The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-03 00:00:00

Vie efIIVMS.

MAILS.
The nails for the Brad* the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco, Bshia, Madeira, and &MOB Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th August.
The mails for British North America, and the United States,
will be made up so the evening of the Ith Aug.
The overland closed mails, Mai Marseilles, to the Mediterranean
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, ke., will be made up on the
evening of the 7th Aug.
The malls for Vigo, Oporto„ Lisbon, Madeira, Castle, sad Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 7th Aug.
The Meet India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Maven, Hamm;
Honduran, New Orleans, Vera Crua, Tampico, and Porto Rim and
including those for Madeira, Jaetnel, Cartharn., Santa Mirth.,
Chaves, Pansena, West Coast of South Ame,. and St Joan-de-
Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 17th August.
The overland mails for Gibralted, Malta, Greece, the iOlll.lll islands,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, ladle, Hong-limag, and Chins, eta Southamp-
ton, will be made upon the evening of the 19th August.
The malls for New South Wales, Van Dleman's Land, and New
Zeshuad will be made up on the evening of the Slot August.
The mails for the West Coast of Mona and PdAdoire will be made
up oa the evening of the Stet August.

NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
The number of STMPS ed by the authorities of the
Stamp-office, d A issu
uring 1847, to the
DAILY NEWS was 3.447.009
This, we believe, is within eight per cent of the number
hotted to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, awl
Morning Pod, ALL PUT TOORTHIER.
In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS,
Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evens's? edition,
THE EXPRESS 778.714
Which wu more, we believe, than wete issued either to
the Globe or Standard. Evening Pepen.

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the harmony of the conception by revealing the true
state of the facts.
It appears. however, that under "my lords"
auspices the " hereclaary revenues of the crown have I
been so mismanaged, that, for the last twenty years,
the amount of annual receipts has remained perfectly
stationary !" Only fancy such a state of things=
venting itself to one of our great proprietors !
ceive the Marquis of WESTMINSTER, for instance/
being told that, though the leases of the Grosvenor-
squwe estate were dropping in—though Belgravia
was being covered with hoUses—though land was
doubling itself in value in consequence of improve-
ments and competition, yet that the cost of manage-
ment was so great that the estate did not produce
a sixpence more than in the year 1820 ! And yet
the case of the nobleman we ha a named—
whose London property, by the way, is said alone to
be worth 10,0001. a year more than it was ten years
back—is the only ease that we can parallel with that of
the crown. Look at the vast and most improving pro-
perties comprehended in the imposing lists of " Here-
ditary Revenues." The whole of the Regent's-park,
Regent-street, part of Piccadilly, Pall-mall, White-
hall, St. James's, a large proportion of St.
Martin's in the Fields, 1-10,000 acres of forests
and woodlands, the isles of Alderney and Man,
the palaces Windsor and Holyrood for example
—property, in fact, in no less than forty-five
counties of Great Britain, to say nothing of Ireland,
go to compose this magnificent estate ! And now
what will the public say when they hear that for the
last twenty years not only has this property been
dwindling away as regards rental, but that land has
absolutely been sold to an amazing amount, and the
proceeds carried into the account of "income," to
hide an annual deficiency ?
The " rent roll " of this vast estate, when published,
will bo a curious document. How is the property
disposed of—who are the lessees—what is the oonin-
deration ? These are questions repeated every day,
and upon which detailed information is yet to be
afforded us. Rumour says that public competition, in
the proper sense of that term, has rarely been resorted
to; that, to the disgrace of all concerned, a system of
" middle men " prevails ; and that the terms these
parties have obtained have been sometimes curiously
advantageous. Who the "middle men" are, we
shall discover, we suppose, when the report of Lord
DUNCAN'S committee is published, and, judging from
what we hear, the list of names will throw some cu-
rious light on the proceedings of the commission.
The management of this property is another matter
about which some remarkable revelations may be ex-
pected. It the lessees are middle men, who are the
managers ? Of course it cannot be expected that
"my lords"condesceed to deal with their tenants them-
selves. Everything is, naturally, committed to agents.
How they are paid, or how they pay themselves ; -to
what checks they are subjected ; how they deal with
the property—must all come out ; and these are details
that may naturally be expected with curiosity.
It is curious to reflect, that despite all the laxities
of its management, the Woods and Forests has been
of all others the department of the government of late
years most difficult to deal with. There is scarcely a
railway that has not, somehow or another, touched on
crowa property, and there is not a directorate in the
kingdom that will not declare the Woods and Forests
to have been the hardest to deal with of all the pro-
prietors on the line. The improvements, too, that
they have checked and impeded ! Not a dock, nots har-
bour, not a river or streamlet in the kingdom that you
may have tried to improve, but somehow or another
the Woods and Forests have stepped in to your
annoyance, inconvenience, and lose. What does the
reader suppose to be the reason of all this ? Nothing
less than the circumstance that under the existing
system of management the commissioners' only hope
of increasing their revenue has been by driving hard
bargains with the public! Hence, as the chief com-
missioner is said to have publicly declared, " the
crown has pushed with vigour its claims to the pro-
perty on the fore-shores of rivers and the sea," and
has sought and obtained great advantages " by dis-
posing of some portisn of its land for the use of rail-
way companies." Hence, whenever you went to the
office, the series' aspect of some official greybeard—
the perpetual reference to " the rights and Preroga-
tives of the crown "—the difficulties thrown in your
way—the hints of parliamentary or legal oppo-
sition—in a word, the infliction of the " screw,"
of which every public body with so much reason has
complained. How disgraceful that mat Interest
which above all others ought to have the greatest ad-
vantage from the promotion of public improvements
should have been driven from such miserable necessi-
ties to throw the hreatest obstacles in the teeth of
almost every public work ! Shame upon the manage-
ment which has brought things to such a page ! It
is time, indeed, that the system was put an end to,
and we rejoice that the hour of well-merited retribu-
tion is at hand in the suitable shape of exposure and
disgrace.

