The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-05 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam-puket Jepier,
Capt. Francis Meehan, arrived at &alum tea last
evening, and landed her mails under the eha-es of
Lieut. Langton, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates
are : Gibraltar, June 25 ; Cad.; 26; Liaboh, 29;
Oporto. 30 ; Vigo, July 1.
The ex-King, Charles Albert, was still confined to
his bed in a very doubtful stay.
By accounts received from the Alemtcjo it is stet:a
that great siAness prevails ; a general rumour pre-
vails that it is cholera, but the government ke,p it a
secret. But even so it is very generally Ivown, a
much so that ct Alcochete and Aldcga Lego, ios: to
'Ali= on the smith side, cues of choleta have
appeared.
The thunderstorms in the Alemtcjo have done con.
eiderable damage.
Tne following is our correspondent's letter :
LISBON, JUNE 21.

The ministry, the change of which 1 mentioned in
my last letter, was definitely composed. C lust de
Thomar, President of the Council and Interior; Count
Tojal, Foreign affairs ; Pereira de Magallmes, Jus'ice;
Colonel Ferreri, War ; Viscount Castelhoens, Navy
and Colonic; ; Avila, Finance. How the charge of
Count de Thomar fur Saldanha will be received at
the Foreign-office may he a matter of [speculative
opinion ; but this I know unequivolally, that when
D. Maria was required to agree to certain terms 17
the foreign powers, to enable them to enrilt the
Oporto Junta, one of which was the absolut4 pro.
acription of the Count de Thomar as a minister,
she declared she only did it to save heradf,
but that the Septemlyistcs should never avaia re-
assume power in her lifetime, and it was her inten-
tion to restore Thomar to office " the first favourable
opportunity"—that opportunity has at le; 0 oc-
curred. The ministry has yet, however, to be re-
model!ed. 01 being asked in the chamber what was
the reason of change, he n plied that it was not for
him t, state why the late ministers resigned.
At the moment this was going on in the chamber
an awful and astounding el spot thunder alincst shook
the fabric ; it was so startling and sudden tt.at many
persons jumped from their ee at s in t aetr
own houses ; a thunderbolt fell and butt*
a house that was undergoing repairs.
Au amnesty hes bee a published, embracing all ',Aid-
ed crimes since 28th April, 1847. The number of
individuals benefited by it is rely small, it comprises
the .Montemolinist General G once, and extends to the
various articles in the periodicals which had been
processed. Oa the day of the publication of the
amnesty, two individuals who had been accused of
attempting the life of Dm Carlos Mascarenhas, were
tried, when it was proved that it was a plot of the
p dice, and that the informer was a spy and a
perjurer—the victims were acquitted, to the eteisfse-
lion of the public, and the spy sent to prison by the
bench. _ _

Nceshicg of interest to a fen ign reader has 149 yet
occurred in the chambers, which are to be closed on
the 2nd of July.
Representations still continue to be made to the
chamber of the distress of the Douro wine eiistriet,
and redress required; the ministry have deelsred
there was Lo time to do anything this session, but
they would do their utmcst to alleviate it.
A system has been going on at Oporto which hie
received a check. In order to WITS the expe. se d
export duties upon wiles, the second-class pert win*
has been shipped in Oporto to America and the Cape
of Good Hope to save a duty of 13 mil refs ter pp&
The same wine has been re--hipped for the Rurapent
market as first-class wine, to the detriment of the fair
trader and the credit of the wine.

In consequecei; cf the shortness of the see ion soots
votes of eoptidrnee will be given to the government.
M. Alfred It mot, minister from France, presented
his eredenthls on the 25th inst.

To chow the bad fifth of the bank, the executors
of Mr. John Stanley, a merchant of this city, have
lately obtain d, in the WO Court of Justice, a Ter-
diet against the bank to annul a fate entry thi y h.d
made in their books to serve their own purpose-4st
rather to di fraud the executors.
By accounts from Opoito, it appears Carlos Albcrto
is smnewhat better.

Another judgment of Providence has fallen upon
this net;on. At a time when, from the spprarsnee al
the crop,, the farmer expected to real, an abtmdant
harvest, every part of the country has been viritcd by
storms of a frightful nature—wind., torrents of rain,
thunder, and thunderholta—wiuich have so devsirstid
it that in many parts every thin: has been laid waste,
trees rooted up and borne to a distance, and ti uses
and lands inundated. The nifferers have been( blged
to apply for relief to the government.
Exchange 531 dinoont; of Lisbon Bank Notes,
33 to 40.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Sultan, Captain Brooki, artivcd at Sauthaniptoe,
from the Black Sea, at the same time as the Jupiter.

I.

f

Amongst her cargo is specie to the amount of 40,0001.
es merchant.' account. Bne also briogs a ship letter
bag.

Vbe Court.

Their Royal Ilighress the Roches, of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Mathew; of Mecklenburg SW*lvit
arrived at Dully House, Mashy Perk, yesterday amnia,,
to ply a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Their
Manhattan partook of a &firmer with her Ma;rety,
in the afternoon left Mushy Homo on their return
In errs__

}less Royal Highness theDnitheas of Kent, attended
* lady Aortas Bros, PAINING' de Speth, and Sir Oeorge
CtisitWe eft t Zr. Vella yesterday aftersoon foe her
ri . Fregestne 'lnset. NV indm.
His Royal Kleine= the Duke of Cambridge
visited tits Botr..ie Gardens in the Regent's Pub yesterday.
Mr. Job and Mr. Crowd] had an interview with
Esri Grey rfterdey. Mr. C. Worley had also sa interview
wick tee se east at the Cob:Iola office.

Mr. Anderson M.P., Mr. George Moffatt, M.P.,
and Mr. Morgan ;ad an interview with CM remittent sad
the Viee-Presdrat of the Limed of Trade yesterday on the
subject of the light dots.
Mr. C. Nash, from the committee of shareholdem as
to amendments is the Itsilways Abandonment Bi.l, transacted
business
the
at the t ttize of the Commissioners of Rzil-
tke 'timed of Trade.

Wayi _ F.
A deputstion from the Great Western Fieherim,
assisting et Mr. lwkson Barwise, Mr. Heery Burt, Mr.
Augustus CoUingrid,te, and Mr. Theme Fol:on, with Mr.
William P. Metehis (steretary), had an interview yester-
day, with the Chancelke of the Bacticqntr.

THE IbTAL VBIT TO IRELAND.—The North Wales
rAroaicla says that the Quits* trill par tit:cough the Menai
Straits es routs to Dublin.

Vlscotiwr Poesosev, the ambassador at the Coast
of Aurris, accompanied by Viscountess Pcnsonby, bee left
Lo &es fog Vienna, to meets his diplomatic duties, after a
cool. of two months.
tilir HENRI' LT'frON Busmen has been compeVed
to leave London for the German spas, owing to indifferent
health. lasseelstely after his return from Oereaany, be
will depart for Washington, to eater on hut diplomatic
functions.
IldnitaiaGE TN HlOll LIFL—The nuptials of Lady
Diana Boyle, only daughter of the Countess (Dowager) of
Glasgow, and Mr. Pskington, eldest son of Sir Jelin Peking-
ton, Ben,, M.P., were celebrated yesterday forenoon, at Bt.
rain's Church, Knightsbridge. A very nuatrows and dis-
tinguished elide assembled on the interest:4'g occashn,
including the Earl and Count's, of 11.-ipstoun. the Cuinttas
(Doeoger) of Eno', Viscount Newry and Moms, Viscount
Calorie:l, Ay.

FINANCIAL AND

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.