The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1847.

he felt bin;nd to state, without intending to impute
that the weight of evidence preponderated 'gaunt
any party in particular, that great abuses were proved
to exist, aid therefore, as the committee were unani-
mous on that point, he should support the second
reading of the bill whioh was then read a second
time. The second reading of the Hosiery Manufac-
ture Bill was proposed by Sir H. HAIXORD, and op-
by Mr. W. Luis and Mr. 018BORNZ, the de-
bate standing adjourned until this day.

Tics sews, which we exclusively gave from Portu-
gal in oar last impression, has put our readers in
possession of the state of affairs in that country,
and of the names of the ministry about to be
appointed. The composition of this ministry was
by no means aatisfectory, and the retention, as finance
minister, of Count TIDAL, a creature of the CABRAL/3,
is alone a proof that the Queen has not cordially and
sincerely accepted British advice.
Lord BROUGHAM, in the House of Lords, asked
ministers, with regard to Portugal, the important
question of whether M. Dien bad quitted that
country or not. M. Dzszz is known to be the moving
spirit of the anti-British party at the court of Lisbon,
the secretary of King FERDINAND, and the link be-
tween the Portuguese sovereign and the courts of
Brussels and Pans. Lord LANSDOWNE replied, with
much frankness, that M. Diva was in England. But
Lord Buouctux, by looking at the hurt Circular,
might have seen that M. Dietz was not only in
England, bat that he had dined with Queen
ViczoßlA! _ _ .

Writers on Spain and Portugal allude to a variety
of parties and interests in those countries. They speak
of Moderado and Raeßodo, Chartists and Septembrists,
Carlists and Christinos, English and Afrancesado. In
this list, a very important and a very active party
has been totally omitted, and this is the Coburg party.
There is not one which bit bad so much influence on
the recent events and dissensions of both Spain and
"
Tortuga.' as this MUM family of COBURG.
The world has heard a great deal of the Spanish
marriages, of the intrigues of France and of Cu sigma,
of the falsehood of M. OUIZOT, the family grasping of
Louts PHILIPPE; the able, though unsuccessful, efforts
of Mr. Butwag. And yet the name of the grand mover
in this Spanish turmoil has been completely over-
looked and omitted. The originator of all this dissen-
sion, the personage who really set Spain in commotion,
and France and England by the ears, was no other than
King LEOPOLD of Belgium. He it was who put for-
ward, and who pressed a COBURG candidate for the
hand- of IRABELIA, which so affrighted Lours-
PHILIPPE, and drove M. OUIZOT out of self-posses-
doe and candour. King LEOPOLD did it for the best.
But in fact, and in truth, his Majesty's affection for
his own name and family was the origin of the present
serious quarrel between France and England.
We should not now rake up this disagreeable truth,
which diplomacy had so carefully concealed and
buried, if the same influence and the same personage
were not now very busily employed in interfering with
the affairs of Portugal, and in a manner likely to create
very serious embarrassment. For not only is Por-
tugal in convulsions, but the governments of Spain,
France, and England are implicated, and may, des-
pite of their mutual prudence, be forced into
collision.

English and French politicians and journalists have
descanted much upon that counter-revolution in Por-
tugal which upset PALMELLA, blighted the fair
prospects of liberal and peaceful government, and
provoked the present civil war. The act has been
considered as the result of the machinations of
CABRAL, and of the several party struggles in Portugal.
The counter-revolution was none of all this. It was
the pure personal act of King FERDINAND, and it
arose out of his own personal pique to the
British envoy. It was a Coburg act, done for
Coburg motives, on a purely Coburg policy.
And it is for this that Portugal has been for these
months past in the throes of civil war ; Spain frighted
from her propriety, and England and France eyeing
each ether with such nervous jealousy, that we are, in
reality, more like people at war than at peace.
What is the state of things now at Lisbon ?
The British fleet guards the Queen and King;
and by its attitude preserves them from popular
violence and dethronement. The British autho-
rities ask in return for new ministers, and an
amnesty to the liberal leaders. The Queen is
ready of herself to cede all this ; but her husband,
King or Prince FERDINAND of Coburg, has a personal
pique against BOIETIM and PALMELLA, and Lord
HOWARD DE WALDEN, and against Ilomeisi and PAL-
MELLA especially, because of their connexion with the
English government. Xing FERDINAND will not
forgive. He insists on making use of the English
fleet in order to keep as prisoners and exiles those
Portuguese who have sacrificed themselves to England.
And he has sent M. ThErz to appeal directly to Queen
VICTORIA against Lord PALMIRSTON.

We need not say, that the Coburg family is bound
up at present with the best wishes of Englishmen.
Nor need we say how much the long, the wise, and
liberal career of King LEOPOLD entitles him to res-
pect_ Our own Prince Consort has marked his years of
eminence in this country by an abstinence from politi-
cal interference, which has lent no handle to obloquy ;
our remarks, therefore, chiefly relate to the future.
There are numbers of experienced men about the court
to point out, that nothing could have so untoward an
, effect oa the popular mind, as England's upholding a
foreign prince in illiberal and dictatorial policy,
merely because he was allied to our sovereign. Whilst
accusing France of an exclusive and despotic Bourbon
policy, we mud beware not to allow M. Gutsily
reason to cast op to na a Coburg policy of a similar
kind. The King of PORTUGAL Is an imprudent and
resentful prince. He must be plainly told that
England has not set aside Don MtouEL of Braganca,
merely for the purpose of allowing Don FERNANDO
of Coburg to persecute liberals, spurn English advice,
and play the absolute.

