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INTERESTING LETTERS. Our Paris Correspende: Panis, June 2, 1853. Olose of the Legislatwe Session—Analysrs of the Measwres Voted—The Emperor—The Empress— The Coronation and the Pope—The Grand En- eampments—Sentence of the “ Foreign Correspon; denis” Maintained—The Affairs of Austria, Switzerland, Belgiwm, Russix, and Turkey, remewed from Paris—The Grecio-American In- demmufication. ‘The session of the Legislative body is over since the 28th ult., and its last breathing has been as ul! as it could be after such a paltry beginning—an- der so much servility and baseness, as that to whieh its members are subjected by the mandate of blind obedience which they haye accepted from the Emper- or. The session of the house lasted for a hundred and eight days, and sixty-five days of that period have been consecrated to the examination, discussion and yote on the project of laws. ‘These new laws voted > the legislative body, amount to two hundred and three, and among the most importaut I shall mention the law regulating the budget of 1954; the laws re- lative to the pensions owed to private gentlemen; the articles referring to the declaration of the jary in criminal matters; the sentence to be rendered against those who would commit an attempt against the Chief of State or members of his family; the law relative to the institution of Prodhomme; ‘to the establishment of public baths and washing houses, ce ‘The hurry in which all the representatives of the legislative body seemed to be to abandon the cares of ublic attairs, and leave Paris, to return to their leisure hours, either in the country or in their native cities, has prevented them from voting on the law by which literary and artistical property was to be secured, for thirty years, in favor of the widows and childven of ull authors of plays, books, pictures, engravings, Xe. Mr. Billault, the Speaker of the House, closed the session with the delivery of a short speech,in which he alluded, very plea- santly, indeed, to the euergy of his colleagues, as well as to Lis own, during the difficulties of tae present epoca, under the mighty strength of democ- racy iu France. Then the Assembly dispersed, and I dare say that every one of the members seemed to be more disappointed than satistied to quit his seat to bid adieu to nis colleagues. Who knows if the legislative body will ever meet again under the present government? This is the se- cret of Ged and of the future. ‘Who can tell,” says Figaro in the “ Barber of ile,” “if tue world will exist within three weeks ?”’ The Sena till holding its meetiags at the Lux- embourg, and its jou will be closed as soon as the projects of laws voted by the legislative body are revised and fally adopted. The Emperor has abandoned the Palace of the ‘Tuileries ior the summer season, and has now taken his summer quarters at the Castle of St. Cloud. All the courtiers and members of the Imperial family have left Paris, and taken m their quarters in the neighborhood of St. Cloud. I am told that the inten- tion of Louis Napoleon is to remain quiet in his country palace during the month of June. In the beginning of July he will accompany his wife to the watering place of Eaux Bonnes, iu the Pyrenees, from whence they will return about the first of Au- gust, to be present at the grand féefe which will be given bere on the anniversary day of the Bonaparte festival—the 15th of August. It is even whispered that Louis Napoleon intends. to be consecrated Em- ‘or on that epoch. Some other people, who are fond of gossipping, assume that the fete will occur on the 10th of September, but no other explanation is given to that date. As for the coming of the Pope, the Prince of the Church, to Paris, no other talk is entertained about it. {t seems that the project of in- ducing Pius LX. to consecrate by his presence the magnificence of the coronation ally abandoned. fis Holiness left Rome on the 16th iust., to visit the city of Anjio, where he was received with the utmost | honor due to his rank. | " of Satory, near Ve , Marshal Magnan has taken the chief command of all the troops barracked under the white tents erected on that spot. On Sunday last—which day had been appointed to pass the review by the Exaperor—the plateau of Satory offered the most ad- mirable coup a'a@i!. Never has such a crowd invaded es, and the out- rowd, com- | idling and brated in the ker, aumonver | k Louis Na- d from St, ced, and that part of the country of Versail lines of the camp were fill iS sed of all sorts of people, of the h ferior classes. ‘Lhe mass was cele centre part of the cainp | of the army, and at hal leon, followed by at loud. Immediately the re the sight of the soldiers, either of cavalry or infan' Was really ad . Asham figut was to fol the review, but owing to the bad weather which began to pour down in torrents, the army riers. The Empress, who met i to St. Cloud in an oy falling so thick that were both, as well as tivo ladies of honor and the aids de camp, soaked as if they had fallen into the water. Another camp—that of Helfant, near St. Omer—is also completed, and the troops will arrive in the bar- racks at the end of tle week. This new champ de maneuvre ituated on the right of the river Aix, near St. ¢ on a plain which is seven miles long and four wide—a magnificent place for the display of strategy and to educate the army in military opera- | tions. The Emperor intends visiting the camp of Hel- fat. The trial of (he gentlemen who had been accused of high treason agaiust the Emperor and had been already seutenced by the court, was revised on the 28th os and did not meet with the issue which had been expected. The correspondents, as presumed by the reporters of the press, were not acquitted and f The seutence of the new court ormer sentence as to the penalty, but ought a modification to the tines which condemned to pa The Count of Costlogan and the Duke of Ravigo returned back | the swords and other weapons which had beea found in their apartments, and had been considered as | armes de guerre. In short, though this new sen- tence canuot be considered as a triumph for the cor- respondents, it is somewhat an houorable “gain” | for them and they aM seem to be satisfied with it, as their object was only to humble the government. The law-nit which had been commenced at Mar- | seilles against the would-be matter of that torpedo, which had for its object the destraction of the life is Napoleon when he passed through that September jast, has been totally abandoued by t minal court of the Emperor. The man cailed Garl- lard, who was accused of being the author of that attempt to murder the chief of the State, was said to have escaped to Malta and was never taken pri- soner. The two governments of Austria and Switzerland have decidedly interrupted their diplomatic inter- course. Count Karuicki, Charge d’Affairs of ‘ rritory and re- is already telt in the Helvetic the results of this litical outbreak, though everything leads to | lieve that no declaration of war will follow. But in the meantime, the Federa! council has taken such steps as to protect the territory of Switzerland against another invasion of Austria. A levy of troops has been ordered, and all the Landwerr will be ready at the least motion. It is nevertheless sup- posed that the deputations of the Swiss cantons sent Vienna, will succeed to smooth ull the difficulties, In Belgium, the return of King Leopold and his son, the Duke of Brabant, has been the cause of touch rejoicing. Never have so many feelings of d votedness, respect Zand gratiti jes shown toa potentate and his heirs since the time of the middle ages. Such an example of deference and love of the | country is worth being rendered knowa throughout the world The difficulties of Russia with the Porte, are still | “‘au the go’ at this preseut hour. The departure of the plenipotentiary envoy of Nicholas to Constanti- nople, is now confirmed, and the interests of the Russian dip acy have been left in the hands of his representatives. We are at a loss to know what will be the issue of this diplomatic difficulty; butall the wise people of France and Europe wi suaded that no casus hell? will happen from all that tempest in a tea pot. itis generally supposed that there will be @ transaction by which something like « religious rotectorship will be granted to Russia—that Mag. d will also obtain a certain concession, or guarau- tee, for the transit of Egypt; and then the other wwers of Europe will be considered as having the nor of that pacific settlement so usefal to religion and trade. Sach wil! be {I think, the dénowement of the Oriental crisis. As for Pruce Menschikoff, despite the rank which he occupies, he will always be considered sat den the diplomats of Europe, as well as by all gentlemen of the world, as a‘ Bombastes furioso,”” who was not fit to be ranked among the diplomats of Europe. Prince Menschikoff is the same person who, in 1826, was sent by the Czar of Russia to Per- sia, and was so insolent with the Shah of Teheran that he caused the war between the two countries, We think here, in Paris, that the maintainment of Bx: in Europe has for guaranty the terms of diy intercourse between England and France. But the best reason which will have a great weight in the sealés of Buropean polagics is, that if ever war wes declared, the signal of insurrection, the rise of the soc party, would immediately follow. The revolution of Burope would be universal, from the north to the south, from the east to the west, and no ernment will try to renew the experiments of 844, The crisis of the Oriental question has had lately much effect upon the fluctuation of public fonds, finance, and stocks of all sorts at the Lourse of Puris; but all this ‘gambling business’ has no ef- fect npon the wise men, and those who have beer “sold’’ at the end of the month belong tu that sort of black who meet with nobody’s pity. Stewart, second commapder of the Eng- a was | eclat as possible, ov | previous occasions, bot the pl muadron in the Mediterranean Sea, left Marseilles Taboaragth iust.,on board of the Carados, bearer of ee oem aa cl , oral demand of the United States government to King Otho of for 2 sum or 800,000 to be given as to Mr. King, an missionary of the ft oburely bas with the utmost opposition at Athens; and the diplomatic excuses to be made to the Consul who had been sen- tenced to prison and to exile, under the accusation of being an emissary of the missionaries of the United States, have not yet been granted to the am- bassador, No one knows, as yet, what will be the issue of that unexpected cloud, but hopes ave enter- tained thht all will be settled without firing a cannon shot. : , ‘At Alexandria, the American frigate, on board of which came the Constul-General of the United States, left the port on the 22d ult. The difficulties between the Bashaw of Egypt and the American government were considered as all settled. Doctor Cahen, the former President of the Jewish Consistorie of France, and translator of the Bible, whose science as a rabbi was considered as immense, died on the 26th ult., and was buried with great honors. Overthree thousand persons of the Israelite religion were present at his funeral. P.8.—Prince of Nesselrode, the son of the re- nowned ambassador and diplomat, is said to have been sent to Constantinople, in place of Prince Menschikoff, B. H.R. Pants, June 2, 1853. Driadful Weather for the Parisians—The Ameri- can Residents and the Imperval Balls—Municipal Improvements and Horse Racing—The French Commissioner to the New York Exhibition—The Plays, Theatres, §c. Nocte plwit tota, and instead of a rain which only lasted for one night, we have had this horrible weather for the last five days. It rains, it hails, it thunders and it freezes; the atmosphere, which was as warm asin June in America, is now as cold as it was two{months ago. The Seine, the Loire, the Rhone, according to the last accounts received by this morning’s mails, have overflowed their banks, for it appears that this unseasonable weather is gene- rol throughout France, in all directions. Decidedly old Europe is to be considered as a rotten country in all respects. The fruit trees are altogether ruined by worms of all sorts. The vine crop is already much injured, the olive trees have lost all their leaves, the mulberry trees have been suddenly deprived of their silky foliage, and the raise of silkworms is now in great danger. The potatoes are still subject toa disease, the rouille has invaded our fields of corn. Alas! alas! we are approaching the end of the world, orrather the end of the world is approaching us. What next? In presence of such and so many calamities, the religious souls are turning their eyes towards the Almighty,and the fest! of the Fete Diew have been, this year, much better attended than they have been on any previous occasion since the revolution of 1830. In Paris, though the processions of the Roman Catholic churches have not been allowed to make a large display in the streets of the different parishes of the thirteen wards, the police had granted the permission to the curates to parade around the churches, outside the buildings, and at la Madeleine, St. Thomas d’Aquin, and St. Sulpice, the ceremonies of the congregation oftered the beholder a very mag- nificent sight. At la Madeleine a superb reposoir bad been erected on the back part of ‘the building, around the colonnade, opposite the Rue Frouchet; and the altar, furnished with a prodigious quantity of flowers, tapers, and draperies, was surrounded by a great number of Christians, who knelt in the dust at the moment of the blessing given to them by the curate. At St. Thomas d’ Aquin, the procession para- ded in the building, yards and gardens of the Museum of Artillery, which is next to the church. At St. 8 » the festivities took place on the square and around.the church. No disgraceful demonstration took place during the ceremonies, which were the niost brilliant and religious sight beheld for many years past. Decidedly, it the political féces are totally donihhate in Frauce, the Christian fetes are far trom being abated. The private and official soirées are abandoned for the present, owing to the departure for the country of all the rich people and idlers; bat the Emperor and his court have always the means to attract a large number of gu whenever they have the desire to amuse themselves. On Monday last, on the occasion of the presence in Paris of the Duke of Genoa, Louis Napoleon gave a grand ball in his pala St. Clond, at which more than 1,500 per: ad been invited. Since the departure ot Mr. Rives, a great number our countrymen would Lave been desirous to in tickets of ad- mission to this party, but with the exception of a few “ friends” of a clique, no other citizen of the United States were able