The Express. — 1851-05-15 (London, England)

LISBON, DI.+T 9.  Portugal now reaps the misery of the former intervention of the three powers in its internal affairs, without ever having enjoyed any benefit from an act which enabled the intriguing coterie at the palace to prepare the way for the return of the Count de Thomar to power; and it is not a little remarkable that, in one of the stormy debates which preceded the present rising, he boasted that, while he was supported by the army and the people, he should not yield office to any one. He deceived himself, for he never had the support of either army or people; he neutralised the hostility of the former to him, by having officers appointed to the command of divisions, garrisons, forts, and regiments, who were for the most part his creatures; and he stifled the complaints of the people by similar appointments to the civil governorships and magistracy, and establishing a sort of 1 reign of terror. The latter was certainly the case in the districts where the assassins, Datalha and Marcel, were located, and who while they rendered service to Thomar by murdering all who had any political enmity to him, until they in turn fill beneath the venimance they themselves had provoked. The movement of Saldanha, however, enabled the army and the people to fraternise, and both alike to declare their antipathy to the Court. Had, however, the intervention not taken place, the popular party would have succeeded in their enterprise, a law would meet certainly have been passed, banishing the Cabraes. The Queen would have been in the enjoyment of a quiet and not perturbed reign, and no thoughts of her abdication would have been conceived by any one, but now that the country has groaned four years more under misrule, having had a Corte!, not elected, but nominated; majorities obtained in both chambers by every reprehensible means; the charter set aside and the will and command of individuals' only considered; the desired vengeance of a certain person so manifest as almost ready to break out into acts of intemperate fully, not to say madness; there appears nothing in the prospect, no hope of permanent peace without a temperately advised and prudently peaceable abdication. This alone it is that will save the country from the deluge of blood, which an obstinate spirit, aided by Machiavelian preparation', may yet bring upon it—and the necessity of abdication is now being resounded from ass end of the country to the other. I will now, however, proceed to continuous Miens of the progress of the movement (which can so longer be called a matt) babes I make any farther remarks upon the Wings of the people. The let and dth Camden' having ended, mashed ape. Guards, when they were joined by the 12th infantry, Cacadores, and Bth Cavalry. Saldanba, who had gone to Braga, to which place the 7th Cacadores bad marched to job] him, proceeded immediately to Oporto, whieh he entered on the 28th ult. AU accounts agree in stating that no hero ever entered any place more triumphantly ; he was met on the road a considerable distance from the town by a numerous cavalcade, and the crowd wee so dense that they frequently obstructed the cortege. At Lima he alighted from a metier, and domed; and when be entered the town, the " Mem" wore deafening ; the windows to the highest stories crowded with speetaten,and ornamented with c,lsssa silk drapery, and thousands afar hands employed in waving their white ►aadkerthish la welcoming the noble Team. All party distinction was Lid aside, and the service he wee now seadering his country only thought of. What • coot:sat to the pawing through the streets of lAMBI of a lady, apes wham all backs are turned. Of the Count de Canal, it is said, be fled shainefelly, but is known to be concealed within the dty, In hopes of a reaction. His hostility to Saldanlm and his subserviency to the Thomar bane''. has, it is monied, been tested, by hie ,1 having put lima at the bend et a small body of esyslry, and gene to • Quints, whose Saldenha was eapposid to' have hem welds/ the Oporto rising, with a view to have taken bin prismsr et killed Ms. Had Camel taken him prisoner, In was le bare bean mascot to owe of the