The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-17 00:00:00

C0L02:71.a1..

SUGAR. '-=-The marli.eif;Wiiisllllantation has been very
dull this week, and indeed the same may he said of that for
most other descriptions, as there is a disinclination to do
business until the Customs' Duties Bill has passed. The sales
of the week, excluding to-day, are about 500 hhds and trcs,
at lower rates, as supplies are coming forward.
URITIUS AND BENGAL-11,186 bags of the former partly
found buyers, but at a decline of is to 2s compare& with
last week, mid to fine yellow realising 60s to 65s 6d, and
brown 52s 6d to 58s; of the latter, 7,583 bags were partly
sold at 58s to 62s 6d fir yellow and at 52s 6d to 54s for brown.
RFFlNED.—Standard lumps have been at 78s to 78s 6d.
FOREIGN.-284 cases 7 brls Maroim were taken in at 22s
to 24s for mid to good white, and 38 brls Bahia at 18s.
COFFER.—The market has been rather dull. At auction
1,642 tags Costa Rica have been taken in above their value,
fine ord at 59s to 60s. Ceylon has had rather a better sale,
and 603 bags sold at 86s to 88s 641 for Plantation kinds, at
94s 6d for pea berry, and at 52s to 53s for common to good
ord, being somewhat dearer. Mocha has been taken pri-
vately at 735, but 464 bags by auction only partly sold at
82s to 85s for good mid yellow, and at 71s 6d to 72s 6d for
fine ord, being lower.

COCOA.—The demand is limited and prices are Lower; 592
bags 743 brls Trinidad mostly sold at 42s to 48s 6d for ord
to good red.
RlCE.—There have been no public sales ; but privately
there has been some business doing.
SALTPETRE.-2,592 bags Calcutta only partly sold .at 23s
to 24s 6d for 186 to si per cent. refraction, which is a little
cheaper.
RUM.—There has been more demand, owing to the Go-
vernment contract advertised. Proof Leewards, 2s 2d ; Cal-
cutta proof, Is lid.
SrlcEs.—There has not been much doing publicly, but pri-
vately the demand is fair for Pepper, Pimento, and Ginger.
CorroN.—At auction 4,139 bags East India, American, &c.,
were nearly all taken in, the market being depressed.. Surat
was bought in at 3id to 3441 per lb.
TEA.—The market has been brisker for all sorts. Congou
Is Okl to is Id for common to good common. Green is ad-
vancing. _ _

, TALL-ow.—P.Y.C. is dull at about 40s 64 to 40s 9d per cwt.
on the spot.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 17.—Wind, strong northerly breeze, with rain,
DEAL, MAY 16.—Wired E., light.—Sld. Mona, Launceston ;
Annandale, west coast of Africa ; Blessing, Quebec.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 16.—Arrd. Sir Hans, Odessa, for Bre-
men, cargo heated. SM. George, Sutton, Plymouth and
Labrador.

OFF PLYMOUTH, MAY 16.—Camilla, Havannah, for Stettin ;
William Harris, Hamburgh, for St. John's, New Brunswick;
Manchester, Antwerp, for New York.
OFF FALMOUTH, MAY 15.—Adelia, New York, for Bremen ;
Eliza, Sierra Leone, and sailed for Portsmouth; Mary Stod-
dart, M'Neal, Calcutta.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
Oscar, Steed, Benin (May 17); Alice, Barbadoes ; Bolton
Abbey, Savannah. Off, Nimrod, Ambassador, Jeremiah
Garrett, and Aberdeen. Sld. George Armstrong, Calcutta;
Lady Flora Hastings and Phalanx, Mauritius ; Lord Palmer-
ston, Columbia River ; Bella Portena, Buenos Ayres ; Fling
Fish, Rio; Village Girl, Santa Martha; Themis, New York;
John Nunn, Quebec; Safeguard, Montreal; Othello, How
duras.

