The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

SPORTiNG INTELLIGENCE.

NEWCASTLE RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Produce Stakes of 50 sous. each, h tt; colts, Bst 71b;
fillies, Bst 41b. Two miles. (16 Subs.)
Lord Eglinton's Eagle's Plume (allowed 51bs)
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Mr. A. Johnston's Oscar (allowed 31bs)
Mr. J. Cookson's Camphine (allowed 51bs) •••
Won by a neck.
The Free Handicap of 10 sevs, each, and 50 added, the
second to save his stake. Three quarters of a mile,
(18 Subs,)
1.1. r. A. Manning's Betty Swipes, 4 yrs, 7st 21b
Mr. Gray's Reality, 3 yrs, sst 91b
Six started. Won by two lengtb;.
The Northumberland Plate of 2001., added to a Handl
cap of 25 sous. each, 10 ft, and' a only if declared,
the second to receive 501., and the third to save his
stake. 92 Subs., 38 of whom declared.
Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 5 yrs, Bst 81b
Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 4 yrs, 6st 81b, in. 61bs ex. 2
Mr. J. Murphy's Dough, 3 yrs, sst 21b
Mr. Gray's Reality, 3 yrs, 4st 41b
The following also started:—
Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, aged, Bst 121 b
Sir C. Monek's Vanish, 5 yrs, ;7st 61b
Mr. Holmes's Vesta, 4 yrs, Est 81b...
Captain Poll's St. Oswald, 4 yrs, 6st 41b
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Mr. Pedley's Administrator, 4 yrs, 6st ... •.. 0
Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel, 3 yrs, sst 81b 0
Mr. B. Green's Sylvan, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
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Won easily by a length. Run in three minutes thirty-
four seconds.

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The result of this race, which was not run until twelve
minutes past four, reached our office by electric tele-
graph, and was published by us before five o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon.
The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Three miles.
Pedley's Cockermouth, 3 yrs, 7st 21b
Alerry's Pilot, 6 yrs, lOst 51b
J. Westerby's Ellen Loraine, 3 yrs
Cook's Inglewood, 5 yrs
Meiklarn's Otterburn, 3 yrs
A fine race with three. Won by a head.
BIBURY CLUB MEETING.—WEDNESDAY.
Handicap Plate of 501. One mile.
Captain Sand's Royalty, 5 yrs, lOst 10lb
Mr. Walter's Cavendish, aged, llst 716 0
Mr. W. Etwall's gr cby Thistlewhipper, 3 yrs, 9st Glb 0
The following also started :—Mr. Rolt's Bibury, 6 yrs,
llst 91b—Mr. Elwes's Bourton, 5 yrs, llst 71b—and Mr.
F. Clark's Regicide, 3 yrs, 9st 51b.
7 to 4 on Beßek icicle. Won by a head. A dead heat
for second between Cavendish and the gr colt.
The Champagne Stakes of 30 sovs. each, h ft, and 50
added; ler two yrs old. Last three quarters of the
New Mile. (12 Subs.)
Mr. Payne's Glance, Bst 111 b...
Sir J. B. Mills's ch c by Emilius, Bst 101 b
Mr. Elwes's Don't-say-Nay, Bst 101 b...
Mr. J. Day's Feroaepore, Bst 1016

