... SLAVERY. A. MinisteriaLprotest against slavery has been made in the Spanish Cortes. On Saturday Minister Becarra promised that a new Constitution s h ou ld b e b roug ht forward for th 9 Spanish. West India island of Porto Rico. In so pledg in g himself ...

... SLAVERY. Lord BROUGHAM, in presenting a petition from the Anti -slavery Association against the revival of the traffic in the West Indies and the West Coast of Africa, called the attention of the house to the proceedings that had lately taken place in ...

... the lawfulness of slavery in face of natural right. To have said more would have been to us irp the preroptive of the Chambers, to whom, and not to the Executive power, belongs the decreeing of the time and manner of extinguishing slavery. Agriculture is ...

... cherished slavery, quashed the act. Again, in 1712, a petition was drawn up and signed by many citizens of Philadelphia, proposing a tax of £2O a head. At the same time William Southeby presented one praying ' for the total abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania' ...

... SLAVERY QUESTION. It was hardly to have been expected that the series of measures passed at your last session, with the view of healing the sectional differences which had sprung up from the slavery and territorial questions should at once have realized ...

... AMERICAN SLAVERY. The Morris Town correspondence of the Bich mond _Despatch of January 23d, says:— There was an auction of 46 negroes here to-day and a slave-grownott oi fmtueh British traffic rshahef fiscl aavipvnererooahiguueumee produce into that Negro ...

... SLAVERY IN BRAZIL. Lord B 11OUGHAM inquired whether the noble earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would lay upon the table any papers relating to the suppression of the slave trade. Hitherto the proceedings of the Brazilian Government had ...

... THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Sir E. N. BUXTON presented petitions from various landowners in Dominica and Jamaica stating that they felt themselves aggrieved by the inertness of the Government in not causing their treaties with the Emperor of the Brazils to ...

... SLAVERY IN CUBA. The head of the revolutionary Government in Cuba has published a decree emancipating the slaves of the island. The principles laid down seem to be very moderate. All slaves are to be declared free so soon as their owners present themselves ...

... lawfulness of slavery in face of natural right. To have said more would have been to us irp the prerog alive of the Chambers, to whom, and not to the Executive power, belongs the decreeing of the time and manner of extinguishing slavery. Agriculture is ...

... SLAVERY IN TURKEY. A. letter from an English merchant in Smyrna throws light upon some features of Turkish life, which of late years have escaped attention. The writer relates various instances where slaves, who had escaped from brutal treatment, applied ...

... SLAVERY TO DIE, In presenting the abandonment of armed resistance to the national authority on the part of the insurgents as the only indispensable condition to ending the war on the part of the Government, I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery ...