The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-25 00:00:00

'EVENING EDITION. eeparation for the innocent victims of colonial injustice.— ( Hear, hear.) The Revolution of 1830—( Cheers) — that glorious Revolution—(Loud cheera)—had brought with it one great result—the complete suppression and overthrow of the slavery trade—( Cheers) —and whatever wicked men might attempt to do, their intentions had ben thwarted, and the law had beta effectual in putting an end to that trade throughout all the French colonies.—( Hear.) The friends of the blacks might congratulate themselves on many of the enaatmcnts which had lately been brought into operation in their favour A child could not now sell his father, or a father his son. A census had been es. tablished in the colonies which would became more and snore effectual—more and more severe, and which would henceforward prevent the clandestine importation of slaves.—( Hear, hear.) Religious instruction was now communicated to the blacks, and black priests had been ordained for the service of the Church.--( Hear, hear.) The abolitionists hal had the co operation of the Clergy, And had lately obtained that of the Pope himself. The King of the French was determined that his reign should not close without his carrying forward the work of abolition— ( Hear, hear)—and that slavery and the slave-trade should alike be destroyed.—(Cheers.) The reigning Consort in England had lent them his assistance for the overthrow of slavery—( Hear, hear)—and the Prince Royal of France bad been giving in Africa a similar aid. The capitulations which had taken place between the French and the Arab tribes, nowhere recognized the right of slavery, and the astabiishment of such a right had been forced further and further into the desert. He would also congratulate them on the fact that if they were then engaged in a crusade, it was not such a one as that in which their forefathers were engaged in the twelfth century, but a holy crusade— a crusade for the establishment everywere of the groat eights of man.—(Cheers.) M. 'Embed concluded by seconding the resolution. The Rev. Mr. SCALES wished to make an observation on one point. In the report to which they had listened, a reference was made to the constitution, the principles, And the objects of the Society. It was important that those principles should be kept constantly in view. The British and Foreign Anti- Slavery Society as its title bore, had been established for the abolition of slavery and the - slave-trade throughout the world. His Royal Highness in the chair had asked whether in seeking those objects the Society would be ready to embroil nations, and to expose them to the evils of warfaro. He would answer of course ha !they would not, for however monstrous might be the vil s which they endeavoured to remove—however wide might be their spread, and however strongly they might be entrenched, though the traders of the earth might unite to uphold them, and though potentates should throw orer them their protecting shield, the Society would not and dared not use any other means for their suppression, than those which were moral and religious--(Cheers)—than those means which they believed to be warranted and sanctioned by the lessons of the Lord Jesus Christ.—( Loud cheers.) The Society wished not to use carnal weapons but those spiritual influences which were " mighty through God ;" and under the blessing of God those enlightened princi ples which Christianity inculcated must eventually succeed. The resolution was as follows :—" That this meeting, in reviewing the proceedings of the Society during the first year of its exigence, feels called upon to acknowledge with gratit..ude the degree in which it has been enabled to fulfil the purposes for which it was established, especially in awakening attention, both in this and other countries, to the dreadful enormities of slavery and the slave-trade— enerrnities which call for the united philanthropy of the world for their extermination." His Royal Highness then vacated the chair, and left the Hall amidst great cheering. Sir E. \Viewer took th'e choir, and Judge BIKNEY, of New York, came forward. He was well received, and proceeded to say, that in no country could such an assembly as that be held—and it was fit that it should be so—this was the land of freedom.— His own country, he grieved to say, was debased and degraded by slavery—slavery which deprived the labourer of his hire, and stripped sacred marriage of all its rights. It was thus that they were replied to on the free state of America when they attempted to discuss the subject of slavery, to induce them to abandon it ; they were told that they knee nothing about it. Why, were net the wages taken from the slaves—was not education denied them— was not his soul necessary to the joys of a future state— were not all these known, and rid these, he would ask, weeetitute nothin g ?—( Cheers ) If these were nothing, whet, he would ask, was the sys.em of slavery itself, when it was disclosed in all its abhorrence ? How was this sys. tem to be affected? Why, by the action cf the present Convention, ren t resenting many other count r i es as we ll as their own.—( Cheers.) He would barely allude to the fact that G,teat Britain had done great things against slavery by the ern incipation of the West Indian colonies C.ecrs.) He had reaaon to hope that France would soon imitate this noble example ; end he toisted, from the representations they had made there and elsewhere, !hat she would not be long b2bleci this country.--( Cheers.) If the!: was done, could Spain, be would ask, hold out much longer ; and if that country gave way, the other slave-holding States in the West ladies must fellow their example.—(Cheers. ) It was said that the slave was happy, and therefore it was asked, why should such a systeni be abolished ? H ow cou ld a le:al hapr, who was, as a slave, deprived of all the ights which his fellow-inan erjoyed ? WAS the it state of things that ought to continue? Could :he slave b. , happy , when the slave trader tore his wife and children .li-orn hint, exposed their beauties to enhance their price, ietima te l e disposed of them to the best bidder ? (Ch , e,s.) Tne .worthy gentleman concluded by second avig tit • resolution. The venerable Mr. Clarkson here withdrew from the meeting, mil much elver:rig. Dr. Lr'iI:INGTUN then rose to address the meeting, and upon corning forward was root enthowiarically cheered He said that if he had been lie': to the uebiasaed exercise 4.4 his own judgmerie he should it ,re preferred that S:A11:_• individual who had atteoded that meeting fro:n other reentries, should have had an ep i - mrtunity of addressing it, for he. Lad been long at d often before them in the same cause, ari - 1 should thertEre have svish:ci that some eovelty should heve E. cenferr: don the prc stait go eat meeting, but as it was ilia; lot to obey the directions given him, he could not - refrain, at the very outset if his address, froin con gratulating the Mectieg on the aeeechea they had lward that day. ile congratulated them that they bad in the ur , sence cf the people of England, not privately or clan riettietely, b t op&l'y and vubliely, heard a Judge of the S , a - cs deckre cars ction of the ingoity and eru-lty of the conerneince ef slate tee 'They owed that in dividual gtelt and sincere thanks, n t simply for his energy and re: oluiion in crossing the ocean to attend upon le o , present cceasien, but as an Arm. ricae, tlissipating th e prejudices th at prevailed in that coun t ry , h av i ng also' the courage to declare the truth, tied setting an example whi c h he would venture to say would soon be' followed by the people of that country.—(Great cheering.) The people of this eountry in his opinion ought to deal oat kindly with their American, brethren, for this c itutry had left them the legacy of the slave trade.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Tee people of England were most deeply responsible Tor the original crime, vreich was then committed, bet it would not setil.te far the American to soy because: the country hail left them in that calemiten3 coedition, and in a state so perilous, that it was not their bounden tints to turn their cott--3tt to praCC., mercy, and justice.— t Cheers.) The Lee-rued Ja•lgo to whom be 11.4.1 al luded had &dared to them the misery that w, s crit:ikel or, the slaves in the United S'ates. lie had depicted their st.fferinga is elcTient terms, and he (Dr. Lushin g . ton) thought . that one single word would describe the trehole—nanie,y, that where slavery ex•s - ed tH same rills ever would exist. Torre `..".1s no such thing. Gad Lad denied the pessil;ility of their existing a merciful and just system of aleeery.— (Cheers ) Laws might be made for the amelioration of the condition of the slaves ; but it must bc remembered that the executi om o f t h ose laws would rest w i t h t h e slave-holeers, and in their hand: they would be made a clog.!, for every species of cruelty, op pression, and contempt for their victims —(Cheers. ) .'There were s ome matt ra connected with the United States to which he wished shortly to allude; one of thera was with respect to the nee Stites, where slavery had been admitted. It could not he said that this country had introduced slaver) there ; its origin in those States was a voluntary I,iolation of what was right. net justified by neeessity, or called for by a jut. expeeiency— (Cheers) ....he alluded especially to Texas, that State which was now crowing up, fornded on the basis of Irsvery.—( H ear .) He held it to be the duty of the Government to call upon that country to render up the freedom of those in it who were in bondage.—( Cheers.) Leaving America, there were many others considerably connected with foreign Slavery and the slave trade, which imperatively called for t heir attention. In France the future prospects were a • matter of great rejoicing ; for though he well knew the Many difficulties which were to be encountered when they mime to speak of vested interests in human beings, and though h e reco ll ected the outcry with respect to the rights" of property, he never could believe that that great and enlightened nation, led on by wise and ill ustr i ous states.. • men, wh en t h e iniquity of slavery . was shown to th em , would permit it any longer to mat there.--(Cheers.) • What had hap pened in other h d e id r countries on thi s su bj ect? Why, if his information and t h mislead him, the spirit was awakening in Denmark , c people of that country were becoming aware of the i njustice is t ven a e n r d ah h l o o rr or of slavery. —(Cheers.) When first friend, Mr. Clarkson (here Dr. Lushington was greatly with ecte h d) be gan to advocate the abolition of slavery, and was proud to say he had acted for so many yearlsv pm he nothing but a conviction of the truth and justice' it wets cause—nothing but a humble hope in the final di e t he sations of an all wise and merciful Providence that s c P ou n lci have induced them to persevere against the scorn and the contenaely of the world.