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sto 1 onGlauca. Won easily.
The Bibury Stakes of 25 sous. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if
declared, with 50 added; the second to rave his stake.
Two miles. (25 Subs., 15 of whom pay 5 says. each.)
' Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar, 4 yrs, llst ... ... 1
Mr. F. Ed wards's New Forest Deer, aged, lOst 51b... 2
The following started, bat were not placed :—Mr. Wal-
ler's Pottinger, 4 yrs, llst—Mr. Ilobsun's Ipecacuanha,
5 yrs, lOst 91b—Mr. Clifton's Tom Jolly, 4 yrs, 10st 51b
Gen. Shubrick na Black Doe, Bst 101 b (carried Bst 121 b.)
2 to 1 agst Black Doe, 3 to 1 each ugst Pottinger and
New Forest Deer. Won by a length.
The Produce Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft. New Mile.
(13 Subs.)
Lord Clifden's Loadstone
Mr. Herbert's Hope ... ... ... ...
stol on Loadstone. Won in a canter.
The Selling Plate of 50 sovs.; for three yrs old, 9st 101 b;
four, lOst 81b; five, list 121 b; six and aged, list 71b.
Winner to be sold for 1501. Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. Kimber's Tantivy, 4 yrs ... (Mr. J. Bayly) 1
Mr. (Ysbaldeston's Vice-Consul, 4 yrs
Mr. Elwes's Mountain Dew, 4 yrs ... ... Mr. J. Day's Mignon, 4 y .rs ... 3
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Mr. Payne's Dromedary, 4 yrs, and Mr. Fellowes's
Thistledown, 3 yrs, also ran.
Betting--5 to 4 agst Vice-Consul, sto 2 agst Drome-
dary, and 4to 1 agst Tantivy. Won by two lengths.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
G OOD W 00D, 1848.
SECOND DAY.—Acceptances fur the Goodwood Stakes.
Chanticleer (including st lb st lb
Luminous, 4 yrs 6 4
51b extra for win- Pillage,4 yrs 6 3
ning the Northern- Enchanter, 4 yrs
brrland Plate), 5 yrs 9 2 Counterfeit, aged 6 0
Sir Arthur, 6 yr 5....., 7 13 Fern, 3 yrs
Bantam, 5 yrs ..... 712 Sally Maggs, 4 yrs.., 6 0
Gisells, 5 yr 5............ 7 12 C by Tearaway, out of
Diplomatist, 4 yrs ..... 711 Brandy Bet, 3 yrs 6 0
Muntpensier, 4 yrs ... 7 9Tarella, 4 yrs 5 13
Rowena, aged.......... 7 9;Chat, 4 yrs
Crozier, 4 yrs .......... 7 8 Deloraine, 4 yrs
Hydrangea, 5 yrs ..... 7 7 Glen Saddel,3 yrs 512
The Tartar, 4 yrs .... 7 7 Paphos, 3 yrs 5 12
Jonathan Wild, 5 yrs. 7 5 Millwood, 4 yrs 512
Pliudit, 6 yrs .......... 7 5 Wintonia, 4 yrs
Projectile, 4 yrs ....... 7 5 Miss Lydia filly, 3 yrs 5 11
Clementine, 4 yrs ...... 7 0 Sir Martin, 4 yrs 5 9
Sheraton, 5 yrs ......... 6 13 The Spaniard, 3 yrs 5 8
iaisthorp, 4 yrs ...... 612 Otterburn, 3 yrs
Fergus, 4 yrs ............ G 9 Remembrance, 3 yrs 5 2
Geraldine, 5 yrs ....•.. 6 8 Latitat, 3 yrs 5 2
Gaiety, 4 yrs ............ 6 8 Weathercock, 3 yrs 5 0
Marquis of Conyng.. Prince Charlie, 3 yrs 413
ham 6 yrs ............ 6 7 Reflection, 3 yrs
Watchdg, 4 yrs ... .. 6 5 Alpheis, 3 yrs 4 10
The Baronet, 5 yrs ... 6 5 Black Doe, 3 yrs fther

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TO
711E-----EDITUR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--The importance of the subject on which I
sin induced to make the following observations, leads
me to hope that you will not deny them a portion of
that space which you appropriate to sporting matters.
The subject is one on which you and many other papers
are occasionally addressed, and I think properly so,
namely, the making of handicaps for the sporting con •
munity.
As to the importance of the subject, it is only neces-
to allude to the very large sums which are annuullf
distributed in this way ; and, looking to this large
amount, a stranger might be startled to learn that that
distribution was made by parties unknown to the public
and irresponsible to the proprietors of the horses whose
chances they are authorised to decide. Those parties,
It is believed, are nominated by the stewards of races,
in some instances, and by the stewards of the Jockey
Club, in others ; and the unquestioned honour and
sound judgment of those noblemen and gentlemen are a
sufficient guarantee to the public that they do not em-
ploy persons too ignorant or inexperienced to perform
the important duty confided to them. And, therefore,
when we find handicaps for valuable and most impor-
tant races made, not only inconsistent with the merits
and performances of the horses engaged, but in some
instances directly opposed to those merits and perform-
ances, we naturally pause and inquire, can this great
and valuable power be prostituted, or is it capable of
corruption.
In the last number of the "Racing Calendar," we find,
that at a meeting of the Jockey Club, on the 10th inst.,
presided over by him who had been justly termed the
" Napoleon of the Turf," a resolution was unanimously
agreed to, declaring that the Jockey Club, having
learned
that a practice existed of making presents to
the judges of the principal races, considered that such
practice was in principle objectionable, and that in lieu
thereof, a stated sum should be paid to the judge.
In the justice and propriety of this resolution, I am
sure every one of your readers will coincide, though I
should be sorry to believe that any necessity existed for
its adoption, but the proceedings of the turf; like the
characters of its patrons, should not only be above re-
proach but above suspicion.
The practice, however, mentioned in this resolution
may induce us to inquire, it any similar system of re-
carding handicappers existed, how vast might be the fraud and corruption ssi,h that office, and how great
the injury ieflicted on the proprietors of race-horses.
It is hardly
nee& scary to allude to the many handi-
caps in which the public without difficulty select animals
having great and unfair advantages over others, and in
which the result of the race shows the justice of their
conclusions. In the race for the Ascot Stakes we fin, the two favourites first and second; in the race for the
Manchester Cup the two favourites first and second; and
in the Chester Cup the two favourites also first and

