The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-29 00:00:00

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N0.443.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 29, 1848. [3d.

This very humble and aimed unkingly concision instead
of being met with respect by the lioliteiners, esciied their
uttnat tndignatioa. They did not wish to have their fate
separated from that of Schleswig. and their remonstrances
were loud; so much so, that King Christian was disgusted
with forming projects for preserving intact the present em-
pire of Denmark. To this policy his successor, Frederic
VII., born in 1809, is considered to be pecularly attached.

seem right enough that the matter should be settled by
a duel, fought with " frowns," and that the parties
should be set to " making faces " at each other for some
given space of time. If this experiment did not end in •
laugh by the parties, they might try other means, It is to
be hoped that no hearer, spectator, or reader of the quarrel,
will laugh before the dignity of the principals is satiefled.-
Boston Advertiaer.
Tue RECALL or Gas. SCOTT.-The question" Is Gen.
Scott to be recalled," has been answered differently day
by day, by the telegraphic deepatzhes of the last week.
Depending upon quite positive asiertions received yester-
day, we are inclined to believe that Gen. Scott has base
recalled. It is still, however, a matter of doubt, and if me
can credit published accounts, has been a question epea
which the cabinet has once or twice changed its mind.
Twice, to our knowledge, it was an accredited story in Wash-
ington, that the recall was determined upon, sad both times
the decision was reconsidered. The difficulty of selecting a
suceesscr teems to be the acknowledized bar to the resell -
The ingenious novelty introduced by the earreessoll-
dent of a Philadelphia paper into the current of history, that
a special messenger had set out for the army, with the order
to General Scott to return, and had been himself stopped at
Richmond, and recalled to Washington by telegraph, is pro-
bably little more than an " idealisation ' of the fickleness
of the cabinet judgment.
The proceedings in Congress continue to manilla*
more and more strongly the growing unpopularity it
any further prosecution of the Mexican war. In dee
Senate House, however, Mr. Hannegan submitted rsa.
solutions declaring that no treaty of poses eau !Fr
made with Mexico.
The New York Herald states that Mr. Clay will
decline a nomination as candidate for the Presidency
on his arrival at Washington. It also says that
there has been a minor defalcation in the Trea-
sury department, of about 25,000 dollars, and
also one in a Post-office, somewhere iu the
north, of 50,000 dollars. This letter says
further, that in a Whig caucus of members of Con-
gress, it has been decided to withdraw Mr. Ashmun's
amendment to the resolution of thanks to General
Taylor, and to include the name of General Scott in
the vote.
The latest accounts from Now Orleans were to the
2nd inst. and Vera Cruz to the 24th ult. There were
rumours that General Scott had decided to send a
column of the army to Queretaro. 'there was no
confirmation of the news that Mr. Trist had
agreed with the Mexican Commissioners upon terms
of peace.
From Canada we learn that the elections were pro-
