The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-07-29

ie'eee' " great length, beang subjected 10 close
sr0ss exaninAticn By Mr.. Brady, In, progress Of
which harp pssnagc Of wsrls took place between
the witness and counsel. TIN hearing q the testi-
mosy will be continued to-day. We give report Of
yesterdays proceedings in another column.
The Poaice Commissioners were still without .
quorum yesterday, aAA consequently no husiaes~
was trs1sacteA.
The Almshouse Governors visited RandAll'eIslsud
yesterday. dinea with the Warden, aud afterwards
proceeded to Business. The unusually large con-
sumption Of liquors by tire psupers end othsrsoon-
nected with the public institutions, was subject of
discussion An application of the Wardens a.
sistants for a ten days frslough received some
attention. There are now upwards of 5000 persons
under the charge Of the Governors.
In the report Of Quarantine matters publisl,ed
elsewhere will be found some highly interesting:
facts touching the newly erected hospital shantes at
Seguines Point. These buildings are stated as be-
ing completed, with nothing remaining but thoir.
transfer to the custody of the Commissioners o.
Emigration. Il is remarked a. very certain that the
Commissioners will not accept them. Tue most ina.
portant feet stated is that the funds nthe hands Of
the Quarantine Commissioners, have rln 80 low that
they VIII he obliged shortly to dismiss the entire
police force 30 long stationed ct Segu;ne's Point TO
protect the buildings against attack. With q view
to meet this emergency in advance, the Commis-
sioners have notified both the Sheriff aud Board Of
Supervisors Of Richmond county that they mUst
provide q force to guard the buildings; but the
Sheriff md Supervisors said to have refused to
do anything in the premises Wheseupon the Com
missione1s are now contemplating making a call
upon Governor King to send q company of the
State militia to keep the necessary guard. Should
the latter call be unheeded, there ia strong proba
biiity that the new buildings will be shortly left
without any protective force, and the oyAermen
thus have unrestrained opportunity to Do as they
please with the new buildings
The steam frigate Wabash sailed from this
port yesterday on q cruise
There was quite falling OF in the number Of
applications for licenses yesterday before the Excise
Commissioners. What's the natter See our re-
port of the proceedings of the Board.
The sales OF cotton yesterday embraced Aboa. 1000
bales, the market closing quie hm For quotations, re-
ceipts q. the ports stocks, ~, refer to another
column. Flour WAS heavy Tor common grades OF State
and Western well for Southern, and in some
decline of about cents per barrel was submitted TO- while
sales we're moderate Wheat was buoysnt Sales of
Southern to fair red were made At 81 IS
81 IS: to fair white do 81 80 81 sly; oil
81 80 Milwaukee club, 81 So and Chicago spring, 81 &c.
Corn was nrm with saes al Soc ooc for Western mixed
Pork was steady, ct 81. IL $2a Is for meas with mode
rae sales Sugars toerabiy active, with sales Of
about 1000 hhds, at prices given in another column.
| Ooaee was nrm, with moderate sales. Fdegh,s were
| taken to moderate extent 81 unchanged prices
The New slave scheme OF England and
F'ranse-Ths Secret or the Movement.
We give elsewhere series of extracts which
show the present position of the new Anglo
French scheme to re establish the slave trade in
their West Indian colonies, under slight change
Of nature and great change Of name. 1t is very
evident from the coincident action and discussion
on this subject in Madrid, Paris and London, that
it is a combined policy on the part Of the three
governments, ard Louis Napoleon has fitted out
the first expedition, which Palmerstons organ
( the London PoSt-announces is only an expert
mental one Ii adds in substance, that if the ex-
pertinent succeeds, the government will take
measures for establishing free passenger traffic
between the coast Of Africa and the West
Indies"
This idea of a "free passenger traffic" in
Africa where not enc negro in q hundred
is free; where the natives know nothing
Of any foreign land, and do not care
to kDow, except as it supplies them with
whiskey and powder; where the only aim
and aspiration of the negro are sensuous and sen-
sual enjoyment under burning sun, is one of the
meet chimerical ideas that was ever broached to
cover another intention. A large portion of the
European press has viewed the project in its true
! light and denounced it as but a renewal of the
slave trade under a modified form. Aud that lie
what it is-but modified for the worse. Every tie
Of interest that in slavery exists to induce the
master TO cherish not only his bondmsn, but his
bon6man's family and children, il destroyed A
sordid ayarice alone is to hold the new bondman
for a series Of Yeas, for wages utterly incoupe-
| tent TO feed wife and child. Avarice alone is
to dictate whether man or woman shall be
brought: and so long man is capable OF geld
ing more labor than woman, he alone viii be
sought Ivy syaiice
| In the new slavery system there is 10 induce
ment TO bring negroes in families and to rear
! their offspring Women and children are q draw
back upon the lsboring man. Nautilus theory i.
10 be applied TO him as soon as he is got out Of
Africa and after he has spent the ten best
years Of his life under the lash Of a sordid task
master, he is to be sent back to Africa TO Chris
/ ianise that heather land, or TO die in the misery
! Of old age. The new humanitarian system Of
society will thus be rid Of its old aud its lame
and its infrm; paupersm will not exist there,
and we shall have a society composed ouly Of
blooming young negroes, laboriug ioyously for
two dollars month, to provide free Europe with
sugar ard cotton
! But this is all a visionary scheme that can
never be carried out; and no man knows it
better than Palnerstop. II is net this that he
aims att is the desire to carry out successfully
a policy that has animated him for fifty years: