The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-26 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Pacha, Capt.
Wicks, arrived at Southampton on Saturday, and
landed her mails under charge of Lieut. J. Inglis, R.N.,
Admiralty agent. Her data are Gibraltar, Feb. 16 ;
Cadiz, Feb. 17; Lisbon, Feb. 19; Oporto, Feb. 20;
Vigo, Feb. 21. The Pacha brings epecie to the
amount of 7,000/.
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At Gibraltar the fleet were dispersing; the Power-
fal to join Sir W. Parker, the Vanguard for England,l
St. Vincent to follow ; bat the admiral had written to
his friends at Lisbon that he was going there. Two
steamers were about to be sent to destroy the boats
of the Moorish pirates, from whom the Polyphemus
rescued the brig. The emperor having replied
that he had no authority over them, Mr. Redmon's
claim on the government of Morocco, which Sir C.
Napier was sent here to enforce, (17,000 dollars)
the emperor left to the arbitration of two merchants
of Gibraltar, Messrs. Cowell and Ross, who reduced
I it to 10.000 dollars.

Sir R. Wilson left Gibraltar on the 12th inst,
in the Polyphemus, for Malaga, where he wits meet
graciously received by the authorities. The new
governor, Sir R. W. Gardner, landed and was sworn
into the government on the 14th, 36 hours after the
former left. All kinds of government scrip and
paper money at Lisbon were merely nominal. No
one would purchase, and the dividends were seriously
in arrears.

The letter of our correspondent is aa follows :
LISBON, Fin. 19.
In my last I hinted that the elements of which the ministry
is composed could not hold long together. Disunion has
already taken place among them, and reports affirm there is
another crisis, in which the continuance of the great and
eveveltanging chief Baldanha at the head of the counsels of
his obstinate mistress is muck doubted. It is supposed that
Teixeira will be the next actor in a ministerial scene, but at
present to form any conjecture as to the persons likely t,)
take part In the drama is impossible ; though Count Thomar's
name is mixed up in the matter, I do not think the count
will again compromise himself with the Duke of Tereeir-II
although the money making Count Tojal (John Oliviave
may, and is very likely to do so.
Public clamour against the directors of the bank has com•
palled the Chamber of Deputies to fonts a committee to in-
quire into the state of the bank. The notes are at a discount
of 44 per cent. I mentioned in my lam the nature of the
loan made with the bank : the matters are now concluded, '
and the bank lends to the government a loon of 180 contos,
and negotiates another of 576 contos, upon the
lowing conditions :—Thc bank is to hod the 180 ,
cantos, as mentioned, at 30 coat°, per month (one
tourth being in bank notes) at the interest of 6 per
cent. per annum to take immediate effect : and to negotiate
the 676 cantos, which are to be 360 coutos in money, a fourth
of which is to be in bank notes, and 216 cantos in titules of
the pay of servants of the state posterior to July 1848, the
money to be paid to the treasury at the rate of 60 cantos per
montb, from February to July; and the rest, being in
titules, to be opened for payment until December without
mentioning in what monthly proportion,. Their repayment
to be from the dsclmu and taxes annexed to them due for
the last two quarters of 1848. The amount of these decimas
and taxes will be reprmonted by treasury b ads or bills of
1,200 refs, 2,400 refs, and so on, to 96,000 nil,
which will be held by the bank as a security, and in cam
any of the amounts et them bills should not be paid, they
will be received ix payment ofduties at the custom-houses;
and if, at the end of December, 1849, any of these sums re-
main unpaid, bills will be given in exchange for them, upon
the Lisbon and Oporto custom-houses, to be paid from Janu-
ary to June, 1860.

HAYTL—The Journal du Havre has the following :
Correspondence from Hayti, mentions fact. important to
commerce. According to the latest news, the government
refuses to reesive the thesenty bans in payment tar ca,tom
dues ; the tax upon foreign residents has been increased to
25 per amt. We have elready announced that the Heytian
government had monopeised the trade in cotton and coffee
and had published a tariff filing the maximum at which
foreign commodities were to be sold. We have now before
us the text of the decree, to this effect. By virtue of the
fleet article, the government monopolises, ' for the present,
only cotton and coffee.' The contractors for these
artkles will take them at the rata of 26 dollars the

100 ate. of ooffse, sad 26 dollars 50 cents the
1001 be. of cotton, in open ports. Government on its part
will take these merchandise, allowing to the managers one
dollar the 10011*., and will itself resell them to the exporters
at • like profit. In closed parts these prices will be sub.
jest to a redaction of one dollar. The tariff relative to
foreign commodities, includes all articles of absolute neces-
sity, and fixes a wholesale and a retail
.price above which
it is forbidden to sell under a penalty of 20 per cent. on the
price of the merchandise ; the flee however not to exceed
6 dollars. Oa the let of January the forty-sixth anniversary
of the republic was celebrated with much solemnity.
Among other laws recently promulgated by the chambers
at Ihyti, is one prohibiting the exportation of pinion,
metals, whether in specie, bars or ingots:,

the Court.