The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-14 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

A summary of the following appeared in yester-
day's E.rpregs:
A letter from Lisbon, of the 3rd, rs'a Madrid, says
—" In the morning a certain agitation prevailed in
the capital, but up to the departure of the mail no
movement had broken out."

The Duke of Terceira arrived in Lisbon on the Ist,
hut the news of the spread of the revolt in favour of
Saldanha had in the meanwhile rendered a Terceira
cabinet impossible, and the official Dtario do Ooberno
published on the neat day decrees accepting the
Duke's resignation.
A cabinet was then composed by Baron de Luz as
follows :—General Saldanha, President of the Council
and Minister of War; Baron de Luz, Minister of
Foreign Affairs and of the Interior; M. Francos.
Minister ad interim of Wnr, Marine, and Colonies;
M. Francini, Minister of Finance and Justice. It is
not known whether Marshal Saldanha will accept'
this list. The marshal is on friendly terms with the
persons named by Baron de Luz ; but as of late they
have held office under, or supported in the Cortes,
the policy of the Count de Thomar, it is
probable that the marshal will object to them.
The opposition journals speak in very clear
terms of the probability and even necessity of the
abdication of the Queen in favour of her eldest son
aged 14. By law, he only attains his majority at
18, but as the Queen herself ascended the throne at
14, it is not considered that his youth would be an
objection. There is no news from Oporto. It is
feared by many persons that Marshal Saldanha may
throw himself entirely into the hands of the Sep-
tembrists. In fact, since the above was written it is
known that an aide-dc-camp of Saldanha has ar-
rived to-day in Lisbon with a letter from the marshal
submitting to the Queen's approbation the following
list:—Saldanha, President of the Council, without
portfolio; Passoz, Interior; Francini, Finances; Fer-
mi), Justice ; Ferreira, War; Lavradio, Foreign
Affairs ; Viscount de Sa, Marine. This is nearly a
Septembrist cabinet ; and Count Lavradio and the
Viscount do Sa are at the head of the party of pro-
gross. It is feared, however, that the revolution will

not stop here.
The language of the Potriota and Rerolucion, and
the proclamations which circulate at Lisbon, are of a
nature to make excesses feared on the part of the de-
mocrats, while the discipline of the army is shaken.
The dismissal of the Marquis of Fronteira from the
military command of Lisbon and of the National
Guard, and that of the Duke of Terceira from the
command of the first military division, and from the
post of major-domo of the royal household, which
was conferred upon him when taken from Saldanha,
are, I believe, already
.known to you. The crisis re-
sembles that of Spain in 1840, Saldanha playing the
part of Espartero, and Oporto of Barcelona.

