The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-24 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. breasts of thousands of his fellow -countrymen across the Atlantic, and he was pleaKA that the last tones of his voice were heard in that assembly, expressing his gratitude to that great and good Scan. The motion was carried by every Member rising up, and with out any acclamation. Upon the motion of Dr. PRICE, seconded by the Elev. Mr. Clst.ustst, the thanks of th 4 meeting were voted to the five Vice- PresidentQfor the able manner in which they hat conducted the procoodings of the Convention. Mr. JOREPII STI:Ree most feelingly returned thanks. Thanks were lien voted to the secretaries, the Press Committee, ; after which Mr. WOODWA,,RD read a resolution of thanks and gratitude to the Almighty for permitting the assembly The members then re. znainod a short time in mental prayer, and the Convention was dissolved. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE DOWNING-STREET, Ju 20, 184). The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and ap point Lieut.-General the Right Hon. Sir F. Adam, Lieut.- General Sir B. D'Urban, and Lieut.-General Sir A. F. Bar nard, Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Military O r d e r of the Bath, to be Knights Grand Cross of the said Order. WHITEHALL, JUNE 18. The Lord Chancellor has appointed E. W. Hazel, of Oxford, in the eounty of. Oxford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Soaaruissien signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Gloueester, and of the City and County of the City of Glou cester, and of the City and County of the City of Bristol. Gloueestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—T. Hol reyd, Esq., to be Captaia, vice Worrall, deceased, June 9. The following places have been duly registered fer solemniz ing marriages therein, pursuant to the Act of the 6th and 7th William IV., chap. Ss: Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire. Bethesda Chapel, Runcorn, Cheshire. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. FREDERICK LADEWIG, confectioner, Tottenham. .mart-road. JAMJIIS HENRY DOWLING, scrivlncr, Gloucester. BANKRUPTS. ALEXANDER MITCHELL, tea-dealer, Devizes, to surreader on July 4, and August 4, at ten, at the Bear Inn, Devizes. Cattlin, Ely-place, London. THOMAS CROWTHER, wine and spirit-merchant, Liverpool, July 4, and August 4, at twelve, at th• Clarendon monis, Liverpool. Hohie, Loftus, and Young, New Inn, London ; Bradshaw and Yates, Liverpool. JOHN ACKERMAN, draper, Bruton, Somerset, July 6, and Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Mitre Inn, Wells. Overbury, 1'6414y-street, Loudon. JAMES PICKMORE JACKSON an I PETER JACK SON, wool dealers, Manchester, July 13, and Aug. 4, at twelve, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Siater lead Ideelis, Manchester ; Milne, Parry, M.lne, and Morris, Harcoart-buildings, Temple, London. JOHN JARDINE, timber-merchant, Haverfordwest, July 22, and Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Castl! Inn, Haverfordwest. flees or Gwynne, Haverfordwest; Hastins, Harpur-street, Red Lion-sqlare, London. JOSIA H SWANN WOOD, Ap . rit-merchant, Liverpool, June 29, and Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liver pool. Crump and Hassall, Liverpool; Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London. ROWLA.ND COCKSON, commission agent, Manchester, July 9, and August 4, at two, at the Comm.ssi,ners'-rooms, Manchester. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, Loudon ; Archer, Ossett. WILLIAM HOLDAWAY, innkeeper, Pe:ersE.old, South amptonsiiire, June 30, and August 4, at two, at the Red Licn Ina, Farehain, Southamptonshire. Park and Nelson, Essex street, Strand. London. J()EIN GISBOhNE, cattle salesman, BryJerry, Mon nonthshire, July 2 and August 4, at one, at the 132.au.0rt arms Meurnouth. Gregory and Son, Clement's-inn, London ; NV JOHN PAPE, tailor, Leeds, July 6 and August 4, at ten, at tlie Commissioners'-rooms, Leeds. Ilattye, Fistier, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London ; Lee, Leeds. JOliN COLIOIAN, builder, Ipswich, July 6, aild August 4, at twelve, at the Suiroik Hotel Inn, Ipswich. Cares and S inai t. 1; ‘ ,4f0r t 1... 1 . 0 ,v, London ; Daniel, Ipswich. EDWARD A VLItY LUCAS, calico-printer, :Salford, Lancashire, July 16, at one, axd August 4, at ten, at the Com miqsioners'• rooms, 31anchester. Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's inn fields, Lyndon; Whitehead, Bury. DIVIDENDS. At tile Court of Bat.kruptey, li:3iughall • street. Praivrhill mat J. Slater, warehousemen, Watlino . ' -strect, July 25, at t.,Yelve—W. 11. Cro!ton, wheelwright, Rayieigh, u!y. 14, a half-past twelve. In the Country. J. flute and E. Pearson, coal dealers, Stratford-urn-Avon, J u ly 13, at twelve, at the White Li :n Inn. Stratford-upon- A vort—E. Butler, feliruonger, Alcester, Warwickshire, July 16, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Stratfo: d-upou-Avon Joscpla`corer, atuctioneer, Ibstock, Leicestershire, July 16, at o ne , it the King's Head Into, Loughborough—lt. Jukes, cur rier, Gortiall, Staffordshire, July 15, at twelve, at the Swan Hotel. W„lverhampton—G. Clarke, shipowner, Newton, De vonshire, July 4, at one, at Street's Hotel, Exeter--E. Clegg. cot tea Moorehouse, Lancashiro, Jule 16, at ten, at the Cotnmissioners'-room s , Manchester—Z Stii.k, Fen., Z. Stirk, Jun., and J. WT. Thornton, machine makers, Leeds, July 17, at one, at the Commissioners'-roulns, ?r.e.e.is —C. Perrier, lace manufactuter, Nottingham, July 15, at titre?, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—W. Yates, co:omission agent, Manchester, Julyl7, at ten, at the Commis *leners'-rooms, Manchester—B. Jacques, J. Cotton, and 'l'. B. o:iser, hosiers, Nottingham, July 15, at twelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—J. Senior, fancy cloth manufac turer. I.as:oll's-hall . , Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, July 29, at eleven; at the White van Inn, Hu•ldersticid. CERTIFICATES, JULY 14. G. Richards and 'l'. Manwaring, linen drapers, Bridge-road, Lavnbeth—W. Barker and S. Adams, hosiers, Nottingham —R. Sed,ton, dyer, Salford, Lancashire—J. Webster a n d It. Bro wn, lace manufacturers., Liverpool-1 , . Saxelbye, sc ri v ener , king atun-upon• Hull—J. and W. Latham, cotton spinners, Ashton in-.Makerfielti, Latrea.shire—W. Battley, merchant, Sunderland near the Sea, Durl:am—E. Smith, grocer, Wigmore-street, Coveatili-square— E. O. Pole, grocer, Newcastle-upon.-Tyne acts, draper s , S o h o - square —J. J. Houghton and J. Bridge, cotton spinner, 13ating's•mill, Spotland, Lancashire— A. Archibald, coal merchant, Thayer-street, 3laneheater-square. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. IL and W. Dennison, farmers, B.•ntham, Westmoreland— D. Davios and R. P. Vicat, Blackfriars-ro_d— J. Taylor, R. Del*, and H. Boydel, timber merchants—W. Ridsdale and W. RidAlale, jun., heckla m kers, Dal lington, Durham—E. Big- Olson and E. Christian, author smiths, Liverpool —J. and A. Gurney, wine merchants, fledge-row, Islington—T. S. Wright and A. Howe, wine mercnants, Sheflield—J. Whitley and A. Holmes, commission agents, Bradford, Yorkshire—N. Barker and W. Robinson, schoolmasters, Chichester-road, Wand=- worth-road—l?. Robinson and J. Bregazzi, ale merchants, Kingston- uuon- Hull—J. Lenton and J. :11 annin.g, linen drapers, Nottingham—T. Watts, W. Higginhottorn, and 'l'. Jackson, commoa carriers, Macalcsfit hi, t heshire—W..Maish, J. Marsh, .1. Marsh, .1. Mar s h, jun., and I'. Shepherd, merchants, Shef field—T. Langton and 11. Iloar, timber met chants, Belvidere road, Lambeth—A. Picnot, L. Castelain, and P. N Picnot, syrup makers, l'rospect-place, Lambeth-road—J. Parkin, J. Woolstencroft, P. Robinson , E. J. Pemberton, and E. Cock ram, glass bottle ma nu f ac t urers , Th atto- h eath, Lancashire— M. Bwraston and C. Hill, milliners, Glftucester. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. JOHN MACKENZIE, merchant, Inverness, Jun, 29 and July 20, at one, at the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness. JOHN CORSTORPHINE, wine merchants, Leith, June 27 and July 22; at twelve, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. THOMAS THOMSON, china merchant, Perth, July 29 and July 24, at twelve, at Seaton's Salutation Hotel, Perth. CIRCUITS OP TILE COMMISSIONERS FOR RE LIEF OF INSOLVEN r DEBTORS. AUTUMN CIRCUITS, 1840. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. 11. R. REYNOLDS, Esq.., Chief Commissioner. Essex-Chelmsford Tuesday, Nov. 10. Es - ex-Colchester, Wednesday, Nov. 11. Suffolk-Ipswich, Thursda, Nov. 12. Norfolk-Yarmouth, '.Saturday, Nov. 14. Norfolk-Norwich and City, Monday, Nov. 16. Norfolk-Lynn, Wednesday, Nov. 18. Suffolk-Bury St. Edmunds, Thursday, Nov. 19. Cambridgmlitre-Camloridge, Friday, Nov. 20. Huntingdonshire-Huntingdon, Monday, Nov, 23. Northamptonshire-Pcterborou.gh, Tuesday, Nov. 24. Lincolnshire-Lincol n and City, Wednesday, Nov. 25. Nottinghasiashire-Nottisgh am and Town, Friday, Nov. 27. Derbyshire-Derby, Monday, Nov. 30. At the. City of Lichfield, Tuesday, Dec. 1. Staffordshire-Stafford, Wednesday, Dec. 2. Shropshire-Shrewsbury, Saturday, Dec. 5. Warwickshire-liirmin,gliam, Tuesday, D ec . 8. Shropshire-Oldbury, Thursday, Dec. 10. At the City of Coventry-Friday, Dec. 11. Warwickshire-Warwick, Saturday, Dec. 12. Leicestershire- Leicester, Tuesday, Dec. 15. Northamptonshire-Northampton, Thursday, Dec. 17. Pedfordshire-Bedford, Friday, Dec. 18. Buckinghamshire -Aylesbury, Saturday, Dec. 19. HOME CIRCUIT. J. G. HARRIS, Esq., Commissioner. Sussex -Horsham, Friday, Nov. 6. Kent-Devor, Friday, Noy. 13. At the City of Canterbury, Saturday, Nov. 14. Kest-Maidstone, Tuesday, Nov. 17. Hertfordikii‘s--Hertford, Friday, Dec. 4. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. T. B. 130 EN, Esq., Commissioner. Rutlandshire-Oakham, Saturday, Oct. 10. Yorkshire-Sheffield, Monday, Oct. 12. Yorkshire-Wakefield, Wednesday, Oct. 14. Yorkshire-York and City, Tuesday, Oct. 20. At the )shire o Rwn oichm f Kin g st on - upon-Hull, Tharsday, Oct 04 Yorond, Saturday, Oct. 24 Durham-Durham, Monday, Oct. 26. • North O 8 umberland-Newcastl e - upon-Tyne and Town, Wednes day, Cumberland-Carlisle, Friday, Oct. 30. Westmorland-Appleby, Monday, Nov. 2. Westmorland-endal, Tuesday, Nov. 3. Lancashire -Preston, Wednesday, Nov. 4. Cheshire-Chester and City, Friday, Nov. G. Flintshire-Mold, Monda, Nov. 9. , Denbigh s hi re -R at hi n, '1 ues d ay, Nov. 10. Angleses--Beaumaris, Thursday, Nov. 12. Carnarvonshiro--Carnarvon, Friday, Nov. 13. Merionethshire-Dolgelly, Monday, Nov. 16. Nov.Montgomeryshire-Welch Pool, Wednesday, N 18. Lancashire --Liverpool, Friday, Nov. 20. Lancashire-Lancaster, Tuesday, Nov. 24. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. _ _ - - - W. J. LAW, Esq., Commissioner. Berkshire—Reading, Thursday, Oct. 22. O xfordshire —Oxford, Saturday, Oct. 24. Wor cestershire —Worcester and City, Tuesday, Oet 27. Der e.ford.hire—Hereford, Thursday, Oct. 29. Itadn orshire—Presteigne, Friday, Oct. 30. Brecknockshire —Brecon, Monday, Nov. 2. Carmarthenshir e—Carmart hen ;Ind Borough, Wadc Goiday, Nov. 4. Cardiganshire— Card4,an, Friday, Nov. 6. Perobrokeehie e—Haverford wes t and Town, Saturday, Nol. 7. Glamor Cilarnorganehire7—Swanse a , T ues d ay, N ov. !0. g ans srdiff, Thursday, Nov. P. Illonout tershi hAhire—Nlonniouth, S aturday. Nov. 14. Clon tu cezre—Gloc.ester and City, T ues d ay, Nov. 17. At.the City of BristGl, Friday, Nev. 20. Sornersetshire—Bath, Monday, Nov. "3. Sornerse(shireL-Wells, 'Tuesday, N ov . Devonshire—Plymouth, Friday, N ov . 27. Cormvall—Bodmin, Saturday, Nov. 28. y, Devonshire—t , :xcter and City, Wednesda Dec. 2. Do-setshire--Dcirchester, Saturd ay, Dec, 5. Wiitshife—Salishury, Tue , tlay, \ D v ec. At. she Tows of Southampton, cdnesclay, D ec . 9 . Hampshire—Winchester, Thursday, Dee. 10. The K graph letter e.eay. .irig of t to Queen E 1;; FrLnch has written Vi contratulating her hardly had any parallel system in the annals of the ruin and devastation which th e had ddf inhfloicteden.teredTheyintosenot among them a C om mission er, before t rea ty with some cf the oh a project to remo ve them to t he Vi,:vr . estteiron f theshores,la I n dian y i a n n g cl a mo rl po fo t r h t m n i were induced to sig n it. A lar ge chiefs, how ever, were opposed to it, but, no twithstanding,t h he Govern ment insisted upon the treat y bei ng signed. T Indians seeing nothing in the projact but ruin, sent a few de legat:s to Washington for the purpose of inducin g the Government to that treaty. After conside rable difficulty and de lay, theG - recall vernment heard their p ra y er, and althou g h th e treaty was not abandoned, yet a ce rtain compensation was ma de to the Indians by nu means equal to the loss they had sus tained, and the greater portion of them were transferred to the -western shores of the Mississippi. That system of removing th e :Indians into barren wilds had, he lamented to say, been acted upon to a large extent in the British possessions. In New South Wales an alit a genttema,i named Robinson was appointed as Pro'cctor of the on her la lie Aborigines, an„d.lie exhibited a very extraordinary :..ode of vulture- ABORIGINES PROTECTION SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this excellent Society, took place yesterday at Exeter Hall. The meeting, though not very full, was moat respectably attended, and among those on the platform we noticed Mr. F. Buxton, Mr. O'Connell, M. P., Mr. Hindley, M. P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. James Fuller, from America, Dr. Bowing, Mr. G. Thompson, and several othci highly respectable individuals who advocated the cause. Mr. F. BUXTON, on taking the chair, wished briefly to explain the circumstances under which he attended there that day. It was not his intention in the first instance to have done so, being engaged on other important duties; indeed, he was so engaged up to the present moment, and had been obliged to leave a Committee to attend the meeting. He had always observed that there were two ways in which a person who felt a great interest on an important subject, might do it benefit. The first was, to detail the facts that were impor tant, and to make communications deserving to be listened to. Ou the other hand, if a p art y was not in pos. session of those facts, then he ought to preserve silence. Now he was in the latter condition, for his mind, and time, and every thing was so embarked in one great subject, that he had not been able to give that attention to this important subject it deserved. It was dreadful to think that as ministers of religion and as Christian men, when they visited uncivilized shores, the only effect of that intercourse with the natives was to introduce among them their vices, their crimes, and their diseases. That was not the right mode of dealing with the natives of a coun try, which we had visited for the purposes of civiliza tion.—(Cheers,) It was the duty of statesmen to at tend to this subject; there were hundreds of thou sands whose happiness depended upon the mode in which they dealt with them ; and therefore they were the last persons whe should exercise any degree of indif ference upon the subject. He felt fully its importance ; and he hoped the British Government, and all the govern. merits upon the earth, would be led to look into this sub ject, and to form a plan which would not destroy, but pre serve, not communicate vices, but teach them the arts of civilization and religion, which Providence had been pleased to bestow upon this country. He would now call upon the Secretary to read the Report, and he had only to apologise for himself to the meeting for being obliged to leave it at an early hour, in order to resume the duties which he had left to attend that meeting. The Secretary then read the Report. Mr. HINDLEY, M.P., then rose to propose the first re solution—" That the Report just now read be received and adopted by the meeting, and that a Committee be formed to carry on the proceedings of the Society for the next year. Before he commenced the one or two observa tions he proposed to address to the meeting, he trusted he should be allowed to remark that it afforded him the highest satisfaction to observe the manner in which they had appreciated the long-continued and faithful services of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had just entered the room. (Mr. Hirelley here alluded to the entrance of Mr. O'Connell, who was most enthusiastically cheered.) He trusted that that Society would, without distinction of party, recognize every one who bad stood forth as the advocate for freedom, and for the amelioration of the human race.—( Hear, and cheers.) He thought that they had no right to arrogate to themselves the ap pellation of a eivil:zed nation ; if it was to be considered civilized to do such things as to take away from others what they had not the strength to restrain, then, indeed, they were civilized ; and if the posseeiion of gar powder and the use of arms showed civilization, England might be i ruud indeed—(Cheers)—hut of the rights due to the defenceless he was afraid they were for bel:ind. He thought they would not prove that they were them selves civilized till they had shown that they had leaned the great precept of ‘‘ doing to others as they would have they should do unto them."—( Cheers.) He thought that the present Society had an especial claim upon the Government, and he trusted that one of its first acts would be to extend its protec tion to the most defenceless part of its subjects, for he contended that the moment this country possessed itself of New Zealand, or any other part of the world, it became, to all intents an purposes, part of the British dominions, subject to the British laws, and its inhabitants were entitled to their protecticn.—( Cheers.) He agreed with the worthy Chairman, that they could benefit the Society in two ways, either by relating facts with which they were well acquainted, and which were unknown to the meeting, or else show their good sense by holding their peace.—(Cheers.) He had come there merely to show himself, and to tell all present that he had as lively an interest as ever in the cause--the righteous and holy cause in which they were engaged. The Hon. Gentle man concluded by moving the resolution. EDWARD BAINES, ESII., M.P., seconded the resolution. He was unfortunately necessitated to attemd public business elsewhere, but he was anxious before he left the room to express his strong feeling in favour of the Society, and he was happy to add that it had been his duty in Parliament to move that the proceedings of the Society be laid belare the Houce. He trusted that the title of Protectors of the Aborigines would not be found to be a fictitious one but a real one.—(Cheers.) R. BELL, Esq., supported the resolution. His simple object in rising to address them, was as a member of the Aborigines Committee , to state clearly and distinctly the objects of the Society, and the means by which they proposed to carry them into effect. He was afraid that the title selected for the Society was not the most felicitous, and the question had been frequently put to him, what was the ineaning of the Aborigines Society ? As there were so many ladies present he would take the liberty of stating that the term Aborigines meant the original possessers of the soil. Having made clear the title of this Society, he would now proceed to explain the objects for which it had been originated. Its general objects were simply the protection of the alsoriginal tribes, in those countries which had been colonized by Europeans or other nations, and the protection of those tribes necessarily involved their civi. lisation. Therefore the objects of the Society iucluded both the protection of the aboriginal tribes from the encroachments of the whites, and their civilisation by the whites who settled open their shores. The necessity for those measures must appear clear to those who had had an oppor tunity of examining the history of those races, but it might be necessary to give an illustration of it in order that they might be able to conteinp:ate the vast extent of misery and devastation that had been committed by foreign coun tries' under the name of civilization. Tn Upper Canada. for a long period before Sir John Colborne presided there, a certain process of civilization was going on, by which the red man was to b e drawn into the social habits of life, giving up his rov ing and wild habits, and settling in villages for the cultivation of the soil. That process had been going on for some time, when Sir Francis head discovered that the red man was unfit for civilization, and that all the kindness and sym pathy of former Governors had been thrown away. On making that discovery, Sir Francis Head submitted to the Colonial Office a project which he (Mr. Bell) could not venture to designate in the terms with which he regarded it. The project was the removing them to some waste and barren islands, in the north-western waters of that province, which were incapable of cultivation, and the reason assigned by him for that was, that they were incapable of civilisation, that it was impossible to make them farmers or settlers, and that the best and the kindest thing was to remove them altogether from contact with civilized man. That project was trans. mitted to the Colonial Office, and he was sorry to say that it was acted upon by Lord Glenelg to a certain er - Jiat. In I 536 steps were taken for the purpose of removing them to those barren tracts in the north-western lakes of Canada, but shortly after that the insurrection, of which they must have all heard so much, broke out in Canada, and that insurrection checked the progress of Sir Francis Head's scheme. Considerable doubt Was enter tained as to what course the Indians would take in the insurrec tion ; it was naturally supposed that the red man, like the white man, urged forward by the sense of injury and the desire of avenging his wrongs, would induce him to retaliate upon his oppressors, and band himself with the opponents of the British Government ? How did he act ?