The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-27 00:00:00

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INFANCY-ITS DREAMS•

Dans l'alcove sombre, In the dusky court,
Pres d'un humble autel, Near the altar laid,
L'enfant dort a l'ombre Sleeps the child bed
in shadow
Du lit maternal ; Of his mother's ;
Tandis qu'll repose, Softly be reposes,
Sa"patipiere rose And his bed of roses.
Pour la terre close, Closed to earth, uncloses
S'ouvre pour le ciel. On the heaven o'erhead.
11 fait Bien des roves.
11 voit par momens Many a stream is with him,
Fred) from fairy land,
Le sable des groves Spank led o'er with diamonds
Plein de diamants, Seems the ocean sa;
there,
Des soleilsd;tlammes Suns are gleaming
Et de belles dames # Troops of ladies lair
Qui portent des ames d'enfans Souls of infants bear
Dans leur bras charmans. In their charming hand.
Songe qui l'enchante ! 0 enchanting vision
Il voit des ruisseaux. La, a rill upsprings,
Une voix qui chante
Sort du fond des eaux. And from out its bosom
Comes a voice that sings.
Ses soeurs soot plus belle, Lovelier there appear
Son pore est pros d'elles • Sire and sisters dear,
Sa mere a des ailes ' While his mother near
Comae les oiseaux. Plumes her newborn wings.
11 voit mule chases
Bit a brighter vision
Plus belles encore ; Yet his eyes behold ;
Des lis et des roses Roses all and lilies
Plein le corridor.
Every path unfold
sleeping,
Des lacs de deuce Lakes in shadow,
Ott le poisson glisse, Silver fishes leapng.
Oil l'onde se plisse And the waters creeping
A des roseaux. d'or ! Thro' the reeds of
gold.
Enfant ! rove encore! Slumber on, sweet infant,
Dors, 8 mes amours ! Slumber
slot peacefully ;
n
Ta jeune atne ignore Thy young so yet
be.
kows not
04 s'en vont tea jours. What thy lot may
Comme une algae morte Like dead leaves that sweep
Tu vas, qui t'importe Down the stormy ep,
Le courant t'emporte, Thou art borne in sleep :
Mais to dors toujours. What is all to thee?
Sans coin, sans 6sude, Thou canst slumber
by the
way ;
t to borrow
Thou bast learn
nought
Nought from study
• from care.
The cold hand of sorrow
On thy brow, unwrinkled yet,
Where young truth and can-
dour sit,
Ne'er with rugged nail bath
writ
N'ecrit pas : " deinnin." That sad word" to.-morrow."
It dort, innocence! Innocent! thou sleepe
rid,
see the the heavenly ba
Les angel sereins
Qui savent d'avance Who foreknow the trials
Le sort des linnasins, That for man are planned
Le voyant sans armes, Seeing him unarmed,
Sans pear, sans alarnres, Unfeariug, unalarmed,
Baisent avec larrnes 'With their tears have warmed
Sea petites mains. His unconcious band.
Leurs levres efilement Angels hovtring o'er lim.
yes levres de Tule. Kiss him where he lits.
L'enfant voit qu'ils pleurent Hark! he sees them weeping ;
Et dit : Gabriel! " Gabriel!" he cries.
Mais l'ange le touche, " Hush," the angel says ;
Et bergant sa soothe, On his lip he lay displays
Un doight sur sa bouche
Love I'autre au ciel. One finger_one
His native skies

Tudors en chemin :
Et 'lnquietude

A la froide main,
De son °lisle aride
Son ton front crindide

Qui n'a point de ride

Exquisitely as this beautiful trifle has been translated by
some writer in t►he Foreign Quarterly, some tine touches of
simple pathos are necessarily lost• The literal prose version
of the second and third verses especially would far exceed
the present poetical one : as thus—" he sees"
plhnets of tire,
And of lovely women
Carrying infants' souls
In their arms.

Again the third—
Dream that enchants him!
He sees the rivulets.
And a sweet voice
Sings from the depths of the waters.
His sisters are more beautiful,
His father is close by them,
And his mother, she has wings
Like the birds.
.r.,in " with their
The concluding lines of the tent's lso are far more beau..
tiful thus—Kiss with tears his tiny
tears have warmed—his unconscious band' ,11-. •
rhe ori-
the simplicity, hlas-7bich destroys
and hence the charm, of the O
P leV ictor Hugo,
ginal, and it is vary chaste, is from the pen 0- R. M.

