The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

SLAVE TRADE TREATY.

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We announce with deep regret, on the authority of a com-
munication received from Paris, by express, that the ratifica-
tion cf. the Treaty between the Five Great Powers of Europe,
for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, which, according to
the previous arrangement, was to have been accomplished on
Saturday or Alonday next, will be delayed, it not prevented, by
the French Government.
Of the sincerity and good faith with which the French Go-
vernment concluded this important Treaty there cannot be any
doubt. It was the result of a proposal originating with France,
in conjunction with Great Britain, and France at d Great
Britain equally rejoiced in the acvession of the other Powers.
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oheimhadteoed. seemed, indeed, to be all that
erotic orators have endeavoured to excite throughout France,
that the most recent proceedings of the Chamber demonstrate
the comparative weakness of this party, and the itramount
strength of the French Government—a strength to be staken
only by that Government placing itself in the wrong.
Guizot, feeling himself compelled to refuse, for the
present, to join, without reserve, in the name of France, in
ratifying the Treaty in the precise terms in which it has been
concluded, proposed certain modificatiOns. In there modifi-
cations Lord Aberdeen has declined to acquiesce, being of
opinion, that, as a British Minister; he ought not to admit the
necessity of any guarantee fur the disinterestedness and probity
of Great Britain in respect of the abolition of the slave trade,
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It is certain, indeed, that upon this subject the conduct of
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France and that of Great Britain are in striking contrast.
France, relieved from the necessity of encouraging the sugar
culture in her colonies, and even -adopting, in furtherance of
the interests of the domestic cultivators of the beet-root, the
policy of positive discouragement to the culture of the cane,
has never drawn sixpence from her national purse to relieve
the distress of her slave subjects, although, at a very small ex-
pense, she might have diffused much happir.ess in her colonies,
with an increase of security to the favoured department of her
domestic agriculture.
We lament that M. Guizot should have thought himself
compelled to pursue a course in respect to the slave trade con-
vention which his own intelligent and lofty mind cannot ap-
prove. Yet it is a consolation to us to learn that he has de-
feated the factions which surround him, assured, as we are,
that his attachment to the cause of truth and right is sincere,
though it may not always be effective; and that the hope of
remaining upon terms of amity with our Gallic neighbours
would be greatly impairod by any diminution of his political
power. —Post:

SUN EXPRESSES.-Through the kindness of
Mr. Young, the spirited Proprietor and Editor of The Sun
newsi.aper, we are enabled to lay before our readers the pro.
ceedings in Parliament up to half-past seven last night.—
Cambridye Advertiser of Wednesday.•
A letter from Amiens, in the Siecle, says :
" Messrs. Orsi, Lombard, Bataille, Aladenize, and Persigny, who
were condemned with Prince Louis Napoleon, are placed in the
citadel of Doullens, in the garrets of one of the la o old barracks.
Messrs. Laity, Ornano, and Colonels Paquin and Montauban, are
in the central building. M. Dupoty, of the Journal du Prople,
is on the ground-floor of the old barracks. On Monday last, at
nine in the morning, a fire brcke out in the cell of M. Orsi, but
his efibrts and those of M. Dupoty, sufficed to put out the fire,
which had reached the ceiling and the room above it. When the
other prisoners arrived all danger was over."
The .ilPniorial des Pyrenees, in a letter from 'Tarbes,
speaks of an avalanche, much more destructive than the above,
which took place a few days ago at Barege, Twenty houses were
wholly or partially destroyed; even the hospital, although pro.
tected by immense abutments,
.was much injored, and five or six
persons lost their lives.
During the last month,_ according
to the Swiss
Journals, Lausanne has suffered-erverel Y.rozo the prevalence of a
nervous fever, which -has . attacked chiefly young persons and
women.
In the course of January there were 75 deaths, although
the
4d4uAti; o thatngtliew thholeeofthe Preteding year did not amount
to more that.lityincrease
is
in
proportion double the
number. The epidemic now on the. decline. - - -
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