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Nothing, in his mind, could be more satisfactory that the con duct of their emancipation.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) In many of our colonies, for instance in British Guiana, the negroes had become wealthy and purchased estates. On the other hand, though net insubordinate they had shown a disinclination to labour, and the result had been a great . diminution in the production of sugar from the colonies. (Here the noise at the time was so great that the Noble Lord observed he was sorry the House did not attend more to the subject—important as it was.—Hear, hear, from Sir R. Peel, Mr. Goulburn, &e.) An object of great moment was the suppression of the foreign slave-trade, by which hundreds of thousands were yearly sacrificed.— (Hear, hear.) It because a question what means the Go vernment should take to suppress it.—Here the noise was so great that Mr. BRISCOE rose to order, and appealed to the Speaker to prevent Member from creating such an uproar by arranging pairs at the bar.—( Hear, bear.) The Noshs Loan proceeded. It Lad been suggested that steamers should be sent to the coast cf Africa, to pro . duce an influence on the native tribes, to prevent the traftic in their fellow couiftryrnen.—( Hear, hear.) The House would remember the great difficulty they had had to induce even the most enlightened nations of Europe to concur in the abolition of the soave-trade; and, therefore, they would conjecture how gradually they would succeed in impressing on the Africans the barbarity of these transactions. But on the other matter, to which the colonists promised their attention. They said with much justice that now slavery was abolished, every labourer was at liberty to make his own contract, and the price of labour was regulated by competition, and therefore they should be at liberty to in duce labourers from other countries to come to the colo nies, in order that they might see whether free labour could compete with slave labour, at least in the market of Great Britain. In the colony of Trinidad certain sums had been devoted to promote emigration. The same was proposed in Guiana, and with respect to Jamaica, an Act had been lately sent over for the Royal assent, and consented to by the Government, enacting that the sum of 50,000/. should be given for four bears for the same purpose. There were some circumstances in this Act which appeared to him of doubtful policy. It was pro posed either that the labourer should consent to pay the amount of his passage money, P: that he should enter into an indenture for a term of three years. Now he (Lord J. Russell) thought the labourer whu went there was stititled to A free passage, or in any case that three years was too long A period. At the same time considering bow desir able it was to facilitate the introduction of free labourers to Jamaica, be was not disposed to advise the Queen to disallow that Act, though be should th.nk it his duty to state his objections to the Governor. The Governor 9f Sierra Leone, informed him that great excitement pre vailed there, in consequence of the high wages paid in is• mnica and Trinidad, and that there was a considerable dis position there to emigrate. Then came the question pro. posed in a provision of a Bill before the House which, as it th , w stood, related only to the Mauritius. The House vven:ld recollect that, two or three years ago, there was a considerable discussion, in consequence of the introduction of Indian labourers into British Guiana. Circumstances induced the Governor at that time to prevent this, but at the same time they stated it should be matter of consideration, and, accordingly, when various representations were made to him on the subject from the West Lidian colonies, lie considered what would be pauper to do on this subject. He found that there had been considerable mortality on one estate in British Guiana; he considered, likewise, the ignorance that bad prevailed, and he thought it safer, if anything was to be done, it should be done in the island of the Mauritius. The intercourse between India and the Mauritius and the number of Indians already there made it natural to select that island. It would be a totally different case if the Coolies were to go to the West Indian colonies. There they must go with wives and families, and establish a new race in those colonies, with new habits and new customs, and this might produce evil. He, therefore, at present would not assume the responsibility of saying that the migration ; to the West Indies should take place. Whe ther hereafter it might be allowed ho could not say. The clauses were chiefly introduced to take the sense of the House generally upon the subject- To the extent they went, be thought the experiment should be tried no fur ther. Some persons had said he should propose distinctly and specifically his regulations to the House. That course, however, he did not think it. proper to adopt. He simply moved the third reading - of the Bill. Lord HO WICK wished to know if his Noble Friend would state what Act had been adopted by the Jamalea Legislature.—( Hear, hear.) Some of theta appeared so objectionable, that as his Noble Friend had intimated his intention not to disallow those acts, he (Lord Howick) should feel it his duty to bring the subject before the House.--(Hear, hear)—and he trusted the Acts would not be alleged till the sense of the House had been taken upon them.—( Hear, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no objection to lay the Acts upon the table of the House. Sir ROBERT PEEL hoped the Noble Lord would consider well before he established a precedent that would be extremely inconvenient. The Noble Lord ( Howick) had asked for the production of an Act to which the assent of the Crown had not been given, and the Noble Lord the secretary for the Colonies had stated his willingness to give the production. Now he would venture to say that if such a precedent were established, it would be adopted with respect to every other Act. He hoped the Noble Lord would make up his mind as to the advice he should give to the Crown before he produced the Act. Sir G, GREY said that the Act referred to did not 'require the sanction of the Crown, inasmuch as is had re ceived the sanction of the Governor. The' Bill was then read a third time. Dr, L US H INGTO N then moved that the clauses which fated to the transportation of p ersons trout India to the Mauritius be omitted. He was afraid they were about to make experiments with regard to the Mauritius which be court: not but think would turn out most unfavourably. He thought they ought to refrain from exporting the Hill Coolies till they were convinced it was for their advantage. There was all but an inseparable difficulty in obtaining females to emigrate to the Mauritius. He thought the exportation of Hill Coolies would be attended will a re petition of the horrors that had already attended the ex portation cf slaves. He thought, also, that the Mauritius was the worst possible place for this experiment, for the worst of horrors had been perpetrated there. In that country they did not allow the 11111 Coolies to leave their homes wain: l st tickets of leave. If that was not slavery, he did riot know in what it con sisted. Lord Glenelg had reprobated such conduct, and how, therefore, he would ask, was confidence to be placed in the Governor or any officer there? It had been said that all had been done there to recover the Hill Coolies. They had adopted a system of registration, and the registry under that contained tile names of 2,500 slaves, who bad been made free. Would they, therefore, again -establish slavery in the island ?—( Hear, hoar.) Looking through the whole of the island, he would ask if there ex isted the means of communication.—(Hear, hear.) It was clearly proved, from all the inquiries that had taken place, that there was not a sufficient supply of water for the population, and therefore he repeated that the experi anent about to be made by the Bill was one of a most dan gerous nature, and therefore he should give it his opposi lien. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving Itise omission of all the clauses relating to the transportation 'of the Hill Coolies from India to the Mauritius. After a few words from Sir A. GRANT, Mr. ELLIOT rose for the purpose of protecting the interests of the people as much as possible, with whom he bad spent a great portion of his life. No man could land en the island of the Mauritius without being struck with the different races that inhabited that island. India was subject to continual famine, and yet his Right hlon, Friend would prevent any of its natives front emigrating to the Mauritius, where they would he prevented from starving. Such was really the fact. He was no interes ted East India Proprietor, but all lie wished was that the ;people's interests should be attended to. Kidnapping for emigration could not, to a certain extent, be prevented even in London. flow then could it be prevented in India ?—( Energetic cries of " Hear, hear," from Lord Howick.) Every man ought to be left to act for himself. The Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman bad said that this country had paid 20,000,000/. to abolish slavery. Now his (Mr. Elliot's) way of putting it was, that the country bad paid 20,000,000/. to have free labour in our colonies.—( Hear, hear.) In no quarter of the globe did a Government possess greater facilities for re gulating deportation than in Bengal ; for no ship could leave the river without pilots comple'ely under the con trol of the Government. The effect of the evidence was that in the Mauritius, as in all other places, there were some good masters and some bad ones—income cases the Coolies were sa htied, and in others dissatisfied, and sometimes they had renewed their contracts for years. They could not be prevented from going to the Mauritius without an infringment of their natural liberties. They had as much right to go there as other gentlemen had to go to Richmond. The lion. Gentleman concluded by saying he was surprised at the Court of Directors petitioning against the clauses. Mr. HOGG said the petition came from the whole of the East India Company, who felt very strongly upon the subject, not that they wished to prevent emigration entirely, but that they wished proper guards and effectual )protection to be established, and of this the Noble Lord had not satisfied them; but further, where was the report of the Committee which Lord Auckland had established on the subject, and which would be received on the 4th of next month ? Why should not the Noble Lord wait until the report had been received ? If not, be might depend upon it this Bill would not pass. Mr. G. BERKELEY said if these clauses were not -agreed to the planters would have no protection of emigre- Mr. IRVING said wit hout a good system thwe the eolonies would be ruined, and he should support the Bill. Lord HOWICK said, his Hon. Friend (Mr. Elliot) had not. by his statements removed the doubts d ifwhkiicd -1-1 rested upon his mind. Hi s Hon. Friendcould had sal ,be napping prevailed in the Thames, how it pre vented in the Ganges. That was the very argument which he (Lord Howick) would offal - against t sure, of which the only thing clea r was, that it went ‘ to re move the restriction which had been propetly iak,pose on the emigration of these Coolies, —for the sa e l , he supposed, of some private interests (Hear, IT, and No, no,) —acid without any adequate securityi against the horrors that had be en formerly discoveres He believed it was well known that many of these unfor tunate slaves, feeling their distressed situation, lied sub horrible nature cf the t reatment to is hich they were sub he jected, threw themselves into the sea on their voyage ft am India to the Mauritius. If the Government only took upon itself the duty of ascertaining the capabilities of the vessels employed in the conveyance of these persons from Judie, the clauses would be altogether unnecessary. It was, in his opinion. most h judicious to call upon Parlia • went, which was little or at all acquainted with the sub . .ject, to legislate upon the matter. It appeared to him ,also most injudicious and unfair to propose any plan by which the labourer was called upon to enter iota a con tract to- work for a certain- peried-- for a loveer.