The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-22 00:00:00

Abolition of Slavery in Brazil.

Yesterday afternoon a deputation waited upon the
Chevalier de Andrada, at the Brazilian Legation,
Cavendish.square, to present an address from the
committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society, relating to the extinction of the slave trade
and slavery in Brt,zil. The deputation consisted of
the following gentlemen :----Josiah Forster, Esq.,
John Cropper, Esq., of Liverpool ; J. Shewell, Esq.,
of Colchester; J. Cooper, Esq., R. Alsop, Esq., the
Rev. Dr. Massie, W. Evans, Esq. (President of the
London Emancipation Society), Rev. J. Long, late
of Calcutta, Professor Newman, Henry James Slack,
E•q., Frederi2k Tomkins, Esq., M.A., LL.D., Mr.
FrAerick Tuckett, Rev. W. Harris, of Broadstairs ;
Mr. William Farmer, and Mr. L. A. Chamerovzow.
The deputation having been introduced by Mr.
Chamerovzow, that gentleman, after a few prelimi-
nary remarks, read an address to the Emperor.

The Chevalier DE ANDRADA, in reply, stated that
the sentiments of the address were shared by him-
self individually, and also, he believed he might say,
would be by the Emperor of Brazil, who, with his
ministers and the leading men of the country,
were looking anxiously at the question, and
were !post desirous of abolishing slavery; but
they had to consider the most eligible means.
The condition of the negro after he was emanci-
pated had to be considered, for it was not sufficient
that he should be freed—he must also work. The
slave was already abolished, and the abolition of
slavery would follow. As an illustration of tht
progress of public opinion in that country in favour
of emancipation, he referred to an oration recently
delivered by the President of the Institute of Ad-
vocates at Rio de Janeiro, urging the members as
lawyers and the government to consider the best
means of immediately solving this most difficult

question.
Mr. Josiah Forster, the Rev. Dr. Massie, the Rev.
W. Harris, Mr. John Cropper, Mr. Thomas Binus,
and Mr. Robert Akop, gave recent illustrations ot
the results of the abolition of slavery, especially in
the Southern States of the American Union.

The Rev. JAMES LONG bore testimony to the
successful working of serf emaneipation in Russia.

Mr. CIIAMtiROVZOW stated that he had received
recent infcrmation from Surinam to the effect that
the freed negroes there were working to the satis-
faction of their employers.
The CneValier DE ANDRADA having assured th e
deputation that the address should be duly presented
to the Emperor, the proceedings terminated.

DESTITUTION AND DEATII.—An inquiry was
held at the Green Gate Tavern, City-road, by Mr.
John Humphreys, Middlesex Coroner, last night, respect-
ing the death of James Baddick, aged 52 years. George
Steed, 246 G, said that on Tuesday last ha was on duty at
half-past 10 a.m., in Dudley-court, Central.street. He
saw a man lying on the pavement very ill. He had no coat,
shoes, nor stockings on. He could hardly speak. Be said
he was quite destitute, and that he had slept in the work-
house the night before, and that his name was James Bad-
dick. He had with him a small bag of loather cuttings,
and he was supposed to have been a loather seller. 'Witness
removed him to the workhouse. Inspector Fyfe sail that
the police had made inquiries, but could ascertain nothing
iiliantlhalitahreriss' house surgeon to
saw the deceased at
theabo uSttt.hLe udkeec'esaws deceased.
workhouse, William
said
11 o'clock on the morning in question. He was destitute
and very thin. He was suffering from typhus fever. Wit-
ness offered him stimulants, but he died the next morning.
The post mortem examination showed that there was no
food in the stomach of the deceased except a little beef tea
which had been given to him when he was brought iato
the house. The death of the deceased was caused by
the second stage of typhus fever. Witness was certain
that no workhouse would turn the deceased out in the
state he was in. He did not think the deceased had
been in a workhouse on the previous night. The coroner
said it was most desirable that it should bo ascertained
whether the deceased had slept in a workhouse the night
previous to his being found dying in the streets. He should
therefore adjourn the court in order to enable the police to
to make the necessary inquiries. The court was accord.
ingly adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

CITY BETTING—THIS DAY.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
7to 1 agst Lord Zetland (taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Gardener (taken)
20 to 1 agst Fairwater (offered)
25 to 1 agst Isca (taken)
CHESTER. CUP.
25 to 1 agst Oldminster (taken)
No other change.

