Mr. July 24, 1845. Dear Sir,-Your letter was duly received by Dr. ********. Enclosed, you will receive on the part of the association, ten dollars, for the conveyance of yourself and boy. I would beg leave to urge upon you the necessity of being here at least by Saturday next, as an arrangement is made for Monday next, to hunt a gang of runaways, who are in the immediate neighbourhood of my plantation. With the assistance of this party, I could promise you almost certain success if you bring along with you competent dogs. Respectfully yours, Secretary and Treasurer of the Association. Home Intelligence. Besides these, Emigration Agents in India have taken up the following vessels for the same purpose, viz :-Jamaica, two vessels; B. Guiana, four ; Trinidad, two. The lading of all these vessels is not given. Five had BELFAST:-At a large and highly respectable meeting of the friends and supporters of the Anti-slavery Association of Belfast, held in Rose-been loaded and despatched, containing 1,005 men, 193 women, 137 boys mary-street Church, on Friday, the 12th of December, John Clarke, Esq. in the chair, the following resolutions were adopted :Moved by the Rev. James Hodgens, and seconded by the Rev. Mr. Wright, of the Associate Reformed Church of America 1 "That Christians, of every denomination, are in duty bound solemnly to protest against the existence of slavery, as repugnant to the Word of God, contained in the Old and New Testaments." Moved by the Rev. Isaac Nelson, and seconded by the Rev. J. Boyd2. "That we trust the various Churches of Great Britain and Ireland will inform those of their own persuasion in the United States of America, who retain slave-holders in their communion, that, if they continue to tolerate such iniquity, they are unworthy of being enrolled among the followers of Christ, as they act so contrary to the spirit of his gospel." THE SLAVEHOLDERS' MONEY AND THE FREE CHURCH.-A public meeting of the members and friends of the Glasgow Emancipation Society was held in the City Hall, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of passing a memorial to the General Assembly of the Free Church, imploring them to renounce Christian fellowship with American slaveholders, and to send back the money. The meeting was a very large and influential one; and, on the motion of Mr. Watson, Councillor Turner was called to the chair. The meeting was addressed by Messrs Henry C. Wright, Frederick Douglass, James N. Buffum, and George Thompson, in long and eloquent speeches, which were listened to with the most profound attention; and resolutions were adopted by acclamation in favour of the object of the meeting. A Mr. James Pinkerton and another individual defended the conduct of the Free Church, but the feeling of the meeting was entirely against them.-Glasgow Argus. ANNEXATION OF TEXAS.-In reply to a communication from the Secretary of the Customs Department on the subject, the commissioners have received a letter from Mr. Cadwell, one of the secretaries of the Lords' Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, stating that he has been commanded by their lordships to acquaint them that a communication has been received by their lordships from the Foreign Office, stating that the Earl of Aberdeen is of opinion that Texas must henceforward be considered as forming part of the American Union. Notice of this communication has been forwarded to the principal officers of the revenue at the several ports and places throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for their information and future government in the matter.-Times, April 28. SUGAR DUTIES.-Yesterday copies of two orders in council, dated the 8th August, and the 6th of April, (presented pursuant to act of Parliament,) respecting sugar duties, were issued. The first order has reference to sugars of Siam, and it is declared, that from the 1st of July next, the sugars of Siam shall be deemed and taken not to be the produce of slave labour. The second order states, that from the first of May next, brown Muscovado or clayed sugars, (not being refined) the growth of the dominions of the republic of New Granada shall, if imported from the dominions or from any British possessions abroad, having been imported nto such British possession from the said dominions, be admitted to entry for consumption into the United Kingdom, at the respective rates of duty of £1 8s., and £1 3s. 4d. per cwt., subject to the production of certificates and declarations as required with respect to sugars, the growth of China, Java, or Manilla.-Times, April 28. THE NEW NIGER EXPEDITION.-About two years since, Captain Becroft and Dr. King left Liverpool in the steamer Ethiope, on another experimental trial to open commerce with central Africa. Letters have been received from those gentlemen by a Dutch ship, which arrived in the Channel, dated Fernando Po, Nov. 9, announcing their return to that island from the Niger six days previously. The vessel had been upon that river for a period of three months and a half. Unhappily, in consequence of deaths, feuds, and wars among the chiefs, the aspect of matters in the interior had been found materially altered, and Rabbah, the largest and most flourishing town on the river in 1840, is now deserted and girls, and 93 infants, in all, 1,928 persons. We presume the total number of Coolies who will be taken to the above colonies during the present season will be about 12,000. We need scarcely point out the fact that the number of women bear but a slight proportion to the men, and that the number of children bear no adequate proportion to the women, another and decisive proof of the truly objectionable character of this emigration, if it deserve the term. JAMAICA.