The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-04 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Cologne Nagle has the following telegraphic
despatch, dated Berlin, July 2 It is asserted
afresh that the treaty of pesos with D.nmark was
signed yesterday. The Prussian basis—that of a
simple peace, guaranteeisg reciprocal rights—seams
to have been maintained.
" Amongthe modifications of the details of the Prus-
sian project the most important will be, that Den-
mark engages not to have reopens to the aid of
foreign p3wers unless no German state will inter-
vene, and unless so free corps will enter the duchies.
The so-called "London Protocol" has not yet been
signed.
" The King of Saxony is expected to-day at Sans
Souci. It is said that hie visit is merely one of congra-
tulation on the Kiog's reo:very. It is believed that
the sew Austrian propositions will not be accepted by
Prussia."
FRANKFORT, Joss 28.
Accounts just received from Darmstadt, mention
that a change of ministry, which had long been ex-
pected, has really taken place. The hitherto prime
minister, Dr. Jaup, has resigned, and his resignation
been accepted by the Grand Doke, who has appointed
in nig stead Baron Dalwigk, hitherto territorial cote-
missions'. at Mayence, and acting plenipotentiary of
the Grand Duchy at the Frankfort Congress. Tar
result of this appointment will be the public avowal
of Datmstadt to withdraw from the Prussian Union,
welch, as I have already informed you, has been long
in agitation, and was only deterred from the unwil-
lingness of the minister Jeep, to countersign the do-
lcuments. This is the reason assigned for his resig-
nation. The policy of the Gotha party will receive a
severe check in consequence.
The budget for Bavaria has just been voted by the
Chambers. The ordinary expenditure is fixed at
33,705,338 fiuriar, the extraordinary requirements,
4.119,601 florins, making a total of the expenses of
37,825,159 darnel. On the other hand the receipts
are calculated at 35,149,799 florins, thus leaving •
deficieucy of 2,675.360 florins, or about 225,000/.
H. It. H. fhe Duchess of Kent, aooompanied by a
numerous suite arrived here last evening a little be-
fore ten o'eleek, and was received at the terminus of
the Taunus railroad by Lord and Ledy Cowley, and
the secretaries of the British embassy. She had
come up the Rhine in one of the meamers belonging
to the Cologne company, and larded at half-last seven
at Nlayence, from which place she proceeded to
Frankfort by a special train of the Taunus (Wiesba-
den) railway company. The spacious apartments of
the fist floor of the "Hotel d'Aigleterre," on the
Itosamarkt, had been specially furnished and fitted
up for her romp:loc. Her royal highness received to-
day the civil and military authorries of Frankfort,
the memlers of the corps diplontatique, the plenipo-
tentiaries belonging to the Congress, and the superior
officers of the Prussian Bavarian, and Austrian troops
at present forming the garrison of this city. She
will remain here a fortnight, and then proceed t
Soden, one of the numerous little bathing
places at the feel of the Taunus mountains,
and about ten English miles from Frank-
furt. Access to Soden has lately been made vete easy
by thee opening of a branch line of railway from
Heicbst, the first etstion on the Wiesbaden railroad,
so that the distance may now be performed in a few
minutes. The Duchess of Kent will inhabit the
house belonging to the Dowager Duchess of Nassau
at Soden; how long she will remain there is not yet
decided.

BERLIN, JULY 2.—Volantary Loan, 1061 ; National
Drht, 861 ; Bask Share*, VA.
VIINNA, JULY 1 —Five per Cent. Metalliques, 95: ;
Four per Cents., ditto, 831 ; Bank Shares, 1,114. Exchanp
on Lindon.