TEE BOMBARDMENT OF FREDERICIA.

KOLDING, MARCH 21.
The batteries before Frederieia were finished and
armed during the night between the 19th and 20th
inst.

Tne Danes made a sortie during the night, which
was repulsed. On that occasion Lieutenant ven
Schaper, three Guards, and one soldier of the line
were killed.

The bombardment of the town was cmmenced at
5.30 a.m. yesterday. A canonade was also kept up
against the Danish encampment.

The shots told very well, and the town was set
on fire in se geral places.

Several of the enemy's guns Were dismounted.
Their fire was moderate and ineffectual, One
Austrian was wounded. The bombardment eon,

tinues.

The Crown Prince, Prince Albrecht. and the
Prince of Hohenzallern were on the field.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 10s Od; clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od; and straw, £1 4s to 103 per load.
A slow trade.

CUMEE RLAND..—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4los Od ; clover,
£4 Os to L's 108 Od ; and straw, £1 44 to £1 103 per loan.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 03 to 108 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10e Od ; arid straw, £1 4a to -.CI lOs per load.
Trade inactive.

COLONIAL.

TEA.—There has been a fair enquiry for good and fine
descriptions of congon at fully former rates.
SUGAR.—Business has continued quiet, and prices have
not varied to any important extent.
COFFEE.—The dealings have been moderate in both
Plantation and Native Ceylon, and full rates have been ob •
tained for good and superior descriptions.
RICE.-Ihere has been a fair enquiry for East India, but
the high rates demanded by holders has in some measu.te
checked op: rations.

TALLow.—The market has been rather dull, witho
however, any change of importance to record in quotatioLs
for both present and forward delivery.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, March 22.—Wind this day at noon—North•
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

FALMOUTH, March 20.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Haw-
thorn, from hanghae—Ocean Nymph, from Portland
Sailed—Odina, for Havannah.

PLYMOUTH, March 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Alb3.-
tross, from Surinam for Amsterdam. Sailed—North Fleet,
for Sydney.
PORTSMOUTH, March 21.—Wind N,W.—Arrived
West Australian, from London for Sydney.
CLYDE, March 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—lsabella
Hunter, from S. John's, N.B. Sailed—B ritish Queen, fo
Singapore.

BRISTOL, March 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Monsoon,
from Mauritus.

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Teutonia, steamer, from Hamburg; Valiant,
from Sunderland; Atalanta, steamer, from Jersey; Havre,
steamer, from Havre.

Sailed—Charlotte, for Guernsey; John Clements, for
Sunderland
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
URAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, March 22—Tj et ziena J scoba, from Stolpemande;
Panther, steamer, from Boulogne.

DEAL, Taesday Morning.
Pessed in Tow—Avalanche, from Singapore, for London.

THE MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY.—The conjes
sion which took place on this line on Thursday
resulted in severe injuries to five men, all of whom were
servants in the employ of the company, On Friday the
engine driver, named John Williams, died from the in-
juries received, and the lives of two others are despaired of.
The directors held a priva' e investigation on Friday, at the
company's offices, Newport, as to the cause of the accider t,
and there is but little doubt entertained that some en the
officers neglected their duty or else the collision could nut
have happened. The line is worked from Aberbeeg to
Ebbw•vale by means of a telegraph pass, and it has already
transpired that there was some irregularity as to giving the
pass to the passenger train engine driver.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY.—Oa Friday a young gentleman named Jackson
accompanied his mother to meet his father at the Surbiton
railway station, who was expected to arrive by the 10 20
train from Waterloo. The father arrived by the down train
at the correct hour, when, as they were about to leave the
station, the boy beheld a friend across the line on the oppo-
site platform, and dashed impetuously across behind the
said down train, which was still waiting at the station, to
greet him, when horrible to relate, an express train going
up to London caught him on the lino and smashed hire to
pieces, the only part of his body left undestroyed being his
head, and this took place in the presence of his parents.
A CLERGYMAN DROWNED IN AUSTRALIA.—The
Sydney Morning _Herald notes a painful circum-
stance which occurred on the 31st December last :—" The
Rev. G.W. Richardson was drowned whilst bathing in that
part of Cook's River which flows through Major Fanning's
grounds. Mr, Richardson was the incumbent of St. Mark's
Church, Darling Point, but had lately removed to Canter-
bury, having exchanged duties for a few weeks, with the
Rev. Percy Smith. The deceased gentleman was visiting
at Major Fanning's, and after luncheon he, accompanied by
three little boys (hie son, Master Fanning, and Master
Houlding), went to bathe in the river. Mr. Richardson
was attacked with cramp before he had been long in the
water, and, being thus renaered helpless, was drowned.
The little boys were physically incapable of affording any
assistance, and were much alarmed at witnessing this cala-
mitous accident. The body was not got out of the water
before life had fled, Mr. Richardson was a young man of
most estimable disposition, and was greatly distinguished
for his piety and devotion in the wcrk of the Cnristian
ministry. He has left a wife and four children to mourn
his untimely decease,"