OFF CORK, MAY 14.—Blake, Fraser, Ichobce.
DEAL, MAY 16.—Arrd. tledora, Havannah, for Hamburgh.
FRESERBURGII, .111AY 13 —The Eliza, of Kirkcudbright, in
coming through the Pentland Frith, got in the rocks and
became leaky, crew (except one man) drowned.
NEWPORT, MAY 15.—S1d. Alice Haviland Philadelphia.

BRISTOL, MAY 1 6.—Arrd. Feliza, Pike, 'Trinidad: Sld.
Zoe, Cape of Good Hope; Indian, Montreal.
WEXFORD, MAY I s.—The Roscius, Collins, from Liverpool
to New York, got on Arklow Bank, but was assisted off
yesterday, and proceeded.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-
SLAVERY SOCIETY-(THIS DAY.)

The Fifth Anniveriary Meeting of this Society took place
in Exeter-hall this morning. It having been announced for
several days previous to the meeting that Lord Brougham
would take the chair, intense interest was excited, and the
hall was densely crowded. At eleven o'clock the members
of the Committee entered the room, and took their seats
amidst loud plaudits. On the platform we observed Sir
George Stephen, John Bright, Esq., M.P. ; Samuel Gurney,
Esq., J. Sturge, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the Rev. J. Bur-
net, the Rev. Dr. Jen.kyn. the Rev. J. Carlisle, G. W. Alex-.
ander, Esq., and many other distinguished advocates of the
cause. _ . . _ _

-111;. J. STURGE said, in the absence of Lord Brougham, I
beg to move that Samuel Gurney, Esq., be requested to take
the chair.

G. W. ALEXANDER seconded the motion,
The announcement involved in this motion was received
with evident disappointment. The motion itself was car-
ried unanimously.
Mr. SOMME, the Secretary of the Society, said he had
a communication to make to the meeting, in the shape of:an
extract from a letter of Lord Brougham to the Committee
of the British and. Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. It was as
fellows :

" TO THE ANTI-SLAVERY COMMITTEE,

" Privy Council, May 16,184-1,
" Gentlemen,—l feel truly concerned to state that I shall
be unable to have the satisfaction of meeting our friends
to-morrow. I had, as you are aware, been reluctant to
break through my general rule against attending public
meetings. But having, in consideration of my ancient con-
nection with the Anti-Slavery question, overcome that reluc-
tance, I felt gratified with the prospect of once more find-
ing myself among our abolition friends, and I had received
the thanks of our venerable. Thomas Clarkson. But the con-
stitution of this Court renders it impossible to find the re-
quisite number of judges for to-morrow, when important
causes come on to be heard, insomuch that we are obliged
to ask the attendance of an unprofessional member of the
Judicial Committee. My being here, therefore, to preside
over the business is necessary to prevent public inconve-
nience and detriment to parties.
" Believe me, your faithful servant,
" BROUGHAM."

The reading of this letter was followed by hisses from the
body of the room.
The CHAIRMAN said he was sure he should receive the
kind sympathy of all present in occupying the chair, instead
of a Nobleman of such brilliant talents as the Noble Lord
whose company they had had reason to expect on that occa-
sion.—(Cheers.) As he did not possess the brilliant eloquence
of that Noble Lord, they would :not expect him to detain
them more than a few minutes; but still it was due to the
meeting that he should state why he had been w llhig to
undertake a duty for which he did not feel himself to be com-
petent, and which was of so high a character. When he
reviewed the short history of the British and Foreign Anti-
Slavery Society, and observed the very useful character of
its operations, whether they related to the spreading of sound,
true, and unanswerable information on the subject of slavery
in different quarters of the globe, or to the protection which
the Society had always given to the black population in our
own colonies, which population, without that protection,
would again have been deeply oppressed; when he con-
sidered, again, the Society's watchful care over all
the laws and operations of the English Government,
in reference to the slave-trade, and its great
services in furnishing the Government, at all times, with in-
formation, and. using all its influence that that information
might be well applied ; when he considered, again, the
great activity of the Society in spreading information on this
subject in other countries, whose colonies still kept so large
a portion of their people in a state of slavery; when lie con-
sidered all this, it did appear to him that the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavdy Society had fulfilled, with great judg-
ment and energy, its duty to the public in reference to this
Matter, and that he would nOtbe justified in refusing any such
assistance as might be in his power to render to the cause
by taking the chaii.,--(Cheers.) Their business on that oc-
casion, he apprehended, was to receive from the Committee
an account of their proceedings during the past year. Many
present, he doubted not, had read that. well-conducted periodi-
cal the Anti-Slavery _Reporter. Those who had done so must
be well aware that the Committee had been anxiously occu-
pied during the past year, and he had no doubt they Would
receive high satisfaction from the report which was about to
be read.

