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RICHMOND RAILWAY COMPANY.I
A special general meeting of the shareholders in this line
took place yesterday, at the London Tavern, in order to elicit
the opinion of the shareholders upon a provisional agreement
for the sale of the line to the South-Western Company.
The Secretary having read the advertisement con-vening
the meeting,
Mr. CHADWICK, Chairman of the Richmond Compamy,,
took the chair. The agreement was to the effect, that the
Richmond proprietors should s? 11 the line, and
receive South-Western stock at nominal par, viz.,
501., the South-Western having really only paid 411.. -
The meeting was adjourned till the day of the general
meeting, several proprietors thinking the terms offered by
the South-Western Company were not sufficient, and that
even the basis of the agreement was not properly taken.
The meeting then separated, a vote of thanks having been
passed to the Chairman and the directors.

SUGAR DUTIES.
The following protest against the proposed introduction of
slave-grown sugars into the British markets was pres'ented
to Lord John Russell yesterday.
A crisis has arisen in the history of the anti-slavery cause
of so grave a nature as to require the instant attention and
the prompt and vigorous action of every friend of Liberty
and humanity throughout the United Kingdom.
It is understood that the first great measure which the
new Government intend to submit to the consideration of
Parliament will have for its object the introduction of slave^
grown sugars into the British markets. The grounds =
which this step is attempted to be justified are those of poli-
tical expediency and commercial advantage. It is intended
thereby to augment the quantity of sugar for home consump-
tion, to increase the revenue from the duties leviable thereon,
and to complete the series of free-trade measures which hive
already received the sanction of the Legislature and of the
Crown.
These grounds would be perfectly legitimate did not the
plan contemplated by Government injuriously affect the
rights of millions of mankind, and involve the violation of
those high moral considerations which should always influx
ence the conduct of Governments and Legislatures as well as:
that of individuals.
That the measure proposed by Government will have thee
effect of strengthening the system of slavery, of stimulating
the slave trade, and of adding to the horrors of both, admits
of no doubt with most, if notall, who have maturely studied]
the question. And it is because, in the deliberate judgments
of the undersigned, that the proposed measure would lead'
to these dreadful results that they enter their solemn protest.
against it, and call most urgently on the friends .f the anti-
slavery cause, in every part of the country, to follow their
example.
1. With respect to slavery.—It is assumed by those who
advocate the proposed measure for the equalization of the
duties on foreign sugars, without regard to origin or country,
that from 70,000 t. 80,000 tons of slave-grown sugars Will be
annually required to meet the increased demand in tho,Bri-
ash markets. These sugars will come principally from ;he
Spanish West India colonies and Brazil, where, it is rte.,
torious, slavery assumes its most degrading and terrific
forms. Of the slaves employed in the cultivation of the
sugars in Cuba, one-tenth perish annually, and the whole are
killed off in ten years, In Brazil the mortality on the sugar
estates is admitted to be five per cent, per annum, in some
cases more, which would destroy the population in twenty
years. Now this takes place under the present demand for
sugar; but with the increased demand contemplated by the
new arrangement of the sugar duties, that murderous
mortality will be fearfully increased, or new slaves,
must be imported to meet the exigency. At present neither
the Brazilian nor the Cuban planters possess more labourers.
than they require. They have no unemployed slaves, ncs
hands iu want of work, no superabundance of population. On:
the contrary, all hands are now worked to excess. It follows,
therefore, that the very same people who are thus mur-
dered by wholesale to make the quantity of sugar now ex-
ported from Cuba and Brazil, will have to make more—that-
is to say, they must be forced by the lash to a new excess
of labour, at which they will be more wretched while they
live, and under which they will more rapidly die. Where
the labourer is free, every augmentatation in the demand for
the produce of his toil increases his means of subsistence and:
comfort • where the labourer is a slave, it as certainly dimi-
nishes diem, and destroys him.
