The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-15 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND OF THE
COUNT DE TIIOMAR.

The Oriental Company's steam-packet Iberia,
Captain C. F Bonney, arrived at Southampton this
morning, and landed her mails under the charge of
Lieut. James Inglis, 1L N., Admiralty agent. Iler dates
are: Gibraltar,fith ; Cadiz, ith ; Lisbon, itth ; igo,ll th.
She was unable to touch at Oporto, owing to a strong
west gale and heavy sea. Among the passengers is
Count de Thomar ; he embarked on board the Iberia
at Vigo,with one servant, and paid second-class fare,
and agreed with the second engineer for the use of
his cabin. lie has confined himself strictly to his
cabin during the whole of the voyage. date
from Lisbon has been anticipated by the arrival last
night at Southampton with dates to April 10, of
the Medway. Saldaill:a was expected at Lisbon from
Oporto, at the head of five thousand troops on
the 12th instant. Although nominated Presi-
dent by the Queen, he declared that he will
not accept of the post until he is in Lisbon. lie
issues all documents in the name of the Queen.
There is every apprehension that the Queen will
be obliged to abdicate, and that a republic will be pro-
claimed. French influence is powerfully at work.
The British minister is active and is striving to form
an English party. Ile is trying, it appears, to form
a coalition between Maghalente and Saldanha. Two
men-of-war have been sent by the British admiral to
Oporto, with urgent despatches for Saldanha. All
the troops are gone over to hiui. It is expected that
he will be received with open arms at Lisbon.
According to a telegraphic despatch given in the
Isulepfivlence Saldanha left Oporto for Lisbon
on the 4th. _ _

Exchanges for bills at three months on London
were quoted at Lisbon on the 10th: London, 341 ;
Paris, a3n ; Amsterdam, 421; Hamburgh, 481. Few
transactions, bills being scarce on London, and only
offered at less than the quotations. Money done
at 341. Stocks, Five per Cent., 47, to 49; Four
per Cent., 38 to 39; Bank of Portugal Shares, 123
to 116 milreis discount per share. Their rates arc—
for Lisbon Bank-notes, a discount of 3; per cent.
Oporto Bank Shares were without alteration ; but
stocks in general were dull, in consequence of the
uncertainty of political efflux*.
The following are the letters of our corre-
spondents:

LISBON, DI.+T 9.

Portugal now reaps the misery of the former intervention
of the three powers in its internal affairs, without ever having
enjoyed any benefit from an act which enabled the intriguing
coterie at the palace to prepare the way for the return of
the Count de Thomar to power; and it is not a little re-
markable that, in one of the stormy debates which preceded
the present rising, he boasted that, while he was supported
by the army and the people, he should not yield office to any
one. He deceived himself, for he never had the support of
either army or people; he neutralised the hostility of the
former to him, by having officers appointed to the command
of divisions, garrisons, forts, and regiments, who were
for the most part his creatures; and he stifled the com-
plaints of the people by similar appointments to the civil
governorships and magistracy, and establishing a sort of
1 reign of terror. The latter was certainly the case
in the districts where the assassins, Datalha and
Marcel, were located, and who while they
rendered service to Thomar by murdering all who
had any political enmity to him, until they in turn fill
beneath the venimance they themselves had provoked. The
movement of Saldanha, however, enabled the army and the
people to fraternise, and both alike to declare their anti-
pathy to the Court. Had, however, the intervention
not taken place, the popular party would have suc-
ceeded in their enterprise, a law would meet certainly have
been passed, banishing the Cabraes. The Queen would have
been in the enjoyment of a quiet and not perturbed reign,
and no thoughts of her abdication would have been con-
ceived by any one, but now that the country has groaned
four years more under misrule, having had a Corte!, not
elected, but nominated; majorities obtained in both
chambers by every reprehensible means; the charter
set aside and the will and command of indivi-
duals' only considered; the desired vengeance of a certain
person so manifest as almost ready to break out into acts of
intemperate fully, not to say madness; there appears
nothing in the prospect, no hope of permanent peace with-
out a temperately advised and prudently peaceable abdica-
tion. This alone it is that will save the country from the
deluge of blood, which an obstinate spirit, aided by
Machiavelian preparation', may yet bring upon it—and the
necessity of abdication is now being resounded from ass end
of the country to the other. I will now, however, proceed
to continuous Miens of the progress of the movement
(which can so longer be called a matt) babes I make any
farther remarks upon the Wings of the people.
The let and dth Camden' having ended, mashed ape.
Guards, when they were joined by the 12th infantry,
Cacadores, and Bth Cavalry. Saldanba, who had gone to
Braga, to which place the 7th Cacadores bad marched to
job] him, proceeded immediately to Oporto, whieh he en-
tered on the 28th ult. AU accounts agree in stating that no
hero ever entered any place more triumphantly ; he was
met on the road a considerable distance from the town by a
numerous cavalcade, and the crowd wee so dense that they
frequently obstructed the cortege. At Lima he alighted
from a metier, and domed; and when be entered
the town, the " Mem" wore deafening ; the windows to the
highest stories crowded with speetaten,and ornamented with
c,lsssa silk drapery, and thousands afar hands employed
in waving their white ►aadkerthish la welcoming the noble
Team. All party distinction was Lid aside, and the ser-
vice he wee now seadering his country only thought of.
What • coot:sat to the pawing through the streets
of lAMBI of a lady, apes wham all backs are turned.
Of the Count de Canal, it is said, be fled shainefelly, but is
known to be concealed within the dty, In hopes of a reac-
tion. His hostility to Saldanlm and his subserviency to the
Thomar bane''. has, it is monied, been tested, by hie ,1
having put lima at the bend et a small body of esyslry,
and gene to • Quints, whose Saldenha was eapposid to'
have hem welds/ the Oporto rising, with a view to have
taken bin prismsr et killed Ms. Had Camel taken him
prisoner, In was le bare bean mascot to owe of the