The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-31 00:00:00

- ,
:•-•,,,,,t,_:..1,',. --: -
1 '''' A\ 1,9 . • I - jir, '''' --_,„al), I, •
~ =.!:•, -. V ~1,, i A' '+\:4 IP 170' ,-.A. '''---- ..- '',o,. "
sir`i.
, ~,,,,
I:kts'
, Y'
~
~, ~ , ,--,,-- .....t,.!. ...- c•'.--,-*1...,1 -i-;-) •
~ ) ' ~,
~ _
.2 ,rif
.. ' - •e'% '-'- -- --.1.: II --,_ ..,0 - _PA, ,
& 101111111 W
-. 7 .._ ,:, c,,:' , ' •• • ' ,Atsw - , '
\---..-.4--,-, 61" .0„. la. ,•., ~, . . . 4ii
- •4•0 0-iD
.4 I'/ ... . 4.. ;
\-' ~t , C., .. ' ~..ik :',.,.... ~ I. yt ,-"'"
..., -' • 1, - ~.1t- -,,,*
~/,,,,t -\ -
--.l'*l .UT A ' ' - - - -,4e , .- . Irv:42: ,,i4.11;':" "V*-) ,---41 .
. ~ a
~

Tampico May 3
Vera Cruz , - 5
Havanna!),
Puerto Cabal's
Santa Martha — 9
Gray town(Hosquito) 5
Carthagena 1 — 11
Colon
Kingsfon (Jamaica) — 12
Jaernel (Hayti)
SauJuan(Porto Rico) 14
Berbice.. - 10

Georgetown (Donlq-
rant) - 10
Port of Spain (Trini-
dad)

- 10

.0------e-g
-,472.7• .-

r 7 c

_---
[PRioN 40. SrAmpED 51).3

Seward's resolution for inquiring into alleged. out-
rages on American vessels by British cruisers.
Though the Government had received no offi aial
information as to the searching of its merchant
vessels it had addressed Lot d Napier on the subject.
Nine persons had lost their lives by a fire at
Chicago.

LATER BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.
• WASHINGTON, MAY 20.
The official correspondence in regard to the
alleged British outrages in overhauling American
vessels. Secretary Casa demands a discontinuaßce
of the searching: American vessels, and sap; that
any damages arising in the matter are expect-
ed to be compensated by Spain, or that she
is to interpose with Great Britain. Several United
States vessels of war have been ordered to the
Cuban Coast.

At Havana, on the 15th, a party of Marine's
from a British cruiser ransacked the plantations
at one of the Cuban outports in search of Bonsai
negroes ; the captain of the port is to be tried for
not resisting the search. •

,!-

NEWSPAPER
corresponding period last year were 2,04a7n;
sugar, 617 puncheons rum, and 3,5/2 bat _
were it not for an adverse state of things 1, '7;i45 s ima)
of the mother country the prospects
,of
'-'l4ll/ ;./
would be far from cheerless."
Favourable rains had fallen at St. Lucatiltinin S
prospects wero promising. The schooner Com-
modore left for London on the 4th inst., with a
cargo of suar, molasses, a7C., and the brigs Mary
Ann Hewett and Martha were loading.
Mr. Wodehouse, the Governor of British Guiana,
arrived in the colony on the 9th of May, from
Venezuela. His Excellency visited that republic
for the purpose of settling the boundary between
British anfi Venezuelean Guiana, but was unable to
accomplish his object in consequence of the reveiu-
tlou which lad to the overthrow of the President
Monagas. At the date of Mr. Wodehouse's depar-
ture Monagas was in custody, but under a guaran-
tee to the English and French Ministers that he
should be allowed to leave Venezuela with his
family. The French Admiral's ship and Her
Britannic Majesty's ship Tartar were at La Guayra,
awaiting the completion of the release of Monagas.
At Demerara several sittings of the Court of
Policy had taken place, but no topic of general
interest this side of the water was discussed. "A
Bill to enable the Demerara Railway Company to
raise a sum for the purpose of putting the railway
in efficient working order had been read a second
time and committed, Mr. Alty had been elected
fin:incial representative for the county of Essequibo.
The weather had been showery during the fort-
night, though rasher dry for the crops.

