The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-04
NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY JULY 4 1857.

to the appeals for protection addressed to them
BY American commerce. In the state Of confu-
sion into which everything has been thrown BY
the British war, il Il pEsSable that these requia
tions viii frequently exceed the ability to COM
ply with them. 1t ID well that We shall have q
Minister on the spot who will BE- able to discrimi
nate between the unreasonable exactions Of indi-
vidual firms on the one hand, and an exaggerated
sense of penonal responsibility on the part of cur
naval officers on the other. The real remedy,
however, for the grievances complained of would
be to render cur naval force on those waters ade-
qusse to all the demands that may be made on 1t.
The CONFLICT BETWEEN THE COMMERCIAL
INTERESTS AND PHnANTHROPIsTs IN ENGLAND
The haakering Of the politico religious societies
of England to med6le with society and govern
ment everywhere, and to cut them down or stretch
them out to q certain moral standard which they
have adopted, has 60 long ruled England that
the rest of the world has almost come to the con-
clusicn that that country is at open war with
every thing net sanctioned at Exeter Hall.
But evidences are sprinsing up in many quar-
tiers that The mater al interests Of England have
become alarmed at the destructive tendencies of
these reformers Of other peoples institutions,
and are preparing to resist them. We have
already alluded to the new scheme that evidently
occupies the attention of the cabinets of London,
Paris, and Msorid, through which a more
obnoxious form of African slavery is sought to be
established in the West Indies than that which
has been for 50 many years the object of unmiti-
gated war OF the part of the selfrighteous Bri
tons. In view of the fact that tropical Hayti with
q population Of three quarters of million
OF free blacks has become a eugar importing
country; that Jamaica, with more than quarter
OF million of emancipsted slaves, is still sinking
in the scale of productions that the experiment of
importing coolies from India has completely
failed and that of bringing Chinese eau only
succeed by working them in gangs under the lash,
sugsr loving England has become alarmed. In
the importation of negroes from Africa she sees
the only remedy for the rise in the price
of sugar ard cotton, and is showing an
evidence of her readiness TO compound with
conscience by making the black slave
for ten years, and not for life. What be-
comes Of him after ten years service, need not be
taken into consideration, for there is no chance
of bis living that long. Such is the plan of the
Earl of Shsftesbury and a committee of respecta-
bic gentlemen connected with the West India
interest.
The Earl Of Peterborough, who was Governor
General CT India a few years since, has lately
taken stand in the House of Lords against the
sane phisnthropic dangers TO British rule in the
East. We publish elsewhere an extract from his
speech, and letter from an exresident in India
They are characteristic Of the new and
the old state of public opinion in
England. The Plan Of the exres'dent to abolish
caste inIrda by free use Of the stirrup leather,
is perfectly after the style of John Bull. While
the Earl comes out boldly against this inter-
ference with other peoples institutions and pre-
JUDGES, the ex-resident never dreams that the
people Of India must not be made to conform to
English notions through free use OF the oil of
stirTup. But England seems to be awakening to
knowledge of the fact that, as the different
clines and coils Of the earth are best fitted to
bring forth different products, 50 the several fami-
lies and races Of men are best adapted to con-
tribute to the welfare of themselves aud of all
through different sccial institutions and political
forms. High prices ard short supplies Of sugar
ard cotton are evidently producing revolution
in England adverse to the continued sway Of
Exeter Hall