Mr. J. STURGE said he need not 'offer any apology for
reading a letter to the meeting; when he stated that it came
from Thomas Clarkson.—(Cheers.) Though he was now in
his 85th year, and had devoted 60 years of his life to the
great cause which they were that day met to promote, he
had shown in the last year so much energy in working for
it, 'that '. he thotight it barely possible that he might
be present on that occasion. Having written to him on this
subject, however, two or three weeks ago, he had received a
reply, stating that.he must never expect to see him again at
a public meeting. He had, however, written a letter, and
although it related to only one point, it showed the devotion of
Lis mind to the cause. He ventured to say, that Mr. Clark-
son had not written less than 100 letters to eminent men on
this subject during the past year. He then read the follow-
ing letter :

" TO JOSEPH STURGE.

" My dear Friend,7-I can truly say, in answer to your
letter, it is withgrief that I am again hindered, by the infir-
mities of old age, and the painful diseases often consequent
upon these, from attending your meeting, which is to be held
on the 17th instant. You may easily conceive, knowing, as
you do, my entire devotion, during a long life, to the sacred
cause, which it is the object of your meeting to promote, that
nothirig would haVe given the more pleasure than to have
attended it, and:to have seen so many friends, whose hearts
haVe long Beaten in unison with my own on this great subject
"It is yery pleasing to me, on reviewing the occurrence:

• - - t:.'
of the past year, to be able to state, en athrough Yledigto
audience, an event which I consider to hale
t;` nlicstld
gain to our cause. I allude to the defeat of the Op, t
of the American shareholders under the 10th articlee
6
treaty lately made at Washington between our Gov.riTlie
and the President of the United States. It seas erur4
me, on reading the treaty, that it was intended to Des,a_wee,,
cable to the refugee slaves, as well as to the white poo
_el;st
who might have fled from justice there. Hence, Tel,osog
reason to fear that the American planters would take afof the
of it to go into Canada, and search for and claim sue" _tore
fugitive slaves as might be found, and thus get therafe
to slavery; and this was afterwards found thee,
Now who were these poor fugitives from nut2- 0
slavery? They consisted, originally, 91. about
persons; who escaped at different times. Some of tbe
they fled, were pursued, by bloodhounds, akr- bsoi'
pieces; others were taken alive and caul 00,0'
and subjected to cruel torture, even to death ; and
ring their journey of many hundred miles, perished bybat
fatigue, and diseases contracted in their way, so
their des3'
more than twelve thousand, or one half, reached the
nation. These settled themselves, by permission of 11t
vernment, in Canada, where they have erected villagisceof
tivated the land, built schools for their children, and 001;
worship for themselves and families, and cowhide ig t
selves upon the whole in such an exemplary tnannbert'i, tbel
have gained the esteem of the inhabitants amongw"°lBote°l
lived. It was to be feared then that the American P,6,0,0'
(and so it turned out) would, under the treatY.ll,,lQ Brim
tinned, claim these fugitives by charging them 101. have
fictitious, and thus that all their industry w°ll.trisio
been lost, their villages broken up, their land left des°;,hear
themselves taken back to a cruel slavery. Ido Ott , rya
ber time during all my anxiety, for now nearly 'of pe°l
on this subject, when I felt so much and such coutinnoof
for the fate of the poor people now described. I wilt el/
the tortures to which they Would have been exPos3".
up to their enraged masters.
wiles t
',I was brooding over these melancholy presages, trot'
more minute examination of the 10th article of 0°,404
my mind began to be relieved. It seemed to me, en !;glll'
over those articles which related to the mode of resxtld/ gior
gitivecriminals, that they were so worded, as to 8,°,1°
thing like a safeguard to the liberty of the intenoe's
These victims were happily to be examined before
tiles. dr,
magistrate, in conformity with British law, before
„o.oll',
livery to the demand of the American Government. It; hio
depended upon what sort of instructions her Majest4vestre
tens would give to the Governors of Canada and the I •
dies, as to the interpretation of certain words in the n, to_lfg
make it more or less favourable to the unhappY Pe' hef 7;#
claimed. There is great reason 'to believe that t
001)1,
formed this part of their office in a spirit highlYll. set
to themselves ; for since the ratification of the trea fie tipei
fugitive slaves from •Florida escaped to Nassau' by
charged with murder. These were soon followtheis
properback.
authorityTlieir
ofcas tehewias
Marshal of the United States, with orders to dal° 111.
fibirriengthtebemhog 01
alanimd,alaneddiattheellevvirfderlderliv4o
being such as British law required, they were uetsll,,t iii t
I hope and believe that all such cases will teria,',ll-tao
same manner ; not that I desire the really guio'froro
punishment, but that slaves who simply run awe) el to '0
masters, should not be charged with fictitious crin',.,„g
casion their surrender. I cannot therefore help own,
this defeat of the object of. the Washington Treatloilir
considered as one of the most important occurrences,
to our cause, in the past year. e eetl9
" But I fear I have trespassed too much upon ,111,00„a
your audience, I will therefore only add, that I a° iisisc,":„;i
wish that the intended meeting may prove highlYs3
to yourself as well as highly, advantageous to our
cause.—Yours, affectionately,
"THOMAS CL A115'5
" Playford Hall, near Ipswich, May 14, 1844:'
,gt
r"tr
d,He would now say one word with respect to the . o°,
zealous co-operator in the good work for milli - eeaawe /
who was now removed from works to rewards.._,„'Alleto
last met they had lost his valued friend 'Winn"- to,ri
(Cheers.) It was far from his intention to atteterviov
any eulogium on William Allen, a man who in a„ -hils;hl
the sufferings. of his fellow-creatures, looked 111'°"bero 're
only as the instrument of God. He was now witio:
praise or condemnation of mankind could not affecti le° sf
