The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-24 00:00:00

with Mid* the velem of the Crieket. In the Ant era
Bee they would wear out in three months with lifting ; but
she paws Memo the friction very much. I examined ell
the her *lves os Pkenday morning ; the machinery waa
pedially geed ender; the boiler had plenty of water at the
dm KA* sapiedes ; the eaue of it is beyond my eoesprt-
hemies ; I Mew that the salvos were all free an hour be-
lbee ere *pities. If they were raisedbut a sixteenth of an
inek, lihemaani=Wrilue beard to map. I was not hurt
iW on iles bat deal liew.law I got arm the
pi* les I sat I'M of bin. When my
teedieedia Mimed, I turereleelioestba
_Ow, I had the
lame Meamepiage that bed bees ish by Melt; the ad
never Never ab bh by that pugs, but at dd. That wee
eriidlit at the extrmar sea. I will swear it had
sit beat at 411 she leavisgßluesbill-pier ; was at 40
while we were et MLA* bat *1 *lam was blowing off
tOcatil, anddragge imemmitimi marine In motion.
All WU Oen *fey.
_ltgemiesism all the more to kaow
how the ngtimeism elide liave otearted at 38 (Laughter.)
The valves IMO In opetaties.at tbe this ; I will not sey the
whole of them. Oa the memos nelnelag, I had tried the
Sallee' Wien takes; I dea't Mew the point at which
they esti. There is an Inds= * Aide the engineer,
bat I neve kaki at it. I void set do so without
ream lite sue, whisk veil Ise sr six 'minutes. I
em set aware that wham tbe wee Mad and sub-
mitted to Mr. Lloyd, these mosso ea die Men. I
deal Muff who Imed memmed the tee. Weldon
wee visa I emmlemd. the *Me ea dr Thursday
men; • I used a breemistisk $ trybeg the balance-
velvet ; it wss Mites. I am eau the gauge wu
at 38, and the steam biewiog of, jest before the explo-
sion. The firm had not been made mg after we left Dyer's.
hall-pier. While Peter was stoker, the airings were gene-
rally m I have awned.
By _Kr. IPlarrlia: I bare beta employed as eagimma in
the Weed; he belletdid set Ma, bat italleditt, *deemed
the death et lie seeker. That bells: was said. by Mr.
Spinet; it Ins an the high-mews principle. I used to
' work It at islet 40.

- By 117% La Baierox : When the AIMS blows off into the
fennel, it is net so evident to krstaidems. The noddy water
of the river Ma • tessimey to =she thieruzse dim. I
bladed the Csiikeffe gasp was art fag that the
prom sees pairs them it ,rife ad. I ne imbue-
doss to leek at grimier sellesildenies balsam. Peas the
position et the Most • 'pm.* Ma • disk could not emMOM
than 3or ri bike des ends irk the valves, aid WOW
imeiliall them Who tighb-sy wen wall& >I diefall
thift It mailip le- diliffilltider of the Seam%
Wears. The engineer, As at kis duty, is fa. ati
Ipesitioa of the greatest deopr. I never fasten bd down thel
otos, though that Idea less been done safely when -the .1
steam was low. No OnSWerst rglalas itome of the weld i
of the Cricket. With the tide, she odmnied her rip la mkc.
minutes, and in seven or eight galin a sesta* It. One et
two of the tubes in the tattoos' hailer leaked before the ea-
pleelsy.but not to any great extent,
By M. Moaoax, who appeared for Mr. Trotman, this ,
Mtwara* boiler: When the steam escapes through the
'
gerserg. it way do so without persona hearing it, but MKS
=Weeding to it.
. Mr. CllAMlnas : The greatest noise is natal/ the
of steam into the water, by what is the
nexillary pipe, with which some vessels are furnished.
• By the Joni' : I did not remove the brass bearings ham
the engine after the explosion, nor do I know who did ea.
The uvident in the Wasp was two years ago. I never ow
lisps to the valves in the Richmond boats or other hole that'
I have been in; but there the valves were more at or
mad. In the Cricket the ropes were always so slack that
say one might gather them up en their bands.
