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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING.
The miserable state of the weather having prevented
our sending a full report of all the races from the Heath,
we subjoin some additional particulars of the running
for the Criterion and Cambridgeshire Stakes .--
CRITERION.—Gaper jumped-off with the lead at a good
pace, fbllowed by the Macremma filly and Testy ; at the
Duke's Head the two fillies changed positions, but still
waited closely upon Gaper to the cords, here the Yaxley
colt.went up, passing the Macremma filly, and cleared the
winning chair with his neck before Testy, and his head at
Gaper's tail ; Lord Exeter's filly was beaten a couple of
lengths from Testy, and had a trifling advantage over Co-
therstone ; the others were beaten off.
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.—The race commenced
after two failures, about Indian hour after the appointed
time, the lead being taken at a good pace by the Busk
mare, the Gleaner, Lady Adele, and several others fol-
lowing in the track. At the turn of the lands Belissima
deprived the Busk mare of the lead, and attended by the
two fillies, Garry Owen, Knight of the Whistle, Florence,
and three or four others, welt on with the running to
the Duke's Stand. where she gave up, and Florence took
the lead, and with Lady Adela, Garry Owen, Knight of
the Whistle, and Ralph closely laid up, made strong play
into the cords. Ralph then drew up, passed Florence
forty yards from the chair, and won easy at last by,
a length, Lady Adela was ' two lengths from Flo-
rence,
and was not a neck before Garry Owen, who
had a similar advantage over Belissima, the
Knight of the Whistle was sixth, and I-am-not-
Aware seventh. Melior, the Gleaner, Billingham Lass,
and Forester, were beaten off a long way. Value of the
stakes 1,055/. The actual number of starters was only
• eighteen ; the. Duke of Bedford's Moneda, which had
been waighQd for, having been declared not to start
iYirtt tke:rieg brae' up; 'lttreirertrififtfirprigerolf
it-until after our eXpress had left.
The races did not' finish until four o'clock, and the
dusk setting in shortly after, there was no ring in front
of the rooms. The only bets laid were 50 to 30 on the
British Yeoman agstMurat, and • 500 even between the
Progress colt and Philip, both for the Derby.
The match between John o'Gaunt and Jamie Forest is
brought forward from Saturday to Monday. .
TUESDAY.
The settling for the Criterion and Cambridgeshire
Stakes occupied the whole of the morning, and, in the
absence of complaint, may be put down as a good one ;
the balances, we believe, were not heavy. The weather
was not so cold and rainy as on Monday, but was
showery enough to make close carriages desirable. The
day's card contained six races, of which we subjoin the
particulars, with_the exception of the Feather Weight
Plate, which was not decided when our account left.
Handicap Plate of 100/., for three year olds, &c. D. I.
Mr. Pettit's St. Francis, aged, 9st 21b (Chaney) 1
Mr. Gregory's Una, 4 yrs, 7st 81b 2
Mr. W. Sadler's'Bellissima, aged, ist 121 b
Mr. J. Day's Tamburini, 6 yrs, Bst slb 4
Mr. T. Clarke's Arcanus, 3 yrs, '7st 21b 5
Lard Jersey's Snowdrop, 4 yrs, 7st
Mr. Ongley s Fama, 4 yrs, 7st
Mr. Graydon's Roscius, 6 yrs, Bst 71b
Betting-5 to 2 agst Bellissima, 3 to 1 agst St.
Francis, 4 to 1 agst Una, and 6 to 1 agst Arcanus.
Roscius made the running for the first half mile, fol-
lowed by Fama and Bellissima ; he then gave way, and
Bellissima went on with a good lead at a severe pace,
Una and Snowdrop lying up with her, Arcanus and St.
Francis in the rear. Bellissima lasted to the cords, and
then dropped astern ; St. Francis now drew towards
Una, left her a few strides from the Chair, and won easy
by a length ; Bellissima a very bad third ; and the
others tailed off.

likewise compare the limited demand for slaves now
arising from Cuba and Brazil, with the demand which
would have existed at this time, if all the colonies of
.Great Britain, of France, of Holland, and Denmark,
together with Brazil and Cuba, had continued to im-
port without impediment or restraint an unlimited
supply of slaves.
Therefore, Gentlemen, I see in the present state
of things no reason whatever for discontinuing or re-
laxing our exertions ; but, on the contrary, we have
every motive for a strenuous and persevering conti-
nuance of our efforts.
Much has already been accomplished, and much
more may, I trust, be looked for. The Brazilians,
the Spaniards, and the Portuguese are the great of-
fenders, but all these nations are bound by the solemn
I engagements of treaties to abstain entirely from the
slave trade ; and if they could be persuaded to act in
this matter with good faith, and honestly and punc-
tually to fulfil their engagements to us, our object,
as far as the slave trade is concerned, would in a great
measure be accomplished.
Now the power and influence of England is great
—greater perhaps than many persons in this country
are aware of.
If that power and influence are steadily and vigor-
ously exerted by the Executive Government, as I. am
sure that in this matter they will be ; and if the
Executive Government is well backed up and sup-
ported by public opinion and national feeling, of
which in this case there can be no doubt, I am con-
vinced that the unanimous determination of the British
Government and British nation to obtain from Foreign
.Powers'a faithfid and complete -execution of the en-
gagements which those Powers have entered into with
Great Britain for the suppression -of the slave trade
will in the end be crowned with success.
But for this purpose we must be firm and decided;
we must not mind if we give offence to the guilty
parties whose crimes we are endeavouring to punish
or prevent ; and we must not be stopped by clamour
raised against us by those who are interested in the
perpetration of those enormities which we are striving
to put down. But, above all, we must not recede and
go back in our course, for any symptoms of faltering
on our part would give new courage and fresh hopes
to the miscreants who commit these crimes.
Gentlemen, I beg again to thank you most grate-
fully for the honour which you have done me this
day; and I can assure you that I shall always con-
sider it as one of my first duties as a public man, to
do all that may lie in my power to promote the attain-
ment of those great ends for the accomplishment of
which your Association has been formed.