YEsTennev'e parliamentary report presents •
curious example of the rough-and-ready process by
which law is made and unmade now-allays.
Mr. Dintcommt moved for the appointment of a
committee to inquire into the operation of the Metro-
politan Buildings Act He did net intend to press his
motion, but brought it forward to pave the way for
Lord MORPCM, who acoordingly moved for leave to
bring in a bill to amend the Metropolitan Buildings
Act. Nobody can doubt the want of such a bill. But
is there not a probability that, under the circam-
'Marco, the remedial measure will be tainted with the
complaint of the parent? Will not London very
soon be asking for a bill to amend the amendment?
Lord Moartrn is in no way to blame for the de-
fects of the parent measure. On coming into office
he found piles of complaints "elitist the working of it.
It seems to have had the merit of annoying everybody,
and doing good to nobody. It was • law for the
builder to break his shins over, without at the same
time serving to protect the public. We have
had only too much evidence how imperfectly its one
useful institution, the mrvey of houses in progress,
has been carried out. In ad, Lord MORPETH may
be maid to have found the bill already in dock with
the law-wrights at work upon the foul bottom and
worm-eaten timbers. They tried in vain to get rid
of_!ltt,ojeetions that, in the short life of the act, had
on every clause of it, like barnacles on the
arr. seventy-four after a three ears' cruise.
These gentlemen were at last fain to give up the job
in despair, though they had built the measure them-
selves. _ _

---From them the bill passed to the official referees,
its own officers, to keep up the nautical metaphor.
In their hands it underwent a change something like
that of Sir ions Cormsa's silk stockings,which were
darned with worsted until it became a question for
subtle logic whether they were the same stock ings or
not. The official referees alter and alter until it is
difficult to say whether the Metropolitan Buildings
Act continues the Metropolitan Buildings Act, or has
become another act.

In this stage of legislative tinkering, Lord Molt-
s rut steps in, declaring that he can neither himself
devote, nor ask parliament to devote, time to the con-
sideration of so large a subject.
The obvious inference would seem to be from this
that the matter should wait until the proper depart-
ment and the house have time to give the sub ject due
attention. But instead of this, Lord Atoarxra
selects " the most prominent and pressing amend-
ments," and pats them into a bill, which the house
gives him Lave to introduce.
Perhaps the circumstances of this particular case
may justify this sort of botching, but we confess we
cannot look upon the amending act except as some-
thing sooner or later to be itself amended. The ob-

noxious bill itself owes many of its imperfections to
the scrambling way in which it was breught into the
world. It was hustled into existence in the " nick
at the close of the parliamentary session, when,
amidst the mass of bills, it is no wonder that a had
one occasionally panes, like a Britannia metal shilling
in a pound's worth of honest change. The bill which
is to amend the existing bill is ushered into the house
almost in the same hasty way, and seems as likely
to escape careful scrutiny as the original measure. We
should have preferred, just at this time, when new sani-
tary measures are, we trust, in the way to be carried out,
that the amendment of the Buildings Act should have
been deferred, until it had been considered how far
the inspectorial machinery of that measure could have
been used in aid of sanitary objects.
But we have directed notice to the matter, chiefly
as it illustrates the necessity of some alteration in the
method of preparing acts of parliament, and the ad-
vantage of subjecting such acts to the watchful
survey of some parliamentary official, who might re-
ceive objections, keep an eye on the working of
the law, act' point out from time to time
such parts of it as have grown obsolete or
absurd. This subject is connected with Mr. Bonn.-
Lv's suggestion of an officer of justice, one of whose
most important functions would be such a superin-
tendence over the working of the law.
This suggestion is a weighty one, worthy to be
thrown cut by a descendant of our first and greatest
law reformer. But it opens too serious a question to
be treated off-hand.

Aeorr two hundred and fifty human beings have
perished by the wreck of the Exmouth off the coast
of Islay. So few have escaped to tell the tale of this
disaster, that it is much to be feared the real cause of
so awful a calamity will never be ascertained. But
there are assertions made respecting the failed vessel
which call for the most searching inquiry at the
hands of government If the parties connected with
the Exmouth as owners or charterers are conscioneof
the rectitude of their conduct, they will be the first to
demand investigation.
It is stated to the newspaper reports purporting
to be drawn up from the narratives of the survivors
th►t—let. The vessel belonged to the port of South
Shields, and was old. 2nd. he number of passengers
ought not, according to its registered tonnage to have
exceeded 165, and there are said to have been 240 on
board. 3rd. It is said that the master, when he first
saw the light of Oersa, on the south-west point of
Islay, believed it to be the light on the island of Tory,
off the north-west coast of Ireland.

We do not mean to say that these statements are
conclusive. A vessel may be old, and yet be sea-
worthy ; and a vessel belonging to South Shields may
have been chartered to earry emigrants from an Irish
port, even although it still stood high enough on
Lloyd's books to command average terms of freight
in the goods line of business. The comber of chil-
dren among the emigrants (two children counting for
one adult) may have been so great aa to swell the sum
total of passengers to the number mentioned, without
infringing the regulations of the Passengers Act But
the public ought not to rest satisfied with being told
that matters may have been thus the parties who
chartered the vessel to carry emigrants, the agents
who shipped them, ought to be called upon to
prove that matters actually were thus. It is gene-
rally known that not many years ago vessels that
were too notoriously old and unseaworthy to ob-
tain freights, were systematically employed to carry
emigrants to Canada. Within the last twelve
months we have had to call attention to the case
of an emigrant ship that cleared front Killsle
to Montreal, which was so outworn as to be
unable to make the passage in the usual time ;
and so overcrowded with passengers, that pes-
tilential disease and death lorded it within her
long ere she reached the termination of the
voyage. With each facts lively in the remembrance
of the public, the two first statements regarding the
Exmouth cannot be allowed to pass unexamined.
The third statement, if true, is ansuseeptible of
being explained away. It may be untrue that the
survivors assert the master mistook the light of Oersa
for that of Tory; the assertion may be false, even
though they make it; but if the master was capable
of making such a mistake, he was unfit to be
trusted with the navigation of a vessel. Tory island
is nearly due west from the mouth of the Foyle, and
to reach it the Exmouth's course must have been
first to the north of west, then west, and then to the
south of west. Oersa light is to the east of north
from the mouth of the Foyle. Was the command of
a vessel, carrying 240 emigrants, entrusted to a man
who did not know the difference between north and
wed?