By Mr. IttcwalurSoN : I will swear I did not remove se
assist in the removal of anything from the boat after the ft-
agent. I saw persons about removing pieces of the
but don't know who they were. The superintends=
captain were among them. This was within ten or twelve
minutes after the explosion. I did not see what they re- !
moved.
By the CottoNEß : I picked up a shirt and waistcoat be-
longing to me after the _explosion. The reason why I
toned that the pressure was greater than indicated by
the gauge, was because the boat was superior in her speed;
and when I have tried the steam-stocks, to all appearance
the power was greater than in the Ant or Bee, which
indicated far more. If I have stated that, just before
Laving the engine-room, I noticed both yarns hanging a''
usual, it is incorrect ; only one lever had a yarn to It then,
and this had been the ease since the Sunday preceding. The
larboard lever had no yarn on it. It was the duty of the
parties removing things after the explosion to save all they
eseld. Numbers were thus engaged whom I did not know.
Mr. LLOYD was here recalled, and stated, in answer to
monk= from the coroner: The unexploded boiler began
to amok at a pressure of about 1201bs. to the inch, and was
MUM subjected to 1361b5. From that experiment, and
other general considerations, I should say that the exploded
boiler did not burst at a materially less pressure. lam quite
certain that the bunging in the boiler which I noticed
before the experiment, was the result of pressure,
and not the construction of the boiler. I am morally certain
that the plate has been fiat when made. There moat have
been a trifling convexity, but the intention would be to
make it plane ; certainly the convexity would not be an
inch and three-quarters. -I have very little doubt that the
bulging bad been caused by the strain on the morning Mike
explosion ; the unexploded boiler leaked, and was so nom&
strained as not to be in a condition for working. I ass
no reason at all to alter my opinion as to the amount of pres-
sure at the dine of the explosion. It is quite possible time
may have been • beiffem, es sated by the lost witness, hail
beOus I mew the boiler, sad that that may have been the I
mend el mar monk The inserkillsa boner hedge,
givaiwored splownseglailk,lholer_ Ant lifeellearl
Wog probably llama wenM not Met I
pronto. Isk sleuegthas in this oonedusloa the
appearance et the woke.
At a pressure of 136, the unex-
ploded boiler leaked filter than it could be supplied with a
three-inch pump.
By Mr. klortGAß : The rupture was in the rivet-holes.
Bad the rivets been better it would have held together
Lager. Supposing a plate of iron able to resist a certain
this
, strength is diminished by the rivet-holes; but
rivets themselves tend to strengthen it again, if they
are of a proper length and quality.
By the ForiEllaN : Had the steam been slightly blowing
it, at a Freesias 'I only 38, an espleaion world have been
=his ; but, fistsp what I bow beard, the age did not
s kiddie s=coot of pressure on the boiler.
COMMIS arapviedginwher, painter, and glazier, Agar.
street, Straw*, a model which he had pre-
prepared of the y.valve, with the weight and string at-
tached, the skins of which he exhibited and explained to
the jury, and gave it as his opinion that the strings, if tied
las described, would not prevent the safety-valves from reek-
ing. In answer to a question from Mr. James, he said: I
hem worked for the company, but have given it up some i
thno Igo. I did not make this model by scale. The lever 1
la nem of wood. It represenla the valve as I saw it about
,)six weeks ago.
Starnes POLarTI: I live on the premises, in Ivybridge.
lane, and am superintendent of the Ant and Bee Company.
, I have nothing to state about the machinery beyond that I
have never seen the valves tied down. I have examined
them for that purpose. Spun-yarns were attached I. !
the valves, and are so yet in the Ant and Bee.
I examined the valves in consequence of having
beard that they had been tied down by Clerk. 1
Used him with it the same day (the Sunday when the lOU
plaint had been made by Edwards). I went down into the
engine-room, and said, "Clark, have you been tying the
valves down ?" He said, " No; do you think I'm mad,
Sir ?" I said, "If you had, I should have thought you were I
mad." I then looked at the spun-yarn, and felt if it was
tight ; it was not so, but in its usual state, with the end
fast over a awl in the beam. There was one
yarn on each aide. I had seen them several times'
previously, and afterwards. I kept my eye upon
them, and have several times tried them. They
were never tight, nor in a position to impede the working of
the valve. Edwards was on deck when I taxed Clark with
this. I bays never known anything serious the matter with
the machinery. Either Martin, the captain, or the Pier-
master, told me that Edwards had come *hike pier,
and Made an oration about Clark tying the valves.
