The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-27 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE.

We have just seen a private letter from the Ha-
vannah, stating the arrival there of a slave-trader
prize to her Majesty's ship Ringdovc, Captain Keith
Stewart.

This vessel, called the Jesus MAria, with the alias of
the Tres Hermanas, is represented as of not more than
25 tons burden, Spanish measurement, and yet to have
had not less than the almost incredible number of two
hundred and fifty.two slaves, besides a crew of
tweh e men and three passengers, on board at the time
of the capture, which took place on the 29th of De-
cember last, about seven miles from the Danish island
of S luta Cruz.

Through the exercise of distinguished humanity and
care by Lieutenant Tarleton and his prize crew, who
brought this wretched vessel into the Havannah
on the 9th of January, she had only lost eleven of
the victims between the date of the capture and the
time of her reaching the Spanish port. In the act
of entering the harbour, the man who had exer-
cised the compound functions of master, owner, and
supercargo, by name Vincente Morales, and by
birth a Spaniard, made his mope from the prize by
jumping overboard, but his papers had previously been
t iken from him, so that this circumstance would pro
holly not even cause any delay in her condemnation.
It is not easy, by the way, to suppose any adequate mo-
tive on his part for incurring such a risk, since it would
be contrary to all former preccderit to imagine that
the Spanish authorities, to whom he must have been de-
livered over in the ordinary course of proceeding, would
have given themselves the trouble of subjecting him
to any sort of punishment. Such is the boasted co-
operation of that proud and high-minded nation in the
suppression of the slave-trade !

The letter referred to further states, that the Jesus
Maria was fitted out in the Danish island of St.
Thomas ; that she took in her human cargo at the
R o Zebra, about a degree to the south of Sierra
Leone ; and that her destination was Ponce, in the
island of Porto Rico. In the temporary absence of
her Majesty's Commissioners at the Havannah for the
suppression of the SI lye-trade, immediate measures are
said to have been taken by the Consul for the relief of
the unhappy victims, most of whom were totally unable
to stand or stretch their limbs for many hours after the
time of arrival, in consequence of their extreme ema-
ciation.

A further melancholy proof of the remissness shown
in that part of the world in putting down this diaboli-
cal traffic, is derived from t•.ze faq that this is the first
instance of any slaver being carried into the Havannah
for adjudication by the mixed Court at that place during
the last two years.—Times.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Some weeks ago
a communication was made to Mr. Wakley, the Coroner,
to the eff ct that a man named Arzoni, a marine colour
manufacturer, of No. 28, Chalton-street, Fitzroy-square,
bad, with his youngest child, a little girl, two years and a
half old, died under very suspieilus circumstances, and
been buried in the burying-ground attached to the Taber-
nacle, Tottenham-court-road. Mr. Wakley, on the receipt
of such information, although they had been buried above
three weeks, issued his warrant to Carter, the beadle of St,
Pancras, in which parish Arzoni had resided, for the ex-
humation of the bedics, for the purpose of holdrfig inquests
thereon. After a protracted inquiry, the Jury in each case
returned a verdict of " Natural death." A week or two
afterwards the eldest boy, aged thirteen, died, and on the
body b. ing opened, death could not be a'tributed to any,
other than natural causes. About ten days ago Mts. Ar-
zoni gave birth to a mate infant, valid' died a few hours
after it was born. That has likewise been opened, but
with no sati,factory results. In the early part of the pre-
sent week Mrs. Arzoni died, and the deaths having fol-
lowed in such rapid succession, Mr. Wakley was apprised
of the circumstance. Yesterday, in the course of an in-
quest held at the hospital, Mr. Wakley told the beadle that
be had been made acquainted with the death of Mrs. Ar-
zat.i ; but a post mortem examination of the body having
been made, and the precise cause cf death not having been
aseertaice 1, ho thought it useless to hold an inquest. Mr.
Hensley, the house surgeon, said the mother, son, and in-
fant all went off in the same way, gradually, as though
going to sleep. Mr. Wakley strongly suspected poison
bad been imbibed. It was a very suspicious and myst.,ri-
ous occurrence, and the faculty having been unable to dis-
cover in either case the close of death made it the most
remarkable on reccrd. The only remaining child, under
ten ears of age, is hourly expected to die.
Gall discovered each organ and its faculty either
by meeting with individuals very remarkable for the later,
so that he was led to examine their beads; or by noticing
a peculiarity of formation in the head, which induced
to ascertain their talents and character. He did not exa-
mine remat kable persons according to the siews entertained
of the faculties by metaphysicians ; but according to points
in which the world at large pronounced them remarkable,
—accordingly as they nere courageous, avaricious, kind.
hearted, cr excelled as poets, mimics, linguists, philoso-
phers. He would Lever have made his discoveries bad be

not met with persons remarkable in these respects. Some-
times the relation between the remarkable faculty and quality
and the local development was tolerably oblious, but gene
rally he had to make numerous observations before he found
himself right. After having found two indisidusls remark-
able in the same point of character, and cast their Leads,
he sometimes examined the casts daily for months before
he could discover the precise spot in which they agreed.
The discovery being now made, a good orgaaologist will
give judgments upon character which must aconi,h, and
incontestably prove the truth of phrenology: but the diffi-
culty of making the discovery when all was utter darkness
must have been extreme. —Elliotson's Human Phystioloo.
FRENCH LEVITY.—There is a " bal abormc, '
as ith Rotert Dillon at the head, called '• Les mks de la
Guillotine." None arc admitted but femmes presentees,
and fits de pendus. Femmes presentees arc those who
had been presented at Court prior to the Revolution;
fils de pendus —eons of those who had perished by the
lantern, guillotine, &c. A more painful instance of
French levity can scarcely be adduced.—Swinburne's
Courts of Europe.