The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

The third ordonnance appoints extraordinary Celia,cillors of State, consisting of the heads of depict,
ments at Naples or in Sicily, according as the king
sojourns at the one or the other place.
The fourth ordonnance declares Count D'Acquile,
I •
rince of the blood royal, Lieutenant-General of
bicily, with a cabinet under him composed as follows:
Prime Minister, the Prince of Campo-Franco;
Minister of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture,
Commerce, and Public Works, the Duke de !Sou.
talbo; Finance and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Guiseppe
Buongiardino ; Grace and Justice, Giovanni Cassis'.
On the following day (the 19th) another royal
ordonnance was published establishing the liberty of
the press, on the same conditions as have been in.
stituted in the other reforming states of Italy. An
these ordonnances are countersigned by the Marquis
Pietra-Catella, the well-known representative of
enlightened reform.
Letters from Milan of the 22nd say that an order
had arrived in that city front Vienna to arrest about
fifty persons, most of whom belong to the higher
classes of society. The following were arrested:—
The Marquis Rosales, president of the Union Club;
Count Cresar Battaglia; the young Marquis Ciesar
Soncino Stampo ; and some others. Rosales was
placed in the dungeons of Santa Margarita; Batie.
glia and Sonde() were sent away from Milan under
escort. Tneir destination was a mystery. In the
number of arrests effected were those of the Marquis
Filippo Villani, who was formerly well known in
Pans ; Count Pertusalli ; and Count Ercule
formerly an officer in the Austrian army. Creor
Cantu, a literary man well known in France, and
Bellardi, a physician, were also to have been arrested,
but they eluded the vigilance of the police, and pained
I the frontier. Thu wife of Villini went to the viceroy,
and alicited the liberation of her husband. It wee
granted, but when she went to the director of police,
Torsani, he refused to release the marquie, observing
. I that the viceroy should mind his own business.

The Madrid mails of the 22nd and 23rd have arrived.
The bill relative to notaries again occupied the whole
of the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the pie,
vious day. Several congratulatory addresses to Fis.
partero from different towns are published iii the Be*
del amerce,. The Faro says that the general had
determined to go to Logrono. The Queen, it is said,
intended to give several masked and other balls during
the carnival time.

FRANCE,—LOII3 or AN ENOLTRTI Surr.—Ao.
counts from La Rochelle state that au English vessel of three
masts was loid on the night of Jim. 17-8, on the Csabre
Point, between Mathes and La Tremblaie, Of the crew,
17 in number, only three were able to gain the shore. The
vessel wn the Idalion of 440 tons, hound from L.mdom for
Bordeaux with a cargo of coals, which, with the veuel, RIM
completely 104. Toe captain, John Kieth, is one of the
three who escaped.

PORTUGAL.

