The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-26 00:00:00

By order of the Festival Committee,
GROVE, Secretary,

was most happily designated but very recently by
the ex-Chancellor of Ireland (NAPIER)—" the Hero
of Humanity ! "
Immediately before Lord BROUGHAM'S address
to the meeting yesterday in the London Tavern,
the venerable Chairman directed the attention of all
present to a handsome intelligent-looking coloured
boy in front of the platform. The bright-eyed little
negro child thus pointed out to the assembly by
the grey-headed ex-Chancellor, being, as the latter
intimated to his hearers, the eldest son of the King
of Bonny—the African monarch whose petition Lord
BROUGHAM but two sessions back presented to the
English Parliament. A petition this, let it be
remembered, laid upon the table of the Hour of
Lords in the year 1860, by Lord 13nouGHAIL-I—a
petition from a Negro Prince beseeching the mighty
aid of England to put an end, if possible, to that
horrible slave-trade which still bears away 60,000
blacks yearly from the shores of Africa—bears them
away across the waters of the Atlantic, in this ac-
cursed traffic, to a life and death of servitude ! As
Lord BROUGHAM remarked yesterday, out of those
60,000 negroes stolen from their homes by the African
slave traders, 40,000 are landed annually as slaves in
Cuba-40,000 out of the 60,000 reach the Cuban
shores to breed and work and be bought and sold
like cattle—the other 20,000, who never reach the
opposite shores of the Atlantic, perishing by the
way, through the horrors of the middle passage!
" Was it to be endured," asked Lord BROUGHAM,
in referring to those most terrible and afflicting
particulars, " that we should not exert ourselves
and use the legitimate influence we had, or ought
to have, with Spain in this matter ? Delicacy to-
wards her might prevent us,"he said, "from naming,
or even alluding to, the subject in diplomatic cor-
respondence, but we, the countrymen of WELLING-
TON, after having freed her from the domination of
her enemies, and set her up at the expense of our
own blood, might well interfere to the extent of
calling on her to fulfil the solemn engagement in
consideration of which she received half a million
of our money. The only part of that engagement,"
added Lord BROUGHAM, " which Spain had
fulfilled was to take possession of the money,
and leave the rest unperformed." It is
certainly incumbent upon England; remembering
her own renowned antecedents, on the one hand, as
regard to Spain, and, on the other hand, in regard
to Slavery, that she should at any rate attempt at
length to do something more than simply to lament,
as she does, this persistence in their detestable
traffic by the Spanish slave traders. Happily
for ourselves, under the guidance of philan-
thropists like BROUGHAM—Traffic of this kind
has for more than forty years been branded
as a Felony any subject of the British
Crown proved to have been guilty of traffieing
in human creatures (since Mr. BROUGHAM'S Bill of
1811 was passed into a law) being liable to trans-
portation for a period of fourteen years ! And all
the while, in regard to this diabolical trade, it
should be observed that there is a hideous
temptation, because (lamentable to relate) of
its remunerative character in a pecuniary point
of view. Here, in the Slave Trade, observes
Lord BROUGHAM, " the gains are so enormous
that if one ship out of four or five escape seizure
the fortunes of her owners are made!" After
the venerable orator had eased his heart, once
more, by enveighing against the horrors of the
Slave-trade, echoing, with evident emotion, to
wards the close of his remarks upon its dreadfu
consequences those burning ejaculations—
" Accursed trade I which thrives on human pain,
And calls forth every misery for gain;
Acc,ursed men I who, hnilfline wealth on woe,

Crystal Palace, June 26, 1862.

lIANDEL FESTIVAL.--The Exeter Hall
Office open for the Sale of Tickets up to TEN
O'CLOCK TO-NIGHT.
Exeter Hall, Thursday Afternoon.

ITANDEL FESTIVAL.-NOTICE-
In reply to very numerous communications respect-
ing tne possibility of givinz one more performance, the Fes-
tival Committee are compelled to state that the engagements
of the ladies and gentlemen of the orchestra, and with the
railway companies, render such a course impracticable, and
that the Festival MUST CLOSE with the performance of
" Israel in Egypt" TO-MORROW.

By order.

Crystal Palace, June 26, 1862.

GEO. GROVE, Secretary.

