The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1858, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, THE RIGHT OF SEARCH shoud be abi to gee the House eves fata wos vornmest ther rms deter ieasiedaiabliaaaaiiaaassS [PE who tad mate the motion ox which so many great Mruae hams” porate attaee tes | forsee tan bug a at bre ~ gneane | pow to re . baviog a ¥ Trede—Kingland Refuses te Abandon tae was uoadvmable to coutinue the policy apoo whiea ‘we ‘ret no great difterence, Right of Search—Hor Interpretation of Seo | bad 02 loog aciad ia Fetorotoe 40 the flare, Wade onthe oy yy t ie ir. retary Case’ Despatch on the Subjoct—Lord | west coast of Airica If le (Mi FisGee age The honorable member pro- Palmereton’s Poltcy of Alarm aud Force— | a: the honorable meaber seemed to im- Practice of suthoriz Mis Attitude Towards Brazti-The Trade | ply thers had deen, and that the slave trade was gene visit and search vessels sailing with Cuba—Wili he Annex the Island? Tally regarces sitaply ax @comuerce reguimed vy the did not include in his resolutioa laws of cemaud and supsiy, be quuld Dave @ more dul. hich had granted us the right of In the Bouse of Commons, on the 12a of July, cult teax then to ade the House to adopt « view op- condemned the in- Mr. Hort rose to call attention to the report of the | posed to that of te houcradle geatleman. Bat the policy ‘exercised by our Commiiees on the Slave Trade ia 1548 and 154%, and w | which this country bad pursued ip of the biave Move a resaduvion Op the Budject Hien! years ago, at the Fequost of & weiect committes, be sudmitind ty the 80 @ reeslulion Oopdsmniog Alem ts a} Bu, pressing thes) wade by means of an armed force, Tuai provosition wa: Fejectec by a considerable majority, aad, alibough be re. | tained is thetr full tores the convicuons with which he toft | trade was act ® policy of eentimoat; it was the assertion: of high privciples ta wnion ad tovited he Co vperation Of aii nations, and the moral effec! of whieh oad beea pro- ductive of great effects. jd eny one imagine that if toils country hed pot taken 8 firm position cn this audject, or if it were cow to #itadrew from that position, thas couatries the commitice room as to the Jolly aad cruelty of our | like Brazil avd Portugal woaid CostiDue im the same courses Proceedings on the coast of Africa, he oad not thought i} | which oar example had ied them to atop? (Hear, asar.) Fight since that period to agitaio'e endject of go much | Jf Kugland exhibited amy falterany of her policy, the stan: devigees. The time had now arrived, Nowever, waea he | trade would som become active and flourishing. The might with propriety revert to the subject We Dad an gdditional experience of our attemp: Pression aco it bed brought ih tt the us sults. He bel'eved, moreover, that a considerab|s change bad taken place in padlc opiaion, and many mex ders who oposed hum tw 1860 had sia°6 commucicated to him thet regret thal Moy wore indulsé to lake up A posi- thor against Uioa, OR their determination to amend their conduct i be Would give them aa opporiaity laggh.) Tt was af one time bik intention to test the feallv<s of +o House by Pome resolution similar t shat which he pro- posed in 1860, bot te late period of the session, the num- Der of mem d028 who had Jeft town, the Jaded appoarance of these wbo remained—(s iauga)—suill more an appre bensicn that he might embarre=> the : tiationa of a oritical and delicate a0 ry Btato—(beer, hear)—lad determicsd hits not to sierape 40 pledge ihe Ministry or the \iovke to ayy particular course Ip regard to ibo suppression Of slavery, but to reseree his efforts for ao” “Rad More cov reaiamt occasion. (Hear, bear) Hie baa po weh Ww iapugn the views or the couduct o those who, at the close of a great Eurcpeau war, looking solely at the wickedness of the slave trade, thought that Fogiaad might win proprie.7 step Out of tus usual courseof nauvas for the purpose of suppressing that traific; nay, tac ides of resorting 40 an armed force was in tue firsi instencs a rot usosturel suggestion; but when the exporience of forty yews baa proved that an armed force could not put down the suave trade—that, on the contrary, it exiended anc aggrareied the evil—toat the work was fatal to the gtilaut mev engaged in the suppression service, and that werea the risk of coming into collision with powerfal ‘Suales, thereby Compromisipg tae peace of tne worid; wheo he remembered, moreover, that all that could ve said in favor of the preseut systom was, that it hed ia sume tpappreciadle degree checsed the traflic, he thougut ‘the time had come Whoa we ought to recousiter the sub- ject. (Heer, bear.) The statement that after a trial of forty Years we bac not sacosedes in patting dowa the slave trade might eatiiy De comfirmed by & reference to wist ‘was Bow golng O08 in the waiers of Onda. regretted that the papere relating to ihe Were anvusl'y preseated to Parliament, hai not been tw the hand of mem ere during toe present eessioa, for i wee aiways Convenieut t have the opportunity of tameutary aud official docataente; out in retary, dated the In that communication the island of increased vigor, nor conld tney | | ope of its diainovion, umless the local gove romeut leat its hearty aii ans covgerreace in effecting tbat result, Ow the tt! January of last year the Gommiset mers Observed tuai thoy regreited vw Bay that ice siave trade was carried ox there not only ex: tensivery, but almost with impunity. fo addition w cast informaiton the House tbe 1a'ormation communicates Dy means O° tie ordimary eobuc Orgeus. He waa not aware from official so usgat now be ths actual | condition of the wave rede with we Apaaiet Wess latie inlande; but the hocorsble geotieman 05,.78hke, who repre. sented with so wueh ability the Fursige vitiow in that House, woold cootradiot hin if be msde &a errsasous statement tw assering thet the slave tate wia © waa sever in greater potieity \han at the present m * four then, toey had ee@biisbed the orcumstauce toast tue nee ira le ‘Was bot ruppreased by meave of armede users fost was proved as a matter of fact; and as a matter of reson it could easily be estabiiehea that they never coal ceed by such means (Hear, hear.) It was rewarked by Mr. Burke, ia his celebrated tetter to Mr. Pitt, toa: the plave trade could only be put dowa in the couuiry of 'n ‘fetion §=Oubs ape rez could put down, ag a 41 ferent periods they hai put tt down, bat {t was impoesib'e for this country, 80 lon. ws higd prices wero giveu in acy part of the world for tae importation of African él to @rrest this kind of merchamdise ia ite progress to who market. (iiear, bear) The British squadron hed beso uuerty unable ‘to prevent the embarkation of slaros from the coast of Africa, almort in proportion to do mané for slaves in America, but it hea tended to increase evormourly the revolting circumstances of tie traitis Let the Bouse bear in mind the woe ia which the slare trade was conducted. Large bodies of slaves were brougot Gown in gangs {rom the joterior of Africa to the coxst for embarkation. If that portion of the cosst off woich tae slave vessels were lying bapprneo—as was constantly the case—to be dlocsaded by Brien crusere, the giaves wore deposited in (actories, or what were calloc barracouns, uo- Ul an opportunity occarres of embarking them, aod they remained in thess piacea, chatoed together, (requsatly for weeks Q0¢ gomeUmes jor mouthr pos the position of the British ce empiored ‘the suppression of this traftic, for ne below him the woble member for Sandwich (Lora O. Paget), whose jer- sonal experie nee Would epad'e frit to allord the [louse va- twebie information on that sudjecs There was, howerer, apother very important point win reference to the ques tina to whica rvcent occurrences hed iately directed tne at tention of the country. It was unnecessary for him lo refer to the aoerrel which bad receptiy arisea between Great Brtaln end America on this subject, and waich be ‘was happy to beliove had baen