—(Hear, hear.) That man who was incapable of becoming a farmer,—who was incapable of learning the arts of cultivation or civilization,—that man, under the sense of the wrong and injury which he had received— that red man, who, in his own strong and beautiful and poetical language, "Loved his great Father across the salt lake," and was ready to resist all who opposed his authority, was found in the front of the battle, and, by his bravery, preserved the colonies to the Bri tish empire.—(Cheers.) But the project was not confined to Canada. They were all familiar with the fact that in the State of New York, there was still remaining some portion of the six nations cf the Indians, an. 4 there were some portions also on the Eastern shore of the Mississippi, but in the progress of civilization it was deemed, expedient and desirable to remove them from the Eastern to the Western shore of the Mississippi. These means exhibited a mixture of fraud and violence which THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1840. like protc. , ?tion. That Gentleman took credit to himself for having succeeded in carrying a large poriion of the Aborigines irom the main land into finder's Island, but they died so fast while there that they were obliged to be removed back again. In Van Diemen's Land, it was a well known and ascertained fact, that the Indians were shot at for marks, and shot by the convicts as food for their dogs.—(Loud cries of " Shame, shame.") It was also well known that the sailors in Barrow's Straits had established a system of slavery under the eyes of the Bri_ Ugh Government, by selling the women after shooting the husbands. They were taken to the neighbouring islands for the purpose of col lecting Kangaroo skins, and on the return of the sailors, if they found t hat they had not collected a sufficient quantity of skins, they inflicted upon these unfortunate women tortures which he could not even allude to in the presence of ladies. These facts were well authenticated, and it was well known that they were car ried on under the cognizance, but, he believed, not with the approbation of the Government. Instances of still greater atrocity, be believed, could be laid before them, but he trusted he had made out a sufficient case to show them the necessity of originating a society like the pre sene—(Hear, hear.) Having now pointed out the na ture of the Society he would submit to them a statement of its means of operation. In the first place, they bad very extensive means of collecting infoi mation from all parts of the world. They submitted to the Committee re ports upon various distinct topics which, being approved of, practical measures founded upon those views were sub mitted to the general body.—(M. D'lsambert here en tered the meeting, and took his seat on the platform, amidst loud cheers.) They had correspondence with persons holding official appointments in the Colo nies, and among others he would mention the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Another was a gentleman whom he saw near him on the platform, Lieut.-General Henry Dundee Campbell, late Governor of Sierra Leoue.—(Cheers.) By kind and conciliatory measures be gained the confidence and esteem of the Aborigines, and pointed out to them the Ineece sity of giving up their wild and roving habits, and his ef forts had been crowned with the most complete success. He might also mention the names of Governors Hind marsh and O'Connell, of New South \Vales, who had communicated with the Society at various times, expres sing their full approbation of the objects of the Society. Another was Captain Hobson, the present Governor of New Zealand, from whom a letter had been received a day or two ago, by a member of the Committee, stating, that the principles of the Society were fully carried cut in that colony.—( Cheers.) Another class of correspondents were travellers, and among them they had some of the most distinguished in Europe. Humboldt, well known in the scientific world, M. Rupel, the distinguished German traveller, whose reception at his native town of Frankfort, he ( Mr. Bell) had the pleasure of witnessing some seven or eight years ago, and he could only say, that it was most honourable and gratifying.—( Hear, hear.) They had also Mr. Scoble, and Mr. Schomburg, who had been sent out by the Geographical Society on a purely scientific mission, and it was rather singular that both he and Mr. Scoble, when he visited British Guiana, had arrived at the same opinion, with re gard to the wrong, iefileted on the natives, and the best means of redressing those wrongs.—( Hear.) In speak ing of correspondents he would have omitted a most im portant duty if, amongst the names of distinguished per sons, he omitted that of Dr. Charming of America. There was also Professor Draper, Governor Evelyn, M. Blumen bech uf Bremen, M. Humboldt, to whom he had already alluded, M. Reitter, of Haarlem ; and in France they hod Dr. Beaumont, M. Gasperand, M. Grandpere, and M. D'lsambert, who was now upon the platform, one of tl.c most distinguished lovers of science and humanity, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and one of the Judges of the Court of Cassation.—( Cheers.) But it was not accessary to enumerate his titles—his best title to their cordial welcome was that he was the friend of the op pressed—that he was the Buxton of France.—( Loud cheers.) In Spain they had Dan Flores Estrada, Viscount Bendeira, and others; and, in fact, almost ail the most eminent men in Europe, were among the eorrespon dews of this Society. They had also ethers, who were not less valuable cr interesting, mnong the nativea namely, the Chief of the Cold Water Indians, cud John Ross, the Chief of the Cherokee Indians.—( Hear, hear. ) They had also from the Miesior.arics ir.formatien of the most valuable kind, and esnect dly from :litee points—Mr. illaf. fat, who was engaged in the heart of Africa ; Mr. Rice, who was on a like eaission in Canada ; and the Mores tan Brethren in Australia. Information of the most authentic kind was received from these sources; and he thought they were justified in saying, that wherever genius and benevolence was to be found—aed true genius was always found associated with virtue—there the voice of the S :ciety nes heard. Let them not despair. Tire iia tellect and humanity of the world was with them, and the Society, although few in number, and weak iii funds, had produced a great moral influence ; and it was by morel influence alone that great results could be achieved. B j morel influence the emancipation of the blacks had been accomplished ; and by it Wilberforce, and Clark em, and Granville, and others, hod achieved their peaceful triumphs, and :,rung from the iron heeds of reluctent Go vernments those measures which had terminated in the emancipation of the slaves. —( Lewd Ono ring ) he was to moral influence, and to it alone, they were to lo it fur any extensive triumph of their principle's. He was anxi ous before he sat down to observe, in reference to the ques tion of colonization, which scented to be in some measure connected with the objects of the Society, that while they never mixed themselves up with colonial enterprise they were tint opposed to colonization, which they conslth,,d as the inevitable consequence of an increase of population I in old countries, and as one of those resources of which nations had always availed themselves. But that Society, instead of opposing colonization, was calculated to assist it, and above all to direct it into proper channels. Its object was to purify the system of those evils which had hitherto accompanied it, and it was to be hoped that that object would not be frustrated.—( Hear, hear, hear.) It might be thought by some that the designs of the Society embraced too vast a field, but it should be remembered that they looked to the dissemination of their doc trines as the best means of ensuring their triumph. The smallest seed when once sown in a proper soil ex panded into countless blossoms, and it was to be hoped that the propagation of these lessons which it was the ob ject of the Society to teach, would lead to future good, of which no one could foresee the extent.—(Cheers.) Mr. Bell concluded by supporting the re,olution. The resolution that the report should be received, and that a committee should be appointed, consisting of Mr. Allan, Mr. O'Connell, Sir Augustus D'Este, and others, was then put and unanimously agreed to. Mr. O'CONNELL, who, on rising to address the meeting, was loudly cheered, proposed the next resolution, which was to the effect that every possible means should be taken to encourage the education of the aborigines in our colonies, and especially that young natives should be brought over and educated in this country. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then said, that if he required any apology for addressing himself to the meeting, he might perhaps find it in the simple fact that he appeared among them an Aborigine himself—( Hear, hear, and a laugb)—and he therefore felt a personal sympathy for the native inhabi tants of every other country.—( Hear, hear.) A vast ex tent of misery and of guilt, of suffering, and of crime, and the horrible devastation of nations, had unfortunately been the consequences of the spread of colonization, and of the extensive occupation of countries heretofore uncivilized ; and he did not exaggerate when he said that among the greatest crimes of mankind should be reckoned first and foremost the destruction of aboriginal inha bitants in lands visited by the steps of civilised man. He was not at all exaggerating when he said that no other human event led to evils so multitudinous.—( Hear.) Let them cast their eyes for a moment on the map of the globe, and they would find that the history of those coun tries which Europeans had colonised in latter centuries was marked by the traces of their guilt and oppression.— ( Hear.) They need not go as an exemplification of that to the East Indies, where the natives suffered all the evils of unt'ertainty of tenure with the certainty of fiscal in justice—of the ruin of their peace and of their commercial ' prosperity, and that slow and gradual process of oppres sion which had ground down vast multitudes and subjected them to the periodical recurrence of terrific famines and malignant disease.—( Hear, hear.) He need not, however, dwell on the case of the East Indies, because, another Society had taken up that subject, and it would be well he should leave it in the hands of that body. He would, therefore, come nearer home, and he would ask what had England done in New South Wales ?—( Hear, hear.) He would tell them at once that she had annihilated the Aborigines there either by destructive violence or by by the force of her institutions. They had already heard of Van Diemen's Land, and of the slaughter which daily took place of the natives there, either as an amusement or for the purposes of a horrible traffic. With regard to the case of New Zealand, he believed that if some protection were not given to the natives there, they would soon be counted among the people that were forgotten, and a new chapter would be added to the history of those crimes which had taken place under the rule of Great Britain. Let them go the American Continent, and they would find that the first invasion of the Spaniards destroyed my. riads of innocent, and peaceful, and kindly people, and the descendants of these inhabitants had been driven to work in the mines, and were so employed at the present day, where they never saw the daylight except when it might answer the purpos e e e s t o o f n tl w ie h ir ic h h ar t d he tas s k p - a m n . i t a st r e d r s s, w a e n r d e where they perished in thschoduairdkuneosst be e f d d e e n sp ic a d ir t . i — iern (le t a h r e . y ) b l h i j o had spared a p ort i on o f the e% B vne u tri t et l t et l dh i eerteo onlytps ra praise, se e o j n p e wl eh s ,Ai u c, na tive inhabitants, and the Indians among them had been allowed to retain titles of distinction, and to mix with the imported Spaniards the mse l ves . But let them go farther North, sad let them begin with the British colonies in North America, and especially with Canada. They had already heard what had been the policy of Sir Francis Head, a man whom it would be lu- I dicrous to name if he had not been pieced in a situation which enabled him to do an incalculable quantity of mis chief. He had invented a plan of civilising the natives by driving them from their homes, and sending them from the forests, where they were accustomed to support themselves by hunting, to an island where there were no beasts t o hunt. —( Hear, hear.) The country was besides too bar ren to raise corn, and as they wore unable to raise it, he laid down this political apothegm, that those men were un fit to be farmers while they were in an island where there was no farming.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) That would be singularly ridiculous if it were not horrible. Those people, however, lied been relieved from their de grading position by the rebellion in Canada ; but if that rebellion had not taken place the calamities which they en dured would probably have been continued. During the insurrection they had stood in the foremost ranks of the British troops. They were loyal and devoted to that Go vernment which had oppressed them, arid they had sealed with their blood their title et least to live in their own ha , laita , icus.—( Long continued cheering.) Let them look ' , O North America anal they would find the friends of liberty there eith tare most outrageous proclamations of demos:retie principles, holding in the one hand the red I cap and the nig of liberty, and in the other the lash which i they 'Killed to the back of thr! opprer sad and insulted neserre—e Hear, hear, ) The Aboriginal inhabitants on fee ether hand were driven Isom valley to valley, frou bill to hill, aml from river-side to river-side ; they were now sent to the wild plains of the Missouri, to be driven from thence again, as their invaders advanced, and to be soon perhaps, completely extirpated from the face of the earth. ._( Hear, hear.) There was a particular State which he wished to refer to. It was the State of Texas, composed of marauders, who, on finding that the Spanish Govern ment had abolished slavery, had been instigated by the United States to form a kind of banditti, who not only sanctioned the perpetuation of negro slavery, but esta blished as one of the principles of their confederacy, the extermination of the native inhabitants, the Red Indians. He had thus drawn hastily a general outline of the history of their country, which had been stained by the guilt of slavery. He bad stated that mass of human misery for the purpose of showing that the time had come for arousing British sympathy and British humanity, and in order to awaken from its slumbers that British benevo lence in favour of those people who had no other hope of relief if England did not throw over them the shield of its protection.—( Cheers.) Perhaps, even that could not save them, but it was the only resource to which they could turn. The very eloquent gentleman who had preceded him, had told them of particular individuals who had exerted themselves in the cause in various countries. But what could isolated individuals do ? They might distinguish themselves as many honourable gentlemen then around him had done in Germany, Prussia, or France; but in order to effect any extensive good there should be a mighty movement of the national mind—there must be a grand exertion of national benevolence, and it was in England alone that a great body, animated with such pur poses, could be found or framed.—( Hear, bear.) Per haps, however, the best means of awakening British sympatbywould be to refrain from describing from country to country the mass of misery which he had detailed, and which from its magnitude almost ceased to make an impression, and to point cut cases of individual suffering. When they talked of tho destruction of thousands, the calamity was so vast CI it could not be propecly felt, but let him take the case o: I. single family—let him take the case of a husbard and a wife, comforted by the fruits of their industry.und ing contented in the home of their ancestors, enjoying at least all the advantages which savage life could '.,estow. Let them, then, suppose the spoiler came am: ee• them, 1. - -AI:1g away one parent anti then another— let in:ante, ee joined in the scene of devastation, and he was sue_ oleic was not one among them who would not conternp.ate with pity suc h a scene.—( Hear, hear.) But the sceec he had described was repeated beyond calculation, an-. cc,ltinued :o oe repeated up to this present hour. Let ~..ono ask him Low individuals could put an end to those evi.s. Let no .nee put such a question, for he would reply with another-. ;.at was it which individual benevolence could no_ ac. ..ve when engaged in a great and glorious cause ? ars. ) Why, was it not known that by their exerti ne, they had saved the Hill Coolies of India last night ..-( Loa: . aau continued cheering.) Casting aside the trs reels of p. , regardless of the fate of the Govern. , and act, to I soiely by a desire to prevent an in ere .se of e ho. and an accumulation of the evils which a revival aee e would entail, he thanked God that, though po week es t: lent, but ardent in zeal in a holy cause, he had w i.a ()triers secured last night the principle that no (I. Hill Coolies should be sacrificed to the Mammon . .g i . iu the Mauritius.—(Cheers.) But that was tne sm , result of the mighty movement which Clarkson he i eegun, which Wilberforce bad carried on, and of w • euxton bad lived to see the triumph. There r • i est: 8,000 slaves at the Cape of Good Hope a few y s ag and, thank God, they were there no longer now Tee parent looked, six years ago, on his boy, not k.a w g the moment he might be torn from him—six ego th reser wept that she had given birth to a eh, LI which eso alone could not be a source of joy ; for she beheid et.be, and knew not whether it belonged to her or ) , , ant master. But, blessed be God I they had put a err.! to that, and these scenes were no more._ ( Gee F , ) in the B•iiish dominions, at least, they were n ere to be witnessed. But to whom was that owing ? y sad neither cavalry nor infantry to aid them—the tit p of battalions was unheard, but they had that which was stronger than legion=—they were surrounded by men of benevolence and charity, and Englishwomen lent their eid,—(Cheers.)A mighty mass of slavery was thus brought to an end,—(Cries of " Hear, bear,") England had already sacrificed 20,000,000/. in the cause. And was he to be told that in a country which had made such a sacrtfico, and which had achieved so much the sun of humanity lied set—that the tide of charity Lad ceased to flay, and that any party could be more sue ces,sful in a moral point of view than the tyrant Canute, who had bid the waves stand still ? Would there be found a Canute who should tell the waters of British charity that they should cease to roll ?—( Cheers. ) He would not—he could not—believe it. Ail that was necessary was, that the facts of the case should be known, and British humanity would then rally and support the oppressed: What he wanted was that the British mind should be brought to consider the subject—what he wanted was that it should become the object of familiar conversation and of familiar thought. Was there anything more glorious than humanity ? Was there anything more delightful? And he was not profane in asking if there were anything more likely to bring down a blessing from God ?—(Hear, hear.) All that was necessary was that the cause which they advocated should be brought under public consideration again and again. That was the only chance of making an impresion on the public mind. They might believe him, for he was an agitator of some standing.— ( A laugh.) They might believe him when he told them, if they felt a grievance, to proclaim it to-day and to-mor row, and he had almost used an Irish phrase, and said, on yesterday—( A laugh)—but that they had already done. Let the drop of water flow till it wore away even the hardest iock.—( Hear, hear.) But let it be recollected that it was not on a rock they had to operate, but on the genial softness of the British heart.—( Hear, hear.) Let them rally in the cause. That was the smallest room he had yet seen in Exeter Hall, but he hoped that before another year the largest would not hold them. There was nothing unjust—nothing interested—in their undertaking. There was nothing to impel them but their own humanity. There was much to encourage them in their labours. There was no organised opposition against them ; and the cause was one in which every one might join. Whatever practicable measures they migat propose to the House of Commons would be sure to be adopted. But that would not be enough. They should, as the resolution recom mended, provide, if possible, fur the education of the chil dren of the Aborigines in the different colonies. They should, above all, endeavour to extend, without interfering in particular questions of religion, the truths of the Gospel --they should aid their missionaries of every sect in their efforts to spread the light of Christianity among those people, and civilization would follow in its footsteps; for if they were not twirebrothere, Christianity brought with it civilization wherever it reached.