25 OCTOBER 1851, Page 2

The exploits of our Anti-Slavery cruisers in the waters of

Bra- zil have induced the Ministers of that empire to contemplate a measure which if it do not arrest Lord Palmerston, may be pro- ductive of the gravest consequences. They have propose(' to the Senate, in the event of the British attacks upon their shipping in the ports and seas of Brazil, to place their coasting- trade under the protection of a foreign flag. There can be no doubt that the -United States is the nation whose protection they would invoke, and but little that their request would be granted.