... SLAVERY IN CHINA. It may not be generally known th .t slavery still exists in China. The Chinese law recognises slavery. The penal code provides punishments for the master who obtains the daughter of a free man in marriage for his slave, for the slave ...

... SLAVERY IN TURKEY. ABOLITION OF THE TRADE IN BLACKS. The following is the text of the law prohibiting the trade in black slaves throughout the Ottoman Empire. The law has been drawn up by the Porte, and has been sanctioned by Imperial Irade : Art 1. The ...

... THE SLAVERY OF DRINK. The very important aubj.'ct of the drinking h 'hits of our own and other countries ham attracted a great deal of attention lately, and resulted in • regular newspaper contn.verny, two leading iu.wning °mites. poteries devoting ...

... WHITE SLAVERY IN HOLLAND. It would seem that the evils of long hours of work and low wages are not confined to these shores. Sweating' is as prevalent in Holland as it is with us. The German Arc?aro fur Socials Greet zgebtineg, discussing the preliminary ...

... SLAVERY LN BRAZIL. On Wednesday morning, a number of ladies and tuteriated iu the abulitiuu of &Livery, entrotained Senhur Joaquini Nabucu, .he draunguished of the movement an the Brazilian Legislature, at. breast:tat at the Charing Cress Hotel. Tha chair ...

... SLAVERY IN LAST AFRICA. News of a startling character has been meshed bore from &gam y°. reming greM among the Zanzibar Arabs (the Zanzibar int of the Smarlarti says). It opposes that the Mem= adminiotrator there. in oppoidtlee the Ilehan's recent decree ...

... opening of the present century slavery was practically noa-existerit in British North American provinces. It was not for halt a century that the United States followed so excellent as example, and ceased to regard slavery as legal. The contrast presented ...

... chief Rasohed, the Vali of the Falls district, according to which Captain Jacques and his companions of the Belgian Anti- Slavery Expedition bad been massacred, that the same fate had overtaken Captain Bia and his men in the %Mange district, and that the ...

... things, His Holiness said: There are two things in the world at present which need especial attention—slavery and the social question. To abolish slavery I have established colleges and am sending out missionaries into Africa, and whereever men are held ...

... ER T. 1. ITOTTON, PART. . abolition of slavery. His father wam a member of Parliament, and one of his brother' represented Andover for five years in the House of Commons. Sir Thomas himself was M.P. for Lyme Regis from 1865 to 1868. The Governor•eleot ...

... the African explorer, has delivered a lecture in Vienna on the Slave Trade question. Dr. Baumann is opposed to the Anti- Slavery movement, which be believes will have exactly the contrary effect to that which is intended. He is of opinion that the e ...

... the late Sir B I ward North Buxton, M.P., and grandson of a dirtinguiehed philanthropist and advocate of the abolition of slavery. Born in 1837, he was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, tsking the degree of M.A. in ma. The year previous ...