The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Peninsular mail packet Montreal!, Captain
Lewis, arrived at Southampton on Saturday. Her
mails were landed under charge of Lieut. Langton,
R.N. Her dates are Gibraltar, April 5; Cadiz, 6;
Lisbon, 9; Oporto, 10; Vigo, 11. Amongst her cargo
were 6 packages of specie and 10 of bullion. The
acconchemeat of the Queen of Portugal is daily ex-
pected. Her birthday was being celebrated when
the packet left Lisbon. The Montrose brought home
the crew of the barque Tynwald, Captain Mills,
bound for the Cape of Good Hope front Liverpool.
She was burnt off Cape Clear on the 26th ult. The
crew was saved by a Maltese vessel, and taken to
Gibraltar without communicating with this coun'ry.
Among the passengers was Lady Home. A son of
Sir John Home, a midshipman on board the Sidon,
was left sick at Gibraltar. On hearing the news, her
ladyship immediately went out to her son, in the
Euxine steamer, but before she could arrive at Gib-
raltar he was dead. She immediately returned in the
Montrose. _

Instead of relaxing the quarantine regulations, they
seem disposed to observe them more rigidly than ever
—up to the present time, when the outward and
homeward packets met at Vigo, being both in quaran-
tine, they were permiled to communicate with each
other : on the contrary now, they are not permittted
to exchange even a newspaper without being me-
naced with a heavy fine. Again, at Lisbon, until
lately, those performing quarantine at the lazaretto
were permitted to walk in an adjacent field for air and
exercise; but lately the dotsceur for this favour has be-
come so exorbitant as to amount to a prohibition : so
the poor prisoners are obliged to content themselves
with their eight days' incarceration within the walls.
To the justice of the government be it said, that it is
not their wish; but, strange to say, the board of
health is stronger than the ministry itself.
The Schleswig-Holstein barque Johansen, Capt.
Sbeldt, from Altona in ballast, to load salt with the
Portuguese consul's legal document., was forced out on
the 3rd by the government on account of her flag, and
for no other pretext. She was not even allowed any
communication with the shore, although in free
pratique. The vessel came to anchor at Cannes on
the 3rd, and left on the sth. This vessel was ordered
out of the port by an application to the government
by the Danish consul. Tail proceeding of the go-
vernment having ordered the vessel out of the port
merely on account of the flag has created a general
Demotion on the Exchange. The affair was taken
up in the upper house by Viscount Sa Bandiera.
Nothing has been decided as regards taking en
officer roaud to Cadiz and Gibraltar, for the purpose
of the mail steamers being admitted to free pratique
on their return voyage from Gibraltar and Cadiz, al-
though it is known that the British minister has
warmly taken up this affair. And it is also known
that difficulties have been thrown in the way by the
ignorant medical officers who compose the Board of
Health, although the government were anxious to
comply with the representation sent in by her Ma-
jesty's minister on this subjeet.
It is well known that the age it of the steamers
receives from the parties who have to transmit bullion
to Southampton and Cadiz, one pound sterling for
every thousand that is shipped by the steamers—
merely for convoying the bullion, without any risk,
from Lisbon to Belem; and it is known that tic
parties complain of this exorbitant charge, as many
would willingly do the same for one quarter the
amount. But no one can interfere with the agency

of the steamers. And it is known
one week to the other it leaves at least 151-t
to 181. benefit to the agent ; but of that the steam
pany mast be b tter informed from the seueu,„---fit
bullion shipped on board the steamers nub?
tine. They also complain of the heavy eher-u.4"""u•
on caul package of good* landed at the lent
which far exceeds that which is charged for the ...,_
which arrive by merchant vessels. As 10%2
these heavy gains are obtained no exertionewssi
made to lessen the quarantine of the
steam" b 7411
agents.
