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BRITISH CONCESSION TO THE UNITED STATES....
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Leader Office, Saturday, June 12th. Last...
in France , wlnle the relations between the two countries were most cordial , and they were acting together in such manner as wa 3 calculated to maintain the peace of Europe . As to any trouble with America on the subject of the proceedings of oar cruisers , the communications which had been sent . out to the United States would prevent anything beyond an accidental disturbance -which might occur before the communications reached the American Government . He wished to impress on the House tlat it -was not the policy of England to give credit to foreign nations for the worst intentions , but it should be at all watchful , conciliatory , and just . "Within a few hours a despatch had been received from Naples , slating that the King was prepared
to grant an adequate and ample compensation to the engineers of the Cagliari , and that he had placed the ship and th . e-whole « f the crew at the disposal of the Queen of England . She would be consequently delivered to the King-of Sardinia . This was a new guarantee for the peace of Europe 1 - He , however , still" thought that the defences of this country ought to he complete , but that duty must be left to the Government . —Mr . Bjentinck urged that the question had not been answered . The condition of the defences of this country should be stated . —Mr . Lindsay said the answer of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was satisfactory . He urged that there could be no difficulty in manning onr ships for our home defences . —Mr . Bright said he wished to know the pre - cise point of expenditure and force at which gentlemen would be prepared to ; say this country was in a state of defence . We were spending a larger sum for armaments than ever before in time of peace . It would be as easy to show that we were in danger of invasion if we had twice the expenditure we now liad for arm amenta . He ridiculed the notion of invasion , and eulogized the just and moderate foreign policy of the Government . — - Sir Charles Wood denied that the late Government bad left the country in an undefended state . He stated that no new instructions had been sent to the officers of our cruisers on the coast of Cuba with regard to their mode of preventing the slaVe trade .---Mr . Headlam tendered his thanks to the Government for their conduct in the matter of the Cagliari . COMMISSION FOB MAHNtNG THE NAVT . Sir John Pakkt & ton , in answer to a question , said . that the Commission for Manning the Navy was ready . He stated that at this moment , at the shortest notice , we could assemble a fleet in the Channel which could compete with that of any nation . THB ARRESTOF CAPTAIN JCT > KINS . Mr . Horsfall , called the attention of the House to the arrest of Captain Judkins , of the Royal Mail Steamer Persia , in New York , on the 16 th of May last , and said that the only offence he was said to be guilty of was his having detained a custom-house officer on board his ship , when he had been ordered by the quarantine officer to allow no one to go on shore .- —Viscount Bury asked if the report of the attack on the Consul at Belgrade by a Turkish soldier was true . —Mr . Kidley asked the amount of compensation granted to the engineers of the Cagliari . —Mr . Seymotjb" Fitzgerald said that Government had no knowledge of the case of Captain Judkins , but every attention would be paid to . it . He had no information as to the attack on the Consul at Belgrade , but inquiry had been made on the subject . The redress to the engineers was an answer to a demand from the Foreign Minister—the sum to be paid as compensation was 3 OCO 2 . The House then proceeded with the consideration of the resolutions on the Government of India , which occupied the greatest part of the remainder of the sitting .
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THE CONTINENT . The Paris Conference held its fourth sitting on Thursday , according to expectation . The Plenipotentiaries met at half-past one , and remained sitting till five o ' clock . Immediately afterwards , Count Waleweki returned to Fontainebleau , where it is understood he will remain till the 18 th , until which day the Conference will not meet again . A decree has appeared in Spain ordering the sale by auction of shares of 2000 reals in railways , canals , and harbours , to the extent of fifty-nine millions . Senor Donoso Cortes ia appointed Under Secretary of State for the Finance department . General Concha remains at Cuba . . ' 11 Tho discussion of the Montenegrin question , " says aYlenna letter , in the Nuremberg Gazette , " will be commenced at Constantinople immediately after the arrival of Sir Henry Bulwer , the new English Ambassador . The memorandum addressed by the Porto to the Great Powers bas just beon ^ communicated bv Prince Calliraacki to Count Buol . " The French Ministerial papers declare in favour of the American view in the question of the right of search , and characterize the blockading squadron ob an utter failure . T > ' e latest news from Constantinople speaks of largo relnfoTcerncnta on their way to the island of Candin , now In rebellion against Veil Pasha .
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Thus Qukrk held a lovee yesterday nt St , Jamea ' a Palac * . It was well attended . Bib E . N . Bvxton , M . P ., ia dend .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . Itis impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Theirinaertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quiteindependent of themeritsof the communication . We cannot undertake toreturnrejectedcommunications-
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Erratum in ou * last . —In the article on the " Sanitary Condition of the Army , " p . 644 , 2 nd col-, thirty lines from the . foot of the page , / or " Colonel Tulloch considers the soldier is the superior , " & c , read , " Colonel Tulloch considers the soldier is the sufferer , " & c .
