The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-21 00:00:00

/ ~,./4 .
,
1/44........=.1.11
/ : 'c.•
. .4 t.
0 estiii 44 ~.?fi'i/11,:;):'•
............,nn+
__.
~... ~, ~,../.„....,,,....4.74...,.._,,,...,.,,,,.,....,„....„,,,
......,,,
~,,..,,... :-.- ~,f, t . • '--
itke,,,- - 1.-
~.sliki ',...,,r. ~ 7 ' j.-.4' ;`+' ~.._. VA ,4.1114,11 ;21T1,
..),..--_-_ '
"\\7.._.7
,•,.. _ :,,,... -' O4- .. N,-"%ti. if :A. 3 Spy ---,..., :0 _- :.. Acorn; \
~ i.-r t', .
7,--* - ~ ' • 'Nti;;;;!-- DII. ' .-`-'• ..4....7 .."..,:tia;(4,,,h,111) • ~,,r/..----'
4"/- ; -.1.
4 ''.:4;:;:::,-;,4;•''

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUL Y 21, 1841.

N ATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY,
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.

tle-upon-Tyne—W. and H. Hodson, coal-merchants, Burton-
upon-Trent, Staffordshire—W. Stanley and G. Lithe, mer-
chants, Liverpool—J. Kershaw and E. Buckley, cotton-dealers,
Manchester—J. Coupland and T. Ross, jun., commission-
agents, Liverpool—E. Smith and G. Cleverly, grocers, South-
ampton—W. Goodson and T. Wcstmacott, silk-manufacturers,
Stenard-street, Spitalfields—M. A. Reckless and D. Davis,
dealers in fancy goods, Regent-street—F. Badgley and J. W.
S. Coward, surgeons, Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington—
C. Hardmcat and A. W. Healy, braziers, Wisbech St. Peter's,
Cambridgeshire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. .

No. 2ti, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
EIRECTOR a.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F. It. S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clament Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

A lIDITOItS.

JAMES APKELLAR and CO., printers, Glesgovr, July
23 and August 13, at twelve, at the chambers of James Drew,
Glasgow.
THOMAS DOBIE and DANIEL M'IVOR, road-con-
tractors, Edinburgh, July 23 and August 13,at two, at the Old
Signet Hall, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM HARVEY, jun., tanner, Campbeltown, July
23 and August 13, at the White Hart Inn, Campbeltown.
• JAMES BAXTER, distiller, Auchtergavt.n. Perthshire,
July 24 and August 6, at twelve, at the George Inn, Perth.
JOHN CRAIG, clothier, Dalkeith, July 24 and August 16,
at twelve, at the Old Signet Hall, Edinburgh.

Professor Whtat stone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F. R.S.
ACTUA RY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman-
ney, 6, Basinghall-street.

