The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-24 00:00:00

SLAVERY.
The proceedings of the Glasgow Emancipation
Society, which held its annual meeting on the Ist of
August, bring out one or two points of considerable
interest.
We notice with some surprise that, after the strong
!measure taken by this Society in relation to the re-
ception by the deputation of the Free Church in the
United States of slaveholder's money, the Committee
should have selected one of this very deputation,
whose conduct they so justly (as we think) disap-
proved (the Rev. Dr. Burns, of Paisley), to move the
adoption of their report. They pave the way for his
acceptance of this post, however, by a modification of
their report on the one hand, and by giving him free-
dom of speech on the other ; so that we have at length
a public defence, by a member of the deputation, of
the course which was pursued. That portion of Dr.
Burns's address which related to this subject we have
given entire, and our readers will be able to estimate
its worth. For ourselves, we remark principally the
Doctor's acknowledgment that neither himself nor his
companion, Dr. Cunninghame, was prepared for so
complete an identification of the churches with slavery
as ip some instances they found ; and that, if the Free
Church were to send another deputation, they might
find it necessary to pursue a different course. It ap-
pears that a letter has been written by the Rev. Henry,
as Moderator of the Assembly of the Free Church,
intimating that the matter had been found surrounded
with difficulties, and that it had been referred to a
Committee. We trust that the Committee will act a
wise and salutary part.
At the same meeting the fact transpired to the pub-
lic that, on board one of the vessels of the British and
North American Mail Steam Packet Company, in
July last, a gentleman of colour was excluded from
the use of the saloon during the voyage, having paid
the full fare. It is certainly no enviable notoriety
that the Acadia and Captain Judkins have obtained
for themselves, by being the first to introduce into
English ships this piece of American insolence and
inhumanity. We are glad to find that a remon-
strance, signed by twenty-one saloon passengers on
board the Acadia, has been sent to the Directors of
the Company ; and we trust they will have good
sense and good feeling enough to put an immediate
step to so un-English, un-christian, and revolting a
practice.
A third point of much interest in the meeting we
are referring to, was the reference made by Mr.
George Thompson to the law for the abolition of
slavery in British India. He said he was not aware
that any slaves had actually acquired their freedom
under that law, and that measures ought to be taken
by abolition societies to induce the Government to
adopt measures for making it more fully known. We
entirely sympathise with Mr. Thompson's feelings on
this subject. The Committee of the British and Foreign
Anti-Slavery Society, in their deep anxiety in rela-
tion to it, have, on two occasions, sent out letters of
inquiry to their correspondents in India, soliciting
information ; and, from intelligence they have re-
ceived, they have reason to fear that the fact is, as
Mr. Thompson states it. It is clearly the duty of
the Goverment, to cause this important law to be
translated into the vernacular languages of India,
and to be widely diffused among the population.
And, if some measures of this kind be not promptly
and effectually taken, it will be the duty of Anti- ,
slavery Societies to make representations by which 1
attention may be drawn to the subject. The British
people can never be satisfied that a law which they
hailed with so much delight should remain a dead
letter.—Anti-slavery Reporter.

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rought never to have de-
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GORDON CASTLE.—The Duke and Duchess of
Richmond are at present entertaining a large circle of
friends at this magnificent seat, where his Grace has
just arrived from his shooting quarters. The following
are among those who aro partaking of his Grace's hos-
pitality. The Earl of Uxbridge and the Ladies Con-
stance and Eleonora Paget, the Earl of March, Lord
and Lady Templemore, Colonel Rotten, Mr. Cox, Mr.
Roby, Mr. Russell, Mr. Ricardo, &c. The family circle
includes the Ladies Caroline, Augusta. and Cecelia
Gordon Lennox, and Lords George, Henry, and Alex-
ender Lennox.

