The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
vessel, the Queen, Captain Weeks, which arrived
yesterday evening at Southampton, we have
advises from Gibraltar to the Gth, Cadiz 7th, Lisbon
10th, Oporto 11th, Vigo 12th, and Corunna 13th
inst. From Oporto, which is still blockaded
by the Donr.a Maria frigate, we learn that
Baron Casal, with 1,000 foot and 200 horse,
was at Chaves ; Se de Bandeira at Villa Real,
in pursuit of him with about 2,000 men, mostly mob.
The advanced guards of the armies of the Count das
Antas and Marshal Sandanha, were within sight of
each other, and a battle was daily expected. The
supplement to the Diario do Gorerno of the Bth inst.
contains a despatch from Major Schareo, attached to
the column of operations to the north of the Tagus,
in which he states that on the 7th inst. he fell in with
and defeated a body of rebel guerillas on the road to
Cintra, commanded by Ignacio de Barros, with a loss
on his own part of only one man killed and five
wounded. The rebel force amounted to from four to
five hundred men, two hundred of whom were
regularly armed; the rest had only pikes and fowl-
ing-pieces. The exact less of the rebels could not be
ascertained. A correspondent states that Ignacio de
Barros having, as he said, expended all his ammuni-
tion, 6,000 rounds, fled the field disguised as a pea-
sant, and took refuge on board the English Admiral's
ship—a somewhat unlikely place fur a rebel chief
to fly to. The Government, he adds, had issued
orders for his being instantly shot if taken. The fol-
lowing is the letter of our Oporto correspondent :
OPORTO Nov.ll.

The Count dos Antes, President of the 'Revolution-
ary Junta in Oporto, who had marched to Coimbra with
two columns of regular troops, consisting of the 2d, sth, and
15th regiments of the Line, part of the Municipal Guard of
Oporto, 3rd Artillery, ith Cassadores, together about 2000
men, left Coimbra wilt the same force, and a number of
guerillas, armed at and round Coimbra, on the Lisbon road,
and by our last accounts was at Leiria. The Baron de Casal,
with 1001 foot and about 200 horse, in favour of the Queen,
came down to Vallocgo, about five miles from Oporto, under
promise that the 3rd Infantry and 2rl Cassadores stationed at
Oporto, would declare in favour on his arrival, and join him.
Tots plan has, however, been frustrated, by all Casal's cor-
respondence having been intercepted, and the officers of those
two regiments were partly removed, and partly put in prison:
so, Casal not being strong enough to take the city, retreated,
and by our last accounts was at Chaves (Teas os Montes.)
The Viscount a' Bandeira went out from Oporto to
attack him,with the greater part of regular troops and Muni-
cipal Guards, and about 500 volunteers of Oldveiro doe Amele,
Vista Alegv..i, Aveiro, &c., and is said to have arrived at Villa
Real. It is generally asserted and believed that all the
province of Trestle Mentes as favourably inclined towards the
Queen's party ; all the Minho province is in the hands of
the revolutionary government, but the inhabitants, mostly
Miguelites, take no interest in favour of any of the parties,
except when forced. Of the inhabitants of Oporto at least
nine-tenths are in favour of the Lisbon government, but
have not got courage to move for want of a proper auide,
whilst the revolutionary government has been very active
and take energetic meesures. The fortifications all around
Oporto are getting very strong, and the National Guard is
mustering in force already, but certainly will not stand fire,
even behead the walls. Notwithstanding the frigate Donna
Maria being off, in order to blockade the Bar, vessels are
coming in and going out pretty regularly, except on Sunday,
when two Portuguese vessels, one from Rio Grande and one
from Pari, were sent to Lisbon by the frigate. The l'ortu-
guese steamer Duque do Porto has been sent out by the
Junta with sealed orders; some say, to take money to the
Algarve', others to fetch troops from the Azores Islands.
She can only transport 130 men at the utmost. The Spanish
steamer Peninsula left on the 9th, for Vigo, with despatches
of the consul. The (ilandiator is at Oporto.

ANCONA.—PROPOSED NEW ROUTE TO INDIA.—
A letter from Ancona, of the sth inst., has the following
" Mr. Waghorn arrived in this city from Vienna the day
before yesterday, and set out the following day for Rome,
after having had a long interview with the English Consul
here. His visit has reference to the establishment of a new
route by Ancona, Lombardy, and the Splugen, for the trans-
mission of correspondence between England and India, the
first experiment in which is to be made next month. It is
said that, in order to facilitate the transport of the India
mail by this route, a railway will be constructed along the
southern shore of the Adriatic. The Austrian government
is disposed to second all the efforts of Mr. Waghorn. It is
further proposed to abolish completely the quarantine, so far
u relates to all Turkey in Europe, and to Asiatic Turkey as
far as Smyrna."
GERMANY.—VIENNA, Nov. 7.—The ordonnance
issued by the Bavarian government, imposing a duty of
twenty-five per cent. on the exportation of corn, has caused
an unfavourable impression in Tyrol, which imported most
of its grain from Bavaria, and which enjoyed the privilege
of only paying one-half of the usual duty on the importation
of corn into the Austrian dominions. The Austrian govern-
ment has found itself, with regret, obliged to deport from its
principle of not hindering the free circulation of grain, and
has-placed restrictions on corn exportations. Archduke
Stephen, before leaving for Prague, had a conference with
Prince Metternich, which lasted three hours.
BERLIN, Nov. 7.—A petition to the provincial
Diet is circulating among the citizens to solicit a constitution
of the States-General. The fact is important, as hitherto
the citizens of Berlin paid but little heed to the question of
a constitution. The inhabitants of Naumburg persist in
their opposition to the government, and refuse to appoint
new delegates.
Nov. B.—lt is now positively asserted that the
taxes due from July to September, which are usually re-
quired to be paid in the month of December, need not be
paid on this occasion till March next year. Consider-
ing the present scarcity of money, this delay is
certainly entitled to gratitude. We are able to state
on good authority, that the punishment of the basti-
nado is entirely excluded from the new draught of the
penal code ; it may bekecollected what opposition this punish-
ment met with in most of the provincial assemblies, when
the draught was first laid before them, and that only two of
these assemblies were in favour of retaining it. This news
will therefore undoubtedly give great satisfaction.
STETTIN, Nov. 4.—The government has ordered
the construction of a number of gun-boats, for the defence
of the port in case of war.
A letter from the Maine states that the towns of
Wurzburg, Bamberg, and Ratisbon, are to be declared free
ports.
BADEN, Nov. 11.—While the attention of the
German people, and of the German press, was turned exclu-
sively to the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein, an event which
seems worthy of serious consideration, has passed almost
unnoticed. We mean the resolution of the first
chamber in Baden in favour of the press. If the
second chambers in Germany have hitherto petitioned
for the freedom of the press, this can create no sur-
prise ; but is a very novel and significant occurrence that
a first chamber, consisting of the moat aristocratic and con-
servative elements of the country, declares its opinion that