-rate of wages than was usually paid. The plan had been tried some years ago with the Australian Colonies, and it had totally failed. The labourer, who had contrated, as the price of his passage, to labour for a certain period at a low rate of wages had no sti mulus to labour, and disagreements and quarrels endin g in the cancelling of the agreements invariably resulted. The same plan of indentured labour bad been taken upon a great scale very lately in the West Indian Colonies, and no sooner had regulations been adopted by the British Government to protect the apprentiece from undue con crcion than the masters said it was AO longer worth their while to continue the syste.n, and it was put an end to. He feared it would be found that the people of the )lau ritiva were too much tainted with the system of slavery to give adequate protection to Indian labourers. The papers which had been laid on the table showed that corporal punishment was resorted to in very many instances, and the sergeants, as they were termed, fulfilled in many respects the duties which, under the system of slavery, was confined to the slave drivers. He believed the renewal of contracts and agreements in the Mauritius bad been in many instances, extorted from the labourers under the fear of punishment or coercion. On these grounds be placed very little reli ance upon the system of contracts, and he should there fore give his opposition to the clauses of his Noble Friend. Mr. L A BOUC HER E bore testimony to the efforts which the Noble Lord ( Howick) had made while in office for the protection of the slave, and if he was not certain that his Noble Friend had misunderstood the plan of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the colonies, he would be inclined to agree with much that had fallen from him. The emigration of these labourers it should be recollected was to be conducted both in India and at the Mauritius by Government agents, who would take care that no un fair advantage would be taken of the emigi ant. He maintained that the details of the plan would be much more properly left to the local authorities and the Govern ment than to introduce them in a Bill like the present. He would remind the House that these clauses had been introduced at the suggestion of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Pembroke, and the arguments which had then been urged in their favour, appeared to him and to his Noble Friend to be quite conclusive. He was the more anxious not to give a silent vote upon the question, because in a few days th' Hon. Member for Wigan intenedd to bring ferward a motion for the intro duc.ion. of slave-grown sugar, and the House would recol lect the state in which that trade was at present. He could assure it that the table of the Board of Trade was loaded with representations and remonstrances from parties engaged in that trade, and it would be his du•y—a painful duty he admitted—to oppose the motion, because if that motion were carried it would be a violation of the so lemn engagements which' that country had entered into.— ( Hear.) He trusted the House would throw no obstacles in the way of the passing of the present measure, which he believed would be attended with the most beneficial re sults.--( Hear, hear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM was inclined, from the best consideration he could give the subject, to support the pro. position of the Hon. Member for Beverley, an, he would implore her Majesty's Government to sus pend the passing of the measure for a short period, He had heard from the Noble Lord no detailed plan by which the supply of labour was to be regulated in India, and the documents laid on the table showed that the ar rangement was one to which the labourers were by no means inclined to assent. _ Mr. O'CONNELL trusted the consideration of the project would be deferred for the present. There was ono thing which must be highly consolatory to the feelings of the planters, and that was, that all parties, all sides of the House agreed upon the imperative necessity of increasing, if possible, the free labour in the colonies to insure the well working out of the system. There was, indeed, no point of view in which the value of introducing free labour vas not perfectly manifest—but it" must be free la bour.—( Hear, hear.) They must not leave it to the co lonies of Guiana, Jamaica, or the Mauritius to make it slave labour again.—( Hear, hear.) The Government should take care that when these emigrants arrived in the colonies they were perfectly free agents —( Hear, hear.) Guiana, so far as he knew anything of it, afforded every facility to treat the emigrant labourers well, and to leave them free; at least, so far as he could judge, that was the case.—( Hear, hear.) He believed, however, that was directly the reverse in Jamaica, and to a frightful extent. In Jamaica every precaution was taken to prevent the labourer becoming free, and he found there had been a fatal facility on the part of Sir C. Metcalfe to fall into the views of the planters. In the Bill lately sent over by the Jamaica Legislature, there was a clause for three years' apprenticeship ; why did not the Government disallow that at once? He understood that all that had been done by the Government was to send the Bill back for re-conside ration. The Hon. and Learned Member then referred to the Police and Vagrant Acts, and the other Acts which had been lately passed by the Legislature of Jamaica, all of which he strongly censured. If Gentlemen were aware hew much of the agrarian disturbances in Ireland were occasioned by the facility of conviction, they would pause before they put a similar power into the hands of the Magistrates of Jamaica. He repeated there could be no confidence placed in Sir Charles Metcalfe, from the facility with which he had car ried these laws. As far as Mauritius was concerned, in relation to emigration, it was impossible they could confide in the planters. The lion. Gentleman said, the local authorities were those alone in whom they could confide ; but it was of these he (Mr. O'Connell) complained. Thev should have the Guiana laws and the Jamaica laws rela tive to this subject before them ; and he would respectfully suggest that they should wait until they were laid upon the table. They should use every exertion to secure labourers to the colonies, but they should at the same time use every precaution that these were free labourers.—( Hear. hear ) Mr. V. SMITH said, the main deft of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's argument was to cast blame on the authorities of Jamaica ; in answer to which, be (Mr. V. Smith) should say nothing, but would satisfy him self by asserting that every man was entitled to find the best market for his labour. Suppose the Report of the Committee mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman should be advc rse, the emigration scheme would drop, but he thought its failure would seriously affect the prosperity of the Colo nies. He would urge the House to proceed with this mea sure on the great principle he had mentioned. He did en treat the House to consider the position of the colonies and of the negroes themselves. Were they prepared to tell them they must submit to a greater loss in duties; and a still greater in the article itself. The diffhrence between the West Indies and the 'Mauritius was that the one was a three weeks, and the other a five months voyage. As re gards the interest of the Government it must be plain they had none in the measure, which ; if they rejected, they would be telling the people of India they should not cross the sea for less wages than they were enjoying. Sir A. GRANT complained loudly of the Hon. and Learned Member's (Mr. O'Connell) attack on Sir J. Met calfe, whom he believed had done greater good for Jamaica than any other person in so short a space of time. He had conducted himself with the greatest impartiality, and, as he maintained, had entitled himself to the confidence of the country. He should vote against the amendment of the lion. Member for the Tower Hamlets, as he should afterwards vote for adding the words " British Guiana, and the other colonies of Great Britain," after the word " Mauritius."—( Hear, hear.) Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided. when the numbers were : For the C1au5e......., lO9 For the Amendment l5B Majority for the Amendment —49 IRISH REGISTRATION BILL. Lord STANLEY then rose and asked the Noble Lord (J. Russell) at what time he proposed to enter into the discussion of the subject of the Registration of Ireland. He had only one object—that the subject should be fairly discussed in Committee, and as he had no desire to use any factious opposition in the way of Government business, he was willing to take the course that would be most con• venient to the Noble Lord, provided he could be ensured a reasonable time before the end of the session. He was, how ever, anxious a measure so important should have precedence some day. and he would ask the Noble Lord if it would be inconvenient to him to postpone the Clergy Reserves Bill to Friday, and allow him to take Thursday, or if this was im possible, Friday for the discussion of his Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSET L said there two measures which he wished to progress, namely, the Clergy Reserves Bill, which was fixed for Thursday, and another measure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's, which he wished to bring on the same day—the Sugar Duties. There would be no objection to postpone the Committee of Supply from Friday to Friday week, and to give the Noble Lord's Bill precedence on Friday; at the same time his Noble Friend must feel that, if the question of the Sugar Duties was not settled on Thursday, that measure could not be well postponed. • Some conversation ensued, but it was ultimstely arranged that the Noble Lord's ( Stanley's) Bill should b. , brought forward on Friday. ADMIRALTY COURT JUDGE'S SALARY BILL. On the Order of the Day Fur ►he third reading of this i Bill having been read, Lord HOTH A M rose to propose an amendment to the effect—" That no Admiralty Judge should, atter the pre sent Session of Parliament, sit as a Member of the House ' of Commons." The Noble Lord said that while he ren dered justice to the merits of the present Judge of the Ad miralty, he felt that it did not suit his position to be the representative of a large constituency, a position which brought him in connection with popular feelings and party politics. Mr. FIUME seconded the amendment. He wished to see every one holding a judicial situation excluded from the HouQe of Commons. Mr W. WILLIAMS also supported the amendment. He did not know any Judge who should more properly be excluded from sitting in that House than the Judge of the Admiralty, as no one held a situation of greater delicacy and importance. Mr. WARD would vote for the proposition if it were a general one, and were extended to all Members holding a judicial office. He could not, however, give his support to the amendment as it then stood. Mr. SHAW would vote against the amendment.