LONDON. THURSDAY. AUG. 3.
THE Irish rebellion has given rise to a world of
groundless fears and gratuitous anxieties. But of all
the strange fears which it has occasioned, the most
strange is the fear of the Morning Chronicle, that the
danger and the panic will not be made the most of. i
We should think that there could not be found in all
England, and in nine-tenths of Ireland, a solitary
reader who entertained other than " contemptuous
views" of SMITUOTRIEN'S insurrection. The Chronicle,
however, bid s us beware of such "contemptuous
and sedulously avoid " the danger of pooh-poohing
the whole thing." Jotter Butt, who so lately was
knitting his brows at the incomprehensible and mad
enmity of " Young Ireland," could not avoid bursting
out into a huge laugh at the puerile and burlesque
attempt of the would-be rebels. The Morning Chro-
nicle, however, is disappointed at this, and would
forbid JOHN BULL to laugh. An Orange spirit has
been infused into the views of our Once liberal contem-
porary, and it exclaims that instead of smothering a
revolution with ridicule, it ought to be overwhelmed
in blood.
This solemn truculence of a London print, this de-
termination to enact and enjoy a tragedy where there
are merely materials for a farce, this thirst after the
feats of the conqueror and the hero, where there is no
rsk to run and no enemy to fight, this exuberant
valour and preposterous toryism of the litornisv
Chronicle, can be likened to nothing save to
the Quixotic frenzy of the King of Munster him- i
self. We have heard or read nothing like it
these thirty years. The Chronicle warns the
English people " not to be deluded by the
accounts they read of the exertions of the priests to
put down rebellion," although it admits these accounts
"to be true enough as far as they go." The English
are warned not to believe these truthful statements,
" because there is but one real peace-maker in Mun-
ster just now, and that is the sword."
Now, in our humble opinion, the priests who ham
implored their flocks to abstain from joining clubs,
who have neatralieed and opposed all the efforts of
insurgents, who in so many instances have actually
taken from SMITH O'BRIEN the following already ga-
thered round him, these true ministers of peace appear
to us to have deserved well of their country, of Eng-
land as of Ireland. We think they &serve gratitude
and respect; and that not only they, but the peasantry
who obeyed them, are entitled to the treatment of
loyal subjects, of sensible and humane men. Far
from applying to the multitude who have thus hum-
bled themselves before the law, the terrible regime of
the sword, we should say that a most signal proof and
a:aepic. "v.e thast. the eonservative elements of
order and tranquillity abound in Ireland, and prevail
there, and thst the country merely requires to be legis-
lated for with justice, in order to its being adminis-
tered in peace.
It would be imitating the wild extravagance of the
Morning Chronicle, though in a contrary sense, to
pretend that because the insurrection has been easily
put down, there was no ground for preparation and
alarm. We approve of all the precautionary measures
of the Irish government, however superfluous they
may now seem. But we must protest against the ex-
tending these military preparations and continuing
to blow the trumpet after the enemy has disappeared
from the field. Iteinforcemeets and concentration of
troops were wise up to the last days of July.
But really the despatch of more regiments, the
unabated host of generals and aides-de-camp, and
above all the advent of Lord HARDINGE as comman-
d( --in-chief of the army, and the director of the cam-
paign 21 tlle south of Ireland, does strike us as overdo-
ing the thing, and as trespassing upon Mr. SMITH
O'BRIEN'S own ground of the burlesque.
One of the best results of the speedy dispersion of
the physical force champions of repeal has been to pre-
clude the necessity or the idea of enrolling the yeo-
manry, or forming defensive corps to be composed
exclus;v, ly of protestants. We have every respect
for tl.-e st-iidy and zealous protestants of the north,
but to see them arming and enregimented, marching to
the south, their feelings of loyalty whetted by those
of religion, would merely be a renewal of the war and
the feelings of 1798, and the re-barbarisation of Ire-
land, with the leas of all that it has gained in tole-
rance for the last half century.
Securit-„ not vengeance, should be, and no doubt
wiit be, the motto of the government. More counties
have been proclaimed, and wherever the existence of
physical force clubs denote that disaffected persons
had arms, it is but right that they should be de-
prived of them. But it would be. a very imprudent
policy which should continue wielding the sabre over
the heads of the people that have not provoked
its vengeance. The unfortunate King of MUN-
STER heated a riot, not a revolution. The police alone
dealt with him and his few followers. And that they
were so few is a proof, and should be received as a
proof, that disaffection of that kind and school, which
O'BRIEN and his pikemen preached and practised,
surpasses the rashness and credulity of Irishmen.
Ridicule has been, let ridicule remain, the executioner
of Young Ireland. To treat its followers as rationA
potent, or formidable beings, by arraying armies
against them, or invoking the hatchet in lieu of the
whip of the law, would really be undoing that
most sound award of fortune which has already
slain those wretched fugitives and their cause with
certainly an unexampled we ght of cmtuinely and
contempt.