amicably scttied by the wis dom ava promptitude dispiayed by ber Meaty 8 gorora- ment, bul be might romind the House ibas it was notor!.us that for wary years past a perseverance tn the system of suppression had been constanUy dragging this country to the verge Of boetilities with those two great maritime Staves Detween whom and oarsel) seit was qicet desiraele for tne | Digbest interests of civilization that relations of amity avd | feed will ehould be maiutemed. fhere was reason to be lnewe that the Crepuce with America kad been concluded; but to cay we were embroiled with America, aad to morrow we might be embroiled with France if the existing syaem war continued. Unless that system was soaadoue!, we Ume would speedily arrive whoo we should de engteed ip an angry Gispute on this subject wih one or otaer of those powerful States, from whicd we could not recede with howor or dignity, ‘anc to which we could not maiataa Our position without eplailiag upoa the civilized pori.ca world sll the borrors aod mumeries of war, t avoid awh a calamity, therefore, he it our cruisers should not be furnished with any insructions for boar ding fureign in cases where tupioum of piracy existed right of vial, as Cisunguined trom the right of search, ia & Lime Of peace, EXcept in the case of vessew with regard to which « eeumpson of piracy ekwied, was a preveneinn ber France uot Amenoa would ever permdét this country to exercise. Toey bad it on the higa euibor iy of Lora Scoweli that for the exercise of woch « law oF polity of nations. He did pot know what arrange- ment ber Majeety & government had effected with America, Dut be hopea (hat our pretes#ons bad been called ia qusetion they bad rot bealtater fraukiy to renounce pre Leusions @0 €xorb"wnt Rod ut)astifiadle Co the last ooca- moe when this eu as vuder diacaspion the bonarede members Who Advorsted the maintepance of the sy]cedrua (adage? ine good aval of tast tnismmatory eloyucace end vations: Inv.aton whch were at ail times so alceptA Die to We Briveh povlic, and expecially to the religious of mt, (“Hoer,”’ aod © teugh.) Was no doubt thal te pation was toe fleest people in the worlé—(s iaugb)—they were the mootsaracious, Qn4, dove All, the most consiatoat Protesed— ‘ato- the rlave trace. (Hear, bear,” ania isugh) Taey relind for the «: of the slave trade upon A er stem which long experience bad proved to be utterly fuiils wd | upeu whien we had acted had desea successful, | the Hoa yt there wae Ro pretext or foundation Whetever in tne | Vaan | that, aithoned the fre hooorabie gentleman apy red to arrange his onsor tions under two heads. le flrs} asked whether the p: be sugersted whesher there were mot at preseat particu- jar Cus cumssaaces which rondored it iaconveaieut aad ua. RdvisADI6 0 GoNtinUS to RCL LpOM thal policy. As t the, fret point, he (Mr. Fitzgera's), steer movi oarefal con- sideration, Dad Arrived ai 4 o: 2010 too quite d deren! frow that of the hoaorabie gentleman, (fear) Ho wouidgive Stow feos in orcer to justify tat conclusion. [a the mere number of slaves exported thers had beens remark Change, for while coy tifecn or oigutcea years ago the number of slaves a2Lualiy exgoriea from Africa the enormous micider of 186,000, tue vory estimate of the praber of slaves tmoorted into Cuda (now the only markos) during Soe ast tare years did oot exceed 16,000, alshough ciroumstauces wad ton ie. w give a temporary incrouse of acuvi.y to tne ix (Hem, bear.) As remarkably as too namber of slaved exported bad ciminisbod nad legitimate trade aad yeass- fot commerce increased upon the coss;of Africa ia- deed, 60 enormous bad been the increase in tue vaius of expors from the west cuast of Africa during the laut ferr toon yoars, that at the proseat time it exceeded £ 3,000,000 per annum. (tear, bvar.) Yrom the Bight of Benin, whence ten years ago note puocteon of palm oil coaid be obtained, and from which place & Liverpool merodaut, fitteco years ago, after paying £800 for demurrags, could only procure £1,300 worta of oil, there was exported uring the iast yoar paim oil io the value of £209,000. (Hear, bear.) He could noi do better thea quote some extracts from the last of the naval officers ou tuat coast. Commander Rickey, ose of the most sdle aad roalous citicors of the squadron, wrote:— I bave every reason to think that for the present (and we may hope for tte future) the thing has ceased. fsneries oll factories nna urzella coiectora are squaiting in every bay, and busy ing themselves in lawful trade. In another report the same officer sald: — The Euio: factories are multiplying thet the impression i received on Punts, trade port thirty miles uo, s few months ago. w. fhonid expect on coming ‘on a squatier’s clearances oa ihe dank of @ Nort) American river, ihe axe Was so ry aod sdould think the headquarters 0” a 80 mush so sbeicton houses msing 89 fast. indeed, I future of this das river eafe to be the mighty trade. A similar opinion was expressed by Commodore Adams also in tle ) ear 1867.— able to state my belief that the native live © the resi advantages of legai trade is seldom resorted to e:: stagastioa or cessacion of legiti- Be bad cther quotations fromfopinions of a similar cha- racter expressed by Jommander Hope aud others, but eed Rot read thea. Waoas pe wavied to impross pon Was that, although we might not have sacceed- ed entirely iv puiting down tho siave trade, we bat 60 discouraged it that we bad m: iw parsot diMoaleand troublesome, and that, as a consequence, those wao had previously been eogaged in tha: trade were mi every partef the West African coast, turaing their attou- tion & legitimate commerce. (Hear, hear.) He did not le to say that, looking at the papers wh.ca bo had perused, it otto Incim, i was uot to otner parte of the world which bad beea usmod, that we mast dirost our Ationtion. Itwasto the west coast of Africa that wo must look for that large jacrease in our supply of cotton which was DOW becoutng adsolulely necessary, and wih out which he 2nd others wao hed studio’ this subject foresaw grave consequences to the most wu noriant braach of tue manufactures of this coumiry. in the papers whica oa? Beed tmd upon tue tadle Be found that our consal at Lago. reported:— ‘The wtole of the Yoruba uses Wit the Mor end owner countries svuth of the ‘snd Nuifee conntries oa ize north side growing coin ages disorders thas eu been cult »een from all time cotton Tver, WA 6 Pies, wed. Got “ sbester aagow ma Bot yet pepeirated. The cultivation of cotion, theretore, the Abovenamed couviries is HO. uew to sh ibbaditant that te required is to offer them « market for the sale of 86 muob as they cea cult v; 4 by preveniiag the export of tunves from the seaboard render sume security to Mile, free dom, property and labor. He would not go iate the items of the calcalation, bat It appeared from the statement made by this gentleman, that during the last year tnere were exportes from this Coast to the drazite no lesa than 7,200,000 pounts of colton mad colon goods. He implored tue House to coa- wider what Unts trade migut be maue tf paiths words of var Coowul, by repressing tbe slave trate wo gave security to iadoraue property. Another of oar consuls, speaking of the trade ip the Bight of Benin in 1856, said— ‘Ths readiness with which the Inbabltaote of the large towa of Abverkuie have extended cultivation of the e%ou favorabie notice of the mauufacturer, of the bhilaatbropisi, and as & means of capotanting tue slave trai» by Ls Lurming the auleni om of the amine t ihe alae of the #01] and of bumao labor, of Her Majesty's governmaai. Ik waa worthy of novespthat while the quantity of cotton d from America between 1784 aud 1791, the first seven years of the ii into tuit Country, was only 74 bales, during the yours 1855 and i8S¢ the town of Abbeokuia alone exported 219 bales, or JF 695 ive., or pearly twenty Umes ina: quantiiy. He thoaglit bo migat feriy say that if we eucceeded im repressing ibe sare trade, a8 be believed we should, we should in a fw yours