—( Cheers.) When he said this he could not but recollect that his Venerable Friend h a d lived in earlier times, and at a period when his life was actually endangered by the slave traders in the town of Liverpool itself--( Cries of " Shame")--and when be said that all support and countenance was now withdrawn, not only to the slave -trade in Great Britain, but to it in every British colony, he could not but feel the deepest gra titude to him who brought about these events ; and he felt deeply grateful that it bad pleased the Almighty to give him life to witness them. Others had gone to their long home wboae efforts must ever be remembered in meetings like the present ; he might mention the name of one who never flagged in the great cause, when so danger intimidated, or threats prevented, from proceed ing with his great exertions, and whose w h o l e h eart an d soul, fromthe rising of the sun to its t pended in th e greatest services to th causes;thing em ' e w a a n s t thee e late Mr. Macaulay.—(Great cheers .) He it was who laid some of the foundations ofthose now triumphing in t h e i r course. Thoy m w e a e s r u e r e n s o t w h a tthank G o d, living in other days, and it was astonishing t'o think that the present Society, which had new only existed ior a year, bad had the power to call together such a meeting as England never before witnessed.—(Cheers.) O ne wor d more before he sat down. It was true that by eowerful displays of eloq uence the feelings o f mankind might be roused to indignation, and almost to madne ss , against the slave trade, for in these two words were comprehended all the crimes against mankind, and all that was guilty in the sight of God, but it must be remembered that their object was not to be achieved by feelings alone, but if they *gleam,' gv on in a course of permanent and sustained action, with a full determination and a resolution to cease ' not till they had attained their end, other things that were necessary.—( Cheers.) He trusted, therefore, that all those whcm he now addressed, would themselies (and would induce others over whom they bad influence) to contribute to the great end of the present meeting. namely, the final extinction of slavery and the slave trade, and, as a Chris tian, he would call upon all present to recollect that in doing so they were not acting under the impulse of their feelings, but in obedience to the commands of their God. —( Great cheering.) The resolution was then put to the meeting, and de clared by the Chairman to be carried unanimously. Mr. O'CONNELL was then introduced to the meeting, and received with enthusiastic and protracted cheering. He said—l have a long resolution, Sir, to propose, and I ought to make compensation for the length of the resolu tion by the shortness of my speech, although I never felt more disposed to make a long one —( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Upon the subject on which we are combined there is much to rejoice at—much to congratulate ourselves upon—i good deal to apprehend—and enormous mischief still remaining to be remedied and redressed.—( Hear, hear.) We have a good deal to congratulate ourselves upon. We have to congratulate England, in the face of the world, in having set that mighty and magnificent ex ample of the emancipation of nearly one million of human beings, and having consented, in addition, gratuitously to compensate those who were not entitled to any compensa. tion—(Hear, hear)—entitled to no compensation, but pu nishment for long and atrocious villainy—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) I voted against that compensation—( Hear, hear)—but I should not be sorry it was granted if I saw a reciprocal spirit of kindliness and benevolence on the part of those who received it. It is, Sir, a mighty and a mae nificent example we have given, and it tells well to the rest of the world in its immediate results; for what were we told when we were struggling for the emancipation of the negroes ? Did not the planters assert, the moment they were emancipated, violence, turbulence, slaughter, and massacre would be the consequence ?—( Hear, hear.) Did not they say..._" Do you want us to have our throats cut ? It is not whether we shall let the negroes loose, but whether they shall outrage our wives and daughters, and slaughter ourselves." What do they say now ? ( Hear, hear,.) Has there been one single riot? (Hear, hear.) Has there been one single outrage ?-- ( Hear, hear.) Has there been one single assault ?—( Hear, bear.) Has anything approaching to spoliation of pro perty, or to the murder of a single human being, been committed ? Humble as I am, I stand here the triumphant advocate of the negro race.—( Loud 'cheers.) The ne groes have much to forgive. Even the planters of Jamaica, boasting of their high spirit as English gentlemen, still kept the lash to the female negto's back to the very last moment.—( Hear, hear, and " shame.") Even the chi valry of their character as gentlemen would not let them relax the power of torture even to that sex whom they said they respected.—( Hear, hear.) The negro had much to forgive. He had to forgive the cruelty to his wife— the horrible treatment of his daughter—the torture of his son. He had to forgive the stripes that were still marked on his back by the lash of his tyrant master. Did he take revenge ? No ; blessed be God, he forgave &B.— ( Tremendous cheering.) And here I stand, proudly boasting that even the spirit of calumny itself—the dispo sition to tell falsehoods of everybody who differ from us— e disposition that I think is as much encouraged in Eng land as in any other land on the face of the earth—notwith standing that disposinon to slander and vituperation, no slanderer has been found, no calumniator has been disco vered, vile and base enough to say the negroes have com mitted one single act of outrage, violence, or revenge. May we not then look to the rest of the world and tell them how easily and how safely emancipation can take place ?—( Cheers.) Indeed it would have been a calumny on human nature to assert that it was quite safe to con tinue injustice—that it was perfectly secure to continue to outrage every humane feeling, and that an act of benevo lence end generosity would be accompanied by a return of crime and out: age.—( Hear.) It could not be—it has not been.—( C'acera.) Human nature has vindicated itself from such a charge, and we stand here now with the fact as clear as the sun at noon day, that emancipation has not been followed by one single act of outrage.—( Cheers.) But these general assertions are weak, and do nut bear the same force as when you come to particular instances. Now there happens to be in this assembly a friend of mine, and I am proud to call him such—the Rev. Mr. Knibb, the Baptist Missionary.—( Loud cheers.) You do well to cheer him, he deserves it.—( Renewed cheers.) He has suffered imprisonment and the fetter—he has had execution threatened upon him—he has undergone persecution, arid now he comes out triunaphanty, the friend and the advo cate of the unfortunate negro.—(Cheers.) I take from him these facts. In the district of Montego Bay, the population of which is upward: of 125,00 beings, at the last Assize there were in gaol 19 persons charged with offences— ,Mr. KNIBB —Oaly 16. Mr. O'CONNELL -Only 16 !—( Cheers)—and six of these were whites!—(Great laughter.) Now the negroes are in the proportion of fifty to one, and therefore you may imagine what the proportion of guilt between the white and the black man is when out of 16 in gaol six arc whites. Weil, r.ut of the 16, 13 were acquitted, so that there ro [stained but three actual criminals.—( Cheers.) In his own parish, where the population is 35,000, there was only ore prisoner in three months.—( Hear, hear.) In St. Ann's parish, with a large population, the gaol is shut up, and the key has been turned into nails far shoeing horses __(Great laughter.) The treadmill, to be sure, was seen there, but the treadmill got iusty.—( Renewed laughter.) la the parish of Treiawney, that which Mr. Knibb b.doegs to, where the treadmill was actually clotted with human gore—where women were tied on that tread mill, and becoming so exhausted they were not able to kmp their steps, and the ft zsh was torn ca' their limb:— the brutal plant? r permitting it to be done— Mr. KNIRD—I have seen it. Mr. O'CCNNELL—Tbe treadmill has got rusty there— t. ere have not been a euffieient number of persons to ter.) it. --( Laud ch.-ors.) In St. Ann's the curl to shut up, and in Westmoreland the gaol has fallon into ruins. Now ti-cot initiated frets strike more strong? ! upon the human niicd than hours of declamation cud ge neral asset tian —( Hear, hear.) I stand here triumphantly then with tills gr. at experiment completely worked cut, that it is perfectly safe to ernancip-ite the negro race.— Cneers.) But have we nr,t something to fear from the planter ?—( hear.) I cannot leave Jamaica ct ithout announcing to you that in the last Session of the Legisla ture of that country abominable slavery lams were passed amid the congia'ulations of Sir Charles Metcalfe— ( Flisses)—alto, with a fatal facility, has given in to the views of the planters, and given up that generous protec tien which my esteemed and admired friend—how proud I am to call him so—Sir Lionel Smith showed —( Loud cheers.) I need allude only to one of them. They have passed a combination law—a law to purii.sh the men from combining to get wanes (Hear.) No three negroes can now meet to regulate how much they ought to get for their wages w:thout being subject to this combinati..:n To be ewe they have, by an atrocious kind of idiosyncrasy, made this law apply to masters as well as servants.— (I, :neuter.) It is mixing the ridiculous with the horrible. Who is to penish the rnaster.—( Hear, hear, and leuel:- ter)—when there will he found on the beech the ruffian that ought to be in tits dock ?—(Cheers.) As yet those laws have not received the Royal Assent in this country, and by the blessing of God, the name of cur Queen will never be sub , crib al to them --( Tremendcus cheering. ) I know they are in operation in the meantime, that is the worst of it s ; On'l therefore no time should be lost in calling on the Se cretary for the Colonies, and remonstrating with him upo.i the sub;ttct. I injtelf asked him the question whether these laws gild receivA the Royal Assent. lie said they had not. When I asked how many of them had been sit-pended, he was not then prepared to give roe an answer, but I thirds we should ask him again—(Cheer. ing)—for although they are, as it has been said, in farce in that country, would not the people of Englan:l.be laughed at from one end of Europe to the other, if, after paying twenty millions of money, twelve or fourteen of which went to tt,i, very Colony, they were to allow themsslres to be swindled out of its value by these combination laws ? ( Cheers.) Jehn Bell likes to get the full limping value for his penny, and, therefore, I do not think the British people will allow themselves to be so cheated.