The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-15 00:00:00

Since the date of this despatch matters certainly
have tu4 improved. An interval or two of apparent
melt, watt inn 'IAA indeed neenrred. Kennedy. the
ommissary Judge td 1144. Ilavannalt, tvportetl, in Isis.
to Lord l'altnerston. •• that the efforts of the British
Government seemed to have been Attended With full sue.
eess : in Cubit there was a decided evs.ithon 01 the slave
trade.- Ifni the pros-Teti was soon darkened again. The
trade has not only expanded to the dimensions we have
stated alHtVe, but the evidence colleeted by kite committee
blows how deep and universal, both in the mother county'
and the island itself, me the intluences and interests en•
gaged in it. Spanish capital supplies the truffle ; persons
of high—nay, the highest—authority in Madrid defile
Large revenues from it. Many slave-ships, according to
Mr. Kennedy, were known to belong to queen Uhristiiie:
and a man named Parrjo, who dealt largely in slaves, Was
almost avowedly her agent in Cuba. The vessels in which
be was interested were known to be " ptivileged."
There was influence en gh at headviarters, says the
same witness, to stop one Uoventor.6 enure!, Muesli, in his
endeavours to cheek the business, and to dismiss another,
Concha, who persisted in that endeavour in spite of want.
ing. The governors. however, rarely troubled the 'Madrid
patrons of the trade to interfere in its behalf'. With
scarcely an exeeption they all winked at the intportati •f
slaves, provided they received their share in the shape of
head-money from the importers. The only difference 114.-
tween them seems to have been in the and of the bribe
they exacted, which varied from a guinea per negro to four
or five. Suboldinate functionaries itnitattsl their superiot s
after their degrees in all respects. Offitial aid was also
given to the traffickers by means of the mail-steamers,
which, being ruined with a Goycruureut charter and IV-
COgnigt'll privileges of entry and derftliAlr at every port.
furnished wimirable futilities for tnitisporting negro, ,
from the slave-ships to the selected points of debarka-
tion on the coast.

Itribcry of eourse prevailed, and was required on every
side. ltut the margin of profit on the business was ample
for all demands. Negroes, it WAS 411(111MM, eunhl L.•
lodged on board the slaver off the shores of Afriea at s
cost of I. dollars a-pieeo : in tuba the selling price ranged
between auti ,no, ;pun such it commodity we Cali
Well believe that " 1101. or 111/. spent in gratuities would 1144
be considered."

Tracing this question of profit a little further, we find
that the business of sugar-growing in tuba is so lucrative
as literally to render money no object among the planters.
Their establishments sold tinsel • .ry are upon use
scale—the latter almost entirely made in England, and
absorbing a large capital, and yielding 'stunts on a cor-
responding scale. Mr. Liggins, an exiwrieneeti London
merchant, lOW visited COM last year, computed that the
planters " got their sugar for nothing. The nun and mo-
lasses paid every expense, and the whole prt weeds of the
sugar went to profit." The English market. furnished
of course the principal outlet to the 'lnstinct, and the late
rise in prices here had swelled to an unprecedented degree
the reven RCS of Calm slave-owners awl sugar-growers. It
is curious to find, as a result of British described
by the same witness, that, while Jamaica has beeome
practically a desert. there is nut a more prosperous country
in the world than Cuba.

Respecting the means of really extinguishing the hateful
turd-. Captain Hamilton probably pointed colt the only
certain and effeetnal step, in " a ilemonstiotion with half
the squadron employed on the coast of Africa and Cuba of
some Spani,li port, such as Barcelona or Cadiz." To this
bold suggestion the committee do not allude in their
report. They content themselves with citing from au old
report of the Lords' Otmmittee on the subject an opinion
that possibly "it was worthy consideration whether the
three great maritime powers—England, Fratlee, and the
United States--could not lie brought to combine in joint
representations. or, if need be. more active measureq, for
obtaining froui Spain an honest perbirmance of her slave
trade treaties.

THE COME r has created a sensation among the
negro population of New Orleans. On one Saturday
night about S(W) of them assembled on an open
space, and, stretching forth their arms, commenced
suiging. It turned out that a fanatical negro
preacher had told his congregation that at eleven
oclock on that night the comet world come in col
lision with the earth and demolish it, but those who
were found with their arms stretched to heaven,
watching the coming of the catastrophe, and singing
a hymn of welcome, were to be translated bodily into
Paradise. In consequence the mob assembled. but
the police made a descent on them, arrested sixty,
and the rest fled. The prisoners were tined 5 dulls.
each, or, in default, sentenced to fifteen lashes each.
THE MAmuu 1 'lstvt:rtsm was opened on the Ist
instant. The inaugural address IV fls pronounced by
Senor Moulain, and was on the advantages of modern