The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

PORTUGAL
The Oriental Company'spacket Jupiter
at ma..
Captain Francis Meehan, arrived at S ,u'hanipt° n
lest night, and landed her msils under the charge- of
Lieut. Langton, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her doses
are: Gibraltar, March 8; Cadiz, 9; Liebon, 11
Oporto, 12; and Vigo, 13.
She brings seven packages of specie, also 78
Mptutlettioollidanida
government invalids (packages
Gibraltar, being men dis-
charged from the different regiments of that garrison,
in consecinence of the reduction in the army.
On the reduction of the regiments at Gibraltar
some of the men came forward and volunteered for
the squadron. under Commodore Martin, some of
whom were received, alter underg dog the u.ttal me. N
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LISBON, MARCH H.
my last, hes been published. Although a law to
restrain the licentiousness of the prose, and ee..p it
within proper and rational bounds was necessary,
yet every one complains of the project; it opens the door for the manifestation of every
tends to check the intercourse of private life. The
preacher in his pulpit, the peaceable and rations!
ci'isen who assemble, a few friends in his own braise,
and there, in the midst of a friendly confidence, treks
over the occurrerces of the day, and express.s his
opinion of this or that man, and the demagogue who
trite to excite sedition merely as • steppitig.store to
his own aggrandizement, are alike liable to the effects
of the law.
After several days' debit., a law hes been pas
for the equalisation of weights and nif amen. Thi- was
highly necessary; and, although at first it may create
a little confusion and mistakes among tiader, yet it
will soon be understood and tend to a Uniform
Isystem of buying and selling. Such was the differ-
enee of weights and measures throughout tee kirg.
dom that it produced in some places a difference of
20 per cent. as compared with others.
The minister of justice proposes a new division of
the dioceses.
The minister of finance has made his report, per.
fectly egot stical, full of pride, and deficient of even
a single measure to alleviate the burdens which prt
so heavily on his departme:.t. He asks for money,
but proposes no plan of fir ante by which it may be
obtained. Payments commie, in arrear; in some
districts they are eighteen months behind; it is sup-
posed he cannot continue in office, so general is the
hostility against him.
The Mindello sailed on the 6:h, having on booed
ithe Prince and Princess de Joinville.
A law has been proposed to abJlish the entails upon
hereditary estates, which is txpec'ed to meet with
great opposition; should it, however, iee-s, it may
cause real property (as well as money has d mei to
change hands, end may lead many of toe prodigal
nobility to beggary.
The Duke of Terceira has been appoin•ed t t the
lord high stewardship, which he now holds with the
office of master of the hone. Thus the breach is
effectually filled, and the Duke de Saldaila may re-
flect at his ease that people, however high their
stations may be, ought not to presume up sr' them,
and try to convert apc st of honour into a dic•atorial one.
Donna Maria did quite right in dismissing him. lie hes
now published a pamphlet, which contains a copy of
his petition to the quern to be tried by a court-nor-
tial, and reply of the Count de Thomar to the minis-
, ter of war, wherein he stab s that the affair, not being
a military one, did not render a court-in trial necet-
easy. Then comes another letter of Saldanha, in
which he says that it did rot become the dignity of
the queen to dismiss him, as no sovereigns bad ever
dismissed their lord high stewards; and, last not
least, a letter, in which he lauds himself to the skirl
for all his bravery and military service. lie says the
army is in his favour, and he never put himself at the
head cf it without succeeding in all he undertook.
I have not Low time to enter more into this
pamphlet beyond that of saying that the posi-
tion the duke has token by sal ieg to never
put himself at the head of the army without
succeeding, is a false one: be has committed
so many and such egregious blunders, that, had he had
an enemy with any brains, he would always have been
defeated. What was the duke's posit ion aft.-r the battle
of Torres Vrdras? Why he was virtually vanquished,
after the battle, the war would have been finished
from inactivity, for, had he advanced immediately
duke, delayed to advance from faire pre•txts; this
without the aid of foreigners; he, the trumpeting
gave the junta time to rally, and eventually assume
such a position that foreign aid alone defeated them.
The duke himself welt knows that the court was dis-
satisfied with his conduct, and that diqtatiefa,tioa hes
been growing till at length he, the puissant duke, has
b, en moat rightfully dismissed.
60,120,000 reis, in Lisbon Bank-notes, were burnt
on the 4th, which reduces the amount in circulation
to 2,882,285 reis.

The activity with regard to the roads still continues.
Geological and statistical information, hignly inte-
resting to science es well as commerce, have been
published.
Exchange on London, 5-11 niscount on Lisb.,n Bank-
notes, 17 to 18.

AMERICA.—The Plymouth Rock, Captain Cald-
well, arrived at Liv.-rp9ol on Saturday miming, with
one day's later intelligence from Boron. The news
is total'y without interest, and meanwhile the America
steamer may be hourly expected to arrive with news
to the 6-1 instant.

BRAZILS.—The Empress, arrived a' I.,verpool
from Bahia, brings dates from that place to Jan. 31.
The 3-claw ter. r was raging with unabated violence.
and consequently exercising an evil intluenc., over
trade. Ex.:hinge ruled at 2S d.

TIIE BUDGET.-A correspondent under date, Bir-
mingham. March 16, say,: .• fhe ' budget' speech of Sir
Charles Wood has given untvermil disappointment brr.• ; the
stamp duty proposed to be reps to el, ktrnatiled os one of the
least oppressive of the many imposts which government
have been besought to remove. Jodeing by the feeling
here, this budget will have the effect of greatly damaging
the administration in public opinion, and whatever may be
the disposition of the house, Were is very littb goodwill in
this part of the country towards the family goverment.
With the advantage of a g-cd testis, all cl ism* are neverthe-
less complaining that they are bArne down by ezcessive
tezetion, which appears to be daily m-re sf verily f.lt;
everybody c implains that their income tee is stung up year
after year, and that, notwithstanding they ge• no relic: in
any other shape. It L,rd John Rus.ell could only be mode
to comprehr rid what the fe^ling is in the largest manufacturing
districts, he would take the time whilst it rantaine to him, •r
before very long the middle ease, now the wit oppressed
and suffering, will rise up. and, united with the working
clue, manifest such a p in' s. as will at t-e very eshibitien of
it, sweep away the entire fabric of the system, which whigs
and tones here built up for their own aogr mdiwm.at, sad
drive Lord John Russell whet his associates into obscurity for
aver."

A MORMON FeteEntx.—Same excitement pre-
vailed on Sunday last amongst the " Mormons," or " Lst-
ter-day Saints," residing at Brampton and is the actin-
boorheod, in consequence of the Bev. J. B Jebh, t:e
incumbent of tht district. having intimated to the friend of
a member of this tommunity, recently deceased, that he
could not consci• nit-•us., use the Burial Service of the
Church of England at the funeral of which they had given
bim formal notice. The Mormons persisted in choir

determination to bury the corpse '
in St. Thomas's
churchyard, without the least regard to the remonstrances
and advice of the incumbent, and under thews circumstances
it was duuhttul how the matt. r would end. A little before
six o'clock on Sunday evening the funeral proces-
sion began to more from Factory-street ; the Mor-
mons commit shi ringing, and attracted • considerable
number of persons, who acerompanied them from motives of
curiosity, by the n.nrest route towards the church. Oa
arriving at the gate of the church-yard it was found to be
closed; hut the procession had seemly halts& when the in.
cusabent appeared in his canonicals. and taking off his hat.
proceeded to read the following protest:—" In the Name of
God, I, Jobs Beridge Jebb, Incumbent of the District of
St. Thomas's, Brampton, do hereby solemnly protest against
the use of the Burial Service of the Church of England in
this case—and I do declare that it is knly beceuke lam com-
pelled by the law of the land, that I allow a atomiser of the
community of Moments, or Latter-day Saints, to he interred
according to the rit, s of the eurch in the churchyard of
St. Thomas's, Brampton; and I further declare that I
cannot knowing., officiate in any lotion interment
of the same kind, without doing viol. nce to my
conscience." Atter this the rev. gentleman shortly addressed
the assemblage, stating that if any of those present walled
to know the grounds on which his protest hod bun made,
he would readily 'spades them in the school-rout after the
service. The Rev. F. Arnold. the curate the district,
then approached the gate, end commenced the service,
which rose performed in the usual manner. The behaviour
of the Mormons during the v' ailing of the protest and at
the • was riecoroult an I pros cr. It appears from the
subsequent representations of one of their b•nly, that they
do not desire the service of the church at the burial of their
dead ; Au' only the privilege of burying in the ehutch.yar',
aweigh without any r•ligiomi eartice.—DerbysAire Couri4T,