Annexed is the letter of our correepeudiut
LISBON, assn.&
The ceremonies of Holy Week relieved es
from the eoneideration of polities, but the new
-14
intrigues were not anapended. Public swift
been, however, directed to the conduct of then,,i,
meet proceedings against the League, and the .—""
appears to be rousing itself, or rather awaken:
that slaves-like lethargy imposed upon it by theitu;
protocol. The League has published a pretegt
which they decumentarily prove that the mini
encouraged their proceedings, declared their
public utility, and that agriculture, eemeoute7ak
could only be promoted by their exertion., fa
formed you in my last how extensive its for
was : this protest proves it. The raioieuiii2t-cina
even officially recommended all their antheekru
to give it every extension and to
to urge corporations to elect and send the
delegates to it; and in consequenes many mema,.
of both chambern, public functionaries, the geatl
em
about the court, &c., became member!, nice of all p,
litical opinions consideritg alone the pubic welfsj;
their meetings had been in public, and in poi;
buildings appropriated by the government to dish
use ; their acts had been public ; politics were was
debated ; and, in a word, they were a half Art
body, the government corresponding wi'h tisk
They came to &scum the regulations which wer4
guide them, and upon which their statutes were to be
founded. Their committees bad been appointed to
consider and report upon the neefalnem of the pa&
juts intended for discussion before they were
embodied in petitions to the government el
legislative bodies. The stumbling-block saw
came ; they had discussed the necessity of es*
listing country banks with power to inns notes,
and to petition the chambers to reconsiler the dude
of the Bank of Portugal (as related to the exclusive
power given to it to issue notes), an act *id, yew
out of the insolvency of the Bank of Lisbon, mg
which by creating an exchange as between mil al
nominal motley, or bi tween specie and insolvent teak
paper, was draining the resources of the country, an
these projects of the League not only met with app.
bation, but were visibly calculated to reproduce pm.
parity. The Agiotas, however, to-k the alarmism
rounded the minister, gained over those who mussed
him, and declared that tie League mutt be dissolved,
or they would not be able to supply the watts ofjhe
state—id est, of Saldenha's cupidity. To give e
colour to his proceedings., Saldauha consulted the
torney-General (an officer in this country who dem
makes the law pliable to the wishes of is
court), and this officer reported the League bad
political tendency, or a tendency to become a *idea
body ; this was its legal sentence of death. &Ideate
immediately ordered its dissolution, under peraltisa
The very same day the League was dissolved !dm•
tisements appeared in the government paper relative
to the political Central-Cartista faction, a society beg
at the Count of Thomar's hi use, of which Winn
himself is one of the presidents, and the olectd
which is to bring the whole of the country under the
own private views.
I have now to allude to the minister's budget, *
rather a report resulting in proposals, quite ease**
describe the state of the country to a foreign NAL
He gives a most melancholy picture of the state el*
finances, and proposes a sinking fund by adding N
pi r cent to the gross amount of the taxes. Hs away
his predecessor for over-estimating the ramie
and the collectors for not collecting it, Ih
declares he is ignorant of the obligation
of the treasury. He admits that the tam
have been anticipated or applied to the paymentd
bills anticipating them; that there are mum
sums due, which the government has not provided
funds for, and that it is quite impossible for hints
even estimate what the deficit may be ; he, Uwe*
gives an i'em : he says that the deficit from lb
31st of March to the 30th of June in this year wlllh
701,745 000 reis, or about 156,0001. sterling (Bed.
hoiden, there is no hope for you!) without inch*/
two sums of 400 contos and 459 eoliths which hs sat
provide for the payment of. Upon the year lnan
he anticipates a deficit of 1,716,698 447 rein h
proposes the decima and 5 per cent. additional spa
all small salaries and pensions, 15 per cent spot ail
those from 400 miles is to 600, 20 par cat
from 603 to 800, 25 per cent. from 800 Is
1,400; and 30 per cent. upon all above, with 5 pr
cent. additional. 25 per cent. upon home andfsep
dividends, and the same upon the allowances of de
deputies. He also proposes the continuation OM
10 per cent. additional for the extinction of Bink
Lisbon notes till their final extinction ! He minim
certain reforms, and a penal coda to punish pubic
functionaries; to reconsider all the taxes, and pain
collectors for not collecting them ; and to raise al*
of 2,000 contos (500,0001.) upon the unpaid decks
from 1847 to 1848 ; bat he does not say kow mask
they amount to, so that if the bondholders be
inclined to advance the money, they may palms
be told, when they require payment, that
they. may come and collect the decimm
It might just be as profitable a speculation as solver
cing money upon the produce of a gold mine in the
moon. The Minister of Finance had declared be
would conform to the law ; that is, he would only
pay people according to turn, and as the Chuiter
had provided—nevertheless, he is obliged to deput
from it in the case of Saldanba, who is paid up all We
salaries and allowances, while the pensioners, and
functionaries, and the army, are from five to twenty
two months in arrear, according to their varlets
classes.