-- ( Hear, hear.) He owned that the proposition would ex tend as fairly to his own case as to that of the Judge of the Admiralty. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had already stated his oh.. jections to the proposition brought forward by the Noble Lord, and he did not think the Noble Lord had since produced any new argument in its support. The proposi tion of the Noble Lord would apply to Judges elected by a corporation, as well as to Judges elected by the Govern ment. He also thought that the House should not he de prived of the learning and talents of the present Judge of the Admiralty. As, however, he believed that the sense of the House was against him, he would not divide on the question —( Hear, hear.) M r . WALL ACE spoke in favour of the amendment. • Sir E. SUGDEN said, that if the House had come to : a division on the subject, he should, though with some hesitation, have voted against the proposition of :the Noble j Lord. Ile Felt the objections to a Judge of the Admiralty having a seat in that House, but he believed that those objections ware counterbalanced by the advantage derived from the aid of his learning. Dr. NIC HOU; supported the amendment. He said that his relative (Sir J. Nicioll) had received his ap pointment on the understanding that Judges of the Ad miralty should be excluded for the futare from a scat in that House. Mr. PR YM E objected to the amendment. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. No division took place, the amendment having been agreed to without one. The 811 then passed. FLOUR IMPORTATION (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. LABOU C H ERE moved the third reading of the Bill. Sir R. BATESON opposed the motion, and moved, as an amendment. that the Bill be read a third time that day six months. - Colonel CONOLLY seconded the amendment. Ile was persuaded if the Bill passed it would be greatly.inju rious to the agricultural interests of Ireland. O'F Mr. MORE ERRA LL supported the third read ing of the Bill. He believed that all that had been said by those who had proposed and seconded the amendment had put the question upon a false footing. Sir D. ROCHE WAS at first opposed to the Bill, but since the time it was introduced, seeing the smuggling that had taken place, he felt that he could not, in justice to the fair trader, oppose it longer. He should therefore give his assent to the third reading. Mr. Sergeant JACK SO N supported the amendment. Mr. L ABOUC HER E had already stated that the operation of the Bill would be of a very limited nature, but he was induced to look at the question in a much more important light from the statements that had just been made by the Hon. Baronet behind him, that smuggling to a great extent was carried on from Liverpool to Ireland. That arose from the anomaly in the law by which foreign flour was imported under different provisions into Ireland and England. He trusted under these circumstances, and seeing that the arguments used that it would injuriously affect the interests of Ireland rested on the most vague and unstable grounds, he trusted the House would allow the Bill to be read a third time. . . Mr. E. TENNENT had had communications with almost every miller in Ireland, and without exception they were all opposed to the Bill. Mr. BE AMISH was satisfied that the Bill would inflict no injury whatever on the milling interest of Ireland—if he thought so, he would be the last to support such a mea sure, which he did most cordially. Mr. 0. GORE said the Right Hon. Gentleman (the President of the Board of Trade), had, in the most hand some manner, postponed the Bill on a former occasion, to ascertain the opinion of the Grand Juries of Ireland on the subject. That had been very distinctly pronounced in the number of petitions that had been presented against the measure; he thought this was an attempt to introduce the small end of the wedge, in order to lead hereafter to the repeal of the Corn-laws, and, as such, ho trusted the House would oppose it. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the third reading Against it ~. .0 90 Majority I The announcement was received with foul cheers from the Opposition benches. ARMS (IRELAND) BILL. Lord MORPETH moved the second reading of the Arms (Ireland) Bill. After a few words from Mr. LITTON, the Bill was read a second time. The Timber Duties Bill was read a third time and passed. The Sugar Duties Bill was read a secoad time, and or dered to be committed on Thursday next. The Police Rates Assessment Bill was read a third time and passed. TI-IE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE . :23, IR4O. That in like manner the African Slave Trade has long been suppressed by law In the United States of North iNmerica, although slavery still ex-iiii-ghat eountrrto - a frightful extent, That the like facts are true of the Dutch, Danish, and Swedish West Indies, and of all the independent Stites of South America, of Spanish origin. That the empire of Brazil, and the colonial dependencies of Spain, are the only remaining countries pf the world to which the African Slave Trade is now carried on, to any considerable extent. That if history or past experience can be referred to as an index of the probable course of future events, the suppression of the trade in slaves to Cuba, Porto Rico, and Brazil, Will in like manner precede the abolition of negro slavery in these countries. vV That although the universal abolition of slavery would infer the universal extinction of the slave trade, there can be no good reason why simultaneous efforts should not be made for the attainment of both objects. That the primum mobile of the African Slave Trade is to be found in the high rate of profit which the dealer derives from it. That if that rate of profit could be reduced to the ordinary rate of lawful commerce, there would be no temptation to its continuance. That by the law of Spain and Brazil, and by subsisting treaties and conventi ons b etween t h ese and other countries, the practice of the slave trade is recognized as illegal in Spain and Brazil. _ .. That if these laws, treaties, and conventions, had been fully and faithfully carried into effect, the slave trade to Spain and Brazil must have shared the fate of that trade to the other re gions of the new world. That it it therefore desirable that further efforts should be made to obtain the faithful execution of these laws, treaties, and conventions. That the universal recognition of the principle of a presump - Con in f:-vour of f ree d om, in the absence of direct evidence to the contrary, would greatly conduce to these desirable ends. That this presumption would throw on the possessor of a slave the burden of proving his pretended right of property, even in those countries where the praetice of slavery is still unhappily tolerated. Tnat in virtue of subsisting treaties with Spain and Brazil, tribunals, called Courts of Mixed Commission, have been esta blished at the Havannah and at Rio de Janeiro, for adjudicating on various questions connected with the African Slave Trade. That in these Courts English Judges enjoy a concurrent ju risdiction with Spa n i s h an d Brazilian Judges. That if the jurisdiction of these Courts of Mixed Commis sion were so extended as to give them the power of inquiring into the right of an African, the victim of the slave trade, to his freedom, under the laws of the country in which they respectively sit, such victim would be better enabled to achieve the recovery of his freedom.' That such recovery of freedom would be farther facilitated by the appointment in each of these Courts of •one or more English officers, concurrently With native officers, invested with the powers of a Public Prosecutor, and charged with the duty of asserting the right of imported Africans to their freedom. That a Committee of this Convention be authorised to ad dress itself by Memorial, or Petition, or Deputation, or other wise, to the British Government, for the purpose of inducing the negotiation of new treaties for so extending the powers of these mixed Courts as to give practical effect to the pre sumption in favour of freedom. That the Government of his Majesty the King of the French be in like manner addressed, entreating the beneficent co-ope ration of that Government in the attainment of this object. That a Memorial be transmitted to the Government of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, on the part of this Convention, entreating that Government to accede to the de mands of justice and humanity. That a deputation from this Convention be to the Court of her Catholic Majesty, beseechine. the Government of the Queen to give practical e ff ect to the ' promises and professions of that Government, that the Slave Trade would be no longer tolerated within the dependencies of her Majesty's Crown. Judge BARING rose to move that a reference be added, to the original resolutions, directed to the States, (such as the Alsbama),, in which coloured freemen were held on entering them to be enslaved. Mr. O'CoNNELL, with great warmth, begged to know if British subjects were included in such laws. Judge Ba alsa—There is no distinction of nations in all coloured persons.—( Hear. ) Mr. O'CONNELL—Do you know any cases of such enslaving of British subjects? Judge BARING did not know of any cases of British subjects, but he did of others.—(Hem Mr. O'CONNELL indignantly declared that such laws were vo contrary to internatio nal p rinci p les— (Hear, hear) — and he B e enslaved, Jeadn:a n ica e, of who had them a been young lady.—(Hear, hea r. ) Judge BARING said the State would not remedy the evil, would inquire of the Government if th ey knew of their ex istence.—( Hear, hear.) coloured kidnapped The Rev. Mr. Krim; declared that he had k nown o f severa l individuals from A lab a ll m l Montego a te , g u o i and the Central Goyerninent must be resorted to. The Rev. Mr. Ksies said there was one part upon which he wished to give Some information to the meeting. It was a fact that the free subjects of Great Britain were taken from Jamaica and sold as slaves in America, and he could state to them that a young lady, the daughter of a Noble Lord, who had - gone out to Montego Bay, had been sold as a slave in Ja maica.