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

LORD BROUGHA ON svAvint

eunerarmes tang- ef the Ant ieSlevery
So-
ciety held on Saturday last, ••toi:a Brougham,
rising to tercire-‘s the assembly,
,was reteived wish
loud cheers. The noble and learned lord repudiated
al elaie. 'to th • merit. of having bad a prithipal
hand in the-abolition of the slave trade. t.lt•was to
Thomas Charksen and his worthy co-opeeesers the
Society of Friends, aided' by a Wilberf4ce, that
that great work was due -primarily,. but ultimately .
to thee Ministry of Me. Fox, leurcl Grenville, and
Lord Grey, in 1807, 'tvhses as,theite,leet -ant .before
- eying office, -whieste tete abevidsery.erteiritithirsa6esease---
compelled thew to do, introduced the Act forhthe:
Abolition of 'the Afrioan Slaiee Trade. Uerliqrpily
(said the noble lord) that was' sought to be ;tocsins-
plished by pecuniary penalties' alone, and when
found two or three yeare after- that these pen-aides
were not sufficient,—because inth e gambling nature
of men, and of slavetraders included, they- could t
well afford to lose five cargoes of slaves by confis:;
cati n, and to pay the penalties of seizures, pro-
vided
one out of six cargoes escaped and brought ;
them the enormous profits which that unnatural
traffic created—it -seemed to me fit—and it--is-in
that respect only that I can be said to have had
any effectual hand in the carrying out of this
great measure—that it should be treated .no
longer as a mere revenue question, as en?' 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
br alt through ruy rule which fermany years I hadlaid
down to myself, not to attend public meetings, and
attend here to-day ? (Cheers.) When I found
that in other countries On both aides of the Atlare•
tic there were attempts making to revive that traf-
fic and go backward to slavery itself, it seemed to
me that the time had come, I will not say to -show,
that in our "ashes live their wonted fires';—
(sheers)—but that we had awakened from the
slumbering of advarced age—awakened before de-
set nding into that state of slumbering, feeble, un- •
reasaning, and narrative old age, and that before
ultim stele- descending thereinto I should aid one
effort more to the great cause.— (Cheers) Tee
sniquity of the system of slavery has been urged
in its favour, and has been even transferred to the'.
reeve trade itself by some of the statesuren,of Ame-;
rick in a late debate in Congress. When'speaktee
of the peasantry, as they call. the slaves, they 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
is 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.)
lt is the grossest abuse of language to talk of free
emigration from the coast of Africa. I lately had
occasion to see same most respectable and gallint
deicers who had served iu the French navy during
the Cr wean war, and who had lately been on the
coast of Africa as superintendents of the shitiment
of tad e so-balled free negtoes. I found from,
them that the mortality on, board the veriselsa=
with all the excellent regulations of the French
Government—on a 30 days' voyage from Africa 're
t ) Guseraeoupe and Martinique was as much as
10 per cent. in th, se 30 dat s. On my asking how
the men were obtained, I-learnt th et every one of
them was a slave, perceased fsr the put pose of being
taker' on b ,ard ihe'Frerreleships.lley weernalaves
brotiglit Mettle teisieTittbVl e i Sieeeserdie eind.thise
lit„-rsted, in order to be pat , net° trd -Under indene
tures, which thos p or 'aegis es, bsiug no doubt
excellent French lawycri, must be supposed to
-understand the exact nature of bindl', them to
service for a number of yeers. s It is said that we
its England have no right to complain, because we
out selves supply our colonies with coolies from
Judie 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 i', unless you blockale the ports
of Cuba it is iu vain to expect that the system can
be put down. I agree with those who think that
toe 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 Government in order to
obtain the emancipation of tie 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 pose ssiou of
Cuba, for the great aject of those who entertain
that notion is to obtain increased preponderance of
the slave S. ates in the Union. (Cheers.) The weight
which this country ought to have with the Go-
vernment of Spain, joined with that of France, if
erouget 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 misreptesenta-
tion, than to suppose that our importing (eethes
is anything like a parallel case to the traffic ell r;ed
on by Fiance on the coast of Africa. I tetelly ob-
jected to the coolie systein, and brought forward
meti •ri after motion against it. But the grand dif-
ference is, that the coolies come from a different
sort of country-e-Briii,h officers can prevent them
from being kidnapped; and no ejntrabalpl force is
ueetl 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 c tiled free emtrants. (Cheers )
I observe that slavery is not only described by
many of its advocates a, a very ancient institution,
hu- I see that one of the Arne. isan statesmen has
lately stated in the Assembly of the United States
that the slave trade, as well as slavery, is a very an-
c'etit practice, and that in former times, and in
almost all parts of the world, it was carried on. It
is aticiont, no demise But there is another more
ancient practice-of murder, and of the worst sort of
murder, fratricidal murder ; for it does so happen
that the first man tint was born murdered the se-
cond, and that second born was his brother. But I
n t think yeti would deem it a palliation of the
effence 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 beau a complete failure. The statement al-
ready made by your worthy secretary shows
that there is no foundation for that statement. I
find that Mr. Governor Hiscke, writing from
Bsrbadoes in the present year, says that there is
one estate which during the time of slavery
was was w, rked by 230 slaves, and which
r ked
has
15,000/. Since emancipation it has
by 60 free labourers and 30 children,
sugar
301000/.
gniadrlviot which
produced three times the quantity of
s
it formerly did, and was sold feat year
l
(Cheers.) It nag ht be tho o..se
West India islands there ewas
aischaaftjtinof fur 30100(11.
buttlne
a ne•ble fiend of mine, La
, went over a short time se
large property in
Tobago, for himself. He set
since to look into
to work and introduced plough husbandry and
prejudice against so doing, like
but these have been entirely removed
other peoeule,
cattle. Ile
exertions are, in my opinion, still necessary
by the results which have followed. (Hear.) The
had his
for the purpose
se of preventing that falsely-called
utmost ester__
system of free emigration from the coost of Africa.
It is neither more nor less than a revival of the
African sieve trade. The day upon which I have
the honour of addressing you is the anniversary of
that when the Stuarts were restored—reminding
me of the saying of Mr. Fox, that the worst of
revolu ions is a restoration, for sure I am that if
there sho tail be th at revival of the African rlavetrade
that remark still be found most applicable to the
restoration of slavery in cur colonies and the slave
trade on the African coast. (Cheers.) Ah ! there is
another anniversary—it is the Ist of August—
(ch ers)--a day sanctified, first of all by the acces-
sion of the faintly which stow rules this' constitu-
tional kingdom—l 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.
(Ile noble lord resumed his seat amid loud and
protracted cheers.)

