The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-26 00:00:00

TSB I.II.IIIIOBATION BLAVE.TILIDE.

On Tuesday last a deputation waited upon
the Bari of Clarendon, at the Foreign Office, foe the
porpoise of ling • memorial front the committee of the
!Minh end Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, against the immi-
'ratios slave burin, now being tented on by the French,
from the west come of Africa. It was composed of the fol-
kiwtsg :—The Hon. A. Einnaird, M.P., Scotland;
Messrs. R. Hanbroy, M.P., Charles Buxton M.P., Charles
Gilpin, M.P., Captain Wilmot, R.N., Captain Coo* H.N. ;
the Item. J. Sherman (Bler.kheatb), J. . Hinton, William
Owen, H. Richard, P. Latrobe (London), Dr. Cecilia (Wool-
wich); MINIM. T.'F. Buxton, T. H. Gladstone, W. Janson,
T. Nuns, Josiah Folder, J. Cooper, R.N. Fowler,W. Miles,
0. Lnehley, R. Alwp. 0. L Neighbour (London), Joseph
&urge, It. C. Barrow (Birmingham), W. T. Bide (Beth),
J. Cadbury (lianbur R. Cherleton (Bristol), John Pace
rergflot. Edmunds), John Candler (Chelmsford), Thomas
!!Thi. (Coolbrook Dale), I. Burn Murdoch, jun. (Edin-
tough), Samuel Bosley (Gloucester), B. Wißn (Woburn),
James Cropper (Kendal), E. A. Crouch (Lialreard), John
Barrow (Lancaster). W. Dendy (Jamaica), We.. Robson
(Stockton), Dr. N. Shaw, and L. A. Chameromew.
The memorial called the Earl of Clarendon'. attention
to the address presented b a deputation from the society
' to Viscount Palmerston in July last on the acclaim of floe
made by the West India body to obtain the sanction
etas government@ to a general wbeme of immigration from
the coast of Africa, and dwelt upon the evils which—ea had
been predicted—had resulted from the adoption of the scheme
by the French government, through the agency of the
Meade. Regis and Co.. of Marseille'. It sated, on the au-
thority of Mr. Consul Campbell, at Loos, that tho Perin-
gume and rho Spaniards had greatly stimulated the trade in
slaver, for they had outbidden the French in their demands
fee so-called immigrants, and shipped large numbers of
maws ; and, aa one consequence of this demand for men In-
stead of commodities, the native chief. were abandoning
Ornate commerce to tare their attention again to slam-deal-
lug. Quotation. were added front the letters of the Rev. H.
Townsend, ("March Missionary at Abheokute, and from the
Sierra Leone Advertiser, giviog special instance' of the in-
jurious operation of the new scheme, and denouncing it as
apes "lave-trading. The memorial concluded by expressing
a hope that the government would adopt the promptest
means of putting an end to a new traffic in human bemire,
which, If not checked at once, we. likely soon to assume
unlimitable proportion., with results as disastrous as any
that have attended the prosecution of the deice-trade itself.
The Earl of CLARINIION expremied the enuiliostioa It
afforded him to receive so large and influential a deputation,
which he could sae, from the list of names hani in, too-
towed delegates from all part. of the country, and might
therefore be regarded as an evidence of the deep and general
interest that was felt in the question which the memorial
brought under his notice. Such a deputation wee very en-
enameled as tboo__._
_goversunent via* be mid se**
*mg mei te
,2ref Anetiem.7l IND
nioli bonitos' to designate as thilii4r6bmilLll, u=4.ar arsltigatsd
sad undisguised. The whole quedion, however, had been
submitted to the romideration of tho French government,
which he believed had not foreseen that Om mull of attempts
to obtain immigrant* from Africa would be the revival of the
stave trade; and be felt quite sure nothing was further from
the wishes or the though. of the Emperor of the French
them to re-open this emended traffic in opposition to the
policy of the leading eivilieed power", and to -the well-known
national sentiment of this country. The evils could scarcely
be exaggerated that must arise from the checking of the le-
gitimate commerce, which in many parte of the African
resat had totally suporeederl the 'redo in slave*, and in others
wee rapidly estingolahmg it. This wee a point which bore
intimately on the commercial interests of this country, and
to the importance of which the" government we' fully alive.
The deputation would be encouraged to hear that the
attempt@ of the French agent to obtain immigrants had been
so uesureemful, be (Lord Clarendon) thought he might
venture to my that, even on this account, the "peculation
would be abandoned, at least for the present, and no died
should be spared by the. government to prevent the renewal
of a traffic between which and the slave trade there was no
appreciable difference. Ile adored the deputation of Ma
cordial sympathy with tho objects of the Anti-Shivery
Society, and his concurrence in the sentimentaset forth in the
memorial.