roveive a very large sopply Of BBis mort importans artis'e from the west coast 0 A’rioa As the meter #tood at Present. therefore, he hed ehowa to the House by tte Gxperinace, Bot of forty, Dut of oaly the last iew yours = (hear, boar) —inat we the sinvo irade—(near, hear)—and bed at the same time, done tha: w! mately pulticg oo end w It—given Dita to rising trade. (iioar, bear) Tae hovoravle geuvenen Dad called attentea tof. xe subjecis whic, ia Ds opiaiva, At thia moment particularly miuitated ageiuet the poly which we bed bwherte te refer red to une diftic: Hes wL.ch baa existed with Awerica, and also ty the porsi DiLity Of aiorenoss With Frazce, ia consequeace of t asoption of the free immigrant scheme by thet country. He Was wot about to enter juto ine merite of that ecnene he would only pay, a4 he bad siready aformed the House a ebort time ‘ago, that ber Majenty 8 government, boing Convinoed of is impolicy, had proposed w France that commissioners irom botu goverumenw should be ap- Pointed on the spot, ani whould there inquire into whe Bature and tenaeney of this plaa. ‘was 09 power on the face of the globe th: make grea'cr esorifices to put down the al two guveroment of ibe Emperor of ied to the imparis! imm'7raate were moet car attended to a'ter they arrived ig the French colonies, yo the eysiem of buying siaves on the African coast for tbe ‘po Apprentiong them for eix years in « French cclony must ueorewaruy lead to the continuance of the siave trad Heer, boar.) The iseulng of the commis sion to whieh he had referred had tur the present beea suspended, but he wus sure it was only for the presoat. One of the moet eminent Freach suitors, in an articte in the Heoue de eur Mondes, exprensod an earnest hopes hope shich was shared by the people of France—that the French government: mignt at ouce inqaire into the free Up migration schem>, 194 take care that what was intended for the benets of ths A(ricac should not be perverted into ap extension of the slave trade. He ieit no doudt, Dus what we | therefore, that the fears expressed by the hoarra die mom ber for Gaveahead lest difficulties might aris between us aad Frense wita regard to the free immigration scheme Would turn out to be without foundation. (Hear, boar.) But tus honoraole member bad also refsrred to sup: Cifisulties between us and We Cai'el states of Americas sbdortive, When this subject was ast debated nis rignt bonorabls friend the member for Oxford made a most sole | Upon that subject he could only repest what he stated to fod efective speech, in which he stated tha’, aivhoura | the louse on & formor cova Generel Vaden wae bo longer Captate Conera! of Cava, the eiave Wade bad been eourely abolished, Lut 6 serail Rowonine wae the saccessor of Goneral Valier as Usotain ‘Geoere of Ovba, and is wae owing to hie bonoradiec sud EXertiON. Thats BOP WAS At CORE time pat to the slave strade. Tne nobie lord on thet occasion imtimated thes the cay was not ier distact when Frauce and America, who eympathized so warmly in our efforu, wocld ) th as in Puc an AdGrene to Brazil and Cubs 08 the echyect of the save as wonld Coastrain thoes ¢wo couniries to defer tot sed, on thet account fe, ae right hovoravie (reed, calict apoo the trade at this bour i the Cabae waters wa fooling of France, and of @ large portion of tae United Bases, respecting ibe B.Ove trade, offered, he thought, « Siguilicant Commestary 0a these pretichous, and euggeste! to the House how far they oagnt to trast their judgmeate to men who rather took tlcit counesie from Ake deicrons Of @ fatal comsimteocy thaw irom row. expediency. (Hoar) Ii would no doudt be ssid, also, that we bet extinguished « am duet of alavery for merly carried of with Brazil, In pomtot fact we nad Gone oitner the one thing Gor the ober. (Hear, near) The Governors General of Caba—Vaidez. ltoncaiee, and OConeba—cic try to pub a etop to the slave trade, and their Dames oogut uever to be mentioned im thie cocatry @iib Out honor. Sioee 1889, too, the Emperor and the Leg s- iature of Prey \ bad vat down the siavetrad® in that coua- wy. (Herr b5#8 and 1849 If was proved before the Fieve race Ummittee that sisves to the Bamber of 60,909 OF 60,500 per sanam were imported into Braz! ia epite of Sil the efforts of our squadron, Now, the whole of dat Draseh of tbe din if treill> was, Be Dslieved, euaini sion. Her Majesty's govern meni, as soon as they found that the right hind they had hitherto claimed of verifying the fig dueplayed Ly any ves | seb cuppoeed to have sunet om board was one which they were nat entitled to exercite, thought i only becoming the dignity of @ greal nation a! ones to ahanton i, tnt at the same (ime trey considered themaeloet perfotly a liverty to proceed in the manner suggetted by the Amervcan Seore tary Of State, and where there were gran suspicions, amour ting alias to certainty, that the American ag wis not legitimately borne. to run the risk impited im aocertain- @ right to the flag which oa Wick ( h Kogisna might fairly locaments laid batore the const of Africa in the case of vessels car-ying the Freace fag. Bat that very morning he hed received s stevermont of opinions expressed by Genera! Cass, oh snowed, not only that the course a4: by her Majesty's corere. ment hed beer properly estimated by the Amoritan go ernment, but aiso there was 00 fear of aay Of taore ee te whien the hooorabie render for Gateshead had alluded as i(kely to preveat tae coniiaa- ance of our present policy. Lora Napier wrow:— _Ligneral Casa stared to me thet the sourse taken by her Me ys goveTumaRt wae 0» 909 {ests fover ment wae worihy Of 8 great Sud goaetogs ¢2a% ngerrene on wer ideration wo any proposal whink her law (fh 7 is ° jeaty’s goverament w'ght sagesst for the verifieatos of a ear) ‘The Remorsbie member ovnciaiet by | Ha Sitty of vemsels had toclt right to the Oop whieh they Than st is smpediont to Aivcomtinne the practice of an. | vlaved. Chorteing her Mayenty’'s shiva & Ame antenarch weneels unter | —(Hear, hear.) A short time ago he tofortmed the Houso foreign flags with a view of suppressing the trofi: un lave it had @ Matter Of COM siderstion w).), toe govern- Mr. Canpwe said the motwn was aot, like thet leet Sabmisted to the House on t's sabjeot, a’ m tion for ment whether it weuld not be necessary ty windraw the from the coast of Cabs. It was obvious that as ‘witharawal of the squadron employed | ppreming the jong ag We were on the’ comet ured and ancovnin Giavetrade. It propmed ti feaviog nanced by the Americn” govermment we should ofvee roa Ghe cone of Afriga, the H suse enor the risk, ip attempt'ng to verify the “ag borne by aay res. Of ber Majeny’s government io t the commancere of thor sunadr niee of this country 07 ac cy that had proiased such onot to thie country. He bopod the Bouse w mid oe opintan Ht had expremed i 1849, a07 wr ynid vO tte pagcuon to a retrograde policy whitch wovid be inrore.stent with out material imerests, ierogatory 1) our | ©) dveiml to the best interests of ci rauos Cilear, Mr § Firrownarn sald, as his observations would be Much in the same sense as those of the right honorasie frmyemes Sho has jest epoxen, be should pot bare fo! | $77 bum 00 amruneiy had be oot DeleTed that be cation Wo him at wie sel, of dotainiog eome *hip en) ia lawfel traM@s. Sie ity wae not Likely any hie despatch tra deep oud wewal in on the const of Afra There was at present, therefore, an American » | TOM on the const of Cuba instructed to to operate with us if 4 wml tomly continue that whicr hitherin hat fobly distinguiched ue. (Hoar, hear.) In conclawon, he Degged to exyress |)" earnem the House would ‘Bot give It: conmmenance to the Of the bon. Abie member for Gatestwad. [5 condemned a poiicy which we bad atoptdd from no sordid motive, aud which we head hereto! ore maintained solely with the view of vindicating ‘he rights of humemtty end promotiag Caristian civilies ton. For bitnseif, bo could only eny that it was a gratif. Vureshold of public Use , $9 & great exicas,diminisded | | of visiz. | different thing. A ship might pass « | whose cheracter it was desirable to kac quenced, and he thought the coarse wioh he. an} carryiog out to a conaiderable exteat visit or search over any vut English vess enses where the right was granted by oto: treatics. He therefore eonside: a coodings in the O2dsa waters ghd b law of nations, and the government daserrod the thanks of Parliament acd of the coantry for ordering them to be Giscoptinued. honorable govtioman tho Fareiza Und rotary observed that many fevora’ bad been the consequence of the policy of maintalaing the equadrov on the coast of Africa, and the hovorabic gentleman ats'et that ther: Leen a grest incresse ot lawful trade, and a great augmestation in the ox portation from Africa of colon aod ojher arti- cles. He hoped that the honorable member migot not discover that those articles had been themselves t79 pro duce *f siave labor, but be believed that saere was very Iittie of tree lavor or of working for wages in Africa Tao hovorable gentloman said that so mauy slaves wore not now exported from africa as formerly. There was a very good reason for that, as the deman for slayes on the part of Brazil bad totatly ceazed; but atl who no@ carried on the slave trade, the Speniarcs in the Oabaa waters, and, to & great extent, ‘our dear frienda”’ the Turks ia the Me- ditorraneap, got as many slaves a they required. Ho defied any oce to assert that at the presest moment those who desired to import slaves from Atrios to Cuda could not get as maoy as they required. it that were so, then this couatry was paping about £1,000,000 a year—maia- talping a vory expensive system of marit.me polity—to put down the slave trade, and yot at the same tne those who required siavyos obtaioed ati thov waated. Tasre must be something wrong 'n this. Either the present system was totally inadequate an. should be carried tow creator extent or it was an unmitiga‘ed evil in fteelf, He doudted this country would ever cousent to incur ihe enormous expsnditure necersary for carrying oa s1y- thing Like an effeciive blockade of auch an exte wive coast ‘as that of Africa. What was the effect of maiataining (he Pp the number that might be captured and liberated on the passage; the Africans were sent in lesa roomy vossels; ‘various expedient, fatal o tl wes, were resorted to im order toenadls tue slave 8 to evade the craisera, and thus, for tne sake of capturing ani liboratiag a small per ceniege of slaves, a great iucrease of guffsricg and Geath was inflicted on ali tae Africans exported for Cuba, ‘Hear, heer.) They were exteudwg the miseriss of the slave frade to su increased number of Africans, aud they fancied that, because they captured aod liveraied some, therefore they were cheoking the slavo trate, If ik was tho equacrou that put down the slavo trade with Brazil, he did pot upderaiaud how it aliowed 8 was ished by the Brazilian people—by the gradual forss of poblic opimon among them, fer it was a mistake to suppose tha: England mouepolized a’! the moral feeling in tne world O;her pations were capabie of viewing the | slave trade in the eame light as the Eagish A great par- ty in Brazil did eo view it, aaa the goveramont there passed laws in nccordance with the pabiic sentinent. As S00 88 thuee laws took efect the slave trade wita Brazil coared, thoogh i} was undimivishod for yoars under the Operaticne of the squaéron. He believed thatthe mea sures adopted by tuis country, among others the paasi of the Brazilian act of 1845, which enavied Engtish crui- sere toc: pture Brazilian veesels and Kaglish law coarts to desi with Brezitao subjects, had the eifect of irricating public feeling in Braz‘, and projonging tas exietsuce of the slave trade there; aad his object in now rising was chiefly to call on the government to repsal that act, a rea- 00 for abolishiog which was faraished, accortiug to the opivion of the committee of 185%, by the abolition of the slave trade in Brazil. Tho state of our relations with Brox in reference t the sisve trale consigved in a geverai prom'ae on the part of Brazil that the oarying | cy of the slave trade by Brazillau subjects shoula be wulawtwl, ani be deemed by the Brazilian ler piracy. That engagemert Brazil had fuldited to tha lotier Tae ‘un d export trade of Brazil amovated to from £12 000,000 to £13,000,000 ann: ; Beazitiaas bad bor- rowed in Engiand some £6,000 , ering on bond, thet Were persons in this country poeeessing an interes} ty the amount of about £1,000 060 ia toe tnteraei debt of Braz: and « large amount of Brazilian railway euares wore bo: by Briteh subjects. Ae thougnt, thorefore, that, wi Abe view of oovising for suo commercial classes of U country tho advantages which were possesred in Graz! by the eubjects of otner States, Parliament wo erase from the statute bork the oojserionabie sot w walck he hea roferred, ia order tuat our relations with Brazit m ght be placed upoa a more fr’ sui saat fhe right bonoradie member for Oxtord (Mr. Cardwei!) hed ataiot thet Christianity acd Chrinian missiouaries were aap0 > ted On the Coast of Arica, tbe right honorab! Anti Siavery Society wore vailormly oppoved to the ay: tem of armad interiorence fur the savpression of t trade. (Hear, heer.) Toe had come forward as the chamy | of Chrisiian teaching as tendwg t> the suppression of tie | miave trade toan upon she broadmdes of mep-of-war. Sir C. Nariaza recommended the employment of a larce number of aeamners on the Coast of Africa, Tae rigut honorable geaiie nen (os mers ver for Axbton (Mr. Gibson) | appeared coufound tao right of searcn with the rigui We had never porsessed the right of search a8 regarded Amerios, but the right of visit was a 4 of & vessel | ead droppiog a ‘Doai mighi send on board gad ak Wo ewe her papers wid out at ail delaying er royage. They bad vo right to opea & betchway, If England bed bern aliowed to soarca | American vecaole, Aud Atooricn to search Engiah vasssls, | Whe slave trade might bave buen soon pat down, Ho was lad boar that toe Undor Seoretary of Stale was about lake & course satistaciory to boi partios, sad hoped that benceforward Legiaad would not be called ups vo apologize for every trilling excess of duty on the part of English captains ‘ all cosoce of quarreiling with America would be removed if siries order: veins of Ecyiiah vemols to fotic rae M they were found tw be American noi an. had long considered the quesion of the had always ontearored to pat himerl? ia slave. We bave to cousider the horrors of & war with Amerion as compared with the horrors of the sie) "ado, apd we believe that, ia the ipterssts of ou mauity, ® war with America would be ten Umer more ¢is- estrous than the slaro trate” (flear, bear.) Fie aeid, therefore, that we wore wise to yisid to Amerios, for eno was strong enough, he was sorry to sey, to carry out her bad dowigas. He said sovined'y tha: abo had co Inteotion of putting down the slave trace, and the House would be .) Oar equardron, be believed, would ‘West coast of Africa, and every irader baman flesh would popete Fe freetom—the stare Gripes, and uouer the cover of toat spien.id embiem. of the siave trate would be perpetrated; ik A. many Grceahors ai be the m roughout Africa. Bo raid, there could be Do question that the thing for ua to do was to act in tae most coacillatory the United States. By all means @ opportunity, and every opportunity, of showirg our hearty good will towarde tuat great country. this maiter we hai po choics Dut to make every 070 cession on whish they dei{beratoly invisted It would be [ i i 3 i iF & : that the imported slives ware used ih wae called—that it sorbed by Cubacy ery ue book he fornd our ¥ jodge at Havana, who had ample metas of epproxima ing to the truth, reckoning the number im >ort- eda 7 308. Ay },OM the weet coast of Africa siavesrold heres iy Cubs the price of a negro varied from ©) to for £2 or £3—those bought for tho Regine Ow loot £2104, £80. Ry the biue book ft appeared tast the price in ira vil NOW Wee £70, and in Cade it wart wbout toesame oat enormous dillorence was the clearest poanidic measnre of the value of our squedroa. But for the obstacies that we threw in the way there could be no earinly reaeoa why begroes should not be sold in Cuba for afew poan is, ao4, if 80, te demand would be very large ioderd. Tout dif- ferencs of price coaid not be exp'sined exvept by tae effi cioney of our endeavors to reduce the wlave trade. ° Of Afrion an a quarter of the globo, Ly idea of our blockading ber coasts. Choy forgot that it was only from @ limited portion of the const that siaves could be got; and that portion was inaccossibie except at Le mouth of toe rivers. Lord PaLaweron.