The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON,' TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, HEM

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any man, be he of North or South." Of North or theocracy, of oligarchy, of aristocracy, of democracy, of
South i Yes, for there are unhappily as yet but monarchy, of republic,
;foarneiagnwidlyom?inßateicoanu.seStuotailtl
has none of
too abundant specimens of each ! Against them— theiradvanantaagoefs
those defects it adds the greatest of all in matters of Go-
es classes, not invidiously naming any one of them
vernment instability. It is temporary, short, precarious,
a individuals, thefin ger of irony,ialmost of scorn, has
and fugitive ; the electoral oligarchy of the cardinals, urgent
been time and again pointed of late by other Cen- as the Roman history said to see an cnd of and to devour
sors, though by none more directly than by S. G. 0. this reign of a moment, elected an old man, chose a de-
Eventually, if yielding to no nobler motives, these crepid hand in order to sooner have to relieve it from the
virtual do-nothings will yield, we doubt not, to the weight of the sceptre. Sometimes it is deceived, and meets
with a SixTus-QulNTus ; but in all cases the ideas of the
mere dictates of shame. Meanwhile the more gene-
PoPu die with him. In such a Government there is no
roux contributors are uninfluenced by the ill exam-
hereditary succession, no survivanee of system, no consti-
ple set to them by these their hard-hearted contem- tution to guarantee the future; the POPE of yesterday
poraries. Let some of the latter before the grand does not engage him of to-morrow. All policy is merely
gatheting in aid of the Relief Fund, the meeting personal; everything depends on one man's life.,,
announced for the 2.1 proximo, let some at any rate He sums up all in the following pithy lan-
among the great landowners yonder in Lanca-
shire weigh well the force of the compari-
son already applied to their stinted and
niggard contributions—the comparison of their
doings in aid of the distress by the side of the doings
recorded in the name and on behalf of the benevo-
lence of the great mercantile classes. Princes there
are (in Fortune), landowning princes as well as
millowning princes—there in the midst of that
afflicted, thickly-peopled countryside in the North

guage :

" Rarely has the world rendered an account to itself of
the singular, complicated, and confused mechanism of the
Papal Government at Rome, considered as a temporal
Power. It may be defined in these few words :—The de-
fects of all kinds of Governments without their advantages,
united in one single Government."
In 1847 we have the following from the French
Ambassador, M. Rossi, to M. GUIZOT
In ten years, in twenty years, I cannot say exactly
when, there will not be in the Italian states a man, a
woman, a functionary, a magistrate, a monk, or a soldier,
in whom the national sentiment will not predominate over
every other. What can prevent this, unless we pretend to
exterminate Italy and make it a land of helots ? We must
resign ourselves to what a future, more or less distant,

.—who, if they but listened to the dictates of their
own consciences, would, by promptly coming in aid
at last of the bitter distress around them,
almost at once scatter our solicitude as to the fatal
effects of the advancing winter. Then, when every
spontaneous and volunteered effort shall have been
made in earnest, and continued to the very utter-
most, then when the worst comes to the worst, Go-
vernment would step in with its last beneficent
assistance in the shape of a National Grant.

carries in its womb."
Indeed, the diplomatic representations of Rome by
France cannot be better summed up than in the
recent words of M. BILLAULT himself in a speech
in the Senate :
" During the last 50 years all the French Ambassadors at
Rome, those most pious and most sincerely devoted to re-
ligion, have all used the same language. Look at the long
list of the glorious or illustrious names who have succes-
sively represented France in the Eternal City ; there is
not one who has not passed the most formal condemnation
on the defects of that Government ; I do not except, at the
period when the feeling was the strongest in favour of
Rome, in 1814 and 1816."

