The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-25 00:00:00

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUFSDAT Evritixc.
The Tagus has arrived wi,b the Peninsular mails.
She left Lisbon on the 19th inst. Amongst her pas.
sengers is the celebrated Barbet, the French ex:let
and several Crimean heroes.

It is believed that Fontes will join the present
Portuguese Ministry. It is believed that Sanchez
influences the finance department, although his name
does not appear as one of the ministers. It is certain
that some addition will be made to the present
cabinet. Several places in the Portuguese Ministry
are only held temporarily.
The works of the Central Peninsular Railway are
going on. The principal Foolish engineers have,
' however, been discharged. Font& contract with
Shaw will, it is believed, be seriously altered.
The result of the change of ministry has proved
the strength of the progreseista cause, although
Thomar and his party will be a dingeroas opposition
in the House of Peers. It is believed that the peers
will oppose the second article of the Thornton con-
tract. Our Lisbon correspondent says, " The
article is regarded as a nominal mater, which eir.
cumetances will never allow to be realised ;" it is as

follows :
Io addition to the above a c•rtifc+te shall be gives On-
titling the bolder of every LAW Three per Cent. Stook to
one per cent. annually, or any smeller scm that m►y arise
from surplus profits of the railways t be constructed out of
the proposed loam, i. e , each surplus to b• odcala'ed on
the basis of the I coat of in, by which the capital
has beta rased for their omit/action
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The Thomar opposition intend to make this a point,
and the government being most anxious to arrange
with Mr. Thornton, have prevailed upon Mr. Rum.
ball, a relative of that gentleman's agent at Lisbon, to
proceed to England by this steamer to consult ups
the propriety of omitting the obnoxious cl:use
There can be little doubt that the best policy for the
bondholders will be to meet the views of the govern-
' ment, otherwise there are the chances of Thomar's
opposition, .aid to be in mejonity on the point, and of
the new elections on the dissolution of ItLe Cotter
I after the 1511. July, when tae measure. it procrasti-
nated, will have to be debated de eon) by the sew
Chambers, and there may then be fresh complicazion•
Saldsnha has threatened to resign his Foss se
Field-Marshal. Tnis has created a gnat sensation'
All grain, except Indian corn, in to be admitted at
a nominal duty until December, 18,57.
Exchange at Lisbon on London, 30 daps, 541 to
54i; 90 days, 84r. to 54i. Parte, 100 days, 520.
Hamburg, 3 month,, 49. Amsterdam, 3 month', 431.
Omuta, 3 months, 517. There has been more Mr
mond for paper on London this packet than there
had been for some time back, and business closed
with money over at 54! for 90 days. On the other
carted.
places no transactions of any importance have co
The quotations for stock are the following :—Thwe
per Cent. Inscriptions, ex div., 431 to 44 ; Bank
al
Portugal shares, from par to 1 per cent. prcm ; Bank
of Oporto sham, from 18 to 20 per cent. prem.

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

(.Y ILICTILIC

PLYMOUTH, TIJIIIDAT Niour.

Tha African ►oyal mail steam ship Ethiope, Capt.
ti H. Barnwell, arrived hors this evening at.lo
tia homeward dates are:—Fernando Po, May St
4111( roues, 4; Old Calabar, 6 ; Bonny, 8; Lagos,l2l
t;r,, I 1 ; Cape Coast Cava., 13; Monrovia, 21
era Leone, 26; llathorat, 31; Gorse, inns
Tweak, 11; Madeira, 13.

She has on board the usual mail', a general cargo,'
10,-.:adieg 2,360 ounces of gold dust and 354 emits of
pia oil, and 22 passenger,. Mr. A. B. Pewee,
uwen'r Advocate, Bathurst, died at sea, June 11.
At Bunny the country was in a more settled state.
F.,agrtements had taken place between the King
sad the merchants at Lagos. The trade in palm oil
vas very dead.
At Accra the Acting Governor bad reduced the
iiiiFost duty, and the levy of the poll-tax had been
rsrponed until the receipt of instructions from home.
Trade was improving.

The Scourge and Alecto were at Cape Coast In
the Assim country an important dispute bad been
settled. 'The rains had set in very early. The palm
oil trade was very brisk at Liberia.

