The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-20 00:00:00

empress the awn trade, sad would aline se other eeasl
dentin Dutiesew they eaglit not to lave
the Egger am. (Cheers.) It was pr.
tared the
that genffelsta *en* say us they di/ say,
that the seem of emeweekste end of pokey were gelliant
to Wage then topam *at as. We would a* anew into
that *Mead= grow, bit begs* this baring pared that get
he Ailed &seal* gmlatala &Mk remakes for giatewity ;
tad If they wasted • skeane * =pram the ekes *Wm *e
bet thing they 'eightUde * de wan to net galy,
es pito a pees/ of efthee=
at Mew* is wee the beet gni meet
mods of *Mg it. What weed* wet Wag they eel& tide?
Instead of Melee between 811 and 4111 sabot, :hey ought to
have at kiwi between al and 108. A °Weer yew.
We anointed et r este that. hat was mweinly tbe
Awl nice of Ilk Clarks Betkent—(bears beer)--W eel be
misleads& N k • Nauseant if hie babel that the bermes
would be made* kt sepses the ekes trade. (leas.) 81r
8. Lublegekt GM all the maligeklat IleM them that all
*wit gales emit be intik IMO they penile& the trews.
There wog diem* *Au w.mekbmsagrepseet Sem
proposed to Imeg Ili wawa egiemeelly. gime Felts*
to bang the captain only —(knabeer)—ailbege pages* that
a limited number, three or kw. he haw* should be
!maw d, while *kers agsia guegsge& the mow lank*
peadties cot (imprisonment sad transportation. Now did say
man who knew the temper of Ass nodose, of the world
towards each other, believe for one moment that England
would ever be permitted to amortise penal rights over the
&leas of other states ? (Hear, near) He hoped
lon. gantlsmen would serioasly coi.sider that question. If
the slave trade were placed on the footing of piney , then, pro
vtded saw other onsideraticals could be get rid of, the mum
before them would be an intelligible ems ; bat be, for oars,
believed that a more visionary idea never mitered the mind
of men, mad that was another reams fee shining the present
system. But there was another maskleratioo, tamely, to
limits which parliament bad assigsed to Murkiest* with
the sieve trade. Spain and Brazil had been breaking trea-
ties every day for the last twenty years, the treaties by
which Brasil engaged to treat the imp motion of slaves is a
rime. The noble lewd bad told them that they bad • per-
fect right to demand from Brazil the to flimsies of those
treaties, and, if that wen so, they had of course a right
to make the demand at the sword's point, and to make
war on Brazil if she refused to fulfil her obligationa
Bat though we had justice oa oar side' neither the noble
lord (Lord Palmerston), doing the fifteen years of his
tenure of office, nor Lord Aberdeen, during flee, bad ven-
tured to urge the demands in that spirit; knowing that
feeble as Brazil was, this c snowy would not dare to go to
war with her on that question, much less to encounter those
who would in such an event be blood standing in her roar
prepared to support her. (Hew.) He mast again protest
against the assumption that anything like inalifferenes on
the part of the British governesses must follow the aban
dimmest of attempts at repression by fora. He appre-
hended that, under any eircusugancee, the British g
mend would use effectual means to prevent its own subjects
hem engaging la the slave wad*. (Hear.) He **wed
that be saw no newest why the British government should
net couture, is cases in a hick (as in that of the Portu-
guese sett:omen° there were enthorised partial to all the
endeavours which might be made to put down the slave
trade. But he filthily acknowledged that he did not
think that on the whole either Braid or Cabal had had
full justice at their bands. His boa. friend (Mr. Cardwell)
had referred to the arse of Cuba as that of a triumph of
the squadron. Why had the importation of slaves into Brazil
been increasing? (Hear, bear.) By what fatality, by
what magic, by what charm or react inflictor.* bad the
cruisers always hit on vowels intended for Cuba and not
on vessels intended for Brazil ? (Hear, boar.) The
real cause of the difference between its two
eases wise, he believed, that the governor and the
immunity of Cuba bad seen it to be for their interest that
the slave trade should not continue. Wheat, he aiked, would
have happened, supposing ~ur own ease, 60 yi ars ago, had
boon Out: of Brazil at the present time ? Sixty years ago we
sere the great slave traders of the world. Suppose some
whirr Dalton, ba.f a century more advanced than ourselves,
after abolishing the slave trade fur itself, bad stationed its
cruisers on the roast of Attics. Way, in that state of
things, the progress of public opinion is this country would
have been i ,definitely retarded. The blood of every 13,g-
-luhstan would have risen against foreign inter-
vention in concerns which, however wrongly, we con-
sidered to be our own. It *Gould not be forgotten that ten
years ago • formal propeition was made in Breed
for the extermination of the slave trade. (Hear)
That proposrion on the part of Brazil did not seem to have
mot with the favourable receptioa that it deserved. How
numb saver they deplored or blamed the pokey of the go-
vernment of Brazil, they were not justified in 'eying that, if
they withdrew their squadron frees the coast of Melee. the
Brazilian government would display an unlimited encourage-
ment to the slave trade on their part. He (Mr. (iAdrons)
cherished • hope that, in such • case, the Brazi,fan govern-
ment won d institute regulations to mitigate the sufferings
of the slaves, and would take steps mute satisfac-
tory to put down the slave trade. Those 'topes
were stronger this soy which he could enterrain
mmeoneen with the preseat system, because in regard to
that it appeared that whatever may be their zed, whatever
may be thole liberality as regarded public money, whatever
may brittle skill or ability of their tfficere, and whatever may
be their success is forming treaties with other nations, the
object which they bad in view the more and more eluded
thew grasp, the slave wager mocked at their efforts, and
while they were really in pursuit of an end that philan-
thropy held most dear, they had too much reason to lament
that they were inatimorg the sunnier waich it was their
obje et and desire to put an end to. (Loud cheers.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he was more unions than
ever he remembered that the house, when it came to • de-
cision on this subject, should has the atop st sense of its

emporiums—an impatanea which it was quite impossible
fur anyone to exaggerate, or even to state merely to its ull ex-
Mem. list to give some taint idea of it, he b. eged to awe that
lathe beginning of the present oratory England hod slaves
is all her calderas ; that she curried on and permitted the
slave trade ; and that the other powers of Europe who had
colonies likewise sanctioned slavery, and wherever and whin.
