Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-14 00:00:00

aster; third, that in the

1.1 of a married slave, ti

Le master should.
td fourth, fifth,

sixth, and seventh, relate to cases of voluntary
abandon
tions fro

it am or

ives, and to separa-
their control ; and

that in such cases of
and where
separation appears to be permanent and final, the
refusal to allow a second marriage would often
produce much evil and hardship, and therefore the

the eighth res

separation, ocher

either

Convention decides in favour- of such marriages.
There is something rather hopeful in this ; and more
especially when it is considered that the Anglo-
American Church in South Carolina embraces among
its members a very great proportion of the largest
and most influential slaveholders in the Union. It
must be remembered, however, that the above
representation of the case is what it is declared
to be in theory. In practice, it is to be feared,
it is too often very difficult. The wonder
in England will doubtless be, how the holders of
their fellow Christians in slavery, and the traffickers
in human bodies and souls, can possibly be recog-
nized as members of an offshoot of your national
Church. It is an English prelate, and one of the
most distinguished of the existing Episcopal Bench,
who asks,—" What witness has yet been borne by

the Church in these Slave States against this.almoit
universal sin ? How has she fulfilled her vocation?"
And who at once answers,—" She raises no voice
against the predominant evil; she palliates it in
theory, and in practice she shares in it."* This
reproach, I fear you will think, is rather confirmed,
than ignored, by the Report I have spoken of.
A remarkable instance of the little regard that is
paid by " the people " to the requirements of the
law, and the indifference there is about enforcing it
whenever it is unpopular so to. do, is just now made
manifest by the discovery. by the Excise Commis-
sioners, that in the city of New York alone there are

thousand persons who sell liquors
without. being licensed as the law requires. This
trade is, more than anything else, a source of
lawlessness. 'When the law was enacted, some three
or four years since, prohibiting the sale of liquors
altogether except as meeticine —it was almost
universally set at nought. The fact is that the liquor
dealers —and their name is leg-ion are a very
formidable set of fellows, and many of their
customers and abettors are still morn so ; and on
political grounds especially, it is dangerous to
meddle with them.

as mane

* Wilberf

a's History of the American Church

The French government have sent three war steamers,
and two schooners of war to watch over the interests of their

fishermen in the Newfoundland fisheries.
ACCIDENT AT A REVIF,W.— On the 25th nit., while the
Royal Sus Sex Militia were being reviewed in the Queen's
Park at Edinburgh, one of the several boys who had been.
following the soldiers in their movements was accidentally
hit on the head by a cartridge paper discharged in the
retreat movement. The young lad was able to walk to an
apothecary's, and was afterwards taken to the infirmary,
where he progressed favourably for ten days, but on the 6th
instant he was seized with convulsions, and died next day.
It was found that a small crack had been made in the skull,
which had ultimately produced inflammation, and thereby
caused his death. _

GREAT THUNDER-STON

Sunday, London was
ze"— which raged with

visited by a s

terrific violenee for several hours. The morning, from an
early hour, was cloudy, some rain having fallen during the
previous night, and up to twelve o'clock thick clouds
gathered, portending the coming storm. Shortly after
twelve o'clock they broke, and the rain poured down in in-

cessant torrents during the next two hours, most effectually
clearing the streets, for any one who might have ventured
out would, in a single moment, have been drenched to the
skin. Meanwhile, there were vivid flashes of lightning and,
appalling peals of thunder, creating in many quarters the
most intense alarm. Between two and three o'clock the
ited; but during the remainder of the
intervals, of thunder,

evening the

,nd rain