The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-11 00:00:00

SLifirE.

itHE PA PE

( From the Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.)
Among those unfortunates guilty of loving freedom
too we'll, was a young quadroon girl, named Emily
Russell, whose mother is now living in Now York. The
writer has seen and conversed with her. She is a pious
woman, highly esteemed and respected, a member of a
Christian church.

By the avails of her own industry, she purchased her
freedom, and also redeemed from bondage some of her
children. Emily was a resident of Washington, D.C.,
a place which belongs not to any State, but to the United
States, and there, under the laws of the United States,
she was held, as a slave; She was of a gentle disposition,
and amiable manners ; she had been early touched. with
a sense of religious things, and was on the point of
uniting herself to the Christian Church ; but her heart
yearned after her widowed mother, and after freedom,
and so, on the fatal night, when all the other poor vic-
tims sought escape by the Pearl, the child Emily went
also among them.
They were taken. The sin of the poor girl was inex-
piable. Because she longed for her mother's arms and
for liberty, she would not be forgiven. Nothing would
do for such a sin, but to throw her into the hands of the
trader. She also was thrown into Bruin and Hill's gaol,
in Alexandria. Her poor mother in New York received
the following letter from her. Read it, Christian mo-
ther, and think what if your danghter had written it to
you ? . _

"Alexandria, .Tan. 22, 1850.
"My dear Mother,—l take this opportunity of writing
you a few lines, to inform you that I am in Bruin's Gaol,
and Aunt Sally, and all of her children, and Aunt Hagar
and all her children, and grindmother is almost crazy. My
dear mother,' will you please to come on as soon as you
can ? I expect to go away very shortly. 0, mother ! my
dear mother ! come now and see your distressed and heart-
broken daughter once more ! Mother, my dear mother !
do not forsake me, for I feel desolate. Please to come
now.

"Your daughter, " EMILY RUSSELL.
"To Mrs. Nancy Cartwright, New York.
" P.S. If you do not come as far as Alexandria, come
to Washington, and do what you can."
That letter, blotted and tear-soiled, was brought by
this poor washerwethan to some Christian friends in New
York, and shown to them. "What do you suppose they
will ask fOr her ?" was her question. All that she had
—her little house, her little furniture, her small earnings
—all these pilior Nancy was willing'to throw in ; but all
these were btit•as a drop in' the bueket.
The first thing to be done, then, was to ascertain what
Emily could be redeemed for ; and, as it may be, an in-
teresting iteth of American trade, we give the reply of
traders in full :=

!" " Alexandria' Jan. 31, 1850.
" Dear sir,,—When I- received YOU/. letter r had not
bought the negroes you spoke of, but since that time I have
bought them:. All f have to say about the'matter is, that
we paid very high for the negroes, and canna afford to sell
the girl Emi4. f'o'r less than' eighteeh -hundred' dollars; This
may seem a high price to you, but, cotton being very high,
consequently slaves are high. We have two or three offers
for Emily from-gentlemen from the south. She is said to
be the finest-looking woman in this country. As for
Hagar and her seven children, we will take two thousand
five hundred dollars for them. Sally and her four children,
we will take for them two thoisand -eight hundred dollars;
You may seem a little -surprised at -the difference in prices,
but the difference in-the negroes makes the difference' in,
price. We expect to start south'with the negroes on the
Bth of February, and if you intend to do anything, you had,
better do it soon.—Yours, Xepectfully,
" Baum and HILL."

This lettei'canie to -N6*-Yerk before the case of the.
Edmousons had called the' attention of the community,
to this sallject... The enormous price asked, entirely dis-
couraged effert, and, before anything of importance',-was
done, they heard--that the coffie: had departed, with.
Emily in' it. •
Hear, 0 heavens ! and give ear, .0 earth !. Let it be
known, in all the countries of the earth, that the pricei
of a beautiful Christian girl in America, when she is set
up to be sold to‘a life of aflame, is from eighteen hundred
to two thoTand dollars ; ,4nd , yet, judicatories in the
church of C have said, in solemn_ conclave, that
American slavery as it is is no evil!. .
From the; table of the i4orament and from the san

tuary of thel Church of, Christ this girl was torn away,
because her beauty was a saleable- article in the Cave
market in New Orleans !
Perhaps dome northern apologist for slavery will say
she was kindly treated . here—not handcuffed by the
wrist to' a chain, and forced to walk, as articles less
choice are ; that a waggoh was provided; and
_that she
rode ; and that food abundant was given her to eat, and
that her clothing was warm and comfortable' and -',7iere•
fore no harm .was done. We have heard it told us,
again and again, that
-there is no harmin slavery, if one
is only warm enough, and full-fed, and comfortable. It
is true that the slave-woman has no protection from the
foulest dishonour and the utmost insult that can be
offered to womanhood—none whatever in law or gospel ;
but so long as she has enough to eat. and wear, our
Christian fathers and mothers tell us. it •is not so bad ! '