—( Hear, and cries of:" Name.") Mr. O'ColiNeLL wished the Rev. Gentleman would give him the facts in writing. • A DELEGATE asked whether any steps had been taken in the matter ? Rev. Mr. KN11313 said, when the Marquis of Sligo heard of it, he had sent a British man-of-war to demand the lady, but she was still a slave, and so were many otheri who had gone out as nurses and servants, and had been sold in the seine way. Unless some steps were taken, it was impossible to say where the system would and. Indeed, to suds a pitch had it gone in Jamaica, that it had been found necessary to warn every co loured and black man not to go in an American ship. Some of the American vessels were in the habit of taking coloured men at New York, and when they got to Jamaica they shipped them as slaves to other ports. It had been said by the Ameri can Consul there, that if there was any interference it would occasion a war with America, but his (Mr. Knibb's) answer was let it come, he (lid not cat e for that.--( Hear, hear. ) Mr. O'CONNELL had no hesitation in stating that if the Bri tish Government did not interfere for the protection of British subjects—if they allowed them to be thus deprived of-their -feectiorn, and made slaves : A.4,4)&oy - ought to pay a sinew penny in the.shape of taxes.—(Hear, bear. ) Mr. STA UNION, of New York, said there were 800,000 British subjects in the WArt Indies, and if they did not take good care, the Americans would get hold of them all. After some further discussion, Mr. Baring withdrew his amendment, and the resolutions were then agreed to. Mr. Wm. FosTEit said it appeared to him that the present was the proper time to bring forward a resolution on this - . sub ject of American slavery. Mr. Foster here read his reso. tion. He could add, if required, his own evidence of what he had seen when travelling through the southern states of the North American Union in 1824, but it was almost unnecessary to add anything to the facts that had been already laid before the Convention. Indeed, it would be impossible to produce anything more striking than what had been already mentioned. He had not forgotten , nor would he ever forget, the impres sion that had ben made upon his mind of the enormity and iniquity of that trade as carried on at the time, from the older to the more newly settled states of the Union. He would be digressing from the subject if, in a few words, he adverted to the circumstances in which the slave trade stood with reference to the Brazils and the Brazilian States. The CHAIRMAN said as the question was one not immedi. ately connected with the subject before them, it would be for the meeting to say whether they would hear Mr. Foster or not. —( Hear, hear. ) Mr. FOSTER said his reason for introducing the subject in cidentally was, that Ise believed it would not be in their power to discuss it fully during the resent sittings. A DILEGATE said they had already suffered from the intro duction of irregular discussions, and he trusted therefore they would be avoided for the future. The CHAIRMAN felt that it was a subject of incidental dis cussion, but that it was one of great importance. Color.el MILLER seconded the resolution with regard to the internal slave trade in the United States. Though Congress bad declared the slave trade piracy, t hey had never visited the parties with the punishment of piracy. Mr. STAUNTON was sorry to be under the necessity of moving an amendment to the resolution that had been proposed and seconded. It was not correct in point of fact, because it stated at the conclusion—. that it is at the same ti ne our de liberate judgment that the only effectual remedy is the utter ex tinction of slavery. Although he agreed in the general pro position laid down by the British and Forei g n Slave Trade Abolition Society, th a t the on ly reme dy was the utter abolition of slavery, yet that principle did not a pply to the internal slave n r te t trade in the United Stat e s, be cause , w hile the Congress had t efp m u tN t . t e i r ng t n an extinguisht o the e t inslave the it tide internal a i l n parts he u 'ow yha e d r hei of the country..—(Cheers.) not the t they Mr. O'CONNELL thought tha t the resolution as proposed, was full of good common sense. way to abolish the slave trade was to abolish slavery. Mr. Ibtaneuesi concurred entirely in the sentiments that had been expressed by the Hon. Mend ) r for Dublin. If they got a law from the C ongress in America, hewould venture to : say they would not b e a bl e t o carry it into effect without a slaves large army of soldi ers , because would be smuggled frOnt one State to another. The great object in getting Congress to pass a law for the prevention of ' t this species of .traffic,, would be, that it would hold out a great moral example. Mr. JAMES FULLER thought the meeting ought to be made well acquainted with what the internal slave trade in America was before it was called upon not to adopt this resolution. Mr. W. Fost ER said that .he would not press the resolution upon the Convention if they would only allow him to propose another, or call their attention to the state of slavery in the Brazils. From an official return of vessels engaged in the slave trade to the coast of Brazil, under the Portuguese flag, that arrives! at the port of Janeiro, it appeared that 84 vessels had entered that port, bringing with them 36,974 slaves. And although the number of vessels and slaves imported in that year were less than t he preceding one, the trade could not be considered as having diminished, for the. reduced number of slaves imported in 1838 was to be accounted for by several of the. traders having ordered their vessels to discharge at other ports of Brazil, a nd fit out from thence. In order to show the ' which the slave trade was . carried on he would just manner in advert to some few of the vessels engaged in that traffic which had entered the port of Rio Janeiro under the Portuguese flag during the year 1838. In the month of January, in that year, the brig Generoso, fromQuellimaine, l an d e d no less t h an eight hundred slaves at Sepetiba ; in March of that year the barque Maria Carlotta, from Angola, landed 829 slaves, and the Carolina, from Quellimaine, landed 1050 s l av es from Campos. In June, 1838, the ship Cintra, frrtn Miriam, bique took in a cargo of 970 slaves, 214 of whem died on the passage from small-pox, and the remaining 756 were landed, in a very sickly state, at San Sebastaio. The brig schooner Esperance, from Cabinda, landed 400 slaves in a very sickly state, and there were now 5,000 newly-imported slaves on sale at the different repositories in that city and its environs. He would not pursue this account further, but it showed a Most lamentable picture of the traffic in human flesh. The return then went on to state that there were four large reposi_ tories fdr slaves i n the vicinity of the city ; that the most con that at the Bay of Jurujuba, siderable is which is supported by Jorge Jose de Souza, Joze 13ernardina do Sa, Joze Pimenta. ' jun., and Joao Machado Surdoza, who have o ccasionally had there as many as 6, 000 slaves on sale. The second in magni tude is that at the Ponta de Caju, where there are warehouses close to the beach for the reception of slaves, and at all times there are many of these miserable beings on sale. The other two depositories of Botafogo and St. Clemente, are not so ex tensive as those first mentioned ; but occasionally they • are well slaves. In many houses supplied v ith sla this city, and i n the suburbs, there are from 60 to 100 slaves continually on sa le. At the town of Itagoahy, near to Elsa Grande, slaves are as openly sold•as they were at the slave market street of Ri o Janeiro before the p ro hibition of the t ra d e by - Brazil. The slave the treaty with cargoe s are regularly insured by the Assurance Companies and individual underwriters of Rio Janeiro. There exists a Company for lending money , on respon dentia for slave c ar g oes. some of tne slave traders are making arrangements for employing steam-boats in the trade. It would be seen from this that the slave trade was carried on to a very great extent in this port; but if further proof was required, it was to be found in the different correspondences that had taken place bet w e en the r epresentative of this country at Lisbon and the Foreign Office. In a letter from Lord Viscount Palmerston to Lord Howard de Walden, of the 12th of May 1833, it appeared that an address had been unanimously adopted by the House of Commons, representing to her Ma jesty that th e slava trade still continued with great intensity, and that it 'h is even been aggravated in all its horrors. In a letter from Mr. Jerninghans to Viscount Pahnerston, it was stated "That the itriportllilarff ilairiis'into Srazil ten imatt"effgr,' and that they: are cheaper than when the traffic was legal, there being now am duty upon them." And in a letter from Lord Palmerston, to be presented by Lord Howard de Walden to the Portuguese Government, it was stated that the Atlantic swarms with vessels bearing the flag of Portugal, and loaded deep with human victims. In 1837, 48 vessels bearing the Por tugueseilag entered the port of Havannah, after having landed slaves in the neighbourhood; and in 18.38, 44 Portuguese ves sels followed in the same course • and recko n i ng u p on an ave rage 443 slaves for each vessel, the number of slaves lauded in Cuba by these Portuguese vessels must have been at least 40,700. But the , number of Portuguese slave vessels which carry on the trade with Brazil is still greater. At Rio de Ja neiro above 93 slave vessels under the Portuguese flag are re ported as having entered the port in the year 1837, and as having landed in the province to which that capital belongs the enormous number of 41,600 slaves. In the ' year 1838, 84 Portuguese vessels landed in the same province 36,700 slaves. It will be observed that this calculation does net include the number of Portuguese slave vessels which resort to other places in Cuba besides the Havana, nor to any other provinces in Brazil but that of Rio de Janeiro. To these must ag ain be added the number which founder at sea, and the number :those which are captured and condemned, which, at Sierra Leone, amounted to 36, in the two years 1837 and 1838." And, in another letter from Viscount Palmerston to the Baron de Mcncorvo it was stated that " The cruelty with which the trade is carried on, has not been lessened in these latter days. It has been stated during the very last year, that, ".in these slave ships, hundreds of negroes are, during long voyages, crammed into spaces far too small to contain them without the greatest degree of bodily suffering ; that the slave traders, when chased, are in the habit of throwing overboard into the sea, those negroes whose health has broken down under the torture of their confinement ; and that, in order to lighten their ship, and facilitate their escape, they actually drown such of their cargo as are not likely to be profitable for sale in the market to which they are going." And, in a letter from her Majesty's Commission to Viscount Palmerston, the following oc curred :—" It will not, we hope, be regarded as irrelevant to this subject, if we again advert to the indirect, if it should not rather be called the direct, interest which British merchants and British capital in Brazil, derive from the slave trade. With what but British goods is the African market, the freight which is to be bartered for the slave, supplied? With what but slave labour are the works, originating in British capital and enter prise, carried on in this country ? How are the various mines, which, but for similar support, would soon become inope rative, worked? Not by free, but by slave labour." Mr. Forster, after reading this document, said he would only say that he should have been glad if these facts had come to the knowledge of the Convention at an earlier period. Mr.