as an absolute rejection of the proposition
of the Coalition.
A Vienna letter of the Bth states that all the in-
novations recently introduced in the regime of con-
vents are to be set aside, and that the Prince Arch-
bishop of Prague and the Bishop of Gratz are to
make what reforms may be necessary, subject to the approval of the Pope.
The Boerienhalle states from Mecklenburg-
Schwerin that the Burgomuter of Sukow had
written to the Grand Duke to announce that ho had
had the honour of being received into the order of
the Jesuits. The Grand Duke immediately dismissed
him from Aloe.

The Prauian Gazette contains the following
curious statement :—" A criminal of quite a peculiar
description has been delivered up to us by a foreign
government. He had established himself in one of
the most frequented sea-ports am a manufacturer of
forged passports, and ho sold his counterfeit articles
so cheap thst they generally cost little more than
the amount of fees on a bona fide passport, and he
forged visas upon passports with extraordinary skill.
On his arrest upwards of thirty seals were found in
his possession, including thew of the Ministry of the
Interior, the presidency of police, the Kammergerklit,
the government of Potsdam, &c. All there seals
were engraved in a peculiar manner upon slate, and
gave excellent black impressions. Unfortunately
the punishment for this species of forgery is very
light."
The Prussian Gaulle of the ith informs WI the'
M. Alexander von Humboldt has recovered from a
severe illness, and has resumed his scientific pursuits.
The same journal states that the King has conferred
the order of the Black Eagle on the Duke of Cam-
bridge.
The Frankfort Diet, just before its adjournment,
passed a resolution respecting tho legality of the
constitution of the city. The Diet declares the Elec-
tion Law of October, 1848, null and void, and the
consequent changes from the provisions of the con-

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atittition of 1816 as illegal. It requires the Senate
to restore the former system, the Diet reserving its
right of revising the alterations, according to Art. 61
lof the final act of the Treaty of Vienna.

RUSSIA.

A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 31st ult., states
that the greatest part of the town of Stamosk has
been burnt to the ground. Several churches and
convents have been consumed.

THE SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPTEMBER 11.
The Royal Brazilian mail packet Teviot, Captain
Onslow, from the Brazils, arrived here to day,
and landed her mails under the charge of I.ieut.
Veit* R.N., admiralty agent. Iler dates are:—
Buenos Ayres, August 3; Monte Video, sth; Rio de
Janeiro, 14th; Bahia, 18th; Pernambuco, 2 tat ; St.
Vincent, 29th; Teneriffe, Sept. 3; Madeira, 4th;
Lisbon, 7th.
The most important points in the intelligence
from Buenos Ayres are a decree requiring the bank
to furnish the government with necessary funds, the
resignation of Dr. 1)on Vicente Lopez, and the
' revolutionary movements in the provinces of San
Juan and Santa Fe.

'the following decree was published in the semi-
official Progreso :
Ministry of Finance, Buenos Ayres, July 21st, 1852.
It being indispensably necessary to provide for the pay-
ment of the civil and military lists, the government, in ex-
reds° of its faculties, adopting the expedient most conve-
nient for the interests of the country, and impelled by the
' necessity invoked, has secordrd and decrees: Art. 1. The
bank shall pay at sight, two drafts of the government, for
the sum of ten million current money, from the funds it
has in its coffers belonging to the public credit. 2. On the
supposition that the bank may not have these funds dispo-
sable, from having employed them in the diicount of pri-
vate bills, it shell advance the sum necessary to meet said
drafts, from the notes that may be ready for the
purpose of renovation, and shalt liquidate the ad-
vance it may make, in proportion as the bills full due.
3. To prevent the commercial interest from suffering from
this operation, the bank may renew fur one single occasion,
for one-half the amount of the bills that fall due. 4. The
bank shall publish weekly a report of the progress of this
operation. 5. The ten millions are forthwith destined to
the payment of the civil and miliary lists, fr the past
months. G. The quota assigned by law shall continue to be
remitted without any alteration to the eoffers of the sinking
fund of the public credit. 7. This decree shall be oppor-
tunely submitted to the legislative power. 8. Let it be
communicated, published and inserted in the official reles-
ter.—Loczz, JUAN MARIA GUTIERREZ, CART() CACERRS,
VICINTI F. Lopez, 1..1/18 L. DOXINOUIZ.

The British Packet remarks on this measure:
On the score of principle, we regret the necessity that
compels the executive to interfere, directly or indirectly,
with the operations of the Bank ; and we anticipate consi-
derable inconvenience to the commercial and industrial
closes in the abrupt suspension of the bank necummoda-
tints to which they have been accustomed.
On one point all parties seam agreed, that a new
emission of paper would be worse than useless. It is
generally understood that an unsuccessful appeal was
made to the commercial body; although we are left
in the dark as to the real or alleged causes of the
failure. The measure adopted, of drawing on the
existing resources of tho Bank to the amount of ten
millions, may be regarded as a compromise of the
difficulty, a middle course between a loan and an
emission, the effects and consequences of which re-
main to be seen.

