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The papers relative to the Danish succession , have been presented to Parliament . It is noticeable that Sir Henry Wvnn , our ambassador to Denmark , in transmitting to lord Clarendon a copy of the despatch addressed by the T ) anish Minister of Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents accredited to the Courts of the Powers that signed the treaty of May 8 , 1852 , suggests ^ to Lord Clarendon a spon taneous declaration of the English Cabinet approving the proposed abolition of the lex regia , and the general policy of the Danish Government on the question , as such a declaration would be particularly agreeable to the Danish Government . Accordingly lord Clarendon replies that
though tho policy of the Danish Government is not amenable to the opinion of any foreign Cabinet , he has no obiection to instruct Sir J ± . Wynn to assure the Danish Government that " Her Majesty ' s Government does full Justice to the motives which have influenced the Danish ¦ Government , and that he sees no re i son to depart from the opinion often expressed by Lord Palmerston , that the abol ition of the lex regia would furnish a simple , certain , and to all appearances convenient method of preventing such ulterior complications as the treaty of May was intended to obviate . "
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AMERICA AND ENGLAND . These is news from New York of a Convention on the Fisheries , proposed by English statesmen to the American Government . The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald , writing on the 18 th , says : — " I have reason to believe that the annexed statement with regard to the fishery and reciprocity questions can be implicitly relied upon since the failure of the project negotiated by Mr . Everett , but not presented to the Senate . " The British Government have presented the following propositions for the consideration of our Government : — " 1 . The free navigation of the river St . Lawrence . " 2 . To permit colonial-built vessels to obtain registers , that privilege being- already granted in England to American and other foreign-built vessels . " 3 . To abolish the system of bounties to our
fishermen . " 4 . To throw open the Californian coasting-trade , that is to say , to allow British vessels to load in the Atlantic States for California . " 5 . To abolish the duty on fish brought here in colonial bottoms . " 6 . Reciprocal trade with the provinces in certain articles , the growth of each country , based upon the Reciprocity Bill introduced by Mr . Grinnell in 1848 , and passed by the House of Representatives ; if their propositions were agreed to , a participation in the British North American fisheries was to be extended to American fishermen .
" It is understood the proposition to permit colonial built vessels to obtain American register , has been declined by the Cabinet on the grounds , principally , that ifc is properly a matter for Congressional action , liather than the exercise of the treaty making the power , it would be for Congress to determine how far it is expedient to amend the tariff by modifying the duties on iron , copper , hemp , &c , so as to enable our shipbuilders to compete with the colonists on equal tei-ms . " The proposition to abolish the system of bounties t ) our fishermen was declined , upon the ground that tho bounties are matters of internal policy , with which England cannot be permitted to interfere .
" The propositions to throw open the California coast-i ing- trndo was declined , on the ground that the constitution declares that all tho States of tho Union shall be ° » nn equal footing , and that , therefore , the coasting trade of California could not bo opened to England without the carrying with it also the whole coasting tnwle of the United States . As for tho proposition of reciprocal trade , it was considered as much too limited ; ""( 1 there appeared to bo no disposition on tho part of Eng land to extend ifc to an interchange in all articles of growth , product , and manufacture of the country and
provinces respectively . It was even doubtful if Eng-1 'ind would consent to a reciprocal trade in the articles ' "wnorntod in Mr . Seymour's Bill of last Session . This 1 H tho present position of tho negotiations . It in , how-* V (! r , believed that n project of n tronty may yet bo "f ^ reed upon , as there appears to bo a strong desiro on ™| th sides to settle tho matter ; it is therefore probable Mr . Marcy will submit a proposition on tho part , of tlio Ooverninent , defining precisely what , tho United States » ' •« willing to agree to , and wo havo littlo doubt when thai , -proposition is made , that n speedy solution of tho uiflic . ulty will bo had . "
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PROTESTANTS IN SPAIN . Tins restrictions on tho decent burial of dead ProwvitantR in Madrid nro detailed in the following cor' •^ pomleneo , just ; published in tho Parliamentary papers : — J I-OIU ) HOWDKN TO Tins KAIlTi Olf fll . A HV . Ti DON . ( llKOKlVKI ) JUNK . 13 . ) << » . T . "Miuiii . l , May ; i <> , i 85 : t . 'vi v Ijoiu ) , —1 havo tho honour to enclose a copy nnd wiinslntoon ol' u noto I havo received from tho Miniater for
Foreign . Affairs , containing permission to'establish a burialground for British Protestant subjects . " Although this permission appears the direct consequence of a right secured by treaty , it has for half-a-century been opposed , evaded , or delayed , and I have had the greatest difficulty in obtaining it . " I have been told confidentially that the fear / which has always actuated all . Spanish Governments , and excited constantly both the open and underhand opposition of the ecclesiastical authorities , is , that by any concession whatever a wedge would be introduced by Protestant
Governments as a means of demanding further facilities on subjects connected with any manifestation of a different ritual than that which is alone tolerated by law . " I have so often debated this question , both in words and in writing , that I have deemed ifc quite useless to make any rejoinder to the three first conditions contained in the enclosed . When once a nation , like an individual , sets at nought the opinion of the whole civilized world for tho gratification of some darling passion , it is perfectly idle , as I feel it to be in this case , to hope that any representations can have avail .
