The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-21
BALTIMORE.
FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1885,

Lord PALNERSToN, by his sarcastic speech on the
India bill, has already succeeded in abstracting
one Inch pin from the wheels of 'the Derby Dilly
with its six insdes, " and ia second pin should be
loosened by the energetic protest of our own gov
eminent against the recent outrages committed
upon our commercial marine in the waters of the
Gulf stream, a sudden overturn of the Ministerial
vehicle, with all its passengers on board, may be
looked for at any moment. 1t was a frail affair
from the first, and to keep it running at all, re-
quires skillful handling and the exercise of unusual
caution. If, However, the Earl of DERBY disavows
the right of search, and can east upon his .prede-
cossor in Office whatever blame may be attached to
The increase of the English squadron in the West
Indies, and the orders under which the officers of
that squadron appear to have acted, he may be
able not only to escape from his present rather
insecure position, but to adjust his 'Dilly" for
longer and safer drive. 1t matters but little TO
MS upon whom popular censure in England may
fall, provided the ''outrages atoned for by an
adequate apology, and by conceding, in future, to
vessels sailing under flag that right of exemp-
lion from search which we have always insisted
should be strictly observed by foreign Powers.
tn all probability the justice of these claims on
Iart Will be promptly admitted. Public opinion,
in England and on the Continent of Europe has
greatly changed of late years with respect to
negro slavery The compulsory suppression of
slavery meets now with but few advocates. Those
iourna'a III host reflect the state of popular
feeling in Europe, boldly declare that the emanci-
patton Of the slaves in the British Colonies was a
blunder. They acknowledge that the social condi-
ton of the free blacks has not been improved
thereby, and that morally and intellectually, they
continue to be the same thriftless, ignorant crea-
lures, they were while in a state of servitude The
island of Hayti is standing commentary upon The
ability of the free blacks to govern themselves. Its
burlesque of an Imperial Court, with its DUKES of
MARMALADE, and its MARoUIsEs of SUMNER SQUASH,
would be provocative of nothing but a smile, if
the people were industrious and their rulers
mild and just. But when we know that
the government of this petty Empire is an
absolute Despotism and that the people are lazy,
dirty, ragged, and abject; that their capital city
is heap of ruinous houses that the once magnifi-
cent estates of The old French Planters are now
nothing but wildernesses of weeds, briars and
pricky shrubs that the old ferocious instincts
Of the race are necessarily urging them 10 make
sanguinary iorays upon the neighboring Republic,
and that the transformation from a colonial de-
tendency to a free negro Empire, has been pro-
ductiye of nothing but oppression misrule. pover-
ty, and wretchedness, we cease to wonder at the
change OF public sentiment in Europe, or at the
notifications which quarter of a century of
practical experience has made in the theories once
so ardently advocated by philanthropists. But
England has been the greatest sufferer by the ruin
which her benevolent Quixotism has brought upon
her fertile West India colonies. All her attempts
10 restore her dependencies to their ancient con-
dition of prosperity have proved abortiye Euro
pean labor, and Coolie labor, have both sienally
failed; whilst the free blacks of the Islands con-
slider it beneath their dignity to work, so long as
yams, and bread fruit and occasional stray
hog, are to be had upon easier terms In this
dilemma England reluctantly confesses that her
emancipation scheme ''has not worked well
The suppression of the slave trade" saws the
London Spectator, ''has placed England in false
position with her own colonies, and has rendered
her odlous for petty dictaons even to those who
should be her friends" True, every word of it.
We may also add, that the exercise of the RIGHT
OF search, however courteously performed, is
prolific source Of irritation and, as SUCH should
be abandoned. viii England make the conces-
sion? \ quarter of century ago we should
have answered, emphatically, No To-day we
answer, as emphatically, Yes She will, more
over, either disavow the acts of her naval officers
in the Gulf offer an ameade honorable in some
other way. She is growing disguised with a
system of surveillance that brings her into con-
tant collision with other Powers and from
which she reaps no corresponding advantage
hat the islands of the tropics stand most in need
OF is tillers ofthe soil. How are they to get them
Jamaica is casting a longing glance at the free
blacks of the United States but our colored people
are quite content to stay where they are. A depu-
tation of London merchants, some six months ago,
waited upon Lord CLARENDON, at that time Foreign
Secretary, and preached the subject of free native
African emigrants-the apprentice system, as it is
now called. Popular opinion was sounded and
on the whole, found to be favorable; but Lords
PALMERsToN, and SHAFTsBURY, and BRouGHAM, were
too strongly committed on the African question to
admit of hope of their consenting to the re-intro-
duction of modified form of slavery into the
Islands, even though it assumed the less obectona-
bic title of Apprenticeship. But the policy of Lord
DERBY differs, in many essentials, from that of Lord
PALMERsToN. The maintenance of cruisers for tbe
suppression of the slave traffic is beginning TO be
regarded, even in England as work of superero-
CATION. 1t is confessedly productive of interna-
tiona difficulties, and it needs but slight pressure
and favorable opportunity TO bring about not
only satisfactory adjustment of the right of search
but also the abandonment of crusade which has
never accomplished any beneficial result s