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THE BRAZILS.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY.—The Priscilla:arrived here
this morning from Pernambuco, from whence she
sailed on the 15th of February, consequently bringing
eigth days' later news than the Columbus, arrived
here about a week ago. Business was going on with
firmness.
In cotton we learn that the small receipts of that
article at Pernambuco,had prevented any amount of
business being done, and we have only to report
trifling sales. 547 bags had arrived the week pre-
ceding the Priscilla's departure, making 25,255 bags
since the Ist of July last.
In hides the business going forward was on a small
scale. Prices, however, remained very firm.
By the packet that arrived at Pernambuco on the
6th ult., better advises in sugar had been received
from Muscovado, which promoted activity in that
description. About 10,000 bags, nearly the entire
stock, were soon bought at dolls. 1 620 to dolls 1 680,
according to quality. White continued without any
particular demand, but purchases were making daily
to load Channel vessels. The business in sugeir
daring the season had been a forced one, owing to
the constant superabundance of tonnage. Parties
from the interior report that the present crop will be
less than the last.
Exchange on London, at 60 days' sight was firm
at 280. to 29d., and on Paris at 335 f. The amount
negotiated for the Genevieve and the Columbus, that
sailed on the 7th, was estimated at 40,0001.
Butter continued heavy, and difficult of sale. Several
holders of Irish were retailing at 240 to 540 rs., ac-
cording to quality, per lb.
Freights were steady. The English ship Queen
Victoria had obtained a charter to the Channel at
305., for sugar in bags. For orders we quote—Cot-
ton to Liverpool, id. per lb. ; sugar to Liverpool,
203., to London, 20s. to 255.
The fever raged with unabated fury, and a number
of vessels could not sail for want of hands.

REDUCTION OF STAMP DUTIES.
The Deputy- Registrar for the West Riding has
pointed out the fact, that in the proposed reduction
of the stamp duties payable on the transfer of pro-
perty on mortgages or bonds, Yorkshire and Mid-
dlesex will not obtain the same benefit as other
counties. In those two counties there are Register-
offices, in which all deeds must be registered : but
there is a stamp duty of 10s. on the Menwrialo of
deeds for registry ; and unless that duty should be
reduced in the same proportion as the duty on the
deeds themselves, Yorkshire and Middlesex will not
obtain the same advantage as all other parts of the
kingdom.
For instance :—ln a non•register county, where
the money to be secured does not exceed 501., the
present stamp duty is 11.; exceeding 50/., and
not exceeding 1001, the duty is 1/. 103. It is
proposed to reduce the duties to ss. and 10‘.
respectively—which in one case is a re-
duction of three fourths and in the other of two-
third:. But in Yorkshire and Middlesex the duty
of 10s. on the Memorial of registry, added to the
duty on the deeds, will make the whole stamp
duties payable 15s. and 20s. respectively, which are
one-half of the aggregate duties formerly paid. So
that, in comparison, Yorkshire and Middlesex will
suffer; they will not obtain the relief granted to other
counties.
The equitable arrangement would seem to be, that
the stamp duty on Memorials should be reduced in
about the same proportion as the duties on deeds. It
is to be hoped that the Members for the West Riding,
and also the legal profession, will draw Sir Charles
Wood's attention to this matter.
If Register-offices should be established in other
counties, the stamp duty on Memorials would of
course become a general grievance. It ought to be
known that for many years after the first establish-
ment of Register•oflices, there was no stamp duty at
all on Memorials.—Leeds Mercury.

deplored the great calamity which had be-
I fallen the inhabitants of Limehouse, in the
destruction of their magnificent parish church,
and begged leave to offer to them St. James's
Church for the solemnization of marriages, baptisms,
and otber rites cf the established religion, until Lime-
house Church was rebuilt. The offer was accepted.
The hell-ringer, fire-lighter, and other officers of the
church, were then examined by the Rev. Mr.
