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CAN I V A
?WM 3TION—THIS EVENING.
Blue Banana o'sr the Border."
Come, toms, it Ladd and gay Lwow.
The Masque et Marilee Wright. wile& takes plane pi TWA Mee;
ATI former Mantuan In Kirtlt-ssipuibib; -
The Mutat to imundbig-411111.110141dgeding
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G RAND CARNIVAL ANA MASQWIRADIier
arms. RVICIMIG.
16-41
To-faisair, dear Soak. aro alien meet again;
Tommy? my More atews will I explain; •
!Awesome we'll lay our plane for mount blies;
-Taiwan we'll *ell our pledges with a Ides;
Tammy sal autumn Hymen to our del;
To-ansirr, remember, Wanner% Gomm hiostawasass I

THR THAMES TUNNEL •
irrHE DIRE.;TORS hosing been ref:invited to give
AIL Information on the Pecuniary Concerns of the Cuspate',
state, that the whole amount expended on the Swab Oats and
" about Six Hundred Feet of the Tunnel, is about nsub, tit
of which the cost of Premises and Machinery was about ASSAM
The non warned to carry the Trottel to the Nonil enshentatent is
416,000, which. however, dons not include the neesssarp repair
gbo present accident.
' The Proprietors% Nadal Assembly on the Nth sithnit.Resolved
tc Thulium ths of the Roemer, and yam *apt, be*
this hieethq is of "ink%
syl atthstrandirip the aceidams lsw '
cu which have occurred, Dv 11111111balhie
ohNtaele, except the west of Fmads, is likely to rumen IRS ci!liP
pl. tion of the Untiertaidni.
The Directors hawing received *lnterpol assuraneestafreisrest
interest excited in the public mind, and of the genetal
to support, by VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS. Os
As-
dertskinl, beg to announce that the Directors will rombis, and'
that the foilorring Bankers and miter 'Crendemmt have eland to
receive such Contributions. via.
Mesa.. Williams, Deacon, and Co. Treasurer* Ails' f,
Birchin.lane

Messrs. Barclay and Co. $4, Lombard Skit*
blesars. &magnet and Co. 73. dkso
Theirs. Cootta and Co. 59, Strand
Sir Wm. Curtis sod Co. Lombard Street
Messrs. Drumm's* Charisrersea
Sir James &dans and Cs. 94 Lombard Strest
Mears. Fry, and Marna" Bt. Illildeses.tipirt
Metes. Glyn and Co. 07, Lombard &rest .
Messrs. Grote and Co ea. Threspinama• /me
Messrs. Hannuerdly and Co. 69, Pell
Noes. flanktya apit Co. No. T, frimebani keit
Messrs. Harris' and Co.lB, Sc. James Swam

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. tiir J. W. Lubbock and Co. 11. Mobilo Muse &reet
Messrs. Marten, Hone and Cy. 6s, iikesird /treat
, Messrs. Whiteman and Co. Nickolas...at% Leinbard Stritet
• Messrs. Remington and Co. 69, 11.4.011041 Street
Messrs. lingers.Towgoodok Co. 29, Clempees.lans,Lonsbarsionee
Aleuts. &mom and Poolledrersite, 65, Lombard Street '
Almon. Smith, Payne, and Co. Mansion House-place
Mows. It G. and J. A. Twining, Deorrerm-court,Strand
•Aleeirs..Tosing and So, West ilgoithheld
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Maury Dealin, Esq. Gainsiord Street, Hoeselydowe
• C. f'. Heenloga.lisq. Coin Exchange, lad's coke % rencliniebat.
A. J. Sienkensk Auk Providence enw,Pintintry.and WalikalbSiow '
Uwe liellpf•Paq. Se. Mary Axe .• . •
Masers. Cropper, 114111540. and Cs Serekants, Liverpool
lidessrs. Go-tiers and Birkbeek, Bankeni, timid&
.dears. Garnets and regiteriCT, Bankers, %%beach
Mews. Leylands and Bettina, Bankers, Liverpool
Messrs Moto, Rogers, and Mon Bankers, Lir"'
' lilt ors C H. and A Harris and CO. Bradford, 1.._
Win. Smith, Kg+ M. P. 36, Upper Seynsoor 1111. e, Piro
George Hy Je Wollaston, Bog. Clapham Consmost
Thomas Brandrant, 'Esq. Si.. Lose •
Taissaby &amok, Esq. timileo
Lal:Branum. Irr 19, Past lisco,s=irreadliesi...,..i.,_
Dormin, Itarq. Great Surrey.
/Hugh Gray. Eiq. 97, Mincing Lane iertlt . • ••. . ;
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Walthamstow ^. ,: 1 ot . .--, Lg.. fill
Benjamin Hawes. fraq. Russell Square
„N. H. Marten, Esq. Mincing Lens
W. H.Wollastons 14.D.V.P.1166 Mauckester.square
/Frederick Perkins, Esq. Paricillesibai
Mears- Sweet. Stokes, and Carr, 861140111
Dr. Gaiuksll, lintarkithe
Ideaws. Paulin, Son, and Herne, boot Street. Boicllio COIL
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.1-lesry Mandalay. 114.4100 0, latr. J. Rubin 1 0
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, FRENCH PAPERS.