-Immigrants:—A correspondent at Lucea, writing to us on the 23rd of February, says "The barque Mandarin, commanded by Captain John Cleland, arrived here yesterday, with 276 immigrants. Of this number 237 are Hill-Coolies, and 39 are Africans, the latter having been taken by British cruizers out of slave-ships, and shipped on board the "Mandarin," by order of the governor of St. Helena. Captain Cleland reports that he made the passage from Calcutta to this place in one hundred and five days, and that the Hydrabad was to have left in a fortnight after he did, with another lot of Coolies for Savana-la-mar. A third vessel would sail in a month after, for some port on the north side, probably Falmouth." Our correspondent adds that the immigrants who have arrived at Lucea, are a fine looking set of people, and express themselves much pleased with the care and attention they received from Captain Cleland.-Falmouth Post, March 3rd. COOLIES:-The Kingston papers of last week contained statements to the effect that great discontent prevailed amongst the Coolies, and that several, in a state of nudity, had been to Spanish Town to complain to the agentgeneral of ill-treatment, but owing to that gentleman's illness and absence from town, their object could not be secured, On Thursday last they returned in greater numbers, and wandered about the town in a state of nakedness and misery. The police, we are informed, were compelled, for the sake of decency, to take them in charge. We are told that clothing was distributed amongst them, and that the The cause of their discontent people willingly supplied them with food we have not learned, but report says, it arose from the ill-treatment they received from their Sirdars. What the end of Coolie immigration will be is pretty evident. Many lives will be sacrificed, much bad feeling engendered, large sums of money wasted, and then the scheme pronounced a failure.-Baptist Herald. The Editor of the Falmouth Post states that a party of Coolies had come to the town in a state of the greatest destitution and misery. He describes them as mere walking skeletons infected with disease, and indulges in severe strictures on the inhumanity of bringing them from their own country to die a wretched death in Jamaica. CULTIVATION OF COTTON :-We are glad to learn that it is in contemplation to establish a Joint Stock Company for the cultivation of cotton, upon a very extensive scale in this island. We have so often expressed our opinions upon the probable success of such a project that we need hardly now repeat them. Cotton has been proved to grow most luxuriously along the low sandy lands which skirt the sea coast of the south side of the island, and a most favourable situation for its extensive cultivation is afforded by a large tract of land in the immediate neighbourhood of Spanish Town, called Hartland, which has been offered to a company by the proprietor upon most advantageous terms. The Railroad now in course of formation between Spanish Town, and Old Harbour, will run through the property, and will thus not only afford a ready and expeditious means of transport for the produce of the estate, but will also supply the labour necessary for carrying on the work, much of which being of a nature to be performed by women and children, would be found abundantly in the towns. It has been calculated that the cost of purchasing (on the terms offered by Mr. Hart,) and settling Hartland, and the full charges attending the gathering in the first year's crop, would not exceed the trifling sum of £15,000, including the machinery necessary for ginning the produce of 1,000 acres, and exclusive of the value of the logwood which now covers the land in question. legislature. Before the next packet shall have left our shores, we hope to be able to show to the world that Trinidad is of one mind on this allimportant subject. We trust that the members of the Imperial Par The produce of 1,000 acres of cotton of fine quality would yield a return upon this capital very far beyond any agricultural production that we are aware of. As we have reason to believe that a prospectus will soon be laid before the public, we will not here anticipate the views of the Com-liament will afford us their powerful protection and support. We shall pany, but we may observe that the state of the relations between Great Britain and the United States, renders the present a most favourable moment for laying such a scheme before the public, and we can have no doubt that such a project would be greedily seized on by English capitalists, who are already directing their attention to similar projects in the East Indies. CLARENDON :-At the Agricultural Society the prize of a richly chased silver salver was presented to E. Ewbank, Esq., for having made the largest quantity of sugar from the smallest field of canes in cultivation. The quantity made from Danks' estate was 178 hogsheads from 82 acres of canes, or at the rate of 42 cwt. 12 lbs. to the acre.-Baptist Herald. BRITISH GUIANA.