The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-13 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1851.

FRANCE.

SPAIN.

PARIS, TrEADAT EVENING.

MADRID,Avo. 7.

The annual distribution of Prizes at the Sorbonne
took place yesterday. M. Sibour, Archbishop of
Paris; M. liaroche, Minister for Foreign Attairs;
and Generals Magoon and Perrot were among the
spectutors in the reserved seats. M. Guizot occupied
Ins former professor's chair.
,The lovers of University traditions at the Sorbonne
were delighted yesterday at the restoration of the
Latin speech, which had been abolished when M.
Vaulabelle was Minister of Public Instruction in
1848. The appropriate theme chosen for this revival
by Professor Lemaire was a culogium of Latin
eloquence. To the reformers who had suppressed
the time-honoured custom it had appeared to be an
absurdity that a speech should be made to an audience
of whom at least half were women, in a language
not understood of the multitude. It had been
rumoured that some opposition would he made by the
students to the return to the ancient usuage, but on
the contrary, the moment the Roman accents were
heurvd ore rotunda, the orator was received with
unanimous and rapturous applause. And, when
alluding to the embarrassment which he felt in
addressing an audience, of some of whom it might
be said " :lures hatent et non awlient," if the

The Basque provinces company has applied to go-
vernment for the concession of the railway from
Mathid to Irun, with permission to construct the
line by way of Valladolid and Bilbao. No answer
has yet been given by the minister.
The Herald.) of Madrid, of the 7th, announces that
the dologatoof 4161,145a1i-oreditors in that city has
presented a protest against the law fur the settle-
ment of the debt, on the ground that it enacts that
the certificates of the deterred debt shall be classed
as a debt subject to be paid off, which he considers
an injustice to the creditors. 'the same journal states
that the law was not passed in the Senate by the
majority required by the constitution, anti that on
that account it is null.

