The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-29 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAY•2A, 1848.

Ingratitude the most unsparing and calumny the
most virulent seem to be the only meed bestowed by
England on Sir HENRY LYTTON BuLwaa, one of the
most useful, one of the most staunch, one of the moit
intelligent, and altogether one of the most distinguished
of her servants in -he difficult and responsible duties
of diplomacy. We deprecate this conduct on the part
of our contemporaries. We protest against theanimad-
veraccs. levelled against his Excellency the late

THE SUN, LONDON,

Ambassador Go Madrid : and we do so, because those
animadversioi is are as disingenuous and as undeserved
as they are -petulant and vituperative. Our opinion
of the coral uct of Si: H. Bunwert throughout the
whole of these recent inisunek.rstandilgs is derived
solely fron i the deliberate conviction of ourjudguient
after a elder, and dispassionate consideration of the
correspondence. That correspondence—consisting of
the letters and documents severally exchanged be.
tween Lord PALMERSTON, Sir H. BULWER, and the
Duc DE SOTOMA Y OR—has just been printed in sixty-
eight pages, and copies of it presented to both
Houses of Parliament by order of her MAJESTY. In
the sixty-eight pages of this important diplomatic
publication there are exactly sixty-eight official com-
munications, penned during an interval extending
from March the first to May the eighteenth in-
elusively. From these papers alone Sir HENRY
B(JLWER may derive his vindication ; and any one
who shall have the temerity to assert,
after a perusal of the whole, that her
Britannic MAJESTY'S late representative at tl'e Court
of ISABELLA has not been entirely exonerated from
all blame in regard to the quarrel which has arisen
between the two Governments, will be actuated either
by a monstrous obliquity of judgment, or by a
shameless avidity for prevarication.

What, we ask at once and for all, what can pos-
sibly be said as to the culpability of Sir lIEcuT
LITTON BITLWER apart from the culpability of the
Government, of which he was the accredited agent,
after the very explicit letter written on the 20th ult.
by Lord PALMERSTON, in which that statesman say
now mark this !—in whichhesays—"l have to instruct
you to state to the Due DR SOTOMATOR that HER
MAJESTY'S Government entirely approve the step
which you took in making your communication of the
7th instant, and likewise of your note of the 12th:'
Of course, the Government gave those letters of Sir
BULARR their approval, for, in writing as he did
on the 7th and 12th of April, Sir H. Bur.wEla was
merely obeying the instructions transmitted to him
from the Foreign-office in Downing-street. Cul-
pable, therefore, Sir H. BuLwett is not in the estima-
;ion of the English Government, for the Chief of that
Government in the Foreign Department has thus for-
mally pronounced the commendation of his conduct as
.en ambassador. Nor can it HENRY BULWZR
be considered as culpable even in the estimation of
the Spanish Ministry, notwithstanding the violent
language addressed to him by the Foreign Secretary
of her Most Catholic MAJESTY—for immediately
:anterior to his departure from Madrid Senor CABAL-
LERO waited upon the representative of her Britannic
MAJESTY with an assurance of the " great personal
regard and esteem" entertained for him by the Duc
OR Saroma.roa. From both sides, therefore, Sir
HENRY BuLwart may derive his individual vindica-
lion. By neither party is he treated as culpable (he
merely acting throughout the whole transac-
tion as a simple medium or agent.) ; and, there-
fore, all those who are endeavouring to depre-
ciate his character by their aspersions, should reflect
that they are only shooting with the barbless arrows
of abuse—projectiles which can only in the end recoil
upon themselvet.

