The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-04 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's Mail
steamer Madrid, which arrived last evening at
Southampton with sixty-five passengers, the Penin.
solar mails, and a cargo, having lett Gthraltar on the
Nth ult., Cadiz on the 25th, and Lishon on the 29th,
Iles brought us the following letters from our own
iserespondent :

LISBON, JuNs 28.

By royal decrees, published in the Mario, Vis-
count Si de Baodrira is exonerated from his provi-
sional charge of the Public Works, which office is
now vested in the Msrquis de Lou*. The Ministry
of the Interior, provisionally held by the marquis,
is new handed over to Sr. Julio Games da San
Benches, who is sufficiently recovered from his ill-
ness to be able to attend to business.

In the Diario has also lymn printed the project of
law framed ny the new ministry, for the loan, which
it is proposed to submit to the Cortes; the proposal
is as follows :

That the government be authorised t 3 negotiate, either
within or out of the rountri, by the i.sue of bonds or th-
seriptions, or by whatever method mey %pow most advert-
tageoue, fora Wan to tee em ,ant of 1,500 ammo of rids;
with the proviso th it the annual intoteet f his loan is never
at any time to exceed the sum of 25,0001. sterliog, al
112.500,000 eels :--1119 produce of the loan to be applied to
the construction of such railersys, toed., and other works
of public utility, as may be authorised by taw.
I understand that the government have accepted
from M. Prost bills upon Paris to the amount of
1,000,000 tr.; this loan is to be applied to current
expenses, and will bear interest at six pee cent. It
is, I believe, to be repaid or otherwise adjusted as may
hereafter be arranged.
The result of Mr. Rumball's mission to Mr.
Thornton is awaited with some anxiety, and it is
hoped that an amicable settlement has been made;
otherwise, it is considered, the ministers are deter-
mined to offer the contract with the bondholders in
its original form, and it is feared that in such event
Count Thomar's party may be in the ascendant. The
government will probably wait for information on
this subject, and bring this question and that of
the loan at the same time before the Cortes.

Although cholera has been present with uniform
violence during the last six months, it is only now
that, by an order of the Board of Health, Lisbon is
declared infected. As a matter of Connie the British
packets must submit to the inconveniences of sanitary
regulation. at Vigo, Oporto, and Cadiz; and vessels
from Lisbon must also ride quarantine at the other
Portuguese ports. A very pertinent enquiry may
now be made of the Board of Health—whether it be
their intention to place the Brazilian mail steamers
on the free list ? The reason hitherto assigned for
ordering there vessels; into quarantine has been the
presence of cholera at Pernambuco ; now, according
to the statement of the health officers themselves, the
port of Lisbon is in a like condition, and it will car.
tainly be the climax of absurdity, if on so flimsy a
pretence, the Brazilian trade is still to be so tram-
melled by the delays and exactions of quarantine. It
is most likely that according to an old established
eastern the Board of Health will now discover the

Brazils to be infected with yellow fever u well u
obolera.

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The town of Villa Real de St. Antonio is also
classed as infected with cholera. Although the
weather is become very hot, the thermometer stand-
ing at 90 in the shade, the deaths from cholera are
not estimated at over eight daily, and the virulence
of the disease seems limited to the quarters lying
along the river side between Belem and Alcantara.
The festival of Sic Peter and Paul being the
time when the vine disease has usually manifested
itself, the farmers are anxiously inspecting their vine.
yards, and it is to be regretted that from many dis.
tricts the accounts lead to a supposition that there
will be no yield of wine this year. All the prcluctions
of the country, excepting oil, are in a sad state of
scarcity, and the exports to England have so mock
fallen off, that several sailing ships and steamers have
lately found it more profitable to sail in ballast than
to await the chances of procuring a cargo.
EXCHANGE-H.—Money has been ratter more abun-
dant in London with little paper offering, which his
had the effect of causing a fall in the rate on that
place. On the continent paper is also scarce, and
has been in more demand than for some time back.
The following are the quotations:—London, 30 days,
64 and 63A ; 90 days, 644 to 1. Hamburg, 49; Am-
sterdam, 431 ; Paris, 621 ; Genoa, 617—a1l at three
months' date.

The stock market has been dull, but prices main-
tain themselves as few sellers appear. The Three
per Cents. are from 43 to 43i. Back of Portugal
shares from par to 1 per cent. premium. Bank of
Oporto shares from 18 to 20 per cent. premium.