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

THE SLAVE TRADE.

TREATY BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND
THE REPUBLIC OF THE EQUATOR FOlt
TtiE ABOLITION OF THE TRAFFIC ICI
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
for 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 wits
any other not prohibited by the laws.
Art. 2. The Republic of the Equator agrees t•
treat as pirates, and to punish with the penalti..s
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,
may be found embarking, transporting, or disembark-
ing, one or more persons brought from Africa as
slaves.

Art 3. The Republic of the Equator will pronatil.
gate every other legislative provision that may be
deemed requisite 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 thus*
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 I,e
brought to trial in the manner hereinafter xi reed
upon.

IS THE DOVE SO VERT 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 dome/Pio
virtues—very fond of his home—loving his im
to a fault, and so very fond of his young on, s,
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 followiig
fact will suffice :—A short time since, Mr. Samuel, t io
tenant of Llwyngronw farm near Aberystwith, rescu d
a pigeon from the talons of a hawk, but "not before the
death-blow bad been given, and the pigeon died in
hands. Upon inspecting the " murdered innocent it"
mangled body, the farmer found it to be corpulent aid
plethoric, and with a crop bulging out as prominently as
a city alderman's " bow window." Taking out is
knife he made an incision, and found it to conta in
550 grains of wheat—all stolen from a recently so,
field belonging to Gogerddan farm, and which v% is
immediately contiguous to Llwyngronw. The tenaut
the iatter farm sowed the 550 grains in a corner of o'4o
of his fields, where the same may be seen by any o
who is curious in these matters. Mr. Samuel inform .d
the writer that there were hundreds of g
form o.
Te
al' reasonable gue as
Gogerddan wheat field when thhea hawkie!iiisdteuournhpsehdlinsthsr
Now supposing each of them to
grains, a disciple of Cocker may
of the havoc they must have madesuiereonteosicnogml e
erneianl-,
404 r
say nothing of the crows
who
are
crows that makes
their share. It is not un.zkely that it is some charity 40
feeling towards the pigeons and
Welsh farmers generally sow so thick, being quite sat .1•
fled that their pet birds will make the crop thin enou
before it grows up.— Welshman.
19thed burglaryinstant, was committed on
in the village of Tea-
FriAdayvemryorndienteniin
morning, the
burgh. Airs. Cooper, a widow, living upon her pro-
perty, was, with her niece, who slept in the same roc m,
alarmed about one o'clock in
the morning by some one
endeavouring to force the door of their bed-roam. They
asked who was there, when the door was directly broken
open with such force as to break it completely from the
gel. A man wrapped up in
a white tablecloth (taken
from the kitchen), his legs
enveloped in haybatids, to
prevent noise, with a bludgeon in his
hand, then entered
the room, and
upon the inmates calling out,
gI e desi. ed
them to be quiet, or he would murder them. Ile t;Jen
desired them to deliver all the money they had in the
house, which they immediately gave him, whidn he
quietly walked down stairs and out of the house. This
was evidently the work of a person who knew the hoes*
well, or who had been minutely informed of its ways.
On Wednesday two young men living in the neighbour-
hood, named William Peck and William Hurst, were
committed to the Castle for the robbery by the Rev.
Ellis Burroughes and William Gwynn, Esq.--Norwich
Mercury.
FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—On Saturdr,y, information
was received by the Metropolitan ptio::dic:bs n
thateo dleVdilf
that town, luum
Stephens, a Birmingham prizefighter, _
charged with the manslaughter of an int !rt.-
dual called the " Manchester Pet," with whom he; fought
a pitched battle on Tuesday last, and who has sir ce died
of the injuries received.
Tus N
Ew IRISH WHEAT Caor.-We have very
favourable accounts of the appearance of the yot mg
wheat in various parts of the country. Some fields in the
county of Dublin, which we have seen, present a
healthy aspect. The Liverpool Times says---,. We are
glad to say that the new wheat is coming up very, re, Su-
lady, and that it presents a fine healthy nPiwrance
Dublin Post.