The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

the substance of the articles of capitulation.
this
)(module, it is said that General Concha has written
Madrid, tie demand the recall of Senor Ayllon, ten-
to •
awing the resignatioa of his command if this requi-
sition IS not complied with. Senor Pacheco, in his
may, contents himself with approving the conduct of
omeral Concha, and blaming that of the Spanish
ambassador atLisbon. The Correo explains the protocol
thy; " The news of the surrender of Oporto, with a
gay o'-
fthe convention, reached Lisbon on the let. Un-
setanately the details of the negotiation did not arrive
et the same time. Thus the causes were left unex-
,kinest which prevented any representative of France
60, taking a part in the convention, while the
voluntary renur.ciation of the Duke of Saldanha to i
figure as one of the negotiators remained unknown.
tics the capitulation failed to find favour in the eyes
of the plenipotentiaries; who immediately assembled
to frame a protocol, in which they declared them-
selves not responsible for the convention : and added
that the amnesty granted by the Queen would con-
tinue to be the base for the pacification of Portugal.
Noteat they protested against
too act concluded
befor Oporto, or entertained the Ln of annulling
it; but simply they washed their hands of a busi-
me which seemed to them to involve serious defects.
This (adds the ministerial paper) is a lamentable fact ;
and the plenipotentiaries of the three powers are evi-
dently in the wrong. If they had only waited for
the due explanations, they would have corrected their
first opinion, and have understood the immense ser-
vice which General Concha had done to the same
sae in which they were embarked. 'This, we know,
is the way in which the Spanish government looks at
the affair. We understand that, having seen the pro-
tocol of Lisbon, and the considerations upon which it
was framed, and having read the lettere addressed to
them by General Concha upon this subject, the minis-
ters 'hive not hesitated entirely to approve of the
conduct of the general, and to forward instructions in
the same sense to Senor Ayllon."
Yesterday there took place in the theatre of the
Maxim a meeting of the electoral junta of the pro-
gresista party, to provide a committee to superin-
tend the elections of the provincial deputies. Upon
the motion of Don Francisco de Paula, the Labrador
or worker of the junta, Mendizabel, took the chair.
It was voted that the junta should continue their
labours, and associate some 8 or 10 new members.
Mendizibal proposed 12 names out of which the
committee should be appointed. General Linage 's
return to the capital was hailed with congratulation,
and his name was proposed and carried nets. con. as a
member of the committee. The moderados have also
held meetings, for the purpose of organising a com-
mittee to superintend the same provincial elections in
their interest.
The Bank of San Fernando has just received an
importation of French dollars, amounting, it is said,
to eight millions of reals -a timely relief to the siege
which they endured from the holders of their notes,
who placed themselves, en queue, from an early hour
in the morning, outside the bank door. Meanwhile,
the bank adopted the ingenious shift of cashing against
time: that is, paying in the minute coin of half-
pesetas—Spanish sixpences; so that it took the
cashiers some hours to count a small sum. The
arrival of the silver will doubtless diminish the
Towne.
Catalonia seems in a worse state of disturbance than
ever. The mail due on Saturday from Barcelona did
not arrive. And the " Peninsular diligence " which
came in brought news that, when passing through
Cutel-follit, between Igaolada and Castelloli, they
saw the me/le poeie which ft Lerida on Thursday
for Barcelona, in flames ;it had been set fire to by the
cellists. The camellia Vilella had sent notice to the
Lerida poet-office that he would shoot any conducteur
he met with carrying official correspondence.
The object of Messrs. Carriquiri and Buschental in
going to London is, according to the Faro, to or-
ganise a fresh loan for Senor Salamanca, who, it
says, has found it impracticable, in the face of such a .
decided expression of public opinion, to carry out his
scheme of issuing the Exchequer Bills for 100 millions
of reals. Therefore the Mon-Pidal organ predicts that
the auction named by the Minister of Finance for the
16th will not come off. We shall see. The same
paper says that the government has prevented the-
meeting of capitalists that was to have taken place
yesterday at the Bank of San Fernando to make a
representation to the Queen concerning the distressed
state of the money market.
Despatches from the captain-general of Estee-
readura, dated the 6th, announce his arrival with the
Spanish forces under his command at Riza. His
progress through Portugal had been effected in the
most perfect quiet. Telegraphic despatches from
Burgos of the 11th say that the band of "The Student"
had been overtaken on the 10th, near Sedono, and
had suffered a fresh defeat from the regular troops.
The adjutant of "The Student" had been taken prisoner,
four horses and some arms taken, a captain killed,
and "The Student" himself wounded in the heath

