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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 20, 1847.

CABINET COUNCIL.

Summonses were issued yesterday front the Foreign
Office to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council
this (Saturday) afternoon, at three o'clock, at the
Foreign OffiCe:
The Lords met at Five o'clock.

In answer to the. Earl of ELLENnonotiart, it was an-
nounced by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE that •the cor-
respondence with the Government on the subject of
advances'lo• Indian railways would be laid before the
House as soon as it should be in a complete state.

Lord ASHBURTON then moved for various returns
relating to the Bank of England ; which, after a short
converation, was agreed to.
On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, it was ordered
that no Committee on a, Railway Bill should be ap-
pointed after the sth July.
The Earl of CLLRENDos then moved that the House
do resolve itself into Committee on the Sugar Brewing
Bill. •

Lord STANLEY would not have opposed the Bill if 'it
had been introduced as a temporary measure, but as
it was introduced as a permanent measure he should
move that it he'r4erred to a Select Committee.

EariThtvz thbught that his Noble Friend must, have
a very bad case indeed as he had throughout his speech
alluded to everthing but the question before the house.
The House' was' subsequently addressed by Lord
ASHBURTON, Lord MONTEAGLE, the Duke of Exit-
3tozirr, the Marquis of SALISBURY, Lord REDESDALE,
the Marquis of WESTMEATH, when their Lordships'
divided on tfie original motion, and there appea:red--

Contenti - ... ... ... 35 •
Non-contenig 27
'Majority
The 13111 then went through Committee without
amendment.
The'Distilling from Sugar Bill also passed through
Committee without amendment.
Their Lordships' then adjourned.
The Commons met at Four o'clock.
•

• The London (City) Small Debts Bill was read a
second time.

Mr. B. EscorT—gase notice. for Mr. ROEBUCK that
when the Landed Property (Ireland) Bill should be
brought under the consideration of the House, he should
move that any plan having fur its object the advancement
of loans to the Irish landed proprietors would be unjust,
unless the•same principle of taxation which was applied
fr.) the lauded proprietors of Great Britain was extended
to them.

Lord J. Ilussur, gave notice that he would, on an
early-dar,-bring in a Bill to alter the Constitution of the
cclesistical Commission.
Mr. LAnoucuEnE said. that the Government would
shortly introduce two.Bills.to amend the Irish Corpora-
tion.Aet. . .

. .
• In an-s;ei. to ,Mr. FORSTER, it was stated by Mr.
,LABOITCHERE, that. the _Government did not intend to
import any, more 11 x seed into Ireland.
On Pia motion for going into Committee on the
LThouring Poor Ireland Bill, the House was ad-
dressed bs Mr. Millie-, .Mr.-Dillon Browne, Sir B. Hall,
Colonel Verner, Labouchere, Mr. J. O'Connell,
Mr. H. Grattan, Mr. Roebuck, Lord J. Manners, Mr.
S. O'Brien, Mr. Shaw, and several other Hon. Members,
when the House went into Committee, the whole of
the clauses of the Bill were agreed to, and it was or.
dared to be reported on Monday.
The Ten Hours' Bill was read a second time.

Lord J. Buss Em. brought in the Poor-law Suspension
Bill, which was read a first time.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and, the House adjourned,at One o'clock.

Portugal king the theatre of civil war, a powerful
squadron of British vessel's is dispatched to Lisbon
and Oporto, andfat the same time, the Government of
this country intimates that England regards the revo-
lutionary contest now raging in the Peninsula with
the gtrlc.test neutralitY The apparent contradiction
of the moveinent and, the declaration is so remarkable,
that a question naturally arises as to the object of the
presence of a British fleet off the coasts of a kingdom
already .distraught -by the anxieties consequent upon
an insurrectionary armament. If we view the war be-
tween Queen MARIA DA GLonix and her people with
such impartiality and indifference, wherefore do our
line,of-battle ships. float in the bays of Portugal?
?,The inquiiy it --an 'obvious sequitur to the seeming
counter-mPvliwntan.cl counXer- statement of the Adrni-
Aistration. It was partially from solicitude on this point
and partially from sentiments of humanity that Lord
BuAustowr, on. Thursday evening, excited a discussion
'as to the conduct pursued by Great Britain towards
Portugal. in her ptesent state of embarrassment and
confusion. We are, from many considerations, grati-
fied that the Noble Lord brought the matter directly
under the scrutiny of the Legislature, and thereby
elicited froth the ,Marquis of LANSDOWNE an explana-
tion.so.peculiarly satisfactory. Whatever may have
been the impresldou -hitherto prevalent upon the
Peninsula'ai,to the'readiness of the British Govern-
ment• to side either with the Constitutional party or
with their opponents, 'those erroneous impressions
must now be dispelled by the explicit assurances of
'tie told President of the Council. Notwithstanding
tile • belligerent. character of our maritime ,power
in the• vicinity of I.4iskal and Oporto, there can no
lOngig be 4 questiOn that England is watching the
revolutionary conflict in Portugal with sentiments of
rigid neutrality, Or that the British fleet has
been dispatched to -that portion of Western Europe,
solely 'for the conservation of British interests and the
protection of British subjects. Beyond this ulterior
object our squadron is prepared to afford succour to
any inhabitant of Portugal, whether royalist or in-
surgent, when driven forth in the extremities• of
battle. . •

By this latter announcement we conceive that
peculiar force is imparted to the virtual entreaties of
Lord Beau SION; that the English Government
should male a representation to the Government of
the PortugueseSovEnaumi in respect to the atrocious
and despotic proceedings of that Government towards
the unfortunate' prisoners who surrendered at Tories

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