The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. could purge themselvee of. The best thing the meeting co uld 1 elo with the resolutions was to adopt them just as they s tood. I lie would just add one word on the question of the terms of the communion. What did the resolution recommend to the Church ? Not to excommunicate, but to consider whether it ( was their ditty to do it. They were cnly asked to takenp the subject, and to consider it. They were MAsubject, therefore dictating 1 , terms of communion to them. Indeed, he should object to such dictation from his anti-slavery principles.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) lie hoped that no suspected irritation which seiteht be excited in their minds would induce the meeting to ferego the excellent resolution before it. The Rev. 31r. BIaNEY supported the original resolution. Dr. GREVILLE begged to withdraw his amendment. Mr. HENRY t. STANTON,f New York, said the Conven tion was composed chiefly of ' British abolitionists, and the re solutions, though not directly, yet indirectly would have the effect of turning out of the pale of the Church about nine-tenths of his American brethren. He did not say they were about directly to excommunicate, but they were about to take measures, which, if carried out in America, would cer tainly, unless resistance took place, have that effect. Al though he was epposed to the amendment that had just been withdrawn, yet he wished to submit another amendment, be cause he did not think the resolution was quite strong enough. --(Hear, hear.) The amendment he wished to propose was to insert these words, " To respectfully submit to them it was their incumbent duty to take those ste p s. He was aware it might be said they were not a Chu rc h Court ; but he would ask were they not to declare what it was the duty of man to do with reference to moral principles ? For what did they sit there ? To lay the corner-stone of the fabric that slave hold ing was a sin against God. lie wished the meeting to listen to two or three facts ; and, first of all, he would state it was considered in America that two or three questions they had been discussing that morning were entirely settled. The first was, that holding men as a property was, under all circumstances, sinful. Another question that was settled in America, at least settled so far as impregnable argument could settle it was, that servitude sanctioned by God did not recognise the right of one man to hold his fellow-man as property. Theodore D. Weld had published an argument on that subject, which the doctors ire America had not dared to touch with their heaviest weapons. Another fact they were about settling in America was, that the New Testament gave no sanction to the claim of man over his fellow-man as property. An argu ment on that subject had just been published by a distinguished gentleman, the Presider one of their colleges, and no an swer had been attempted to be given to it on the part of any American divine who pretended to hold that slavery was re cognised in the New Testament. When he saw that Conven tion about to take measures which would at least throw the American Church into a delicate and peculiar predicament, he felt bound to ask his brethren to be aware what they were deing e ,.and that when the American clergy who had acted in the Eiuner bo which he had referred, came to this country, they would not hold out to them the right hand of fellowship. He nutted that they were not going, in that Convention, to vote fer one thing and do another. He was sorry to say that, in the southern portion of America, slavery had increased to a most ones-moue extent—( Cheers.) What he wanted was, that eiso principle "'Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," should Ise established in America, and that the mi nisters of that country pointing to the downcast and ill lased slave should exclaim—" That is my brother."—( Cheers. ) So much for statements. Now for facts. He had no doubt that every person there would denounce the holding of slaves for a pain. They might say that holding th e m for th e i r goo d would be allowed ; but holding them to make money of them was a disgrace to humanity and derogatory to mankind. Now he would just read a statement to them which would show to what extent professing Christians were engaged in actual hold ing of slaves. The person who gave this evidence was a Minis. tee,-of high standing in the Presbyterian denomination in the south, and had been for many years the stated clerk of a pres bytery in Mississippi, and what he stated was this—" If slavery be a sin, and if advertising and apprehending slaves, with a view to restore them to their masters, is a direct violation of the Divine law, and if the buying, selling, and holding slaves for the sake of gain is a heinous sin and s c an d a l, th en ver ily three-fourths of all the Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians in eleven States of the Union are of the Devil." He would therefore advise those present to be careful what they were about.—(Loud laughter.) But ha went on to say—" they hold, if they do not buy and sell, slaves; and, with few exceptions, they hesitate not to apprehend and restore runaway slaves when in their power." Such was the statement of a Presbyterian of high rank in the South, and he could refer to several such, but he would pass them by and call the attention of the meeting to the opinions unequivocally avowed by the Charleston and the Carolina Union Presbytery. '1 hey avowed their opinions as follows :—" That in the opinion of this Presbytery the holding of slaves, so far from being a sin in the sight of God, is no where condemned in his Holy Word —( Cries of " Shame")—that it is in accordance with the ex ample, or consistent with the precepts of Patriarchs, Prophets, and Apostles--that it is compatible with the most paternal re gard to the best good of those servants whom God may have eoenrnatted to our charge, and that, therefore, those who as sume 'the contrary position, and lay it down as a fundamental prioeiple in morals and religion that slavery is wrong, proceed upon a false principle." He might multiply such extracts as these indefinitely, for there was hardly an ecclesiastical body of any note throughout the slave holding states which had not re • peatedly its sanction to the system of slavery. But what said the Synod of Virginia, which covered the entire of that country ? Why the Synod passed a resolution to the following effect :—" Resolved unanimously,"—Unanimously ! " that we consider the dogma fiercely promulgated by Abo litionist Associations, that slavery as it actually exists in our slave-holding States is necessarily sinful, and ought to be im mediately abolished, and the conclusions which naturally follow from that dogma are directly and palpably contrary to the plainest principles of common sense and common humanity, and to the clearest authority of the Word of God."—( Hear. ) The Edgetield Baptist Association, in South Carolina, had also came to similar resolutions, and they had appointed a day of fasting—not to undo the heavy burdens, and let the oppressed ge free, bet " to give to our brethren and all others in the North, who are embarked in the unscriptural cause of the abolition of slavery among us, right views of the course pursued by our Lord and his Apostles under a similar state of things, when they were upon the earth, in imitation of whose example they should be found, that instead of scattering fire brands into the southern portions of the Union, and stirring up a servile war, they may endeavour to keep th e un ity of the spirit in the bond of peace. '—( Cries of " Shame, shame.") Surely this %vas fasting to unite with the deeds of wickedness. He would now read to the meeting some few testi monies, from the Southern Christian Herald, one of the periodicals of the south. In that paper they were void, that at a .arge meeting assembled in Lancasterville, south Carolina, which was addressed by the Rev. J. H, Thornhill and the Rev. Mr. Carlisle,ksolutions were passed to the fol lowing effect :—First, that slavers-, as it exists in the South, is no evil, and is consistent with the principles of revealed reli giess—( Cries of " Shame, shame")—that all opposition to it arises train a misguided and fiendish fanaticism, which we are bound to resist in the very threshold—( Cries of " Shame") — that all interference with this subject by fanatics is a violation of our civil and social rights, is unchristian and inhuman, lead ing necessarily to anarchy and bloodshed ; and that the insti,ga tars are murderers and assassins.—( Shame, shame.) But that was not all. A clergyman of Virginia, one who was bound to Coach the principles of " peace and good will to men," in a letter, in the year 1833, addressed to the West Hanover Pres bytery, concluded it as follows :—" It there be any stray goat of a- minister among us, tainted with the bloodhound principle of abolitionism, let him be ferreted out, silenced, excommunicated, and left to the public to dispose of in other respects. Your affeel'iotaate brother is the Lord Robert N. Anderson.—(Cries of " Shame.") Now, he must say that with regard to the latter part of this letter, it bad a bloody meaning. The finger that poikted to that letter pointed to the use of the bowie knife, or any other weapon of murder. That was in 1835, when violence, and outrage, and blood, were going through the land— that was in the year whet Reuben Carrunctel went to Colum bia, and because an antis slavery tract was found in his luggage, lie was imprisoned for eight months.—(Cries of " Shame, shame.") His life's blood was taken from him by degrees, consumption seized him, and because he could not come to the tree side of the North, he was obliged to fly to Jamaica, and there Awl: protection under the shadow of a monarch's throne. The language he had referred to, it was to be remembered, was that of a minister of the Gospel, and in his (Mr. Stanton's ) opinion it ought to have been written in blood, fur it had a bloody meaning.—( Great cheers.) But now with respect to the Methodist clergy, lie would read to the meeting the ex tract of a letter from the Rev. George W. Langhorne, a Metho dist minister, to the editor of Zion's Watchman, a Methodist anti-slavery paper, published in New York. The Rev. Gen tleman stated as follows :—" I, Sir, would as soon be found in the ranks of a banditti, as numbered with Arthur Taphan and his wanton coadjutors"—that Arthur Taphan, the meeting would allow him to say, whose name was connected with every thing that was noble and philanthrophie. -( Great cheering.) " Nothing is more appalling to my feelings as a man, contrary to my principles as a Christian, and repugnant to my soul as a 'Minister, than the insidious proceedings of such men. If you have not resigned your credentials as a minister of the Aletho that Episcopal Church, I really think :hat as an honest man you should do so at ones. In your Ordination Vows you solemnly promised to be obedient to those who had the rule over you, and since they have spoken, and that distinctly too, on this subject, and sheapprove your conduct, I conceive that you are bound to submit to their authority, or leave the Church." Then, at a public meeting held at Oranzeburgh in South Ca rolina, in July, in the year le3ti, which had been called for the purpose of considering what should be done with the copy of" Zion's Watchman," which hail been sent to the Ilev. J. C. Paetell, a Member of the South Carolina Con ference of the Methodist Church, that gentleman received an Address of the citiaens of that place in which were the follow ing statements :—" From what has been premised the following conclusions result,—First, that slavery is a judicial visitation.— ( Laughter.) Secondly, that it is not a moral evil ; thirdly, that it is supported by the Bible—( Cries of hear, hear)_ fourthly, that it has existed in all ages," and they should have added, so had lying and stealing. —( Great laughter.) Then the Address went on to say, " it is not a moral evil. Ihe fact that slavery is of Divine appointment—(Cries of Oh, oh)--would be proof enough with the Christian that it cannot be a moral evil. So tar from hei,eg a moral evil it is a merciful visitation—it is the Lord's doings and marvellous in our eyes—(Cries of .Shame, shame) — and had it not been for the best, God alone, eelso is able, lo ng s i nce would have overruled it. It is by Divine appointment."—(Cries of Shame.) s alee, tail that that was not true; ; if Wig co-Secretary, Mr. es (( I ,h ie , came to America he thought that he would fi n d it 50..-- eerie title Mr. Paetell wa s , h e would read t) so .