The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-11-27

FOreigi, News.


inst, we learn the following facts in
reference to the reception Of Mr.. Soule
our Minister 10 Spain:
/ On the evening Of the 22d, Mr..
soule, Minister Of the United States
to Spain, was admitted to an audience
with The Queen. The Queen was at.
tended by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and BY the officers Of the pal
ace. After being ushered in with the
usual ceremonies, Mr.. Soule handed
to the Queen the Presidents letter,
aecrediting him as Envoy to the
Spanish Court, and then addressed her
as follows ii the English language:
Mr.. Soute's Speech L." Madam :
In delivering the letter which aecred-
its ME as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary Of the Uni
ted States Of America to the Court Of
your Majesty, cannot dispense with
expressing the satisfaction experience
in having only to give the most friend
" assurance to your Royal person, and
to the people confded to your direction
and solicitude
The respected chief who presides at
this moment over the destinies of
America, anxiously desires that the
best understanding should character
ise the relations Of bis Government
with that Of your Majesty, and it would
be to me a qualification, as 1t is duty,
10 cultivate and develope every event
calculated to render more intimate the
ties Of interest which exist between
Spain and the United States, and to
strengthen the bonds which unite the
two Powers. | offer, Madame, to
your Majesty my sincere wishes for
The welfare Of your Royal person and
august family. May the reign Of your
Majesty be fortunate aud fruitful in
events destined to render your people
happy and prosperous.
To the address the Queen replied
as follows;
Queen Isabeita's Repiy--Mon.
sieur the Minister [ heard with
satisfaction the assurances you have
given to me relative to the friendly
sentiments of the President Of the
United States, and | feel pleasure in
assuring you that they are not sur
passed by those which animate me
for his person and for your country.
Those new assurances, always greatful
20 me, convince me more and more Of
she interest which Spain as we'll as the
United States, have to preserve and
draw closer their former relations. In |
me your Excellency will find the best
dispositions, and in my government
the sincerest cooperation for the ao.
conplishment Of SO important and 80
desirable an object
EF-There has been such a dearth |
in the mortality Of great men, for the
past few months. that the papers are
now passing around the intelligence
that last month sometime, "'rhe bay
gelding, Hero, who made the fastest
time on record, is dead The notices
headed, "Another revolutionary hero
gone" "the Oldest man---and the Hon
orable Muggings dead'-bave been
crowded out Of the first column, to
give place to the fastest bay gelding.-.
And after all where's the difference
Is not the horse as complicated in his
organism as his masterl Ii he not
positively the nobler animal Of the
two, filing his position in creation
with a vast deal more dignity and
honor. II Is even SO: therefore we
record the fact, "That the bay gelding
(the New York Tribune is our author
ity) who performed on Saturday last,
the most remarkable feat Of speed and
bottom ever recorded in the history
of the turf died on Saturday night
After he had performed that unpre-
cedented race against time, going 100
miles in 8 hours and So minutes, on
the Long Island Centreville course he
was taken to the stable, where he was