to be introduced at St. Cloud. I was lucky enough to obtain a ticket from my ordi- nary protectors and friends belonging to the iuiperial government, and being unable to atiend, I offered it to an American gentleman, whose lady was very de- sirous to visit the palace, and behold the Emperor and Empress. These two persons were my reporters, and have obtained through them the fol: lowing description. The partments of the palace were filled with flowers and tapers of all sorts and sizes. ‘he orchestra, led by Strauss, was excelleut, and the dancing, which began at half-past nine o'clock, lasted till four o'clock in the morning. Louis Napoleon and his wife entered the apartments | at half-past nine, and the Duke of Genoa dauced the first quadrille with the Empress, while the Emperor was making his ves @ vis with Princess Mathilde. Among the persons of rank present were, the Dx- King Jerome, his son, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Louis Lucien Bona- parte, General Narvaez, Duke of Valencia, all the diplomats of the courts of Europe and other coun- tries, and many members of the press, litterateurs, artists, &c. The supper, which had been prepared by Chabot & Potel, was served up in the green house called l'Orangerie, and offered to the gourmand the choicest quantity of every delicate and refined dish which could be compiled by an epicurian. The toi- lets of the women were maguificent, and all the gen- tlemen, with a few excejtions, were dressed with the court costume. The black coats were in such a small number, that they appeared as if they were ashamed of being present. The black suit seems to be totally abandoned at the imperial parties, and those who have heen t_e first to adopt the disguise, are, I .must confess it, our owa countrymen. Decidedly the people of the United States are aping the red skine—they are fond of “ show” and bright | colors. The spring races are still going on with as muc! x to the changes of the ten perature. On Friday last the steeple ciiase of La- marche, despite the uncertainty of the weather, had attracted an immense number of sportsmen on the green turt of that renowned park. The race went off in a brilliant style, and the leap over the river proved quite sticcessful. Sunday last, the first day of the races of Versailles, was attended by all the ledding merfibers of the Jockey Clab, sportsmen of all rank blacklegs and fancy women of Parisand other countries. Several Americans were also on the spot. The race, and also the grand review of the Emperor, in the lower part of the plain Satory, prevented the ordinary dispiay which we have observed on ure of the true sportsmen extreme, and the races went off in a very magnificent style. Sunday next, the second | day of the Versailles race comes off. It is generally hoped that the weather will be favorable. he improvements the city of Paris are pro- | gressing with the most extraordinary exertions. The h rue de Rivoli is nearly completed; the Louvre is al- ready forty-seven feet high, from the level of the ground, and the Palais Royal, newly repainted and re- fitted, iS now occupied by the members of the Bona- parte family. The palace of the ministry of foreign affairs, on the Quai d'Orsay, is also completed, and within two weeks the minister will be enabled to take his bureaux there. This palace was began onthe 15th of July, 1845, and a credit of 4,968,000f. had been obtained by M. dot to have this hotel built. The project of a telegraph line of wires from France Piedmont, Corsica and Sardinia, to Africa, has lately been adopted by the government and will soon be brought into operation. Two ways to communicate from Europe to Africa has been proposed. The first was to establish a wire from France across the P, rences, along the shores of Spain to Gata or Alme and then to touch the wire in the straits of Gibral- tar to Oran. The second way of establishing the maguetic telegraph was to lay down the wire from Spezzia to Corsica, then from the lower point to Sar- dinia and from that country to Boua, on the shores of Africa. The length of this submarine cable would be 450 kilometers, divided in three secti the last of which, from Sardinia to Africa, would measure 200 kilometers long. ‘he wire from Do- ver to Calais is only 28 kilometers long. It is gen- erally suppored that the last project will be adopted by the French and Piedmontese governments. An English company would carry it into immediate op- eration. The emigrants for the United States are daily crowding the railways from Strasburg to Havre. On Saturday last 750 Germans passed through Paris on their way to the United States. In Hanov mail village, composed of 988 inhabitants, emigtated for America where they intend to settle in Ilir Pa The police invaded ou Saturday last a house sit? ated in the Faubourg St. Honore, where a blac! leg. was holding his leve 7 mistress of an American gentleman, whose must coneeal, was the land-lady of the pla yore a were bit oied under the pretext of a able d'hote attended by pretty women jd then after dinnerNentered to gunble with the fair com- name f where of their money. When the French stars made their brilliant the persons present there were 80 much no to escape ‘y the yo be: Ameri wane. men, number, a oy the © Of Pol ‘ were allowed to Oe OO aS mon id be Wil free. they derstand the good leason? That is the ques- rn. During the from New Orleans to Havre of the ship Sarah Bridge, a sailor made a rash attem) it to kill the mate with a knife...He was put irons, and given up to the Consul of the United States at or to te tried according to the laws of the country. M. Sallandrouze Lomornaix, who was the French Commissioner at the last exhibition at the Crystal Palace of London, has been named, in the same ea- pacity, at the exhibition of New York. He will sail a few days for America. The Jews of Jerusalem, 28 well as those of Eu- rope, are now in t! test anxiety. There is a rumor spread ameng them, by which, it is said, that the M had arrived. so long expected proptes has made his appearance in the neighbor. ood of Bagdad; and, according to the reports, he = (rae several wonderfal miracles, among whic! , it is related, that he escaped from a cell in which he wes barricaded, and that a discharge of 500 had no effect upon him. Good! ie wife of a workman attached to the railway of the West, gave birth, a few days ago, to four chil- dren, who were all in excellent health, and were christened at St. Germain-des-Fosses, in the depart- ment of Allser. A mammoth shark, weighing 110 kilos and 34 metre long, was captured a few aay age at Gus- beron, and is now exhibited on the Boulevards, at MM. Chabot & Potal’s. Never has such a large monster of the seas been seen in Paris. A very extraordinary case took place last week at Rouen, ut the gate of the city, which is worthy to be related. The manager of the theatre having the in- tention to produce the fairy play, called “The En chanted Doe,” bought a live stag, which was to be the hero of the play. But when he came with the animal to the gates of the city, the stag was seized by the custom house officer, under the ee: text that he was‘ game,” and of course proscribed at this epoch of the year. It was with the greatest difficulty that he procured the release of the animal. M. Camillo Sivori, the renowed violin player, while riding in a carriage in the neighborhood of Geneva, met with a yery serious accident by the fall