Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-28 00:00:00

aggrandisement, and a sentiment of • glory or
ieverige. Putting agide- the former, which' every
Frenchman .knows- would .absolutely ,rforbid our

making war on his country, we ask, has any
Minister, any speaker, or writer of authority or

notoriety, said' or done or written anything to
sanction the notion that any such sentiment as the

latter inspires us ? No such charge can be laid for a

moment against the people of this country. Our
error is too likely to be on the other side. We arc
too much inclined to be exclusively engrossed in the
arts of making -money, and of living in luxury and

quiet. Just as foolish is it to suppose of our
Government, that they are: the public incendiaries
who fire the minds of the people, and proimke

.national animosity by imputations of false motives to
a foreign ruler, in order that they may Ocpatiate on

warlike. amusements, • spend"' Morley , Will, and

endanger their own financial 'reputation. On the

contrary, the present .Minister for Foreign Affairs
has declared .openly, that the people 'are bid to arm

without any sufficient reason and it is, on selfish

motivest the interest of the CHANCELLOR of- the

EXCHEQUER to have to prepare- for 'as small an

expenditure as possible

The only reproach, there-

fore, that remains, is a groundless spirit of alarm,
and this the Debats addresses itself to ridicule and

dispel. Nothing can be fairer than his statement of
the moderate limit which France has fixed to her
necessities and her desires. She has colonies far and

near,
,rich and populated coasts, a great maritime

commerce' large political interests. She needs an

army and a navy proportionate.; to her -wealth- and
population. On the other hand, she desires only
_her
legitimate share of liberty and action. She does not
menace her neighbours, neither does she distrust them.
She puts faith in their professions, and expects
reciProcation,of the same confidence.

But let us turn to the other side of the picturc

The Debats of Saturday shall facilitate our reading
of-the- Debats of TUesday. -See how he himself
demolishes, in detail, all his positions, and spoils his

recent candour

The spirit of sympathy becomes

market. Instead of those ruinous and disas-

trous fluctuations, arising from irregularity and

uncertainty of intercourse and advices, the supply
would be regulated by the demand. Sometimes the
Colonial market is glutted with goods imported, upon
high rates of prices current; reported at distant
tervals, so that they are sold at a positive loss,
-while at another' time there is a great scarcity

arising from the same causes. The importance of
an immediate postal establishment cannot, there--
fore, be overrated. If the question is handed about
from the Post. Office to the Admiralty, and then to
the Colonial Office, like a shuttle-cock, tossed
from 'one battledore to another, much valuable time
is lost, and no good effected. Australia is one of our

ltrigest and most important -coionies,- afflirding
an
outlet for our redundant population, consuming our
manufactured articles, and- supplying us in retnrn
with the very staple of an important branch of our

manufacture, of the very finest quality, in great
abundance. It is a colony which is growing, day by
day, ,more important, and more valuable, to the
mother country. It has been described as a great
Sahannah, encircled by an emerald border. This may

or 'may not be correct ; we may be as far wide of

the truth in this supposition, as the enterprising and
indefatigable traveller, Dr. LIVINGSTON, has shown

us we' were, with reference to the condition of

Central Africa

The other topic to which we have alluded is no
less important, the character of,; and the sources from

which labour is to be introduced, to cultivate the

plains of our-colonies. << Previous to the emancipation
of the slaves, it was apprehended that so soon as the
term of apprenticeship expired, through which the
slave had to pass, as an education and preparation
for his.ulthnate and Complete freedom; the` countries
would be thrown out of cultivation, that the

indolence of the African, whose wants are so simple
and so few, and so; easily

obtained in a warm

climate, would induce him to reject all labour and

abnegate all work

The colony whose apprehen-

sions first led to a spractical remedy; was the sugar:
producing island, Mauritius ; and in 1837, the first
cargo of Coolies from India was introduced to culti=
vete its cane-fields. Most wisely they were placed
under the supervision Of the stipendiary magistrates,
who' were appointed to carry out the Order in
Council, under the apprenticeship system. They

,were thus protected from unjust oppression by their
employers, if any were disposed to exercise it. No

doubt, that highly-coloured untrue

statements

made to their, to induce them to
improve their miserable and wretched condition
in India, by emigration. Promises were given to
them; much. in :the same spirit' as a recruiting
serjeant fires the inia'gination of the recruits he
enlists, by .telling them they will soon be captains
Yrid colonels. This, and the. treatment they receive
on the voyage, the narrow space allotted to each,
and the overcrowding of the vessel, were evils which
called:toy th'e active and vigilant interference of the

Government. With these glaring and well-recorded

facts, we are not surprised. that societies formed for
the humane and Christian purpose of extinguishing
the slave trade, look with jealousy and suspicion on
any system which bears the semblance of it, under

an apparently falsely called introduction of free
African labour, Coolie or Chinese, into our different

colonies, -Whether in the Western
_or Eastern Hemi-
sphere. The climates in which sugar, cotton, and
coffee grow are'so intensely hot, that the Em-Opean
is unable and incapable of field labour for any
continuous time

True, Germans have attempted it
in the West Indies, and also in the northern portions

. .
of Australia, but at the cost of an immense mortality

It is an emigration which may with- justice and