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no ray of hope to brighten his or her path—or gone to that land "where the servant is freed from his master," "where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest," and "where the voice of the oppressor is not heard?" If it be as I am told that for every pound of Sea Island Cotton imported annually into Liverpool there is, at least, one hundred pounds of New Orleans cotton, of how many victimized slaves is the universally used New Orleans cotton the sole remains!—It is fearful to think of it! The average price of this cotton is from 5½d to 9d. Messrs. Brook do not use large quantities of Orleans cotton, it not being sufficiently fine for their use. I hope and believe that you and I may be spared to see the day when cotton will be grown, both in India and in Africa, equal in quality to this cotton, and sufficient in quantity to compete with it, and if need be, supply its place in the Liverpool market. I am rejoiced to learn of the various companies forming to aid in the growth of cotton in Asia and Africa; and greatly do I regret that severe influenza prevents me now from accepting the kind proposal of one of my friends here, to take me with him to Manchester, and introduce me to Mr. Thomas Clegg, of whom I have heard so much, and with whom, if I mistake not, you have had some correspondence. I wish to learn his views from himself. I have been favored with the sight of a correspondence between Dr. Delany & Co., and Mr. Clegg. I have carefully read that able article in the last Edinburgh Journal, (July—October,) "The Slave Trade—1858."