NEORK, MAY 20.
Sales of cotton during theW paY
st two days 6,500
bales, at generally unchanged prices. Flour dull
and prices slightly declined. What and corn firm.
Provisions generally firm, and pork slightly ad-
vanced. Sugars rather dearer. Stock market dull,
and prices of the leading securities slightly lower.
Cotton market hardening since the publication of
the Niagara's news. Telegrams from the South
report all the cotton markets firm, with a mode-
rate business at Rio. for middling at New Orleans
and Mobile. Overflowing of the Mississippi repre-
sented as unabated.

LORD BROUGHAM ON SLAVERY-.

At the annual met ting of the Anti-Slavii7 So-
ciety held on Saturday last, Lord Brougham, tit
rising to address the assembly, was received with
loud cheers. The noble and learned lord 'repudiated
al, claim to the merit of having bad a principal
hand in the abolition of the slave trade. It was to
Thomas Clarkson and his worthy co-operators the
Society of Friends, aided by a Wilberfirce, that
that great work was doe primarily, but ultimately
to the Ministry of Mr. Fox, Lord Grenville, and
Lord Grey, in 1807, who, as their last act LefOre
quitting office, which an *baud CIP of intolerance
compelled them to do, introduced the Act for the
Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Unhappily
(said the noble lord) that was sought to be accom-
plished by pecuniary penalties alone, and when I
found two or three years after that these penalties
were not sufficient,---because inthe gambling nature
of men, and of slavetradeis included, they could
well afford to lose five cargoes of slaves by confis-
cation, and to pay the penalties of seizureseepro-
videct one -otit of aix cargoes escaped and lfrought
them the enormous profits which that unnatural
traffic created—it seemed to me fit—add it is in
that respect Only that I can be said to have had
any effectual hand in the catrying cut of this
great measure-that it should be treated no
longer as a mere revenue question, as one: of
penalties and confiscation ' • but as one of penal
law, and an act to be punished as a crime. How
could I, then, do otherwise than listen to the call to
break through my rule which ferrnany years I hadlaid
down to myself, not to attend public meetings, and
atteud here to-day ? (Cheers.) When I found
that in other countries on both sides of the Atlan-
tic there were attempts making to revive that traf-
fic and go backward to slavery itself, it seemed to
me tlaa,t the time had come, I-will not say to shOw
that in our " ashes live their wieeited-.*T4,!—
(eheerS)—but that we had awakened from the
slumbering of advarced age—awakened before de-
scending into that state of slumbering, feeble, un-
reasoning, and narrative old age, and that before
nitiin:tely descending thereinto I should' aid one
effort more to the great came. (elle s) ' Tee
antiquity of the system of slavery has been urged
in its favour; and has been even transferred to the
save trade itself by some of the statesmen of Ame-
ric sin a late &bete in Congress. When eve-eking
of the peasantry, as they call the 'slates, tffey say
that they are a peculiarly happy and comfortable
people, and that their situation is one which the
peasantry of any other country might envy. There
i 3 one subject upon which I must be permitted to
say a word—l mean the scheme of what is called
free emigration from the coast of Africa. (Cheers.)
It is the grossest-abuse of language to talk of free
emigration from th© coast of Athos. I lately had
occasion to see some ,most respectable and gallant
officers who had served iu the French ',levy during
the Orel:teen war, and who had Jetely been on:the
coast ofAftica s-stiperin tendents of the s'iipment
of t'to-e d free tiegfoes. -ffeudd fr-oin
them that the mortality. on .poard the ieasele—
with all the 'excellent regulations of the French
Government—on a 30 days' voyage from Africa
to Guadaloupe and Martinique was a's ranch as
10 per cent. in the se 30 day s. On Ka-king how
the men *ere llbiativedr,. I Mist t it every ori6 of
them was a slave, purchased for the purpose of being
taken on b eael the French ships. fluty were slaves
brought np to the coast, from the interior, and then
liberated, in order to be put c n 1 o ird under inden-
tures, which those p:or nsgre e being no doubt
excellent French lawyers, must be supposed' 'to
understand the exact nature of binding them to
service for a number of years. It is said that we
in England have no right to complain, because we
ourselves supply our colonies with coolies from
India and China, and therefore the French and
Spaniards have a right to take negroes from Africa.