of the vehicle, by which his left hand was crushed. It is, nevertheless, hoped that he will not loose the use of those talented fiugers, which have produced so much melody and harmony, during a period of many years, all over Europe, and even in America. The theatrical news is not of much interest this week. With the exception of two farces at the Pa- lais Royal, we have no new plays to mention. One of these farces is called ‘ Quand on Attend sa... Bourse,” by MM. Mare Michel and Laureneir; and the oth “Un Coup de Vent,” by MM. Varin and Brunswic Both have elicited much applause, and caused great laughter among the spectators. M. Thibaudeau had entered into copartnersiip with M. Roqueplan for the management of the ln- perial Academy of Music. B. H. R. ,Our South American Correspondence. Crrgvisaca DE LA Phara, \ Borrvia, South America, leb. 12, 1853. Interesting Letter Addressed to Lord Shaftesbury on Slavery—England and Her Liberated Slaves— The Twenty Millions at Interest—Slave Grown Sugar and Her African Squadron—Tihe Slave and the Free Laborer. To THE Hart or SHarrespury :—In reference to your proposed memorial against slavery, addressed to the United States, and appearing in the London Times about the second week of November, 1852, and which the last European post has just delivered here, I have the honor to inform you that the ac- companying notes will be sent to the papers of the Union, to aid, if possible, in the more effectual ap- preciation of an address coming from England at this junctnre upon such a Bubject. The territory of the United States, as well as British sugar-producing countries, are known to the writer, though dating from the present site of a passing sojourn. I would ask you—together with the women of England, who are to adopt the address—can this come with any grace from England at this time—at the very moment when, like the gow to her wallow, England has returned to slayery ; when, greedy of a cheaper article than free labor can afford, England has newly begun egain to act upon the resolve that slaves shall make sugar for her; when she has jast mace treaties with brazil to supply her with sugar by means of their slaves; when she has recently begun a plan to economise, by means of slaves, an eee saving of five million sterling from sugur only ¢ 1¢ surely must appear to yon that decency at least demands silence on the part of the English, upon the subject of slavery, at a juncture like thi i is possible that your suggestion may rucanti been actively admitted, [ accept the opportanit which an interval before the next posta! departure offers, to throw in what I can in furtierance of a correct appreciation of the relation in which Eng- land really stands with slavery at the present time— of the new position which she has assumed (since the time when she liberated her slaves) by her re- currence to slavery as a source of her supply of sugar. Iam, sir, your obedient servan! Gro. Burton Haycarra, M. D., &c. It is well known that the some years ago, voted twenty millions of pounds sterling to pay the owners of British slaves the half of their value, on condition of their liberation. It has been usually supposed in foreign countries that it was intended that this money should come out of the pockets of the English themselves; and the transaction has been cited as a noble tribute of gene- rosity and justice paid to humanity. Nothing was further from the thoughts of the English than either the one or the other of these intentions; the project was to them a mere affuir of profit—a very immense profit indeed. Could any one have believed that the British Parliament, | |, aba’ apparently generous project of liberating the na- | tional slaves concealed within it the germ of a plan | of repaying the required outlay by means of the very flesh and blood of the African race, namely, out of the labor of foreign slaves? Perhaps, indeed it might have been supposed, frof the facility of the concession, that there was some concealed plan underneath by which the English intended that the money should be ulteriorly made to come out of other pockets than their own; but not the most suspicious incredulity of the existence of moral good, could have been prepared to suppose that the foun- dation of all- this apparent generosity consisted in the invention of a secret plan, by which the whole of the sum necessary for the liberation of British slaves should be paid by the labor of the slaves of foreign countries. Be it observed that while Unzland hed sugar slaves of her own, she excluded, by pro- | bibitory duties, the sugar of foreign slaves; but as soon as she had no longer slaves of her own, she supplied herself with the slave sugar of foreign | countries. Though she gave up her sugar slaves, it was, and continues to be, far from her thoughts to relinquish slave sugar. Her original estimate of the result of liberating her slaves, was as follows, in perfect ac- cordance with what has since happened, and still is in progre ihe liberation of our slaves will coat u> sterling, but (hen, by merely buying the slave sugar of foreign slaves, at slave labor prices, the dillerence in our favor will pay us beck the twenty million, principal and interest, in the first five years, and after that we shall have four ot five million sterling a year profit upon the transaction in return for our generosity. So this act of generosity of the English was de! herately calculated not only to give them back their money in five years, but to leave them a permanent profit of five million sterling perannam; and this upon only the British consumption of the article of tugar. And is such an anticipation actually ina state of realization’ It is. Not only were the data correct upon which the calculation was founded, but the result is in actual progress, The English can thus well afford to be generous. The profit upon their generosity to their slaves isa gain upon the single article of sugar of a permanent five million of pounds sterling per annum, And this estimate is furnished by themselves. One of the highest received statistical authorities, an official of the government, a chief secretary of the ee of Trade, supplies the following satisfactory jata:— ‘The cost, exclusive of duty, of 9,764,710 owta, of free labor eugar, retained for consumption in 1849, free labor prices £1 568,710, calculated at the averages, The cost of alike quantity of Brazihan or Cuban slave sugar, of equal quatity, would have been at flave labor prices, £4,14),181, Consegu there accrues an annual gain of five million sterling per ennum upon the British con- sumption of sugar, by opening the home markets to foreign slave sugar. See the Progre&s of the Na- tion, by G. R. Porter, edition of 1847; Murray, London, section 5, chapter 4, page 557. It is but just that the world should know in what British generosity consists. So profitable is this sort of generosity, that after it has repaid to the English the whcle original slave liberation outlay, principal and interest, in five years, it gives them a clear an- nual profit of twenty-five million of dollays, and all thie upon the article of sugar only. ‘To nationally consume dear slave sngar, made by the national slaves, was a very shocking thing in- decd, but to nationally consume chea) y foreign claves, is avery nice thi ing indeed-— ien jt brings a profit of five million sterling per arnom to the nation, and a permanent five million : will pay