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London, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN OFFICE, Nov. 7.

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO SPANISH. OCCUPATION
AT TANGIER, OR ON COAST OF MOROCCO.
No. I.
Lord J. Russell to Mr. Buchanan.
Foreign Office, Sept. 22.
Sir,—With reference to the preparations making in Spain
with e view to hostilities in Morocco, I wish you to observe
to the President of the Council and to the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs, that the differences between the Governments
of Spain and Morocco appear to have arisen from outrages
committed by Moors in the vicinity of Ceuta, but that those
outrages appear to have been provoked by the excitements
and defiances of the Governor of Ceuta ; that a wild and
untamed race seem to have become ungovernable, and to
have made hostile attacks against the Spanish garrison of
Ceuta. _
That if the Spanish Government only seek redress for
wrongs, and vindication of their honour, her Majesty's
Government will not interpose any obstacle to their obtain-
ing such reparation. But if the outrages of the wild
Moorish tribes are to be made a ground for conquest, and
especially en the coast, her Majesty's Government are
bound to look to the security of the fortress of Gibraltar.
You are therefore instructed to ask for a declaration in
writing, that if the Spanish troops should in the course of
hostilities occupy, Tangier, that occupation will be tem-
pgary, and will not extend beyond the ratification of a
Tleaty, of Peace between Spain and Morocco. For an
occupation till an indemnity is paid might become a perma-
nent occupation, and such permanent occupation her
Majesty's Government consider inconsistent with the safety.
of Gibraltar. _
Her: Majesty's Government are sincerely desirous of
maintaining with Spain the most amicable relations, but
they are bound to provide for the safety of her Majesty's
possessions.—l am, dm,
(Signed) J. RUSSELL.

No. 2..

Mr. Buchanan to Lord J. Russell.—Received October 12.)
Madrid, Oct. 7, 1359.

, .
My Lord,—Having made M. Calderon Collantes ac-
quainted with the contents of your Lordship's despatch
of the the 22d ult., instructing mo to ask the Spanish Go-
vernment for a declafation iii writing, that if, in the event
of war bet'ween Spain and I%forocce, Tangier should be oc-
cupied by Spanish. troops, they will be withdrawn ,imme-
diately after the ratification of a treaty of peace it was
agreed between us that I should address to his Excellency
the note of which I enclose a copy herewith for your lord-
ship's-information; and I received this day from him an
answer, of which a copy and translation are enclosed, and
which I trust may prove satisfactory to her Majesty's Go •
vernment.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) ANDREW BUCHANAN.

Inclosure 1 to No. 3.
Mr. Buchanan to Senor Collantes.
Madrid, September 27, 1859.
Sir,—During the discussions which took place last
winter between Spain and Morocco respecting the claims of
Spanish subjects upon the Sultan's Government and lip
zone round Melilla, I did not fail to report to my Govern-
ment the frequent assurances which I received from your
Excellency that the only object at that time of her Ca-
tholic Majesty's Gc.vernmentwas to secure due protection
to her Majesty's fortress and to her Majesty's subjects re-
siding in or trading with Morocco, and that they had no
intention whatever of making the questions at issue a pre-
text for territorial aggrandisement in Africa.
These assurances were entirely confirmed by the
event, and I have been happy to learn from the declaration
contained in your Excellency's note of the 26th instant,
and from the verbal explanations which you have afforded
me, on repeated occasions since the new difficulty which
has arisen with the Governmentof Morocco, that no change
has taken place in the policy of the Spanish Government,
and that they seek for no conquests in Africa, but only pro-
pose to obtain reparation for offences which have been of-
fered to them by the Moors of Ceuta, and securities from
the Government of the Sultan for that fortress and her
Catholic Majesty's other possessions in Africa, which will
-effectually prevent a repetition of the conflicts which have
taken place, and maintain hereafter the relations of Spain
with the Moroccan empire on a satisfactory and honourable
footing.
The reports of my conversations with your Excellency
will thus have already acquainted the Government of the
Queen my Sovereign with the sentiments of moderation and
justice which animate her Catholic Majesty's Govern-
ment ; but it would, notwithstanding, be a satisfaction to
them, considering the interest which they take in the empire
of Morocco, and the importance which they attach to the com-
merce of Tangier with her Majesty's possessions in the Me-
diterranean, to learn from your Excellency' that the great
preparations at present making, with a view to military
operations in Africa, have not arisen from any change in the
views of her Catholic Majesty's Government, and do not
indicate any intentions on their part to make conquests in
Morocco, of to occipy permanently any portion of the Sul-
tan's territory.
Feeling assured that your Excellency will readily com-
ply with the wish which I have the honour to express to
you on this subject, I avail, &c.
(Signed)

