The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia, Cap-
tain C. F. Burney, master, arrived at Southampton
yesterday, and horded her mails under the charge of
Litut. E. P. Fuge, lt.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are :—Gibraltar, Oct. 5; Cadiz, 6 ; Lisbon, 9;
Vigo, 10.
Oporto is still in quarantine by sea, with the other
ports in the l'eninsula. The mails from thence were
sent overland to Lisbon. No fresh cases had broken
out for the last ten days, and only 20 since it first
made its appearance.
Movements of H.Nl.'s ships :—ln Gibraltar, lI.M.
steamer Janus. In the Tagus, Prince Regent,
Hogue, Arethusa, and Hecate. ILII.S. Leander
left Gibraltar on the 4th for Lisbon, with provisions.
On the arrival of the Leander at Lisbon, the Prince
Regent goes to sea on a cruise.
LISBON, Ocr. 9.
As the time approaches the grand crisis of the
elections, activity not only increases, but a better es-
timate of the position of affairs begins to be formed;
and I believe I may safely say the preponderance
will be on the side of the Septembristas; though the
frauds, deprivation of the franchise to those to
whom it properly belongs—enfranchising others who
have no claim—and all the pettyfogging acts of an
expiring faction, mark the proceedings wherever
there is a Cabralist authority.
The Progressistas desire that all who have a right
to vote at the primary elections should be enfran-
chised, and all who have no right should be struck
off the lists. Several foreigners (Galegos) and other
unqualified persons arc being daily eliminated iar
the Lisbon Bairros, such votes having been formerly
enfranchised to swell the Cabralista ranks. Th. Pro-
gressista committee for the district of Lisbon have
published un address to their fellow-citizens, and
particularly to these who sha'l have to take part in
the ensuing elections.
The operatives have also put forth a veryenergetie,
long, and pressing manifesto on the same occasion.
Nor are the Cabral etas less active ; on the contrary,
they go to great lengths, and the Duke de Terceira
continues to be their recognised leader ; while the
principal members of their committee or junta inun-
date the country with letters urging their partisans
to all sorts of dirty work.
Oporto, it appears, is now healthy ; the infected
ships Duarte the Fourth and Tentudora had been
forced out of the Douro, and came to the quarantine
ground in the Tagus, but the government not allow-
ing them to remain they were towed over the bar by
the Infante Don Luiz steamer; provisions having
been furnished to the former vessel by its agent, and
to the Tentadom by the government. 'the crews of
both vessels remained in health; although, during
their stay in the Tagus they were under strict sur-
veillance. lam told the cases of fever altogether in
Oporto amounted to sixty.
The Cape Verde Island of St. Nicholas is still suf-
fering from hunger; succours have been sent to it,
both by the committee charged with its relief and
the government.
Another mode of jobbing has been avoided by the
minister of marine, in the supply of the Portuguese
navy with wine. Contractors, it appears, have
hitherto so arranged matters that they obtained much
more than the market price; now, however, the
wine has been bought at the Sete CAZLIS, by which
the 'government have saved 10 per cent. upon the
transaction for the better quality of wine to embark
in the ships, and 18 per cent. on that for the daily
supply of the crews of the vessels in the Tagus, both
being wine of good quality.
Au .t.ustrian frigate has arrived at Cadiz, having
on board the Archduke Maximilian.
The notice of the marriage of Don Miguel has

caused no additional surprise; it is said he has con.
ferred titles on many of his adherents, but the use of
those titles is the grand difficulty.
Orders have been issued for the payment of the
following departments for September,
in the Chambers of Peers and Deputies s
Itelacao of Lisbon, Tribunals of Commerce, Staff of
the Army, Supreme Council of Military Justice,
Cathedral, General Staff Staff of the Ist Nlilitary
I)ivision and Civil Governor's department ; us well a.
to eight other departments.
The following is the state of the TreaStai the
month of August: receipts, including tiro former
balance, 657,069,492 reis ; payments,s29,7:lo,filS rpyl
balance to account of September, 127,338,461
Of the receipts, the custom-house pit ift
190,617,403 reis • the Sete Cazas, 61,883,361; duties
on grain, 16,778,393; mint, 12,316,636; and post.
office, 10,987,942 reis. Among the payments wens
91,619,837 reis to the Junta do Credito Public°, and
500,000 reis to Luiz Cassar, a British aubjvct, on
further account of his claim. In this month
23,198,600 refs of treasury billets entered boo tho
operations of the treasury. On the 3rd instant,
70,990,800 'refs in bank of Lisbon notes were can.
celled and burnt. . _ _

