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      The Dead-Housh. A Ba.Ni> Of Irish Member...

      mce was in ecstasies , and complimented Whig orator upon the revival of his * inal style . Several waverers were carried t to the enemy by Lord John Russell . = > y must be marked . But what transac-1 has taken place between Cambridge use : and Woburn Abbey ? - The atruolere is very thick at present , but it is iring , and we shall soon know where we

      fhe greatest number that ever voted for Ballot in the House of Commons was 5 . Oji Tuesday evening , the minority sisted of 189 members , or 215 if pairs had n counted . The greatest number that : med the principle in the Parliament of ¦ 7 was 150 ; in the Parliament of 1852 , i . 5 therefore , as Mr . Whitehitrst says , subject has once more been brought up the point at which it was left by Mr . ote . But would not infinite gain accrue

      the cause , if , out of the hundred and lty-nine members who voted , twenty had > lutely forced on a formidable debate , and ed the rank of the Ballot as a parliament question ? As it was , the Liberals perbed Lord John Russell to urge , unconlicted , a series of the most unqualified and upported assumptions : that landlords do intimidate , that electors do not ask for bection , and that the country is unfavouri to the proposed change . Mr . Berkeley self was disappointed . ' He had on this

      ision looked hopefully forward to a strong cession of opinion on the part of the ise ; ' but the House is worthless , and now Berkeley knows it . It is a Morgue , a ttre of inarticulate show ; a Club , in eh the members pooh-pooh enthusiasm of doors , and deserves no more to be ed a House of Commons than the great p-house in Piccadilly deserves to be styled Reform . Even popularity seems no jer an object of English ambition . There new men in Parliament who misrht

      bee distinguished if they had faith and it ; but no , as Manchester is not ashamed tier dummies , so the dummies are not imed of themselves . Instead of John ght there is John Potteb , whose name lowhere on the list ; instead of Cobden e is Akiioyj > , who votes against the lot ; instead of a Liberal party there is a xering of nondescript sections , and the ; among them are afraid to face a noisy for a division . *

      Ko. 380, Jny 4,1867.1 The Ieadm. ¦ 637

      Ko . 380 , JnY 4 , 1867 . 1 THE IEADM . ¦ 637

      New African Slave Tbade. Foreign Governm...

      NEW AFRICAN SLAVE TBADE . foreign Government has so completely arted the policy of this country in various ctions as that of Prance . The object of Russian war with the Emperor Napon was to effect a diversion from the scrapes » which he had fallen respecting the ' Holy jes . ' England was persuaded to join in war for the purpose of maintaining the grity of the Ottoman Empire , menaced Russian encroachments on tho Danube ; treaty of peace has somewhat withdrawn Russian frontier from that river j but by assistance of Prance , Russia is now

      drag-* Turkey into that consolidation of the icipalities which will facilitate her further gross at a future day . Prance lent us her ic for the Neapolitan demonstration , and return hna compelled us to give up tho stance of tho movement : degrading us in eyea of Italy and of history . Lord Clar J > ON made a speech at the Paris Conmce in favour of Piedmont ; , but the advice Oount Walewqki has prevailed , and we e alienated our most . natural ally ill tho rth of Italy . Clarendon was dragged at car of Walewski in the matter of the gian press . Dm Morny has obtained a imerciai treaty with lluasia—has pur-

      New African Slave Tbade. Foreign Governm...

      chased advantages at St . Petersburg by betraying the Western Alliance . But the last blow is the unkindest cut of all , and it ought to be felt severely by the Minister who at pres ent conducts the affairs of England , who has been so ready an instrument of nntislavery action , and so heartily applauded the elevation of Napoleon to the throne : Prance has effected a breach in the line of our antislavery operations .

      In March last , the Emperor granted a contract to a house at Marseilles , that of the Messrs . Regis , empowering them to convey ten thousand Africans from Quidah to Guadeloupe and Martinique , as free emigrants , to be employed in the labour market of the French colonies . In the interval between the granting of that contract and its public announcement , an anti-slavery deputation , headed by Lord Shaftesbttry , has waited upon Lord Palaieeston , and has recommended to him exactly the same course—a free African emigration , for the English ,

      French , and Spanish West Indies , as well as for the southern states of the American Union . The Anti-Slavery plan contemplated , however , two conditions as preliminary to the offer of this free African emigration to the foreign states ; the conditions being , that these states should join in a league with Great Britain , and that they should entirely prohibit slavery in their dominions . The substance of the new plan , however , consisted in this free African emigration , which is identical with the plan sanctioned by the French Emperor at Marseilles .