ANDREW BUCHANAN.

Palace, October 6, 1859.
Sir,-7I have received the note which you had the good-
ness to address to me on the 27th of the month last year.
The Government of the Queen my Sovereign, while
adopting the measures necessary to obtain, if requisite by
force of arms, the just reparation which they have de-
manded from the Moroccan Government, continue in their
invariable intentions with regard to that country—inten-
tions of which you are cognizant by means of the verbal
statements which I spontaneously made to you last year
with reference to the question of Melilla, and which have
been confirmed by my subsequent notes to you, and by the
circular which-I addressed on the 24th of September to her
Majesty's representatives at the Courts of Europe, with the
contents of which Don Xavier de Isturiz will have ac-
quainted her Britannia Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
The Cabinet of Madrid, as you are aware, do not yield
in this question to the impulse of a pre-existing desire for
territorial aggrandisement, but are influenced alone by the
sacred duty of defending their dignity and the honour of
the nation.
They still preserve hopes, that the conflict which has
arisen from the unprovoked aggressions of which the for-
tress of Melilla has been the object, may terminate peace-
fully ; but if their conciliatory desires should not be realised,
they will endeavour to obtain by other means, the punish-
ment of the aggressors, the satisfaction which is due, and
the conclusion of agreements which may tend to give effica-
cious material guarantees for preventing the repetition of
similar outrages.
It is to these objects that military operations, should they
commence, would be directed. In this point of view it is
easy to understand, knowing the intentions of the Govern-
ment of the Queen my Sovereign, that whatever diminu-
tion the active' commerce which Great Britain maintains
with Tangier might suffer in consequence of war, would
be of a transitory character ; since, when once the Treaty
of Peace which should put an end to the hostilities between
Spain and Morocco should be ratified, and the questions
now existing should be settled favourably, and therefore
definitively, the Spanish Government, in the fulfilment of
their intentions, would not continue in the occupation of
that fortress, on the supposition that they should have
found themselves obliged to establish themselves there, in
order to secure the favourable issue of their operations.—l
avail, &c.,
(Signed) SATURNINO CALDERON COLLANTES.

No. 3.
Lord J. Russell to Mr. Buchanan.
Foreign-office, Oct. 15, 1859.
Sir,—ller Majesty's Government have had under their
consideration the note addressed to you by Senor Collantes
on the 6th of October, of which a copy was inclosed in
your despatch of the following day, in reply to the demand
for explanations which you were instructed by my despatch
of the 22d of September to require of him respecting the
intentions of the Spanish Government in the event of
,the
occupation of Tangier by the Spanish forces.
You were instructed to apply to the Spanish Govern-
ment for a declaration, in writing, that if the Spanish
troops should, in the course of hostilities, occupy Tangier,
that occupation would bo temporary, and would not extend
beyond the ratification of a Treaty of Peace between Spain
and Morocco ; and in your note to Senor Collantes of the
27th of September you said that it would be a ...satisfaction
to her Majesty's Government to learn that the military
preparations of the Spanish Government did not indicate
any intention on their part to make conquests in Morocco,
or to occupy permanently any part of the Sultan's territory.
Senor Collantes, in his reply of the 6th of October, states
that when once the treaty of peace which should put an
end to the hostilities between Spain and Morocco should be
ratified, the questions now existing being settled favour-
ably, and therefore definitively, the Spanish Government,
in fulfilment of their intentions, would not continue in the
occupation of that fortress (Tangier), in the supposition
that they should have found themselves obliged to esta-
blish thoniselves there in order to secure the favourable
issue of their operations.
You state to M. Collantes that her Majesty's Go-
vernment accept with pleasure this assurance, as conveying
the declaration which, by my despatch of the 22d Septem-
beYr, you were instructed to ask for.
You will further state to his Thccollency that her Majesty's
Government earnestly desire that there may be no change
of possession on the Moorish coast of the straits. The im-
portance they attach to this object cannot be overrated ; and
it would he imPo4sible for them, or indeed for any other
maritime Power, to see with inclifforeucce thfl pormanelit

