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London, England, 1848-04-26 00:00:00

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[PRICE e5Di,

men, :ore their hands were sio fully occupied as they
are at present, they were ever busy finding cut meanings
and mysteries in tho text of Shakspere, which perhaps
he himself never thought of.—(Cheers.) But do we not
keel every day that the most thrilling events of contem-
opforsahryaii:isipte ? wi io ecrrez:t concoctl
htetidethemselvesof i
,riiar seemsththease now associations
lettions
loose upon the plains of Lombardy, and are perhaps at
this moment breaking up )a the ramparts of Verona, at
least 7we may hope that the violence of opposing parties
may spare the tomb of Juliet. And Venice ; perhaps
in this country we do not care very much whether it is
a republic or an imperial fief ; but we should care very
much if we.thought that a man could no longer swim in
a gondola and " many a time and oft, on the
Rialto."—(Hear, and loud cheers.) And as for the
' Danes, although we ourselves have not been always
'quite regular with that nation, yet the thought of Hamlet,
the image of the " buried majesty of Denmark,"
,deeperis and enlists our sympathies with that gallant
people, and we should look upon it almost as a national
insult if armed invaders were to bombard the palace of
'_;lsinore.— (Cheers.) Am I not right, then, in saying
that there is hardly a mood of the mind or play of the
fancy, in circumstances of past events, which Shakspere
has not anticipated and has not chronicled ?—(Cheers.)
We are now living among and amidst the shock of
dynasties and the crash of empires. Has not Shakspere
portrayed to us signs of such great vicissitudes and
decays?
" Let us sit upon the ground
And tell stories of the fate of-kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war;
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
For within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king.
Keeps death his court; and there the antic sits
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp." whom I have now addressed,' and who have lis-
tened to me with such kind indulgence, I wish one and
all " better fortunes. May you long be where bells call
you to church, and may you long sit at good men's
feasts."—(Cheers.) I really think that after sitting and
talking of Shakspere, we can hardly Condescend to speak
of other names in the fields of national literature. After
the gentleman who has so eloquently submitted
to your notice the poets of England—now, gentlemen, I
am talking of politics again—(Laughter)--I intend to
insist upon the maxim, " Justice to Ireland"—(Loud
cheers)7—and with reference to the condition of that
country I must state that I am by no means a _Repealer,
and therefore I hope that you will consent to no separa-
tion between the poets of England and the poets of
Ireland.—(Cheers.) Mr. Hoskins, in giving you the
"Poets of England," headed them with a venerable
name—a name of one upon whose brow the bay leaf is
still green—but, gentlemen, let us not forget that we
have still living amongst us the poet Moore, upon whose
myrtle, perhaps, we do not find all the luxuriance of its
youthful prime; yet we may join in the hope that it may
be long gilded -with the mild and genial radiance of a
protracted sunset.—(Loud cheers.) With this hope I
beg to commend to your cordial acceptance the toast of
" Moore, and • the Bards of Erin." (His Lordship sat
down amidst reiterated cheers.)
Various other toasts were then drank, and the meeting
separated between eleven and twelve o'clock.

11 sub-festival took place at the Falcon Hotel, most
ably presided over by Mr. Urquhart, of Birmingham.
The toasts were, generally, those drank at the Hall; but
it is questionable whether the intellectuality and sociality
of the company were not superior.

SPANISH AFFAIRS.
The following diplomatic correspondence has taken
Place between the Duke of Sotomayor and Mr. Bul
wer, her Majesty's Ambassador at Madrid :
" To TEE RIGHT HON. HENRY LYTTON BULWER.
" ffirch 16, 1848. " Sizt,—l have to recommend you ce,
to M
a advise the Span-
ish. Government to adopt a legal and constitutional
system. The recent downfal of the King of the French,
and of his family, and the expulsion of his Ministers,
ought to indicate to the Spanish Court and Government
the danger to which they expose themselves, in endea-
vouring to govern a Country a manner opposed to the
opinions of the nation; and the catas-
trophe which has just occurred in France is sufficient to
show that even a numerous and well disciplined army
offers only an insufficient defence to the Crown, when
the system followed by the Crown is not in harmony
with the general system of the country.
", The Queen of Spain would act wisely in the present
critical state of affairs, if she were to strengthen her
Executive Government, by widening the bases on which
the administration reposes, and in calling to her councils
seme of the men in whom the liberal party pliiees
confidence. " I have the honour to be, &c.
" PALMERSTON."
" TO HIS EXCELEENCY THE MIKE DE SOTOMAYOR.
"English Embassy in Spain, Madrid, April 7,1848.
" Sir,—l inclose for your Excellency the copy of some
remarks which Lord Palmerston has lately addressed to
me; and I cannot but express to you all the desire which
I feel, that the Government of her Catholic Majesty
should deem it fit to return without delay to the ordi-
nary forms of the Government established in Spain, by
convoking the Cortes, and by giving them explanations
calculated to efface the impressions occasioned, both in
the kingdom and abroad, by the arrest and apparent
intention t banish severazens (amongst whom are
to be foundome of the most distinguished members of
the Cortes}, who up to the present moment have neither
been tried nor accused of any offence.
" Your Excellency will, I am sure, permit me to re-
mind you that what especially distinguished the cause of
Queen Isabella from that of her royal competitor, was
the promise of constitutional liberty inscribed on the
banner of her Catholic Majesty.
"It is certain that that circumstance powerfully con-
tributed to obtain the symyathy and support of Great
Britain in favour of her Majesty, and consequently your
Excellency cannot be surprised at the sentiments which
I express; here, supposing even that the general situation
of Europe, and the universal tendency of public opinion
did not prove most clearly, that at present the firmest
guarantees of a throne are to be found in the national
liberty, and in the enlightened justice which are dispensed
under its authority.
" I avail myself of this occasion to renew to your
Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration.
H•
L. BULWER
THL DUKE DE SOTOMAYOR"
TO. )V11: BULWER.".
" Ist Bureau of the Foreign Office, April 10, 1848.
" Sir,—l yesterday received, after two day's delay, a
note from your Excellency, dated 7th instant, and en-
closing a copy of a dispatch from Lord Palmerston, dated
the 16th ult., relative to the internal affairs of this coun-
try. That note was already known to the Government
of her Majesty, because it had appeared in substance and
by anticipation in an opposition journal, published at
Madrid under the title of the Clamor Public°, which,
judging from this fact, has the advantage of being made
acquainted with the diplomatic dispatches which your
Excellency addresses to the Spanish Government before
they reach their destination. Setting aside the ulterior
commentaries and the inductions which such a grave and
significative circumstance might present to me, I shall
t 0
00n with telling you what my duty prescribes
communications which you
transmit to me.
mteentonmythseelfsuect of the