Roberts, Mr. Stock, and Mr. Bluck, magistrates of
the county, as to the origin of the fire, but nothing
material was elicited. Finally, it was agreed upon
that Mr. Biker, the coroner, who was for many years
the vestry-clerk of the parish, should be requested to
hold an inquest to inquire into the origin of the fire,
and the meeting adjourned sine die.
The church w•as insured in November last by Mr.
Adams and Mr. Hitch, the present churchwardens, in
the Imperial Fire-office, for 5,0001.
The following is a copy of a letter addressed by
the curate to the Bishop of London, announcing the
calamity :
"Rectory, Limehouse. Good Friday morning, 1850.
Ten minutes past 10 A.M
"My Lord,—lt is with the greatest regret I have
to inform your Lordship that our beautiful church is
entirely destroyed by fire. The fire originated in a
flue connected with the roof. The first alarm was
given at five minutes to nine. I went on the roof;
but found from the height, and from the want
of hose, that little hope remained for the
safety of the edifice. We saved all the parish docu-
ments ; but now, an hour from the time of the first
outbreak, the roof is completely destroyed, and the
interior gutted. The flames rose up through the
tower; the stone-work seems uninjured, from its
strength and massiveness. The shell remains. Most
fortunately the churchwardens had insured the church
for 5,000/. This is, indeed, a most grievous calamity,
but happily, and by God's merciful providence, un-
attended with loss of life or personal injury. lam
sure the parishioners will be certain of receiving your
Lordship's sympathy. I must apologise for the ex-
treme haste in which I have written these few lines to
give your Lordship authentic intelligence of the me-
lancholy disaster. I am, my Lord, your Lordship's
most faithful and obedient servant,
" GEORGE ROBERTS.
"The Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord
Bishop of London."
We cannot close this account without stating that
the most effectual assistance was rendered by Mr.
Marquard, the superintendent, and Mr. Holmes and
Mr. Smith, inspectors of the K division.

THE COASTING TRADE OF THE

UNITED STATES.
The following correspondence between Sir II L.
Bulwer and Mr. Clayton, Secretary of State, had
given rise to much remark in the Senate :
" British Legation, Washington, Jan. 1, 1850.
" Sir,—Her Majesty's Government saw with great
satisfaction the decree published by the President of
the United States conceding to British ,vessels in
American ports the same privileges and advantages
which are granted to American vessels in British
ports by the recent modification of the British na-
vigation-laws ; and I was happy to assure you
that the vessels of the United States would not
be excluded by any order in Council from the
full benefit of that change of system which Great
Britain has adopted. There are, however, two or
three matters to which I must call your atten-
tion, believing that the real object and spirit of
your standing regulations is to confer on the vessels
of foreign Powers those advantages which such
foreign Powers may confer upon the Impels of the
United States. As the coasting trade of the United
Kingdom is strictly reserved to British vessels, I
would not, of course, propose to the United States
Government that British vessels should be admitted
to trade to and fro between the several ports on the
eastern coast of the United States, because such trade,
being strictly a coasting trade, is, it may be presumed,
confined to United States vessels ; but the trade be-
tween the ports on the east and those on the west
coast of the United States, involving, as it does,
the necessity of passing through seas, and along
the coast far beyond the territorial jurisdiction of
the United States, resembles in its nature and
character the trade carried on between the United
Kingdom and the transmarine possessions of the
British Crown, into which trade the new Act autho-
rises the admissions of the vessels of all countries
which may be disposed to meet the concession of
Great Britain in a spirit of fair reciprocity ; and her
Majesty's Government conceived that if the United
States vessels are to be admitted to this privilege, the
United States Government may be fairly expected in
return to admit British vessels to trade between the
Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United Stater.
Moreover, you will be aware that American vessels
becoming the property of British citizens are admitted
to the privilege of British register, and I therefore
deem it no more than reasonable and fair to expect
that measures will be adopted by the United States
Government for making British vessels becoming the
property of American citizens admissible to the ad-
vantages of an American register. It will give me
much pleasure to be able to satisfy her Majesty's Go-
vernment promptly in these particulars.
" I avail myself of this occasion to render to you
the assurances of my highest consideration.
" 11. L. BULWBE.

THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. ANN'S
CHURCH, LIMEHOUSE, BY FIRE.
This magnificent edifice was one of the fifty
churches appointed to be erected in the reign of Queen
Anne. It was commenced in 1712, but the building
altogether was not completel until 1729. It was
consecrated by the Bishop of London in 1730. The
architect, Nicholas Hawksmoor, one of Sir Christo-
pher Wren's pupils, has in this, as well as in the
church of St. George-in-the East, exhibited a style
remarkable for its solidity of appearance and singu-
larity of design.
The length of the church, from east to west, is 145
feet ; its breadth 78 feet ; height from the ground to
the large cornice which runs round the church, 50
feet ; and the whole height, from the pavement to the
top of the tower, 193 feet. The church is of Port-
land stone, and cost 38,000/. The vaults, the stone
floor of which is but a few feet below the level of the
churchyard, are formed by massive stone piers, and
groined segmental and semi-elliptical arches ; the
walls at this level are six feet in thickness. In the
interior of the church there was nothing remarkable
as to the general arrangement. The Roman style
was preserved throughout. The stone columns
standing upon square pedestals in the body of the
church were of the composite order, support-
ing an enriched cornice, continued only over part
of the side aisles and wall. Some columns of wood
were placed as supports under either gallery, the en-
trances to which were equal in design with many
other portions of this very remarkable and stupendous
edifice. The most striking feature in Limehouse
Church was the beautiful altar window, Christ preach-
ing on the Mount, executed in 1813 by Mr. Buckler
(celebrated for painting the window in the Barons'
Hall, at Arundel Castle), from a design in part by
West. This window was entirely destroyed Yes-
terday.
The pulpit, a fine specimen of carved work and
very elaborately finished, is also consumed. The ex-
ecution of this beautiful work occupied upwards of
two years and a half.
Limehouse Church and steeple was a prominent
feature in the eastern part of the metropolis, and seen
to great advantage in the lower pool, the heights at
Greenwich, and other places.
The fire broke out in the roof, over the north-
western side of the sacred edifice, and there is very
little doubt that the heat of the flues, communicating
with the timbers of the roof, caused the destruc-
tion of the church. A man named William Rum.
bold, who lighted the fires under the flues, lately
erected for warming the church, was the first to give
the alarm. He suspected ,the roof was on fire, and
called upon Mr. Coningham, the beadle and engine-
keeper, who ascended the tower and got into the in-
terior of the roof, which was in flames. A few buckets
of water would then have saved the building. They
could not be procured, and Coningham rung the two
bells! in the steeple in such a manner as to make
known to the parishioners in the immediate vicinity
that danger was impending over the sacred edifice.
The destruction of the edifice, and the interior of
the tower and spire, is complete. So great was the
heat of the flames that the stone-work of the exterior
is calcined in many places. The great organ, built
by Richard Bridge, in 1741, is consumed. It cost
1,0001. The numerous marble tablets and monu-
ments in the interior of the church are also destroyed.
Great alarm for some time prevailed respecting the
tower and spire, and it was feared that it would give
way, and add to the ruins. Mr. Morris, the parish
surveyor, who was early on the spot, and who watched
the progress of the fire with great anxiety, however,
declared that the shell of the tower, though greatly
damaged, was not likely to fall, and that no imme-
diate danger was to be apprehended.
At one o clock in the afternoon a meeting of the
churchwardens, overseers, guardians, and principal
inhabitants was held in the Town-hall, Church-lane,
and the Rev. Mr. Roberts, the curate, was unani-
mously called to the chair. Various suggestions were
made, and there was but one feeling, that of deep re-
gret, at the lamentable calamity. Mr. Adams and
Mr. Hatch wished that a most rigid inquiry should
be instituted relating to the origin of the fire. It was
resolved that application should be made to the trus-
tees of the National School-room, for the use of that
building for the solemnization of divine service until
the church was rebuilt. An answer was immedi-
ately made to the resolution on the part of the trus-
tees that the National School-house was at the service
of the parishioners. The Rev. Mr. Williams, incum-
bent of St. James's district church, Butcher-row,
i Ratcliffe, was introduced to the meeting, end said he

" Hon. J. M. Clayton, &c."
