The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-08
FOREIGN NEWS BY THE EUROPA.


ENGLAND-A long report by the Commit
tee of Parliament upon the slave trade, Its sub
stance is, that Britain possessed, in $780, twen-
ty-four treaties with civilized Powers, to sup
press the trade; of these, ten give Britain a
right of search and mixed courts twelve give
the right of search and national tribunals !;
and two the United States and France, refuse
the right of search, but agree to maintain a
squadron off the African coast
Britain had also forty.two treaties with
African chiefs and princes. Since the above
date she had terminated two more with civil
lied Governments, and twenty-three with Afri-
cans, making an aggregate of eighty-nine
treaties to suppress the trade. The committee
report that the trade would soon be extingush-
ed if the Cuban market was closed, and think
the present time favorable for the joint efforts
of Britain France and the United States. tn
stop it on the Cuban coast.
"Brazil is exonerated from blame. Portu-
gal is charged with conniving at the traffic on
the Mozambique coast and the committee say
that history does not record more decided
breach of national honor than is established
against Spain and it is matter of great sur
England and France for their efforts to form
tripartite convention with the United States
to protect Cuba from piratical attacks the
Government of Spain should not take warning
from the fact that one of the reasons alleged
for the United States for not joining that con-
venton is the continuance of the slave trade
in that island.
1.-THE report does not say what is to be done;
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trading to Havana, more cordial co-Opera-
ton on the part of the United States would
materially assist the efforts to abolish the trade
in that quarter"
John B. Cough is stirring up the English
people upon the subject of Temperance very
successfully. A resolute effort to procure pro-
hibitory legislation, la Maine Law, is on foot.
The hope of success is very distant. Beer is a
British institution, that the Millennium itself
is expected to leave untouched.
FRANcE.-Nothing but reports of the grand
fete of the l5th-a joint celebration of the
festivals, or the celebration of the joint festi-
vals of Napoleon and the Assumption of the
Blessed Virgin Mary. An odd connection tru-
ly. Mary was the mother of the Prince of
Peace; but it was said to her, "a sword shall
pierce through thy own soul Also" and Napo-
leon may stand very well for type of the
4 ctnvucr- CO.. Tue Church illustratcs itself
and the ceremonies were q capital concord.
ance, to wit review of thousands of troops
tournaments, passage at arms between
French and English knights, So Sc. with
q brilliant display Of fire. works, and q high
mass, to finish the harmonies. An unlimited
supply of bread was given to the poor, and
supply of wine as hberal-the agents of lif
and death yoked again-and, as usual, the ex
pense to be paid was not small. This mike,
religious and military row COST three quarter
of million of francs The tax gatherers vii
see to that in good time. French religion is
first-rate imperial gunpowder piety, and moth
ing else.
AUSTRIA is reported to be making genera
complaint to the European Powers about thu
kosta affair If our Government stands stifIly
up to its position in this business, new lea
in its history will be turned and good beha
viour in that matter may turn up internationa
principles which will bring with them gooG
conduct in the matter of Cuba and other ad
jaccnt expectancies of our flibustering pOliti
clans. There is nothing like getting engaged
in the worlds affairs. 1t cures home preiu
diccs and obIiges to the observance of public
morality. If We take to teaching the great
Powers of Europe that they must respect the
rights of the little ones in their neighborhood
the inference and application of the rule in
our own case upon the American Continent il
inevitable.
SWITZERLAND is preparing theoretically 70,
her defence against Austria.
CHrSA-Canton is quiet, but not in con
dition to hold out against the rebels, if attack
ed, and it was believed there that if Pekir
fell into their hands, Canton, people and Ex
ecutive included, would declare in favor of the
new dynasty
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.--The Car accepts the
proposals of the medating Powers and agrees
to withdraw his troops from the principalities,
on condition that the Sultan accepts the same
propositions without any alteration; but the
exact character of the terms submitted 10 not
made public, and the acceptance by the Porte
il not easily inferred in suoh uncertainty So
the Russian has gained everything by diplo-
! macy that is required to settle him in the mas
terry Of Europe. II the Turkish Government
does not submit to the terms she goes to war
against the advice Of her allies and must
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But all this means nothing but shuttle, a
diplomatic intrigue. No movement or event
has transpired to fix the character Of the affair,
or to determine its future. e.
10 Hon, James Campbell, p. H. General
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