The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-04-11
FOREIGN.


sage Of 81 hours from Halifax having been soms
hours BY the storm The following complete details o
French sTi ss received 6y the tribune me S' ana
/ England. t
| DoIHcs OF PARIIAMENT. In the Commons on March
hs Secretary =. War moved for vote q men
ing reduced BY 4,i2e from that required last year
Mr. Hume moved to reduce this number By 10000 men
Mr. Golden supported this motion but after good deal OF
discussion was lost by 22a nays to 50 yeas making
majority for the government OF l73. n
| On the 18th, Mr.H Drummond moved that "adequate
itue Of the government" Basng his argument upon the
terms Of his motion, (of which he had given no6ce) he
sought to show that the present taxation OF the country
depresses all classes, especially the laborng classes BY
diminishing the funds for the employment OF productive
labor He contended that the corn law had been made
profitable war prices and that as though we were si ii
peace, we had repealed that law, must
tat relieve the burdens Of the aborer He said that the
faith with the public creditor aud 10 consider that there
ought not 70 be such difference they now observed
o Of any kind II poducoa % Ss ua art. y N ~
occuper should be abolished and the reductions should
be made in the salaries Of all Her Majesy's servants
| very heightened discussion followed, in which the
Secretary at War moved the previous question: and
followed BY Sir X. Peel Lord John Russell, Lord John
q eSaco il
jesys servants," SO far the agricultural interest
concerned, was further proposed 70 effect reversal OF
MI Dummond earnestly denied that his was a .sham''
motion He reiterated his statement Of the crippled con
diton OF the aborng classes and warned the House that
school inclined toward "repudaton was growing up
which inattention to the wants Of the working orders
would, he feared, encourage. g3e. eaS..s .as
The house divided, when the numbers were For Mr.
Drummonds motion. 1850 for previous question, 100
Majority against the motion, a. III
On the 18th the Chancellor Of the Exchequer brought
forward the subject We have already given its details
On he 18th Mr. Osborne asked the Secretary 81 State
for Foreign Affairs whether the government OF Great
Rrlf ami nj war mar.
ties by advice otherwise, to the conduct Of the Turk
ish government in condemning Kossuth and the other
ment IN the interior Of Asia Minor And. Il tie British
government had not been party to that most unjusha
Bile proceeding then be wished 10 ask whether the British
government had made any TemOnstrance 70 the Porte
the subject!
Lord Palmerston. to the question Of the hon.
been party to The transportation 81 IKE Hungarian rei
gees said that her Maesiys government had only SO far
ntenered as having. through her Majesys Ambassador
detention Of those petsons- the Porte idered itself
bound BY its engagements with Austria to deain them q
gagements and in the mean time to render their deten
ton as little irksome and inconvenient possible
He had no difficulty in saying as his own opinion.
that i would have been, desirable if the Porte
could have set them at liberty, and not detained
them at all 1t was not for her Maiestys gov
eminent to Judge what were re- the sngagsMents and
ter il would have seemed that the Porte had fell itself
the Porte was bound to fuif-nameiy. preventing the
Turkish territory from being the scene OF intrigue for the
purpose OF disturbing the tranquil ty OF ats neghbots
would have been accomplished by removing altogether
from the Turkish territory those persons whom the
Austrian government looked with anxiety and jealousy;
but The Porte was the only judge Of what its engagements
The debate on the abolition Of the African squadron
took place the 10TH Mr. HUT, who brought il on,
tenn and remarked the coincidence Of the increase OF the
slave trade with the coerciye measures adopted under
the treaties to suppress t. He argued that we had UNI
deraken task-to which any amount of force was un,
eqsal-to suppress contraband trade which yielded
higher gains than any other trade in the world All
peence demonstrated that no lucrative trade OF this kind
suppressed by coercion He then adverted 10
the testimony of Commodore Mansel and Sir c. HOLMAN,
the commodores of the African squadron and other naval
witnesses, TO the impracucabilty OF putting down the
traffic by force observing that witness among those
who held contrary opinion considered the present sys-
tenn satisfactory one, though 900 had been ex-
and employing between thirty and forty vessels to main
tain it, He objected to the country being engaged IN an
and was constantly trembling on the verge OF quarrel
with France and America
Mr. Labouchere regarded this question involving not
Of England if the squadron was to be Withdrawn from
the coast oil Africa without any substitute, and depre
s s e o
without let or hindeance The squadron, said.
had not succeeded in suppressng the trade The argu
ment that the exerons OF the African squadron had been
useless inconsistent with the difference OF prices Of
savesthe present high OF negro at Cuba and Bra
iii proving that practical limit had been put upon the
transport OF natives OF Africa the Atlantic. Mr.
Labouchere cited the testimony OF Sir c. Holman, wit
ness whose evidence had been invoked by Mr. Hut TO
the evil effects OF Withdrawing the squadron without
substitute drew very encouraging picture OF the pro-
gress made in cviizing the the OF Africa,
chiefly through the influence OF the republic Of Liberia,
and pointed the inevitable consequences OF the
luton upon the British growing colonies. which,
suffering from deah OF labor, would have 10 contend
with foreign sugar-producing countries, commanding
unlimited supply OF slave labor at a cheaper rate
Lord John Russell said the House was asked, al the
end OF series OF trumphs achieved in the Of hu
mainly, to take retrograde step, procaiming TO the
world that longer meant 10 take against
the slave trade TO offer substitute, thereby spreading
encouragement throughout the world, in which were
people admrng and initiating example. The renun-
citation OF treaty with France would enable slaver
hoist the French flag; and the effect OF the speeches OF
the and seconder "et us have free trade in
slaves" Lord John questioned the correctness OF Mr.
Gadsiones facts: in the comparison he had made be-
tween the existing slave trade and that under Sir William
Dolbens act he bad forgotten that the latter was regu
lated trade Sir c. Holman and Captain Matson stated
that the suferngs OF the slaves in the middle passage
would be aggravated If the trade unmolesed In
the matter Of economy il would be also necessary TO keep
up force upon the coast for il there was com
merce which deserved protection IL was that now spring.
ing up in the place OF the slave trade The removal OF
restrictions from that trade would destroy the hope OF
cvlizng Africa, while il would immensely increase
the importation OF slaves into Brazil that our West India
Islands would be unable TO stand the competition In re-
ply the question, what should be done to suppress the
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