ceeding quietly. Some forty-one members had been
elected, including M. Papineau, arid these are thus
classed in the Quebec Chronicle, a Conservative jour-
nal: -Nlinisterial, 21 Opposition, 19 ; Doubtful, 1.
There were still about forty elections to come off,
a majority of which the reformers expect to result in
their favour.
JAN. 16.-'lelegritpliic communication just received
from Montreal :-
" La Foniaine and Holmes elected for Montreal.
The opposition will have a majority in the new par-
liament."
The commercial news reports exchange unaltered ;
cotton and flour dull.
New Yoex, Jan. 13, 21 P.M.-Cotton : Sales GOO bales,
150 eady prirm. hour heavy, at 6 ;his common Western. Ache.:
barrels pots mid at 5 del, 730. firm, at 7 dole. VA brie.
selected whale oil wild at 33c. The leather sole to-day woo thinly
encoded. There o slisht advance on beam and good damaged
There was not a wangle beet quality bide in middle or light weight;
still pricco were fully sustained. Pork henry. Sterling bills more
bough teh7itamodemnrnsder ;not' ant .1;:ale°10nte: iL`Fnnce
bare sold well, at 5.35.
Err.-Sales CntiOß 800 bales, almost all to emir. Flour very
beery ; shippers do not cur common western at 6 oleic ; small Wes
southern. at 6 dole 37;e. 2,000 bushel. new southern yellow corn
sold at 68c. • 15J bble. tireso pork at 10 dole. 50c. There is a good eie.ll
of Igor cheese in reusrket not tit to ship, which sell. at 51e. to Se.;
prime, fiM. to 7e.
J .o. IC-2 P.11.-(By telegnmb.)-In Coos no chants. from yester-
dey, them& the market Is, If any.hlng, duller. 7,000 barrels m-
ocked to-day ;min New Orlcans. There am online in the market for
shipping loos but at lower rate,. Soleo of Genuine* ate don. 12. c.
to 6 dol.. 25c.; 2,1100 bands Wmt.rn at S dole. 031 e. to ti dole. 12m.
Corn dull. Saki of new mixed at 650. to too. ' • for old, ;M. offered.
Oats duff at 50e. Cotton &on. Lard firm, end bold lostsser ; for lur-
Teti, Isie. and for keg. M. we, asked. rale+ 1,000 barrels new rec .s
port, eel* dole, per barrel. roles Western shoulders at ; hams
at 71e. per lb.
ALBANY, Jan. 13. -Flour : Sales limited; 100 barrels
Black Rock wild 5 dole. fMe.; 200 good Indiana ate dela ; ee em"rary
run of Westerns, bat S dols. 874 e. is offered ; sales of Gennemee
at
6 dolt. 1210. to 6 dole. 25a. Barley, Bic. to dsc Rye, 81c. Pork
wiffmet chattal ; isles of 100 still fed bogs at 5 do's. 50e. ; 100 ditto
Western, at .5 dots. 75c., and murals in the street at 6 do's.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 13.-(By Telegraph.)-Flout dull.
Salm bowels, t .
including?Bte. City Mills, 6 dole. 121 e. Corn
Salm : 200
at 62c.
Monti.s, Jan. 4, Ere.-Cotton : Since the receipt of the
fo.ieign adricee the market has been quite animated. &lee, for two
days, 8,000 baler, at firmer price'. We quote mid. Arrived
wince ,aturday, 61.26 Wee; exported, 1,800. Stock, 90,767 bales.
Exchange : Sterling, 7 ; Francs, 5.15 ; New York, SO days, 2 to 21;
eight, 1 pm. Freights : A brig taken for Phladelphia at In., end 2a
ecbconer to load lumber for ilmannah.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 6.-(By Telegraph.)-Cotton de-
premed, but a fair demand, at previous quotations. Sugar Market
sonny supplied ; ens& sales, at yesterday's prices. hour henry. In
-stsserend new memsements. Tnuasections In exchange limited.