I went down u boon as I heard it. Clark might Imo bed
time to untie the strings. I suppose he nine have laud
" the oration." Next morning I told Mr. Sol& what I bag
heard, and he came down about eleven o'aisak. Clark wee
sent for to the office, and Mr. Smith asked his, "What fa
this about the wolves?" but I did not stay to hear the an-
swer. Afterwards, Mr. Smith and Clark went down to the
boat together. I believed the statement of Clark.
By Mr. Jams.-1 had nothing to do with the mimeo.
ment of the machinery. Unless my attention had been
aperially called to it, it was not my duty to look at the
strings. I certainly told Clark about this charge on the
Sunday. If he has raid that he was not told till the
Monday, it must be a mistake or a mis-statement I can-
not say I saw Ball there at the time ; to the best
of my knowledge he was there. I don't know that
Edwards wee discharged for the "oration ;" he wee dig-
vii:rids, severa
mot l eases of neglm
eedaed him otuitrfolug;
eClacke.diroosettrg. discharged
tilt Clerk us
lseaida =es, It Itiedonffld be
ards wnozldecLotfldeauvty. ;tiaite least,
Os Chi% mew he was not his master; I then ordered
him out Altar he left the boat, he said, alluding. to Clark,
" I'll de he the b—r yet." This was on the Monday morn.
Log. I believe Edwards continued to work dating the
Sunday. Clark 'mentioned to me the quarrel at the Fox ; I
think he said something about having been charged with
tying the valves, but I will not swear positively to it. Whe-
ther I heard it from Clark or Skinner I will not be positive.
I saw the Cricket a few minutes before the explosior. .
gag duty was that of general superintendence,--seeing that
time was kept, and a on. To the best of my recollection I
mentioned tks asap against Clark to Mr. Nub, the secre-
tary, bat MI6 we Ihrmst report. I have not noticed that
the spun-pram were frequently changed. On the
goy of the charge against Clark I did not ob-
serve • that he was in liquor. I bed a brother
in go company's service as engineer. It was my duty to
nOset anything I thought necee•ary, either to Mr. Nub,
Ike smargary, or to Mr. Smith. I generally did so to Mr.
aka. Clark Ins kirsnarmengincer at the time of the
t ; and, as sank, It Was his duty to superintend the
seises of all the beats Terternately for me, I was in the
abe et the time a die megaton. I bad otEX:_titress.pler
lad ea the Cricket was tiondeg through Wa
bAlle. ll'lnesgs: Ibd been on board that memilitik .
ad looked s di' valves. I saw the epplease et-
bond Ike Ant saCieatray. 11 awl' wars Imail agle
pees lhosilhot weal he io tadows the Talk, bnt I ka's
•
prang to isdieslowl glen
DT Illt.Yeareas I Asa% hew whetter the stew wen',
owl(Net the kos of the exploits. After thaw*, k'
" "is gives, the boat geaseekkarme also ke,
tad.
=Mate or two; li key be five mnuressimeimm. Nee
steam blow off had the Cricket when she Irk el plea.
I have been severellimes in the engin:: s-room aime
mks &whams& .The el=, it there, we toe
coming down. He Wahl olf the Nth" in it ssoong,
or throw thee oar f Iss
Pit MOW.]

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STATISTICS OF AUSTRIAN COMMERCE.
In cdhadderia4l:ll4. trade of Austria with, Switzer-
land, we must that the latter hoe sense been able
to get all her geuntanasts to ace run* ens miluficommer-
cial Policy end oinsequently it has aeverlad unellesal com-
merce. Soso of the governments have usareed tb the state
the monopoly of salt ; others levy ratherlish &Wet on cer-
tain article); but, except a light yegfstenden Import of 6
kreutzers (24.) per cwt., nothieg m =Oda es engrain, tits
frontier. Surrounded u she is by sounigge GNAW
as
high duties, Switzerland
must always make • pre& as
long as the facilities for the smuggling trade • . The
frontier canteen, of course, enjoy the kora Aim of this
profit ; but the central oatoas, also, aro viek is
horses, and deeply interested in the et in litellib.
