The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-13 00:00:00

efflin Ciro) Tar.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 12.

The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of
Wales and the Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess
Royal) drove out yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Crown Prince
and Princess of Prussia awl Princess Christian,
went out this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales
and Princess Louise drove out.

Si].? HENRY BULIVER AT Y AMIVORTIL

In a recent speech Sir Henry Bulwer thus de-
fended the profession of diplomacy, in which he had
attained such high distinction :—I have spoken
thus much of economy, because I have belonged to
a crofession which ought to be the nation's great
means of economy. Yes, gentlemen, " a stitch in
time saves nine," and, I say, after much experience.
that if a diplomacy is properly selected and encou-
raged it can, at the expense of hundreds in the
shape of salary, prevent the expenditure of millions
in the shape of war ; and I say this with the more
certainty, because, though I have done no more
than other men in my profession, I can give
examples in my own career of the truth of my
observations. In 1840 I was—the Abassador being
absent—left as her Majesty's Minister at the
Court of Paris. Affairs were in a very critical
state in consequence of certain complications in
the East. At one moment it was moved in the
French Cabinet that we should be attacked in the
Channel without even war being declared. Finally,
these clouds disappeared, friendly relations were re-
established, and Lord Palmerston did me the honour
of acknowledging that my efforts had been greatly
instrumental in maintaining peace. (Cheers.) I
afterwards went to Spain, and I had hardly been
there a year before war seemed likely to break out
in the Mediterranean. The Spaniards were about
to attack Morocco, the French had lately declared
war against it, the forces of France and Spain
were preparing to conquer and take pos-
session of the coast opposite to Gibraltar—from
that coast our fortress of Gibraltar obtains its
supplies, and thus a state of things was threaten-
ing to arise which would either have called
for our interference or entailed the loss of
a possession deeply connected with our traditional
glory. The great thing was to prevent Spain from
entering into this war, because we foresaw that
France would not continue her war single-handed.
We had for this purpose sent our agent in Morocco
to the Court of the Emperor of that country, bu)
she had returned without success. The French were
bombarding the coast, the Spaniards were en-
camped and ready to embark, when I made a last
attempt with the Spanish Minister, who was then at
Valencia, a town on the Spanish coast, to induce
him to try further negotiation. He listened to me,
and at last he said, " IVe have exhausted all our
national patience, we can negotiate no more, but I
have such confidence in your honour as an English
gentleman, that if you say to me you will consent
to nothing against the honour of Spain, and go
yourself to Tangiers in Morocco, where the Sultan's
Minister now is, I will sanction any arrangement
that you make." The situation was a delicate
one, for I had no instructions that could authorise
me to quit my post, and there were no telegraphic
communications at that time which allowed a re-
ference. " Will you," I said, " give me a word on
a piece of paper to justify me in going on this ex-
pedition ?" "Not a line," he replied—" I trust
your honour, you must trust mine, and you either
start to-night, or I send a courier to order our ex-
pedition to proceed." I started that night, my
right hon. friend, then attached to my Embassy,
accompanied me, and, in 24 hours after our arrival
at Tangiers, a settlement of the difference between
Spain and America was effected, and, as we had
anticipated, two or three days afterwards, Franco
abandoned her warlike intentions, ani a general
pacification ensued. (Neer, hear.) I have only
to add that Queen Isabella's Prime Minister wrote
to me a letter, which I still preserve, saying
that the Queen could never repay the services
rendered to her country ; Lord Canning, then
Under-Secretary of State, wrote and told me be
had never been so proud of the influence of Eng-
land ; and Lord Aberdeen, on my return to Eng-
land, had me placed, with the concurrence of Sir
Robert Peel, then Prime Minister, on the list of
Privy Councillors. I quitted Spain subsequently
for warning the Queen and her councillors against
a tyrannical policy which I foresaw must in the end
banish her from the throne of her ancestors. But
good advice is rarely popular advice. (Hear, hear.)
I then went to the United States. On arriving,
quarrel, although the fact was not then publicly
known, seemed almost inevitable. The cause was
this—we protected an Indian people in Central
America called the Mosquitos. They were at'
tacked by a small Spanish Republic called Nicara-
gua. The Nicaraguans were repulsed by a British
force which a gallant officer, whose picture is to mi
left—the hope of the British Navy—Captain Peel,
commanded. We were thus committed in favour
of the Mosquitos against the Nicaraguans. What,
however, did the United States Government do ?
It signed a treaty offensive and defensive with the
Nicaraguans, recognizing the claims of the Nicara-
guan Republic against the Mosquitos, and thereby
pledging itself to come into collision with us on this
subject. Such was the state of things which I
found when I landed at Washington. The diffi-
culty was of the gravest kind, for the national
honour on either side was engaged. My first
endeavour was to discover what had caused

the Americans to side with the Nicaraguans ; and
I discovered that as there was then a project of
carrying a canal across Central America, which
was to unite the Atlantic with the Pacific, and
as the Mosquito territory was at the mouth of tbill
projected canal, the Americans thought we were
protecting the Mosquitos in order to get hold of the
canal. Seeing this, I proposed that instead of going
to war about this canal, we should both agree, if it
were made, to protect it, and to engage to have n°
exclusive advantages over it. (Hear, hear.) At'
treaty was made to this effect ; and when I relin-
quished my post, Lord Palmerston acknowledged
my services in Parliament, and attributed the or
cellent relations which then existed between Eng'

land and the United States in no small degree t 0
my management. (Cheers.) I then went to It5lY
and found a very perplexing question there. An
English gentleman had been cut down in 01°
streets of Florence by an Austrian soldier, and TO'
cany, backed by Austria, had refused to give 'l4
satisfaction. I obtained it. This was the case of P.:
Mather, and its settlement was the more important
because the Russian difficulty was impending'
and there can be little doubt that if we had had LI
quarrel with Austria at that time, she would Wl°
acted otherwise than she did in the Crimean mar'
which almost immediately ensued. (bear, hear";
And now, coming to the East, I may fairly obserlr,,
that the last person who ought to have spoiLe"
harshly on the subject of my having served 14
country in foreign parts is Mr. John Peel. liels 5
gentleman who trades largely with the Turkish era'
pire. That he is able to do so is owing to the COin;
mercial treaty which bears Lord Ponsonby's narnoi
but for which Lord Palmerston told the House
or
Commons that the countryjwas indebted to inel for
I negotiated it, and received the warmest thanks .1
having done so from Mr. Poulett Thomson, °for
Minister of the Board of Trade, and member itiy
Manchester. It is this treaty, 1 say, subsequently.
extended and improved by me during my last, edit)
bassy, which now regulates the commerce 01 0.
East, and permits, by the destruction of Inoliio
lies, and of high interior duties, that advantager4.,
traffic which the great commercial houses of I‘-'
cheater carry on. (Applause.)

FATAL ACCIDENT.--011 Wednesday the chiEcdril
stack of a house in course of erection atflevonnort
idisg
down, and 11 men who were employed upon the Wl,'
were buried in the debris. All wera got out alive, but OP ,
of them, a Mr. Oliver, master builder, died shortly afte''
wards.