As we have already stated, these averments call for
explanation from the owners, charterers, and agents
of the Exmouth. Not less imperatively do they call
for explanation from the government emigration
agent, if there be such an officer at Londonderry, or
from the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners,
if there be not

This loss of the Exmouth following so close upon
the loss of the Tweed, ought also to stimulate
azartlca with a view to devise means for afford-
ing greater security to passengers of the long
The means hitherto relied upon are oh-
vio The practice which has been
begun of obliging masters and mates in the merchant
service to undergo examinations works slowly ; when
full 7 carried into effect, it will afford tolerable security
gainat any man being entrusted with the navigation
of a vessel who has not thoroughly learned his trade ;
but what security can it afford that he may not, in
after life, contract habits that may render his know-
ledge unavailing? Among the high class pas-
senger ships (steamers or sailing vessels) it is
now no uncommon practice to place an officer

of the navy in command. The recent court
martial on the commander and acting muter
of the Thunderbolt 'hews how imperfect a guarantee
is a commission in the royal navy. It appears from
the statements of the officers themselves who were
put upon their trial, that they attempted to round
Cope Rewire within the distance to which " Hors-
burgh's Directory" states that a chain of hidden and
sunken rocks runs out from it. Their only apology
was that they wished to make a short cut ; that a
chart supplied by the Admiralty represents the rocks
as running out to a much shorter distance from the
Cape; and that they thought they would try the
experiment. Would the men who in this
thoughtless trifling way perilled her Majesty's
ship have been much more regardful of the
safety of passengers ? Besides, the remark
already made respecting masters and mates of the
merchant service subjected to examinations, applies
equally to officers of the navy : what guarantee have
you against their contracting habits that may make
their seamanship unavailing ?
The immediate and rigid enforcement of examina-
tions is one indispensable element of inseessed peen-
rity for passengers. No man ought to be allowed to
continue master or mate of a venal who Isle not un-
dergone, or does not immediably @abaft himself to,
an examination. Where human Hose are at
stake, there can be as w vested interest." No
" equity " can give a arin a tide to en-
danger the NAV of his fellow-ma Ag•in,
the existents, of adequate kno hav•sc
been aseselikek a meth* meet be for main-
hsia a iiespkee *Om& The est, steefeemble
of NeWg this east is the mese of nir
Every officer in ohs of a mseelmmt mod the
time it is wrecked es& to be tried, and if =evicted
of incapacity (either through want of knowledge or
I drunkenness) or negligence, to be punished with
deprivation of his licence, and in aggravated cases
with additional penalties. Some have said that
officers of merchant vessels which have been wrecked
eu& to stand a court-martial like officers of the navy
to the MN predicament If the court-martial on the
ism of the Thunderbolt be a fair specimen of
Oise auk, we should say that the trials of
Awe in the merchant service, to be effective,
might to be as unlike them as possible. Two accused
writes were in that instance placed at the bar, and
ibe one was allowed to give evidence in favour of the
ether. The finding of the court was, that the of-
laden be dismissed her Majesty's service for an
set of wilful negligence (wanton running upon
entela auger would have been the more ap-
), with the addition that, inasmuch
Inultilyte= self-possession in the midst of the
peril in which they had culpably involved their ship-
mates, " the court do most strongly recommend theme
°Seers to the favourable consideration of the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty." In short, the
whole transaction looks like a game at civility, be-
tween the accused and the judges ; the non-appear-
ance of Commander BovLz's sword on the table
being treated as • much more serious matter

than the circumstance of all the witnesses examined
(with one exception) deliberately making oath that
they had ea Swum samimes rounded Cape Item& as
dome as the Ilterisettek was when she struck.

Our letters bus Paris et Tuesday have arrived,
Tho Chuniagia ad the press were occupied with a
ease dated eserapt influenee, exercised in one of
the isiisdaseles=ek a conces,ion for a mining
company wee a douceur of fifty shares being
accepted. la the Chamber of Peers, before promuf..
ing to the Geier of the day, M. Trite demanded to
address the &amber on the matter mentioned above,
He said that although his name was not mentioned,
facts had been alleged against him, which it was his
duty, both for his own dignity and the dignity of the
chamber of which he hord he was a worthy mem-
ber, to contradict in the most formal and solemn
manner. He denied having had any participation
in the concession of the mines, of which he was
accused. The President replied that the chamber
appreciated the motives that induced M. Teste to
speak—that he could only at present wait the coarse
of events, as the matter should be sifted to the bottom,
It was remarked, with some astonishment, that Gm
Cubidm, from whom the accusation of corraptiret
emanated, was absent from the chamber. A pay
script in our correspondent's letter adds, that a roysl
ordonnance will have appeared in the Mmnteur of
yesterday (Wednesday), dismissing Gen. Cubieree,
and directing an inquiry to be brought before the
Chamber of Peers.

By the last advice' from Madrid to the 29th tilt,
we learn that a deputation, composed of M. Mendirs-
be!, Cortina, Olozaga, and others of the liberal party
in congress, was received by the Queen surrounded by
her ministry and great officers of state, who presented
to her Majesty a petition to include in the amnesty and
recall to their country a number of distinguished
Spaniards yet in exile, among whom were Es tiers,
Radii, Linage, Caps, and Nogueras. Her Majesty
assured the deputation of her earnest wish to see al
parties reconciled and all enmities forgotten, but she
added that not having the power to decide constitu-
tionally on such a measure, she would have to consult
her responsible advisers.
The departure of Oen. Narraer for France was
announced for the let instant, notwithstanding which
the party desirous of a further change in the cabinet
had not relinquished the hope of seeing him called to
the presidency in the council.
Thedazette of Madrid, of the29th, has the following:
The junta appointed by her Majesty the queen to authorise
the drawing by lot of the 10th twelfth of the foreign debt
deferred, which is to par into the active debt, conformable
to Aet 6 of the law of the 16th November, 1834, and to the
convention pared on the 7th D.cember following, with
M. A. Anima, makes public that her Majesty has appointed
the Ist May at 11 o'clock, a.m., for the drawing at Madrid.
The integral amount of this deferred debt was in 1838, before
the first drawing, 62,191,400 heavy piastres, represented by
44,174 lots divided into six series, under the letters from A
to F. This amount served as the basis for the general plan,
which is to regulate the twelve drawings of this debt within
the twelve succeeding years, as determined by the above-
quoted law, each series being subdivided into twelve lots,
represented by twelve balls, in such manner that the six
series are represented by 72 balls, under the figures from 1 to
72. Nine drawings have already taken place from 1839 to
1846; 33,127 lots, representing 46,640,200 heavy piastres; in
consequenoe, there remains for the drawing of the present
year, 15,5.51,200 heavy piastre* and :11,017 Into represented
by 18 balls. The lots which will be drawn in suitable order,
will be convened into active debt bills, and enjoy interest
from the 14 of May, conformable to the above quoted law
and convention. As regards the time for presenting the lots
to be exchanged, as soon r the drawing has taken place, the
government wiU make it officially known at I.Ondon, at
Paris, and at Madrid.—Madrid, 28th April.
The King and Queen continued to be occasionally
seen together in public.