—( Cheers ) Let there be no contention therefore among particular sects, but let them look on each other as generous rivals. Let him tell them that numbers among the order of the Jesuists— once so formidable a name in this country—heel devoted their labours to the Indian Mission, and that no less then thirty of them had been put to death in Cochin-China and its vicinity within the last eighteen months. L e t th em b r i n g in aid of their object that organization which had rendered the anti-slavery cause triumphant. Let them commence that mighty struggle which would give justice to the waive inhabitants of our colonies —which would restore to the red man a right to his own home—which would give the ' dusky-coloured man a claim to live on his own land—which would impart to them t he advantages of Christianity and civilization, and which, while it did them inestimable good, would bring down the blessing of Providence on those who were engaged in so holy a cause.--( Loud cheers.) M. IsesmenT then addressed a few words to the meet ing in French, which were afterwards translated by Dr. Bowring. He said that he wished to state a fact honourable to the Kieg of the French. Some of the Aborigines in French Guiana had approached the territory of the colonists there, but were driven back and cruelly treated. The fact had been made known to his Majesty, Louis Philippe, and he (M, Isambe r t) h a d had an opportunity of hearing his Majesty ex p ress hi s re gret at the circumstance. His Majesty conveyed his feel ings on the subject to the Governor of Guiana, and ordered that the Aborigines should henceforward b e treated With kindness. Many attempts had been made to induce the French Chamber of Deputies to consent to the extermina tion of the natives of Algiers, but such mo ti ons were al ways repelled by the Chamber, as they were determined on maintaining their ascendency, while they respected the rights of the Aborigines. He mentioned these facts for the purpose of showing that the feelings of the French people were in favour of those principles which the So ciety advocated.—( Hear.) Mr. WILLIAM EVANS, M P., seconded the resolution which had been moved by Mr. O'Connell. He thought that education would be the surest means of ameliorating the condition of the Aborigines in our colonies. Ile re membered having lately mentioned to a member of the Government an anecdote which showed that the natives of New South Wales had fire arms, and the gentleman ex pressedtkhneomws e t i h v a e th ee (Mr. e Evans)ilad O mll le e n t i m o his satisf ac ti on a t h ear i ng th a t, as he was glad to n e e a d ns of d e f en di ng that merely in order to have an opportunity of observing how much more might be done for those natives, by teaching them the arts of peace.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. HODGKINS supported the resolution• The Abo rignes in our colonies had heretofore been exposed to the greatest calamities. He would give an instance with which he had become acquainted. In Southern Africa a body of British marauders had attacked the tribe of Zoolas, and had first murdered 3,000 of them, and after wards exterminated the entire race. The intelli gence, however, was received in the colony as a matter of rejoicing. It was by similar means that the Aboriginal inhabitants of other colonies had been made to disappear. He was convinced that the best mode of ameliorating the condition of Aborigines was that which was recommended by the resolution. It was by a similar expedient that Peter the Great had succeeded in civilising tineia, and it was also now resorted to by Mehemet A. Egypt. to Mr. Piece. c I P or t smout h, was anx i o us to offer a sug gestion the meetin g . I t wou ld p er h a ps b e difficult estebi s i r( 0.,. gas in thi s countr y f ur th e e ducation of Abori gines, cut th ere was another way i n w hi c h t h e object of the resottoion rt ie,.t be carried out. Individual s mi g ht Lr ri g ; up y: t n.,natives in their families, a nd he had b enc. e n instances in which such a sourc e had led to t•ruff re resolution was t h en 141 -CAN(' ' 9l " a gentleman who had been appointed t.. ever , * • • tp :0 ... , eyion, rose to propose the next resole ee, the eurpo.e. of which was a vote of thanks to the in qu..e . oun t.e.re entitled to their best acknowledgments tevtign iec 'St ,the • Society lie felt great pleasure in EDNARD BUXTON said lie had moving sac put and unanimously carried. . pe - resolution, as thought the gentlemen 'cc's in the cause.—( Hear, hear.) for th osvledgments great pleasure in sect .riling t e r eso l ut i on wh i c h h a d j u st been proposed. :Ai id salter, taken part in a more i ntere sting meeting r the a to .e 1.3, or i n a more instructive one, and he was g,pd to is thanks t o th ose gen tlemen from foreign etunee• had honoured them by their presence; but th e re .vas addition th a t h e t h oug ht o ught to be made to ! the k solution be was seconding, arid that was, he thought, tee) -ught to thank the gentleman who bad proposed the ' resolution,—(Cheers.) Wbcn lie considered that he was asieus to leave ,his se entry fr r a isied ti are he .'.last en doubtediy exercise great influence, he considered the anxiety he had manifested to benefit its Aboriginal inha bitants of our colonies, and his taking part in the proceed ings of that meeting, showed his intention of doing what he could for the inhabitants of Ceylon.—(Cheers.) He thought what Dr. Hodgkin had said was true, that there was not one cause in the world more pressing os more im portant than the one which they were then assembled to protect—except, perhaps, the cause of the suppression of the slave trade, which was of the greatest importance, and which he believed seas a greater source of destruction to human life and human happiness than any other ; but he believed that the subject of the treatment of the Abor igines was the next in importance to the African slave trade. As gentlemen of great talents were to follow him he would not detain the meeting longer, but would at once second the resolution.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRNIAN was about to put the resolution to the meeting, when he was interrupted by Mr. JAMES CANNING FULLER, who wished to say Some thing to the resolution—(Cheere)—to prevent the Chair man putting the motion, because before it was put he wished to have an opportunity of stating his approval of the objects of the Society. He regretted that any com parison had beer instituted between the slave and the In dian. He had often seen the fugitive slave seeking refuge with the Indian, who was so much better off than himself that their condition would not bear a comparison. Give me liberty or death said the fugitive slave ; but the Indian, although driven from his home and his fireside, took with him that which was dearer than anything else in the:world— his wife and his children.--(Cheers.) Butiif it were per mitted to a human being to denounce woe, he would say, 4‘ Woe to the men, woe to the nation, which had driven the red man from the soil of his birth." He was glad allusion had been made to the Cherokee Indians; he almost re gretted that this resolution had not been proposed in its numerical crder-10. He was a mere cypher in such a meeting. He regretted the absence of their friends who had just gone out, and who might be considered as the suns of the political, moral, and religious firmament; but as they were gone, perhaps a little light might be thrown upon the subject by a star as small as himself. He would take' thel liberty of stating a few facts to the meeting. He . did not regret, although he was a man of peace, as his garb betokened, that long guns had been mentioned, because it reminded him of the Florida In dians, who lived in swamps and morasses. It was stated in the Report that the transporting these Indians beyond the Mississippi had cost 1000 lives. That statement he hoped they would correct—it should be 20,000. There was something besides this removal from his home that gave the Indian concern. He could prove that an old Indian who had been forced to leave his home and friends, had said that all he asked was, that they would let him return to his own fire-side, or altar, to offer up a prayer to the Deity before his departure. The white men would not suffer him That was what they feared— they feared the prayers of the red man.—(Cheers.) He was glad the Society had remonstrated with the President of the United States against the employment of blood hounds in hunting down the unfortunate Indians. Who suffered from the employment of bloodhounds? The Indian men ? No ! It was the squaws and papooses— the wives and the children. It chilled his blood to think that a nation, professing to be a civilized and a Christian nation, should hunt down women and children with blood hounds. He often read in the newspapers in his own 1 country of great victories won over the Indians—and what was the result of the victory ? Why, the taking captive, perhaps, three or four men, and a great many women and children. He lived near a tribe of Indians,—within ,twenty miles of them—, a part of those who were to be removed during the next ten years to the west of the Mississippi. and he thought it right to state, that. in a year of scarcity, which had oc curred about four years since, these Indians had actually brought into the market, for the consumption of the white men, more agricultural produce than their white neigh bours. He believed great good would be produced by these exertions of their British friends, by keeping the American Aborigines' Protection Societies up to the mark. Until he had conic there he was ignorant of the ex istence of en Aborigines' Protection Society in America ; but as he lived in a State which was itself considerably larger than the island of Great Britain, it might perhaps account for his ignorance. There was a strong feeling in the United States of good on behal of their coloured brethren, however the Government might endeavour to prevent its having cll.:et. He believed that this Society was possessed of considerable influence which it could exert en their behalf. There were upwards of 200,000 Indians, who were settled now west of the Mississippi. It was to be expected that these would have wars with their white neighbours, and wars among themselves, to which they would fall a sacrifice ; large numbers of them also fell sacrifices to the small-pox. At the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends, to which he belonged, it had ben proposed to make propositions to the different yearly meetings of Friends throughout the American continent, to send Friends among these Indians to eiviVz.• them.