The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

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THE Al 3 ortIMNES'VROTECtiOrSOCIPIII

PUBLIC MEETING., LAST NIGHT
Last night. a public meeting on behalf of this hody_
was held in Hope Hall, for the purpose of hearing
statements front Captain W. Kennedy, late commander
of Lady Franklin's private Arctic expedition; and
Mr, S. .J. Abington, from South Africa, relative
to the condition 'of the Aborigines of some of the
gritiSh Coldrif6s. Ari interesting feature of the meet-
ing Was the pltseae d Ash-tie-bith stee-rit/ay, a
representatiVe froM the firdian Crites of tritish North
AmeriFa, who' hai.beeri preceded{het 3.f.ajlesty. the
Queen,. and who Was eipected to addre'as the Meeting.
There was, however, a very limitfal attendance.
On the motion of 1N r. Adam Hodgson;
Mr. feinsi Cioi4Eit• was Called to' the Ch'ai'r. He
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belieVed the objects of the !heeling- were pretty well
understood; but it was a: new society.whieh needed to
be explained ;: and their friends from: Landoll would
undertake the Whole of that day, and' Call the attention
of the inhabitants of Liverpool to' it: He trusted it
would induce us to take an interest in the subjects of
our colonies, for they had been most grievously neglected,
and the natives most grievously oppressed. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. S. J. ABINGTON was the first speaker. lie said
the society was twenty-four or twenty-five years old,
yet it was little known. It had its origin in 1836, in
consequence of a Varliameritary enquiry into conflicts
in the colonies With carious tribes. Witnesses were
brought from. verioria parts of the world, and a
large amount of evietence was filac;ed before the
committee, revealing so' much of the oppression,
iniquity; and injustice as being habitually prac-
tised towards them, that a number of men like
Thomas Fuwell Buxton, formed the aborigines' Pro-
tection Association. The objects which the society had
in view were two-fold. lii the first place its design Was
to protect the rights of native- tribes among whom
we were colonising. Another object was to aid as far as
their means would alloW, -any measures toi promote the
moral and civil improvement of thOse tribes. They had
done this in various ways, one of them by aiding the
missionaries, and in supplying them With agricultural
implements for the natives. He had seen in South
Africa Katiirs ploughing with ploughs sent out by the
society, and men who probably would not put their
hands to the woman's hoc, for fear of being-called an
old wife, were quite willing to ure the implement of the
white man. But this aspect of the society was limited,
because of the limited amount of its funds. It never
had been a wealthy society; it had worked very unob-
trusively; it had done a deal; it had prevented a deal
more of mischief. The mode in which the society
endeavoured to carry out its operations in protecting the
tribes was somewhat of this sort : It had correspondents
in all our colonies where native tribes were ; and from
theSe, gentlemen the, committee were continually receiv-
ing reliable information of what was being done, or what
was about to be carried out towards the inha'Rtants ;
and so far as our own colonies were concerned, if the
character of the measure was likely to- be injurious,
they at once proceeded towards Downing-street, and
saw the Colonial Secretary or other member of the
Executive, and placed the facts in their hands, to enable
them to judge impartially, because they found that
officials in 'Downing-street frequently gave their sanc-
tion- to unjust measures simply for want of knowing
better. This was the only society which stood between
the native tribes and their destruction. The speaker
then argued, from his persimal experience in South
Africa, that both of the last two Kaffir wars might,
have been avoided if the Colonial Government had
displayed any sense of justice towards the natives. We
first tool, their laud, and as settlements extended the
game on which they had been accustomed to exist fled,
and then the natives, reduced to a state of famine, were
led to steal from the colonists, and so the mischief went
on; all our conflicts
.with them had arisen from the
land question. He nett referred to the condition of the
aborigines of South Australia, relating some cruel
instances of their having actually been poisoned by
flour containing arsenic, haying purposely been left
for them to steal at the various cattle stations.
