The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-03 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The Oriental Company's steam picket, Pasha,
Captain Weeks, arrived at Southampton yesterday,
and landed her mails under the charge of Lieutenant
Wilson, lt.N., Admiralty agent. ller dates are :
Gibraltar, Mlrch 25 ; Cadiz, March 26 ; Lisbon,
March '2.9 ; Oporto, it blowing a gale did not com-
muniewe ; Vigo, March 30.
(A summary of the intelligezee received by elec-
tric telegraph appeared in yesterday's Express.)
Our correspondent writes se follows :

LISBON, MARCH 28.

The project of law to restrain the monies of the
press passed in the Chamber of Deputies on the 23rd,
the numbers being 68 for and 16 against. The oppo-
sition were, towards the close of the debate, some e hat
paralysed. They all left the chamber during the
speech of Silva Cabral. All the amendments were
rejected, except those which proceeded from the com-
mittee appointed to bring in the law. During the
debate upon the subject of it, it app• ars one of the
members of the committee was seized with parcel:, bill;
this the opposition attributed to a judgment from
heaven, for their iniquity in proposing the law. As
soon as Silva Cabral had concluded, as his was the
closing speech of the debate, the opposition re-
entered the Chamber t 3 give their votes.
Nothing has occurred in the Chambers beyond a
petition presented to each of them by the Bank of
Portugal, asking for forty contos of reis, forcibly
taken from their branch bank in Oporto by the Junta
in the year 1817.
The Bank charter paned the peers without altera-
tion, and waits only for the royal ascent to become
law.

Although tha project regarding the press has
passed ti.e Lower Chamber by what may be called an
overwhelming majority, yet it is somewhat difficult
to say what its final result may be. In addition to
the many protests against it, the legitimists have
framed one, which has been numerously signed, and
conunihs op.m for signature. While I am on this
subject, I may as we'l say that as the jury
to decide cases of the press must possess a
certain qualification, it will become absolutely
necessary to have a new law of election. New law.;
are also required respecting roads, agricu:ture, com-
merce, and colonies.. . . . .

The country ie quiet. Agriculture is in a state of
prosperity. Rice has become indigenous ; but from
disease which has appea'ed in the districts where the
rice grows, some interested persons have persuaded
the government to stop its culture in the proximity
of the towns.

On the 25th the Rosamond steamer put in on its
way to England, and left the same day.
The Generous, Neapolitan cot vette, is in the liver.
Tne Audit= arrived from England oa the 23th,
and on the 26th the whole squadron, consiAing of the
Prince Regent, Indefatigable, Leander, Thetis,
Phaeton, Le Hogue, Arrogant, and Terrible arrived ;
they are riding in a line from the Black Horse-square
downwards which has caused many conjectures, u
by the regulations of the port foreign vesuls of war
are resttiettd to a certain anchorage. .

P
The recent news from Paris, giving an account of
the elections which terminated in favour of the
Socialists, and the reports spread respecting new
claim; made by the British, him: given rise to many
speculative opinions, some of them quitc nn!oundel.
A report is in circulation that an American
squadron is expected here, to enforze the eleims
made by the American government, of which you
have some time since been informed.
Count do Thomar is fast recovering from his late
indisposition; he has gone for a few days to Meal-
Lida fer a change of air.
kcordiog to annual custom of commuting the sen-
tences of criminals during the Holy Week, a council
of state has been assembled for the purpose, as well
as for the prolongation of the chambers.
I have omitted to mention that the prok et of law
to do away with entailed property at Madeira (Mor-
gados), sent to a committee of the Chamber of Peers,
has been rejected. This may interest many of your
readers in commercial transactions with that island.
The government, on asking of the Chamber of Depu-
ties the paint to receive the taxes during the present
economical year before the voting of the animal sup-
plies, declared that they would, after next July, pay
regularly one month's salary to all the public func-
tionaries.