JERUSALEM, Aram 8.
On Good Friday an interesting ceremony was per-
formed at the chapel of the English Consulate. 'The bishop,
misted by his chaplain and two missionary clergymen, bap-
tised tive Jews ; three men and two women. A considerable
number of English were present ; but the service wu read
in German by Dr. Nicolayeen and the bishop. It was curious
to hear our gracious queen prayed for in a foreign langasp,
" Wir betea dish far tumere gniulige konigin Victoria". The
bishop, M. Gobat, a native of Switzerland, is a line serious-
looking man, and read, with great solemnity and impressire-
nese, our beautiful liturgy, which lost less than one would
have supposed from being rendered into German.
The little church, of a pretty gothic design, has got its
watts up, and is waiting for the roof, which, though con-
structed of timber, to to be brought out from England, so
scares is that material here. The highest point of Mount
Sinn crowned with en English Protestant church, is an
interesting subject for contemplation. The hospital, esta-
blished by the Society for Promoting Christianity among the
Jews, and attended by Dr. Macgowan, stands hard by, and
L a most serviceable institution. There were 30 Jewish
patients in the clean and airy wards, mostly afflicted with
ophthalmia. It seems the thin diet of the poor Jews, which
censista nearly wholly of broth, does not, according to the
rules of animal chemistry, suffice to nourish the cornea.
For this reason corneitis is very prevalent among them.
Whether pure benevolence towards the Jews be the ac-
tuating motive for founding this institution, or a desire to
conciliate them for the ulterior purpose of conversion, the
benefits derived from its existence are undeniable.

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Several parties of English have found their way hither
from Egypt over the desert—a route which saves the twain
days' quanta ti ne inflicted on those who comet?, m Alexandria
to Jetta by sea. One of these parties, consisting of eleven,
mostly youths fresh from college, visited Petra, and remained
there two days, without the slightest molestation from the
Bedouins. But the sheik of Hebron took advantage of
their lagging in the rear, to walk off with their
water casks andbaggage, jar., for which audacious felony he will, as
doubt, be severely punished by Mohammed Pacha, to wit's'.
complaint was immediately made, upna the arrival ofta
party in Jeramlesa. Among the groups of travellers tad •
have come by El Ariah, from Cairo, are four ladies, owe[ ,
whom is Mies Martineau.

The Pasha is making Preparations for his departure. The
motives of his disgrace Are not very distinctly known. la
the space of fourteen or fifteen months he has established •
security of communication throughout most parts of the
Pschalik, that entitles him to the highest praise. On the
other hand, he is accused of an excretive avarice, which
opens his hand to the meanest bribe. Besides this,
certainly a capital fault, he is accused of not exercising over
his harem that control which Turkish decorum cues. His
Greek wife, a woman once beautiful and still extravagant, to
provide herself with the funds indispensable to her taste for
dress and other pleasures, is known to base gone round to
the houses of the wealthiest rush', in her takhteroun or
*zoysia, and threatened to use her influence with her
husband to their detriment, if she were not instantly supplied
with so many panes.
The great feat of Mohammed Pasha has been to seise the
sheiks, who formerly exercised a petty sovereignty over their
respective districts, and plundered caravan at their *east
and to send them hound to Constantinople. The chief
among these is the well knows Abou Gosh . and many of the
rest are his relatives. Mel mantel Nem achieved their
capture by a pima of lestosheiry very common in Turkish
dads, and sort at el iiimprenrid by Turkish morals, al-
themikageralagle wrialeirepeeanotions, rurficientlyodious.
He 4110111iNINSi withrade lee se es Eon agalad
Hebron. H. mot reed menegeo to the sheiks, who Irmo
easily persmodmi teals hi /Way of them wen w-
rong' adds et the shoat el way._ Hebron, and others ware
allured by pessents of shawls and kurka, and the caroming
disthaelieml sib which they were treated by the Puha, who
Played die hes egad with them, invited them to pis teat,
applauded their ' sports, and quartered them as
guest. Hebron was taken and plundered ;
the sbdtlE et Hard lull in with the rest behind the Pasha in
his rieedsee 8o they cams to the camp at Hamlett
about always more and more charmed with
the taidomemmeloa of the Pecha. One tine day they were ell
invited M ble hid While the had their coffee-cups in their
hands, the tog wes eanmYidd by soldiers; and • dried
body of aces led la the led door and pmemeed
their meskele, peeparei to be ea the strike to ems
of rmietence. TIM sheiks, bewailed with this Wham
tr•••0•,..41..d0mab-fewadomed. Mond at ems read
in bleak ; while ilielmmmed Paths leg* up
IBte a tier ids his divas,
_awl 'commenced a stoney
hara=zormemisithemt as Wide simian the Sultaa, high-
way heth, mdmandi nit hi misai te me
dream teis tYo pissees. Alieu Gosh wee the air
man who had a Mead to He rereads&
Pasha with birekielea el the righte'd hospitality, gad "
dicated his ems hertabrory this to autherity over the add
which he gemeemlA SIPS he wee se air from being a
_AIM
that he exemaiel lie peeledhet travellers threeehle
country. lie then eakedMei to be baud kke the red: did
es ended this &paha mesh She priseaste, twentrave le
amber, halm be isesteed met el the teat, with
sad rage dales la their sort haters, the Paha
upon his ask sod Ingped hfmmlf with delight et hie kb. •
glorious triumph. The amp at Herold was broken sp. ad
ha marched es le Atieseime. To meeenre the ►
portals", of this edievement, we mast remit
that them sheiks were ad Esiesiet, but the
feudal governors of mad iberiete, which the
authority bee liesep der hal the deem force. Their ed
oreens, mentade, met he appeimed out of say dirt
end ere la meet Weimer mineee. The MOM ef
them feudal roam bee Mead a twee threaphed the
country, which has perelyeed all reismirme hike the rem
of Hammed Puha. Bat edger hie sememem whit k
to be Hamada Zarif Pasha, edibles eemel it the
mute vigour, it is to be herd Met the eY "dm
will break out again, ad the ehfag theilhe MOM lid
ludo anos--to the great isildinant it eineniseek did i at
present well protected by the eempatetive security el the
roe&

