The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-14 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Bc the Severn we receive the following letter front
)ur Lisbon correspondent:
LISBON, Novniusa 9.

Notwithstanding all the threats and auguries of the
Cabrals, that we should never arrive at the elections (the
meaning of which is, that there would be a revolutionary
reaction previous, which would annul the electoral decree),
the day fixed fur them did arrive, and without say previous
casualty. There were not, as in Cabral times, hordes of
bludgeon men, armed police, soldiers with side arm., round
Ibe re,pectivo places of election, to exercise a prescribed
esenpation relative to electors who presented themselves at
the doors of the sacred edifices in order to exercise the ri4lit
of voting; nor were persons there with marked Cabralista
lists, to be given in exchange for others to the electors ;
wash halcyon days for the Cabral' had passed, and persons
msembled round the respective places of assembly in all the
esefidence of personal senility, and walked up to the urn
sad dropped in their lists under the free exercise and pro-
tection of that decree which the reactionary party have
unsuccessfully tried four several times to destroy by means
of revolutionary attempts. The result of such peaceful ex-
ercise of the grand electoral right has been the return of
164 Progresista electors to the electoral colleges for Lisbon
aid its environs, and only 4 Cabralittas ; while for the
boundary (termo) 12 Progresistas have been returned, and
lied one Cabralista. The result of the elections for Lisbon
lid the termo is the fullest and most persuasive answer that
wild be given to the far-famed protocol ; that the Cabral!
are h►ted by the country is not now a matter of mere asser-
tion, it is a matter triumphantly manifested by the result of
the day's proceedings.
The success of the elections in the primary assemblies is
the more remarkable and the more worthy of notice, when
it is borne in mind that the decree of the 26th of July, eli-
minated three-fourths of the electors to whom the decree of
the 20th of June bad conceded the electoral suffrage, and
in the face of ati but open threats on the part of the Spa-
nish government, that it would never permit a Progresista
chamber; indeed, it is affirmed that the minister of the in-
terior has been considerab:y annoyed at the importunities of
the Spanish minister on this subject. The prospect is, how-
ever, that there will be a chamber of enlightened and intel-
ligent moderate Progresistas, who have nothing beyond the
well-being of the country at heart ; for on the closest ex-
amination of the list of the electors returned to the electoral
colleges in Lisbon and the adjoining districts, it appears as
if the most respectable men hail been fixed upon. When
Saldanha was told the result of the day, he exclaimed,
" Well, I promised a free election, and I'm content at the
result." This is the beginning of the second act of the re-
generating drama. It is also to be remarked that neither
Terceira nor I). Carlos Mascarenhas has been returned elec-
tors to the electoral college.
Having described the elections in Lisbon, it is unneces-
sary to particularise those in other parts of the country ;
they being nearly all of the same asturo—progresista re•
turns, except Beja, where asaaminating terror always did
and still does reign in favour of the Cabral, a Cabralista
elector was therefore returned ; but, as you will observe,
the returns arc so overwhelming in favour of the prevails-
' tas to the electoral colleges, and as those electors will have
to elect the deputies to tke Cortes, there is scarcely a hope
few the Cabralista. that they can reckon upon one single
return of a Cabralista deputy as far as can yet be seen.
' Payment was made on the 3rd and the 6th, to 2.3 depart-
ments and classes, for the month of October. The inactive
classes arc also receiving their pay for the same month in
progressive order; so that by the end of the present mont►
that class will have been entirely paid their October pay.
The pensions for the Lisbon district have also been ordered
for the same month ; which is a boon that forlorn and ne-
glected clam have not enjoyed for countless years.
Exchange, 63: ; discount of Lisbon bank notes, It.