The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-19 00:00:00

not exactly the moat politic step to take at a time
when thealliance of France and Russia was • possible
recurrence.
Although the Commons would not commiserate the
fee of Cracow, the Lords went into the question of
the civil war, in Portugal. Lord LANSDOWNE made
the important menace, that in case of • Miguelite
inarrection being likely to succeed, Great Britain
wad probably interfere.
Lord ABERDEEN was evidently angered by such an
announcement, though he did not question either its
eight or its expediency. He merely hinted that the
British government had been accused of favouring
the liberals who had risen against the Queen. Now,
we can assert, from our own information, that the
liberals also accuse the British government of having
ruined their cause and their enterprise.
The fact is, that we are striving to effect an utter
impracticability in Portugal, viz., tonupport the Queen
on her throne, and at the same time make her govern
constitutionally. Her Majesty will never do the
latter as long as she is assured of the former. And
thus we are engaged in doing with the one hand
what we are undoing with the other.

FRANCE PARISIAN Rumouwa. L'F.aprit
ha,- says, .• Rumours of diplomacy have caused great
fluctuations on the Bourse. A report being spread that
W. de Saint Aulaire bad been invited by her Majesty M a
dinner (which was never given), and that M. Ouizot had 1
been present at a ball given by the English Amb.isaador, the ,
Bonne rose immediately. But these rumours were soon ,
contradicted, and the decline was as sudden u the rise. ,
L' Union Mower/tiro thus speaks of an alliance between the '
house of Bourbon, exiled from Spain, and the Royal Family
of Rucland:—" Our London correspondent states that reports
are ow area of a marriage between Count de Montemolin
and the Paccess Mary, datighter of the Duke of Cambridge.
The only obstacle is the difference of creeds; but it is said
that this will be removed by the Princess becoming a
Catholic"
SLIZCRE OF BRAZILIAN VESEL.—We read in the
Constitutionet of Tuesday :—" The captains of the Brazilian
vessels seised on the coast of Africa, by the French cruisers,
acting in virtue of a treaty concluded with England to re-
place the right of search, addrereed us a letter some time
once which we published, in which they demanded a
speedy trial, which was most reasonable. We have received
another letter from them, in which they state that their
imprisonment is accompanied by the most severe treatment;
that the imprisonment Itself is prolonged beyond measure,
one of them having Wen now more than a year in the
bands of justice. They add, that their prison is unwholesome,
and that they are subjected to all sorts of privations. They
likewise energetically protest against the accusation of piracy
brought against them. These complaints are serious, and
we cannot refuse to make them public. We are not aware
lithe captains of all the vessels seised are slavers ; but if
their guilt WAS evide it would not tess be an abus to
keep them in prisonnt without a trial—supposehe l
they e
were
proved innocent? We doubt very much that the govern-
ment is in any great hurry to lay this matter be-
im a council of state. It is more than doubtful that this
assembly adopts the jurisprudence of M. Ouizot in matters
of piracy. It was far more easy to cause a docile majority
to vote the eonclu,ion of the treaty on the slave trade and
piracy, than it will be to make the council of state sanction
that monstrod.y. But the embarrassment in which the
Minister of Foreign Affairs finds himself is no excuse for
denying justice to men who, perhaps, are innocent. If M.
Ciskei is not led by a sentiment of equity and humanity to
expedite the trial of these ,risoners, he may, perhaps, think
that, en the midst of the political isolation en which his con-
duct has placed us, it is at least superfluous to alienate the
Bruits from us also."
RUSSIA.—Twe BALTIC PROTINCES.—The Berlin'
Vosaitehe Zeitung gives a letter from the Baltic provinces
complaining of the persecutions inflicted on the Lutherans.
Is some parts of Livonia many of them have been induced
to enter the ()reek church, the synod in Petersburg have
pronounced an anathema on a catechism of general and
liberal Christian doctrine, largely circulated in these pro-
vinces.
AMERICA.—The captain of the Columbine, which
arrived at Liverpool yesterday from Laguna, reports that
when he left (Dec. 28), it was under strict blockade by the
American squadron.