It is to Cuba alone to which these men are sent,
and, depend upon Pe unless you blockade the ports
of Cuba it is in vain to expect that' the system can
be put down. I agree with those who think that
the better course to take is not to trust to any
blockade of the Cuban coast, but to do all we can in
concert with the French Goveinment in order to
obtain the emancipation of the slaves in Cuba it-
self. The instant that emancipation takes place
the: e would be an end to all speculation on the part
of our kinsfolk in America to obtain possession of
Cuba, for the great object of those who entertain
that notion is to obtain increased preponderance of
the slave States in the Union. (Cheers.) The weight
which this country ought to have with the Go-
vernment of Spain, joined' with that of France, if
brought to bear upon that Government, would, I
am convinced, soon succeed in obtaining this
great advantage to our cause. There never was a
greater delusion, if it is'not a gross misrepresenta-
tion, than to suppose that our importing coolies
is anything like a parallel case to the traffic earned
on by France on the coast of Africa. I utterlyesb-
jected to the coolie system, and brought forward
motion after motion against it. But the grand dif-
ference is, that the coolies come from a different
sort of country—British officers can prevent them
from being kidnapped, and no contraband force is
used in getting them on board the ships. But from
the African coast these native Africans are obtained
from slave-trading princes, who hunt down the
slaves for the purpose of capturing and then selling
them as what are called free emigrants. (Cheers.)
I observe that slavery is not only described by
many of its advocates as a very ancient institution,
but I see that one of the American statesmen has
lately stated in the Assembly of the United States
that the slave trade, as well as slavery, is a very an-
cient practice, and that in former times, and in
almost all parts of the world, it was carried on. It
is ancient, no doubt. But there is anothermore
ancient practice of murder, and of the worst sort of
murder, fratricidal murder; for it does so happen
that the first man thet was born murdered the se-
cond, and that second born was his brother. But I
do not think you would deem it a palliation of the
offence of murder or of fratricide to cite its undeni-
able antiquity. We are told that some misrepresen-
tations prevail as to the results of our great mea-
sure of emancipation. It has been held forth as
having been a complete failure. The statement al-
ready made ty your worthy secretary shois
that there is no foundation for that statement. I
find that Mr. Governor Hiscke, writing from
Barbadoes in the present year, says that 'there 'is
one estate which during the time of slavery
was worked by 230 slaves, and which: was sold for
15,000/. Since emancipation it has been worked
by GO free labourers and 30 children, and it
produced three times the quantity of- sugar _which
it formerly did, and was sold last year for.now
(Cheers.) It might be the case that in same of the
West India islands there was a want of hinds, but
a noble friend of mine, Lord Douglas, who owns
large property in Tobago, went over a short time
since to look into the matter for himself. He set.
to work and introduced plough husbandry arid
cattle. He had his prejudice against so doing, like
other people, but these have been entirely removed
by the results which have followed. (Hear.) The
utmost exertions are, in my opinion, still netessary
for the purpose of preventing that falsely-called
system of free emigration from the coast of Africa.
It is neither more nor less, than a revival of tjie
African slave trade. Tho day upon which I have
the honour of addressing you is the anniversary of
shat when the Stuarts were restored—reminding
me of the :saying of Mr. Fox, that the worst of
revolutions is a restoration, for sure I am that if
thereshould be that revival of the African slave trade
that remark will be found most applicable to the
restoration of slavery in our colonies and the slave
trade on the African coast. (Cheers.) Ah ! there is
another anuiversary—it is the Ist of August--
(cht'ers)----a day sanctified, first of all by the acces-
sion of the family which Low rules this constitu-
tional kingdom-1 mean the access'on of the House
of Brunswick, but still more sanctified in my view
by its being the day of the emancipation of our
slaves. (Cheers.) Heaven forbid that we should
ever-live to see a step, however little, retrograding
in the direction.either of the slave trade or slavery.
(The noble lord resumed his seat amid loud and
protracted cheers.)