—fhere oan certainly be no mistake an %0 the purport and object of this motion, because my honorable frien t who introduced It desires to poi a top to Fd any ton (Mr Gibson) urges the House » atk the goverament ty resciod the inw applicable to © «ave trade wito fra wl. Undowdtediy, if there two objette were accom ured npered to the ulm ost Ooormnerce ap the coast of in proportion diminish. (Hear) In fact, the motion of my houorable friend is ® parody apon the sentiment which was ascribed to Mr. Wyndham, wa is reporte: to have eaid, ‘ Perith commerce: iive the conatitn honorable friend mi & litele variatton, oat acompigte and nnanswerabie . He has gone from assertion to aesertion, bet an. tertanatoly they ali bappoa jo ba diametrically opposed SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1 | tertain reasonabie and rational opinions upon tbo | security e to the facts. (A laugh.) He bogen by saying thate ir and bring upon the world the vast amount of | Cuban Pole? pas bece s complete tailere, | (Heer, hear.) 0 Iniaory which would be the consequence of adopt; fy = bas been eminently successful. He said we | ing the motion of the houorabie member tor Ga' pk | of we increased the horrors of the middie passage. That pom Soh yal much of the fanstioas of @ collision assertion also, de- | prophet to say that the crime would be visited onthe | roa will = Peeps Se coctey iso manner which wonld | wit Me them v been guided which demand counsels of the honorable Gisar, ar.) trader. comp pre’ lem fo see thas: Opinion of the House, | yoars directly i Saas 2 ane einer | no government | ap of slaves disposed of their own accord, or of being Cd by ‘ noest. Lord Palmerston Vinlicated the course ihe Pas! “4 eet Gel ees tener } Al thie openter as ponenan, © course, [ap sence of honorable geatioman. (Hear, hear.) Ian ated mainly to the consigteut amd on been if we persevere in the course’ we have hiluorte takon we | aed of the noble iord himeeif, to the shall uitimately succeed; Spanish govern. ‘tia meat; which has hitherto shown indifference upoa tris engin , and none of that chivalrous sense of honor on which the ration prides itself so much, will at lastawakon to see the disgrace i: bas brought itself by the oreach of ite engagements, and that it will assert tae authority which it 1 @ manner to insure success. (Hear, ae #0, we shall see the siave trade of Cuba bania! Sateeeaecettn ene ce vors have xo! interior one third perish on the journey, anotaer third in | thrown away, aod that it has accomplished oge of the | the barracoons end on the voyage, and on'y oue-thirtare | noblest works in whicn say nation Janded on the other side of the Atisatic. Wha: was ihe | hear.) To effect this will, no doubt, require great ¢: method by whica these elaves were obtained in Africa’ | tions. What great object oan be without | yand wher, consequently, Lort Pelmerswa's They were uot captured ou the cosss, whore the cnlofé | exertion? And if our exertions and sacrifices ehould euc- vehemenor and unscrupulousness Were Corid.a t escape used their slaves for thelr owe purposes, bat the bulk Of | sed in completing this object, Iam persuaded the poops yeiutation and detection, was certainly mot ike way to ee» them were broaght from meny Rng 3 of miles | of this country will not grudge thom. (esr, hear) Os Ana, te speck iy, 4 De cane ia the interior, They were obisised by w the contrary, will tell you to go om pursuing too | yore barin than good by ‘bis sudden reappear. not wars for conquest, wot wars for ex'erm| tion—but wars in Ww Peac ad toriving villages were attacted iu the dead of nigat, the houses sot on fire, the aged and infaate murderod, and (We middle a.z0d acd grown children carried off to sho Coast, subjected on ihe way to every kind of misery, waiteniog the road with their bones, imprisouet ta wroswnhed bara coons until tho arrival of traders, exposed to th» bor- rors of the middle paswsags, and at last consigned to ho 30 less and cruel captivity inaforsign iend. The oobiv lird who spoke Jast says that our operations ara produciive of great crueity to the negroes, od exemplifies taal vy the ject that he captured two vosseis—i presams uot far from the coast of Africa—iu which the nogries were baddied together in a state of great misory. These le ware, no doubt, undergoing great crusity at the hands of the slave dealers; but my voble friext restored taem bo 11d: ty; and, therefore, 60 far from our operations having tho elect of aggravating their sufferings, they were equiva lent to wm actof mercy. (Hear). Bat my noble triend esys that the First Lord of the Admiralty is mistaken when he supposes that tho African station is no: more uchealthy then mso7 others waich our ships are adiiged to frejuont, and he adds that every man woo comes from the coast of Atrica is a broken dowa iavaiid. [ani hapoy to say that the example which he affords in his o#a person doce not corroborate nis etatement—(a laugh) — and | would rather take his owa personal experience, with the facts stated by the First Lord, than auy goacral assertion which he may chooge to make. (Hear, hear.) I gay that we buve boen eminently succedsiul, taxsmuch as wo have entirely puta stop for the iast three or four years to the mportation of slaves into Bvaail, thereoy ros. cuing about 200,000 Africans anouaily from tas misory to which they would bave beon olnerwise exposed. Sati! is sid thet this ie bos the result of any naval operations oa the part of the British government; it is the spoutsae0u8 act, we are told, of the goveroment aud ged of Brazil. I utterly deny that statement. Anybody wno takes tue trouble to lock back to the papers upon the siavo trade, which are laid annually before Parliament, wiil soo wxactly bow the the thiag was accomplished. Up to 1350 the Bra- zilian elave trade was carried on to tne utmost possible extent. What happened in 1850? The govera- ment of that day told the government of Brazi: that aa act of Parliament was passed tn 1346, by which we haa the power of seizing their savers oa their coast, in thelr creeks and rivers, acd of trying them before av Kagiisn Court of Admiralty, The Britisn government professed not to care much about that; but what was tuo coase- querce? In about three moaths after our operations were commenced the Brazilian government came $9 our Minis- tar at Bio, and said they were prepared to comply with avy conditioas we liked to impore, provided we wubdrew onr squadron. Four or Sve articles were drawn up, they were agreed to by the Brazilian governmsat, aad Me, Hueson then told our admiral to suspond operations. ‘Yhowe operations were suspended; but the moaieat that was dove the Brazilian government paid no atieotion to their engagementa, and the clave trade was (mmodiately resumed. ia the December or Janaary followiog Mr. Hadeon told the government that, unless they carried oat the arrangement whicn bad been entered iato, the British adaiiral should recommence his operations. They wore recommenced, and the result was that the Brazilian government, finding we were determined to ure the power which the law of Eogiand gare us, immodiate- ly persuaded the Brazilian Assembly to pass very strin- gent laws, which were at once put in execution, and from pr tume the Sap ag bas ree and pee disappeared. 