The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-05 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

The °dicta' Company's steams-ship Pubs, Capt.
J. Weeks, arrived at Southampton lut evening, and
landed her mails under charge of Lieut. T. W./,,ang-
ton, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are : Gibral-
tar, Sept. 25; Cadiz, 26; Lisboa, 29; Oporto, 30;
and Vigo, Oot. 1. Her cargo comprises 6ve packages
of bullion. _

LISBON, Burr. 28:

From the accounts that were sent to England by
the last packet, your readers would doubtless soppier
that a civil war was now raging in Portugal. It is
not so, but all is as quiet and se apparently calm as if
no alarm had existed. That the government feared
a then immediate outbreak, is perfectly true; and
upon the closest inquiry I find that all I wrote on
the occasion was quite correct. The reasons why
nothing took place have been left to conjecture. Some
say the alarm was entirely on the part of the court;
while others affirm that events were not sufficiently
ripe. It is said the Count de Thomar, on receiving
the despatch recalling him to his post, laughed at the
fears of the court, and said it would not cause him to
hasten his departure far Lisbon one day earlier. It
is also said, ens of the principal reasons for continuing
the status quo, was, that the Baron d'Onrem, better
known as Colonel Lape, did not wish the preponde-
rant* to be on the side of the Septembristas, and there-
fore would not begin the movement. The court has
taken notice of the report that it was wanted to ar-
range a marriage between the Prince Royal and the
daughter of the Empress, and has coosi&red it as a
design attributed to themselves, and denied that any
project of the kind was in contemplation; but it need
not not have been denied, because, if a desire existed
at all on the subject. it was on the pad of the opposi-
tion, to counteract the real court project of a marriage
with the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Mont-
pensier ; which latter appears somewhat confirmed
by the fact or the denial of the former project of the
court; on which subject it is believed the British
government has some very curious information. Toe
supplying of the 16th regiment and the munioipals
with ammunition was also tree; while the grenadiers
of the Queen,lat andlOthregiments, the artillery, and
naval batalliou, had not the same confidence placed
in them; which shows that, bad a movement taken
plea, it would have been a military affair. All the
suspected troops are in favour of the Duke de Bal-
dish', and adverse to the ministry of the Count de
Thomar. Things are by no means settled ; a modifi-
cation of the ministry is in contemplation, and Benhor
Jose& t3ilva Cabral wants to goin ; but if we can oleos
any reliance upon the affected hostility of the Union
(the Count de Thomar's or,tan) to him, his desire is
visionary. It is somewhat offensive to taste to read
the abuse of the two brothers towards each other, as
manifested in the Union andparedard (Jolt's paper).
The former lashes the latter severely, and says his
policy has already ruined the counts projects once.
The count reached Lisbon in the afternoon of the 23rd.
A dispute has existed between the Union and an
opposition paper, as to the insignia of the Order of
the White Eagle of Russia, which the Ismer YU
denies, and the latter positively asserts is beteg made
for the Count de Thomar, at a cost of seven cantos of
rein.
I mentioned in stylise the conclusion of the loan of
400 cantos; the opposition papers condemn the pre
capitation with which it was concluded, as offers had
been made which were obliged to be rejected ; it was
emealobsd at 12 want. per annum, but had it been
Wired to ceespetittoo, it Is aid, it could have been
obtaised at the rate of 9 per cent. per annum.
It appears the receiver-general of the taxes at St.
Übes is a defaulter to the amount of 10 cantos of rein
=wards, and has, in consequence, been die-
_

The onstons-houses of the Agnes have produced
159,014,230 twis for the lad secnondeal yew.
The ptpularity oft's@ ammo and her daughter is
inoromang = the attention the people pay them when
they appear in public), is remarkable = the other day
they went to walk in the public gardens, when, being
surrounded by a word with hats off, they retired,
being accompanied to their carriage by the increasing
malutude, who paid them mark of respect,
making a lane for them to walk the crowd.
It is equally remarkable, that when amoeba lady ap-
pears in public in her oarrisp,aaSsibide their
heads in daps, or turn down Masts, to
avoid the inconvenience and risk of sold by
taking off their bete!
On the 28rd, Lo Brandon, French staamer-of-war
smiled fie Soma On the 24th the British steamer-
alaar &Sonata sailed fir,n the 25th the &m-
-ead sued, leaving the Phaeton, and Prince
iteCt. pat of Marseilles, and the other pate of the
south el Prunes in the Mediterranean, have been de-
clared a glean' by the Lisbon board of health.
The spleen of shipping wines of the first quality at
Oporto, as wines of the second quality, to ports out of
Europe, thereby paying bat one per ant ad valorem