PORTUGAL

The following is our correspondent's letter :
LISBON, At.o. 8.
An amended electoral decree has appeared having for its
object to remedy the successful attempts of the Cabralistas
to obstruct the execution of the original decree. by which
means electoral eoanuissi ms were illegally elected. The
first feature in the new decree (of the 26th ult.) is that the
meeting of the Cortes is transferred to the Lith December.
The commissions to prepare the electoral lists, which were
legally elected on the 18th July under the decree of the
20th of June, are to remain as then elected. Where the
commissions were null from their illegal election, or where
no commissious were elected, a new hst of electors will be
formed for the election of commission s every person pos-
sessing a clear annual income of 100 mil reis, whether aris-
ing from property, industry, commerce, or employment, to
have a vote at the primary election.. A year's residence in
the district is required, but the qualification of the elector
is reduced one-half. It now stands thus : the law, pre-
suming every chief of family to have the income the
charter requires, he must have been 'Amssed in the last
assessment immediately before the preparation of the lists
in 5 milreis of decima of funded or other property or pen-
sions, or employment in corporations, 'bundling, or other
hospitals ; or 2mil 5110 rein in rural or other estates let ; or
500 rein of ilecinia of rural or other property not let, or of
industrial establishments not let, or for whatever other
general direct contribution. Another qualification is the
being assessed in the last assessment before the framing of
the lists, in five milreis of decimu fur rural or other pro-
perty let; and 900 reis fur rural or other property let, or
establishments of industry or any other direct contribution.
Instead of returning an elector to the electoral college for
every 150 chimneys, one is to be returned for every 300.
This meets with more general satisfaction, as many electors
spread over the circle would find it inconvenient to attend
the college fur the elestion of deputies. The number of
primary electoral assemblies is also diminished, more
'swishes being united to one assembly than under the
former decree. As to ineligibilities, only one is taken off,
namely that of the parish priests who have cure of souls in
the kingdom ; these may be elected deputies. The first opera-
tion under the new decree will take place the 15th instant,
when the lists of electors of the highest and lowest assessed
will be focused (in of each class in every district or bolero) ;
and on the 19th the rentai g commissions fur the forma-
tion of the electoral lists will be elected. On the 21th the
inns will begin to be made ; and fixed on the church doors
on) the 13th September, and there remain till the
21st. Claims to be made for or against the in-
scription of names to the commissions to the 27th
Septemher, and decisions may take place till the
29t11; on the Ith October alterations to be published. Ap-
peals may be made from the commissioners decision to the
judicial authority till the 12th October, and decided by the
magistrate till the 18th; appeals (rain hint to the Itelaeao
to the 29th. The election of electors at primary assemblies
to the electoral colleges to take place on the 2nd of Novem-
ber, and the electoral colleges to meet in the electoral circles:
on the 16th, for the election of desuties. The Cabralistas,
whose efforts to obtain a revision of the original decree for
their own private advantage have been nureinitting, have
gained nothing by the amended decree, while a weapon is
taken out of their hands by the ineligibility to sit in theCham-
Ler being letuoved front parish priests, whom now they can-
not excite to take part against the government on that ac-
count. The decree, therefore, as it now stands, gives mom
general satisfaction to the country at large, and more dis-
satisfaction to the Cabralistas. We have therefore to see
what new efforts they will use to carry out their avowed
ands.
Since my last letter, we have had nothing but military
disturbances iu the streets of Lisbon. At this season of the
year one of the customs of Portugal is for parishioners to
oubstribe and have within the parish a festival, choosing
some particular day for the occasion. These festivals last
twit or three slays ; and, while they amuse the people, they
become a vehicle, or rather an occasion, tar the distribution
of alms ; the locality is richly fitted out, illuininated, and
attended by all the beauty and fashion of the parish, the
higher ranks taking part in it. The other classes have also
their festivals on a minor scale, and the most popular music
is generally played at them. Thera was one lately in the
Lapa, at which the malcontent municipals dared not inter-
fere, but in other minor ones, on the playing of " The Mar-
shal's Hymn,- they have attempted to stop it, while their
opponents insisted anon its execution; hence "a row."
The municipals had since gone out daily in search of the
grenadiers, or others of the "Regenerators," and blows,
and in some instances wounds, hare been exchanged ; as
this was beertning a growing and serious evil, Saldaulia re-
moved (on the Ist) the grenadiers to St. them, and the 16th
infantry to Maim ; and the Ist Caeadores and 7th infantry
sapply their places in Lisbon; while the municipals remain
untouched. The municipals, by the way, the sworn friends
of Cabralism, were the aggressors, amp they escape all in-
convenience; while the grenadiers, a regiment devoted to
the "situation," is punished by being sent away from their
ancient quarters, and a strong barrier—the Tagus—placed
between them and Lisbon; while again the disaffeeted 16th
aro sent to Marra, from whence they could return to
Lisbon in three or four hours one night, join the
municipals, and put all again in confusion. It is said the
. 2nd Caeadons also to go from Lisbon, and the Bth
Cavalry to come in; but this 1 cannot vouch fur, it being
but a report. Were the "situation" secure, little or no
importance would attach to the return of Fluke Marcos,
but as intrigue goes on, and he has been specially invited
to return bySaldanlia, at the request of the Queen, it has
excited considerable surprise. Ile has the car of her Ma-
jesty, is a determined plotter, devotedly attached to the
Cabral taction, and the very man the latter wanted to carry
on its insidious designs.
The following is the decree reinstating Saldanha in his
former post of chief of the staff to the King, as commander-
in-chief of the army :
" Taking into consideration that, in the official com-
munication made by the Duke de Saldanha, marshal
of the army, on the Gth of March, 1850, if not wanting
in the decorum and respect due to my person, as chief of
the state, to whom he had always given indubitable proofs
of veneration and attachment, he used severe phrases in ex-
pressing the just vindication of his offended military
honour, and censure of the acts of the ministry which then
formed my council; without passing the limits of that
liberty which the most illustrious men of this nation, occu-
pying high stations, use in addressing themselves to the
throne upon matters of the highest importance and gravity,
which is always permitted and considered laudable ; and
agreeing with the proposal which has been laid before me'
in respect to it by the King, my much loved and valued
consort, marshal general and cull/mender-in chief of the
army, it is my will and pleasure to revoke the decree of
the 13th of the said month of March, commanding that it
remains of no effect, as if it had never existed, and that the
said decree, as well as any other patents with which it
may have relation, shall be cancelled and shut up, in order
that not the least vestige remain of them; and it is also my
will and pleasure to restore the Duke of Saldanha, marshal
of the army, to the post of first aide-de-camp to
the King, my much loved and valued consort,
marshal general, commander-in-chief of the army.
The Baron de Trances, Minister and Secretary of
state ad iiderini for the affairs of war, will thus understand
and cause it to be carried into effect. Palace of Necesai•
dales, the 6th of May, 1851. Signed, the Civets ; counter-
signed,
the Baron de TrtaNeos.
This is of course another triumph of Saldanha over the
unmeasured and revengeful intrigues of Thomar.
The Minister of the Interior bans, it is said, dismissed 'Jail
administrators of districts, all Cabralistas, fur abuse of power
and tyrannous conduct to the people.
Notices from Bija arc most unsatisfactory ; the party of
the assassins arc so dominant that no one dam swear against
them, therefore the conclusion is, that the charges are not
sufficient against the national battalion there to warrant its
dissolution. Ilse inhabitants who ilo not partake of the charac-
ter of the terrorists are emigrating; while correspondence is
stolen, to ice if any smbold enough to describe the real facts
for public information, in order that they may be immolated.
Such a state of things would exist nowhere else in the
world.
I mentioned in a former letter that Count Lavradio
would go to London. His appointment as Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary has at length been
gazetted.
St. Vincent, one of the Cape de Verd Islands, having
become a place of call for the steamers of transit, and being
deficient in accommodation for such an intercourse, building
materials are permitted, by decree, to be imported into it
duty free for five years, such as stone for building, door and
window supporters and corners, lime, bricks, and tiles, iron
for houses, and glass for glazing windows.
It is said that Cabralista intrigue assumes a serious face,
arid that it has communications with France, through
which its manceuvring is directed to arrive at a Spanish
occupation of Portugal. As it is accustomed to precipita-
tion, some proximate attempt may tend to develop its
designs and render them again abortive.
The plan of Senhor Ferrao is to allow duties to he paid in
approved bilis at 3,6, and 9 months' date, for all wine, tea,
and raw cotton, cleared within twenty days, by which he
loruerttho
bpenTnithroenwtnoufupoimineintir:tyrehainaLs
thinks to obtain a tolerable sum, available at a trifling dis-
count. The next is to issue notes to the amount of 800
contos, in amounts of .5, 10, and 20 milreis, bearing interest
otes
amount
unun
neod money
recovered other
hi
market.,e
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iooe;:. talc,.these
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at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, and receivable in ono-
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fourth
arc already rubbing their hands in triumph. The
fromissue of
which a o v
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EdiscaifilifonPTinlpOLaniA
fortunes of many,rrcii:: created panics, and the gonernmedentthaet
which led eeTnt.,—conThtiiiisucinthete,
3 al: 4 Viet. c. 89, for the exemption of inhabitants from last taxed the public to redeem' those notes (the poet-
liability to be rated in respect of stock-in-trade or other ace of a letter is even taxed with its per tentage
property to the relief of the poor, to the Ist October next to that end) ; and out of 5,000 comm, there was left,
year and to the end of the then next session of parliament. on the 4th •
instant, after amortising 60,940,800 reis,