NEW ORLEANS, MAT 19.
Sales of cotton to-day 5,000 bales, prices un-
changed.

HALIFAX, MAY 20.
The Niagara, from Liverpool, arrived here yester-
day morning. The Speed of Liverpool, from Mo-
bile, bound for Quebec with a cargo of salt, went
ashore at Beaver harbour in a thick fog and became
a total wreck • crew saved. The Hon. D. Harris,
member of the Lgislative Council, died on the
17th, in the 76th year of his age. Three French
ships of war are to ba stationel on the North Ame-
rican coast this season.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
The Lombard, hence at Portland ; the Flora Mae-
dopald, heoc?, off Baltimore ; the Lancaster, hence, at
Philadelphia ; the L,-.4.gatus, from Sunderland, at Provi-
dence ; the Liizie Southard and Martin Luther, from
Havre; the Hadateine, from Antwerp ; the Atalanta,
hence, and the Oregon, from Burdeaux,nt New Orleans;
the John Fyfe, from Glasgow ; the Progress'and the
Aca Eldridge, from Uavre ; the Yorkahiro and Calhoun,
hence ; the America, from Cork ; the Marquis of Bute,
from Sunderland ; and the Liverpool, from London and
Portsmonth,-at New Yotk.

BALTIMORE, MAY 18.
A large ship is ashore on tho rocki, with'a cargo
of sugar. There id also a cotton-laden ship on the Gre-
cian ;hut].

QUEBEC, MAY 17.
The Countess of London, from Plymouth, and the Near-
guard, from New Y./ rk, aro ashore on White Maud. The
City of Lincoln, which arrived here, reports that on the
30th tilt , in lat. 40 N., long. 55 W., she saw smoke in
the N.N. W., and tacked ship ; after dark saw a light,
anti supposed a ship was on fire. Hauled tqaards her,
but a squall, with rain carving on, the fire disappeared.
Very heavy smell of burning rid night. She remained
in the neighbourhood till daylight, but nothing was
visible.

THE WEST INIXAN, AI/1.'1161N, AND

PACIFIC' PJAILS.

The Royal Mail aimpany's steamship La Plata,
Capt. G. C. Weller, arrived at Sou hamptou at 6,
p.m. yesterday, with the above-named mails, in
charge of Lieut. Lloyd, R.N., Adthiralty ageUt.
Her da•es ara

Tobago \fay 10
Bridgetown (BArbi.-
(low) - - 12
Granada " — 11
St. Vineent'a
St. Lucia 13
Nla,rtinique . ' 13
Guadaloupe.. - 13
Dominique - 13
Antigua- . - 14
Montserrat — 14
Neyig . , — 14

TO001:".". — 14
St. .Thosialie.w.:"..vver....---tf
Guayt a — 11

She also brings mails of the subjoined dates
from the West Coast of South America received at
Panama bysteamer Val paraiso :—Valparaiso, April
15 ; Cobijo, 20 ; Arica, 21 ; Callao, 27 ; Guayaquil,
May 1 • and Panama, 8. •
La Plata has 193 passengers, among whom are
his ExcPlloncy Governor Kortright, lady, and
family, from Jamaica ; General Gavas and Mr. J.
Barton (H,B.M. Consul), from Peru ; M. Ched-
vale French Consul, Mr. J. B. Cameron,
R.M.S.P. Superintendent, and Mrs. Cameron,
from St. -Thomas ; Dr., Sedgwick, from Antigua,
&c. On freight she has 924,476 dollars (of which
411,764 is silver and 512,712 gold), jewellery value
81., pearls value 5,0901., and a cargo comprising
255 salons of cochineal, 180 serons of indigo, 6
serons of jalap, 196 casks of cigars, 20 bales of to-
bacco, 26 cases of coffee, 58 bags of cocoa, 101 bales
of sarsaparilla, 118 casks of ginger, 12 packages of
vanilla, 9 cases of succades, 122 bales of bark, 12
jars of balsalm, and 90 packages of sundries. She
has had fine weather throughout the voyage, and
S. W. and S. winds.
The Atrato, with the outward mails of the 2d
inst. arrived at St. Thomas's at 1 a.m. on the 16th
and enteral the harbour at daylight ; the Clyde
on the Spainish Maim route ; the Conway at St.
Thomas's for Windward Islanda ; the Dee at St.
Thomas's for the Spanish Main, the Eagle at
Jamaica ; the Prince at Barbadoes : the Solent at
St. Thomas'i for the Gulf of Mexico ; the Thames
at St. Thomas, refitting ; the Trent at St. Thomas's
fur Jamaica.