That slavery will be strengthened must be obvious from
the fact that additional capital will be directly employed in
sustaining it, and thereby rendering it more profitable than
it is at present. A great mercanfl!e house at the Havannah
whose authority is quoted in the last slave trade papers,
states, that whilst "they had no expectation of the price
of sugar being improved, except by having the English mar-
ket open to the produce of the island," they were convinced
that if this could be effected even at a rate of 50 per cent.
above the duty on English colonial sugar, still they could
obtain for their produce double the amount they can obtain
al present." If such be the fact, who can reflect on the con-
sequences without a shudder?
2. With respect to the slave trade.—No one can believe for
a moment that the Brazilian and Cuban planters will let
their stock of slaves diminish. To fill up the gaps created
by the vast mortality which is incessantly going on among
them, they have recourse to the African slave trade. By
this horrid means they recruit and increase theirgangs; and,
beyond all doubt, this traffic will be pursued with greater .
desperation and atrocity . in proportion to the growing
urgency of the demand and eagerness of planters to pure
chase. At present the enormous profits derived from the
contraband slave trade present an irresistible stimulus to the
traffickers in men but it will receive an additional and enor-
mous stimulus diould the proposed measure take effect.
Under existing circumstances, the slave trade cannot be put
down ; under the additional incentive, it must be not only
perpetuated, but increased. If more sugar is made in Cuba
and Brazil, there must be more hands to make it ; and those
hands must be fetched by slavers from desolated and bleeding
Africa. On the supposition that these countries will supply
50,000 tons of the assumed quantity of sugar, 50,000 new
slaves at least must be obtained to prepare it for exporta-
tion ; and to meet the wastes of mortality that will be occa-
sioned by the severity of the system under which they are
placed, a large additional number of Africans must be im-
ported, to join that host of human beings who are every
year torn from their native homes by the slave traders, and
compelled to surrender up their liberty to the tyrant task-
masters of Brazil and Cuba.
Thu tri'"'"V MS'illfatia-41'2....n'. '5( ti,e under-
Africa rung
sage, to interminable bondage.
It is unnecessary to dwell on the accumulated horrors of
slavery and the slave trade. They are too well known and.
too sorely lamented by the friends of humanity to need spe-
cification. Yet it should be remembered that the slave popu-
lations of the Spanish colonies and Brazil are innocent men,.
women, and children, who have been despoiled of their most:
precious rights, and subjected to the most atrocious discipline,:
to satiate, if it were possible, the spirit of Mammon. It.
should be recollected also, that the murderous system of ale,-
very prevalent in Cuba and Brazil is preceded by one stiff{
more terrible in Africa, and during the middle passage. lot
may be asserted that for every African slave landed in
subsequent mi ntr ies tyio
stages- perish i
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treaties of those countries with Great Britain, and are ottl:y
debarred from the enjoyment of liberty by the disgracera
violation of a solemn compact. But instead of dismandiesil
their liberty, a splendid bribe is about to be offered in orde
that commercial intercourse may be facilitated with peop&e-
whose crimes against humanity merit the execration of all
men and cry aloud for the vengeance of heaven.
But besides the increased
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noble efforts for the
made, the
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Africa for the,-
introduction of Christianity into that continent will boa
noartnsdwihsie have e
paralysed by the increased impetus given to the slave-trade.e.
The enlightenment of men, and the spread of the Gospel„
cannot co-exist where the crimes of the slave-trade are per-.
petrated and fostered.

It is the chief glory of this country, that in the exercise of
a high and noble policy, it has, through its Legislature, de-.
(dared the slave-trade to be piracy and felony; and the sys-.
tem of slavery to be inherently and essentially unjust. It
has, moreover, sanctioned a vast outlay of the national trer
sure in the attempt to suppress the former and the abol I-
lion of the latter. To promote, then, their extension in
foreign countries either directly or indirectly, or to count( I.
nance such enormous crimes, or to seek to increase tl se
revenue from sources so polluted, will be flagrantly incon-
sistent with its solemn decisions embodied in Acts of Par-.
iament.
