The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

title of that =simulcast MIL He trusted that re moth No the
exhibition. this year was over, the wood work would be
mend, admit the ball which was raw* better worth wt
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than anything that kid been exhibited in it—(heir hi
should no looser be concealed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mid
seed not give an answer ; and hie noble triend the Misr
Comadetheer of Woods and Forests, who would do so, wee
net is the house.
AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL.—(ADJOURNED
TR.)
Mr. BORTHWICKPt on May 23 he had ming *
qpnoliis of the noble IMP for Foreleg wee
ethsthae tt eth haliallia al itfatari ranee. asthiligllnil
la latereme la the Wake of Peetrepl cm the fointhiliatt
Sr of the
he
aims% sad, antidgelig •
answer, he put a further qthellea as to thr theme
le whisk inerhawnee would M andeadwill_ by oar
Win the first guides the wide lid repli2=
intheithethe weld be adeplai bawl me the quill
mousses{ nth to the ewe( be replied that, in the
era WO et sins, he anti met newer it felligabc
IMO *a int WNW midi be the leftoftho
and the awe thst ef tin BOW eses. The .
sweat* seenhat ibma passaged to anntala of the
IMO ef tins With WA elapsed bin the inlawaten
ens athothel. apthethal *at lt wail have ban nen
ainmelagemee he diussned the gartion
the eighths el the *mei would have bad a asete
Ant them vow, tad be cited the course pewee
owalug i UM, whim we interfered in Ponied. the *ben
Wig Pen within 24 hours after the meow hue lbe
theern ea the subject. The hon. member this melegialeed
is the welded state in which the despatches bed been laid
b thus house, and next proceeded to chanatedse the
falaribeenie of this country in Portugal as a dagent
nola-
tin of Mir& liberty, for the assistance of a than with
wYi the Queen of that country was not really egeortated.
le my weed contained in the despatches of the mottle lord
at the head of Foreign Affair he (Mr. Borthwick) agilely
etheerred, sad thought that by the volume on the table the
nab Ind bed made • valuable addition to the diploma
*this 'gantry, Still he could not resew& the
asilliVethe amble Lad with his words. With regret to the
swish std. wait Ind the member for the eityol Load"
the melds lid bed arrived at conclusions WU* tare met
berth eat by the bean The noble lord had spina is the
'shrines of the eerie= idiom of Miguelitee, of &Owes. sea
ofthe whin and torryyparWsin Portugal, but the peb eflfeete-
gal answered by deelanleg that ail party distinetkenthel bun
thrown amide, and that they were now • mind
He (Me. Bortbwick) had no sympathy withthiteethe=
Miguel, but he contendedthat cause, be it geed sr be it bed,
was not in the slightest degree mixed up with the ammo of
the junta. The junta had drawn the sword not nen lithe
Mortise of the people than for the cause of the thane, sad it
use most unjust to charge the junta with being asteated by
why holing of disloyalty. On the contrary, theta roam.
Mum from the beginning to the end, declare that their
hat war wee to resit the faction which on the in. had led be.
trayed the Queen, and on the other had oppss the people.
All the declarations on the part of the sees tineertheat
proved their adhesion to the Queen, and they wen fen
from any M' Lelia leaning, which existed only in the Ina-
gination of Costa Cabral. It had been said by the male
lord at the bead of the government that the recast hare-
Tendon had secured to the Portuguese people a eamdatetiessi
government and the charter of 1826. But the wide led
must know how that constitution had Deem mailliled and
garbled, to such an extent that it gave now oily the hat of
• constitution, and tyranny in the was of Illsety. With all
the ie (keine of this gennuanat at Lisboa mad*, non then
• promise could be 410111111 from the theses in inner
of the Tones Vedras prisoner, who, he was infinesth bed
actually ben sent to Angola in a ship met mthaleeed is
contain half the number. Mr. Southern's rathethertee bad
bad no effect; in fact, he had been deceived by the false
promise of a change in their destination; and we were
afterwards told that the very reason why justice could not
be done these men was, because England had caked it
(Hear, hear.) It was makes to way that the Liberees of the
Portuguese people were seemed by the charter; it bad
been tried already, and under it the greatest despotism
and tyranny had been exercised. (Hear, hear.) When
the prisoners of St. Julien, three thousand in number,
were delivered up to the Portuguese government, was it not
probable they would share the fete of the Torres Vedras
prtioners It was said they would be set at liberty ; but
what security was there for this ? What security had we,
after all, that tranquillity would be restored ? He knew that
Dam Antes had never received any notice of a eons belli, nor
had he ever been warned that, on passing the bar, he would
be aytaed.. It war true that Col. Wylde, whose every set
had atlapMiped a decided partiality for the opposite faction,
bed, en the lot of May, declared his intention to protect the
Qua; but this surely could not be done in pur-
mom of a treaty signed only on the 27th of May.
It we CAM that Col. Wylde bed made an inaccurate rem-
ethletith of his powers, for the primes of deceiving Da
Amin ad bad indulged in • threat, emesseptible in its
eltensest, and false la foundation. The melds lord at the
bead "Ms gewmatamt had ands& to the revolution in this
ea entry la 11r, Whom the people of England called in
WAIL= ef Clespuse ; bust what wenn wen thin between
that neat ad the awn essessemeas hi Pasemploulmea the
reigning new* Walled is Snip sediansee spirt kw
people? The noble Ind alluded to out laterthrenue as to
Belgium, but there the people rose against their therreign,
and they triumphed, and there was no wag ft all be
tween the two cases The noble lord had also mil that he
hoped the interference in the affairs of Portugal weal prove
as successful am it had done with reference to Spea. If the
reaults were the same, he could only say that thin would
not be • town in Portugal which would net bo Wined with
blood—there would not a province in width weld
be said to have a settled habitation—there weusY met be en
hour in which the queen of that whappy eremsy Nell be
said to sit firmly on her throne, and Is iL inents end par-
poses Portugal would soon be analhilatel from mese the
great family of European nations. (Hear, hear.) For
five centuries she had been our faithful illy, and
when all Europe, ay, even Spain herself, was against us,
Portugal had stood firmly to her alliance. (Hear, hear.)
