The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

ABORIGINES' PROTECTION SOCIETY.

A public meeting was held on Friday, in the
Hope Hall, Hope-street, Liverpool, in connexion with the
London Aborigines Protection tiociety, fur the purpose of
bearing atatemesta by I 'aptsio W. Kennedy, late oummauder
of Lady Franklin's private Arctic expedition, and Mr. S. J.
Abingtoo, from Mouth Africa, relative to the condition of
the aborigines of some of the British colouies. The local
committee, in a private circular of invitation loth° meeting,
stated that "the treatment of the aborigines of our colonies,
which has been the mute of so many cruel and expensive
wars, is so little known that it has appeared needful to
call public attention to that important subject." Mr.
JOHN Citorren presided ; and amongst others on the
rib
orm was Nah.rie-tahowee-quay, " envoy of the
beway Indiana, who has been presented to her
Judy, and who sailed in the Persia ou Idaturday, on her
return borne." _ _

The ('umantre having briefly opened the proceedings,
Mr. ARINUToN pre a long and graphic sketch of the pre-
sent condition of the atomises in our °plosion, and the
womp they suffered at the hands of colonists, who robbed
them of their land, and, by driving away the animals upon
which they subsisted, actually destroyed them by sheer
starvation. The present Australian war be described as
originating in a dispute about the purchase of a quantity of
land from aa owner with 50 others, and whose right
to sell was disputed by the chief of the tribe, whilst
the sale We was repudiated by other joint owners
who the government contended, had either acipii•
awed or assented by their silence. After express•
ins an opinion that it would have bees far better if the
governor had spent a little time in a calm investigation of
the circumstances, instead of at once pending troops to
enforce his order. Mr Abington concluded by asking if it
ought to be inevitable that wherever the white man went
for the purpose of colonisation there the native should
perish, either by papowder, are-water, or the introduction
of diseases for which they had no remedy. This, he urged,
was the muse of the extermination mf the people, and not
any inherent GLUM of decay in the natives themselves.
CATHERINE SC TioN nay) was then intro-
doced by • gentleman belonging to the Society of
Friends, in whose family she resided near Landon
during the last few minitha, and who, after stating
that Catherine had been wrongfully deprived of the
ErZy of herself and her husband, appealed to the
aetrit. to amidst IS following up the steps which had been
taken since her arrival in this country to obtain redress fur
her, and exprased a hope that, after the kindly expression
of feeling on her behalf by her Majesty the Queen,
strenuous exertion. would be made to secure her rights.
Catherine made a touching and simple appeal to those pre-
rent for sympathy for her people, whose wrongs she de-
tailed in a most artless manner. She stated that when she
was first oilmen by the council of her tribe some of them
wished her to come in her Indian draw ; bet this she de-
clined, saying that she was not going beck to paganism after
the exertions of the missionaries amongst her people,
and they then agreed with her that she hail better come in
her simple English draw as an evidence of the civilisation
effected by the aid of the missionaries, to whose exertions
sbe paid an affectionate tribute.
M.
_ADAM HonGson hoped the lady who had just ad-
dressed them would carry back to her trills the assurance of
heartfelt interest in their muse by Englishmen.
Paptain litrisitor nett sketched front weasel obeerva-
Mon the character and condition of the aborigines of North
America.
. .

During the evening the Chairman appealed to the meet-
ing for a substantial prod of their synipathy, and a col-
Winks was nude on behalf of the funds of the Loudon
eaciety.

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