merely now alluded to the circumstance of therotooi,
death, in order to express a hope that they lirolqed is tje
imitate the zeal with which their friend had to "d forbt,,io
cause of suffering humanity, but also the love s.in
ante which he showed towards those who differe° " "1
htsiilo•
in opinion, as to the best means to be adopted for ooli
their great object. In that respect their friend' 1,)
Allen, was a bright example.—(Loud cheers.) Arg,
Mr. &ODLE then came forward to read the sessile
was extremely long, and from which we take the,'" 0
extracts : • tit°o o
•
" In presenting the fifth annual report of the Sol atoe,
supporters and friends, the Committee would calvefore
in the first place, to the present state of the African s_eflarool
" The powers which stand before the civilized. _efhoi
eminent in guilt for the part they have taken in this
traffic of late years; are Spain, Portugal, and Brand ``oo
they acted in conformity with their own laws' 40ce bays
treaty stipulations, the slave-trade would long -Snitl of
disappeared. But deaf alike to the calls of hum ling 111,
honour they have shamelessly persisted, in Peo m.o,llft o
own territories, or supplying others with slaves. 'l3.ed 00.301,.
reckless of consequences, allows the traffic to be earrliet oto
means of enriching her treasury, of keeping the Creo _ ert
.„;
tion of her colonies in check, and of rewarding th,,,:e presco",
of her changing governments for their services. 1°
f the 0;i1
Captain-General of Cuba is an avowed partizan co to
trade,, and is represented as uninfluenced by tundrestio•
ho
and remonstrances of the resident population, w- , off
further increase of the African race, as an eleraen"..o
ness and decay, rather than of strength and prosreetolesd
" Portugal is chiefly devoted to the conveyauced $1;;,
from Africa to the Spanish colonies and Brazil; ant niercso
parently reluctant to forego this employment for torto
tile marine, as they are to discontinue the ginr,,,Y is ,to
Brazil is now the largest slave-importing eollilt :005 ;61'
world ; and, it is believed, that during the last two been
number of unfortunate Africans introduced has
Atte"
mense. Cofvfoc”
"At the last anniversary of the Society, the .tit
had the gratification of announcing the import '
that slavery had been abolished in British P",i;
millions that were there enslaved are now ler'
the act of the Governor in council, which secures thst
end, having received the sanction of the Court of Witfaito
Directors and of the British Government. Henceforth toe
the duty, and should be the aim, of the Society tog hi !es
the emancipated slaves are free, in fact, ag well t
ag
The same general remarks apply to Malacca, has of
Penang, and Province Wellesley. In Ceylon slave'infotlll
wholly been abolished, and the Committee are Ti,t,
that slaves still remain in bondage at St. Helen a% cocci,
Mr. O'Connell here entered the room and were n'elo(
with loud cheers, which lasted fur some time. 1,,,m effe4
few hisses mingled with the cheers, which ,had W
ort' re,
proloindthe alause. ' to°
Thnge SECRETAR p
Yp, before he proceeded with the .re
of' , to
minded the audience that they were attending„;ith
slavery meeting.—(Cheers.) He then proceed by
,the
report. b, •
" At Hong-Kong, slavery, if not actually Pernis,rc,l)e
authorities, is found to exist. It cannot, bows its 10',4• 0
posed that the British Government, when the ',ll-thing
molly:known, will allow of its continuance. Mod. ,08
injurious to our influence in China could be ionagl. olts'dlo
GM be!
" The Committee have 'also learned that at , for
inmates of the houses of the Moorish residents 1113004ie
slaves, and sometimes sent thence to the Coast 01; the
sale. To these points, the anxious attention 0' lhot
mittee has been directed. of o°o3
in
" The Committee have further become awl/stile ft'oore
that British vessels are sometimes employed laces els
Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea in transporting .3„,
one port to another for sale. Of course they lostt,Xlo, iota
laying the fact before her Majesty's Governmen oiciestiite
feel persuaded,
Brit institute the most rigid in?, cons
abuses of the sh flag, and apply the necess°l at'
tional remedy. emigre
as de° to
"The Committee have watched the progre-:. ittriO3.
from the British settlements on the coast 0. repor"fe,
West Indies with the greatest care, and have to. G°. e 5,
whilst on the one hand they rejoice that the Brintlies tot
.ho
ment have resisted the solicitations of the West 11 inialielga
tend the range whence the supply of labourerscrota
b° der
drawn, beyond these settlements, lest it should a't`recie,
Powers a plea for covertly carrying on a slav_essions
