9 AUGUST 1856, Page 8

It has been recently stated in a New York journal,

that people in the city are largely engaged in the slave-trade between Africa and Cuba. A vessel is selected, not too valuable ; a crew is got together by false pretences, and some peculiar preparations are secretly made; when the ship is at sea it is found that she is bound for the African coast to buy Negroes ; the crew are bribed to proceed by exorbitant wages. A cargo of slaves having been obtained in Africa, the vessel hastens to Cuba ; if fortunate, the surviving Negroes are landed, the ship is burnt, and the New York crew have a passage home provided. In consequence of the enormous profit on one successful venture,. the slave-dealer can afford to burn his ship, to bribe his crew, and to fad three times out of four in getting the slaves to. Cuba. These assertions are supported by a story which has just come to light at New York. Basilio de Cunha Reis a Portuguese merchant, has been put on his trial as owner of the Altivie slaver. Andrew Wilson, a sailor who had involuntarily served in the Altivie, was the chief witness against him. Wilson escaped in Africa from a slaver in which he had unwittingly sailed from New York ; after stopping for. some time in a slave barracoon, he was shipped in the Altivie—prudence compelled him to acquiesce. This ship, belonging to Reis, took slaves to Cuba ; she lost one hundred of her four hundred on the passage ; when the Negroes had been landed the Altivie was burnt, and the crew were forwarded to New York.

Wilson bays that a prime Negro coat in Africa 60 dollars ; while he sold in Cuba for 800 dollars. Reis was convicted of alavetrading, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.

A very elegant full-dress close carriage has been constructed for the Sultan by Messrs. Laurie and Hamer of Oxford Street. Under the will of the late Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the personalty has been sworn under 140,0001.

The Emperor of Russia has directed that the ministers of all religions in his empire—non-Christian as well as Christian—shall be represented at his coronation : he is the " father " of all his people.

Jews have been declared eligible for public situations in the Russian empire.