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in France , whfle the relations between the two countries were most cordial , and they were acting together in such manner a 3 was calculated to maintain the peace of Europe . As to any trouble with America on the subject of the proceedings of our cruisers , the communications which had been , sent put 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 that it was not the policy of England to give credit to foreign nations for the worst intentions , tut it snould be at all watchful , conciliatory , and just . Within a few hours a despatch had been received from Naples , stating that the King was prepared
to grant an adequate and ample compensation to the engineers of the Gagliari , and that he had placed the ship and the whole of 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 ! He , however , still thought that the defences of this country ought to be complete , but that duty must be left to the Government . —Mr . Beniinck 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 our ships for our home defences . —Mr . Bright said he wished to know the precise 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 shbvr that we vrere in danger of invasion if we had twice the expenditure we now had for armaments . He ridiculed the notion of invasion , and eulogized the just and moderate foreign policy of the Government . — Sir Chabues Wood denied that the late Government had 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 thanka to the Government for their conduct in the matter of the Cagliari
. COMMISSIOW FOB SIANNING THE NAVY . Sir Johh Pakusqton , 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 .
THE AKBEST OP CAPTAIN JUDKINS . Mr . Hobsfaix . 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 . Ridley asked the amount of compensation granted to the engineers of the CagliarL—Mx . Seymour Fitzgerald said that Government bad 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 80007 .
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 Walewski 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 ot shares of 2000 reals in railways , canals , and harbours , to the extent of fifty-nine millions . Senor Donoso Cortes is appointed Under Secretary of State for the Finance department . General Concha remains at Cuba . " . The discussion of the Montenegrin question , " says a Vienna 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 has just been , communicated bv Prince Callimacki 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 as an utter failure . Th « latest news from Constantinople speaks of large reinforcements on their way to the island of Candin , now in rebellion against Veil Pasha .
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Tiieirinsertionisoftendelayed . owingtoapress . of matter : and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quitemdependent of tfa e merits of the communication * We cannot undertake to returnrejected communications-
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BRITISH CONCESSION TO THE UNITED STATES . The conversation , in the House of Xords , on Tuesday evening , on the subject of the outrages alleged to have been com mi tted 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 , iLord CjiABENDOiir 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 Las been done . If , therefore , he said , they have exceeded their instructions , her Majesty ' s Government cau 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 Mai / me SBUitY was quite in accord with his " noble friend . " The first difficulty to be dealt with b y the two Governments is the practice of foreign slavers in hoisting the
American flag ; but upon this point Lord Maxmesbury . 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 lvave 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 the Foreign Secretary in 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 Malmesbtjry ; , or b y his predecessor , may have been ; but it is well known that the Government have been anxious that energetic efforts should be made against the slave trad © on the coast of Cuba and in the Mexican Gulf . The
instructions given may have been guarded enough ; but the commanders to whom they were addressed will , of course , have read
them to some extent by the light of their object . Cantain Denman is not the onlyzealous man in the 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 peipetuate the slave trade , which is the object of it , and to prevent a legitimate traffic in competition with the trade of British merchants . A danger is suggested by those circumstances , and of that danger perhaps our Government have not taken sufficient account . The cases brought before them , however , must have drawn attention to it , and they will , of course , be more guarded for the future .
Meanwhile we have Lord Maltiesbtjuy ' s assurance that " this country need remain under no apprehension th at 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 enterprises 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 Brottgham , who says that the blockade of Cuba , from the nature of the coast , can never be eifectual . 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 money and exertion to attempt to perpetuate the system .
Instead of simply paying damages to injured Yankees , giving the necessary amount of exp lanations 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 coop " erate 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 , Ci * ay , and other leading humanitarians who have studied the subject practically . Nothing can do away with the absolute necessity lor 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 negroes . And while that demand is legitimate it is neither just nor politic to drive it into contraband ways of supplying its wants . The gain to the Negro through any kind of forcible
interventionisexceedinglyproblemntical , theloss 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 as possible come among the Anglo-Saxons ; let as many Anglo-Saxons as possible mix with the Negroes of Africa ; improved knowledge and
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There'is' nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to iceepfchingsfixedwheiiallthewoTid is by thevery law of its creatiomn eternal progress . —De . Aknold .
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564 THE LEADE R . [ No . 429 , June 12 , 1858 ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2246/page/12/
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