Some one, however, is culpable. That is clear.
Sir HENRY BULWER is vindicated, as we have
Chown, by reference to the correspondence
itself ; firstly, by Lord PALMERSTON, and, secondly,
by Lord PA.LMERSTON'S antagonist the Due DE SOTO.
MAYOR. That Lord PALMERSTON has been more
than justified in the course pursued by him through
out the misunderstanding in his c ipacity as the
Foreign Administrator of Great Britain, we have
fully explained in foregoing observaions—obserea-
tions in which we adduced the records of History as
the inducements to the memorable recommendation
of Viscount PALMERSTON to the Narvaez Cabinet.
As a perfect epitome of those remarks, and as a
masterly condensation of the historical arguments in
avour of such an interference on the part of Eng-
:and, we refer to the closing paragraph of the letter,
already quoted, written by Lord PALMERSTON to
Mr. (now Sir IIENRY) BULITHR, a copy of
which letter is printed in another column
of The Sun of this day's impression. It is
there shown that England has earned a tight
.o make such friendly suggestioes to the Government
of Spain—that she has earned that right by her mu-
nficence, her arms, her aid, her energies, her hea t's
Mood; that she has earned that right by the prowess
of her soldiers fighting in the cau.:e of Spaie,ty the
talent of her diplomatists lavished in the furtherance
of the interests of that country, by the money of her
citizens generously Expended in the preservation of
he peninsula from the horrors of a national bank-
ruptcy ; that she has earned that right, solemnly
in the face of Christendom, by elevating
ISABELLA 11. on the bucklers of her war-
; iurs, and girding her brows with the diadem of
PHILIP; that history has proclaimed the fact upon
Tier brazen tablets ; that it is written in bloody cha-
racters upon the bills of Biscay; that it is attested
oy the misfortunes of MONTESIOLIN, by the death of
ZUMALLACARREGUI, and by the, fame of ESPARTERO.
Or a truth there is culpability, and a damning wipe.
eility in one quarter, and that quarter is Spain.
Years can never efface the recollection of what has
ust transpired in the Spanish capital. Years ? Gen-
: tales! Posterity will recogriLe in the conduct of So-
rOMAY,R as the mouthpiece of the NARYAEZ Cabinet,
aid in the policy of that Cabinet, as the symbol re
,he will of degenerate Spain—the roost stupendous
act of national ingratitude in the records of the globe.
Terrible indeed is the retribution preparing for Spain
—the re:ribution which must follow an insolence so
irredeemably base. Where is that retribution pre-
paring? In England ? Will the maritime power of
Britain crush the insignificance of its peninsular ally
by bioaading the Spanish ports and demanding
the payment of the English creditors at the mouth
of their cannon ? Where is the retribu
tion preparing ? Not in England. No ! Eng
land is too generous. Not in England—in the
heart of Spain ! A thankless despotism is not invul-
nerable The sword of NEMESIS can be fleshed in
the heel even of ACHILLES. That sword will speedily
descend upon the migratelu. Spaniards, and it wilt
flash limn its scabbard in the suicidal hands of the
people.

The event on w hich the public attention on both
, sides of St. George's Channel had been concentrattd
for the last fortnight, on which, as we truly believe,
. the peace and tranquillity, prosperity and happiness
`, of the sister kingcom in a great degree depended,
nas at length been decided. The trial of JOHN
• 1111C1IEL has taken place, and the jury, faithful to
he oaths they had taken, have returned the only
verdict which a conscientious discharge of their fin-
!
portant duties permitted. The issue which the un-
fortunate prisoner himself had raisel has been found
against him ; for a considerable period he had deter-
mined to leave no loophole by which the Government
could avoid a prosecution. He had challenged the
distinguished nobleman who fills the Vice-
royalty of Ireland to meet him in a court
of justice. He bad taunted him with the
forbearance that bad been exhibited in so long over-
looking his own seditious and most mischievous pub-
lications. Ile had deliberately declared that either
the Government or himself should be put down, and
he has now only himself to blame for the melancholy
but inevitable result of his insane proceedings,
his expatriation from his native land as a convicted
felon, the loss of all that could make life worth
possessing. However deeply we may be impressed
with the criminality of the unf atunate man, however
richly-merited the punishment he is about to suffer,
it is impossible nut to deplore the position in which
a gentleman by birth and education, a man of very
considerable talent and acquirements, has involved
himself by his own reckless and headstrong conduct.
Yes, it is indeed a melancholy spectacle to behold such
a person consorting with thieves and pickpockets,
with the most debased and degraded outcasts from
society, who for their crimes have forfeited their na-
tural liberties, but it is still more painful to reflect
that his criminality far exceeds that of any of his
meaner associates—that he had excited thousands of
his misguided countrymen into a state of disaffection
and disloyalty, ready to imperil their own lives and
those of their fellow-citizens in the pursuit of an im-
practicable chimera; to imbue their hands in human
gore, to involve their country in the most hateful, the
most sanguinary, the most destructive, in every respect;
of all wars—au internecine contest, where brothers and
fathers are arrayed against each other in hostile make.
HO the jury impanglled_to try his case paltered with t

MONDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1818.