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Dion Boucicault, Lessee.
TO-NIGHT, Thursday, June 26, MP, the performances
Will commence at 7, with the SPITAL FIELDS WEAVER :
Messrs. Atkins, F. Robinson, Sara Stevins.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN : Messrs. Dion
Boucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson ; Madame Celeste,
Jessie M`Lean, Stevins.
To conclude with THE KISS IN THE DARK : Messrs.
Atkins, Farrell ; Mrs. G. Jordan.
Box-office open from 10 to 5.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYiMARKET.
Lessee, 31r. J. B. Buckstone. _

•
THIS EVENING, at Seven MRS. WHITE. Mr. Comp.
ton, Miss Caroline Hill, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam.
Alter which, at a quarter to 8, will be pertormed(lsllth time)
OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck.
stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothorn.
Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled LA CONTRA-
BANDISTA. Senora Perea Nena, Senor Ricardo, and the
Corps do Ballet.
To conclude with MX HUSBAND'S GHOST,

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE,
Sole Lessee and Manacer—Mr. Edmund Falconer.

192 d Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day."
THIS E VENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish.
Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville,
and Edmund Falconer : Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara
Weston, and Miss M. Hudson.

After which, a new musical, pictorial, poetical, and ballet
interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. Miss Anna Whitty and
Miss Lydia Thomson.

To conclude with the new farce entitled I COULDN'T
HELP IT. Characters by Mr. Addison, Mr. Warlow, and
Miss Lydia Thompson.

Acting Manager—Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
Prices as Usual. Doors open at half -past 8, to oommenoe at
7, Box-oface open daily from 11 tlll5.

Commence a 7

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr A. Harris.
THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
Hiss M. Harris.
After which, at Melt o'clock, LOUIS XL Mr. and
Mrs. C. Kean. Supported by Messrs. J. F. Cathcart, B. Potter.
Everett, Shore, R. Cathcart, Raymond, dm ; Miss Chapman,
and Miss N. Chapman.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.
Commence at 7. No half-price.

NEW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL-
soIe Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
TO-NIGHT. ICI ON PARLE FRANCAISE : Messrs.
J. L. Toole, Billington, Emery ; Misses K. Kelly, Laidlaw,
K. Bland, and Mrs. H. Marston.
To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Messrs.
C. Verner, Emery, Billlngton, Stephenson, Eburne, C. J.
smith,-Romer; Miss Agnes Burdett, Miss Woolgar, Mrs.
Billington, and Mrs. IL Lewis.
To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY. Messrs. J. L.
Toole, P. Bedford, Emery, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY HALL.
STECKEL,
The Greatest Trapeze Performer in the World, at 10 o'clock.
Immense success of the Grand Selection from Donizetti's
Opera,
"DON SEBASTIEN,"
(Produced here for the first time in this country).
Arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell and Signor Tivoli.
The Great Comic Trio, Eugene, Daley, and Unsworth
(the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " Or any other
man "). Also the following array of Comic Talent, viz.:—
E. Marshall (in Paul Pry), J. G. Forde, A. B. Hollings-
worth, Miss Georgina Smithson, and Joe Brown, the re-
nowned Dancer.

T H E OXFORD,
6, OXFORD STREET,
_ _

The miraculoUs STECKEL, Champion of the Trapeze, in
new and unapproachable feats.

Verdi's "LA TRAVIA TA," '1 IL TROVAT 0 RE,
" SIMON BOCCANEGRA," &c. &c. ; G. Linley's "JOLLY
BEGGARS ; " G. A. Macfarren's " MAY DAY. " Principal
Vocalists-Miss Russell, Madame Enderssohn, Messrs.
Morley, Greene, and Albert. Full Band and Chorus. Musical
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those
unrivalled Ethiopian Comedians, Ramsey, Newcomb, Little
Bob,Eugene,and Unsworth (the original "or any other man").
Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Btalls, is. ; Primate Boxes,
10s. 6d.

Shortly will be produced Verdi's Great International
Exhibition Cantata.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1862.

An affecting and impressive scene was witnessed
yesterday at the London Tavern. Lord BROUGHAM
after battling for sixty years against the African
Slave Trade, as never philanthropist battled before
(so persistently, so heroically, so continuously !)
--still stood forth there in this, the eighty-fourth
year of his age, to raise once more his eloquent
voice against a system which, exclaimed the
venerable orator, in accents of exultation, "Eng-
land, thank GOD, no longer calls a trade but—a
crime."