ed
plan to get rid of a vast portion of debt.
ared e biltitdmou :ea ire
claimed
oer proposes
)e°o t sJau
declared ncommissionJune,
ll to
adn d
void.liquidatethose
b bb 1
The chambers will continue to sit to the 2adof
June, and the general complaint is they have dose
nothing.
Donna Maria, King Ferdinand, and family, have
the T h
Queen u
relinquished 156 contos this year for the good of the
state.
s
mind
house of Braganza, but that of the Infanta:2,Y
alarooo isnoatnoillyusireroopn,riivarasetsietthmpror
Queen Dowager, and the
Miguel. Her allowance is greater, in proportnm Is;
the revenue, than those of more prosperous con
and in the midst of the necessities to whwh. te
offioers of the army are obliged to submit, they
oor_
been ordered to appear in entirely newuniforanl
9th, the day Donna Maria's birthday is to be IT
usipntemb:ti income
b of
a le
Usset4
of the army as she has for the miseries of the PM
ftohretQhoueenroon t.iltinitsireovainodeingerosbhaerrhoorasmaseloitottloefootriedeersu_r:
and impoverished people.
ad is IM
Political assassinations are still perect!ut--
country, and when ministers are caught m
bee, and asked about them, they know eo
will inquire! The curate of Moro, near Eueb
shot dead while going with the sacrament to the sca,
—4t similar act occurred at Louie.
In the Deputies the Law of Election' 11",_....staigi;
under discussion, but the ministers have abloom,"
to chance.
The Finance Minister does not give sands/AA
and as Saldanha is now wholly suPr- nod leg
blames Sa'danha for the appointment, Poor uto
Bunco must give way, perhaps my
c
ministry by the Count of Thomas and as the t*
ranks of the Agistas. M. Joseph Maria °'
noon.* his successor—it will doubtlesanbezetftrloolhi
d Good
Company io is suppossd to be
evice of the union of the the man fined upon..,_
reward for hisfigio
Company and Bank of Lisbon (two insoismt °ff.;
lishments) into the solvent establishment of the
of Portugal.
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chamber from the manufacturers against a
Petitions have been extensively prmenteti t° thi
tion in the protecting duties; and the malltur;4
are about to present petitions against the dit_m
of the league; so that Saldanha will have suFv`l;
on his hands. The Douro wine district is als"
state of excitement, and the people are deeruirtn74,
elect a new body to propose measures to icapru,L7,,
condition, and should government oppose it, 01
come to blown.
proTolLerreedptiorttshoofolithoeml•)aerrioourasmitiniste
partments are known to beau much e vstiancd
truth, that the subject has excited the attention of
iva m r 6
theirii t
severs have

...sad the indignation of the public. It is Nally
171 tbat in false statements the ministers of
wo wavy should have the support of the
44 (shirt. As I have already told
2,
• Oa las tires to make it appear that
perrement paid nothing for &iglu& interfer-
ing% whoa they really paid nine hundred oontoe of
shish nisei* mosemanted for by the Chaseeller
' gibs Szehaqese. Will no member of the Ceases
she 'Obis question P Author grand and splendid
food bee hewn visible: while the ministers
piweading to know nothit; or little about the
i, and, rated, denying it, a public despatch
Z.:mad to tto Arcbbinhop of Goa hie fate, and
, /Webs him to make his ebst&eses is the matter to
, is pope. sad thank him for his relieve).
r A IMMO from ea* of the porta of Holstein has been
saind admission to the port, at the request of the
amiik sothwity.
&Asap 531 pee mikes. Discount upon bank
slim 44 and a bastion.