But that alliance had always been, and should still be, be-
tween the two states, and there could not have been, us the
noble lord bad supposed, a virtual alliance between Great
Britain and Cabral if we bed abstained from iotermeddling.
Ilia convictioa was that the end of this interference must be
one of two things: either the establishment of • republic'
and the destruction of the crown which we had been endea-
vouring to support; or, the absorption of Portugal by Spain,
en object which England for centuries had been trying to
prevent. He would put aside the blue-book and the treaties
which had been laid on the table ; and on the ground of
common sense, in the name of humanity, and of Portuguese
liberty, call upon the noble lord at the bean of the foreign
department to vindicate this exception from the general
rule which had guided our foreign policy. He asked him to
show why the Queen of Portugal was more sacred than any
other tyrant, that we should have taken her part against the
liberties of her people? (Hear.) Was it we had
deposed another tyrant from the *vow of Portugal
before, and the present one was our pet leas whom
oi we
were dsmnethed to maintain eaten teen • el chivalry
than semi alstemanhip ? (He e, hew)) The gentle-
man proceeded to contend that our Nthrimmuit lathe ants
of Portugal meld virtually sanction the endan of Loth
Philippe with rellarenee to Spain—that it wee maul to the
intermatlemal law—that the prisons onii
eon won wined, la entody—and tint we bad Wm=
then a the ellestieues of the people_ of Penn*. *Meg
*elated the awing Akan Wait leed inbasi between the
two slew, bombe siggied the viewless of the wasstry,
deenoyed Qe ltheetiss -el her people laid the femadethem of
thane roped_, sad insmicebly injured the peathen of
Nmeepeam_peagn_(Hest, hear.)
Yr. MIMES said there were two quintlems reined by
the was is he.. washer for ideate—ere, that the
gnenweat lad blinheed, to the dishawat of the British
wow w poach r awn st dimpsden k Portugal ; and
the ~, tht inienandia of amp Idol be the civil affairs of
soother maths we. milisidoeses awl amwarreatable end
the able end WissedWed at the hen. 'plumber far
Emir= mad yto the led quoin& It WWI
ani,bwriver, itadf; fir the
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met have timed be *ample We liberty Le v: y.sl pet
nth. glebe within stensiag the *Memnon of the
Sea eme and at the MO= to the ether. (Halt:=7.l
The panel uppedin we. net merely aPortuiczkuwellem ;
it we enpeem ignestion, in the
serainnethe W In eke purpose el teetering taantal=a
as alkali, of Waal They inlisfind on new speed
apes IMsediemth inespostin of either of the emeMsellag
peen la Pen opt, bat teem that Ina swan the Wean
of the dues* sad the sahty of the sales* It we mid
rat they WI wk the weed of the theism of Parnell fat
time nebisemm* OMNI IMOUIII4 sal boa. esserala 81111•1111
to to *at wad with dendea. (Wear, basal=
if the semellemehni party ought an to be
with the weed el **thrum pledged to BmOned,wmallthey
be *nee eff if England bad sot iaterfered,sadol owed Spin
and Fasols Interfere ? But it was said that the principle
of intermission was unwarrantable; that there wee • awn.
diedia *twoom the weeds of the noble lord (Palmerston) ste
=the deepatelsa and his subenneet ado. He (Yr.
) weld net Ind that the sable Iced lad kid it dein
anywhere, that the principle of interrentith was be be *-
violable, even when the quetion was merely esmuthaticmal,
and not dynes*. The Idiguelite movement be was act dis-
cposed to pay math regard to ; might not en imposeible
ontingessy that Don Miguel pear on the new
after both patties in Portugal had exhausted then
strength, and it was the duty of the noble lard to
confider the pordbility of with an event. It might he
that after all puce would not be partathently seethed
to Portugal, but the noble lord would have the abbe en
of feeling that he hod does flee the bust, and that the
blame and responsibility of the Ware would belong to
others The hon. member fix Wycombe (Mr. Osborne)
had imputed this interference to buck stairs iaillasees. That
charge be thought answered itself, for he did net believe that
any government, however composed, would dam to allow
considerations of court favour or intrigue to warp national
feeling. He trusted that the family osmosis% sub-
sisted -between the crowns of England and P0,141.124* be
looked upon as a security that the throne of Portugal
would for the future act on such wise and enethatinel
principles as would enable the country which she governed
to devote Itself to the arts of peace, and to the spreading of
that commerce which once made her famous unapt the
nations of Europe. (Hear, hear.)
Lord J. MANNERS thought that the noble lord the
member foe London had not succeeded in establishing say
of the peeiticre which he laid down, namely, that the in-
terior of Portugal, the interests of England, or the interests
of Nuropeen pesos, required the. intervention of this
eimatry. It was admitted that the principle of intervention
was not justifiable, except under extraordinary and peculiar
eireanntaneee. New, he was prepared to show that there
were no such peculiar circumstances in the present instance.
What had been the result, after twelve years of interference
in the affairs of Portugal ? An oppre.sc,l, exasperated, and
ruined penalty ; • prosecuted, alietated, and disgusted