_T B. FLEISCIIMA respectfully solicits the
tfi • continued favours of Commercial Gentlemen, assuring
them every exertion on his part will be made to secure that
distinguished patronage he has the honour to possess.

RII3BL E NAVIGATION.
Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of
the Directors, the Proprietors of Shares in this Company are
required to pay a CALL OF 51. PER SHARE on each of
their respective New Shares in the capital stock of th• said
Company, en or before the 21st day of NOVEMBER NEXT, at
the bank of Messrs. Pedder, Fleetwood, and Pedder, in Preston,
and that from and after that day, interest, at the rate of 5/. per
Cent. per annum, will be charged upon all such sums as shal'
remain unpaid, until payment thereof.

P. HAYDOCK,
Secretary to the said Company.
Ribble. Navigation Office, Preston, Oct. 13, 1842.

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Duke of Bedford's John o'Gaunt, 4 yrs, Sst 71b (Ro-
binson), beat Lord Eglinton's Doctor Caius, 5 yrs, Bst ;
A. F. ; 300, h ft.

3 to 1 on John o'Gaunt, who won by eight lengths.
Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, for three yrs old, 7st 101 b ;
four yrs, Bst 41b ; five yrs and upwards, Bst 81b ; last
half of Ab. M. ; Oa winner to be sold for 801, &c.
(10 subscribers).
Mr. Payne's Rapture, 3 yrs (Nat) 1
Duke of Bedford's King of the Peak, 5 yrs
Tfio following also started, but were not placed :
Mr. Kimber's Chilson, 6 yrs—Sir S. Spry's Jewess,
5 yrs—Mr. Etwall's Pelerine, 4 yrs— Mr. E. R. Clarke's
Sister to Glencoe, 4 yrs—Lord Orford's Bridal, :3 yrs—
Mr. Pettit's Sweetmeat, 3 yrs—Mr. Rush's c by Plenipo,
out of Maresfied's dam, 3 yrs—Mr. Sare's Badwell
Ash, 3 yrs.

SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE
TRADE.
The following address was presented to Lord Pal-
merston at his residence on Tuesday last by a nume-
rous Deputation of the. Committee of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery -Society, expressive of their
views of the eminent services rendered by him to the
Anti-slavery cause, whilst occupying the distin-
guished office of principal Secretary of State for Fo-
reign Affairs • •
TO THE BIGHT HONOURABLE LORI} 'VISCOUNT PAL-
AIERSTON, &C. &C.
MY LORD,—It is with unusual satisfaction that the
Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery
Society (widely as they have differed from your Lord-
ship on some not unimportant questions) feel them-
selves called upon publicly to record their high sense
of the eminent services you have render ed to the anti-
slavery cause, when occupying the distinguished office
of Foreign Secretary under the late Government ; and
to tender to you, in behalf of the great body of aboli-
tionists they represent, and of the suffering millions
of the human race now held in bondage, the tribute of
their sincere respect and •gratitude.
Amidst the exciting cdnflicts of party, and the la-
borious engagements of 'your high office,-your Lord-
ship was not unmindful of the wrongs of Africa; nor
of the claim which her enslaved children have on the
sympathy and assistance of this great country. The
recent papers relative -to the slave-trade presented to
both Houses of Parliament by her Majesty's com-
mand, are a 'motirtmenrOf.Abe t abi It the us it
ins inthistry, arid-thikeneroil - ayediatit,ti
in the cause of human freedom and happiness.
From those papers, the Committee learn that your
Lordship recognised and affirmed the great principle,
that no British:functionary. of any class, residing in
countries where slavery and the slave -trade exist,
should either hold or hire slaves for any purpose
whatever ; and, that, in order to secure the practical
operation of this principle, a circular. dispatch was
addressed by your Lordship to all such functionaries,
intimating it to be the wish of her Majesty's Govern-
ment that they should act in . strict accordance with
this principle. The issuing of such instructions, and
the attitude of British functionaries acting agreeably
to them, must exert a powerful moral influence, and
operate as a standing testimony, on the part of Great
Britain, against the atrocious system of slavery
wherever it exists. How necessary those instructions
were, and how beneficial they have been in' their re-
sult 3, may be evinced by an extract from a commu-
nication addressed to your Lordship by her Majesty's
late Consul at Havannah, datedthe Ist of December,
1840 :—" I cannot close this despatch without the re-
'pectfal tender of m heartfelt. congratulations on the
vast amount of good already achieved by the simple
expression of the wishes of the Government. In
your Lordship's - hands the sentiments expressed by
the general Anti-slavery Convention have not keen
barren or unfruitful. At the period of my arrival i n
this country, a few weeks ago, it is a matter of no-
toriety that there was not a single officer holding an
appointment under the. BfitiSh Crown, and resident
in the island, who was entirely free from thecharge of
countenancing the practice of slavery. A week had
not elapsed after the arrival of your Lordship's cir-
cular dispatch, when a series of advertisements ap-
peared in the public papers, in the name of one of
the Commissioners, offering specific wages to servants
of free condition, and at this moment, I rejoice to say,
there is not a single British officer residing within
my Consular jurisdiction, who either has not relin-
quished, or is not at least:preparing to relinquish, this
odious practice."
Nor has your Lordship confined the application of
this principle to British functionaries. In another
circular to her Majesty's Representatives at foreign
Courts, you have instructed them to urge upon the
Governments to which they are accredited, its adop-
tion by their agents abroad; and the Committee are
gratified to find that this measure has been attended
with great success. The combined action of the
Powers of Europe, thus brought to bear through the
medium of theif Representatives, upon the institution
of slavery, must have a direCt and important •influ-
ence on the Governments which yet sanction it dad
its fearful adjunct, the slave-trade. Whilst the Com-
mittee are gratified generally With the terms in which
those of her Majesty's Allies who have given in their
adhesion to the principle advocated by your Lord-
ship, have expressed themselies;_ they are parti-
cularly so with the viewsof the Mexican
Government, communicated to the British
Minister at Mexico, on the 16th August, 1841:
" You may assure her Majesty's Government, that
his Excellency the President of the Republic, before
whom I have laid your note, entirely agreeing with
their sentiments, and influenced by a full conviction
that the unjust and barbarous tratlicin slaves is as
repugnant to morality as it is scandalous to humanity
and civilization, has not contented himself with
merely accepting and following up their invitation,
by causing instructions similar to those contained in
the above-mentioned circular to be addressed to our
agents abroad; but has also thought it expedient to
extend its effects as far as is' in his power, by directing
that such agents, whenever the occasion presents it-
self, shall use their advocacy with the Governments
and authorities of the country where they reside,
with the same zeal in behalf of the slaves as they
would for their countrymen, in fulfilment of their
duty, and in as far as is compatible with the exercise
of their functions."