FACTS continue to ooze cut every day respecting
the confusion of the Woods and Forests, of which we
drew a picture upon Saturday. The state of affairs
in Whitehall-place is only paralleled, it is said, by the
position of the subordinate departments. Resigna-
tions are plentiful os blackberries. Offic'als are fly-
ing like the forest deer. Some of the oldest members
of the herd, who have stood at gaze so long, have
fairly taken to their heels at last. The New Forest
is said to be the scene of a special scamper. Since
the days of WILLIAM RUFUS there hail been nothing
to equal it. Even Stoney Cross is struck with alarm,
and no wonder, for a government officer is engaged upon
the spot in strict and searching inquiries as to allege d
irregularity in the felling, lotting, selling, and delivering
of timbers, and already some of the minor officials have
been, we understand, to their no small astonishment,
marched off to gaol for the exercise of what the laxity
of "my lords commissioners" had no doubt led
them to deem their " forest privileges."
In Mr. POPTER'S " Progress of the Nation " there
will be found, under the head of "civil list,' a mighty
pretty picture of how the crown, at each accession,
I makes over to the nation its hereditary and other
revenues, which are placed by the House of Commons
under the charge of a commission in trust for the
rood of he crown and of the public, the state receiv-
ing the profits ar.d granting the crown a civil list in
lieu of them. The picture is altogether delightfully
amiable : +he condescension of the CIOWLI uponthe one
hand —the) iberal lip of the people on the other, are points
for philosophic admiration ; and then the commission,
presiding like the good fairy in the nursery tale over
the interests of both ! It really is a pity to disturb

THE E‘" PRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1848.