second. And all these within the last six weeks.
Surely this demands a remedy. Can any reasonable
man believe that the handicappers for these races
were so much more ignorant tf.an the public of the
merits of the horses? Assuredly if they were they
should for ever be removed from the labours of handi-
capping.
Coming, however, to the last handicap published, that
for the Goodwood Stakes, we shall find, I think, a
combination of the most monstrous absurdities that
were ever brought under the eye of a sporting man.
Commencing with the top weight we find Cawroush at
9st. 51b. made to give Gizelle 211b5., the only occasion on
which they met being in the Cesarewitch last year, when
Cawroush carried 7st., the mare 6st. 121bs, and they,•
ran fir.t and second, the commentaries in Bell's Life,
I find, stating that the race was so close as to be doubt] ul
until the last stride. On what principle Cawroush is
made to give the mare 211bs. I am at a loss to
divine, still more so why he should give Chanticleer
81hs., Geraldine, 2st. 111bs., and Chat, 3st. 6lbs.
Peep-o- Day Boy also appears pretty safe at 9st. 4lbs.,
and we may, I think, ask and pause for a reply, why he
should give Montpensier 231bs , the latter running him
to a length or tv o at Chester, at a difference of 21bs.,
or whv he should give 251bs. to Hydrangea, a five-year-
old mare, that won this stake last by three lengths, car-
rying 6st. 101bs. And she is now let in at 7st. 71bs. We
also find Inheritress at 9st. 41bs., and Lady Wildair at
955., weights which, I think I may say, deprive them
instanter of all chance in the race.
But to come to the absurdity, of all others the most
monstrous and glaring, we find Chat at sst. 13Ibs.
This horse and Keleshe met on equal terms but once
(tor a Three-years-old Plate), they were then singled
out from the field, ran stride for stride, and Chat won
by a neck. And our deeply-read handicapper now puts
7st. 101bs. on Keleshe, and sst 131bs. on Chat, making
the beaten horse give the conqueror Ist. 111bs., and this
for the purpose of bringing them together.
This same horse, also, it is to be remembered, beat
Burgundy shortly after by a length for a Queen's Plate;
and what is the consequence? Why, the handicap had
hardly appeared when the horse was selected and esta-
blished a favourite. Hydrangea I have alluded to as
being very favourably treated, and Jonathan Wild, the
winner of this stake, in 1846 and one of the few horses
that have beaten the Hero, is let in at 714.
I have only mentioned a few of the inconsistencies of
this handicap; most of your readers, I am sure, will have
discovered many more.
In order to show the imperative necessity for strict
and good government on this subject, lot us just, for a
moment, suppose (what of course we do not believe),
that a collusive understanding exists between a handi-
capper and the owner of a race-horse. What a channel
for fraud—what an opportunity for unjust profit, does
not such an understanding afford? Surely, it is not too
much to say that, under such circumstances, the handi-
capper has the power virtually to give the race to s
particular animal. And, again, let us ask, if he should
do so, what remedy has the public]; None, save the
single alternative, which I now seek, and which I hope
you will not deny me, that of censuring, in a public
journal, the improprieties of which I and others are the
victims, but for which there is no redress.

Allusions have on many occasions been made to Irish
horses as a class, and hints given to handicappers to
make them safe, which must certainly have emanated
from persons totally ignorant of the principles on which
handicaps should be constructed.
And these allusions, or any sentiment in a similar
spirit, must assuredly tend to corrupt rather than im-
prove the handicaps, or the source from which they
emanate. Handicappers, unquestionably, should only
attend to the merits of the horses, and know nothing of
their being English or Irish, or the property of this man
or that. The handicapper who is sanctioned in destroy-
ing the chances of any class of horses might as well be
sanctioned in destroying the chance of a particular
wll animal; and so we should have the good-will or the ill-
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I am your obedient servant,
CENTAUR.

