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dissenters from the e t iblished religion, and other persons
professing to be teachers of religion, has been found extre-
mely.dangerous, and great facilities are thereby given to the
formation of plots and conspiracies, and the health of the
slaves and other persons has been injured in travelling to and
from such places of meeting at late hours in the night : Be
it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from
and after the commencement of this act, all such meetings
between sunset and sunrise shall be held and deemed unlaw-
ful ; and any sectarian, dissenting minister, or otherperson
professing to be a teacher of religion, who shall, contrary
to this Act, keep open any such places of meeting between
sunset and sunrise for the purpose aforesaid, or permit or
suffer any such nightly assembly of slaves therein, or he
present thereat, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than
201., or exceeding 50/., for each offence, to be recovered
in a summary manner before any three justices, by war-
rant of distress and sale, one moiety thereof to be paid to
the informer, who is hereby declared a competent witness,
and the other moiety to the poor of the parish in which
such offence shall be committed ; and, in default of pay-
ment thereof, the said justices are hereby empowered and
required to commit such offender or offenders to the com-
mon gaol for any space of time not exceeding one calendar
month ; provided always, that nothing herein contained
shall be deemed or taken to prevent any Minister of
the Preshytcriau Kirk, or licensed minister, from per-
forming divine worship at any time before the hour of
eight &clock in the evening at any licensed place of wor-
ship, or to interfere with the Celebration of divine wor-
ship according to the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish
and Roman Catholic religions.
LXXXV. And whereas, under pretence of offerings
and contributions, large sums of money and other chattels
have been extorted by designing men, professing to be
teachers of religion, practising on the ignorance and super-
stition of the negroes in this island, to their great loss and
impoverishment : and whereas an ample provision is already
made by the public and by private persons for the religious
instruction of the slaves : Be it enacted by the authority
aforesaid, that from and after the commencement of this
act, it shall not be lawful for any dissenting minister, reli-
gious teacher, or other person whatsoever, to demand or re-
ceive any money or other chattel whatsoever from any slave
or slaves within this island, for affording such slave or
slaves religious instruction, by way of offering contributions,
or under any other pretence whatsoever; and if any person
or persons shall, contrary to the true intent and meaning of
this act, offend herein, such person or persons shall, upon
conviction before any three justices, forfeit and pay the sum
of 201. for each offence, to be recovered in a summary
manner, by warrant of distress and sale, under the hands
and seals of the said justices, one moiety thereof to be paid
to the informer, who is hereby declared a competent wit-
ness, and the other moiety to the poor of the parish in
which such offence shall be committed ; and in default of
payment, the said justices are hereby empowered and re-
quired to commit such offender or offenders to the common
gaol for any space of time notexeeeding one calendar month.

Mr. ATKINSON rose, and said that he congratu-
lated the House—•he congratulated the country—on
this message having being sent down to the House.
He hoped the House would coalesce, and be una-
nimous in objecting to the whole of the suggestions
now submitted to them, and form a determination in
carrying through the provisisions of the law, which
they had so laboriously and zealously framed last
year, purposely to meet the views of the British
Government, as it was now evident nothing they
could do would satisfy our enemies. There was not
a single passage in Mr. Huskisson's letter which was
not objectionable ; and he therefore trusted the
House would have but one view of it, that it should
be printed, and that a call of the:House should take
place to have it fully discussed.
Mr. HYSLOP said, that it was the duty of the
Lieutenant-Governor to send down to the House
any instructions he may have received from his Ma-
jesty's Government, and that it would only be the
usual courtesy to allow the Message to lie on the
table.

Mr. ATKINSON said he did not refer to the Lieut.
Governor, but to the Message itself, which was ob.
jcctionable.

Mr. Cox moved that 500 copies of Mr. Huskis-
son's Letter should be printed, to be disseminated
thoughout the island, that the general sense of the
inhabitants respecting it might be obtained, which
was agreed to. . . . .

Mr—. Atkinson was repeatedly cheered during his
speech; and his proposition was agreed to with ac-
clamations.

LAW NOTICES.