—(Cheers ) It is incumbent on us to take care we are not laughed at— nobody lima to be—(Laughter) --to take care the public are not swindled of their money, and to take care above all that the negro is not sent back, under the shape of laws, to a state of servitude worse than the slavery he b.fore endured.---( Hear, hear. ) The planters say they only want to be protected in free labour. But 'that claim have they for any assistance from the British people or Government, if instead of free labour they have taken care it shall be slave labour as soon as the emigrants arrive ? These are subjects of the utmost im portance, and glad am I to have the opportunity of pro claiming them to the good sense of th e E ng li s h people. The night before last we saved the Hill Coolies—(Cheers) —and it will be our duty within eight-and-forty hours more to save the coloured man in Jamaica from renewed slavery.—( Cheers.) There is another portion of the Bri tish dominions where slavery still spreads its horrid influ ence. We were told, Sir, when the Emancipation Bill passes' that the Government of the East Indies would take measures to abolish slavery there. I believe they have taken none—l know of none—it may be my ignorance ; but this I know, that there are hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of slaves still in our East Indian do minions, and when we proudly boast that the flag of our Queen waves over none but freemen, we arc obliged to make a distinction which has ne difference, for the flag of the East India Company waves over hundreds and thou sands of slaves.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The object of the Convention_the object of this meeting, cannot be answered until slavery is abolished in the East Indies as it hat been in the West.—( Hear, liter, hear.) And wherever the flag of England flutters in the breeze, over any part of the dominions in the dependencies be longingn vee fre e t m o e t n h a M n d o n n a o r t c h h i n o g f h t h n e t s f e r e r e e d a l o m ni s , t a l s l h a h l e l f fl n o n a n t d o h n e l y . teeth its influence or within its protection._( Cheers.) There is, indeed, connected with India, another subject of the most awful importance, but it is not fitted for an anti slavery meeti ng . I only allude to it, b ecause I think the humanity i t ywill of m fr i e e a n n d s t hoef situationh u mn the and endeavour land e a vo te u n r u rt oremedylna —( ia t e ( poverty four distress,ofle ande tenures in in the awfully ra pid ten years) they famines )—an (ford t w h e e have had create. If we look to o th er countriems what are our con solations. We have heard a n a bl e and I am s orry h e was not and eloquent F renc h advocate of universal liberty, able to express himself in the English language. Had he done so, he would have made an impression such as few y are capable of. His sentiments were excell ent, and he has long been a distinguished friend of the ne gro race in his own country. But, Sir, I was very sorry to h ear f rom him what they were going to do. To be sure they had a l read made a law that their masters are not to mutilate them, 'vgh, it is not the interests of the masters exactly t ", mutilate the negroes.—( Hear, hear.) I was sorry to hear him talk of the French probably postponing, for ten or twenty years, the emancipation of the negroes—it is like what the Latinists call paulo post futurunt—( Laughter) —the prison counts by the hour, slavery reasons by the minute.—( Cheers, ) Talk mgt to me of gulatems, and rules, and laws; commit them to the earls of the planters and masters, it is no matter what the law is, THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1840. the parties will inflict punishment and suffering on the un fortunate negro.— ( Hear, hear.) It has been well said that there is no ration on the face of the earth so fond of liberty as the French. It may be a little exaggeration, and not quite so satisfactory to humanity as to military triumph, but the French having acknowledged that slavery ought to terminate—that principle being et once avowed, and England having set them the example, I would like to encourage the old rivalry between England and France on this topic. While Frenchmen arc talking of emancipating, and talking in beautiful phraseology of doing such and such things, that they intend to do it, and are about to do it, John Bull has actually eman cipated them, Mr. Frenchman—( Great laughter)--and that is the thing you ought to do.—(Cheers.) I do not wish to discourage them, but I laugh to scorn their efforts. I despise their exertions, if they attempt anything but total and immediate emancipation.—( Cheers.) That is the only rivalry except, in other good qualities, that I would wish to exist between the two great nations of the world. But we must cast our: eyes further, and what do we there find? Why, countries bound by the faith of treaties, ob serving none of those treaties, for I am reluctantly, but by the force of truth, compelled here to declare, that this mighty sacrifice of twenty millions, this great and glorious act of emancipation of 800,000 slaves, has been followed, ley what ? By a most atrocious and enormous augmenta tion of the worst of crimes attending slavery—the slave trade. The importation has been more than doubled, the debts have been increased 25 per cent. The result of our having emancipated slaves makes the produce of the slave colonies more valuable, and the consequence has been, that the slave trade has increased enormously. All produce of course is lessened. If it di minished from nothing else, it would from the circumstance that the negroes no longer suffered their women to labour in the field.--( Hear, hear.) [Mr. Joseph Starge here made a communication to Mr. O'Connell.] My phrase perhaps was riot quite correct. The increase of the slave trade did not commence with the abolition of slavery—it commenced with the abolition by England of the slave trade ; but it has dreadfully augmented since the period when the English abolished slavery.—(Hear, hear.) We have treated with the Brazils, with Spain, with Portugal. The treaties are fine pieces of parchment to look at, em blazoned with the arms of monarchs; but in the mines of Brazil, for instance, a great quantity of British capital is employed, and there are British slave holders surrounding us to the present moment. We have them in the House of Commons. It was only this morning that I heard something of the great friends of the Mauritius. I am now in possession of the fact ; and if any of them speak again in another place, depend upon it I shall not be so mealy-mouthed as not to an nounce it. —( Cheers.) In proportion as we have acted with humanity, other nations are acting with barbarity. In Baltimore it is the fashion to build vessels called "clip pers;" they arc used for carrying on the slave-trade, and they arc made shallow in order to get up the rivers, and to sail with the greatest speed. He then came to the Texas —that nest of banditti. The Mexican Government had nobly done away with slavery—it nowhere existed in that ceuntry. All at once a band of land pirates took their slaves and rifles and robbed the Mexicans of their land. He blushed to say that the King of the French had at last acknowledged those robbers as a nation. He was sorry that the talented individual who had been amongst them— the representative of France, had retired ; he (:Mr. O'Connell) would have be e n happy that he had had it in his power to tell him of that act of his King. It was useless to talk of or to hope for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies, while the King of France encou raged wholesale robbery, murder, and slavery in the Texas. By the constitution of the country they had debarred themselves from even discussing abolition for a number of years, and even when they had expired, it could not be done unless three-fourths of the people were in favour of it. They might just as well hope to get three- Jeurths of the people to cut their throats as to agree to annihilate slavery.—( Laughter.) Another principle of their constitution was, that they would cut tie threats of every Indian in the territory—they would not allow one of the aborigines to remain alive in the land. Only lately six or seven of them had come in, had been caught, and every one of them was murdered, brutally murdered ; he was informed that he was much underating the case—that in fact the murders amounted to 30—that would entail more human suffering, but the principle was the same. He was informed that they had now twelve British subjects in slavery. `'l as it, could it be possible ? There was no country in the world paid half so much for being governed as England—(Cheers)— they paid million alter million, but did any Government deserve a farthing that would permit British subjects te remain in slavery.—(Cheers.) Could it be a fact ? If the atrocious crime was in existence, were not the Texians at the mercy of England. Suppose they were to send to the Mexicans a British Legion, the Texians would be apt to surrender the twelve, and twice twelve if they bad thorn.—(Mr. Joseph Sturge whispered to him.) A friend of peace behind him, an illustrious friend of huma nity—(Cheers)—Joseph Sturge, had told him that the Society recommended the use of none but peaceful, and moral, and religious means. He (Mr. O'Connell) quite agreed in all that, but the Texians were robbers—they had stolen twelve of our fellow-sutjects, and it was quite legal to catch and hang robbers and murderers. The, had been guilty cf an atrocious robbery and many murders— they must therefore be treated as such.' But, also c all, that Meeting and that Society must speak out trurnF2t tongued, in order to deter the British Goiernment from committing so foul a crime as to recognise them as a na tion. Let the Government of Europ., acknowleged one slave-holding state, and all would he overrun, and ala i very would acquire a fearful increase. Oh, Gad forbiu that they shoal ever be admitted into the scale of on. tions. He then came to North America, and there, thank . God, he fund much reason for congratulstion. Teen; were now forty representatives of Abolition Societies in Lyndon to aid them in the great struggle for human li h2rty.—( Cheers.) They bad heard a Learned and able Judge describe the horrors of the internal s'are trade of North America.—( Cheers ) Did they k now w h o t h at learned :aid noble man was ? He had I men tl.:e propriet or "Grafton-street, J une 23, 184 0. of slaves himself, but he had given them all their liberty. " Sir---i am en:tamely sorry flat the state of my health —( Loud and conti,,ed cheers ) Th e y had imerupted renders my attendance at the meeting of which you have him. Ile not only did that, but a seco d given me notice, quite impossible. I need hareiy assure batch came into his posssession -by patrimonial you that no one who attends it can feel ade :per interest in descent. He was again the proprietor of slaves, but he its objects, or more heartily desire their successful attain emancipated then:.