Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-26

Manchester -.
birmingham --...-........l7,O 600 do.
Glasgow. $4,000 do.
Bristol ...........,........-... 1000 do
Hull. ..-.....-......-........l 900 do.
Brighton .................. 10 900 do.
Bath. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 5000 do
Southampton. 900 do
These orders issued for any between penny
and five pounds and is proposed extend the limit to ten
pounds The public derives very great service from this
rangement better safer mode possibly be devised
the transmission Of small very tang commits
charged @ amount Of which has yet paid the
penses of the Office which unavoidaby great from the
number Of clerks employed and the immense correspondence
necessary carry out the pan the machinery of which ap-
pears to be perfect possible. Mr. Rowland Hills hand
has aided this department. well almost every other Of
this mammoth establishment It is pleasant have record
Of the General Post Office that the officers and clerks in
their official intercourse and business transactions with every
most attentive prompt, and polite, differing, it must be
admitted, essentially from the sef-mportan arrogant
and rude persons often with in the custom houses of
London and Liverpool, Of the public Offices at Som
House, and than department Of the Bank
Of England There old but most vertabe adage which
pronounces /" comparisons be " odious I; and have
wish to make any comparison between the second and
third grades of persons in Office in the two countries, for the
first offices, being always filled by gentlemen, who the
department all countries, out of the questions
but commission be instituted we should feel hesita
ton whatever in giving the first place, attentive prompt
and webehaved representatives of their country the Off
Gals Of the United States. The why this is
which appears arise from the very institutions Of the
try and the early habits of the people Some time other
we may, perhaps, fully express ourselves upon this
point and give utterance to reflections which naturally
connect themselves with the subject all tending, however,
to justify the reply the young American traveller who, when
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impressions he carried with him respecting England answered.
81 return with lore for my country, and
ration for yours Such, appears u.s. the feelings
which every proper thinking citizen of the United States will
bear with him from the shores of England.
Ministers will have deal with perpexing question
very early in the coming session, and that the condition Of
the West India Islands and the sugar planters 1t to
be almost universally admitted, excepting by the orators
Of Exeter Hail. and they have lately been comparatively silent
upon the subject that the condition of the African has not
been improved either by the f20 900 sterling which
expended in giving freedom the slaves in the British
West Indies by the 925 600 sterling which have been
already expended by France and England in bockadng the
Of Africa, and in other prevention Of the
slave radeto say nothing of the expense which the United
States Government has incurred for the object Recent
from British Consus show that there have been i'm.
ported from the and of Africa, from 1914
than 657, ls9 slaves, the very teeth Of and
cruisers These imported into Cuba and Brazil chiefly
and this number is far greater than all the negro population
of the British West India Islands the period of emancipa-
ton The consular do Of include those
who died in hs prisons and baracoJns the African
whilst waiting to be shipped those who died during the
passage III who probably smuggeJ shore in
the West Indies Sir POWELL BUxroS has calculated that
the mortality Of the middle passage has increased in
OF the precautions taken avoid the bockadng squad
rons, from nine TO twenty-five per cent This alone would
raise the number exported above $40 and il the other
items be added the probability that the whole number brought
the coast 10 be sold slavery will be fewer than
100000 81, 900 annually Parliamentary returns show
that in the sixteen years ending with ls43, the number Of
slaves emaDcpated by the mixed commission, $780,
about 5000 annually number scarcely equal the loss OF
British lives in our army and navy every year the perous
coast Of Africa The Of humanity does not gain much
by this result for the slave trade all the while greatly
pering and the mortality in the baracoons and middle pas
fearfuly increasing. Again look another scheme
Of the friends to Afcathe settlement at Sierra Leone
Read the statements relating tina, colony given in the
Quarterly Review" for December and the accounts in the
other journals Of the day, Of the inoeabe system Of manage
ment existing there, and say misery, oppression de-
gadaton and moral dpavy existed in any other
Pca colony in the worst days Of slavery and yet this colony
at Sierra Leone costs the English nation gl00 900 annually
and has done so for nearly half century Take other
item IN proof the present Of the African slave trade
hundred and three slave vessels captured and brought
into Sierra Leone in little more than the last year we
have return of the number Of victims they contained
Another comparison will force itself upon Read the
accounts Of the American settlement al Liberia then "look
upon this picture and upon that" SO much for the
Of exertions 10 abolish the slave trade Every freud
humanity must honor the feelings which prompted these
on but there must be terrible defect in the made
Of TO have led to untoward result Now what is the
true statement Of the with respect the emancipation Of
the slaves in West India Islands "The principle
good" says writer in "Backwoods Magazine for April,
lsf7, "but you were N too great hurry. Before giving
them Freedom you should have made them ftfor They
were not inpatient Some outlay Of public money, and ex
IRENE and prudence 10 your measures would have
enabled you their humane treatment in tho
val As fast they became inoculaed with nc wants and
habits Of civilized fe you might have made freedmen Of
the advanced and given them occupation, and allotted
them land under proper conditions Thirty or forty years
and million OF money would have done the business The
results would have been from first to last beneficial the
colonies woud have set example which other nations
could have followed II would have been noble return for
having temporarily used the as slaves II would have
been act Of enlightened philanthropy
The Quarterly Review" recommends sstbat The Exeter