fox a great deal of generosity, in- the as there are foreign slaves to make slave sn. gar. The world hes heard much of this Bnglish ge- nerosity, which libersted ber slaves and pai slave sugar, | frican squadron; permanent, that is, | | | twenty | pany, Qn every occasion they were fleeged out | million to accomplish it; put it is less generally un- | derstood that this sacrifice consists in it upon the transaction of five million erie the commerce of alone. ‘What, must we of the Eng- charact it it is incapable OX> that wi Seeger mn profit 7 it must be confessed that the slave- liberating transaction, is a very rofit in- princely p deed; a clear twenty-five per cent of re- turn upon twenty million of outlay. How cunning; to persuade the world to give them credit for generosity, when they were merely making an advance or twenty million sterling, in order to a gain return of five million per annum— and this upon one article cane are sugar only? If, indeed, when the English liberated their sugar slaves, they had forever after refused to buy slave sugar,the merit of their generosity would have been conspicu- ous. But then this sort of Cea have brought with it the fundamental re- quisite of profit; still less did it erter their imagina- tion to Balog the egregious folly of a generosity which demands a sacrifice—a sacrifice to be effected not by a duty, as npon a mere foreign article, which would be an infraction of the unexceptional laws of free trade—but by the interdict of utter exclusion against felon luc the proceeds of felo- ny, of rapine, violence an Via What, sacrifice the national advantage of buying cheap slave sugar, merely for the sake of virtue— of justice and generosity?’ No. The great commer- cial queen of nations never dreamt of a folly so pre- osterous, and 80 Ly Ha to profits. Not was farther from England’s intention than this, for{t was precisely at the moment when she had liberated her own sugar slaves that she determined upon supply. ing herself with the cheap sugar of foreign slaves. Nay, this is not all. Not only does England supply herself with the cheap sugar of foreign slaves, but she compels the very slaves she liberated to continue to sell to her their free labor sugar, at slave labor prices. She perpetrates this gross injustice against the very objects of her pretended benevolence. She said, and still says, to her liberated slaves, “ yes, we liberate you, but you must continue to sell to us the produce of your labor at slave labor prices.’ She compels her own liberated slaves to bring their nthe into the same market with slave sugar, and to sell it to her at slaye labor prices. What, is it really true that the British liberated slaves are dealt with thus? British generosity! Faugh! Let us hear no more of it. Notwithstanding that the difference of the cost of production—the difference of the value of free labor, sugar, compared with slave labor sugar—is contess- edly a difference of five millions anne annually, upon only the British consumption of the article— yet the tree laborer is told that he must sacrifice this difference—must “compete” with slave labor. The most approved English statisticians and economists have correctly estimated that the free sugar laborer, white or black, by only doing twice as much work ina day as the slave, at the day’s wages of the slave, may accomplish the problem of the victorious competion of free labor with slave labor, so as to permit the ] Pale of free labor sugar at slave labor prices. ree labor can successfully compete with slave labor by merely bringing down the remuneration of free labor to the level of the cost of slave labor—and this easily results by impartially enabling both to sell their rival produce on equal terms in the same mar- ket. Should any one ohject that the free laborer might as well bea slave in such a case, the obvious reply is, that the free laborer enjoys the name of liberty at least; he is a British freeman, with the liberty of working at slave labor wages, and of selling his produce at slave labor prices. Towards her liberated slaves England has dealt, and continues to deal, with all sin’ i, By word and deed she tells her liberated slaves that they must work at slave labor rates, in order to sell their produce at slave labor prices, in competition with slave labor produce; that the re- muneration of free labor must be reduced to the level with the cost of production by slave labor. Nay, but “freedom for the slave,” you cry; and ie you covet the profits of slavery. ‘‘Freedom,” as long as it costs you nothing: as long a3 you are to lose nothing by it; particularly if you can gain any- thing by it. Ho! ho! you want slave sugar; but you boast of liberating slaves. Your annual share in the rofits of slavery upon the article of sugar alone leaves you a consoling balance, even after you have paid tle cost of an African slave-prevention squad- ron, You say to Brazil—‘ Shocking thing, this slavery ofyours! Naughty people ! re this treaty for slave abolition, and we'l! annually buy all your cheap slave sugar at your slave labor prices.” To ler own conscience England says—“ Of course we can’t, conscientiously, refuse e sugar (being cheap) without refusing all other slave produce ; consequently the convenience of using cheap slave sugar may be conscientiously continued. Because. we cannot exclude slave cotton, therefore, we rl conscientiously continue to use slave sugar.” Logi- cian and mora!'st alike concur in the inference. On the authority of Porter, ‘it is desirable to ndon tle differential sugar duty altogether.” De- § le! How long is it since virtue has been only desirable, and not imperative, in British estimation ¢ To this are we fallen’ A national interdict against participation with foreign felons in the proiits of their felony is desirable! Indeed! _ It is not impera- tive; ot : hone: no! “ By the advancing intelligence’? and y of the pubiic, the legislature may be induced ‘ate the probibition of felon sugar. What! has I in to wait for more honesty before she becomes willing enough to do an act of justice ¢ We have abundant sugar cultivation. Why have we not equally as much cotton cultivation? t us hasten to bring ler culture cotton grounds as ex- tensive as our existing sugar lands, that we may able to exclrde slave cotton some day as easily as ¥ are now able, if willing, to exclude slave sugar. Aud if to succeed cotton needs protection, let it be conceded; ‘but here, and wherever else protection be needed in future, the medium must be that of a direct giit of money ina definite and visible form; never more that of an insidious scheme, such as a dubious and underhand “differential duty,” by which the country pays in the dark, and does not know what it pays. Slavery! Nobly has England wiped away from herself, God be praised! that foul stain; she now only uses slaves to make sugar for her cheap, having to pay the lower slave labor prices for it. Ye bave no slaves, God forbid! We have lately re- sumed merely the employing of slaves just to make our svgar. Slavery is unknown among us, God by thankel ! We werely give the preference to avel tortoake wuper for us, because they can do it cheaper then it can be aiforded tous by the labor cf freemen, What does it sigoiiy, though we indulge in the little sin which we have only recently commenced. of deriving our sugar from the labor of foreign slaves—when we have so nobly liberated our own rlaves—and heve generously paid the former pro- pristers of that sort of once legal property, the equitable compensation of half its worth. Nobly we set example to the world, snd to posterity, to tread in our footateps— to the Yauklandese to follow us. Withdraw the African rgued:on! Why, it would be a crime of biackest dye We will continue it, and we will continue to buy slave rugar cheap.”” Ame! eben Our Rio Janciro Correspondence, U.S. Suir Vanpanta, Rio JANBIRO, April 16, 1853. 