Mr. Buchanan to Lord J. Russell—(Received Oct. 29.)
Madrid, Oct. 24, 1859.
My Lord,--With reference to your Lordship's telegrams
of the 19th and 20th inst,, on the subject of the alleged in-
tention of Spain to obtain a cession from Morocco of several
miles of territory on the coast of the Straits of Gibraltar, I
have the honour to inclose herewith the copy of a note
which I addressed to M. Calderon Collantes on the 21st
inst., expressing the objections which her Majesty's Go-
vernment would entertain to the occupation by Spain of the
coast west of Ceuta; and requesting his Excellency to
name the points on that coast Which Would be inoluaed in
the rayon of the fortress, if the views of her Catholic Ma-
jesty's Government are carried into effect.
I have also the honour to inclose the copy and transla-
tion of all aIIaWPT Wlll4 WM? rPPTIVP4 frO2D NE4
bonny, declaring distinctly t at her etholip inajesty's Go-
vernment have no intention to oeoupy any point on the
said coast, which would give Spain a supenority that
would be dangerolli tq the navigation of the 041444—1
have, &c.
(Signed) ANDREW BUOHA.NAN.

• Inclogure 1 in No. 4.
Mr. Buchanan to Senor Collantes.

Madrid, Oct. 21, 1859.
Sir,—The Government of the Queen my Sovereign have
reason to believe, from the reports of her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires at Tangier, and from the late declarations of her
Catholic Majesty's Government in the Cortes, that her
Catholic Majesty is about to declare war on the Emperor of
Morocco, in consequence of the Moorish Government hav-
ing declined a demand on the part of her Government that
certain territory lying between the fortress of Ceuta and
the mountainous ridge, or_Sierra of , Bullones, should be
eeded to Spain.
From my verbal communications to your Excellency on
this subject, you are already aware that tie Government of
the Queen my Sovereign entertain apprensions that the
cession to Spain of the territory in question cannot take
place without seriously compromising the freedom of the
navigation of the Straits of Gibraltar; and it is, therefore,
my duty, in execution of instructions which I have received
from her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, to inquire how far her Catholic Majesty's Govern-
ment propose that the rayon of Ceuta should be extended,
and more particularly to request that our Excellency will
have the goodness to name the points on the coast which,
in the event of the views of her Catholic Majesty's Govern-
ment being carried into effect, would be included within
the territory of Spain.
In addressing these inquiries to your Excellency, I am
further to request that I may receive answers to them at
your Excellency's earliest convenience.—l avail, &c.,
(Signed) ANDREW BUCHANAN.

