The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, APRIL 20.
The foreign diplomatic corps at .Madrid his been
considerably scandalized by the extraordinary eir-
eutnstances of neglect .attending the funeral of the
Neapolitan Minister, Marquis of Riatio Sforza.
The Marquis de Turgot had the .ordering of the
ceremonial, and eavo due and timely notice to all.
whom it could be supposed to concern. Notwith--
standing this, not one of the Ministers, not a single
high funetionary of the Palace, with the excep-
tion of old General San Miguel, captain of the
halberdiers,- paid to the dedeased diplomatist that
compliment which in this country 'is looked upon
almost as a rigid duty. The Ministers were not
even represented. An officer present was pointed
out as an aide de camp of Narvaez, but proved to
be one of the staff of the Captain General of
Madrid ; Senor Pidal's absence (although as minis-
ter of foreign affairs he might have been expected
to attend) is accounted for, by his unconquerable
sluggisbness—but he might have sent his subaltern
Senor Cuete, who, however, was nowhere to be
seen. The Duke of Bailen, High Chamberlain of
the 'Palace, endeavoured to excuse himself to M
Turgot, after the funeral, by saying that he had
not received the announcement in tinie to attend,
but this was a very igme excuse, the formal notice
having been delivered at his house in 'the after
noon of the day previous to that of the cere-
mony. With a very proper feeling of offence'
at the extraordinary slight ' offered to' the
foreign Ministers in the person of one of their
number—and that one the
.representative of a
Sovereign who 'is the Qneon's own, uncle-=M
Turgot gave_the Chamberlain plainly to. under-
stand what* he thought of the whole proceeding.
As not the shadom of a reason can be conjectured'
to exist for putting an affront either on the memory
of the deceased Marquis, who was by no means
unpopnlar here, or on the Corps Diplomatique;or
least of all, on th'e Xing of Naples, who 'is
,just
now held up at the Palace as the model of sage and-
independent Sovereigns, this strange and general
negleet can be-attribu'ed only to gross carelessness
and to indifference. to common couitesy I believe
that this is the feeling of fereign diplomatists here,
and it is said that M. Turgot intimated something
of the kind to the Duke of Bailen, and added..
that if _he (the Duke) or one of, his colleagues,
Were to die, the foreign Ministers would certainly
not pay him the compliment of attending his
interment. - •

The Queen's non-appearance in public is tx-
plained by the injunctions of her medical attend-
ants, Who, in consequence of the interesting'
situation in Which they. beli6ve her to be,' have
prohibited carriage exercise for the preSent.
It appears that the final decision came to by
Espartero's friends, with respect to his manifesto,
is not to publish it, becauie they believe that they
could, not do so with safety. It is not improbable
that, if the Government were Spoken to on the
subject, it would agree to wink at the publication ;
but it is considered that a promise of that kind
would be poor security against persecution if tho
doeumerit attracted attention, and produced an
effect on the public; and 'that in suet). case (and
notwithstanding Ministerial .assurances of tolera::
tion), EEpartero might possibly be 'arrested, and
,brought to trial, as Prim has li!iely been.
. Tbe Three per Cents. were done at 40.30 ; ditto,
.Deferred, .25 95. •