[W. e agree with our Correspondent in his op.ioion of the
beauty of the shove verses, both in the original and the
translation, 'The first criticism of our friend, however, is
not exactly literal, whilst, owing to In omission to his
translation, the arms which carry the infant are not char-
acterised ; and in the second, a literal rendering would
have made necessary some considerable deviations else.
where trom the words of the text.]

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EMIGRATION OF FREE AFRICAICS.
• ---.-
(From the Colonial G'asette.)
"It is alleged that if we permit the ealigraion of free la.
• we cannot
bourers from Africa to our West Indian Colonies,
privilege. •
deny France, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil theta me .
and that these nations will export and land freemen o.ne their.
oonwn shores, in order to make them slaves. To anY 4-1
."1"
the part of those countries to be allowed to e,arry on a free
emigration from Africa,to their shores, we can reply', tvliat by
thec principles of abstract right, and by
olumcluded with us, they are entitled coresdo everytlith,, 1.
to we
the treaties t,lietnihtave
land
do: they are entitled to free Anfrc;ihnei.:
r ma
where their personal freedom desireit...
In other
to their native country open whenever they i.
is secure, a d
4 other words, as soon as they have destroyed
.slaveryfin
Brazil, Cuba,
personal securityof the •- - • —no objection will )e
-
&c.—the only guarantee they can give for in
made h
African-yeinGigreraattitßarsitatihneytconothpeeirrsteitairrying home as many
Cade to accompany them.
'! But, indepenadent of treaties and appealsfficient to
of ♦
justice, there are oh 't les which will prove su .
prevent a disguised to the principles
the name of free emigration. In the first place, no negroes
bli:e..aicrade from being carried on under
wuld embark in a SPanish or Portuguese vessel, or
eelthtervaes-
.of any nation, known to bet ot inimical to the slave- de,
no master of a
without compulsion. In the second place'
vessel, aboard of which a number of negroes sufficient to
em-
vessel,
when sold, the expense of their
h ked against their will, would dare to allow them ti t
to the retext
gree of liberty required to give a colouring
thatthe they passage, bad bqitai_
de:
Proes in
were free emigrants. Besides, shipping
manner rzquired to give the transaction such a"ceiflouring.
world not pay the slave-trader. He must take a largekr proe
portion of females than slavers find it profitable to taat
woulde; h
must maintain them during ,ui
s e
eatoff deep into his profits. Slave-trading. under
tal t 0 'clan.
I,,eroree the voyage in a manner
ithe
dis
emigration, would prove too expensive an. ° Even
if' the a game to be played more than once or twi.ce.
The
abuse could grow up, it would only be for a
thei)
o _ nof free labourers, both in respect to , ea. mount
afproduce they can rear and the sett to their employers,
_is
o_ much more economical speculation than the
gifyselaves : the two cannot long co-exist, and must
imporrtati'6n
A slioac'en'Yg the
slave-trade, And while free emigration was
nish rade, the adoption, of its outward forms
aw we
cannot
the suffering of the negroes in the middle P sage.s effect
under
Ili
ididitni.
0,.
theot prevent the slave-trade as it is ; and the .
nY be
_toi. slavers calling them,elves migration agents. tr
ame • . humane treatment of the slaves during their passage
.ii g this
ross the Atlantic. But it is vvaste of time dicu:l- could
hypothetical case, since it is clear that no slave-tra trader
afford,,,i3notritw.culd have courege to play such a
trici4n-light put a
is said that though free emigratimi i
stop to I• lus to the
slave-t sdavay ant of Africa, it would give a stiniisu.o, n
_n.
rat e in Africa, and increase its dm:florl' •I. ee,i_flt.s
ence. I is said that all Africans are slave: of their. titles;
that head- rn -,usue them
to allow their
oney must be given to the chiefs to pecie.. t of this
slaves to emigrate ; that the re
liorder in
bounty money will induce the chiefs to make vilar,lrhere is a
order i-
brief oget slaves to dispose of in this waY to is
from answer to this question : where is the inonsY —0
is per-
son •sthatto it is assumed will be given to the chiefs,
t)ns
of the
ere. 1 tain a right f property in the P? • so pay
!grants ;the West Indiantics will have .
handsomely in the communities
and other expen-
ses, to brio t . way of passage-nioneY, , 4e their own
g hem to their islands, free to cOOO..
will be no
employ
-era and change them when they will. '
rbere uld create
no head-moneynew state for the chiefs. Even if there were it wo .
on more
tightinn.state of things in Africa. It would n occaa! e
slave.
trade, fighting and kidnapping than there is now tootPIY tu d coast
blockad which we cannot put down britour treaties
and
put
down eshand barracoon burnings, which "ice°einigra-
tion bywoultd the emigration of free labourers.
Al:d•tefil lthv than
creating a class of negroes roor- "
those who thoSe wbo
remained at home more intelligeot than
remained in, rrreat
menath at home, ambitious. of returning and
become re;ders
for the
slaves into c7-n'—
ipayinc„
head
izens.
merely have -'
is, neither yet the
Africans—the
it would, in short, be cresting •
the only means of elevaPng
P°P7,hent from
Even though this icotiginally it
ractice of
would
were to be'conie establishea, • , •
effect of keeping Africa for some tim.e as it
Africans
from slaverte nor worse f liberating sone ~.
civ
ilizatioa and bringthem into contact with a li!„lier
; and of
the internal wars preparing the 'Deana o 13 the head-
n'c'ee, is and kidna • ,ria of Africa. But
it' even ia mere P"' ld be found tO pal
fit imagination: no one vvou tis clear,
from the reports were required—which it is not. for it •• a
from Pant`
of every traveller in the interior ot frier,
,
class of gt to Macgregor Laird, that there is numerous
" The objections!neroes addicted to travel in quo
of gaip•
t.
' . from Africa
lit
real. To talk of
lity—th to a system of voluntary free en3tgra ion
tto our West India colonies are shadowy and un
' ; strumenta-
free emigration, except by the .n •
'' rit' t is, under the superintendence and control (it 1.116
WI uovernment is a mockery. Th .-. bl Peddling
- attempt now snaking.
doing • '
00. e misera e
by the Governinent to appear to be
something to promote free eunieration from Africa, is
nothing better. It is restricted to one British settleineut.
and• that one the vtiry settlement in which influences hostile to
sreigoaiteuecitoplrsintiernt a fair trial preponderate. Every peso
h own in the
by insistin ,on • • . • •
weeks before
E., their living idly
. they are allowed to
lion, and other fees, &c. The sail,
negro," who decry every atte e way of intending emigrants,
in the 1 for a number of
1 co ony. •
the exaction of registra-
professional " friends of the
might interfere with the , , ern,
apf t t o benefit the race which
living," are scarcely greater jugglers
whereby they have their
merit with its. make-believe encouragement ers than the British Govern-
living,"
to free African