CITY AND BOROUGH ELECTORS.
The 20th of July being the last day allowed by the
Reform Act for paying the poor's-rates and window-tax,
in order to qualify the occupiers of 101. houses, &c. to
be upon the forthcoming register, we ben. to call the at-
tention of persons who have not paid their poor's-rates
to the following, viz. :
That it is only necessary to have paid those poor's-
rates which were demanded by the collector, or the per-
son from whom the rates were due, or by a written or
printed paper left at his residence previous to the 6th of
April last, which alone constitute a legal demand.
The Reform Act requires that all rates payahle before
the 6th of April should be paid on or before the 20th of
July, and the Revising Barristers have decided that fur
a rate to be payable it must have been demanded. •
It is true that all poor's-rates are due as soon as made,
but they are not payable until they have been demanded,
excepting in those parishes where by a Local Act the
rate is declared to be payable at any given time—as in
the parish of St. James, Westminster, where the rate
which is made every Easter Tuesday is declared to be
payable as soon as made, but Easter Tuesday being the
16th of April this year, it does not become necessary that
that rate should be paid in order to be qualified to be on
the register for this parish.
In the parishes of St. George, St. John, and St..
garet Westminster, the rates are made in advance for
the whole year, and are due as soon as made, but col-
lected by instalments ; therefore, if all rates due were
also payable, the instalments, which will not be de-
manded until the 25th of December, should have been
paid. •
Ten-pound householders, &c., need pay no other
poor's-rates than those legally demanded of them before
the 6th of April ; but they must pay on or before the
20th of July the window-tax, due on the 6th of April,
whether it has been demanded or not. The payment of
no other rate or tax being necessary for the purpose of
registration.
Scot and lot voters need pay no-taxes or other rite
than the poor's-rate demanded of them before the 31st of
July.
In parishes where the poor's•rate was made previously
to the 6th of April, and not demanded by the collector
until after that time, it is not necesssary that it should be
paid. As in the parish of Lambeth, where the rate was
made on the 30th of March last, but not put into the
hands of the collector until after the 6th of April, and
could not, therefore, have been demanded.
The overseers, no doubt, not knowing these distinc-
tions, leave the names of persons entitled to be on the
register, off their lists published on the church and
chapel doors on the two first Sundays in August.
It is therefore important that all such persons so
omitted should send in a claim to be registered between
the Ist and 25th days of August.

KERRY ELECTION.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.
O'Connell. 652
Brown 652
Blenerhassett 428
Hickson 64

SLAVERY.

TO HOPE 11. SLAUGHTER, SLAVE TRADER,

BALTIMOIIE.

Since thou courteously allowed me, in company with
my friend, John G. Whittier, to visit thy slave establish-
ment in the city of Baltimore, a few weeks since, I litive
often felt a desire to address a few lines to thee. I need
not, perhaps, say that my feelings were painfully exer-
cised in looking over thy buildings, fitted up with bolts
and bars for the reception of human beings for sale ;
a sense of the misery and suffering of the unfortunate
slaves who have, from time to time, been confined there,
of their separation from home and kindred, of the dreary
prospect before them of a life of unrequited toil in the
' south and south-west, rested heavily 'upon me. I could
there realise the true nature of the system of slavery.
I was in a market-house for human flesh, where humanity
is degraded to a level with the brute, and where children
of our common Father in heaven, and for whom our
blessed Redeemer offered up the atoning sacrifice of
his blood, were bargained for and sold like beasts that
perish. And when I regarded thee, as the merchant
in this dreadful traffic, and heard thee offer remarks
which might be considered as, in some degree,
an apology for thy business, calling our attention to the
cleanly state of the apartments, the wholesome provi-
sions, &c., and, especially when I heard thee declare that
thou hadst been educated by a pious mother, that thou
vast never addicted to swearing or other immoralities,
and that thy business was a legalized one ; that thou
didst nothing contrary to law, and that while in thy lies-
session the poor creatures were treated kindly, that
families were not separated,* &c., I was glad to perceive
some evidence that the nature of thy employment
had not extinguished the voice of conscience within thee.
In thy sentiments, and in the manner of their utterance,
I thought I could see that truth. had not left itself with-
out a witness in thy breast ; and that a sense of the
wrongfulness of thy occupation still disturbed thee.
To thy remak, that thy business was necessary to the
system of slavery, and an essential part of it, and that if
slave-holding was to be justified at all, the slave trade
must be also, I certainly, can offer no valid objection, for
I have never been able to discern any moral difference
between the planter of Virginia and the slave dealer of.
Baltimore, Richmond, and Washington. Each has
his part to act in the system, and each is necessary
to the other. And if the matter, in all its bear-
ings, were not painfully serious, it would be amus-
ing, to witness the absurd contempt with which
the slave owner of Maryland or Virginia, professes to
look upon the trader whose purchase of his surplus slaves
%lone, enables him to retain the residue in his possession,
fo: it seems very evident that the only profitable part of
the cystem in these states, at the present time, is the sale
of the Annual increase of the slaves. In passing from
thy premi,:es, we looked in upon the triennial convention
of the Baptists of the United States, then in Session in
the city of Baltimore, where I found slave-holding minis-
ters, of a high rank in the church, urging successfully the
exclusion from the Missionary Board of that Society all
those whO, in principle and practice, were known to be
decided abz..littonists ; and the result of their efforts
satisfied me, that the darkest picture of slavery is not to
be found in the slavejoil of the trader, but rather in a
convocation of professed iZinisters of the Gospel of
Christ, expelling froM the Bolin: of a Society formed to
enlighten the heathen of other nation;- All who consist-
ently labour for the overthrow of a system Which denies
a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures to three mt. lions of
heathens at home !
But allow me in a spirit, as I trust, of Christian kind-
n2ss, to entreat thee net to seek excuses for thy own
course in the evil conduct of others.
Thou hast already reached the middle period of life,
the future is uncertain. By thy hopes of peace here and
hereafter let me urge thee to abandon this occupation.
It is not necessary to argue its intrinsic wickedness, for
thou knowest it already. I would, therefore, beseech
thee to listen to that voice, which I am persuaded some-
times Urges thee to put away the evil of thy doings, to
" do justly and love mercy," and thus cease to draw
down upon thyself the curse which fell upon those mer-
chants of Tyre who " traded in the persons of men."
That these warnings of conscience may not be longer
neglected on thy part, is the sincere wish of one who,
while he abhors this occupation, feels nothing but kind-
ness and good-will towards thyself.
JOSEPH STURGE, of Birmingham,
England.
New York, 6th mo., 30th, 1841.