—(Cheers.) ) Now to show 2.1drr,,,e b of Z y that gentlem an t o t h e editor to the a letter Zion's meeting Watchman. ft was as follows ;—" Did you calculate Mr it Sutherland to mis esent the Methodist discipline, and say t p, when the general Conference in their y la s At t u , f r p e o r o t t ed . aboli- Those on s h tl i e l -_ sige s s eeed it as a libel on truth ? Ohl full of all subtlety, .irdt . ell the devil—.all liars, salt!' the Sacred Volume., shall c have ,i e punishment in the lake of fire and brinistON. I can duly e ,one reason why you ha ve not been i ndicted for lib e l. Th e law sa2.,S, the f if gre ater the truth the greater the libel, and as your papee• has no inch ingredient, it is construed but a small rnatter. L'ut if you desire to educa te the slaves, I will tell you how to raise the money without editing Zion's Watchman. You and old Arthur Taphan came out of the South this win ter, and they will raise 100,000 dollars for you. New Orleans far herself will be pledged for :t. Desiring no further acquain tance with yen, and never expecting to see you but once in time or in eternity, which is at judgment, I subscribe myself tl l te friend of the Bible, and the opposer of ab, He ks . Pastell." (Cries of "Shame , shame. ) en rulers to the jadgwnt, end when he conies e ,beforethe judg me nt-seat of Christ, ant; when Christ said to prim, 1 was hungry, and ye fed me not ; I sees naked, and ye clothed me not ; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in ; for inasmuch as ye did it not to these, ye did it not to me." In answer to to this he would say, o When saw I thee hungered ?" .And the answer would lie, " Wei saw it in the down-trodden slave." — Loud cheers.) The treatment of the slaves in America was hoed in the extreme, and that treatment, he believed, was en haiaced, rather than decreased, by the ministers of the Gospel. Ho t sadhearil that one Baptist minister, when his slave ran away, e nol bias dead, and another took an axe and cut off his fingers. -.:(Cries of " Shame, shame.") A third, whose slave was accused of stealing sixty dollars, whipped him most severely, and he was found dead the next morning.--("Shame.' ) 'The book, em which he had read teemed with such facts as ,i e se, but he would not at the present moment detain the Ta neting be adverting to them. He must, however, bo allowed 0 a t tain ;he meeting a short time, while he read some parts of t ,, w , re , o i e sisons of the Harmony Presbytery of South Carolina, in oilier to ii.qnv how they perverted the Scriptur e —" R eso l ve d, That slavery I tas exoted from the good old slave-hold ers a n d T L AbrahaM, ; ssaae, and Jacob (who are new in the patriar V.* , , ~,„„,,, r o, '—this was a parenthesis—(Cries of kingdonc f a '''''.- e Shame, shame"—" to the time when the Apostle Paul sent a runaway slave home to his master Philemon, and wrote a Christian and fraternal epistle to this slave-holder, which we find stands in the Canons of the Scriptures, and that slavery has existed ever since the days of the Apostle, and does now exist. That as the relative duties of master and slave are taught in the Scripture, in the same manner as of parent and child, and husband and wife, the existence of slavery itself is not opposed to the will of God; and whoever has a conscience too tender to recognise this relation as lawful, is righteous over-much, is wise above what is written, and has submitted his neck to the yoke of man—sacrificed his Christian liberty of conscience, and leaves the infallible word of God for the fancies and doctrines of men."—( Shame, shame.) He would not now stop to read any more of such testimony : it was sufficient for him to say, that he trusted the time had now arrived when a strcng rebuke would be given by all religious bodies in this country to those who entertained such doctrines. The abolitionists of this country were held in high estimation in America, and if they would only speak out, he felt convinced that slavery would soon be at an end—( Cheers.) They needed Christian rebuke ; but above all, they needed from them that when their distinguished cler gymen came among the people of this country, they should be told that, until they put away the evil of slavery, the right hand of fellowship would not be held out to them. The Rev. W. BR.OEti seconded the amendment ; and, after a short discussion, in which Mr. Josiah Foter, the 'tit/. Tho mas Swan, and Mr. Fewoster suggested several amend- ante The Rev. Mr. BURNETT said that he thought the best course would be to make dr. Stanton's amendment part of the original resolution he proposed—( Cheers. ) The Rev. Dr. Cox concurred most heartily with the reso lution. He was not always of the same opinion as that which led him to this full concurrence, but deep reflection—repeated reflction, upon the subject, had brought him to the conclu sion he had now arrived at.—( Great cheering.) Having come to that conclusion, he felt it his duty to take the first opportu nity of stating it, and he was sure that the gentlemen of that Convention, knowing how he had been situated—knowing that he bad gone to America as a Delegate, and knowing also how he had been treated there, he was sure that they would feel that he was not obtruding when he stated that he fully and heartily concurred with every sentiment and word con tained in the proposition.—( Great cheerin g . ) The resolution, with the amendments added, were then put by the Chairman to the meeting, and carried unanimously. The Convention adjourned at half-past two to four o'clock. The Delegates re-assembled at four o'clock, Mr. STURGE in the Chair. THE COLOURED POPULATION OF UPPER CANADA. Dr..lloirii said, in bringing under the notice of the Con vention the state of the coloured population of Upper Canada, he thought it was desirable to remind them that that country served as the place of refuge for a number of runaway slaves from the United States. In consequence of some circum stances which had take place en the banks of the Niagara, he had been in correspondence e i,h the Government for a long time, trying to obtain protection for the coloured race in Ca nada, but he had almost despaired of success until the meeting of the Convention.—( Hear, hear.) He then proceedod. In conformity with the instructions of the Committee, I have much pleasure in bringing before the notice of this Conven tion the numbers, state, condition, and desires of the coloured population of Upper Canada. As a body, they may be justly deemed the most interesting fragment of American people, to Ise found on the Americant continent. The recent census taken of them, for the purpose of submitting to this Conven tion, amounted to 12,511 ; this was exclusive of some towns and townships that had not sent in their returns, so that I sup pose, on a moderate computation, they cannot be much less than 15,000. They are chiefly fugitives from the great prison house of southern bondage ; and the history of the perils, suf ferings, and vicissitudes they met with, in their escape from their savage masters, exceed in thrilling interest, pathos, and wonder, the wildest stories of romance. It is impossible not to feel a degree of admiration at the elevation of mind which the love of liberty inspires, as also not to perceive what a noble foundation for the inculcation of good principles, when listening with rapture to the account of their trials and struggles—their courage and perseverance in surmounting all obstacles—their dangerefrom hunger, from their merciless pursuers, from blood hounds sent on their trail, from the interdict generally laid on them, and from the inevitable destruction (by law.ess mobs) of any who would kindly interpose on their behalf.—( Hear.) To illustrate their love of liberty, permit me to state a fact or two respecting a man who now resides at Gosfield in the Western district. He is a worthy independent farmer, and I believe a Christian. Twelve or fifteen years ago he made his escape from the State of Alabama, passed through Tenossee and Kentucky in the most perilous circumstances—was several times hunted and harrassed and worried down by blood-hounds and human beings more savage than they, and captured, and twice committed to jail, from which he broke and fled. The first time he broke goal was at midnight, in the midst of a tre mendous thunder-storm. He first rid himself of his hand cuffs, which had been put on loosely, by making use of a ball of hard soap—moistening his hands, and rendering them pliant and slippery as an eel's-skin, and then drawing them out one at a time ; then seizing an axe which lay in reach, he raised it up amidst the lightning's flash and the bursting peals of thunder, using the light which God struck out for him, for the purpose of discovering where to str ike at bolts and bars, and taking advantage of deafening thunder claps which in instantly ensued, he banged away with his battle-axe, hoping that the voice of thunder might drown the noise of liberty's hammer, and, thus struggling, he succeeded in getting out. The storm passed off, and the bright moon soon shone out to cheer him on his way to the North.—( Loud cheers.) Again and again he was hunted and worried down by men and dogs. At length he came to the beautiful Ohio river. Ha longed to plant his feet upon the opposite side, which he knew to begin a free state. He reconnoitered the stream for some time in quest of the means of conveyance across; but fearing that he should fail, and be again reduced to hopeless bondage, he said within himself that he would have it toremember, that he was in sight of a Lee country, and drank of free waterfor once in his life. So, Gideon like, he bowed down and drank freely from the stream. He succeeded, however, in getting across into the State of Indiana, hut was soon taken up by slave-hunters. They bound him with cords, kept him confined for some time, and led him through the village in the night towards the ferry, intending to return him to Kentucky. On leading him out, they charged him not to speak, at the peril of his life. This charge of silence suggested to his mind that his tongue might be of some service to him, and he resolved that he would use it. He raised the cry of murder at the top of his voice, which instantly frightened his captors, so that they left him and fled; while the friends of humanity came breakin g from doers and windows to his rescue , cut hi m loose, and helped him on his way to Canada.—(Loud cheers.) His name is John Williams. He is now a worthy British freeman. With regard to their state and condition, those who have settled in towns, for the most part have succeeded, and are in flourishing circumstances ; and have frequently received com mendations from the Bench for their industry, sobriety, and general deportment. The Chief Justice of Upper Canada, an authority everywhere venerated, has felt constrained, on more than one occasion, when coloured men have been brought before him for trial, to bear his willing testimony in their favour as to their general deportment and good character. Those also who have settled upon lands, which they have pur chased by their industrious accumulations, have succeeded, and are prospering. An interesting confirmation of this fact may be seen in the township of Thorab, on Lake Simcoe. Some few years since, a number came from the United States, and became squatters (as they are termed) in that township. They were from the South, and consequently unaccustomed to the severities of our more northern winters. They had been, how ever, habituated to the remorseless rigors of the worst descrip tion of slavery under Heaven, and with their accustomed patience they not only surmounted their difficulties, subsisted without eleemosynary aid, but in a few years carried surplus produce to market. Those who received free grants of land, in the Wilberforce settlement, did not succeed so well as those who, having laboured for some years, bought land with their own savings. This is not a fault to attach exclusively to the man of colour—it is too frequently to be seen in the white man. It arises from such persons being too apt to rely on the con tinuation of benefactions once began, rather than on their own energies. Those thrive best who purchase land from their savings, and that not in a separate colony, but promiscuously among white settlers, who are ultimately shamed out of their prejudices by seeing industry, order, sobriety, prudence, fru gality, and contentment, where they had been led to anticipate directly the reverse. With regard to their fidelity and valour as residents in the province, they have received the special ap probation of the Legislative Council, the thanks of their various Commanding Officers, the commendation of every Governor, and no one can better appreciate their services than the late Governor-Genet al of British North America, and the Com mander of the Forces, General Lord Seaton. Lastly, with re gard to their desires and expectations. A tragic event occurred on the frontier of Niagara on the 15th of September, 1837. A slave-holder, Castleman, came from Lexington, Kentucky, to claim a slave, Moseby. whom he traced into Upper Canada, and claimed as a fugitive felon. 