—( Cheers,) American abolitio:Ast s went. might indeed be proud with Judge Birney, of New Y.;rk, " I beg of you to present my humble duty to his Royal at their head. Let them be honoured its proportion as the Highness the Chairman, and explain the reason why I can slave-holders were execrated. Oil I they had a hard not do myself the honour of attending his Royal Highness battle to fight. In place of being honoured, as thoy were upon this occasion. in this land, they had to encounter coolness and outrage; " I am, Sir, your obedient and humble servant, the Bouie knife and Lynch law threatened them : they "To J. H. Trod gold, Esq., Secretary to tha British and were abolitionists at the risk of their lives.,—(Che,..rs.) Foreign Anti-Slavery Society." Glory to them. A year cr two since he mad e some o b serve- ( Si gne d) " BIiOUGHAM. tions upon the conduct of the American Mi n i ster ; he Mr. CL. Rat SIOND, of the United Stat es , a man o f charged him with breeding slaves for Bale ; he denied it; colour, then came forward, and said be would offer no other and, in order to prove who was right, he sent ( Mr. apology for his appearance there than the simple fact that O'Connell) a challenge to fight a duel.—( Laughter.) for the first time in his life he stood upon tire soil which a He did not accept it. Nothing would ever induce hint slave had but to iread to become free—( Loud cheers) -_ to commit murder. God had forbidden it, sod he would that fur the first time he now breath:A the atmosphere that. obey hint.—( Cheers.) The American Minister deeded an American slave had but to breathe and his shackles fell. t h e charge, but he admitted that he had slaves, and a e —(Coca ring.) Ile rose more particularly to corroborate the admitted that he did afterwards sell some; SO let him statements made by the Hots. and eloquent Gentlemen have the benefit of such a denial.—( A la ug h.) H e wive bad lately eddressed t h at l arge , i nte lli eent, and added, however, that he did it ,t believe that sieves were highly resp , ctab!e auditory, and he regretted thatihe had bred fcr sale in Virginia. Now, toe would read some taken occasion to leave the room before he ( Mr. Ray few extracts from Judge Jay's book, pealiihsel in New mond) Ipol borne his testimony in favour of the great York, in 1839. H., would call Mr. Stevenson's attention benefit which his langu,ge and sentiments and influence to page 88 of that book, and that w ou ld prove to him not had had is America.—.(Great applause.) Perhaps the only that slave-breeding exi ste d in Virginia, b u t within citizens of London were not aware that the English twenty-fire miles of his own residence. (The Hae, m see p eo pl e had it in their power to emancipate every bondman tiuman read several extracts proving the practice; a l so i n that country, :'rid nothing other than that belief could several advertisements of lots of slaves wanted for read ) oossibly have indexed him to leave a beloved family rreseev, fur shipment to New Orleans, and one dated in and cross the water in view of the sacrifices and sufFerings Richmond, the very place of Mr. Stevenson's resideeee ) w hi c h i t w as necessary to undergo in order to do so.-- Ha had established Against the Ambassador that slave- Olean hear.) Hat thanked God, however, that it had raising did exist in Virginia —yet all these things Cock been allowed him to stand there and utter his condemns place in a civilized country—a civilized age—advertise- tien of that system which was carried on in Arne ments of human flesh far sale, and writt en i n even a more r i ca o f ens l as i og th e i r fellow men—of th a t s y s t em contemptuous manner than if the subject of them were which they had been given to understand v. as cattle. The traffic in slaves from the North to the Southern a system of lust and cruelty and bleed States was immense. In the latter they were put et the of that system which shut out the coloured man in culture of cotton—a horrible culture, that swept off the America from heaven, and drove him headlong to Pt mdi whole in seven years—every severs years there wa s a new ti on .—(G rea t c h eer i ng .) Th at system withheld from him generation wanted. This was in a community calling the privileges which the American constitution and the themselves civilized—why, they were worse than the declaration of independence guaranteed. — (Cheers.) IThe savage beast of the desert—they only mangled when driven very descendants of some of those men who assisted in to it by hunger; but this horrible practice is carried on by securing that independence were at the present day driven wellsfed Americans for paltry pecuniary profit—for that into the fields ; and it was a fact that the knapsacks had low and base consideratior they destroy annually their been taken off the backs of some of the soldiers, and the tens and twenty thousasids. His Learned Friend the musket had been taken from their arms—that the lash Judge had put two attested cases in his bands—( Mr. had been applied and the hoe had been put into their bands, O'Connell then read the particulars; in ease the slave and and they had been driven into the fields as slaves, after all her mistress were communicants in one congregation, yet they had suffered and sacrificed to secure that indeper. the latter determined, and notwithstandinr , the most dence.--( Loud and vehement cheering.) The hand of the heart-rending appeals, persisted in selling and separating clock reminded him that he must be brief.— (Cries of the child of the slave from its mother. The other was a "Go on.") He wished, in addition to what he had already slave who, with her eight children were brought int o th e stated, to say that it was not only the bondman in the open market, and sold separately, amidst the loudest United States that was enslaved, there was not upon the lamentations.) The mother there bad to suffer eight soil a free man of colour, as he understood the term.— deaths, and when she was parted from the last, her (Cheers.) The humble individual now before them was youngest, her senses fled, and she was happy for a time. riot able to trace any of his ancestors in slavery, but if he These scenes took place in a country which, in all other happened to go into the district of Columbia within sight respects, had a fair cl a i m to be called civiliz d—in aof the flag under which their independence had been secured, country which had nobly worked out its own freedom—in he was liable to be seized and bound and thrown into prisons a country where the men were brave and the women beau- For having committed crime?—No. For being an in tiful. Amongst the descendants of Englishmen —even fidel ? No. For being a convict ? No. Why then was amongst such was to be found a horrible population whose he liable to such outrage and indignity ? For no other thirst for gold could onlybo gratifi e d a t t h e expense of reason than t hi s, that Afr i can b lood fl owe d in his veins such scenes of human suffering. A populati on t h at were (L ou d cr i es o f H ear, h ear. ) Thi s s ystem did but make insensible to the wrath of Grid, who w ere i nsens ibl e to the the i nqu i ry whether the man of co l our w as destitute of cries and screams of mothers and children torn from each character or not? That was not the question, but the other for ever ; but there was one thing they would not be complexion ; or, in other words, their blood identified them insensible to—they dare not , they would net b e i nsens ib le to w i th the system, in consequence o f w hi c h the co loured the contempt of Europe.—(Loud cheers.) While they man could not stand erect and breathe the pure air of embraced tho American abolitionists as friends and heaven.—(Great applause.) If it should be his lot t o be brothers—let none of the slave-owners, dealer s i n human imprisoned in the district of Columbia, which had been flesh, dare to set a foot upon our free soil.—(Cheering.) erected by the t axes w hich his fathers had paid, and the Let them call upon the Government to protest to A mer i ca officers of which had been supported by the same taxes, that they would not receive any slave-holding Ambassador. and after having remained there two or three months, if —(Loud c h eer i ng .) L et t h e m declare that no slave- they were not able to prove that he was a slave , and tha t owner can be admitted into European society, an d ho was a ll owe d the poor privilege of going forth free, with then Calhoun and Clay, and men like them, who perhaps a strike or two, a kick or two, or perhaps a stand up p u tti ng f ort h t h e i r c l a ims to be President few cuffs, to whom could he look for redress of the great Republic must yield to public , uni. of the wrongs an d rievances lie had endured ? Th e i r versal opinion. He had m a de mention of two men,me te n a ti ona l code of laws g recognized no redress for crimes iwould only say that Calhoun was branded with the blood high an d so infamous.—(Loud cheers.) Did their issuing from th e str i pes o f t h e s l ave, an d Clay, drown e d in that metropolis know that from the commencement of n the tears of the mothers and the children. —( Cheers.) the establishm en t of liberty Mayflower derers, t hi s country, slavery had Let the p eo ple o f E urope say t o s l ave -owners, N ur _ ex i sted therein. In the vet hour when the derers, you belong n o t t o us ,—away t o the desert and was making her way through the ocean, bearing on her herd with ki n d re d savages ."—( Cheers.) Ile begged deck the Pilg r i m f at h ers, t h at were to establish liberty, anger he committ e d h e i nous cr i mes , b ut h e wa s incapable to Virginia, bearing on her deck a different of coolly calculating how l o ng or h ow h er d h e could work cargo of som e fift een or s i xteen v i ct i ms , who had been torn pardon of the sava ges .—(L aug ht er .) sometimes in civil and r e li g i ous, at the same time t h e re was another bark g o i ng a human being with a profit,--3ernetimes granting him a from their homes and from everthing d ea r to them in Africa, boon for the purpose of obtaining a year or two's more and placed on th e soil of Vi rg i n i a , and from that day to labou r ou t o f hi m . Th e H on. G ent l eman cont i nued,— I the prese n t t h ey had been obliged to suffer, and die the admire ;the p ur i ty o f the d emocrat i c pr i nc i ple, when i t i s hewers Of wood arid drawers of water. He wished to ask kept within the proper bounds of society. I am a great if these things we re t e e f ru i ts o f c ivilization and Chris admirer o f you r Declaration of Independence; it is the tianity, what sort of a system had been introduced among delight of even the s l ave -h o ld ers of' America. Let me the heathens and barbarians of different parts of the globe? read to you the first few lines. It says," All are created Hear, hear.) He hoped before the meeting left that e qual." These are their own words,...