* The latter remark of course applies only to the time they
remained with thee, fur on the day we visited thy establishment,
a friend with whom I was dining, informed me that a few days
before, a woman and child had been sold to thee, whose husband
and father was a free man, who, in his distress, had offered to
bind himself for a term of years, in order to raise the sum (I
think $800) demanded for them, but as he had been unable to
do so, my friend had no doubt they had been sent off with the
very lot of slaves, which, We were told by thyself, had just been
forwarded to New Orleans front thy prison. Who is most guilty
in this atrocious transaction, the slave owner who sold thee the
woman and child at Baltimore, thou, the transporter of them
for ever from their husband and parent, the purchaser of the
mother and child, at New Orleans, where they may be for ever
separated from each other, or the citizen who, by his vote or
influence, creates and upholds e,,actments which legalise this
monstrous system, is known only to him before whom the
secrets of all hearts are revealed.

-
CAPTAIN CHAMIER S NEW NAVAL STORY.
—We nre requested to state that " Tom Bowling, a
Tale of the Sea," by Captain Frederick Chamier, R.N.,
author of " The Life of a Sailor," Ben Brace," Sce„
in 3
vols. Bvo, is published this day by Mr. Col-
burn, of Great Marlborough-street, and inay, now he
hod at all the libr;Fif-!s. Mr. Colburn has also ;just pub-,
Ii hed the following. new works of fiction :—l. .lion•ys
Hatfield, and the 136auty of Butterniere, a Story of Real.
Life, 3 vols., with illustrations by R. Cruiksliank._,,.
The Trustee, a
novel, b,y, the author of "The Provost
of Brir•es,"
3 vols.-3...1_!10 Love Match, by Mrs. Ma-
berh-, 3 vols.-4. 1)e Clifton], or the Constant Man, by
R Flamer Ward, Esq., author of "Tremaine," &c., 4
jowl of Are, an Historical Romance '3 vols.-
6. The 3larriage Mart ;. or Society. in India, 2 vols.-7.
—ville or a Season in Pan,: by Mrs. (-1 • 3 • 1-
61, - • Joie,
8. Oliver Cromwell, an Ilistoncal Romance, edited by
Horace Smith, Esq., 3 vols.—Antl 9. The History of
Flirt, Related by Herself. Second edition, 3 vols.