-The following extracts from the Governor's speech, addressed to the combined court of the colony, on the 16th March last, will be found to give information on the state of the crops, and the conduct of the labourers : "The past year closed with a small increase of crop, as compared with the preceding year; with an increase of population by immigration of 3,647 persons; with a decrease in the number of arrests by the police of, at least, 15 per cent., as compared with the year 1844, and with a balance in the Treasury, after payment of all claims rendered to the 31st December, 1845, of $262,025, 95. "It cannot but be satisfactory to you, since it is creditable to the character of our population, now estimated at 120,000, to know that of the 109 prisoners at the close of the last year, at the penal settlement, 49 only are convicts by the supreme court; that 52 of the 109 are not natives of British Guiana, and so little is crime on the increase among the native youth of the colony, that but three persons of that class between the ages of fourteen and twenty years, are at the penal settlement by sentence of the Supreme Court." TAXATION:-"It is not anticipated that the large balance in the colony chest, ($262,000,) will induce the combined Court to reduce the present rate of taxation upon imports. * * * * The taxes certainly are enormous; the civil list and colonial establishment generally, preposterous for a colony of 120,000 souls; but for these, the colonial faith is pledged for, at least, six years to come.-Guiana Times, March 19th. INCREASE OF POPULATION.-As far as British Guiana is concerned, we believe our free population is rapidly and satisfactorily on the increase. All un-official and private accounts agree in leading one to that conclusion. But, unfortunately, we have no authentic official records to verify the fact.-R. Gazette, March 10th. MADEIRANS,—We understand that, of the 232 Portugese who arrived yesterday by the brig Claudine, a considerable number have already gone to the east coast. A numerous gang is stated to have been formed for plantation Spring Hall, the property of R. JONES, Esq.-The same party, a Portugese shopkeeper, settled in this colony, who procured the immigrants by the Standard, that came in last week from Madeira, also obtained the present batch. Never were the poorer classes of Madeirans more eager to come to Terra Nuova, as they term this province, than at the present time. One cause of this eagerness for emigration is the difficulty they experience in obtaining a livelihood in their island: but another strong motive is their desire of getting the start of the Coolies, of whom, and of their endurance and thrift, they have heard much.-R. Gazette, Feb. 21st. BERBICE. The barque Margaret, from Sierra Leone, with 180 Africans on board, anchored in our river, on Thursday evening last. The emigrants have een distributed on the estates of those public spirited and enterprising gentlemen who chartered the Margaret. We regret to learn that the charterers will be losers to a very great amount, as the bounty money will not amount to more than about one-third the cost of the introduction of these emigrants.-Berbice Gazette, March 2nd. The introduction of these Africans is said to have cost the importers, £1,000. They will be allowed a bounty of thirty-five dollars per head; so that it must have proved a losing concern to "those public-spirited and enterprising gentlemen who chartered the Margaret." TRINIDAD.-Coolies. We have had two arrivals of Coolies. On the 11th ultimo, the Duchess of Argyle arrived, bringing 212 men, 55 women, and 23 children. On the 24th, the Bangalore, arrived with 248 men, and 47 women. POPULAR REPRESENTATION.-The last packet brought out the refusal of the Secretary of State to accede to the request of the 1500 memorialists who petitioned Her Majesty for a House of Representatives. We have much pleasure in stating that so far from this repressing the reform spirit of Trinidad, it has had the effect of rousing it to vigor and unanimity. Preliminary meetings are being held for the purpose of reiterating the the appeal to the Sovereign and the two houses of Parliament. Reformers are laying aside their peculiar views, and uniting in agitating for the grand principle of POPULAR REPRESENTATION in the local appeal to them, especially those of them whose names are identified with the advancement of constitutional rights, with every confidence. They will, we are sure, espouse our cause as one fully deserving of their hearty advocacy, and, having that powerful support, we shall have no apprehen. sions for the success of our appeal.-T. Standard, March 7th. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-Labour at the Cape.The first batch of emigrants destined to provide in the want of labourers in this colony, and for which laudable object the legislative council voted a sum of £10,000 from the colonial revenue, arrived in Table Bay, on Tuesday last, in the ship Susan, having sailed from Plymouth on the 23rd November last. The number of emigrants on board amounts to 168 men and women, 70 children, and four infants; the first consisting of field labourers, domestic servants, shepherds, carpenters, masons, sawyers, &c., who, with the advice of their official adviser, the collector of customs, will enter into the service of such applicants as shall, in his opinion, have made the most advantageous offers, in pursuance of his invitation to that effect. It is said that these emigrants have been selected from a proper class of labourers, and recommend themselves by their good appearance; but however this may be, we desire to direct the attention of all those having any interference in the matter, to the necessity of impressing on their minds that they will not be relieved here from the salutary check, in case they leave the service of those into whose service they may now enter, of being provided with a certificate of good conduct, as an indispensible requisite to be again employed by others. The introduction of this desirable system will be the best means for securing a proper fulfilment of their duties on the part of these people, it will constantly secure them the best and most advantageous employment, and prevent their being carried away by the bad example of a large number of our coloured servants, whose vicious habits are a constant source of vexation, incon venience, and loss. The colonists now have it in their power to put a stop to it for the future, in at least as far as these emigrants are concerned; and it will, therefore, be their own fault if, by disregarding this South African, Jan. 29th. well meaning advice, they are, in future, also annoyed by these people.