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THE CANADIAN SLAVE CASE

... nal et law can take into account, unless in case of special t stipulation. What has English law to do with Ame- oi rican Slavery, and its consequences ? Grant this de- 02 mand, and the Fugitive Slave Act becomes virtually ex- E tended to British territory ...

THE GERMAN EAST AFRICAN BILL

... opened, Count Herbert Bismarck said the Government in introducing the measure took its stand princi- pally on Dr Windthorst's slavery resolution. 'The ferment in East Africa had assumed larger dimensions and demanded heavy sacrifices, and the Empire had been ...

LONDON DIVORCE CASES

... tiere. liut, of eonrret', we are told that bite great tlitg is to strike a blow at, slavery. DtFirli tile whole of my life I have been readitig about these blows at slavery, but I Iave nveor beeoi aile to make out that they hlave had arty substalitial or' ...

GOSSIP FROM THE ATHENAEUM

... Portrait Gallery has received an impor- tant but unbeautiful addition in tihe gift of B. B. Haydon's large painting of the Anti-Slavery Conventionl held at the Freemasons' Tavern in 1840, under the presidency of Thomas Clarkson, about which picturea there is ...

A MARTYR OR A CRIMINAL?

... and a fanatic who carries his life in his hand t as carelessly as a glove is the most dangerous fanatic of , 'P all. But slavery is a thing well calculated to produce fanatics of the Captain Brown stamp, and to make martyrs of them when they die, as they ...

CRIME IN NAPLES

... been promoted from arc 'ery time to time in this city to the ruin of many families; inj 'rn- enough, too, of that system of slavery which has tic the drained whole villages in a neighbouring province of din ken young boys and girls, and sent them off under ...

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN AMERICA

... either to be biptised or to oj- leave the country. The King of Abyssinia, writes -Mr Allen, of the British and 'Foreign -Anti-Slavery Society, 4expects to enlist the sympathies of the Christian nations of Eiurope, and these ought to be so far given him as ...

INDIAN OUTRAGES

... Queen and Govern- ment, and appeals to the civilised nations of thoe orld to hear the cry of oppressed Indians living in slavery, declaring that there are millions of their Aryan brethren who are more entitled to thair consitleratioin than the inhabitants ...

THE AFGHAN SITUATION

... SPAIN. f THE SLAVERY QUESTION IN CUBA. THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE r ICING. MADRiD, Thursday.: The Senators and Deputies for Cuba were yester- day heard by the committee of the 'Chamber upon 'the t] bill for the Abolition of Slavery in that uolony ...

THE NORTH SEA LIQUOR TRAFFIC

... e. The real cause is set forth by the Eclair, whose remarks, thouh. applicable to the rejection Iof the Brussels Anti-Slavery Convention of 1890, are quite as applicable to the Liquor Traffic Convention of 1S7. It says:- L The Convention has been ...

EXTRAORDINARY CRIMINAL CAREER

... to be applied towards the sup -indetin ,eli port of the family of Mr Anderson, an unpaid lec- once r ed, turer to the Anti-Slavery Society, who had died, compal beleaving his family in straitened cirzumstances. The debt o1 prisoner seems to have led a strange ...

THE WILTSHIRE MURDER

... will live this day as my last. My motto is ' Die as a free man. That is better than to live as a shave. Anarchy forbids slavery. I amn not insane. Oh, no; but I do this act of suicide, for my brother is a saiscy fellow, who always wants his rights. ...