Poor Emily could not think so.• There .was no eye to
pity, and pone -to -help. The food of her accursed lot
did not nourish her; the warmest clothing could not
keep the chill of slavery from her heart. In the middle
of the overland passage, sick, weary,, heartbroken, the
child laid down her head and died, By that lonely
pillow therg was no mother, but there was one Friend,
who, loveth at all times, who, is closer than, a:brother.
Could our eyes be touched by the • seal .of faith, where
others see the only 'wilderness, and the dy;ng 'girl, we,
perhaps, see' one clothed in celestial beauty, waiting for
that short agony-'to be-over, that-He might redeem her
from all iniquity, and present her- -faultless before, the
preience of his grace with exceeding joy ?
Even the hard-hearted trader was touched with her
sad fate, and we are ,credibly informed •that he said he
was sorry he had taken her.
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Bruin- and Hill wrote to New York that the girl
Emily was dead. The• Quaker, William Harned, went
with the letter to break the news to her mother. Since
she had given up all hope of redeeming'her daughter
from the dreadful doom to which she had been sold, the
helpless mother had dropped like a stricken woman.
She no longer lifted up her head, or seemed to take any
interest in life.,

Whenl/Ir. Harned called op her, she asked, eagerly,
"Haye you heard anything from my daughter ?"
" Yes Illave," was the reply, "a. letter from Bruin
and lid"
" And what is the news ?"
He thought it best to give a direct answer,
.
is dead."

"Emily

The poor mother elaiped her 'hands, and, looking up-
wards, said, " The Lord be thanked ! He has heard
my prayers at last !"

And now, will it•be said this is an exceptional case—
it happens one time in a thoUsand ? - Though we know
this is the foulest of falsehoods, and that the case is only
a specimen of what is acting everyday 'in the American
slave trade' yet, for argument's sake, let us, for once,
admit it to be true. If only once in this nation, under
the protection of our law, a-Christian girl had been torn
from the altar and the communion-table, and sold to
foulest shame and dishonour, would that have been a
light sin ?

. •
POPULATION.—It may ,be fairly assumed that more
than 80,000 souls from all quarters of the world have
lauded on our shores during the past year. The entire
population of the colony at the present moment may be
,stated at- more than '200,000 souls The principal in-
convenience felt- by ziew-comers is the want of house ac-
commodation. The abundance of money, and the defi-
• cienoy in, effective labour,- have raised the expenses of
building far above the'point at which it would be a pro-
- fitable investment for capital.,
„The nuriaber of buildings
erected in the city within the year, bears no proportion
• to- the increase of-the population. -But already we dis-
cover symptoms of re-action in this respect ; and we think
that the ensuing year will witness a revival-in the building
trade, and a great extension and improvement- of the thty.
. .Meantime; the want is partially-Isupplied by tents and
small wooden buildings in'the outskirts. On the
southern bank of the YarraYarra there is a population
• of font or five thointand living in tents ; and all' around
• the boundaries of the city wooden 'cottages are daily-
springing.np. The scheme for affording tempOrary shel-
ter to' newly-airived-inamigrants has been carried for-
" ward with spirit. The private subscriptions amount to
nearly 40091.; to which the Government is to add 8,000/.
• The. Wesleyan-Methodists 'have erected' a building for
the temporary accommodation of immigrants, of their
own-and -Other derMnii nations, in 'want df shelter.
Despite all such efforts;'heweVer, there must be a peat
amount of privation; as ive'have said ; but it will rarely
sink to actual destitution, and' at worst: is only tem-
porary. The immigrant, once landed, if he has any self-
helpfulneSSat all, speedily finds means to ward off actual
want, and sooner or later gains a footing from which it
is his, own fault if hedoes not stride rapidly forward into
competence and- comfort. —Melbourne 4 rgus. • - -
CONFERENCE OF DELEoATE6 FROM THI PROTESTANT
AtI,IAtfaO§.6IGREAT 11RiTAIN.—Con Frida'y'lasta: meet-
ing 'war hild at Btimifighina; which the Proteitant
Affianced' of -the folkiwing towns had been invited to
wKen Man-
chester,Pl y
erid.deleßgiartmesin:Laaltildßorni,sttoeiBntli.unrgehl,enlr
Month; Newcastle,• Stroud,' Sheffield, Worcester, Wol-
verhampton,-Stafford;'Leeds, Nottinghain, York, Chel-
tenham, Smith Shields,'Norwieh, Ryde, Stoke4tpon-
, Pretit, Ea,stliondon, TorqUay,' Leaming-
ton, Hull, Leicester,, Shrewsbury, Sentliatipton; Derby,
• 'lslington,- DevonPdit,'"l34th, NeWbury, i Stonehouse,
Tonbridge Wells,- Gravesend, Durham, l'eterborotigh,
Stamford;' Hereford 'Blackheath,, Weyrhouth and Brad-
ford, Norwood,'Pieeton, Dorset, and Weston-
super-Flare: The bUsineal of the conference was com-
menced by a preliminary meeting:for arrangement, held
at twelve o'clock, and from ' that hour ' until half-past
five the delegates were engaged 'in discussion of the vari-
ous operations connected with the alliance. -The meet-
ing 'was not one of public demonstration, selely for
private deliberation.- 'Among the subjects whieh'occu-
pied the attention of the:delegateS were the Modes of en-
lightening •the
:Public with respect to popery, and pro-
tenant trtithe; 'by Meeting's, lectures, amnions, the press
colperteurs, missionaries, sehools;:contro-
'Venda} &c., Ste. From about twenty otthe
more important alliances accOnnts were-furnished of the
• Sti'deOis" attending-their ' efforts; "and the :energy With
,whiclithe'Verk was'-carribdidn'in Scotland was rega,rdbd
bighly'enouraging. Was intimlfed also that `the
Protestant Alliance, with - the 62 kindred associations
connected' *Writ, was increasing'in efficiency every day.
Attention Wasc' directed to the present Condition of po-
' pery at 'hoine, in regard to which an inquiry into the
;teaching and effects of Maynooth WaS,l'expeeted to be in-
stituted by the Housis'of Lords; and was to be in-
troduced into the Himise of Commons for the inspection
'and centre/ of 'nunneries, while the jaer§eoutin, cruelty
etp6pery abrOdd hair teen eianally eXposeci ;u,(?
.clefelted
by the 'exertions eilled forth at the instance of the pro-
teetantATliailen on behalf of the released, prisonersl the
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SPORTING NOTES.—No. OCCOIX.

