The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-04 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Om 29.
The circular of Magalhaens, the minister of the
interior, which I sent in my last, has placed a gulf
between the people and the government, and
so compromised it with the national party,
that it is very clear there can be no re-
union while Mngulhaens remains in the cabinet.
This minister wishes to separate the followers of the
Cabrillo from their leaders, but the idea is a vain
one, and only serves those whom they intended to
damage. The Queen never beheld Rodrigo de Fon-
seca Nlagalliaens with pleasure, and every effort
to work himself into such favour is equally Utopian.
With reference to the rumour I communicated in
my lust, that certain proposals had been made to the
Cabralites to enable the government to overthrow the
Septembristas, the government contradicts it in their
official journal of the 2.2nd instant, in the following
way ;—" The assertion, that the ministers made pro
posals to the central Carlista party, is, by superior
order, declared destitute of foundation." This im-
mediately put the Cabralistas upon their mettle, and
the following morning their three organs declared
there was nut a word or a syllable of truth in the
contradiction ; and that " to the official declaration
they would reply by facts, as they appeared in the
journal of the central electoral commission of the
meeting of the Ist October instant, held at their
house in St. John-Nepomeeeno." Which facts, they
further stated, related to the subject in question, and
are given to the world in a publication which many
people believed to be a pure invention of the Cabra-
lites. The Cabralite party convened a meeting at
Silva Cabral's for Sunday last, and employed in
distributing its circulars all the civil petty authori-
ties of the police and municipal chamber; but not-
withstanding every exertion, 300 persons were all that
assembled. The business of the day may be summed
up in a few words—that if their party did not suc-
ceed, all would go wrong, for they alone could save
the Queen, the Charter, and everything else.
An ultramarine council has been established by
decree, to whom it will belong to regulate and ad-
minister the affairs of the colonies under prescribed
regulations; it is calculated to have the eftCet of de-
veloping their resources. The council consists of a
president, Viscount Sada Bandeira ; a vice-presi-
dent, l)on Manse' de Portugal e Castro; and ten
members.

The naval battalion (marines) has been dissolved
by decree, and a corps of military mariners is to be
formed, similar to the organisation observed in the
French marine.

the following is the state of the treasury for the
month of September:—Receipts, including the for-
mer balance, 649,213,694 refs; payments, 570,3e40,290
reis; balance to account of October, 78,83:3001 reis.
Of the receipts, the Custom-house paid in 158,241,923
reis; the Sete Cuzas, 49,875,185; duties on grain,
12,415,350 ; Mint, 9,676,728; and I'ga-office,
6,953,728 reis. Among the payments were
104,482,306 to the Junta do Credit() Public°.