Provost and Magistrates," by Mr. John Richardson,
W.S.—and " The City Members," by Mr. Macfarlan.
The company broke up shortly after eight o'clock.
THE BANQUET.
The banquet in the evening took place in the large
Waterloo-room, which was by eight o'clock com-
pletely filled. Mr. Hume did not arrive till after
the proceedings were begun, having been detained at
the dinner. Mr. Dunlop, of Brockloch, was, on the
motion of Dr. Purdie, called to the chair.
The CHAIRMAN referred to the proceedings of the
day, and congratulated the meeting, that in this city
of palaces and monuments, they had now laid the
foundation of one monument, on whose pedestal
would be inscribed the motto of liberty, to mark
the progress which the principles of freedom were
acquiring as time went on. The act of justice
which had been that day done to the memory
of these early reformers showed unequivocally
the determination of the present race of re-
formers not to allow the expression of their politi-
cal opinions to be put down by legal flaws and
forms, and to maintain and enforce with boldness the
principles held by the martyrs of the last century.—
(Cheers.) The Chairman went over some of the more
marked and expressive sentiments and prophetic
enunciations of the political martyrs—sentiments
which, so far from being the evidence of a criminal
disobedience to the law, were now believed in almost
universally by the people of this country. Posterity,
in fact, had given its verdict in favour of these princi-
ples, and they would maintain and defend these prin-
ciples even if another Braxfield should arise; although
he felt assured that Scotland would never again be
subject to the dictation of such a character.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. W. MARSHALL proposed the first senti-
ment—" The people, the sole element of national
greatness, and the only legitimate source of political
power."
The CHAIRMAN then introduced Mr. Hume, as the
long-tried and persevering champion of economy and
popular rights.
Mr. HUME was received with loud and continued
expressions of applause, and after briefly addressing
the meeting, proposed, as a sentiment, " Honour to
the memory of Muir, Palmer, Gerrald, Skirving,
Margarot, &c., and their compatriots.
Mr. SKIRVING, of Kirkaldy, (the son of one of the
martyrs) then addressed the meeting, whom he
thanked for the interest they had shown in the cause
of the reform struggle of 1793 and 1794, and for
their kind expressions towards those who had suffered
in connexion with it. Upwards of fifty years have now
elapsed since the reformers in this country associated
under the name of the " Friends of the People"—and
if we examine attentively the principles of these early
reformers, and take into view the history of reform
since these societies were suppressed by an arbitrary
power, we shall find that these associations, claiming
as the citizens of a free country individual voice
in the choice of their representatives—and the annual
exercise of that right showed that they formed just
ideas of representations, as that alone by which their
country could enjey that political regeneration of
which they found her so much in need. And what
is the reason that we at this day, notwithstanding
the strength of the reformers ranks, appear so far
from obtaining a free and full representation simply be-
cause as a body we have no fixed principle respecting
the extent to which the principle of representaticin ought
to be applied in order to secure effectually the liberty
of the subject on this point. At the period of which
I am now speaking I was a young man, indeed a
mere boy, but I have a (distinct recollection of many
of those who distinge:ished themselves in the cause of
reform. And it has often struck me, in taking
a view of the characters of the leaders of that move-
ment, that perhaps on no occasion was there
ever such a number of men eminent alike for
their moral and religious worth, united for the attain-
ment of a popular right, all of them, with few excep-
tions, being men who enjoyed the confidence of their fel-
low-citizens, being selected by them to manage their
affairs both of a religious and civil description. And
with regard to those whom you have this day pro-
nounced worthy to have their deeds commemorated by
a public monument, I would just remark, that their
political career affords the most incontestible proofs of
the purity of their motives, disinterested patriotism,
and unfeigned love of liberty. May the generous ef-
forts of the reformers of the present day to perpetuate
their tense of their worth, prove a stimulus to the pa-
triot, and a terror to the oppressor.—(Cheers.)
The Rev. Dr. RITCHIE spoke at some length to the
-next sentiment, " Success to the principles for which
the martyrs suffered," anti was followed by Mr.
Somers and Mr. C. G. Scott.
The Rev. P. BREWSTER, is a long speech, moved a
rote of thanks to Mr. Hume, and the other projectors
and contributors to the monument.
A vote of thanks having been moved to the Chair.
man, the MeMing separated at half-past eleven o'clock