treaty with Great Britain has in this matter been
set at nought ; that the faith of the Spanish Crown
has been broken ; that its engagements have been de-
liberately and systematically, and during a long course
of time, violated; and that this has been done for the
illegal profit of those public officers whose duty it
was to have carried, the treaty into execution : her
Majesty's Government cannot doubt that, when the
Cabinet of Madrid shall see all this, it will hasten to
redeem. the honour of the Spanish Crown by imme-
diately putting an end to these monstrous abuses. As
it is evident," you further observe, " that these eman-
cipated negroes cannot hope for security from oppres-
sion, so long as they remain in Cuba, her Majesty's
;Gaterinnent therefore deitihnd that they shall be
brofight before the Mixed Commission, according to
the lists deposited in the archives of the Commission,
and that they Shall then, if they wish it, be handed
over to the Superintendent of liberated Africans, to
be by him sent to a British colony, where they would
by law as well as by treaty be free." Thus did your
Lordship, the Committee trust, lay the foundation for
securing the future liberty and prosperity of a class of
Africans, whose hard fate has long excited the com-
miseration of the abolitionists of this country.
But, my Lord, eminent as are the services you ren-
dered to the sacred cause of freedom in the particulars
to which reference has been made, it is chiefly to the
course which you pursued in relation to the multi-
tudes of wretched Africans who have been illicitly in-
troduced into Brazil and• the Spanish colonies, con-
trary to the municipal laws of these countries, and
the faith of treaties with the British Government, that
the CommittOwoor is
courees_lliorthy
trr-leantirry to Alai 'We belong, and is sanctioned
alike by the principleg of justice, humanity, and re-
ligion, the laws and institutions of Spain and Brazil,
and the solemn obligations 'of treaties. Your Lord-
ship demanded in the name of the British Govern.•
ment and nation, the liberation from slavery of all
Africans who have been unlawfully introduced into
the Spaniah colonies, in contravention both of law
and treaty ; and instructed the British Minister at
Madrid, to negotiate a treaty for the constitution of a
proper tribunal fur carrying the requisition into effect.
It is sufficient to refer to the draft of the treaty to
show that it is as comprehensive in detail, as it is just
in principle. What its ultimate effect may be will
greatly depend on the firmness of your. Lordship's
successor in office, who, they trust, animated
by the same spirit, will complete the great
work which you have so nobly begun. Re-
ferring to the steps you were reported to have taken,
the Commissioners at Havannah, in a dispatch, dated
15th September 1841, thus announce the effect prc-
dueed by them :—" A very considerable excitement
has prevailed here during the past month, in conse-
quence of information received that your Lordship had
demanded of the Spanish Government the liberation of
all slaves introduced into the island since the year
1820. So righteous a measure must be hailed with
the utmost gratification by all who wish the happiness
of the human race, and would go far to efface slavery
itself from this country. The proposition has roused
every individual here to a sense of the evil conse-
quences attending the further prosecution of the trade,
and, if it has no other effect than that of stopping those
continued malpractices, we should receive it with the
utmost satisfaction."
Nor is this all. Anxious to extend the blessings
of freedom in whatever countries the Government of
England may be supposed to possess influence, you
instructed her Majesty's representatives at the Persian
and Ottoman Courts to exert themselves to secure this
great end. In your communication to the British
Minister in Persia, you say : " You will accordingly
take an early opportunity of expressing to the Shah
of Persia the strong desire which is felt in this matter
by her Majesty's Government, and you will represent
to him that he would be doing a thing ex-
tremely acceptable to the British Govern-
ment
and nation, if he would issue a decree, pro-
hibiting the future importation of slaves of any kind
into Persia, and making it penal for a Persian to pur-
chase slaves." These instructions, my Lord, whilst
they do you honour and cannot fail to be acceptable to
all classes of yoUr countrymen, are in perfect accord-
ance with the Mussulman law; and, if followed up
with " steady perseverance, and by never omitting to
take advantage of favourable opportunities. to presS
upon Mohammedan riders the wishes of the British
Government on these. points," as your ,Lordship so
strongly recommends, cannot fail; under the Divine
blessing; of being ultimately successful in securing
liberty to the slave population of the East.
In what your Lordship has thus done to pro-
mote that great cause to which the Committee are de-
voted, they find the justification of the step they
have now taken, in respectfully presenting to you
their cordial thanks for the great principles you have
enunciated, and the course you have pursued in your
official intercourse with foreign States ; and they ex-
press their earnest hope that, whether in or out of
office, your Lordship's great abilities and influence
will continue to be exerted in the overthrow of sla-
very, the establishment of freedom, and the promotion
of the civilization and happiness of every portion of
mankind. On behalf of the Committee,
(Signed) JOIIN SCOBLE, Secretary.
27, New Broad-street, Sept. 30, 1842.