ITALY,

The greatest alarm appears to have been produced
at Milan by the intelligence from the theatre of war,
and an insurrection in he republican sense appears
to have been menaced. One of the journals of last
evening, confirming the report I sent you last night,
says " That an Envoy Extraordinary from Lom-
bardy, M. Guerrieri, member of the Provisional Go-
vernment, arrived this morning in Paris, bringing
the news that a committee of public safety has been in-
stituted at Milan, to ward off the dangers of the country
By this, an imminent insurrection has been avoided.
The armament and levy en masse are being carried on
with extraordinary activity. But on the 28th ult., in
the evening, at the departure of M. Guerrieri, it was
known at Milan that the Austrians were at Volta, on
the right bank of the Mincio, and that for 48 hours
there had not been any news of Charles Albert."
Whether M. Guerrieri is the organ of the Provisional
Government at Milan only, or is authorised by
Charles Albert, does not appear. The reverses re-
ported have naturally produced much agitation, both
at Milan and at Turin. 3 or 4,000 men of the
Milanese national guard marched immediately for the
Adda, and 6,000 regular troops were directed ,on
Brescia, to rally the le.mbards, who had fled in con-
fusion from the left wing. This last corps, however,
was composed only of conscripts.
At Turin complaints had broken out against the
conduct of the Lombard battalions and the Modenese,
to whose defection the reverses were ascribed.
Tumultuous assemblages took place in differ-
ent parts of Turin, in which denouncements
were made against the mixed ministry which had
been formed, the composition of which was as follows:
Casati (Milan), President of Council ; Ricci (Genoa),
Mtni,ter of Interior; I'arreto (Genoa), Foreign
Affairs; Gioia (Piacenza), War; Itattuzi (Turin),
Public Instruction ; Durini (Milan), Public Works;
Paleocapa (Venice), Finances.
It was probable that this combination would fall
before the public discontent.
It is announced that the Duke of Genoa will not
accept the crown of Sicily, which has been offered to
him, until the war of independe ce is concluded.
We have advices from the Sardinian head-quarters
at Bozzolo, to 9 o'clock on the evening of the 27th.
Speaking of the affair of Volta, already mentioned,
the accounts state that Gen. Sonn ,z, on the morning of
the 27th, attacked the Austrians at that place, and atter
an obstinate combat was master of that position. Later,
however, the enemy being reinforced, recovered it.
The main body of the army at Goito suffered very
much from want of provisions, the supplies of which
had been everywhere intercepted by the Austrians.
In the afternoon of the 27th, however, it is stated
that provisions began to arrive in abundance.
Orders had been issued to assemble all the troops
that could be collected round Cremona, and to
march then without delay to the bead-quarters. On
the 27th the army had been drawn up before Goito in
order of battle. 45,000 men had then been assem-
bled, and nothing delayed an attack but the ne-
cessity for provisions, which were just arriving.
The Echo del Po mentions a rumour that the
Duke of Savoy, availing himself of the sortie
of the Austrians from Verona, had attacked and en
tered that city. This report had also been spread
at Peschiera. It did not, however, receive much
credit.

GERMANY.
PRUSSIA.—'We have Berlin journals of the 31st
ult. The Kiug has issued the following proclama-
tion :

It appears by one of the Vienna journals that the
present ministry hlve made the return of the emperor
to the capital the conditio sine gull two of their conti-
nuance in office. In feet they appear resolved to carry
things with a high hand, and in the thoroughly de-
mocratic
spirit. Meantime the committee of safety
and the democratic club are as active and influential
as ever, and are more than tolerated by the present
government.
Amongst the propositions which will be discussed
by the Austrian Diet are the following : The non-
application of the future constitution for Austrian
Germany to the other portions of the Austrian em-
pire; the separation of Gallicia and Dalmatia from
Austria Proper ' • and the abolition of all hereditary
privileges and feudal regulations. It will be seen,
therefore, that the Diet will have to decide on ques-
tions of great importance in a national and inter-
national point of view.
A letter from Pesth of the 23rd says :
Already to-day Cuirassiersand Hussars have left Olen for
Italy, although the Illyrian revolution is still at its luight.
It is stated positively that the Mini•ter of Finance intends
to bring in a bill proposing that the Diet shall undertake a
just proportion of the Austrian national debt—this too at
the very time the Diet is making a grant of Hungarian
military to act in the war against Italy. The Commandant
of Peteroardein, Field Mardial Von Ilrabowsky, who has
now been appointed commandant of Hungary, was on the
15th of this month declared at Agram to be a traitor, and
ameneble to martial law.