COURT OF K
BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND FJ

BE TRIED mow
The following completes th
of Wednesday :
Walton v. McMahon
Edmonds c. Lowe
Tate v. Mackintosh
Cook v. Cambridge
Joyce v. Harwood
Child v. Tatley
Sibthorpe v. Mills
Luckey v. Snowden
Bishop v. Smith
Jacobs v. Dewnell
Kynaston v. Bird
Bowman v. Everard
Felton v. Lawrence
Matthews v. Randle

[NG'S BENCH.
tOMISSORY NOTE CAUSES TO
'DAY, JAN. 21.
ie list published in THE SUN

Holloway v. Wilde
Horton v. Tatley
Jacobs v. Neale
Bond v. Cox

Perkins v. Griffiths
Richards v. Nodin
Atkinson v. Newport
Steel v. Martin

Buckingham v. Bean
Brown v. Cooke
Lewin v. Wilford
Dixon v. Rand

Beete v. Bidgood.

SIIIPPINCI INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

Tli URSDAY, JAN. 17.—High water 5 lain. past eleven.
Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Prosperity, Ralph, from Car-
lisle, with barley.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.—The Madras, Christian, for
Calcutta—Othello, Thompson, for ditto—Anna, Watter-
son, for Derbyhaven—the Lady Maxwell, M'Call, for
Douglas—Thales, Robertson, for Pernambuco—Cale-
donia, Shirninins,- for Douglas—and Sophia, Edwards,
for Demerara.

Telegraph Office, Jan. 17

Ho LY FAD, JAN. 16.--Arrived the Mediterranean
Packet, from Zante, for Liverpool—Neptune, from Riga,
from Liverpool—Anne, from Charlestown, (Cornwall)
for Liverpool—Hope, from Swansea, for Chester; all well.
Wind E. 8. E.

ANOTHER EXTEMPORE.—OII Thursday
morning, a little before eight o'clock, a poor woman, who
resides in Tasle-street, having occasion to go into Strange-
ways on business, was suddenly overtaken with the pains of
labour, and was actually delivered in the street of a fine
child.—Manchester Herald.

A COLD BATH.--At an early hour on Tues-
day morning, the watchman on duty on Essex-quay,
observed a military youngster on the lark, in the act of
hauling down the shutter of a shop window. Having
sprung his rattle, the hero decamped, and coming in con-
tact with the quay wall, he cleared it at a bound, and got
snugly landed in the river, where he remained, up to the
very epaulets, in mud and water. A ladder having been
procured at the Head Office, the unfortunate larker was
drawn out of his cold bath, and having his stomach warmed
by the potent influence of a dose of scaltheen, administered
by a Peace Officer, he was enabled to crawl to his lodgings,
his ardour for nocturnal gambolt4being pretty considerably
damped —Dublin Morning Post.

A SINGULAR CASE OF SMALL Pox.—R.
CHANT, mole-catcher and gardener, Odcombe, Somerset,
was inoculated for the small pox, fifty-nine years since,
when he had it remarkably line. Among the cases of the
natural small pox in that parish, a short time since, there
were sonic of them very virulent. In visiting one of the
persons suffering under this dreadful disorder, on the Ist
January last, he found that it afterwards affected his
stomach with a sickness; he was soon seized with pain
in the head, shiverings, and every sytnpton of a violent
fever, and for three days his friends thought he could not
survive. About that tune the small pox made its ap-
pearance moderately all over his body, and the pustules
exhibited every symptom of 'virulence. This is one of
the many instances of persons suffering under the effects
cf this disease after having been successful inoculated._
Dorset Chronicle.

The Maguircitc4; are still at work in the
neighbourhood of llruinkeerin and Innismagrath : there
are a set of persons calling themselves Steel Boys, well
armed, perpetrating the greatest disorders; no one dare go
into the house of the unfortunate M‘GARRAIIAN. If Would
he a matter almost impossible to narrate the several instances
of more than diabolical villainy of which they are guilty.
We have heard on undisputable authority, that a poor shop-
keeper, convicted of being a friend of the APGAanAnAtes,
was compelled to swallow a quarter of a pound of tobacco,
the effect of which proved fatal in a few days..--Stigo
J01417Z71.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, Thursday, Jan. 17.)