The , war in New Zealand again had arisen from
the land questioa. The Government _ had what was
called the right of pre-emption there,—that was, they
alone bought from the natives, and then retailed the land
to settleri; and the present dispute had arisen from their
having bought-a large tract of land from a native who
' had only an interest in the fiftieth part of it, and the
bargain for which had been protested against by the
chief of the tribe. Mr. Abington .dwelt on the extraor-
dinary advances in civilisation which the New Zealanders
had made ; some were large agriculturists, some owners,
and there were coasting vessels, and even vessels trading
to Australia, commanded and manned by Maories, and
carrying Maori produce. They were the Kaffirs of the
South Sea, and he did not think we should gain much
glory by the contest. The speaker then took up and
answered the various objections urged against the
objects contemplated by the society,—one of which was
that they interfered with colonisation, and another that,
do what they might, there was some cause of decay in-
herent in all the native tribes ; and as an instance that
colonies might be founded with advantage instead of
injury to the native tribes, he quoted the circumstances
Of the settlement of Pennsylvania. For seventy years
after the establishment of that colony, there was not a
single act of bloodshed either on the part of the colonists
or aborigines.
Mr. ALsorr, of London, was requested by the chair-
'Man to introduce Nah-ne-bah-wee-quay to the meeting,
and in so doing said that the lady visitor's name in
English was Catherine Sutton; and he would inform
them that she had been in this country about four
mouths, and had been staying with him at his residence
near London, and he had therefore had many opportu-
nities of conversing with her, and, as she was about- to
sail in the Persia in the morning, she was rather anxious
to get from thu meeting as soon as she could. He then
proceeded,to give a detailed history of the cause of her
visiting this country, and the petition she had been en-
trusted with from her own tribe to present to the Queen;
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from which it appeared that the petitioners were--
. David Sawyer, Catherine Sutton; and Abner Elliott,
members of the Ojibway tribe of Indians at Owen
Sound, Tipper Canada. David Sawyer is the oldest son
of Joseph Sawyer, chief of the Credit band of Ojibway
Indians : that your petitioner became a member of the
Newash hand of Indians at Owen Sound, in 1843, at
their special request, and on the condition that he
should have, exc'usirsly, for himself and his heirs for
ever, forty-three acres of their lands at Newash (Owen
Sound), for which they gave him a written tale, and on
which he has a good and substantial two-storey house,
and barn, and other improvements lie has made on the
premises. And Catherine Sutton (!dins Sunego), was
formerly a member of the River Ctedit band of Indians;
that she and her husband, William Sutton, a white
man, with their family, were transferred about eight
years ago from the Credit to the Newash band, where
they settled on Land given to, them by the band, and for
which they obtained from them a written title • on this
land they have erected .a commodious house, barn, and
stables, and have made extensive clearings, and brought
forty or fifty acres into a good state of cultivation. In
:making all these improvements, your petitioner and her
husband have expended more than 1,000 dollars in
money, besides many years' hard toil. And the peti-
tioners prayed to be allowed to enjoy the benefit 'of the
improvements they have made on their land, and also
that they be allowed to retain forthernselves and their
family the farm lots purchased at the sale in September
last, on the terms tat others bought, according to the
conditions of the sale. He then read several extracts
from letters he had received, and fully explained the
Object of the visit, and concluded by introducing the
lady.