—( Cheers.) The great yearly meeting of New York had subscribed 1,090 dollars towards this great cbjeot, and the yearly meeting of New England had acceded to the proposition, and he felt justified in saying that the yearly meeting of New York was prepared to go on with this work, as they felt confidence that even should they themselves want funds to continue it, the Society of Friends in this country would willingly lend them a helping hand.—( Cheers. ) He had not long since visited two In dian settlements ; in one of them a Presbyterian minister and his wife, who were resiiing among them, bad conver ted and civilized many. They had learned the Indian language, and the wife had e•,mpited a primer, out of which she taught the Indian children to read. Among the Nlutiocorry Indians the Wesleyan Methodists had converted many thousands—they had pursued a right course. Hitherto it had been the custom of those who were de- irons of civilizing the Indians to make settlements on the border of the ludian settlements, for by the law of the United States they were prevented making settlement, on the Indian territory ; but at Free Bay the Metho dists had taken their free labour schools right into the middle of the Indian settlement, and that was the proper way to civilize them.—( Cheers.) The great curses of the Indians were field-arms and spirits.— ( Cheers.) They might take what pains they liked, but it would be of little avail if they carried with them a barrel of whiskey.—( Cheers.) An Indian had brought to a chief of another tribe a keg of whiskey—the chief took his tomahawk and knocked in the head of the keg ; the whiskey of course was spilled, and the chief observed that wherever the whiskey was spilled it had killed the grass, and ho concluded that what was so fatal to vegetable life must be equally fatal to animal life. He said he had smelt the devil for three days after the keg had been broken.—(Cheers and laughter.) Allusion had been made to treaties. A treaty bad been made with the Indians that they should remove across the Mississippi in five years. It had since been ascertain,d how these conditions had been made with the Indians respecting emigration. The Indians who had voted in favour of this emigration had been actually bribed to do so. Upwards of 20,000 dollars had been expended bribing them by those who were to possess the lands when the Indians should quit it; and they were moreover to be permitted to remain on the land, so that those who had voted for the emigration were to re main, and those who had voted against it were compelled to leave their homes; and out of 3,000 votes which had been taken on that occassion, 2,700 had voted against the emigration, and yet these people were to be compelled to quit their lands. This was the case in the Buffalo reser vation. —(Cheere.) M. ISAMBERT returned thanks :in the name of the French Institution. —(This gentleman spoke in French, aed the purport of his address was translated by Dr. Bowring. ) The CHAIRMAN said M. L'lnstant, who was present, was a native of Hayti. He had obtained the prize which had been effered by the French Society for the best Essay on the prejudices arising from differences of complexion, and perhaps it would be gratifying to the meeting if he were to address there.—(Cheers..) M. L'INSTANT being thus called upon, presented himself to the meeting, and was received with loud cheers. He proceeded to address the meeting in French, and his speech was subsequently translated by Dr. Bow ring. He said that it was not without emotion that he presented himself before such an assembly, met together, as they were, to comfort and assist the unfortunate Abe rigires of colonized colonies. He was a native of Hayti. Hayti had been unfortunate. She had suffered from those who deemed the continuance of slavery necessary. Un fortunate herself, she learned to pity those who were in misfortune. He, the descendant of the abolitionists of slavery, was happy in being present at a meeting such as the present ; and Hayti, which had suffered so much, would be happy to assisti in mitigating the sufferings of others, and to help in putting a step to their sufferings.—( Cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said, that when he had first taken the chair, he had informed the meeting that he could occupy it for a short time only; but the proceedings of the meet ' ing had been so interesting, and the instruction and in formation he had received from their friends had been so great, that he had forgotten the appointments he had made ; but since he had been there he had received a summons of such importance, and of so pressing a nature, that he felt he could not disobey Before he left them, however, he wished to read them a passage of a l e t ter which he had received since the commencement of the meeting. It was from Macomo, a chief of South Africa, and was addressed, " A true copy." To the Aborigines Society, and to tho gentlemen who sent the ploughs," One passage was as follows:—" The words of the white men smell of war; there is a change among his people, and we cannot comprehend the cause ; we are not children that we should view these things with indifference. We love peace—some of your people say they love God ; but they love war also—(Cheers)—they want our grass—they want our springs ; but they must walk over the bodies of Ames cosas before they take more of our country."—( Cheers. ) —He would now vacate the chair, and move that W. Evans, Esq. do take it. Mr. Buxton then left the Meeting, greeted by loud cheers as be went out, and W. Evans, Esq. took the chair. Dr. BOWRING then rose and said that he could not but feel it as a great privilege to be allowed to take a part, however humble, in the proceedings of a meeting like the present. When they asked the question what had been the effect and influence of European colonization on the aboriginal inhabitants of the countries colonized ? whet had been the effect of European conquest in the countries of w bleb they had taken possession, they ought to blush for themselve .—(Cheers.) Every one who had read the description given I,y the early historians of the state of the Americans at the time of the discovery of that country_ every one who had read the glowing descriptions given by De Salis of the Mexicans, of their great cities, of their vast opulence, of their aristocracy, or who had turned over the interesting pages of Gracilasso de laVega, himself a Peru, stag, and had read his pathetic account of the early races of that:country, or those who had read one of the most splend'd epics in the Spanish language, that of Hersilla, and h a d referred to his statements of the condition of the Aracans, among whom he was happy to learn the Jesuits were again introducing their beneficial influence, must be touched with emotion What had now become of the M. ;jeans, of th, Peruvians, of the Aracans? They were d. stine I to labour in a atete almost resembling siavery,—( Cheers.) Comdr , their situation with the situation ot their forefathers. fet introduction of persoaa professing principles of order or civilisation, and of Christianity among these people, instead of meliorating, had made their condition greatly worse.—( Cheers. ) The task before them was one of the greatest importance. It was a grievous thing to consider that, in proportion to the work to be done, human sym pa hies lessened. Bring an individual case ot distress be fore them, and all their sympathies were awakened--tell them of a multitude of such, and they retre , ted before the hugeness of the misery. Still the work was progressing. They had seen the consequences of misrule, and the result of bad institutions. Personal and individual cases had been presented to their notice, and their attention had been excited, and he hoped they would not cease their exertions until the grievances were removed. In the work its which they were engaged it was most important they should attend to the subject of education. No one who had been among semi-civilized tribes could fail to observe the mannner in which they gathered round any one pos sessed of greater knowledge than themselves, and the eagerness they discovered to attain any small degree of knowledge of medicine, or the agricultural arts, with out feeling that here there was a vast field opened for be neficent exertions. It was influences like these that were to be employed in elevating the condition of those who were now left neglected and unprotected, and in making them wise and better men; and it was only in this manner that they could carry out the great principles of truth, of humanity, and of religion.—(Loud cheers.) Dr Bowring concluded by proposing the following resolution : " That remedial and protective measures enacted by the Legislature, and enforced by the Executive, arc necessary for the recognition and establishment of the rights of the Aborigines, and that such measures ought to be speedily adopted, not only in reference to existing colonies and set tlements, but also to those other territories of the British Crown where colonization is likely to take place; and that in the extension of legitimate colonization, which it is not the object of this Society to check, the lives, posses sions, and rights of the original owners of the soil may be amply and permanently secured." Mr. GEOROE THOMPSON, in seconding the resolution, said he believed that he was not wrong in saying, that however instructive or interesting the proceedings up to that time bad been, there were gentlemen to follow him who would add largely to that interest. and that instruc tion ; and if their friends would remain, he could promise them as much enjoyment in the subsequent part of the proceedings as they had already enjoyed in the commence ment.—( Hear.) He would confess that to him the meet ing of to-day bore an aspect of peculiar interest. He could not look around that platform without feeling that he was in the midst of a crowd of witnesses—witnesses from every part of the world—to the horrid barbarities which had been inflicted by Christians on the help less tribes of the world—witnesses enough to sub stantiate the fact, that the time had now arrived when it behoved a Christian country to sup port liberally such a Society as the present. They had before them a splendid specimen of coloured humanity.—. (Cheers.) He came from an island which had once been peopled by inhabitants docile, hospitable, and kind hearted ; yet in that island there was not now to be seen one solitary representative of that race which had been discovered by Columbus when he thought he had reached the Paradise of Creation. His friend on his left had been labouring for years in the Island of Jamaica, and to that island he would soon return. He knew well, when he trod the hills and valleys of that island, that he was walk ing over the ashes of a departed race. On the continent of America they find the Sc. Lawrence, the Penobscot, and the Potomac, yet on the margins of these mighty streams they could scarcely discover a solitary representative of the native tribes. Let them look throughout the territory of the United States of America—what had become of the American Indian? His wigwam was in ruins, his council fire was extinguished, and the stream which had borne his canoe now bore the vessel of his conqueicr. Wherever the white men had come Indians had been driven away —yet still there were thousands of them re maining.