The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

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the preceding day, and corroborates the impression
mentioned in our correspondence of yesterday, that
M. Carreira, the Portuguese minister at Paris, would
enter into the new arrangements. He is nominated
for the portfolio of foreign affairs, which, until his
return to Lisbon, will be held by M. Saldanha. The
national guard is disbanded, and most of the official
functionaries at Lisbon and in the provinces will be
removed. A proclamation declares that all the con-
cessions which had been made after the insurrection
of the province of Minho will be continued and
maintained, but that the administration will
check any excesses consequent on that movement.
Doubts are still expressed by the liberal party in
Paris as to the real objects and tendencies of the
movement which has taken place in Lisbon. These
doubts are founded partly on the peculiar circum-
stances in which the Palmella ministry was placed,
whose expulsion from power is regarded by some as
a political ruse to which they were themselves parties,
but more emphatically on the character and known
principles of the Marquis de Saldanha, the chief of
the new cabinet. The National was silent on Sun-
day, notwithstanding its article of Saturday referred
to in our correspondence of yesterday. It evidently
has misgivings. The Constitutionnel declares that
the triumph of the Spanish ministerial party is
enough to indicate the real tendency of the change
which has taken place in Lisbon, where, already, the
principal offices are filled by those who have mani-
fested the most devoted adherence to the Cabrals.
" But the most important news," says the Constitu-
tionnel, "is tne suppression of the national
guard, and of the constitutional guarantees."
Letters from Rome, according to the Courner Fran-
cais, announce that Count Rodolf de Lutzow, the
Austrian ambassador, is about to quit that city, to
return to Vienna, where he will remain for some
months. During his absence, he will be replaced by
the Baron Binder-Kriegelstein, agent of Austria for
ecclesiastical affairs. The departure of M. Lutzow is
attributed to a coolness between the two courts.

" We are enabled to assure the public," says La Presse,'
" that the northern courts, so far from associating them-
selves with the prwensions of the Cabinet of London on the
subject of the Spanish marriages, openly profess sentiments
altogether different. Two of them have even, as we hear,
transmitted to our government the official expression of their
sentiments on this subject."
The ministerial journals felicitate themselves on
the short tenure of office which the Whig Cabinet is,
as they maintain, destined to enjoy. The article in
the recent number of the Quarterly Reriew is
quoted as conclusive on this, in which the numerical
parliamentary force of the Whigs and the Opposi-
tion is estimated, giving the latter a majority of 360
against 293. The Standard is now the favourite
among the English journals with the organs of the
Tuileries. The leading articles in the other London
journals are pronounced to be " brutal," an epithet
which has lately become a favourite with the Court
journals of Paris. The Express is treated with
rather more courtesv, but not less opposition by them.
The Presse of Sunday has another furious anti-Eng-
lish article on the marriage question, extending to
above two columns, the remainder of its leaders being
devoted to prove how soon Lord John Russell and
Lord Palmerston must surrender their offices.

According to El Heraldo of the 13th instant, an
act of amnesty is decided on by the Madrid cabi-
net, and even signed already. It is reported that
Senor Castro de ()rozeo has refused the cross of grand
officer of the legion of honour. Mr. Bulwer was at
the royal Baise-mains of the 12th, and again felicitated
her Majesty on her marriage, but did not address the
Infanta (so says El Espanol). El Tiempo, on the con-
trary,asserts, that the British ambassador was not pre-
sent at any of the recent ceremonies. Everybody
is aware" (we quote El Clamor Publieo), "that Don
Tadeo Calamarde was made Duke of Santa-Isabel,
as a reward for his services to the cause of
despotism under the absolute reign of Ferdinand
VIII. Don Tadeo died at Rome some years
since. Who would have thought that he would have
had for successor a child still at the breast of his
nurse, and sm of a foreign ambassador ? "
" There is (writes the same journal) a remarkable
coincidence between the French marriage in Spain
and the reaction in Portugal. We see 'in this event
the hand of France, which aspires to despoil England
of all influence in the Peninsula, and to establish
there an extensive and absolute rule. El Heraldo,
commenting yesterday en this event, speaks of the
formidable continental barrier which the Conservative
governments of France, Spain, and Portugal, will
oppose to those who may attempt to introduce the
germs of disorder into the Peninsula. Thus England
is forewarned. It is a question of a system of con-
tinental policy, of the formidable alliance between
the conservatives of three nations and their govern-

mente, to neutralise pretended Machiavellian plans.
If England then allows its power to be thus quietly
undennined, and its political importance ruined, it
will be humiliated in the eyes of all Europe, and
its name no longer figure amongst the powers of the
first order."

