New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-28

a.s VII Isa Hs nsk 10 ttis wH Of capture ~ sho
Americas ovuisen- In Q wcrS. /. would appear
that Mr.. Cas- ta' sctui.y sdoptsd tho Poicy
which few days ego We urged upon bin, Of him
seh taking in haud tie sbVse Of tic Amerosa nag
on the coast Of Cuba By vessels engaged IN the
sAve-trsde.
II also appears ths. tks1sh the Britsh Govern
ment have consented to waive their claim to vEn-
ton 70 matter Of right they still mean TO persist
in it in al csses wbere there are grave suspicious
that tie American a.g is borne without authority.
taking u1on themselves tee risk Of responding in
damages TO the extent Of toe damage actually In
Elected. if Ae suspicion should turn out to be No.
founded and the suspected vessel prove to be bona
fde American.
We m,y therefore bope that If thu The London
TIMES witch sesms Little out of humor at the re.
sult ofMr. Huti's motion, n correct in the an.ici.
patton over which it seems rather to exut, that
scores Of cargoes Of negroes are just now sartipg
from Africa, with two or three American sailors on
board, with American papers and an American flag,
still tsst, between the vigilance Of the two squad
rons on tie coast Of Cuba, very few Of these 3D.
yepturers will get safe'y into port
The late news, however, from the cost ofAfrca
does not sford much countensnoe to the gloomy
pictures drawn by The London Times Of the hope
e.epess Of slavetrs1e suppression 1. lie stated that
very few slave. vesstls have lately been seen 10 the
Blight of BeniD-but four or FIVE years ago the very
focus Of the tTtfo-s1d that the last ODE that had
made her appearance had been captured By
Rr,f. IN
skulk under American colors Finding the ship
c!osely watched, and that long tims must elspse
before any slaves could be got en- board. the crew
threw overheard their forged papers srd assumed
8sg. and surrendered to the British cruiser. II is
also sAted that the disturbing Influences lately eI-
erciSed at Whydsh by the attempts Of the French
to purchase slaves for the sake of converting them
into free immigrants, was gradually subsiding, and
the natives were again turing their attertiou with
more zeal than ever to the business of legitimate
commerce.
1t would appear from the debs.e to which we
have referred that decided hopes are entertained
that cotton in very considerable quantities is about
10 be atded to the other exports from the coast,
the amount Of which has increased within four-
teen years past cotepporaneously with the sup
preston of the slave trade from auaOst nothing to
ten million dollars year. Cotton i. seems is not
only grown in Africa but manufactured there To q
very considerable extent, and not Only 10
cotton cloth manufactured there, it is
even an article of export. Lieutenant May, at.
tsched to the expedition now employedin expIor-
irg the Niger, in q recent Journey over land from
3 poiLt up the Niger TO Legos on the coast, found
going on 10 every hut and Teav-
ing snd Jyeing in every town. Brazil imported
ast year quantity Of those cloths which it would |
equire upward Of seven million pounds of cotton to
produce. A very short time ago Mr.. Cesg of |
Manchester, aided by the Rov. II. Vena and |
. Few other gentlemen, trained and sent out TO |
Abbeokuta two or three young negroes ~ agents
or the purchase of cotton. These young mon
aught the natives to clean the cotton for the
I,neIlh market; and in 1856, ii 800 pounds we're
'ent to Liverpool This amount increased i'll 1857
% e: 400 pounds; and 10 the first FIVE months of the
present year it reached 9t,4Oo pounds. Lord
pslmerston described the cotton districts OF Africa
Is more extensive than those Of lndis, and easier
# access aid predicted tbst within few years the
coast of Africa would rank next to tho
United States as a cotton exporting coantry.