—' , All are creat e d house, that a declar a ti on wou ld go forth similar to that equal, with certain inalienable rights,—the gift of God." 1 which bad been called f o r by the Hon. and Learned 'c.noWledge the Giver ; amongst theme. Gentleman. He lit,p e d that their condemnF•tion would able rigit s are, "Life, liberty, and the saf e p ursu i t o f h a a t , t en to th e inconsistency of the Americans. One of the '- pintas." Therefore they proclaim it--they admit that God chief causes that led to the last war between his own baeveal has given those rights, anti hoiv dare the ralians attempt to take away the rights a hic'n God has given ?—( Cheers and laughter.) Is that word too harsh ?—( No, no 1)—" And in the fair spirit of the declaration, with a reliance on the firm protection of Divine Providence." They appeal to God; and has not this all the sanctity without the pro fanity of an oath we mutually pledge to each other might easily pledg e th a t Y our " hearts,our lives c o s u a r n f d o r t o u u n r e ss"a—crtehd honours."—( Hear.) Now e I appeal to that honour—they have pledged their lives and their sacred honour to those principles, and when they come to me and say that I am a vituperator and a slan derer, I read to them their declaration, their pledge, and their honours.— (Loud cheers.) Well, are we to remain passive as hitherto ?—( Loud cries of " No, no 1)" Let our declaration also go abroad. Let this Society adopt it —let the benevolence and good sense of Englishmen make that declaration. If an American addresses you, find out at once if he be a slaveholder.—( Hear, bear.) He may have business with you, and the less you do with him the better—( A laugh)—but the moment that is over turn from him as if he had the cholera or the plague— (Cheers)—for thero is a moral cholera and a political ) He belongs not to y o ur oryo h u im Ch rci—im(e—heeer.is not within th e p a l e o f civili zation or Christianity.—(Che ers .) L et us rally for the countryplague upon liberty of the human race — (Applause) —no matter in what country or in what clime he was found, he is entitled to our protection ; no matter of what caste, of what creed, or what colour, he is your fellow nsan—he is suffering in justice, and British generosity, which has done so much already, ought to be cheered to the task by the recollection of that success it has already attained.—( Cheers.) You have already heard from the Right Hon. Dr. Lushington something of the early struggles of the venerated Clark son—and how precious was the tear that rolled down his cheek when he made that statement—we have read that the recording angel dropped a tear on an oath which had been extorted in the cause of humanity, and blotted it out for ever—and the tear that stood upon his cheek seemed to have been called forth by similar feelings.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") He reminded us that Clarkson had at first stood alone—that Wilberforce had but few to assist him, and that when Lushington and Buxton came into the contest, there were only enough to be laughed at by the selfish, and the Americans, but no more; they had neither pistols nor cavalry, nor serried infantry— they bad nothing to contend against the congregated power of British mistaken avarice, and the immense wealth of the planter class. Yes, they had the generous, the humane, the noble spirit of the British people—they had the protection of God, and, blessed be God, we have lived to see the accomplishment of much that they had anticipated.—( Loud cheers.) What is our strength now to what it was when Buxton and others came into the con test ?—(Hear, hear.) We have had 500 Delegates from various parts of the world. They have come from Ame rica and from France—we have foreigners, and judges, and distinguished men of all descriptions. From 400 places under the British dominion, Delegates have been sent to our Convention. Our meetings have been attended by audiences whose countenance alone would more than sa. tisfy the utmost measure of fame or approbation. They are surrounding us still. Oh 1 the women of England are here—(Loud and continued cheers)—as they al ways are, foremost in the cause which humanity recom mends to them. They will appeal on its behalf to their fathers, their brothers, and their sons. I am zealous in the cause to he sure, hut inefficient—acknowledgi ng the humility of the individual, I am still swelled by the great ness of the cause. My bosom expands, and I glory in the domestic struggle for freedom which gave me a title to stand among you, and to use that title in the best way I can to proclaim humanity to man, and the abolition of slavery all over the world. The Hon. and Learned Mem ber sat down amid loud cheering. Mr. W. ALLEN had been requested to support the re solution, but the manner in which it had ken moved and seconded made it unnecessary for him to say more than a few words. When they were all almost afraid to mention the subject of the emancipation of the slaves, on account of the great opposition which they had to encounter in en deavouring to put an end to the slave trade, they bad been encouraged to perseverance, and now they saw that, by the blessing of God, the various denominations of religion, and the various opinions in politics, were all united in the condemnation of that abomination, the slavery of man.._ ( Loud cheers.) That ought to encourage them in their good work, and to endeavour, by every means in their Power, to 'orward the common cause of humanity. The resolutlon was as follows:—" That while this meeting rejoices in the rapid progress of the cause of abo lition in the free States of the United States of America, and deeply sympathizing with those of our American bre thren who are struggling in the maintenance of that cause against the inveterate prejudices and sordid interests of their fellow-citizens, it greatly deplores and indignantly reprobates the existence and extension of slavery in the southern parts of that great Republic, by which a sixth por tion of the whole population is degraded into the condition of chattels and brutes, and that an internal slave trade to an enormous extent is carried on to supp'y the demands of human beings in the slave markets of that country under circumstances as disgusting as they are barbarous, by all which the rights of humanity are trampled uncle-font, the sacred principles of justice and benevolence violated, and the holy claims of religion outraged and conti-mned. This meeting would therefore cell on the American people in the name of the Christian and civilized world to renounce these great inquities, and the flagrant inconsistency of up holding, in direct opposition to the solemnly recognized rights of humanity as ant forth in their declaration of inde pend.mme," was then put aid carried with a:.-claturiticn. Shortly afterwards Mr. O'Connell left the room amid - •• • loud cheering. Mr. \V, J. CRIZWDriON said, while the Hon and Learned Gentleman was speaking wl;o Lal just left toe room, a letter had been presented from a friend to the cause who had worked earnestly and diligently for then.—he meant Lard Brougham.—(Loud and general cheering.) Ile regretted that the letter had not been received at the ovn ing of the prncccdings. Mr. C. then read the letter as follows :—. but guilty country, and Great Britain was the simple fact ef the imprisonment of a few white Americans; that reason was equally good with the resistance which had been of fered to a tax of 2:1. or 31 a pound upon tea, and in con sequence of which their revolutionary fathers had waded through blood to seeure taeir independence. But it was against the inconsisteney of his countrymen in these respects that he warred. The instrument of their inde pendence made no reference to the coloured man, it gave him no protection, but it protected the privileged class, the slaveocracy. He would take leave to remind the meeting of the sentiments of John Adams, the father of John Quincy Adams, who was said to be the author of that do cument ; he advocated political and religious liberty, and he denounced slavery as offensive in the sight of God, as de rogatory to the honour, and interests, and happinass of man, and as opposed to the decrees which had been promulgated from heaven of liberty, of peace and good will towards man.—( Loud and general cheering.) He entertained not the slightest - wish to stand there and traduce his coun try, but he was anxious to have the truth, and the whole truth in Christ, made known, and to express his abhorrence of the system which was driving to misery and death thousands every year; for as had been well remarked, it was a system of le galized murder, and he trusted that the voice of every friend of this country would go forth for the abolition of that most iniquitous system. He would conclude in the words of one of the poets of his own country : Go back, haughty Southern ; thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou haat sold. The sky of the south may be brighter than ours, And greener thy landscapes, and fairer thy flowers ; But dearer the blast which round our mountains raves, Than the sweet summer zephyrs which breathe over slaves. Full low, at thy bidding, thy negroes may kneel, With the iron of bondage on spirit and heel; But know that the Yankee girl sooner would be In fetters with them than in freedom with thee, Mr. Raymond concluded amidst loud and general cheering. The Rev. W. KNOB, Missionary at Jamaica, then rose amid loud cheers, to 'propose the next resolution. He said, he tvas afraid that at that late hour no subject, however important, could receive from those who must be wearied--not of the subject, but on account of the length of time their attention had been directed to it— the attention it deserved ; and yet he had to move a resolu tion identified with the present and future happiness of three hundred thousand of those on whose emancipation they all had so justly rejoiced. It was the following : " That this meeting, c o nt em pl at i ng t h e extent and im portance of the objects of this Society, would urge upon the friends of the enslaved of every clime the great neces sity which exists, and which, in the recent sittings of tho- General Convention, has been made still more apparent, for renewed and vastly-increased efforts to bring slavery itself and the slave-trade, which so necessarily depends upon it to a perpetual end." It was with feelings of the deepest interest, end al the same time of the deepest sorrow, be had risen to propose to the assembly the first of those resolutions. He had hoped that ere this information would have been received and communicated to that assembly, that laws so entirely unjust and iniquitous in their character as those to which he had adverted had been at mace rejected by her Majesty's Ministers—( Cheers)—and if he were disappointed in this and in expressions he might make use of, should speak with more force and energy than the subject might appear to demand, he trusted the situation in which he had been placed for years, and those for whom he had spent and would spend every energy he possessed, would be deemed a sufficient excuse.