" Department of State, Washington,
Jan. 14, 1850.
" Sir,—l was honoured by the receipt of your
note of the Ist
.inst., assuring me that the vessels of
the United States would not be excluded by any
Order in Council from that change of system which
Great Britain has adopted by the recent modifi•
cation of her navigation-laws, and expressing
the great satisfaction of her Majesty's Government
with the decision of the President of the United
States conceding to British ♦essels in American
ports the same privileges and advantages which are
now granted to American vessels in British
ports. The question whether British vessels shall be
admitted to trade as you propose between the Atlantic
and Pacifica ports of the United States, and whether
vessels of the British build shall be admitted to the
advantages of an American register, are considered by
the President as proper subjects for Legislative con-
sideration, and will be submitted to the judgment of
Congress. I avail myself of this occasion to renew
to you the assurance of my distinguished consi-
deration.

" JOHN M. CLAYTON.
"Right Hon. 11. L. Bul wet, icc."
Sir Henry Bulwer writes as follows, in a letter,
dated
" British Legation, Washington, Jan. 3,1850.
"Sir,—lt having been represented to her
Majesty's Government that there is some idea
on the part of the Government of the United
States to increase the duties upon British
iron imported into the United States, I have
been instructed by her Majesty's Government to ex-
press to the United States Government the hope that
no addition will be made to the duties imposed by
the present tariff of the United• States, which already
weighs heavily upon British production, and I
cannot but observe, for my own part, that an aug-
mentation of the duties on British products or manu-
factures, made at a moment when the Bristish Go-
vernment has by a series of measures been facilitating
the commerce between the two countries would pro-
duce a very disagreeable effect upon public opinion in
England.—l avail myself, Vic.,
Hartaz L. BuLwas."

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

TIMES.—Some of our contemporaries are dis•
posed to take a very serious view of Mr. Ferrand's
address to the Pontefract agriculturists. They ques-
tion the accuracy of his statistics and the feasibility
of his plan., and accordingly they warn the public
not to follow him too implicitly. Surely this is a
waste of warning and of criticism. Mr. Ferrand is
not a statesman, or a financier, or a statist, or any
such high-and-dry commodity. He is not Member
for Manchester, or Glasgow, or Westbury, or even for
the important little borough of Tamworth. Happily
for his comfort, he represents no place in particular,
and is a gentleman at large. His address is redolent
of freedom. Through a series of splendid myths
there runs a vein of truth, which the wise will
discover, and the rest may leave alone. But
criticism is as much wasted on the address
as it would be on the " Battle of the Frogs
and the Mice," or the story of " Jack the Giant
Killer, or Bombastes Furioso. Why should not we
have our Ferrand ? We have our Stanhope, our
sibthorp, and our Brougham, none of them always
wise, and the last not always the same. Shiel is
more brilliant than judicious ; Osborne is more humor-
ous than wise; Palmerston is more witty than safe.
Let us cherish these pleasing diversities. May we
never see the day when the 654 members of the
Lower House shall all be machines for spinning
statistics, embroidering budgets, and weaving returns.
May Ferrand's shadow never be less ; and so long
as his speeches are as amusing as that he spoke at
Pontefract this day week, may they never be less
either. The cotton lords, in Mr. Ferrand's mythology,
are a race of giants, abounding in Lancashire, where,
in horrid dens, called factories or mills, they
torture and devour myriads of women and children.