Betting-6 to 4 agst King of the Peak, 6 to 1 agst
Pelerine, 6 to 1 agst Sister to Glencoe, 6 to 1 agst
and 6 6).1 agst Sweetmeat.
After two or three false starts King of the Peak went
off with a good lead at a rattling pace, followed by
Bridal, all lying up except Rapture and Chilson. At
the ropes the two' drew upon the leading horses, and
Rapture passing them: in rapid succession, caught King
of the Peak a few yards from the chair, and beat him
by a neck. Bridal, Badwell Ash, and JeweSs were well
up. The winner was claimed.
Lord Eglinton's Pompey, Bst 71b (Lye), beat Lord
Orford's Barmaid, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 100 h ft. 13 to 8

THE AUTUMN FAIRS.
MAIDSTONE.—The Michaelmas fair was one of the
old-fashioned sort—at least as to the numbers in town,
if not altogether so as to briskness of trade. In the
horse fair there was a numerous show, comprising
many very fine horses, especially draught, some of
u hich sold at high prices, and a good many changed
hands. There were about 5,000 sheep and lambs
penned, which were for the most part rather inferior,
and trade at first was somewhat dull. Ultimately a
good many were sold, but at low rates.
Axminster fair was the fullest that we ever remem-
ber to have seen. The supply of sheep was particu-
larly abundant, upwards of 10,000 head having been
penned. Ewes varied in price from 245. to 375. ; and
lambs from 16s. to 21s. each. Fat mutton fetched
sd. per lb. The bullock fair may be pronounced good,
though the supply was by no means so large as we
have seen on former occasions. Household cheese
realised as much as 285., but the general price was
275. per cwt.; raw milk cheese varied from 565. to
60s. per cwt.—Sherborne Journal.

on Pompey. Won by a length easy.
Lord Orford's c by St. Patrick, out of Wild Duck
(Nat), beat Capt. Ives's c by Onas, out of Mopsy, Bst 71b
each. T.Y.C. 100 h ft. 2tol on Lord Orford's cult.

Von by six lengths.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF
SHEEP-STEALING.

On Sabbath last, an extraordinary charge of sheep-
stealing was brought against two Cumberland drovers
or farmers, who gave their names as Foster, and were
apprehended and examined at Raecleugh, or Buick-
law toll-bar, on the. Moffat and Crawford toll -road.
We are indebted for the following particulars to the
Dumfries Times:—
" We have been informed that the Fosters had been
at Falkirk Tryst, where they had purchased a large
lot of sheep—fifty score, we believe—but in driv-
ing them south for Carlisle, it was alleged that,
in the good old Border fashion, they had re -
cruited the original' numbers, by taking up some
stray lots as they went along. Be that as it may, we
know that our friend Mr. Hewetson, of Auchenbenzie,
had been at the Tryst, where he had also purchased a
lot of sheep, which were on their way home, when
they were adroitly taken out of a field and driven
away. They were afterwards got among Messrs.
Foster's lot, along with another lot belonging to an-
other person. Mr. Hewetson's drivers gave chase to
the Fosters, in consequence of information given by
a servant of Mr. Hepburn, late in Comrie, now
farmer at' Hoddam. His servant had seen Mr.
Hewetson's sheep taken in the direction of the'
larger lot. On Mr. Hewetson's servants getting up
to Messrs. Foster's sheep, near Crawford, a plump
denial was given to their flock being among Messrs.
Foster's,. and nothing but a put-off abusive rebuff
was returned, and all inspection denied. Another
" brother in affliction," who was minus a small lot
of seventeen, on making similar inquiry, met with the
same treatment. Meantime Messrs. Foster; who had
bee/looking out for grazing quarters for their large
lot, very abruptly moved their stock, driving on—
thus under most suspicious ciecumstances—with-
out.stopping, nearly twenty-five miles. Mr. Hew-
etson's drivers were advised to apply for redress
and assistance to E. Irvine, Esq., M.P., of New-
ton, son of the late Lord Newton. On the circum-
stance being stated to him, he instantly
,set
and went up to Messrs. Foster, who, by this time,
were past Newton on the Moffat side. Mr. Irvine's
application was met with a similar refusal, and no satis-
fiiction given. It became necessary then, on his
part, to swear in constables, which he instantly did,
and having previously sent an express to Lanark for
the Procurator Fiscal of the county, he then went in
due form and with goodly force in search of Messrs.
Foster. They were overtaken and forcibly stopped
—taken into custody, and the Procurator Fiscal
meantime arriving, they were examined along with
various witnesses, and a warrant granted immediately
to commit them to Lanark gaol, whither they were
forthwith removed. Mr. Hewetson and his drivers
identified upwards of four score of his sheep, and the
person in search of the small lot of seventeen also got
them snugly ensconced among Messrs. Foster's stock.
—Carlisle Journal.

