Star.
London, England, 1826-01-10 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AN ORDONNANCE

FOR VIZ RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF SLAVES IX HIS
MAJESTY'S COLONIES OF DEMERARA AND ESSEQUIBO,

AND FOR THE lIIIPROVZIRRNT OF VIZIR CONDITION.

This law was enacted and passed at an extraordinary
and adjourned assembly, held at the C finny-house,
Georre-town, signed by his Excellency the Governor,
B. D Urban, and by command, Charles Wilday, and
W. J. Armstrong, Joint Deputy Secietar'es. It was to
be put in force on the ht of January, 1826, and appears
in the Royal Gaulle of the colony. The preamble de-
clares that—lt is necessary that further provisions
should be made for the religious instruction of the slaves
in his Majesty's colonies of Demerara and Essequibo,
and for the improvement of their condition.
Seed. n 1 enacts, that _the First Fiscal of the colony
should be appointed protector of slaves, with a salary
of 14,000 guilders per annum, one half to be p mid by
Government, the other half out of the colonial chest.
Tne second to the seventh actions define the duties
of the office as to the regulation of courts, writings, re-
cords of punishments, ecc. and provide that the protector'
of slaves shall not be a proprietor of estates or of slaves.

8. Refers to the prosecution of slaves by the Fiscal for offences.
—9. and 10. No slave shall be obliged to work between sun-set on
Saturday and sun-rise on the Monday.-11. The market held on
Sunday shall be discontinued after half-past ten, a.m.-12. Declares
it illegal to carry a whip, or any instrument of punishment, in the
geld or elsewhere, as a badge of authority or stimulus to labour.

13. It it is 'recess:my-to punish a slave, ,the punish-
ment must not exceed 2.5 lashes, and not be inflicted till
after sunrise the next day after the offence, in presence
of at least one free person, or six slavea, and at or near
the buildings of the estate.
14. No floggi.lg of female slaves allowed. [Hem
.follows a long list of punishments that may be inflicted
-..confinement, stocks, &c.j Slaves may be punished
still more severely by applying in writing to, and ob-
:a.ining the sanction of, the Fiscal.
13 to IE. That a Punishment Record Book must be
kept on every estate, and by owners of slaves, where.
every punishment Above three stripes must be registered
and sent to the office of the Protector ot Slaves, and the
nature of tie offence and punishment stated. [Here
iollow lengthened JetAils]
19 and `2O. If the owners of slaves refuse sanction
,) marri-ge,, they are to apply to the protector of
,laves, who may issue his mandate to the clergyman if
le _deems it. proper.

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21. FlTer)..,lc4o4e slave whopisprirypilhok#Jelity iu

The French fe igate the Thetis, of 4 gnus and 300
men, and the Esperance corvette of 20 Buni and 1.50
men, arrived at Sidney, New South Wales, on the SOth
of June la.t. They sailed from Fraive on a voyage of
discovery. An Evening Journil states tl et his .11 Aje y's
ship L'Alegone, commanded by M. L !mile, had been
totally lost on its way to Tostlon. We are able to qty
that a, telegraphic dispatch from that port, dated 2J
January, announces the arrival of that vessel in tee
roads. The shock of an earthquake, vleich wa, felt at
Strasbargh on the 23d of Decernbei, at five in the
,mo•re-
ing,was also felt at the same mbmeht at Offenbeirg, for
two seconds. Three leagues from a plaice at Kw kon
the Kintzig, the oscillations seemed to be tepea-el
during two minutes. The Motion -was from S. E. to
N. W. the air perfectly calm.

FROM THR COURIRR FRAN9/118.
PARIS, JAIRIMIT 6.
In turning towards the late proceedings of the port'
of Antwerp, we naturally inquire why, in the y
1525, there did not arrive at that port'imore than fi r y-
four French ships, while there arrived sixty-one be.
longing to the United States, although fifteeii hundred
leagues away ? Is it not becauie ancient regulations
make our navigation much dearer than the American,
and because our CustomLhouse duties, enhanced or
prohibitions and excessive demands, st fle our mai-
-time commerce?
The Count de Saint CI icy, Counsellor of Stare, on
:the 19th of December, wrote asfol!ows to the Chamber
of Commerce of Havre: " That he has submitted.
to the Bureaus of Commerce, and of the Colonies, a
Report, in: 'which; -after having indicated how muctt
the debits of the European silks derive adiantage at
the Bratils'by the interruption of the pesitiln in wtlich
that country was placed with the Purtuguese posses-
sions in India, it adds, that in order to make the meow
of this advantage, France ought to undertake the
imitation of Chinese stuff,, and to a.lopt those pa:ti-
e:dm designs and patterns which are likely to suit the
taste of the Brazilians."

PROM THR JOURNAL DE PARIS OP WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4.
PARIS, JANUARY S.

We have letters from London, which induce us to
hope that Admiral Dupene, who is going to take t' e
command of the naval force in the Antilles, is provided
with_ powers. on the part of France, to effect something
useful both in Mexico and Bogota. We have reason
to believe that the chief object of his mission, is to carry'
into execution the arrangements which we announced
two months ago, as having been concluded between
France and M.:xico, ace( riling to which the Govern•
ments of the two countries were reciprocally to appoint
agents in each other's dominions to protect their corn%
mercial interests, and that it would be to make the
choice for France, and to give to the agents it should
have designated, the necessity instructions that the
Admiral would carry to Vera Cruz a general agent,
who would reside at Mexico, where he would probably
open negotiations to attain a definitive convention
within a year from this time; for we have reason to
believe that this arrangement with Mexico is not agreed
upon for a longer time.