After all the national agitation concerning the Fugitive-Slave Circular, it
would not appear that the real wishes of the nation are likely to be carried out. The Times' correspondent at Jeddah reports on Wednesday the escape of a Nubian slave from Jeddah to H.M.'s ship ' Fawn.' He had been bought, he said, a short time ago by his present master, and in consequence of the hardness of his work he had refused to obey, and had run away. H.M.'s ship Fawn,' however, had no room for a fugitive slave, and apparently would not make room. So the slave was handed over to the Consul, . who, in his turn, according to the " belief " of the correspondent, handed him over to the Turkish Government, who gave him back to his master,—so that in point of fact we English were the instru- ments of remitting him to slavery again. That is a course quite in opposition to that which it was supposed had been secured under the Fugitive Slave Circular No. 3. No doubt the evidence of the exceeding reluctance of the authorities at home to interfere with domestic slavery had impressed the mind both of the commander of the Fawn' and of the British Consul at Jeddah. They held, probably, that men convinced against their will, are of the same opinion still.
