26 AUGUST 1837, Page 2

The Legislature of Brazil was engaged on the 30th of

June last, at Rio Janeiro, in the consideration of measures for the more effectual suppression of the slave-trade. The Marquis BARBA- CZNA, himself a very large slave-owner, and formerly engaged in the slave-trade on the coast of Africa, proposed the laws in ques- tion. We dare say that they will be passed, and an attempt made to enforce them; for, could the slave-trade be stopped, the value of slave property would be prodigiously augmented. For this reason, the North American planters bad no objection to abolish the slave-trade, while they are outrageous at the mention of rutting an end to slavery. Pass what laws they please, however, in Brazil, they cannot abolish the traffic, with the present demand for slaves in that country.