The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-17 00:00:00

Shansolation was agreed to nem. alis.
The CZAIRMAN here intimated the with of Dr. Living-
Mee briefly to address the meeting up= the subject of the
=tined= of the Aide= slave Made.
Dr. Mentos:on thee promoted to say that the re-
marks be desired to make had been suggest= to his
=ad by what had falba from a prompting speaker.
For • series of years the British governmeat had
spout large sues of mossy with the view to the re-
putes, or suppression, if possible, of the slam trade.
As idea had sprang up, or rather he suspected a
" fib " had be= propagated by the slave dealen,
though amongst grown up people it was • somewhat CM-
colt thing to trees • fits to its sour..—(laughter)—that oar
webers ea the African mast made the middle passage" a
thousent times worse for the slave, thin it otherwise would
be. " Now this," =claimed Dr. Livingston, "is all bosh."
—(Chests a= laughter.) I myself believed it owe, and the
remains; was very spa=mw. 117 brother, when attending
a elves = political eineemy la ono of the sellers is
the United flutes of Americo, board • professor des
elate that the British government would promote the slaves
more by fitting up Convenient ships =eh as the Natant= I,
and Orisatal Company wad out to India, and that it
was • totally mistaken ides to 'oppose that the cruisers
could supper the slave trade. Well, I =at to Angola
with that very idea in nay bead ; but when I got there
I foiled the tans bays tiompletely repressed, sad the
moons by which it was repressed were the making the so-
panatela of slaves mesh more dangerous to capitalists then
even guabliag for gold. (lieu, beer.) 1 bate less boys
of about 14 years of ago sold within • hundred miles of the
coast for 12e. • head, whereas if there bad beam say demand
for slaves abroad, and it had been easy to take them out of
the coiserry over sea, they would hays got perhaps SOL •
head for those. Now If the slave trade had be= going
se, these *lam would have been taken out of the coun-
try ; but no, such was the activity of oar cruisers on the
comet, that it was dangerous to attempt it. The slaves
are, therefore, transmitted late the interior end .:cheesed
for holy. I myself once travelled about a month is the
=spay of three half-bred Ponageose triers, who bed
eight women with shoo, whom they were Ming into the
=entry to sell for ivory. Bat even whoa ezehanged foe
ivoey, the price is sot at all equal to what might be got
by =porethey = them, if th wore only able to do that.
(Dear, beas.). At Angola, sad throughout tea whole of
Eastern Afnes, whoa you ask about this or that per-
son's senumetthose, you ben Is onsustantly said, " Oh,
he was rich at the time of the slave trade." (Rear,
hear) The fact is, that there are only three men le all
Aar= who have any of the tidies which they got by ths
'slave trade ; for riches so obtained seem to bring no blessing
with them. (Loud cheers) nor do not stop la the family.
(Renew= sheers and lau=ie. la former times the
es Juits, with their %nal t, planted flee Mocha
soft= at Ands, and this solo pr, mated, it is sup-
posed by birds, all over the esseatey. &vend plantations of
it were discovered whoa I was there. I saw it as far as
ZOO miles from the cent. Now, the merchant. of Angola,
toting that they eatinot carry on the slate trade as they did
formerly, hays tern= their attitudes :0 this coffee, and
hence plantations ate noddy formed and rapidly inmates.
(Cheers.) Indeed, It would almost nem as if Ood had
provided these means of giving she. rah= if they
would het lean the ways of sia for legitimate !in-
dustry. It is thought by some that the wan asseag
the Africa tribes are more gruel now than they
were when the priseeers were sold as slang. This I was
assured by a slave dealer myself; but I believe that
this story is like the other about the saltily of oar cruise=
having inereased the borrows of the Middle Parer. (Hear,
laser.) Wall, this slave dealer told me that the Mayan,
who live to then north of the Mush= river, when they hay.
war Kill ell their prisoners ; and " Is it not better," he
salted, "to .sport them as slaves I Per if we were allowed
to export them we could take them away sad Cried's=
them." (Laughter.) Bat I want to know who begs& those
wan I have • good deal of arquaintence with the native
tribes in the faterior of Atli= aid I find that there is
• war amours them =lns it is about cattle. Now
few people ars killed I. coastwise', of wan about mole.
Bat when there was a elm trade on the coast, sod a
market for the Ws of the prisoners, the people
fought Sanely, the coo tribe to capture as natty pi-
tman as possible, the other to defend themselves sad
ebildree saltiest being taken captive, bonus they know
I the result would be to make them slaver. These ways were
fewest= and mania= by the slave trade, and the sieve
tiodors—not the slave trade stspprwsithiens—mast therefore

take the credit of them to armee less. (Hear, bear.)
0a the motioa of the Rev. Dr. /honor, meooded by the
Rev. J. BDRIIITT, the thanks of the ametiag were voted by
acelsaiatios to the Earl of Shaftesbury for his kind sad
valuable services I. presiding on the om salon.
The Earl of Saarntenuar briefly acknowledged the nu-
plimeat, and said he bed scooted the proposition to Mks
the chair with very much diffidence, but be bad yielded
Melodramas to those who had assured him that by so doing,
thoork be coofessed be mold act see how, he would be able
to oast ism* good. (Cheers.) Before we retire (condos stl
diesel* earl) allow me to ask your permission to express
frog the seeming man mark of enlace and affection to •
led, atm sitting is the hall. The wife of oar distineuinhed
(dead, Dr. Livingston, is preseat. (Loud cheers ) That lady
tree bon with • distimptished name, whisk she ezobangsd
fee soother ohtingaished name. (Cheers.) She was bora •
Moffett—(near, hear)--and she excuse a Livingston
(Cheers.) That lady cheered the early part of oar friead's
nose, by her spirit, her eobasel, end her society. Alter-
ward., when she reached this eouatry, she paused sassy
years with her children is solitude bed anxiety, suffer's,/
the amuse fears for the welfare of her Misbaud, and yet
'odorless all with patience, (resignation, and even joy, be-
cause eke had nrreadered bar best 'Whirl and sacrificed
her owe private et loyalists to the advanonneat of civilise-
Hoe, sad to tbe great in te of Christianity. (Loud cheers.)
I hope, therefore, you will allow me to express to that eo
eelleat lady the deep respect and aunties that we *Dieresis
for her sad for her obildren, and that we hope the great some
she bears will continue to receive to the lived reiterations
the gratitude and respect whieb her hothead has sassed for
It. (Loud sad protracted cheerios.)
Tile meeting thea separated.