NATI-NE-RAU-WEE QUAY then came forward and
said—Ladies, I feel glad in my humble mind to see so
many here. I felt rather a little cast down when
heard, in this large place, that to a public meeting
like this, or something similar, there were but few went,
but I am glad to see, with my own eyes, this .great
number that there are here, and I am glad to find that
there are so many friends to the poor:lndians, who are
not able to help themselves, and that people will rise
and come forward and befriend the poor Indians,
and do all they can to help them. (Hear, hear.) 'When
I was first sent frdm the Indian Council to Come here,
some of my tribe said I had better dress in the Indian
style, but I told them that if they appointed me to go I
would not go in a Pagan dress that as the missionaries
had been amongst us and tried to civilise us, and to
make us be like white people, I told them I
could not go to do it ; but that if I did come, I would
come in a simple Christian dress, and then our Mother
Queen would know that I was civilised, and that we are
all civilised now. Then it was asked by different men
of our tribe why I would not go in the Indian dress. I
told them no, this was the dress that I wore, and that
we were not pagans at all, and must try to be like white
people—clean and dedent, and try to do what we can to
look like white and civilised people. Now, lam a full-
blooded Indian, but I can read the English, because the
missionaries have tried to civilise the poor little chil-
dren, and have even taken them to their own homes. I
remember the time when Father Case came amongst the
school-
mistress, - t
poor Indians, and I think, if I remember right, he came*
from the States, and he brought with him a
auomistress, Sarah Cook. She was the first person
who taught me to say my A B C, and sht, h
me every word that I know, and all I learnt and
she has prayed over me. Then I was but a poor Pagan,
bat now, see I am a Christian and am civilised, and what
she did for me she would have done for other children,
and now I stand before you all, and can plead to your
government for the poor Indian. The poor Indiati is
trying all he can to become civilised, but how can the
poor Indian become civilised when the Indian Conned
14 are doing' all they can to push him back ? It is said
that the poor Indian is lazy—whY 'lB 118 so ? Why,
because he is pushed back so far that he can't go on.
Instead of trying to bring him around, and let him have
his own, he is pushed. further back ; and now that they
know that they are civilised, they know that if they work
on the land their children will not get the benefit of it,
as it will be taken from them. I have made known
what my people wished me to make known to you, and

the great Queen has promised me that she will do what
she can for us. I" knoW and am glad that
have found men who will stand up for the poor Indian.
Thank God f.e.;r Ihev will give: n, help, and it is
good for them to help the rit4n Indian, when they know
he has nothing to give. Now-, n 7 Christian friends,
what will the poor Indian say. when I g(;"*..,.,..:
'to my
'own native country and tell them that they have'f.-.4nds
who will stand up for them. and will not sec them' drop
down and die. Although I have seen our great mother,
the Queen, and she Will do all she can for
the poor Indian, and has received me very kindly, and
has listened hi the voice of the poor Indian, she cannot
do all ; bht thank Clod I have her help. What can she
do ainhe Wharf there are so- marry, as.airist her ? Since
I haVe been able to see What was- right, I have seen
perSois Sent tiOni this country who could neither read
or write, and the_,' h/ie bran allowed to buy hind, and
to gOintO the COuticil, whife some of the poor Indians
who' can read and' write have not. Vow eat. tha poor
indians get cheat:ion', if' they are' treated in this way
As a petqlle,. their man \siert a tine race of men, and
stand fully eqnnt r!'ith any hare. Yon have heard that
we have been Gaited monkey's, but our people can carry
—you would be sinprised to hear ctliat they ears carry ;.
and they can fish.. How Many fish they Can catch in
an hour von would be surprised at, and I have eeen
them sell their fish, carrying it thirty miles from the
American side. If they were monkeys, they could not
do that,
Mr. ADAM Hounsox, in addressing the meeting, said
it was seldom his lot to listen to such an eloquent and
natitral address as that which had just been delivered
by Nah-nee-bah-wee-quay. With respect to the
Indians, he thought our whole policy towards them had.
been one of eltermilration;: he hoped, and believed, that
it would soon be different. Her hoped that the woman,
who had come from America to this. country to aid her
peoplei would carry back with her an impression of the
Very deep interest Which is felt by Englishmen in the
welfare of the Indian trib'e.
Captain KENNEDV, in a few remarks, pleaded the
cause of the society, anS' related many instances in which
Indian tribes had shown themselves to be not inferior
to more civilised nation's in the practice of many of the
Christian virtues. He himself purposed to go out to
North America and estalilish an independent mission.
He would take the Bible as his only stock in trade, and
he would introduce its principles, and propagate them
among the people without any distinction whatever.
A vote of thanks to the speakers and to the chairman
terminated the proceedings.