All jw'gments trr - e,arnti:ms de corps'
b, corm (1.-1-int .I%e N;ihiu thri.e y.ars sit, the ItaNt bt.
&fling ja.:g ueor of (IN, co, ou the I.o:mai d,ln end
cf .L.ne tho partios. `i he jutivowr.l Fonotuxes
the div.oe,, shall he given pubiicl:,. A pay e,nd, inucd
adultery cannot be ad muted to chilli a divoret,."

Thi. Bill, being conzi;lc,rel one of great import-
ance, was ref rri.,(l !or examimltion to the burf.aux.

The il..setilhl). then, after a slight diseu,sion,
adopted the Bill organiz:ng the councils of prudi
homrnes for settling disputes between employers and
employed.

The Bill presents the particularity, that it pro-
poses to admit workmen into the councits, whereas
previously those bodies had been composed of um-
ployers only. The articles declare that the number
of workmen shall be equal to that of the master.
They shall be elected by ballot, out of lists which
had also been balloted for, but four times more nu-
merous
.than would be required for each council
No one can be elected unless he is twenty•one years
of age, anl residing for at least six months within
the district. Foreigners, uncertificated bankrupts,
or persons condemned to afflictive penalties, cannot
form part of the council. All persons paying patente
for more than a year, and employing more than one
workmen are to be considered roasters. The Presi-
dent shal be named for a year. The Council shall
meet at least twice in every month.

BLANQUI was arrested on Friday evening at No.
14, Rue Alontholon.

" This arrest," says the Moniteur, " will be at-
tended with excellent results. Good citizens will
feel re-assured by magistrates prosecuting and pu-
nishing the k,uilty, and seditious persons will under-
stand that they must renounce projects which will be
soon defeated. The Government should have credit
given it for showing so much solicitude in calming
the fears of the public mind."
We find the following in the Commerce :

"It appears that a banquet is about to be given in
honour of MM. Albert, Barla3, and tutti quanti. if we
are rightly informed, this banquet was decided upon on
Thursday evening. at a meeting of Enrages. It is to
take place at St. Mune'é, not far from the tort of Vin-
cennes. The tickets are to be 25c. (5 stills) each, and
the guests are to content thems►lees with wine, bread,
and cheese. The getters up of this inanifeiitation reekiin
upon a gathering of about 150,000 gbests. As we have
an implicit faith in liberty, we recommend the Executive
power not to interfere in any way wiih this meeting.
Let the friends of Messra. 134 ties and Co. retrain from

obstructing the public ways, let them .lit;; as frugally ;
they please, let them return peaceably to their homes.
and they will have nothing to answer for but to common
sense and consistency. We doubt, un it we have proid
to the contrary, whether 150,000citizons can be suffi-
ciently blind not tap. mprehend hew blameable it is to
propose a fete in honour of men who wished to usurp
e sovereignty of the people, and who have forgotten
that the power of the National Assembly, constituted
by the suffrages of the entire pei.p:e of France, is as
legitimate us any power can be."
We read in the Presse—
" Abuut 200 representatives of the people met on
Thurslay evening in the Galerie de la Chpelie of
the Palms National, to deliberate. on a proposed fusiot,
of the Club des Pyramides, presided over by M. Joly,
with the club presided over by M. Dupont de l'Eure.
The first consists of about 130 members forming the
Montagne, the second of about 80 members of decided
democratic opinions, but in favour of nn.deration. The
programme presented at the meeting may be thus
bUlTlliltd up:—Organization of the democratic repubie
and application of that political form as the organizing
instrument of all institutions compatible with rele.ct
for social relations and property. The meeting almost
unanimously adopted the piinciple and objects of the
programme, and decided that it should h. ncetbrth form
only one club, under the presidency of M. A. Marrasi.
The club will decide on the questions to be submitted
to the National Assembly, and the order to be followed
in the debates. It is said that it will also soon propose
a list of tour members fur the Commission of Executive
Government. such being a condition of the fusion of the
two clubs. There is a third club, consbeing of about
200 representatives, which meets in the Ecole de Me-
decine. It is believed that it will give in its adhesion
to the programme adopted by the ultra-Democratic
meeting."

The Moniteur publishes a decree for the organiza-
tion of the Council of the Admiralty. It is to be
composed of eleven members, among whom we find
the names of Admirals HUUON, Da LA. SUSSE, and
HAMELIN, and M. CHARLES Duels, Inspector-
General of the Naval Engineers. The Minister of
the Marine will act as President, and the functions of
Vice-President will fall upon the senior officer in
rank. The members of the Council will have the
initiative in all propositions relative to the general
and special service of the marine and colonies, and
which will be afterwards brought under the discus-
sion of the Council, on a majority of that body de-
ciding that the proposition is worthy of being so dis-
cussed.