MEW TIER GAZETTE DE TRANCE, EMI. 9.
BUCHAREST, JAL a.
_ Since the departure of the Ambassadors from Con-
stantinople, the state of affairs appears to be as little
changed there as in the neighbouring States. The Go-
vernment continues to order military armaments, an ,
measures cakelated to .resive the spirit of the nation.
The Russians are assembling on the frontiers. and it
seems that preparationikagainst every tOnLingeney are
making in the Austrian States.
Here we are still in expectation and uneasiness. The
hope of seeing the proposals of the Powers accepted by
the Porte. or the pacification of Greece effected by some
means or -other. has kept here the. greater part of the
*lards, who, however, have arranged their affairs in
such a manner as to be able to withdraw on thr first
appearance of danger. The departute of K. Mingiacky
would be followed by theirs, but though be has prep./et'
for such an event, he still holds out hopes that .afriirs
will be arranged, and that no danger or even embiw
rassasent at presentstbreatens the Principalities. If we
credit the accounts from Constantinople, it seems nor
impossible that the Porte May employ. in effecting tir
itself the pacification of Greece, the time which mass
elapse before the execution of the new measures which
may be agreed upon by the three Powers.. This at least
is the advice given it by the agents of the neutral
Powers, by which it would not only end all the -discos-
slow on the questions of interventiou. bet also week
toitself advantages which it would lose (even supposing
the most:favourable chances) by.persisting is its pre.eaU
situatios. It seems that the sweats who *hide here are
were sempleksilinforaiestet the istessionegt the Porte
an this -subject. for they- mat seafsdeotly prophet), •
happy solstice is es inidisof „suck eMical circus:

MANE%
ViiiiiiA. Isa. us. ' —I
..r .Of4tritYugal.nis said Maria
hada
theaiady,
othaethyeownng
al
hem Brasil to Vienna; she is expected hers in'Aprii.
accompanied• by the Archduchess Clement inn- liv.lso will
go to meet her on her landing. Her Majesty will be
placed under the immediate care of oar august Em-
press, and will remain at our. Court for xis yea:s. that
is, from her 9th to her 15th year, to receive her educa-
tion. It is said that the persons who are to form the
Court of the young Queen are already appointed. The
Emperor of Bread will defray the expenses.
In case Austria should be absolutely obliged to sta.-
tiou an army of observation on the frontiers, it is pro.'
pond to make a loan of thirty millions to cover the,
iiiin

espenses.
It is said that the eldest son of the Ps ince of Lichtes-
stein is going to marry the daughter of the English
,Ambassador, Sir Henry Wellesley.
PRIVATE COARESPOSDENCIL
Prince Alexander Ypsilanti sunk yesterriay tinder his
sufferings, in the arms of his brother Constantine. Prince
Rasunaofsky, formerly .Annbassador from Russia; and
his Consort, did not leave him et moment tell the last
.extremity. His funeral will take place tomorrow with-
out any ceremony.
M. de Caraman has just arrived from Paris. We now
know that M. de Ribeaupierre is not to come bete. The
final organization of. the Tory Administration in Eng-
land contributes to make us hope that new negotiation
ina the part of the three Powers will end in maintaining
race.