In 1840, a measure similar in principle to that under review-
was propsed to Parliament. Then the Government eye it •
a decided negative. The P
" could entertain a doubt on
( Mr. Labouchere), said, No one
the great mass of
President of the Board of Tra_ci.s
the event of the motion being carried) that
foreignitiu. sugaraß Brazil no
sugarinto thiswits
deport.' ndtareyed would
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but the question
labour. He felt iltietohhaedatapaaisnktullaniustertiovaospptioisise, tslviheetoetrii )111
would consent to give such a stimulus to slave labour in.
Brazil as would be produced by throwing open the market of
this country to the reception of their sugar. lie was r tot
able to make up his mind that this was a course which he
ght to recommend to the House. He did not believe tl Let
outi would be agreeable to their constituents, when they und
er-
stood the facts of the case." lie would not be a party to. a
measure which, he added, " would inundate the Britisi`t
market with sugar the produce of slave labour." The intro-
duction of slave grown sugar, opposed by such reasons, wail
at that time successfully resisted by those who now propose
to introduce it.
In seeking the exclusion of slave -grown sugars from the
British market, the friends of the anti-slavery cause design
to uphold no monopoly, to strengthen no class interests, to
promote no sordid or selfish views, much less any party pur-
pose • , but their aim is to lessen the sum of human misery
and degradation, and to advance the sacred cause of free-
dom throughout the world.
Thomas Clarkson, Playford- Richard T. Cadbury, Bir-
hall. mingbam,
Stephen Lushington, London, John Dunlop, Edinburgh,
Edward N. Buxton, ditto, Edward Cruickshank, ditto, •
George Stephen, ditto, Robert Jowitt, Leeds,
Samuel Gurney, ditto, Thomas Scales, ditto,
George Stacey, ditto, Joseph J. Gurney, Norwich,
George W. Alexander, ditto, William Forster, ditto.
Joseph Cooper, ditto, William B.Crewsdon, Kendal,
John H. Hinton, ditto, Isaac Braithwaite, ditto,
John Scoble, ditto, Joseph Fergusson, Carlisle,
Josiah Forster, Tottenham, Joseph T. Price, Neath Abbey,
Robert Forster, ditto, Samuel Bowly, Gloucester,
Joseph Sturge, Birmingham, &c.
NorE.—Lord Brougham having been requested to put his
name at the head of these signatures, refused to place it be-
fore that of his honoured fellow-labourer in the anti-slavery
cause for forty. four years, Thomas Clarkson, and, r'''^ugh
approving of 'the protest, declined signing it after him, be-
cause of his intention to protest against the proposed measure
in the House of Lords.

ALTERATION IN THE NAMES OF STREETS.—The fol-
lowing streets have lately received different names from
what they have generally been known by, causing a great
deal of confusion to strangers, as well as the miscarriage of
parcels, letters, &c. We therefore subjoin the more recent of
the alterations, for the information and guidance of our
readers :—Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, and Plumtree-
street, Holborn, are now called Bloomsbury-street; Hanover-
street, Long-acre, Belton-street, and the Bowl-yard, are now
united, and called Endell-street ; Petticoat-lane, Whitecha-
pel, now bears the name of Middlesex-street; Water-lane,
Fleet-street, is now called Whitefriars-street ; Monmouth-
street, St. Giles's, is now Dudley-street; Leg-alley, Long-
acre, is now Langley-court; and Phoenix-alley is Hanover-
court ; Shire-lane, Fleet-street, is Lower Serle's-place ; and
Charles-street, Covent-garden, is now called Wellington-
street North.
ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—An experienced shipowner
states that specie of the value of ten millions of dollars will
be received in this country by the end of August- This .ainst-
eludes the two millionS received from Mexico by 0
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