— Foreign Intelligence. NEW YORK. The American Negroes.-An important Convention is about to assemble to re-model the constitution of the State of the New the fast growing emergencies of this large child of the confederacy. Most York. Formed in the infancy of the State, it has been found insufficient for of the proposed changes are seized upon, of course, and used for political ammunition by the opposing parties. The point most hotly argued at this moment in the party papers, is a proposition to give negroes the white man's vote of suffrage. On the face of the discussion it looks like lies in the reason why the Whigs (Conservatives) advocate it, and the a mere question of policy and philanthropy; but the real point of issue democrats oppose it, viz., that the negro character is so invincibly aristocratic in its tastes, that they are sure to vote with the more respectable of Conservative party. It is estimated that, as the negro votes will number from fifteen to twenty thousand-as this is about the number of the Irish, who are as invincibly democratic, and have long been a favourable casting weight on the democratic side-the Whigs rejoice, in the prospect of black suffrage as a restitution of the "balance of power."-Morning Chronicle. UNITED STATES :-Appointments by the President :-(By and with the consent and advice of the Senate.) Andrew J. Donelson, of Tennessee, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States at the court of his majesty, the King of Prussia, in the place of Henry Wheaton, who has asked to be recalled,-Union. When Mr. Polk came into power there were four ministers plenipotentiary of this government from the free states, viz. :-Edward Everett, at London, Washington Irving, at Madrid, Wilson Shannon, at Mexico, and Henry Wheaton, at Berlin. Now, we have seven ministers abroad, every one of them from the slave states, and doubtless slaveholders ! They are→ Louis M'Lane, of Maryland, at London. C. S. Todd, Kentucky, at St. Petersburg. Romulous M. Saunders, North Carolina, at Madrid. Besides this, the minister resident at Constantinople is a slave heldr and nearly all the consuls who have the more important posts, area slavholders.—Emancipator. New Hampshire Great VictorY.-Probably, there never has been a state election in this country which has been regarded with such deep interest and intense anxiety, in all parts of the country, and by all classes of society, as the election in New Hampshire last week; and the result far surpasses the most sanguine expectations of the friends of freedom and reform. The northern Gibraltar of slavery has been triumphantly scaled and conquered,—henceforth, we trust, to be used for the subversion, and not as hitherto for the protection, of the slave system. The issue was fairly and openly made between liberty and slavery. The power and patronage of the national and state governments were brought to bear with tremendous energy in aid of pro-slavery democracy, and the most desperate exertions were put forth by the unprincipled demagogues who have so long ruled the granite state with more than imperial sway. But the right side is victorious, and New Hampshire is redeemed. The intelligence will cause the demon of slavery to send up a howl of despair. The majority against Williams, the slavery and Texas candidate, is not far from 1500. lieving, with another renowned warrior, that "discretion was the better part of valour," he very wisely ran out by the Puerta del Socorro-the back door, in fact, of the citadel; and, after some difficulty in escaping from the vengeance of the men he had seduced, succeeded in reaching the French territory. He took no part in the perilous portion of the pronouncement of 1843. All was decided when he appeared on the scene. Such are the distinguished services of the Count of Lucena in “days of difficulty." His services in Cuba, and the sanguinary punishments inflicted on the slaves, are too well known to be easily forgotten. For such service, however, he would appear to be admirably adapted.—Chronicle, April 13. GALLICIA. The Universal German Gazette, of the 8th ult., publishes the following intelligence from Gallicia to the 31st March: “ The peasants still continue to pillage. They are mostly commanded by disbanded soldiers. In the circle of Tarnow Izela, and not Sala, commands 12,000 peasants well armed. He is persuaded that he is chosen by Provi dence to be the executor of the Imperial will. He has carried his All but eleven small towns have been heard from. The senate, when audacity so far as to send a deputation to wait on the Emperor at Vienna. filled, will be anti-democratic-nine to three. In the circle of Bochina, a peasant named Khryga commands the insurThe house, thus far, stands thus-Whigs 115-Independents 28- gents, another named Janocha in Sandecz, and in Przemyse and Sambo a Democrats 109. man named Boschola. The Emperor's letter, thanking the peasants, was The Independent Democrat, the organ of John P. Hale, announces the result as follows: The majority against Woodbury, the congressional opponent of John received with contempt by the armed hordes. When one of the Imperial P. Hale, in 210 towns, is nearly 2800! Commissioners represented to the peasants, who now consider themselves to be the owners of the property of the late nobility, to consider that there exist widows and orphans to whom the property belongs,' they replied, We have flayed the great dogs, and we shall soon get rid of the little.' Each of the Imperial