'the mars was arrested and committed to Niagara gaol. Sir Francis Bead, by the advice of the Law Officers of the Crown; and under the regulations of international law, was induced to surrender him. 'the co loured population of the province rallied to a man to resist this surrender, resolving to perish in their resistance to the law, rather than behold their fellow-man delivered up again to slavery. They came in from every section of the province, and lay ie ambush for fourteen days and nights about the gaol. The sup plications of the man to be shot on British ground, rather than to be surrendered to slavery , were heartrending and piteous in the extreme. The day for t!,e delivery of bins to the American authorities arrived. He was placed in a waggon, front which lie leapt into the midst of his brethren—burst off his handcuffs, which had previously been filed—bounded over a high fence, and made his escape. By order of the Deputy Sheriff several guns were fired amongst the crowd, and two lives were sacri iced on the occasion. To remedy this state of things, a General Convention of the coloured population of Upper Canada took place, when a memorial was determined upon, re presenting their peculiar situation, and praying that that special protection which their circumstances required might be extended to them by her Majesty's Government. After a long correspondence both with the Colonial and the Foreign Secre taries of State, I lament to add, nothing definitive or satisfac factory has been accomplished to meet this anomalous posi tio sin which the coloured population of Canada is placed. I had better lay before you the views of the coloured people agreed to at their C, mention in Upper Canada this spring : " cesetT MEETING OF COLOURED PEOPLE AT ANCASrEk. " Pursuant to notice, given through the newspapers of the province, delegates assembled at the village of Ancaster from every part of the province, on Weinesday the Ilth day of March, 1840, to confer together and to pass such resolutions as the social, moral, religious, and political condition of the co loured population of this colony seemed to require, in order that these resolutions might be forwarded to England to be laid be fore the Grand Abolition Convention, to be held in the City of London in June next. " Resolved—That this meeting deem it expedient to petition her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, as also the Provincial Legislature, that a law may he passed by which, in the case of a slave having escaped from bondage into any British province, and claimed be the slaveholder, on pretext of felony or other crime, that he or she be not surrendered (as is now the case), but be placed in confinement until the nett Assizes for the dis trict in w hi c h h e or s h e may b e res id en t s h a ll be held, and the facts of the offence charged be tried by a Jury, either Grand or Petit, b e f ore the escaped slave shall be handed over to the authoriti es o f t h e Unite States for trial there ; as this meeting is fully awareget thet that it is too often a mere pretext of the slave holder toslave back' Ti rz t nt. Resolved— in order to inflict the most cruel and rigo rous treat itis expedient that we address the next Provinci a l Parliament, that an A c t b e p asse d f or our benefit, similar to the Ali en Act,passed by th e P rov i nc i a l Legislature n in 1828, for as the l aw w stands as rega r ds a liens who wi s h to become subjects, it operoate, British tinjuriously against us : we emigrate to this and ether colonies h to enjoy that liberty those blessings as it will be for our and protection which alone is afforded the British Govern pesutuahydarhid wholly in ment and law, and it is our made advantage, that we enjoy common with other subjects, and not in t pa h s e s r ed A , fa t; Ma jesty be petitioned in the event of such an jet being t for its object a n ; give her Royal Assent thereto. suppose p t i h , o : e C t o t " Resolved—,-That having seen a notice in some of the motion that has bee n news papers of tile day, of a opening of a negotiation between the Government of the Uni':d press of the United States of America, having States of America and that of Great Britain, to obtain the have escaped, from the States into Canada; a motion in itself surrender of all slaves that escape, and those we so wicked, so infamous and outrageous, and so repugnant to very feeling of justice, of right, of humanity, and of morals and ell ion, that if acted upon we feel as sured will call down u p o n such a people and such a Government the execrations of man. kind generally, and the friends of the coloured man in every I part of the globe in particular ; which motion marks the incon sittency of the charadgm- of that Government that, in its boasted ' Declaration of Independence,' first declares that all men are born free and equal,' and yet enslaves millions of our race. Satisfied as we are with the protection we enjoy, and that no such infamous proposition as this will ever be listened to by the Government of Great Britain, we only notice it to draw the attention of Government, and to pray that, should it be made, it will be treated with that contempt which so gross an insult to the cause of humanity and to the honour and dignity of the British Crown so well deserves." . . Having laid their views before you, I v ill read an extract from a letter from a gentleman of colour, residing in Toronto, about being ordained a clergyman—a gentle man whose capacity, vast attainments, and singular mo desty command the regard of all who know him—Mr. Gallego. In his letter to me , he s ays : —We sincerely hope that you will succeed in getting us considered as political refugees, which would remove at once all possibility of any future sur render to the authorities of the United States. As it is an undoubted fact, that this is actually our real position. and that whatever violence may be charged against us, has been com mitted as the only and unavoidable means of securing personal and political libe-ty. Upon this point the feelings of the coloured peopie are growing every day more strong. As the only objection that has ever been made in the Province against our elevation to all the privileges of natural born subjects is, that it might give offence to the Americans, we hope that the philanthropy of the mother country will not suffer us to be betrayed to the " tender mercies" of American feeling. No, Britain will be true to herself, and will protect the coloured man whether on sea or land, against the combined malice of the civilized world. By this unmanly course of precedence they are leaving their children to contend with an evil no less prostrating and withering in its influence upon tile young mind, than even slavery itself. Then it is expedient that we should submit our feelings to the conflict with prejudice, and endeavour to curb it once for all. It cannot but lower us in public estimation, to be always soliciting alms. One of the cer tain consequences of this measure would be to make us rely more upon the assistance of othersthan upon our own resources. The great and indispensable element of our prosperity is votes. Give us votes in time of peace, and it will afford us protection against all political hostility, (and, it must be confessed, we have much of this to contend with). This will be as generous as it is safe, since no one hesitates to place arms in our hands in time of war, when assailed by the common enemy. Already Maine, Massachussets, and New York are fast removing the disabilities of coloured men, and are at this moment on the point of an open rupture with Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, in consequence of refusing to surrender certain fugi tive slaves. It is to Britain, under God, that the whole coloured population in America are looking for protection and support. I still believe that British power and British feeling may yet exert a powerful influence in North America. But deprive me of hope in this:respect, and all that ennobles, all that endears the British name to my mind, would live no longer but in the fondly delusive dreams of the past. Having now laid before you their views, I shall trespass a little on your attention, by stating my own. Two modes have been suggested relative to the sur render of slaves charged with felony. England must be con sidered pledged, in the most formal manner, never to surrender a stave claimed purely in that simple character. It is for the protection of coloured persons, claimed as felons, that we must exert all our strength. Of the two measures proposed for this end:-Ist in date, trial by Jury, it ithin the British territory, e o.v to us to delivery; 2dly. That all coloured refugees, should, without any distinction whatever, be considered political offenders, and protected as such. The first measure requires a law of the Imperial Parliament ; the second only a ministerial instruction to the Colonial Executive. The difficulty of ob taining the law is the apprehended displeasure of the United States, as the discussion alone of such a measure would greatly awaken the angry fear of the slave republic. An instruction offers neither the same inconveniences to the views of this party, nor consequently the same difficulty in its obtentiou for the coloured people. Besides, the instruction being withheld from all but the interested parties, could form no ground for official complaint from the United States. Lastly, the law, if passed, would not furnish so perfect a protection. Suppose a free negro, in a free American State, committing robbery-- suppose him claimed as a felon—tried in Canada—by an upright Jury convicted—he must be surrendered. So far all is fair and just, as it should be. What next, though ? Will he be tried in America like a white felon of the same degree of guilt? No, both the whole course of law and execution are widely different in the said , 1 free States : a coloured man's oath is not good in law against that of a white man, no matter how he may be stained with crime. Prison or death would be mercy compared to a relapse into perpetual slavery ; and this abominable punishment, far severer than capital punishment itself, is, in one at least of the free states, the award of law for slight felonies, petty lar cenies, &c. ; and in many more the illegal but frequent a n d irremediable consequence of conviction before malignant and partial juries. Even real felons should not be surrendered as long as the law and practice is not the same unto all manner of men. I could have wished to direct your attention to the sub ject of naturalisation, but as you have requested each delegate to be as brief as possible, I defer for the present, but I cannot but expressmy ardent hope, as well as confident conviction, that from this great meeting the spirit of freedom will go forth on the morning, and cause many an unhappy captive to stand erect upon his broken fetters. The spirit of liberty has carried its intrepid adventurous apostles to parts where even commercial adventure hardly dared to follow. The remotest marts of fo reign traffic are now but resting places, where the dove, sent forth upon her errand of mercy and of hope, renews her strength, and replumes her wing ° for a still bolder flight over the cheerless, dreary waste beyond. Wherever man groaning in bondage is found, away upon the wings of sympathy, away over mount and main, over sea and forest, fly the heralds of freedom, the almoners of the public bounty; and there, with all the Samaritan's kindness, with more than the Samaritan's pri vation and fortitude, they bind up the broken-hearted, and give liberty to the captive. God grant the efforts of this mighty Convention will cause the death knell of slavery to be rung throughout the globe. The ROY. CHARLES EDWARD LEICESTER Of New York then rose and addressed the Convention as follows :—ln addi tion to what Dr. Rolf has said, I wish to add a few words, and if what I say has no other merit, it shall possess this ; I will deal io facts, and I will be short. I have not thus far con sumed much of the time of this body, nor do I intend to do, and in what I now say, I will try to conform to the only rule of oratory worth observing, and which I wish was more generally adopted here—never to begin to speak till we have something to say, and always to stop when we have done.