stances favourably influencing any treads thee* elm
country. Cotuegueetly, if the Swim weer= VI
with political economy, various
prevent them from establishing a castone-hous spleen
like that of their neighbours, Ole chief objection, betel
that the exceedingly small oonsuraptien of foulest pails*
in Switzerland, consequent upon the simplicity of the kb&
bitants and the richness and variety of their own=
makes it very doubtful whether the expenditure
a regular custom-house system would ever be repaid. The
only revenue worth speaking of would be derivable hem
such commodities as toffee and sugar, which are largely Nee
sinned by the working classes in Switzerland, and lien only
by a high rate of duty being placed on those articles. But
serious objections might be raised against these heavpdaties,
which would Eft oblige the mannfactaur to increase his
rate of and end in obliging him to give up mensfiso-
. The same objections woaliariner=
dm ' GC ' on' w notarial on •
bsao oink& it ,
' a* lomalu
torts fir lime, ordeal of tormeaptionar, 'ill
tte Swim, mesebitimos be lastmord. '.' ' '
Matear, endow dies are) Realm is trl="ed. la
'rodeo, of late own umenhadares bear
I=
than their boas consumption; lad these
entirely dependent on fore*n buyers, would all°4Bl%Vt main-
tainable under a restrictive system.
It must be remembered that in S witzerlaad (In "ham
respects unlike England), there is no class who are not pro.
ducers ; no aristocracy ; no public officers or military mos ;
no landlords having their property farmed by others • amino
national debt through the medium of which one-Valid of the
nation feed on the misery of the remainder. In Switzer-
land every individual is producing; every class is at
work ; and if any complaint can be raised against the
present state of things in that country, it is this: that the
system is carried to too great an extreme ; that avarice over-
whelms every noble tendency, and daily affords us bureau
ing assurance that the much talked of generosity and eat-
dour of the Swiss is a thing gene by. These latter qualities
unfortunately do not improve the finances of a country,
which are found to be tolerably prosperous in Switzerland,
where in proportion to the population there are fewer
paupers than in any other country in the world.
If we now compare Austria with Switzerland, we shall
And that in the former there is as great a superabundance of
custom-house taxation, as in the latter country there is a de-
ficiency of it. In Austria the machinery, it is true, is some-
what rusty, lest it is enormously complicated ; the engineers
would be glad to get rid of some part of it, but dread doing
so, lest they destroy the whole. They fear lest by renovating
their machinery, they should ruin their manufactures and
lose all revenue , they are at a loss what could then be done
with their officers ; for they, like England, have an
aristocracy, an army, a class of non-producers, and
also a national debt, but, unlike England, they have
not the means possessed here, of balancing these national
calamities : they have not that gigantic machinery by which
we produce the work of triple our population, without in-
creasing our wants, nor the geographical position which
literally forces upon us the advantages of shipping and colo-
nial trade ; they have not the capital wherewith to bring
forth the mineral wealth of their soil, upon a scale ap-
proaching to a competition with us • and there the poop!.
are not divided into those two extremes of condition as in
England—the flit that exercise of political freedom which
stimulate@ the Englishman to the height of enterprise, ani
the second that extreme misery of one portion of our popu-
lation which keeps them in dependence and labour, despite
„their pretension@ to self-government.
Now, if it be remembered that Austria labours under
these many difficulties, from all of which Switzerland is
free, and if it be also remembered that immediately upon the
Swiss frontiers Austria has little of that turicaltaral pro-
duce which would be most available in a tude with Settees,
land, we should expect te find the import' into Austria
exceed the exports; but this is counteracted by the want of
a system of customs duties in Switzerland, which makes that
country the channel of much of the Aesteian export trade.
We here allude more particularly to silk, the exports is
which daring late years averaged ' 600,6001. annually ; of
this souse peeped theaugh Seritseeirad to Germany, and
Trans., aad some vim marabosomol two AM oaf at
Zurich and Basle. Amour other artirdes we moy meu*s
grain, ging 60,0001. annually; wool, 40,0001. ; wines,
30,0001. ; and other items, as hemp, timber, cattle, sumac,
hides, salt, &e.
