The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

AMERICAN SLAVERT.

The Morris Town correspondence of the .Rich-
mond Despatch of January 23d, sar :
a here to-day,
There was an auction of 46 negroe
and a
Dols. £
Negro girl 17 years of age, ht
brought 1,505 equal to 301
~ 1,570 „ 314
1, 17 9, "
1,880 " 376
A Blacksmith 23 " 1800 , 3601
Negro 29 99 91
1,305 „ 26
2,
Negro girl l3 ”
15 '' I 99 1,509 , 30p
If ~ 1,100
gperti vary from eleven to eighteen
her uninteresting to remark that
15 220
),
12 1,
Average price......
nis
or at
times the average amount given as compensation
to British slaveowners in 1834. All denunciations
of the traffic in human flesh will, we fear, be vain,
as long as it continues so profitable. Cannot means
be devised, in the interest of humanity, of attacking
the evil in its most susceptible and vital part, by
the fore
impairing the commercial profit attending it ? This
is a problem Which the right thinking public should
weigh deeply. Are we doing well in welcoming
slave-grown produce into our ports, or is there not
a sad lack of harmony between our profession and
goiarll altogether
prices
our practice ?-4/oney Market Review.

. ,
On Sat ay the awing
tive body. sof a most animated character, the
climax bei marked by a masterly speech by M.
Jules Fan n support of the amendments pro-
posed by t. lye members of the left. M. Favre
defended in dual liberty and the liberty of the
press, and a 'need in the strongest terms the in-
terference m a Government with electoral and
municipal p 'dings. He examined the report
of M. Fould letter of the Emperor, and the
consequences h had resulted to the institutions
of the country I asked if it was wise, or even
safe, to keep i 'blic mind under Government
tutelage. He s/ It at present there is in France
but one journal. he Emperor ; all others are
but i'Assals, oblig ) bow their heads before a
warning or il can?) rue—things which constitute
a usurpation of the tidal power, and a penalty
arbitrarily applied, punting to confiscation of
property. Elections, , I now conducted, he ob-
ey:mayors are compelled, let` penalty of losing their
served, were a negatior tnd a mockery, for all th
posts, to make the al 1 vote in the sense deter-
mined by authority. concluded by bitterly at-
tacking the law of gel safety, so ;tailed, he said,
doubtless " because it us everybody,'"
The speech caused g. ensation. We' ,subjoin
extracts from it :

" The President of tl ancil of State has in-
veighed against the pre 'n of a small number
of deputiei; who arrogate roselves the right of
speaking in the name of t try. What are we
in fact? An impc.rceptihii escaped from the
skilfully-arranged mochani t works in the
elections. What do we rcpri Some millions
of electors ! Never was such -Ye held in a
free assembly. And unless it bi -d that a
majority is always in the right, . ' - be
admitted that the minority is entitled
opinions upon all sorts of things, on condit..
it does not violate either the rules of decorn.,
the laws. But the character of the deputy must
not be degraded under the pretext of making the
laws respected. Precisely because an assembly is
invested with the right of voting the laws, it is
superior to them, and the right of criticising exist-
ing laws cannot be denied to the minority."
After some happy quotations from a speech in
favour of the freedom of the press, made " at an-
other epoch" by M. Baroche, now a minister and a
denouncer of that principle, M. Jules Favre. con-

tinned :
"In France there is a superior director of thought,
in so far as it can express itself through the
periodical press. The press is planed under a
regime which has not yet been applied to books
and pamphlets, doubtless because the press is
the surest and most potent means of scrutinising
the acts of the administration. Its efficiency is the
very thing for which it is garotted by our laws.
Books and pamphlets are but secondary means, so
they are allowed more liberty. Be assured that if
they were of the same importance as the journals'
they would be subjected to the same regime. If
this rigorous measure is good for the press, why is
it not good for books and pamphlets ; and if it is
bad for books and pamphlets, why is it good for
the press ? (Murmurs.) The Government arro-
gates to itself such extraordinary prerogatives, that
the question naturally suggests itself why it does
not apply them to every kind of manifestation.
From the chair whence it issues avertisseggens, it
can give lessons on religion, morals, history, as
already it does on politics—and on manure;
(Laughter.) If it acts thus, it is because it
deems itself more learned, more moral, more
religious than anybody ; but then why does it
not prescribe the limits of what one may say
upon each and every subject P That system io
not new, it reigned before 1789. It might in those
days be said that the brain of France was in the
monarch's hands. Fortunately it escaped at times
from his grasp, but we all know how ; it was by
the benefit of the Reformation, which had opened
asylums for freedom of thought in several parts of
Europe. It makes one shudder to think that the
Esprit des Lois would have been unpublished for
France if there had not been presses in those days
in Holland and London. (Movement.) At the
present day there is but one sole journalist in
France, namely the Emperor. (Exclamations and
murmurs.)
M. Baroche, the President of the Council, made
a reply to M. Favre, in which he contended that
the Government only interfered in elections when
it was necessary, and that the press had rather too
much liberty iu France than otherwise.