PARIS, JAR. I6.—We find the following in the Austrian
Observer :

" Yesterday despatches from Constantinople, dated the
16th, were received at Vienna by express. On that day
M. de Ribeaupierre, who was still hindered by the con,
trary winds from proceeding to the Black Sea, formed and
executed the resolution to take advantage of the wind,
which blows constantly from the north, to sail by the Dar-
danelles for the Mediterranean. His intention is to go to
Trieste with his family and the persons of the embassy
who have embarked with him. Some perstins in the ser-
vice of the Russian Legation have remained at Constanti-
nople. The Russian Ambassador did not meet with any-
obstacle from the Porte in execution of his design. The
greatest tranquillity still prevails in that capital."
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dr:c. 11.—So far back as the 29th
of November, M. Guilleminot had written the following
note to Baron Ottenfels

" Sir,—Your Excellency knows the circumstances
which cause my departure from Constantinople. In the
absence of the French embassy, the representative of his
Imperial Apostolic Majesty is called to protect the interests
of religion in the Levant; and I find that this proceeding
agrees with what has been done before in similar cases, and
with the stipulatimrs of the treaties with the Porte.
" In consequence, I have the honour to confide to your
good oflicea, the French missions, and other religious insti-
tutions which generally enjoy the French protection, and
I flatter myself that you will not hesitate to grant my re-
quest.

" I shall be very grateful for every thing that you may
have the goodness to do in favour of these institutions. I
doubt not that you will succeed, and I have the greater
confidence in your favourable sentiments towards the
establishments. I beg you to accept before-band the as-
surance of the gratitude of my Government and my own.
(Signed) " M. GUILLEMINOT."
On the sth of December, M. D'Ottenfels sent the fol-
lowing answer :
" Sir,--I would have immediately answered the note
which your Excellency did me the honour to write to me
on the 29th of last month, had not a long indisposition
hindered me, to my great regret, from thanking you for
the new proof of confidence which you have given me, by
recommending to me the French missions, and other reli-
gious establishments, during the absence of the embassy of
the King of France. In order to be able to make your
Excellency easy on this important subject, I lost no time in
informing the Reis Effendi of it; but I saw with regret,
from the first answer of that Minister, that the resolutions
of the last Divan do not permit, under present circum-
stances, the admission of a foreign protection, either for the
subjects of the three Powers, or for the establishments
which depend on those three legations.
" Far from being discouraged by this first refusal, I
yesterday applied to the Reis Effendi on this subject, and
made representations, accompanied by remarks calculated
to induce him to consent to my request. That Minister
gave me the express assurance, that neither the exercise of
the Christian religion, nor its servants, were in any danger;
that all the religions and churches should be duly respected ;
and that the Divan intended to prove by facts that the sub-
jects of the three Powers, after the departure of their Am-
bassadors, had no need whatever of seeking foreign pro-
tection.

" Under these circumstances, I have only to acquaint
you, Sir, that I will neglect nothing to keep the Divan in
these favourable dispositions to protect against every viola-
tion the missions and religious institutions intrusted to my
care, and to answer in this manner, as far as depends on
me, to the desires of your Excellency, which are completely
in unison with the sentiments of my heart. Accept, &c.
(Signed) " OTTENFELS."

ODESSA, DEC. 25.—We learn that M. de Ribeaupierre,
instead of coining here, is gone to the Archipelago. We
do not now know whither to send his despatches, which, by
his order, have already been sent to this place, by Minziacky,
the Consul at Bucharest. Movements of troops are ob-
served in our neighbourhood, and preparations are visibly
making to open the campaign. The day before yesterday
several ships of war were sent to the Danube, with pon-
toons for the passage of that river.

BUCHAREST, DEC. 25.---We are lost in conjectures re•
specting the change of M. de Ribeaupierre's route, espe-
cially as, by his order, all despatches addresed to him,
are to he sent henceforward by the Russian Consul at Bu-
charest to Odessa. Some persons think that not the con-
trary winds, but some political reasons, have induced_him
to change his intention. The last accounts from Bessara-
bia say, that Wittgenstein's army has been reinforced
within six weeks by 20,000 men, stationed at such short
distances, that it must either advance or change its canton-
ments, because the maintenance of all these troops in this
position, and in this season, is ton expensive. However,
it is not thought that it will advance, because the Turks do
nothing to induce such a measure.