The Gambia left Monrovia, outward bound, May 15.
A fancy ball was given in honour of the Queen's
birth-day, os May 23, at Sierra Leone, by the °over-
sew and his Lady. The Philomel and the Hecate
had sailed from there for England.

IMPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.)

The S took the chair at twelve o'clock.

PETITIONS.-- -
Petitions were presented by Mr. ROZBUCK, fro= the
Cml Servants of Cork on the subject of the Sap rsonuatios
Food; by 811. WILLIAM V . , f,om • plees to Intend,
szsiast the Maynorth Great; by Sir R. BIONOLD, froas
;ISM/ in Norfolk, seventies alterations in the
Mercantile Law Aweadwea Bill; by Mr. Brom;
hos various parts of the cnatry, praying for the total n.
peal of al grants and state endowments to the Wins. ea
tho;,c retwon ; by Mr. B•DrIILD, ft,. the inercantle
interest of Suffield, praying the howe to reject the clause
lithe Mercantile Law Ansendisent /3 II whisk relates to
Se Semite of Frauds.

WINE DUTIEB.
Ne. OLIVIERA gave notice that on Tuesday, the Bth
Jai', he should move fo• a redaction of the duties on Lat.
NAYNOOTH COLLEGE BILL.
Ifr. SPOONER, in niovir.g the second readieg of this
bill, entered into an explanation of ire provisions. It re-
pealed the Mayaeoth Act of lee apiration, and left that
oistitatims to be se pr ort-ol by private wee.. It would meal
thereat. toldaynooth,with thesiegle sac, ptlon of the snow-
ier., made to the *listing Endear, end profe•son, but at
their deaths, the groat, under the provision of this bill,
would entirely cope. These were the pimple provisions of
the bill; and, sines the doctrines taught at Noy-
smith were idolatrous, at tier sae* with the prin-
ohl.s of tree religion, and diametrically opposed to the
inititatios of the country, to pay for the propagation of
Pte Roues eatholic relictos out of the publ c peril was to
louse. the rights of property, to endanger the estates of the
realm, and to undenniee the best Interests of the atm-
nosey. Re think re called upon the house to
ve.k oat upon this quest'on, and to determine
ub ther the system should longer costume or
whetter, as be wanted, the Roman catholic* should be
ley: to their owe private resources. He need say no 111010
epos the p I pricciple r f the bi I, and it remained for
to to state that this hill itself bed been drawn up by see of
the ablest l cwpe r. of tt • day. (Cries iI " Divide, divide.")
111 W. VIRNER, amidst some manifestations of impa-
Pecce,amerded the mo ion, b,liewing that the establish-
ment of Maysoeth was one of the greatest salsfortanes that
had ewer befallen Ireland.

11r. JAMES MPHRFiGOR supported the bill. The
isseklitg. of Mario n% were alike inimical to civil and reli-
gious liberty, and that was why be advcased %bra repeal of
IMbirlait.. HERBERT moved the second media( of **bill
dm day de so, tee.
Mr NAPIER supported the word reading of the
bill. The grant Woo ioigir ally made for edscitosal pur-
poses, sod not for religions endowment. The money, how.
ever, isetead of bets; .o applied, bad beta employed Is
Hie support and spread of ultra-mcntasbut, which
I a cassifeet perversion of the origaeal purposes of
the gnat. The bones bed no riet to vote mosey for one
object sod allow it to to applied to another.
Mr. MAOUIRE catered into a viodicauon of the college I
el
,Mayaoetb, and also of the Roman catholic religion,
seeicit the calumnies that bad been thrown out by
tie hoessrable member for Bon,h Wsr.rickshare egolsat
Irk. sad said that be had bees deceived and moist
is everything congested sitb the Roman c.tkolic ohnreb Is
beland. He condensed the to 'duct of members of that
twee is making staleness' is the beet of de be** against the
Iseebing at Msysootb tbat were contrary to the fart, and
wire sot borne oat by tbe report of the commiartoaers, and
mid tkat tbe house ought to be guided by the report Is
moire to a decisico upos it.
T o debate was proceeding whoa our report left.