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British Concession To The United States....
BRITISH CONCESSION TO THE UNITED STATES . The conversation in the House of Lords , on Tuesday evening , on the subject of the outrages alleged to have been committed against American merchant-ships by cruisers of our slave-squadron on the coast of Cuba , has been the means of drawing forth several important reassurances . Speaking for the late Government , Lord Ci / AKENDON said that , to his knowledge , no instructions have been given to the commanders of British cruisers that
can . have warranted them in doing what it is said has been done . If , therefore , he said , they have exceeded their instructions , her Majesty's Government can have no hesitation in stating that that is the case . Our pride for the honour and independence of our flag is as great as that of America , he said ; but we should consider it tarnished if it were made to cover nefarious transactions such as those which are alleged . So far , then , from finding fault with any foreign Powers for interposing to prevent the perpetration of
such offences , he said " we should rather be obliged to them for their interference . " Lord MaIjMESbury . was quite in accord with hia " noble friend . " The first diflfculty to be dealt witli by the two Governments is the practice of foreign slavers in hoisting the American flag ; but upon this point Lord Malmesbtjby explained that he had had a conversation with the American Minister , and that the views of the two Governments were not very different as to the necessity for some arrangement which will " effectually discover the impositions alluded to , and which will not be offensive to honest traders . " Thus , on both sides of the House we have at work an
active spirit of conciliation and of good sense ; and what is of the first importance , the absence of that dangerous element in international disputes—false pride . It appears that up to the present time our Government has not received any official intelligence as to the doings of the repressive squadron ; but the representations of the American Government have been accepted as sufficient to warrant tne Foreign Secretary ia at once sending out orders to the
commanders of our cruisers to act with the greatest prudence and forbearance . "We do not know what the instructions sent by Lord Malmes-3 JUBT , or by his predecessor , may have been ; but it ia well known that the Government have been anxious that energetic efforts should be made against the slave trade on the coast of Cuba and in the Mexican Gulf . The instructions given may have "been gusirded enough ; but the commanders to whom they were addressed will , of course , have read
them to some extent by the light of their object . Captain Denman is not the only zealous man in fche service , and the distinction which he gained has been a lesson to others . The instructions , indeed , must have been very guarded , if they were sufficient to check the tendency of the whole proceedings . We last week stated—as we have stated on other occasions—that the organization for the suppression of slave trading has become a vested interest , and that the agents for
carrying out the scheme may be anxious to perpetuate the Blare trade , which is the object of it , and to prevent a legitimate traffic in competition with the trade of British merchants , A clanger is suggested by those circumstances , and of that danger perhaps our Government have not taken sufficient account . The cases brought before them , liowever , must have drawn attention to it , and they will , of course , be more guarded for the future . \
Meanwhile we have Lord Malmesbury ' s assurance that " this country need remain under no apprehension that anything -will occur to break the alliance that so happily exists between the two countries . " It is to be peace with the United States . Once again , war is prevented by deference to public opinion . But we want to know what are the terms
of peace . It is a question that interests the English as well as the American people . Are we "to persevere in enterprisea which , after two generations , we find it impossible to carry to their end ? The expenditure on the squadron has been useless . We have it admitted even by Lord Bbotjgham :, who says that the blockade of Cuba , from the nature of the coast , can never be effectual . The flaw in the lease of the slave-trade suppression system , in fact , has been found out , and it is only a further waste of monev and exertion
to attempt to perpetuate the system . Instead of simply paying damages to injured Xankees , giving the necessary amount of explanations to the irritated Republic , and issuing , perhaps , amended instructions to our naval officers , the best guarantee which Government could give to the British as well as American people would be to reconsider the whole system a fond , to throw up a useless organization , and to let the Anglo-Saxons , on both sides of the Atlantic , heartily
cooperate in the difficult task of working out a peaceful solution of the problem of training the African for the ways of society , whether American or African . This would be the way to turn to best account the labours of Livingston , Ciay , and other leading humanitarians who have studied the subject practically . Nothing can do away with the absolute necessity for Negro labour in the cotton and sugar-growing States of America ; and while
there is a deficiency of Black labourers on the spot , no arrangements that the American and English Governments may make will prevent those who need Negroes from attempting to supply their want . To brand and punish slave traders as pirates does not deter men from entering into the prohibited traffic while there is a demand for negroe 3 . And while that demand is legitimate it is neither jusb nor politic to drive it into
contraband ways of supplying its wants . The gam to the Negro through any kind of forcible intervention is exceedingly problematical , the losa by debasement to all engaged in the human traffic is certain—obvious . The truest philanthropy -would bo to multiply , by all means , the points of intercourse between Negroes and Whites . Let as many Africans aa possible come among the Anglo-Saxons ; lot as many Anglo-Saxons na possible mix with the Negroes of Africa ; improved knowledge aud
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061858/page/12/
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