Commissioners is accompanied by six soldiers, notwithstanding which protection two of them have been already murdered by the peasants. In the circle of Tarnow, one of the most populous districts in Gallicia, there remain but nineteen of all the proprietors and their families." "It is with mingled feelings of joy and gratitude that we are able to announce the defeat of the slavery ticket. The people have spoken in a voice that must have a fearful meaning to the men who have undertaken to chain New Hampshire to the car of oppression. Williams and Woodbury are defeated. The friends of independent democracy hold the balance in the legislature. The question of liberty and slavery, which the central committee forced upon the people, has been decided, nobly decided for liberty and right. In the hurry and bustle of the election just past, we have not been able to ascertain the exact character of all the men elected to the house. Enough however is ascertained to make it certain, that the slavish and radical test questions which have cursed the state for the last few years, have received their final sentence of con. demnation at the hands of an indignant people. Enough is ascertained to show that the free-men of New Hampshire will never bow down and worship slavery." And again :-"We think the result indicates that the democratic freemen of New Hampshire are opposed to the proscriptive and tyranical clique who have for a few years assumed to rule, and in ruling have ruined the democratic party. We think it indicates that New Hampshire will not bow down to slavery. It indicates that no central committee, or 'traveller in search of public sentiment,' can bring to the block an honest and faithful representative, for being true to liberty and the people. It indicates that better men and better counsels shall hereafter rule New Hampshire."-Liberator. TEXAS.-The first legislature of the state of Texas commenced at Austin, Feb. 16. The inauguration of Governor Henderson took place on the 19th. He received from the people 8910 votes, and Dr. Miller 1672— total 10,582 votes, and Texas has two representatives! Gen. Burleson is president of the senate. Gen. Houston and Mr. Rusk are chosen senators of the United States. Of Gen. Houston, the N. Y. Tribune says:-"We utter no libel when we say that, in his habits, his principles and his character, he is the fittest representative of that state that could possibly be found, and the most thorough embodiment extant of the ciples exemplified in every period of Texan history, from the beginning to the present time." The total population of Texas, white and black, is estimated at 75,000. The National, of the 15th ult., states, that its intelligence from Gallicia describes the insurrection as becoming daily more formidable. "Our correspondent," it says, "informs us that the Russian troops are reduced to complete inaction, the soldiers confining themselves to protect the security of the roads, and the insurgents being now masters of the country. A person from Vienna, connected with the government, writes that there are at least 20,000 armed individuals who refuse obedience to the orders of the civil and military authorities of the province. Their organization, plans, and modes of manoeuvring had caused the greatest surprise to the commander of the troops, and they had inferred from these circumstances that the insurgents had able chiefs at their head. To those particulars our correspondent adds:- I have been assured that the rural population of Ukraine, having been apprised of the events in Gallicia, had become agitated, not to murder its landlords, but to demand the abo lition of forced labour, and quit and crown rents, and the possession of a portion of the soil. Austria, not knowing the cause of the present agitation, imagined that it was rancorously excited by a great power; but experience will prove to her that it has deeply-rooted natural causes, the irresistible action of which exercises its influence over upwards of 20,000,000 serfs' " - BOURBON. By the Julie brig, Captain Duliot, which arrived on Tuesday at Havre from the Isle of Bourbon, intelligence has been received from that colony to December 25. It appears that, on the 23rd, some disturbances had taken place in the island. The blacks having assembled in the St. André district, and committed some ravages in the rural proprin-perties, it was found necessary to call out the gendarmerie, and 60 negroes were taken to prison. The next day the colony was on the alert, the military received cartridges, and the posts were all doubled. The fears of a rising caused the governor to forbid the celebration of the midnight mass for Christmas-day. Captain Duliot sailed the next morning.-Morning TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 26.-A new hatti-sheriff has lately been issued by the Porte, and within the last few days made public. The necessity there at present exists here of issuing such injunctions as I shall now transcribe will show how habitual and universal extortion and venality in the Turkish provinces have hitherto been, on the part of the officers and agents of the Porte. SPAIN. The papers state that General O'Donnell, (we may now, I pre-Chronicle, April 9th. sume, say) "late" Captain-General of Cuba, has been created Count of Lucena, in reward for the eminent services performed by him in favour of the queen and the country in "days of much difficulty." It may not be uninteresting to know the nature of the services rendered by this individual. Of course they were those he rendered to the Queen-Mother. In 1841 O'Donnell petitioned the government of Espartero (to whom, by the way, he owes nearly all he has) to be permitted to reside at Bilboa en cuartel. There was