7 sa 9 ouinent ‘success of our haval operations. Tel! me that it is the result of impoved opinion tn Brazil! [ trea! thet assertion with the contempt which itdeserves. (°'Hear,”’ yuything of Graztl or tfora momeut. I Go pot mean to say that there was notin Brazil o then growing, and of considerable icflaence, tha: aid on- of (he slave trado, aud saw that it was not for th rex of Bravil © pursue that crime; but that party sym- pati..zed wish as in our operstions and rejoiced with us at ‘their result, thinking righily that we thereby oonferred an immense benefit not only upon the people of Al ‘Dut iso npon those of Brazil. One satisfactory result oF Ube process was that an enormour amount of capital, which up to that time had beon employed in the cap of elves and iv infllc.ing mnory upon & large portion d, WAR directed to purposes of industrial im- roads, cultivation, public aad private enter- prieos of wll kinds wore immodistely Degup,and | am bappy that the improved state of the interior of Braz. sbows that tbe Course we pursued, so far from in- uring the people of that co bas conferred upon thea invaluable bevelts. Is is eatirely inoorrest wo say, therefore, that our po icy bea fated, bocause, alihouge we have not succeeded im ulterly extinguishing ¢ re tre in Cura, we bave extinguishet the siare wade with Brazil, wDilo that with Caba is not one-tor.th of what it used to be. The right hoporabdie gentiemsn tue mem- ber for Asbton rays that the slave trade with Brazil baviog beon put an end to, the Brisish goveroment is donad by a verbal engagement to propane to Parliament to rescind she act of 1846. I Geny he conciusion, aad cootend thai the msintecance of tha: act is the only we have that the Brazilian slave trade Shall pot be revived. [ do act call upow you to enforce tbat act, dat Task you to reserve it as ® power to be ured in case the Brezijiaos should revert to their bad courses. So loogas you have that Aci io reserve 89 long wil (he government of Braz:! pursue the policy which, you compelled them to adopt; bat if you wore to repos it, from that moment the Braz'an slave trade would recom- mence. (Gear, bear) While our pelicy of Sappreasion has Deon emivently saccessful ie puting @a eat to the sinve trace with the Brazils, thas been equally success- Tul in enceuraging legitimate commerce and industry ta Africa iteelf, Tho Under Secretary for Forega Alters Dat explaiue 1 in detal! the immonne progress doing made 00 the coast of Africa in Mivavon of valuaie arti+ cles of export to thie country; and I vonture to # though at present we trade betweeo Fagland is less than tha! carried on with Brazil, yet, if we continous our exiatiog polloy, it will ia a fow yours greatly exceod it. The commercial resources of Africa are of va*t impor- tance to this coantry. The praduction of such articies as palm ot), coffee and cotton in increasing every year. We aro told that these productions increase osly domaad for (berm bas begun. Begun! Why, we should heve hate demand for tuem at any time ifthe people of Africa hed boon able io produce them; but when the industry and agriculture cf the country were paralyz:d—when there was 00 socu- Wo expect rty for lite, berty ana property, bow could ‘that they would grow articles to mest the 4 commerce? coseed, then the people wero Meapente omanree. (Hear. will find op the West Const of Africa bie than that of any taten yuple but by iaducing oth-+ maratime aad com- mercial couctries to Conca: tn trost es jor the wapp eee of the slave trade, We have veo orm'nently vw r im dat ree aino—-(hoer, LEM) — ocr ate ser or tries bave followed our example in 8 ol eng maror, All civilized conpiries have either by treaty, or by asir Own, or by ceclaration, joined us in reprodating— and macy of them as far as they could tn preveoting— the atrocions trade jo slaves, (Hear hear.) France was rlave trad'ng country It begae first of ai! by prohi- the slave trade, and then abolished slavery withia ie dominions. (Hear, hear.) te we fe great offeoder, bas left of the slave trade and | was told within « very recent period that tos Portuguese are contemp'ating to propose to their abolition of slavery Co!on\es, jon Of this great crime; and it would be ais bonorabie to this aad abandoning the nigh posi. tion in which we have bitherio stood, if we wer: idenly to turn round at the momont of ruccess aad say we would retrace our steps, let slavery take ite course, aa! set example to ihe world the My A ge) of that which bas redounded so much our or. (Hear, boar) The tieman who brougbt forward thi; movion treated rat cavaliorly and with aanser the religious part of thie question. I must say that in genera: there are no considerations that ought so llitle to be broughs be- fore the members of this House as those foun‘o! on re ligions questions. (Hear.) Our ephore is politics -oar commerce -ear sphere embraces simply matters hovorable national interest; but th: rears occasions on witch uigoer considerations than thome minds of the membere of thie hear.) There are those who bolieve--1 know not whe movers oi the motion are ot that t to be impressed on the ous and the country. (Hear tho that the wor!’ ts ‘and that goo! deeds lato reward or thou, the two that hie country rst bogea toabolieh the siare trade, followed ap by sbotlohiag a slavery hy J the eotee £ On “ influence for the rappression —from that period this coustry hae prospared gree which it never ex) ood before (dear, ber | must say, then—thouga feeling (here to be topics wats rhould be lightly touched on in this House—vhat, con sidering the determination wo have #0 nobly carried out bon ‘and by precept to put ao vad to the gare wade, kagiand Were gow 0 recede (row ite bigh and to ‘ade Policy you have hitherto followed, avd, «0 farfrom | amount of movey tbat may be re. it ig well appiied tor tue promotion | iy au acknowledgmevt ou the part of Parhiament that ail the efforts to repreas thattraitic had bees useless, and that the contest mus| now be given up. ‘The House then divided, when there were— or Mr, Hutt's a:nendment Agate: is, Hovse went into Comuittee of Suppty- ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS—LORD PALM- BRSTON’S OPINION, To the House of Commons, on the 234 of July, Mr, For- Tel # a#ked government whether thoy intended to aa- bere to or depart from the policy of their predesessors ‘with respect to the right of visiting ships suspected of slays trading, apd asked what course they ictonded to pursas ov that subject. My. Frrackxauy replied that the matter was under the copsiiersiica of government, but he coulé not de expectet to state whai course they would ta under circumstances which bed no yot occurred. He bit, however, every | hope and belie’, irom the language of tho Amorican go Vernmens a9 tbe American Ambassador, that the matter would shortly srrive ata satisfacvory conclusion. Lard PaLsesron coogidered this reply uasatisfactory. More information ovgit to be given From what had been stated by the United tates Mimaster, he considered there had been some compleicd transaction, He therefore askod what pretensions had been given up, or what rigot conceded. Mr. Disrawis saic cos — communins ‘ions between the two governmenas iy the ulleged acts of cruisers. and thoi emanation? were now in abey ance During that abeyance the gurerament of te U. had made a friendly overture that ber biayesty's go ment should offer to the United States a plan for ine: sideration, which should accomplish ail the objecis tnat both governments had in view, namely, to put down tis slave trade without producing ‘misunderstandings, Bor Majesty’s governmeut bad accepted thatcifer, aud they | ‘were How engaged in the coneidera‘ion of # plan whica | they believed would eatisfacterily accomplish sil the ob- | jects that both parties desired, (Cheers ) [From the London Rerala, (Lord Derby’s sa,) July 33.) ‘The statesmen and people of thie couvtry emoarkea heart and sou! iu the crusade the infamous traillc in human flesh and blood. For the suppression of that illegal and heart-sickening