LORD PALMERSTON'S REPLY.
GENTLEMEN,—I feel highly gratified and flattered
by the address which you have done me the honour
to present to me ; and this proof of your good opinion
is the more valuable to me, because it comes at a time
when I have ceased to have any official power to as-
sist you in the attainment of those great ends, which
form the object of the Association of which you are
the organ.
You do me but justice in believing, that I take the
deepest interest in everything that can tend finally to
extinguish the slave-trade, and to abolish all over the
world, the condition of slavery.
The official situation which I lately filled, and
which I held for ten years, gave me great means for-
labouring to promote the abolition of the slave-trade.
I employed those means to the best of my ability ;
and although during the whole of the period that I
was Secretary of State, I was engaged in conjunction
with foreign Governments in political transactions of
great moment, requiring intense application, and the
most assiduous devotion of time and attention ; yet I
never lost sight of those important matters which you
have so much at heart.

DEVIZES GREEN SHEEP PAIR.—The fair was
wretchedly dull, and to effect sales a reduction of
from Is. to 2s. a head was required on the prices of
Weyhill. Not half the sheep are expected to be sold.
The quantity of cheese pitched at Salisbury Michael-
mas fair was comparatively small. The sale was
about an average.
WORKSOP STOCK PAlR.—This fair was exceedingly
well attended both by buyers and sellers of stock. it
is now becoming of very great importance both :to
the town` and neighbourhood, since the Duke :of
Newcastle appropriated for that purpose a suitable
piece of land, situate in the centre -of thetown. On
the whole, prices were rather higher than at the fairs
which have recently been held in this neighbourhood.
At Slierborne Michaehna3 Fair,. commonly called'
" Pack Monday," we scarcely remember seeing a
larger quantity of sheep penned, and should think
there were at least 14,000. The best things in
mutton and beef sold pretty well, the former at about
6d. per lb., and the latter about 9s. 6d. to 10s. per
score, but for inferior articles there was little or no 1
demand.

THE FRENCH AND TILE CHINESE.—The following
letter from Macao, written by a French merchant, is
published by several of ahe French journals. It is dated
as long back as June 10:—" You have perhaps, heardof
the interview of the Commander of the Erigone with
the high functionaries of the Vice-royalty of Can-
ton. It was the Chinese who asked for the meeting.
A letter of several pages, filled with hyperbolical
praises of the divine qualities of the Emperor of the
Celestial Empire and the bravery of his soldiers, and
signed by the Viceroy of Canton, by the Imperial
Commissioner, who is said to be the near relation of

•
The Committee also observed that, your Lordship
-holding countries should repre-
sent and affirmed the principle, that British
views and feelings of the sfunctionaries
-iknn solNavvne
Go-
vernment and people of this country on the subject
.of slavery and the slave-trade. In the discussions
with the Spanish Government, relative to the removal
of the late Consul in Cuba, on the ground of his
anti-slavery principles, you not only intimated to the
Spanish Minister, " that the doctrines and opinions
said to be entertained by Mr. Turnbull are so unani-
mously shared by the whole British nation, from the
highest to the lowest, that it would be scarcely
possible for her Majesty's Government to find
within the United Kingdom any person who,
by his education and attainments, was fitted
for the post of Consul at the Havannah, who did
not entertain upon the slave-trade and upon slavery
the very same opinions which are ascribed to Mr.
Turnbull ;" but, referring to Mr. Turnbull's work
on the Spanish colonies,:•against which the Spanish
Government had. taken exception, you said So
far was her Majesty's Government from thinking that
those opinions do render Mr. Turnbull unfit for the
situations of Consul and Superintendent of liberated
Africans in Cuba, that it was precisely the book he
wrote, and the well-known sincerity and earnestness
of his opinions, that pointed him out to her Majesty's
Government as a fit person to hold those appoint-
ments." But your Lordship was not content with
these intimations of the motives' WhiCh influenced the
Government in the appointment of that gentleman.
You further stated, that "if the exequatur were to
be withdrawn from Mr. Turnbull as Consul, he would
nevertheless continue to hold his commission as Super-
intendent of liberated Africans, an office whiCh is not
subject to any instrument of confirmation by the Spa-
nish Crown, and even if Mr. Turnbull were to be
withdrawn from Cuba in both capacities, it would be
the duty of her Majesty's Government to select as his
successor some other person
holding the *same opi-
nions, and animated as nearly as possible with the
same zeal and activity in the" performance of his
duties; so that nothing would be gained for the Cuba
slave-traders by.the removal of Mr. Turnbull." Your
Lordship thus identified the anti-slavery' cause with
the policy of the Government, and showed to the
world that a British statesman is as tenacious of the
dignity and honour of his country where the general
interests of humanity and freedom are concerned, as
he is jealous of them in its own peculiar relations
with foreign States.
The Committee further perceive, that previously to
quitting office you not only took a deep interest in the
freedom of the emancipados in Cuba, but adopted .a
plan for securing to these unhappy persons the rights
secured to them by the Spanish laws, and by the
slave-trade treaties under which they had been libe
rated from bondage but (as is well known) only to
be enslaved to • gratify the cupidity of thc, Spanish
authorities, and to demonstrate (if additional proof •
were necessary) the bad faith of the Spanish Govern-
ment. Recognising the right of these .deeply injured
people to the .protection of the British Government,
you instructed her Ma'esty's Minister at Madrid thus
to address the Spanish Cabinet "You will in con-
clusion state, that the British Government demand as
a right from, the Spanish Government, the immediate
freedom of all the negroes who have been emancipated
in Cuba by sentence of the Mixed Commission, since
the treaty of 1817, but who appear hitherto to have
been retained in practical slavery by the authorities
of Cuba in direct violation of solemn engagements
with the British Crown." Your Lordship added :
"Her Maje Sty's Government cannot allow themselves
to believe that, when the Cabinet of Madrid shall see,
as- is proposed by this correspondence, that the

