§ MR. BANKES wished to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any further correspondence had taken place between Her Majesty's Government and the Spanish Ministry since that laid upon the table of the House; and, if so, whether the noble Lord would produce such correspondence before the subject was brought before the House, which he believed would be on Friday next?
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTON replied, that some further notes had been exchanged. Indeed, there had been, of course, a good deal of correspondence on the subject. Two other notes had passed, subsequently to those he had laid on the table, which related to the personal question between Sir H. Bulwer and the Duke de Sotomayor as to the manner in which the paragraphs had appeared in the Clamor Publico. That correspondence, however, had no bearing upon the note Sir H. Bulwer presented to the Spanish Government, enclosing the despatch which he had forwarded to Sir H. Bulwer. He was in daily expectation of a messenger from the British Minister in Spain, and it was very probable that he would arrive before this subject was again brought under the notice of the House.
§ In reply to a question from Mr. H. BAILLIE,
§ VISCOUNT PALMERSTON stated, that a correspondence, which was rather of a private than of a public nature, had taken place between Sir H. Bulwer and the Duke de Sotomayor; but, nevertheless, if he should receive any communication by the messenger he expected to-morrow, or the following day, which might appear to him to render it necessary that such correspondence should be laid before the House, he would wave the consideration of its being of a merely, confidential and private character, and would not object to its production.