NEWMAtItET CRAVEN' 'MEETING.
This meeting, now in its eighty-second year, having
been established in 1771, and named in compliment to
the Earl of Craven, will commence to-day at half-past
one with the CriiTen Stakei. I have already commented
upon to-day's racing, and I have merely to add that
Frantic and Gossip will receive forfeit in their respective
matches. -

The races commence to-morrow also at half-past one,
I believe with the sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for three-
years-old and upwards, over the first half of the A.B.M.
This, with the 501. plate for two-years-old over the same
course, does not close and name until this evening. A
two-years old plate is a bit of a novelty at Newmarket
in the Craven meeting—this being the first that I can
recollect ever having been proposed.
The Newmarket Handicap, the ninth of the series,
out of a subsCription list of eighty-eight has obtained
-fifty acceptances the field, however, will but little ex-
ceed a baker's dozen, if it does at all, the great fa-
vouritism of Contentment and Ethelbert frightening the
majority of the animals away. The latest accounts name
the following as the starters :—Weathergage, Contriore
or Charley, Koh-i-Noor, The Little Salrage, Antigone,
Herbert, Peacock, Grapeshot, Ethelbert, Jack the
Giant Killer, Gavotte, Contentment, sister to Cara,-
cara, and Nerva. Any addition to, or subtraction
made from this list by five o'clock this evening will ap-
pear in the seven o'clock edition of The Sun. My opi-
nion of the result of the race I expressed last week,
when I awarded the first, second, and third places to
NERVA, ETHELBERT, and Contentment. Antigone and
Herbert I expect will be fourth and fifth, with Grape-
shot heading the ruck.
The twentietli -Tuesday's Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 '
sovs. each, h ft, over the D. M., according to present
arrangements—which may be capsized with respect to
one horse, Constantine, by the running to-day—will be
contested by erlenavon, Phrygia, Constantine, Diomedia,
and perhaps Talfourd ; DIOMEDIA and GLENAVON being
the probable occupants of the first and second places.
A Sweepstakes of 100 sovs., over the D. M. will only
have two at the post, the result being—EsTBELLA
(Nat), 1 ; Phrygia (Norman), 2.
Another Sweepstakes' of 100 sovs. each, over the
D. M., is uncertain in the number of starters ; for
should Filbert put in an appearance he will have but a
sohtary ofiponent, who, of course, will not be able to
beat him. Should he, be reserved, however, for the
Column on the following day, War Whoop will have the
felicity of beating Dabchick, Jupiter Tonans, and
Cobnut. _ -

THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

TATTERSALL'S—SATURDAY.
:NEWMARKET HANDICAP.
2to 1 agst Contentment (taken).
5 to 2 agst Ethelbert.
sto 1 agst Nerves,
CHESTER CUP.
8 to 1 agst Trifle, (taken).
10 to l'agst RiOnaond (taken and offered.)
20 to 1 dgst Newminster, (taken). •
33 to 1 agst Ann Page (taken).
40 to 1 agst Ann Eliza (taken).
DERaiY.
10 to 1 agst Pharos (taken).
10 to 1 agst West Australian.
10 to 1 agst HinieYwood (taken).
14 to 1 agst Cineas.. .
16 to I,a,gst Umbriel.
18 to agst Ninnyhammer.
20 to 1 agst Sittingbourne.
25 to 1 agst Ethelbert.
30 to '1 agst
40 to 1 a„gst Contentment. •