I am afraid that it is impossible to hope that the
slave-trade can be entirely, or at least permanently
abolished, until the condition of slavery shall itself
have ceased to exist, because so long as slavery any where
prevails, there will be a great temptation held out to
unprincipled men to carry on that criminal trafiic.
But, nevertheless, if all the Governments of Christen-
dom would sincerely combine to hinder their own
subjects and citizens from carrying on the slave-trade,
and would also agree to an interchange of assistance
to prevent their respective laws against • slave-trade
from being violated, I verily believe, the slave-trade
might be reduced to an amount infinitely small as
compared with its present •extent ;. and that so long
as due vigilance was executed by land, and an active
police was maintained on the sea, that trade would be
almost entirely suppressed.
It was, therefore, an object of unceasing solici-
tude on the. part ;of •the. Government to which I had
the honour to belong,, to multiply, as much as possi-
ble, treaties with foreign States, for the concession of
a mutual right of search for .the suppression of the
slave-trade ; and we had the great satisfaction of
being able to conclude a considerable number of fresh
treaties of that kind ; and to introduce into those trea-
ties such amended stipulations as experience had shown
to be essential for the attainment of their object.
It is no doubt true, as has been asserted by' some,
that the very measures which have been adopted for
the suppression of the slave-trade, have aggravated
the sufferings of those negroes, who, in spite of all
our endeavours, have been annually carried off from
the coast of Africa ; because our measures have driven

THE 'WAR in CHINA.—" The completest account of
the Chinese war yet published has just issued from the
press, from the pen of one of the gallant actors in it,
and whose gallantry has met with its deserved re-
ward—promotion. We allude to a Narrative of the
Expedition to China, by Commander F. Elliot Bing-
ham, late First Lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Mo-
deste. The narrator commences with the commence-
ment, and brings down his relation to the present
period, interspersing his account of moving accidents
by flood and field, with many interesting and many
racy anecdotes of the Celestials, and which, as hap-
pens with most anecdotes that are facts, will often lead
to inferences of no mean value."—John Bull. [The
universal desire in the public mind for accurate infor-
mation respecting not only the proceedings of our
forces in the Chinese seas, but the manners, customs,
and peculiarities of the inhabitants of that hitherto
almost unknown country, will be -amply gratified by
the perusal c•f this interesting work, which makes us
acquainted with every grade of Chinese life, from the
highest Officer of the State to Lthe most abject of 'its
subjects.]
His Belgian Majesty's brig of war Comte de Flan-
dres, from Ostend, is at Ramsgate, repairing the
damages she sustained in the gale of Saturday, while
lying at Deal. She is to proceed on a voyage round
the world.

the slave-traders to resort to all those contrivances for
dispatch and concealment, which necessarily belong
to an illicit trade, and those contrivances inevitably
increase the misery of those wretched Africans who
are the victims of them. But this circumstance, so
far from being a reason for relaxing our efforts, ought
rather to stimulate us to increase them, because if we
could-altogether prevent the trade, these sufferings
would altogether cease with it. Now, there can be
no doubt that the measures which Great Britain has
for many years past taken for the abolition of her own
slave-trade, and for the extirpation of the slave-trade
of other nations, have greatly narrowed the extent
to which the slave-trade would otherwise have been
carried.
It is possible, as some persons have thought, that
the number of negroes now annually carried across
the Atlantic,-may be opal to the number that were
so carried at the time when Great Britain first took
this great matter in hand; but to judge of the effect
of our preventive efforts, we must compare the num-
ber of slaves now clandestinely carried over, in spite
of all the vigilance and efforts of our cruizers, with
the number that would be so carried if no obstruc-
tion were offered to the trade, and if, on the contrary,-
it were a permitted trade wad free. And we must