some objection made to his presence there, and he was allowed The following are the most remarkable clauses of the new hatti-sheriff: to go to Pampeluna, on his giving his word of honour that he would not-1. No one shall be subject to CORVÉES (or forced labour), but every engage in any conspiracy. O'Donnell pledged his word. All he wished was to live in quiet and tranquillity with his family. Espartero, unsuspicious and honourable himself, believed that the person he had protected and promoted, even beyond his merits, was swayed by the same feeling, trusted to his word, and the permission was granted accordingly. If Espartero had remembered the history of the O'Donnell's of 1820, he would have acted more cautiously. The manner in which the new Count of Lucena fulfilled his promise was by organizing a conspiracy; seducing the troops to rebellion; stealing by night into the citadel of Pampeluna, and, with a cowardly ferocity, bombarding a city which was almost defenceless! The attempt failed. When he heard of the terrible name of Zurbano, who was advancing on Vittoria and Ayerbe, or Pampeluna, be one shall receive wages for his work. 2. Governors, judges, officers, and other functionaries shall be obliged to purchase whatever they may need at the regular market price. 3. The agents of the government when sent into any town, bourg, or village to collect taxes, or for any other purpose, must, like any other travellers, eat and drink at their own expense; they are not allowed even to accept of an egg without paying for it. 4. Governors must receive no presents under any pretexts whatsoever, neither for procuring places for applicants, nor from any other consideration. 5. Every subject of the empire, after he has paid his taxes, shall be exempt from every other exaction from the governors or their agents. 6. The metropolitans and primates of the Christian Churches are charged not to molest their people, not to subject them to forced labour, and to treat them with gentleness and justice. 7. The members of the judicial councils of the provinces will be careful to examine the matters brought before them with the most scrupulous integrity to hold the balance of justice steadily between all parties. slaver is concluded, Mr. Graham, for the defence, declining to examine any witnesses. The captain was committed in default of $4000 bail, and the mate of $2500.-Liberator. LICENTIOUSNESS OF SLAVERY.-The following is a literal copy of an advertisement which was taken down from one of the pillars of the capital of one of the slave states. No one can have the least doubt for what the "handsome, smart, and sound" young woman is offered for sale. "FRENCH COOK, HAIR DRESSER, AND BARBERESS, FOR SALE. Apply to This edict is the first of the kind, except that of Gulhani, that has been published in the Greek and Armenian languages as well as the Turkish. Hitherto, hatti-sheriffs have been sent merely to the governors of the provinces written only in Turkish; they have been considered as addressed exclusively to officials; little or no attention has been paid to them; and when any individuals have complained of their infraction, they have usually been bastinadoed or imprisoned for their presumption. But now the YOUNG, HANDSOME, SMART, HONEST, AND SOUND. TITLES PERFECT. Raya and Turkish population are directly addressed in their respective langages. The present hatti-sheriff circulates widely among them. Its main purpose seems to be to let them know that they have rights; and they are becoming daily convinced that any complaints they may make against public functionaries will be promptly attended to. A most beneficial change in the administrations of the pachas has consequently already taken place. Never were the people of this empire so little oppressed as they are now; and it may be hoped that by proceeding in the course he nas adopted, Rechid Pacha may at last inspire the governors of the provinces with his own spirit; that when they find they can no longer be oppressors, they may be willing to forward instead of obstructing, as they actually do, the reforms the patriot minister is so intent, despite the scanty influence he at this moment possesses, upon carrying into execution. Rechid Pacha's hand may be seen prominently in the edict I have above transcribed. Miscellanea. CAPTURE OF AN AMERICAN SLAVER, WITH 900 SLAVES.-Captain Ryder, of the Ohio, from Port Praya, has furnished us with a circular from the Methodist Missionaries at Monrovia, dated December 17, on the capture of the barque Pons, of Philadelphia, with 900 slaves, on the 1st of December, by the U. S. ship Yorktown, Captain Bell, in lat. 3 south, three days out from Cabenda, bound to Rio Janeiro. When the Pons was first seen, she raised American colours, supposing the Yorktown was a British cruiser; but discovering the mistake, immediately hoisted the Portuguese flag. On boarding her, and demanding her papers of the Portuguese captain, he replied, "I have thrown them overboard." On being asked what was his cargo, he said, "about 900 slaves." On further examination it was found that she had shipped 914, between the ages of eight and thirty, only forty-seven of them females, and left at the factory 400 or 500 more, which they had intended to have taken in the same vessel, but were prevented by the proximity of a British cruiser, from which they narrowly escaped. The Pons was put under the charge of Lieut. Cogdell, and was fourteen days in getting up to Monrovia, during which time about one hundred and fifty of the poor wretches died -some of them jumping overboard in fits of desperation-and on her arrival at Monrovia, several of the slaves were in a dying state, and many were so emaciated that their skin literally cleaved to their bones, and the stench of the crowded hold was almost suffocating. A letter from one of the Methodist Missionaries gives the account of - the sufferings of the slaves, and says it is utterly impossible for language to convey an appropriate idea of the horrors of their situation—the living and the dying were huddled together with less care than is bestowed upon the brute creation-the thermometer at 100 to 120 in the hold. Most of the slaves were in a state of nudity, and many had worn their skin through, producing putrid ulcers, which fed swarms of flies.