- GEo. STACEY hoped the Convention would come to sonie resolution on the information thus communicated. lie believed it to be' a most important feature in the proceedings, and to make known a greater amount of misery and iniquity connected with slavery than any other document that bad been brought before them. Tice Rey. Tuos..Swast, of Birmingham, rose to submit to the Convention a resolution relative to the Missionaries in Ja maica, which he desired to see adopted, not so much for their honour and for justice to them (for they stood higher than that) as for the honour of the Convention, and that it might do justice to itself. It had been put into his hand by a clear-headed and kind-hearted member of the Soeiety'of Friends, to whom he had been previously unknown, but whom it delighted him to be of use to in introducing it to the Convention. It was as fol lows ( A short conversation ensued on reading the resolution relative to the insertion of other names than that of Mr. Knibb, and it was ultimately carried in the following terms :—) " That this Convention having read with the deepest inte rest and the greatest satisfaction the proofs adduced by the The Rev. W. Knibb and the Rev. J. Clark, of the moral ad vancement, the literary improvement, and the Christian pro gress of the emancipated labourer in Jamaica, expresses its warmest sympathies with those devoted and calumniated men, Mr. Knibb and his coadjutors, who, under circumstances of much excitement and great difficulty, have by their prudence, firmness, and Christian courage protected their coloured brethren in the enjoyment of those equal rights and that en tire independence which were intended by the Act of emanci pation, and which the liberality of the British people gives them a right to demand." It was pretty well known to most 1 Members of the Convention that Mr. Knibb had been called every thing but a gentleman.—(Laughter.) A respected ministerial brother on one occasion, at Birmingham, had pro duced a catalogue of names which had been given him, and stated that he was generally known by that of the Daniel O'Con nell, of Jamaica.—( Laughter.) Certainly that was multum in parvo.—( Hear, hear.) The names of American Aboli tionists stood high—of women as well as men—Angelina Grimki, Maria Chapman, and others, among whom he would name, as an American Abolitionist, George Thompson. —( Cheers.) These names were musical in their ears, but they did not stand higher, in his humble judgment, than did those of the ' missionaries in Jamaica.—( Hear, hear. ) Let it not be : forgotten that to them we were in debted for the act of emancipation. But a higher honour - awaited' them; that 'of being subjected to the frowns of the wicked in high places—of being maligned anti falsified for righteousness sake, by those from whose tell grasp, they had rescued the suffering negro. But their characters, he would be Doid to say, would stand the test and come forth from this furnace as gold seven times 'purified. Their characters were as immaculate as their exertions were imble, and God would be with them—Omnipotence would stretch his hand, over them, and keep them as the apple of his eye. As to men in power he (Mr. S.) had no faith in them ; they were clever men, but not great men. He would not mention nantes, but some of them were degenerate plants of noble vines. They must trust them not, but take this business into their own hands. If he might be allowed he would express his thanks to the dis tinguished Gentleman beside him (Mr. O'Connell), for whom he felt grateful. not only t'or having spoken eloquently, but for having acted eloquently also.—( Cheers. ) The Rev. A. HA avEv rose with great pleasure to second the resolution: He thought the cause of abolition in the,West Indies owed much, not only to the labour but to the courage and Christian prudence of the Missionaries. But for the re sistance of these intrepid men to all attempts to silence them the cause could not have advanced so rapidly as it did. The Missionary Smith had carried the torch of liberty through the land, and roused the population, and the noble stand made in ,s42,,eissiment 19y-Lo.ll3roughatn:in vindicating the Missionaries had roused many to action who had never acted in the cause of the slave before ; and now emancipation was carried, he be lieved the prudence of the Missionaries had already done, as cer tainly it would be required to do, much t o secure i ts full benefit to the negro.—( Hear, hear.) 3 r. O'Coloter.t. having risen to make an observation on the conversation before referred to said, as he was on his legs he wished to make a few observations on the resolution.—(Cheers.) Ile would not be guilty of any lengthened tresspass on their patience, but he could not be silent on this motion of thanks to his friend Mr. Knibb.—( Hear, hear.) And really he would prefer, though lie could not express his sentiments in adequate terms of admiration of the conduct that gentleman had pursued an,l of gratitude for his services ; yet he should infinitely prefer that his, tongue should do discredit to his intellect in at tempting to speak hi s mer i ts j us tly, th an th a t h is h eart should be restricted in the expression of his gratitude to a man who had suffered so much and had done so much good for the cause of the negro.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen here little knew what perils Mr. Knibb had undergone—theydittle knew that he had this merit, o f exciting the animosity and hatred of every enemy to morality, religion, and liberty i n Jamaica..-.( Cheers.) I n p ro p or ti on as goo d men favoured the vices of the system of slavery there, and of course when all bad:passio ns an d s i n i ster interests were combined in one im- ' pulse in faiour of slavery, so potent must have been the motives in the white population, and so potent were the enemies of Mr. Knibb. But they had not confined themselves to calling him a very O'Corinell.—( If they could have called him worse they would have done so)—(Cheers and laughter)—but they had traduced him in evey possible way. His path had been beset with vilification and calumny. His person had been seized, and for daring to thank God that he had escaped the necessity of resorting to a-med force to protect himself; for no greater ceime he had been manacled, fettered, and cast in prison, and many regretted they had not made him a martyr by putting him to death. And did that intimidate him ? No ! With true agitation courage—( Cheers and laughter)—he determined to act with three-fold greater zeal against the enemies of Christianity and freedom than he had ever done , before.—( Hear, hear.) It was not only the purity of his in tentions, his exertions, and his success which deserved their approbation—it was the talent, the tact, and the perseverance with which he had followed up all his exertions in favour of his coloured brethren, whim he now had the glorious recompense of seing embracing every good work—coming forward to de• dare their belief in the Redeemer—anxious for the education of their children—setting out their l an d. And freemen, aye, and freeholders too—(Cheers)—looking forwaid to the time when they should have their representatives in the Assembly, and instead of looking to England to protect them, should assert their own rights by strength of acts and arms if neces- Sexy, but still more satisfactorily by their power in the:legisla tion of the island.—(Cheers.) To Mr. Knibb, and those who participated with him, much of these results were due, and by the manner in which they had overcome difficulties which opposed them they had given salutary experience in other coun tries of the facility with which they could work nut the eman cipation of the negro.—( Hear, hear.) What a lesson had they read of America and of the Brazils!—what a living and speak ing picture had they exhibited of the facility of carrying out emancipation, and of the safety of doing justice—( Hear, hear) —and it would be a libel against the God of justice if it were safer to exercise iniquity and tyranny— to inflict stripes and punishment —to rob men of their time and labour ; and to declare that there would be •'danger in doing justice, and setting free the slave, and in touching the con sciences of men, and urging them to an act of tardy retri bution.—t Cheers.) Until the experiment was made, however, thiewould not be believed. Glory be then to the spirit mani fested in the effort—(Cheers)—and let that spirit be cherished and transmitted. There were many young Knibbs there now, whose hearts were throbbing strongly to distinguish themselves, who would learn, in the praises received in that Convention, .the rich reward good mess bestow on the worthy participators in the cause of universal freedom. Mr. Knibb and he (Mr. O'Connell) differed much in their religion —that was an affair between themselves and God—(Hear, hear)—but they agreed heartily in its highest and greatest principle--that„of universal charity and benevolence towards man.—(Cheers.) His Hon. Friend might receive praise which he had not expected, but he had well deserved it. He had been a confessor in the great cause of human liberty, he was almost a martyr, and here they had him ready to be a confessor and a martyr yet.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. SPURGE said he thought it right to say Mr. O'Connell was slightly mistaken in one circumstance, which he had men tioned. Mr. Knibb at the time he was imprisoned for his zeal by the Government, had been compelled to take up arms, and had not refused to do so. Mr. BIRT of Manchester said that although there might be some indelicacy in a personal friend of Mr. Knibb's joining in the discussion of this resolution, it might be thought on the other hand that if such a person were silent it might seem as if he did not cordially agree in the sei.timent expressed by °the's. Mr. O'Connell, with his usual point and eloquence, had alluded to the many difficulties which the ardent zeal and perseveinnee of Mr. Knibb had overcome, and hadshown how these difficulties had only stimulated him to greater exertion, but those who h'd known Mr. Knibb for many years, and the course lie had pursued , knew well that. to n mind like his— kind an d t e nder, as well as ardent and zealous—the timidity of the friends of liberty, and the ever prudence of many who offered him their counsel was far more painful. These persons complained that he was not sufficiently delicate in his expressions—that he told the truth too boldly—( Hear, hear) —and even went so far as to shock the delicacy of some sensi tive persons by calling things by their right names.—(Hear, hear.) These were difficulties harder to overcome than calumny, but he had vassed safely and successfully through them, and whatever he might have felt when his friends had endeavoured to restrain him, or at the fierce hostility of those who threatened him with destruction, he had been sustained and carried through the trial, and they had now to congratulate him on the success of their exertions, in which he had taken so prominent a part, and he trusted that he would live to see the day when they should meet to celebrate one universal jubilee of all mankind, and when the whole world should join in the dissemination of the principles of morality, religion, and peace.