wanting, of the absolute necessity that existed for
such a measure; the virulence and unchristian vindic-
tiveness displayed by these writers clearly evincing
what deglee of forbearance might be expected by
the most honourably disposed debtors at their hands.
For the obstruction it has met with in other quarters
it would be more difficult to account, if one of its ob-
jects had not been to protect the unfortunate insolvent
from the rapacity of a class of persons who are often
the chief cause of his inability to meet his engage-
ments ; and whose rapacity is frequently the only ob-
stacle to his release from prison, when the obduracy of
his creditor has been finally overcome. In the teeth
of the opinion of Lord Brougham, that the attestation
of the affidavit of the insolvent need not cost him more
than half-a-crown, the Commissioners of the Bank-
ruptcy Court, although not entirely agreed as to
the extent in which the unhappy debtor shall be
mulcted, are sufficiently of accord as to the im-
possibility of his dispensing with the services of an
" attorney-at-law ;" and whilst some of these func-
tionaries are content that the amount of which he is to
be thus denuded shall be 21., others have decided that
it ought to be 31. It was naturally enough to be
expected that a measure calculated to discourage
the rapacity of the lower class of attorneys, and
diminish the necessity for the interference, as
often as heretofore, of even the more respectable
part of the profession, would meet with every possi-
ble opposition from those whose profits it is cal-
culated to abridge. Hitherto, in a large majority,
of the instances in which a debtor has been incarce-
rated for less than 201., the law costs have formed
the larger portion of their respective debts.
Lord Brougham's Bill diminishes the temptation
of either the -creditor or his lawyer to heap cruel
and fruitless expense upon the debtor, since he
can no longer hold over him in terrorem the
prospect of imprisonment on his account, whilst it
affords the creditor ampler and more accessible
means of punishing any fraudulent or dishonest
conduct on the part of the debtor. Lord Brougham
assures us that no " attorney-at-law" is required to
assist an insolvent in his application to the Bank-
ruptcy Court, and that the Commissioners have no
power whatever to require such a person to witness
each sheet of the petition and schedule, in the face of
the schedule to the Act, which requires the signature
" but once, and the attestation, not of an attorney-at-
law, but merely of an attorney or agent." The Com-
missioners refer, it seems, to the statutes of the 5 and
6 Victoria, c. 116, and the 7 and 8 Victoria; as
their authority for altogether resisting his ,Lord-
' ship's suggestion, and quote the clause that " each
sheet of such petition and schedule shall be signed by
the petitioner, in the presence of and attested by his
attorney." We do not understand in what manner this
provision can be said to controvert his Lordship's opinion.
He seems, indeed, to have been perfectly aware of its
existence, and the language in which it is couched is
precisely that on which his suggestion appears to
have been founded. Perhaps his Lordship's re•
marks on the irregular attendance of Commis-
sioners, coupled with a fellow feeling for the pro-
fession of the law, and an impatience of the cur-
tailment of its profits, may have had some influ-
ence in the matter. For the present, however, we
must confess that we prefer Lord Brougham's
definition of the relative meaning of the words "at-
torney" and " attorney-at-law," to that of the
Commissioners', and we cannot but continue to
regard it as one of the most important features
of his Bill that the debtor may obtain his li-
berty without being subjected to the extortions
of the lower classes of attorneys-at-law. Such
a proposal could not fail to excite a strong opposition
on the part of a large and singularly active body of
persons. Their objections aro, however, entitled to
even less credit than those of the traders and shop-
keepers who have lately expectorated, through the
columns of the Times, so much bile upon the subjec

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUGUST 23.—A few
brands of middling and fine Antiguas have constituted
chief attraction in the market this week. These
have brought from 60s. to 685., being very
full prices ; but the low and middling descrip-
tions of raw sugar continue neglected, and former
rates are with difficulty supported ; the transactions of
the week do not exceed three hundred casks. Bengal
and Mauritius are quite neglected. Rum has been in
good demand, and nearly every puncheon offering has
been taken by the trade at improved rates.—Bristol
Mercury.