June 19. 1848.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—Tbe King of Sweden
has presented Mr. Fineham, the master shipwright of
this dockyard, with several scientific works on ship-
building, as tokens of his Majesty's appreciation of Mr.
Finctiam's talents as a scientific naval architect. The
works are chit fly the large and small productions of that
famous shipbuilding author, Chapman. The presents
arrived yesterday.
At a quarter past seven o'clock this morning, a ship-
wright, named William Evans, a single man, aged 40,
employed on the Fire Queen steam yacht, in the old
basin, went down the accommodation ladder on the port
side and precipitated himself into the basin. At this
moment a young man named George Lapthorn, a hired
joiner, who had just left the Medusa packet, also in the
basin, and was coming round the north-west corner of
the basin close to %here the catastrophe occurred, think-
ing the man had fallen in by accident, immediately
stripped and jumped in after him ; after diving several
times and remaining tinder water some time Lapthorn
rose and called :.loud for a lice to be handed him from
the vessel, that he might go down again, which
he did ; he came up a second time and asked
for a longer line, which also being furnished him, he
dived again, and remained under water trawling about
for some time ; when he came up his breast, tine and
arms, were covered with mud, and be could not see;
being too exhausted tor further trial, he suggested that
grapnels should be used; they were immediately pro-
cured, and the body was soon found and brought to the
surface, when it was discovered that with a view to in-
sure sinking, the deceased had fastened to his right wrist
an iron coal-hole grating'. The body was conveyed to
the dockyard surgery, where every means were resorted
to by Mr. Labbeu and others to restore animation, but
without avail.
The Hastings, 72, Captain Morgan, will be ready to go
out of harbour on Monday. A new scale of issue for ne-
cessaries for the ship's company is ordered to be tried in
the Hastings for twelve months and reported en. She
will not go to the Cape.
The Maria Somes transport, Lieutenant Black agent,
arrived this morning from Halifax with the second di-
vision of the 82d, with whom she is ordered to Woolwich.
Wind, westerly, light air and fine weather.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 21.—Captain Fraser, Lieutenant
Mowbray, 3 sergeants, 3 corporals, and 54 privates of
the Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, embarked at
Charlton-pier, at eight o'clock, A.m., to-day, en route to
Portsmouth, for service in the Southampton, 50 guns,
now ready for commission at that port. The officers
will return to head-quarters. The Southampton is one
of the fourth rates, and will have a crew of 450 men,
and her armament consists of four 8-inch guns of 65 cwt.
each, twenty-six 32-pounder guns of 50 cwt., four 32-
pounders of 45 cwt., and sixteen 32-pounders of 26 cwt.
each.

The Adelaide steam-tug is expected to be brought
down immediately from Deptford to Woolwich, having
been commissioned by Mr. Charles Forbes, second master,
for service at Port Philip, in South Australia; she was
built by Mr. Wigram.
The Encounter steam-frigate was taken out of the
basin to-day, and will leave on Friday next, for Ports..
mouth, to be put in commission at that port.
The Reynard steam-vessel, fined at Deptford with a
screw-propeller and engines of 60-horse power, by
Rennie, is ordered to be brought down immediately
to be commissioned at this port. She is 516 tons bur-
den, and will carry two 32-pounders of 56 cwt. each,
and six 32-pounders of 25 cwt. each, with a crew Of 100
men.

The Monkey and Charon steam-vessels went up the
river yesterday from Woolwich to tow the Conflict
steam-sloop, 8 guns, from Mr. Wigram's dock to Messrs.
Seaward and Co.'s, at the City Canal, to have her ma-
chinery of 400-horse power and screw-propeller tried.
Her armament will consist of one 68-pounder gun, 95
cwt., one 10-inch gun, 85 cwt., and six B.inch guns of
65 cwt. each.

The Virago steam-sloop left yesterday for Sheerness,
where she will remain as an advanced war steamer, and
the Hecht steam-sloop will be ready to proceed to the
same port iu a few days.
Quartermaster John Scott, paid off from the Flamer
steam-vessel on Monday, after 45 years' service in the
navy, received a silver medal and 151. gratuity, and has
been pensioned at 351. per annum. He was in the Co-
lossus at the battle of Trafalgar.
Quartermaster James Davis, of the Firebrand, paid
off on Saturday, received a silver medal ;and gratuity of
71. for long service and good conduct, and was awarded
a pension of 24/. a-year.
George Williams, of the Styx steam-vessel, was
awarded a pension of 28/. 4s. per annum, a gratuity of
151., and a silver medal for long service and good con-
duct; and John Williams, of the Styx, a pension of 191.
per annum. _ .

CHATHAM, JUNE 21.—The Nerbudda, 12 guns, Com-
mander Edward Peirse, was paid off into ordinary on
Monday, the 19th instant.
The Spy, 3-gun brigantine, Lieut. Commander 0.
Wooldridge, from the Pacific, was towed into harbour
on Tuesday evening, the 20th inst, by the African
steam-vessel, from the Nore.

The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Charles Hope, was at
the Nore on the 19th, and having there discharged her
powder on board a lighter, came into Sheerness on
Tuesday, and the following detachments of invalids from
Malta disembarked and proceeded by the Princess Royal
steam-boat for Chatham :—viz., 11 men of the 54th, and
2 corporals and 22 privates of the 97th Regiment, under
command of Lieut. S. Moore Hawkins, 97th.
__ . .