—( Cheers. ) Dr. Cox felt anxious that on this occasion the name of Mr. Burchell should not be forgotten, because he, toe, had stood in the front of the anxious battle that had been fought in Jamaica —he too, as Mr. O'Connell had observed, was a confessor and almost a martyr, and at that moment was sinking under the effects of his exertions in Jamaica. He wished to see asso ciated the names of Burchell, Gardner . Clark, and Knibb for they were " a ll h onoura bl e men. " —( Cheers.) , 6 •-•.trftsit-rsise r rtw•b u t- e l oqtient -- eulogy en-Mns-gaibla..ana.l44 brother missionaries f rom thss Rev. Thos. Scales, Dr. Hoar said, with reference to one sentiment that had fallen from Mr, O'Connell, it ought to be ren-em bered that there had been " a young William Knibh," a youth of twelve years old, who died of a fever produced by excess of joy on bearing that the mem bers of his, father's church had united in the voluntary manumission of their slaves, and so deeply were these persons impresser' with the excellencies of the character of the young philanthropist that they erected a tablet to his memory. He thought it would be interesting to the Convention to know the trial which their friend had been called on to endure, and that his beloved child had fallen a martyr to the cause.—( Hear. ) Dr. G. K. PRINCE said the gentleman who had preceded him had spoken from reports from Jamaica ; but he begged leave to present himself to them as one which for a series of years had been acquainted with the operations of the Baptist missionaries and others in Jamaica. He thought his testimony would be valued as in 1823, when he had first sailed to Jamaica. He went with the notion that the security of property in that island was likely to be disturbed by this result of their exertions, and he remembered that in his first communication from the island, he had expressed the opinion that they should do very well if Mr. Buxton and others would only let them alone. But it was not long before he saw proper to recal this opinion, and he could state that he attributed it without reservation to the inst.' uctions of those excellent persons and their judicious conduct in many resnects, the great preparation that WAS made in the negro mind for the benefit that was afterwards conferred on them.—(Cheers.) Such was the spirit of honesty and morality that prevailed, that he could expose property in Jamaica in a manner in which he could not do it in England, and such was the conviction of this truth there, that many of the slaves who had been active in destroying their chapels, had not been backward in supply ing resources for raisin„.. them again.—(Hear, hear.) He (Dr. Price) had had the honour of suffering some loss With the missionaries, and also of opening his doors to them, and those belonging to them, when many others were shut, and he was desirous to offer his acknowledgments for the many benefits he had received from them in return.—(Cheers. ) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously, and the Convention adjourned till four o'clock. The Convention re-assembled at Four o'clock. Mr. R. JowITT brought up the Report of the Committee appointed to consider of the situation of the negro population of Upper Canada. It was as fellows : " This Committee, viewing with the deepest interest, and the most earnest solicitude, the state, condition, and welfare of the coloured population of Upper Canada, and finding that attempts have been made by slave.holders in the United States to re-capture and bring into captivity such fugitive slaves as have taken refuge in the province by accusations of felony ; and as it has come to the knowledge of this Cemmittee that, in the attempted surrender of persons so charged, human life has been sacrificed, do earnestly re. commend to this Convention to address her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, inquiring, as far as be deems consistent with the public service, whether instructions have been sent to her Ma. jesty's representative in Canada so to act, in the event of any re. newed application, as will prevent a coloured fugitive from such surrender, "And whereas public provision has been made in the different die. tricts of Upper Canada for the purpose of education, and schools having been opened to which the coloured people have been in vited by the Lieutenant-Governor of the province ; and whereas the odious, unchristian Prejudice against colour has operated most detrimentally in ftustrating the desires of the Government by vir tually excluding coloured persons from these schools, this Corn. mi►tee strongly recommend the Convention to address the Colonial Minister, requesting that he would issue such instructions as may insure to the coloured population of Upper Canada the benefit and blessings of education in common with the white inhabitants a the province. " This Committee also begs respectfully to submit to this Convention that it is very desirable that the paper of the Rev. Herbert Taylor, read by one of the Secretaries, showing that slavery is a recognised principle of the Hudson's Bay Company, and that native Indians are held as slaves both by the Company and its servants; should be brought as early as possible under the notice of the Government, in order that immediate and effectual measures be taken for its entire suppression. THOMAS ROLPH, CHARLES EDWARD LESTER, JOHN W. WAYNE, RICHARD DAVIS WEBB, ROBERT JOWITT, ROBERT FORSTEF:„ Mr. FORSTER seconded the adoption of was unanimously agreed to. * tine Report, which Mr. FoRSTER said he was dam .ated by his brother then engaged in the labours of the COPr .entio l n, to move— " That this Convc few details [of has heard with horro r an d d e t es t a ti on a rl- .le appalling extent of the illegal trade in slaves fro m AfriC 9 . to the Brazils ; and feels called upon to recommend the whole s ull,',eet to the close and unremitting attention of the Coin. mirtfe of the British and Foreign Anti. Slavery Society." Mr. PRUMPHRY seconded the motion, which was unani mously adopted. FraGussox moved, and Mr. Alderman 13n LLEY, of Liverpool, seconded the motion, that "This Convention has heard with deep regret and sorrow, of which the internal slave trade is carried on from the older to the more newly settled slave states of the North American Union, to the extent of upwards of 80,000 victims annually to this un_ tlghteous traffic." " Resolved—That on expressing their detestation of this traffic, and in acknowledging that it excites their deep surpriseand abhorrence that this should be protected and cherished by a nation which has abolished the African slave trade, and declared it le be piracy— this Convention is impressed with the conviction that such a syste- matic trade in man must be attended with excessive cruelty and wrong to the objects of it, and involved in its prosecution a fearful ox tent of barbarity and hardness of heart on the part of the trader ; and that effectual means ought to be forthwith taken in the United States of America to remove this stain from the character of that nation," Dr. Honaxtrt was anxious to say a few words respecting, the colony of Liberia, of which he had been an anxious ob server for many years. He desired not to raise a discussion respecting the success of the colony then, but he did hope that the Members of the Convention would fully consider the ques tion in their private meditations. He could assure them that the question was-nu:eh- misundersttiod." He depTererthe sort of civil war, as he might term it, which ran Ad amongst the friends of the negro upon this subject, and was sure it was only because of erroneous information upon it. A very desultory conversation ensued, many denying that the colony had been any benefit to the negro, but, on the con trary, a curse. There seemed, however, to be a general wish not then to enter upon the subject, and as it was said -- Mr. lii RN EY had received some late information upon the sub ject, he was called upon to speak. Ile said the Colonization Society was organized in America in 1817, dud consisted al most exclusively of slave-holders. They had the complete con trol of all matters in the Society—their object was to remove all free blacks from America, because they considered they conta minated the slaves. The negro population, however, met and declared that they would not remove, and their reason was a most amiable one—they would not remove because their breth ren were in slavery—(Cheers)—and they would not go until they were enabled to set them free. In a meeting held in Philadelphia in 1817, at which there were three thousand negroes, they declared unequivocally their repugnance to the scheme, and that repugnance had been gradually growing ever since, so much so; that within the last twelve years no one had gone from the free States. . All the emigration had been from the slave States, and he knew nothing in the law of the States to prevent the former master of one of the slaves sent to Liberia from claiming him again as a slave whenever he pleased. The reason urged in favour of the Society was, that in the States it was impos4ble for the two races, the blacks and the whites, to live in harmony together. During a period of twenty years' actual colonization, they had exported about 5,000, bond and free. A great deal of cruel and relentless legislation had been carried on against the free coloured popu lation. The State of Ohio, for instance, he believed, had passed a great many sanguinary laws against them since the institution of the Society. The Legislature of Ohio had passed a law which prevented the free coloured man residing within the limits of the State—from giving testimony before a Court of Justice—so that those poor people had suffered the deepest wrongs without redress.—( Hear, hear.) A coloured man could not give testimony as to what was called a book account. A white man might prove an account before the proper tribunal, and was received as a good witness, but a coloured man was prevented doing so. He could not even bring forward the testimony of another coloured man if his adversary was a white man, so that he was often cheated; but of course the virtuous part of the community did not avail themselves of that law, because they would not refuse payment of a just account. His opinion was, that before the institu tion of the Colonization Society the condition of the free coloured people in many parts of the country was improving, and they were permitted, where schools were established, to send their children to them ; but after the colonization was ' carried into effect, vast portions of the children of the coloured people were excluded from those schools, although the coloured people were taxed for the support of those schools as well as the whites. It was sometimes said that portions of the tax paid by the coloured people was set apart for them, and they could have their schools if they pleased; but, in consequence of the small number of the ooloured people, and their disper sion over the country, it was impossible to maintain a school exclusively for them ; so that, in fact, the law amounted to an actual inhibition entirely.