The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-26 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Madrid,
Captain John Weeks, arrived at Southampton on Sa-
turday evening, a d landed her mails under the charge
of Lieut. Newenham, RN., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are—Gibraltar, June 10 ; Cadiz, 17; Lisbon, 19 ;
Oporto, 20; Vigo, 21. Amongst the passengers by the
Madrid are Earl and Countess Ducie Lord. :Moreton
and Lady Georgians Moreton, and Colonel, Mrs., and
Miss Mitchell, Royal Artillery.
All yet seems quiet in Lisbon, but revolutionary
thoughts and feelings are at work, and from the
visits of police neats to private houses in a domi-
eilliary way, as wal as the many arrests of panics
known to be hostile to the status quo government
(seven of these on the 18th), all would sewn to indi-
cate that that city i+ on the eve of a political ear.h-
quake. All commerce is stagnant, and everything
in a state of c' lapse. Much dettn:ion of the mail-
packet service has taken place in consequence of the
strictness of the police at Lisbon in subjecting thu
packet to a severe Examteation of the passenger list.
The following is thu letter of our correspondent:

LISBON, .1 cle 19.
Tho most prominent feature in the Liebm budget
of news eroin; by this packet is an important chenille/A
puhloilied by the Pulriala, in count ction with the allrged
participation of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer in the recent
military outbreak at S. v.lre, and as it affords the most
po•itive and unanswerabls refutation to the calumny put
forth by the Spanish ministerial press of the British repre-
sentative having been in any way mixed up in the events
that led to the late dis srdera In Spain, I give you the
document in :ull. It is a litter 'Bed by Colonel Port
(the chief in the Sestaa revolt) to the editor of the Lisbon
l'atriota, and by which you will see that the Popular of
Madrid, one of the tint of the Spanish journals that had
given circulation to the slander so mendaciou4 urgi d
against Sir Ilcory Bulwer, has refusld insertion to the core-
thus neryi, g even this small instalment of satis-
faction for the talaehood so pertinaciously and industrioudy
propagated.

I Mb" has le, 1646. -Ali. Editor d tie Pgkie4w• I anseitlY
beg the howdah to your Menial at the which.
wider date of the 3rd instant, I addremedi:ao=nldideff tatn'optshar
et Madrid, but which hae been messed tomedon, Mo., kr--.1033
Poorer.
..

_
Letter addressed to the Prandor of Madrld.—Fricata D. Marla god.
Lisbon, June 3, 1348.—Mr. Eslitor,—Tbe Dies-s. de Cosmetic of
Seville, of the 21st. ult., having this day reached my band, I observe
with the greatest indignation that that Journal copies some pit/graphs
written by you, refining to my prosimeiameiwa In Bevil* as an
affair *anointed between the English Minister, Mr. Bolwer, sad myself.
Tide false and infamous assertion haa wounded me deeply, became
I.lo*a all things I am a Spaniard. and free from every sort of
foreign inftuence. In order to repel each calumny. I must
declare *that Mr. Bulwer did honour me with his friendship.
to which I Jmponded ss a gentleman, but he never afiemoted
neitr would it have been possible tor him to inftuenee the feelings
of seknee. When I Bung myself into the revolution with the
two But battalions of hen I I had not heard anything of Mr.
Bnlwer fee two months. My attempt proceeded solely from 'be pa-
triota prompting. of my own heart, and from a item conviction that
a cabinet presided over icy General Norvaes could never give happi-
ness to my country. I shall add that although I have never failed in
keeping my eared, yet U after having engaged to take a part In the
revolution I had learned that Mr. Bolwer, or any other foreigner, was
connected in promotins it, I would have broken througlt all engage-
ments sad remains; quietly at home.—JossPurist.
As may be supposed the publication of this letter has
canoed very great sensation, and is much commented upon
by the Lisbon press.
Here, in Lisbon, there has been a report in circulation
these three or four days past of a conspiracy having been Ms' I
covered at the University of Coimbra, having ramifications in
Liabonluttl other parts of the country. Certain it is that on
ant since Saturday numerous political errata have taken
place in the capital of individuals of prominent position be.
longing tothe liberal party. The government are said to he in
possession of • list of names compromising nearly two hundred
persons in Lisbon alone. Eighteen of these unfortunates, of all
ranks and classes, have beau captured ; amoagat these is M.
Manoel Jesus Coelho, the responsible editor of the Patriota.
While most of the others have been conveyed to the Castle
of Saint George (where Colonel Horta was taken the
other day), 111. Coelho has been thrust into the Lmoeiro,
the common gaol of the city, and where it is usual to confine
only the worst class of criminals. Up to the present hour no
charge has been preferred against any of the prisoners ; the
whole story of the conspiracy is in reality deemed a fiction,
got up by the government with the infamous view of forcing on
a premature rising, they now considering themselves as having
sufficient military means to suppress any outbreak, and thus
avenge themselves for themiserable indignity inflicted anon the
Queen and the Cabralist faction, by the necessity of interven-
tion at the time of the convention of Gramido and of the die-

