The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-28 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TRADE.

BREMEN, APRIL 19.—The Tribunal of the Ist instant, in
the proceeding: against Captain Sudenburg, of the Bremen
ship Julius and Edward, which, on its voyage from the Ha-
vannall to Cabonda, on the west coast of Africa, with a cargo
taken on board at the former place, was captured by the
Engl.sh British cruiser Persian, commander Thomas Edward
Symonds, has decided that there were no sufficient grounds for
the accusation against the Captain of being engaged in the
slave-trade, that ship and cargo shall be placed at the disposal
of Captain Sudenburg, and has condemned Captain Symonds,
in damages and all the costs, the amount of which is to be
settled by the Court. A summons is to be issued requiring
Captain Symonds to appear and state why the sentence
should not bo carried into effect; in default of which he wil
he considered as deserting from all objections to the amount
of damages and costs which will be awarded by the Court.—
Ha ni burgh Correspondent.

We extract the following from a letter from Oran,
April ;1, in the Constitutionnel :—" In the late combat with
General Bedeau, Abd-el-Kader commanded about 5,000 men,
and had under his orders a chief renowned for his talents and
bravery, named Abilallah-Ben-Semoun. This man, who is a
native of Fez,lreceived large sums from Abd-el-Fader for join-
ing his party, as the Emir hoped by his means to effect a
rising in the west. The brave conduct of the French troops
put a etop to all these plans, and Abdallah-Ben-Semoun de-
termined on retiring. He could not, however, make up his
mind to depart without committing some robberies. He passed
over to the Beni- Hourni and the Oued-Thaia, at the extreme
trontier, and pillaged those unfortunate tribes too weak to offer
him resistance. General Bedeau is now in pursuit of these
binds. Should our Government send to Sultan Muley- Abder-
Haman to complain of the conduct of his subjects, the fact of
these troops being inhabitants of the territory of Morocco w ill be
denied. The chief, who commanded the Kabyles of Morocco,
not showing any distinctive mark of his country, it will be no
easy matter to prove the fact of his being a subject of Morocco.
But this is no new case. In 1836, just before the combat of
the Tafna, Abd-el•Kader was wandering about with 50 horse-
men, apparently abandoned by the tribes, when on a sudden he
made his appearance with 12,000 men, and forced back Gen.
Darlange, with the loss of the tenth part of our troops. How
slid the Ernie procure these troops ? We learnt how after the
battle, far the men lying dead were nearly all from Morocco,
and the cartridges were all of English make. if on the late
occasion General Bedeau had been repulsed like General Dar-
lange, the consequences might have been disastrous, for the
conquest of the country, although far advanced, will not be
definitive until the last shot shall have been fired. A single re-
verse on our side would be quite sufficient to re-establish the
fortunes of the Emir. If we were satisfied in 1836 with the
excuses made by Alorocco, shall we be equally so in 1842 ? The
army hopes the contrary."
GRANITE. The beautiful light tint and fine tex-
ture of the granite of Dartmoor, and the almost unlimited size
of the blocks in which it is procurable, together with the fa-
cilities which exist for procuring and transporting it, are
bringing granite into use in the place of stone of inferior
qualities. The ease with which the Fogginton granite may be
worked, and the magnitude and regularity of form of the blocks
in which it is detached in the quarry, together with the economy
of its transit, often obtain for it a preference to Scotch granite,
which had hitherto almost commanded the market. The
western face of London-bridge is of Dartmoor, and the eastern
face of Scotch, granite. Fine specimens of the former are to
he found in the basements of several important public buildings
in London erected of late years; it is employed in the new
buildings of the Fire-offices now in progress near the Bank of
England, and we understand that some of the granite required
at the Royal Exchange is also supplied from the Fogginton
quarry. The pedestal of the Nelson column in Trafalgar-square,
is built of Fogginton granite, and the whole of the structure is to
be of the same material. The slowness of progress of this
column, of which we had thought the public had reason to
complain, was occasioned by a strike of the quarry masons in
London against the eminent contractors who are engaged in the
execution of the work; but this has now been obviated. The
same material will form the statue of King William the Fourth
and its pedestal, by the young and fast -rising sculptor,Nixon,
about to be erected in the City.