While Irishmen are fighting in Hyde Park, and
shouting on Blackheath for the temporal power of

the POPE—while Sir G. BOWYER and Popish priests
are excusing such holy violence, Prince NAPOLEON
and his editor, M. HIIBAINE, are exposing the in-
tolerable vices of this Irish idol. It appears
that in connection with his famous speech on the

oman question in the Senate, the Prince collected
a large number of documents bearing on the sub-
ject, but they were of course too voluminous to be
read as part of a speech. M. HUBAINE now gives
them to the world, and a pretty decisive testimony
they are, if any at this time of day were really
needed, to the historically unbearable character of
what all Catholic Italy now denounces as its
worst enemy. The pamphlet goes back to the

As curious a document as any is one by the pre-
sent EMPEROR himself, addressed to the POPE,
while he was residing in Italy in 1831, and ani-
mated by the youthful ardour of only twenty-three
years' experience, two of the concluding paragraphs
will indicate the views of the nascent Imperial occu-
pier of Rome :

" It is very bold in me who am nobody, to dare to write
to your Holiness, but I hope to be able to be useful to you.
There appears to be a decided determination to effect a
separation of the temporal from the spiritual power. Bu
your Holiness is beloved, and the general belief is that you
would be ready to remain at Rome with all your riches,
your Swiss Guards, and the Vatican, and to allow a Pro-
visional Government to be formed for temporal affairs. . .
" ' Nothing more remains for me but to assure your
Holiness that all my efforts are directed towards a good
object. lam not aware what reports have been made to
your Holiness, but I can assure you that I have heard
almost all the young men, even those the least moderate,
say that if Gregory XVI. renounces the temporal power,
they will adore him, and would themselves became the
firmest supports of a religion purified by a great Pope, and
which has for basis the most liberal book that exists—the
Holy Gospel.

17th and lath centuries, exhibiting the vicious
and rapacious character of the Papacy from
the testimony of a succession of diplomatic
persons, whose evidence is unimpeachable. It all
combines to show that, under the old monarchy,
rapacity, nepotism, vicious administration, and ex-
tracting enormous sums of money by every device
from every Catholic kingdom, were the acknow-
ledged characteristics of the Papacy. On perusing
the whole, the only wonder is how those who knew
all this could have any faith in a religion thus
administered. Indeed, the outrageous infidelity of
the French Revolution, and the universal disbelief
in the Church, of public men and educated men,
seems only natural. They knew no Christianity
but that of Rome, and they were quite sure that if
that were Christianity, the heathenism of a
SOCRATES and PLATO was as good or better.

" NAPOLEON •LOITIS B ONAPA.RTE."

Such a series of documents do ono thing at leas'

—they exonerate English Protestants from the per-
fectly groundless suspicion of bigotry in their de-
nunciations of the Papacy. Englishmen have al-
ways kicked against the rule of Churchmen. They
did so before the Reformation, they have done so
since. They now see a noble kingdom marred in
its unity, cruelly disturbed in its social life, and its
capital occupied by obnoxious foreigners, all under
pretence of upholding the temporal power of the
POPE. They see the temporal subjects of the POPE,
themselves, subjected to a degrading and malicious
Government of Ecclesiastical " Eunuchs for the
kingdom of this world's sake." Their whole
soul loaths the tyranny, the avarice, the imposture
of the whole thing. They could respect the religious
chief of a portion of their fellow subjects, but they
cannot respect an Arch Pharisee, whose religion is
a cloak for the most sordid ambition.

The next portion of the pamphlet brings us to the
times of the BONAFARTES and the First Empire.
The documents, which are fully given, relate prin-
cipally to the year 1810, when the French Govern-
ment had an earnest struggle with the Papacy to
effect some reasonable reforms ; but all in vain. In
L all those documents, the necessity of separating the
temporal power from the spiritual is affirmed in the
strongest terms and with every imaginable kind of
argument. But the everlasting non possuinus was
as potent then as now in warding off anything in
the shape of salutary political remonstrance.
We then come to documents on the Papacy sub-
sequent to the Restoration. Still they bear the
same general character. It was impossible for
statesmen of any school to witness patiently the
abuses practised in the name of Religion at Rome.

M. CHATEAUBRIAND himself, after a few caustic re

marks on the reigning Pontiff, adds some remarks,
which we commend to the notice of the POPE's
" brass band" in our House of Commons. He

says: --

" The radical defect in the political constitution of this
country may be readily discovered. They are old men who
choose as Sovereign an old man like themselves; and this
one, having become master in his turn, appoints aged men
as cardinals. Tho supreme power turning in this defective
circle is always exercised on the edge of the tomb. The
PRINCE never remains long enough on the throne to carry
out any of the plans of amelioration which he may
have conceived. It is necessary that the POPE should
have resolution enough to make at once a numerous
Promotion of young cardinals so as to secure a majority at
the future election of -a
young Pontiff. But the regulations
of SESTETS V., which give the hat to those holding office in
the palace ; the empire of habits and customs ; the interests
of those who receive gratifications at every change of the
tiara; the individual ambition of the cardinale, who prefer
short reigns in order to multiply their chances to the
Papacy, and a thousand other obstacles too long to mention,
are opposed to the introduction of this youthful element
into the Sacred College."

Some remarkable passages from a despatch of M.
CHATEAUBRIAND in April, 1829, of course not long
before the Liberal revolution in France, which in-
spired vain hopes in Italy, read now like prophecy
—and they were political prophecy. Describing
what he thought of Italian movements, he says--
"The world tikes for conspiracies what is only a general
uneasiness, the result of the times, the struggle of old
society with the new, the combat of the decrepitude of the
old institutions against the energy of young generations,
and, lastly, the comparison which every one makes between
what is and wha., might be. Let us not dissemble the fact;
the great spectacle of powerful France, free and happy,
that grand spectacle which strikes the ,-..yes of nations which
still remained, or have again fallen, under the yoke, excites
regrets and nourishes hopes."
But what follows further on seems almost a
prevision of 1859 an 1860 :
"At Naples the weakness of the Government is only
saved by the cowardice of the people. The antipathies of
the territorial divisions also adds to the difficulties of an
internal movement; but if any impulse were to be given
from without, or if any Prince within the Alps were to
grant a charter to his subjects, a revolution would take
place, becaus•,e all is ripe for it. More fortunate than us
and instructed by our experience, the people would econo-
mise in the crimes and misfortune of which we have been
so IN odigal."

A series of remarkable documents follows, all
puintiug definitely enough to one conclusion. A
cardinal himself, BERcETTI said to the French Aul-
bEtssador in Dcember, 1832 :

it 'w`
illllytapkeerspolnacael
totpini
little
ois h n
sooner tat soercual alri ist'
tal
eti ol
antis c'
r, u inevitable ;
never
will the POPE pronounce it, and ho will be right— . 1
" let. Because it will not suit him to take on him self
all the hatred which an existence ruinous and humiliating
for the cardinals will provoke.
" 2dly. because that measure, spontaneously proclaimed
by the Pope, has for speedy consequence the complete de-
struction of the ecclesiastical Government. . . It will be
better for him to resign himself to the formally expressed
will of Europe than to confess himself vanquished by his
subjects, and to allow a concession to be wrested from him
far more fatal in its consequence than in itself."
The eloquent description, by M. LAMARTINE,
Papal Government, is well worth quoting
:11f the
tire, but it would be too long. Amongst other
remarks equally
just, he says :
es the ord ra n d ec of
the w kue c A r
" Thuse:: tlelissem,
todee
to: Government
dhiaes thee inacondvenexientepes,

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, Nov. 24.
The Keno Preusiche (Kreutz) Zeitung of this
evening publishes the reply given by the King to
several fresh addresses expressing devotion which
have lately been presented to his Majesty.
The following passages occur in this reply :

"There exists in all classes of society an agita-

tion which grieves me, because the people have
been made to believe that the Constitution is in
danger. This is not the case. By standing still or
retrograding public detriment is caused. The pro-
gress at which I aim will only be a wise and mode-
rate one.

"People speak of making up differences and con-
cluding peace ! Who has broken peace P Not I.
" I hope that the opinion which is opposed to my
acts is not the expression of the majority of the
people, but only of a party in the country, which,
I am sorry to say, has misled many, and that no
conflict will arise. The weakening of the power of
Prussia compromises the dignity of Prussia, and the
realisation of her mission in Germany, which is to
bring about, not the unity but the union of Ger-
many. Should evil days come I hope that all well-
disposed people will rally round me."

PRINCESS'S lIIEA7.RE.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE,

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 24.

A very agreeable version of Scribe's highly in-
genious comedy "Lo Verre D'Eau," was produced
at this theatre last evening with unqualified
success. Mr. Oxenford, its adapter, has trans-
ferred the scene of action from the Court of St.
James's to the Court of Portugal, and rendered its
spirited dialogue in very terse and pleasant Eng-
lish. The " \Terre D'Eau" is a specimen of the
drama of intrigue on the French sage, which ex-
hibits to perfection the unequalled art of French
construction. Without anything very distinc-
tive or very humorous in the characters—or
anything very elevated, or even agreeable in the
subject—which is simply a satire on Court society,
as shown under the - old regime, the attention,
if not the sympathies, is seized and attracted to the
end by the singular skill with which the movement
is put together from first to last. Even though the
incidents are much alike, the infinite art with
, which they aro developed, and interwoven, scene
I by scene, really renders the action a study almost
as engrossing as a game of chess_ Any minute
description of the plot is wholly out of our power.
It would be like endeavouring to give our readers a
written idea of a Chinese puzzle. Suffice it that

its general scope is the rivalry of two Court favourites
for the possession of place and power, Don Estevan
D'Alcunha, and the Duchess Marialva, who, in their
game of finesse and strategy, make use of a
young couple of Court attendants, Se-
nora Beatrix de Mendora and Don Miguel de
Naronha, who love each other, and whose happi-
ness being the sincere aim of the said Senor Estevan,

BOURSE, Nov. 24.—The market was heavy at
the opening, and showed rather a downward ten-
dency, but afterwards rallied. Threes, which had
receded to 70f. 10c., are now again at 70f. 20c.,
the closing price of Saturday. Little doing in
Railway Shares, and fluctuations but trifling. The
market left off as follows :

41 per Cents. 97 75 Bank Shares 3350
Do. end month.... Credit 1, oncier 1290
3 per Cents
Do. end month 7O 10 Italian Loan 7O 90

New 3 per Cents
Do, end month....
Credit Mobilier.... 1060
Do, end m0nth....1060 -
BAIL'

leads to the union of his fortunes with theirs, and
the formation of 'what bestows the present title to
the drama—" The Triple Alliance"—the end of this
Court campaign being the triumph of the said
alliance in the union of the lovers, and the eleva-
tion of their patron to the desired post of Prime
Minister. The acting of this comedy was in many
respects most creditable. Mrs. Buckingham White
played the DuchessMarialva with an easy dignity and
spirit, which showed how sensible has been her ad-
vance as a comic artist in recent years. Her intel-
ligetice and graceful bearing, combined with the
advantage of her handsome person, render her now
an acquisition to any theatre in London. Miss
Oliver was not less attractive in the character of
the Maid of Honour, in which her mingled grace
and naturalness sustained the entire interest

Roman
Russian
Spanish Threes, .., 53 50
Home Debt

'AYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO4O .. 1040
Northern
New ditto .. . ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 5) .. 1140
GPn.va 350 ..
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
L 0 IP hard • 590 .. 687 50
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

AUSTRIA•

VIENNA, Nov. 22.

of the piece. Mr. Shore, always intelligent
and earnest, was very agreeaV.e in her lover, whilst
Mr. Vining, in Don Estevan, is to be congratulated
on an effort which is to be numbered among the
pleasantest and most artistic that we have ever had
at his hands. Wholly exempt from that excess
which we have so often had cause to charge on it,
whilst more than usually distinguished by the
quaint humour which just as often we have had to
praise, his acting was marked throughout by
an amount of ease, tact, and expression,
that could scarcely have been improved.
The only defect in the performance was the error
of entrusting the Queen to Miss Constance Aylmer,
whose professional inexperience rendered her
wholly incapable of exhibiting the equal dignity
and ease which such a character demands. Always
intelligent, and at times spirited—still, till this
young lady has been enabled to master her diffi-
cult art, something much simpler than such a trial
should be allotted to her hands. The house was
well attended, and the calls for actors and author
were very hearty at the close.