—(A laugh.) We have as yet entered upon no subject of deeper interest than this, and I am anxious that this Convention should possess the materials which the Providence of God has thrown into our hands for the overthrow of our enemies. They have said that the emancipated negro could not provide for himself—that in in tellect and character he is inferior to other men. Let us bring our principles to the severest test, and see if we cannot clearly discern all the noblest intellectual and moral attributes of man in the negro race. The slaveholder may have done all in Iris power to deface the image of God from his victim's soul—for slavery not only aims to shut out the light of heaven from the soul, but to destroy even the capacity to see the light ; and be cause after crushing his fellow into the earth and breaking down his manhood, he does not see genius in his dim and lustreless eye, nor greatness in his menial and degraded bearing, he dreams that his slave has ceased to be a man. And to test our ' principles, I will not ask them to wait several generations till the sun of liberty, science, and salvation has risen and set as long upon the African as it has upon the Anglo-Saxon race hich has enslaved them. Nor will I point t• those from whose fetter-galled limbs the strong arm of British law has struck the chains ; and who have been beckoned by British Christianity and benevolence from their degradation to an equality with her self. But I will point to 12,000 star-led fugitives now in Canada, who amid the death shades of southern slavery, deter mined in spite of degradation and of law to be free, who, fired by a love of liberty, to obtain it gave up their wives and their children forever ; who were hunted for hundreds of miles through the wide domains of false freedom, but who, naked, hungry, and desolate, pressed their toilsome way onward iu inter through sleep morasses and broad rivers, and over snow_ clad mountains, until the North star, that lamp of liberty, which Heaven has hung out to shed her everlasting light over the path of the hunted fugitive, brought them to British soil, which they cannot touch without being free. To a band of men who prepare to begin to live only till they have reached that period of life when other men begin to prepare to die— who commence existence there under circumstances more in auspicious than emigrants from any other part of the world— with no other wealth than their own bodies arid souls, and hearts that are broken with sorrow, and when they have a home the magic of it is gone, for their wives and their children are still in southern bondage. Britons, what is it that consti tutes the charm of your homes when you cluster around your firesides, if it be not your wives arid your chil dren?—(Hear, hear.) Why, when I once said to a fugitive, who was sitting by his own free fireside, " You are a happy man —you are free ?" He rose in the ma jesty of his manhood, and exclaimed, as a sleep frown of indig nation gathered on his brow, and the big tears rolled down, " Even liberty is bitter to me while my wife and my children are in bondage."—( Loud cheers.) Now what can we expect from men who have been through all this ? Let us be just, then, while I tell you what they are. For the sake of being brief and lucid I will confine your thoughts to this single point —the character and condition of these fugitives as freemen and slaves contrasted. This, I fancy, is just the point upon which this Convention requires information. Full and satisfactory evidence of their good belrtiour and value as citizens has bee; given by the highest civil authorities, and by men of different sects and parties in Canada. The following letters were re ceived by the Agent, iu reply to his inquiries, from gentlemen in Toronto, whose character is too well known to need any de scription. The first is from the lion. R. G. Dunlap, Member of the Provincial Parliament : " 'louse o f Assembly, Toronto. " DEAR SlR,—Permit me to assure you that 1 feel much pleasure in replying to your communication of yesterday, and in recording my testimony, whether in my private capacity as a subject, or in my publ c as a magistrate and representative of the people, it gives me infinite satisfaction to say, that after much observation and some experience, I have arrive l at this conclusion, viz, that there are not in his Majesty's dominions, a more loyal, hones ,industrious temperate, and independent class of citizens than the coloured people of Upper Canada. Go on therefore, nay dear Sir, in your writ of charity, and let us pray fervently to the Most High, that he will look down with compassion on the degraded children of Africa, and lead them, as he did his chosen people of old, from your modern Egypt of oppression. " I rema►n, dear Sir, &c. " It. G. DUNLAP, "Captain of R.N., M.P. for the County of Huron." The next is from William Mackenzie, the celebrated agitator, and so forth—( A laugh)—and it is important, as showing, what I believe to be the fact, that these 12,500 refugees stood mate rially in the way of the rebellion in Canada, and if it had not been for them the Government might have been overturned.— ( Cheers. ): " Toronto, January 30, 1837. support those eoYf " Sia,—ln reply to you r inquiries, 1 beg to offer as my to opinion with much diffidence, l st , That nearly all of them are opposed every species of reform in the civil institu tions of the colYil—ti are so extravagantly lo y al to the Executive, that to the utmost their power they uphold all the abuses of Government, a nd sup those who profit by the m. 2d. As a people the y are as well ' be- haye d as a majority of tl.e whites, and p er haps more temperate. 3d. To your third question I would say, not " more numerous." 4th. Cases in which coloured people ask public charity are rare, as far as I can recollect. I ant opposed to slavery, whether of whites or blacks, in every form. I wish to live long enough to see the people of this continent, of the humblest classes, educated and free, and held in respect, according to their conduct and attainments, without reference to country, colour, or worldly substance. But regret that an unfounded fear of a union with the United States on the part of the coloured population should have induced them to oppose reform and free institutions in this colony, whenever they have had the power to do so. The apology I make for them in this matter is, that they have not been educated as freemen. " I ant your respectful bumble servant, " W. L. 3IACKENZIE." 3d.—From JoHN H. Dux, Esc. : SlR,—lti acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, containing certa ti inquiries relating to the,people of colour in this city, I have much pleasure in affording my testimony for the information of the Society of which you state yourself to be the agent, at the same time begging you will consider my observations as strictly applicable to the people of colour within this city and im mediate neighbourhood, to which alone my knowledge extends. In reply to query No. I, I believe them to be truly loyal subjects of the Government. c.f... As a people, I have no reason to question their honesty or industry, and as far as my observations serve me, they appear to be both temperate and well behaved. am not aware that criminal cases are more numerous with them than with others in proportion to their numbers, But THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1840. with respect to your fourth question, I wish to be more ex. plicit, and to remark, that although I have been in the habit of daily contributing my assistance toa vast number of destitute poor, ever since my residence in this province, now seventeen dears, I do not remember ever having been solicited for alms by more than one or two people of colour, during the whole course of that period. I am, your respectful humble servant, JOHN 11, DUNIN. Receiver. General, Upper Canada. I may observe that, in addition to this testimony I have seen many officers in the British service from Canada, who told me that it was universally true that the coloured people, during the border disturbances, were, in every instance, loyal to the British Throne—they held posts of responsibility and trust, which were denied to most others.—( Hear and cheers.) In a correspondence which I held with Hiram Wilson, who had for four years stood unaided and alone, the advo cate, the teacher, the brother of those twelve thousand fugitives, whose character as a man and a Christian is not only above suspicion, but above praise, ho says : It is well known that no people in the country were more prompt and efficient in their efforts to suppress rebellion and repel invasion than they in 1837-8. Their conduct as soldiers has elicited from the civil and military authorities the highest praise. In times of peril and alarm, many of them were senti nelled along the frontiers in the most responsible places, and were invariably true to their trust. They manifested a willing ness to moisten the soil of their asylum with their choicest blood, orrningle it with the waters that roll between them and the land of slavery, rather than see the American flag cross the line.—( Loud cheering, ) Their lore of liberty has been fully demonstrated by their mode of escape. I will state, however, a fact which occurred at Niagara in the fall of 1837, which may serve to illustrate this point. A slave named .Mosel}, had made his escape in the spring - of that year from a Mr. Cas tlemain, of Lexington Kentucky. He was arrested by Castleman, and committed to gaol at Niagara, under charge of theft, alleging that he had stolen his horse. Accordingly, he appeared before the Lieutenant-Governor, and claimed him as a felon. The charge of horse. stealing was utterly fallacious, according to slave laws, and he might with as much propriety have inEcted the horse for running away with the slave as the slave for running away with the horse—(A laugh )—both being computed chattels in the hands of their owners. Strange logic, surely, that one article of property should be guilty of stealing another. Howbeit, %ir Francis B. Head gave up the unfor tunate prisoner, who lay in jail three weeks before the attempt was made to deliver him. During this time the coloured people lay about the jail night and day, watching and waiting with intense anxiety, determined on the rescue of their bro ther, or death in the struggle. The prisoner, in the meantime, besought them if possible to spare 11;ni from going into bondage, even by the desperate means of putting a ball through him, that he might bleed and (lie on British ground. rather than go back again into bondage. At length, on the 15th September, the deputy-sheriff, with his posse of armed men, went about the work in earnest. The people, white and coloured, gathered around the common in large numbers. The prisoner was taken out in his hand-cuffs, and put into an open waggon in midst of keepers. As the waggon proceeded through the inul. titude, the prisoner leaped into the midst of the crowd—burst off his hand-cuff's, which had previously been filed—bounded over a high fence, and made his escape. The sheriff, on being apprised of the fact, ordered his men to fire. Several guns were discharged at the same moment, when Herbert fell, and, weltering in his blood, in the space of half an hour died. Before he died he inquired for the prisoner, and on being told that the prisoner was safe, he said, " Then I (lie happy." He had taken an affectionate farewell of his friends in the morning, expressing his apprehension that he should never greet them again on earth, and at the same time his settled determination to lay down his life for the rescue of his brother.—( Hear, hear.) Since I have alluded to brother Wilson, permit me to say a word more of him, and I love to mention his name before the World's Convention, for his heart is so large that he has made the world his country, and his countrymen are all man kind. He had reached man's estate before the grace of God touched his heart. In the furor and freshness of his just love to the Saviour, he turned from the plough to Lane seminary, with the noble design of fitting himself for the work of human salvation. He remained there for some years, and by manual labour administered to his necessities, and pressed on in hia educa tion ; when that infamous Act passed at Lane which made free discussion a crime in her walls, his noble spirit was roused with indignation, and he shook off the dust of his feet upon it for ever, and went on foot to his father's house. He took with him a coloured student of Lane, whose free soul could not endure the yoke of the divine upon mind after shaking off the yoke of the slaveholder from the body. After a long journey at night he stopped with his coloured brother at the humble cot l i - tage of his father to rest. But he had no sooner crossed the threshold than his brother took down a rifle, and deliberately charging it, levelled it at the heart which was beating with Christian love in his brother's bosom, said, " Now, Hiram, you may have your choice; either leave the house with your nigger, or die."