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NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Mr.. Franck Taylor, bookseller, Pennsylvania ay-
enue, has placed on our table
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epls-
ties of Paul to the Thessalonans, to Timothy tol
Titus, and to Philemon. By Albert Barnes, New
York Harper Brothers, l845.
No. 81 of Harper's Illuminated and new picto-
rial Bible.
No. 6 of Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy
Part No. 8 ola "Dictionary of Practical Medicine
BY James Copeland M. d., f. r.. Edited, with
additions, by Charles A, Lee, M d.; and
No. of Wiley and Punam's Library OF Amer-
can Books. The Journal Of an African Cruiser, ed.
tied by Nathaniel Hawthorne. New York and
London. Wiley & Putnam, l6l Broadway ; 81
Waterloo Place, lS45
The last-named work is simple and exceeding
ly pleasing narrative of cruise off the coast of AT
RIGA in Of national vessels. Its author evil
IDENTIFY does not set out to write for effect; which fact
adds much to the interest of his work. He relates
occurrences falling under his observation, and IN
dites his impressions with charming naipee, which
would have been lost if he had undertaken to make
a book to please critics rather than himsef--a man
of strong powers of observation and most liberal
sentiments Although not especially friend of the
American Colonization Society, and at times ex-
posing freely what he considers faitr pas in their
plans and management it will be difficult for any
liberal-minded man to give his impressions OF the
effect of their labors the native African tribes IN
the vicinity of the colony fair hearing without en-
tertaining high opinion, not only Of the phllan-
thropy of the effort but Of the probable agency is,
at some day, destined to have IN civizng and re-
generating western Africa. We extract his views
Of the operations of the British preventive measures
on the coast as they are full Of bold and original
expressions Of opinion, founded on personal obser-
walton, guided by a mind evidently well qualified to
understand the subject. The extract which we here
make is also interesting, from the able manner
! in which the author discusses and describes facts
connected with the slave-trade generally:
The dinner conversation, above alluded to, suggests
remarks in reference to the slave-trade There
discrepancy the various estimates to the number
Of slaves annually exported from Africa Some authorities
rate it high as hall million Captain Bosanqnet r. ~,
estimates that fifteen thousand are annually sent to the
West indies and greater number TO Arabia all OF which
from Portuguese settlements He as that the trade
and particularly in the latter part OF that period an effect
naturally consequent the great number OF captures
tracing to introduce given Of Cuba
must purchase the coast to make up for those lost
that carried of grossly exaggerated
and the English papers told OF thousands being shipped from
and for fifty days before and afterwards; all Of which
time not slave vessel came in sight Dr. Madden states
nuaIly imported was twenty five thousand Sir Thomas
Fowe Buxton calls 1t hundred and fifteen thousand
well any other statistical point and that does
exceed fifteen thousand The savetrade to great
height in 1885, owing principally to the high price OF colo
NAL produce was that year. Witnessed the
great activity that prevailed buying and forming
plantations especially those Of sugar The prices have
since fallen and the slavetrade decreasedon the plain
principle of political economy that the demand regulates
The English cruisers doubtless very active in the
pursuit Of vessels engaged il this traffic Ihe appreciation
slave recsptured and the increased chance
promotion vacancies caused by deaih) strong in
ducementt vigilance. But however benevolent may be
the motives that influence the action of Great Britain in ref
the slaverade there is the grossest cruelty
and injustice in carrying out her views Attempts are
now being made to transport the rescued slaves IN
Of high Standing in England, TO carry them all thiti.
at The effect of such gloss as
you may would be to increase the black labor Of the Brit
sh islands by just much deducted from the number
intended for the Spanish Brazilian possessions
The for the saverade" says Mr. Laird, lis in
our ,I hands lies in prGdueng cheaper commodities
this desirable end England will seize the liberated
adding he o 10 he Of Ssr
labor or Of perhng by starvation How much better viii
than s slaves il casap Infinitely %retehed English
philanthropy cuts very suspicious figure when not con.
takes protect thus attempts make them subsevient
to national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The fate Of the rescued slaves
The landed nearest point Of
the African coast where death by starvation fever almost
DESTROYS put the construction possible on the
conduct well of nations of individuals, and
terrain that cold sceptcsm which explains all gene
osty and philanthropy on motives Of selfish policy But
to give faith to the arden. and dn
sayetrade If sincere why does she not as she readily
traho pirscai And, again, why is not her own strength
SO directed as to give the trade blow at oncel There
anse Of 1000 miles whence slaves exportedone in
Gallinas; the other New sesteIs. The English keep
cargoes of human flesh and blood, and push of. 1.-THE
cruiser capture the vessels the captors per
emignts for its West India possessions Now were the
cruisers anchor at the mouths Of these rivers the
cagoes trade at those places be inevitably stopped
But this case, where would be the hoadmOney and the
| emgrantsl
1t has been asserted that the colonss OF Liberia favor the
This not true The only places where the
trac carried on north Of the line in the neighbour
hood Of the powerful English settlements the whole
COAST while even British authority does not pretend
Individuals among the coonts unprne pied men may in
very few instances from love Of gain have given assist
prices But this must have been done secretly or law
would have taken hold Of them slayers no doubt have
was known On tho other hand the slave stations al 81
Paus river Bassa and at Junk have undoniaby been
broken up ty the of the coonsts. Even
tute of sympathy for eowmen their race and hue
h ehe stake II the s
prompt the inhabitants Of Liberia oppose the slaveade
large quantities of rice at estaysgan rates. thus curtans
the supply to the colons and enhancing the price More
the abos of peace the Culture Of the earth and
have no camwood or pamo to offer to the honest trader
% consequently finds neither buyers nor sellers among
j The truth is the savetradsrs dispense with assist
everything 10 their trade al Sierra Leone aeq
from any English OF american vessel the If the
find good market for their cargoes they are
satisfied whatever be the character their customers
This Is well understood and openly ayowed here. The
ngsh nave no right to taunt the Americans claim
higher integrity their part They lend precisely
the same indirect aid to the traffic that the do
and furnish every thing except vessels which likewise they
would supply they could build them is the policy Of
the English shpmastcrs the coast to represent the Amer
cans us engaged in the saverade for h by such accuse
tons, they induce British American 10
dean and examine the fair trader they thus rid themselves
i OF troublesome rivals
The natives generally favorable to the slavetrade 1t
brings them many comforts and Injuries which the legit
mate trade does not supply Their argument is that IL
man goes into the Bush and buys eamwood he pay
other to bring it to the beach But he buy slave this
latter commodity will only walk but bring n load NJ
camwood on his back All slaves exported are Buhmen
many Of whom brought from two three hundred miles
in the interior The fmen and Kroomen are the agents
between the slaveaders and the tribes They
not permit the latter to become acquainted with the white
men, lost their own agency and its profits should cease
slave once Sold seldom returns to his home II trans.
ported to foreign country his of course
and even ecapured the coast his return is almost i'm
possible His home, probably is far distant from the sea
can only be reached by the territories Of