the pretext of supplying the colonies and P°ss,., fbloo 0
free labourers; they deeply regret, on the othoropecO,
have given way on a vital point, that of a due 1) at sof
the sexes. the sIo% t
" The removal of the prohibition laid on vast pi/
Indian labourers to Mauritius, has led to a 'l,ceonlve 06;
these people into the island. fin market has beet, so,
ted ; and probably the further troduction worne
of •oel
pended in whole or in part, except in the case „t pri to t
be
fsinailiee. Such an utter disregard of the b."- era ill tie'
which should govern the introduction of labonrouttee'
British colonies, is, in the judgment of the C°l33
serving of the severest reprobation." et, o
The report then referred to the general Pt°sl) nabs
Society in the various countries of the world. t nrieriel
" An event of great importance, though not
tits t_itt,e.
with the Society, merits a record in its report the a'
Pedro de Zulueta, junior, for aiding and abettingand jar..lcool• 1.0,
trade. A true bill having been found by the gIA
was tried at the Old Bailey, and barely escaPet:he sup
the petty jury having acquitted him contrarY t°
the at'
iHcet
up of the learned judge, who presiued 'over the eis d
facts brought to light y this trial prove clear r, Lige
1.
to which the traffickers in human flesh And ti;Joriol,;(-:,1
this country resort in the prosecution of their , yesl,„,ol
inhuman deeds. To the courage, talent,
asathis esl;tlscto
George Stephens, the public are indebted fo wee dee ,
In testimony of the importance which the Co
02 es
.„ sc,
to the criminal proceedings against Zulueta, uttuutheuttts'or
the anti-slavery cause, they have published f',7ol,ei ins.#ole;
count of the trial, accompanied by such addt(,)•, the 011",000
throws light upon the more obscure part . the att',
This publication is earnestly recommeodedl°_,pl
of the friends of Africa, throughout the countr,i tt▪ ivZtso.,
He (the Secretary) thought he would be con s;nd their„
sure of the meeting if he did not continue tore,'„onel ° ,
of the report at length. He would, thereto
veto/
reading the conclusion of the report I— the einshOt-11/o'
" The nature of the evil to be overcome 7:„ „aseerg,„oo
of the human race-coupled as it is With
terate habits, engendered by centuries of rovi. stipercileysire ;10
the pride and prejudice of caste, arisinge the stion!„is•
condition ; the lust of gain, stimulated
ou .orina;
power, which wealth confers ; and the IoN eqieutflost f 010
dear to the oppressors of mankind, presenet,_t_tacies,lllllo
ble, though, happily, not insurmountable_ 01..tito /ID rag
complishment of the great object which Yenr_r yet, l'_',,coes?!.,,
pists, in this and, other lands, have in rot 7110 hleepoi
the righteohsness of their cause, cheered
to bike 11% Ct'is a°
and by present appearances, and trustrg
when the_ bon
sing, they confidently anticipate the le
iaillions of o,f
the oppressor shall be broken, and theerO 011,
race who now sigh in bondage, shall b tr eav_Rnoial stateelot' are
.!/,
Mr. G. W. ALEXANDER then read the of the
by which it appeared that the expend!tur'
ere estin'a fo Prclslis
amounted to 2,170/., and the liabilities wen., e
The Bishop of NOINICII was then called I'Pl c
the first resolution, and was receive.d
e to him eeting
ei „, 00
0
said, that it was at some inconvemenc
had to be at t 0110^,,,
attended that morning, for he
ub he could n° ie t,
another place at twelve o'clock,
übt being Preserss in ey,'
an opportunity to pass by mitl
can
se. It of ss9cissed
goodwill and wishes towards.theoe
best feedings „eoeri
cause that connected itself with I
erson whor
boy
and vibrated in the hearts of every p
lnglislare t
British feelings. There was not an though! theree loins ee 60
whose heart was not with him, d athey were Zerse was ileacq
who were absent in body, ye
d 't that room:— (Heat' heir
Of all the causes ever argue mas
the Pre,s.e,ll,,f- (Ilenr'cioti°°'
worthy of public patronage
rt Or. p 010..- ,ts foOn
It was not conne,cted with p y
aChristianity Wald chrisll'thee
But to go beyond that, it had , it h with asp
it had Christianity in its progrenss....7
a cbears•Lt ,tla4oivg
for its object from begincing to c
,frasure to he Pre'-cie hY nhn
feelings, it gave him
• grea-Id conclu aßers 0t
he would
re sPe- as non
Having said these few words,.
There we,-• h he `. -kis '-
the resolution he had before him.
ails
t with woletia ‘"
would enter at large into the de an-sio •rtis
to shon 0 pupa'
conversant. He was there
and that n .I_llo
promote the cause freedomotanti-slavell'' uf the 11°
tor freedom in every shape ; the ,
social —(Cheers.) oded the
freedom political and soci • ~,,„deeptsoco
The Rey, Joni lire:atm of Abet

the rei°'