I the Emperor, and by three or four other high civil
and military functionaries, was brought by a troop of
mandarins, escorted by soldiers clad in uniforms of
various colours. The crew of the French frigate re-
ceived the Chinese deputation with all the honours ;
the officer in full uniform introduced them into the
council-chamber, where they were received by the
Captain. Our countrymen did the honours of hospi-
tality with a cordiality, frankness, and deference that
called forth the most flattering compliments from the
mandarins. Two interviews took place some days
after, in a little pleasure house of the Governor' si-
tuated most delightfully a few leagues inland. The
Viceroy was aided by the great dignitaries of the
province. There was on the part of the Chinese
much of that gravity and diplomatic dissimulation
in which they excel, and, on the side of, the French
a curiosity,and keenness, which gave to these inter-
views a piquant originality. The Viceroy entertained
the strangest ideas respecting our countrb, its extent,
riches, armies, navy, manufactures, &c. The name of
Napoleon was not unknown to him. He had also a
knowledge that he was a great warrior, but he ima-
gined him to be a hero .of the fabulous 'ages. The
Viceroy endeavoured to prove to Captain Cecille—no-
body
can say with what view—that China was ex-
ceedingly poor; and that the English had ruined
Canton and Macao. It is true that Macao has
lost much since the English have established
themselves at Hong-Kong, where they have con-
centrated all their commercial operations. Smug-
glipg has never been so active, opium is sought
for by the Chinese with more eagerness than ever, and
English goods sell readily. Macao is almost ruined
by this illicit commerce, but this town will still serve
for some time as a mart for the Portuguese, Dutch,
American, and French merchants, although they are
aware that they cannot compete with the English of
Hong-Kong. On the second interview the Chinese
and French separated exceedingly well pleased to have
made each other's acquaintance. Captain Cecile suc-
ceeded in giving the Viceroy a high opinion of France
and her Sovereign, of her people and navy. The
Viceroy did not yield to the pressing solicitations of
the Captain to visit the Erigone. This distrust must
be looked on in this people as a natural principle, for
a sentence of Confucius forbids them to become fami-
liar with strangers."
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—The following novel case
occurred on Thursday, at the sessions of Rathkeale
county Limerick :—Edmond Roche and Catherine
Roche were called by the Clerk of the Peace to take
their trial for larceny of butter. On being arraigned,
it was found that they were both dumb ; the Clerk of
the Peace then (according to law) impannelled a jury
to-try if they were mute by the visitation of God, or
otherwise. The jury found that they were so by the
visitation of God. It was then requisite to have an
interpreter who could swear that he understood the
signs of the mutes, and that the mutes understood
him ; but the Crown not being aware of the circum-
stances were unprepared with an official, and the trial
was postponed to next session. A case such as this is
not remembered to have occurred before in the county
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sheep. There were about 5,000 beasts exhibited, and
a great portion of them of very good quality, but
scarcely any .buyers could be found although the
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prices asked were full 30 per cent. lower than last
year for fresh beasts, but a greater reduction took
place in lean stock. In the horse fair the same de-
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NEWFOUNDLAND
(From the „A eufoundlander, Sept.
There are alreaey several candidates
seeking the suffrages of the constituenciei-
their chances of success may be seems to be -Eslii matical, for nothing like a general move arthe
subject has yet been made.
But little time, however, can elapse before the tone
and dispositicn of the /electors must be elicited to a
certain extent, when something like an opinion on
the issue cf the returns may be better ascertained.
The movements in St. John's must be regarded as
important, exercising as they do an influence on the
island generally, and as these have already been
partially made, it becomes our duty to consider
whether they are of a nature calculated to promote
the public interests.
A meeting wss held on Sunday last to consider the
propriety of nominating three fit and proper persons
to stand as candidates for this district, or in other
words to consider Whether the representation shall be
made a question of party, to be determined wholly
by the power.to.make it a monopoly. Three candi-
dates were named, viz. :—Dr. Carson, L. O'Brien
J. V. Nugent, Esqrs., and from this it
will clearly be
inferred that the determination was arrived at to admit
of no compromise, as if the inevitable consequences of
such a proceeding were a matter of no moment, as
contrasted with iiarty
.interest.
These are times when it is necessary and impera-
tive that we should speak plainly, and place the cir-
cumstances of the country before the public under the
influence and in the language of reason, for we are
on the eve of events whose importance cannot be too
highly estimated, " and which, if not properly dealt
with, a vast 'umount of injury must be the conse-
quence. It therefore behoves every man who values
the prosr,erity of the colony to fling aside party con-
siderations—and where such interests are at stake as
are involved in the proceedings in whiCh we shall
soon be called upon to act—to make the public good,
the common weal, the sole guide for the regulation of
his conduct.

The struggles and contentions of party have hithe to
proved a bar to every measure of improvement. So-
ciety has been split and severed by its blighting influ-
ence—and eventually has it led the way to the pre-
sent anomalous form of government. Bat "there is a
soul of good in most things evil," would we but draw it
forth ; and in the constitution which has been given to
us, there are elements which seem almost to demand
of us that co-operation should take the place of
former disunion and strife. The people are, as it were,
called upon to sustain themselves against a power-
ful executive control•—their proceedings will be scru-
tinised under the rigid surveillance of the Crown, and
toward that power, be it ever so rigidly used, a jea-
lousy on the part of the representatives of the people
will naturally be felt. Could any other circumstances
be so well calculated to make the latter a compact
body, or render it so essential that they should be so,
and yet the opportunity of merging points of past dif-
ference, whickalone can lead the way to that concur-
rence of action, seems to be wholly neglected, though
necessity, as well as so many other considerations, set
so strongly in favour of such an arrangement.
But if the elections in , such districts as this are to
be carried coute qui, coute, the bad feelings they will
engender will not be buried with the occasion, and
we -have said enough to show the ultimate effects.

LUDICROUS BLUNDER.—On Friday, a curious mis-
take occurred at the RotaOrd Quarter Sessions. One
of the Magistrates, T. Mashiter, Esq., having desired a
policeman tostep to Mr. Surridge, at the bank, for two
" bk. draughts," the messenger, it would seem did not
understand whither he was to go, for he went with
the note to Mr. Sewell, the chemist, and speedily re-
turned to the Court with two black draughts, which
' the worthy Magistrate took (into his hand), and the
mistake, as may. be imagined, caused, a shout of
laughter upon the beileb.--Essez Herald.
AN UNCLE STABBED BY HIS : NEPHEW.—George
Copser was charged before the Rev. J. P. Newby, at
the County-office, Leicester, on Saturday last, with
stabbing John Kenney, -with intent to murder him.
The prosecutor owns some houses at Whetstone,
one of which the
.prisoner had occupied for some
years, without • paying any rent. After repeated
applications, the prosecutor caused a warrant of dis-