Inclosure 2in o. 4.
Palace, Oct. 21, 1859.
Sir —I have received the note which you have had the
goodness to address to me, dated this day, and I have in-
formed myself of its contents with particular attention.
In the present state of the question 'of Morocco, owing to
the inconceivable resistance of the Sultan's Government to
satisfying the just demands of Spain, it is very difficult, if
not impossible, for the Cabinet of Madrid to determine, even
approximatety, the nature of the guarantees which they
may find themselves under the necessity of asking, in order
to assure the results of the hostilities which are on the point
of commencing.
You cannot be unaware, nor can your enlightened Go-
vernment either be ignorant, that when two nations appeal
for the settlement of their differences to force of arms, on the
diplomatic relations which have been p-irsued without
effect being broken off, former proposals are declared null,
and considered as if they had not been made, while both
parties resirve to themselves the right of renewing them, or
of presenting others of a different kind, according as it may
suit their interests, and correspond to the results of the
military operations.
Notwithstanding this, the Government of the Queen my
Sovereign, who have given so many and such marked proofs
of their conciliatory and upright spirit in the different in-
cidents which have sprung from the question with Morocco,
will not vary the intentions which they had formed from
the beginning of that question, not to occupy any point on
the Straits whose position could afford to Spain a superiority
dangerous to the navigation. In this matter their ideas
have been always so disinterested and loyal that they can-
not believe that any doabt can have been conceived with
regard to them.

Nevertheless, her Majesty's Government, in whose name
I have repeatedly offered to you the explanations necessary
for dissipating every species of doubt, if by chance it had
been. conceived with respect to their intentions, do not wish
to omit the statement made above, feeling sure that her
Britannic Majesty's Government, in asking for it, have no
other object than to secure the safety of the interests of
Great Britain, and not in any manner to interfere in the
contest which is about to be engaged in between two inde-
pendent nations.—l avail, &c.,
(Signed) SITURNINO CALDBRON COLLINTES.

FROM TTIE GAZETTE. OF LAST NIGHT

MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, OCT. 31.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Lieu-
tenant-Colonel George Ashley Maude, C. 8., Royal Artil-
lery, to be Crown Equerry, Secretary to the Master of the
Horse, and Superintendent of the Royal Stables, vice
Major Groves, deceased.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 7.
-

The Qiieen has been pleased to present the Rev. George
Green Gill= to the church and parish of Dalmellington, in
the presbytery and shire of Ayr, vacant by the transporta-
tion of the Rev. David Stirling to the church and parish of
Craigie.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 2.
The Qneen has been graciously pleased to appoint John
George Cope Lewis Newnham, Esq., now her Majesty's
Consul at Monrovia, to be her Majesty's Consul at Am-
sterdam.

DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Chas. Cornwallis
Brownrigg, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Coun-
cil of the Island of Mauritius.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Eugenio
Gomez Molinero as Vice-Consul at Accra for her Majesty
the Queen of Spain.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S COUNCIL CHAMBER,
BUCKINGHAM-GATE, Nov. 4.
The names of those who have been nominated by the
Council of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to serve the office
of Sheriff of the county of Cornwall :
Humphry Willyams, of Cornanton, Esq.
John Francis Bassett, of Tehidy, Esq.
Thomas Tresilian Spry Carlyon, of Tregrehan, Esq.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Nov. 8.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Assistant-Com-
missary-General Frederick George Woolrabe has been per-
mitted to resign his commission.
ADMIRA.,I•Ty, Nov. 8.
To be Honorary Physicians to her Majesty—Sir John
F.R.S., Director-General of the Me-
dical Department of M.
the Navy ; John Wilson (b), D.,
Lpi.dßd.esl Clnspector-GeneralM.D., of Hospitals and Fleets; Alex-
ander Nisbett, M.D., Inspector-General of Hospitals and
Fleets; Alexander Bryson, M.D F.R.S., Inspector-Ge-
neral of Hospitals and Fleets.
To be Honorary Surgeons to her Majesty—Oliver Evans,
M.D., Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets;
Jobn Grant Stewart, M.D., Deputy-Inspector-General of
Hospitals and Fleets; James Wingate Johnston, M.D.,
Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets; Thos.
Russell Dann, M.D., Deputy-Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals and Fleets.
COMMISSIONS BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia—
George Robert Harriott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Page,
promoted.
14th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers—Josiah Wilkinson,
Esq., to be Captain ; William Atkinson Langdale, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant ; Robert Barclay, Gant., to be Ensign.
Exeter and South Devon Volunteer Rifle Battalion—
Arthur Charles Chichester to be Captain, vice Brown, re-
signed; Lewis Trelawney Clark to be Lieutenant, vice
George, promoted ; Robert Killick Valiance to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Haines, resigned; Henry William Clark to be
Ensign.
Ist Company of Devon Volunteer Artillery—John Hol-
man to be First Lieutenant, vi :e Adney, resigned; Richard
Holman to be Second Lieutenant, vice John Holman, pro-
moted.
North Devon Mounted Rifles.—Francis Fortescue to be
Lieutenant, vice Marshall, deceased ; Lewis Stafford North-
cote to be Cornet, vice Trcl'usis, promoted ; Edward Cecil
' Bishopp to be Cornet, vice Mallett, promoted.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia—Lieu-
tenant Joseph Hamilton to be Captain, vice Adams, pro-
moted.