:NIPORTANT FROM LISBON,

AN AMERICAN SQUADRON IN THE TAGUS.
The (Mental Company's steam-packet
Captain Francis Meehan, arrived at Southampton last
night, and landed her mails under the charge of L'eut.
P. Rainier, R.N.. Admiralty agent. Her elates are—
Gibraltar, June 21 ; Cadiz, June 25 ; Lisbon, June
29; Oporto, June 30; Vigo, June 30. Among her
cargo arc 8 packages of spelie.
LISBON, Jt•Nr. 28.
The arrival of an American squadron, consisting of
a steamer and a large frigate, in the Taps, has sur-
prised eteryltody. Many reports were immediately
put in circulation abut the object of their visit, and a
panic seized the mercantile world. I some time ago
mentioned that the Americans had brought a claim
against this country, and it seems that these vessels
have b.en ordered here to enforce it. It seems that
et the end of the last general war America claimed
from Portugal the value of a privateer, the General
Armstrong, takcu in the Azores by an English fri-
gate. This circumstance obliged this government to
claim from Great Britain the value of the lasses occa-
sioned by the firing, which, basing been estimated at
300/., England immediately paid, refusing at theEme
time to acknowledge the American claim as to the
value of the vessel which bad been taken as the price
of the British blood shed by the Americans on that
occasion. The Duke of Palmells was et that time
Portuguese minister in London, and declared, at the
time s he received the 3001., that in case America
should again renew the claim he would again apply to
England, particularly as the captain of the American
privateer in his protest declared that the Portuguese
authority had lent him all the protection in his power.
The second claim is the value of sonic oil from a
whaler wrecked in the Mozambique channel. The
government acknowledges the claim, but not the com-
pound interest claimed. The third is of ten thousand
dollars smuggled against the laws of the country ; a
sentence passed by the courts of law of the country
authorised that act of the Portuguese government.
The fourth is for the value, with compound interest,
of an American vessel condemned as a slaver. The
fifth is for the value, with compound interest, of an
old vessel wrecked in the following manner at the
Cape do Verd Islands: An old American vessel an-
chored nine miles off ore of the Cape do Vcrd islands,
at a point not allowed by the laws, and from her much
contraband goods were unloaded. The authorities
interfered, aced ordered the vessel either to nil or to
come to the proper anchorage. The captain refused
to comply with the order, under the plea that they
had no water. The authorities offered to supply
water or any other necessary ; the captain declined
accepting. On.examinieg the vessel it was found
that she had on board nothing but some hay and
firewood. On obliging the captain to take the vessel
into port, he abandoned her, and on being brought
into port the vessel was lost. These are the circum-
stances attending the five asses. During the nego-
tiations which have been going on, the Portuguese
government have proposed to have it decided by arbi-
tration, but the American government will not listen
to any proposition; and on the arrival of the Ame-
rican ships of war, the minister at this court ad-
dressed a rote to the government, allowing them 20
days for the final settlement of these claims, which
they estimate at two hundred and fifty cantos, or to
give the passports to the minister. The government
has consulted the foreign ministers, and taken the
opinion of the council of state and other indi-
vidual!, and it is said they are determined to mein-
tain the dignity of the country, and if obliged to yield
in those points in which justice is on their side, to do
it under protest ; they have displayed activity and
energy by putting all the vessels of war in the Taw,
and the batteries in a oondition to repel any insult the
Americans may premeditate, though they might after-
wards be crashed. England being compromised in the
affair of the privateer, it is expected matters may be
amicibly settled. Trade is quite stopped, through
fear of reprisals.
Romero, after having resided at Oporto during a
long time, has been arrested, at the request of Nervaez,
and delivered to the Spanish authorities to be shot, as
ho actually was. A Spanish schooner of war,
Minerva, has called here to receive two other in-
dividuals, who had been detained for some time in
prison, tied very likely we shall soon hear of them
having undergone the same treatment as Romero ; it
is beyond all doubt that these indivi 'mils were Car.
lasts or Montemolinists, and as such had been perse-

'sated, and had taken refuge in a neighbonting wan-
try, Wielded therefore wider the description of
pelitieal ; but as the Spaniards call the
guerillas btigeado, under that pretext they have de-
manded thins, and this government, screened under
this false pont. , have delivered them up to be shot,
becoming this last accomplices in the deaths of these
individuals. Clean, de Morella, General Cabrera, has
been described by the same same' and if he bad emi-
grated to this country instead of England, he might
have been claimed ostler theism, pretext.
Nothing worth the attention of a foreign reader
has taken place in the Chambers; the govern-
ment have been able to smooth the great storms
levelled *Oast them, and there is no doubt that
the ministry will be able to lop their places, not-
withstanding all the attacks of the weak and dis-
ordered opposition. Though same rather severe
remarks were made daring the distension of the esti-
mates of the several departments, particularly the
navy, in which the estimates of expenditure are 200
icontos de reis more than last year, they have not
a ship fit to go to sea, and though great expense is
gone to in the dockyard, they are deprived of all build-
ing materials, notwithstanding the quantity of
wood they possess in their African colonies. Every-
thing passed as proposed by ministers. The ways
and means, as proposed, passed also the Lower
Chamber. A new law of income-tax (decima) has
also been approved; many local and private bills have
passed ; they are now discussing a new law respect-
ing the making of nada, which usdoubtedly will be
carried. It may be said that the ministry have had
in the Chamber of Deputies everything their own
way. The committee elected to propose the reform
of the Carta are hard at work, and they seem inclined
to bring it before the Chamber during the present
session. It is conjectured that the ministry will keep
back this session the discussion of the report of the
war committee.