Arrived on the 20th inst., at the Invalid Depot from
Bury, in Lancashire, 2 sergeants and 11 privates of the
2d battalion of the 60th Rifles; also a detachment of 2
sergeants and 13 privates of the 52d Regiment from
Ashton-under-Line. With the exception of two men,
the whole will be pensioned off for length of service.
Captain E. Wodehome, of the 24th Regiment, re-
cently returned from India, has taken the command of
the depot at this garrison. The depot has this day re-
ceived the intelligence or the death of Lieutenant John
Stainiorth at Agra, in the Presidency of Bengal.

STATE OF EMPLOYMENT IN 11ANCHESTER.—The
official returns has this week been published, and the
unsatisfactory results, although indicating the continued
depression of trade, yet must not be looked upon as a
fair explanation of the state of employment, as numbers
of the working classes bad not, so immediately after the
Whitsuntide holidays, returned to their work. There
are nearly 1,400 fewer hands employed in the cotton-
mills this week than in the week before the holidays;
about 300 on short time, and 750 wholly out of employ-
ment. The total number of operatives working short
time is 6,274, and of those wholly out of employment
8,043. The prospects of trade do not offer any encou-
raging hopes as to a speedy changeior the better to the
working man. The still disturbed and commercially
unsafe condition of the continent renders all chance
hopeless of immediate trade with that part of tke world.

