The Express.
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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 20.
POLITICAL events in Portugal are more than usually
important at the present moment. They not only
affect that kingdom, but Spain also, and oar relations
with the government at Madrid. What those rela-
tions are likely to be, does not at present appear either
clear or certain. If we acquiesce in, or even limit
ourselves to passive and courteous protests against, the
marriage of the Infante, it is possible that the govern-
ment of Madrid, and that of France influencing it,
may take some pity on the forlorn condition of English
influence in the Peninsula. Both cabinets, in that case,
may employ every means to conciliate England, and
prevent her extending her countenance to the Libe-
rals. How fully the most sagacious of the
British public are aware of this, is ev:-
dent from the announcement that delegates
from the Society of Spanish Bondholders in London
were about to proceed to Paris to supplicate the King
of the FRENCH and M. GUIZOT to make use of their
powerful influence, in order that some justice might be
done to British creditors at Madrid.
Should, however, the British Government remain
indignant with both the allied courts ; should it con-
tinue to preserve an attitude of alienation and mis-
trust ; this, alone, cannot but have the effect of
kindling hope in the bosom of the liberal party
throughout the Peninsula, and of encouraging it not
only to plan and to seek redress, but to recover, if that
be possible, the national liberties. Unfortunately the
gagging of the press simultaneously in Madrid and
Lisbon leaves the liberal constitutionalists no chance or
mode of resisting, except by violence. Insurrection
alone is left them, and insurrection will no doubt be
planned, if not accomplished. In this state of things,
the attitude of Portugal and the colour of its govern-
ment are most important. If a liberal party prevailed
at Lisbon, Portugal would infallibly be the resort of
Spanish liberalism, and the basis of its operations. It
was therefore of vital importance to the French party
in the Peninsula to overturn the liberal government
which had existed for the last few months in Lisbon,
and which, though far too much occupied with self-pre-
servation to think of proselytising Spain, nevertheless
caused infinite disquiet to the triumvirate of Onus-
TINA, BRESSON, and ISTURITZ.
The French, indeed,were already quite assured of the
sentiments of the court of Lisbon, where the King and
Queen were devotedly attached to the party of the
Moderados, and to the councils of France. But these
royal personages, well-advised, bore with their liberal
ministers until such time as these should have filled
the measure of their difficulties, pecuniary and of other
kinds. The court of Lisbon, moreover,waited to see the
result of the struggle going on at Madrid ; a struggle
of France supported by the Spanish military party,
against England supported by the national and liberal
party among the Spaniards. Should the latter have
prevailed, and should the power of France at Madrid
have received a check, then it would have been extreme-
ly imprudent of the court of Lisbon to defy the liberals
and establish a government repressive of constitutional
liberty, like that of Spain. Queen MARIA DA GLORIA
and her husband, with their intimate counsellor,
M. Dim, seem to have awaited the certainty of the
MONTPENBIER marriage. The moment they were
snared of that, they summoned the Marquis of
PALMELLA; turned out him and his liberal col-
leagues; proscribed the press; recalled the decree for
enrolling the national guard; annulled the elections
in progress for the Cortes; put the meeting of that
body off to the Greek Kalends, or till such time as it
could be packed as a court committee ; and, in short,
aid all that NARVAEZ and CHRISTINA have done in
Madrid, minus the spilling of blood;—which extremity,
to do the Portuguese justice, they commonly avoid.
Many Englishmen may, however, by this time,
have come to care very little for the liberties of the
Peninsulas ; and may limit their anxiety to the in-
quiry, which party is in possession of most financial
resources, and which is moot likely to do justice to
the national creditor. On this point we must con-
fess that the anti•liberals, or the moderados, as they
call themselves, seem to bear away the palm. They
appear more determiued to raise a sufficient revenue ;
sad relying as they do on the army, which receives
the greater part of the taxes raised, whilst
the liberals depend almost solely on the tax-
payers, these Peninsular Tories are thus enabled
to make a far better hand of their exchequer than
their antagonists the exaltados. MON has estab-
lished and enforced throughout Spain a most stringent
system of direct taxation. CABRAL in Portugal was
equally merciless. But the soil which the latter
reaped, was not 53 f..-rtile for the financier's sickle.
CABRAL fell by a rustic insurrection against his tax-
gatherers ; and the government which has sow
assumed power in Lisbon promises not to resort to
the obnoxious levies. But how are they to be
avoided? The bunk refuses payment; credit is ex-
hausted. The new revolution has been effected as

usual by large promotions, which add to the expenses
of the army ; and by the raising of new corps of loyal
yeomanry to replace the national guard. Money
. must be had, therefore, by some legerdemain. And
the day must come, for Portugal at least, when it
will be discovered that the more able the financier in
raising funds, the nearer does the court party reach