It is generally said that M. da Costa goes to Eng-
land by the Fuchs, charged with very important de-
spatches, supposed to be respecting the American
claims. The Hogue sailed on the 22nd, as well as the
French steamers Ariel and Minerva; the Spanish
steamer Peninsula sailed also.

Petitions have been made against the measures
proposed by the. government to better the Douro wine
districts, Red preying for the admission of those pro-
posed by M. Agostinho Albano.
Exchange on London, 51
Discount Lisbon Bank notes, 7 to 8 per ctnt.

British claims were also pressing upon Portugal,
and Lord Palmerston had made a demand insisting
upon the faithful execution of the trvaty of commerce
with reference to the differentialduty levied upon port
wine foe the English market. Other Elglish claims
were about to be submitted to Lord Palmerston.

SPAIN.

DIADRID,Jrxa 28.

The Coati:: publishes a statement of the revenue
for the month of May, 1850, comparing it with the
same month of last year. The land-tax has produced
13; millions of reals more than last year, when it pro-
duced 28,997,000 reals. Custoui-house receipts
amount to 1-1,147,961 reale. The total augmentation
is 24,955,885 real.. Trois augmen'atioa has not been
obtained without vexing the tax-payer, and ruining
many of the erns:lee proprietors. Toe news of Count
Montemolin's marine with the sheer of the King of
Naples has produced as mush indignation here as the
Montpensier marriage did in the British court. It
is said that the Spanish ambassador has received
orders to break off all diplomatic intercourse with
Naples. General Erma, a brave and experienced
officer, is to be sent to the Isle of Cuba to take the
second commandership of the island.

MAIJRID, J E 28.—Three per Cents., 331; after Balsa,
33l each. Four per Cents., 12; cash. Fire per Cents.,
12 1.516 cash ; after Balsa, 121 15 16 cash. PillSiTeP, 3;
cash; after Balsa, 3 1546. Coupons, 7. Bank of St. Fer-
dinand, 84 c►Sh. Eschaege on London, 50 40.

BRITISH GUIANA.

The Royal Gazelle of June 4 contains the follow-
ing brief "Review for Home Readers."
In our last review on the IStn tilt , we stated that in a few
da)s time no less than seven sugar tames vr-uld be brought
to the hammer at execution sate by toe marshal. Since we
then wrote these proper:in have been put up and knocked
down. Prices were not remuterative. These estates were
soli in the feliowing order and for the following sum• : —l.
•• Farm,•' t ne of the finest sugar estates in the district of the
Demerits river, and situate on its east bank a few miles front
town ; sold on the 20th May ; price. s 0.200 ; in former days
and in a good year, the revenue of the •• Farm" used to ha
75,000 gu•:ders, or 525,000 a year. 2. '• Succns," on the I
east coast of the Demerara; sold on the 21st; price, 519,200.
purchasers, the Cavan 3. '• Lowlands," on tue same c cast;
sold on the 22nd; bought for the Daniels; price. x 7,00.
4. "Dochfour," ditto, ditto, on the 23rd; price, slelo. 5
..Sophienburg," on Tiger Island in the Burg:Hon; sold
on the 2Sili ; price, 5i,400 ; purchaser, Mr. Weiier
G. "Mainstay,' on the wain coast of Essequibo, better
known as the Antilles coast; sold on the 29th ; bought by
the Bullies, of Bristol; price, $3,500. 7. Richmond," in
the same district, bought at d 15,200 on the 30. h for its
former pr:prietors, the Bean lunge. Total sum realised
571,050, or between t 14,000 and C 15,000 sterling ; at which
not one of those properties in former days could have been
purchased.
Besides these properties, several others have been sane-
tised within the last few days for execution sale. It is a
frightful thing to think, and must speak volumes of itself,
that within the last tiw years nearly the whole landed pre-
hefty cf the colony has changed hands by compulsory sales.
Neva, we believe, did such an avalanche of insolvency
sweep over any country as has swept over this non the
emancipation. Its influence has been irresistible ; and
numerous as have been the victims that have sunk under it,
we fear many more mast folow.
We may here announce the departure by the hut mail
on a tour to II , the United States, France, Belgium,
Holland, net England, of the agricultural chemist of the
colony, Dr. Shier. With the view of introducing improved
processes of monufsctcring sugar into the boiling houses of
thus colony, the doctor proposes, with the full concurrence of
our Combined Court, to visit in an excursion of some months
the chief sugar manufactories in the places named. Li the
absence of Dr. Shier the colonial laboratory is unite: the
charge of his brother, Dr. David Shier.
The Court of Policy has been occupied in the course of the
put fortnight, among other busincss, with bills fur mule:-
in a the sale of spirituous liquors, and making theoopper coin-
age of Great Britain a legal tender to a certain amount. It
was at first feared that the court would legalise copper to
too great an extent: in which case the experiment would in
all probability never answer; but this tear hes taken allayed
by their making that kind of coin a legal tender to the ex-
tent of 4 cen•s. only, or 2d. sterling. Under this or some
such restriction, there will be, we apprehend, no opposition
to the measure, which may be expected very shortly to
become law.
The weather during tho fortnight has been showery ; but
June is usually a rainy month. With the exception of the
seven execution sales, all has been quiet in the country dis-
tricts.

