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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1864.

It would ha:dlyhave been possible for any friend

of the Government to have hit upon a more admir-
ably clever amendment than Mr. KINGLAKE'S. It

is so wonderfully clever that—disingenuous though
it is—it deserves to succeed. It is far better than

what is vulgarly called trailing the herring, It is

at once a moat subtle, and yet, at the same moment,
a most fllgrant evasion of the difficulty. Sir

CAIRNS might be tempted to speak of it, as five years
ago he spoke (very memorab'y) of Lord RussELL's
Resolutions, namely, as a dodge. But Mr. KING-

LAKE'S amendment is too clever to admit of its

being adequately defined by the application to it 01

so ignoble an epithet. It is far removed above the
dead level of a dodge. It is in its way a work of
high art. It is worthy of remembrance henceforth
as a sort of model for what an amendment
°tight to be. It cocily takes for grantee
that the Address to the Crown, about to
be Proposed ii the House of Commons

on Monday by Mr. DISRAELI, means—War. Mr.
KINGLAKE affects, in other words, to look upon the
"situation" as this—that, Whereas the Government
are for Peace, the Opposition are for War ! When
the "situation," in reality, is nothing whatever of
the kind. The Voting of Mr. DISRAELI'S pro-
posal for an Address to the Crown would, in
no imaginable way, jeopardise the pacific future
of England. On the contrary, the very
objection raised by the words for which Mr.
KIN GLAKE now proposes to substitute his Amend-
ment—the very objection raised by those words, at
the close of Mr. DISRAELI'S suggested Address to
the Crown, is to the effect that the course pursued
by the Government tends to the jeopardising of
morerse
peace, renders the probability of war later on
and more inevitable ! Saving only of co
if those increased temptations to war should
not again be evaded by mere of thew mean
and despicable concessions made, in the
haughty name of England, by a faltering and a
paltering Government ! Mr. .....KINGLAKE, however,
affects not to see anything of all this—affects, in fact,
to see exactly the reverse. Hence his amendment.
We shall be curious to observe how Mr. DISRAELI
will deal with that Amendment under the circum-
stances. One way of dealing with it, one
is almost tempted to suggest this, might be
the incorporation of the purport of the
Amendment parenthetically in the Address to the
Crown to be proposed on Monday in the House of
Commons by the Leader of the Opposition.
Namely,byinterpolatiog, among the closing words of
the Address, something to the effect that "although
we have learnt with satisfaction," et cetera! Thereby
taking the little sidelong puff of wind out of that
cleverly nnrec'ed Amendment of Mr. KINGLAK E'S,
designed by that ingenious as well as honourable
and learned gentleman to carry her MAJESTY'S Goa
vernment safely into port, even when at their very
direst extremity. Clever, wonderfully clever, though
the amendment unquestionably is, it nevertheless
admits of being rendered perfectly nugatory and
inefficacious if adroitly dealt with by a far cleverer
man and a far abler tactician than even Mr. KlNG-
LAKE—meaning, of course, the right hon. gentleman
the Leader of the Opposition. It is just precisely
the opportunity for Diamond cutting Diamond.

There are some men whose names are so identified
with a particular cause that they are regarded as
in some measure authorities upon the subject, and
whatever may fall from them respecting it commands
attention. Lord•BxouGHAM has long occupied this
position with regard to the Slave Trade, and con-
sequently the brief address which he made on our
relations with the Brazilian Government on Tuesday
evening are not altogether to be overlooked, oven
amid the many exciting topics now pressing upon
public attention. To whatever subject the noble
lord addressed himself he was not, indeed, likely
to be heard with anything but deference ; but on
this question he has expended so much time and
energy, he has laboured so strenuously for the good
cause, and has been such an unflinching advocate
of the rights of man against the oppression of his
fellows, that his speech will be read with interest
by a more comprehensive circle. Despite the ana•
themes of Federal partisans, Lord BROUGHAM is
one of the recognised leaders of anti-slavery princi-
ples in this country, and the public is inclined to
receive with favour any proposition which he may
make respecting it. His object on Tuesday evening
was, singularly enough, not to increase the severity
or efficiency of the acts now in force, but to obtain
the repeal of ono which he considered to be injurious
is its operation. The measure to which he referred
was the Aberdeen Act of 1845, whose present
agency he believed to be rather deleterious to the
cause than favourable. It is highly satisfactory to
find from so competent an authority that the slave
trade in the Brazils may be considered as actually
terminated. Twenty years ego from forty to sixty
thousand slaves were annually imported into Brazil ;
it is, therefore, no light matter to have succeeded
in putting an effectual stoppage to so large and
flourishing a trade. Mach of the credit due for this
suppression Lord BROUGHAM attributes unreservedly
to the Brazilian EMPEROR,WhO has not only shown
some anxiety for the total stoppage of the trade,
but has also wished to preclude the possibility of its
revival. In these views he has been powerfully
supported by his own people, and, in fact, he could
not on such a matter have effected much without
their aid. Public opinion is happily enlisted on the
right side of the question, and some half dozen years
back the Brazilian legislature passed an act render-
ing the slave trade piracy. There is, therefore, little
ground for uneasiness respecting the future prospects
of a trade which appears to have been virtually
annihilated. Lord BROUGEIAM contended that the
wording of the Act gave great offence to the Bra-
zilians, both people and Government, especially as
regarded the very large indemnity which it gave to
British office's for acts done in the suppression of
the slave trade. Lord ABERDEEN himself said that
when the trade was abolished, the Act should be
repealed, but the Act has now survived the trade
for nine or ten years without any modification ; and
although it may not be fully carried out at present
it remains in existence, occasioning causeless irri-
tation. The Brazilian Government appears to have
acted with good faith throughout, although we need
not inquire too closely how far its honourable ful