—( Cheers.) He did not wonder that some of the people of England thought he spoke too harshly; but they should recollect he had to do with men in Jamaica and in England who could not bear mild words, and would scarcely hear harsh ones.—(Cheers. If these laws had been rendered necessary by the miscon duct of the emancipated slave, he should have deplored them, but have held his tongue; but when it was a fact— an indisputable fact—the truth of which he challenged all the West Indians in London, and all the slave tyrants throughout the world to disprove, that not a single act of violence had occurred on the part of the emancipated negroes from the time the Legislature ac corded them their rights until the present hour. Ile said when this was an established fact he had a light not merely to entreat, but to demand, that the negro should be pro tected in the enjoyment of all the liberty that had been ac cerded to him.—( Loud cheers.) If he could for one mo ment suppose that these laws were necessary for the public good, and sanctioned by the public voice, he for one should hold his tongue ; but with all the respect he entertained for men, for principles he entertained a higher.—(Cheers) —for all the respect he felt towards those who bad given emancipation to the slave, for the high and eternal princi ples of liberty he entertained a more sacred and inviolable regard—(Cheers)—and should these not have been se cured—should the rights of the negrocs of Jamaica again be trampled in the dust, he would again go forth, and by moral and religious power fight over again the battle of freedom. He claimed their attention because it was probably the last time he should appear in Exeter Hall. He wished not to remain in England, his sympathies were in Ja maica. His heart was also aim e, and he hoped to ciery back with him the fuel confirmation of that liberty the people of this country had so liberally granted.—(Cheers. ) Before entered on tlivwo laws, be would annoence what ought to strike conviction into every hear., that if once they were allowed by the Braish Government, there was no way except by ann:hilating the Legislative AF scrul-,,1y by which they could, be repealed. Let this fact be known—once passed, and as fully. a n d d ir , et l y , and oppressively as they could, they would be imposed in all injthatoc and iniquity upon the people.—( A voice in the crowd. .• No.") No 1 let him come forward and prove it. Why die the coward stand there anonymously and contradict him? If the West Indians in Landon could prove that they would not, let teem call another ,hemeet irg and would attend and prove it, H e d e fi e d t h em • • vv;th all the scorn which the love of liberty inspired.— ( Laud cheering.) He had met them in Jamaica when ;le tyre not supprirted by British sympathy, and alien the finger of scorn was poin ted at him ; but did they think thus to induce an Elglishmaii to shrink ? ( Cheers.) No ! and they might rest assured that is ith al the ability he possessed he would wa , ch their every proceeding and use his every moral power to annihilate the infamous system they upheld—(Cheers) —that whe ther introduced by the English merchant or sanctioned by the English House of Commons, every attempt of their fell purpose to degrade the black man, should meet with his e ost strenuous opposition, and rec, ive his lasting contempt.—(Cheers ) Of the laws to which he adverted, and waieh ho would pass otter in rapid succession, the first lie would mention was the Fisheries Bill, and he mentioned this that they might see how, step by step, the House of Assembly had attempted to oblaerate every vestige of liberty. In the time of slavery, the poor and old were per mitted to fish in the rivers and on the brink of the Sea, but •;:n sooner did the Act of Emancipation arrive than this lib. rty of the poor and the aged was taken away.-- ( Shame, shame.) The next Act was tailed the Hawkers' and Pedlars' During the time of Slavery every man was allowed to sell whatever he had manufactured himself without obtaining a license for so doing, but as soon as freedom came, or rather as sect: as a succumbin g Governor was found—(Cheers)—the Hawkers' and Pedlars' Act passed through the Iluuse of Assembly, rendering it ne cessary for a roan to take out a license before he could sell his own goods—the jars and other small commodities (no' provisions), by the sale of which he could obtain an honest and peaceful livelihood. The amount necessary for ob taining this license for every pa; ish amounted to 51. or 10/. of our money—and thus this law, which was known to tell against the f ree s y stem , mos t sens ibl y a ffe cte d the poor and old inhabitants, to hundreds of whom the Baptist Missionaries had given a home—into which the tyrants could not enter—who hated the thought of going to the parish, and determined to struggle to be free.—(Bear ) Next was the Pound Law. Ia the time of slavery there was a case of this kind, which enacted that every person taking up stock upon his grounds might take it to the pound, where it was retained until he was recompense:l for the damage it had done; but now, when the negro re fused to work for the planters, they turned stock upon his grounds, and he was forbidden to take it to the pound without a written document, to prove that they were there —a sufficient instance of the hardship and iniquity of this law.—( Hear, hear.) The next was the Rum Law. He ( Mr. Knibb) was not a teetoller.—( A voice, " I am sorry for it.") He knew it, but he had the same right to hold his own opinion as his friend -s—( Hear, hear)—but though he was not a teetotaller he was decidedly opposed to drinking ardent spirits—( Hear, hear)—and a law had been enacted which he deemed would have a most detrimental effect, by which on every estate rum might be sold without a license by a white man, sl that though the black masa could not sell the useful pro duct of his honest industry, the white man could distil his poison and sell it without a license.—( Hear, hear.) There was another law (and they would think it impossible that anything bad could be concealed in that) to prevent cruelty to animals, and what mischief could the anti-slavery man suspect lurked there? Why, by that law it was made a penal offence for any person to attempt to catch a horse or a=s with intent to ride it, and for doing so he was subjected to thirty days' imprisonment, or to the penalty o f 51. Th e object of the slave-owner in all these restrictive laws being to bind the peasantry, and prevent their having boasts to go to market, to prevent their purchasing land nod cultivating it on their own behalf.—( Hear, hear.) But there were others of a more stringent nature still_among those the Petty Debt Act, by which if an employer ()Wee his slave or servant so much money, yet if he have nat sent in a written account two days before the trial comes on (and it is not necessary to allow more than three days for it to come on) he cannot bring it as a set off. but he must apply for a new trial, and it' be does not appear, judgrraet then goes Ly default. Ant added to this, double rents were continually inflicted, and the At torney-General had stated that in his opinion they were lawful; so that a man was charged, his wife and his chil dren charged, and he could prove that when they had charged for the land, they could charge also for the trees upon it. If after this they did riot teach the negro to charge, it would not be their faults.—( Hear, hear.) He had cases of this kind with him which would fill the albums of half the ladies in the assembly, and wh. n Le hai applied to the Special Justices respecting them, the only answer he could get was, that the law bad given them no appe a l, and that if a man's conscience would let him swear the charge was just, they had nothing to do but to award it to Another law was that for the recovery of term.. menta, by which five-sixths of the whole population of .la mica might be turned out of their houses at alweek's no tice; and the Attorney-General had declared that it did not need a second notice before the ejectment took place. In this law It was enacted " That when a landlord at the time of issuing such warrant as aforesaid has a lawful right to the possession of the premises so held as afore said, neither the landlord, nor his agent, nor any person or persons anting under the authority of this Act, shall he deemed to be a trespasser by reason of any irregularity or informality in the mode of proceeding for obtaining pos session as aforesaid; but the party may bring an action on the case for any damage that he may have sustained by reason of such irregularity or informality." Thus, what ever violence a man might commit in executing a warrant of ejectment, he is not to be deemed a tretpaser, but tic_s negro must go through the expense of a Court of La +V 10 ob:ain rodrei,s, which, however, he might jubt as well try to get from the advocates of oppression in England as from the juries of the Island of Jitsaica.—( Hear, bear. ) And the houses for which these people were thus charged were those which they hail erected themselves while they were slaves, and if there were any comforts in them, they were solely of their own procuring. In reference to this subject he would mention on•e instance that had been re lated, to show the working of the Petty Debt Bill. A❑ old woman was summered for rent to the amount of 8/. 13s. 4 , 1., which they were prepared to show was more than the house was worth, and she was condemned to pay the amount, with costs, though she was not worth so many shillings, and too old to labour to obtain it. The re:v. step would be to send her to prison ; and Mr. Clark (his informant) said, that if they should proceed to this, he would have her placed at his asylum called Clarksonville, and raise a subscription to pa) the damages in this and similar cases.—(Cheers.) The next law to which he would refer was the Vagrant Act, and on this he was sure the Assembly would allow him to expatiate a few minutes.— ( Hear.) They had already seen bow the negroes were amerced in damages— how they were, at a week's notice, turned out of their houses, and whatever violence might be used, were without redress, except by appealing to an expensive court. He would now show them how, having got the negroes out of their houses, and turned them unprovided fur upon the world, they came with a Vagrant Act to catch them, and enacted, „ that if any person who shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond shall be found wandering abroad, and lying in any outhouse or shed, or any deserted or uninhabited building, it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace to commit such offender on his own view, or by the confession of such offender, or on the evidence of one or more wit nesses, to the house of correction, or to the public streets or highways, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding sixty days." Now, it had been asserted that there was no mention here of chains or whips ; but he asked those who framed the Apprenticeship Act, in which chains and whips were omitted, whether they intended that the ingenuity of the planters should be employed in framing bye-laws by which they could flog females ?