mammas and sisters did not understand the words,
they could at least read the applauding countenances
of their sons and brothers.

M. fliers is at the present moment the victim of a
curious species of impalpable libel. He has a half-
sister named Madame kissed, who has long kept a
table trhoote in the Rue Basso du Rempart, where
her custom was to distribute cards with her own
hands among the guests, on which her relationship
to M. '!'biers was mentioned. She has lately removed
to the Rue 1)rouot, at the corner of the boulevard
des Italiens, and, encouraged by the success of her
cards, she has exhibited a painted board outside her
house, with the inscription " Madame ltissert, sister
of M. niers, formerly a minister,kecps a WA: dlible,
at 3 fr. and 2 fr. at/e. for ladies." Crowds of people
assembled to gaze at this unusual association of ideas.
The police were asked to remove the board as a pub-
lic scandal, and great was the astonishment expressed
when Madame Itissert produced a permission from
the Prefect of Police fur the very announcement in
question. People then went so far as to say that the
government adopted this means to annoy M.
fliers as a political opponent. It turns
out, however, that Madame Itissert having
complied with the police regulations, and paid
a certain tax, has a legal right to advertise her call-
ing in this way, subject only to the interference of
the police in case the gatherings in the streets at-
tracted by the board should be of a nature to disturb
the public tranquillity, The police have now made
a compromise with Madame Itissert. They have
made her erase the words " formerly a minister,"
, leaving the public only informed that she is "sister
to M. '!'biers." This mitigation of the incongruous
conjunction of a great minister with a small table
dliale seems to have succeeded, for the crowds have