Had they had time so to do, the representatives
of the people would duly have made known to the
Upper House their resolve to restrict the outlay for
the army to 111,000,000f1. ; but the Minister of
War was so impatient to get the matter settled,
that he at once informed the President of the Cora.
mittee of Finance that the Government had been
empowered by the Emperor to consent to a reduc-
tion of 6,000,000f1. in the Army Estimates, Al-
though the proceeding was excessively irregular,
no one finds fault with it, as it is known to all that
Count Degenfeld is a sturdy supporter of the Con-
stitution, though somewhat regardless of consti-
tutional forms and observances. The Minister of
War was willing to make still greater reductions
in the army, but his hand was stayed by his
Sovereign, who, like the King of Prussia, has
very many non-official military advisers. Origi-
nally it was resolved that all the cavalry regi-
ments should be reduced, but his Majesty, at
the instigation of his military Chancellerie, sub-
sequently made an exception in favour of the
"Prince Charles of Prussia" Cuirassiers, a regiment
which distinguished itself in the year 1619, when
the Emperor Ferdinand I. was subjected to very
great moral pressure by the Austrian Estates.
Count Dogentela Lula the Emperor that such favour
shown to one regiment would not fail to produce
a bad impression ou the army, and the veteran was
right, for military men now speak much of the
"questionable" conduct of the Prince Charles of
Prussia Cuirassiers during the year 1849. The
draught of the so-called Finance-law for 1863,
which will be valid for the whole empire, is in sub-
stance as follows:--
"Art. 1. The total expenditure for the administrations-
year 1863 is fixed at 366,479,6611 Art. 2. Of the foregoing
sum 304,585,0741 will be `covered' by means of direct and
indirect taxes. Arts, 3 and 4. The sums voted are to be
expended in the departments and for the purposes for which
they were granted. Art. 5. The deficit for 1863, which
is to be covered in the following
fl, is
augmentation of the
house-rent-tax,. of the house-tax, of the
ltmarana trade-tax, amountsen--tetaraxx7,t :afFnGitdrhl;o; 9etBlitbih:yseu6ase7eonfl-nr.etr ibuto arti e commereio in the Lom
bar do :V onetian kingdom ; and secondly, by doubling the
income-tax and raising the tax on the coupons of State
bonds from sto 7 per cent. Art. 6. The Finance Depart-
ment is empowered to sell bonds belonging to the English
loan of 1859 of the nominal value of 11,164,0001, and bonds
belonging to the first issue of the Lottery Loan of 186) of
the nominal value of 9,106,0001 The sums of 6,990,0001
in silver, and 6,730,000f1. in bank notes, which are owing
on the abovenaentioned bonds, having been paid off, the sur-
plus is to be used for covering the deficit. Art. 7. The
produce of the bonds belonging to the third issue of the
Lottery Loan of 1860, which the bank, in consequence of
the new convention, will have to place at the disposal of
the State, is also to be employed in covering the deficit.
Art. 8. The remainder of the deficit is to be covered by
means of a loan of 30,000,00011. Art. 9. Should the last-
mentioned sum prove insufficient for the purpose in ques-
tion, the Government will, by means of a separate law, be
empowered to raise the money which may be requisite.
Art. 10. The Finance Department is directed to put the
present law into execution, and to obtain the above-men-
tioned loan on as favourable terms as possible,"

EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT LEEDS.—In the
course of last Friday night an extensive burglary was com-
mitted at Leeds. The office of the Aire and Calder Navi-
gation Company, one portion of which is occupied as the
dwelling of the manager, was broken into, and the sum of
£B3O, in Bank of England and provincial notes and gold,
was stolen therefrom. The circumstances of the robbery
show that the perpetrators, or some of them, had been well
acquainted with the premises ; for after admission had
been obtained a key had been taken out of a room in the
dwelling, a safe had been opened in the office with the key,
and the money abstracted. While on the premises the
thieves had regaled themselves with two bottles of sherry.
It would not be prudent to say more at present than that
the police are in possession of such information as is likely
to lead to the apprehension of come, if not the whole, of
the delinquents. Though the robbery ap?ears to have been
committed with deliberation, the sum of £l3O, or there-
abouts, was lett behind in the safe from which the £B3O was
taken.