" At the date of 16th of March last, when Lord Pal-
merston sent you his dispatch, the Spanish Cortes wore
sitting; the press was completely free, and the Govern-
ment of her Majesty had adopted a line of conduct full
of kindness and conciliation, which its enemies and its
adversaries themselves were compelle•l to admit. What
motive can therefore have induced the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of her Britannic Majesty to make him-
self the interpreter of the feelings and the opinions of
this country, awl that in an unfitting tone, when speak-
ing of the Government of an independent nation; to
recommend to its adoption legal and constitutional
measures, as if such was not the conduct followed in
Spain; to allow himself to advise it to modify the bases
of the administration, and to admit into the councils of
the Crown men belonging to such or such a political
opinion? •
"Certainly the Minister of her Britannic Majesty is
not, in such a work, the best possible judge of the cha-
racter and habits of Spain, whence order and institutions
arise, since foreigners take no active part in the manage-
ment of public affairs, and have to support no particular
party.

"The present Cabinet, which has merited, and which
still merits the entire confidence of the Queen and the
Cortes, and which since its accession to power has
governed conformably to the constitution and to the laws;
this Cabinet; I say, cannot see without the most extreme
surprise the extraordinary pretensions of Lord Pal-
merston, which leads him to interfere in this manner
with the internal affairs of Spain, and to support him-
self on inexact and equivocal data, the qualification and
appreciation of which cannot in any case come within
his province.
" The Government would have much to say to com-
pletely justify its past and present conduct ; but it does
not consider itself' called on to do so unless at the wish
of its Sovereign and the Cortes, and in no way at the in-
stigation of a foreign influence, which by that alone
would commit an offence against the dignity of the Go-
vernment and the independence of the nation. All the
legal parties in Spain unanimously reject such a humi-
liating pretension ; and the Spanish Government, in
now doing it,
is undoubtedly the legitimate representa-
tive of the general opinion of the country. What would
Lord Palmerston —would your Excellency yourself say—
if
the Spanish Government were to interfere and pass
an opinion on the administrative acts of the British
Cabinet, aad recommend a modification in the regime of
the state ; or if it. were to advise it to adopt more effi-
cacious or more liberal measures to alleviate the fright-
ful condition of Ireland.
" What would he say if the representative of her Ca-
tholic Majesty in London were to qualify, so harshly as
your Excellency has done, the exceptional measures of
repression which the English Government prepares
of
against the aggression which threatens it in the midst
its own states? What would he say if the Spanish
Government were to demand, in the name of humanity,
more consideration and more justice on behalf of the un-
fortunate people of Asia? What, in fine, would he say if
we were to remind him that the late events on the conti-
nent give a salutary lesson to all Governments, without
excepting Great Britain, and that consequently the ad-
ministration of tho State shonitl.begivetenp-tittAiillue-
trious Peel—to the skilful naltn, Who, after having 'con-
ciliated the general opinion of his country, has blown
how to -merit the) sympathies and the esteem of If the
Governmeat,s,of, Europe? He would say—what the
Spanish Government has a right now to say—that he
does notsfecognise the right of any power to offer obser-
vations, which rejects as offensive to the 'dignity of 'a
free and independent nation.
Animated by sentiments suitable to Spanish dignity,
and to every Government which respects itself, the
Cabinet of her Catholic Majesty cannot avoid protesting
in the most energetic manner against the contents of the
dispatches of Lord Palmerston and of your Excellency;
and considering that it cannot retain them without being
wanting in dignity, it returns them inclosed, and at the