For many years they waged war with the people of
this country, till at last, under the command of
Cobden and Bright, they assumed such a bead that
the people of England put themselves under Peel,
and invited him to lead them to battle. Peel pro-
mised to lead them straight against the foe ; but
familiar as he was with the sight of the cotton lords,
his courage failed when he saw the principal of the
two chiefs. Instead of fighting, he attempted to
bribe the enemy into peace, and, among other weak
compromises, gave the six hundred lords 1,0001. per
annum each, by the surrender of a duty hitherto
levied on a mysterious substance called cotton, the
chief source of their power. This concession bad the
usual fate of encouraging them to still greater ex--
cesses. About this time " a man who had hardened
his heart by listening to Anti-Corn League advo-
cates " slew one of Peel's attendants in mistake for
his master, and Cobden, so says our historian, inti-
mated that in case of further resistance Peel
might expect to have such attempts repeated with
better success. Then ensued a fight between the two
chiefs, of so extraordinary a nature, and such incon-
sistent results, that even the hypothesis of the two
Kilkenny cats furnishes but an inadeduate solution.
Peel crushed Cobden. Mr. Ferrand saw bim flat-
tened and dismembered on the field of battle ; but
there was, nevertheless, so much vitality and sub-
stance in his remains that he crushed his conqueror
in return. The different weapons employed may,
perhaps, have something to do with his divided suc-
cess. Peel crushed Cobden with his speech, and Cob-
den crushed Peel by compelling him to allow the
cotton giants free quarter in this unfortunate island.
This point was gained by the very piece of " un-
adorned eloquence" just mentioned, viz., the threat
of assassination, which, though it met with a crushing
reply, nevertheless rankled in the conqueror's
vitals, and brought him on his knees to the
cotton chief. Of course, on cool reflection, he was
rather ashamed of his cowardice, and to cloak it in-
vented the story of a famine, which he said had
rendered it impossible to supply the sinews of
war and keep his army together. Mr. Ferrand then
proceeds with a master band to describe the conse-
quences of this " base and unprincipled apostasy."
As his impressions are vivid, and his numbers round,
it costs little effort to follow, and almost to believe,
his narrative. On the triumph of free trade, the
war-cry of the cotton lords, the whole country im-
mediately passed from a state of the highest pros-
perity to the deepest depression. Ruin stalks through
the land. The staff of life is everywhere turned into
an unprofitable weed. Barley becomes a mere drug.
Strriles dominantur avena. Timber rots to half its
strength, and willows weep in vain the total ruin of
their market. The cattle are smitten by cotton
genie with foreign diseases, and tens of thousands of
farmers throughout Great Britain and Ireland are
ruined in consequence. "And, oh 1 what a sight has
free trade made for Ireland I" exclaims the historian
of these terrible incidents. " It is awful to contem-
plate it. '200,000 farmers have already fled
to America; ],000,000 labourers have sought
shelter in Great Britain, deprived of the
means of existence at home, and ready to tear this
cheap food out of our mouths." From East Lothian
to Keighley it is the same story. The Irish, driven
by the cotton lords out of Ireland, throng our roads,
fill our very ditches, and huddle together in our
lodging-houses—seventeen unmarried men and un-
married women, Mr. Fernand has been told, in one
room. Before Peel's treachery, continues our in-
formant, there were only 3,000 needlewomen in Lon-
don. "Three years of heartless competition" have
swelled them to exactly ten times their number,
although they die ten times faster than ever they did
before. The journeymen tailors are equally multi-
plied and impoverished. Half our farmers are
coining to the parish, and in five years time that re-
source will be exhausted, and our labourers will have
to tight for a day's work, or a penny loaf, with ten
times their number of famished Irishmen. Already,
" from the consequences of free trade, 150,000
Highlanders are starving to death." Why need
we odd more ? It only remains to state the
numbers of the brutal persecutors and their hapless
victims in order to show how little chance the latter
