The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

ROYAL AMPIIITHEATRF

;SIGNOR NAGEL, from the Royal Theatres Stockholm,
10 Berlin, and Brussels, begs most respectfully to acquaint
the Nobility, Gentry, and Public of Liverpool and its Vi-
cinity, that he has made arrangements with the Lessee of the
above place for a GRAND MASQUED BALL, to take
place on TUESDAY EVENING, January 17, 1843, on which
occasion the entire of the Pit and Circle will be boarded over,
so as to form a Magnificent Salon d'Danse.

The Theatre wilrbe'decorated with Emblematical Devices,
and Brilliantly Illuminated: every attention paid to the
comfort and convenience of Visitors, and will be conducted
on the same scale, which has rendered this species of Enter-

tainments so popular in London, Paris, Stockholm, Vie
St. Petershurgh, and other Cities.
In the course of the Evening, Groups of Ballerines and
enliven the proceedings. as intro-
s, Stockholm, and at the GRAND

at the Royal Festiva

FESTA DI NAPOLI

'he Orchestra will
erintendance of Mr

full and efficient, and under the able
HUGHES, Leader.

Prices of-Admission --Single Ticket, Gentleman's, 55.;
Single Ditto, Lady's. 4s. ; Double Ticket, admitting a Lady
and Gentleman, 7s. 6d.; Family Ticket, admitting Six Per-
sons, LI h.—Boxes, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Tickets to be obtained of SIGNOR NAGEL, at the Am-
phitheatre, and at the different Music Sellers.

The Doors will Open Half-an-hour after the close of the
usual Performance, which will terminate at an early hour,
and Dancing will commence immediately.

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labourers into our .tropical colonies—as affording, at

onee, the surest means of restoring the prosperity of

those possessions, and, at the same time, of die-

couraging the slave traffic of foreign nations—are
our readers and the public. Guided
convictions, we have resolutely adhered

by our sincere

clvocacy of such a system, disregarding, alike,

the negro race and the sneers and slanders of those

who, under the cloa

of anti-slavery zeal, soug

to carry on a war of extermination against the British

planter ; and the gratifying result

—we are not so

egotistical as to say of our labours, for those labours

he country—:

at length before us

A committee of

Parliament has recognised the overpowering necessity
of such a measure of aid to our colonial brethren ; and
the opinions of the present government, with respect
to its details and extent, have just been placed before
the public.

These opinions are contained in a " STATEMENT,"
which has been published during the past week, em-
bodying the suggestions made by a deputation of gen-
tlemen, with respect to the future emigration from the
west coast of Africa to the West Indies, and LORD
STANLEY'S decisions upon them." The document in
question is somewhat too-long to allow its being trans-
ferred entire into our columns ; but we shall endea-

your to furnish the reader with what we conceive
likely to be the course of future legislation upon the
subject, so far as we can gather it from Lord Stanley's

intimation of his view

And Ist

As a condition of their receiving the

advantages of a government system of immigration,

the local colonial legislatures will be required " to
prohibit the reception of immigrants brought in any

2ndly. Proclamation will be made by the governor
of Sierra Leone, of emigration to the West Indies
having been made a government measure, and he

must he prepared to give every encouragement to

such emigration,

3rdly. The governor of Sierra Leone to send for-
ward to the West Indies all slaves captured by her
Majesty's cruisers—provided such captured slaves do
not object to go. Upon this head his lordship does not
bind himself until he shall have communicated with
the governor; but is of opinion that it may be ar-
nged, and that the Africans will he henefitted by it.
th Portugal, however, the

Under the late treaty v

mixed commission courts will no longer sit at Sierra
; but at the Cape of Good Hope, Bona Vista,
and Loanda, for Africa, and at Jamaica for the West

