The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

intercourse with those who for the six months
may be in oiliest, and that it cannot be considered surprising
if he keeps up habits of intimacy with the thirty-seven
ministers of foreign affairs besides the one in °Moe, or the
twentr.nine espresidenta of the council, which were in
habits of personal intercourse with him. (" Hear,
hear," and laughter.) I really feel, after the manner in
which this question has been discussed, and after the small
difference of opinionou the material points which has prevailed
that 1 may leave the matter in the hands of the house, little
doubting how it will dispose of the question. (Hew, hear.)
lint, if any responsibility attaches to any person, I am ready
to take on myself that responsibility which it is my duty and
my desire t i take on myself. (Hear, hear.) It seems to be
the opinion of all that no blame attaches to Sir H. Bulwer
for his conduct on tale oceadon. If that be so I was right in
approving of it also ; but if any censure is due, if any error
was committed, on me let the judgment of the house fall, and
on me let the responsibility rest. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HUME said he hoped, after the debate which they
had heard, that the motion would be withdrawn. (Hear,
hear.) He entirely approved of the conduct of Sir H. Bul-
wer, as far as the documents enabled them to judge, and he
considered that the Spanish government were guilty of the
greatest ingratitude towards this country. He hoped the
noble lord would take warning teem this, and would not in-
terfere any more in the affairs of foreign countries. (Hear.)
Mr. URQUHART expressed his intuition of supporting
the motion oft • hon. member for Dorsttsbire.
Mr. BANKES declined to divide the house, and the
motion was negatived.
The house adjourned at &quarter past 1.

ELECTION COMMITTEE—YESTERDAY.
Dunum.—The set utiny was continued. Two votes
were objected to, but the committee decided that they should
remain on the poll.

Zile erpreoo.

MAILS,

The Mat for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the morning of the 7th June.
The overland clewed malls, Maneilles, to the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Celine, India, llong-bong, Sec., will be made up on the
evening of the 7th June.
The meta for British North America, and the United State.,
will be made up au the evening of the 9th June.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Name; Havanna,
llondurae, New Weave, Vera Ceoz, Tampion, and Porto Rion, and
including those for Madeira, Jaernel, Carthage et, Santa Martha,
Chagree, Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. J usn.de.
Nicaragua, will be made up on the mining of the lith June.
The overland mails foe Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian blends,
Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong-Kong, and China, via Southern'•
ton, will be made up on the morning of the 20th Jane.
The mails for New South Wides, Van llieman'a 'sad, and New
Zeeland will be made up on the evening of the 30th June.
The roans for the Weal Coast of Africa and Madeira will ,be made
up on the ovening of the 30th June.
The nude for the Brasile, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam-
buco. Bahia, Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
evening of the 4th July.

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Meriting POll, ALL PUT TOORTHEIt.
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Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS 778.714
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LONDON. TUESDAY. JUNE 6.

WE were very silly to have been in any pain for
Lord PALMERSTON or Sir HENRY HULWER. they
were last night, indeed, brought out for execution,
as interesting criminals are treated upon tbo stage, not
only to be spared the axe, but complimented, crowned
with flowers, and paraded like heroes. Mr. HANKER
enacted the part of executioner on the occasion. He spoke i
very loudly and very solemnly,was very awful, at least
in the way of dulness. Fiercely did he wave his
wooden sabre over the head of the Foreign Secretary,
hut, after all, it was not h!ii intention to slay. On
the contrary, he handed over his victims to Mr.
Disitsvii, who burnt all manner of incense before
them, and performed a kind of apotheosis of Lord
PALMKRsTON, Sir H. IlutwEtt, and their policy.
The fact is, the debate was not a serious one. And
of those who joined in it not one seemed to have a
Meter or more serious object than to make a speech.
Mr. HANKER evidently knew as much of Spain as of
I Kamchatka ; he talked of the Cortes, of its majori-
ties and its liberal measures, and he expatiated on the
, sensitive nature of the 11,,Ae of SOTOMATOR, for NA hose
I delicate and offended nerves he demanded respect and