" I , however , could not refrain from making an observation on the fourth point , and I add herewith the copy of my note . " I have , &c , " Hoytdek . "
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MRS . NORTON'S REJOINDER . Mrs . Noeton has written a lengthened reply to her husband ' s letter . As to his charge against her of not paying her creditors , and his general statements as to pecuniary matters , she protests against her literary income being set down as a certain 5001 . a-year , and passes these pecuniary matters as things which are nothing to the world . She then charges him with having twice in her life endeavoured , on a false pretence , to rob her of her reputation .
"In 1836 I had a quarrel with my husband . Our cause of quarrel was , whether I should , or should . not , take my children to the house of my brother , who would not receive my husband . I persisted . My husband baffled me by sending my children to the woman who has since left him her property , who threatened to give me into the hands of the police when I went to claim them , and I left town alone , for my brother ' s country seat . Such being our real quarrel , I charge Mr . Norton with contriving that the whole world should believe ( as they did believe ) that my misconduct had broken up our home , that I was an unfaithful wife , and that my lover was Lord Melbourne . He brought an action against Lord Melbourne . The
witnesses for that action were proved on trial to be of the lowest and most degraded class . The chief witness was a drunken , discarded groom , who was then a ragseller in Monmoufch-street ; both he and others were proved to have been sent down to Lord * Grantley ' s place , and to have received a weekly stipend from his agent while there . The trial was brought in 1830 ; nevertheless , no evidence was offered after tho year 1833 ; the servants living- with us after that time were not called ; nothing was heard but the witnessing of tho rag-seller and his companions , who admitted in court that they had received money . In spito of all which strange advantages , and the fact that a woman is not allowed to defend herself in these actions , the verdict went against Mr . Norton . "
She accuses him of having now raked up this old and refuted slander . " I was young when , this slander was first raised ; my children were infants . I was one of a numerous and affectionate family ; I had kind friends , and a good cause . I struggled like a drowning person against disgrace , and reached the shore . Already theso miserable affairs wero hnlf forgotten by tho world ; and in literary occupation , devotion to my sons , and tho firm friendship of thoso who knew my real story , I thought to have spent tho future of a stormy past . Mr . Norton has not permitted this . Onco more ho has dragged mo into shameful publicit y ; but on his own letter 1 will rest my justification , now and for ever !"
She then quotes several letters , in which Mr . Norton used terms of endearment , and tho broadest hints towards a reunion . Then detailing discrepancies between Norton ' s evidence and the statements in his letter , she sums Tip the result , -. " By his own admission then , no stipulation respecting Lord Melbourne was made ; arid no mention of linn was made in Mr . Norton ' s letter to mo , which letter distinctly states , that , my brother ' s solicitor having informed him I hud my mother ' s legacy , thorqforrhu will break ( . he
agreement . Jle does not Hay , ' you havo had money given you by . Lord Melbourne ' s family , therefore I slop your allowance . ' ITo says , ' you have got a legacy from your mother ; share it with mo , or I will force yon to nharo it , by nonpayment of what I owe you ; ' nor was it ' after I had enjoyod it ; Homo time , ' but on tho contrary , nfc the exact ; dulo of receipt of * my mother ' s properly , that Mr . Norton fulfilled his throat . ; nnd us ho expressly Hays ho novor know till he saw my banker ' s hook , thai , I had . Lord Melbourne ' s bequest , he admits that my mother'o annuity was Ih ' h only reason .
YY ith rospoot to Lord Melbourne , threo years after the < lato Mr . Norton himnelf assigns to the anecdote he has thought fit to publish , lie writes thus ; speaking of the woman who afterwards left , him tho Yorkshire proporfcy , and who had invited him to ( lino : ' I sent her a civil oxeune , which was answered by a thorough lovo-letler ; indocd it , is high timo Unit . 1 uliouhl sanction to a remarking- world yauvpunc / taut for old men , by ' nuflbriiig Chin antiquo /( tup j > as . ' Tho post-mark of that letter to Augunl , 8 , IHiH . i . do not know if Mr . 'Norton will porm ' Ht that it , is tho remark of a jealous husband /" By letters from Lord Melbourne , Mm . Norton proves thai , she used her interest , with Lord Melbourne <;<> gel ; Mr . Norton tho situation ho now holds . Sho then recounts Mr . Norton ' s admission , and denies seriatim Mr . Norton ' s assertions .
