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

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

HEREFORD.—Mr. Scott Jervis, the third Liberal candidate
for this city, has now formally retired from the contest, as
ho does not wish to divide the Liberal interest. Messrs.
Clive and Wyllie will, therefore, receive the undivided sup
port of the Liberal party.
GREAT GRIMSBY.—Mr. Tomline, who has offered himself
in opposition to Mr. J. Fildes, the late Liberal member,
shares the views of the Liberal party upon the Irish Church
question.
I3ANnunv.--Mr. Mewburn, the second Liberal candidate,
has retired, leaving Mr. Bernhard Samuelson in sole posses-
sion of the field.
EAST CHESHIRE.—Mr. P. P. Joddrell and Mr. J. F. Chest-
ham, the Liberal candidates, have retired, leaving the field to
Mr. Edward Egerton (Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs)
and Mr. W. J. Legh, Conservatives.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.— Sir Roundell Palmer has retired.
Mr. Gathorne Hardy and Mr. Mowbray will therefore be
returned unopposed.
LAMBETH.—It is stated a coalition has taken place between
Mr. Al'Arthur and Mr. Lawrence, and that the names of
will 100 r”;nl..nri nn uno pollinz card. This,
coupled with the fact of Mr. Littler's retirement, will ren-
der the return of the Liberal candidates an absolute cer-
tainty.
NORTH LANCASIIIRE.—Tho excitement intensifies in this
division of the county as to the result of the forthcoming
election. Lord Hartington's prospects are becoming every
day mere definite and cheering. The Conservatives, too,
appear sanguine as to the success of their two candidates,
but independent political men prophesy that the issue of the
election will be the return of Lord llartington and Captain
Stanley.
WAnwrcx.—Mr. Robert Crauford, one of the Liberal can-
didates, has retired from the contest.
WALSALL.—'Monday next has been fixed as the nomina-
tion day for the borough of Walsall. There is some talk of
Mr. Harper of London contesting the borough in the Con-
servative interest, but up to the present time no active steps
have been taken. So far there is every prospect of Mr
Forster again " walking over."
Nolan WILTS.—It is reported that Mr. E. P. Bouverie,
late M.P. for Kilmarnock, will conL‘st the northern divi-
sion of Wilts in the Liberal interest, in the place of Mr
Schomborg, who retires in his favour.
DEVON (Non:110.-1'110re will be a stout 11,,,1tt here, but
the general opinion is that the two late members, Sir S.
Nora:cote and Mr. T. D. Acland, will be returned. The
chairman of tho Liberal Committee has published a
spirited address, in which lie expresses sanguine hopes of
success.

EXETER.--Tbere is a good deal of excitement here in re-
ference to the coining election. The Liberal candidates, Mr.
Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. E. C. Bowring, are supported by the
bulk of the working men. The Attorney-General is sup-
ported by an influential party, and Mr. A. Mills, the other
Tory candidate, is prowl of his success. According to the
return of promises, the Liberals feel certain of success.

The receipts at the theatres, concert-rooms, and
places of public amusement in Paris, amounted in October
to 1,776,0::59f., being an increase of 770,700 f, on the previous
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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 and Princess Christian,
went out this morning.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales
and Princess Louise drove out.

SIR HENRY BULIVEIZ AT 7AMTVORIff.

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, but
he 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, " We 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 ?" of 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, 1119
right hon. friend, then attached to my Embassy,
accompanied me, and, in 24 hours after our arrival
at Taugiers, a settlement of the difference between
Spain and America was effected, and, as we had
anticipated, two or three days afterwards, France
abandoned her warlike intentions, and 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 I
rendered to her country ; Lord Canning, then
Under-Secretary of State, wrote and told me he
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 agaicst
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, II
quarrel, although the fact was not then publicly
known, seemed almost inevitable. The cause wae,
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 nil
left—the hope of the British Navy—Captain Pelf
commanded. We were thus committed in favour
of the Mosquitos against the Nicaraguans. `What,
however, did the United States Government do o
It signed a treaty offensive and defensive with the
Nicaraguans, recognizing the claims of the NiCara'
guar Republic against the Mosquitos, and thereby
pledging itself to come into collision with us on thiffs
subject. Such was the state of things which le
found when I landed at Washington. The did.,
,
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 ; sec',
I discovered that as there was then a project ell'
carrying a canal across Central America, whic
was to unite the Atlantic with the Pacific, and
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as the Mosquito territory was at the mouth of th:
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 jo
were made, to protect it, and to engage to have 11,
exclusive advantages over it. (Hear, hear.)
treaty was made to this effect ; and when I relica
quished my post, Lord Palmerston acknowledge,
my services in Parliament, and attributed the ~
cellent relations which then existed between Bef;
land and the United States in no small degree
my management. (Cheers.) I then went to Itali'
and found a very perplexing question there. 1;4
English gentleman had been cut down in t'"
streets of Florence by an Austrian soldier, and Te's'
tiO
cany, backed by Austria, had refused to give,
satisfaction. I obtained it. This was the case of „1.
Mather, and its settlement was the more import%
because the Russian difficulty was impenclVo
and there can be little doubt that if we had Wye
quarrel with Austria at that time, she would he r,
acted otherwise than she did in the Crimean Na
which almost immediately ensued. (Hear, Wive
And now, coming to the East, I may fairly obsci:eo
that the last person who ought to have SO
harshly on the subject of my having served
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country in foreign parts is Mr. John Peel. Aeeero.
gentleman who trades largely with the Turkish et,
pire. That be is able to do so is owing to the Cc':
" O re
mercial treaty which bears Lord Ponsonby's of
but for which Lord Palmerston told the aollse/0r
Commons that the countryiwas indebted to Inc! for
I negotiated it, and received the warmest thanksea
having done so from Mr. Poulett Thomson, I' for
Minister of the Board of Trade, and menaherolf
Manchester. It is this treaty, 1 say, subsequeco,
extended and improved by me during my last i thebassy, which now regulates the commerce ° opo'
East, and permits, by the destruction of 1110800
lies, and of high interior duties, that advantlio•
traffic which the great commercial houses of
cheater carry on. (Applause.)

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FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Woinesday the cul—,loll
stack of a house in course of erection at DevouPor'Aip-
down, cud 11 men who were employed upon the buto
were buried in the debris. All wera got out alive, to'f.{-er
of them, a Mr. Oliver, master builder, died shortl9
war ds.