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London, England, 1857-07-16 00:00:00

that which his own interes's 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
about 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." Jt might be so for the wealthy
clpitalists, 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'e 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 enforc3 the carrying out of treaties
made for that purpose, by the nations which have

entered into them. Lard PALMERSTON cordially

accepted the motion (it makes no d►fferenca 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 streoghtben

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-
tagonist 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
:lave 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•
torious 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 we p%id. Spain 400,0001. as a consideration
for her giving up the traffic, and that the
traffic is now ten times worse than it was
then. In 1847 Cuba imported one thousand
slave; 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 owa
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 wore not
enough, the crew too, of all the devils in ha nau
form who were caught engaged in the infernal
trade. This remedy put an end to it under
Eaglish auspices, and it would doubtless be effec-
tual with Spaniards, Portuguese, and Yankees
tao. Sir JAMES BROOKE would, in one twelve-
month, put an end to this piracy, as he did to the
piracy of the savages. It is uaendura.ble to have
the captains and crews of those vessels sat at large,
and with moneyintheir pockets! Groat Britain has
so long and at such heavy sacrifices vindicated
fur Africans, the rights of human beings, that she
is now entitled to deal with their kidnappers as
what they really are, as pirates.
Manchester wa4 ramindA, as eve hope she will

be from time t 3 time, of her ditty on the subject
of slavery. At present she is the grand feet 3r
nurse of slavery. It is her demand for cotton
which makes a slave worth from 230/. to 30/. ;
and it she who has it in her power t 3 create a
cotton trade in -Africa which shalt super >ode the
present demand on A aerial.. T:l3 article which
Manchester cotton spinners want is producel na-
turally and abundantly in Africa; 10,0301b5. of
cotton have already been brought thence in a
state fir, for the Manchester market, and nothing
is needed but for Mlnchester to devise means t.)
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 articles, in
palm oil especially, have created a trade with
Africa to the amount of 3,000,0001. annually.
Now that India is so unsettl• 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 Committee on the Mayo Election have nn- I
seated Mr. G. H. MOORE on the ground that he I
had by his agents been guilty of undue influence,
and spiritual intimidation, and made a special re-
port against certain .I.t.iverend 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
sacer_Ltal domination. The parties specially re-
ported against have, unquestionably, merited any
punishment that may be iuflict3d on them. But
there are other species of tyranny equally obnoxi-
ous to the law, and which require to b© sum-
marily suppressed. The alleged justification was
that the priestly influence was necessary to over-
come the landlord influence -- that if one