East African Slavery, 
tract " be maintained. The cost of keeping up our 
cruising squadron in the Indian Ocean, we believe, 
amounts to from ^70,000 to ^^"100,000 per annum ; so 
that the total annual expense to which England is 
cheerfully submitting in order to destroy East African 
slavery, rises to something like ^134,000 per year ! 
How long this is to last cannot be told ; but if it 
should not end before East African slavery is de- 
stroyed, we fear it w411 continue a very long time. 
We have a deep appreciation for the spirit our 
noble country has displayed in the action she has 
taken against slavery ; at the same time we cannot 
close our eyes to the fact that slavery still exists on 
the coast of Africa, We cannot but regret, after all 
that has been done, that the least fragment of the 
system should remain. England deserves to have 
succeeded better; slavery ought to have been entirely 
abolished ; and, but for an over-cautious policy and 
a long-winded diplomacy, we cannot help thinking 
that this might have been done. 
The effect of the present measures will be to check 
the traffic for a time, and some of its more palpable 
horrors (the market, etc.) will disappear ; but we 
greatly fear it will break out again ere long. Slaves 
will still be brought down from all parts of the 
interior to the coast ; and, forbidden a passage by sea, 
they will be taken from town to town overland. Ex- 
portation from the coast prohibited, they will in time 
become so numerous that their prices will be much 
lower ; and many a man, who has now to work for 
his own living, will become a slave proprietor, and 
will live upon the toil of his slaves. Moreover, it 
should be observed, that while slaves will depreciate 