GLASGOW, Nov. 22.--Cotton.—ln the beginning
of the week th 9 market was very dull, with drooping prices,
but closes firmer, at a reduction of Id. per lb. on the quota-
tion of last week. Goods and Yarns—The market con-
tinues dull and reducal, as the production is, it appears; in
excess of the demand. Iron—The ptg iron-market, which
was pretty firm on Monday last at 56s 9d cash for warrants,
has since become weaker, and the price has given way 9d
per ton. A very extensive business was done on Thursday
and Friday about latter quotations, the sales principally on
Liverpool account, To-day there has been scarcely a market
—a single transaction at 668 2d, one month, only reported.
At close 66s cash and 56s 6d three months might have been
made, sellers asking 11 per tone more. G.M.B. No. 1, 555
9d ; No. 3,53 s 9d ; Gartsherrie, No. 1, 578 6d ; No. 3, 545;
No. 1 ColtneAs, 58s; Calder, 56s 6d; Glengarnock, 558 3d;
Forth, 54s 9d ; Kinniel, 54s 9d.

TILE FEDERAL FINANCES.—Ths following hope-
ful view of the future of the Federal finances is from a
recent circular of Mr. Satterthwaite. It is only fair that as
the English public have the black side in all American
matters presented to them so frequently, should occasionally
catch a glimpse of the views entertained by practical
persons who do not believe that the whole nation is drifting
rapidly and helplessly on the road to "universal ruin," and
" financial chaos." The arrival of the American Govern-
ment at this latter stage was predicted six months ago, by
a certain financial writer, as sure to occur at the expiration
of "ninety days"—another proof of the folly of prophecy.
Mr. Satterthwaite says :_:s
The total debt of the Federal.
Government is stated to have reached 660,000,000 dols.,
and the expenses of the Aar are estimated at not over
1,000,000 dole. per day, so that if the war should continue
another 12 months the debt would be about 1,000,000,000
dols. ; now, supposing this to be funded in a 5 per cent.
Stock, the annual interest would be 50,000,000 dols., or say
£10,000,000 sterling-_a sum which need not bo difficult for
a powerful and wealthy nation of about twenty millions of
inhabitants to raise ; even supposing the burden to rest on
the Northern and Western States alone,—.From the
" 419ney Xadiet Review,"