PORTUGAL.—The following is the proclamation
addressed by the Queen in justification of the recent
coup d'etat.
Portuguese.—The cries which from all sides daily reached
my throne filled ley heart with the most pungent grief, and
my thoughts and cares of every moment were devoted to the
restoration of public prosperity, so violently shaken. Ex-
pressions of severity never issued from my lips, for that feel-
ing is incompatible with the sentiments of maternal love
which I nourish towards my subjects ; but at length, seeing
the abyss into which the course of events was hurrying the
throne of my ancestors, the institutions founded by my
father, and with them the welfare and even the very exist-
ence of this nation, worthy of a better fate, I have resolved to
set a term to 'omens' calamities by interposing myself between
that abyss and triumphant disorder. For this purpose, I have
summoned to my councils men who I hope will aid me in
accomplishing the arduous task imposed upon me by my
love for the noble people whom Providence his confided to
my direction. The instructions which I considered I ought
to give them are comprised in few words, and these I do not
hesitate to repeat, feeling well assured that they will find au
echo in every generous and faithful heart. It is not within
the reach of human power to efface great events from the
annals of nations. Whether justified on principle or merely
admitted as facts, they must be recognised, and when they
have attained an important magnitude, their consequences
must be respected. Such was the popular movement which
originated in the Minho, and which, altered and perverted,
was repeated in other parts of the kingdom. The change
which I have now made in the administration, therefore,
does not signify a reaction against that popular movement,
but only against the excesses to which it subsequently
led. All that the people called for was the re-
peal of the tributary system and of the sanatory laws,
as also the dismissal of the ministers to whom
they ascribed the supposed vexations produced by those
laws. Those concessions were made and will be maintained.
But the people could not wioh that the code of their rights
and liberties—that the talisman (sic) of a hundred fights—
;hat the constitutional charter should be involved in the pro-
scription; and so far were they from harbouring such &desire,
that, even in the very height of the movement, they con-
stantly invoked and hailed the charter ; and grateful indeed
is this circumstance to my heart, which would have been
severely pained to see ungratefully torn the sacred covenant
that binds me to my people, and trodden under foot the
greatest and best work of my lamented father, which he
bound to the existence of my dynasty, and the name of
which was united to mine in the mouths of those brave men
who fell in battle to leave a legacy of liberty to this
land. The author of the charter himself recognised
in it the a xigencies of time and experience ; and
time and experience have in fact shown that some
of its provisions need revisal and alteration. I reject,
however, an excess of authority which does not belong to
me, nor will I, by a simple decree, alter the fundamental
law of the monarchy. I shall, therefore, order my ministers
to promote that revision, but by the method which the
charter itself prescribes. With full confidence in the virtues
of the Portuguese people, I hope to see them rallying round
my throne to aid me in consolidating the great work in which
we are engaged. The clay when I shall see the Portuguese
family laying aside all former hatred, and uniting, never
again to be separated, will be to me the most glorious and
memorable of my life. The whole secret of this desidera-
tum lies in the realisation of two great words—justice and
duty. Let the empire of morality be proclaimed as the
chief thing necessary ; let principles which claim
respect be no longer the sport of ambition ; let
approved merit be the only title to preference; let the most
strict economy he established in every branch of the public
service : let all party distinctions cease ; let the faith of legal
contracts be respected ; and no doubt a brighter day will
dawn upon this Heaven-favoured soil. It is my intention to
send without delay to the several provinces, as my commis-
sioners, persons Nnu are zealous fur the good of the nation,
for the purpose of collecting the complaints and represen-
tations of the people, in order that, taking them into mature
consideration, I may remedy such evils as may be discovered,
and which my solicitude may not bare been able to pre-
vent. Finally. It being my moat earnest desire to
repress all excesses, I wish it to be known that the
inflexible rigour of justice will fall, without distinction of
persons, upon all those who, whatever may be their political
opinions, shall attempt to substitute the empire of terror for
that of morality. I trust that there will be no occasion to carry
into effect this my tixed determination; and that, having
ones more sacrificed myself to the good of my subjects, I
shall find in their loyalty and affection, and in the blessings
of Providence. the only reward which I desire for my exer-
tions. Palms of Belem, Oet. 6, 1446. (Signed) The QUEEN,
Marquis DE SALUANII A, ViPoOUlit OLIV I ERA, Don MsNota.
' DE PORTVOAL, JOCE JACINTO VALENTE FAItINIW.