filment of its obligations has been encouraged by
the change in the views of its citizens. The result
IS °A any rate a matter for congratulation, and it is
only tube lamented that while Brazil has sincerely
endeavoured to discourage and suppress the slave
trade, Spain, which has accepted large subsidies for
the same purpt,le
, has treated her engagemnts with
the most open dbiregard. The real . cause of this
of contract is Cuba, and Lord
BdianhoounGonuArmablwe reabspaeell rfettly
correct in his assertion
that Spain would never ao anything to injure the
slave trade so long as Cuba remained in Spanish
hands. The Government Is too easily influenced
by the wealthy capitalists of Cuba, and accordingly
they encourage rather than repress the trade. Lord
of slavery by the American Civil War. In
RUSSELL consoles himself for this unsatisfactory
state of things by anticipations of the total extinc-
tion

waiting, however, for so doubtful and distant a

prospect, it would be well to see whether some.

thing cannot be done to secure a better observance
of the Treaty, and to check a great and appalling
evil, which it rests with us in a great measure to

countenance or to cure:

There have been so many defeats of the Govern-
ment this year that the occupants of the Treasury
benches must be rather more surprised when they
obtain a success than when they sustain a reverse.
At any rate the majority 'which voted for Mr.
DOULTON'S resolution on Tuesday did good service
to the community, and more especially to the
humbler ranks, to whom the preservation of open
spaces is most important. It is difficult to explain
why the 'Government are always against these
proposals, suited as they are to the requirements of
the people. Perhaps it is from a dislike to any in-
terference in their departments, or from their in-
❑ate love of arbitrary power, and the wish to usurp
rights of judgment to themselves. Ba this as it
may, it is very certain that no one brings forward
the claims or the wishes of the community in any
refired that seine °Livia' does nt:.y start up and

attempt to explain away whet has been said.
Either this suggestion is not practical, or that ar•
gument is not solved, or it will not be expedient to
do anything just now, but the Government will
bear the question in mind for a future occasion.
Mr. DOULTON made out a very good case in support
of his proposal ; he stated facts, which should have
been sufficient to convince even official impractica-
bility ; but it is truly said that there are none so
deaf as those who will not hear. No one can deny
the great importance of preserving these open
spaces, and yet it is equally true that while more
demands exist for their maintenance it becomes
more difficult to preserve them. London is fast
losing the great advantages it once enjoyed of
being surrounded by open places, they are ra-
pidly becoming absorbed for building purposes.
Under these circumstances, Mr. DOULTON proposed
that the Government should introduce a bill for the
purpose of affording the necessary protection, the
Board of Works not having the power to do so.
There can he no reason why more active inter-
ference is not used in this case, for it is surely
a bounden duty on the part of the Government
to undertake the responsibility themselves, and
not to be continually shifting it from their own
shoulders to those of others who cannot perform
the task if they have the willingness to do so. The
usual absurd excuses were given by the Government
speakers, which amounted in reality to declaring
that the subject was important, but that reasons
prevented it being properly attended to. Surely if
one thing more than another imperatively calls for
action, it is the preservation of the health of the
metropolis, and yet this is constantly neglected by
those who are ready to go to any expense for mere
mattes of business or objects of interest. In no
better way could the Government spend the funds
at their disposal than by first clearing those open
spaces over which private individuals have a right,
and thus prevent their being built upon. Had they
actedwithpromptitude and proper publicfeeling there
would not have been all the outcry raised concerning
Hempstead Heath, which has given so much annoy-
ance and caused so much odium. It is always very
disgraceful for public functionaries to display
meanness in their dealings or inaptitude for their
tasks, but when these qualities are shown in affairs
of moment as regards public hethlth, the consequences
are disastrous and deplorable in the extreme. Mr.
TORRENS made a few very forcible observations,
and said that persons were in the habit of laying
claim to considerable portions of Epping Forest,
under the plea of being lords of the manor, and
that the Government were so supine that they
did not protect the rignts of the Crown. He
truly said that the Attorney-Ganeral ought to be
instructed by the Treasury to interfere and prevent
such spoliation taking place. It is very easy to
make glib speeches on the Treasury benches and its
immediate vicinity, and the exaggeration of this
and that statement, the incorrectness of those de