SPANISH CORRESPONDENCE. r
(Continued from The Sun of Monday.)
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO M. ISTURITZ.
Foreign Office, June 12, 1848.
Sir,—Having had the honour to receive your letter of'
the 7th instant, I now proceed to state to you the result
of the very attentive consideration which her Majesty's
Government have given to the allegations put forward ,
by the Spanish Government with a view to justify the
course which they have pursued towards her Majesty's
Minister at the Court of Madrid. But before I enter
into an examination of those matters, I wish to say a
few words upon what has been stated by yourself and
by the Duke of Sotomayor upon the subject of the ap-
plication of the Spanish Government for Sir Henry Bul-
wer's recall.
The Duke of Sotomayor, in treating of that matter,
seems to argue as if every Government was entitled to
obtain the recall of any Foreign Minister, whenever,
for reasons of its own, it might wish that he should be
removed ; but this is a doctrine to which I can by no
means assent. It is quite true, as said by the Duke
of Sotomayor, that the ltw of rations and inter-
national usage may permit a Government to make
such a demand ; but the law of nations and interna-
tional usage also entitle the Government to whom such a
request may be preferred to decline to comply with it.
And there are obvious reasons why this should be. Di-
plomatic agents are appointed to guard the interests of
the Government and nation which they represent ; and
the performance of their duties may often compel them
to make representations and demands inconvenient and
distasteful to the Government to which they are accre-
dited. But if their continuance at their post were to de-
pend upon the good will and pleasure of that Govern.
meat, instead of resting within the discretion of the Go-
vernment of their own country, it is manifest that men
mindful of their professional character would decline an
employment in which a firm performance of their duty
might lead to a recall, the causes of which it might be
difficult for them publicly to explain ; while men weaker
in mind and less firm in purpose might be exposed to the
temptation offlinchingfrom their duty, for fear of injuring
their professional prospects. And if this be true as a gene-
ral proposition, it is especially true in regard to the diplo-
matic relations of Great Britain with Spain ; for, on the
one hand, the British Government and nation have unsa-
tisfied claims upon Spain, and the course of events in
Spain has given rise to political differences between the
two Governments; so that it has often been the duty of
the British representative to place himself in a position
not suitable to the views and wishes of the Spanish Mi-
nisters of the day ; and, on the other hand, the succes-
sion of Ministers in Spain has been of late years so
rapid, and changes of government have been there so fre-
quent, that if it were to be understood that the British
Minister at Madrid held his office by no steadier tenure
than the pleasure of the Spanish Minister of the day, the
British Government might be exposed to, frequent repe-
titions of such demands.
I do not mean to say that if a foreign Government is
able to state to the Government of her Majesty grave
and weighty reasons why the British Minister accredi-
ted
to such government should be removed, her Ma-
jesty's Government would not feel it to be their duty to
take such representations into their serious considera-
tion, and to weigh them with all the attention which
they might deserve.
But it must rest with the British Government in such
case to determine whether there is, or is not, any just
eause of complaint against the British diplomatic agent;
and whether the dignity and interests of Great Britain
would best be consulted by withdrawing him, or by main-
taining him at his post.
Now, with regard to the application made by you, by
order of your Government, first verbally and then in
writing, for the recall of Sir Henry Bulwer, I have to
state that no grounds were assigned for that application
which appeared to me to afford any just reason why it
should have been complied with, if it had been perse-
vered in, and if an answer to it had been required. But '
you will remember that twenty-four hours afrer you had
sent in to me the note, in which that application had
been made, you came to me of your own accord, and
stated that you had that day received instructions from
your Government which, if they had reached you sooner,
would have prevented you from making the application;
that upon our discussing what course it would be best
tinder such circumstances for you to pursue, I took the
liberty of suggesting, that instead of making any further
written communication in accordance with yeur fresh in-
structions, you should take back your note, which I then
rendered to eou for that purpose; and upon your adopt -
ing that suggestion, and carrying your note away with
yon, it was agreed between us that this transaction should
be considered as if it had not taken place.
Upon this matter, then, I would beg you to observe,
that the Spanish Government, of its own accord, sent
you instructions to withdraw its application; and that
those instructions were written a few days after the time
when it had sent you instructions to make that applica-
Von; and consequently its change of purpose could not
arise from any knowledge . that the application would
not be complied with, but must have sprung from a ces-
sation of the motives by which the instructions to make
the application were prompted.
The Spanish Government, therefore, cannot be en-
titled to found upon that application, nor upon the inti-
mation made to you by me, that if made it would net
be complied with, any justification for the conduct sub-
sequently pursued towards Sir Henry Bulwer. Nor can
the Spanish Government allege that the application
was withdrawn in consequence of some understanding
up
on that subject come to between the Duke of Soto-
mayor and Sir Henry Bulwer, and that such under-
standing was afterwards departed from by Sir Henry
Vulwer; because no such understanding was ever entered
ineo with Sir Henry Buiwer, nor was there any discus-
sion between him and the Duke of Sotomayor with re-
ference to an application for his recall.
In considering, therefore, the statements put forward
by the. Spanish Government as a justification of their
proceeding in sending Sir Henry Bulwer his passports,
her Majesty's Government is fairly entitled to dismiss
from the account everything which bears upon transac-
tions anterior to the time es hen the Spanish Government
sent you the instruction upon which yea withdrew your
application for Sir Henry Bulwer's recall; and the with-
drawal of that application must be deemed a bar to
any right of the Spanish Government to refer, for
their present purpose, to transactions which had pre-
viously taken place.
But her Majesty's Government, nevertheless, will
examine, without reference to that date, the several
beads of statement put forward by the Duke of Soto-
mayor and by yourself, as bearing out the Spanish
Government in the conduct which they have pursued.
The substance of these statements may, as it appears
to her Majesty's Government, be classed under the fol-
lowing heads:—
First. That Sir Henry Bulwer kept up social inter-
course and communication with persons belonging to a
party hostile to the present Government, and that thus
by his moral support hi gave encouragement to that
party.
Secondly. That after an insurrectionary movement
which took place at Madrid on the 26th of March, he
allowed his house to be an asylum for persons who are
represented by the Duke of Sotomayor as being enemies
of the Government, ot the throne, and of the institu-
tions of Spain; arid that he permitted, the persons who
bad thus found refuge, to carry on, from his house, com-
munications Kith persons iu other places. with a view to
planning hostile proceedings against the existing Go•
vernment of Spain.
Thirdly. That he must have been implicated in the
military revolt which happened at Madrid on the 7h of
may, and in that which took place
subsequently at
Seville; because, in regard to the first of those revolts, t
press hid pronounced itself against him;
the Spanish
and because, in regsrd to the second, he was intimate
with the family of oue of the officer who took a lead in
that revolt; and ego bee au,) it was supposee that it was
through Sr iienry Bulw, r s influence with some former
Government ot Spain that that officer obtained a mut.
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tary command.
Fourthly. That the mission ofolonel Fitch to the
southern part of Spain was connected with some plan for
exciting insurrections in those quarters.
Fifthly. Tnat Mr. Sansom, a personal friend of Sir
Henry Bulwer's, arid a director of the Union Bank at
Madrid, held language very hostile to the present Spanish
Government.
- Sixthly. That, owing to many of these things, there
existed in the minds of the garrison and population of
Madrid such exasperation against Sir Henry Bulwer
that the Government were afraid that if he remained at
his post he might he exposed to personal danger.
Now, with regard to the first of these heads of com-
plaint, Sir Henry Bulwer positively and unequivocally
denies that he engaged in any plots or conspiracies
against the authorities of the State; and it is only of
snch conduct on his part, if he had pursued it, that
the Spanish Government would have just right to
complain. At Sir Henry Bulwer's choice of private
friedds, or at his avowed attachment to constitu-
tional principles of government, the Spanish Ministers
had no right to take umbrage. It is no part of
the duty of a foreign minister at a court to confine his
social intercourse to persons belonging to the party who
may happen for the moment to be in power; and least
of all could such a restriction be submitted to in Spain,
where, between December, 1832, and October, 1847, the
office of President of the Council has changed hands
twenty-nine times, and has been held in succession by
twenty-seven different persons; and where, between
October, 1832, and October, 1847, the office of Minister
fur Foreign Affairs has changed hands thirty-seven
times, and has been held successively by thirty-two cif-
serent persons.
tier Majesty's Government cannot than admit the pre-
tension present Government of Spain to restrict
or interfere with the social intercourse or private inti-
macies of the British Minister at Madrid.
As to the second point, it is admitted by
.Sir Henry
Bulwer, that he conformed, OR the
occasion ofthe insur-
rection of the 26th of March at Madrid,the custom
which has long been established in ' tothat city,. and
accordingto which the houses of foreignt ministers
have been always open to afford sanctuary
ofienders, until they might be able too
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find
the means of leaving the country. Sir Henry
Bulwer frankly avows that he did not refuse temporary
shelter to one person, who acknowledged that he had
actually been engaged in that insurrection ; and to
others, who represented to him that although not en-
gaged in those transactions, they yet feared to be victims
of the groundless suspicions of the Government. But
Sir Henry Bulwer at the same time adopted the best
means in his power for preventing the persons thus bar-
bowed by him from holding, while under his roof, any
communications with other persons for the purpose of
disturbing the public tranquillity.
But so much was this proceeding treated as a matter
of usual occurrence that the Duke of Sotomayor actu-
ally asked Sir Henry Bulwer to tell him, as between gen-
tleman and gentleman, whether a particular person was
under his roof ; and being told in reply that that person
Was there, he gave Sir Henry Bulwer reason to expect
that he vroald send that person a passport to enable him

