The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(raox oua owx COINAMPONDINT.)
PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

The first meeting of the International Anti-
Slavery Conference was held in the Salle Hers,
at noon this day. It was organised by the British
and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, the Comit4
Francais d'Emancipation, and the Sociedad Abo-
liciouista Espanola ; but a great many delegates
from other societies attended. The large hall,
without being inconveniently crowded, was
very well filled considering the intense heat
of the weather and the advanced period
of the season. The Duke de Broglie, one
of the honorary presidents of the French
society, had been asked to take the chair, but on
account of his great age and infirmities he could not
promise to attend on both days. In his absence
the chair was admirably filled by the accom-
plished M. Labonlaye. He was supported on
his right by M. Olozaga, delegate from Spain,
and on his left by M. Cochin, of the In-
stitute, secretary to the French society. At
the table on the platform were the Hon. J. D.
Palfrey, Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison, and Rev.
Professor Thome, United States ; M. Vogeli,
Brazil ; Mr. Joseph Cooper and M. Chamerovzow,
England ; M. de Vizcarrondo, Spain ; General
de Rovas, Venezuela ; Mr. Wm. Rainy, the
barrister, Western Africa ; General Dubois, Haiti ;
Prince Albert de Broglie, France, &c.
Letters expressing regret at inability to attend
the meeting were read from M. Guizot, M. Monts-
lembert, the catholic Bishop of Orleans, Mr. Charles
Buxton, M.P., Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., Mr.
Bright, M.P., Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., Mr. Charles
Savile Bounden, late secretary to the Jamaica
Commission, at As many u 150 delegates from
various parts of the world were present.
The first resolution was moved by M. Co-
chin, an extremely eloquent speaker, who gave
a touching account of the existing state of slavery
and the trade, which still prevail to an extent not
generally believed. M. Horace Waller, a com-
panion of Dr. Livingstone, gave statistical informa-
tion touching the extent of the slave trade
on the West Coast of Africa. Lieutenant
Mage, of the French navy, gave his testimony
concerning the trade on the east coast of that con-
tinent. The Rev. Geo. Knox, delegate from
the Church Missionary Society, addressed the
meeting in French. The chairman then said that
M. Olozaga, one of the most eloquent men in
Spain, had proposed to address the meeting, but
that in consequence of the events now passing in
that country he preferred to renans silent lest his
speech should be construed as a political act. [lt
was rumoured in the hall that Saragossa was in
the hands of the insurgents. J M. Borate, a
Spanish delegate, then mounted the platform, and
in very fluent French described the progress that
anti-slavery opinions had made in Spain.
M. Labonlaye thought himself authorised to tell
the meeting that if M. Olozaga had spoken, he would
have testified that the slaveowners in the Spanish
colonies were now desirous for complete emanci-
pation.
This important evidence was translated in
English to the meeting by M. Chamerovzow.
A coloured bishop (Bishop Payne, of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, of Baltimore) then spoke in
very good English. He spoke principally of the
progress of schools and churches among the negro
population since the suppression of the Southern
rebellion.

M. Laboulaye then seeing the lateness of the hour
said the meeting had been treated according to a
French proverb eomme dca victgres—laughter)--and
he moved an adjournment till to-morrow, when
practical remedies will be suggested for the evils
set forth to-day.
The Bourse was somewhat uneasy at the Spanish
news. Rente fell lbc. for cash, and 7ic. for
account.

EMIGRATION TO MArRITIIIII. —lt appears from
the official returns that the number of emigrants who
arrived in Mauritius during the year 1866 was 5,596—viz.,
3,702 males and 1,894 females, of whom 584 had been in
the colony before. This is a decrease as compared with
the emigration of 1865 of no less than 14,687. The
total number of emigrants in Mauritius on the 31et of
December, 1866, was 246,049—viz., 165,550 males and
80,499 females. The departures during the year amounted
to 3,815, of whom 2,925 were males and 890 females ; the
deaths numbered 8,244—viz., 6,007 males and 2.237
females; and the births 6,812-3,470 males and 3,342
females. The number working nnder indenture at the end
of 1865, the latest date for which the Emigration Commis-
sioners have information, was 86,578, of whom 64,133
were " old immigrants," who had re-engaged themselves
after the expiration of their first engagements. The
average wages were 14s. 4a. per month.
The measures taken for the prevention of the
spread of the cattle plague in Ireland appear to have cost
upwards of 60,0001. The following are some of the charges
on the civil contingencies fund :—Veterinary department
soil other expenses of the Privy Connoil-of6oe, 14,7931.
15a. 6d. ; payment to inspectors of cattle, 34,7571. 6a. 3d. ;
insertions in newspaper s of orders in council. 15,6751.
An Irishman is in custody at Shields for biting
eff a sun's aces