ALLEGED FORGERY AND BIGAMY.—A black-
smith—a married man, with a large family—recently
disappeared from Rochdale ; and it is alleged that, before
leaving the town, he had defrauded the Order of Druids
of £6O by means of forged certificates of death, and also
married a young woman of respectable parentage. The case
was placed in the hands of Mr. Superintendent Sylvester,
who soon ascertained that the fugitive and his young bride
had sailed from the Thames in an emigrant vessel tee Leap-
ing Water, bound for Melbourne. Mr. Sylvester proceeded
to Plymeuth, where the ship was to call. At five o'clock
on Saturday morning the Leaping Water hove in sight.
Mr. Sylvester hired a boat to take him to the vessel, and
when within a few hundred yards of the ship, he ob.
served the blacksmith making for shore in a boat. ILL at
once gave chase, but the other boat gained considerably in
the distance. Mr. Sylvester, however, noticed that the boat
he was pursuing was taking a roundabout course for shore,
and he ordered his own boat to be at once steered in. After'
climbing a few rocks, he found himself just in time to seize
the blacksmith as he was landing. The prisoner, it ale_
peared, had taken passage. for Melbourne, and had a good
deal of baggage. fhe unfortunate young woman, on learn-
ing how heartlessly she had been duped, appeared to be in
great distress, and it was with reluctance she returned to
Rochdale. Mr. Sylvester arrived in town yesterday,
with his prisoner, and to-morrow we will be brought before
the Borough Magistrates.

The tomb of King Joseph, the eldest brother of
Napoleon 1., and formerly King of Spain, has just been
completed at the Invalides, in the chapel to the right of the
Emperor's tomb. The ex-King's remains will shortly be
transferred to the new tomb from the vault in which they
were deposited in 1862, when brought from Florence, where
King Joseph died in 1846.
Two strong shocks of earthquake were felt at
Modena on the 14th, and one was felt on the same day at
80l 'ma, where it lasted two seconds, its direction being
from north to south. At Vergato, near Bologna, the shock
caused considerable damage; several chimneys were thrown
down, and a piece of entablature fell from the church
steeple.

The number of eggs employed in Paris alone, in
clarifying wines, is about 4,500,000. By this means a
wholesome and nourishing article of food is taken away
from public consumption, and its price considerably en-
hanced. To avoid this certain kinds of powders are now
beginning to be employed, by which wines may be clarified
with equal facility, and at a smaller espouse.
The Algiers journals announce the appearance of
the first number of the Diin, or Algerian Charivari, as the
successor of the Sabiltard of Constantine, which expired
some time since. The Di' in is rublished at Brussels, and is
sent every week to the African colony. -
The port of Brest has received orders to send to
Toulon a contingetti of 600 seamen to embark on board the
Labrador, whin will leave on the 25th for A lexandria,
whence they will proceed to China anVochin-China to
join the French squadrons on those statnY,s.
just_ adopted a billheßgian Chamber of Representatives has
which.aulhotises the cfmnession of a
railway from Antwerp to Tournay, and to the Freue:3
frontier in the direction of Douai,