SWITZERLAND.—BERNE, JULY 15.—1 t appears
that M. Bois le Comte, unable to conquer the resistance of
the president of the diet, who refuses to communicate to the
states the note which had not been addressed directly to him,
has come to the determination of reading it himself to several
can'onal deputations individually, declaring that this letter
of M. Ouizrt being intended for a friendly people, he desird
that people to be mode acquainted with its content. ; it was
remarked to M. Bois le Comte that this proceeding was
rather radical on the part of a foreign ambassador, endea-
r souring in this manner to exert his influence over the peo-
ple, alleging that the French government would not he
little surprised should the Swiss envoy in his turn publish
addresses to the French people ! The French ambassador, it
must be owned, pozseraes one virtue, that of frankness.
"Botk Austria and France have at last recognised (said he) that
the radical party in Switzerland had ruined our influence,
and that we were playing the part of dupes, in allowing our•
selves to be thus excluded from the affairs of Switzerland ;
we have concerted together and now follow the same system."

GERMAN Y.—On the 6th of July, says the Gazette
of Cologne, the largest stenm.engine in Germany was set in
motion on the mining works near Essen. The cylinder of
this machine is 91 inches thick, 12 feet 71 inches high, and
weighs 32 0001bs. The two arms of the balance have a length
of 33 f+et ; this enormous piece weighs 60,0001b5. The
engine gives eight strokes of the piston, and brings up 143
cubic feet of water per minute, and although worked from
the begin,.ing to the maximum of density, it has operated
with the greatest precision. The machine is said to have
more power than that employed in discharging the lake of
Esertem, and may be considered as the largest now in
sti•tence.

COLONIAL.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Our dates from this
ogee) by the Hindostan are : Cape Town, May 29; Gra-
ham's Town, May 22 ; Natal, April 30.
The principal subject engaging attention at CAPE TORN
when the Hindostan sailed was, a proposal to form a com-
pany for supplying Cape Town and Green Point with water.
The shipownem and sailors frequenting Table Bay, know
well that this is a matter of more than mere Meal importance.
It is, there( re, stratifying to learn from the South African
COIIIIMICI4I Advertiser that, from two springs in the vici-
nity of Newlands, 400,000 gallons of water per diem can be
delivered at comparatively little cost; and from the Cape
of Good Hope and Port Natal Shipping and Mercantile
Gazette that, 1,300 shares out of .5,000 had already
been subscribed fur. The South African Mining Com-
pany were to meet on the 29th of May, to confirm
sr reject the arram2ements made by the directors with a
body of minces to proceed to Orange river. The Advertiser
mentions that on the 28th of May there were (according to
public advertisements) 16,200 sheep and 860 slaughter oxen
for sale in the vicinity of Cape Town.
Siam our previous arrivals nothing of moment had w-
arred in the EASTERIY PROVINCES. Sir Andries Stocken-
strom had returned to his farm, not having succeeded in
inducing the Burghers to join him. The governor was still
busy remodelling the Burgher guards. The troops beyond
the frontier were about to be sent into winter quarters. The
Baffles were for the time quiet. The Graham's Town
Journal of May 15 announces the discovery of an ex-
cellent landing-place at the mouth of the Kleinmontjes.
Ater it had been examined by the Mears. Cawood,
the cceeer, Lady Leith, was ordered to proceed thither.
Bhe dropped anchor about a mile from the beach,
in eight feet water, with a fine holding ground of firm
Mt A surf-boat wag landed, warps laid down, and
▪ considorable quantity of goods landed without any
widen or more than ordinary difficulty. The landing
Place is on the west of the river in the centre of a small
semicircular indentation, which has been named Port
Jamie, Cawood's Bay. There are capital roads from the
beach, either to Bathurst, or Graham's Town. Port Jessie
is said to be more safe and commodious than Waterloo Bay,
Ind is certainly more advantageously situated for the trade
dam district. The lieutenant-governor has sanctioned the
MPloyment of friendly Kaffir' as servants by the colonists,
who will provide for them on their premises. A detailed
registry_ of the Ruffin is to be kept; colonists, who feel
.wlowsed to employ them are to communicate their wishes to
~_
Wcwswunt, who is to intimate them to the Rev. Mr.
Calderwood, or Captain M'Lean, the agent for the T'Siam-
bde tribes; and immediate notice is to be given to those two
Mermen of misconduct or disappearance of any Kaffir
servants. No indentures or apprenticeship are to be allowed.
The Kaffir servant is to be treated in every way as a free
aim, end to receive., a reasonable market value for work
really done. The lieutenant-governor hopes that by this
lams and the immigration of Hottentots the deficient supply
of labour in the frontier districts may be alleviated. Speci-
Wan of fossil coal have beta found a few miles from