The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 11.

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In the House of Lords, after a discussion of some
continuance, in which the Marquises of LAssuowse
and LONDONDERRY, Lords MONTEAGLE, STANLEY,
Furzwittissr, and Powis, and the Bishops of SALIS-
BURY, OXFORD, and BANOOR took part, the Bishop-
ric of Manchester Bill was read a second time. On
the motion of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, the report
of their lordships' select committee on railway bills,
similar in effect to that discussed in the House of
Commons, was considered and agreed to.
The House of Commons met at twelve o'clock, and
at once proceeded to disease the resolutions of the
select committee on railway bills. A division took
place on the third resolution, prohibiting the payment
of interest or dividend on calls, or any other power
of borrowing money, as regarded bills introduced in
the present session, Mr. B. DENISON proposing that
the regulation should only apply to future bills, and
not to those already before parliament, when the
original proposition was carried by a majority of 43,
the numbers being 70 to 27. The ether resolutions,
with certain amendments, were then agreed
to. On the motion of Lord M. HILL, a new
writ was ordered for Derby, in the room of
Lord Duncannon, now Earl of Beesborough.—Lord J.
RUSSELL, in reply to questions put by Mr. B. Os-
BORNE and Lord O. BENTINCK, stated that the go-
vernment had received no official information en
the subject, but it was possible, under the in-
structions given to Sir W. Parker to detach some
ships of war to the mouth of the Douro, with the
view of preventing vessels from leaving that river
for other parts of the west with troops on board,
that if the Conde Das Antes and his army bad em-
barked on board vessels at the disposal of the junta,
and forced the blockade, they might have
been made prisoners of war, as was alleged, by her
Majesty's ships. A statement of the capture had
appeared in the Moniteur, from which source, he
presumed, the hon. members derived their informa-
tion. A conversation, at the instance of Sir D. L.
EVANS, ensued, in reference to the difference in the
price of bread in London and in Paris, as compared
with that of wheat in the two capitals, after which
the adjourned debate on the 'abject of transportation
was resumed.—On the question of the committal of
the Prisons and Custody of Offenders Bills, the
rF were Mr. NEWDEOATE, Mr. MILNES, Mr.
M MILES, Sir R. INOLIS, Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr. C.
Buttes, Sir F. KELLY, and Lord J. RUSSELL. On a
division, the proposition of the government was
affirmed by a majority of 48; the numbers being 124
to 76. The house went into committee on the corn
and navigation laws, when Lord J. RUSSELL pro-
' posed resolutions for the further suspension of these
laws until the Ist of March, 1848 ; which were
to, and leave given to bring in bills founded
%13.re:odn, accordingly.

THE official letters, which passed between di-
plomatists on the subject of Spanish affairs, repre-
sent matters in a very different light from the pelf-
constituted organs of the British government. These
writers did not represent the armed intervention of
the three powers in Portugal as a wise and war-
rantable act, which they defend in itself, but as an
act forced on the British cabinet by the threats of
France and Spain to enter Portugal without Eng-
land's assent, and to restore absolutism. England, de-
' clue the Times and asronick, had no spirit or
means to resist or resent this menace, except by pre-
tending to join in it and execute it. Their
arguments for the policy of England and of Lord
PALMERSTON are simply ad misericordiam, the
wretch's plea. We were driven into a corner, and
coerced, they say. And what we did do, wu not the
best or most honourable conduct to pursue; but it
was all that ministers durst do, and on these grounds
they crave of parliament to be indulgent and to grant
a kill of indemnity.
We are much pleased to see, that the official cor-
respondence is very far indeed from showing this
view to be correct, very far from assuming this mean
and deprecatory tone, or of representing such
" flunkey" policy as suitable to the interests or dignity
of Great Britain. On the contrary, the official
correspondence not only proves that the English
cabinet did not submit to such unworthy fears and
unwarrantable menaces, bat that it defied them, and