commerce, nobie efforts have ‘been at various times made, and great sacrifices accepted without a murmur. Nor will the example set by Great Britain bo speedily forgotten. ven her bitierest encmy must aliow, that in this respect ber conduct has beon most generous, and the motives that impelled her to act above suspicion. Clarkson, Witberforce, and other puilanthro- . devoted themeoives to the cause of the frieudess lacks, and their exposure of the wrougs and eufforings of this oppressed portion of the human races aroused pudlic sympathy ia their behalf Hence tre fi ters were ateuce from the slayo, who wherever the British flag waves a! his head, is to all intents and purpoees @ free man. That inestimable boa —liberty—has the contioued exertions of Englishmen, corferred upon bim. Various attempts have | Deen made to induce other nations to assist iu this good work, With that view treatics have boon signed with other Powers, and armed equatrons e been fitied ont | end sent in pursuit of the elaver. Oviog to the Inke- | ‘warmpees of some and the cupidity of others, the trace | bas not been entirely euppressed. It oxists in & narrower circle, and is no: attended with the same borrors as here . Under these circumatences, Bir. Hutt last nicot moved that it in “expedient to discontinue the practics of authorizing her Majesty's ships to viait and eearch veas7's under flags with a view of suppr: ‘the trailic ‘The motion, if carried, would to fetter the pes Sine Engltsn government 1 and we rejoice at the majorvy by whic was night im the lower branch of the Legisia The disoustion proved that @ strong deter Muoation preveils auiongst members of all sections of the House of Commove to persevere in that bold and enlight- ened policy which has produced euch graiifying results. | That, as ir Seymour Fiizgeraid stated, “is a potley not of sentiment, but a policy in whic we Lave attempted to arsert and vincicace & high priocyp! policy in which we Dave invited the co operation of all the nations of Europe; | and I would also saya poticy, the moral influouce sud effect of which upon the conduet of other satione lag boea mort important. If thie country had oot taken the drm position which we bave occupied on thls subject, or if at this moment we were to reverse our policy, dces the HBoure believe that countries like Breaii ano lortagal would ue in the couree which, following our example, they aioptec? Rather would they not reverse tno'r 9, and would pot the slave trade becom 8S gor aud a2 rife as it was a few yours age Word we now to sbandon this course of action we should @ionce destroy the labore of balf a contury, snd gives fatal impulse to this abominable traiic, Not only has tho Bumber of slaves exporied annually from Africa decreated in & remarkable manner, bet legitimate commerce is Tapidly springivg up, and the extension of trade wil! rea er the revival uf siavery impoesible, The facts elicited during the course of the dizcursion Iagt night are of the most gratifying character. We are ploarei to fod Lord ton Bed Mr. Cardwoll waprorticg a common sense and philanthropic view of tho question. It ts some time Binds theee legislators mace auch a creditabie appearance in tho House of Commons. The rejooion of Mr, Hutt’s propowal by a mojority of 228 to 24 may bo regarded an decisive; and we Lope we shall witness no more attempts to subvert @ policy which re- dounds to the credit of thie country, sod baa rendered the name of Kogiand venerated by thousands of the oppreseed From the London Post, (Lord merston’s organ), July 13.) Mr. Hatt last night moved a resolution on the subject coon search a# & means Of sup ressing the slave trade. honorable gentieman, from ousable fear of jnterfering with the aegotiationa which supposed to be pending between England and the United Sites, in Connection with the right of search, scarcely saii & word Tespect to that importan’ iateroational qaeation, out ‘nd unexpected!) domended (nat the Britiah equad On the coast of Africa should be at once withoras ree use of armed force ou reaper comm policy | Ee if and that thorefore ii was ussiesz country further to sacrifice her meu and Quixotic attempts to reverse thore a i i fas tho Britien squsdron on the failure which Mr. Hutt and Tho Brarilisn elave F i i . : ance ; Dot in an hour of a dey, by & sudceo «purt or aa tncidemt- they have dan sets they ther; for memoriel of the Aati-Sia' ti debate on going into rough a cnange in the aatioual y made or marttime Powers to the verification on More than this, they cruisers on the coast of Cubs and in the Gait of Mexico; reduced the numbers of our squedroa tu these gerous: bave induced the Cabinet of ‘Waeaington to supply, by ite own ships of war, avd ta re- ference to its own fieg, the places of have wo. Lord Derby, in waters; and the anti wines trade vant, stage. lt ec amUMed of SUpply, toad go tme- bal @ contary of s can or ought to be made. - What we do on suca a subject must be Gone gravely, seriously, deliberately; not capri- supertolally” or by aurprise, Go the present Mistry bare justice, they re advances o9 this queawa, bub ouviderable prudomes and tact. hi upieuable that rigut of yieit for Pacnerstou repeated): © vised good tbey v6 acknowledged that “the which Lord Palmerston treated so contemy protat iho vessel that carries it; they have invited the upon geome common rules as te bigh seas of the national flag. correctod voked the the United Siats, bit of iptuously, docs the excesses of our tbe mischievous ves- They have gone even fur. repiying the other day to the ciety, used differeat laogvege from that strain of invective with whica Lord vatmerston assaiis Brazil; the premier had the courage ond the truthfulness vo praise the governmont of that om- #3 for its hoovsty and good faith in ine fulfilment of treaties. This alteration of policy—for to that it really amounte— deserves applause and encouragement. Lord Malmes. bury is @wcovering toat Lord Paimerston hag bequeatned bim @ mine of va ing to the emineit advantage of the nation, therefore, ths cue of th weais, which be is exploriog aad exce- Tt is ni who, while rejoicing ry dad pect openicg upon us, have the mortificauon to deplore that ic wea lefsfor the to icv 0 rescue England fro: which Lord Palmorstoa’s Ovatinscy and Lord Clareadon’s falsevers left it, to atempt Gpilete €vents in the mauner which Mr. Hutt, untenable posite: valor 80 tong & eilenes, proposed. Sincere and earnest mes will tind im what bas recently been done in this question of (ae Slave trade an indicajinn and a pledge of further and Bpproacking usefulness, 8 bivster and in cows So, despite ali Lord Paliner- syance on this his most excte@ , We senlure to @utioipate thas with France, ae United staiee, Lora \almesbury wilt be abis te © arraugements that will termitate shortiy the “reve emigration”? system the Smpercr has 60 deplorabiy 184/, (o the exaggerated vobemencs of St that Lord Famersiou’s the Louse « to revive; that ay aking!y resorted to; that with Spain be will imawt © fuldiment of solemn engagements, and tha; with ' be Wil prefer the temperate wisdom of Lord Aber- , Bho lately recommended tue oe of the act of 4 Palmerston, in inaisiing oa its contiauazes ust De that politician who doe afluence over public opinion and not ase ons .