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.lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
LES HUGUENOTS.
TO-MORROW EVENING, June 1, will be repeated
Neyerbeer's Grand Opera,
LES HUGUENOTS,
Il onte di San Brie, Signor Belletti; Meru, Signor Castelli ;
Raoul di Naugle, Signor Giuglini;
Ii Conte di Nevers, Sig. Aldighieri ; Tavannes, Sig. Annoni ;
De cogse, l'fiercuriali ; De Retz, Sig. Borchardt •
Head of Night Watch, Sig. Albelda; Marcello, Sig. ;
Valentina, Maddle. Titiens ;
Margarita di Valois, MadUe. Ortoiani; Urbano, Mine. Landi ;
Deana d'Onore, Madame Ghioni,
Conductor—Sig. Arditi.
To conelude with an entirely New Ballet Divertissement,
by XL Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. The
principal characters by Nadlle. Marie Taglioni (her first ap-
pearance this season), Nesdlles. Annetta, Rosa, Pasquale,
Norlacchi, and M. Durand,
The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock.
A limited number of Boxes have been secured tothe public.
Price 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Boa
()lice, at the Theatre.

ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
Titiens, Alboni, Giuglini.
Piccolomini, Ortolani, Belletti, Beneventano, Aldighieri .
Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 1— LES HUGUENOTS, and
Ballet, with Madlle. Marie Taglioni.
Thursday, June 3—LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, and Ballot,
with Madlle. Pocchini.
Saturday, June S—IL TROVATORE and Ballet.
Monday, Juue 7—Grand Morning Performance, DON
GIOVANNI, and other Entertainments. The Ballet will
Include Mesdllos. Pocehini and Marie Taglioni. Morning
dress only will be necessary. To commence at half-past one.
Tuesday, June 8, will be produced (for the first time)
Verdi's opera, LUISA MILLER.
A pplications to be made at the Box-office at the Tipeatre

ROY AL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
NEW THEATRE.
The Open to commence at half-past 8 o'clock.
Third appearance of Madame BOSIO.
Third appearance of Signor GRAZIANI.
Third appearance of Signor GARDONI,
Third Night of LA TRAVIATA.

TO-MORROW, Tuesday, June 1, will be per!ortned
(for the third time this season) Verdi's opera,
LA TRAVIATA.

Violetta, Madame Bosio (her 3d appearance this season) ;
Flora Bervoix, Madame Tagliafico ; Georgic. Germont, Signor
Graziani (his 3d appearance this season); Baron Duphol,
Signor Tagdafico; Marchese D'Obigny, Signor Polonini ;
Gastone, Signor Soldi; Dottore Grenvil, M Zelger ; Guiseppe,
Signor Rosse ; and Alfredo, Signor Gardoni (his 3d appear-
ance this season).