to leave the country ; an expectation, however, which .
I the Duke did not afterwards make good.
Her Majesty's Government are quite ready to acknow-
ledge that such a practice is in itself and in principle
objectionable; but while it continues to exist, a foreign
Minister c:.uld not, without discredit to himself and to
his Government, refuse to comply with it; and I must
'be allowed to remark, that her Majesty's Government
scarcely expected to find objections to that practice pro-•
ceeding from General Narvaez, the Duke of Sotomayor,
and yourself.
With regard to yourself, I need not remind you, that
the Earl of Clarendon, then Mr. Villiers, and British
Minister at Madrid, was able in 1836 to enjoy the great
pleasure and the heartfelt satisfaction of affording you,
when in danger, a temporary reception under the
diplomatic protection of his roof; and that he was
afterwards so fortunate as to contribute to your perma•
nent safety by facilitating your removal from thence into
Portugal.
But without dwelling more particularly on what took
place in 1841, when, after the defeat of the attack made
upon the palace of the Queen of Spain, the Charoi
d'Affdres of Denmark is well known to have sheltered
in his house some of the conspirators engaged in that
attempt; I beg to remind you that in 1843, during the
progress of those events which ended in the overthrow
of the Regency of the Duke of Victoria, the above-
mentioned diplomatist afforded refuge in his house to
the Duke of Sotomayor, General Zarco del Valle, and
M. Salamanca ; and it is generally understood that they
not only found protection under the roof of the Danish
Legation, but that they were able from thence to cum
municate with, and to send money to, General Narvat z,
who was at that time at the head of troops in arms
against the existing Government of Spain ; and so little
was this transaction considered as a dangerous or objec-
tionable precer:ent by the Government of 1846, of
which you were the chief, as President of the Council,
that on the occasion of the marriage of the Queen, in
October of that year, her Catholic Majesty was ad-
vised to confer a Spanish title upon that same Danish
Charge d'Affaires, as a reward for the service he had
thus rendered ; and in order that no mistake might ex-
ist as to the reasons for which that Spanish honour was
conferred upon him, the title given to him was that of
Baron del Asilo.
As to the third head, the allegations made are wholly
insufficient as ground- work for the conclusion drawn
from them. With regard to the insurrection of the 7th
of May, at Madrid, the only way in which the Spanish
newspapers even attempted to connect Sir H. Bulwer
with that transaction was by asserting that foreign gold
had been found upon some of the insurgents who were
taken prisoners; but this assertion was afterwards for-
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With regard to the insurrection at Seville, I have to
observe that the circumstance that a particular
Spanish officer may have obtained promotion at
some former period through the influence of Sir
Henry Bulwer, if it be so, may serve to show
that Sir Henry Bulwer had succeeded in main-
taining friendly personal relations with former Minis•
tries in Spain, though he has not been equally successful
with the present; but it cannot render him respon-
sible for the conduct which an officer so promoted may
have subsequently pursued; and the assumption that
any person is to be held accountable for the conduct of
every member of every family with which he may hap-
pen to be in habits of intimacy, is an assumption that
has scarcely been exceeded by the pretensions of the
most jealous tyranny that has been recorded in the page
of history.
It is sufficient to say on this head, that Sir Henry
Bulwer denies any participation whatever in the rising
at Madrid or at Seville, and that her Majesty's Govern-
ment place full confidence in his denial.
As to the mission of Colonel Fitch, that officer was
sent by Sir Henry Bulwer to communicate with the
British Consuls of some of! the southern ports of
Spain with reference to arrangements for affording pro-
tection to British interests in those ports, in the
event of disturbances taking place therein ; and
was also charged to bring back to Sir Henry
Buiwer general information as to the state of the
provinces which he was to visit, in order that such in-
formation might be transmitted by Sir Henry Bulwer,
and be brought to the knowledge of her Majesty's Go-
vernment. The conduct of Sir Henry Bulwer in that
matter seems to have been perfectly proper, and within
the limits of his public duty.
With regard to Mr. Sansom, director of the Union
Bank, who has himself been expelled from Spain, her
Majesty's Government have asked what explanations the
Spanish Government has to give of the arbitrary expul-
sion of that gentleman ; but her Majesty's Government
cannot admit that, even if Mr. Sansom had used indiscreet
language about the political affairs of Spain—a fact,
however, which yet remains to be shown—such a cir-
cumstance would afford the slightest excuse for sending
Sir Henry Bulwer his passports.
Lastly conies the assertion that the Spanish Govern-
ment thought Sir Henry Bulwer in danger of personal
violence from the garrison and population of Madrid.
To this it has already been my duty to reply, that if
any such danger really existed, the Spanish Government
were bound to take the necessary measures for pro-
tecting Sir Henry Bulwer from it; but her Muji sty's
Government do nut believe that any such danger existed.
In the first place, the crime of assassination is not
one to which the Spanish nation is addicted ; and her
Majesty's Government ire as little disposed to suspect
the population or the garrison of Madrid of a disposi-
tion to commit so cowardly an offeece, as they are to
attach the slightest credit to the intimations which were
conveyed to Sir Henry Buiwer, that an attack upon his
person would be instigated by some of the members of
the Spanish Government.
But her Majesty's Government have no reason to be-
lieve that anything which had happened had excited
any ill feeling towards Sir Henry Bulwer on the part of
the people or of the garrison of Madrid; though, if
any such ill-feeling had existed, the violent and calum-
nious newspaper attacks upon him, which the Govern-
ment had at that time the power of preventing, might
have sufficiently accounted for it.
Having thus replied to the allegations put forward on
behalf of the Spanish Government in regard to the
conduct of that Government towards her Majesty's Mi-
nister at the Court of the Queen of Spain, I have only
further to say, which I do with much regret, that this
proceeding of the Spanish Government must necessarily,
interrupt the diplomatic relations between the two coun-
tries; and that it being, therefore, impossible for her
Majesty to continue to receive you at her Court as the
Minister of the Queen of Spain, or for her Majesty's
Government, notwithstanding their high respect and
esteem for you personally, to hold official intercourse
with you, you will probably think it expedient to return
to asdrid.—l am, etc.,
(Signed) PALMERSTON.
M. ISTURITZ TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.

