The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

COt *tatttiman.

TUESDA Y EVEN INO, FEBRUARY 10, 19. A.

STJCKENCIIANGS, 12 0 CLOCK.—t...onsols opened at 9le t
and got up to with a good deal of business doing in the
early part of the morning. The price for money is 911.
Foustam FUNDS.—There is very little doing in the above
market, this morning. Spanish opened at 2W, at which
price they remain.

New Spanish, 1 to 17 —Old, 24a:—Columbian, 691 70
-Austrian, 5. —French Scrip, 9...t0 ;—Mexican Mines, 2,
7Si —Russian, 913—New Prussian 90i—Old, 92j
-Mexican, 5111.

We hive received this morning, by Expieqs,
of yestsasy's date, of whict the foilMVist •

tract :
The king of Spain has signed an Art, by which be ac-
knowledges a debt to France of 31 *ad assigns
as a security the Salt Factoriea of Arragoqi andlholip
of Miranda. The departure of the body-guard is a 0.70
rd. Covernment has published the follmring official ar-
ticle in an Extraordinary fiar•tte of to-day:—
Lieutenant Colonel liarrada, who was dispatched to
Cuba with intelligence of the deliverance of the
I:inv, anal to re-estaldish the authority
.of
his Majesty, has completely succeeded in his mission; and
front the bay of Cadiz, where he performs quarantine, he
has sent to the first Secretary of State the following com-
munication : _ _

" I arrived at Havanna the 9th Dec. and I immediately
transmitted my dispatches to the Capt.General.He cowmen
ced by dissolving [the revolutiOnary assembly, and broke
the Constitutional stone. The following day Deum was
assumed. Great praise is due to the Captain General I
his itistice and Loyalty.
The 'Castle of Saint Juan D'Ulloa continues to brave
all the tiforts of the Insurgents, and reliance can be placed
on his zeal for his Majesty. His artillery is immense. "
A Royal Decree announces that His Majesty has recom-
mended to ail ministers, and pa rtictilarly to that of the
War, to observe the strictest economy in their respective
departments. Paris, Feb. 8.

It is said that the opening of . the Chambers was fixed
for ith April, the day on which the llidassoa was passed.

Though our first regards are due to British interests at
home, yet the most conscientious dischirge of that duty
will not absolve us from the obligation of watching onr in-
terests abroad. There is t.o subject stated in the late
Royal Speech that will require more dispassionate and pro-
found Parliamentary investigation, than the presber
tracted state of our West India Colonies. It is pretty clear,
from the tone of independence assumed in the Assembly of
Jamaica, that our settlements in that quarter and ap-
proaching a crisis, which must lead to some More
permanent arrangement of the disputes between
the Planters aid the Advocates • fer—thrlthelithip.

of • Slavery, than has {yet taken place. Humanity,
after a forty years struggle with sordid selfishness and in-
terested prejudice, appeared so far to have gained a victory,
that the Planter and Negro-driver, whatever they at:night,
were ashamed to avow any longer the doctrine of Blacks
being an inferior race to themselves, and destined by
Heaven to be for ever " hewers of wood and drawers of
water." But though humanity succeeded in taking the
outworks, the citadel of interest, continued to be defended
by the most pertinacious obstinacy; and the abolition of the
Slave Trade, instead of gradually leading, as was expected,
to the emancipation of our Negro population is
the West Indies, the latter still continues to
deny them any participation in those essential rights,
which alone can make them free. A work has
just appeared from the pen af Mr. Stephen, a Headers's
who cannot be suspected of any partial leaning, and who
is every way competent to describe the actual condition 0
the. Negroes in our Islands, which places the usages an
customs now• prevailing in the Colonies in the clears*
light, and which deserves from the English public A
serious and attentive perusal. Spealciug of the legal a
qualification of Negroes giving' evidence against a
peen, he saya,—" It is evident, that if ever the wo
protecting the poor Negroes by Law against inor
oppression, or lawless violence; shall' be sincerely ,a
caciously entered npon,it mast begin at this polott. Get*