(From the Constitutionnet)

The illoniteur this day publishes the comparative ac-
count of the receipts and estimates of the Budget of 1827,
and the comparative accounts of the two last returns. The
result of these two tables is, that, in 1827, on a balance of
the inerease and diminutions, the receipts are, 3,401,000
francs below the estimates ; and that, as between 1826
and 1827, there is a falling off to the amount of 15,847,000
francs. If to this deficit on the receipts the increase of ex-
penditure be added, the accounts of the year will present
to the Chambers a result not satisfactory, and, above all,
favourable to the Administration of M. de Villele.
A good deal is talked of respecting the creation of a
Council of War, to be composed of two Marshals of France
and five Lieutenant-Generals.
(From the Quotidienne.)
_ _

M. Vallette, formerly Private Secretary to M. de Cler-
mont Tonnerre, is appointed Chief Secretary of the War
Ministry. The Secretary-general of this Department will
in future, have functions more extensive than formerly. It
is asserted that Gen. Balthasar d'Arce will have this office ;
but nothing is as yet decided respecting it.
On the 12th of January there was a report on 'Change at
Marseilles that a ship of war had arrived at Toulon from
Smyrna, having touched at Scio., The letters brought by
her had been scut by post.
_ _

The Grand Council of the Canton of Valais has decreed
the abolition of the punishment of death.
FRENCH FUNDS, JAN. 16.—Five per Cents, 103 f. 70c.;
Three per Cents., 691. 15c. Exchange on London, one
month, 25f. 15c. ; three months, 25f.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17.—There have been
1,500 bags of Cotton sold to-day at full prices, and the
market very steady.

BATTLE OF NAVARIN.—The Genoa fired
away in the action, one thousand four hundred and twenty-
eight round shot of different sizes ; and upwards of three
hundred grape and canister. The powder filled and used
on the occasion, was, one thousand six hundred and seventy-
seven pounds, independent of the cartridges, kept constantly
filled—say about thirty rounds.—Plymouth Journal.

Mr. BLACKFORD, silversmith, of Bridgwater,
was attacked near Knowle, o,a Wednesday evening, by two
fellows, one of whom seized Ms horse by the bridle, whilst
the other laid hold of the stirrup leather, and with many
imprecations, demanded his money. Mr. BLACKFORD
freed his elf from the former by striking him across the
arm, and then, spurring his horse, dragged the latter a con-
siderable distance, until he was disengaged by the stirrup
giving way. The robberies on the Bath road are now so
frequent that scarcely a week passes without one being
either attempted or committed.—Dorset Chronicle.

Seldom, at this time of the year, has so much
rain been known to have fallen as during the present
season. Scarcely a day, for the last three months, has
elapsed without more or less. On Saturday night the wind
blew almost a hurricane, and many houses and trees re-
ceived much damage. Among other trees, the venerable
one,. known by the name of "Maiden Beech Tzee," fell a
sacrifice. Its weight is computed at nearly twenty tons,
and from its eminence ((eing situated at a point where the
Lyme, Bridport, and Chard roads, meet that of Crewkerne),
it was observable at the distance of many miles,
and has
served the inhabitants of the neighbourhood as a land-markfor several centuries. Tradition relates, that it was
planted, with two others, by three maiden ladies, from
whom it took the name of " Maiden Beech Tree," and
which the spot on which it grew is likely to retain.—
Dorset Chronicle.

MURDERER APPREITENDED.—A man named
WILLIAM TARRANT, but who had assumed the name of
Bustinv, has been apprehended in this town, charged with
the murder of his wife in the city of Cork, about two
months ago. He absconded immediately after the COM_
mission of the crime. Mr. 'W. R. COLLISTER arrived here
a few days ago in pursuit of the murderer, and through
the active exertions of JOHN WCOMBY one of our police
officers, he was taken into custody on board the Great
Britain, in which vessel he had taken his passage for New
York. Ile was extremely near effecting his escape, as the
vessel sailed from this port originally on the :30th of Dec.,
but was compelled to put back from having experienced an
accident. The prisoner was sent to Cork on Saturday to
take his trial for the offence.--Liverpool Courier.