No wonder—remembering Lord BROUGHAM'S
career and his achievemen is—that the ex-Chancellor
upon his entrance into the assembly, and upon his
appearance on the platform, was greeted by that
immense meeting with an ovation of the most
enthusiastic kind. No wonder that after the cries of
love and honour and respect that greeted him had
died out sufficiently to enable him to obtain at last
a hearing; no wonder that, when he spoke at length
to his audience, Lord BROUGUAII'S voice faltered
at times (the reporter tells us) with evident emo-
tion. It is not often that a great philanthropist
is afforded so striking an opportunity of
enforc-
ing the arguments enunciated by him, more
than half a century previously, and of crowning
the laboura of a long life, crowded with practical
evidences of good-will to his fellow-men, by the ut-
tering Of words so touchingly demonstrative of the
noble consistency of his whole existence. As a
champion of the holy cause of liberty, as the sworn
fo© to slavery, as the friend of the African, as
the arch advocate of Emancipation, Lord
BROUGHAM has happily bad no further reason,
during many years past, to lift a finger
or to whisper a syllable in behalf of the poor
negro any where in the whole range of our world-
wide dominions. Heartened to that beneficent
decision of hers by the truths articulated so eon-
vincingly:hy the lips of men liko BROUGHAM, and
CLARKSON, and WTILBERFORCE, England has long
ago washed from her escutcheon the guilt of slavery
--and so acted that her sons and daughters can
tome into court with clean hands when (as yester-
'l43') the grand old cause i 3 again pleaded. Pleaded
again it Was yesterday, and still—as sixty years
ago—by the voice of HENRY BROUGHAM. Then,
at the commencement of these last sixty years, in
1802, it was th© voice of HENRY BROUGHAM.
when four-and-twenty Now it is that same
voice, the voice of that same indomitable
Advocate of Freedom, of Progress, of Enlighten-
Meat, when, at the patriarchal age of eighty-four,
HENRY Lord BROUGHAM is recognised and revered
by all classes of his fellow-countrymen as---what he

Force tears and blood to stream in ceaseless flow ;
Lord BROUGHAM referred, not inaptly, certainly
most refreshingly, to the prospect of the happy
results that might ensue, by way of a diversion,
from the slave-trade, from the more and more
sedulous cultivation of Free Grown Cotton in our
own dominions. Here and there in our own
colonies, among other places in Jamaica. As an
indication of the fact that cotton can be grown
advantageously in Jamaica Lord BROUGHAM
mentioned to the meeting yesterday the follow-
ing particulars :—"Early," said the noble and
learned lord, " in September last cotton seeds were
sent out to Jamaica from this country; they re-
mained but four weeks in the ground, and from
them a crop was gathered, manufactured, and
sent over to England, and he himself was now
wearing a waistcoat made of part of it." [Cer-
tainly a case in point illustrated by proof positive.]
" Capital alone was wanting," continued Lord
BROUGHAM; " there was no want of labour which
might not easily be supplied ; for if the labour
there of our own free negroes or mulattoes was
not sufficient, there were, independently of coolie
labour, resources in the island of Porto Rico it-
self, Ns, here there were 60,000 slaves and 30,000

free people of colour. Even under existing circum-
stances there was no want of labour in Jamaica. The
wages of negroes were ls. a-day, and whereas the
cotton, some of which he was now wearing, cost
Bd. a-pound in the manufacture by free labour, it
would have cost 10d. by slave labour. The whole

expense, including the capital expended in cultiva-
tion and the hire of premises, amounted to 6d. a-
pound, whereas if slave labour had been employed
the cost would have been 25 per cent. greater." As
the noble orator had himself remarked earlier in

,he day, " Out of evil comes good," out of the Cotton

Famine comes visibly before vs, not as a brilliant

and illusory day-dream, but as a very reasonable

probability, the prospect of more abundant and
reliable supplies of Cotton than ever ; and this

,hrough the systematic cultivation of cotton by free

abour upon our own soil, whereby, through the

mercy of Heaven, the last horrors of the accursed

slave trade may be brought at length to a close.

Dr. LTISHINGTON'S decision in the case of the
Essays and Reviews, as it might be properly termed,
will be studied with interest by a very wide circle,
and its substance will be a matter of interest to the
whole reading community. Our readers saw last
night that the legal result was that some of the
WILLIAms
articles were admitted in the cases both of Mr.
and Mr. WILSON, but were to be re-
formed; leave being given to the parties to appeal.
This is the technical and legal position ; but what
will be of far more interest to the large public which
has read with carious interest the Essays and
Reviewsas well as to the clerical body, is the
principles laid down by the learned Judge as the
foundation of his judgment, since these involve the
amount of liberty accorded to clergymen in regard
to matters of doctrine.

To spare the reader the necessity of wading,
through an elaborate legal judgment, we will state
the important points of this kind laid down by Dr.
LUSIIINGTON. The charge in the case is "pronaul.
gation of doctrines contrary to the articles of rc..
ligion, and in derogation of the Book of Common
Prayer." What is required to make out the charge
is, Ist The articles (of accusation) must specify the
the opinions which the clerk has advisedly main-
tained. 2d, The doctrines of the Church which
the opinions are alleged to contravene, and the par•
titular articles or formularies which contain these
doctrines. In Dr. IVlLLlAms'case, there is the
peculiarity that the writing prosecuted is a _Review,
and this is the first case of a clergyman prosecuted

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