New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-06-09

some time past Is informed you but he has been
ceasd in the country house Of OF his English friends
because II was feared that the Ministry might take ega
steps against him But the indignation meetings again.
Lord Prlmerstop on account Of the spies beseag Kos
sutb have created such powerful agitation in the country
though the London papers excepting Tie Adrerticr al
dependent more or less the dever Lord scarcely
ton that the Ministry viii dare TO ragn Mazzni before
Jury. arc.
In the House OF Commons on the 2O4h ut Mr. Kinnard
inquired what the condition of the negotiations with
the Government Of South Carolina respecting British sub
eets taken Of British ships a. Charleston lodged IN
JAIL and charged considerable sum for Their mantanance
there
LordPsImerston replied that he was not able to state
the precise condition Of the negotiation but the question
was Of great interest and considerable difficulty Ina
slave States in the sOnth OF the American Union adpsssed
laws which he should fOrbear from chsr2ctersng but the
result Of which was that any OF color belonging 10 the
crew OF ship which arrived at port in slave State
Immediately arrested and kept in jail so long as the
vessel renamed in the port
The British Government for long course of time had
represented to the Government Of the United States that
such aproceedng in violation OF treaties with the mon
at large That assertion had not he believed been denied
by the Federal Government but the Constitution OF the
United States such that the action Of the Federal Gov
eminent on the separate States next 70 nothing and
had been fairly represented to the British Government by
the Federal Government that TO insist the repeal of
those laws under which the proceedings in question took
place and which whatever they in England might think OF
men, arose out OF the feelings of the local States would
raise questions between those States and the Federal Gov
eminent which would be exceedingly inconyenient il not
destructive TO the Union Hear hear.
The British Consul at Charleston by instructions from
his Government had entered into communication with the
local Government for the purpose of obtaining certain
notifications of the obnoxious laws but up TO the time
when he lord PamerstOnl lett the Foreign Office he
knew that the negotiations had not led any satisfactory
result and he much feared though he not precisely
informed the subject that they had not ended ia any
desirable arrangement Nevertheless the attention Of the
Government, he confident was still directed TO the
subject and no efforts would be omitted calculated to
tabliSh satisfactory fhinCs Hear hear
In the House of Lords, the Esd inst, Lord Broughlm
presented petition from Sir Alexander Stuart OF Wnches
terouse Old Broad street the subject of the altera
ton of the sugar duties and the consequent depreciation OF
the value of his property in Jamaica He srd BrOugham
bad the measure of 1916 which did away with the
oferential duties sugar not account of the West
India planter but because he that the direct tendency
Of the would be the inevitable increase Of the
African slave trade Its effect with reference 10 the peti
TONER had been, that the whole of his property had been
swept away. twas too late to the step taken
t6 but they might 90 all they could to accomplish the
general abolition of slavery the partial abolition Of which
formed of the grievances Of which the West India pro-
pretors complained He had time ago read amongst
the ordinary articles of commercial intelligence that
sci had landed her cargo in Cuba and that six hundred
miserable slaves formed part of that cargo.
The Earl of Clarendon--eleven hundred
Lord Brougham said that the increase in the number Of
the poor creatures made the more appalling. They
bad read of pratical expedition to Cuba which the
United States Government had successfully put down but
what piracy could be equal enormy TO that of dragging
from their homes and native land the unhappy beings who
had to endure the horrors Of middle passage and
then landed slaves upon distant shore More atrocious
piracy that within their domnions than Cuban or
any other piracy Hear, hear lie wished 10 ask his
noble friend whether the traffic in slaves still going
to Cuba in spite Of the treaties which had been entered
intol
The Earl Of Clarendon who spoke in a conversational
tone the table and very ndncy heard in the
gallery understood TO say that he wished was in his
power TO give satisfactory answer to the question of his
noble and learned friend lie sorry however to say
that although the to which he had alluded was almost
alone in atrociy, it was by no means the only case
which had come TO the knowledge of her M,iestys
governments. The slave trade it appeared was being
carried TO a considerable extent in Cuba. Our
Consul General had been mos! active energetic, and
Jealous in procuring information with respect to il and
bad made report with reference to the particular
brought under their lOrdshps notice from which it ap
peared that such the Law with reference to slavery in
the Island of Cuba that it impossible to follow newly
imported negroes to the island, when once they were
landed The moment the negro passed into the hands Of
lease IL almost useless therefore to denounce the
authorities Of the country and equally to- bring such
before the Courts In the reeredto and every
other which had come under the notice OF the British Gov
eminent the most jealous efforts and circumstances had
been used The Captain enera of Cuba had ascertaned
that the cargo of the ship to which his noble and learned
friend referred originally consisted of 1900 persons and
the suerings which they had endured the passage
might be- supposed from the fact that the ship only of
200 tuns burden II appeared that attempt had been
made by them to rise on their oppressor and hberate
then selves, and that during the struggle upward OF
two hundred were killed, which reduced the number
landed TO LOO. Upon remembrance the Captain Gen
cal Of Cuba appeared to have taken himself 10 act
almost contrary to the law for he had traced and rescued
three hundred Of the unhappy creatures Her Majesty
Government had received the most solemn assurances
rom the Government of Spain that the law hence
forward should be strictly observed and he trusted
that il would be Hear, hear The late Minister
for Foreign Affairs had placed in the hands of Lord How
dem the Bh Minister at the Court of Spain, private
letter which he had received from the present Captain
General Ct Cuba, assuring him. his word of honor,
that he would &C. in such should be saisac
tory TO the British Government He could only add thatn
effort the part finer M!jesys Government should be
spared put end to the nefarous traffic and he had
the satisfaction Of stating that in consequence of the
cruisers which had been placed around the coast OF Cuba
four slave vessels had been seized and within the last
week he had heard of h having been captured Hear,
hearl Her Maestys Government had addressed remon-
srances 10 the Government of the United States Of Amcr
ca on tie subject Of the Slave trade and he felt perfectly
satisfied that the Government would do its utm )st b. pre-
vent its flag from being degraded. Hear, hear
Lord Brougham said the power exercised the Colo
NAL authorities in Spain great Under Esparero
who great enemy of Slavery, but little progress was
made for he obliged to give way before the powerful
influence exercised the Colonial Office in favor Of
Slavery.
Lord Wharnclife said that the late Captain General of
Cuba General COnchs who friend Of EsparterOs,
erted hmsefto suppress the Slave trade and he did with
80 much that he bad succeeded in the year 1851 in
reducing the number of slaves imported into Cuba 1000
In the spring of last year however without notice ap
parent he suddenly removed from his command
One of the last acts which be performed the removal
the second in command that Island in consequence of
bis participation in OF Slavery He afraid there
would be much greater number of slaves imported into
Cuba this year than in the year 1851 when Gen Concha
mad the command The Slave trade doubt carried
On there with the connivance Of the Government
Cuba and slavery.
From The London Times.
There two things in antiquity which, fortunately
unfortunately, may happen 10 view them have
not come down 10 these times and are to be looked
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