ever they could carry an the slays trade they likewise per-
mitted and sanctioned it. In the course of the time which
had elapsed sines the Urania/ of this century they had
sees the parliament of Esgiand etiolate the Mau trade.
They bad mien Eng:and, in the treaty of Purim, make
'Mindanao with ail the cations of Europe declaring
her coodemanation of the sieve trade. They had
eau slavery itself abolished by an act of the
English parliament. They badmen it abolished practically,
effectually and entirely abolished by Frame sad the United
Mires, and they had sen slavery itself very lately abolished
by France sad Danmark. He would beg to be allowed to
add to that, theugh It belonged rather to • subs. quect part
of the moment, that those places in Africa which not many
years ago were the e rongholde el the slave trade had been
rescued from that aboonnaba traffic, and that the peaceful
arts of industry now tiouriubed in thou
_placers which were
the temples of that horrible idol. It was at the end
of these triumphs of humanity whit h he had
jut brought be:ore their notice that they were now asked
to begin the course of soother half century by a retrograde
step—(lood cheers)—eeing back from all tact had hitherto
been dobe, proclaiming to the world by this first step that
they no longer will take those steps airiest the slave trade
which they had hitherto taken, and that they had no subag-
ent@ to put in their place, sad thereby spreading discourage-
ment in every part of the world amongst those who
admiring their 'Rumple, feeling the truth of this Cerisiiia
maxim which they had professed, and wishing prat-
tically to act in the same manner, had been en-
deavouring each in their own country to spread
the same maxim, and to abolish this horrible crime. To
speak only of that country to which the right hon. gentle-
man (sr. Gladstone) last alluded—namely, Brasil—that
right hoe. gentleman had stated that his noble friend
near him gave evidence that there was a party in Brand
which was hostile to the slave trade. Stec. hie Roble
friend gave that evidence they had later accounts, and
these later amounts, he wee sorry to say, represented that
patty as utterly dispirited. Their language was to the
effect that they feared that England was about to
rise Moen her endeavours, and that if England
eeaeed to take the lead in this great work
of mercy, it would be a hopeless teak for them to attempt to
raise their heads against • textile which they in their
hearts detested. Every gentleman would rememoar
that the treaty with France arose from a repugnance
which was felt in France, from objections which were
made in the French place of assembly against allowing the
rightol search to the &Ilia, and as • substitute for that
they agreed to keep cruisers of their own to prevent slavers
from trading under the French flag. They gave the
right of visit to the English cruisers, although they did
not give what was technic.llly termed the right of search.
That treaty, although their number of vessels had been
diminished, had been most faithfully preserved by France.
If, however, they asked France to relieve them trot their
obligations, their lei h would be nailed ; and then what
would their pcsition be? Would they be free to ant with
the slavers as they thought proper 1 From that moment
every slaver may hoist the French flag ; and they could not
mums that they had any right which would enable them
to search those versals to see whether they were vessels
carryiag on the slave trade, or the national vessels of
France. At emu the flag of France end else of
the United &stem would be wed by the slave (radon,
sad Great Britain would have no means to prevent its being
carried on. It was noe' es the tight hon. gentleman said,
affect that they °add act u they aught fit. It was not
worth the while of the right hos. gentleman to put forward
that excuse fur the moment, because the Ma. gentleman
who made the motion and the hoe. gentleman who followed
Ma did cot disguise that, &Waugh they thought this step
was necessary, their object was to restore the elan trade, or
as the hen. gentleman who aeonaded the'uothen tailed it, free
ends in slaves. That was the motion which he was
about to deal with, and which he asked the house cot to
sanction, and in so doing he did not wish to prevent any
somaderation of the subject which the house may hereafter
Walt desirable, or of any substitute which may appear
either to tho government or the members of the house capa-
ble of better securing the suppression of the slave trade
What he did demeanour, and whet be aakedthe house not
to consent to was simply the reversal of all their policy,
and • declaration that they would sot take away the means
of putting down the slave trade by a marine lures, and
would take no luau of providing a substitute for that pur-
pose. The right hon. gentleman following the hon. gentle-
man who made the motion, aliened to observations which
had been made by Sir T. F. Buxton and by himself (Lord
J. Russell.) Whether the language which they had used
was too erring or sot, ens thing was obvious—that they
used that language sot to induce the government, not to
liana the ormintey, to relinquish thou mane 01 repression,
but to show that these means of repression were
not sufficient to Indus the governs/teat and parliament
to sanction additioaal means, There was all the difference
is the world between using an argument of that kind, saying
that they 'build give up the whole task, and wing an ergs-