Year: 1861

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rose to ask the noble lord the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs whether he had any objec
ton to lay upon the table Of the House q copy
of the recent correspondence between Her Ma
jesly'S Minister at Washington and the UnileC
States Secretary Of State for Foreign Affair:
relative to the clearance Of the British vessel:
| in the port Of Charleston, South Carolina
| Having referred to the circumstances which haC
rendered necessary the correspondence between
Lord Lyons and the United States Government
tho Hon. gentleman said that, without going
into the question as to whether diplomacy
should in general be secret or open, he was
convinced that any attempt to carry out secret
diplomacy with the United States would fail,
because, if she documents which passed be-
tween the two countries were not published on
this side the Atlantic they would be ferrcted
out BIZ the writers for the press on the other.
He was the last man who would wish that we
should interfere in tho lamentable quarrel be-
tween our friends ard kinsHeD in America, bni
it must not be forgotten that Te had treaties
with the United States Government, and thore
fore with all the States, for the suppression Of
The slaveiradr, treaiies which both in honor
anl bc cur ntereS. we were bound 10 see car.
red out; and therefore, although he had every
confidence in the noble lurd the Secretary OF
State for Foreign Affairs and the noble lord at
the head Of the Government, he should be glad
to see them take counsel with the country in
any eventuality which might arise.


The Anderson Slave Case In Parliament.


Housr OF CoMMoSs, Feb 2.-Mr. Hall bur.
ton, who sought information rs to the extTadi-
ton of the American slave Anderson, now in
custody in Canada, asked if there was any Oh
lection to laying upon the table copies OF the
correspondence relating thereto between the
Secretary of State for the Colonies and the
Governor Of Canada. lie Offered no opinion,
lie said. npon The act Of the man Anderson, or
as to whether the Court Of Canada was right
or wrong in its decision. The writ Of habeas
corpus issued by the Court Of Queens Bench
had created greG: surprise IN this country and
CONSERVATION in the colony, the people Of
which complained that their rights had been
invaded.


Mr.. G. Fortescue said it was not bis duty to
enter into discussion Us to whether the Court
OF Queens Bench were emitted TO issue the
writer whether such ought 10 be the state Of the
law. Along with the writ dispatch was sent
to the Governor Of Canada, ordering him TO be
gu dct by the opinion of his Canadian law ad.
viScrs The question, which lay between the
Imperial Government md that Of the United
States, as to the constructor Of treaty, was
in the hands Of Her Majesty's Government.
The correspondence would add nothing mate.
rial to the public knowledge OF the matter, and
it was not desirable that papers relating to
transaction of 81 delicate nature should be
laid upon the table.


The American RcvUlution-The Proposed


Export busy Oh Cotton.


From the Liverpool European Times, Feb. 20.


Tho phascs OF this struggle aTc followed in
England with an interest only inferior to that
which they excite amongst Americans them.
selves, and we are prompted IN thus feeling, not
less by sympathy for great Federal com6l-
nation threatened with destruction, than by 4
community Of interest which makes the pros
perity Of our republican brethren identical
with our own. We arc assured, in the recent
alyices from the other >lc Of The water, that
the Southern States contemplate the imposi-
ton of cent per pound, or the eighth Of
penny, on the export Of cotton, not large
SUN, but still large enough to interfere vitality
with the welfare Cf the ne" Southern Repub.
lie, should it ever como into existence. M cX.
port duty like the one mentioned would be Ser.
tain to stimulate new cotton ieids in different
parts of tho world to NJ extent far beyond
Whist the prcposc export duty would appear
in monetary sense to justify. The export
duty would, Of course, be equally imposed, il
the Union VAS dissolved, on. the English and
the New England manufacturer, alike, but wc
have the means of setting UP rival fields to
save rs from the threatened InfiIctlon, and IN
this respect stand in u more favored position
than other countries, il We are compelled to do
so. The fiscal policy which this proposal re.
veals, does not say much for the wisdom when
ia likely 10 rule over the new Federation.
Hitherto the English spinner has been the
Southerncr'S best customer, but the contem.
plated impost would dIivc him to India and
elsewhere to supply his wants, TO say nothing
Of the violation Of the laws oil political econo-
my involved in tie proposed duty.


In fact this tax Of q cent per ID. for State
purposes would be nothing better than lev
for limiting the production of cotton TO the
smallest Arra in the States which arc now anx'
ious to sever the Federal bond. Even now, the
lear that this rupture would end in bloodshed,
and prevent the growth of the staple in qnan-
titles sufficient to supply the demands Of the
world, has given III extraordinary impetus to!
exertons in England to supply the want which
it is believed would be thus created. But the
truth is, that the people Of the South are not
in frame Of mind at the present moment in
consequence Of the excitement under which
they labor, 10 see with sufficient clearness the
result of the policy thus indicated Better
views will prevail when affairs have resumed
their normal state.


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The Tenth Legion.