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

PORTUGAL.

FLIGHT OF COUNT DE THOMAR.
The Oriental Company's steam-packet Montrose,
Captain J. Bowen, arrived at Southampton yester-
day, and landed her mails under the charge of
Lieut. E. P. Fuge, It.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates arc:—Gibraltar, 23th April; Cadiz, 29th ;
Lisbon, 29th ; Oporto, 30th ; Vigo, 30th.
Although the Portuguese government pretended
to know nothing of the movements or successes of
Saldanha when the Montrose left Lisbon on the
29th ult., the Count de Thomar resigned on the 27th,
and just us the Montrose was leaving he went on
board and placed himself under the protection of the
British flag. lie was landed at Vigo, where he will
remain until the next packet arrives from Lisbon,
when his movements will be governed by the news
he receives. If he is allowed to retain his office of
minister at Madrid, to which he has been appointed
by the Queen, he will proceed to London to see
the Exhibition, and atter a short stay there
go to Madrid. If he is not allowed to retain it,
lie declared that he should be unable to atfOrd
to visit England. He asserted that he was com-
paratively speaking a pour man, notwithstanding
the charges of corruption and peculation that had
been brought against him. He offered a year and a
halt' since to give up all his projwrty for II cantor of
reis, and it is stated that Alfttte the possession of
which was considered to be his crowning iniquity,
he does not possess. Just before landing at Vigo, he
was much depressed in spirits, and was very anxious
about the fate of his wile and family, whom he had
left in Lisbon.

On the resignation of Thomar, the Queen sent for
the hPuke da Terceira, who was with the army under
the command of the King. Saldanha objects to Ter-
ceira, and it is asserted at Oporto that he caused
a message to be sent to the Queen giving
strict orders that it should be respectfully
addressed to her Majesty, which was to the effect
.• that the Duke of Saldanha did not draw his sword
merely to allow the Count de Thontar to return at the
head of the government in six months hence, and that
the prime minister ought to be the choice of the nm-
jority of the nation." The Duke of Saldanha entered
Oporto on the 29th, the civil and military authorities
marching out with a few followers. Nothing could
equal his triumphal entry into that town. Nearly the
whole population of the place weut out three leagues
to meet ham. They strewed the road with flowers,
and the windows of the houses were covered with
waving damask. The King was retreating on the
capital, Part of his body-guard joined Suldanha at
Oporto on the 29th. The King left Coimbra on the
27th,
with only a regiment of soldiers, which at-
tended him as an escort, and who intended to march
to Oporto afterwards.
Tojul, Coimbra, Braga, Manna, Vimiera, Guc-
marucos, and the strong fortress of-Valencia, have all
declared for Saldanha, and troops from those places
were marching to join him at Oporto. According
to a private letter received on board the Montrose
from Oporto dated April 29, and to intelligence re-
ceived at Vigo on the 30th, Valencia pronounced in
favour of Saldanha on the morning of the 29th ult.
One of the regiments of Caeadores stationed at
Oporto had shot their colonel for refusing to delivor
up the colours of the regiment. They also shot the
adjutant, who assisted the .tolonel in protecting
them. The colonel shot two men before he was
killed.

It was rumoured at Vigo that the Spanish govern-
ment had ordered an army of observation to assemble
at Teria, on the northern frontier of Portugal. One
regiment had already arrived, and two other regi-
ments, as well as the captain-general of that pro-
vince and staff, would arrive at that place on tho
evening of the 30th April.
The following is the letter of our correspondent :

LISBON, APRIL 29.
On the 24th, towards night, a rising took place at Oporto,
the 9th Cacadores taking the lead, followed by the 2nd In-
fantry, whose colonel, it is said, was killed in indeasouring
to obstruct it. These regiments having united, and being
joined by a detachment of artillery, went to the quarter of
the municipals, who joined them , the 6th Infantry after-
wards rising. The Count de Cajal and the civil governor,
with two aides-de-camp of the former, fled towards Braga.
Colonel Monis, of the 6th, took the command of the troops,
which he relinquished to Saldanha, who entered nu the
24th, being most enthusiastically received.
The Queen, yielding to circumstances, has dismissed the
! count from his post, which, she says, he exercised " much
to her content ; thus again offending the nation. The
Duke de Terceira is appointed President of Ministers. The
final arrangement, it is supposed, will be as follow 4—
Terceira, President and Minister-at-War; Duarte Leiteo.
I liome Minister; Bishop of Vixen, Justice; Baron de
Chaneelleiros, Finance; Falcao, Marine; Viscount de
Castro, Foreign. This is truly out of the frying-pan into
the tire. It will be a ministry of vengeance, by which the
Count de Thomar will be able to exercise all his ill-nature
and antipathies: it cannot possibly last, but must be at.-
tended with increased dissatisfaction, and more trouble*.
The King's troops at Coimbra have adhered to the rising
at Oporto.