Indies

Under this treaty, moreover,

the capturing

nation takes charge of the Africans liberated under the

capture

The extension of the measure to the British settle-

ments on the Gambia, his lordship cannot, at present,
consent to; and leaves its reference to the United
States " to be separately dealt with."
4thly. As to the MODE OF TRANSPORT. All
emigration from the west coast of Africa to the West
Indies shall be carried on " by means of vessels hired
.
by a government agent, as in the case of transports;
the whole expense to be repaid by the colonies to which
the emigrants may go "
Government cannot enter-
tain the proposal that its steamers should be employed
(owing to the expense). In the first instance, " three
government transports, capable of carrying
grants each, shall be employed in maintaining a con-
stant communication between Sierra Leone and the
West Indies ;" and " the Lords of the Admiralty have
agreed to place an agent on board any vessels which
may he taken up for this purpose, and approved by
the Secretary of State."
sthly. ROUTE, &c. OF THE VESSELS. On the
ground that by restricting the measure in the first
instance to three colonies—Guiana, Jamaica, and
'Trinidad—which have already the necessary funds
provided, its operation may take place more speedily,
each of the colonies will have a separate vessel, the
expense of which it will have to pay, and whose route
will be therefore direct. It is not intended, however,
so soon as the other settlements—Tobago, St. Vincent,
&e.—have raised the funds required fur the satisfaction
of the government, to obstruct for a moment their par-
ticipation in the benefits of the scheme. The details
of the route and the proportioning of the expenses will
then, so far as these do not interfere with the working
of the whole plan, be left to be arranged amongst the
colonies themselves.

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Gthly. PASSAGES BACK TO SIERRA LEONE ti

be given to all emigrants, "at a rate proportionate to
the period of their residence, during the first five years
after their landing in the colony ; and on the expiration
of that time, if they have not been across in the inte-
rim, a free passage." The provision, that they should
not have been across in he interim, Lord Stanley sug-
gests should not apply to any who may have gone
back as delegates.
ithly. OCCASIONAL VESSELS may be taken up,
when required, in this country; but the proposition,
to place the power of chartering on the spot in the
hands of the governor of Sierra Leone, Lord Stanley
has, at present, a difficulty in acceding to.
Bthly. EMIGRATION AGENTS. The government
agent at Sierra Leone to be continued, and be in-
structed to regulate the time and order of precedence
of the transports, and give public notices of such time
and order.

gthly. COLONIAL AGENTS AT SIERRA LEONE.
One agent, acting for all the colonies, is thought to be
most advisable
; but for the present the decision with
respect to this matter is left to the colonies themselves.
The governor of Sierra Leone will have the power of
suspending the duties of any agent of whose mode of
action he may disapprove, referring the case to the
Secretary of State, and appointing a successor during
the interval. Where maintenance of the emigrants
previous to sailing, and advances for clothes, &c. are
requisite, such emigrants to be placed and maintained

at some depot under the inspection of a governme

emigration agent,general at Sierra Leone; and care is
to be taken that such advance is not to be made a debt
against the emigrant. Agents are not allowed to
enter into any
specific agreements for wages ; but
pifying the current rate of wages
con-
fine themF.elves to issuing public notices of the latest
periodical return, sec
in the colonies. Lord Stanley deprecates the employ-
merit of returned delegates, as subagents in collecting
emigrants in the interior ; or the employment of such
agents at all.

RELAXATION OF EXISTING RESTRICTIONS. Un-
der this head we may briefly state that, whilst his

lordship agrees to some of the relaxations propoied in
the existing restrictions upon emigration, created by
a recent order in council relating to the colony of
Sierra Leone, those restrictions are left sufficiently

stringent, if not indeed too stringent, for the pro-
tection of the African from any imposition on the part
of the colonists.

Faithfully, we believe, we have given the substance
of the document before us, and perhaps more intel-
ligibly, to the general reader, than it could be readily
gathered from the original itself; and now, we may
ask, is there anything in the principles and details
here laid down at which the most ardent friend of
emancipation can except? We think there is not;
and yet we are fully prepared to find the measure,
which government are about to frame in accordance
with them, assailed, by a section of the pseudo-
humanists and assumed especial friends of the African
race, with furious and unrelenting hostility. We shall
he told that immigration, even thus watched by all the
vigilance of government, is but a disguised and
legalised slave•traffic ; that the condition of the immi-
grants will he but a modified form of slavery; that the
emigration agent is but a licensed crimp ; and that
the transports, in which the emigrants are to be con-
veyed, are but slave-ships, liable to all the miseries and
fatalities which attend the middle passage. To the
good sense of the people of England we willingly
leave the task of determining the justice of these ob-
jections, and the purity of motive of thf parties by
whom they will be made. With respect to the good
faith of the statesman by whom the measure is being
drawn up, right-minded and candid men will have few

misgivings ; and, as to the mode of conveyance, surely,
that which is sufficient for our gallant fellow-country-
when sent to fight the battles of England in a
foreign land, is not insufficient for the Africans in
Sierra Leone, just liberated from beneath the hatches
of the foreign slave trader.