The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTZLLIGMICE.

A !ate edition of the Repress is published every
evening during the racing season, containing the
results of the day's races.

THE death of the King of PORTUGAL is an event
which will cause only one feeling, that of pro-
found sympathy, in this country. He was young,
having only just entered his twenty-fifth year. He
had early been called to the anxieties of govern-
ment through the loss of his mother just eight
years ago. Aud his character was on a level with
his exalted destinies. Enlightened and generous,
modest and sincere, Ptiitto V. was one of the
best of those constitutional Sovereigns who on the
continent:of Europe are gradually superseding the
legitimate rulers, of whom FKANCIS of Naples was
a specimen.

The reign of the young Knto has been one
chequered with public and private grief. His acces-
sion was auspicious, fur it united the Portuguese
people around his throne. Queen DONNA MARIA,
his mother, was the Sovereign of a party,
and that, perhaps, not the most numerous
party in her dominions. She had ascended the
throne amidst civil war and with foreign aid ; and
she had never headily adopted the constitutional
system. The revenues of the country were consumed
by an army which her want of confidence in its
institutions, perhaps, rendered necessary. The
nation was without credit or respect abroad, the
treasury was insolvent, the pay of the soldiers was
five months and the salaries of the functionari:l
were twelve iminths in arrest, and the people were
discontented. The young Kisii was welcomed as
be who was to close this divided and precarious
condition of the state, and introduce an era of
honest conciliation and just and temperate free-
dom. The career of Dom Plea° V. has, on the
whole, justified these expectations, and if in any
point of view it has failed, the reason is not to
be found in his conduct. Under his reign there
have teed= court reserves, no secret combine-
tions, no personal proscriptions obstructing,
embarreasing, and at last defeating pub-
lic liberty. His government has advanced
with unequal step, but always in the one direction
of improvement. The commercial, civil, and
penal codes have been reformed. The press has
been free, and successive Ministries have go-
verned by Parlieinentary majorities.
The foreign relations of Portugal were im-
mensely improved during the Kiso's reign, and
very much in consequence of his personal exer-
tions. He travelled much, everywhere inspiring
respect and confidence, and exciting wishes for the
prosperity of his reign. It seemed as though
these wishes were about to be fulfilled in 1858,
when he married the beautiful Princes'
of Honenzou.cesr.fininsainote. But in little
more than a year after their union he was called to
follow his QUEEN to the grave. lt was in Unstops
year that his constancy was cruelly tried in com-
mon with that of the nation, by the insolent
and overbearing course pursued by France in the
&Mir of the f 110E10'4 rt Geol.p.• The magnanimity
with which lie supported this accumulation of
griefs endeared him to his people. The nation
will mourn for him as few Kings are mourned for.
May longer life and greater happiness attend the
Data of °roam, his successor.

MS EDUCATION CODE.

DIPOTATIOS TO LORD PALDIRWION.

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A deptitatio.i on lb.. nob'e..t of the revised code
had an interview with Lord Palmwdon at Lbmbridro
Mwr yesterday. MO ilepowition consisted of members of
the tentml Commit-es. of Schoolmaster% representing the
entire tasty of cort'ficsb .1 teachers. Several members of
parliament had expremed sympathy with the object of the
deputation, sod would pure arxrimpanied it on this occa-
sion, but the clay having Iseeo fixed by his lordship earlier
than was at first espectol. there WAS not sufficient time to
somneu them from the country.
Yr. RANDALL and other members of the deputatiol
soliirmosl his Inrd•hip, dwellim; more particularly mum
the injustice done to certihcsted teachers by the with-
drawal id the aw,:mentatihn Kraut ; the fallacy of miyments
for results as stu,:ied to the element•.ry education of the
poor. owing to the no;•nitory ch., rac.er of the pn,ielation
the esiiensiveuriei of the new -tom by the employment of
additiorial Marches ; and the lowering of the a.antlard of
education which would hdjow the penis-m.l change. It
was also urged that by the provisions of the reels d code,
government aid voeuld lo withdrawn from p sir iamb,
while schools •ri wealthy diatrirts wooed receive a large
proportion of the grant. Several instances were also died
to chow the extent to which schools would soles by
the new regulationa.
Lord PALifritirrod sail he wan always glad to obtain
information from there who were in a position to impost
it, and that be was at all times willing to listen to any ar-
guments that might be adduced he those who were 'meth
rally engaged in the ednestion the people. His lordship
also intimAted that the points which hid bees submitted to
him should have doe ceouditeretion by the government in
any future legalistic% vs the 'object.

Plitt eft:W-0171M Nov. o.—The Queen hue been
plumed to appemr• of honor TIMM. Ribeiro dos Santos as
Couvul.Geeeral at Bristol, fig Mx MaiguY the Kiai
Portugal eel the Algarve& —Gliandk.
Tit': BOMOPille or GLOCCOSTKR.WHITZHALL,
Nov. 11. —The Queen her bees pleated to order a mks!
to pas, the greet peel, empowering the Dean and
Chapt•r of the cathedral church of Gloucester to elect a
bishop of the • ;loon. Vet and Mated, the game being
wool 11- the teoe.:etion .4 the Right Reverend Father in
God Cherie. l'rrio{, olortor in divinity, tote bishop thereof,
to the we of ; :11..1 bar /14k.1iV has al.° been plessed
to reenmnten,l to 1. e ~ellawn and chapter the Rev. Will-
liem Thistly, tttt ilowtoor ie .'11! Mitt'. to he by them elected
bishop of the sad we of tilowmtet sal BeistoL—Gautte.