-Sale Register. This is the fourth American slaver captured by the Yorktown. ST. HELENA.-The Cygnet brigantine, Commander Layton, arrived at St. Helena from Benguela on Christmas-day. She had captured a slaver with 360 slaves on board, which she brought in with her. ANTICIPATING JUSTICE.-The Southampton, East Indiaman, 35 days from St. Helena, has brought intelligence of the "rollers" having washed on shore at that island no less than 17 vessels seized by our cruisers, and brought before the Vice Admiralty Court for slave dealing. This is a summary way of carrying out the act of parliament which requires slave vessels to be destroyed. In the letter accompanying this hand-bill is the following extract :"I tell you, the half of the abominations and devilishness of this slave system cannot be told. My heart aches every day to see so many fine I inclose an looking male and female slaves so dreadfully treated. advertisement which I tore down from the pillars of the capital of the state. It is notorious, that the whole female population of slaves are in a state of prostitution. I care not how it may be denied at the north; it is not attempted to be concealed here. You cannot imagine what a powerful influence the little band of abolitionists have already exerted on Do the slave-holder. I can see that all that is wanting now is to go on. not forget the poor slave, especially at the ballot-box; that is the instrumentality which the slave-holder most fears."-Emancipator. MURDER OF NEGROES.-The Abbeville S. C. Banner states, that two negroes belonging to Gen. Mc Duffie, were killed on Friday, the 13th ult., by two other negroes who were acting in the capacity of drivers! It is said their deaths were caused by severe chastisement for inattention to business. The Colombia Chronicle remarks: "This proves conclusively, what has often been asserted before, that negroes are more cruel to their fellow slaves, where they are entrusted with power over them than white men are." ABOLITIONISTS.-An agent of the Abolitionists was discovered a few miles below Memphis, on the Arkansas shore, on Saturday, the 21st ult., and another in the same neighbourhood on the 23rd. The citizens peaceably assembled and ordered them to leave, which order was as peaceably The Spanish Slave Trade ........ Rev. C. T. Torrey .............. SLAVE TRADE.-Conviction.—Mr. Loring Larkins, formerly captain of the schooner, Merchant, was tried at Charleston last week, on a charge of being about to engage in the slave-trade, and convicted. The punish-Traffic in Human Affection 70 ment is a fine of not more than $7000, and imprisonment for not more than five years. 5 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 12 0 12 0 0 4 0 1 1 PAGE 79 ONE OF THE SLAVERS.-The examination in the case of the Patuxent The Fugitive Slave.............. 70 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE........ 78 70 MISCELLANEA .................. 80 54 Printed by JACOB UNWIN, of 33, Dowgate Hill, in the City of London, at his Printing Office, 31, Bucklersbury, in the parish of St. Stephen Walbrook, in the City of London, and published by PETER JONES BOLTON, of No. 8, Kennington Terrace, Kennington Lane, in the county of Surrey, at No. 27, New Broad Street, in the Parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, in the City of London. FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1846. Sold by W. Everett, 14, Finch Lane, and 17 Royal Exchange. ABSTRACT OF REPORT FOR 1846. The Anti-slavery cause, though far from having accomplished its great work, the universal extinction of slavery and the slave-trade, has nevertheless been so signally successful in its past labours, as to leave no doubt, under the divine blessing, of its final and complete triumph. To the State of Vermont, in the United States, belongs the honour of having first abolished slavery, by its constitution, in 1777. Vermont was followed in the work of abolition by Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, in 1780; by Connecticut and Rhode Island, in 1774; New York, in 1799; and New Jersey, in 1804. In all these states, with the exception of Vermont, slavery was gradually extinguished, and in one of them, New Jersey, a few hundred slaves still remain in bondage. Mexico, on the anniversary of its freedom from the dominion of Spain in 1829, issued a decree by which all its slaves were declared free, as an act of national justice and beneficence." 