REGISTRATION Or VOTEGS.—The return to parlia-
ment respectirg the registration of voters, which was men.
timed in the E•preas of Monday, shows an increase of
8,934 parliamentary electors on the lists of 1849 50, compared
with the preceding year. In Ireland, in counties there is a
decream of nearly 6,000 voters. In England and Wales,
the number of voters in 1348 49 was 872 374. and on the
present repistry 687,816; in S-utland, 90.396. and now
90.305 and in Ireland, 78,433 last year, and 72,066 on the
imagist register ;—making the total, in IS4B-49. 1,041,203;
and for the present time, 1,050,187. By the 20. h instant
rates due on the Sib January must be paid.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A R tILWAY GUARD.—On
Monday evening, a train left Salford station for Accringtoa,
having as its guard amen named Wm. Walker, 32 years of age.
Mr. Cooper, the superintendent of the station, saw the train
off, and kept his eye on it for about a hundred yards. At
the starting, Walker appeared quite sober and collected, and
when last seen by Mr. Cooper was standing on the step of
one of the eight carriages which the train included. At
thirteen minutes past 7 the train arrived at the Clifton junc
ties, and Mr. Charles Griffiths, the ticket taker, observed
that it was destitute of a guard. A narrower examination
led that a quantity of blood was spilt on the step
of a second-class carriage, and further investigation led
to the discovery of the guard 444 en his back upon the top
of the carriages, quite dead. The body wes removed into the
station, and information sent to the police; and the latter,
on their arrival, found the deceased lying in the station with
a large quantity of blood under his head, evidently proceed-
ing from his mouth and eats. No frao•ure, however, or
wound of any kind could be discovered. The body was n-
amed to the Whentsheaf public-house, at l'endlebur-i, and
on subsequent inquiry it was found that a porter upon the
railway, named Cartwright, could give material evidence in
the ease. Cartwright's statement was to the effect that,
shortly before • Ten o'clock he and a man named Whittle
were upon the line a little beyond Oldfleld-road Bridge, and
saw the train pass under. The deceased at that time was on
the top of one of the carriages, end as the train pas.ed under
wooden bridge which is eretted across the line from the
canal to same mills on the contrary aide, they saw the de-
ceased stoop down, and pass safely sad, r. There were two
other bridges to be passed before the train left that neigh-
bourhood ; and Cartwright did not observe the train passing
under the first of these two bridges ; but on its arrival at the
second, he saw the deceased's head, cc it appeared to him,
come in contact with the bridge, and deceased instantly
!ell
upon the carriage, and his heels " Hew up into the air."
Cartwright observed to his companion that the man bad hurt
' himself ; but he had no stispici,n at *hat time that he Fad
been killed. An inquest was held upon the body on 3 u, edgy,
and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."