' •BRIASELs PAPE2S.
THE sEcpND caAmBER OF THU STATES GENERAL
lIMWE, Fp. 41.
The Chamber commenced the discussion of the Code
of Proceedings befote the Civil Courts. The debate was
on theist chap. of the Ist book, 44 Oa the prnciedirip
before the Judges of Cantons, the Tribunals of Anon-
'diisements, the Provinail Court; and the Supreme.
'Court:' Mr. Bartelemy, Member of the Committee
*which had chests up the Code; first spoke in favour of
it. Speaking of the foundation on which the Code was
to be built, he said, 40 While it was allowed that we
Witte not called upon to treats anything new, it was
liked whether these was no model either in foreign
countries or in our ancient legislation. Where should
... Ilmve found them? In Germany ? Whatever pro-
-sthat nation may have made in the sciences. it -is
. btful whether models of legislation can be found
st , the country being in a great measure still go-
'limed by Chanceries which are rather military than
civil. In England? Do we not know what the cele-
ited POI said in one of the late Sessions of Parlia-
ment, of dons which he intended to make to give
to his country a collection of its laws ? Is it not noto-
rious that' that empire is governed, as it were, by a
jusfeptudeice, the existence of which is subordinate to
as istnory of lawyers, and presents only a Chaos?.
'Welstel boilever, not disdained to .consult foreign
countries, where we could hope to derive any informa-
tion, dios we have distinguished the Code of the
Republic of Geneva, from which we have borrowed
some isrtieles." The Orator then skewed, that there was
little in the ancient legislation conformable to the pre-
sent state of thing; and that if the project now presented
were compared with what existed before, they would be
struck with the difference, and astonished with-the in-
credible prove's which has been made within these 90
years. Some other Members hiving spoken on both
Will the debate was adjourned.

THE Warr INDIES.
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3111 BUSIOSSOWS DISPATCH.
- ASCHISE OF AIIiIIIIBLT, JAMAICA, Dec. 14.
• airport made from the Committee oppoinied to take
inenconsideration the letter from Mr. Hoak* to his
Honour the Lieutestitt Governor, as follows:
Ma. Sreastavy-Your Committee appoisted to 4abe
into consideration the letter. of Mr. MigissOn to tie
Lieutenant Goiernor, and to report thereon- to the
House;, hove 'draws up Several- retaliations, snd have re-
plied to the objectiota. which Mr. Hoskiscrin Hates to
'have occasioned the disallowante of tbe Slav* Act Ilpg
his Majesty.
These resolotions, and ,the reply. your Commit*,
recommend to the consideration of the Hons..
amolved, Ist. That the House have karat with. me-
prise and disappointment, that the Cornin%h*eilfeivy
Council for Trade end Foreign Plant *,
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wised his Majesty to disallow the Acti . AMR
Woo, intituled 4AnMt • to alter and - jrat.
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Law.' ' - :
2d. That his Grace theAtiot of Manchester baying.

in Me epees* at the
his opinion " that the mildneit abd; upaptattea 'inch
were evinced throughout the law, - aid the bear vial
alteration produced in the condition of the slave in many
Particulars, would be highly satisfactory to his Ma-
jesty's Government," the House rather. expected to be
[honoured with the unreserved commendation of his
Majesty, than to have their labours contemned, and.
their sacrifices undervalued and rejected.
J. That this proceeding on the part of the King's
Ministers must shake the coafidence of the island in
their wisdom and justice, inasmuch as, for several years
'successively, plans of melioration have been pressed
tispon ttie House, and it has been earnestly suggested to
the House that the Imperial Parliament, and Great
'Britain generally, anxiously desired the amendment of
'the Slav Levi. With all that respect for the wishes of
'the King and of our fellow subjects,which, as belonging
to one comm >n empire, we feel bound to observe, this
frivute maturely weighed the various propositions made
'[l,rough the Secretary for the Colonies, and adopted out
only all of the propositions, which appeased to be in the
slightest degree-beneficial to the colony, but they even
conceded to Government in every point that was net
positive), mischievoirs, and in some of doe4ful, if not
of dangerous tendency. The Home do not venture to
reproach his Majesty't Government with vacillation and
caprice in the change of councils, which has led to the
disallowance of a la* once sti eagerly coveted, yet they
-find it impossible, in Mr. Huskisson's dispatch- to the
Lieutenant Governor, to discover any :Quid rbasen foi
the course that has been pursued.
Thai the House conceive this important error to
have been committed by iris Majesty's Government :
Instead of continuing the new Act with the institutions
of Jamaica. the advisers of the Crown have kept in sight
the Jaws istbdeuatoms of the Mother Country, and have
passed `ooft a law designed for the regulation-of
slava, es Itlklieet an Act to fetter the minds and per-
tain of aMO . Moreover, Majesty's ashtimeg
hive al "4-iegleeted the obvious props iety
antis% the new with the law. Had they deW4
to open the law of 1816, they would have found that
it wanted many of those humane provisions, whichtbe,
improved civilisation of the slaves enabled the House
to introduce into the law of 1826. If it be admitted that
the new law falls below the reasonablo boos of the
[King's Ministers, yet it far exceeds the old law in re-
straints upon the abuse of the master's authority, and
in *cies' rights conceded to the slaves. And had the two
Acts been judged by their respective merits, and in _the
same spirit of tenderness to the slaves, which the King's
Government has professed for so many years, it is con-
sidered by the House that the Act of 1816 would not
have been revived.