—(Hear, hear, bear.) Expelled from the sweet charities of home, he led on his black brother by night, shedding tears as they jour ne y e d. I will now read f o r you the words of a coloured man taken from his own lips. I have ascertained his whole history, and you may rely upon the statements being correct :—" I believe that one of the wickedest and most awful things in creation, and the root and bottom, and heart of all the evil, is prejudice against colour. There is most, or quite as much of this at the North as there is at the South, for I can speak from experience. There is that disgrace upon us, that many people think it is a disgrace to them to have us come into a room where they be, for fear that they will be blacked, or disgraced, by us poor off scouring of earth. But, worse than this, this same disgrace is cast on our colour in the sanctuary of the living God. In almost all the meeting-houses you see the ' nigger pew ;' and when they come to administer the Lord's Supper, they send us off into some dark pew, in one corner, by ourselves, as though they thought we would disgrace them, and black them, or something. Why, it was only at the last sacrament in our church this took place. All communicants were asked to come and partake to gether, and I came down from the gallery, and as I came into the door to go and sit down among them, one of the elders stretched out his arm, with an air of disdain, and beckoned me away to a corner pew, where there was no soul within two or three pews of me, as though he had power to save or cast off. Now think what a struggle I had, when I sat down, to get my mind into a proper state for the solemn business I was going to do. First I thought it was hard for me to be so cast off by my brethren in the church, and a feeling rose, and I fought against it, and, finally, I thought I could submit to my fate ; and I believed God could see me, and hear me cry, and accept my love, as well there as though I sat in the midst of them. And it is the strangest thing in the world, too, that Christian people can act so. There must be some of the love of Chris tianity wanting in their hearts, or they could not treat a brother in Christ in that way. As I sat there I thought, can there be any such place as a dark hole, or black pew, or behind the door, or under the fence, in heaven ? If there is such a spirit or policy there, I don't feel a very anxious desire to go there.' The Bible says, ' God is no respecter of persons.'—(Cheers.) And what is worse than all, this spirit is carried to the grave yard ; and for fear that the dead body of a black man shall black up or dis g race the body of a white, they go and dig holes round under the fences, and often in a wet corner, or under the barn, and put all of our colour in them ; for every one may be an eye-witness if he as ill go to our graveyard and others ; for I have lived now going on fourteen years in one place, and any coloured person who has been buried at all there, has been buried all along under the fences, arid close up to the old barn that stands there. I know God will receive the souls of such just as well as though they were buried in the middle of the yard, but. I say this, to let the reader know what a cruel and unholy thing prejudice against colour is, and what it will do to us poor black people. Now I know that all this is the reason why the people of our colour don't rise any faster. The scorn, the disgrace that every body flings on them, keeps them down, and they are sinking. and such treatment is enough to sink the Rocky mountains. Now I know from experience that the better you treat a black man the better he will behave; for his own pride will keep la, ambition up, and he will try to rise ; why if you should treat white folks so they would grow bad just as fast. Why, who don't know that a body will try to get the good will of those who treat them well, so as t i make them respect them still more ? And it is just like climbing a ladder ; you can get up a round any day, but if you keep knocking a man on the head with the club of prejudice, how in the name of common sense can he climb up ? Now this is most as bad as slavery ; for slavery keeps the foot on the black man's neck all the time, and don't let them rise at all ; and prejudice keeps knocking him down as fast as he gets up ; and we ought not to go to the South till we can get the people of the North to treat our colour like men and women. A good many people oppose abolitionists, and say, Why what will you do with the negroes when they are free? They will become drunken sots and vagabonds like our negroes at the North ; why don't they rise ?' I can answer that question in a hurry ! The reason is, because they don't give us the same chance with white folks; they won't take us into their schools and colleges, and seminaries, and we are not allowed to go into good society to improve us ; and if we set up business they won't patronize us ; they want us to be barbers, and cooks, and whitewashers, and shoeblacks, and ostlers, and such kind of mean low business. We are not suffered to attend any pleasant places, or enjoy the advantages of debating schools, and libraries, and societies, &c., and all these thing; are just what improves the whites so fast. And if we by hook or by crook get into any such place, why some fellow will step on our toes, and give us a shove, and say, Stand back nig, you can see just as well a little further off.' Now all these things are coloured as fast fol you search out what keep us so much in the back grou n d ; f or if we have a nt I: e world as anybody For there acirienseneia'rwt we and getup respectablei their history you will find that they once had a good chance to get learning, and they jumped alter it. I think one of the greatest things the abolition folks should be after is to help the tree people of colour to get up in the world, and grow respect able, and educated, and then we will prove s ers t ,o lr at i n : ud N i s ' t e teid b i be in r i re l ie t odb f o l l • e e n e l , d bs ( r ) ,( r ), i tui . false what our enem i es ng nd o s A a p y be o,n thistier that d o w ot e irms a r et o e O b a e lbl t e t : e e. irci that t a i er entered this city of refuge and school of the prophets. After completing his education, the time came for him to enter upon his work, and standing on the south shore of Lake Erie, he looked across its waters upon 10,000 fugitives in Canada, who had been driven from their country by the scourge of oppres sion, and conceived the grand design of bearin g to then; science and salvation. Let me read a word about his consecration for the work at Oberlin, He says—" I must here mentio n a few things which may appear childish, but I hope you will bear with me. In October, 1835, I had made preparations to go to my scene of labour, and I called together about thirty of the most devoted Christians in Obe..lin, who were deeply interested in the work. We had a melting season of consecration and d in rich profusion upon us. Divine influences wrought under taking. Heaven's blesblessingdeseende from v wrought upon many a hearts t prayer to the God of missions for his b lessin g u p on the of the interview. Deep solemnity prevailed. We sung the following lines, which ge nerous sympathy flowed in gushing streams. Almost every countenance was bathed in tears at the close in view of this meeting I had previously composed "Dear Saviour, I sin wholly thine, To yield my heart to thy control. Redeemed and saved by bloo d divine, Low at thy feet I cast my soul. Through life, in death, I'll cleave to thee, And thy disciple ever be. "'Tis a poor sacrifice I bring, To give my sinful self away , Thoug vile I am, Eternal King, I conic and own thy righteous sway. My will is lost, thine let me know, And teach me thine alone to do. " Since thou didst leave thy blessed abode, To sigh and groan in sorrow's vale, I'll imitate tdi' incarnate God, By faith, and love, and b urnin g zeal. I'll live, and toil, and dare , and die, To raise the downcast poor o n hi g h. " I'll toil 'mid Afric's burning sand, Or Judah's Pagan plains explore, i, Or in thy i nisnamed Christian l an Relieve the broken-hearted poor. I'll pleptl their cause, or find my grave, In pleading for the mangled slave. " The mandate conies—l must obey, Must bid farewell to friends and home; Children of sorrow, far away, In gloomy shades of dark ness roam. Wh v should I stay—why linger here-- While souls are sinking in desp air? " Her e , L or d, 1 am • my willing fe et Shall at thy bidding come and go; My aching heart shall pant and heat, And c ease less yearn o'er hum an woe. I'll spa re no t o il— n o duty shun, ~ But pray thy w ill, 0 God, be done ! These lines exp resse d b ut f a i n tly t oy feelings at the time, which were only a prelude to permanent blessedness, in connexion wirh unabated devotion to the sacred cause of humanity. The world receded from my view, and dwindled away into insignifi cance, compared with the glory of God and the great interests of his kingdom. Though poor in worldly substance, I was rich in faith, doubly blessed in striving to i'aiitate my heavenly Master, who for our sakes became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich. I started on foot for Upper Canada-- a journey of some hundreds of miles, with a few shillings in my pocket, looking to God alone for protection 'and succour. The path of duty was clear and plain before me. - I could net be deterred for lack of funds, although I knew that the poor afflicted people whose welfare I sought to promote could not reward me, nor even defray my travelling expences, and so I determined to administer to my necessities with my own hands, cheered by God's promises, and sweetly constrained by his love I started for the British do minions, with the patriarchal motto, " Jehovah Jireh," constantly before me. I had the pleasure of taking a noble son of Virginia with me, who was flying from Republican institutions, and panting for British freedom. The Lord in great mercy wrought his deliverance, and I had the pleasure in witnessing, in his case, as in many others subsequently, the glorious trat sformation from American chattlehood to British manhood. 1 first entered the Province through freedom's great westere gate at the head of Lake Erie, which hangs upon everlasting hinges, and opens of its own accord. I found the coloured population very numerous, and they are' many of them engaged in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, obtaining a livelihood by honest industry, in a manner highly creditable to any people. The first evening I preached to them at Colches ter on these words—" The Spirit of the Lord God is upon ,- ee, because He hath anointed :me to preach the Gospel to the poor," &c. Here I met with an old man named Wilkes, a Baptist preacher, familiarly called Elder Wilkes. He was a native of Africa—had been kidnapped from there when a child 10 years old ; had been a slave 50 years in Virginia, and had been now in Can a d a 20 y ears , ma king him 80 years old. After - service he invited me to his house. I told him I was engaged to go to another house to lodge, and would see him in the morning. " Well," said he, " where will you be ?" "At Mr. Thornton's," said I. " Well," said he, " we'll have the neighbours called together, and have a meeting to-morrow night, and am going to have you taken up as a spy." Having spent the next day in visiting from house to house, I repaired in the dusk of evening to the place proposed for meeting. The house was filled, and at length Elder Wilkes came in quite out of breath, so much so that he could hardly support his totter ing frame ; he ,was grievously afflicted with the phthisic. After resting for a few moments he rose and clapped his hand softly on My shoulder, and said in a low tone of voice, " The time is now come for us to take you up as a spy." So he com menced addressing the people—gave a concise history of their ' sufferings while in' bondage; their perilous flight therefrom, their toils and hardships on entering the country, cutting away the brush, putting up their cabins, &c. &c. He spoke in high terms of their affectionate and loyal regard for the British Government—said he felt quite independent whether persons came among them out of good motives or bad motives ; that the Government and law protected them. " But there may be good spies as well as bad ones. We have our friends as well 'as our enemies on the Amerioan side, or we never could have got here—and they are very anxious fo our prosperity.—(Cheers.) They hear many strange stories about us, that we can't take care of ourselves, and all that, and now Brother Wilson has come among us to knew if these things are so. Here's a spy that has come over to spy out our liberties. Bless the Lord for such a spy. Bless the Lord that this spy has come among us !"