The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-05 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

'!tie Oriental onemn.packet Iberia, Capt. Burney,
which left Limbos on the 30th ult., and G.lnalter on
the 97th, arrived at Southampton yesterday after-
noon, ter smile being in charge .of Lieut. Rainier,
RN., tne Admiralty. agent. Among her cargo wore
60 packages of specie, with the novel addition from
mi=otistanee of 63 cams of eggs.
&IMO of ministry bad taken piaci, bat
up to the time of our correspondent's letter, Baldanha
bad bees asable to form a new cabinet.

The 13 Ilk et INV" conarquoncs of the &OF
tlroae eondithed ei lain*waft department, had bad a
sturious rim!lan It
following is the latter of our oureeponpaid t
LISBON, JAL a.
Yy lain letter will is some degree bare
yea to anticipate • change of ininistey bore ; that=
has takes plain, sad is owt'et to the energetic and statoomem•
like manner an which Joss Baraardo da Costa Cabral IMO
all at once taken oust himself to riot ae an opposidaa, he
persona, to the ministry, sad bring against Mom
preps
particularly against the Duke of Sekianha, each
al would an any other country than Portugal either =
them (the ministry) to the seaffol I, or the heed of the coun-
try is • j.a.arney of travel—in another word, to flight. The
accusatiuos against the ministry are, let, disposing of the
public money without authority, diverting it from
the chaanels to which the parliament had voted It—the to.
caving to himself (addenda) stead 'defies which the law
yid not &album him to receive, as the salary attached to
his appe.intaneat as envoy at Madrid, marshal of the army,
counsellor of state, president of the council, and minister of
the at, ria. Seetaiday , augmenting the hail forces with-
out the authority of the Cortes, sed without a mmeting the
council of state. Thirdly, agreeing to a concordat with
Buie for the re establiah.ni at of the Bala de Cru-
sade, and sursadering some privileges of the crown
in the East Indies. Fourthly, creating new plugs
without authority, and attaching salaries to them, with-
out having been previously submitted to !decorum FJtaly,
Oranuog toe working of the coal mines in the north to a
moon agdnet the formalities of the law, and in violation of
the private right of the individual who is owner of the soil.
Sadly, Violating by • deems of the 11th Sept. lat, the law
liliked by the whim imposing 23 per cent. upon the
dividends of the hams and foreign debt from 1843-9, b
charging the first with 10 per cant. more. Smuttily, By
violidirg, by decree of 26th Dec. list, the last sanctioned by
the cotter to Mum the less of the courts of judos which
instead of uiminishing they have increased 30 per cent.
Eighthly, By letting the Seto Ca as in prejudice to the
national rev. nue. That they have not executed the loan of
the 3rd of A prit,lB4B, by which the government wasauthorised
to take arum the Board of Public Credit 500 autos, Riving
It in exchange the do. imse winch have not been received,
in detriment to the British bondholders. That they have not
paid the public aureate, Oil month of August being yet due
to those in effective service, and the month of February to
thus ret•red. That the expenditure of the country was 540
cant.. per month; the receipts from July to the 30th of
November amounted to 2,488 cantos; besides the revenue of
the Oporto and other custom.hoases, as well as 260 conto•
of loath c ,ntracted by government, making a net receigret
3,B9ocantos, from which they bad paid
months' expenditure, amountiag to 1,620 coat..,se
viral debts to the amount of about 83 cantos,
73 cantos old debts which the Cates bad not provided for,
as well as 194 cantos expenses of the army in 1817, besides
the debt of 186 cantos ocomkinent by the increase of the land
foram, whiffs all show that the minister has illegally pail
400 and odd costa. Were such charges as theta brought
against any ministry in any country in the world, the people
would naturally be ea the tip-toe of expectation as to how
that ministry would reply to than. Here the prat
duke went throe& the formality of inviting all hie
friends, and even bki foes, the diplomatic body, and even a
princess (Desna Anna de Jesus) to bear his defence. The
day arrived. The awful moment cams. The Duke rows,
but, alas, be had forgotten his memoranda, sad all be
eculd do was to admit the truth of all that had been said
against him, answering tbs. only by such insults as we
should seArwslyz=t in *me times of alai-civilisation he
encounter la through the dirtiest part of St. Gibe%
and accusing oppose d§ of this and that, which did not
oven bear aria any et this questions at issue. Thus is ono
thing, however, which I meat not pus over without some-
thing of description, In order that the, worth and
value of this hitherto unparalleled political ter-
giversator may yet be better known in Eastland.
Among the accusations is one that a parson proposed to him
to issaasinede the courier of the Count Boodle, for a certain
reward. Now this gentlemen, this Duke of Saldanha,
solemnly protested he was no murderer,wse no accomplice of
a murderer, knew nothing of the affair in question, but yet
he could not deny the fact that the man, who was the actor
fa the murder, actually weed the reward. That of in-
troducing (as yen know) six pipes of wino by the
Alcsotara gate, kite this city daily without payment of duty,
in truth to solcriess is this, that the wine so in-
nodose& ma be bought at 70 oils a Canada (two
bottles), at two shops wall kaown, when the price,
with payment of duty, would be 120 rein,• sad
In fact, the ebonite have had such an abet that three of
the ministers, namely, War, FiliabCP, and Jisstlae,have
resigned, and Seldeahe has been charged le remold the
cabinet This alms shows the man to be without shame,
for had he say, be also would have missed; however, it
is at present a very great question if ke will be able
to get any person to act with him, for al be
charged his opponent with theft, Jose da
Cada Cabral repelled it in his explanation so warmly
that ho showed he had not only saved the nodes
00 costa of reds annually, but that he had, at the risk of his
own life, ranged himself on the side of his new oppo-
nuts, who had Importuned him to go to their aid and save
them tram disgrace. An attack made epos Clutha da Banta
Major by Bablanha is anything bat eves respectable. He
called that gentlemen a coward in his conduct, end a agleam
in his wrthreokbat balm Cults having received • manse
trom Bent= Xiseense, the aide-de camp sad peraaal trim&
of the duke, to meet him (Elmo), Cunha replied
he was his man—he soespled the &amp ; end
upon being ask to ikons his weapons, mid. were
agreeable le Wu, Gema pin S. a amen." Rem the
War awful ward operated twos limsuals ear I know net I
but Benton Cabral's, who was charged by Sather Moms
with full authority la the matter, mid that wee not *kg he
wanted—in fad, he bleassif did not know what was yeast
The oath is, the pod lemeplepped Ximummiraated alma
best Cunha, butte imensi it-iemises. The Cerro was the
scene of rather disgraceful sots on several occasions—the
ministry supported no tort cldignity, but matened th. =-
selves with asserting that If they bad been guilty of doing
wrong, so MI lb* predemessee beim! But it appears the
ementes.attnek of deldmdm wan M. Jose de Ber-
nardo, the Whir of COMM Thomas, has been so
deeply impernmad open the SIMS, that the latter will with-
draw all cambium ban lim—as the Doke of Palmed',
Count Layman end llteidge Fosesoa de Magelhaes ham
done—this will be the peeidve MU of the Doke of haldesim,
who will have no resource bat to retire altogether be.
public life. Lately in the Coates the Minister for Forolen
Affairs undue** to become champion for his colleague of
the Fineness, who he said was ill, but scarcely had**
Forein Minister opened his mouth, when the Flame
blimst r cane upon the stage. Its effect was the.wical, the
Louse, ape veto's and all, bursting out into loud laughter!
As to'news from Spain, It is certain that the
m Spanish
Temtnt brie asked for assistance to the amount of I
men; but that the Portuguese government has den. to
give any positive reply without consulting England.
The tenoning list for the new asistimay has been sirs..
!nod :—B won de Ourom, for war; Loper Braneo, ;
Avila, formerly Amato minister, to the navy ; Frenzied,
renew. But the beet iakemed people agree that
delibialui must either resign, or • movement will
lane place quite hem any preceding one :
tin reeklainew of thegovernoroent and the theme of the
!Mae cannot continue without • convulsion of some kind.
Meets and public auctions:as are going about begging,
sad are ready to joie any party who will oils pot bread into
their mouths. I tinily expect to see the minority and majority
et the chamber change paws; such has boon the impulsion
yes it ly the speech of M. Costa Gabral, that the govern-
awn m ajeoity are eataally wavering, and may rally round
Ida a. a leader capable et doing ms teed to the country.
Up to the memo moment the Dane of Saldanha
has oat boat able to form a ministry, although he has
stalled upon several, seen of adverse political mit tiptoe.
le fact, it is not believed ho can form a ministry
unite may dressiganees, politicians of settled character
being determined to repel his solicitations. The public,
bad better be on their guard against any lists which maybe
forwarded to Boers* as some will be got up merely for
nech Joanna purposes. the bonds messily worth nothing,
sad win never a dividend be paid, it is upon the princip!as of
WO A iag • sprat to catch a nackarel. Bondholitou, beware!
At the moment of closing my letter, the followitg are
theutated : —War, Baron d'Ourem ; finance, Lopes Branco;
lathe, to Target.