      We have treaties with France as well as with other European countries , obliging them to join us in the armed suppression of the slave trade ; but the new scheme which is begun at Marseilles is not a slave trade . It is nothing more than a free emigration , such as our own Government attempted from Sierra Leone to the British West Indies , or , such as the anti-slavery deputation proposed to Lord Palmeeston . ~ We mav entertain

      great doubts as to the actual freedom secured for the free emigrant in Guadeloupe and Martinique , but in the terms of the contract , in the authorized papers of the ship , in the whole form of the proceeding , the Blacks which will be found on board the vessels of M . Regis will not be slaves , nor will the vessels , we conceive , come under the operation of the slave-trade treaties . Our armed preventive force will have to stand aside and

      permit the transport of these Negroes from their native country to the French West Indies . It may be a gigantic ' dodge , ' but we do not perceive how the cleverest ot Attorney-Generals — which Sir Riciiard Bet hell is—could devise any procedure which would bring vis into court . Columijus showed tho mode of making an egg stand by cracking its round end ; Napoleon and Regis together have shown how a treaty may be cracked by means quite as simple .

      The . Anti-Slavery deputation suggested to Lord Palme kston that this free African emigration could be accompanied by a reinforcement of our preventive licet in tho Woat Indies , and more especially by a fleet of gunboats to blockade Cuba . Now , the Spanish governors obtain decided advantages from tho continuance of tho slave trade ; they oro , of course , [ always representing tho case ot the planters to tho Government at Madrid , and Napoleon and Regis have pointed out

      tho mannor in winch enterprising men may become agents for a free African emigration to convey Black labourers into Cuba . What is to prevent thorn ? There is not the slightest doubt that this free emigration , whother into Guadeloupe , Cuba , French Guiana , or any other transatlantic tropical country , will be do facto a

      consignment of so many thousand Negroes from their native country to a state of compulsory labour . Although not to be touched by our slave-trade treaties , it will be a new slave trade . ' With what face can we suffer that trade to continue , and at the same time deny to our ally Brazil , whom we have treated so harshly , a commensurate supply of free Africans for our sugar plantations . But if we admit a free supply of Africans to Guadeloupe , Guiana , Cuba , and Brazil , how can we deny it to Jamaica and the rest of our own colonies ?

      Still more may we press the question how , if a free African labour trade is to be permitted , we can deny a corresponding freedom to the agents for conveying African labourers into the southern states of the Union ? What consistency will there be between this kind of free trade and the establishing of a bl ockade of gun-boats expressly for the purpose of preventing the traders in American labour from conveying Negroes to Cuba and onwards to the slave states of the Union ?

      There is a considerable community of feeling between the American republic and the young empire in France—a disposition to exchange courtesies and good offices which has displayed itself not alone in Paris ; and influential Americans will be well inclined to appreciate the sagacity which the Emperor Napoleon has shown in this contract for M . Regis . It is , in fact , a grand stroke of practical wife , which solves at a blow some knotty question .

      Granville The Expert. It Must Be Very Pl...

      GRANVILLE THE EXPERT . It must be very pleasant to be Lord ¦ Geak-YiLLE . That nobleman ' s talent- is not of a common order , and decidedly it is a comfort to be talented . His opportunities , too , are good , and his friends are faithful . We trust , if ever we deserve well of our country , to be vested with an influence over the officials of tho Duchy of Lancaster . In that case , we may rent productive estates , and our landlords will be the blandest that earth ever saw . No distringas , uo capias ; not even a mention of those sour-smelling documents ; but , instead , roseate accommodation and honey-dew delay .

      Earl Gtranville , had he worn no coronet , might have been a distinguished banker . He rented , not many revolving years ago , certain properties belonging to the Duchy of Lancaster . " When the saturnine days arrived , it was not always convenient . The council said , " Don't mention it ! " " Did you ask wh y this account was not passed by the auclitor for a year and a half after the date to winch it extended ? " was a question put on Mouday last to Mr . Bertolaooi . " Yes ; and the reason assigned by the deputy of the receiver-general waa that the account had been kept open as long as possible to afford

      an opportunity to Earl Granville of paying the arrears of rent clue by him for some mines . " Now , it is no reflection , even upon a peer , to say that we must givo him time . But is it right to become steward when you are in debt to the housekeeper ? Wo rather sympathize with tho debtor ; but , as creditors , wo must look to tho assignees , and they , instead of recovering the utmost , appear to have instructed their accountant to strike out as much ns possible as ' irrecoverable . ' " Lord Granyille was in arrears to tho Duchy of Lancaster : —In tho account for 1851 , 4270 / . 6 a . 6 | d . In tho account for 1852 . 4061 / . LSa . Id . In tho account for # ** - ¦» - ¦ —¦

      ^^ *^\ * w * m m * p * ^^ ** ¦ • w ™^ - * - — — - 1853 , 4 iM 2 l . Ss . 5 d . In tho account for 1854 , 35011 . 18 s . Id . It may be naked , why did not tho economists in Parliament seize those items and anatomize thoin ? JBecauso tho accounts were juggled , as was the prao-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 4, 1857, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_04071857/page/13/