At three o'clock on the morning of the 4th tho
Queen was idelivered of a child still-born; th. bul-
letin says it was unaccompanied with the s!'4litest
danger, and that in a few days her health will ho
perfectly restored.
A circumstance occurred hero in the evening of
the Ist inst., which I conceive it proper to mention,
as it arose rom party paragraphs in a London jour.
nal. I have several times had occasion to mention
tho case of Mr. Croft, and I have done so in the strict
spirit of truth; nor should I again have referred to
it until I could communicate the final settlem: nt of
his claim, had not the affair taken place. I must,
however, relate the muse which
.produced the occur.
rence, which will also confirm in the public mind
what has appeared in the columns of your paper re-
lative to Mr. Croft, and set it right with regard to a
different statement, which appeared elsewhere. About
twelve months ago, an account of his case appeared
in a London paper which was diametrically opposed
to truth, as it stated in substance that his pre-
tensions had been rejected by all the courts of
law ; that Lord Palmerston, having supported it,
would bring down odium upon the British name;
that the effect would be to extort from the Baroness
de Barcellinhos what all tho tribunals of the country
had awarded to her; and that the claims supported
by the British government were in opposition to tho
decisions of the courts of law ; whereas the Met was
that the claims made by the British government
were in accordance with and to carry out those deei.
sinus of the courts which had been given both in
favour of Mr. Croft and Luiz Ca.ssar. The paragraph
was immediately recognised as speaking the senti-
ments of Count Thomar, who tried every means to
bring odium "upon the British name; and Mr.
Croft required the correspondent here to correct the
error. In a subsequent letter it was contradicted,
and Mr. Croft stated to have obtained several
judgments. Flimsy as tho contradiction was,
Mr. Croft, from a spirit of conciliation, re.
maned satisfied, but the vindictive spirit of Count
Thomar persecuted him to the last. About two
months ago another account appeared, stating that
the whole of the amount in deposit had been paid
upon the presentation of the judicial orders, and
that fifteen coutos had been seized by Mr. Croft's
creditors: whereas the fact was, that it had been
arranged by Thomas's government that the baroness
should be satisfied as to what she had been supported
in illegally obtaining by a Star Chamber
r process;
but M. Croft could not obtain his money till he had
instituted proceedings in order to imprison the pre-
sident and board, which proceedings were stopped,
and the money or share of his inheritance paid to
him, while the story of the creditors was got up to
injure Mr. Croft privately, in accordance wit h r homes
wish. Mr. Croftdeumnded explanationsandsatisfaction
of the gentleman in question for these injuries, and
even in mild but energetic terms entered into a cor-
respondence with him on the subject, to eons-lac°
him of his error in so writing; but at h agth, ho
having refused all farther explanation and satisfac:
. . . .

tion, to which ho had been summoned in the usual
way;of a hostile message, Mr. Croft saw him at tho
entrance of Belem-square, on the evening in question,
when driving down in his gig to his country-seat,
and, alighting, laid his whip upon the writer of the
obnoxious and untrue pantgraphs, in order that, if
he could not feel a sense of injury so thr as to induce
him to repaii it, ho should at least have a sense of
shame in being submitted to such degradation. The
chastised expressed his perfect satisfaction at what
he had received, in the presence of a host of spectators.
I understand from an undoubted source, the whole of
the British claims aro virtually settled ; Cassar is
receiving his in monthly instalments, and the go.
remittent is only waiting certain official persons in
town to award Mr. Croft the amount which had been
illegally paid to his adversaries uuder the Thomas
decisions.
A paper is clandestinely published hen., called the
Peri.licto (la Turtle (afternoon journal),without having
qualified ; the proper officer is therefore ordered to
proceed against it, if ho has not already duty so, and
report his having done so to the ministry of the in-
ter' or.

