The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-26 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

41" be 0/lental &en Ran s steam-pncket Pacha, Capt.
Fasnois Meehan, am, at Southampton yesterday,
and leaded her mails' ender the charge of Lieut. J.
W. Langtoe, EN., Admiralty agent. Her detainers :
Gibraltar, August 15; Cadiz, August 16; Lisbon,
Aug. 19; Oporto, Aug. 20; Vigo, Aug. 21. Amongst
her cargo :are 7 ipackages of specie. On leaving
Cadiz a deck passenger elm, on board in so pick and
worn-out a state that he died the same evening, in
consequenoe of which the ship was placed is quaran-
tine at Lisbon, and the passengers, to their great in-1
convenience and annoyance, were sent to the laza-
retto, as the ordinary officers at the health office had
no power to act, and the Board of Health meeting
only once a week (Tuesday) to decide on matters out
of the usual course. So that ifs ship should perchance
arrive on a Wednesday, she would, with her cargo on
board, be obliged to remain at Belem till the follow-
ing Tuesday, supposing she had the misfortune to
lose a man on her passage. All this is a serious ob-
stacle to trade, and a great drawback to the prospe-
rity of l'ortogal, whose revenue is chiefly derived
from the custom-house dues.

Our correspmdeut writes :
LISBON, Aram 18.
The government, though plainly convinced of the
unpopularity of the new law to repreas the abuses of
the press, gave publicity to it on the 10th inst. in the
Diarso Government Gazette and it will be pat in
force sixty days after.
I mentioned in a former letter that a wall woe in the

course of construction to surround the town and to
prevent the admittance of anything without paying
the duties of consumption. From such eircumvalla-
tion the public might, amongst other advantages,
derive that of a good and pleasant walk or ride, but,
like everything else in this country, the road is bad,
narrow, and without footpaths.
All the crops here are very bad; the worst they
have had for many years. Add to this that, either
through accident or malice, a vast quantity of wheat
has been destroyed by fire in different parts of the
country. It I. estimated that the crop of wine will
be leas than a third of what it was hat year ; the crop
of oil must be equally bad. Rye has been attacked by
a disease; the authorities have been obliged to inter-
fere to have great quantities destroyed, consequently
all the produce of the country is rising in price.
The season has been so irregular that there are many
dieesses ; after very high winds for some days it has
been followed by a very oppressive heat.
In consequence of the mutiny of the B.li Cseadores,
mentioned some time ago, thirteen of toc ringleaders
have been sentenced to transportation.
Lisbon is quite deserted, the heat has obliged all
those who can &Tad it to go to Cintra, or to some
other place ; therefore no news of any kind have
transpired, except that after a council of state an
express was dispatched to Count de Thomar, at
Catdas.

The Qaten is yet at Cintra; she held a levee on the
[sth Wet.

The price of stock is the following : Inscriptions of
Five per Cent., 4S to ISI ; ditto Four per Cent., 39 to
391; ditto Thne per Cent., 381 to 391; Paper Money,
20 to 21 ; Bunk Shares, 378,000 rein to 380,000; ditto
Porto, 200,000 to 201,000; Discount Lisbon Bank
Notes, 6i to 6 per cent. Exchange on Landon, 511,