The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-29 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TRADE.

TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND
THE REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR FOR
THE ABOLITION OF THE TRAFFIC IN
SLAVES.

A copy of the treaty between her Majesty and the
Republic of the Equator has been presented, by
command, to both Houses of Parliament. The treaty,
was signed at Quito on the 24th of May, 1841, and
ratifications exchanged at the same place on the sth
'of July, 1847. The respective Plenipotentiaries
were, on the part of her Majesty, Walter Cope, Esq.,
Consul in the Equator; and on behalf of the Re-
public, Senior Francisco Marcos, Secretary of State
for the Interior and Foreign Affairs. The articles
are fourteen in number, and full instructions are an-
nexed in the shape of supplemental articles. The
principal articles are in the following terms:—
Art. 1. Great Britain and the Republic of the
Equator declare the traffic in slaves abolished for
ever. And, in order to avoid any doubts that may
hereafter occur from any circumstance proving pre-
judicial to the interests of commerce and navigation,
for want of a proper explanation of the real spirit of
the phrase " traffic in slaves," do here mutually
declare to be understood by such traffic such only
which is carried on in Negroes brought from Africa,
in order to transport them to other parts of the world
)r sale; but in no manner whatever the conveying
from one port or place to another belonging to the
Republic the slaves existing within it, be such under-
taken either with the object of selling them, or with
any other not prohibited by the laws.
Art. 2 The Republic of the Equator agrees to
treat as pirates, and to punish with the penalties
which the existing penal laws impose on pirates, all
such Equatorians who, on the high seas, or in any
other place under the jurisdiction of the Republic,
oily he found embarking, transporting, or disembark-
ing., one or more persons brought from Africa as
slaves.

Art 3. The Ilepubli:: of the .Eluator will promul-
gate every other legislative provision that may be
deemed rvqui.ite for the prevention of her citizens
engaging in any way in the said traffic in slaves, and
for the complete extinction thereof; seeing that the
same are in harmony with those which may be pro-
mulgated by Great Britain. for the like object, and
with the constitutional principles of the Republic.
Art. 4. In order more completely to prevent any
infringement of the spirit of the present treaty, the
high contracting parties mutually consent that those
ships of their respective navies, which shall be pro-
vided with special instructions for that purpose, as
hereinafter mentioned, may visit such merchant
vessels of the two nations as may, upon reasonable
grounds, be suspected of being engaged in the traffic
in slaves, or of having been fitted out for that purpose,
or of having, during the voyage on which they are
met by the said cruisers, been engaged in the traffic
of slaves, contrary to the provisions of this treaty;
and that such cruisers may detain, and send or carry
away such vessels, in order that they might be
brought to trial in the manner hereinafter agreed
upon.

IS THE DOVE SO VERY INNOCENT AFTER ALL?-
In these days of universal scepticism, even the innocence
of the dove is called in question, especially by farmers.
That its personal habits are anything but cleanly has
long been known ; but it is a violent stretch of logic to
conclude that a bird is of unsound morals merely because
he is a sloven. No doubt from time immemorial
he has borne a very high character for the domestic
virtues—very fond of his home—loving his mate
to a fault, and so very fond of his young ones,
and civil to his neighbours, that he only requires a
spark of common. honesty to be a paragon of birds.
But after all the fellow is a thief, and a thief wholesale,
and this the farmer has to his sorrow long known. To
give a sample of the pigeon's pilfering propensities, and
of the extent of the mischief which this sentimental
depredator is apt to commit upon a farm, the following
tact will suffice :—A short time since, Mr. Samuel, the
tenant of Llwyngronw farm near Aberystwith, rescued
a pigeon from the talons of a hawk, but not before the
death-blow had been given, and the pigeon died in his
hands. Upon inspecting the " murdertd innocent's"
mangled body, the farmer found it to be corpulent and
plethoric, and with a crop bulging out as prominently as
a city alderman's "bow window." Taking out his
knife he made an incision, and found it to contain
550 grains of wheat—all stolen from a recently sown
field belonging to Gogerddan farm, and which was
immediately contiguous to Llwyngronw. The tenant of
the latter farm sowed the 550 grains in a corner of one
of his fields, where the same may be seen by any one
who is curious in these matters. Mr. Samuel informed
the writer that there were hundreds of pigeons in the
Gogerddan wheat field when the hawk disturbegthse4om.
Now supposing each of them to have pioked uR. .
grains, a disciple of Cocker may forma reasonable guess
sax merd—to
of the havoc they must have made in one
to•come
in
for
it
say nothing of the crows who are sure
their share. It is not unlikely that is some charitable
feeling towards the pigeons and crows that makes the
Welsh sow so thick, being quite satis-
fiedm
make the crop thin enough
thattheir farmers
pet genbeirarislyl
before it grows up.— Welshman.

:punonillithteder pro.
Friday morning, the 19th
01-
burglary
liwviansg
slept in the same room,
instant, in the village of Tee.
A very determined
pbeurrtgyh;waills: rws.itChohoeprern,iena
ew,
widhonw,
alarmed about one o'clock in the morning by some one
i
endeavouring to force the door of their bed-room, They
asked who was there, when the dootr was directly broken
open with such force as to break icompletely from the
hinges. A
.man wrapped up in a
his legs white tablecloth
. (taken
pfrroemventhtenketistceh,
kitchen),
a bludgeon enveloped in heybands, to
in hit
.hand, then entered
the room, and upon the inmaldtes calling
desired them to deliver all the out, he desired
murder thou. He then
them to be quiet, or he w
.house, which they immediatelymgoanveey thheimy,hawdhiena the
quietly walked down stairfs and out of the house. This
was evidently the work orni anniTerlslnwf who knewd the house
well, or who had been of 1!,11. ways.
On Wednesday two young men livingorimeth
hood, named William Peck and Wilrlliamelinuer
werenr-
c,ona.mitted to the Castle for the robbery by the, Her.
Ellis Burroughes and William Gwynn, Esq.—Norwich
Mercury.
FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Saturday, information
was received by the Metropolitan police that William
Stephens, a Birmingham prizefighter, had absconded rep?'
that town, charged with the manslabghter of an indivi-
dual called the " Manchester Pet," with whom he fought
a pitched battle on Tuesday last, and who has since died
of the injuries received.
THE NEW IRISH WHEAT CROP.--,WE have very
favourable accounts of the appearance of the young
wheat in various parts of the country. Some fields in the
I county of Dublin, which. we have seen, present a very
healthy aspect. The Liverpool Times says—" We are
glad to say that the new wheat is coming up very regu.
lay
Postei, and that t presents a fine healthy appearapee...-