... SLAVERY. THE FRENCH WEST INDIA COLONIES The example of the practical abolition of slavery in our colonies has already begun to be felt in France, where the complete deliverance of the slaves in the British colonies has forced upon the French Cabinet the ...

... SLAVERY. On the motion of Mr. O'CONNELL, the following returns were ordered :—Copy of the minutes of evidence and report of the commissioners appointed by his Excellency the Governor of British Guiana on the hospital treatment of the sick, and the general ...

... SLAVERY. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from the Hibernian Anti-Slavery Society, praying that no negro that escaped into Canada might, under any circumstances, lose the liberty he acquired by once setting foot on the British territory. THE SEES OF BANGOR ...

... SLAVERY. Mr. VILLIERS inquired of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies, if he had received any report from the Governor of Ceylon as to the state of slavery in that colony ? Lord STANLEY said, that, not very long ago, he had received from the ...

... SLAVERY. Lord BROUGHAM then presented a petition from Mr. Thomas Clarkson, praying the House to turn a deaf ear to any proposition for letting in foreign sugar on equal terms with the produce of our own colonies, and afterwards addressed the House in ...

... SLAVERY. Self interest is the ruling principle which prompts men (white or black) to action. There may be some honourable exceptions to this rule, but they are like angels' visits, few and far between. The following anecdote, related to me by the gentleman ...

... SLAVERY Lord SUFFIELD, on presenting a petition from Wey-bridge, in Cornwall, and another petition from three united parishes of Ferns, and two other places in the county of Wexford, praying the immediate abolition of slavery, said that in the present ...

... SLAVERY, Mr. F. BUXTON wished to correct a misrepresentation which had gone abroad. He had not withdrawn his notice of the 19th,and had no intention of withdrawing it, except under certain circumstances. One of these was, that his Majesty's Government ...

... SLAVERY. SIR THOMAS LENNARD.— As a reformer, need I say that I hate tyranny under whatever form it may show itself? I will, therefore, do my best to put an end to the abominations of Slavery abroad, and the degrading punishment of flogging inflicted ...

... SLAVERY. Lord BROUGHAM wished to know if any application had been made to her Majesty's Government, in the shape of a memorial from British Guiana, calling for a suspension of the regulations respecting the corporal punishment of slaves; and, if so, what ...

... SLAVERY. Just Published, price Is. 6d. DEMERARA a Tale. By HARRIET M ARTINEAU. Being No. IV. of Illustrations of Political •w.cononty. N.Already published, I. LIFE in the WILDS. Second Edition: V. 11. The'HILL and VALLEY. mO. BROOKE and BROOKE-FARM. ' ...

... the Slave Trade and slavery in the Brazils and , Cuba are continued mainly for the sake of cultivating sugar. If there were no sugar plantations, and if sugar did not command a high price in Europe, there would be neither, slavery nor the Slave Trade ...