Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-22

with other Powers requiring from them the abolition of
y we have established right Of search and on foregoing
II IN the case Of France, insisted agreement
by which both Powers placed fleet the of Africa
properly to SUPPRESS the trade human beings These are
measures which place US IN peculiar position with regard
this question. We have clear right to abolish slavery for
ourselves but we have gone further than that we have d.
ected our influence and example other countries and
we have not merely relied international engagements
but have employed our physical power the force of
ne, to prevent this traffic II certainly did appear inconsis
tent that whilst taking such vigorous measures to
ish the saverade, should be the same time ardina
facilities Tor admitting sugars by slave labor con-
sumption in this country Had remained in power there
FORE it certainly intention have given further time
to the West Indian colonisls in order that they might make
their arrangements"
Marshal Bugeaud used, at Agiers, in recent
dinnerspeech, the following frank and characteristic
language:
You have said, all the tribes have accepted our domino
on such the security obtained for by the Governor
General Gentlemen do let indulge in illusions for
they frequently followed by dscouragng receptions No.
the Arab tribes have not yet accepted
submit to it and that is in the of things Consult
history, and you will not find naon accepting the yoke of
conquero without seeking every occasion for casting off,
You have at this several examples under your eyes
IN Europe How, therefore, you suppose that the Arab
population, proud, fanaca warke well pepar-
ed for by their social and agricultural constitution should
80 promptly accept your domination No, gentlemen
you will often have occasion to combat with them they will
not accept without endeavong get rid of their chains
cruel revolution that you impose upon them You will drive
them from their territory force them reduce the ocks
which formed their wealth. you will compel them to hard la
Dor for the whole year, whereas formerly they worked only
three months abundance of barley and wheat The
benefits Of civilization, which they do appreciate
not compensate for such sacrifices and therefore they will e
quently have recourse to arms. g Tf
Extract from the debate on Public Education
in the House of Commons
Mr. Hume sorry say that in the course Of his in
qures the proposition for taking up the question Of general
education by the State opposed by the dsseners
than by members Of the Church Of England Taking list
Of the countries Of Europe he Observed hat in England the
proportion Of educated people only in eleven
Belgium, one in ten; France in Bohemia, in
eight Fresand and the Tyrol in six and in
all the rest down TO in four, fve and six Thus Eng
land appeared to stand in the position Of having the greatest
amount of Ignorance amongst her people He also found that
in Austria, Bavaria France, Belgium Holland Prussia and
Swzerland the children of different sect educated
geher whilst in this country they separated and he
knew well that in the Church of England Schools they would
not allow the child of dissenting parents to If they
were in doubt to the working of the united SYSTEM then
he could understand why they hestaed adopt it but
there the example Of Ireland When he was in Dublin
he visited and examined every department Of the school of the
Irish Board OF Education and spite of all that had been
urged against by many divines of the Irish Church. him
lMr Hume) appeared to be excellent institutions
Quoted in admirable STYLE and productive Of the salts
factory results (HeaI, hear) They might take an exam
pie nearer home-in Liverpoowhee parties who objected
the system of education adopted there subscribed large
for the purpose of having exclusive Church Of Eng
land system Of educaone Established but in the end the sys
tenn which had proved successful in Ireland also umphed
in Liverpool"
Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell have
both recoiled from general election in Great Bri-
tain earlier than the stated and dreaded epoch. II
is worth noting how the Times expressed itself on
this head, on the 18th July, exulting in "No Dis
souton:''
There now, believe comfortable prospect that the
peace OF the country will not be disturbed by passionate and
futile endeavo obsruct the final settlement Of the sugar
duties The clouds that hung US are passing away
The session will not last till September, the will
lapse to pimeval desoaton the country gentlemen will
be advertised for at their market towns and, the
Other hand zoe shall not hare that horror Of horrors that
SafurraAa Of humbug and all kinds Of iyng-a general
election upon The aati-sLapeyy topic"
The London Morning Chronicle of 2eth and 9th
July contains letter State Education, by Ed
ward Baines, jr., letter to the Abolionist Joseph
Surge, by George r. Porter, and two letters on the
West India question, by the Hon. G. F. Berkeley,
which will reward American attention.
According to the report Of the debate of the 2sth
on the sugar duties in the House of Commons, Mr..
E. Denson " established, by reference to mass of
documents that our efforts to suppress the slave
trade on the coast of Africa had been completely
Intellectual, and that they had been attended with
: an enormous expense of money, health, and life
Having observed that it lamentabe to add that
those efforts had from their failure, aggravated the
horrors OF the save-trade, he proceeded to con-
tend that the best which we could employ
against slavery was the promotion of free labor in
our colonies
Extract from Lord Brougham's speech on the
sugar duties, July 9th, in the House of Lords
"When they talked Of slavery in the West Indies they
intended not the cultivation of coffee cotton, but the pro-
duce OF the sugar plantations and above ALL the fightfu
operation under burning Of putting the sugar into
the SOIL But, after ALL it slavery which he dragged
before them He did MT argue against the importation Of
because it encouraged slavery He geved know
but he did know-hat slavery considered part and
parcel of the institutions Of country which called itself the
rees in the world He grieyed knowrespectng, he
did much that excellent in the American characterize
greved TO know, but he did know that they hung by and
stuck TO slavery of their cherished Institutions But
that was their affair He had right interfere He more
than doubted his right in order discourage slaverya
which established in Amerca-o abstain from all traffic
with America IN that respect he differed from his venerable
friend, Mr. Clarkson but that quite mmaerial They
had no question Of slavery before them now II the
question Of the saveade which they had before them
In increasing the quantity of sugar from Brazil and Cuba
they were not merely strengthening the system of slavery
they were increasing the African slave trade and that
ground on which he objected TO this detesabe measure
Extract from the speech of the Marquis of Lans-
downe, President of the Council on the same oc-
casion
Goyernmenand he for one every period Of his life, had
zeaousy supported the suppression Of the slave adewee
prepared now, they had been any heretofore
70 check and extnguish that traffic by all legitimate
But at the same time they did not think just that the people
Of tins country, who had right to enjoy free commercial in