The ministry conti eu es intact, no change having as yet taken
place, but the Queen isrepreisented as being to the utmost ids ,
gree irritated with the poor Duke of Saldanha for having so
fearfully compromised her Majesty in the late parliamentary
discussions, in which the duke had no other ;remedy than to
cast the responsibility of the false circular issued upon a late
occasion to the foreign ministers upon the royal lady herself,
yet still the Qaten has hesitated to restore Costa Cabral to
the head of the ministry. If you would like to have an ex-
ample given you of the profligate administration of th-
government income, I think the following is a precious and
pecular sample : the Duke of Terceira, who, it will be re-
membered, was nominated months and months bark to the
'Vienna embassy,and who has never re irred sine step from Lisbon
since his nomination, has just clutched from the exchequer
the considerable sum of two coat, is of reis, a further advance
on account of salary. The statement appears in the Revolts-
-00 do Selembro of this day.
The 'ones continue 'pinning on their sittings, and the
deputies to receive their crown. daily. The only projezt of
importance recently under discussion has been a new spolia-
tion, in the shape of a further proposed seizure of church
property, and by which minister*, their sons, brother., and
followers, anticipate a decent harvest. All the nunneries
throughout Portugal are to be suppressed excepting four,
and their lairds and other revenues seized; th^tre lands will
then, like the rest of the national and church properties, be
submitted to nominal public competition, and the Cabral,
Tojels, and other gentry of similar description, will contrive
to get the properties between them Count 'Nal takes his
title from the lauds of the convent at Tojil; Admiral Sae.
torius is Tiscondo de Piedaile, or Viscount Piety, from the
lands of the convent of Piedade, which in the hocus-pocus of
a mock liberalism these gentlemen contrived to become pr.)-
prictors of in the Pedroite scramble.
Of mercantile news I can add nothing beyond that every
day things are becoming worse; in fact, trade of all descrip-
tiou is ruined, the government exactions have destroyed
everything, and if some really radical change does not soon
take place, the English manufacturer may close that page
in his ledger altogether that has for centuries been devoted
to transactions with Portugal.
The ex cominTaioaer employed by the committee of
Anglo-Portuguese officers in London to prosecute their
pecuniary claims upon the Lisbon government, has, I am
informed, just succeeded in laying an embargo upon the
moneys already recovered, and lying here in an English
agent's hands. The dispute, I believe, between the cum-
miesionet and the committee in London, arose out of mis-
understandings as to amount of commission, ske, upon re•
covery. Lord Howard de Walden, when our minister here,
had frequently urged upon the London body the propriety
of an arbitration, and it is to be regretted his lordship's advice
was not attended to; the embargo has now subsisted some-
thing like four years, to the 1115, not only of the committee,
but of the numerous officers whose intense, are represented
by that body of gentlemen. Probably this bit of informs-
tiara may prove a novelty and interesting to such of y air
military readers as may have claims compromised by this
dispute.
The war-steamer Pluto came in on the 10th, being eight
slays from Plymouth. She has since go. .e t.i Madeira. We
have now the Stromboli and the Comfit, both steamers, the
latter from Oporto. Great efforts are being made by the
Queen's government to intrigue for the return of Sir Charles
Napier and a British squadron,
The exchange upon England may be given as at :-
60 dap, 521 to 53 ; 90 days, 63 to 531.
The cattle fair of Saccavem, two leagues from this city,
, during its three days, of the 10th, 11th, and 12th instanta,
had a miserable attendance. Scarcely a siugle purchaser at
• any price. Evora thing suffers, and is ru'ned by this vicious
• government. Toe cora and maize crops promise great
abundance.