The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-26 00:00:00

the world. The average annual importation of slaves
from Africa to . Cuba and the . Brazili. has been
reduced from nearly 100,000, in the years. between
1835 and 1840, to 28,000 in the last three years ;
and this latter average would have been much lower, (the
number imported in 1842 being, in fact, but 17,000) but for
the violent changes in the Government of Spain, and the
substitution in the government of Cuba, for the humane
and intelligent Valdez, of a person of a different stamp,
O'Donnell. It was, however, stated by Lord Aber-
deen, that the British Government had succeeded in
wringing from the Government of Spain, though
not until after a long -delay and a stubborn re-
sistance, a law forbidding Spanish subjebts to embark in
the slave trade; The effect of this law must be promptly.to
extinguish the abominable traffic, for, as the :Noble Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs explains, the Governments of France
and of the United States are disposed to co-operate cordially
with Great Britain in her noble purpose. This need surprise
no one. As far as the Government of France is concerned, we
may confidently anticipate from the wise and good King of
the French, and from the prudent and benevolent statesmen
who happily fill his council, whatever is just, and humane,
and generous, and France, as well as the American Common-
wealth, have even a nearer and more immediate interest than
we have in the suppression of the slave trade, for this very
reason, that they have hitherto found it difficult, if not im-
possible, to exclude slavery from the dependencies of the
one, and from territory of the other. As between states
cultivating the same produce in a tropical climate, we
have unfortunate proof that the use of slavery gives some ad-
vantages; but as between states using slavery in such
climates, the practice of the slave trade gives incomparably
greater advantages. ' If, therefore, it is reproached to Great
Britain that, upon commercial grounds, she wishes an end
put to slavery every where (she gave noble proof twelve
years ago of a higher mot ive)—it may be said—not in the way
of reproach, but as a reason for trusting their sincerity—that
all States which still use slave labour, but do not soil their
hands with a slave trade, must upon cominercial grounds de-
sire an cud put to the execrable traffic in human beings, be-
cause the slave buyers and slave butchers can always undersell
them, as the slave butchers of Cuba and the Brazils do,
in fact,. undersell the United States planters and 'the
French colonists, as well as the British colonists,
Thus there is a gradation of interest happily enforcing the
common duty, and tending to its ultimate accomplishment.
The tree labour countries are deeply interested to
.put
an end to slavery; the intermediate countries, which-
admit slave labour, have .a still deeper interest in
extinguishing the slave trade. When we see the
first commercial. nation on the face of the earth at the
head of the series, and the next in Order of wealth, in-
telligence, and commercial importance, oCcupying the inter-
mediate station, -We cannot doubt of the result, even could
we doubt of the benignant purposes of Providence. For our
own part we have'never been able to understand why Spain,
Portugal, and the have not been compelled to termi-
nate the slave trade—compelled not by a desultory war of
cruisers, but by bold language, boldly spoken in their capitals,
enforced, if necessary, by the voice of artillery in their
ports. We are no friends to interference with indepen-
dent States; but for interference in this matter, we have
the justification of successive treaties all shamefully
violated, and the authority of numerous precedents4L-Algiers-
in 1816, Greece in 1828, the Netherlands in 1831, and
.
Spain and Portugal themselves from 1830 to 1838.. ques-
tionless it is more satisfactoty to obtain the.desired end as.
Lord Aberdeen is likely to obtain it, by mild and peacefUl,
negotiation ; but it may be as well if all parties are reminded
of the robust right which the luiniane and enlightened nations
still have in reserve should negotiation fail.

PENSIONS ON THE CIVIL LIST.—The following are
the pensions which have be.n granted during the year
ending June 20th last :—Dame Maria Bell, 100/. -a year,
in consideration of the services rendered to science by
her late husband; Sir Charles Bell ; Miss Ann Drum-
mond, in consideration of the,,publie services of her
brother, the lamented Edward.DrumMond, Esq.; assassi-
nated by Macnaghten, 200/. a year ; Robert Brown,
Esq., the botanist, 2004 a year ; Dame Florentia:Sale,
wife of the hero of Jellalabad, 5001. a, year ; and Sir W.
Rowan Hamilton, the Astronomer Royal. for Ireland,
2001. a year. Making, altogether, 1,2004 per annum
thus conferred.

THE LONDON GAZEITE
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, JULY 26, 1844.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Hugh
Alack«,nzie to the church and parish of Tongue, in the presby-
tery of Tongue and County of Sutherland, vacant by the
transportation of the Rev. Peter Mackenzie to the church and
of Urcrhart, in the pre,bytery of Dingwall.
ADMIRALTY, JULY 17.

Corps of Royal Marines—Gentleman Cadet F. E. Budd to
be second Leutenatit, July 23 ; Gentleman Cadet T. Q.
Meade to be Second Lieutenant.

WHITEHALL, JULY 6.

The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas 'Conyngham Tindal, Knt.,
Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas,
has anointed William Hrn►y Newman, of the town of
Southampton, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Com-
mis.ioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be exe-
cuted by married woolen, under the Act passed for the abolition
of tines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple-
modes of assurance, in and for the town and county of the town
OlSouthampton, also in and for the county of Hants.