—( Cheers ) Yet the first sight he saw on landing in Jamaica, after the arrival of that act, was a number of females chained like dogs, and the first victim of the treadmill, a female member of his own church, who, though stated by the surgeon, to be ill, was condemned to labour on it.—(Shame, shame.) Therefore, (said Mr. Knibb) trust them not all ; or you may tract them if you like, I never will.—( Cheers.) Speaking of these gaols, of one of them near the resi dence of Sir Charles Metcalf, who signed those laws, it was reported that " the platform on which the prisoners slept, is filthy, loathsome, and disgusting in the extreme." Let but a person who has lived in a cottage, have the misfortune to be locked up in one of the rooms of this gaol, and not only will his body be infested with all sorts of vermin, but he will run no little risk of being attacked with putrid fever.---( Hear, hear.) And with respect to chains, an order was lately issued to assimilate these to those used in the prisons in England, on which it was asked, whether the present chains were not sufficiently elegant for the. purpose.—( Hear, hear.) Now, what did they say ? They would say anything to suit their pur pose.—( Hear, hear.) They were in that respect the legitimate children of him, who was pronounced to be the Father of Lies.—( Cheers.) How did they show their disregard of the truth and justice to him (Mr. K.) him self? When he had been accused of theft and other crimes, he prosecuted his calumniator. In one case the Grand Jury, composed of the plantocracy, ignored the bills. In another, the Jury, in the teeth of the evidence, and contrary to the direction ofthe Chief Justice, acquitted the defendant--( Hear, hear)--and a piece of plate was presented to that man for his services to the colony.-- ( Shame, shame.) Bud as were the laws they were rendered still worse by their administration.---( Hear.) Whatever laws were made, if the planters were to administer them, gross and palpable isjustice would be the result.—( Hear, hear.) He was about to return to Jamaica, and to face th e plantocracy.—(Cheers.) He was not going to oppose them by war or violence. But there were 2,000,0(10 of acres of waste lands, and the friends of humanity had directed that their purse strings should be opened for the cultivation (as we understood) of those lands by the negroes —( Appl , .use.) He did not ask them to give their money, but only to lend it—and let the blind-minded pro prietors of Jamaica and in this country look to the conse quences, if they adhered to the present system,—(Hear, hear.) He would desire to preserve their estates, and to see them flourishing ; but if he could not have freedom in the valleys, where slavery had been abolished, he would seek it in the hills, which God had left for his people.-- (Cheers.) He apologised for having so long occupied the meeting.—( Loud cries of " Go, on.") But he would conclude by declaring that he wanted freedom for his people, and he would not rest until he had obtained ft.— ( Loud and lone continued cheering. ) The Rev. Mr. SCALES said that the next speaker came from a strange place—the House of Assembly of Jamaica. —(Cheers, and great laughter.) It would be Mr. W. W. Anderson, who whilst a Member of that Assembly had been faithful amongst the faithless.._( Great applause. ) Mr. ANDERSON, (who was greeted with renewed and universsl applause,) said he had great pleasure in support ing, as far as he could, the resolution which be held in his let-:d. He had spent seven years in Jamaica, and he had had ample opportunities of observing the operation and administration of the law s.—( Hear, hear.) He would not at that late }icier occupy the meeting by going into details ; but he would entrm at those who were interested in property in Jamaica, if any such were present, to Le bevy, that if the present laws were persevered in, or if the administration of any laws were to b. left to the planters, the consequence must be, the destruction of that property. If the stipendiary Magistrates were done away with, (and that was an object at present eagerly sought toe in Jamaica,) the consscpence would be ruinous to the proprieters of property there.—( Hear, hear.) He ad mitted that some of the stipendiary Magistrates had been faithless,. but a great many of them had performed their duty, is spite of temptation, persecution, and insults. The CKAIRMAN here rose and expressed his regret at being obligi d to retire fr.m the meeting, in consequence of a pressure of other business. Ile wished, before levy ing, to congratulate them of the rroceedings of that day. He trusted that they had laid the foundations of permanent good, not only to the slaves, of Africa, but of ..very other country, and that in those where the fruits of oppression only had hitherto grown, they would, by their Tat.; have ktroduccd the laurels of freedom—( Hea r .) Wm. EVANS, Esq. ; M. P , was then called to the Chair amidst the cheers of the meeting. Mr. JAMES STANFIELD, of Belfast, rose to move the next resolution. He would not at that hour occupy the time of the mectieg by any attempt at eloquence, but would merely read the resolution which had been put into hands, feeling assured that it would speak for itself, and that it would meet wi.h the same concurrence as all the other propositions which had been submitted to their con sideration. Mr. Stanfield then moved the resolution, Which was to the effect " That this Meeting is greatly ani mated by the response which the friends of the cause, time Abolitionists from other countries as well as from all parts of the United Kingdom, have made to the call of this So ciety to the GeLeral Convention which has just closed its highly interesting and important labours." Mr. STAUNTON, a delegate from New York, came for ward to second the resolution. He was announced to the meeting as the Secretary to the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and as one who was justly consi dered as the George Thompson of the United States._ (Cheers.) Mr. Staunton said that he felt great pleasure in secondieg the resolution. He hoped, however, they would pardon him for say ing that he should show his sym pathy for the oppressed, and his anxious desire that they sli.eatd be set free, by not troubling them with a single remark.—( Hear, hear.) He would merely move the adoption or the resolution. The resolution was then put and unanimously agreed to. Dr. MADDEN, late of Cuba, moved the next resolution, " hat the Treasurer, Seereti ry, Honorary and Curres pending Members and Committee, he re-appointed for the ensuing year, subject to a provision, that any member of the Committee not attendine it six times between this annual meeting and that of next year, be not re-elected in 1841. That this meeting would strongly urge the for mation of Auxiliary Societies where none are already in existence, and earnestly recommends to all auxiliaries to promote [Ladiesl Associations within their respective dis tricts." He would make but one observation In proposing the resolution, and that was, that it would be a great error to suppose that their exertions were now unnecessary. He could say, from his own experience, that they were never more requisite than at present.—( Hear, hear.) The slave trade, so far from havieg diminished of late years, in our colonies had in many of them greatly increased, and in some to the extent of 20 per cent. He would conclude by observing that there were two principal ways of removing this state of things; the first was, by steadily depreciating slavery ; and the next was, by denouncing the characters of slay , -holders and slave-traders. The Rev. J. KENNEDY, of Aberdeen, seconded the mo tion. The preceding speaker had omitted one word, through inadvertence, in reading the resolution. It was the word " Ladies."—( Hear, hear.) The Auxiliary So cieties were recommended to promote " Ladies' Associa tions in their respective districts." The resolution, as amended, was then put, and unani mously agreed to. - The Meeting here manifested its impatience to hear Mr G. Thomson, by repeatedly calling for him. The CHAIRMAN said that their desire to hear Mr. Thompson was a very natural one; but he was informed that that gentleman was not then present. Several Voices—Yes, he is here. Mr. G. TIIOMPSON then came forward, amidst repeated cheers. He bad appeared solely in consequence of their kind partiality; but he was not only unprepared to speak, but unwilling to do so under the circumstances in which they were then placed. The British Members of the Society had invited their foreign friends to a tea party at the Crown and Anchor Tavern at six o'clock, at which he and others should attend. As it was then four o'clock, and as there were other resolutions to be sub mitted to their consideration, it was clear that he could not then tresspasa en their time. He had besides been anxious on that day that they should not have separated without hearing the voices of some foreign friends around him, who would. pei haps, never again have an opportunity of preventing them from listening to so humble an indi vidual as he was:—( Hear, hear.) He would conclude by assuring them that he hoped he should again appear before them, and that he was still as ardent as ever in the cause which they had patrr.nized by their presence that day. Mr. WAYMOUTII, of London, moved " That the warmest and most respectful thanks of this meeting be given to his Royal Highnessthe Duke of Sussex for his kindly accept ing the chair, and for his readiness on this and on all oc casions to promote the advancement of the cause of hu manity and freedom. And that the cordial thanks of this meeting be also given to Sir Eardley Wilmot, Bart., for his conduct in the chair subsequently to the retirement of his Royal Highness.'.' Mr. Justice JEREMY seconded the resolution. The resolution was put and unanimously agreed to. The CIJAIRMAN said he concurred with them in the vote of thanks to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and he thanked them for their vote to Sir Eardley anti Ho bcp , d tita tie meeting of that day would ha attcuded with resui would ittioico them all. His I EV_ENING EDITION• heart tvLs with their cause; 'trod he had give.o every !P -sis:since in his power to the Sociev•' . 7, urn its first iorrnatton up to the present hour...