7HE SLAVE TRADE OF 711 E WHI7E NILE

----o--

James W. Baker, in a letter dated Khartoum,
Sept. 20, says :—Egypt and the Soudan. are sup-
plied with slaves kid-napped from the tribes of the
White Nile in the amount of many thousands per
annum.
The head-quarters from which the expeditions
annually start is Khartoum, the capital of the Sou-
dan, situated at the junction of the Blue with the
While Nile. At Khartoum is a Governor-General,
the European Powers being represented by Eng-
lish, French, and Austrian Consuls, The black
population of this town is composed of the dregs of
the human race ; they are principally employed
in the White Nile trade by the merchants—the
latter being Europeans, Turks, Syrians, and Arabs.
The produce of the White Nile is confined to slaves
and ivory. In former years ivory was generally
obtained in exchange for glass beads, copper rings,
and lance heads ; but competition has so inundated
the tribes with these articles and raised the value
of ivory that it is now impossible to procure it by
such exchange. Cattle are now the only medium
of barter. It being impossible to convey cattle from
Khartoum for this purpose, the trade of the White
Nile has resolved itself into piratical expeditions,
and is thus simply conducted :—The merchant in
Khartoum sends a party from 80 to 200 armed
men in large sailing vessels well supplied with am-,
munition and with a certain amount of copper rings
and glass beads for payment to natives who act as
porters in conveying ivory to the boats. Upon
arrival among a tribe rich in cattle, they attack a
village by surrounding it and firing upon the inha-
bitants, killing or putting to flight the men and
capturing the women and children and cattle. The
latter now form the merchant's stock in trade; the
women and children are fastened together and driven
off to the boats as slaves. Some thousand head of
cattle being thus secured, they are driven by the
armed force into the interior, among tribes rich in
ivory, who—if too powerful to be openly attacked
—are bartered with, and the ivory is conveyed to
the boats. By this barter the trader's supply of
cattle being exhausted, he leagues himself with a
neighbouring tribe hostile to the last, and with
them he invades his recent customers, and steals
back all the cattle, giving one-half to his new
allies, and bartering the other half for ivory. This
affair being concluded, he is again without cattle;
thus, he makes a fresh alliance, and, if possible, he
robs his old allies ; thus the same cattle are fre-
quently stolen and exchanged several times, their
produce in ivory being carried to the boats, together
with the captives from the various razzias. The
vessels being loaded with slaves and ivory retire to
the trader's fortified establishment, where both
cargo and slaves are deposited ; in the meanwhile
the piratical boats depart upon further expeditions.
The voyage being completed, the ivory is brought
to Khartoum. The wages of the crew are paid in
slaves, at about one-third of their actual value, thus
giving the men a zest for the trade. The slaves re-
maining at the depot are draughted into the
Egyptian possessions, and sold as opportunities
offer, their necks being secured on the march in a
long cleft pole, to which they are also handcuffed.
The frightful atroc:ties committed by the troops of
banditti thus employed by the traders of Khartoum
are beyond description ; but I will not at present
descend to details, it being sufficient to declare the
existing state of the White Nile trade, which can-
not be generally known in England. So infatuated
are the wretches of Khartoum for the lucrative
sport of man-hunting that I can procure no men for
escort upon my southern expedition, as they will
not engage to an Englishman known as an anti-
siavetrader. The British flag, in some instances,
covers cargoes of slaves on the waters of the White
Nile.

DEATHS OF A BEGGAR AND AN UN•

FORTUNATE.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester held two inquest at the
Crown and Anchor, King-street, Seven-dials, first
on the body of Georgina Savage, aged 71, and se-
condly on Eliza Evens, aged 40, whose deaths oc-
curred as follows

In the case of 6avage it appeared she was an im-
portunate beggar of some 10 years' standing. On
Wednesday evening last information was taken to
the police-station, in George-street, St. Giles's, to
the effect that a woman was in a dying state at the
bottom of Clarke's-buildings. The police found the
woman very ill, when she said, " My dear, I can't -
walk; take me to the house." Finding she was not
drunk, she was taken to St. Giles's Workhouse,and '
was instantly admitted. She was in rags, and
covered with vermin. She said she had had but
little food for days, and received arrow-root and
brandy, and the necessary stimulants, by order of
Mr. Bennett, the surgeon, but died at four o'clock
on the following morning. The examination after
death showed her body to be in a deplorable con-
dition, and' death was the result of intemperate
habits. The jury returned a verdict in accordance
with the medical testimony.
The second case was that of an unfortunate who
was found by two others of the same class sleeping
on the stairs of No. 3, Barley.court, St. Giles's, on
Sunday fortnight. She was afforded lodging by
those who found her occasionally walking the
streets at night. On Thursday morning last she
was found, after a restless night, with her lips
blue, and in a dying state.- Application was made
to the workhouse for her admission, and at length
during the afternoon the pauper chair was sent to
convey her to the infirmary. She, however, was
found dead in the meantime. Mr. Bennett set forth
the internal appearance of the head and body, stat-
ing that undoubtedly her dissolute course of life
had caused. her. death. A similar verdict to the
above Vas returned.