The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-21

adventure with a British steamer which will hardly
be altogether believed by sensible people on either
side of the water till it is confirmed by the English
commander. Speaking from some good many
years knowledge of what the commanders of
American coasters are like in conversation and man
ners, we must say that the captain of the Mobile
schooner is unlike all his class-unlikc all command
ers of coastng schooners everywhere, If his words
and acts were precisely what he represents under
such provocaton as he believed himself to be
der. The imaginative element is very apparent in
his narrative of the whole business, or, at least in
that which the New York papers put into his
mouth.
We have ourselves no bias in the case for the pol
icy of blockading Cuba is of ours, any more
than that of importing Coolies into our colonies
While protesting with Lord Brougham, against
hkening the engagement of Coolies to the entrap
ping OF negroes, on the French plan, we agree with
him in disapprobation and dislike of the method of
supplying from abroad labor which may be had on
the spot In the same way, while fully expecting
explanations which will put new face on the pro
ceedings of our cruisers in the Gulf, think,
have always thought, that this marine guard policy
in regard to the Slave trade is clumsy, dangerous
and mischievous, it is certainly expensive in life
and money.
From the London Star. June 4
People will readily understand the danger which
is imminent from this explosive state of things,
should our government fail to have the fortitude
of receding from the untenable position it has
sumed. We feel as deeply as it is possible to feel
ON the subject of the slave trade and as anxious
as any to it suppressed forever, but surely Eng
land cannot make the object justification for the
invasion of the rights of an independent nation
And what is this right of visitation and search which
we claim, and which we have now rudely, and it
appears unnecessarily exercised but invasion of
one of the liberties most highly priced, and strenu-
ously fought for by the American people.
We hope the Administration of Lord Derby will
take different course 1t is not question of
han dor fhn nl-nGA h,,t Af
American flag which the Americans are determined
to make respected. The answer of Mr.. Fitzgerald
on Tuesday night to Mr.. Lindsay's question on the
subject, although not quite satisfactory was, per-
haps, much as, under the circumstances could
he expected. The bare prospect of war with the
United States on such cause of a quarrel is de-
structive in its effects on commerce and industry
From the Manchester Guardian, .J,o,e Al
Not only are by far the larger part of the vessels
engaged in the slave trade built and equipped in
American ports, but those which have no claim to
such nationality make a practice of sailing under
the American flag. Wepresume that no candid man
will deny that very similar proposition NAV be
safely laid down in regard to the plots of FOREIGN
conspirators and the facilities afforded by residence
in England, and by the respect which an English
passport is expected to command. If it be said on
the one hand that the United States are bound by
treaties with ourselves to cooperate in putting
down the slave trade it will hardly be disputed, on
the other, that we under a distinct and recoo-
nlZed moral obligation to give aid, directly or
indirectly, to designs against the lives and authori
ty OF foreign potentates with whom we profess to be
at amity. In another point of view the comparison
is scarcely just to the Americans; fo while the out
RACES which provoked our wrath are committed I'M
der the peculiar jurisdiction of the governments
against which we complain, it is on the open high
way OF nations that we arrest the citizens of the
United States, and detaiu them until we have salts
fled ourselves to the innocence of their character
and pursuits.
From the Manchester Guardian of June
That the American government and people show
an unamiable alacrity in picking quarrels with Eng
land and that their conduct all over the world tend:
| to bring maXims of national dignity and indepen.
dence in rdcule, ought not to blind us to the le
| gitimatc grounds of any complaint that they may
| prefer.
| We do not believe that the government of the
United States desires to encourage the importation
of native Africans to Cuba, any more than our owl
ministers wish to facilitate the passage of Mazzinis
and Orsnis, with all their diabocal stock in trade
to the respective scenes of their operations. Not
only is 1T totally erroneous to that stream o.
captive negroes is regularly conveyed into the
Southern States, but the savcholding interest itsc
would we are convinced, regard any such influx as
| grave calamity. The laws which forbid the i'm
portation of slaves into the Union are well observed
for the reason, everywhere important and especial
y in the States, thatno one has interest in break
ing them.
individuals, of course, interested in the nefa-
rlous traffic, Just there are men among ourselves
devoted to the expectation of regicides and their
tools to the continent, and for all we know to the
contrary, Mr.. Walter Savage Lander may have a
parallel in some poet laureate of the virtues of kid
mapping and the moral grandeur of the middle mas
sage. But neither the government of the U nited
States nor any influential class of the population
would be in the slightest degree concerned were
the trade efiectually put down tomorrow. Their
delinquency is precisely of the kind that we have
already indicated by an analogy. The extreme
license which they concede to personal liberty both
by the insuiiciency of their laws and still more by
their habitua failure to put such laws they have
into execution, allows the whole trade to be carried
under their protection. Not only are by far the
larger part of the vessels engaged in the slave trade
built and equipped in American ports, but those
which have no claim to such nationality make a
practice of sailing under the American flag.
The American people inherit many of our nation
al qualities, and cannot view with confirmed dis
pleasure ther participation in ideas of national
dignity and independence. We are bound, by the
make large allowance for the plot that the free ge
| MUS of American law permits, and must permit
many things to be done which do not meet the APP
probation of the Government on the sympathy of
the people. Our own reply to Count Walewski
must, at least, be heard with respectful attention
when it is offered to ourselves in turn by Mr. Bu-
chanan.
Discussed, as we have no doubt it will be- in the
torbearing and considerable spirit which pre-
scribe, there is cause to apprehend that the
present disturbance will lead to the nexpressbe
calamity Of a rupture with the United States. 1t is
already evident that the narratives of British vio-
lence and arrogance which our republican contem-
poraries have been working up TO such capital ac-
count are for the most part grossly exaggerated
though without the slightest investigation into
their accuracy, they have been accepted grounds
for immediate action by the Legislature of Wash
ington.
From the answers which our own Government
have given to interrogatores in the House of Com
mons, it may be gathered that they do not under
take the defence of the Overbearng and vexatious
demeanOr which has been attributed, doubt not
falsely, to the officers of the preventive squadron.
The dispute WILL no doubt, find satisfactory sou-
ton after it has been made to render its due contribu-
ton of the animated controversy which is so
agreeable to the American people, and occasionally
so convenient to their rulers. The policy OF Eng
land in regard to the philanthropic crusade out of
which many dissensions have arisen is wider
question; and, despite the practical wisdom of the
| course adopted in shifting the operations of the
squadron from the African coast to the West Indies,
we see no reason to alter our opinion that this i'm
posing institution is great mistake.
Certain we are that if force is to be used at all,
it ought not to be employed in proppng up the in
effective police of other nations but in compelling
the real patrons and avOrers of the traffic to with
hold from it the corrupt encouragement without
which, it would Immediately expire. The trade to
Brazil was suppressed only by causing the govern
ment of that country to understand that we would
brook no further violation of the treaties by which
they We're bound to discountenance and punish the
iniquity. Spain is similarly bound to to stop the
slave trade by her own legislation, and by causing
her laws to be respected. Whether her notorious
disregard of this obligation be sufficient reason
for going to war with her may well be considered a
point of reasonable doubt We only maintain that
if force is to be employed at ALL economy and hui
mainly alike require that it should be directed at
once to point where the true delinquents may be
reached, and where its persuasive influence would
unquestionably be most effective.
From the London Times1
DOING BUSINESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES
THE HEAT AT CALCUTTA.
There is proverb current in Calcutta which de-
termines the exact difference between the tempera
ture of that langud city and the heat of place the