BAVARIA.—More didadraoto took Ow d
Nuremberg on the 27th ult. (the dry fallowing the elsearife
elready recorded), but order eampeempely restored. Oa r
fait a egewiren bame. dedadhed has the prelim .
Amps* nerived be seredgdesa des lamb of the Ilisiddril
authorities; hut it Wes believed their services weld set be
required.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM PORTUGAL
gy the Madrid arrived last evening at Southamp-
ton, we drape news from Portuenl to the following
ow Gibraltar, April 23th ; Cadiz, 26th ; Lisbon,
oporto,.3oth ; and Vigo, the Ist of May.
;
D. sew given in our impremion of yesterday, of
tbs of ministry, and the nomination of the
ytr tae, u confirmed.
the capture of the Royal Tar ia also confirmed, and
B is farmer stated that a party of the Queen's troop.,
fig, which had crossed from Rego*. to the
40
wet ids of the Douro had had a brush with the
brined force on the 29th, when the latter had been
de(mted, an I lost 200 men, who were taken prisoners.
The mink of Vision had been supplied with pro.
'jives by the Portuguese squadron, and was still
mpg out.
The following is the letter of our correspondent,
gimag• • details which have not yet appeared, relative
toys movements of both parties:
LISBON, Aran. 28.
na, new ministry is merely a transition
tone, called
ether for the purpose don gne es a elose ego-o;eww ring oe, for the tranquillation of the country;
ad when this important and mo-t pressing object to
=bshed, other men must necessarily be called into the
of her Most Faithful Majesty. In the meantime,
o sanative of the occurrences which hive preceded this
t will, probably, not be unacceptable. I men.
rmy last, the important fact that the Spanish
had ins:: acted their charge d'Affaires here to rig-
d' trviria the court of Portugal the determination of Donna
a,to co-operate with the British plenipotentiary
ta wager hortilities to a close. Acting upon these
isstrectscies from their respeetive ministers, both Ste H. Sep
seer and Senhor Leopold Casio premed the suggestions
Mostly *erred to Donna Maria with so much vigour as to
bag bee Majesty to • more of the urgency under which she
woe of coming to male definitive and immediate decision.
Teo goner which had bees made towards striking a final
Now at the force collected under the Viscount de
Ai rendered it the more imperative on the British minister
*meet seen (merriest reply to the proposals he had made
*the Qeeen, otherwise his government would have been in
the assess of tither witnessing the total refusal of the
rotas e, mesmerist of the success of Count Vinhaes'
else of haring to rapport her Majesty
o. the throne is the event of her troops being
wanted is the impeeding attack. Happily for the cause of
eueleity, the prudence and skill of the Viscount de Ss ob-
Armee *e extremity to which things were hat verging.
gm.* posted at St. Übe.% Palmella and Anita., the
Abstained from all aggressive acts ; and, although
rtrej ois nearly doubled in nurnben those under Vinhaes,
whilst they equalled them in discipline, Si di Bandeira
seated the result of the negotiations which, as he was
wised, were being carried on by the British and Spanish
Dein these circumstances it was that, perceiving no
dumb of ultimate success' the late ministers at len.
mashed upon offering their resignation. Towards the fare
lemma of the negotiation the King went over, on Sunday
Armes, to a eoaatry seat which 11111 has cm the south aide
tithe Togas, where Vinhaes bad a conference with his
Meaty, and the wane of conduct to be pursued him was
rind out. The terms, however, of the proposed pacifies-
m were and are so unpaletable to the advisers
M Donna Maria, that even at this moment, when
sat a doubt can be entertained of their being
ultimately carried out to the full extent of what I have
gated in my previous communications, the party who all
tbesseeless the Queen's Aristide resolutely and Obstinately
persist in denying the possibility even of her Majesty's
seZtnig them.
these promedings were taking place on the
part of the British and Spanish ma:Men at this
asset, the Baglbh ambassador at Madrid, ignorant
pobably of the exact situation of affairs, despatched,
a semen with the Spanish government there, Col. Fitch
sell the Marquis do Espana to the bearequarters of 8a da
Beadeirs, (or the purpose of counselling that general to
detain from using the advantages powered by him, and of
reaaintag quiescent is his position, whilst the terms of paci-
litetiOn were hcing arranged. The communication addressed
by Mr. Bulwer to the viscount was as follows :
MADRID, APRIL 19, 1847.—Excellent sir,—lt is my
duty to represent to your excellency that I have this day
agreed with her Catholic Majesty the terms of • suitable
and honourable transaction to be proposed to her most
Faithful Majesty and the junta of Oporto. That transaction
(eompromese) is one entirely, acceptable to her Britannic
Majesty's Government, which, since the commencement of
the unfortunate differences that have thrown into • state of
**fusion and disorder the kingdom of Portage!, has
been most anxious to see such differences terminated
by • just and equitable settlement. honourable
and decorous to H M.F. edsjesty'e crown, and, at the same
time, calculated to preserve intact the liberties of the Portu-