The exports from Austria of goods in transit from the
foreign Italian states and Germany, estimated at 1,000,0001.
1 annually, consist mostly of colonial produce, oils, grain
colours, silk, cotton, and manufactured goods. The import;
from Switzerland, according to the official estimates, amount-
ing to about 2,000,0001., consist of lumber, charcoal, hides,
cheese, cattle, horses, yarns, cottons indigo, &c. TM mom
important import trade 211 that Of the smugglers; coffee,
wines, watches, silkgoods, mouseeline-de-laine, cotton goods,
jewellery, &c., are brought over in large cr -1 ies. The
transit of goods going to the Austrian seaports and to Italy
and Germany, may be estimated at 1,400,0001., consisting
chiefly of manufactured goods of Swiss, English, and French
produce more particularly, 830,000!. ; cotton goods, 29,5001. , 1
hardware. linen, and hemp goods, 65,4001. ; machinery,
33,0001. ; and 'ilk goods, 25,8001.
From foreign goods passing. Austria, Switzerland receiv^s
1,00:40001. annuity, o which .500,0001. is in raw silk from
the foreign Italian states, colonial produce from the sea-ports
on the Adriatic, and grain, colours, &c., from the German
uni6n. The amount of trade between Austria and Switeer-
land varies according to the silk crop. In 1844 the sum total
was 4,192,2001., while in 1943 it was no less than 4,640,900'.
It is well known that between Bologna and Lucca the
unfortunate traveller is interrupted by seven custoulueme
inspections, and the poor silk manufacturer in Milan has
to make eight declarations in sending his goods from that
place to Florence.
Austria exports but very little to the states, and they im-
port nothing of mention except some French and Engliah
goods.
Austria's chief exports consist in silk, 910,0001. ; cheese,
110,0001. ; iron roods, 20,000/. ; '
cotton goods 10,0001 ;
worsted goods, 40,000 i ; flax. 43,0001. • silk goods, 30,0001. ;
linen, 12,0001.; books, maps, &c., 10,0001. The imports
from the Italian states consist in hemp, 150,0001 ; grapes
and other fruits, 63,0001. ; oil, 80,0001. ; wino, 100,0001. ;
cattle, 88,0001.; fish, 60,0001.; yarns, 32,0001.; cotton,
119,0061. ; sugar, 112,000!. ; rice, 109,0001. The three hut
articles being, of course, foreign produce. Between the
Italian states and her neighbours, Austria is the medium of a
transitemounting to 3,200,0001. Of this entire traffic,amount-
lug to about 7,600,0001., not more than about two millions is
carried on by see, and the share enjoyed by the different
states is ea follows :
Export to Import from Total by sea.
Papal BMWs
Both Stalks
Toscana
126,000135000
80(tilllii
The thief intercourse with the Papal states is, on the
part of leoatelumnro, 630 ships, amounting to 21,731 tone,
aggregate burden ; at Stevan& there arrived 287 Austrian
Tweets, with 25,809 tons ; at Ravenna, 164, or 4,480 tone . I
Sitsigaglia, 83, and 4,538 tons; at Comachio, 68, of I,6ii
tons. The arrivals of Austrian ship in the ports of the ishuid
of Sicily amount to 214, of 37,968 toss aggregate burden ;
at Livarno, •18 vessels, with 3,054 tons. Of Tway. and
Sardinia we have no sufficiently correct accounts to form an
estimate.
Austria's trade with Turkey amounted, in the year 111114,
to 2,300,0001. by land, and 484,8001. by *ea • the transit
amounted to 1,670,2211. The exports] consisted chitty of
flour, iron, manufactured goods of glass, copper, iron, timber,
wool, cotton, linen, silk, &c. The imports from Turkey in
silver, hides, skins, wool, tallow, cattle, leather, etc.
Space forbids us entering into • consideration of the wino?
commercial relations of Austria, but the matter is of too
general an interest in Great Britain for us not to notice the
Austrian trade with Brazil and the United States.
As regards Austria's intercourse with Brun, her Imports
thence amounted in 1944 to 519,0001., eoug of coffee,
sugar, hides, skins, and horns ,• while her armors, to Brsa
amounted only to 61,9001., of whisk leer was the chief
article.