" Mr . Norton ( ulmits Unit wo did m > l part on Lord Melbourne ' s account , in IH . 'K ! , but- thai , lie took then , an ho takes now , any slander ho could find , to involve mo in undenorvo ( l shame and dingrace . Ho aitmittt , that lio solicited my return after tho trial , in a familiar , josting , and
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September 3 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 847
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" Enclosure 1 . —( Translation ) . '¦ " Madrid , May 24 , 1853 . "Mt Lord , —" With reference to what I stated to your Lordship in my note of the 29 th ult ., I have the honour to inform your Lordship that , according to a
communication which I have received from the Minister of the Interior , the Queen my Sovereign , agreeing to the opinion of the Consultive Board of Police of this capital , has been pleased to grant permission for the construction , at the place known by the name of La Herradura , at a short distance from the hill of San Damaso , in the vicinity of this capital , of a cemetery for Protestant British subjects ¦ who may die in this town , under the following conditions , which have been already communicated to the British Legation in the note of the 6 th of July , 1851 : —
" 1 . The cemetery will be erected on the hill of San Damaso , outside the gate of Toledo , and ifc will be codstructed with subjection to the hygienic or sanitary rules required by establishments of this kind . " 2 . No church , chapel , or any other sign of a temple , or of public or private worship , will be allowed to be built in . the aforesaid cemetery . " 3 . All acts which can give any indication of the performance of any Divine service whatsoever are prohibited . " 4 > . In the conveyance of the dead bodies to ^ the burialground any sort of pomp or publicity shall be avoided .
" The Civil Governor of this province has already been made acquainted with tho aforesaid Royal decision , and , on communicating it to your Lordship , I cannot abstain from adding , with reference to what is stated to me by the Minister of the Interior , that the epithet of ' gratuitous , ' which has been applied to the delay which this affair has experienced is not just ; because , in spite of the wishes and exertions of the public Administration , there arc sometimes powerful causes which occasion a necessary delay in tho despatch of business , as has boon the caso with tho affair in question . " I avail , &c . " Francesco Leksustdi . "
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Enclosure 2 . " liOED IIOWDEN TO GENERAL IiEKSUNDT . " Madrid , May 30 , 1953 . " Sir , —I havo tho honour to acknowledge your Excellency ' s noto concerning tho establishment of a cemetery for British Protestant subjects who may die in this capital . "With regard to tho first three conditions specified in tho document I shall say nothing , having already said uselessly n great deal , and often , on tho subject . M . y opinion on thorn is that of Europe , including tho groat Catholic nations of France , Austria , Portugal , Belgium , Sardinia , and Brazil ; and , if that opinion bo indifferent to tho nation of her Catholic Majesty , England will at least find herself in good company in tho appreciation of tho above conditions .
" I havo , however a word to saj ^ on fourth condition , beeauso I think that it is practically a seed of future dilliculfcy . " It is this : — ' So evitar / i en la conduction do los cadavercs toda claso do ponipa y publicidad . ' ( ' In convoying tho dead bodies to tho burial-ground every kind of pomp or publicity nhall ho avoided . ' ) " This clause is as vague in its nonao as it is in its phraseology . What ; may bo called pomp in this country may only bo deemed decency by persona brought up with different feelings as to charity , and animated by a respect ; for the dead which i- ) unaffected by latitudes . " What , publicity means 1 am entirely at , a loan to discover ; I really do not hoo how it ; is possible to convoy a corpse from the gate of Atoeha to the gate of Toledo without ; ifc being known thai ; it , in a dead man , which recognition ih in it-self an acl , of publicity .
" Doom tho Spanish ( iovernmont , mean that ; | , ho body is to ho Hinuggleu ? " . 'I . r ogre I ; Anything liko ' josl-ing upon such a subject ; , but . the field in open to much ridicule , and L restrain -myself . " My object , in writing this note is to «! al , o to your Kxcelloiuiy that the above clause opens a source of much possible conflict between tho Legation and your Excellency ' s department . "I renounce all m'lponsibility as to its being carried out according to the expressed wishes of the Spanish ( jovornmont , or l , ho appreciation of the word ' pom ]) ' by some ignorant and fanatical mob . I do nol , know whefiier the State of Spain would permit such a homage to civil dignity , but in all other countries of the world it , \ h |> reoinoly to Mio authoritioH themselves that , tho representative of a foreign country would apply for protection in convoying a human
body to its last resting-place . Perhaps I shall have occasion to try this question . " I hasten to finish this communication , as it is impossible to " make it without a feeling of irritation . If , in the streets of London , whither I am going , I havo the misfortune to meet a Spaniard carried ( with ' publicity *) to the grave , while reverently uncovering myself , as the corpse passes , my sorrow will be .. tempered by" the feeling that he is buried like a Christian , and my pride will ho gratified by thinking that this homage has been paid to one of God's creatures by Christians who are my countrymen . " I cannot conclude without stating my deep regret that the course of Spain is such as to produce a gradual alienation in the opinion of the English public , out of which will most infallibly result a state of feeling which no Government can control or oppose . "I avail , Ac , " Howdeic . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2002/page/7/
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