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

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam packet Iberia ar-
rived at Southampton on Saturday evening, and
landed her mails. Her dates are Gibraltar, April 28;
Cadiz, 27; Lisbon. 29; Oporto, 30; Vigo, May 1.
Our correspondent writes :
LISBON, Aram 28, 1849.
Carlos Alberto, the ex-Bing of Sardinia, who ar-
rived at Oporto on the 20th, intends, it is said, to buy
NI estate, and fix his residence. His arrival in the
Peninsula has put the ultra-rogreidatas on the qui
ries. Disappointed as they were in their hopes by
the premature death of Don Pedro, upon whom they
then looked as the future Emperor of Iberia, they
have now directed their attention to Carlos Alberto,
who may yet be destined to play an important game,
should he enter into their views. It I. somewhat
singular he should have directed his cures to the
extreme boundary of the Peninsula, and not have
gone to that receptacle of fallen majesty, the British
Thai
The case of the crown jewels is now being dis-
cussed by the papaws. The facts are these : the
jewels, which are of immense value, were taken to
Don Miguel when Lisbon was evacuated by the
royal troop in 1833; when the Quadruple Trestp
expelled him from Portugal. tat keeper of the jewels
was ordered by that plisse to deliver them hats the
hands of Don Pedro, is beig the pstwir et the
crown, and not liable to be tarsal to prime us sr
advantage. It appeared that two or three of the
crown jewels were not among those delivered ; but, is
remedy that, Don Miguel sent the whole of his own
privets jewels, that a selection might beUads of then
to the raise of those missing, should. they not be
forthundog. Don Pedro did not however ropes' le
this act ia a similar way by retsraing these
beyond the value of the miming ones, bid
sent them all to be deposited in the bank of Lisboa.
Don Miguel has, therefore, not only been deprived ei
hisjewele, but it is said some have been change:l,lol
that not only the property of the crown bet the
jewels of bon Miguel have been disponi
Certain it is, that in 1847 jewels to a vast son*
were shipped far England, and those jewels bast*,
to the crown ; that certain jewels found tbdr war
into the poesusion of a German Jew ; that whet the
vex was over intrigues were carrying on In Ueda
to endeavour to diddle the Jew out of them 'ply
without paying bim the money he abased um

them; that, in consequenoe, the crown jewels
of Portugal were rut to —, in Germany,
for gaiety—that is to say, lest the intrigni re
should get them out of the Jew's hands.
These are facts of a neture that do not admit of con-
tradiction; yet the hornet government papers deny
these, or rather deny they were ever disposed of, and
my they are Jellabas : to which it I. oecessory to
remark that con unique articles which had been
taken from the churches and deposited in a certain
plea, whim they could be viewed by the venerator
of such articles and the curious in general, were not
in that place in 1848, and no one (of the place) could
sr would tell what Whams. of them.

The wine district of Oporto is in the greatest dis-
tress, owing, as petitions to the Chambers say, ti the
dissolution of the Oporto Wine Company in 1834 ;
and the various measures adopt. d sines then, which
gave a latitude rot only to the adtdteratin of the
wines, but al.o to thatfof introducing into Oporto and
Villa Nova wine. not the growth of the district, in
oonarquenco of which tracrodit haa fallen upon the
wine', and consequent low pion. They pray for
protection, not entirely for what they enjoyed b, fare
1834. but that the laws of 1843 may be enlarged, and
a different &Winton.

The government hays oistaked a loan in England
to pay the prize money, but from whom? But they
have got it, and the security is nothing worth. In
this way will they pay prize money ft r capturing the
fleet of Don Miguel in 1833; that te, Englishmen pay
Englishmen for capturing the fleet of Don Miguel fa
Donca Maria in 1833; but the Portuguese treasury
have paid Englishmen for capturing tbo Oporto Junta
Fleet for Donna Maria in 1847, which has not yet
been brought to a question in the Commons House of
Parliament.

The chambers are to close on the 2d of Jane, and
sothicg is yet done. The law of elecdoas, and that
an the roads have been sent to committees—
but the budget, the fearful budget, has not
even been inentioned, except as to the in,nia-
ten having been asked when they intend ti
bring it on, and been told that if they intend to defer
it to the last few days of the session, and then ask for
a vote of confidence, that they need not expect to
have it. This looks well ; and the Chamber, badly
constituted as it appeared on its election, may vet
turn out to be the real reprftentatives of the people,
by refusing to a profligate min'ster suppEcs which
will sever be given any account of.
Tne Minister of Finance, when paymen►s are to be
mad•, gives Betioe of them a fortniglit beforehand ;
but when the day arrives, there is no money, except
for favourites—others are left to starve.
Exchange upon Lends'', 621. Discount of Lisbon
Bank-notes, 44 to 48 per cent.