We need not be surprised at the matinees of the Austrian
exports to Brazil, when we rosassabor that she his England
and the United States of Anemias taw auspetitors, end that
the produce of Northern Arabi is dirmeneen en dm rood
will of the Hamburg merehants, who of awls bast lst
little desire to favour the sale of Aunties prodem fs 're-
ference to their own. The Austrian trade might be mush
more flourishing, were it not that government are Do little
favourable to the establediment of factoies abroad. Of the
nations whose transatlantic commerce is of any liViLtedink.
Austria is the only one that has no factories in
regards the United States, the Austrian exports saitbriporte
are pretty nearly balanced, allowing for the *OW the
American statistacal year is always settled oaths anti inn%
while our estimates from Austria come up to Desineker bet.
Nearly the whole of the American trade is carried as finengh
Trieste, only. 6 out of 31 American vessels having pat is at
the port of Venice.
From the United States to Triode lbw
_moo
1,267,285 dams in domestic prodLlllll,7B6 in
produce ; making .• total of I,4'a del libeyees•
misted a 1,208,038 dollars in cotton, in elms" 3,/e4
is rice, 600 in bgeadetnffs, 2,544 us produce of the ear, and
the remainder In manufactured goals. In the small samuot
leaving Trieste we find some 1241111 for thii eaperaof which
It Is difficult to account As for Inseams : 2,000 sacks of
wheat, 1,000 cwt. of wool, 16,800 ewt of rags, 200 cwt, of
fallow, 1,200 cwt. of hemp, 8,000 cwt. linseed. The imports
Into Triode from the United States are larger than those of
all the ether Italian, Sardinian, and Levant ports together.

SUPPRESSION OF TSB MANE TRADE.
zft.afteeasankatka, of whisk SIM liftable Is a par-
Ilk, baboon made by the eouffillisif tlliffine Deb& and
Antieduary Society to the /MA lied of the
•eine kale,/ asikiemikkftekk-afforto iiml
AMUR fteedikka Set ftea eafteff, es Ih• "Iti
E
ristme,llo °Klein emery that*. ikkoirade bee kr
it is the gefel,fte PeOded by the eleft.biddee width fa
the distill laum•ve to all the Mimi of a Itado in slaves, to
the makes end i=grathme ehdeli .akki thi;iabiV
to theasedered of thaakidla Weer
It, ay • Oa Witty and dmiffeeka 'at a aeafikaat
11bilt IlaTnkadin= the idavellsoliaille Cleanatillikbe top
, In esohniapq with this view el tan embeimis the
Eden tithe MUM& and Foreign AwkolawaSy lap le
lowa es a teadeneadal pria4l. N.' Thee si se
fifter r ........,,.... ._ .
, ,_ .. that Ow ototlaolltit WI olsworylkiit
e r.
staffed meet eikaaell%e
tier
.ageljarheetnikertzehista are et :=2. ffitill
of its eusatire eowatftwo law lies
ow* that now repeat thole araiistrat, se OW
sfaAatia awatrialslWl Wont posnusaat, era tha attempt,
eg the ekeeezede by as ermeihros land only vain
k hat adeeV,ta its mak.
tads tesemailte• mould sot be under.
la degree, en the presestago=l
y es many elbows sire
4;:seimot
, they believe bat, gasrrverkeist
been aftmaled, in all the 111811101.01 they haws &depot
toe the wigwam of the slave trade, by the moat bonensable
intentisse, and by a Amen delfts to terminate en evil whisk
hes so keg dessiated Attie% end brought disgrace on the
.=.O,
elvOissi wooled. They wank wart a melancholy truth,
whist the doesunts laid before parliament foe many um
With
prove
ineutestably . .
