New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-28

Our good friends of the South who are 80 ex-
cee5irsy busy and aous about the revival of the
slaSe-tgAds, must not Imagine that the idea is
original with them or that they are the pioneers in
tSl operation. For more than ten years past there
has been body of British merchants and msnufac
turer engaged iu this ssme enterprise, and very
steadily and earnestly backed in il by The Times
and other London journals. Tho idea of these
people has been an exclusively commercial one
An incresse of the slave tradesuch was their view
of too csse-would lead to an increase Of slave
grown produce, which produce would furnish the
growers with additional means Of purchasing Brit
ih manufactures beside diminishing the price aud
Thereby Increasing the consumption of tropical
produce.
The frat object at which this clique has aimed
has beeu to get rid of the British preventive squad
ron on the coast Of Africa, and to put stop to the
,ystetrstic eiIorts of the British Government t.
carry cut. by means of its naval force tbe policy
of .uppiessirg the slave-trsoe They have not
ventured openly TO present themselves as the pat
roas Of The slave trade To do thst they very well
ksew would BE- at oLce fatal to their object
Tdoush wolves i'll fact, they have been obliged to
dhguise themselves IN sleeps clothing. They have
preteoJed to be as much opposed 10 slsye-tradlng
a. anybody. The ground they have taken is that
TIE naval preventive system is of no nee, and that
while it does not diminish the amount il has sggra
waited tie horrors Of the traffic.
Some eight yssrs ago these people made power
full demonstration. They got the House OF Com
mons to appoint Committee ofinqury, on which
according to Parliamentary usage, they had ms
joiity. This Committee took great deal of evil
denee, and by a msjority Of one sgreed TO report
that slsve-tads suppression was failure and
ought to be abandoned. The House, however, re-
fused to accept this report and Commit ap
pointed at the next session By the House of Lords
went over the same ground, aud came to diamct-
iically opposite conclusions.
The recent furry about the right Of visit. As ex
ercised on the coast Of Cuba, hiss encouraged this
clique to new Parliamentary movement; but nei
cher the debate no. the division was Of Kind to
afford then. any great encouragement.
In the course Of the debate, some important
statements were made a. 10 the present position o!
the American Government on this question. II
would seem from these statements that the British
Government had been induced by the cOmmanici.
tions Of Mr. Cas- to Lord Napier to abandon the
idea which had been under consideration of remov.
ing the preventive squadron from the coast Of
Cuba. That idea of removal had been b,sed upor
the delicate position in which the British squadron
would be placed If il remained on the coas
unsupported and uncountenanced by the Amer
lean Government. But it seems that Mr.
Csss has informed Lord Napier that The
American cruisers recently dispatched to the coast
Of Cuba have been furnished with the usual n'
structisns given to vessels employed on the coast
Of Africa under the treaty for the suppression Of
ths sasst trade 20 that any SLAYER that may sttempl
30 skulk the British cruisers under the American