—(Cheers.) The old man's voice faltered so he could hardly speak, while the tears rolled clown his wrinkled cheeks like rain drops. I preached to them the Gospel, and the Lord blessed it (for they have been kept in such brutal ignorance and treated so unkindly that when the Cross of Christ and the love of Jesus is proclaimed it melts their hearts). I proposed to supply them with a teacher, who would educate them and tell them about the Gospel, and they seemed much pleased. They had long groped in dark- 1 ness, and were thirsting insatiably for the light. The old Elder rose and spoke again, and I shall not soon forget what he said, " This new light," said he (alluding to myself) which has come among us runs exactly parallel with what I have told you for years. I have told you that you must repent and get out of the bondage of sin, or the Lord would curse you. I have often thought of the hildren of Israel. When they came out of Egypt, the Lord led them through the wilderness ; with a mighty hand he delivered them ; but they soon rebelled against him, and forsook their great deliverer, so that he was obliged to sell them over to their enemies to punish them for their dis obedience ; and so it will be with us if we don't strive to get out of the bondage of sin. But what ungrateful beings we are, when the Lord has done so much for us and our abolition friends are stirring and praying for us, and here we are so sluggish and stupid. Why ! we are like the hogs under the oak trees that crack and eat the acorns, without so much as looking up to view the hands that shake the limbs." I give the above as a specimen, in his own language, of African in tellect, unembellished by education.—(Hear, hear.) Now, if I have not wearied your patience—(Cheers and cries of " No, no")—I will go on and read what a young man, who had fled from slavery, says. He has been several years in Canada. I know him well, and for the last six months I was in America he sat under my preaching in the church where the first Anti- Slavery Convention was held in New York, in 1835, when a mob of gentlemen of property and standing broke into our temple and tore down the altar of God. Capt. Stewart, who sits over yonder, I think was there, and well plied with these same gentleman's hard. but not convincing arguments (I mean brick bats)—and also James Fuller, both • of whom from that day to this have proved that rotten eggs and brick-bats cannot overthrow principles_ When a young 'man rushed up to the altar, and, presenting a weapon to his venerable father's heart, who held the constitution of the New York State Anti-Sla very SoCiety in his hand, and told him that if he didn't give it up to the mob, he should shed his bloed—" You may shed the blood of the father who begat you," said the old man, " but you shill not have this Constitution till it has been adopted." And then the old man held the roll up before the congregation, 'and made his voice heard above the infernal yells of the infu riated mob.—" If you will adopt this Constitution say aye !" And then came back the shout of freedom, and it rung through the arches like peals of thunder through the vault of Heaven ; and there stood the old man, on whose head the frosts of eighty winters had gathered, armed only with the faith of Jesus. " Glory to God;" he exclaimed, when the shout of free dom- came back ;... now yon. may have the Constitution."— (Loud and general cheering.) Then it was that Mr. Smith, 'the ertat apostle of Ainesican abobition--(Cheers)—who had never joined us becauie he did not like our measures, and had only come as a spectator, was converted to our principles. He liked our measures so much better than the measures of our enemies, that he thought he might as well advocate them.— " Is it true," said he, " that freemen cannot open their voice in God's house? Then they shall in my own—to , Peterb3- rough—to Peterborough." We left the temple of God, and en masse went 30 miles to his house, and there in his large dwelling we found refuge. He gave us his heart and his hand, and thousands with them.—(Cheers.) Ah, Sir, we have found in America that men can be mobbed into prin ciple, but they can't be mobbed out of it—(Cheers)—for that abolition which is cradled in the storm is the only kind that has ever been worth having. Like the oak on our native mountains, it must battle with the tempests of heaven if it would strike its roots too deep to be uptorn.—( Loud cheers ) But I have wandered so far from my subject, that I had forgot what I was talking about. Ah ! these mobs are glorious things, Sir t—(Laughter.) Oh ! I was talking about my co loured brethren. But here I want to tell you a story about Auburn Theological Seminary, if you will let me.—( Hear.) I was at that time a member of that Institution, and when the call was issued for that Convention, the forty abolitionists out of the seventy-five members of that institution sent a committee to the Faculty, respectfully praying that we might send our Delegates down. The Fa culty, composed of learned Divines, were divided. Dr Perrine (peace to his ashes), for soon after I stood by his death-bed, and he died a glorified abolitionist; and while " in the chamber where the good man trot his fate, privileged above the com mon walk of virtuous life, quite in the range of heaven"—while eternity was pouring its; full tide of illustration over all theacts of time, I heard him give his testimony in favour of abolition), Dr. Perrine stood firm. and told us to go; Dr. S. H. Cox, now of Brooklyn, New York, a man that I love, and who, as my Professor and father, did me good, who was con verted to what abolition he ever hail (and he never had any more than he needed) by coming to England—( Hear, hear) — Dr. Cox, I ant sorry to say, did not di , play that firmness arid majesty of principle we hoped for ; and the other gentlemen's names had better not be mentioned. We sent our Committee again, resolving that we would send our delegation, whether the Faculty consented or not ; and some of us told the Commit tee to inform them that we should be compelled to find another Hall of Theology if we could not enjoy our principles in that. They said, " Gentlemen, you can take your own course," and accompanind the answer with some very signi ficant hints about our ruing the consequences. Some of our professed friends quailed under the frown. But they dared not say their souls were their own without first asking the Faculty ; and they shook their heads and said, " I don't know, brethren, how this will do"—( Hear, bear)—and we have as many such abolitionists in America as can stand between this and Totten ham.—(Cheers.) But we sent our delegation ; and after this thew good brethren did not shake their heads any more, until we wanted to send them again, and then they shook as bad as ever. From that day abolition has triumphed in those Halls —( Much cheering ) But I have forgotten, my good friends, and I almost fear to ask your patience longer.—( Cries of "Go on.") Well, I was sa y ing that my coloured b ro th er sat in the Minister's pew, which conies as near to being a negro pew as any in our Church ; for I would give a runaway slave the highest post of honour in God's house, coining up all hacked and scarred from the places of southern slavery. Well, this good brother, who is now studying under Bariali Green, one of frecdoi-a's champions, put into my hand, at my request, a short account of his escape from slavery. Shall I read it ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He says, " I was born near Nashville in Taumassee, on the 20th of April, 1813, and by the laws of my native state I was free-born—for my mother was legally free. My father was a white planter of wealth and respectability, (they both mean one in the South )—and my mother was the daughter of native Africans ; she was a servant in my father's family, where I was - born and lived until my twenty-second year, when I was compelled to fly from my home to - protect what remaining freedom thelopirit and institutions of my native State had left me.—(Planters you know; make nothing of selling their own children; and will you pardon me for saying, that a Lieute nant-Governor of a slave State, once told a good friend of mine, that he generally sold ten or twelve slaves a year, and took care to be their father to improve the breed.) From childhood,t he continues, " I was treated like a slave, and tough to believe that the race to which I belonged was doomed to hopeless and perpetual bondage. Never having seen the nominally free coloured people around me possessed of the rights which I have since learned belonged to all men, I thought that I must yield to my destiny-. The light of science never dawned upon my mind—l could not read, or spell, or write my own name, until I was six feet tall, and although every ray of light was shut out from my mind, and the thick darkness of ignorance covered me, yet I sometimes felt irre pressible aspirations for freedom, which slavery can never wholly destroy in the human bosom. At times I reasoned, feebly it is true, but on correct principles, about my con dition and prospects, and always with pain, for I clearly saw that I never could inherit my liberty in the place I lived, and that I must turn my back on those I loved best, if I gained the boon of freedom, and it was long before I could decide to cut the ties that bound me to my kindred. For al though I am not conscious of feeling like a child towards my natural father, yet my mother I loved tenderly, and the thought of parting with her who bore me was painful. But at last the power of circumstances urged me up to a decision. A Georgia trader was in the neighbourhood buying up slaves, and I was bargained for. I saw now most clearly that God had thrown my protection and defence upon my own arm, and that I never should be free without an effort, and as we love nothing on earth so dear as personal freedom, I determined to make one bold stroke for liberty, and blow the faint light of hope into a , flame, or quench its beams for ever, At length, after many the day 0% had parting struggles with my se lf, Christmas came, upon fo r my escape, an d th en the struggle came —. with my mother. At midnight I went to her cabin, and found —what?—her ready for the separation ! We were alone and we spent n ear ly an h o ur, I should think, together; and you will not think it was stranov that we both wept. ( Now see the majesty and generosity of woman.) She thought it best for me to go—for I was to be sold to a trader—and, as w e 722, 3 t part, she said she had rather s f e o, e reiff }emerged, s I e p t m t atynted, certain d towards and'the North Star when we parted; for, drearY bondage awed me, and in this effort I could but f a il. She knew that I had a long and dreary pilgrimage before m e , and that my path would be beset with dangers, and slle i n _ ts h e arted b the way, hilt:pr ess o n treated me not to grow fain and die, if die I roßst, the e 4 nt.4 o free man. Said she.: " Jarum, don't you come back alive." The Spartans would have made that woman a queen b e f ore Ch r i st i anity came into I the world; but a Christian people not only made her a slave, but a concubine—( Hear, and cheers. A " Your life," said she, "is worth the effort ; lam too old to make it." She put a few dollars into my hand--the fruit :s f many days' saving and toil, and then she prayed for God's blessing on her boy. She folded me to her bosom for the last time, and kissed me, and I stole out of the cabin, and I have not seen her to this day. This was Christmas night, 1834. I had one companio n in s o y journey—a noble young man, who had resolved t o fly with me to the land of freedom. I w ill not trouble you with the incidents of our journey—it was a long and painful one. For two months, the most severe in winter, we travelled on by night, through deep snows, across mountains and rivers, sleeping in old barns and deserted buildings, sometimes, -and, at others, on the snow; suffering much with hunger and the cold. But this we endured cheerfully, for by it we were gaining our freedom—that with out which all else ceased to be n' value. Whether we were pur sued or not I cannot tell ; but we passed on as rapidly as pos sible, and, at the end of,two months, we reached the border .f the British empire, where we first dared to reveal ourselves, and here, blessed be God,, we were sure of pro tection. I will pass over my history till the year 1836, when the Rev. Hiram Wilson came into Canada. I first heard of him as a kidnapper. He landed at Niagara, and we took him up as a spy. We had been so often deceived by the kidnappers that we had just occasion for alarm, when a white man from the States appeared among us with friendly professions. A thorough examination took place, his papers were read, and we became perfectly satisfied that he was an angel of mercy. NVe formed a large procession to escort him up to St. Catherine's, twelve miles, to do away with the suspicion which existed there of the same kind. And thus he snowed on from settlement to settlement, in a sort of triumphal procession. Wherever he went he preached the Gospel of the Grace of God, and he was greeted with enthusiasm and joy by the coloured people. Wherever he went he lived among the coloured people in our same humble style. He eat, drank, slept, prayed, and preached in our log-cabins. After walking some hundreds of miles over the province, he began to establish schools, and labour for the people. He is about thirty-five years of age, of hardy and robust frame and great energy, and resolution of character. He is a self-made man, and is as well qualified to instruct the people in all the departments of mecha nical and agricultural life, as to enlighten their minds or im prove their hearts. But the piety and goodness of his heart is the most extraordinary thing in his character. He seems to know nothing among the people, at home, abroad, in the pulpit, and out of it, but Jesus Christ, and him crucified. He always displays the spirit of his Master, and his influence over the coloured population is almost unbounded. The sacrifices he has made for us have been very great. He has several times been on foot all over the province to preach and to are of the people, keep up the schools, and relieve their n?Fessities. I have known of his walking through the snow many days thirty , or forty miles in the coldest weather, and he always carrying with him his provisions and food, to save his money for the poor. And I have known of his travelling hundreds of miles without spending more than a few shillings.--( Hear, hear. ) His house is open to fugitives, who are directed to him from all parts of the country, and it is always full. They come into his house destitute of clothing or money, dejected and heart -broken by slavery—they go out clothed and comforted.—(Cheers. ) He finds them employment, and soon after their arrival they arc established in some honest employment. He is particu larly friendly to the British Government, and he teaches all the coloured people to cherish the same feelings, and well they may. He calls Canada the Holy Land of America, where fugitives from a worse than Egytian bondage find secu rity and repose.—( Cheers.) His teachers are much like him self ; they endure labour and toil like himself, for no other re ward than a bare self-denying subsistence. They board with the coloured people, and are subjected to great privations. I visited two female teachers in the country, who lived ina log cabin, only a few feet square, and into it were crowded all their means and comforts of existence. They subsist chiefly upon the provisions that arc sent in by the coloured people, and they had seen no meat for several months. But in connexion with the little help they get from Mr. Wilson, and the white and coloured neighbours they do make out to live, and they tell me, many of them, even with tears, that they have no cause for complaint, and will not complain so long as their condition is tolerable. The character of the people has rapidly improved in every respect ; in morality and religion the improvement has been very great. Many have engaged in mechanical and agricultural pursuits. Ido not know of a:class of people that have such a thirst for knowledge, or make such rapid improve ment in acquiring it, or so many sacrifices to obtain it. This mission is, I think, the best and noblest in the world, and there I hope we shall see trained up a noble and a holy land of brothers, who shall go forth to carry civilization and the Bible to the soon to be liberated millions of America and their brethren on the African continent."—( Hear.) Now if you will bear with me a moment longer I will close.—(" Go on.") After long years of hard and cruel bondage have passed away, slavery becomes so intolerable that its poor victim begins to meditate his escape. There are bosoms in which the fires of liberty never grow dim, and they burn on even amidst the death shades of slavery. He thinks of leaving his wife and children, and the thought is painful, and he determines to endure its horrors a little longer" ; perhaps his condition may become more tolerrble, and he does enjoy some happiness in his family even now, for God has made the world so beauti ful that slavery with all its barbarity cannot make everything in it desolate;; and after . the toils of the day are over he goes to his little cabin, and here he can hold his children on his knee and hear the subdued voice of his wife, although he cannot see her countenance, for his master will not allow him to have a light in his cabin ; and when he lies down on his straw he can fold those he loves best to his desolate bosom, and in spite of slavery he is almost happy.—( Hear, hear.) There are some lineaments of Divinity in the human soul which slavery cannot wholly efface ; -it blots out nearly all that's dear to man, but it cannot wholly quench the light that Heaven pours into the human bosom. But abuse and insult rouse up his spirit, and again he meditates his escape, but then he remembers that all his fellows who have escaped have been tracked by blood-hounds and brought back to a more cruel bondage, and he falters. Anew injury arouses him, he will fly, but then he thinks of the long and toilsome journey, and the awful probability that he will be taken by the pursuer, and malignity will forge for him new chains ; and again he he sitates, injury increases, and now the day of toleration is over, the lion is aroused, he has shaken himself and will sleep no more. Now hishumanity, which has slept in deep silence under the pressure of tyranny, breaks forth and asserts her everlasting rights. The tie which binds him to his wife and children is strong, but (and it maybe heresy in philosophy, but it is true in fact) there is a tie which is stronger still, it is that which binds his heart to freedom. Ah ! you may add insult to injury, and wrong to oppression, but you cannot quench the love of liberty in the human soul, and the poor captive, unable to lull to rest the heart that is panting to be free is goaded on to a decision. Night comes, and he goes to the straw where his babes are re posing in the deep quiet slumber of infancy, and bends over them to take the parting kiss. He then takes into his hand a .. . ..... . little supply of food which his wife has been long saving from her own scanty allowance for her husband (for oh ! what will not woman do for those she loves), and then he strains her to his bosom, he turns to take one final look at his babes and he hesitates, but only for a moment, he embraces his wife for the last time and leaves her for ever. He crosses the threshold of his cabin and gathers his robe around him, and plunges off into the forest, fear gives him wings, and before dawn he has left many a weary mile behind him, when the first grey lines of mornin„,D. fret the east he crawls into a hollow tree, bursaves his food till he wants it more, and he lies down to sleep, but he can only close his eyes, he cannot sleep, for every falling leaf makes his heart beat quick ; at length, as the sun goes down he begins his nocturnal pit. grimage again, but in crossing the mountain he hears behind him— " The deep-mouthed blood hounds heavy bay Resounding up the rocky way" and he is—No, he shan't be taken. The pursuers, thinking they are on the wrong tack, call off :heir dogs. Heflies on over snow-clad mountains and across deep rivers, through that vast territory which he must cross before he reaches the British empire. He dares not reveal himself until he sees a man with a broad.brimmed hat, he knows it will protect him. The man of God takes him into his dwel ling, feeds, clothes, and comforts him, and sends him on to an aboli tionist (for we have chains of posts all through the free States.) He He stops a day or two at Oberlin, that friendly light-house which guards the entrance to the harbour of British freedom. At Oberlin he learns what it is to he treated like a man. But he wants to reach British soil, he crosses Lake Erie, and the moment he steps on this ground he is adopted by your Government, and receives a royal charter of libel ty from your beloved Queen. A h Sir, I wish she could be our Queen too, long enough to make our subjects free. Now, if you will listen to me three minutes longer, to reward you for the patient manner you havelistened to me, I will tell you the best story you ever heard in your life :—" In Georgia, about three years ago, there lived a man, black but noble, a giant in strength, and in form an Apollo Belvidere, about :35 years of age, a slave, with a wife and four children also slaves. The love of liberty burned irrepressibly in his bosom, and he determined to escape, and free his wife and children, at every hazard. He had heard of Ca nada as a place where the laws made every man free, and protected him in his freedom. But of its situation, or the road thither, or the geography of the intermediate country, ke knew mining. A Quaker who resided near him, being privy to his design, resolved to aid him in its accomplishment ; and accoringly carried the slave and his family fifty miles in a waggon by night. In the day time they lay concealed in the woods; and on the second night the same man carried them fifty miles further. At the end of the second night he told the black man that he could do no more for him, hav ing already endangered both his life and property. Ile told the slave that he must not travel on the high way nor attempt to cross a ferry, but, taking him by the hand, he committed him to God and the North Star. This star he was to take as his guide, and it would lead him at length to the land of British freedom. The poor slave bade adieu to his benefactor, and after skulking in the day and tra velling by night, lie at length came to an unexpected obstacle. It was a broad river (the Savannah), of the existence of which he had not the least knowledge. But as nothing remained but to cross it, he tied his two children on his back, arid between swimming where it was deep anti wading where it was shallow, his two elder sons swimming by his side, he at length made out to reach the opposite bank ; then returning, he brought over his wife in the same man. ner. In this way he passed undiscovered through the States of South and ,North Carolina and Virginia, crossed Pennsylvania without even .knowing that it was the land of the Quakers; and finally, after six weeks of toil and hardship, he reached Bunt°. . Here be placed his wife and children in the custody of a tribe of Indians in the neighbourhood, for the poor man will always be the poor man's friend, and the oppressed will stand by the oppressed. The man proceeded through the town, and as he was passing through the streets he attracted the notice of a coloured barber, also a man of great bodily power. The battier stepped up to him, put his hand on his shoulder, and says, " I know you are a runaway slave, but never fear, lam your friend." The man confessed he was from Georgia, when the barber said, " Your master inquired about you to day, in my shop, but do not fear; I have a friend who keeps a livery stable, and will give us a carriage as soon a:7, night comes to carry your family beyond the reach of a master." As the ferry boat does not run across the Niagara river in the night, by day break they were at the ferry.house, and rallied the ferryman to carry them to the Canada shore. They hastened to the boat, and just as they were about to let go, the master was seen, on his foaming horse, with pistol in hand, calling to the ferryman to stop and set those people ashore, or he would blow his brains out. The stout barber, quick as thought, said to the ferryman, If you don't put off this instant, I'll be the death of you.' The ferryman, thus threatened on both sides, lifted up his hands and cried, ' The Lord have m rcy on me! It seems I am to be killed anyhow. But if I do die, I will die doing right, and cut the rope.--(Tremendous cheering.) The powerful current of the Niagara swept the boat ra- Pithy into deep water, beyond the reach, f tyranny. The workmen at work on the steamboat Henry Clay, near by, almost involun. tarily gave three cheers for liberty. As the boat darted into the deep and rapid stream, the people on the Canada side, who had seen the occurrence, cheered her course, and in a few moments the broad current was passed, and the man, with his wife and children, were all safe on British soil,' protected by British laws." The Rev. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and general cheering. Mr. H. It. Moon; of Dublin, then moved the following resolu tions, of which, after a long and , desultory discussion, the censi. deration was referred to a select committee. " 1. That the practice of excluding people of colour from places of worship, or allotting them separate seats therein, tends to per. petuate the unchristian and unfounded prejudices against the coloured people. _ _ " 2. That any distinction in the treatment,. INlg,ther in schools, colleges, the House of God, or in any tittle; . s'espect, on account cif colour, is opposed to the spiiit of Christianity, " 3. That 4,olitionists, and all who assume the name of friends of a s - zoloured man, act inconsistently with their professions unless they use all their influence to put an end to such unchristian practices. " 4. That this Convontion molt earnest/y entreats all Christian professors, all true AboAktlo.pists, immediately to give Up .111 those t Plr i ghte o k l ,B, distinctions which have their origin in the prejudice a g ainst c°1 "Ir; and that, in their social intercourse as citizens And as Christians, they treat a coloured man as an equal and a brother. EVENING- " 5. That, inasmuch as in few only of the States called "pre& does the coloured man enjoy the rights of citizenship in Mallon with his white brother, the attention of the Committee is parti cut:udy Wrect ed to this subject." Dr. MoitaisoN expressed great satisfaction at the sentiments to which utterance had been given by the American friends present in the Convention. But he was of opinion that much of the evil' of the present system in the United States was continued through the supineness of the ministers of the Gospel. Mr. G. THOMPSON said that it was of the highest importanc e that gentlemen, going out to the United States for the purpose of enforcing the views of the Society, should guard themselves agai n st the seductions to which they would be expos e d, from the hospi talty and blandishments of prctended friends, especially ministers'of the Gospel. Mr. STOVELL then read a paper on the slavery of the Re d Indians, on the northwest coast of North America, by the Re v. Henry Beever, late Chaplain to the Hudson's B a y C o mpany. Pr P s of matter compels us to postpone the in s ertion of this document. H It was then moved by Dr. ROLP, and seconded by M r. FOSTER, HSt " That the statements laid before this Convention by Dr. Ro' dolph, connected with the Hudson Bay Company. end the Rev. C. E Lester, on the condition of free people of colour in Canada, SP" by Rev. Mr. Beaver, on slavery of Indians, be referred to a com mittee consisting of those gentlemen, together with Rev. Mr. Wayne, of Hitchen." The Convention then adjourned. THE BISHOP OF EXETER. (From the Morning Advertiser.) In the early part of the week there was a case in the Court of Queen's Bench which deserved more attention than it received from the hands of our liberal brethren of the Press. It was that of the dispute between the Chap ter of Exeter and the Crown, as to the right to apFo'n t , to the office of Dean, which was vacant by the ( t e eth 0 ' the late Dr. Landos, uncle to the gifted L. E. L. W e have every respect for the clever Dr. Phillpott's, who, as $ member of the Press, though rather of the slender pam phlet than the broad sheet, is entitled to every consideratio n at the hands of his brethren of the broad sheet. But the Right Rev. Peer has so often come before the public in his character of a politician, that we shall be pardoned for saying a few words in reference to the share which ;he has had in this Deanery question, and the part vihiel he has played in the diocese over which be has bee!' appointed Bishop. When the Bishop of Exeter was ap pointed to the diocese over which he presides with se much grace, it is needless to remind the reader that be obtained that preferment by a timely recantation of big early opinions, and a seasonable adhesion to the altered principles of his friend and patron the Duke of Welling ton. The Bishop had no sooner entered on his diocese than he began to look out for his kith and ki n . The prrcentorship fell vacant. This office was worth som e 2,0001. a year, and the nomination being in the Bishop , although the . Chapter held a veto over it, the worthy Pre!ate named his own son. The Chapter declined to receive the young man, and the Bishop then nominated the Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe, who held two fat living; in Worcestershire. The Chapter accepted the said Mr. Lowe, and that Gentleman having vacated th e two fat livings in Worcestershire, the Bishop's son Is la forthwith installed therein, and he was the gainer by the tra,isactionef a comfortable settlement for one of his hope ful progeny. The worthy Prelate has neglected no or portunity since for fastening his offspring and kindred on the public through such patronage as his opportunit ies offered him. This response to the paternal feeling is at all events creditable to his character as a man, howeve r much we may lament the mode by which a dignitary of the Church of England may provide for his family. The shop had no sooner secured the reward for his timely COl: version, than he began to make due provision for his his offspring. Two daughters were married to clergy, men of the diocese, for one of whom he has provide': handsomely with a Cornish living; while the other en. 101: the dignified position of Bishop's Chaplain. One son, ae has been before stated, has received two fat livings in Worcestershire ; another has had the living of Stok e '' ,„. leignhead ; and a third, we believe, has received profit' able preferment in Cornwall. It is evident, therefore; that the good Bishop has neglected no opportunity 0' providing for his offspring ; and, whatever love he V.y profess for the Church, it is quite evident that he P.' lost none for his family. The dispute as to the Deanery has opened a new point in the character of the Net' ehich it is worth while for the public to watch. The Crown has held the patronage to that office e v , e, since the Reformation ; but at the last election t 0 " Chapter, moved by our good Bishop, endeavoured " c; shake off the trammels of Regal authority, an up for independence. They discovered by the statutes _ of their foundation that they were bound to elect their own Dean, arid that it would be contrary to the law tO ~ submit to the dictation of the Crown, which had prevailed for three hundred years ; but they did not recollec t that the Crown, whose authority they resisted, had rel ier L. them from the immunities and responsibilities which tb Popish foundation bad imposed on them. As this subject is now under the consideration —A f t" Court of Queen's Bench, we will not p urs ue it fartb e r:, but we beg our readers to bear in mind, that while the Bishop and Chapter of Exeter resist the authority'of.the Crown on the one hand, in obedience to their statu te, ,, they upset the authority of the statutes on the other hand, by accepting exemptions which the prerogative only could have afforded them. of the Crown MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS' (THURSDAY EVENING.) POST.—The English funds were flat to -day, 'Q cense: quence of some sales made of Three per Cent. Reduced stock, and of Three-and-a-Half.per, Cent Reduced, by the Government broker, supposed to be for ateount of 00 savings' banks. Consols left off at 914 to' for the open' ing, and Exchequer Bills at 255. to 275. prem. The pre ceeds of the sales referred to (about 30,0001.) would pro' bably be reinvested in Commercial Exchequer poer. Money was worth about 3 per cent. in the English - gm" per cent. in the foreign house. Great Western Railway shares were 41 to 3 prem., London and Blackwell 2to 4 prem., Lo n do n and South ampton 19 to 20 prem., London and Brighton 54 to idis.. Eastern Counties 15+ to South Eastern and Dover 101 to I per share, and British Iron Mine 501 die. per share. _ We do not h ear th a t th e advices b roug h t by the Biiti sh Queen steamer from New York have led to renewed tran9- ections in the American securities. On the contrary, th e market for them is understood •to continue exceedingly sluggish. The " Improvement Bill" recently passed bi the Legislature of Pennsylvania makes appropriation: amounting to 3,000,000 d o ll ars . I t con t a ins a prov e which requires the U n it e d S tates B an k to l en d the State 4,000,000 dollars at 4 p er cent . per annum , under th e penalty of a forfeiture of its charter. This measure haviP,g been devised and advocated by the Members who recant!l denounced the Bank as an i nso l vent i nst i tut i on , and utte rl y, unworthy the confide nce o f the people of Pennsylva nhi ' l 4 severely commented upon in the journals. The object suspected to be that of p u tti ng d own t h e B an k rather th b : to provide the necessa r y f un d s f or t h e pur poses of t d State. Great doubt is expressed of the willingness no ability of the Bank to supply the money. SUN.—Exchequer Bills closed rather lower this after' re.• noon, viz. 255. to 275. premium ; b u t C onso ls were r n A . v cisely the same as yesterday, viz., 911 to ; 7 3 - el. The New Three-and-a-El a lf p er C ents f o r the opening were done at 99.1 ex. div. The Foreign Securities looked rather better again to hy, but the chief speculative business was in Columbia; Bonds.. TheiSix per Cen.s. of 1824 rose to 271 14-; an the Old Bonds to -25.1 to 26 ; for the Account rebel; higher prices have been paid. Mexican Stock advance: to 32 and 32i-; for the Six per Cents. of 1825, Spen ili ht Actives were better. Portuguese New Stock bou,,g„d 35i ; Belgian rose to 10421.; Buenos Ayres were me rged 184 ; Guatemala, 27; Danish, 78a • and D utc h Five per 4 , Cents. 1014. The Railway Shares gave way slightly, but there O re no extensive operations entered into. „ ---,- THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.—Mr. C011)111119 of Grrat Marlborough-street, has just published tlefollowing int ere : o : ing new works, which can b e h a d o f a ll b oo k se ll e rs ; -1. The Dre 3 and other Poems, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 1 voi., with a fine P °l ; trait of the author, f rom a d raw i ng by E. Landseer, 12 bound. —2. A Summer i n B r i t t an y, by T. A. Trollope, Esq., edi ted by Mrs. Trollape, 2 vols. Bvo., with fourteen illustrations; bound.-3. Lieut. Wellsted's Travels to the City of the Ca li p hs, vols. Svo., with illu s t ra ti ons, 25 5. b oun d . -4 . Woman and herl43'l li ter, by Lady Morgan, 2 vo l s. pos t B vo. 21 s . b oun d.-5. Tire Sports man in Ireland and th e Hi g hl an d s o f S co tl an d , 2 vols. post Bv ,t: tt illustrations, 18s.-6. Memoi rs o f th e P r i nc e s s Daschkaw , honour to the Empress Catherine 11., written by herself, `hole, of Svo., with portraits, 325. bound.-7. Lights an .....4 d Sl)— N a pier, Military Life, edited by Major-General, Sir •c" 4 " el ' K.C.B. &c., 2 vols., post B vo ., 21 5 .-8 . The Comet and; CMp of Itunjeet Sing, by the Honourable G.' W. Osborne, 1 v .i, r ;_ . . Svo., with fifteen engravings, 155., bound. 9. Mr Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 2 vo l s :, BVe.; with Bretrale illustr lions, 285., bound- —lO. Mr. Bremner's Russia, ' second ,and , theaper edition, 2 vols., post - Bvo., With portraits. 2 t 13°1.1,1.-11. Sir James E. Alexandees, pxe n ri f i g ns, r Africa, second and che a per -edition,*th.. 2.11a5., with numerous plates, 245., bound .and Duchess,° l a Alban's Memoirs, third and cheaper edition,.°'Vols., post Hyde Pearson, F.R.S ~be s portr , a i its, Williambo bound. g o ga y that the Spectacl es h e h as now had sometime in : Ruse have fullY retO deemed the assurance o f t h e M essrs. S. and B. Solomon!' their excellence, and h av i ng found so much comfbrt and advBn7,4„e from their use, h e w i s h es the Messrs. Solomons to provic i e able pair for his slaughter, who will call at Mbenvirle-stre S morrow. -16, Hanover-square. June Ist, 1840. The lomons state that their Operative Voice C on d uc t or, by which CI; a sands of deaf persons have be e n gr ea tly b ene fi te d , i s the i 5 seven-shilling piece, and when fixed into the cavity of the soft, easy, and not more uncomfortable nor perceptible than bsvbllC a piece of wool in its place, and the faintest whisper at 3 pu . assembly is heard with distinctnes s .-39, Alhelnarle.street, tees dilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of England. SETS of PLATED CORNER DISHES, rith or without Warmers. The p r i ce o f th e S e t o f F o ur . P l5 / I ..'i r : and Covers, without Warmers, varies from Eight to he Guineas. The War mers are f rom Fi ve t o Ni ne Guineas the Set. Engravings of the various patterns will be forwarded , pa' free, if application i s ma d e , p os t paid. The dishes are complete het themselves without warmers, and the handles take off, covers thus forming four extra dishes when required. T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, Srcl, No. 47, C.,rnhill (5 e ,,,,, e4 d oers frolo Gracechurch-street), Londerk, MARRIED, • On the 17th inst., at St. Mary''; Church, Cheltenham• t !d he .. Rev. William Windsor 13 , Try, '►l.A., vicar , of Stanwell , 1 01 4 t dlesex, to Arethu , a Oe'orgiana St. Vincent Sarah, You, n c e . daughter of the lart's..kdmiral Sir Charles Britbane,K to At St George's, Hanover-sq►rare, W. Arundell, E,, o l;; le y Harriet Millis. daughter of James Lockhart, Esq., of Co wley Rectory, Oxfordshire. On the 3d inst. D 'IC D. ,at Lucca, Emily , w ife o f the Rev. Willigns Wentworth Bowyer. On the 16th inst., at Brighton, Mary Ursula,. the wife of tbe , Rev. Ch ar l es Baring, Rector of Kingsworthy,near Winche st ! l _, On the lith inst., at Wilton-place, Fanny Valentia, the la fant daughter of Adam Bromilow, Esq. ----- London: P r i nted and Published by MURDO •f No. 112, St rand, at TieStrn Ofiice, No. 112 Strand , in the county of 14kItllesex.—F%-iday, June 19, le4o. • - •