5 Passage of the U.S. ship Vandalia—A Jack Tar and Japan—The Vandalia in a Gale—An Eng- lish Ship im Distress— Crossing the Line—List of the Officers of the Vandalia, §c., §¢. Here we are, Mr. Editor, snugly at anchor in the Bay of Rio, after a fair passage of forty days from the City of Brotherly Love. By the way, speaking of love, I have a love, or, as the immorta! Mr. Weller would call it, ‘‘ a wanity”— and this particular love or vanity is, that I may be able, through the columns of your paper, to gladden the hearts of some few of the million of your readers, by giving the earliest information of the whereabouts of ‘the tub” in which we brave the breeze. And now, Mr. Editor, allow me to introduce myself to you. My name is Tar—John Tar—vulgarly called Jack Tar—and am captain of the foretop of this ‘ere barky, which has put into this Dago port, to procure refreshments and a supply of fresh water, having obtained which, we shal! leave for “ parts unknown,” or the “known and unknown” parts of the mighty empire of Japan. Haying finished the introductory let me tell you and your readers, that after leaving the Capes of the Delaware, on Sunday, March 6th, we had a fair and ‘entle breeze, which soon wafted us away from our omes. At sunset there was naught in sight, but “The blue above and the biue below.” On Monday we had the Inck of the gentleman in black, who carries a forked tail for a walking stick, in the shape of a tremendous gale, which turned everything upside down and inside out, even to the inner man. Oh, my eyes, but it did blow, and our tub did wallow about tle worse than did King David's sow, mentioned in ancient history. For ten days we had a continuance of this delightful weather, but at Jast fair weather came, and gleams of sunshine cheered us on our trackless way. We then soon ran into the trades, and into weather as hot as —, like that in Castle Garden on fifty-ceat opera nights. How IJ longed for one of those Crotom ecolers, compounded by mine ancient pistol, Andrew Jackson Allen, of ‘ House for the Weary, Food for the Hungry” renown, at 37 Bowery. Bat | must not meraiize, | nist state facts not fancies, for that is what your readers require. On Saturday, the 20th day of March, we spoke the English ship Majestic, from the coust of Africa, She was in distress, so we mies her ‘grub. and sent letters to the United States by her, via Liverpool, where she was bound. On Sunday, 3d April, crossed the line, and the way, for a couple of days, that we caught * showers” was “some.” To wind up, here we are eafely moored, and in a week shall leave for Japan, where we shall anxiovely look for news from home through the columns of your wide spread journal. Ah, Mr. ., ‘on are some pumpkins of an editor, and | shall try keep you d of our movements, offensive and defensive, unless I should be ” and a ee ein The following is a lis of officers of ia ape de aia te J. W. A. Nicholson, and C. H. B. Caldwell Master, G. V. Denniston; Purser, J. K. ; J.T. Mason; Lieutenant of Marines, 9.Read; Surgeon, B. Viceland; Botanist, Dr. Morrow; Cap- tain’s Clerk, W. W. Whittlesey; Master’s Mates, Messrs. Sloan, Ashbury, Wheeler and Randal ; Gun- ner, Mr. Wilson; Carpenter, Mr. Batt; Sailmaker, Mr. Brayton; Boatswain, Mr. Bell; Purser's Clerk, Mr. Kennedy. Jack Tar. Very Interesting from Buenos Ayres. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Buenos Ayres, April 18, 1853. The Siege of Buenos Ayres and its Probable Con- seguences—The Inhabitants and the Hostilities— Tradeand Shipping—Military Exertions of the Authoritics—Financial Affairs—Genera! Rosas, and the Buenos Ayrean Press, §c., $c. ‘ My last left us in a state of siege, and expecting an attack to be made upon the city. I then stated that the besieging army—which is called the federal army—was under the immediate command of General Lagos, although I remarked that, in all probability, General Urquiza, the con- queror of Rosas, was the real chief of the besiegers, My remark has proved true, as we now have Gen. D. Justo Jose de Urquiza, in person, on the outskirts of this city, at the town called San Jose de Flores, in the camp of the besieging army—come, as his bulle- tin states, for the purpose of re-establishing order throughout the whole republic. In the early part of March, General Urquiza sent commissioners te this city for the purpose of arrang- ing a treaty of peace; they were met here by com- missioners on the part of this city, and in’ seven days arravgeda treaty of fourteen articles, which was thought would meet the views of both the con- tending parties, which agreement was sent by his commissioners for the inspection of General Urquiza, but was not approved of by bim. : 4 So we remain in statu fits only business is daily on the decrease, and on the 20th of March there was only one American vessel in port, (the Thorndike, Capt. Perkins.) Since then, however,we have the Margaret Eliza, from New York, which vessel made the passage to this city in forty-eight days. Ever since the commissioners met we have had a suspension of hostilities, thus giving allan opporta- | nity of promenading on the outskirts, without the fear of being made targets of. As, however, the treaty made by the commissioners has not been rati- fied, we may yet expect more warfare e’er we see an end of this siege. The authorities of this city have enrolled all foreigners who were willing to enlist under pay, giving them if they enlist for one year fifty silyer dollars, as bonus, and a sum besides, per month, | ever seen, and now have the severest drought I have que to eighteen Mexican dollars. ‘hose foreigners who have s0 enlisted are mostly Jtalians, amountin, in number (Italians and all) to perhaps four thousan men, many of them being of those who sustained the siege of Montevideo, which lasted seven days. ides these, the city government has been very strict in hunting up all young men capable of bear- ing arms, from fourteen upwards ; in fact, almost all the native population are under arms ; this party, in the city, are called Unitarians. As to the besiegers, or federal army 2s they call themselves, we have so many reports of their number, that I will not ven- ture to state it; they have, however, at present in their midst, the conqueror of Iosas, who is a man of much influence. What bis intentions may be—whcether to attack the city by force, or continue the siege—has not yet transpired from which we can determine. It is now autumn here; in a couple of months winter will be upon us, so if the besiegers intend car- rying on the siege, they will, doubtless, soon com- mence prepeate hi in this country is accompanied by much rain. The government here—by their Sala de represen assed a bill for the issue of cight million paper dollars, (of this currency,) monthly, for the expenses of defending the city ; and Spanish ounces are worth at present three hundred and forty dollars. in the mean time, according to all accounts, the besiegers have heen killing, and taking the hides from the cattle on the estanzias, belonging to the besieged. 5 One would think that the people here would grieve at the departure of Rosas, as they have known but little peace since his exit. But no, on the ta the following extract trom the Nacionc/, a daily paper, (one of the only two now published in this city.) fully shows that the people prefer any circum- stances which can possibly surround th to his tyrannies. The editor, after making some observa- quarters for winter, as that season | eepetent this the spell ers, with whom we have conversed, declare the lands, is small suffering are “among the things that were.” we found the crops in a fine condition, as: were enabled to Judge, cool and u! were never before 80 ‘at this season of e year. There is much eomplaint of the ravages of on the cotton; and the corn, even on our best and stunted other article of plantation growth io} of nee As for gardens, the; The Plaquemine .) Sentinel of the 4th — “On a late visit 1s Grete et and he Marangoni as we with a little too much however. On the Plaquemine they likewise to be in excellent order.” From Jacksonville, Florida, we learn that have been copious showers hout that ond that the crops Were yery Pp ing. The now to be seen there occasional cotton fectly white with the staple, this, it must be recollected, is no’ year’s planting, but from rattoons, Ad growth, which have not suffered uring the past winter, and which put breucnes early in the spring. The Yazoo (Mississippi) Democrat, of Ji Ist. says :—The weather during the entire spring has been very unseasonable in this section ot the until within the last three days. During last week fire was almost. indispensable morning and evenings, and not at all unpleasant in the middle of the day, The state ofthe weather has kept the crops, (particularly the: cotton) back, while the grass has continued to grow. With the exception of backwardness, we see no parti- cular cause of complaint with present prospects. While taking a short ride to the conntry a few days since, we noticed that the cotton stands looked small but promising. Since last Sunday the weather hag been very warm. The Memphis (Tenn.) Whig of June 2, says:— “Yesterday was the warmest day of the season. With a continuance of such seasonable weather and co- pious showers occasionally, we think the planting community may yet meet witha liberal reward for their labors, although we are free to confess we bave never before seen such indiffereut prospects in this section of the country. The first of June, and cotton not to exceed an average of over two inches in height! We hopeit may yet come out. The LaGrange (Texas) Monument of the 25th inst., says the brad are doing finely in Fayette county at present, the warm sunny weather acting yery favorably upon them. THE TOBACCO CROP. We learn from the Marlboro’ (Md.) Advocate, that a number of the largest eye in the Vansville dis- trict are planting their tobacco land in corn, in con- sequence of the unprecedented scarcity of plants. Horrinsvittx, (Ky.,) May 30.—We have had the most unfavorable season to handle tobacco J have ‘from the same causes. . f Ha Ff : ait aie f g Ss known at this season of the year. There is a scarcity of plants, and none of the planters have yet been able to plant any oftheir crop. BoYDSVILLE, Ky., (WESTERN DisTRicT,) JUNE 2. —There is the greatest cry for tobacco plants here | that I have ever heard, and up to this time there is yery little Eran on account of dry weather. Even «| if it should be seasonable from this time out, I do not think there will be over half a crop planted. There- fore I do not wish you to sell any more of my tebac- co until I otherwise direct. Cunistian County, Ky., May 26.—Onur prospect for the next crop, in this section of the country, at this time is anything but flattering. The fly has done much injury to the plants. We have had two frosts lately, doing some injury to plants and also corn, This morning it was quite cold, and we barely es- caped another. In this part of the country, since the plants were large enough for setting out, the weather has continued dry aswell as cold. We have had our hills prepared, but have not yet set out the first plant. North of Hopkinsville, and east of this, s | in the neighborhood of Oak Grove, they have had tantes, or a house of representatives—have now | tions on a letter said to be written by Rosas, thank- | ing Urquiza for returning to him his confiscated pro- perty, speaks of General Juan Manuel de Rosas, in the icllowing language :—- “The who has not respected law, human nor rents, who hes destroyed, who has darkened with mourning avd with, tears the country which gave lim birth—who has been inseusible to the lamenta- o bas spilled the blood of citizens in tor- . tions of a whole city, who has scorned the tears of | the widows or of the innocent children, whose hus- bands or futhere he had asressinated. * * * * “Oh, Divine Providence, do not always men of evil heart to pass in this world unchastised. o 8,.¢ And what punishment will divine ju tice designate to this grand criminal for having kill: ed an innocent child still in the womb of its mother —the unhappy Camilia O’Gorman—what chastise- ment can it give him for the greatest of his crimes, that of having bathed in blood, and having caused the entire nation to recede inthe path of civiliza- tion, and of having left us the fatal inheritauce of bate and of corruption against which we are now contending. No, the justice of God has not expia- tions for such atrocities upon this earth, and destines their punishment for the infernal regions.” This is a verbatim translation from the Nacional of Buenos Ayres, of March 31, of this year. TELEGRAPHIC. FOREIGN MINISTERS NOTITIED OF URQUIZA’S INTEN- TION TO BLOCKADE BUENOS AYRES, ETC. Boston, June 20, 1853, ‘The bark Argentine, from Montevideo May 1, arrived at Salem yesterday afternoon, bringing late advices from Buenos Ayres. Commander Coe, of Urquiza’s squadron, had notified the foreion ministers and commanders of vessels of war that he should blockade the port of Buenos Ayres imme- diately, allowing vessels in the inner roads six deys and in the outer roads twenty days, to fini loading ‘their cargoes. These conditions could pot be complied with, as at the last advices—April 29th— the Custom Houre was cloved and all business ruspeaded Ji was thought that the blockade would be recogaized ny the fcreign powers, in which case the eity would be in vested by saa and jand, and comyelled to surrender in a few months at the farthest. ‘The United Stotes ship Congress was at Montevideo May 1, to spébon the 20th for Kio, Whe Weather and the Crops. The crops in New Hampshire and Vermont give abundant promise of a large harvest of hay, corn, potatoes, and winter grain. The winter wheat om some farms near Lebanon has been headed out more than a week, pastures are forward; the prospects of those engaged in wool and stock growing, and the dairy business, was never more flattering. The farmers of this section, saya the Ontario (N. Y.) Repository, must be expecting a bountiful return for their labors of last year. Wheat and grass could not be well more promising at this season. Unless some very wnlooked for evil—per- haps we should write with a w—happens, these crops must be far beyond an average. Other crops appear very late, but still very fixe, ali the wet weather considered. Some of our town