French Colonial Slavery

The followiiig stdliïtics may give.soine of our readers u cleaföo idc.-i of the mportnnco of the present SftJh to abulish sl.ivciy !i t'.e Frencii colonias. Tirblow whicli strikêd the ehains ÍVotn noarly fivö hundced thousand slaves of France, will mako our slave syslem toltsr. Qod spoed the philaotbropists of Franco o tbeir iabbr of justice n-d ove. - Freeman. "The colorjies f Praoce eomprisé t lio stands of Mur!r.q:jo, Gjad.Uoupe, and some sriTili -'t .A unís in ilio Aiilüles ; French G.iiaiKi 11 South America ; SiM:egal and the is'and nF Goree in África ; Bourbon nnd Si. Marie in the K;i-!e.n, ocean ; a few po-sessions in H indosbin and Algeria. Exclusive öf Algiers, their nggrt'gata popul.iiion in 1838 was 562,570, i)f which 259,955 in the West Indi. fin nJld Afrif.an colonies, and 165,241 in ihe K-ist Lidies, wero slavcs. The :ilso many slaves in Algeria. What tlio aniount of i!;e slnve populaiion may 1)8 now, we do not l;now, bu!, judging [rom the diminution lliol tooli ilace from 1831 to 18:58, it hr.s fallen oft'. Stil!, the aggregate number of. slavcs now hrld under tlio taws of Frnnce must b; b2twcen four ind iivo hundred thousand.'