The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

that which his own interests and those of the
community at large imperatively require.

Lord OVERSTONE wants a purely metallic cur-
rency. He would risk anything in order to bring
abut such a result. He might, however, just as
well go back to "barter," and, we believe, that
he has declared, not very lung since, that " a
state of barter would be preferable to a paper
currency." Tt might be so for the wealthy
capitalists, but such would not be the case
for the industrial population, who, being
compelled to furnish their tale of bricks, in the
shape of taxation, justly and reasonably demand
that they should be provided with the " straw,"
or, in other words, with a circulating medium
adequate to the wants and exigencies of the
country, and which would ensure to every man
able and willing to work, that great desideratum
" a fair day's wages for a fair day's labour," and
enable him to be a creator and producer of
national wealth, in place of being an unprofitable
and miserable consumer—languishing in compul-
sory idleness, and seeing his family enduring all
the privations produced by the most pinching
poverty.

For once a resolution has been submitted to the
House of Commons, which Lord PALMLRSTON did
not feel himself called upon to vote against, to
meet by the previous question, or even by pairing

off—one which was not " injurious to the public

service" or " inconvenient ;" on the contrary,
one which, though made by a private member, he
could cordially support, and wish the House to

pass unanimously—a wish to which he found all
parties quite ready to accede. 'Mr. C. BUXTON
proposed to address her Majesty, requesting her
to use all means in her power to repress the Slave
Trade, and to enforce the carrying out of treaties
made for that purpose, by the nations which have
entered into them. Lord PALMERSTON cordially
accepted the motion (it makes no difference whe-
ther this was pre-arranged or not), assured the
House that their decided vote must have great

weight with other nations, that it would atrenghthen
the hands of her Majesty's Government, and that
the House might rely on the Government doing
its utmost to carry into effect the objects of the
address.

For once, then, all were unanimous, and every
man in his right place. Mr. BUXTON inherits the
place which he took, that of an independent an-
t ►gonist. of slavery and of the Slave Trade ; Lord
PALMERSTON was also in his right place, for not
any even of his opponents, will deny him the

merit of an earnest, persevering, and, on the
whole, successful policy on the question of the
ltve trade. The only accusation against him
has been that of going too far in the coercion of
independent nations, guilty of tolerating or not
putting down this accursed traffic. A vary meri•
brious offence, as we must think ; and even Mr.
NEWDEGATE must also appear in his right place,
too, lamenting the abolition of protective duties—
a folly, in his view, essentially connected with
the revised slave trade, to which enlightened
faith we must leave him.

We do hail, however, the indication of revived
attention to the subject. Even with India and
China on his hands, Lord PALMERSTON does not
mean to let CHRISTINA, ISABELLA, and the' mer-
cenary Spanish Government sleep at ease in their
guilt. He means this discussion to intimate to
that depraved Court, that the British Parliament
requires him to do his duty—a duty he is quite
willing to perform. The broad fact is undeniable
that wa Raid Spain 400,0001. as a consideration
for her giving up the traffic, and that the
traffic is now ten times worse than it was
In 1847 Cuba imported one thousand
slaves, but during the last two years she
has imported twenty thousand ! and this after a
treaty, and after receiving the money ! We cer-
tainly do not wish to trample on national rights,
but we have yet to learn that it is one nation's
right to take money of another nation to suppress
a hateful traffic, and then 'not merely not to sup-
press it, but to nurse it to ten times its former
magnitude, and even to enrich its Queen mothers
and high officials by allowing them to share the
spoils. We need feel no scruple whatever in
taking the object of our treaty into our own
hands, if Spain will not accomplish it. We have
one remedy—and America as well as Spain might
kick at it if she liked, but it would be in vain, if
we were determined to enforce—that is, to declare
the slave trade piracy, and to hang at the yard-
arm at least the captain, and if that were not
enough, the crew too, of all the devils in human
form who were caught engaged in the infernal
trade. This remedy put an end to it under
English auspices, and it would doubtless be effec-
tual with Spaniards, Portuguese, and Yankees
t)o. Sir JAMES BROOKE would, in one twelve-
wooth, put an end to this piracy, as he did to the
piracy of the savages. It is unendurable to have
the captains and craws of these vessels set at large,
and with money intheir pockets! Great Britain has
so long and at such heavy sacrifices vindicated
for Africans, the rights of human beings, that she
is now entitled to deal with their kidnappers as
what they really are, as pirates.
Manchester was reminded, as we hope she will

b 3 from time to time, of her duty on the subj eot
of slavery. At present she is the grand foster
nurse of slavery. It is her demand for cotton
which makes a slave worth from 2001. to 3001. ;
and it she who has it in her p)war to create a
cotton trade in Africa which shall super ;ede the
present demand on Auerica. The article which
Manchester cotton spinners want is produced na-
turally and abundantly in Africa; 1.0,0001b5. of
cotton have alrealy been brought thence in a
t tte ft-, for the M tuchester market, and nothing
is needed but for Mtachester to devise means t 3
encourage the growth of it. We cannot think it
would be difficult to devise the means of doing
this. Manchester men can be inferior to none in
energy ; and already the traffickers in article; in
palm oil especially, have created a trade with
Africa to the amount of 3,000,0001. annually.
Now that India is so unsettl-d, it is surely well
worth while for our Cotton Lords to direct their
special attention to the cotton of Africa, No
Government aid is needed there, The palm oil
traders have opened the way, and Manchester
has but to follow.

The Co,nmitte.o on the Mayo Election have un-
seated Mr. G. 11. MOORE on the ground that he
had by his agents boon guilty of undue influence,
and spiritual intimidation, and made a special re-
port against certain Reverend Gentlemen, who
made the sacred altars at which they were offi-
ciating, the scenes of political denunciation,
and strife. This is right so far as it goes.
No unprejudiced or disinterested person could
peruse the evidence produced, without feeling the
imperative necessity for protecting the voter in
the exercise of his undoubted rights against
sacerlutal domination. The parties specially re-
ported against have, unquestionably, merited any
punishment that may be inflicted on them. But
there are other species of tyranny equally obnoxi-
ous, to the law, and which require to be sum-
marily suppressed. The alleged justification was
that the priestly influence was necessary to over-
come the landlord influence that if one