and country farmers com- menced mowing their grass last week, and the hay- making season will be at its height througheut the county, being more than a week earlier than usual. The growth of grass everywhere has been very luxuri- ant, and should the weather contiime for a week long- er, as it has been the past, an extraordinary crop of hay will be gathered. ‘The grain fields present a very promising appeurance. The Fel, bd of the fly, which at one time was suppoved to be very destruc: tive in this and other counties, proves to have done but trifling injury; and although we meet a farmer here and there, who complains of injury to his wheat from this cause, the crop Ly esl ina healthy state, and promises an abundant harvest, The rye crop never looked thriftier; 80 of oats and corn—Leiigh (Pa.) Register, June 15. We hear considerable complaint of the fly in the wheat, to an extent that threatens a great reduction of the crop. The fruit is generally though the apples fall eff badly. —Cincianali Ge settle, June 10. The accounts from Michigan concur in stating that the wheat crop of that Siate never was more laxuri- ant thon at this time, and that: it will be the largest which the Michigan farmers have ever sent to mar- ket. The weather, however, has not been so fayora- ble tor the spring crops. It ia reported that the fly has destroyed the major- ity of the wheat fields of Adams, Schagler aad Brown counties, [iinois, and is committing great havoc in Hancock county. The Griffin, Ga., Union of June 2, says:—For seve- ral weeks we have been suffering from the want of rain; but on Tuesday and Weduesday our section was visited with refreshing showers, and from every indi- cation, we will now have a good season. None of our crops are seriously al as yet, except the oats, which in most cases will prove almost a failare. Thew hoat now being harvested is permit | | stand seasons, and some have planted a large portion of their crores At present our plants are turning yel- low, and look badly. Without a season soon many will be overgrown, and the prospect of planting a full crop here rendered very uncertain. But with seasonable weather scon, the prospect will be greatly altered for the better. Remarkable Physical Phenomenon—A Sleep= ing Glant—a Rip Van Winkle. {from the Rochester Democrat.] Our attention was called, yesterday, to a most ex- traordinary phenomenon. A full grown man, six feet and two inches tall, thirty-seven years of age ; has slept for nearly five years, with only occasional and brief intervals of wakefulness. ie name of this man, subject to so remarkable a suspension of the ordinary faculties of the race, is Cornelius Broomer. He is the son of a farmer living in the town of Clarkson, in this county, in whose family ouly this single and cingular instance of prolonged somnolency has ever cecurred. The subject of no- tice first fell into this long sleep on the'19th of June, 1848, and since that time bas been awake at differ- ent perieds, from a few hours to four months at a thue. It is remarked that when he comes out of this catalepsy, he appears to have no knowledge of the lapse of time, or of circumstances taking place while he sleeps. The fit comes upon him instantly, with- out, so far as is known, any warning. Tis e iS clore, his jaws are set, his muscles contract, and whole form is rigid, so that, if standing, he con: tinues in that attitude, partly bent over, and itis not casy to pull him down. He has continued in this condition for months together, unable to speak or move. Various experiments have been tried to restore him to consciousness, without effect. A seton hag been inserted in the back of his neck without pro- ducing any apparent effect, and on one occasion cayenne pepper, moistened with spirits of turpentine, was put into his mouth, and no visible emotion was ceused by the caustic dose. Physicians have seen and wondered, theorized and experimented in vain. ‘The man sleeps on, lives, eats, retains perfect health, with a pulse at s0, and without variation. When wien, he may be placed upon his fect, and he will for days together, as he has been known to do for three days and nights in succession. In order to feed him, it is necessary to ss n_ his fi set, jaws, and in that manuer but little tood is introduced into his stomach. He is not, however, much ema- ciated, keeps his natural color, and eye aay without disease, excepting that which produces strange sleep. When he uwakes, he comes out of his trance suddenly, his rigid muscles relax at onoe, he | asks for meat or drink, and falls to voraciously. If asked why he sleeps so much, he appears to re; itas an imposition, just as any active man would re- ceive an intimation that he was considered sluggish. The last time he was awake was about five or six weeks since. He was left nearly alone at home; and on coming out of sleep he got up and went to the loke shore where his brothers were; going into a grocery he catled for liqnor, and asked the com- pany to drink with him. On such occasions he is not violent or angry, appears strong, and in the full possession of his mental faculties. A slight indica- tion that he is not entirely unaware of what is tran- spiring about him was given recently, by his asking his father if he intended to allow him to be taken to New York. Several parties had been endeavoring to get permission to exhibit him, and he appears to have become aware of it by some means—perhape by bearing conversation about him. This was the only instance of the kind, we believe. The fact that his eyelids are in a constant tremor, favors the idea of his eemi-consciousncss. This man is now in charge of Dr. Gardner Davis, of Brockport, who intends to exhibit him to the pub- Ie, so that a thing so wonderful may be seen by all the world. A brother of the remarkable somnambu- \. list accompanies him—a healthy, strong man, six | feet and twoinches in height. Many of our phy- sicians have visited the man at the place where he is lodged, Mr. Damarest’s Commercial Hotel, Front street. Jflorts have been made to waken him re- cently, so that the faculty, who are ale interested mn the matter, may see him in his wakeful mood. It sa little singular liat whiskey will have the desired effect, if it is possible to get enough down his throat. ¢ But he resists the introduction of the liquor, and it is very diflicult to get it down in any quantity. KE} UCKY RACES, OaKLAND Course, June 7.—Parse $50, mile heatsa—en trance $10, added. R.F. Field's b. e. Jim Barton, by Gray Eagle, dam by Ann Jones, by Kelipse... 1. Jobn Harper’s ch. f Jevoy Lind, Cavion, dam by Felipe... 1). Price’s gw. Faony Brav yearn” oli, 8 . f. Fly ng Moonlight 5ds, me 1.51 if Srconp Rack.— Louisville Hotel stake, for four years. old; two mile heats; $200 entrance. Jobn M. Clay’s b. c. Star Mavis, oy imp. Gloncve, dam by Margaret Wood, by Priam.... « DL Morphy & Oo.’s b. f. Belle Lawia, by imp, Gleno dam by Trambiana...... eee cess eee + 32 John Parnes’ ch f. fda, by top. Glencoe, out of the dam of Mary Desens see ee ee 2Qda. ‘Time, 2:50~3:52, ONTO RACES. A running race, three mile heats, under the saddie, came off yexterday, over the Queen City Course, for a uree of . Mary D, Compromise, and Dieda, well nown Paga, were entored for the run, Dieda was the wiprer of the race, of which the following is a sum- 8121 122 ss 2 Bar. 6 5555 Tworupning races ei advertied for to-dey,—Cincin epeallent, and } ati Commercial, Junet ”