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

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EVENING SUN.

CITY AND BOROUGH ELECTOR.
The 20th of Jul): being the last day allowed by th:-.
Reform Act for paying the poor's-rates and window -tat,
in order to qualify the occupiers of 101. houses, &c.
be upon the forthcoming register, we beg to call the at-
tention of persons who have not paid their pool'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 pa cable Before
the 6th of April should be paid on or before the 20th of
July, and the Revising Barristers have decided that for
a rate to be payable it must hare been demanded.
IL 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, whore 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. Mar-
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 .b.1.-eit
paid.

Ten-pound hoitseholderS, &c., need pay no . othex
poor's-rates than those legally demanded of them before
the 6th of April ; but they must pay on or be'fore the
20th of July the window-tax, due on the 6th of April,
whether it has been demanded or not. The pay-rtient of
no other rate or tax being necessary for the purpose of
registration.

-cot and lot voters need pay no taxes or other rate
than the poor's-rate demanded of them before the 31st of
July.

In parishes where the poor's-rate was made previotwly
to the Gth of April, and not demanded by the collector
until after that time, it is not necesssary that it should txt
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, ttot knowing these distinct-
, tions, leave the names of-persons entitled to be on the
register, off their lists published on the church ad
chapel doors on the two first Sundays in August.
it is therefore important that all such persons !Ne
omitted should send in a claim to be registered betyvvey
the Ist and 25th days of August.

SLAVERY.
TO HOPE IL SLAITGIITEI?, SLAVE TIZADEI

BALTIMOIIR

Since thou courteously,
,allowed me, in company viith
my friend, John G. Whittier, to visit thy slave estahhsli-
ment in the city of Baltimore, a few weeks since, I have
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 jArt
over thy buildings, fitted up withs
and bars for th reception of human beings for Bale ;
a sense of the misery and suffering of the unfortunate
slaves who have, from time to time, been confined there,
of their separation :rom 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 merchalit
in this dreadful traffic, and heard thee offer remarl,:s.-
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 Shoe
west 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.pos-
session the poor creatures were treated kindly, aid*
families were not separated,* &c., I was glad to percare
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 remelt, that thy. business was necessary to the
system of slavery, and an tsential part of it, and that if
slave-holding was to be just-Ifmk 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 whicsh
the slave owner of Maryland or Virginia, professes to
look upon the trader whose purchitse of his surplus slaves,.
alone? enables him to retain the residue in his possession,
for it seems very evident that the only profitable part of
the systcm in these states, at the present time, is the sale
of the annual increase of the slaves. In passing fronl

thy premises, we looked in upon the triennial contention
of the Baptists of the United'States, then in Session.
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 abolitionists •, andthe result: of their efforts
satisfied me, that the darkestlicture of slavery is not to
be found in the slave jail of the trader, but rather in a
convocation of professed ministers of the Gospel of
Christ, expelling from the Board of a Society formed to
enlighten the heathen of other nations, all who consist-
ently labour for the overthrow of a system which denies
a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures to three millions-of
heathens at home !

Bet allow me in a spirit, as I trust, of Christian kind-
ness, to entreat thee not to seek excuses for thy own
course in the evil conduct ot'•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 arguer 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 doing,i, t.;
"do justly and love mercy," and thus. cea4 tb dras
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, Gth mo., 30th, Wft.

* The latter remark of course applies only to the time they
remained with thee, for 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 waft 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
forward,d to New Orleans froth thyprison. 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 twidvareat, the purchaser of the
mother and child, at New Orleans, where they may be for ev,;,
separated from each other, nr the ;citizen who, by his rots de
influence, creates and upholds euactments which legalise this
monstrous system, is known only to him. before whom tbe
secrets of all hear are revealed.

a_n.eile,"l;rtmyY.:loNt)llE)ecaErl of
COURT CIRCULAR•
l'::::: CirhuanseDeltlorr.
weather has prevented the Royal part• at the Castlefrom
latial c\eCaoririiiiNt•eecsis to-fd aCyhtomn —The unfavourable state 'Of-tbe
taking their 'usual rides and driVOS to-day.
her
ror t:‘her ttayrl,
The Marquis of licadfort has liceee'lle I tft
nadoini,sitaitiod
huesei broom
Fingal] as the Lord in Waiting on the,. c, 1, ald Sir
Frederick Stovin has succeeded Mr. Bich a., the
The noble Earl and Mr.
in Waiting on her MajestY.
. (it is "-ratifying to state}
Rich have taken their depaqiw.. . . .
The Duke de Brabant is Sall , . ,
irnprov;nz in health. ___ - . _

Monday was the birthday of her Royal Highness the
Princess .Augusta ofCambridg e,.vh en the Princess attained
her ?oth year. Some of the Foreign Ministers, and.tnany
of
during the day, at Cambridge Hottsc-;
eciarilen'ai'mes for the.; Duke and DusS .of
Cat hnaecil
jr, elit(ftitig.l i te. t)h.
The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Ang,usta and Prince George of C:unbridge, ho-
noured the Englisk Opera House with her presence oil
Monday evening.
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John
solemnised Ri 1 al sr
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The Danish Charge d'Affaires transacted business yes_
The mallt:va,laltr,isiriloeze}:'eodpraecte:iftggiti-eootrrdffio Foreign-office..
Mint° House, Roxbttrgbshire. After thee
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ENCOUNTER WITH A BOA-CONSTRICTOR.
In the Surrey Zoological Gardermnke,several serpents, amtongst
which is an enormous boa, measuring upwards of twenty
feet in length, and weighing in, re than two hundred
weight. It is usual for the keepers to bathe thrm 'occasion-
ally, and by every means to endeavour to tame them, and
from time to time it is no uncommon thing for one of the
men in the habit of doing so to go into their room, or cage,
and clean it, whilst two large constrictors lie coiled up in a
corner. Those who have ben at the gardens must know
that the serpents' room is near the pond, and that they are
enclosed in divisions of about six—feet by four, with plate-
glass fronts, for the purpose of exhibition. Their fuod—livee
rabbits—is put into thcs rooms .by a sliding pannel, which
one of the keepers, named Blaekburn, was in the act of doing,
when the enormous boa sprung ,it -him and seized him by the
arm. The man leapt. backwards., and drew the serpent partly
out of the cage, which immediately spun round him like a wind-
lass, and made one coil. Had he effected another, Blackburn
would have been inevitably killed, and perhaps partly swallowed
before it was discovered, he being at the time alone, and without
any on. immediately near him ; but by pressing the throat of
the powerful creature, and by more then usual strength, he was
preserved. Having shut the slide, on reaching the other
keepers, from the conflict in Which he had been engaged; the
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poor fellow fainted; and on beirig taken home, was found tou
be very mch discoloured from the powerful pressure of his
terrific antagonist. The same constrictor, in full action, would
squeeze a bublo into a shapeless mass, and swall9V it 114
may, 'The keeper, hoover, I now clairig