From Walachia we learn that all the members of
the provisional government had returned to Bucharest
on the 18th. The metropolitan had been arrested by
the military, but was rele ,sed as soon as the info-
listed multitude made their appearance before the
barracks. Great confusion appears to prevail in Bu-
charest and throughout Wallachia.
FItANKFORT.—We have news to the 31st. Thel
congress of working men now being held in this city
is making considerable progress in its intimating and
important labours. It has decided that every Ger-
man shall have the right to settle in any town of the
confederation upon certain easy conditions, and that
every employer be empowered to deduct one
Silbergroschrn per week (about five farthings)
from the wages of his men, in order to pro-
cure a general fund for pensioning off disabled
journeymen after they have attained their
fiftieth year. The national assembly has received au
address from a political club inlVirtemberg, thanking
it for the energy it displayed with reference to the
retrograde declarations of the King of Hanover. The
Ober/mats/ids Zeituny of this day publishes some
statistical details respecting the cotton trade of the
Zollverein during the years 1845 67. The average
imports during those three years amounted to 396,782
cwts., and the average exports to 77,146 cw:s. In
the year 1847, the imports of cotton exceeded the ex-
ports by 297,777 cwts , the imports of unbleached one
or two thread cotton yarns exceeded the exports by
324,431 cwts.; and the exports of coloured or un-
bleached two or more thread yarns exceeded the im-
ports by 324,431 cwts. The exports of cotton goods
exceeded the imports by 61,610 cwts. The total
quentity of yarns employed in the Zollverein during
the year 1847 was 735,554cwt5., including 480,632
cwts. of foreign.
The Oberpostamts kitung,:of the 30th, contains a
correspondence from Weimar, in which the activity
of the republican party in that duchy is pointedly re-
ferred to. It is even stated that many republicans
there announce the intention of bringing about a
movement so soon as the harvest is got in. Strange
to say the Saxe Weimar government state, in an
official circular, that " they are far from desiring to
oppose the republican attempts, so long as they are
kept within legal bounds." Up to the 22nd inst. the
Duchess of Orleans and the Count of Paris were still
living in Eisenach.
The central ministry (Frankfort) will, in all pro-
bability, be composed as follows : Minister of Finance,
Matthy, of Carlsruhe, and Minister of Commerce,
I)uckwitz, of Bremen. The following are the Under
Secretaries of State: for Foreign Affairs, Mat Von
Gagern ; for the Interior, Bassermann, of Mannheim,
and Von Wurth, of Vienna; ditto for Commerce, Pro-
fessor Von Hermann, of Munich, and perhaps Pro-
fessor Fallati, of Tubingen ; ditto for Finance, Meris-
ern, of Cologne ; ditt 7 for Justice, Professor Mohl, of
Heidelberg ; ditto for War, General Brandt. It is
doubtful who will be the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
SAXONY.—Aocording to a Leipsic Journal, a
congress of "German Bohemians" will be shortly
held in Toplitz, with the view of healing the diffe-
rences between the two races.

For the consolidation of the union of our common father-
land, the conduct of the German central affairs has been
confided to a Regent of the Empire. I have openly assented
to the election of his Imperial Highness the Archduke Jiihn,
not only because this prince is my personal friend, but like-
, wise because, both in peace and in war, he has gained •
glorious name. Prussia knows that the pewee of
Germany is identical v.ith her own. Prussia knows
the high confidence which Germany has in the tried
valour of the Prussian troops. She knows that the safety
of Germany depend, essentially on her faithful sword. She
will, therefore, consider herself bound in tvinour to act
energetically with all her German brethren, and forward
the (glorious objects of Germany for the maintehance of peace,
liberty, and the independence of the German nation.
Soldiers, wherever the Prussian troops engage for Cie
German cause and according to my command, submit to his
imperial highness tbe Regent of the Empire. Let it be yours
faititfolly J•ltAtoriotkoly tot pot.. to %No hone or Pr, ttt i t
',lour and discipline.—FlLEDEUlCK WILLIAM, Bellvue,
July 29. Coanterrigned, BARON VON SCHILECKENOTEIN.
The generals in command are commissioned to make
known this order to the troops.
Notwithstanding the above proclamation the great
topic of conversation in this capital is the question
whether the Prussian troops will take, on the 6th
prox., as ordered by the Central Minister of War, the
oath of allegiance to the Vicar of the Empire. The
declaration of the President of the Council, that no
difficulty would arise on that score, has not succeeded
in removing the many objections urged against the
order in question. It is asserled that the Vicar of
the Empire will revoke that order. The Dusvid,,rfer
Zeitttn, blames, in the most energetic terms, the tam-
pering of the Prussian government, and declares that
their unwillingness to obey the orders emanating
from the central power is likely to produce complete
anarchy. The mercantile classes of Berlin express
their regret at the failure of the negotiations between
Prussia and Denmark, and many amongst them go so
far as to assert that even it a complete victory were
gained over Denmark it would not be any advantage
to trade and commerce. _ _ _