COLLEGES FOR ORIENTALS AT CA MERIDG E. —The
Rev. George Williams, 8.D., Senior Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge, has proceeded to Armenia, for the
purpose of assisting the Oriental churches in establishing
hostels at Cambridge for the education of youths from
the East, the Patriarch of Armenia having expressed a
great
deiire fer a nearer communion with the English
Church. The Russian Government has determined upon
laying the fotindation of a RUssian hostel in Cambridge,
andabope is expressed that the Catholikos of Etsh-Miazin
will follow the example by sending a bishop of the
Armenian Church, with a number of the Armenian
youths, to England, to be educated in the university.
Dr. Wolff has presented the nucleus of a library for the
use of the students in the Russian hostel.
CAP CURE of A Itt'S.IA:4.Z THIEF. • —Mi. Erskine, the
English chargé d'affaires at St. Petersburg, having
given information to the police that a French subject
named -Jules Vanier, after having stolen a considerable
sum of money in London, had fled to the Russian capital,
search was made for him, and he was discovered, living
under the assumed name of Leon Dugue du Rochet.
An agent of the -secret police of London having arrived
at St. Petersburg, the Frenchman was arrested, and on
the application of the English Legation and of the
French Consul, delivered over, with his wife and two
children, to the agent to be taken to London. The pri-
soner .was on examination found to be a deserter from.
the French army, for whom the government had been
on the look-out. Mr. Erskine has since communicated
with the police authorities. of St. Petersburg the satis-
faction felt by his Government at the promptitude which
the Russian police had shown on this occasion.
• THE GOVERNMENT ANNUAL CHRONOMETER TRIAL.
—LIVERPOOL AGAIN SUCCESSFUL..—We have much
pleasure in having to record the fact that a Liverpool
chronometer maker has again had awarded to him the
prize for having submitted the best chronometer to the
Government, on the occasion of the recent annual trial
at Greenwich. Last year a Liverpool manufacturer
carried off the palm ; and on the present occasion our
townsman, Mr. W. Wood, of Lord-street, has had the
honour of being the successful competitor. We under-
stand that last week Mr. Wood received from the
government authorities an intimation that they desired
'to purchase his 'chronometer, the prize having been
awarded to it. The purchase has been completed, and
yesterday, in accordance with the request of Professor
Airey, the astronomer royal, Mr. Wood forwarded to
London the name of his agent there, under' whose
superintendence the usual government mark will be
impressed. We learn there were upwards of 100 chro-
nometers sent in, most of them from London. This
augurs well for the Liverpool makers, as against the
metropolitan manufacturers, who, until the last three
years, have invariably carried off the palm.
MURDER OF A WIFE IN FRANCE.—A Teasaut, named
Bouchez, of St. Martin Longueah, was, a few days ago,
tried by the Court of Assizes of the Oise, for the murder
of his wife. In the evening of the 17th of July last, the
woman having scolded him for having, during her
absence, gone out and left the door of their cottage
unfastened, he became greatly irritated, and declared
that he would kill her if she did not hold her tongue ;
she, however, persisted, and he took down his gun. In
great alarm, she rushed out of the house; but he fired,
and the charge struck her in the back. She fell, bathed
in blood, but attempted to rise, and then he cried out,
" Ah! you wretch! I will finish you now :" and he raised
his gun .to tire the second barrel at her ; but at this
moment some neighbours rushed in and secured him.
The woman lingered until the 6th August, and then
expired. She related the preceding particulars, and
added that on three previous occasions the man had
attempted to murder her, but that she had escaped from
him. The prisoner himself admitted that for ten years
he had been contemplating killing his wife. Neverthe-
less, the jury declared that, though he was guilty, there
were extenuating circumstances in his favour, and the
court eondemned him to fifteen years' hard-labour.
THE STEPNEY 1%1 RDER.—LATEST PARTICULARS.---
On Thursday morning, Sergeants Tanner and Thomas
proceeded to the late residence of the man Mullins, No.
