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LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 26.

IN the House of Lords, yesterday, there being no
public business before it, Lord STANLEY gave notice
that he should this day ask her Majesty's ministers
what course they intended to pursue with reference
to the public business of the session in their lordships'
house.

In the House of Commons, Mr. S. CRAWFORD
obtained leave, and brought in a bill, the object being
to secure the rights of occupying tenants in Ireland,
and thereby to promote the improvement of the soil
end the employment of the labouring classes. On
the motion of the same hon. member, the Poor Rates
(Ireland) Bill was read a second time, which proposes
to enact that the rates payable by landlord and tenant
shall be separated ; that each shall be separately
liable for payment ; and that when a landlord neglects
to pay, a receiver may be appointed by the Court of
Chancery to collect the rates on his estate. The other
business done was merely of a routine character.

PUNISHMENT has not been long in overtaking the
perpetrators of the Spanish marriages. That achieve-
ment was a source of great triumph to the French
court but a few weeks back. Its journals sung Frans
without relaxation; and M. Guizov proclaimed the
feat, even if dishonourable, both glorious and righteous,
because it was a triumph over "perfidious Albion."
The print of these self-panegyrics is scarcely dry,
and already French minister and monarch are forced
to invoke the fulfilment of those treaties which they
have torn, and of that power which they overreached
with such art and spurned with such contumely. The
throne of Portugal totters. It is no longer menaced
by a mere radical faction, which might be admitted
to office at some short and temporary inconvenience.
It is DON Micum. himself and absolutism, into whose
arms the persecuted and disgusted liberals have
flung themselves, that threaten the constitutional
throne of DONNA MARIA, and the dynasty of the
CoBUROS.

The Queen of PORTUGAL and her consort, in acting
upon the policy which has thus placed every eminent
Portuguese, and every citizen in the country, against
them, have been guided by French councils. Tuiglimb .
advice both Queea and King have vehemently
spurned. Their complaints and fears, therefore, are
now despatched to King LEoroLD of Belgium and
Louis PHILIPPE of France. King LEOPOLD has
hurried to Paris ; and both potentates are sorely
grieved at the prospect of Don Mtour.t's being
welcomed back to Portugal by the citizens, the
army, and the aristocracy ! The King of the FRENCH
may care little for the dynasty of the COBUROB:
but the dethroning of Donna MARIA by Don MIGUEL
would be merely the prelude to the dethroning of
Queen ISABELLA by the Count MONTEMOLIN ; and if
so, adieu all the brilliant prospects of the MONTPEN-
BIER succession.
England, therefore, is supplicated to interfere, to
renew and act upon the Quadruple Alliance, and to
stretch forth her puissant arm to save the poor Queens
of the Peninsula. To do LOUIS PHILIPPE justice,
he had not the effrontery himself to make such a
demand of England, or to invoke the Quadruple
Alliance in a little month after he had converted it to
his own exclusive family profit.
But what the King of the FRENCH could not with
any decency ask, the King of the BELGIANS has
undertaken to solicit. His couriers arrive one after
the other, and his royal letters of supplication arc
addressed not only to ministers, but to the Queen, ..,...,
the Prince, and every one of influence in the court, r.l. me
the cabinet, or the parliament. We are not aware
of the reply of our ministers. But were we to judge O4
from the anxiety of diplomatists, we Should /r_ V
dessio
say, that the English Cabinet, however - to xi
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