—(Hear, hear.) Another argument put forth in favour of colonization was, that it would put an end to the slave-trade on the coast of Africa, and would Christianize and civilize the people. He would make one remark on the probability, or rather improbability, of ever succeeding in Christianizing the heathen of Africa. He believed the history of the civilized world would not show a single instance in which Christian colonization, as it was called, had been successful in Christianizing the heathen. He might mention William Penn as the noblest specimen of a Christian statesman.—( Hear, hear.) He doubted not the aborigines of the State of Pennsylvania would have been a Christian people if they had survived ; but they had been entirely exterminated, and in fact, that kind of colonization could not be carried out. The same result followed the Spanish colonization. Those who went out.under Columbus were a Christian people ; and in the time of Celuinbus Spain was not exceeded as a religious country. They found the Island of Hispaniola with a million of inhabit ants. In fifteen years that one million was reduced to 14,000. He thought colonization was not effectual for this reason, namely, that those who went out to colonize naturally'adopted the social organization to wLich they had been accustomed. Ultimately they assumed superiority over the heathen, and the latter feeling their inferiority and degradation, hated and despised the former, and at length disaffection came among them. As to the cessation of the African slave-trade, he begged leave to make an observation. He had had a eonversr tion with Captain Richardson that morning, who told him the slave trade was carried on in Liberia without any hindrance. A DELEGATE wished to ask the Hon. Gentleman, before he sat down, a question respecting the truth of a statement he had heard as exhibiting the feeling of the people of colour in New York. He had heard that the agent of a Company formed to institute a cemetery or burying-place for coloured people apart from the white, waited on a co l oured gentleman, for a contribution, but that gentleman declined giving one, and said, " You have provided a larg e grave yard in Liberia and therefore Air.j it i a t N i s Er had unnecessary n otb provideeteon aware one ethe here.", anecdote itself, but he had no doubt it well expressed the feeling s of the co l oure d people with regard to th e c li mate of Liberia As to the p f r t o i s ; perity of teort were return tnu c re o nx l itself,o ttr r oe y mthe ew ua n United dnbdse thatltiaetveesd To multitudesg r h e a w t f m tthhee mow were anxious morta lity there, he might mention that an exp . &C o o s , o s it was called, was sent out from New Orleans, consisting of expedition, as emi grants to that colony. A veryintelligent coloured man, named Jure, who went out to explere i th e e country, i on his return told him (Mr. Birney) that within six weeks after the vessel sailed, 85 out of the 150 died. Frequent attempts had been made to persuade the Board of Managers at Washington to ex hibit accurate medical returns, but that had not yet been done. The colonization scheme in his country was the strongest antagonist to the free principle advocated by the friends of the negro ; an d a l t h ough it was i ne ff ec t u al in carrying out the object i n v i ew, yet i t was not ineffective in its opposition to the Anti-Slavery Society. The Hon. Gentleman conclud e d a very able an d interesting address, amidst great [applause, by moving the following resolution : " That this Convention regards the scheme of African coloni zation, proposed and urged by the American Colonization S oc i ety, as not only totally inadequate to the overthrow of slavery in the United States, but as tending powerfully to strengthen that on. as deeply injurious to the best int erests of the negro race, ri i a ,w te bler bond or free, both in America anti Africa, FRIVOLOUS SUITS B LL. On the Order of the Day being moved fGr the third reading of the Frivolous Suits Bill, Mr. H. BERKELEY moved that the Bill should be read a third time that day six months. After a few words from Mr. GORDON and Mr. CRESS. WELL, the third reading of the Bill was postponed till Thursday next. SALE OF BEER BILL. Mr. PAKINGTON moved that the Report on this Bill should be received. Mr. S. O'BRIEN opposed the motion, and moved that the debate should be adjourned. Lord SA NDON seconded the motion. Mr. PAKINGTON objected to the adjournment of the debate. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For receiving the Report 47 For the adjournment of the debate Majority fur the adjournment On the motion for the third reading of the Inclosure Act, _ _ _ . . Mr. PRYME moved the insertion of the following clause :—And whereas, by the said secondly above re cited Act, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for two-third parts in number and value of the several persons who shall be interested in manner therein mentioned, in any open and common arable fields (including any untitled slips or balks therein). or any open and common meadow or pasture lands or fields, in any parish, township, or place, in England or Wales, known by metes and bounds, or occupied according to known and legal rights, might in manner therein mentioned, inclose such said lands and fields ; and whereas doubts have arisen whether the said secondly above recited Act applies .to and includes such open and common arable fields as have certain tracts of grass land commonable during part of each year, or holden in severalty or by lot, or other appointment, by or among persons interested therein during other part of each year, adjacent thereto, but not separated by any fence from such open and common aralihrli.:l4.--,,iii,"-•tr-therefore that the said secondly above recited Act, and all powers there in contained, shall be adjudged and construed to apply and extend to all such open and common fields and tracts of grass land as are hetein mentioned. Mr. BRADSHAW moved that the 'debate on the clause should be adjourned ; but on the suggestion of Sir T. FRE EM A NTL E, he withdrew his motion, and the clause was brought up. The Bill was then read a third time and passed, the clause being added by way of rider. The Master in Chancery Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. TROOPS IN INDIA. Lord HO WICK moved for certain Returns relative to the pay of the troops in India. The Noble Lord said he did so in consequence of the discussion which had arisen on the subject in the debate on the Army Estimates. Sir J. C. HOB HOU SE, after some strong remarks on the impropriety of reviving controversies on this subject, expressed a hope his Noble Friend would not press the motion. After a few words from Mr. ELLIOT and Sir JAMES GRAIIAM, ------- Lord HOWICK consented to postpone the motion to Thursday next. Tha House then adjourned at Half-past One. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI- SLAVERY CONVENTION. The Convention a.sernbled yesterday at the Friends' meet ing -house, White Hart-court, Gracechurch-street, Dr. GREVILLE in the Chair. SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE Mr. T. FOSTER moved resolutions (substantiali)r the same as those printed below), but containing the words, " call upon the British Government to use all moral principle and religious measures to suppress the slave-trade." Colot. el WATCIIOP, R.N., made an appalling statement of the horrors he witnessed in the slave-trade from Africa— hundreds were stewed in a space not two feet nine inches high! --(Hear, hear)—and, on the alarm of crtesers were merci lessly thrown o 4 erboard--( Hear, hear.) No colouring; could exceed the atrocities of the slave -trade.— ( Hear, hear.) It was a gambling transaction, in which the miscreants cared no more for the lives of negroes than dogs.--( Hear, hear. ) Dr. Cox objected to the word " religious," as implying a call upon the Government to take religious measures under its sanction, which he thought would compromise the question of religious establishments. The Rev. Mr. Blitz concurred in the objection. Mr. (latest-La considered that by "religious means" was only intended acting on those great Christian principles which all Governments should follow.—( Hear. hear. ) Mr. HARVEY said, as a Scotch Dissenter, he could not agree to the words, which would compromise the question now being discussed with so much violence in Scotland. Mr. STURGE and Mr. BACK HOUSE were of opinion that the words only implied that the Convention would act for the suppression of the slave-trade on religious principles.—( Hear. ) Col. MILLER strongly supported the retention of the words. Mr. STUaGE again expressed himself deeply convinced of the prom iety, by these means, of powerfully conveying the sense of the Convention as to the superiority of the religious measures, of which alone they could recognise the employment. After a good deal of discussion and many suggestions, The Rev. Mr. Patee rearetted much that the discussion should have bten clouded and disturbed by the unnecessary in troduction of prejudices attached to the Church and State con troversy.—( Hear, hear.)—He was for the retention of the words, as only meaning the high importance of the Govern ment acting on Christian principles for putting down the slave trade.—( Hear, hear.) He was astonished that any one should object to it.—( Hear, hear. ) The Rev. Mr. ROBINSON asked who could suppose that. these words could be looked upon as implying an approval of Church establishments coming from Joseph Sturge s Parliament.— ; tin a g nd th th e ,e ieference (Hear, hear, and a laugh. ) mi T gh h t is li w e a m s e a t g la re y The Rev. J. H. Hisrrote at last suggested that the difficulty Resolution, and t to passed merely express the opinion of the Convention arnfmolel: 46 That it is extremely desirable that ed om to it provisions . should be made by the laws of those nations where is tolerated for giving full and effectual relief to pers s or a is ver l y t and held in slavery in consequence of suet) illegali eally imported and to their offspring, as also to such persons i hainvilePsret on,n o m ay, in consequence of their entering the limits of countries e r in which slavery exists as aforesaid, be reduced to caVer" " That, in the opinion of this Convention the present Y. means in operation for the suppression of the slave trade have la • me i ta ably failed of success , that the sufferings of the slaveshaie been grea tly augmentad,' that vast sums of mon e y h ave been f r u itl essly expended, and that no means can be effectual except such as are based on moral, religious, and pacific principles." '6 That it is the opinion of the Committee that the scheme of Mr. Turnbull , as exp lained b y him in hi s statement submitted ted to this Convention, though it involves questions of detail i.to which this Convention cannot enter, is in its object and Liens and several of its sugges ,of great practical i pur pose, amport attention ance, and demands the earliest of the Governments ted in the mixed Cominission Courts, but that the on ly security on y security for the extinction of the slave trade it the universal abolition of slavery." " That the most cordial thanks of this Convention be given to Mr. Turnbull for the unwearied zeal and able exertions with which he has prosecuted the object." Mr. TuasTauLL then proposed that the Convention further adopt more specifically the resolutions which follow, and detail mor e specifically the nature of his plans. On the motion of Me. & u rge and another friend, however, he withdrew them, it not appearing convenient to pledge the Convention so minutely to particular measures.