tails, and the utter impossibility of that proposal
being carried out ; bnt the end always is the same,
that the worst fears of the complainants are ful•

tilled, and the general interests of the public are
sacrificed. Mr. F. PEEL made a most ridiculous
observation when he said that he could not admit

it was the duty of the Government to pay for the
compensation out of the public purse,and that there
" ought to be no difference in that respect between
the metropolis and other large towns." Nur can
anything be more extraordinary than this states
ment, when the population of the metropolis is so
numerous, and is so much more precluded from the
means of obtaining fresh air. The end is the same,
whatever means are adopted to encompass it, and
the Government mean to do nothing. The large ma-

jority against them is a great satisfaction to con
template, as they will no be forced to do some

thing, nolens volens, if they remain in office; and if
they do not, their successors will be able to take

advantage of this warning, and exert themselves to

perform their duties more faithfully in this impor.

tent respect. All that relates to the health and

comfort of the working classes should receive a

double share of attention.

The annual meeting of the Manchester Cotton
Supply Association took place on Tuesday, at the
Manchester Town Hall, and its members could not
fail to contrast the present cheering aspect of the
cotton trade with the gloomy state of things when
the Association was first formed. Then all seemed
dark and hopeless, so hopeless, indeed, that many
able and experienced men seriously recommended
that the great masses of the cotton spinning popu-
lation should turn their attention to some other
mode of gaining a living, since there was little or
no chance that the cotton industry would ever
again support them. Others advised a wholesale
deportation of the people, and every suggestion
commanded some degree of attention when the re•
cipients of public relief were reckoned by tens of
thousands. But while this perplexity and anxiety
were filling most minds, a few more sanguine or
energetic considered what could be done to revive
the cotton trade. It was plain that that trade
supplied countless necessities, that it met the wants
of all grades of the community, that it was able to
give employment to all these starving thousands,
while its stoppage was occasioned by no inevitable
calamity, no national misfortune which human
power could either foresee nor control, but from
purely secondary causes. The earth did not refuse
to nurture the precious seed, the seed itself showed
no malign influences, but the fault lay in the human
agent for its supply, and men refused to profit by
what the peat Mother would willingly have
given them. Why, then, since the soil and the
climate which favoured its development was
confined to one part of the globe, why
could not the seed be sown elsewhere, and
the energies of other nations be enlisted
on behalf of the cotton cultivation. Had this
reasoning been acted upon earlier it would have
spared Lancashire the cotton famine. Had the
gloomy portents which wise men could see in the
political horizon been earlier heeded—had the pos.
sibility of an American War been icalculated on
instead of being thrust into the background as a
catastrophe quite out of the question, how much
loss and misery might have been saved. But a
reckless spirit of speculation possessed the mill-
owners, and they went on adding store to store,
regardless of the future. Happily now the sky is
brightening again, and while every month the
pauper returns show a considerable diminution, the
statistics collected by associations encourage us to
hope for a gradually increasing supply of the pre-
cious material. The concluding words of the report
should be borne in mind by all concerned in the
revival of the trade. The writer says, after sum.
ming up the rapid progress of the cultivation in
many widely removed lands, " the review of the
past supplies hope for the future; and whether we
look to India, or Egypt, or Turkey, or Italy, or
Australia, to Central or South America, the West
Indies, or any other quarter, it is manifest that
there must be no faltering policy parsued if we
would reap the harvest for which we have sown."

EXETER HALL.—Handers oratorio, "Judas
Maccabteus," will be performed for the last time this sea-
son on Wednesday next, the 6th July, by the National
Choral Society, under the direction of Mr. G. W. Martin,
Principal singers—Madamo Pampa, Miss Palmer, Mr.
sims Reeiss, and Mr, Santley. Laud and chorus, 700,