guese people. It includes, moreover, a general amnesty for
all persons concerned in the civil war ; although it
would not be suitable for me to say more there-
spore until it has been submitted to H.M.F. Ma-
jesty. I can feel no difficulty in saving that it compre-
hends all that can he reasonably derired by a per on so dis-
tinguished and patriotic as your excellency. I am Induced,
therefore, to associate myself at once in the step taken by
the Spanish government, and to request you most earnestly,
for the sake of that peace which this interposition will
probably bring about, and which must be desired by every
true lover of his country, us well as by all those other motives
to which I can reasonably appeal (as being likely to infla-
me a man of reflection from carrying matters to extremes,
which may very likely he fatal to his own cause, and
weld in this case most probably be so) to cease, on the re-
ceipt of this communemtion from all further arts of hostility,
aad to await, in the position which your excellency may now
weepy, until you receive the communication which almost
immediately will follow this front her Britannic Majesty's
miriater at Li-bon. Fully treating that your excellency
will do me the honour to give this communication the
stearion it deserves,—l have the honour to be, your
excellency's meet obedient servant, (simnel) H. L. Detente.
—To his Excellency the Viscount de Sada Bandeira.
To all who are acquainted with the character of the die
tiagaished man to whom this remarkable letter is addressed,
it will be no matter of Burnet* to learn that whilst there had
hem, in some sort, a tacit suspension of hostilities in force at
the time he received it (on the 25th inst., in the evening) he
loom cordially entered into the spirit in which it was owe
oiled, and the following general order was issued in eon-
smeenee completing, and, at the name time, modifying the
conditions of the proposed armistice.
"Yoe forces occupying Setubal, commanded by the Gen.
Vitenunt de St, are resolved to obey the Junta of Oporto,
sad to swept or refuse whatever terms may be accepted or
refused by that body. Whilst the determination of the
Junta remains unknown, should the enemy continue to in-
ane* their offensieepreparations, the said forces deem them-
eaves at liberty to undertake any hostile movement that they
may deem necessary, without, however, refusing to suspend
hostilities until the final decision or the junta Deem:nes
kaosni in the meantime resorting to those honourable
seasuies which are custom 17 between two belligerent
ham. Head-quarters, Setubal, April 27, 1847. (Signed)
Marquis DE Motto, Brigadier."
As soon as the arrival of Col. Fitch, at the bead-quarters
of the Viscount de Se became known to Sir Hamilton
Seymour (who received the despatches boreght by the new
timunissioner from Madrid early an die 11111. The British
minister summoned this fusedenmey M IMsa, fearing, pro-
trebly, that his proceedings might elm& IS IMO degree with
them already adopted by himself in the same sense, and
with the same ultimate object. The matter, there-
hre, remains in the position above described. The
ultimate result will now very shortly be known •
but until the decision of the junta of Oporto his I
been received, it is impossible to predict what the result will
be with certainty, although it may in • great degree be
saticipated.
It is smarted that the Duke of Saldanha is to be in Lisboa
smith, 29th inst. His functions se minister have eared.
Another rumour, to which I attach sea *edit, states that
the Conde de Thomar (Costa Cabral) Is et the eapital. Ca-
lk It is that there exists here a rry nmemiebihrdingagett to
Ihe result of the efforts new saidteg a
cessprosnise beteen the costemilimrpartfe* The enaltados
se both sides, are highly dimstisfeal, asst bbe was arrested
that the Cabralistas intend to get up a issessisnedea in
order to ewe the court into a refusal of the bosssiliatft see •
ditties imposed on the queen. It is lardy posed* that
this may be true, for the extent of violence and of rea-
mer to which some of the Tardiest et the late sera-
meat are prepared to go is hardly to be esseaieei. As.
attempt te influence some of the welenteir and
baealions now under arms at the spied was mmr:4l4lde:
two since without success.
In commenting upon the actual state of the negotiations
foe bringing about a reconciliation I have not touched upon
owe impetation which is very strennouslial4rgedwagriative
of the terms proposed to Donna Is the
demand her Mmesty is said,by her 01111 sireessee poetises,
to have insisted upon a a erns ova non toss& bee ease*
ance of the suggestion—namely, the teimpleary bemilement
from her kingdom of some of the owe ebeeetees of the
chiefs of the movement. There is semetling Me
in the thought of this vindictive and unwise email *itst that
I can hardly recoarile its existence to my bob f; bet the
persons more immediately acquainted with the belle, and
able from their position to verify them, state meet positively
that these exclusions are of the royal dietatlea. It need
hardly be observed, that they are wholsowed to the
spirit of Mr. But wee. communication da dB Biskirs,
and that it would be difficult to find • oil of alobteee pre-
pared to carry them into effect He.

