Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-07

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of the African slave trade IS late as 1854 and
1855! We should not be surprised il a con-
nscti1n of the Dutehsss Of Sutherland was
to be found among them If authoritativsiy
inquired Of on these points, We might possibly
suggest mode Of ascertaining tho truth.
We trust our contemporaries, as we'll of New
York and Philadelphia as Of Boston, will take
some pains to ascertain whether any such YES
sci as the &c Horatio'' is described to be, has
been in their port within the last year; and If
so, have traced out and publish such infoyma
ton as the papers on fle in the custom house
or consulates there may furnish. And we
make like suggestion to our consuls at ST.
Johns, N. B and at Leeds and LIVERPOOL
England
We learn that it is now not an unusual oc.
currencs after good success in getting a cargo
Of negroes in Africa and landing them safely
in Cuba, to scuttle and sink or to burn or
otherwise destroy the vessel employed to pre-
| vent detection. A slaver'' cannot enter q
public port without danger of detection. We
learn the stencil to her hold caused BY the
employment, cannot be eradi Gated fer many
months, and the difficulty of giving strict
account of her past whereabouts, and unless
her rig and equipments are radically changed
are certain to cause de- lection if any vigilance
is exercised. A good SLAYER may cost ten or
fifteen thousand dollars, and her full outfit
may perhaps come to SIS 900 more, md car 90
Of six hundred negroes in Africa may cost in
rum, and beads, and coarse calicoes, and
knives, &C., &C.. say sl2 900 more, in all
$40 900 to bring the negroes to the Cuban
coast; where they can ordinarily be sold for
5000 each, making 1920, 900; thus leaving
$50 900 clear profit on each trip, if they can
escape detection, even if the vessel is destroyed
or abandoned The Horatio" may have
been, as suggested, hastily abandoned under
| apprehension of detection after landing her
cargo, and We hope it may be SO, for otherwise
there is ground for the dreadful alternative
hypothesis we have alluded to.
We intend to resume this subject shortly,
and present some interesting facts and our
own views as to what is now, and probably
will be hereafter, the real though secret policy
of the British rulors in relation to African
| slavery in the British West Indies and in the
Brazils, and the leaving that policy has, and
will continue to have on the interests of the
United States. We place little confidence in
diplomatic disclaimers and assurances on such
subjects. British diplomacy is ordinarily a
system of regeneration, falsehood, and hum.
bug. False reasons and motives are given for
acts to deceive as well other governments as
their own honest masses, and often in igno-
rance of the true condition of things the self.
Opinionated and arrogant aristocracy adop.
those courses most calculated to promote the
very results they deprecate and desire to pre-.
vent
The Forthcoming History of Mr. Soule's
Mission to Eadrid-We supposed when the
New York Herald announced that Mr.. SouIe
was writing history Of his late mission, that
the intimation was thrown out in order to coax
that gentleman to lend himself to the purposes
of Bennett; not crediting the idea that his
experience in public affairs had failed to teach
him that with the negotiations with which he
had been so recently connected, sill unfin-
shed, publications from him upon them unau.
thoriLed by his government Nigh. materially
iDjure lis interests. But i. seems we gave him
credit for more discretion than he possesses,
and the world is to have book on his misun.
derstandings, scrapes and squad bles in Mad
10 sffa -.
to increase the respect which this country and
Europe has for the Armness and good sense of
the President and Secretary of State, and to
make the impression even more general, that
he Mr.. Soule) with all his brilliant genius and
talents was wholly untitled, by nature and cd.
ucatiOn, for the position in which he made his
dashing failure. There are one or two points
in the history Of his mission and of the Perry
letter which forms the basis of his foolish
threat against the Secretary of State, which
are we'll known in unofficial circles here. As
they are of public interest We may not i'm.
properly explain them.
In the first place, We have every reason to
believe that the country, through the labors
character of the instructions which he took to
a. 1t is generally believed tina. he went
ous authorized by the Government here to
make al offer for tho purchas of Cuba Now
every gentleman in Washington connected
with foreign missions 10 in error if that i'm.
preston was founded on fact. Their under
standing Island We feel assured it is correct
that ho was instructed to urge, not the sale
of Cuba to US, but that Spain should acknowl-
edge its Independence, on the property hold
sss of the island paying into the treasury of
the Realm fair equivalent for the psounia-y
sacrifice which the mother country might
m axe, in treating her colony as kind parent
should treat child old enough to begin the
world on its own account He was probably
instructed to back the exsrtiong of the Cuban
liberaliSts TO this end, by Offering tho United
States as guarantee for the fulfilment OF tho
pecuDiary engagements Cuba might mako to