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London, England, 1824-12-28 00:00:00

ditional provisions, which as yet are not to be found in that
statute, a foundation will be laid for such a system of gradual
improvement," &c. So that, should our Assembly adopt
every iota of this absurd and impracticable order, a foundation
only will be laid for what is to come, and if our readers will
only alter the word improvement into emancipation, they will
then know what is intended for them. Under such circum-
stances, we Must consider that the most important duty our
Assembly has to perform is to frame such regulations as may
be best calculated to preserve the lives and properties of their
constituents, and that, from this moment, they should never
cease in their applications to the throne for indemnification,
until they obtain that great national act of justice. Our repre-
sentatives will, we have no doubt, act with temper and firmness
during this momentous crisis of our fate; and while they de-
cidedly reject every proposal that may be attended with danger,
they will cheerfully and promptly adopt such measures as may
appear to be safe and salutary.
SAINT JAGO, Nov. 6.
By the Fan ran we have received letters and newspapers to
the 18th ult.

On the eth ult. fourteen vessels arrived from Guayaquil at
Panama, to transport the live thousand men which compose the
divisions of Venezuela -arid Magdalena. The same day they
sailed from Guayaquil, dews arrived that the Spanish man of
war Asia, and brig Hercules, had entered the port of Callao
from Cadiz. This tardy and inconsequent assistance has ar-
rived out of time, as the greatest part of Peru is in possession of
the Colombians.

BA RBADOES, OCT. 1.
SPEECH of His Excellency Sir HENRY WARDE, 012 opening

the new Session of the Legislature on Tucsday last.
" Mr. President and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Councit,
" In once again meeting you at the commencement of a new
Session of the Legislature, I have to acknowledge your desire
for the melioration and amendment of the Slave Laws by the
Bill which you framed for that purpose, and on which you be-
stowed so much labour and time during the last Session ; and
consequently, I entertain no doubt that you will consider on,
and endeavour to adopt, such ineasures as may best tend to re.,
move the difficulties which have, and may again occur, to pre-
vent the completion of this most salutary and most necessary
law.

" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" I have called you together, at the very earliest opportu-
nity, for the dispatch of public business, feeling the urgent
necessity of the immediate renewal of those labours which oc-
cupied so large a portion of your time during the last Session,
in the consideration of a Police Bill; and more particularly
of that of the melioration, amendment, and consolidation of the
Slave Laws which was framed by the Speaker, and ultimately
adopted for considereration by both branches of the Legisla-
ture, but which did not pass into law.
" I have to offer to you, Mr Speaker, and to the House, my
warmest acknowledgments of the uniform, pleasing, and cour-
teous terms in which your replies have been couched to all my
Messages, which it bus been my duty, as his Majesty's Repre-
sentative, to submit to you, during a most eventful and most
interesting period.
_

" 16. *President and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council.
Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly.
" I cannot conceal from you the great disappointment I
have experienced from the failure of a well-grounded hope
that some Bill for the amendment of the Slave Laws would
have been, long ere this, enacted. As both branches of the
Legislature, immediately after the close of the last Session,
honoured me with their separate statements in explanation of
the delays which had occurred ; and as it has been, is, and
ever will be my anxious desire that all the branches of the
Legislature should, if possible, co-operate most cordially for the
public welfare, and as the documents previously alluded to have
both been transmitted to Earl Bathurst for his Majesty's in.
formation; I shall forbear from making a single comment,
further than by remarking, it is a very great consolation to
me, that the sentiments expressed in both statements, lead
me again to expect that every exertion will be made for the
speedy completion and enactment of a Bill for the amendment,
melioration, and consolidation of the Slave Laws. And I now
seize with pleasure and sincerity this public opportunity, to
express those sentiments most unequivocally, which have
long been felt, but never called forth ; that though cases, as
exceptions, do exist which, under similar circumstances, would
exist iu every other part of the globe, so. long as men are im-
perfect, and their dispositions differ in an innumerable variety of
Shades, from good to vile ; yet, after more than three years con-
stant residence on this island, it is my firm conviction (as far as
it has come within my own observation to judge), that the slaves,
as a body, throughout the Colony are uniformly treated with
kindness, lenity, and liberality ; and to which their general ap-
pearance of cheerfulness and happiness may be fairly attributed.
" Council Chamber, 28th September 1824."