—( Hoar, hear.) The meeting then broke up. ASYLUM FOR DECANED FR E' MASONS The fifth annivercary of this Institution was held yesterday at the Freemason's Tavern, th e H o n. IlenrY 'Fitzroy, in the Chair. On his right was Mr; Mackenzie, Member for Peebleshire, and on his left Mr. Alderman Thomas Wood. At the cross table there were also to, Rev. H. Slade, the Rev. G. Veitch, J. C. Bell, E,q., Win. Shand, Esq., Dr. 13cci ford, Dr, Crucifix, and a number of other': b ro thers of the craft, who took an anxious interest i n thc success of the charity. About 200 gentlemen sat down to din ner. The gallery was fitted with ladies, who, on gra ce being said, retired to an excellent collati on provieisaio r them in an adjoining room. We believe this ebAritY has the merit of making this great improvement on t" old feasting regulations oe the citizens of London.. Formerly the ladies were• alloy eel to see the gentlemen dine, but the brothers of the waft introduced some seven years ago a different practice. They would not a llow' the ladies to hear any rattlinz of knives and forks ex cept those which they used for ;heir own peculiar ad vantage. This is a proof of civh 7 zation, and the Free masons, therefore, ought to have the credit of it. On the sloth being removed, The Honourable CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Queen in a :vat and feeling speech. He adverted to the late atrocious attack made on her life, the ;Juicers!, hoirar expressed throughout the country at the idea of the less of a Sovereign so dear to her subjects, and t° the exultation which was displayed in all quartea m „ all the pr3vidential escape of the Lord's anointed. ir toast was drank with the utmost enthusiasm, and tut' national anthem followed, in which the whole sorepailf, joined in chorus. Atter giving the " Queen 2 91 Prince Albert," the Honourable Chairman then eel' he would preface the next toast w ith a tew words. He had waited on the Ch a mberlain, of the Queen Dowager, Earl Howe, with the view °f obtaining her Majesty's patronage in aid of the cba' rity. He stated that the smallest donation would be received with gratitude, and that he was confident, tiet only from her Majesty's generous support of similar in stitutions, but because her late illustrious husband wee a member of the craft, that his application would no t be made in vain. He was not mistaken—her Wes t / at once acceded to the proposition, and subscribed 20h. and expressed her hope that the charity would Oa' ceed.—(Great cheering.) He then proposed " The Queen Dowager and the rest of the Royal Farni l Y' which was responded to with the utmost enthusiaso3. The next toast was " The Duke of Sussex;' Gra nd Master, who had been a friend to the craft for 30 yeart and who was not the only number of the House e t Brunswick who had honoured the noble Society , Freemasons with their countenarace and support. The toast was received with great Applause. - - After some routine toasts had hew) given, the Oats MAN gave " Success to the Asylum tor the worth)" , aged, and decayed Freemasons." Charity, he said, woe the key-stone on which the craft was raised. Th° craft was founded on one of the two great Cuol u3n ments, " Love thy neighbour as thys e lf ;" a nd it was tb, bounden duty of every member of it to think 01 their aged and destitute brethren. Asylums had been Pr e " vided for the young, but was that a reason should not make provision for the old, all°en deavour to furnish supp or t an d co nso l a ti on for tu c : who, in the day of prosperity, had liberally contribut ed e their friends in want and distress.--for those who arrived a t hat dark and gloomy stage of human bfe , r beautifully described in th e S acre d book.s?—when the years shall draw nigh in whi c h I s h a ll sa y I hev° b e : pleasure in them—when th e sun , an d t h e fi g ht, and re, t dr , moon, and the stars, are d ar k ene d, an d the' cluuu,s„„fie turn not after the rain—wh en th e k eepers o f the "'— shall tremble, and the strong men bow thenis'elv es ri when they shall be afraid of that which is nigN is ja, fears shall be in the way, and th e a l mon d-tree su it ,' flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, i lgt desire shall fail—because man goeth to his long htn tae, and the mourners go about the stre e t s ."--(Great e.; ing.) 'Cti? Hon. Chairman add e d, th at he had m et with opposition both from within and without. The 5 , r ciety was increasing, and he doubted not the amouno of subscriptions this year would be twice as much 2 ., S it had ever been. The toast was rece i ve d with gre 4 w enthusiasm. Brother Bennett, the a-lor, then recited . am oiler written by Brother Stevens, well adapted for tbi l occasion. in the course of the evening, Dr. Carreierx real' the Report, which was highly satisfactory. It appear that the funds of the Soci e ty w e re s t e adily improvinr They had 2.0301. for annuitants, independent of 1,00 04 ' for ensiowments, and the subscriptions for the eveniall were most libera; :—The Queen Dowager 20/. ; th e ' Cha:rman, 151. donation, and 51. se. annually; the. End of Southampton, .5/..55. annually ; the Earl or Maw field, 101. ; Alderman Thomas Wood, 10/. ; t i b ir Committee Ball Stew ar d s , 531. ; M r. Bculer Oar well-known singer and poet, who also lent his aid in profes%ional way), 101. 10s. ; Alderman Harmer, 5 1 .;" making, altogether, between 5001. and 6001. Too evening was passed, altogether, with great hai' rity and good order, and the " brethren," as well st 4 strangers, seemed highly gratified at the result. Ip t order to show the spirit with which the brethren take' up the cause, we may add that, amon the sn'aicription g r • five members of the " Westminster and Key• Steno' Lodge " subscribed 70 guineas for the support of the' charity. PARMA MENTAR Di vrISION• MID Archbold, R. Arehciall, General alines, E. Barnard, E. G. 13,tesoii, Sir Robert Beatnisli, F. B. Sell, M. o ling, W. Britteinan, H. lifocklehurst, J. Brodie, W. B. Brot hei ton, J. Browne, R D. yan, George Byng, G. S. Cainpbe:l, Sir John Cholmondeley, H. Collier, J. Corbally NI. E. Corry, H. L. craig, \V. Gibson Dashwood, G. H. nnistoun, J. Divett E. rORITI. 7 .—AYES, I Grattan; Grimsaitch, T. Hall, B. Hector, C. J. [Nide, J. H. Hodges, T. L. liolgson, R. Hoskins, K. Howard, Sir R. Hurst, R. H. Hutton, Robert Jackvon, J. D. Jervis, S. Jones, John Langdale, Hon. C. Langton, W. G. Lefroy, Dr. I'. Lennox, Lord G. Lister, B C. Lynch, H. A. *Namara, W. *Taggart, John Marsland, H. Morris, David Muskets, 0. A. Nagle, Sir R. Norreys, Sir D. Northland, Lod O'Brien, W. S. ;)'Connell, D. O'Connell, J. O'Connell, M. J. O'Connell, Maurice .0 Connor Don O'Neil, J. B. R. Pag..t, Frederick Paitiscn, J. Perceval, Hon. G. J. 10. Phillpo,:ts, John IC Po sonhy Ylon.JokS Ileddinei(n„ W. T N. W - Rundle, Johit Shaw, F. Shell, B. L. Smith, G. K. Smyth, 'Sir G. .1./: Somers, J. P. Somerville. Sir W. Stanley; E. J. Stanley, 141 0. Mock, Dr. ' Stuart, Lori J. Stuart, IV VI liert Talfourd. Serjeant :Trench, Sir Frederic& Turner, Turner, W. Vigars, N A. Villiers, Charloll Y. Vivian, J. H. Wakicy, Thomas Wallace, H. Westenra, H. R. White, Andrew' White, llenrf Wilbraham. U. W:lliams W. A. Wilmot, Si I J.r. Wood, Sir hlatthear Yates, John A • Dugdale, W. S. Duncan, Lord Duncombe, T. S. Dundas, C. W. D. Dundas, F. Ege, ton. ST P. G. }Alice, E. Evans, G. Evans, William Ferguson, Sir It A. Fitzpatrick, John Fitzroy, Lord C. Gaskell, J. H. Grattan, H. -ri Grosvet i ; l : aA. Lor g ' ,iervis, J. Abarcreml,y, G. R. Agllonby, H. A. A insworth, Peter Bailey, J. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Baker, Edward Baldwin, C. B. Baring, W. B. Barr ngton, Lord Barron, W. H. Basset, John Berkeley, C. Meth,.ll, R. Blackburn, John I. Blackstone, %V. S. ' older°, Henry G. a:t field, Bcriah Brawston, T. W. Brownrigz, J. S. Bruges, \V. H. L. Buller, E Burroughes, N. N. Canning, Sir S. Chalmers, Patrick Chetwynd, Childers, J. W. Chute, W. L. Clements, Lord Clerk, Sir G. Coreg ,n, H. tonolly, Colonel Courtenay, I. P. Cresswell, C. Davies, Colonel Drummond, H. H. Duffield, Thomas Easthope. John Egerton, W. I'. Eliot, Lott Elliot, Hon J. E. Ellis, Wynn AJORITY-N OES, Swart, W. F'eildcn, W. FeHowes, Edward Fi,ch, Francis Fremantle, Sir T. Freskfield, J. W. G;ilon, W.ll iiadstone, W. E. Gore, 0. J. R. Gering, H. D. Goulburb ' H. G..nham, Sir J. Greg, it. H. Grey, Sir 0. HaWord, H. Hawes, B. Heatheote, Sir W. Hcocaite G. W. Hill, Lord t 3 M. C. Hindley, C. Hohhouge, F. B. floclgso., F. - Hope, Charles Hope, 0. W alrsman E. Hughes, W. B. Hume. Joseph Ingestre, Lord Ingham, Robert Iri on, Samuel Jenkins, R. Kelly, F. Kembie, Henry Knatchhuil, Sir E. Knight, Henry Gaily Labouchere, H. Lascelles, W. S Lincoln, Earl of Lowther, J. H. Lushington, Charles Lushington, S. , 120. T.ygon. General • Mart ensie, Thotrts# Mackenzie, W. F. Mahon; Lord Made, Hon Polc Maunsell, 'l' P. Miles, I'. W. S. Milne& R. M. Nichol!, J Oct!, W. Parke, C. W. Pakington, John Parker, John Parker,- AL Peel, Sir I'luinotre, .1. P. Pousonby, F. A. Pringle, A. !Juicy, Philip Rae, Sir William Richards, Richard Round, I. Ro.tao )ke, Colima Russ 311, Lord Man Saiwey, Colonel Scarlett, Hon Y. Sinclair, Sir George Somerset, Lord 11. Sotheron, T. E. Staustield, W. it Strut t, Edward Thesiger, F. Waddington, H. S. Walsh, Sir J. Warburton. 11. Williams, T. P. Winnington, Sir Winnington, H. TELLERS. Estcourt, I'. G. B. Greer., T. G. THE HON. MRS, NORTON'S NEW WORK • - - - - —A new production from Mrs. Norton's pen must, under ant circumstances, excite universal attention ; but the volume of poems which has just made its appearance presents features of peculiar interest, and such as now-a-days is scarcely to be called forth by any but those " personal themes" which even Wordy-. worth himself has declared that h.. " loves best." The par ticular poems to which we allude in Mrs. Norton's new mingle are, that addressed to her beautiful friend the Duchess of Sutherland, in which the poetess so touchingly alludes to recent circumstances in her own ill-fated c areer, an d t h at w hi c h describes in so exquisite a manner the ceremony of the late Royal marriage, and the persons of all the " beauties" (by name) who graced it, thus e m b a l m i ng that beauty in " immortal verse." These two poems alone are sufficient to command popularity tot he volume. HELIOS OF THE MINSTER.—On Friday week, a quantity of the burnt wood from the roof of the Cathedra was sold by auction, by Mr. Walker, near the west end of that edifice. So anxious were the public to possess themselves of some relic of this venerated bui'ding, that the loti were knocked down fur various sums, amounting to nearly 501. The first lot was sold for only 3s. 6d. ; but the spirited bidding of Messrs. Barber and North. and Messrs. Gibson and Co, who were •the l , , , :Teascti the Pornpelitinti so much, that the latt lot was kno c k e d d own fur 3/. su, —Ha (From the rates and Proceedings of Me House qJ CommoM.i TUESDAY, JUNE 23. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY Motion made, and Question put,—" That the Promoters e°, th, - . proposed Rai!way from Chester to Holyhead be allovred to bring in a Bill in the next Session of Parliament for carryior the same into effect, on giving Notices and dep6sitingP lllll9 and Sections, as requiredby the Standing Orders relati n g other Bills of the Second Cli sb Except. Railways ; and tha t th t: Standing Order requiring a portloi; of the capital to be dee: sited in the Exchequer prior to th e a nlication to Parliamewl be dispensed with : '—( Lord R o b er t Grosvenor : —The Ho us divided : e