FRANCE.—Pnats, MAT 4.—A grand dinner wan
/6Tea by the Minister of Foreign Affairs en the list, to
honour of the king's fete. The table wu laid for 48 per-
sous, and the guests consisted of all the representatives of
the different nations, end gush French alabainadore and
%denten plenipotentiary as are now in Paris, and the chief
functionaries of the department of foreign affairs. Every
one was in grand costume, with stare and orders. M. Ouirot
presided. On his right were the Pops's Nuncio, and the
British and Turkish ambeasedon ; and on the left Count
d'Appony, ambassador of Austria. The Duke de Broglie,
who was requrkd by M. Ouieot to assist him in doing the
honours, had the ambugador of Sardinia on his right, and
the ambassador of Naples on his left M. &ant, the Pre-
sident of the Chamber of Deputies, has, on the occasion of
the king's fke, been raised to the grade of Grind Offloer in
the Legion of Honour.
The Patric says : " The artillery arsenal of Metz
has lately vent off a great number of gua-carriages for the

BOMBAY, Aria 1, 1847.
tersely a Mesh lima of sews of Interest to the home
raider has triumphal Bas the Penjaab during the past fort.
night. Most of the male Waders eirsalated is reference
to the apparently qesetimale haw of our resident, Colonel
Lawrence, have been explained by the Bombay Timer in a
style so authoritatho that there can be no doubt he has good
ggrrwwads for his ereeties. Theme are so well and minutely
IT that jeurael that I shell have ite remarks to
spook aseelehim he leet poresedieg ot which
hes bora statmeated so
le, the haucendatdohs state
&assurer, who has beim llama to have astreeted the
large sum of seventy thatMand monde from the
seams of the sentry sad appropriated It to his own
vim. He is said to bass bees eedered to be confined in
shahs-him eau, elm lammed Is primes with hint till
tla aiemerbe _ seaseated tar. Camel Lawrence
his boa Itheeed oath ram rat to be perpetrated
ashy the etheleaturee et the Beitiskos tha • haler'. faults
shell be Abed ea ble antra. If the tale be at all true,
there tea be Mae doubt that einametenees not made
knees have seam ee dieresident's liaserisige itivaiiiiating the
KS es well es as Wm, heft is monamas to suppose that
ma Begliatuarm se whoa the rya of all Wis. sad a lath
psalm of Eery& are turned, would be guilty of at ea le
rasa le ea Ileispean's notions of justice. The
,emspenal by Lori Harding, ha the Padua=
a lair pa to some two or three of t e jseematimY d Lae,
and Ms het will explain the elesumetenee of their sea-
etuair esdarg alts, matter, of semplaint against the eat
dent at Lame balsekily, Ids ellialleter as &jun and ado
Era Mods as lathe world's estimation to take thaw
fees each declaimers. Colonel Latrines has reached Pesha-
war, where the greatest exertions bad been made to receive
Min in true Oriental style. The alai from far sad seer
had been ordered to eerie to Peaseres is rimes him. Mee of
s reetaneats ware rearea sepummalls, and the hap bed
mostly been new clothed to make a bl.• • appearance
before the burrs sahib. He is ansinope by Lieut. Lams-
den, front Hamra, the hate/beam in which elitist
have beat iterpietsly quelled—the whole of the thikk &me
withdraiesomd the territory finally made over to the 4r
path* of the Meharajoh Ooolaub Singh appointed fri wan
.t. The Hulot of Mooltan has returned from hie impolition
against his siametory subjects, and Lieut. Nighttime was
ordered to paused to his territory to endeavour hseattle the
dispute existing betwixt the Dewan and his voted. Belau
Ram. The expedition to the district of Bunnoo Teak, which
was accompanied by Capt. Edwards*, bad crossed the Indus
in progress to their destination, and were to be joined by the
Governor of the trans-Indus provisoes. The plan adopted
by our resident of sending a British officer with every force
rent to compel payment of tribute or settle disturbances ma-
not be too highly prised; for a native force s,:nt
to pacify a discontented people, invariably widen
rather than contract the gap existing la their allegiance
to their rulers. Osiety was the sods,a the night
at the capital, where dinner parties end be were of &-
quent occurrence, the resident bevies at thememph by Ws
brilliant luncheons of the 12th Feb. and 4th March, the he-
wer of which it was which gave rise to so area commat,
it being described as • meat impolitic' sat, talseYMd to
ranted the Sikhs of their disaster at thienea, &a The
heroic Lady Bale it now at Lahore on a via. It would
mews that the report of the intended murder of Tej Singh,
and a few other of the leading men of the Durban, in which
the Maharanee was said to be so deeply implicated, was a
fabrication of Tej Bingh's own, got up with a view to the
ruin of some of his enemies whom he wished out of the mad!
Stich things have happened in civilised Europe before low.
The resident is said to have refused to allow of an English
tutor being employed for the instruction of the young Maha-
rajah, on the plea that it might create a suspicion in the
minds of the Sikhs that we intended converting the youthful
prig to the Christie& kith! What Colonel Lawrence's
roma an be he his eadrml, if he has refused, to instruct the
pilaw in the Boa& learrage, I cannot imagine : most
arendly It alma be the absurd one above-mentioned.—
The trap at the =al were all healthy—weather hot.
The statuesT in the Jullundur Doab, has been
fixed upon for a military post, and is to be garrisoned by the
70th N.I. and a battery of foot artillery. Complaint. have
his laud against the authorities for not moving the troops
halm the aid moon, es the weather just now was literally
seediag. The 48th N.I. are to be withdrawn from Boor-
pore le Meelemeas, and the Mb Irregular Cavalry from
the Wee pin t• The former station has
been amadthed fy the bee arson, the troops stationed
thee* kat yale Mein wind greatly from names. The
corps forming Si iilol6ll.lllpere under Major Hodgson was
nearly filled Sp; that et Certain Stephen, at Kangra, being
nearly half aonginall. nine mid that a substance believed
to be coal had bees dheevered near the dation of Sangre.
There is sew as denbi entertained of the truth of the
Tatriof the duds et the Vona of Cabal, Mahomed
bar Elan, though the "arch-fiend's" death is now
stated to have been scomianisd by poison administered to
him by mein MIS PANZER . The improbability
of this being true will dean lathe the reader, and need
not tharehin be bertha man/ Our old and steady friend
the Rewash Melliared Zamora Khan is also &ad, having
beta poVamL The diet:abeam in the Panes continued
ari DtMe, bat the dem* of the Vara would probably put
an sad for a time to then..