M. SAIN DE BOIS-LE•COMTE has been appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Cuurt of Sardinia. This is not M. BOIS-LE•
COMTE who was the Ambassador of Louis PHILIPPE
in Switzerland.

It is stated, says the Constitutionnel, that the Exe
cutive Committee has given up the idea of making a
Cabinet question of the adoption of the entire project
on their relations with the Assembly ; it accepts the
modifications proposed on the article respecting the
persons to be charged with the guard of the As-
sembly.
The Presse says—

" The Committee charged to examine the constitution
labours actively, its sittings sometimes being prolonged
to a late hour in the night. It we may hellfire what has
transpired of its deliberations in the Salle de Corieri,
ewes, the Committee has formally resolved the fundA-
mt:iital question that there shall be only one President,
to be nomizated for three years, by direct universal
suffrage in each commune. This deuwcratic election is
also, it is said, to be applied to the Coi.seils-14.eraux
of departments, to the juges de psix, and the officers of
the Natioeal Guard; such elections being renewed every
three ) ears There is, it is added, to he only one Legii•
'e)rwdhoilteret of the It-public. The Committee.oll elective, to he charged to draw up alt
lative Clistnber; but a Conseil d'Etat is to be instituted,
hasitnhe
P cP7r) t( jts t
ntnenced the discussion on the question of the
magistracy."
'rho Committee of Public Works has appointed
MM. BILLAUDEL, EMILE MARTIN, EMERY, BRUNET,
and .LEFRANC, to draw up their report on the Minis-
terial project of law for the repurchase of railroads
by the State.
The Akbar of Algiers announces that M. THEIRS
has consented to become a candidate for the repre-
sentation of Algeria, in the room of M. LEDRU
Ronurt, who made his option to sit in the National
Assembly for the department of the Seine.
A petition has been presented to the National As-
sembly by about 3,000 of the persons wounded in the
Revolution of February, praying for an equitable
distribution of the sums subscribed for their use, and
complaining that many of them, on receiving small
sums from the parties charged with the distribution
of these funds, had been compelled to sign receipts
in full discharge of all their claim., whilst others,
equally necessitous, have not yet received anything.
It Swill be recollected that M. ALBERT was President
of the Committee for the distribution of these funds.

The banking-house of DELESSEET and Co. is
winding up its affairs, and a liquidator has been ap-
pointed.
At four o'clock on Saturday the rappel was beaten,
and the National Guard and Garde Mobile turned
out. A considerable force was posted in the neigh-
bourhood of the Assembly for its protection, and the
whole of Paris was on the alert. It appears that an
outbreak of the ouvriers employed, or more properly
speaking, paid for doing nothing in the ateliers
nationaux, was apprehended on account of the re-
moval of EMILE THOMAS from the post of director of
the ateliers, and of the announced determination of
the Government to send several of the persons main-
tained there back to their respective departments to
be there employed in agricultural and other repro-
ductive lAbour.

The .3fessap,•er of Friday evening gives the follow-
ing account of the removal of M. EMILE THOMAS

" M. Emile Ti:omss, director of the ateliers national's,
was arri•sied last evening. He has, it is said, been skit&
oft• to Bordeaux in the custody of two gendarmes. It
appears that he was called 3estelday evening to the
Hotel de V►lle, where he remained a portion of the
night. This morning he was sent off in a post-ohanse
with two unknown persons o❑ the road to Bordeaux.
Ws family, anxious on account of his absence, was in
formed the, he was sent WI an urgent mission. The
young men who firmed the staff of the ateliers nutionaux
resigned their offices on hearing of the tarcat of Al.
Thomas, but they have since reautrod them."

This removal of M. Emma THOMAS gave great
dissatisfaction to the ouvriers, who immediately as-
sembled in the Parc de Monceaux and in the Champ
de Mars, and made a serious threat on the 1 art of that
formidable body (they are upwards of 100,000 in
number) to march upon the Hotel de Ville, the Hall
of the Assembly, or the Luxembourg, to demand sa-
tisfaction, and rescue their director. M. TABLAT,
the Minister of Public Works, went yesterday to the
Pare de Monceaux, to endeavour to tranquillize the
people. lie denied that M. Tioiks hid been lir*