SECOND EDITION.

NEWS FROM LISBON.

DETENTION OF THE AMERICAN
MAILS.

The Hibernia, at the request of the Liverpool post-
master, is detained until 1.30 p.m. to-morrow.

By the Madrid steamer, arrDed this day at South-
ampton, we have accounts from Gibraltar the 15th
and Lisbon the 19th inst. No further particulars of
the loss of the Avenger had reached Gibraltar.
The following is the letter of our Lisbon corres-
pondent :
LISBON, JAN. 19.
My last letter will have informed you of the formal
installation of the Portuguese Cortex, and of the opening of
the parliamentary session, and at the some time of the impos-
sibility of at once proceciliog to public business from the
um-arrival in the capital of the requisite number of deputies
to legally constitute a horse. Since then affairs have but
little improved. The detained steamers from the north were
ares.ionaly looked for, and on the 10th intent the earnestly
Imetoed for torsos of eons nomineessesme lAA sonsisised
to Costa Cabral, ex Porto and Mindello, into *a Tagus,
and, to fellow up the tiger , mirgoes" may be retire-
' sented to have arrived in good and sound condition. The
twosteamers together, however,brought but some foneteen or
fifteen numbers, end have again been despatched to Oporto to
fetch more, and up to this moment the number of deputies in
Lisbon has not reached the number required to proceed to
serious basins.. Notwithstanding this, parliament meets
daily, and upon a motion of the president (the notorious
Padre Mereos, the Queen's confessor), the members have
proceeded to form themselves into committees to by the
validity of their own elections. As there happens to be no
opposition the comfortable way in which their decisions are
arrived at, and the agreeable uuan'mity prevailing, is quite
charming to witness ; the novel way by which Padre Marcos
proposed getting over the difficulty of an insufficiency of
members present well dserves t i be recorded The Mietelo-
nian's feat in the desti action of the Gordian
knot must after this be for ever cast into the
shade. l'adre Alamos suggested, that although seventy-
tees members were not present as required law,
yet es ve iy many of those present had been el, d form ore
than one place, 'shy then, by counting heads upon the prin-
ciple of one deputy representing half-a-dozen constituencies,
a very respectable house was presented ; thus, Mr. A. for in-
stance, elected for Bestirs and for Ouienernee, counted for
two, and Mr. Somebody else, returned for four or five dis-
tricts (Costa Cabral's brother for example), should be con.
siderea al a personation of four or five individuals. This
mode of mastering adifficuliy, doubt' es.,had its conveniencis,
and the illustrious and independent assembly met the pro-
position by it. track and formal adoption, the only dissen-
tients being, Colonel Lapa (Baron Villa Nova de Ourem), the
civil governor of Lisbon, Isidore Guele., mid a Senhor
Pedro. I record the names of these gentlemen
withplessure, from the very remarkable singularity of there
being even one deputy amougst the whole batch, who could
be found to oppose a motion which secured to eack Indivi-
dual member present a daily stipend of six crowns from a
grateful ratio ; for, had their opposition been successfel,
other remedy there would have been none but to clove the
eats of the Corte+ until te on their way sluggards shoeld
have made their appearance; end as parliameataiy work in
Portugal is not poid for by the lump, at so much per session,
but at so much per diem (six crowns), why their would
have been a Curtius-like self-sacrifice, well worthy a
chronicler's notice in these degenerate days. For the pre-
sent this must suffice of parliamentary doing's. To waste
another word upon the farce of the Lisbon Cortex
daily enacting, where all is greed and pillage,
would r.a'ty be thrown away time. It had been
eoppered that before this there would have been
some modification of the ministry, the more 115 I,A it ie
known teat the Duke of Salelanha, the nominal head of the
Cabinet, is to have the Madiid Embassy, but with the cx.
eeption of an insimiilicant appointment of a Brigadier Sella,
the commands of the household troop., to be minister of
war, held rid interim up to his time by the Duke of Sr'dknha,
there has been no chrnge. In fact, the solitory feature of
importance, upon which tome few word+ may be said, is a
project of financial reform, attributed to the new finance
minister, Falcon, who properie+ by certsia econorries to re-
duce the expenditure of the country to a year with its in.
come ; the plan is everywhere being diecumed, and Cana*
no alight sensation. M. Falcao's project ii a simple
one, end is stated to be as follows: A fair
and equal reduction in the salaries of every public employe,
and of every public personage, commencing from her Ma-
jesty the queen, the royal household, the deputies of the
r cartes, crown to the ensign in the army and the humblest
I guard on the Customs-house Qiity. This is stated to be the
views of the finance minister, end he is moreover represented
as being thoroughly, in earnest. Snould such a plan be pro-
posed to the corms, it will be seen hew the proposol will be
met, and whether the protocol deputies will consent to vote
away any portion of their own daily six crowns. Bothliberal
and rm slot journals will give their staunchest support to
tech a measure, but the minister will be a bold man to pro-
pose his remedy to a cones composed of the humpy ad-
herents of the Cahn's, and he would indeed be a
