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find that it was now so universally lifted up.--( Cheers.) 11

they could not get rid of the apprenticeship clause, the Bill
now before the House v., mild be a complete mockery to the poet
negro, and an insult to the people of England.—( Cheers. )
The Noble Chairman had taken into the House the night
before last about 150 petitions, which on that occasion he had
refrained from presenting, and it was reported that he had
stated the petitions did not go against the principle of the
Bill, but he was perfectly satisfied that no one could be more
anxious than the Noble Lord for the abolition of the Appren-

ticeship system.
Lord BROUGHAM said that that was a very easy mistake for
any one to fall into who had not had the opportunity of dis-
tinctly hearing him. There were about 200 of the petitions,
and he said he should present them to-night. lie could not
have said they were against the Bill, because they went upon
quite a different ground—they went upon the real high ground
of a total emancipation.—(Much cheering.) They passed
over the Bill with silence, and he might say contempt.--( Re-
newed cheering.) The Bill before the 'louse was merely a
string of palliatives.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. STURGE said that as he had used strong language in
reference to this Bill, he must be. allowed to recur to the
former Bill.

One of the friends of the cause, whose state of

health unfortunately prevented his attendance to-day—

Zachariah Macauley—had said, " Don't be uneasy about this appren-

ticeship system, became they went be able to work it for six months."
He (Mr. S.) had seen a physician, from the West Indies, who told him
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:hat it could not have been worked fur an hour, but that they had

broken the law to work it.—{Hear, hear.) They could not be forgetful
of the twenty millions which had been paid in hard cash, nor of. the
one hundred and fifty magistrates, who had been sent out at an
enormous expense to work the system, nor of the ships and soldiers that
were kept there to enforce the law. He had been told that the free.

blacks, or the Hayti blacks were idle people, He had gone
to a broker, and got a sample of Hayti Coffee, at 425. per cwt.

at the very time of which we were paying to the people to
whom we gave the twenty millions, 955. for such Coffee.—(Hear.)
He had had a conversation with the Marquis of Sligo, who, though a
West Indian planter, had honestly endeavoured to carry the Act into

effect whilst he was there; bet feeling that he could not detail that pri-
vate conversation, he had written to the Noble Marquis, and had re.
ceived a note from him, the contents of which he should communicate
to the meeting. The Noble Marquis stated that he had sent home a

report of thirty cases of females flogged, the particulars of which
would be seen in the House of Lords' Paper, '232. It was proved,
in more instances than one, that those floggings were by the order

of Mr. Charles Gordon, a magistrate, who the Noble Marquis would
not allow afterwards to qualify for the office of magistrate, but
that he had since become a magistrate; and that he, the Noble

Marquis had mentioned the circumstance at the Colonial office, and