—( Hear.) It was now the question whether they would exert their power, and thee - mercy, and their Christian spirit, to gather up these precious fragments of humanity—vvhcJier they should be polished, be civilized, be again beet up.--( Cheers.) He could bear his testimony to the unceasing assidui,y of the Committee of the Society to draw the attention of the , country and of those in power to the necessity of conferring on the natives of the countries colonized the institutions - and advantages enjoyed by the natives of this country, and to inculcate on those engaged in colonial speculations a spirit of justice in dealing with the rights of the natives. He believed if the Society persevered in its exteitions it would produce such an effect upon these who were about to go out to the colonies in offices of trust and power, and likewise upon those already holding those offices, as would pr e vent that power being abused, and would mightily promote the great object they had in view—the preservation and ame lioration of the condition of the native tribes in distant parts of the world. It behoved to carry the claims of the So ciety out at home, and to press them on those ignorant of its existence, or who, knowing its existence, were unac quainted with the arguments by which its claims might be enforced. He would not tresspass further on their time, as other gentlemen were about to address them, who would give them information which:, would amply repay the at tention they might bestow in listening to them ; and he was convinced that there was nat in the country an insti tution whose claims were more urgent, and whose objects were more unexceptionable than the one whose:claims they were that day met to advocate.—(Cheers.) He cordially seconded the resolution.—( Loud cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. The Rev. R. R. MOFFATT, of Latakoo, South Africa, said, it appeared to him no little pleasure to be present at such a meeting; he had spent so much time among the Aborigines of South Africa, that he almost looked upon himself as one of them. He bad spent a great portion of time far in the interior of South Africa, but scarcely far enough to escape from the cupidity of the white man. He had witnessed the devastation and the destruction which the white man carried with him wherever his trade brought him in contact with another nation. It was a melancholy and heart-rending fact, that wherever our commerce came the destruction and annihilation of the Aborigines followed. He lived a thousand miles from the Cape of Good Hope, and what he had seen would bear witness to the work of humanity which had occurred in the interior of South Africa. In going down to the Cape he had seen upwards of 100 miles of territory completely uninhabited. At the colony he had asked one of the farmers how it was this territory was abandoned. Ohl he said, it was not worth having, the waters were dried up. He (Mr. M.) asked if it had been so always. No, said the farmer, for merly there were fine streams there, He asked when that was the case, and the farmer said when the Bushmen lived there. When the country was in possession of the Abo • rigines, the district was populous, and the farmer pointed to hills and valleys which in those times had been studded with the villages and hamlets of the Aborigines. Now there was not one left. The country had been occupied by the Detch farmers and afterwards abandoned, and it was now doubly cursed with the curse of bloodshed. He had got upon a hill and looked around the country, and had thought what it was before the white man found it. Now there were no hamlets, no travellers,--all was a solitary desert. He had asked another farmer how it had come to pass that the Aborigines had.been so completely extirpated, and at last he had said, nothing could stand against the gun and horse of the white man, The inhabitants had constantly receded since the first Dutch settlements, and the settler had now reached the banks of the great Orange Riser. When he first went to Africa, the colonists used to speak of this river as an object of curiosity, and as extending a great way beyond their boundaries. They had now reached its banks, taking the children of the Aborigines captives, and leading them into slavery. He had seen letters from South Africa, stating the rapid advances mak ing by the colonists, and saying that if something was not done to prevent it, they would have another Texas in thein trrior of South Africa, which God forbid. But it was a melancholy certainty that such would be the case, for these persons had taken up their abode far beyond the boundary of the colony. Not long since a native chief had sent a message praying the boors to grant him permission to return to his own soil, and had been refused. He was still refused, and what the result might be he knew not. These matters had been attended to by the Government in some degree. The justice and sympathy of the British people were now roused to this object, and he trusted something would be accomplished. If it were not so ' Africa would b e ru i ne d. H e remem b ere d t h at at one Missionary station there were some individuals who thought themselves superior because they had a bit of the white man. They had adopted almost all the white man's vices, and few of his virtues. They tried to gain an influence over some of the native tribes by tempting their cupidity by offers of powder and guns. The reply was worthy of a native of Rome in it a best clays--" We love your friendship, but not your servitude."—( Cheers.) This was in Africa, which had so long be trodden down, and of which so much evil had been spoken, and the in habitants ot which were designated by the farmers as the cursed sons of Ham. He knew a Ki ng o f t h e Z oo l a nation who had once waged war for empire; while he was with him, anlindividual of the tribe had been condeinuel to death according to the laws of the country. The Kin.. was a fearful tyrant, who had deluged the „ in l te sp ri a o r r e with human blood, and asc en d e d th e t h rone on the skulls of men. That Monarch said to th e cr i m i na l , our life because my friend here has d es i re d t h at none may ) be put to death during his stay. Y ou are at perfect liberty, but it must be among b oors . Y ou must no more come into our towns and capital." The roan, putting his hand to his neck, around which he wore a badge of honour, which he had obtained in fi g ht, sa id t h at h e would prefer ' death rather than disgrace that badge, and he was accord ingly led off to a precipice, and pushed off to be devoured by crocodiles; and it was a people like this the colonists were extirpating. The natives complained that wherever they went the white man followed them, and they were unable to get beyond the boundaries of the colony. " Who can hide himself from the eagle's eye," said one of them. " I wonder if men were to get to the moon if the white man would follow us there." Something had been said about long guns. He wished they were as thick as men in Africa. The Dutch farmer was allowed a gun, and wlsy should the farmer be deprived of it ? The semi-civilized inhabitants on the Lander of the colony got possesesion of guns, and could not be prevented doing so, and they carried war and devastation into the interior. He should wish to see glans spread all over Africa, as he was convieced it would introduce a more civilized mode of warfare. lie had asked a s.d.dier who had been at Waterloo and in the Peninsular wars how many men he had killed, and the reply was he did not know that he had ever killed one. He had asked an African warrior the same question, and he rinsed his hand and described how he had speared one man and stabbed another, and been nearly blinded by his blood ; and described his various encounters with others 1 A chief had t o ld hi m t h at h e s h ou ld b e very cautious flow . 1 he went to war with a people who had guns " I see the spear," said he; " I can sec the arrow and the axe, and avoid them, but catch me fighting with guns-1 can. not see the balls."—( Cheers.) The Rev. Gentleman concluded by mos ing the following resolution;--" Th t the objects of thi s S oc i e t y b e i ng t h e protect i on an d civili sation of the Aboriginnl tribes, it is the natural Al) or rni-ist'3nary bouie;• arid associations for the promotion of emigrat.on, and that it is therefore desirable to extend the EVENING EDITION. knovviecige o itT. o,t , j , ets :Missionary Societi , A, the chr , N.l. , ,;ri patrin:s ofEn,lig AsFociations." Mr. R. MOoRE, in seconding the resolution, said no one could doubt but that the operations of the Society would greatly aid missionaries, because, by cultivating the good opinion of the Aborigines, it would make them ready to receive and listen to missionary instruction, and it would save their liv,s from falling a sacrifice to the cruel spirit of our soldiers, sailors, and merchants. The missionaries were sent to the Aborigines, and it they were destroyed, the people were destroyed to whom they went to preach. The Society would therefore aid them, and mitigate the dangers to which they were exposed. He could not agree with the gentleman who had just down. He wished for no guns, no warfare, no violence, because it was opposed to Christianity. He believed that wars were less bloody now than formerly, but he could nut agree to ego evil for the ac complishment of good, as that did not appear to him to be consistent with the religion brought into the world by the Prince of Peace. —( Hear, hear, hear.) Here. then, independent of the higher principles of reli gion, we find tha , in an interested point of those countries would be of more use to us by our adoption of the sublime and Christian principle of to " Do unto others as you would be done by." Yet, alas I those per sons worn we have first wronged, when excited by our oppressions they have committed acts which were almost justified, we have sent marauding parties to-hunt them to desolation. Ye; those men, of whom it was said that they were incapable of civil:236mi, In Id some of the highest prin ciples of Christianity in principle and practice. He might just mention ene instance. An Indian, who had been robbed of his cattle, his borne burned, and his whole property destroyed, told his tale of sarrow to one of the mis ion aries. The latter said, " Seek not to gain satisfaction by the sword ; apply to the Government fur redress." The In dian grasped the hand of his Christian adviser, and said," I will follow the advice coming from the good man inspired by the true God." It is on the part of such men that the present Society seek to enlist the sympathies of the people of England. They said, send out missionaries to these countries, who should form the habits of the rising genera tion, and thus in the most effectual manner introduce civi lization. The worst feature of our intercourse with the In dians was, that in the greater number of cases these persons who emigrate from European nations are not of the purest character, and thus, as first impressio es lay a strong hold on the savage mind, the character of the white man suf fers.