Stb. That the disallowed Slave Act, in thesclotheion
of slaves to give evidence in criminal cases, went be-
yond the expressed recommendation of the King's Go-
vernment; for in the second proposition of the Colonial
Minister, sent down to the House by the Duke of Man-
chesier, at -the, comaseocement of the last Session. and
declared by his Grace to have" received the unqualified
approbation of both Houses of Pall liament,"it is observed
that " the admission of the evidence of slaves is net to
extend to cases where a white person, or person of free
'condition, shall be charged with or prosecuted for any
apical crime.llowever,not only are slaves,by the disal.
iowid Act, permitted to give evidence in cases where
white and free persons are prosecuted for capital crimes,
but their evidence has actually been admitted in two
.81A-cases during the short operation of the Act. In
one, the offender, a white man, was convicted, partly
on slave evidence, of murder, and, in the ether, a man
of colon, ~was convicted of manslaughter solely on
inch evidence.
6th. That the House hear with_ pain that, although
this and other .4 valuable improvements are fully eau-
'mated by his Majeuy's Privy Coursed, yet it was im-
possible to overcome the objections to which other
enactments of.this law are open."
7th. That ,for. the information of his Majesty's Go-
irernment, and the justification of the House to his Ma-
4, the Heine will proceed to examine the objections,
which have presented the confirmation of the Act.
The BSd andba two followinf clauses are called an
invasion of that toleration to which all his Majesty's
subjects, whatever may be their civil condition, are
alike nailed." The reasoning that follows this doc-
trine is not of Weight enough to be considered, the doc-
Wee itself bein; utterly at variance with the institution.
of Jamaica. the owner is bound by law to lodge,
clothe, and feed his slaves; he provides for their
tomfort in infancy, in sickness, and in age, and, how-
ever useless or depraved they may be, this obligation
_cannot be evaded. If, therefore, slaves are protected
horn the ordinary casualties of life, and even from the
effects of their own indolence and thoughtlessness, and
often of their crimes, they necessarily incur obligations
to their master, unknown in societies where the connec-
tion between the upper and lower classes is more loosely
cemented. The BSd clause prohibits the preaching and
teaching of slaves, not because mischief might possibly
accrue, but because it had been found by experience, as
the preamble to the clause declares, to be attended with
the most pernicione consequences, and even with the
loss of life.
So long as the slave subsists at the cost of his master,
so long must that master's right be admitted to watch
over his action, on which depend his health and his life.
Neither health nor life can be secure if slaves are
allowed to unuttth tote each other by
understaudiags of e4c

