The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-04 00:00:00

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THE SLAVE TRADE.
Tne following is a copy of the Commercial Gnvention
with the King and Chiefs of Cape Mount, west coast of
Africa:—

" 1. The slave trade is totally abolished, and all traffic in
slaves punishable.
" 2. English vessels shall enjoy free and unrestricted in-
tercourse with the native population.
"3. All Englishmen landing are to be protected.
" 4. A British factory may be established.
"5. In the event of any misunderstanding between the
natives and any person or persons under the protection of
England, the offending parties shall be delivered over to the
country to which they may belong, to be punished according
to law."
By an additional article it is further agreed ;
"That no slaves belonging to natives, not their subjects,
nor tributary to them, or to foreigners ( white men), shall be
permitted, on any account whatever, to enter and pass through
the territory of Cape Mount, &c.
" This additional article to have the same force and effect
as if it had been inserted, word for word, in the conven-
tion."

The above treaty was signed on the 21st February, 1841.
Further engagements entered into in January, 1846 :
" At an adjourned meeting and solemn palaver, held on
the banks of the river at Cape Mount, on 2d January, 1846,
between the Bing and the Chiefs of that country and Wil-
liam Douglas Brisbane, commanding her Majesty's sloop
the Larne, the following articles and conditions were agreed
upon :

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" Art. I. The conditions of the Convention of 1841 are
fully admitted to be binding on the Bing and Chiefs, &C.,
of Cape Mount.
" All the provisions of that engagement for the suppres-
sion of the foreign slave trade are fully confirmed; the ex-
port of slaves to foreign countries is for ever abolished ; and
all persons within the territory of Cape Mount, whether
subject to the Chiefs or being within their jurisdiction, guilty
of selling or assisting at the sale of any slave, shall be se-
verely punished.
" Att. 2. No European or other person shall be permitted to
reside within the territory of the Chiefs of Cape Mount for
the purpose of carrying on, in any way, the slave trade.
"Art. 3. If at any time it may be found that the slave
trade has been carried on through or from the territory of the
Chiefs of Cape Mount, Great Britain may interfere, in order
by force to suppress the same. British officers may seize
vessels and boats found engaged in carrying on the slave
trade; and the Chiefs of Cape Mount.will subject themselves
to a severe act of displeasure on the part of the Queen of
England.

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"Art. 4. The subjects of the Queen of England may
always trade freely with the-people of Cape Mount, in every
article they may wish to buy or sell, in all places, ports, and
rivers within the territories of the Chiefs of Cape Mount ;:and
the latter pledge themselves not to show any favour, and not
to give any privilege to the ships and traders of other coun-
tries which they do not show to those of England.
" Signed at New Florence, on the river of Cape Mount, on
the 2d of, January, 1846; and afterwards on the same day
approved` of and confirmed on beard her MajestY's ship '''-'3***,54"141
Penelope, in the name of her Britannic Majesty, by Com-
mander W. Jones, the senior officer commanding the British
squadron."
Complaints now urged by Chiefs at Cape Mount—
"lt appears that the King and Chiefs of Cape Mount now
complain that although they are at present faithfully acting
up to the terms of the foregoing conditions with this coun-
try, and are, by so doing, forfeiting all the profits they for-
merly derived from the slave trade—
"No legitimate commerce has yet found its way to their
shores, to compensate them for the loss of that trade,
although, as they state, their country is rich in corn, wood,
timber, palm oil, ivory, and gold dust."
This important question will no doubt be taken into con-
sideration by the Foreign and Colonial-offices, and by the
Board of Trade, in order to concert measures for the opening
of a trade between Sierra Leone and Cape Mount.

THE FACTORY BILL.

Tuesday a deputation, consisting of some of the delegates
from the manufacturing districts of the north of England,
waited on Lord John Russell, and presented him with 13 me-
morials from as many short-time committees and associated
bodies of factory workers and traders. They also presented
the following letter from Lord Ashley :

" March 2, 1847.

" My Loid,—By desire of the short-time committees of the
counties of Lancaster and York, I have the honour to present
toyour Lordship tli eir several memorials, praying that the long-
agitated question of the Ten Hours Bill may be speedily
settled. . _

"Your Lordship will observe that many memorials are
added from artizans and mechanics, expressive of their sym-
pathy with the operatives in factories.
" Your Lordship will also be good enough to observe that
the memorials state the desire of the working people to leave
the matter of wages to be determined by the demand and
supply of labour, and that they are ready, with a view to the
permanent settlement of the question, to accept a period of
eleven hours for the experiment of the limitation, and defer
the period of ten hours until the benefit of the enactment
shall have been ascertained by the experience of two years.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord.
"Your most obedient servant,

" ASHLEY.

" The Lord John Russell, M.P., First
Lord of the Treasury.
" I add a memorial from Mr. Irvin, the vicar of Leigh,
Lancashire, and twelve other clergymen."