have against such fearful odds. We take the muster
from Mr. Ferrand's narrative of this extraordinary
campaign. The cotton lords number 600. They are
aided by Sir Robert Peel, by two or three hired agi-
tators of the meanest possible character, by 20 politi-
cal parsons, and a few thousand factory slaves, who
hate their masters most intensely, and therefore can-
not contribute much strength to the cause. The de-
feated party consists of 200,000 landed proprietors;
700,000 farmers, who, two years ago, possessed a
capital of 250,000,000/. ; and 3,000,000 labourers
regularly employed by them. This amounts to
3,900,000 stout able-bodied men, who have been
betrayed, surrounded, ruined, and brought to the
point of starvation by 600 cotton lords, 20 political
parsons, a few operatives, some agitators receiving
three guineas a day and their expenses, and Sir Ro-
bert Peel. At such a juncture it is that Mr. Ferrand
offers himself for the salvation of his country. His
suggestion is bold and ingenious. The 600 cotton
lords have condemned their 3,900,000 victims to
wear cotton as a badge of servitude, and as the means
by which the cotton lords themselves levy their black
mail. Mr. Ferrand proposes to the 3,900,000 to re-
nounce the use of cotton altogether, to live, die, and
be buried in wool, after the manner of their fore-
fathers ; only, in case of necessity, accepting the as-
sistance of linen. Since Mr. Ferrand evidently con-
siders this necessary as contingent and remote, if not
altogether improbable, we are left in some doubt as to
the material he would recommend for immediate con-
tact with the natural integument. So far wo can
only suppose that Mr. Ferrand advises us all,
whether peers, farmers, or labourers, to wear
woollen jerseys, woollen stockings, and the con-
nexion between these two articles, if any, also
of wool • coats and waistcoats of broad
cloth, and trousers of some lighter fabric,
but still of wool. For ladies and children he recom-
mends stuffs, merinos, bombasines, and even silks and
satins, but not a thread of cotton. Henceforth let
calico shirting or sheeting, cotton stockings, fustians,
moleskins, corduroys, cotton frocks, and the thousand
and one shapes and forms of cottons, be anathema.
Mr. Ferrand warns his lieges to form a great Wool
League. A proclamation is made with Homeric
pomp of language :
" Now, farmers, and men of the Pontefract polling
district, I advise you to convene a meeting in this town
of all the landlords, clergy, freeholders, barristers, attor-
neys, physicians, surgeons, bankers, land surveyors,
wine-merchants, spirit merchants, innkeepers, beer-sel-
lers, builders, joiners, masons, mercers, linen-drapers,
tailor., butchers, bakers, grocers, druggists, veterinary
surgeons, lime burners, saddlers, wheelwrights, cabinet-
makers, carpenters,: ironmongers, blacksmiths, nail-
makers, tinners, farm itnpletnent•inakers, corn-millers,
tanners, shoemakers, horse-breakers, horse-dealers,
cattle- dea'ers, seedsmen, gardners, clock and watch-
makers, glazier?, plumbers, brick-makers, tile-makers,
hatters, bonnet-makers, glovers, dress-makers, basket-
makers, rope-makers, farm labourers, and every person
depending upon agricalture."
From so formidable a combination what results
may not fairly be anticipated ? The South Down
breeders of the South and the Highland breeders
from Scotland will flock to the new standard.
"Vales will come with you heart and hand, with all
her mighty mountaineers, and you will have every
sheep-breeder throughout Great Britain and Ireland
crying, ' Hail, fellows, well met, but we are now
striking home,' and further," continues Mr. Ferrand,
" you will have the woollen manufacturers of the West
Riding themselves—they will cease to wiz their

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creation—the edition being extensive, let no man be without
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nasty cotton with the wool—they will have no occa-
sion to mix a million and a quarter of wheat in daub-
ing their nasty calico." The idea is splendid. We
presume that Mr. Ferrand has begu❑ at home, and
that neither he, nor a servant in his house, nor a
coachman nor a gardener in his employ, allows a
shred of calico to defile his person, or the person of
his wife or child. If the 3,900,000 landlord•, f4r-
mers, and labourers, and their families, will take Mr.