ROME, APRIL 30.
His Holiness, I repeat, was seized with alarm at
the sudden apparition of his petitioner, and, with his
majordomo and other attendant prelates about him,
took to his heels in a manner most unsuitable to
papal dignity, the whole party running off as fast as
their long garments would permit, and leaving the
astonished suppliant, probably sonic government
employ,, unjustly deprived of the means of subsist-
ence, kneeling in the dust with the rejected petition
still in his outstretched hand. His astonishment,
however, soon gave way to a different sentiment, for
the Pope's escort, consisting of the usual detachment
of noble guards, rushed furiously at him, knocked
him down, and abused him for having ventured to
intrude his private woes upon the leisure and re-
creation of his paternal sovereign. What had the
poor man to do ? Ile did all that remained to do—
ho got up and rubbed his knees, picked up his
hat, and pocketed his petition, returning home to
his expectant family to bless, no doubt, the clemency
of the Pontiff. Meanwhile big Holiness related the
whole occurrence to Cardinal Simonetti, whose car-
riage hove in sight soon after, and who reverently
alighted from it as soon as be saw the Pope on foot.
During the conversation the two footmen of Ws
Eminence were on their knees behind the cardinal.
The Herald has lately been amusing itself with
collecting the real or pretended instances of protest-
ants being converted to Romanism, as published in
the journals of this city. The following account not
being given in the Osserrnfore Romano asa quotation,
is I presume, derived from private correspondence,
and refers to a recent conversion in Liverpool.
A young lady, beautiful in her person and cultivated in
her mind, frequented with others of her faith the sermons
of Anglican pastors, who, during the past Lent, poured out
with petulant alacrity their historic and dogmatic notions
against catholic., got up as every one knows by the
ignorance and fanaticism of the lying retOrming monks of
the sixteenth century. She, zealous and tender of the An-
glican creed, believed entirely in the words of her pastors,
until the decision of the famous Gorham case shook her
faith. In consequence of her doubts, she consulted the
wisdom of her pastor, who affirmed that baptism was cer-
tainly a divine institution, indispensable to the salvation of
souls. Not satisfied with this, she applied to a bigwig of
the reformed church, who informed her that baptism was a
mere form, in nowise necessary for eternal salvation. Such
enormous contradictions led her to believe that the true
church of Jesus Christ could not possess mutable doctrines
on so capital a point, and that those could nut be true minis-
ters of the gospel who were so much at variance with each
other. The agitation on the catholic question, and the
preaching" and meetings against those who professed
that religion, then greatly scandalised the young
lady, who inquired of herself if true religion
could be in accordance with constant slander and
excitement of the basest passions against persons of •
different creed. Desirous of hearing with her own ears the
doctrines of these persons, painted by the protestants in
such black colours, she repaired with two friends to the
chapel of St. Anthony, where the Itev.Mr. Gillet preached,
and moved her much, as she narrates, by the charity and
unction which flowed front his lips, astonishing her not less
by his copious quotations from holy writ and the fathers,
Whereas she bad been taught that cutholics kept the Bible
concealed. She presented her written scruples to Mr.
Gillet, whose confutation' were so conclusive, that she read
some controversial work of his also. Feminine curitHity
alone urged her at first, but the divine grace, through the
works and words of the pious priest, wrought a wonderful
change in her; so that, soon after, she requested and ob-
tained to be admitted into the bosom of the catholic fold.
To the greater praise of the young convert, be it ojiserved
that, in spite of her moderate fortune, she had sufficient
strength of mind to resist most advantageous offers from
those whose object it was to turn her from her holy purpose. ,
One of her friends will soon follow her steps.
Let the Herald add this story to its list with this
comment—that the inferenoe that the Bible is
allowed to be freely read by Roman esthetics cannot
justly be drawn from Mr. Gillet's sermons, and any
one who has resided in Rome will be able to state
whether he ever found such a book in the houses of
the inhabitants.

The students of the French academy have just
opened their annual exhibition, which, as usual, dis-
plays great talent in drawing, composition, and ex-
pression, accompanied by that peculiar style of
colouring which forms so distateful a characteristic of
the modern French school.

GERMANY.

We have dates from Berlin, by telegraph, as
late as the 13th inst. The King and Queen of
Prussia are certainly to leave Berlin on the lath
for Warsaw. Tho conferences which are to be
held in that city seem likely to be important.
Not only M. Manteuffel will be there on the
19th, but M. de Itochow, the Prussian plenipo-
tentiary in the Diet, will join them. The latter
gentleman is to leave Frankfort on the 17th. He
M. Berlin for the Diet, in company with M. Bis,
mark-Sehonhausen, on the evening of the 115th.
Major Boddien, the King's aid-de-camp, has started
for Paris, on a political mission.
It is again said that the Minister of Finance has
lent in his resignation.

The new N HAMBURG, MAT 10.
orwegian Four per Cent. loan, negotiated
jointly by Solomon Heine and by Hambro and Son,
amounting to 3,600,000 marks banoo, is a series of the old
one negotiated by the same housm a few years ago. The
latter rose to 101 l ; but the former, brought in the market
yesterday, could not be realised at more than 99, which,