The authorities here have only declared Oporto
" clean" from the 1 Jth, disregarding the clean bills
of health which the authorities of that city had
given from the 10th.
The government have done an act of justice,
which has received its due mced of praise. From the
various insurrections which have taken place in this
country, there were several chivies of officers, termed
" amnistiados," that is, persons who had received the
benefit of the several amnesties which had been
issued after each event. These officers were classi-
fied, and comprised all who had been amnestied from
the convention of Evora Monte to the close of the '
in-
surrection in 1847 ; they were placed on the sec-
tions of the army to which prescribed decrees pro-
' nounced they were to belong, receiving a different
pay, and to all intents and purposes undergoing a
degree of punishment nut at all in accordance with
the meaning or intention of an amnesty—in a word,
they were outcasts from the army and their profes-
sional career. A decree has therefore been signed,
extinguishing these classes both in the army and
navy, and re-opening the military career to those
who desire and are in condition to em-
brace effective service; and those who are not,
or who do not present themselves to the military
commission for the purpose of having their services
made available, will be placed on the retired list, in
accordance with the law of 1790. The civil officers
of both arny and navy similarly situated are also
placed in every respect in a similar position ; and the
decree laudably provides that no officer shall be
deprived of any part of tho time of his service on
account of political causes. The decree is also to
extend to the same classes of officers in the colonies,
who are to enjoy the same benefit of it.
The Arethusa and Dauntless got under weigh
yesterday morning very early, the Dauntless both
steaming and under a press of canvas, to make the
lbest of their way to Tangiers.
1 Another decree has been promulgated, limiting the
I free admission of whatever articles foreign ambas-
sadors accredited to the court of Lisbon may require
for use or consumption to an exact reciprocal obser-
vance of what Portuguese ambassadors, accredited
Ito the courts of their respective sovereigns, are per-
, muted to receive for use or consumption free of duty.
The elections are now the subject of paramount
consideration. Among the pledges required by the
, electors of the primary assemblies are the following:
to support such a reform in the charter as will sus-
tain the representative monarchy with the utmost i
degree of liberty; to make a law rendering public
functionaries responsible ; to oppose by every means '
any ministry of the Count Thomar, or of his bro.
I ther's; to make an electoral law upon the basis of
`the electoral decree of the 20th of June last, or even
more iberal, if it shall be possible; to vote for a re-
, vision of the indemnities conceded to the contractors
of tobacco, roads, and all others given by the Thomar
Ministry; to vote for the suppression of the fiscal
I regulations of the Sete Cuzas, and the diminution of
imposts; to make a law for a better assessment of
the tithe, with elective boards, a diminution of em-
ployes, and of the great expenses of collection ; to
vote for the revision of the law of fumes and the ex-
tinction of entails (tow/vat/Qs); also fur the abolition
' of the monopoly of soap, and, if it be possible, that
lof tobacco; and to establish the liberty of commerce
upon a more extended scale.
Exchange, 331; discount of Lisbon bank notes, 2
per cent.

GERMANY.
FRANKFORT.

The following published in the
Prase (Paris paper), and dated Frankfort, the 27th
uit.:
A complete change is imminent in the financial world.
Whilst the monied aristocracy of England, amongst which
Messrs. Rothschild figure on the second rank are prepar-
ing for Kossuth a reception such as no king has obtained,
the new Austrian loan has entirely failed. It is well known
that the Austrian government has been unable to rea.ise
more than 4.5 millions of florins instead of the 8.5 which it
expected. Of these 4.5 millions, 40 were raised at home,
and 5 only abroad. But besides the fact that the communes
were forced to contribute to the loan, Trieste, to wit, under
pain of losing her rights as a free port, the Austrian govern-
ment consented to take in payment, instead of cash, old
obligations for war expenses of divers provinces which had
almost lost their value. Tho 40 millions thus raised in
Austria are in the main, therefore, but fictitious, and
destined to serve as a bait for foreign capitalists. We learn
now from a certain source that Austria has charged the
great houses of Sina and Rothschild to sell at any price the
remaining 40 millions of scrip.
But an important loan cannot be made without bankers'
assistance, and the bankers are abandoning Austria.
This circumstance seems to be the real cause that has led
to the meeting in this city of the four representatives of the
Rothschild house. The object of consultation has been also
to advise as to the means proper to adopt to cover the losses
which this house has already had, and is likely to have, in
consequence of the present financial position of Austria.

SAXONY.

Zeiluny of I)trsden of the

27th, which published a repoit of the Westminster
meeting in honour of M. kossuth, was seized and
suppressed by the police, by order of the Minister of
the Interior. The journal states that it gave only
an abstract of the proceedings, and expressed no
opinion of its own on the subject of the debate, and
denies that the matter seized comes under the pro-
vision of the law on the authority of which the
minister issued the order. The otficial Dresdener
Journal condenses all the reports of the proceedings
in England, at Southampton and elsewhert•, to half
a line, stating that " M. Kossuth had landed " at the
above named port. Within a month five different
works, published by the firm of Otto Wigand and
Co., at Leipzig, have been seized, and the sale pro-
hibited.
Among them is the work of General'
Klapka on the War in Hungary and in the Sieben-
btirgen. M. Wigand intended to make a strong re-
presentation to the government of the ruin such sei-
zures would bring on the publishing business, which
employs in Leipzig an immense number of indi-
viduals. Immediately after Klapka's work had been
seized and put under the seal of the police, an order
for it arrived from Marshal Radetzki. In the month
of June last no less than 32 German works were
prohibited by the Russian government, sonic of them
the same as those recently prohibited in the Papal
States.