Ferrand's advice, we have little doubt of the success
he promises. They will certainly ruin the cotton
lords, but whether the ruin will stop there, it is quite
unnecessary in the present stage of the project to
inquire.

INUTILITY OF THE AFRICAN BLOCKAD-
ING SQADRON.

CIIRONICLE.—From; the Ifesi Indian journals
which reached us by the last mails, we do not find
any very sanguine feeling expressed in favour of our
African Squadron. By long experience the colonists
know that it is utterly powerless; and their intimate
acquaintance with the resources of their rivals tells
them that the supply of slaves has been, in spite of
our blockade, always more than sufficient to enable
them to compete favourably with the British planter.
They have therefore no faith in the results so confi-
dently predicted by the supporters of the Government
It is late in the day to talk of assisting the 'West In-
dians, whom the Government have, ever since their
accession to office, been leaving to their own energy
and enterprise." The fact is, that in the British sugar
colonies a large portion of the capital invested in the
production of that staple is irretrievably gone ; some•
thing may be saved out of the wreck, and here-
after a different class of capitalists may find
a profitable investment, but it is impossible
to conceive that any perceptible relief can be afforded
by our African blockade. In the colonies this is well
I understood ; they are not imposed upon by the notion
that we are doing them any real good by our efforts
to repress the slave trade, whilst they see the undi-
minished activity of our trade with Brazil and Cuba.
But it is not only in our own dependencies that our
proceedings are viewed with suspicion and aversion.
Even in the countries into which slaves ale imported
it appears that our policy does more harm than good
—that is to say, it is not only ineffectual in promot-
ing the object which we profess to desire, but it im-
pedes the advance of that civilisation which we are
most anxious to encourage. In Brazil there has
been for many years, and there still is, a large
and well-organised party, opposed to the slave
trade, and to slavery as a domestic insti-
tution. Our constant altercation with the Brazilian
Government, which has enlisted the national feeling
of the Brazilians on the side of the slave trade, has
been most prejudicial in obstructing the growth of
this party. Slavery is viewed by many persons in
that country with dislike and fear, and it is probable
that if they were neither solicited nor intimidated by
the British Government, some steps would be taken
in the right direction. But their national sensitive-
ness is such as to render it impossible for their Go-
vernment to adopt measures which have the appear-
ance of concession to extraneous dictation. Yet, with
facts of this kind, which no one disputes, we are told
that if this country persists but a little longer, our
efforts will be crowned with success. On this, as
on every former occasion, failure to a certain extent
is admitted, but assurances are given that plans
of approved infallibility will henceforth be adopted.
But it is some consolation to reflect that this state of
things is drawing to a close. The balance of opinion
is undoubtedly against persevering in our African
policy. No doubt the responsibilities of Members of
Parliament are very great, yet we hope the time
will come when it will appear to them less dangerous
to contemplate the stultification of Lord Palmerston's
measures than to persist in a course which they know
tobe opposed to the real interests of the country. When
parties are so constituted that this question may be
decided on its merits, we are convinced that there
will be hardly a voice raised in favour of the squa-
dron. The country is already decided against
wasting on this unprofitable blockade energy
and resources which might be employed so well at
home.