London, June 13, 1848.

My Lord,—l have just received the communicatio❑
from your Excelleney of yesterday's date, in which, after
replying as you have thought proper to what I have had
the honour to state to your Excellency in justification 01
the resolution come to by the Government of the Queen
my august Sovereign, respecting Sir Henry Bulwer, your
Excellency apprises me that diplomatic relations b.-tween
the English and Spanish nations are broken off, and that
it is therefore impossible that her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain should continue to receive me at her
Court as Minister of the Queen of Spain, cr that the
Government of her Britannic Majesty should continue
official relations with me; concluding with the ob-
servation, that I should probably think fit to return to
Madrid.

A resolution of this nature relieves me from the duty
of replying to the arguments used by your Excellency in
the above communication, and I confine myself to that
of referring them to the Government of her Catholic
Majesty. I cannot, however, but renew on this occa-
sion the assurances which I have repeatedly brought to
your Excellency's consideration, that the Spanish Go-
vernment has had no desire to offend in any way the
English nation or its• Government, its constant wish
being to draw closer the relations between the two
countries, instead of interrupting them; and I am con-
vinced that with these triendly dispositions the Spanish
Government will learn with regret the resolution which
your Excellency has just made known to me.
This resolution shall be carried into effect, on my
part, by
making preparations to leave this kingdom im-
mediately.
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MICHAEL TACON.

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Mr. J. Stevenson, engineer, and other parties, were
examined, and their opinion being that the accident had
arisen from the insufficient supply of water, a verdict was
returned of " Accidental death."

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