"Vie ippertator," filap 18th, 1850
ENGLAND has renewed diplomatic relations with Spain ; Lord Palmerston having accepted the overtures of our restored ally, in a characteristic manner. The overtures were made in a despatch of the 30th of March ; the reply is made on the 23rd of April: Lord Palmerston expresses satisfaction at the renewal of relations, and says that if his friend had not been otherwise engaged, he would now have sent as Envoy to Madrid Sir Henry Buiwer !—studiously making the reconciliation as like an affront as possible. By the way, why do not some of our zealous Financial Reformers set on foot a real enquiry, whether the want of an ambassador at Madrid has caused us any incon- venience whatever, and whether the salary might not be saved in future ? They need not be afraid that the Ministers would be driven out of office, even by defeat, on such a question.
Sir Henry Bulwer was at this time Ambassador in Washing- ton. He had previously been Ambassador in Madrid, but in 1848 he was ordered to quit Madrid within forty-eight hours by the revolutionary junta of Marshal Narvaez, against whose suppression of the constitutional guarantees he had formally protested.
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