EXTRAORDINARY APPLICATION
REFUSAL TO BURY A CORPSE....-110Sday Mr. Assinder,
jun., a cheer, onger, in Cannou-streetgroad, who was accom-
Yanied by his father; reaewed an application keilEade to Mr.
ardley, a month. ago, at the Thames Police-lb, to com-
pel a per in' named John Cox, a milkman, of No. 37, Chapel-
street, St. George's-in••the-East, to bury tgrUdy okhis
1 (Cox's) mother, who died eightlifts ago. Mr. Iswkfinder
complained that Cox was one of his father's tenants, and
that his mother, an aged woman, died eight weeks ago, and
the body still remained unburidd. The son of the deceased
laboured under an impression that his mother was in a trance;
but nothing could be more absurd, for the body was in a
decomposed state, and the face of the corpse was mouldy and
all manner of colours. The decomposed remains were very
offensive to the people in the adjoining houses, and the
neighbourhood was in a state of excitement about it. The
man, Cox, had been expostulated with, but to no effect, and
seemed determined to keep the body above gtound.
Mr. Yardley remembered the last application, and was
surprised the remains of the old woman had not been inter-
red. He had recommended that the parish officers should
be applied to to abate the nuisance.
Mr. Assinder said that Overton, the parish beadle, had
waited upon Mr. Cox, who turned a deaf ear to his entrea-
ties, and the beadle then referred the matter to the trustees,
who declined any active interference in the case.
Mr. Yardley thought the parish officers were bound to look
after this matter and abate the nuisance—for a nuisance it
must be to keep the body of a woman in a dwelling-house in
a crowded neighbourhood.
Mr. Assinder said that Cox would neither pay any rent,
leave the house, or bury the body. His deceased mother
hired the house.
Mr. Yardley said the tenancy was now vested in the son,
and there was a legal process by which he could be compelled
to pay the rent and be ejected from the possession. He
thought the applicant might, under the circumstances, seize
the coffin containing the body, and decently inter it, and he
had no doubt the parish officers would give him all the as-
, sistance in their power. -
Mr. Assinder thanked the magistrate, and said he would
' not only put an execution into the house of the man Cox, but
remove the body of the old woman and bury it.

A PRETTY PARSON.—At the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, held at York Castle, on Saturday last, before Charles
Phillips, Esq., the Rev. Lawrence Eyre, late of Dalby Rectory,
near Terrington, and formerly of Barton-upon-Humber, ap-
plied for his discharge, and was opposed by Mr. Blan-
shard on behalf of Mr. Gray, solicitor, York, Mr. William
Ashton, Mr. Jonathan Wilson, Messrs. Barber and North. sil-
versmiths, York, and Mr. John Taylor, upholsterer, York.
The insolvent was supported by Mr. Dowse. The
grounds of objection urged by Mr. Blanshard, were_
tirst, that some of the debts were contracted under
false pretences; secondly, that they were contracted with-
out any probable expectation of being able to pay
them ; that the insolvent had made away with his
property ; and two creditors had been omitted
from his schedule, viz., Miss Longley and Miss Plint, of
Leeds, to the former of whom, by the report of the Master in
Chancery, the insolvent owed 4001. Miss Plint's debt had
been contracted in the education of a Miss Hall, whom

the insolvent represented as his niece. The insolvent had
petitioned the Leeds Bankruptcy Court, but Mr. Commis-
sioner Burge had so high an opinion of this reverend gentle-
man that the petition was dismissed. The insolvent, in his
examination, stated that his stipend had tbeen mt. per an-
num, and admitted that he had obtained money by false pre-
tences from Mr. Ashton ; that over Miss Longley he had been
placed as trustee, and had been called to account for the dis-
position of her propetty by the Court of Chancery; that the
sum claimed by Miss Flint was for the education of a Miss
Hall, who lived with him for a year and a half, and has since
married her; that he bought her a watch and appendages of
the value of 301., for which lie gave two notes of hand and
101, and afterwards pawned it; that he obtained 271. worth
of furniture from the shop of Mr. Taylor, for which he never
paid, and gave it to Miss Hall's mother, at the time repre-
senting that it was for a young relative just setting up house-
keeping, and giving the address, " Mr. James Sowerby, Nay-
lor's-row, Drypool, Hull," whereas it was for Mrs. Hall, of
that place, who was the wile of a briekmaker. The insol-
vent so prevaricated while under examination, as to call forth
the marked censure of the Commissioner, who said that
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INSTALLATION OF A FRENCII LODGE OF FREE-
mAsoNs.—Tuesday night, at the Freemasons Hall, Great
Qaeen-street, the ceremonies of the installation of the first
French Freemasons' Lodge in England took place. At the
request of a cunsiderable number of the brethren of the craft,
natives of France, a warrant for the installation of the lodge
was granted by the Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, the
Most Worshipful Grand Master of England, and the cere-
monies were conducted upon a very grand scale. The lodge
bears the title of " Loge Francaise de la Tolerance," and the
carrying out the principle (the title would import) in its
fullest extent, ladies are to be admitted as brethren, or rather
sisteca of the craft. Brother White was ehllooeductgres,ed.
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completed, the party assembled, in number about fifty, sat
down to a sumptuous banquet.
EMPLOYING THE DESTITUTE POOR. Tuesday,
by command of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests,
a great number of poor destitute men were employed ditch-
ing and repairing the carriage
Park.

PRICE or WHEAT.--We understand that according
to advices just received, the contract price of wheat for the
navy is from 80a. to 82s. per quarter at Brest ; and freights
from Odessa are enormously high.
ARMY (INDIA).—Returns have just been laid be-
fore Parliament relative to the strength of the army in India
in 1837 and 1845. It appears, therefore, that, in 1837,
there were 109 lieutenant-colonels, 139 majors, 625 captains,
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1,181 lieutenants, 637 comets, 9,384 European non-com-
missioned and rank and file, and 151,971 native commis-
sioned, non-commissioned, and rank and fila. In 1845,
nere were 115 lieutenant-colonels, 146 ma jors, 624 cap-
tains, 1,512 lieutenants, 754 comets, 11,115 European non.
commissioned and rank and file, and 235,684 native com-
missioned and non-commissioned, and rank and file. The
great increase has been in the native infantry in the three
Presidencies.