THE LATE ERUPTION OF MOUNT

NAPLES, Fan. 24.—The insufferable dulness and
gloom which have reigned in this fair city for some
weeks past, ntilgr the Carnival and the usual balls
and gaieties, have at last been dispelled by the ex-
citement caused by one of the finest eruptions of
Mount Vesuvius ever known. For some twelve or
fourteen days, the mountain has been in labour,
giving manifest indications, by groans and wailing'',
of bringine forth speedily something more than a
mouse. On the Bth, volumes of smoke and vapour,
with occasional sheets of flame, were succeeded,
from time to time, by awful subterranean rum-
blings ; and on the morning of the 7th the lava
made its appearance, running down the mountain,
on the side of Torre Annunziata, in seven or
eight distinct streams. On the evening of
the latter day, a party of us ascended to the
Hermitage, and thence, on foot, with guides and
torches, to the cone, from whence a fine view was
obtained of the lava at a white heat, as it was pumped
out of the crater, and thence bent its way in the di-
rection of Pompeii and the Basco Reale. This ascent
was very fatiguing and disagreeable, and one of the
party had a narrow escape of fracturing a limb by a
fell. During the night of the Bth the roaring and
bellowing of the crater kept most people from enjoy-
ing their rest, and on the whole of the 9th volumes of
smoke, lava, and vapour, together with huge stones
and serria, were ejected without intermission. On
the evening of this day a special train was announced
to leave Naples at sic o'clock for Torre Annunziata,
returning at eleven. About four hundred natives and
foreigners availed themselves of this opportunity ; and
a strong party of Inglesi, with guides and torches,
and mules and donkeys, proceeded from the station
at Torre Annunziata to the Bosco Reale, which is
about five miles, through narrow lanes and
country roads. There was no cause for appre-
hension, however, as the Government had taken care
to send strong bodies of troops, both horse and foot,
for the protection of life and property, and the pre-
servation of order. The sight that met our view on
our arrival at the Bosco was grand in the extreme.
The lava presented a frontage of about at least a mile
and a half, and was advancing slowly but steadily and
surely, and devouring everything in its way On
the road we had met parties of poor peasants car-
rying beds, chairs, pots and pans, and other move-
able furniture, which they had been able to save from
the devouring liquid—the women and children
rending the air with their groans and cries and sup-
plications to the good San G-ennaro, the patron saint
of these parts. These poor wretches were thrown on
the world homeless, penniless. By the time of our
arrival, which was about nine o'clock, the lava had
taken complete possession of the wood, having de-
voured about half of it. At times a row of three or
four hundred saplings caught fire simultaneously,
producing a vivid flame that lighted up the country
for miles around. Some splendid full-grown ilex,
oak, and ash trees, offered in their ponderous trunks
a momentary assistance ; but it was to no purpose ;
the larger ones generally exploding with a loud re-
port and a leap of twelve or fourteen feet in the air,
to be consumed like tinder on their descent. It
was curious to observe, when, from a sudden rush of
lava, which always occurred after a temporary obstruc-
tion, how the larger trees gave out tens of thousands
of little jets of steam from the knees and elbows of
the smaller branches. It was owing to the roots
and trunks coming immediately and suddenly in '
contact with the lava, and before the whole tree
had had a preparatory roasting previously to its
final combustion. In these cases the tree gene-
rally exploded ; those, on the contrary, that had
had their initiatory grilliag generally bowed
their heads slowly and majestically, dying,
like Caesar, in their dignity. As this novel and
brilliant spectacle quite absorbed our attention, the
majority of us lost the return train to Naples, and
decided to pass the night on the spot. There was no
moon, but the stars shone clearly, and the sky was
cloudless; a cold tremontana, however, on one side,
and the insupportable heat of the advancing furnace
on the other, made it necessary for us to keep revolv-
ing from time to time like bottle jacks before the
lava, to obviate being frozen on one side and baked
on the other. At about three o'clock in the morning
the eruption was at its height. The amount of lava
was quintupled, and the masses of stones which shot
up into the air descended with a reverberating crash.
It was the discharge of these stones which caused a
noise that rendered our voices inaudible. I can only
compare it to the concussion produced by the broad-
side of a three-decker. 'The ground at times
trembled under our feet, and a wailing, sobbing, dis-
tressing sound seemed to indicate that nature was un-
dergoing a horrible subterranean convulsion ; and
thus gave vent to the "throes and throbs" of her
agony. At about four o'clock the destroyer ad-
vanced to a farm-house and outbuilding, which
seemed, from their solidity, being built of rubble-
stone, and joined with the well-known Roman
cement, likely to offer a stout resistance. And here
the lava seemed to be endowed with consciousness and
instinct. No sooner did it feel the momentary check
than it commenced rising like the water in the lock
of a canal, and from being at its arrival about twelve