The Sun. — 1870-05-30 (London, England)

GENERAL PRIM ON THE PORTUGUJ  CRISIS. The following is the substance of the speech of Gelle'' Prim, delivered in the Spanish Cortes on the 24th, on " news from Pcrtugal. The Chamber will have remarked, '1 said, the reserve which the Ministry has maintained since thei day when the news of the recent events in Portiigf reached Spain. The Government, however, finds obliged to enter upon some explanations so as to avoid the risk of being thought to be the instrument of passions 111 is not necessary to specify. He then read a desPgtiLe received from Lisbon, stating that in consequence of °news from Sprain the whole of the Portuguese Deputil had taken an oath en masse to defend the independence ° Portugal. "It has been believed," continued eneol Prim, b" that the events in Portugal were due to th,'; machiavelism of the Spanish Government. Therefore 4 wish in the name of all my colleagues to declare inmost emphatic manner that the Spanish Government total stranger to all that is taking place in Portugal. oiLlt is well known that persons have long thong, this would be a favourable opportunity for SI.) and Portugal to realise the dream of peril unity. Unfortunately for me I was once kuol, to speak loudly in favour of that scheme in Lisbon its% I now say in this place, believing that I interpret toil feeling of the country and the Chamber, that the Spani,s,v nation has no idea of accomplishing the Iberian union ", force, violence, or conquest. They wish fcr rather fraternal relations between the two countries. Tl'e' wish for the day when there shall be no longer a frontier' line between Spain and Portugal—when a Spanish a(11,°;, cate may exercise his profession in Portugal, and a Port guese doctor come and practice medicine in Spain. .19,, if this union is ever accomplished it will be on the c,,°r dition that each nation preserves its autonomy. -'l,l from us he the, thought that the noble Portuguese shon;, be erased from the book of nations. In Portugal Spain there are men who never miss an opportoll.4, of misrepresentation. I trust my words will spec it reach even to the Portuguese Chambers, so that °%, brothers may know that the national independence tb,ei have sworn to defend will never be attacked by Span.',6b arms, that they may put aside their suspicions wlts nothing justifies, and acknowledge that Spain wis4l;r truly to be the friend of Portugal. Senor Castel` t followed, reproaching the Government of the Peden with not having more strietly observed the neutral'4 required by the gravity of the situation, but appro" the conciliatory tone, adopted by General Prim. Spain Pa no Prussian dreams of war and conquest. The past ASL'A future of the two countries were the same, and he belia7i, nothing would prevent them from one day resting tileh" mutual independence and their mutual sovereignty on federation of the United States of free Iberia.  A letter in the Birmingham Daily Post says ,be the member who took the notes for the Times when 4ie reporters were excluded from the House of Commons other night was Sir John Trelawny, who reported for same paper in 1849, the last' occasion when the reporter' were compelled to leave. The annual meeting of the Society for the Pre,i vention of Cruelty to Animals was held on Saturday, Willis's Rooms, under the presidency of the Right /11,, the Earl of Harrowby, K.G. There was a large and oP fluential attendance, and the Bishop of Gloucester, Bich of Hereford, Sir 'William Erle, Sir E. Landseer, Fraser, and Captain Nugent were on the platform. Alio Burdett Coutts was also present. The noble congratulated the members of the society on its use e p ness, and on the protection which had latterly De afforded to it by legislative interference. lin V' EXPERIMENTING M J IN CHLOROFOR .—Mr. omAnderson, of Govan, writes as follows :—Apropos of te, death of the lamented Sir James Simpson, allow me t° of late my 'first experience of chloroform. The surgeonog the Alligator hospital ship in Hong-Kong, in 1850, Ned enthusiastic in its praise, and when any man-of-war a its whose medical officer had not received the news of oil wonderful properties, he was instanter hauled on he „.d, the Alligator, when the first order given was, " Steiv'eir catch the cat." This unfortunate animal was theulfor dered insensible, and one joint of his tail amput4e',.o,o the benefit of science. When we arrived in the -tieol from the Arctic expedition, a similar invitation wasr this to our surgeons. The cat had only one joint left, an the was razed in our presence. On recovering his sense.s,eli animal cast one mournful look behind, and immedub'op committed suicide by jumping out of the after gan-re port. This is literally a fact.