Sleet man, and deserve well of his country if be
succeeded in carrying so admirable and necessary a
meistre through. The Nacao, the organ of the Royalists,
aad equally or toe liberal journals of the Patriota and
the Rerolucao, are most severe iu their strictures at the
recent ambassadorial appointments. They ark, and with rea-
son, what earthly m tiv, can Portugal have in her miserable
state, and with the hornless bankruptcy of her finances, to
send ambassaslors extraordinaly either to Madrid, to Brasil,
or toV ienna. Why not to Morocco ? Is it that patriot dukes,
and newly created marquises and conodes, must have largo
incomes paid them out of ae exhmisted treasury ? What
good, in the name of reason, will be 'chi, ved for Portugal by
sending a splendid embassy to Paris or Vienna, at a cost to
the nation of hundreds of contos yearly. Would it not of ;the
contrary he merely common prudence to economize the state
funds, and instead of inventing useless offices for the sole
purpose of flattering vanities, or ministering to the greed of
rapacity, reducing even existing establishments? This
may be all very true, but the difficulty will be in carrying
out the principle, and I much tear me M. Falcao will
fine but few suppot ten in his plan of financial reform.
The arrival on the 16th inst , of H.M. Steamer, Terrible,
having on board Mr. Norton, recently appointed unpaid
attacU, at this court, has given rise to much speculation
she is reported to have brought important despatches fur Sir
H.:Seymour. The Terrible went out the following day. The
Aim came into the Tagus also a few days back, with
the flag of Rear Admiral Hornby, C.D., on board.
She bad sustained some damage, and had sprung her main-
yard ; she has since been rifted, and proceeeded on her
voyage to Rio de Janeiro.
In the squadron there is small novelty. Sir Cheeks
Napier, however, has done the navy here good service cow
rally • at the close of the old year the Admiral caused to be
1 insert:cid in the public journals an adyerti.ement, submit
the contract for the supplying the Tagus fleet with fresh bee/1
to public competition ; the consumption on board such a
squadron as the English have here is immense. and its supply
Ins ever been in Lisbon a sort o
re monopoly, where private
interest, and not the public rns, had priority. By
I making the supply an open contract, the Admiral has
effectually knocked the old system on the head. With
some of the shore folks this move is far frora
popular, for parties who have grown rich by supply.
mg her Majeety's thins considered themselves as having
acquired a sort of prescriptive right to dip their hands into
John Bull's pocket, in fact, deemed it an invasion of vested
rights. The admiral, by this judicious step, not only secures
supplies of the very primest quality of beef fur his crews, but
will, should the fleet make any stay, be the means of a very
large saving to the English government. An Englishman,
a Mr. Price, was the successful competitor for the contract.
Sir Charles has his establishment on shore, and may be
constantly seen driving about the town, attracting much
notice in his promenades by the very nautical appearance of
his vehicle, a something between a barouche and a jolly-
boat, and about which same carriage there are sundry dark
surmises afloat ; in fact, people have gone so far Ca to hint
that the entire equipage, groom, charioteer, and ill, is nothing
but mere illusion, crested by the magic touch of some
salt-water fair)'s wand, like that in which of old conveyed 1
Cinderella to the ball. The footman is said once upon al
time to have been an able seaman, end the postillion a
ship's buoy, and the quadrupeds hone-marines. I merely
give you the flyingteeport,;holding, myself, neutral opinions:
it may, or it may not be to, so I am not compromised.
There is little business of any kind doing; in fact, con-
fidence has received a shock it will be thug ere it recovers ;
and the present aspect of affairs is anything but encouraging.
The exchange on London is at thirty days, 531 1 ; 90 days, I
531 to 54. Sovereigns are 4,500 ; dollars, 920; and the dis-
count upon the articles, by a polite fiction called bank-notes,
may be nominally quoted something over 40 per cent.
The Nemo, publishing the official returns from Oporto, I
state the exportation of port wines, during the year ending
the 31st of December, 1847, to be t 3 follows •Erffilanat
23,354 pipet; other parts of Europe, 1,264; ports of Potter'
and Colonies, 163 ; United States, 2,118 ' • Brazil, 2,762 ;
other countries, 961.—Total, 30,622. And of brandy and
geropiga : To England, 393 pipes; other countries, 161 ;
ports of Portugal- and colonies, 11; United States, 267;
Brazil, I.—Total, 833.
From the Oporto journals we learn that the law snit, so
long pending in the Portuguese courts, between the Count
of Farrel* and Manoel Joaqnita Pimentelahas been finally
adjudicated by the rupreme tribunal of that city. The im-
portance of the suit, from the immense amount at issue, class
it amongst the causes culebree. The question had its origin
in the contract of tobacco, many years farmed by either liti-
gant. The Count has been defeated ; and the interest ie.
volved in the decision equals in 'mount 1,200 cantos of
re's, ar about 280,0001. British.
MUNIYICENCE.—J ohn iluddlestone, Esq., of Liver-
pool, has presented to the truster- of the Blue Cut Respnation ite'
property valued at 5,0001. BBe leasleasalso presented ado
of 1001. to the Liverpool Dispense:We, in addition to his
farmer benefactions to thaw insidishwild.