THE STORM OP SUNDAY.-2112 LOSS

OP EIGHT LIVES OFT _PLYMOUTH.

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During a part of Saturday night and the whole
of Sunday morning the weather was very boister-
ous on the coast of Devon and Cornwall. The
wind from the S.S.W., which was blowing irregu-
larly, sometimes attained the force of a gale. The
weather had been foul on Thursday and Friday,
had lulled on Saturday, and this, in spite of the
warning signal at the storm signal station on Ply-
mouth Hoe, tempted many vessels out of harbour,
and amongst them a fleet of fishing vessels belong-
ing to Hastings, Worthing, and Shoreham: They
found in the course of the night it had been better
for them had they remained in harbour,
for the wind freshened into a gale, and
was accompanied with drifts of rain and
considerable sea. It was found necessary to get in
the nets and run for port. This was safely accom-
plished by a good many of the vessels, but others
sustained more or less loss. The Christiana fishing
smack of Worthing came in on Sunday with loss of
mast and bulwarks, and the Mary and Ellen of
Worthing hod swept from her desk by a sea a boat
eaBn
do rw9hoefnwnheiacrh t only l yliwnoepr ebsuaovyeodff.
nina,ck Crystal Palace, of Hastings,
gossm:for the Sound about 11 o'clock on
tswTahnuhhendei ldwe2afi fishing
unhtfnieoent nets
—nn
of the breakwater, was struck with a
very heavy sea that capsized her, and she sunk, and
' all her crew were unfortunately drowned. Their
names are George Page, the master; G. Sergent, J.
Cramp,W.Down,—
and Bales, a boy. Several of these unfortunate men
were married and had families. The accident was
and yesterday the wreck,
Croll steamer. Boats were at once lowered and sent
PP o s
hade d , from
been appearances,
kitocked o ut
to the spot, and the boat of the harbour master went
seen from some shipCshnaetafire,lal—fBrowmaitl—lPsaebteelrl:
out with all
whio
seen of the men. In the course of the afternoon the
possible despatch, but nothing could be
m I ot f wast
h e smacksu
boat'sh steharnd wrapteickedwupa; towards Redding Point, was
The Isabella Croll, steamer, from Southampton for
Cardiff, in ballast, was at the time of the accident
to the Crystal Palace near the Breakwater. She
was coming in in consequence of having lost her
sails in the gale. The Aurora steamer, for London,
was obliged to put back. In the course of Sunday
night the schooner Ilamah,
ttbakatentbion
btoowtto.
corvette, of Jersey,
bound from St. Malo to Llanelly, put into Ply-
mouth, with loss of mainmast. Yesterday morning
a report reached Plymouth that an Austrian brig,
laden with brick and coal, had gone on shore at
Mothecombe, just east of the entrance to Plymouth
Sound, and become a total wreck. All on board
had been saved.

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deceasedci n
SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A YOUNG WOMAN.—About
a fortnight ago the body of a young woman was picked up
by some boatmen, at two in the morning, by the Park-road
bridge of the canal, Regent's-park, and conveyed to the
and the other
Marylebone Workhouse. The affair is at present enveloped
person at Paddington, her age
in much mystery. On the scalp arc two wounds, one of
which was in all probabilit3 inflicted bcfc,ro,
.miossneds.aturlndao
after death. There is also a collar bone broken and a frac-
ture of the jaw, as well as one arm broken. Numerous
parties have, from day to day, been to the
..workhouse, in.
order to view the body to see if it is that
. of a missing relative,
the niece of a respectable
was identified, her name being Elizabeth Davies, as being
being twenty yeam It appears on the evening before the
finding of the body she was at the Marylebone Theatre
fewer many
than eight gwhotmmeno thhearevinagt tenbedend.
with another young woman, and they parted at half-past
eleven,there being
.nothing unusual at the time in deeeased'e
appearance. The inquest has not yet been held,

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