.ess to be issued upon the goods of the prisoner, who
old the officer serving the warrant that he " would
murder the old devil (meaning his uncle) the first
time he met hini.". This threat being communicated
to the prosecutor; he went to Blaly for the night, but
returning the next morning, thinking the passion of
his nephew had subsided, he went into his garden.
The latter: no sooner caught sight of the - prosecutor
than he rushed towards and stabbed him in. the left
side with a clasp knife, inflicting a wound three inches
in depth,- and an inch and a half in width, penetrating
through a fustian coat, waistcoat, and belt. The pri-
soner had withdrawn the knife, and was in the act of
repeating the blow; when his • arm was - arrested by
:another person of the name of Cosper, who secured
the prisoner. ,Iledicar assistance.was,' forthwith pro-
cured, arid ihe'attendants'said,Ahatihad. not the knife
taken:an oblique direction, death must have been in-
stantaneous. The prisoner was fully committed to
'the assizes' on the capital charge.
-SC,ARCITX OF WAmE.—From all parts ofthe coun-
try ii'Fliaxe accounts of the scarcity of water, and
wheels depending upon water-power are every-
where nearly at a stand, while many works have
been totally suspended. As great eagerness i 3
manifested for the return of rain,, as we are in the habit
about this season of feeling for, the continuance of fair
weather. A few slight showers fell on Monday and
Tuesday, but a cold dry wind has since set in, which
has for the present de'erred the .wished-for change.
The oldest people cannot remember a season when,
at this time of,the year especially, our moist climate
exhibited such a protracted ofperiod dry weather. The
Clyde is at present as low as it has ever been, a curious
effect of which is produced when the tide is flowing.
The ordinary current of the river presenting no per-
ceptible resistance to the upward flow of the tide, the
stream may be daily seen at the time running through
the arches of the bridge eastward, with considerably
'greater rapidity than the river usually flows west-
ward. The. scarcity of water in other parts of the
country, and in many places in our own neighbour-
hood, is fortunately not experienced in the city, where
it is supplied by our efficient Water Company in
abundance and purity, in the worst of times.—Scot-
tish Guardian.

THE ANTIPATHY OF THE MONKEY.—:MOst animals
entertain a morbid antipathy to the serpent species,
but in no one instance is that antipathy more sen-
sibly manifested than among the monkey tribe,
as the following narrative may tend to elucidate:—
A company, consisting of about twenty monkeys
(the Hoonoomunt) or black-faced monkeys of
Bengal, had colonised in a lofty tamarind tree, near
the little village of Rhannaserye, a short distance from
the town of Dantoon. The tree was situated on the
road side on the route to the temple of Juggernaut,
and was resorted to during the sultry tide of noon by
viatory pilgrims and others, who occasionally
of_
in-
dulged the inhabitants of the tree with fragments
plantains and other fruits (for the Hindoos.
uenu-
merate the Hoonoomun monkey among their n
merour divinities.) On one occasion e Mono°.
ex-
citement manifested itself among tn
forth from
mun corps. A general whooping,
and screeching simultaneously b
the seat of the
the tree, which had become
ar.
.ng
the
spot,
the
chattering,
utmost confusion. On our approaching in
fated by the manual branches of the tree were agitated
as if they laboured
ex-
ercise of the black-
faced influence of a north-wester ;
scene was utterly indescribable;. the whole of the
under the convulsingge
the cause of this very extraor-
dinary short, had not
twbeen elicited, any cool rea-
soning person wo-- have been led to believe
misled this sober society
tdhinatarlay
acccohmums commotion i
the routine of
wonted
h half : •
upon
cobra cga 11 Way
uP
the tree,
we perceived a huge pe o snake lying at full
length, bad ascended thither, with •
which. . a view, no
their
doubt, of satiating his appetite with a squirrel or
with which animals the tree was furnished.
casting our eyes
two,
The tree standing by itself, none other being in jux-
taposition with it, the alarmed colonists could not
effect their escape by a transit, and to descend one
inch nearer their scaly foe than where they
would have been worse than
undergoing the chance
of breaking their necks by leaping, down upon the
ground from their elevated situation. At length one
of the troop made a tremendous spring, which ex-
ample was followed succe ' 1 -13 the whole of the
ssivey y
body, and the runagates scampered away into a jungle
on the opposite side of the road. The snake we suc-
ceeded in destroying, but the horror which the sooty
countenanced community felt at the serpent's en-
croaching upon their dormitory was so impressive
that they were never again seen near the tree, although
many a weary pilgrim afterwards found a grateful
shelter under its umbrageous branches.
IGNORANCE AND CRIME IN CHESHIRE.-011 look-
ing over the list of prisoners tried this week at the
Knutsford Quarter Sessions, we find that out of 114,
one-half can neither read nor write, 32 can read and
write imperfectly, 24 can read, and only one can read
and write well ! Such statistical facts as these ought
to be perpetually held before the public mind, in order
that the influential classes may be stimulated to exert
themselves for the promotion of popular instruction.
In the late disturbances, we have seen the effect of
ignorance on a scale of fearful magnitude ; and it
would be well if a timely lesson could be learned
from it, by those who have it in their power to apply
a remedy. The Magistrates at Knutsford were very
properly engaged on Monday in discussing the best
means of lessening the enormous expense of prose-
cutions to the county. If one-half of the large sum
thus expended were to be applied for a few years. to
the educaticn of the neglected portion of the popula-
tion, might it not be expected to yild good interest
iu die way of pecuniary saving ?—ffrace r ld Chro-
nicleesfe