The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-21
lord PAI,MERsTON ON CUBA.

We publish on our first page, the two let.
tiers of this ex minister to the British Ambas
sador at the Court of Madrid. They are sim
gular documents, and manifest quite as much
sensitiveness on the part Of the British govern
ment with respect to the Island of Cuba, as
was betrayed on the part of the United States
by the late publication of the correspondence
on that subject. The scheme proposed is high
ly indicative of British liberllity. Cuba is to
be reduced to the condition Of Jamaica, ap-
parently, to put an end TO the slave trade; real
ly to render it useless to US. One would think
that as the thing is to be done purely to crafty
the government of Great Britain, and as it
would occasion the bankruptcy of the entire
island some little remuneration should have
been offered for such tremendous loss of pro-
| perty. Such is not the fact, however; the Bril-
fish Minister apparently thinks, that to be ac-
ceptable, the sacrifice must be voluntary. 1t
| is scarcely wonderful that Senior Milafores
| the most valuable possession of the crown of
| Spain.
The London News comments, with great Sc
verify, on the conduct of Spain in the affair OF
the slave trade, taken in connection with these
| letters. 1t charges the Queen Mother and a
Camarilla, Ia sort of back door court, or kftch-
en- cabinet,) of which she is the controlling
spirit, with undisguised completely in the
guilt and gains of the Cuban slave trade
| Thro ugh means Of the money thus derived, it
says, she overthrow Espartero, and hopes to
restore absolutism. The profits of the trade,
according TO it, are employed in enterprises
against the liberties of her daughters subjects,
and it adds that Concha was displaced because
he made attempts TO suppress it. Another OBJ
ject in permitting it TO continue is said to be TO
keep the whiets always in terror by the over
whelming numbers of the blacks, and, there
| BY, to secure their obedience, and it is sug
gested that revolution, annexation, even ex :
tinction,'' are preferable to the longer conf
nuance of a system which exposes Africa to
continual devastation, in order that " absolu-
,ien, rn":l nlundsr and popular debasement''
| may continue TO hourIsn MadrId.
! We sunjoin the following extract from one
of Lord Palmerston's dispatches, which we
find in the body of the article, and the purport
| of which induces the News to think that Lord
John Russell will be obliged to demonstrate
| strongly with the court of Madrid upon the
| longer continuance of the trade:
| The real end well known fact" Lord Pal
merston told Lord Howden in one of his latest
| dispatches, "is, that the government of Ma
drld has systematically and intentionally en-
| couraged the Cuba slave trade for two purpo-
SEES First, in order to afford income to a num-
Der OF ill-paid public officers, or to appointed
favorites, by means of brides given by slave
traders; and, secondly, for the purpose of re.
tanning a hold upon the island, because it is
thought at Madrid that as long as there is in
Cuba large number of negroes, the white DO
pulatlon will cling to the mother country for
protection against the black race. But both
/ these motives are founded in error. For it ne.
yer can be the interest of government to de-
moraiIze Its own officers, and 10 accustom them
10 violate Inc law; and mother country will
| nave but feeble hold OF colony If the strong
est tie which connects them is the fear on the
part OF the planter, OF an insurrection of the
negroes. 1t Is obvious that protection against
such danger might be found by other means
anu 10 oiner quarters-by the suppression of
the slave trade, which many Cuban proprietors
desire; or by an annexation to some otber
STATE, for uhtch scheme there are NOT ,cnnt;ne
parttsans in Cuba"
1.-The slave trade" Lord Palmerston also
remarked,-and in full conformity with the
views expressed in this JOURNAL was. I'm
last year, carried on in Brazi il TO much great.
er extent than it has been N Cuba and manv
persons thought that it would b, task of i'm
mense difficulty, and requiring much time for
It's accomplishment, to put down the Brazilian
slave trade. But when the Brazilian govern.
ment set to work in earnest, ard with REAL do.
sure TO put the slave trade down, the purpose
mas mas been, IN great degree, accomplished in a
rev months by the ordinary course of law, and
without any dictatorial powers" "Hu