In bringing some time ago the events at Beja un-
der your notice, I mentioned the removal of the ob-
noxious 11th regiment, and its substitution by the
17th ; much distatisfaction has now been expressed
at the 11th being ordered to resume its old quarters
in lieja, and the 17th to march away. From the 11th
having sympathised with Marianno's battalion of
assassins, it is presumed the latter will receive a
stimulus to repeat the Thomarista tricks at the ensu-
ing elections, so as to influence the return of Cabra-
lista deputies in that district. Saldanha is supposed
to have some occult agent of Cabralism about him,
who is moving in all these reprehensible acts ; it is,
however, to be hoped his guardian genius will
awaken him to a sense of the danger they may en-
gender, so as to apply a prober remedy before tt bo
too late. In Algarve the Cubarlista reactionary ex-
ertions are said to be of a nature that ought to draw
the attention of the government, with a view to
avert their malefic tendency. In all epidemics preven-
tion is bettet than cure; it would therefore be much
more beneficial to the country fur Saldanha to put
down Cabralism now rather than refer it to the
people, who will most assuredly put it down most
effectually if they find themselves forced to it,
in defiance of whatever hopes the Cahralites
may entertain of the latent desire that is known to
exist in the Spanish government to meddle in Por-
tuguese affairs, but which, it is scarcely to be doubted,
the British government will prevent.
The Spanish brigs Itolador and Patriota sailed on
the oth, the former to the north, and the latter to
the south. The Prince Regent and Aretluisa have
put to sea and returned several times; the Hogue
and Arethusu are in the river, and the Prince Re,,e„ nt
is expected up daily with the Hecate, Commodore
Martin being on the point of leaving his marine ro•
sidence at the (attune de, Funda fur the house at
Janellas Verdes, last occupied by Monsieur Barret,
the late French ambassador here. The Sapphire
yacht sailed on the 30th ult., the Henri IV. and
Narval remain.
Exchange, 55;; discount of Lisbon bank notes,
2 per ceut.

ITALY.
PIEDMONT.

The Piethnontese Gazette of the 10th publishes
the convention entered into between the Holy See,
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Austria, and the Dukes
of Modena and Parma, for the construction of a rail-
way line, to be denominated the Railroad of Central
Italv, which is to connect Reggio with Bologna,
Modena, and Pistoria, or Prato; from Itegf,,io it is to
branch out in two different directions, one branch
leading to Piacenza, the other to Mantua. The execu-
tion is to lie granted to one or more companies, with
privileges to last not more than one hundred years,
and the guarantee of a minimum of interest on
the capital. The companies are to allow the con-
tracting governments to establish telegraphic wires
along the line, and aro to bind themselves to tran-
sport at least one waggon per train for the account
of the post-office.
The Pialmontese Gn:etle, of the oth, states that
a small poition of the cable of the submarine telo-
graph between Calais and Dover has just been de-
posited in the Royal Armoury of Turin, where the
public are admitted to view it.
The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the 9th, an-
nounces the arrival there of a boy, aged 13, named
Franciori, with his brother, not more than nine years

of age, who have been expelled from Rome, because,
it has been discovered that the elder of the two was
praised for his bravery dining the beige by one of the
ministers of the Roman republic.
LONIBAlt1)Y.
The Milan Gazette publishes the following notifi-
cation :—" In order to give the inhabitants of the
Loinhardo-Venctian kingdom a proof of the paternal
solicitude of the imperial and royal government, and
of the unvaried clemency of our august sovereign,
count Raoetzky, has,
his Exellenq Field-Marshal iII
virtue of the authority his Majesty has been plecmd
to entiust to his hand'., directed that all persons not
belonging to the army, who aro now undergoing
punishment for political transgressions of minor im-
zance, owing to the state of siege, shall receive a
pardon, provided their punishments, whether
directly inflicted by court-martials or mitigated by
the presiding officers, do not exceed a year of simple
military arrest. In consequence of which all civilians
now in prison under the circumstances defined above,
shall immediately be set at liberty.
.• The Military Commandant, Count GYULAY.
" Milan, Oct. 8, 18:51."
The Milan Gazette, in giving an account of the
pre,int menacing state of the rivers in consequence !
of the incessant rain which has been constantly fall-
ing in Lombardy for these last two months, says
that the Adda has already reached the highest water
mark, and inundated a section of the high road near
tielvetta. The roads from Chiavenna to Splugcn,
and from Como to Lecco arc also under water. the
rivers hirembo and Lambro have overflowed, and the
Melia threatens the same. The lake of Como has
risen with unexampled rapidity, so as to reach the
highest water-mark of 181 1, at the time the new
canals for the discharge of superfluous waters were

nut iii exi%tenee. -
The Milanese journal, II Tesoro, has been sus-
pcmkd until the cc-sation of the state of siege, fur
several articles against the Attstrian government.