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THE T11EATY BKTWEKX SPAIX ANT) MOKQCCO. ...
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The Bevenxje.^National Progee8s. Rphough...
proportion of bur substance on the false plea of promoting the inC Tokvemorc wealtlvas population increases , there must also ¦ be more skill ; and there is nO general fact more pertain than hn an increase of population is always accompanied by nftirther ^ v sion of labour , and an increase o « ill . JVe have a Warned - lately from facts , contrary to the teaching oMajthus , Ricarjo anu . Yheir followers , that , in consequence of skill increasing mi * population , all kinds of commoditi es , including raw nuij teual * In I including food , arc obtained , whenever and whei e ^ Government stands out of the way of industry , by : a dumnishmg quantity of labour . Sever in . our history was corn J ^ - tinuouslv cheap through a long period as since IS 42 , ami nesei was the " cost of clothing and all other , tilings . so sm as ^ a present , notwithstanding the . enormous imposts , and ^ lU-ron thmed restrictions and exactions of G ^ eniinQnt ^ A sjoiym c no-o -i discovery was made that some £ 40 , 000 , 000 ot the nSk > nal tcoV was enjoyed ^ millowners a ^ - *™ of Lancashire , and a shout of inaipna , on "a ^ set i , p b > m loudest « hoitter , as if that wealth was niched from the ie * t ot the word ^ Thc plain fact , however , is that the peop c there , by hdr Woml , rfi ! l industry and skiU ^ erfarm many useful screes : for which the rest of the- world willingly pays . TIicn WPl > * 4 vitb im-vniousmachinery : and cheap clotlnng , . and are . by the general competition barely remunerated for their labour ami m ^ gC Th £ c improvements . accompany increamig population , and ~ as Ion-experience teaches us that there ; , s ^ harmon y . jin- a ) he works " of nature , we have good reason to" ^ PP ° f , ^ ^ Inere ^ ino-multitude woukl not . be ready to . pick cacl . othci * poekSa o ° r cut each other ' s throats , while they ai ^ aetunUy inten Sellin g and serving each ^ thcr , unless Opvernmen t prevc » t « l them Yet on this pretext Government taNes them and pc . i ^ - * . in takino-more and more , year by ycrtr , of -their substaueg . lie dubious men of I . anea , hire and other pi aces , P-form mrpro u , . services for one another , at a loss cost year by year . , the ^ of the Government , on the contrary , ? vow . worse and « i , ( ; a * . we all know , vear . by . year , while the offices deman «\ mPjv "ndreceive more , year by year , as the . comparison of he mj « , . ¦ I 860 with the revenue of past years proved . l . ike ^ U , w i .. on they assume that the prosperity of their customer . or <**&* }» tlie proof of their own efficiency , ami insist on . being- paid , not Snla what they do , but according to what then- eustpmers do or tluMnselv <> s . This is obviously an . error and a . wronj r . ; a . d ¦ while -we recognise , with . preaf satisfaction the increase , of he recuue as a proof of the progress mid pro * perit y o he . niult . ^ tude we deny that such an immense sum as £ 71 , 000 , 000 a- > oai Is fairly covneA and honestly appropriated by the Government . ¦
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The T11eaty Bktwekx Spaix Ant) Mokqcco. ...
THE T 11 EATY BKTWEKX SPAIX ANT ) MOKQCCO . mi IK ' Uotlnd-C ^ zcth , of March 2 U-, publishes the . ^ m sof-• 1 he ' treatvi ) etwee . n the Moorish Moslems and the bpam . U <> uJiU Morocco is to eede to Spain the whole territory So i the sea to the hollow road of Angheni and a * o a eertiuii por ion of the tomtory at Santa Cm /; .. ' Hie Convention o . I S . » i , ' ionc ^ iiin- " ^ U > lilli 1 ' ^ Wtnotx , and Alhucc . uas , is to be rnt-ifujl . > l \ . « m is ' to he . retained by Spain till thn Moors have paid the in i ml Castiliiuw twenty millions of pianos X commercal ' ve y s nlao mentionecl . ' in which Spain i to bo eonsulercfl h ¦ nost favoured nation , and to enjoy special pm drges . bpaii , h nnniWevs and' ambassadors nvc to be reocvecla- ley . ; and hstlv . the Spaniards arc to be ulldwed- ^ ver niter , the 2 oth o April whm the treaty is to bo signed at letuan-to oxpe d thoir residue cartridges and surplus bullets on the mosquito ¦ swarms of hnphioablo Kabvles . „ ,,,, „; ,, ¦ ' We . must confess that Spain hns carried herself butU-r in this war than wo could l . nve expeottHl ; or rnthcr he Moors have « no theinwlvos woiw . " VTv had great faith in the Parthum do lot' avage curalry , and rcliodon a more con I dent and Sniinod resistance to ail unjust invasion , ^ e had expected thot the . Spaniards' inarch would have begun with bee-nve « , and emlod in tho Hons' < W Wo bud expected that the Moors havo swarmed down on ( ho invndora till half Africa was imptv , " > Spain had ben allowed to encroach 'on the dominions of the wnniuff Cresoont . Provideneo bus ponnittod it to bo othonviso . Perhaps th « IMoovs , owing fo tlu ; ir scanty . inenus of Jformotiou , fop much doaniscd tho prcparaUons ot then- tardy onoi iv » PorhimB it was found , dilUciilt , after a long peace to . S ' tlwlbroosof the jealous chiefs . IVvhnps , ( bsdaining . thoiv dCrt seaboard , tjvc , Moovs wore hoping to doc-oy the bragging ciiSnv to ccrtah destruction in the interior ol the country . Bo i \ t may , the Moors allow thoinadvos defoatud , and bend their ' shave hSncle before iho Spanish tents , After some gallant SSugh rather litiul flgbting . the tuvbauod men , content with