dispersed.
The only morning paper which gives an unre•
served support to the Elysee is the old and influential
amttientionne!, now the sole property of Dr. V‘a-cm,
a wealthy man, formerly director of the Opera, and
whose portly person is well known to all the fie-
quentersof the Cafe de Paris. This gentleman's otiginal
connection with the press was entirely of a mercantile
nature, and at the time when he thought the lead-
ing articles of M. niers and his friends a good in-
vestment for his money, he was irreverently styled
by the writers in the Cm/We/Wound as the ion pere
nar Erns. It is only within the last year that,
feeling necessity to be laid upon him by the extreme
peril of the times, he has occasionally wielded the
editorial pen himself'. It is well known that when
Louis Napoleon first returned from exile, he sent for
Dr. Varin as an eminent political personage, whose
acquaintance he desired to make. Hitherto it has
been supposed that the mainspring of the unequalled
enthusiasm with which the Cineseitutionnel battles
for the re-election of the President, was a certain
gratification to his personal vanity which Dr. Wron
experienced from the notice taken of him in high
quarters—an irresistible feeling of gratitude for
more intimate confidence than was athirded to re-
sponsible ministers. Certain it is that many lead-
ing articles of Dr. Wron, holding out hi,pes of
reforms in ease of the re-election of the President,
and more particularly a recent one relating to
the octroi duties, which was repudiated by the mi-
nisterial journals of the same evening, have been
generally assumed to emanate directly from the
Elysi,e, through the medium of confidential commu-
nications to the proprietor of the Constientio»net
Dr. Veron, however, now, in an article against the
candidature of the Prince de Joinville, informs the
public that his support of Louis Napoleon is wholly
independent, and more than disinterested. He la-
ments in pathetic language that if his feelings and
his self-love were to take the inventory of what he
has got by his respectful relations with the Presi-
dent by his faith in the justice of his cause; if his
pride attached any value to those delicate attentions
which are so much prized by the world, his convic-
tions in favour of the presidency of Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte would long since have imposed upon hint
the most absolute silence. All his labours, he avers,
have failed to produce fur hint so much as one of
those affable and obliging words which the calculated
gratitude of princes knows so well how to find, and
with which disinterestednms is satisfied.
In anticipation of the opening of the Marne and
Rhine Canal, between Nancy and Told, the iron
masters of the Haute Marne have given orders for
pit coal at Saarbruek to the extent of twenty millions
of kilogrammes, to be delivered at liondelaincourt
in the early part of November.
M. Colfavru has written to the papers to deny the
statement of the /Won that there was a violent scene
at the meeting of the Mountain in the Rue Richelieu,
or that his expulsion was voted. He admits, how-
ever, that he and his friends left the room for reasons
which he thinks it unnecessary to explain.
A M. 'fenault has been condemned to six months
imprisonment for having cried "Down with Napo-
leon" at the review of the national guard of Chatel-
hemult on the occasion of the President's return
from Poitiers.

The funeral of Marshal Sebastiani was celebrated
at the Invalides to-day, with the military honours
due to a marshal of France. Detachments from
every corps in the garrison of Paris were present.
After the funeral service the body was placed on a
hearse upon the esplanade outside the railing, in
front of the Invalides, and the troops fi!csl past. An
alarming accident happened in the church before the
coffin arrived. Owing to the carelessness of one et
the children employed in the religious ceremonies
about the high altar, the draperies placed there for
the occasion caught tire from one of the wax candles.
The flames spread so rapidly that they reached the
flags which hang on each side of the roof of the
church, sonic of which were consumed before the
fire could be extinguished.
Two new democratic journals are announced to
appear at the end of October. One to be called the
Eyuldique narrowlle, under the patronage and di-
rection of the refugees in London, will be in French,
Italian, and German, and thousands of copies arc
intended to be sent to Italy and Germany. The
other will be entitled the Journal des Elections, and
will recommend candidates to the electors. 100,000
copies of this are to be distributed gratuitously in
the country. The funds will be supplied by the
central purse in London, which is said to be well
filled.
The farewell letter of M. Charles Dupin to Prince

Albert, dated London, July 27, and 'the Prince's
reply, dated Osborne, July 31, arc inserted in the
Mop/deur this morning.
General the Marquis of Roche Dragon died sud-
denly of apoplexy yesterday, at the club on the
Boulevard Nlontmartre.
M. Pierre Bonaparte's horse fell with Lim yester-
day, and broke the hon. gentleman's leg in two places.
He was gallopping to get some medicine for a servant
who was ill. The President of the Republie instantly
came to him. The fracture is going on well.
The slight rise in the funds yesterday was attri-
buted to the lowering of the interest in Treasury bills,
but the measure is not looked upon with much favour
at the Bourse. The Fives to day fell 13 centimes,
closing at 93.70; and the Threes 13 centimes, closing
at 57.23.