:lbv.tet
to be
Volunteers-6th
eunntieetsrniisasain Lieutenant,
vicesici Militia—Ensign
o nGeßgei tanmoet e.
Company
Morris, aran, rmeeesiigresigned.
(Glasgowneedd.Hand-
cock;
eELbaac Lanarkshire rYLki diossdrhtkl eierrtße
Northern 2d).—James Taylor, Esq., to bo Captain ; James
Rankin, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; David Winton, Gent.,
to be Ensign. 7th Company (Glasgow Northern 3d).—
Archibald Keir Murray, Esq., to be Captain; James
Leitch Lang, Gent., to ba Lieutenant ; William G. Mur-
ray, Gent., to be Ensign. Bth Company (Glasgow
Northo n 4th) —John Graham Galbraith, Esq., to be Cap-
tain ; Charles Inglis, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Bobert Bu-
chanan Stewart, Gent., to be Ensign. 9th Company
(Glasgow Bankers Ist)—James Robertson, Esq., to be
Captain ; James Syme, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Hugh
Cowan, Gent., to be Ensign. 10th Company (Glasgow
Southern 2d)—William Smith Dixon, Esq.' to be Captain ;
Charles O'Neill, Gent., to be Lieutenant; James London,
Gent., to be Ensign.
Edinburgh City Artillery Militia—William Pounsott,
Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, vice Davidson, promoted.
Ist Edinburgh (City) Artillery Volunteers—joseph Noel
Paton, Esq., to be Captain; John Faod, Esq., to be*First
Lieutenant ; James Archer, Gent., to be Second Lieu-
tenant.
3d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia—
Lieutenant Feriars Compton Clarges Loftus to be Captain,
vice Waite, who retires; Ensign Thomas Bolger to be
Lieutenant, vice Loftus, promoted; Ensign Frederick A.
Verner to be Lieutenant, vice Bottomley, appointed to the
Royal Marines; William Lisle Blonkinsopp Coulson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Bolger, promoted.
MEMORANDUM. Her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to permit Captain William Waite, on his retirement,
to retain his rank, in consideration of his having served 29
years iu the regiment.

BANKRUPTS.
James Owen, grocer, 90, Westminster-bridge-road.
Robert Milburn nnl James Lewellen White, merchants,
Cheapside.

SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Welehman, commission agent, Glasgow.
James Ranken Laing, deceased, watchmaker, Glasgow.
Janet Bl'Dougall, Dundas-street, Glasgow.