THE MISSING Same of THE Es u.—TheAustralian
mail steamer, Emeu, struck on a coral reek, projecting 16
mini from the shore, at_ • idea called Dabeadabb, on the
western coast of the Red Sea. The danger of the Emeu
was SO great that by the advice of every one on board,
Captain Gough, the Admiralty agent on board, had all the
mall hone containing letters proud in an Arab boat, and
took them to Jeddah, on the opposite mast. While there
he wrote • letter to be given to the captain of any of the
Indian mail packet. Fairing down the Red Sna, repreting him
to call at Jeddah and take him and the mails to Suez. This
letter he sent to the commander of the Emeu. The Emea,
to the surprise of every one on board, wen got under weigh,
and proceeded on to Suez. She was overtaken by the India
mail rammer, Ilindostan, and the roulmuder of the latter
remind Captain Gougb's letter. The 11 indostan immedi-
ately turned round, and steered for Jeddah. When she
arrived off there it was found that Captain Gough,
tired of waiting for assistanoe, bad started la • native
beat kw Suez. This was on the Ist instant.
The commander of the Hindostan searched for Captain
Gough eking the Red Sea for upwards of 70 miles, but could
not end him. Thin, however. is easily uncounted for. The
eastern shore of the Red Sea im lined with coral rock. The
native boat with the mails would skirt along the shore
Inside the reefs, not only became it was eater fora small boat
than mid channel, bat because the Arab C 7111! Of each boars land
every night to sleep ; but the Hindostan was obliged to keep
more in mid channel to avoid the coral reefs. It is im-
possible to say when the native boat with the mails would
reach Sues. It might be six weeks from the time it started
from Jeddah. The only fear is that the wild Arabs on the
coast would bo tempted to loot the mail bine., thinking that
they oratened something more valuable than letters.
Jeddah Is between 600 and 700 miles from Suez. The
=End two passengers of the Erma isecompanied Captain
DEATHS BY B a NlNG.—Yeaterday Mr. Payne,
the 077011.1101 the City of London, held an inquest at Chars
Hospital on the body of Sarah Jones, aged 60, the wife of
Mr. Edward Rowland Jones, a commission traveller, of
Union-street, Hackney. On the 7th of November the de-
cemed weir to the boom of a Mrs. Holt, who was her laun-
dress, and whilst there commenced drinking with a woman
named Spencer. Spencer went away before II o'clock, but
about 10 minutes to 12 a pereco named Thompson, who was
paring at the time, saw the deceased stagger out of the
boost in flames. She threw water over her and the
it,. wee extinguished, and she was afterwatde con-
veyed home, but it wae deemed neasseary to re-
move her to the hospital. Mrs. Holt had gone to sleep,
and the could nut amount for the deceased catching fire, me
there was no tire in the grate at the time. She died in the
hospital on Saturday night. Mr. Payne yesterday held an
inquest at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of
(11,2
Ann Wheeler, aged four years, who also came to her
by burning. The child won left playing on the stain by her
mother whilst she went below to shake a carpet; bat In
about two minutes she heard the child scream, sad on tan-
ning to bee she found her in flames. She wonremoved to
the lowitsh where the died on Saturday nigh. The jury in
seek ore returned a verdict of "Accidental death."

Pius IN THE CALEDONIAN AND WHITECHATEL
ROAM—Yeaterday evening, between six and seven o'clock,
a Are broke out in the premises of Messrs. Thompson and
Cm:swell, builders, Richmond-meet, Thou:Ail Nears,
Csisdonlan.road. The premiere contained carpenter"' and
*dame workshop', painting end glaring rooms, an.l a gnat
of building muertels. The ought of the Sr. is not
bttt from the highly oombriatible ratan of the pro-
pistyspread with great rapidity through the whole of the
The angles were quickly in attendance, but the
7'not got wider till late last night, when it wee fogad
that property of many hundred de vain* had been du
strayed.- The firm wee Insured, though not to the fell
silent, la the Monis end Load= ofos. A at. also
occurred ye&tr&y in the premises of Mr. Magma, cloths.',
44, Whitechspel-road. The stock-in-tole was slag&
destroyed, end the building much damaged. Mr. Magma
weer immured in the Sun Firs-tem