CACTION TO DEUGGISTS.—We believe informations have
enalties enforced, against several persons in
been laid, and p
this town, for selling spirits
io, f wine without a license. Spi-
rits of wine cannot be legit ywsioldi
,b.y drtnzgists for other
than medicinal purposes.--ilhp:c ie. LI
LGUarlii..._.an:rhe
light-
NOTICE TO MAEINEESs: IN,
IPI-ILlEASiolelttlNira.
ples has been
house on the elbow of the out ,e
_. _
considerably raised, and a , •
• revolvini, light (of gas) has super-
seded the former fixe n •
• d 'light. The period of revolution is
two minutes ; during the tirst of which the full strength of
the light is continued; and during the second minute its
brilliancy rapidly decreases. The height of the light
ighteen
is 161
feet above the sea, and it is visible at the distance...of
or twenty miles. At the eastern extremity of theroun Mole there
is a low fixed light in order to guide vessels d t
Head.
THE ANTI-SLAVEILY CON VENTION.—The Convention,
assembled on Friday at the Freemasons' Hall.Saatue
Gurney was called to the chair. The Rev. Thos. Spencer,
of Hinton, le?,ath, proposed the following resolution :—" That
in the judgment of this Convention, the introduction of the
Ind
slave-grown produce of Brazil and Cuba into Ittinia
with the free-g,rown produce of the British West t
colonies and British India, is rendered necessarY• as a"
of justice to all parties interested, and is in consistenY ‘‘vir
ith
the principles on which the Convention is constituted. , .
Cobden spoke in support of it. He said, "I am here in the
name of the Anti-Slavery Society
against this body taking •' 1. r to that taken by
the London Committee any step slim Li
in Nlancliester to protest
three years ago, in advising that
government should put restrictions in any way upon foreign
trade." Dr. Lushington spoke against it, and the
question was moved and.carried. previous