¢ rapidly declining cover again © ig now becoming known and Eppreciated ia tte irve colors that he sianda before the country ap imprest! Toughiy wibere, aiatesinaa, marsed ai Of the past, aDd iccompevoni (a guide country in toe future. to cupport and assist whoever is tn po) ing Kogiand from the false positioa to | duced us, im regard to our fureiga re to this country Lhe tas point vod ih abandouing without pationa! buraiiatioe those pre- tensions which almost succeeded im unsiog the world against ue. .ord Palmerston’s slave trace policy was one of the Duitresres of bia syetom. As a mets of repression (te e8y notlmg of suppreseion) it was a co far from iinintontng the tsfornal Gevusions the idlest of competest and impartial investigation will produce the Geliberate conviction that by driving all the advea- turers and desperadoes of the world into it, by assigning to ik the temptation wad atiraction of enormous prodta, and by checking the otherwise certaio growth of moral opinicn in the countries it trritated, cisturbea, his policy aggravated Very evils it was directea w repress. tormented aud d incroased the Ik hes repeas- edly brought France and Euglaad to the very verge of quarrel ; it bar more than once roused the United States to ap indignation before which we have aiways ceon compelled to rive wey; it is @ main ckuse Of che ant. mosity of Spaia © Eng'and ; for a quarter of ® century it alienated from us “our most ancient ally,” Portugal, and it is the caueo of bitter antmosity against Rogiend on the part of Brazil—cne of ibe best ouetymere we Dave in the World, When, the clined to reconsider | all poiitical oppesitio tore, we see Lora Maims i to reotify this nd accept the inclina jon as ® ma policy we lay e820 bi "estatun that merits the cord@l support of the pation y to alarm the coustry 4 Palmerston’s objec! oo Monday evening was obvi Apprehensiog is, however, eutze!y unnecessary. The African elave trade ix now nar rowed down to that carried on even there tt ta extent hag not averaged during the is grossly exaggeray.d, five thourend negroos avnually. I fe is becoming & meres, and it needs Captan Gereral to Cabs who will effectually termipat> is appreachug its complow reat emporinm of by Cabs, ead wt three years ja truth, sae tras extinction Africa lawful com ut the presture of Fraace on the Court of Mearid—(where, thaoks to Lord Palmerston, Lat wut brance plainly and sincerely inform the Spanish government that & would rather see Ovha annezed to te Uwited Stairs them see it comtenue a Spawish colony on the Afrian slave trade, and the great provlem of Africa will be permanencly Rmperor t take this 2 and settled. But to induce the Pnyland must Got be tn oppoat- tion to him in every othor par, of Kurope, tho Britiah gov- ernment most bot be quarreiling and disputieg with France about the Prine! ites, Montene, across Suez ; we must o! @ between tia. And here again, timid as Lord Malmosbvurg's polloy ia, it is far preferable w Lord Cisrendoa’s insincority. and the conel it Aue- The Abolitioa of Privateering. OPINION OF THE FRENCH R885. The Nord of July 18, afer criticising severely the miovs of the Journal des Dedats ou the irosty of April 1866, whiob wan pabisbed in the Herat of Saiurday inet, continues as follows: — cation & te pr of Varia bas done mu co towards the appii- Principles of amity of the rights of war oe land and on sea, and the immusily of privare property and. privase citizens, when jocuring the rights af seutrals by the Proclamation of the maxiiné which comsenrate thew Lixing the rules of the rigtt of bivekade above all, abolishing privateeriog—thai last the interference of private orvzens in the sow of war. remains but one step to be taken {0 order that the rights ‘of war be uniform, in fact, on land agon ea; thes the ware Deiween maritime Powors be wixo only aa intercourse be tween ope Power and anctpor: that is, inet the tmmaurity ineurea to neutrals be extended to when Y, whee private ware, oF There the veasols, 1 we pescefal pavigaiors of ine hostile natives, and this it is thas the United states clam. ears Deea cloaed. Eoeoraviy faliiled We are convinced that Rogiana, and those whe ‘slave treaties with this country: and | favor ber policy ia Europe, sions object to thas the exception of Spain, who bas receivod £100,009 of ition of tho United Sates. Fracco, which ot moral as well the dasirod effect, ‘Mr. Gutt aod Mr. M. por Portugal would retrogressioa which woule then obtain a to every place where noe posranetie @ sugar. the soy % sinves miles, has been closely watched, aac coasequontly sensible diminution of tho slave trate bes induced the jefsto tarn theif atention to legtimate com. merce, and hence they now ship to th quantivios of cotton, palm oil and other valisoie comm aities. Lp the British squadron « ual uppers te tbo missionarion oted those growing communitios }, hom it not only has been the from the horrors of the middie pasa- age, but of restoring to wative land Are ali thors works to be throw: y?_Is Spain to havo & mo- nopoly of the slevo trade becaut ane will not surrender the profits of ber illicit commerce aod close the oaly remaining great slave market in the world? We incised to believe that Mr, Hutt notice resolution af a tine when the dispute Eng card and the United States om the subject of the right of visit an’ srarch remained uneritied; wad fleding that, by tho gee sense of the British government, tois diffoulty bad Joe semovet, Ry — we worn a a impiy changed the tone of his spetoo, 1s for the surrender of the right of searoh—for that ties been coocsded—but demanded the withdrawal of the African squadron, tho only moans which have hitherto been found eifeotoal in the slave trade. Mr. Firzornann Jaat night mentioned that he bad ro- csived & doepatoh im whish Gem. Onee etated that the United states government, the course which Eogiend had taken, waich he desoribed as “ worthy of a areat nod - oon , wonld at once giro ite earnest and attentive consideration vo Ly ayy + which ber Majesty's government might submit fer ' the yorifics avo ficatar charaoter, that it is wold or f & century ago took the initiative in that Proporition, Russia, always reaty aod interested to aid every progress of maritime Inw—all the SO nyprhe en yp 9 tha) understand how imporsant it into strike out of lawe of war that Inst veatige of ancient Dardariem, cance fell © support it when the day arrives. We are sure tat ‘e wilt trramph, and that, before long, wat will at lant be as civilized on the aoa as on land. frees to tho first repulse of the Power intorestes to all that might favor trade and marttims liberty, aod ty ie therefore (nat We are 80 Adlon ished and so grieved a! the strange maxime which we fing in the Javrnal des Debate. Tho Journal des Débats of July 18, anawore the Nord e@ We owe that eroat pro- ‘We are barbarians becento we did not adbere to the ion of the United States im favor of the inviolabiit- ¥ Of private proverty floating oa the soas ia time of meart- } anh dT a we bare pga tne Woetern ers for not he enteriatoad roposition made by the Calted Statens yi We raid that the principle of maritime war wae ae struct the enemy's commerce: radjog between nat Je between governments, would be an absurd aod private ti immors! spectacie country large | from ite mantis who deciares not to ba inviolabte. and ft would be just ae abo! inviolabiiity ts This ip the = i and that y declares tinetured with barbarism. like t now what tevo maritime Powers, at _ aon Whicd the Nord ie would, however, ‘What uae will there be henceforth in op»owing a feet wo that of your neighdor, when his fiset cannot interfere Tt would ben great picos neuro for the prrpose of giving pattie to = a it Ce ey Yyou—tts ocly duty boing thet about until ib mee ormary Smelt belligerent, aod has anesa There ts nothing reriour in ail this, toi im ® for private pro ‘ora biti or woil to aay at Onoe that maritime iianed. ‘why are you not consistent, of the enemy 6 We might aa ularly restricted by ne cossity, and that a bom oardment, for inmance, has very Iittle regard However, if we a>- cept this inviolability, we will 66 80 extremely barbarous ae to make u'inotion between the private property of the enemy on land and his flossing property on the sea. The private property which floats on the sea hase par- of im, and the right t9 the | ompioyed in trade, ee ann eer worn veey galled.” Cader | Raett thas you qhene circumstances (he united equ , ready in the right to interrupt. dh tL commerce, jor sais, it directly at the necessition and serves the interests of the euomy, There. fore it is not aitogethor lice the enemy's property on land —~a stationary and inactive property; 11 \9 his property: words, hi ee and that you have the be carried