Intelligence of an alarming nature has reached this
city from Gera, the capital of the lordship of the same
name possessed in common by the Price of Reuss-
Sehleiz and the Prince of ReussLobenstein. It ap-
pears that on the 26th the populace became infuriated
at the arrest of a popular leader (Kranse), and for-
cibly obtained his release. Whilst carrying him
through the streets in triumph, a collision took place
between the mob and the so-called gymnastic corps.
Several of the latter were killed or wounded, and the
remainder were obliged to flee from the city. The
next day the town was entirely in the hands of the
populace. It is probable that Prussia or Saxony will
interfere, to restore order.
HESSE-CASSEL.—A " repeal " question is now
agitating the above ele,torate, the good people of
Fulda (where, by-the-bye, repose the bones of Eng-
lish Itoniface, the apostle of Germany) being desirous
of separating their territory from Hesse-CakseL The
people's council (a body appointed to watch over the
newly-acquired liberties of the country) is in favour of
repeal, but, O'Connell-like, declares that that measure
must be obtained by legal means alone.

The constituent assembly voted for the appoint-
ment of a committee to report on the question whe-
ther the works on the Great Eastern (Stettin and
Konigsberg) Railway should be suspended until some
decision was arrived at. It will be recollected that
the first united diet of Prussia refused to vote the
necessary funds for the undertaking, not be-
cause it objected to the line itself, but because it
was dissatisfied with the " constitution " by virtue of
which the united diet was convoked. It may be
added here that the sum of 25,000,000 of tbalers will
be required for the enterprise—a sum which will
probably be voted by th,. assembly. The Prince of
Prussia, who since his return to I'madatu has not
visited Berlin, has announced his intention to proceed
to that capital in a few days. According to accounts
from Perot, Miereelawski, the leader of the recent
Polish insurrection in that duchy, has been released
' from prison and sent 'to Paris, he having promised
not to re-enter the Prussian territory, except with
the permission of the government.
The Prenssiselser Stoats-An:el:ger of the 30th,
officially announces the appointment of Ilerr Camp-
hausen to the post of Prussian plenipotentiary in
Frankfort. Three attach& have also been nominated:
—l,icot.-Col. Fischer, diplomatic councillor Von
Kamptz, and finance councillor Camphausen, the
brother of the plenipotentiary.
The Berlin garrison will shortly be reinforced, par-
ticularly in cavalry. The "constables" are already
very unpopular. It is rune-ired in well-informed
quarters that the Bank of England lately offered to
the Prussian government a loan of 10 millions of
thaters at 5 per cent, but that the otter was declined.
According to latest accounts a despatch had arrived
in Berlin, with the intelligence that the Vicar of the
Empire would not require the Prussian troops to take
the oath of allegiance to him. Thus one subject of
disunion, if not of serious misunderstanding, has been
removed.

PORTUGAL.
The Oriental Company's steam packet Tagus, Capt.
R. W. Evans, arrived at Southampton yesterday, and
landed her mails under the charge of Lieu'. Langton,
R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are : Gibraltar,
July 24 ; Cadiz, 25 • Lisbon, 29 ; Oporto, 30 ; Vigo,
30. She brings 13,0001. in specie and silver bars.
The King of Portugal had fallen from his horse. A
Spanish steamer of war had been sent to cruise on
the coast from that prt as far as Bilbaa, to intercept
An English steamer expected with arms.
The following is the h tter of our correspondent :
LISBON JULT 29, ISIS.
The wearying and profitless discussions in either chamber
of the Portuguese Cortes are rapidly drawing to a close; par-
liament will be prorogued M a few days, unless she Queen
at the last hour should issue another decree extending the
period of thcir sittings. During the last week some strange
scenes have been witniesed in the lewer house, fully bearing
out art opinion I ventured to hazard immediately succeeding
the elections, that, whatever appearance of opposition might
be gotup, the only rest squabbling likely to occur would have
solo reference to the distrihution of the loose., and fishes. A
measure was being debated, having for its object the division
of certain emolurnenis and fees of considerable amount (the
perquisites .1 heads of public departments) between the
whole of the employes in the different bureaus, instead of
being 'hared, as heretofore, between the chic's themselves ;
a deputy, M. Perreir doe Reis (himself the
head of a department), opposed the measure with
considerable warmth, end in the course of debate
involved himself in a personal altercation with
another deputy, a M. Perreira de Mello, who had been
chairman of • parliamentary committee in which the pro-
pow ,l measure had originated; a scene then took place, of
which bat faint idea can be conveyed to the finglil rem,er ;
latiauage passed on either side impossible to translate. Con.
fusion was at its .height, fists were shaken at one another,
and the parties and their partisans actually adjourned to the
nearest corridor Lading from the chamber, and there settled
their dispute after the manner of the Fives Court, Reis, in
conclusion, kicking the other violently in the stomach.
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