The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-10 00:00:00

COLONIAL SLAVERY.

The following curious document is an Analysis, just
printed for the Commons, of the petitions for the abolition
of Colonial Slavery presented to that House during the
last Session ; showing the number received from the va-
rious religious denominations, and the amount of signatures,
compared with the number of other petitions on the same
subject :
Denominations. Petitions. Signatures.
Baptists
-- General
---- Particular
Calvinistic Methodists 9 1,431
Calvinistic Nonconformists
Catholics 5 333
Countess of Huntingdon's Chapels 4 507
Independents, or Congregationalists 205 26,080
New Connection Methodists 27 3,965
New Connection General Baptists
Old Independents, or Inghamites ......
Pcedobaptists 1 208
Presbyterians ll 2,527
Primitive Methodists
Protestant Dissenters 235 2,1,776
Protestant Evangelical Dissenters *
Relief Church
Society of Friends, or Quakers l5 933
Unitarians
United Associate Seceders B4 21,905
United Christians 1 1.
Wesleyan Methodists 1,953 229,426
-- -------

2,826 352,404
Other Petitions 2,194 957,527

Total 5,020 1,300,931
* There are also two petitions from Protestant Evangelical
DissentersSeceders, the otherswith the Relief Church, which denomi-
nations the petitioners state themselves otherwise to belong.

TREVELYAN.—In working out the moral of
this admirable novel, the author has shown the same skill
as was manifested in her former tale of " A Marriage in
High Life," wherein, with rare power, she moulded at
will the sympathies of her readers. " Trevelyan" is the
story of a guardian and his ward. The incidents are
affecting to the last degree, and the characters are finished
with infinite spirit, and individuality. Nothing can ex-
ceed the fixing interest of many of the scenes ; and the
fable occasionallly diverges into matters of the most deli-
cate nature ; the dignified purity with which they are
managed is worthy of high a Irniration,

PORTSMOUTH.—The following circumstances
have appeared before our Magistrates this week :—The
ship Marianne, Clalzen master, having on board 212
Polish refugees, bound to the United States, has been
detained in this port, wind bound, the last five weeks.
The ship was taken up by the Prussian Government, for
the purpose of conveying these men from that country to
America, under an agreement, that on their arrival they
were to he paid a sum of about 60 dollars each. The
ship was oblige 1 to put into this port by stress of weather,
and the Poles appeared to be very comfortable, and ex•
pressed their willingness to proceed to America, till Sun-
day last, when a Polish officer arrived from London, and
communicated to them that the Poles of Harwich and
Havre, who were similarly situated, had obtained permis-
sion from the French Government to 'land in France or
Algiers ; upon which the Poles here refused to proceed to
America, and which
to leave the ship on the following
day. The necessary steps being taken on Monday for
their leaving the ship, they peremptorily re'useil either to
proceed to America or to leave the ship. The next day
(Tuesday), the wind being favourable for sailing, the pilot
gave direction for the heaving of tIL. anchor, and as the
crew were at the windlass for that purpose, the Po'es
rushed forward and forced the handspikes from them,
shying they were determined the ship should not proceed.
They took possession of the ship, and from their violent
and threatening conduct, the captain applied to the civil
authorities for protection, as he could not put to sea with-
out endangering his life. Depositions of the facts were
taken, and communication had with the Secretary of
State, and also with the Prussian Ambassador. Thus the
case stands at present. —Hants Telegraph.

ON THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE
ATLANTIC AND THE PAClFlC.—Captain Phillips, R.N.,
communicated to the Society some valuable information,
received from a merchant for thirty years acquainted with
the country, as to the practicability of opening a direct
communication between San Juan de Nicaragua and San
Juan del Sul, on the Pacific. This, in his informant's
opinion, might be easily effected, by cutting a canal from
the Nicaragua to the port of San Juan del Sul, and by
establishing steara-boats on the lake and river of San Juan
de Nicaragua. On comparing this project with that of
the road proposed to be made from La Trinidad to Cbor-
rera or Panama, its advantages, says Captain Phillips,
are obvious: " for the former passage leads alone to the
Pacific, whilst the passage by San Juan de Nicaragua
would affect the whole commerce of Costa Rica and cen-
tral America, and most likely be the means of a commer-
cial transit to the South Seas." Three ports in the Pacific
are likely to be of use in the proposed communication—
the port of Real Lejo, distant about fourteen leagues from
the town of Leon, with a harbour capable of containing
even line-of-battle ships: San Juan del Sul, fourteen
leagues distant from Nicaragua, a perfectly secure port,
with four faihoins water close to the shore, and considered
a healthy situation; and Puenta d'Arena, a safe and com-
modious port in the gulph of Nicoya, on the Pacific, from
whence a direct intercourse is maintained with all parts

of Costa Rica, by a road twenty-six leagues in length.
From Guatemala, the capital of central America, to Car-
tago Interior, in Costa Rica, is a distance of four hundred
leagues; the road passes through the towns of San Anna
Grande, San Salvador, San Miguel, San Carlos, whence
it cross, a the bay of Fons,ca, and so onward through
Pueblo Viejo, Chinandega, Leon, Pueblo Nuevo, Margo-
roti, Matiares, Managua, Massaya, Grenada, Nicaragua,
San Juan a Casti, Esparsa, Ala Huela, Heredia, San
Jose, and Cartago. When it is considered that this great
road passes from town to town in a direct line—that a
communication is kept up by post, and by Airrieros—
that the proposed canal to San Juan del Sul intersects it
—it all speaks in terms most favourable as to San Juan
del Sul being the moat desirable position for the passage
to take place.