With respect to the extent of the slam trade, it Wean
that from the year 1816 to 1843, both inclusive, the number
of African negroes Laded, for the purpora of slavery, on
the islands and on the continent of Amends, so far as the
same could be made up from the tibial reports, was
6.57,187 ; of these, 18,042 were captured, and brought
to, or driven on shore on the islands or scuts of America,
and there liberated. Bat it is clear, from the documents on
which this statement is founded, that a much larger
number of slaves was landed than is bare given. The
1 number of vessels repotted to have landed their slaves
dubs the puled stated, was 2,313, of which the number of
slave en board five hundred and forty-five could not be
aeosekked. Thus slavers probably carried about 208,000
slaver, Thick added to 667,000, win give a total of 863,000
victims teethe twenty-seven years. Yet this estimate, fear-
ful as it is in the aggregate, does not approach the actual
number of wretched Africans who were torn from their
homes, and securely landed in the transatlantic slave-
markets. It is highly probable, that treble the number
would scarcely approach the truth. At the present time,
*ft is believed on good authority that the number of Africans
annually imported into the Spanish colonies and Bruil,
amounts to from 80,000 to 100,000.
The great secrecy with which the slave-trade is now car-
ried on, and the facilities which the extensive cute of Cuba
sod Snail offer for the landing of slaves, together with the
asalwmot awl weality of the seaborities, render it Mapes-
iffele to &Ws a wood Wiwi, el the rapes imparted,
elf the plow at which they are Lm sat. Thu is admitted by
'lb Majesty's consular grab sad commissioners residing in
these countries. But all agree that the number is immense.
The latest official report, billude en increased activity in
the slave-trade. The columbiums's at Sierra Leone, in their
report for 1844, say that notwithstanding the augmentation
el the embers, the addition of steam-vessels, and the in-
bound ligilance of the squadron, " We believe that the
dawttaht Is increasing, and that it is conducted perhaps
lEsystematically than it ever has been hitherto ; and
add, " Nearly all the former noted slave-haunts appear
still frequented, and in spite of the stringent measures
adopted by the British commodore with the powerful force
under his command, there can be no question but
that there has been a very large number of slaves
traesported both to Cuba and Brasil." Her Ma-
lesty's Inatairmy judge at the Havana, in his
=it that lase year, gives it es his opinion that 10,000
ka4 been brought into slavery during that period,
;al sada " that the fun expressed in the report of the Ist
Maury, 1844, respecting an active continuum of the
We, have been erearteecL" This potlessa farther
1 data, that If tbo swop of tha hapwtatlaws of daws doss
Itirjrd • the wawa that tie amebae wowally_istoo-
peviwaily to the sandalwood= of flowarel Waldo,
" the woo atilt be owc=bo
str mars diam=ll3z
dam, rather Ora tor Ow if the
ter: peakilii aftwara of the
imat_ Tr awl he
we WI so that " If
to owl from Sawa& air oitor patt of
Cuts, hew w they would feedsii=tidemiralsellsev
tavotar
of the apeadrat." Her Mapoty's
at Rio do J la their report, rebut that 0 the Im-
portation of African slaves during the year 1844 lia not
diminished ;" that the staviedealers have " nuesedte ob-
tain the cover of Waned Asp, under which they plain In
Africa, without risk, the indispensable DM= of paresing
their nefarious trade ;"—that enjoying " the certain prase-
tion of their own government on the shores and in the terri-
torial waters of the empire, they cannot but augment their
infamous transactions, stimulated by the profits they leave,
end regardless of the horrors they occasion." These profits
wet be immense ; for we are told, on the same authority,
" that the capture of four vessels would not subject them to
Mei, provided the fifth was successful in landing the slaves
in Brasil." Aritoag the instances given of the successful
prosecution of this detestable traffic, is that of Manoel Pinto
da Formica, who, the commissioners state, " has publicly
declared that his profits in the African trade alone, cluriu
the year 1844, were 1,300,000,000 rem, or about 150:0001.1 '
With respect to the incompetency of an armed fines
suppress the slave-trade, the foregoing facts might be deemed
sufficient, but the paper" laid before parliament still further
demonstrate this point. It appears from official returns,
that from the year 1829 to 1844, Dboott4h inclusive, the number
of slaves capturedptured and adjudicated in the Mixed Commission
Courts at Sierra Leone, the Havana, Rio de Janeiro, and
other places, was four hundred and seven, and the number
of slaves liberated, 57,839. About one hundred and fifty of
the slavers were captured under the equipment article. In
two cases the prosecution was abandoned by the captors,
end in twenty cum no adjudication took place; en that the
actual number of slavers condemned amounted to three
hundred and eighty-five. But these capture* were but few
compared to the great number of cases which escaped the
vigilance and activity of the British cruisers. The fact is,
the skilful arrangements, the daring energy, and the per-
sonal impunity enjoyed by all parties engaged in the slave-
trade, are found to be more than a match for the present, or
indeed, tbr any squadron of cruisers that can be employed on
the coast of Africa in that service.