—( Cheers. ) Curiosity bring the natives in contact with us, our presents fiv.ciriate them, and instead of the scythe or the reaping -hook, we brought them the gun and the sword.--( Cheers.) Another point to which he begged to call the attention of the meeting was the propriety of introducing medical practitioners among those Aborigines where we made settlements. As we have been the cause of the destruction of hundreds of thousands of those un fortunate beings, by introducing diseases and otherwise, we are now called upon to use our best exertions tor the amelioration of their condition.—( Cheers. ) The CHAIRMAN here said he regretted that business of an urgent nature required his attendance at the House, and he would be therefore compelled, though with exceeding reluctance, to vacate the chair. On the motion of Mr. BELL, Colonel Henry Dunies Campbell was then called to the chair. Mr. R. SCHOMBURG said, before reading the resolu tion which he was called upon to propose, he would state that he had much personal knowledge of the state of the Aborigines in Guiana, having resided there for a consider able time, and his firm conviction was that they were per capable of a high order of civilization. He was happy to sec the exertions that were every day making to bring them under British protection. It h a d b een said by many (and among them were some who had professed to ihave paid much attention to the present state of the Brazils), that the Aborigines were incapable of receiving the blessings of education. He should introduce to their notice a native of Guiana, who some seven or eight inonths was in a state of absolute nature—who roamed the forest with a bow and • arrow to seek the means of a scanty and precarious sub sistence. He now would present him to the notice of the meeting, with his int e ll ec t ua l p owers to a certain degree matured, and with a moderate acquisition of the elemen tary portions of education.—( The speaker here led to the front of the platform a young lad of a deep copper-colour complexion, and with a very intelligent cast of counte nance, who seemed deeply interested in the scene around him.) Catholic missionaries had in these countries com menced their godly labours many years ago, but there were more than five-sixths of the district left totally 'an provided eith religious instruction. Then why de. not the British people send out missionaries—Pre..estant missionaries?—and as it had been said by Mr. O'Connell this morning, that all classes of Chrisdary s , without rela tion to conventional differences, endeevour to convey to the benighted mind of the Indiana knowledge of the true God. In conclusion he beeged:to read the resolution, e hicha was as follows :—" That the recognition of the rights of the Aborigines on the part of Government, and a general feel ing of benevolence towards them on the part of colonists„ must ultimately prove ineffectual unless the Anorigiaes themselves are led to co-operate, by being enabled to cul tivate their own faculties and powers, and that for this purpose it is desiroue that young natives, eligible by their talents and dispositions, be brought to this country, with a view to their practical education, especieliy in those direc tions, in which their abilities may be most evident." Mr. D. Roeen, of Canada, begged leave to second the resolution. He had some interesting facts to which he wished to call the attention of the inectieg. It must be: known to all those versed in history thsa w h en E ng land and the present United States of Aenerica first separated, the tribe called the Six Nations Inhabited the richest and best tracts of country near New York, and that when American independence was recognised by Eagla - ad these loyal men emigrated to Canada sooner than recognise the domination of th e A mer i can Republic, He could b ear tes timony to the invariable fealty of the Indians in both Upper and Lower Canada. When the effort was made to wrest Canada from the Crown of England —when there was not a soldier in the province —when the French Canadians were in a state of rebellion, what was their conduct ? I shall. tell you—they rushed to the rescue at the first symptom r disloyalty, and it will by many be recollected that of I'.o Indians who came down on Christmas.day, 1837, for the protection of a loyalist settlement, not one returned T a live. Loud cheers.) He could mention many other inestancee of devotion on the part of the native tribes to the. British Crown during the late unhappy disturbances in the Cana das. On the North American boundaries of the United States the Cherokee Indian had been hunted from his pa ternal land by the aid of the bloodhound, to perish among the Rocky Mountains, and under all these circumstances, detailed there this day,:was it fair to attempt to test the ca pabilities of the Aborigines, treated with such utter indif ference and recklessness as they in all ease, have invariably been, as to the powers of manifesting the better feelings of human nature ? Mr. BELL rose and said that he understood their re spected Chairman had been named as the proposer of one of the resolutions to be submitted to the meeting to-day. He should, therefore, beg leave to move that he now leaves the Chair, and that Mr. King (the celebrated traveller) be called thereto in his stead. Mr. KING having taken the chair, • Colonel H. D. CANIPLIELL came forward and said, that when he first went to take the charge of the Government in Sierra Leone in 1835, the different races composing the population were in the most lamentable state. Several of the Maroons had been removed from Jamaica to Nova Scotia, where the effect of climate displayed itself in its most fatal shapes. He regretted to think that after the expenditure of twenty millions of money by this country, there should be so little improvement in the state of some of the Aborigines, for he thought that in Sierra Leone the condition of the population was at the present moment far worse than what it had been twenty years ago- The inhabitants might be seen in the public ways ha a state of perfect nudity, and there was a lament able want of employment for working persons there. If any of the inhabitants were to cultivate the earth there were no markets in which to dispose of the results of their industry. He could himself state, as an example of the anxiety on the part of the natives to take advantage of any facilities that might be afforded to them of the fruits of their industry, that ono year there was a great demand for lice, and in the following year such was the quantity raised by the natives that the market was completely glutted with it, and it became a more drug. The same has oc curred with regard to the. production of ginger. The fact was that there was wanting some means of directing the energies of the eatives to a proper fruition. During the time of his official connexion with that country there wag.; scarce a hut or a hamlet that he had not visited, and het never met a more kindly or honest manifestation of fact. ing ; and what struck hint as the most deplorable fact was, that there was scarcely a church or a chapel to be forend amongst the numerous villages scattered over the country. Amongst the native villages there were but two grog-shops, while in the tree towns which the Europeans inhabited there were a great number. Among the natives he could .1 ° say that v er y f ew h a d contracted a taste for spirituous .03 liquors, except those old soldiers who had been discharged e ii: o l,o from the \Vest India regiments, and who, by their contact se ' 4 44 , 0 with Europeans, contracted some of their habit,. HIP found them invariably religions as well as abstemious• ies-=f - o rl When he first w en t th ere, t h e l abourers got only a nomi nal rate of wages, and the person who paid them would ;'e'r keep back th e wages on the slightest pretences. As for. 0 the apprentice system, be considered it only another name for the siorst sort of slavery. Nothing that he ever sat, in any other part of the world was worse than what he witnessed at Sierra Leone, The men are seat to work at distant settlements—the children given to any cite who will take ten shillings for their support, and much of the fees arising from this system went into the Governor's, of • his dependent's pockets. These things he (Colonel Camp- bell) abolished, and he dared to say that such abolition caused much dissatisfaction to the interested parties. As to the appropriation of females, no expense was incurred, for a male slave might demand her in marriage, which was immediately solemmzed at the Colonial Chaplain's house and thus she became the property of the proprietor o her newly made husband. In many of the instances.; alluded to, the females had been previously married, and Omit husbands living. The chief cause of cone plaint, rife among the natives, was the want of religicus •- instruction, and medical aid. In the hospital there were et one time 750 patients, and many of them sefferieeC se e under the small-pox, end medical attendance ;icing scant as it was, the mortality was awful. Ile established. ef schools there, and tried to abolish the prejrai,„ „i st i. ag , wch ..s. among the nati ves , an d from that the h appiost results twee. :; He had al s o a b e li e l le d t h e cus t om, or eei ng naked prevailed to a di sgus ti ng ext en t befo r e he cot, reel on hi the •le , '" office of Governor, but he regretted to state tliat he un- • derstood they had again relapsed into their old habits. He hed been now three years awste f rom that country, but eseses he wished that some paeon of greater weight and power Ea than he was would tske up the cause of sufferine hums he It WWI with regret that nity in that country .—( Cheers.) he found that those persons trho s him ready to give his most strenuous exeions to the investigation of the abuses the Gover,lin; ni authorities. lie ceuild scareel., at present existing Sierae Leone, regarded the mattes:- the expenditure of [went three rei,l;ons with apathy, and M this charge he must ine' ue'ee ' ca . !! while such a ey stem uf leteian misery exiened' robbery Upon the genereus Er, ifsh :;anon Leor;e, under aSt which the better than a nosey grantio,?; of in Sierra % Ness ietended to;;GcAi,h, Inka endeavoujed to show the ~ ~w ~~ ;$1 , 3 ■ 44, ti„ Us I t tel d o , 14.