[The following appeaied in a second edition of the
Expre sa on Saturday.]
The Oriental Company's steam-packet Madrid,
Captain John Weeks, arrived at Southampton, on
Saturday, and landed her mails under the charge of
Lieut. \V. P. Newenham, Admiralty agent.
Her dates are--Gibraltar, Jan. 15; Cadiz, 16;
Lisbon, 19 ; Vigo, 22. For full intelligence we refer
to the letter of our correspondent :
LISBON, Jae. 19.
My lest letter will have informed you of the formal
installation of the Portuguese Cortes, and of the opening of
the parliamentary session, and at the same time of the impel.
eibility of at once proceecing to public business from the
non-arrival in the capital of the requisite number of deputies
to legally constitute a house. Siuce then affairs have but
little improved. The detained steamers from the north were
anxiously looked for, and on the 10th instant the earnestly
wished for cargoes of court nominees invoiced and consigned
to COlLlCabral, ex Porto and Mindello, came into the Tagus,
and, to follow up the figure, "said cargoes" may he repre-
sented to have arrived in good and sound condition. The
two steamers together, however, brought but some fourteen or
fifteen members, end have again been despatshed to Oporto to
fetch more, and up to this moment the number of deputies in
Lisbon has not reached the number required to proceed to
serious business. Notwithstanding this, parliament meets
daily, and upon a motion of the president (the notorious
Padre Marcos, the Queen's confessor), the members have
proceeded to form theme, lees into committees to try the
validity of their own elections. As there happens to be no
opposition the comfortable way in which their decisions are
arrived at, and the agreeable unanimity prevailing, is quits
charming to witness ; the novel way by which Padre Marco
proposed getting over the difficulty of an insufficiency of
members present well deserves to be recorded. The Macedo-
nian's feat in the destruction of the ei ordian
knot must after this be for ever cast into the
shade. Padre Marcos suggested, that although seventy-
two members were not present as required by law,
yet as very many of those present had been elected fur more
than one place, nhy then, by counting heads upon the prin-
ciple of one deputy representing half-a-dozen constituencies,
• very respectable house was presented ; thus, Mr. A. for in-
stance, elected for Braga and for Guirnaraes, counted for
two, and Mr. Somebody else, returned for four or five dis-
tricts (Costa Cabral's brother for example), should be con-
sidered as a personation of four or five individuals. This
mode of mastering &difficulty, doubtless,hadita conveniencies,
and the illustrious and independeut assembly met the pro-
position by its frank and formal adoption, there being
only three dimenticnts. For the preeent this must suffice
of parliamentary doings. It had been supposed that be-
fore this there would have been some modification
of the ministry, the more so as it is known teat the
Duke of Saldanha, the nominal head of the Cabinet, is
to have the Madrid Embassy, but with the exception of
an insignificant appointment of • Brigadier SEa, the
commander of the household troops, to be minister of
war, held ad interim up to his time by the Duke of Saldanha,
there has been no change. In fact, the solitary feature of
importance, upon which some few words may be said, is a
project of financial reform, attributed to the new finance
minister, Falcao, who proposes by certain economies to re-
duce the expeuditure of the country to a par with its in-
come ; the plan is everywhere being discussed, and causes
no slight sensation. M. Faleao's project 11, • simple
one, and is stated to be as follows: A fair
and equal reduction in the salaries of every public employs,,
and of every public personage, commencing from her a-
jesty the queen, the royal houeshold, the deputies of, the
cones, down to the ensign in the army and the humblest
guard on the Customs-house Quay. This is stated to be the
views of the finance minister, and he is moreover represented
as being thoroughly iu earnest. Shoud such a plan be pm-
posed to the tortes, it will be seen how the proposal will be
met, and whether the protocol deputies will consent to vote
away any portion of their own daily. six crowns. Both libenl
and royalist journals will give their staunchest support to
such • measure, but the muliater will be • bold mau to pro-
pose kis remedy to • cortes composed of the hungry ad-
herents of the Cabrals. I much tear me M. Falcao will
find but few supporters in his plan of financial reform.
The arrival on the 15th iost , of R.M. Steamer, Temble,
having on board Mr. Norton, recently appointed unpaid
attache, at this court, has given rise to much speculation,;
she is reported to have brought important despatch, s for Sir
IL Seymour. The Terrible went out the following day. The
Asia came into the Tagus al-o a few days bock, with
the flag of Rear Admiral llornby, Cll., on board.
She had sustained some damage, and had sprung her main-
yard ; she has since been refitted, and proceee.led on her
voyage to Rio de Janeiro.
In the squadron there is small novelty. Sir igluNapier, however, has done the navy here good eervice gene-
I rani ; at the close of the old year the Admiral caused to be
inserted in the public journals an advertiement, submitting
the contract for the supple log the Tagus fleet with (fedi beef
to public competition ; the consumption on board such a
squad-on as the English have here is immense. and its supply
has ever been in Lisbon a sort of monopoly, where private
interest, and not the public service, had prioress By
making the supply an open contract, the Admiral has
effectually knocked the old system on the head. With
some of the shore folks this motto is fax from
popular, for parties who have grown rich bulmg her Majesty's ships considered themselv s es having
acquired a sort of prescriptive right to dip their bends into
' John Bull's pocket, in fact, deemed it an Invasion of vested
rights. The admiral, by this judicious step, not wily secures
supplies of the very primest quality
o et o
large saving to the English government. An Esg
will, should the fleet o.akt any stay, lishman,
• blr. Price, was the successful competitor for the contract.
Sir Charles has his establishment on shore, sad may be
constantly seen driving about the town.
fbebethelnir, h eisns creaws.,,beu
ut
There is little business of any kind doing; in feet, con-
fidence has received a shock it will be loug ere it recovers;
and the present aspect of affairs is anything but escooreging.
The exchange on London is at thirty days, 531 i; dp,
531 t 3 54. Sovereigns are 4,500 dollars, 920 ; and the dis-
count upon the articles, by • polite fiction called
rookhonotes,
may be nominally quoted something over 40 pe
The Naeao, publishing the official returnee rom Opato,
states the exportation of port wines, during year en
the 31st of December, 1847, to be as follows: To Eng
23,3,54 pipes ; other pare of Europe, 1,264 ; ports of Port. .
and Colonies, 163; United States, 2,118 • Brazil, 2,, 62,
other countries, 961.—Total, 30,622. And of brandyl6ld
sa
geropiga :To England, 393 pipes; other countries, ;
ports of Portugal and colonies, 11; United State, 201;
Braz 1, I.—Total, 833.
From the Oporto journals we learn that the law suit, 10
long pending in the Portuguese courts, between the Count
of Farrabo and Manoel Joaquin' Pimentel, has been finally
adjudicated by the supreme tribunal of that city. The Ma-
in the contract of tobacco, many years farmed by either it
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thee csauwit,efsrocmdetblareesi.mmiehr
qauranotioonntathizuieu,colassesiio
gant. The Count has been defeated ; and the interest
rotted in the decision equals in amount 1,200 centoe ins
rein, or about 280,6001. British.