New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-22

gDtc ItuIiOE Ditt- itof'us SUI h|7 '''''f
above the vanity q pref udine to have aoythicg OF
the kird about her pre- ulise unless II were Ju'' IS
she vas about TO coGmit some special Ia ceny OF
lan6s or some super v.iDS tc~aft her Desroe'
In atich Cases she has been accustomed TO give ner
consciepc. the crecit Of nat she did. meal OF
her usiabbo,s' houses or of her neiFbbors them
selves is II port she is alSays ready t. say grsct
over. 1t different, however, with the old mother
whom We oi.inherited seyeuty-fve years ago after
first du,ifuIly giving her good licking. We see
one up q good while ago aud heap Of money 1t has
taken 20 support it. And it is still clamOnng for
more.
There wss the trade N negroes, for instance,
which her subjects carried 90 grssty to their emolu
Dsut snd the Irott Of toe ns'lon, aud nobohy
tbcu ett TIE AsioEto TO Ia worse thal auy other
treay contract cr the elias trade worse than trade
IL o:ber oonyeui,roe Of LIE, Until Ttoma5 Clark.
son ore Day conceived prejudice sg4nss H. and
made himself % unpleasant, and bothered Ihe con-
cence Of TIE Pc pie TO such degree, that they put
an cid to tie whole thing, not ouly sacrificing tue
gsibful traffic but putting themselves TO great er-
perse to hinder more intelligent nations from carry
ipg it on. But, DO sooner had these trouber' OF
TIE peace Of tie Briti,h Israel carried this point
than they begsn 70 stir up lie conscience against the
existence Of Slavery in It's co, Nal possessions,
which had been source o. great re7enue 10 the
Stste aid great wealth 10 the planters and mer'
chants And in less than thirty years they had 50
worn ed on this troublesome appendage OF the n'tlon,
that it abolished this dviney orcaiGed arrangement
"by saints and patiarchs used, and lot only so
It taxed it.el hundred millions Of dollars to con
sole the beresved planters, who moUrned, Ike
Rachel, for their CHILDREN, because they we're not
And it was OILY the other day that @e had occasion
10 call cur readers attention to an endeavor on the
part Of Lord Brouehsm aud some Of his accom-
pliees to interfere with the effort making to repair
tins ext1ays gance Of conscience by the importation
of olive-colorei slaves 70 take the place Of the
black opes
No lopee5 ego thar tle ID Of this current month
another at'eupt WIS made By this impraetcsbe,
r..:cliec msk1g conscience TO disturb profitable
business hid ,rge source Of revenue, merely on the
ground that Z was harmful to certain Antipodes
1t seems that dmong The multitude OF other AnfttS
the yaearies Of the conscience entertained by
the British people have called into being, is an
AntOpium Association. A DeputstiOn Of this
body waited, on the day above Indicated, on the
Secretary for India, Sir Charles Wood, with the
modest request that the Government should forbid
the cultivation of opium in India, and thus cut of
no less than G5 GOO 900 from the fsc Of that iul-
perisl dependency! The only reason given for this
impairment interference great vested interest,
WAS that opium, as there prepared for smoking and
so used by the Chinese, is slow, seductive, but
most certain poison, and Of Use for any medical
purposes 1t was also urged that the Imperial
Government of China had for many years forbidden
the importation of this drug on account Of its pu-
rious effects on tfe health aud morals of the peoples
but that now It had been compelled to give up this
Particularly aud admit it on fixed import duty
This triumph of the laws Of trade, our readers are
well aware, was won al great expense oil blood
and treasure by British arms only, as the biggest
part Of the blood and treasure was that Of those
Ions. Gueued barbarian,, il WAS OF the less conse
queDce.
In order TO meet the demand thus created at the
cannoLs mouth, the supply of the profitable poison
has been stimulated to ali enormous extent by the
British Government in India but particularly in the
Province Of Bengal That it must be enormous is
proved by the fiscal returns which show that the
share of the Government in the profits amounts
to the net sum We have mentioned, although the
cost Of collection is % per cent, and in one year
reached $500. 900 more. We cannot be surprised,
therefore, tina. Sir Charles W GOD rather pooh poohed
the proposition The delegation thought that it
vras rsthar "a Pc Paul oppratiOn tn
SEEK TO build up India at the expense Of smoking
John Chinauan to death. And the rather, though
they did not mention this consideration, that the
English may find then selves obliged TO annex
China 10 the British Empire one Of these days. II
was also suggested that tie traffic was chief
nasmuch as those Celestials do not see the OF
exchanging religion which would exclude this
mischief for one whose eminent professors insisted
on examining it down their throat sgainst the
stomach of their sense But Cabinet Ministers do
not care so much about missiOns-except those to
earthly courts-as dissenting ministers do aad the
Indian Secretary cooly shook bis head at the prop
ostion Of cutting down the Indian revenue by this
large figure for the chance of saving Chinese souls
OF couIse, be did not believe the evils were so
great as they were represented, aud opined that
opium smoked in moderation was not much more
injurious than sprit-drpklng. And he affirmed that
he had been told that more deaths took place in
ilor Kong from drinking spirits than in the whole
of China from the smoking Of opium. A fact which
We commend to our temperance friends as sug-
gestiye