33, Barnsley-street, Lamb's-fields, Bethnal-green, and,
with the assistance of a labourer, the water-closet in the
back yard Was emptied, but nothing could be found to
assist the officers in elucidating the murder of the unfor-
tunate lady. The flagstones in • the yard were raised,
and the earth excavated to _Sonic depth. The drains
were opened leading to the main sewer, but nothing
material was found. A further search of the room
where-Mullins lodged took place, and au apron was
found with stains upon it, which it is fully believed be-
longed to the deceased (Mrs. Emeley.) This gar-
ment was taken charge of by Sergeant '1 homas.
The room was wretchedly furnished. •It appears
that Mullins was at work for Mr Rowland,
who collected for the deceased and other persons of pro-
perty, on Monday, the 13th nit., at the house of a Mr.
Clark, a -cooper, of No. 10,• Temple-terrace, Lamb's-
fields. He was ordered to make sundry repairs, and he
(Mullins) left the house between three and four o'clock
in the afternoon, and was not seen in the neighbours-
', hood afterwards. He never completed his work at that
place, and has been seen by Mr. Rowland loitering
about and drinking at several public-houses in Bethnal-
green. He also, for some days afterwards, was observed
to be rather free with his MCIV.y, while previously he
was notorious fer the sparing manner in which he laid
out his cash. The inisoner .will be brought
up on Monday morning next at the adjourned inquest
before the, coroner, whose application to the Secretary
of State fur the Home-Department has been successful.
The detectives have, since the inquest, visited the home
of Emms, in Eneeley's brick-field, Globe.road, Mile-end,
but nothing more has been found on the premises.
THE DEFALCATIONS Al OLDHAM. —On Wednesday,
a meeting
.of the ratepayers of Oldham was held in the
Town-hall, for the
,purpose of electing an assistant
overseer- or vestry clerk. Mr. W. Simmons presided,
and a report prepared by Mr. W. Chadwick was pre-
sented . relative to the defalcatione of the collectors,
Thomas Lowe and Samuel Yardley, who are now under-
going a term of imprisonment.' The report stated that
the investigation had gone back as far as 1850, and
that it was found that the following method had been
used to obtain the money of the ratepayers :—Omitting
to rate premises, yet collecting rates from them ;
collecting more than the legal amount ; reducing the
assessment in the rate book, add Collecting the proper
amount ; returning - property as empty, yet collecting
the fates; receiving
amounts, posting them in the rate
books without date, and not accounting for the money ;
altering the cash book aftef the auditor had examined
it; altering the summaries at the end of the rate book
after the auditor, and making them -agree with the cash
they intended to account for. It further stated that, as
assistant overseer, Thomas Lowe had taken £22 lis. 6d. ;
and as collector, in 1855, £5 ; in 1857, £27 7s. 3d.; in
1858, £32 Ils. 6d.; dn1859, £49 lls. 6d. ; and in 1860,
£43 12s. 6d. ; total, £l6O 2s. 9d. Samuel Yardley had ap-
propriated, as collector, in 1860, £26 4s. 6d.; in 1852. £l9
6 6d ; in 1844, £l3O 135.;
iu 1855,£9 85.6 d.; in 1856,
£319 Bs. 3d.; in 1857, £344 95.;, in 1858, £3BO 3s. 6d.;
in 1859, £544 14c. 6d.; and in 1860,- £622 Is. 9d. ;
total, £2,441 18s. 6d. The report further stated that a
deceased Collector, named Swims, had, in 1862, taken
t 2 10s.; in 1843, £lO4 3s. 9d.; and in 1844, £5 Os. 6m1.;
that the accounts of the deceased\ collector, Mr. Taylor,
were correct, as also were those of Mr. *Wrigley, the
late collector. It
was also agreed that an assistant over-
seer should be appointed at a net salary of £l2O, and
there were proposed for the appointment Messrs. Middle-
ton, Banks, Cooper, Chadwick, and Booth. Mr. Cooper
obtained the show of hands, and •a poll was demanded
for the others. The meeting then adjourned: • - • --