I have given yon my latest news first.
The difficulty of obtaining correct intelligence volitive to
Saldanha has been increased, and the government throw
every obstacle in the way of it by opening letters, keeping
newspaper, aqd spreading false report', meowing to the

latter Sit Mantis had, some days since, left the army in dis-
guise, and bad not limn heard of ; he had retired into
tipain, and the fore of the Ist Cacadures via so reduced in
its march to join him that it amounted to a mere fraction ;
and yet thin fraction the queen's troops were unable to
make prisoner.. I shall, therefore, give you as much in-
formation as will show that the attitude of Saldanha and
the progress of revolt ure alike feared by the government.
In Oporto the first thing Count de Caxid did was to sus-
pend the habeas corpus and prohibit all the newspapers but
one (the government organ), upon his own individual au-
thority, and contrary to law. In Lisbon the Count di
Thomar packed up all bis valuable goods and chattels,
ready for a start.
tialdatilia was received in Coimbra enthusiastically,
and complimented by an infinite number of people.
The King, on the contrary, entered Coimbra, end while he
was passing through the various streets, the most sullen
silence pre-vailed ; he was received only by those officials
whose duty it was to receive him ; as soon, however, as it
was known he would enter the town, a petition was got up,
having some hundred signatures, to dismiss the ministry.
The King having assisted at "Te Deum " fur his happy
arrival, afterwards received the deputation with the peti-
tion. On receiving it he said," Who are these gentlemen ?"
One of them replied, We come in the name of the inha-
bitants of Coimbra to present to your Majesty this represen-
tation." " What 1191.,1 it contain ?" said the King.' " Your
Majesty will know its content,. upon reading it, was the
reply. The King wid," 'fell me what it contains ?" "It is
a petition that the inhabitants of Coimbra address to your
Majesty, to interrede with the Queen to dismiss the Count
de 1. homer from her counsels, in order that it may put au end
to the present civil war." The King returned," I ant here
nothing more than commander-in-chief of the army, and
lhe-refire cannot receive the representation. I recognise
the right of pooh ,i,, n, and you can therefore address her
Majesty the queen. I stn sorry as you, gentlemen, for
this trifling (pywna), occurrence (referring to the civil
war); but I am nut competent to receive the representation,
because I am here only as commander-in-chief of the army,
and nothing mom" . - .

Alter this dialogue, the deputation retired. It is said
that the King was net '-had, the further he went into the
country, the more decfcrooted be found the feeling against
the government, and particularly against the Count de
Thomar; so much so, that he desired to be relieved from
the post of peril and responsibility, which he hail so unad-
visedly and so improperly taken upon himself. The forces
which entered Coimbra with the hang were about 1,400;
and he was perfectly cognisant of the fact, that neither
theist nor the forces of the Count de Santa Maria, which
were advancing against Sahlanha from the north (40 as to
hem him in), would draw a trigger against the General,
whom the government spier represented as having lied.
No account, however, has been given of Santa Maria ; it is
supposed he retreated.
believe considerable reliance was placed upon the aid of
Great Britain ; but the squadron has received orders from
the British government to carry out its instructions, regard-
less of what happens
The 4th Catmelores hare arrived from Tarim; but its
known disaffection was previously smothered by a small
payment on account of the immense arrears due to the
soldiers.

The " trifling " civil war has already cost the govern-
ment MO coutos. They want money—the hank has refused
it. It ha■ Lein said a furred loan was threatened, in which
ease the hank would have shut up its door 4, sod lest the
conscientious ministers to have broken them open, had they
de•ird it.

It is suppowil the government has taken up some money
at an amounding sacrifice. Every money transaction indi-
cate% a nearer approach to a bankruptcy, which cannot be
long averted.
.

fly the last packet an order arrived to press the British
claims to an issue. The injustice of the government can-
not be more manifest than by their settling Costar's claim,
after two deeres emaciating from the opinions of the
council of state hail declared it inadmissible. Without re-
ganling the decrees issued upon those' opinions of the coun-
cil, the government settled it in their face, and without re-
voking them ; while Mr. Croft's claim fur license to regis-
ter his wife's portion remains in slau quo.
The movement in the wine market at Oporto for the
month of March is as follows Exported to the ports of
Europe, 3,730 pipes of wine and 4 pipes of Geropiga of the
first quality ; to ports nut of Europe, 6 pipes of wine of the
first quality, and 116 of the second quality ; for conoimption
in the kingdom, 6 pipes of the first quality, and for home
consumption, 10 pipes of the first quality, 1,192 of the second
quality, and 4 pipes of Geropiga of the second quality ,• re-
maining in store, 71,331 pipes of wine, and 1,501 of Gem-
pig:, of the first quality, and 10,566 pipes of wino and
1,430 of Geropiga of the second quality.
On the 23rd, the Phaeton, Arethusa, and Indefatigable,
sailed on a cruise.

Exchange sii ; di,count of Lisbon Bank Noted three per
cent.

GERMANY.

The Augsburg Ablensrine Zedung announces that
a few days before the departure of King Otho from
Munich the succession to the throne of Greece was
settled un Prince Adalbert, on the condition that his
children should become members of the Greek
church. The Breslau Zritung says that the Arch-
duke Leopold is to be appointed to the government
of Hungary, as, under the present system, no one
out of the imperial family will undertake the re-
sponsibility of tilling the post of Hungarian Stadt-
holder. The Now Preusaisehe Zeitung positively
asserts that the Austrian provincial assemblies [Land-
tap] are to be almost immediately convoked, and
that the general Iteiclistage will be also shortly after
summoned. it adds that these assemblies will put
the constitution of the 4th March to the test, but that
it will bear this test all parties, it says, entertain
very little hope.