inflicting great losses on the Spaniards pray for peace The result of the war , we arc afraid , however , has . been , after aH but Imill f ven to Spain . ' As to the Christian world at lrfrgft , it has small o en ^ * V *} fl j , - u ? go ma thollsand gained . nog- ^ ™ paid-Ld a strip of land opposite the S ££ ' I ^ S : ; eo ^ rdal privileges w £ ch she has too little ^^ tget tlie important advantage that a Spanish--nnbSsa ^ or and tweT or three missionaries are to be allowed to go nmtbe mt to death at Tez . Tetuan is to be again surrendered when the ^ tres are paid , and all things " . will return to the . r original condi io as the ! were before the war was begun lhe bullets have Xmped into skulls , and have perforated occiputs andhavc drilled Sues , and carried away eyes and * ^ %£$ ™^ % ^ ill to no purpose but tbe amusement of the Gieat J ^ lacL 1 mice of' AIi " f , who rejoices and chuckles , at nU human follies . I ' nderaoe clumps and beneath palm trees and behind rocks the lea men rest , the victims of intolerance fighting for tolera-£ the hecatombs of Christianity warring to spread its creed £ , i ; of Spanish youths sown over the Atrican sand Sre ami for what ? . To win a strip of land opposite tbe Canary T . hiKls for a nation who cannot , cultivate . its own country-to ¦ S " ° n ar fres to pay lor a war that never should have been Sd- o pr 6 etiro commercial privileges ibr a . nation - without . cmn erco ^ nd to be -allowed * o send missionaries to t , / , m ere rheir li es will not be worth an hour ' s purchase , and where they xvS convert no ono , iuilesS . it may be the slaves . they buy tor that ^ c ^^ m ^ * £ ^ ¦^ r ^^ Sn ^ i t ^ , i ^^ ¦ 1 ^ -rM I - remiiii Spain inav not bvuent , Imt . O ^ Dosnell wdl . . ¦;¦ : . . .. i P ^ e ' o-rci advantage the world might hrfve gMim-d irom-t n , V- mic - . ^ .,,,, 1 tha t the Spaniards have Tiotjthought pi— . _ . hve ^ rt " d ^ ucS Pf tkc iUf pirates , those inhunnni ! nu-dercrVof ^ hi pwreekcdinen . To strike on that ndiospitable . ! emit i , all but : certain death to the unhap ^ sailo r , whatever be h "" conn rv Those savage nmuntaincers look upon wrecks -a , r Vl ¦? . * ivul ill livin-- Vatvires that are washed ashore as ' SnSI" Is robbed they put to death thesurvivoi , , iimiwu . i . i . i iin ¦ , .. . liro , x > rtv ns Molumuiiedans of i ^ Joino ?!!! . ^; .: ; A -v ^ ZuTas Utei . of the Vrophct and ! " the T " w To have burnt out these enemies of . mankind would Weilu « blessing , to the world . But this the frpai . umU « Ud . ; ^ V ^ S ^^ rv-Nluv ^ Xw the attention of the llouae the other av iuciiciouslv enough , to the injuiy England imwt oteru ^ ce f ^ eSp ^ uiisirconcp ^ ts on the Atrican . shore beeoni , Z cut ccmisit cms of the Spanish crown . « is ivmark- did SS ^^ ft » 4 « t ^ : X ^ r ^ ¦ Sfe ¦ STMSoSstsr ^ 'io irrH . ^ . - s , ;? -. , ^& lr ;^^^™»' ^ fottcM-cd through a Spanish medium . / " lint a still more- serious . thing is Uie fact that , in cuse ol a w with s , ) ,, in weeould . no longer hope to obtain provisions liom ' , 2 : Morocco , that , has liithWto boeu always open to , i « soon lop off Ms hum lu-ncj , and give him to the x ultuu-,. There are hint , that France has encouraged hpam in tluj . war for this very purpose . Her bombardment » 1 lm ^ Hullicicntly sbowoA which way her i nohnntion . tondod . A n mav eonie wlicn -the neglected Moors may bo again cm n < oc friends « thiv hnvH , W . « « o often beHuv Can w , wonder th . Spa should ' look at our neutrality with suspicion : ? ^ j Frcueh never forget ^ Waterloo , so the Spaniard newi loip £ fl in " Tt is fi ,. eowtmit thorn in thoir side t h , con « £ » a \ r * « f their « . , vps , ( ho perpetunl in ^ M . nave o the 1 ;« dreams . They will let Carthageua rot , and the \ eg ' « >«»» but ; they cannot bc , iv that ( Jibmltar "houW Jndle i ' » J washes Snnin—their pride and their religion both c > - u 'S it France wnfspers them on to angry prolests aiiu Si fe si ^ A ^^ i ^^ i
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Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1860, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07041860/page/6/
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