The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-17 00:00:00

PO RTU';AL.

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.
The 0611..1 Com. auy'm steam packet Iberia, Capt
C. F. Burney. arrived a'. S,uthampton yesterday, and
larded her ma 14 under the charge of Lieut. W. I'.
Newenhnm, R N., Admiralty agent. We gave a lum-
inary of the news in our impression of yesterday.
tt, r -re Gin.altar, Jan. 4th; CAI; sth;

Lisbon, 9 h; Vigo, 11th.
Amoneq her cargo are a few packages of specie.
the arrival of the Iberia has been delayed by
heavy northerly gales in the Bay of Biscay and on
the Spanish coast.
The Cortes opened on the 2nd, when the former
Spe_kcr was re-elected. The committees are in favour
of government.
The lallnwirg is the Queen of Portugal's speech at
the opening of the Chambers which she delivered in
pars n, end which was wren in a second edition of
yesterday's Express :
" Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, Gentlemen Depu-
ties of the Nation,—The public tranquillity, for the
cone-lidatien of which your loyal co-operation has
efficaciously contr'buted, has not been disturbed
N'l.oo the lest legislative session. It behoves us to
thank Divire Providence for having saved these
kingdoms from the scourges which have so much
afflicted other countries.
" My relations of friendship with foreign potentates
continue to income cloee:-.
" An agreement hes been concluded between my
government and that of hie Majesty the King of Den-
mark, by which the Portuguese flag is considered. in
the passog • of the Sound, as that of the most favoured
nation ; in the same respect the Danish flag is ad-
mitted into the yids of Portugal.
" co•ttor•nity with the principles of a just reci-
procity, my goverment has arranged that our mer-
chandise, imported into the ports of Russia under the
Portuguese flag, be exempt from the payment of
50 per cent. beyond what is marked in the general
custom-better. duties, and Portuguese ships relieved
from the differential dues which are paid in that king-
dom upon tonnage.
" By virtue of the authority conceded by the law of
the 25:h June, 1849. and taking into consideration the
elsims of some foreign governments, that law has been
extended to the Swedieb, Dutch, and Belgian flags.
" Tranquillity has been preserved in the colonies,
and ie that of At gola, a new colony of Portuguese
emigrants from Brazil is already established,
which gives the mist flattering hopes of pros-
perity: but I • m sorry to have to acqnaint you
that the establishment of Macao was the theatre of
two attempts against the sovereignty of my crown,
and ega•ret V e rights of the people. My govern-
ment liss already taken the necessary measures to se-
cure the integrity of the establishment, the sove-
reignty t f the crown, and the national dignity and
decorum; and has also made the necessary claims,
which, I trust, will be considered, that due reparation
be obt• ined.
" My government will render you an account of the
use it has made of the different powers entrusted to
it, and will as well acquaint you of the means it had
adopted to improve public credit, and meet the public
expenses.
" Tne estimates of the receipts and expenses of the
state must be laid before you, and several proposals
tending to improve some branches of the public ser-
vice, and some laws which experience has shown to
have been deficient

" Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, Gentlemen De-
puties of the Nation,—At this solemn moment, in
which I feel the mast lively pleasure in being sur-
rounded by the representatives of the nation; it is
my duty espicialiy to recommend to you, in accord
with my goverment, to consider the true
situation of the country, and adopt efficacious reme-
dies, in order to establish the organisation of the
public revenue upon a solid and definitive basis."
Our correspondent writes as follows:
LISBON, JANVART 9.
I have this time again to report an increase in the
revenue,—that is to say, that in consequence of the
frauds being stopped, the revenue of the Sete Cane
produced more in the month of December by 1,1001.
than it had in the corresponding month of toe pre-
vious year, while the amount of embezzlements are
swilled twins?. Paganina to upwards of forty contos.
The committee of inquiry is still examining into the
state of the offices.

A circumstance has happened at Oporto that has
excited general indignation :—A person, named An-
tonio Augusto Teixera de Vuooncollos, an anplo,ye

under the junta of Oporto, who signalised him-
self by a small work on the union of the two
extreme parties, Miguelite and Septernbrista,
sod who was created a viscount by the
junta, got introduced into a highly respectable
family ; he seduced the wife, receiving from her
money to supply his prodigality; at length she re-
fused to comply with his exactions; determined on
revenge, he wrote an anonymous letter to the hue-
band; the latter showed it to his wife, who recog-
nised and declared the author. A duel was about to
be fought between the husband and the seducer, but
the latter absconded. A tragical event wound up
this affair. During the altercation of the wife and
the husband, two children were desired to go into
the garden, not to be witnesses of what was going
on; they were forgotten, and when, at 11 o'clock at
night, they were searched for, one was ;heady dead
with cold, the other not expected to live ; while the
effect it bu had on tke husband has ben to confine
him with dangerous illness.
I most state that the receivers of newspapers here
are subjected to a kind of exaction which requires re.
dress—the clerks in the office open the papers, loose
the addresses, put them sometimes together by wrong
sheets, and charge double postage. It is hoped that
if the press notice this it mty attract such attention
P as will cause the evil to be discontinued.

The exportation of port wine duricg 1819 was
43,043 pipes : 24,629 to Great Britain ; to the rest of
Europe, 3,390; to Portuguese placer, 496 ; the United
Rates, 4,921 ; the Braz,ll, 3,627; to other countries
and colonies, 3,976. Portugal produced in 1813 a
million of pipes of wine and thirty thousand of oil.
The wine, brandy, and oil dealers are obtaining bet-
tor prices than of late.
Since my last, the Hogue, Thetis, Arrogant, Lean.
der, Encounter, Conflict, and Scourge, all of them war
vessels, have arrived in the Tagus.
The ophthalmia is prevalent here among the troops,
especially the Queen's Grenadier', many of whom
have lost their sicht.
A deputy having called upon the ministry for an
account of the public money, the Finacce Minister
promised tolay it before the house, taking that °era.
sion to say that he would not stop payment and de-
clare a bankruptcy, but, relying on the SUCCESS his
measures had hitherto had, particularly as to the
credit of Lisbon bank notes, he should continue, and
presented his report, by which, however, it appears
there will be a deficiency of about 2,000 coutos upon
the year.
The condition of the northern provinces is shortly
to be brought before the consideration of the deputies,
as well as the use government made of the (1 seretion-
ary power given to it relative to the Bir of Oporto
and the public roads.
Some prisons in the north have been broken open
and a set of desperadoes liberated, who, it appears,
gave a bold front to the troops, but being small in
number they will soon be overcome. It is said mea-
sures are being adopted t., prevent arms being
landed.
Exchange on London, 54 ; c]iscount of Lisbon bank
notes, 17.
All government securities rising.