reparation.
Mr. Snell., on the other side, did the indignant.
SOTOMATOR, who was a mild innocent in the por-
traiture of Mr. B %NICER, was a fierce Saracen in the
representation of Mr. SHEIL. With him Great Britain
was the disinterested saviour of Spain, and had
rescued it from the Carlists, from pure love of the
beaux yeux of the young Queen.
This romance of Mr. SHEIL'S was fully taken Ld-
vantage of afterwards by Mr. DISRAELI, who be-
mocked England as Quixotic, and as playing knight-
errantry in favour of mere romantic theories. Neither
of these gentlemen could think of stooping to a little
humble truth. The fact is that England was not so
very disinterested in stepping forward to the recogni-
tion and the support of ISAREL. The government of
1834 was disinterested enough for honourable purposes.
But it was not, as Mr. DISRAELI represented it,
merely carried away by a poetic love of freedom, or
an abstract admiration of constitutional systems. From
1820 to 1830, England, thrown out of the Holy
Alliance, deserted by France, Austri ), and Spain,
saw all Europe united in an absolutist league against
her—a league that threatened seriously the power,
interests, and peace of this country.
This menacing league of despotism was broken by
the fall of CHARLES X. England, even under the tories,
hailed the opportune conversion of France to free go-
vernment and liberal ideas. To complete this, by
rescuing Spain from the sceptre and the
cause of absolutism, was a great object, and
was eagerly seized. For this in fact liberal-
ised the west, and formed a league of free
states on the Atlantic to be opposed to the
absolutist courts of the east and centre of Europe.
Mr. DISRAELI is utterly mistaken when he styles
this a substitution of philosophical principles for
political interests. This was our true political
interest, and as such was supported by Lord PAL-
MERSTON and the liberal party. The liberal
party is now contented with the part it
played, and the aims which it achieved. Teat
liberal policy which Mr. DISRAELI denounces has
attained its object. It has not only rescued the states of
the west of Europe from absolutism, but has dissolved
absolutism itself. For Austria and Prussia, and
the Italian states, are undergoing that process, that
break-up of despotism, which Spain under went eight( en
years ago.
But the liberals of England who then re-
commended and pressed that degree of interference
which was indispensable for the nascent liber-
ties of Europe, now deprecate and denounce
interference of any kind, because, in fact, the ,
liberties of neither Spain nor Europe require it. Free-
dom on the continent is no longer newborn. It is
not a child in leading-strings. It is full grown, and
promising, and strong—can battle its own way, and
ineteadof requiring our constant interference and sup-
port, rather takes offence at it. Let us leave liberty,
to itself, then, in Spain as elsewhere.
That is what the liberals would impress upon the
government. They have no wish to be hard upon
Sir HENRY BtLWER: and although they may not go
the length of Mr. DISRAELI'S panegyric, they applaud
the manliness of Lord JOHN RUSSELL in supporting
him. Neither do they wish to be hard upon
Lord PALMERSTON. On the contrary, they
join Mr. DISRAELI in ample gratitude for a host of
bold and liberal acts of that minister. Their ad-
miration is, however, not that of Mr. DISRAELI. The
member for Buckinghamshire deprecates the Quad-
ruple Alliance as sentimental and philosophical, whilst
he lauds the intervention in Syria as "practical."
Now we take a very contrary view, and consider the
quadruple alliance practical, at least for the time
when it was framed, whilst the intervention in Syria
strikes us much in the light of a volume of Mr.
DISRAELI'S "Tencred," as fine, visionary, and untrue.
Another mistake of Mr. DISRAELI was his accu-
sation of our liberal counsels in Spain " having dimi-
nished the prosperity and deteriorated the condition of
the people." The first Spanish traveller he meets can
inform Mr. DISRAELI that the very contrary is the
fact, and that Spain is no longer to be recognised,
such has been its progress and improvement since
1831, despite the effects of civil war and defective go-
vernment.
In our sweeping condemnation of the unreality
of the debate and its speeches we must ex-
, cept that of Lord JOHN Rt:SSELL, which fully cap-
tivated the adhesion of the house. The manner in