Tint Durham Agricultural Cattle Show, as
announced in our Paper of the 11th instant, took place at Mr.
%Yard's, Waterloo Inn, on Saturday last, the 16th. It was
highly gratifying to observe the interest taken in this meet-
ing by many gentlemen in the neighbourhood, between
forty and fifty of whom, after the show, sat down to an ex-
cellent dinner, C. Mason, Esq. in the Chair. On the cloth
being drawn, several loyal end appropriate toasts were
drank, after which the President rose, and declared the follow-
ing sweepstakes to be adjudged :—The sweepstakes of five
sovereigns, to Mr. Arrowsmith, of Sherburn House, for the
best cow in calf or in milk ; the sweepstakes of four sovereigns,
to Mr. Wood, of Kimblesworth, for the best two-year-old 116.
fer in calf; the sweepstakes of four sovereigns, to Mr. Crofton.
of Holywell, for, the best yearling heifer; the sweepstakes of
three sovereigns, to Mr. Teesdale, of Garmondsway Moor, for
the best aged bull; the sweepstakes of three sovereigns, to 11r.
Cunninghame, of Sherburn, for the best yearly bull ; the sweep.
stakes of four sovereigns, to Mr. Crofton, of Holywell, for the
best shearling waiter ; the sweepstakes of two sovereigns,to Mr.
Crofton, of Holywell, for the best flit pig ; the sweepstakes of six
sovereigns, to Mr. W. Seyinour, of Wood-house Close, for the
best snare for breeding hunters or hacknies ; the sweepstakes
of four sovereigns, to Mr. John Huston, of Chatham Stob, for
the best mare for breeding carriage hones; and the sweepstakes
of two sovereigns, to Mr. Crofton, of Holywell, for the best
mare, for breeding draught horses.—The utmost conviviality
prevailed during the evening, and many sweepstakes were en-
tered into : it was announced to be the intention of the Society
to offer several premiums for the next show. The Chairman
having left the chair, the thanks of the meeting were unani.
mously voted to him for his gentlemanly conduct therein.—
( Durham county Advertiser, Dee. '25.)

GEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIEIL—FrOPTI a report
read to the Geological, Mineralogical and Bo-
tanical Society of Auvergne, by its President,
Count de LATZER, it appears that this gen-
tleman has ascertained an important goo-
logical fact. From the great plateau of ba-
oath and triffa, lying between the two rivers
Correge, from Champein to the vicinity of
Isoire, he has, for the first time, discovered or-
ganic bodies, lying between ancient triffor and
basalt. These remains consist of the bones of
very large animals, changed into carbonate of
lime ; but preserving both their form and their
texture. A piece of stag's horn changed into agate.
And out of a stratum of pumice sand, situated
beneath the tan, he has taken some teeth, the
jaw bone, and two horns belonging to two spe-
cies of stag, now extinct. In addition to these
remains, lie formed, beneath a testaceous lime
stone between the volcanic tuffa and the primi-
tive soil, the grinder of a mastodon. This im-
portant geological discovery, will tend to show
the relative age of the most ancient volcanoes.

Wit EN TO LEAVE on DRINKING.--When you
feel particularly desirous to have another glass,
leave off; you have had enough. Whet' you look
at a distant object, and appear to see two, leave
off; you have had too much. When you knock
over you glass, spill your wine upon the table,
or are unable to recollect the words of a song
you have been in the habit of singing for the last
dozen years, leave the company ; you are getting
troublesome. When you nod in the choir, fall
over the hearth-rug, or lurch on your neighbour's
shoulder, go to bed; you are drunk.—(The
Economist.)

On Wednesday last two chimneys in Berriug.
ton-street were blown down ; one of. the bricks
fell into a pail of water, which a female passen-
ger was luckily carrying upon her head ; she re-
ceived no injury, but was seriously alarmed at a
salutation so abrupt and,unwelcume.—(Hereford
Independent.)