In the letter to General Urquiza, tendering his
resignation, 1)r. Lopez says :

Wills and interests being ill harmonised, and from the
want of unity in the general views to arrive at those molts
'whereby I hoped to place the rule of public interest in pre-
cedence to all individual aspirations, my situation has
become am unpleasant as impotent. My authority is always
called in question ; and in such circumstances I am bound
to hasten to acquaint your Excellency that you may deign
to consider the matter as a definitive resolution which I
have adopted, of separating myself from public life, return-
ing to your Excellency the authority which you conferred
;Toni me, assumed in the name of the Treaty of San

Urquiza replies by accepting tho resignation with
regret, and assuming the temporary direction of the
province, assisted by a council, but only for the
time necessary to reconstitute authority.
The provisional government of San Juan addresses
a manifesto tothe people, in which it denounces the Go-
vernor Proprietary, General Benavides, as a mere crea-
ture and tool of Roma; and on the 13th issued 'formal fiat
of deposition against him, charging him with every
possible and imaginable crime, and prohibiting him
from returning to the territory of the province for
the term of one year, and even then not without a
special and express sanction and permission of the
authorities.

General Urquiza's minister had replied to these
proceedings in an energetic letter.
In Santa Fe General Juan Pablo Lopes had
headed a movement, the avowed object of which was
to upset the government of Senor Crespo; but after
some partial successes in the district of Rosario, he
had been abandoned by his partisans, and, according
to the latest accounts, had retired to the interior with
some fifty followers.
A decree was issued by the government of Buena
Apes, on the 20th of July, in which the government,
desirous that the owners and operatives of print-
ing establishments may not suffer further pre-
judice, and with the decided determination
of protecting everything that may tend to the civili-
sation and advancement of the country, counteract-
ing at the same time the licence whereby the
press may be abused, orders the chief of . police
to remove the seals placed on the printing-
offices, allowing the continuation of their labours,
and permits the editors of periodicals to treat with-
out impediment of everything concerning the im-
provement and progress of society, commercial and
administrative questions, matters of finance, public
works, education, and also discreetly and moderately
to criticise the organic dispositions of the govern-
ment, and sciences in general. But in case they
think proper to engage in questions of domestic
policy, such publications shall not be allowed to take
place without the approbation of persons, enlight-
ened and practically liberal in the opinion of the
community and of the government. For this purpose
a special jury of the press is formed, which is charged
to propend to the realisation of the aforementioned
views.

The Governors of the provinces of Salta and Jugay
and the Minister Plenipotentiary of Cordoba had
adhered to the compact of San Nicholas. A note had
been received from the government of Tucuman, an-
nouncing the deposition of General Gutierrez, and
the substitution of Don Manuel A. Espinosa, as go-
vernor and captain-general of the province. The
Chamber of Representatives had expressed an un-
qualified of the compact of San Nicolas,
and passed a vote of thanks to General Urquiza for
the invaluable services be has rendered the re-
public.
The freight of the Teviot includes 21,9001. in gold
from Rio, and 16 packages of diamonds.
From Monte Video, we have the intelligence of
the law of the Amide; of Liverpool, Captain William
Molina, loaded with patent fuel fbe Coquimbo, burnt
at sea in Lt. 38.30 8., and long. 34.20 W., from
spontaneous ignition of her cargo. The crew, 20 in
number, escaped in the bug boat and life boat, and
were picked up by the packet Amelia, from the Falk-
land Islands, and landed at Mont* Video.
When the Teviot left Rio, Aug. 'l4, her Majesty's
steamer, Centaur, flag ship, at Rio, and Cement,
receiving ship; Plumper, cruising to the southward
of Rio; Vixen and Locust, in the River Plate, Aug. S;
Rifleman and Bonetta, cruising between Bahia and
Rio; Express (brig) at Bahia, Aug. 18; Devon, at
St. Vincent (Cape de Verdi), Aug. 29, to sail the
next day for England; Berracouts, and Retribution,
at Madeira, Sept. 4 ; ikreher, at Lisbon, Sept. 7.
Prince Regent (flag ship), Rodney, and Leander,
sailed from Lisbon, Sept. 5, and Arcthusa, Sept. 3,
on a cruise for the Mediterranean.

The General Screw Company's steamer Lady
Jocelyn sailed from St. Vincent cape de Vin's
August 28th, for the Cape. lhe Royal Mail
steamer Prince sailed from ltto for the River Plate,
August 12th. September 10th, exchanged numbers
with Company's steamer Severn, Ushant in sight.
September sth, passed the English barque Mary and
Wee, for Hobart Town. The Teviot has experieuocd
floe weather during the voyage.

COMMERCIAL.
(From the British /'ache!.)
Bun Non Ayuto, JrLe 31.
In commercial matters July presents a sorry retrospect.
The en•siderable demand fur the interior provinces that
characterised some of the preceding months has received •
deplorable check from the unhappy political excitement
manifested in several of the provinces, and the consequent
indecision of those engaged in that important deportment
of our national trade. 111 provided as we know the interior
markets in general to be, the very limited remittances of