—ft; Governor ;FfieTnde and his family continue at
Clifton, Roseate, and were in the best of health. In
addition to the news contained in the overland Bombay
papers of this morning, [glean the following : Major J. St.
C. Jameson, commandant of the camel baggage corps, hav-
ing been oblired to quit Sande on account of ill-health,
arrived at Bombay on the 20th of March. He was too
unwell to be lauded, so he continued on board the mouser
till his death, which occurred on the 24th. The deceased
was a man of exemplary piety, and his efforts in the cause
of native female education were well known as never having
boon surpassed by any individual in Western India. The
funeral wows was preached by the Rev. Mr. Nesbit, of the
free kirk, and wee one of the most eloquent I ewer herd.
Hie body was Ribald le dui grave by nearly all the minktem
at the preellemeg, mid a samieress limes of allsons. He wee
Saw be/dm se a neareekeisa 'Major J. G. Jaws, pre-
=nytile&sitgx‘lll77=e7remL Zuseasheopeerils,tsos
beonno a great garden, whence Bombay to M derive the
larger proportion of her vegetable_ rya sepasially_psts-
toes, them poen bore equalliag the persikage el the Nene-
= gessedly allowed to be the heel fa Wk. Bone
, found at floningeseee, bawl been re-
ported es end the leather Maned at Hurachee
eandesesei by the &WI Association. The het weather
we, jest eamessesig. Whither the authorities in Blade
=post As proms to tam ewe an unhealthy season or not, I
easent say, bet cowls it is that upwards of three score
leameese ewes of lave been sent from Bombay to Her-
mits& Very little ddmem presently prevails in any part
of Nisi* bet it is impossible to tell how long this may be
the me. The medical men do well to be well supplied ; in
the 4EII of 1144 sad beginning of 184,5, at sukkur se much
as eiabt peaseis sterling was paid for an ounce of quinine,
fermi Is • ship* the bazaar.
nue to Milos to report regarding India. The Goomsoor
rebellion II Mimi put down, but our troops are suffering
greatly firm at. heat of tie weather and demiAganation.
They aro asaoloatly at the chow after beads of the marau-
ders, whom they emegely ever come up with (thanks to the
dresses, arms, od seseutraments of our sepoys), and are thus
harassed from goo place to another, in many busses being
upwards of twenty-four hour. without food. Tho Minxes
demdweewe oratirso as they aver will—die m miserably
utimulled ea at. his of the abbe. Lord ISMISV wee at
Nahum es the led Kw* mg expected to resehHimle on
the 27th. Lod Om! Imo been tyre gthyr nearly the
whole meek haying meshed Illeda ea the 4th or
6th. The Hes. Yr. Tboomra we, to leave Agra on
the 26th to join them, and would probably reach the hills by
the end of April. The seat of t of the one is Cal-
cutta, of the other Agra ; w Ilhonotbro, can they want to
congregate at Simla tbr ?—a zestien mere easily asked than
answered. I fear the to be about to be
entered on will now be somoodoi. If mart *lobo true,
army appointments are to be dlmisidisi, sal 'hi servants'
wages to be reduced, rather Gies glee up the esantry which
is draining upwards el a million sterling annually from In-
dia. The Lord Dilap andadrao reached that presidency on
the 23rd March, issprwrol, bat still for from wall is health
Both the Bombay judges ban ban alibi lately, but not as.
riooaly. Money is lissaisise wry loareo, upwards of three
millions heels, been }lda into the government treasury on
account of the In per cent. loan. The country generally
is healthy and tranquil; the weather grilling. •

libt&m.lft.imaimomdm rat Ile barque AUK le nites AZells,
:......m„...v5,,,L,.........L..,, .17, attlailam.ll. Lamers
4 C. S.
Millll tiAaille.l.7itniaterser of T. Melltkseqtag"
flumw At rns.the
, Lleut A. Proem
411101410119 deeigtler late B. Small, Req. On March
Ilk aft MOWN Cbusb. Mr. M. & Itheseeau, to Jane Sank ro-
adie" lbe ble oi4. J. R. bet& At Chatedwel, Marck 19, N. B.
2f8887 ZBl3, ea ve J. 11. 1611, TN.. Q.C, to Marie Therm, relict
et A. Boum" Esq.
Stmts.—At Barraekteme. March 5, the or Capt. I. S. Rae:,
MI Light Infantry, of a daughter. At M Jan. 6, the wile of
Lent A. Sags, 52nd ILNI., of a eon. At Yard; the Ddy
*leapt. W. J. Rind, 714 Beet., of • we. At Mame I, the
lady at beet J. P. Caulfield, 3rd Reit. N.L, et a . At
Owstke, Peit. 37, the lady of Capt. V. tyre. Artlllellett. a wie. At
Dad. Mle VI; lady of Lleut. Patteene, 4th N. L., et •
dueler. Al M 2, the ladflat. H.
d=er, afAst,
eon. At Cal= IA H, Mra. P. 4 •
4, Mrs. O. Ler, ot • era. Calcutta. Mire 11,
7111347. M. it, as KS. At tholcalkh, Mane 1, the lady at lii*r
I/Art, 4441 Ilegt. N.L, eta moo. At Blab, Marra 4, the wile at Mr,
J. 1446, et a los. At Mang, Mardi 7, the lady of Breve6o9l.
W. Per., Haree AMlfiery, of a con 4111 born. At Bare.Jeri7, the lady at M. Petrie, BA MR heat, of a sub
At /11//1410,10. March 5, the lady of Mt.-apt. J. French, 14th Rat
NI., at a eta. At Fumigators, Much 5, Mr.. 0. C Flasher, et a
ea. At Calwatte, Marc& 111, Mrs. D. IL Rearms, of a am At Dr.
lent, *web I& the lady at D. IL Crawford, Fnq., at a Mililee. At
Marti 7 the wilt at Kr. IL Althauder, at a MOW. At
U Malt 14, the 4 Lieut. A. S. Calloway. 0 a emptmr.
At Jetegeme& Ildwels B.6trank et apt. Farmer, 4a datailler OE
ledgmiat.
Colima, Mei 2, the et C. W. lain, H.Y. MR lag.,
of a daegilw. Al Ain. Me lady of beet. H. Itholow,
.et • dawalwor. At M. March 15, the lab at Met R.
AertittThlth MB its rt. At Utatelleb, Musk O the
lady of Capt. OA
a.......0rmf a us. At Jelinger,
March 8, the lady et T. MI N. 1., at a ma.
Durea—At Mow% M.N. Dade , aw of C. Teem, Mei,
H.Y. 82nd Fret. At am ea Me pm. hew Nemo is Pinia, IR
Out. 14, Capt. T. Maidight, et Ow true Odes, of Waft Al
Pateepore, Feb. 28, MOM AMrad. Ow tart us a !Wu Thin.
us. At Calcutta, Marti 4Ma Mahe% OW oily WM • f Mr. C.
IL Dow. t , 'Asmara totherlawat. D. U. laiwad.ll4* MITa
At Mom. AMali 11, ,Iltt aft alia dew*
At Mbmw, Om* 11, WIIIM hob,, yomerom sea • f Mee Comics,
11111 i L.C. At Lheathaely Marsh 8, Robert IMltesk. kink ma of
LiteLARL Curti.. At Mir, liirch 19, Co& A. Opel" wr ihe ler
, British Reddest at the Conn of Swum. At Cideella,
ran:ShinSamoa Ewan, eldest son of Mr. J. J. Luznedea.