It is evident to the committee, that whilst vessels of all de-
scriptions and sizes are employed in the slaw-trade, few,
comparatively, of the larger use are captured; and from
facts which en analysis of the returns has brought to light,
it would appear that many of the slavers taken are used as
decoys; and that the principal business of the British
cruisers now is to recapture old 'lavers. This feet is strikingly
exhibited in the return made by Commodore Jones, of the
slave-vessels detained by the untadron under his command
from April 1, 1844, to Aug. 2h, 1846. The capbres wars
seventy-five. Of these, only twenty were detained for the first
ti me ; the others haA poised the courts frequently, viz. ; fourteen
had been condeutned twice; twelve thrice; nine four times;
five five times; 'bur dr times; three seven times; one eight
times; one nine times • one ten times; and one &mem times.
Of these seventy-five slavers, fifteen only were captured with
slaves on board; the rest were detained under the equipment
article. Thus feats prove two things: first that the lobs
of the slave traffickers are not very heavy, especially, as
through their aunts at Sierra Leone and elsewhere, they
have the power of reunshasing the detained vessels and
their dons at extremely low rates, and of sending them
forth spin and again on their detestable voyages; and
wesediy, that Wm couny is put to heavy charges, in the
shape of Use-money, cm rustle which axe frequently cap-
tured ender thennutanue whisk ssamely admit of a doubt
of their having been aged as decoys.
(To be continued )

Tan COAL TRADE.—PRICES.—A meeting of
owners and representatives of collieries vending coals at the
ports of Tyne, Hartley, Btyth, Wear, &sham, Hartlepool,
and Stockton, win held at the Amembly.rooms on Thurs-
day. The butanes' was oondueted with closed doors; bat
we learn from a circular which has fallen into our bomb,
that the meeting conndered " That the very inedemaste
remuneration genereßy derived from capital invested in the
collieries of this distract, during the last two end a half
years, has traded to discourage the power of prodoedu
and this opinion, coupled with the fact " that the demand
for their staple commodity is increasing," led to the con-
elusion "that an advance of 2a. per chaldron should
be made." It um resolved that the prices of Loden and
coast cools be amimilated, and the prim be—Best coals,
2131. 6d. per chaldron ; second elms, 24e. 6d. ditto; other
Prieto to be is proportion. The mum is restristed to
61 cwt. per chaldron. A committee was appointed, con-
eistin_g_of Mr. Plummer, Mr. Morton Mr. George Johnson,
Mr. W. Haggett, Mr. H. (Robert, Mr. Jonathan Garbutt,
Mr. Turnbull, Mr. T. A. Calm, and Mr. C. Davison. The
Snit four of these gentlemen represent the Tyne, Hartley,
Blyth, Wear, and Benham; the others represent the Tees
and Hartlepool.—Nemeostle Advertiser.

COMMERCIAL ef MARKETS.
MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Ha{/-pad One.—The opening quotations for stock
were much the same as at tho dose of the market
yesterday, Consols being drat marked 84 to I for the
&donut. }Nun this they needed to 88} (sellers), but
a leading broker having made his appearance m a
buyer, the market at once rallied to 881 to but
ej taiskly declined again to 88k (sellers). Money is

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4°-$' •
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• 916,41 stn, Iv, sat .• •
Ant sad C".".44"'"----) I.lr • decidedly Mier, both in and out of
, but ,
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all
• I • • the speculation going on would
. been
ry Wall 11 dry by this
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rechilanativ,eto
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cothammbuYiincattellhuadigensuto_daticiesPafro:
hour e- Afii)
nth of an
not hurt -••• Liverpool letters report more favour&
npsa ths of affairs in that place. There was
Iten ray • , display of confidence, notwithstan
bad the failure which was announced from
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