66 The first of the South American Republics which abolished slavery was Buenos Ayres, in 1816; Columbia and Chili followed in 1821, Bolivia in 1826, Peru, Guatemala, and Monte Video in 1828, and Uruguay in 1843. With the exception of Uruguay, slavery still lingers in these Republics, but it is in process of gradual extinction, and it may be affirmed, that if the laws be faithfully executed, it will soon completely disappear. In Haïti, formerly St. Domingo, slavery was abolished by the French Commissioners in 1793; but an attempt was made by Buonaparte to re-establish it in 1802, which was defeated, and since the declaration of its independence in 1804, it has been in the possession of its freedom. Great Britain did not follow the example thus set her until the year 1833, when the imperial parliament abolished slavery throughout the whole of her colonies in the West Indies, South America, southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean, or, to speak more strictly, substituted for it a system of apprenticeship, which was finally terminated in 1838, amidst the rejoicings of the emancipated slaves, and the congratulations of their exulting friends. In 1843, the Supreme Council of British India abolished slavery throughout the vast territories subject to its control; and during the same year, liberty was proclaimed at Malacca, Singapore, Penang, province Wellesley, and Scinde. To this may be added that, in 1843, the imperial parliament, terminated the system of slavery which prevailed at its settlement on the gold coast, Western Africa. In 1844, the Governor in Council at Hong Kong abolished slavery; and, finally, at the close of the same year, the Queen issued an order in council which destroyed the last vestige of slavery in the island of Ceylon. Nor do the more civilized nations stand alone in this great work. The Bey of Tunis finally consummated the work of abolition, which he began in 1843, at the commencement of the present year; and this, to use his own words, he has done "for the glory of mankind, and to distinguish them from the brute creation." Such is a brief view of the triumphs of freedom over slavery during the last seventy years. In reference to the African slave-trade the following facts will be found interesting. The first Power which abolished that dreadful traffic, was Denmark. This she did in 1792, and was followed by the United States and Great Britain in 1807, by Sweden in 1813, by the Netherlands in 1814, by France in 1815, by Spain in 1820, by Buenos Ayres in 1825, by Columbia in 1825, by Mexico in 1826, by Brazil in 1829, by Sardinia in 1834, by Portugal in 1836, by the Hanse Towns, Tuscany, Bolivia, and Peru in 1837, by Naples in 1838, by Haïti, Venezuela, Chili, and Uruguay in 1839, by Texas in 1840, and by Austria, Prussia, and Russia in 1841. With all these powers Great Britain has treaties or conventions, more or less perfect, for the suppression of the African slave-trade; and with the exception of Portugal, Spain, and Brazil, especially the two latter, it may be said to have ceased, though the flags of many of them are still prostituted by the slave-trader to cover the nefarious traffic. By many of these countries the African slave-trade has been declared piracy, and by all of them, with the exception of Brazil, a highly penal offence. But none have gone so far as Great Britain in her efforts to destroy it. Her laws not only prohibit her subjects from aiding and abetting the slave trade, but from the purchase and sale of slaves in foreign slaveholding countries, under any pretence whatsoever. This enactment was intended, among other things, to prevent the investment of British capital in slaves for the purpose of working plantations and mines. In referring to the treaties of Great Britain with foreign states for the suppression of the slave-trade, the committee would not be understood to approve them, as a means of overcoming that gigantic evil, but as indicating, that its defence as a legitimate mode of supplying their respective colonies and dependencies with labour, has been abandoned; and as showing that it is generally regarded with the abhorrence which its criminal character so richly merits. SLAVERY. In the last report of the Society the Committee stated that upwards of seven millions of Africans, or their descendants, were held in slavery in the western world, under professedly Christian governments. In connexion with the system which deprives them of their personal liberty and sinks them to the condition of things, there exists a two-fold slave-trade, the external and the internal. Africans are exclusively the victims of the former; but the native as well as the imported slave is subject to the latter. It might be presumed that the habits of civilized life, to say nothing of the general influence of Christianity, would soften the ferocity attendant on the internal slave-traffic; but such is not the fact. It is estimated that from 60,000 to 80,000 slaves in the United States change masters, by sale or otherwise, every year; that large numbers of these wretched creatures are taken from the slave-rearing to the slave-consuming States to perish in the laborious and oppressive occupations of the plantations; and that they are continually separated from the dearest and nearest of their earthly connexions, without pity or remorse. Scenes the most afflicting and revolting continually present themselves to the attention of the spectator at the slave-depôts in the principal cities of the slave States; in the public market places, where the victims of this inhuman traffic are handled and sold as brute beasts; in the transit of the slave-coffles to the far south; and in the breaking up of the friendships created by fellowship of suffering, when, at length, they are finally dispersed among the various masters who may require their services. It would seem as if during the whole of these guilty transactions the human heart were tortured, on the one hand, to its uttermost point of endurance, and, on the other, incited to acts of the most coldblooded cruelty. But this internal traffic in slaves is not confined to the United States. It is found to exist wherever slavery prevails, and is attended with similar consequences and sufferings. In Brazil, the wretched slaves are torn from their families by hundreds at a time, and sent to those parts of the empire where they are most in demand. Their struggles and screams, when finally separated |