-- 1. That the African Slaie Trade was legally abolished hi the British West India Colonies at least twenty-seven years before the final abolition of negro slavery in these colonies. That the African Slave 'trade has for several years been suppressed in the Isle of Bourbon, French Guiana, and the French West India islands, although slavery itself has not yet been abolished in these Colonies. EVENING ED rDI and therefore as wholly unworthy of the c, the philanthropist and the Christian." JOHN Caorrfx, Esq , seconded the res4ution.\ „.111r. FoLbaa.could not conceive how Christian le Isould support colonization, for he conceived it wasoppOse 4- tv evoty Christian principle. ( ,; ttkitiiree;- and lII* et' Mr. BANNISTER hoped tha Convention would adopt some means by which those in England would be made -aware of what had been doing in Liberia for the last seventeen years. The'resolution was thee put and carried unanimously. Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL, late Governor of Sierra Leone, and Delegate to the for the native king's of Western Africa, and the coloured people of Sierra Leone, then came forward amidst loud cheers to address the assembly. It was a most trying occasion to such an humble individual as himself to have to stand before so intelligent, enlightened, and bene volent a body. Ho regretted his powers of eloquence were not such as to enable him to express his feelings in behalf of the poor Africans. He felt ;quite identified with them, and the gratitude he felt for their kindness in assisting him in his en deavours for their advancement was beyond his expression. His object was to get a thorough inquiry into the settlements on the coast of Attica, and that the abuses which had been known to exist there fur a series of years might be tully exposed to the British people. Infamy of the vilest description (and he challenged the Colonial Genie or the Horse Guards, his own department, to prove the contrary) had been knowingly and wilfully supported. He would not make assertions without proof, and therefore would briefly state how he found the people, sod what his views were. He was appointed to Sierra Leone in 1834, and when Mr. S. Rice, now Lord Monteagle, sent for him, he saidtthat his object in sending him out was to obtain correct information respecting the state of that settlement., which occasioned more expense than any other under the Crown, and one with re spect to which he was desirous to know well what steps he ought to take. It was but justice to Lord Monteagle to say that he sent him away three times before he would allow him to accept the Government; but he, as a soldier, felt that he was bound to undertake the duty proposed to him, however dangerous it might be, and however much it was opposed to the wishes of his friends. He accepted the appointment, and he had to thank Providence alone that he had gone through the dangers of the office, from climate and other risks, with perhaps less injury than any of his predecessors. The moment the ship which carried him out arrived at the colony, he found the opposi. tion which the military there were accustomed to display to ; ' wards the civil authorities. From that day forward the opposi tion was steadily kept up. When he arrived, he found the liberated Africats in a state of perfee% nudity, but he was one abled to correct that evil, with the exception of the erewemon, who were; described as averse to wearing clothing, although he believed that the opposition in that respect was owing to some of the European merchants. However, ir. 1836, he had the satisfaction of seeing the Krooemen Men np one day le the Government House ail clothed. — (Applause.) —But be was sorry to say, that since he was recalled, they had returned to their former eondition.—(Hears 'scar. )—He had taken pains to ascertain the character of the people who were entrusted to his charge, and although the tribes were numerous, and totally dissimilar in many respects, yet they all resembled io the particular, that if they were convinced that those with whom they had to deal meant to act honestly, aaythirig might be done with them.—( Hear, hear.) The first poi.. son to whom he applied for information was the Colonial Chaplain, as to the state of religion and the schools. But the Rev. Gentleman would give hint no information on the subject, more than this--tlrat it was necessary to beware of the missiona ries. —(Hear hear, and laughter.) Yet he (Col. C.) found out aftelwards that whatever good had been done in VlVstein Africa was owing to the missionaries of all denominations.-- ( Applause.) He found that in the schools in Free Town there was a line distinctly drawn between the children born in that colony and those who were liberated from the slave ships. The former would not go to the same schools with the latter.—( Hear, hear.) . They thought it derogatory to them to associate with their liberated little brethren.—(Hear, hear.) But he also got over that evil by appealing to the chiefs of the people, and the colonial children and liberated children mixed together.—( Hear, hear.) He imtitutCd schools for girls in Free Town, but he was ishligeti. to remote to the Bananas to pro tect the children_ fro , ":, his own countrymen.—( Hear. hear.) It 1"3 of Yiu use to take t h e Af r i cans from the slave ship and east them on the shore to provide for themselves —( He'? b" ar)—unless we provided for their instruction as the m . h eans of maintaining themselves.--( Hear.) But what was L . :: : practice there w w a aa h n i fuon d of ? 21d When a for the men e s e n shi p allowance eh he and p the was children brought until they were otherwise provided for. There was no allow once whatever for the women, and they were consequently given away to any one who chose to come and take them —( Hear, hear, hear. )—the officers of the Government having the first choice.—( Great sensation.) James Stephen, of the Colonial 0 ~ cc and Mr. Buxton, knew that as well as he did.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel Campbell then went into details of this mis conduct of inini.ters of the Gospel and officers of the Govern ment, which greatly shocked the meeting. Those details were extremely personal, and a strong feeling was expressed by a pot, of the meeting that the names of absent pe.sons onght not its be so introduced. The Gallant Gentlemen impugned the conduct of the Colonial Office, which differed from him in opinion, and reinstated the persons wh om he dis missed. owards the close of his - address - the meeting ma nifested considerable impatience. In conclusion he stated, that just before he was recalled, he had biought the chiefs of the slave-dealing tribes into such a view of their own interests, and so friendly a feeling towards the Colonial Government, that there was an immediate prospect of their soon abandoning the traffic if he had remained there. Captain WATC HOP bore testimony to the excellent dis positions of the Western Africans, and to the good conduct of the liberated blacks. He had himself ♦isited the schools es tablished by Col. Campbell, and carried away from them some specimens of the writing df the children, which he distributed throngli the meeting. They were really excellent. Ho con cluded by moving— That the Committee of the British and Foreign Anti.Stavery Society be requested to take into consideration the statements rela. tive to Sierra Leone now laid before this Convention, and to take such et eps thereon as may appear best calculated to obtain a thorough investigation' into the state of our present settlements on the West Coast of Africa, with the view of exposing the abuses which have so long existed, and prevented that advance ment in civilization and suppression of the slave trade, se ardently deAreil by the real friends of Africa, and to obtain which so much I has- been expended:'" The Rev.' Mr. PRICE seconded the resolution; which was carried unanimously. Mr. Justice JEtiEarty: warmly defended Mr. Stephen ofitte Colonial Office, from the imputations which had been cal upon him. Ile moved— " That a paper, detailing a plan of Stave Trade Abolition, by Mr. Murray; of Glasgow, having been laid on the table of the Se cretarieA, " Reso:ved—That the tame be referred to a Committee Amidst ing of Mr. Murray, Dr. Bowring, Mr. George Thompson, and the Mover and Seconder, with instructious to report themeon to-suor. row." The Rev. Mr. CARLISLE seconded the resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. The Rev. Mr. C. GROSVENOR then mired the following resolution : " That this Convention, deeply sympathising with the storvivers of the Amislad, who, though fully proved to be rightfully and legally flee, ate yet as slaves incarcerated in the United States, under the authority of the Government of that country, do express their regret and astonishment at the course ptrsued towards those, victims of cupidity and cruelty, in the vexatious delays to which they have been subjected, in their trial in American Courts, and especially in the interference of the National Executive in aid of th• oppressors of these prisoners, for the purpoie of delivering them up to their unjust claimants, and thus reducing them to absolute and perpetual slavery." . _ . . The tier. Mr. BLOCK seconded the resolution, which, after some discussion of a very desultory character, was agreed to. Dr. filAnnEs, in supporting the resolution respecting the survivors of the Amistad (which he did frown a full knowledge of the facts), strenuously defended Lori 61elte11 *id Mr. Stephen, of the Colonial-office. After some routine business, the meeting adjourned at nine o'clock. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) NOTICE TO MARINERS QUARANTINE. REGULATIONS AT CADIZ. The following copy of a decree has been received at Lloyd's, from the British Consul at Cadiz : The Provincial Board of Health, on the Ist of this month, communicates to the, Board of Trade as' follows :—• In conse quence of there being in the Lazaretto of Malta, under qua rantine, an English vessel from Alexandria, attacked by the plague, the Supreme Board of Health has commanded, by au order elated the '>2d of May last, which I have just ieceived, that all vessels arriving in our ports from that island shall be considered as having unclean bills of health so long as the men tioned vessel shall continue in that state.' Which, with the concurrence of the said Board of Trade, is hereby made public, for the information and government of the mercantile com munity. (Signed) " Cadiz, June 6, IMO." "JOSE MARIA AGUAYO, " Accountamt-Secretary. MRS. MABERLY'S NOVEL, " EMILY, OR THE COUNTES S OF RosvwnALE."—The Times justly observes of ibis work, that it is " One of the best novels of its class that has appeared for several seasons. The fair authoress has de scribed the modes and manners of polished society with a faci lity and truth of representation which none but a writer accus tomed to move in the circles of which she treats, and to observe carefully what she beheld there, could accomplish. This is the great merit of the book ; the scenes represented are such as she actually beheld ; and the characters she has described are such as form the actual dramatis personw of them. There is no caricature. The plot is simple and compact, with suffi cient interest to create attention, and reward it. 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