At Port Royal Her Majesty's ships Imaum and
Leopard. Another fine schooner called the Cortes
had been captured by the Forward gunboat off the
coast of Cuba, being engaged in the slave trade ;
she has arrived at Port Royal.
May 10.—Her Majesty's ship Styx sailed from
Havannah to resuming cruisiLg on the coast of
Cuba for slave ships. The Buzzard and Forward
are similarly employed ; the Jasper has gone to
Belize, Atalanta at Vera Cruz (May sth) Arachne
at St. Domingo, Tartar at La Guayra.
Her Majesty's steamer Dli►gicieune, Capt. Van-
sittart, sailed from Panama May. 8, for Hongkong.
May 29, 3 a.m., La Plata passed a large vessel
with four masts, supposed to be the Great Re-
pnblie, standing to the north-west. Lat. 48.53,
long. 9.54, passed the French ship General de
Tourmel, and also signalled a Bremen bark, show-
ing No. 164, with a white flag underneath.
May 30, 1a m , off Lizard, passed a line-of-
battle ship, and three other steamers, steering to
westward.

Advices from Jamaica are to the 11th inst., but
they contain nothing of importance. Trade was
unusually dull. The public health was generally
good. The weather was exceedingly dry for the
season of the year. Cordova's Mercantile Intelli-
gencer of the 11th says :
" The improvement noticed in our last report was
steadi'y maintained during the past fortnight, and, ow-
ing to the small supply of some articles, an advance in
prices is to be noticed in our present review. Fish stuffs
have been very scarce, and the first cargo arriving will
realize high rates. There is little to be said of produce.
Very scanty supplies of coffee and the absence of pi-
mento, together with the low prices quoted for sugars
in the English markets, have caused a want of activity
hare, and there has been but vary little done, The
money-market remains stringent, the banks offering no
facilities, refusing to discount, except for exchange.
" Exchanges on London—Colonial and Jamaica
Banks.-90 days, 4- per cent, premium ;60 days, 1 per
cent, premium ; 30 days. 1 per cent, premium. Corn-
mixsariat Bills, per cent. premium."
The Grenada Legislature was called into special
session on the 4th inst. by proclamation of the Exe-
cutive,
when, his Excellency Lieutenant-Governor
Kortright announced his intention to proceed to
England for the benefit of his health. The ad-
ministration of the Government pro tem. devolves
on his Honour President Checkley. His Excel-
lency arrived at Southampton by this packet.
Since last mail fine rains had fallen all over the
Man'. The quantity of the principal produce ac
tually exi»rted to date (in seven vessels for Europe,
and in the Royal Mail steamers, an int ercolon3r3a3l.
craft) was as follows :—Sugar, 2,333 hhds.,
tierccr, 536 barrels, and 571 Lags; rum,
72,0540
the
gallons ; cocoa, 4,537 bags- The aggregate
above is 2,567 hhds. of sugar, 611 puncheons of
rum, and 4,537 bags of cocoa.
"These figures, says the Chronicle and
Gazette, "Do
not include shipments made from Carriacou in April,
rv.r the cargoes f the Avon and the Diza Bell, now
preparing t) clear out with full loads for Europe--
which may be sagely reckoned up at net less than 500
hogsheads sugar and 8,000 gallons rem, besides what
may have been put on board the Foster since her
arrival at La Baye on the 27th ult. In all, then,
about 3,500 hogshead sugar and 800 puncheons rum
must have been put on board ship from the Ist of
January to date. The experts d these articles at the