ly inculcating their crude notions of missions,
and have free license to meet, under the pretence of
preaching, at unseasonable hours and at improper
places. The House duly appreciates **pious motives
of the Ring's Miaisters,who would extend theblessines
of religioa all ewer the world ; but, nevertheless, it is
their opinion that omens, however dignified in station
and zealous in the cause of Christianity, are eonspeteot
to judge of repletion: intended to restrain. rnal-
practsces of' igoaraat, superstitions, • amt lag
slave " unless duly kave ma idl“.11001•
with 'the Afrimusitkameter. by*lllme reside. ..seasons
them. These remarks equity apply 4641.."4411
clause. Meetings for religious weesbit..,oowies ana-
-1
-rise and sunset are prohibited sonly is jistilititoord
preachers, and it is believed that in no well
society are persons without character, or ofd oolhfel or
secret views, steered to go at large, under. Shelter of
the night, .amongst in ignorant peasantry, end make
upon their Minds an impression that may Le dictated
by political' or religious fanaticism. Ia England no
qf iettiimited meanipg is given'to toleration, as it is
pn farce leper this ,Raleina my. By Ai: ii2di
-rrc snip: t 56, it is provided flattesof reli-
gious worship must be certified end regiSeeteds ender
certain penalties for neglect; and by the wine law,
persons who shall teach in any place ',khan eansent.
of the owner or occupier are subject to a penalty. Li-
censes are never denied to persons having proper cre-
dentials, and Ministers so licenied are.aothorised to
worship till eight o'clock ; consequently petsons-, who
either have not applied for,or have been refused a license
must be considered as without character, and as wills
dangerous designs. Although the' slaves of Jamaica
have advanced rapidly in civilization within a very
few years, yet it is not pretended that their progress
has been so great, that all those guards tan be dispensed
with, which were thought essential by our predecessors.
The 83J and 84th aliases are not ionotetionse as Mr;
Huskisson seems to suppose. They. are taken front the
old Slave Law. and come again into operation on the
disallowance of the new law, with this difference that
the new law provides against any misconceptins of the
law in respect to Catholics and Jews, and permits la-
-ceased Ministers to perform Divine Worship at any
licensed place of worship, to the hour of eight ; and,
when it is remembered, that. in' Jamaica the setting of
the sun varies from half past five to half past six, it will
appear, that time enough is afforded for the night
worship of slaves.
The House notice with regret the error into which
Mr. Huskisson has fallen in concluding his observations
on the eighiy•foarth clause. There is oo invidioiss
tieetion contemplated therein in favour of. the Ro-
mail Catholics or the Jew., at the expense of the
Dissenters. The Legislature believed that there are
certain rites and festivals celebrated at night in the
Roman and Jewish churches, and it was in their anxiety
to avoid even the appearance of molesting the worship
of 'two orderly and loyal descriptions of persons, that
the offending proviso Was introduced into the clause.
The House might have expected that the late Act of
the Legislature to extend to Jews the privileges enjoyed
by his Majesty's Christian subjects, would have been
sufficient in itself to exempt the people of Jamaica from
the charge of intolerance. It may here be remarked,
that these two obnoxious clauses, with the amendments
aboVe noticed, have formed portions of the law of JAM
oleic: ever sincethe &ave Code was first enacted.
The next clause objected to is, the eighty fifth, and
it is to be defended by the same argensents which have
been used in defence of the eighty.third and eighty.
fourth. The Master provides all the necessaries of life
for his slave, and he has an unquestionable right to
guard against their misappropriation i.aud it is the duty
of his Representatives in Assembly to assist him in this
object by legislative provisions. The slave must neither
be suffered to injure his health and strength by nightly
wanderings, nor to strip himself of 'his clothing, and
barter his tools and his food, under pretence of con(' i-
buting to the support of itinerant expounders of the
Gospel. In the words of the clause, loan ample provi-
sion is already made by the public and by. private per-
sons for the religious instruction of slaves;" and persons,
whatever may be their profession and pretension, who
use that irresistible engine with weak minds, the power
of persuasion, to extort from slaves the hard-earned se-
ward of industry, and indirectly tempt them, when their
own resources tail, to rob their masters and their fellow
slaves, such persons so preying on the poverty, the
superstitious fears, and too often on the crimes of their
proselytes, brand themselves, by this act alone, with
meanness and hypticrisy, and deserve a far more heavy
punishment than the being compelled to disgorge a small
part of the prefits.jal their extortion. It_ is observed in
Mr. Haskissoneletter, that this clause affixes an un-
merited stigma on the collector of monies from slaves ;
but it is submitted that the extreme disgust and detes-
tation in which all free persons are held, who accept
gifts without return, and who in any way take advan-
tage of the easy disposition and ignorance of slaves, is
a feeling rather to be encouraged than suppressed.
Their peculium is thereby protected, and the want of a
positive law to secure them in its unmolested enjoyment
srois unfelt and unknown up to the hour when the disal-
lowed Slate 'Act was passed. When that law came
under the consideration of the Legislature, and it was
,determined to give to negro property that protection
by express law, whidh it before derived from usage, it
naturalli-followed that, in securing the negro from the
imaginary oppression of hit master, the Legislature
would notnleave him a prey to the oily and delusive
tongue of a self ordained preacher. This, prohibition
of levying a revenue on slaves is not, as Mr. Huskisson
terms it, a gratuitous aggravation of the evils of their
condition," but it is designed. as a security against the
avarice of unhallowed men, who are known to cajole
slaves out of their substance, anal where soft words fail,
who do not forbear to call up the most fearful images
to their assistance—threatening their simple followers
with the pains of hell fire, and with eternal damnation,
if they are slow and scanty in their contributions.
Mr. Huskisson says, in his letter to the Lieutenant.
Governor—" I cannot too distinctly impress upon you,
that it is the settled purpose of his Majesty's Govern-
ment to sanction no Colonial law which verdlessiy in-
fringes on the religious liberty of any cl ss r f -his Ma-
jesty's subjects; and you will under stand that you are
not to assent to any Bill imposing Any restraint of that
nature, unless a clause be st..erted 'or suspending its
operation until his Majesty's pleasure shall be known."
This instruction contains an absolute raed peremptory
denial of the rigbt of the Jamaica Legislature to pass
OR an. of the most important aadiesseutial subjects

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