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The
atmwshnuohedTnrinc:h arrived in Ply
as mouth Sound on Monday
lat. 4 S., long. 26.45 W,, the barque Hope, from
/404 (I a 40 days out, with passengers. The Ha-
vannah experienced very heavy weather off Cape
Horn and in the latitude of the River Plate, and
for the last fortnight has had a succession of gales
from every quarter, but sustained no damage. She
was commissioned at Devonport in August, 1855,
and it after inspection to go up Hamoaze. Her
crew will be paid off at Plymouth,
A e ma-martial assembled on Monday on board
her Majesty's ship Impregnable at Plymouth for
th trial of Lieut. Marcus Patrick Costello, of the
Diadem, 32, screw steamvessel, for having been
drunk on board between the hours of 9 and 10
o'clock in the forenoon-of the 28th of October, and
incapable of performing his duty. The following
composed the court :—Capt. R. S. Robinson, Wel-
lington, president ; Capt. W. J. Williams Royal
Adelaide ; Capt. R W. Jerningham, Cambridge ;
Capt. W. IL Stewart, C. 8., Impregnable; and
Capt. Roderick Dew, Encounter. Capt. J. H.
Cockburn, of th 3 Diadem, prosecuted. The prisoner
pleaded guilty to the charge, and in extenuation
said he attended a ball on shore on the night of the
27th of October, and attributed his being intoxi-
cated to this circumstance, and not having had rest
for the night. +triad drunk but very little, but,
having received a sunstroke some time back, a small
quantity of liquor took effect on him. In reply to
the Court, the prosecutor said the prisoner was not
offensive, but, on the contrary, his demeanour was
quite respectful. The Court sentenced the prisoner
to be dismissed her Majesty's service.
Her Majesty's screw ship Tartar, 20, arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from Halifax, from
which port she sailed on the 13th of October, in
company with the Devastation. Since the 17th of
October she has experienced very heavy, gales from
the south-east to north-west. On the 18th she
carried away her bowsprit, with jibboom and gear
attached, and sprang a leak, which has since kept
the men almost continuously at the pumps. From
the 17th to the 26th she had constant south-easterly
winds, with heavy gales and tremenious seas, shift-
ing occasionally without the slightest warning to the
N.V. Since the 26th the wind has been chiefly from
the westward, with a heavy sea on until well in the
Channel. From the continual working and strain-
ing. of the ship consequent on the rough weather
during her passage home she is making a deal of
water. The last fortnight of the passage all hands
had been on short allowance. Captain Dunlop has
recently been appointed Commodore of the first
class a Jamaica. The Tartar has been upwards of
five years in commission, three of which she has
been on the North America and West India station,
and has been during the past summer actively en-
gaged on the Newfoundland fishery commission.
The following are the only officers remaining of the
original appointments to her :—Captain Dunlop,
Mr. Penfold, paymaster; Mr. Oakshot t, engineer;
Mr. Fairbairn, assist-surgeon ; and Mr. Haynes,
carpenter.
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, Capt. T. Baillie,
and the Queen, 86, screw, both steamed into Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday from Spithead.
The Vulcan, screw troopship, Commander Strode,
yesterday crossed her topsail yards, which have been
fitted with Canningliam's patent topsails and reef-
ing gear.
The troopship Himalaya sailed from Kingstown
on Monday, for Portsmouth, nt 3.30 p.m., having
on board 800 men of the Royal Elthorne Militia.
She was delayed till 5.40 p.m. by her grounding in
the mouth of the harbour. She sustained little

injury.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty : Commander H. D. Selby, to the
Odin ; Lieut. H. C. Onslow, to the Corn wallis ;
JohnNihill, Surgeon-additional, to the Chesapeake;
Alfred King, Aksist.-Surg., to the James Watt ;
William Yarde and Robert L. Bett, Acting Assist.-
Surg., to the Chesapeake ; Benjamin Harding,
Master's-Assist., to the Fawn ; Thomas H. Elliott,
Master's-Assist., to the Mutine ; Richard E. Deni-
son, third-class Assist.-Engineer, to the Wellington,
as supernumerary ; John Peach, acting third class
Assist.-Engineer, to the Centaur ; J. K. Pierce,
Assist.-Paymaster, to the Mutine ; and Arthur
Hughes, clerk, to the Victory.