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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CARACTACUS IN ROME

... the loss of thiem ' ble. If it is thy will to r command the universe? ery is it a reason we should voluntarily accept, ,iii slavery I Had I yielded sooner, thy for- c , tune and my glory would have' been less,. and I ;bis oblivion would soon have followed ...

THE SOUDAN CAMPAIGN

... merely onl the pacific character of the- population. By twvo famnous proclesiatiosn lie staved off the burning question of slavery, and then set about to organise means to smash ip the Mohdi. He urged first that Zebehr Pasha, should he seist to set up ...

LAND [ill] SCOTLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME

... illusion; and if the days to which he had been refer' ring were ignorant of poverty, it~ was greatly due tb ths fact that slavery held its piaee their economy; the serfs and slaves -were the poor of these ancient times. In fhis connection M~r Jamieson ...

HELPFUL WIVES

... fact that some of the mewi have kissed the rbakles 3, which a wife imposes, and hlwo either thought or e, said, If this be slavery, who'd be free '. Luther, ie speaking of hiH wife, said, 1 I would not exchange my d. poverty, with her, for all the riches ...

MR. HENRY GEORGE ON TRADE DEPRESSION

... newiispaers said in his own country when the. cc slavery st~ruggle beagan. (Applause.) If Any one P1 looked over the American papers of that day, he would ti find the very saine deronciations ot the auti~slavery agitators that 'were now levelled against the ...

DOUBLE MURDER AT NOTTINGHAM

... Arab troupe of acrobats, who have been performing in this city, con- tains a number of English children in a condition of slavery. It is said there are no fewer than twelvei of i them, and that, under a guise of apprenticeship, they were actually sold ...

CONSERVATIVE V. LIBERAL RULE

... Colonies. .61,000,000. EGYPT AND THIE SOUYDAN. CO'NSI ER VATTYJ-i., LTBERAL. ORDE, PACE rlOSIl'~tIT. , ANARCHY, WAiL, RUUI\, SLAVERY. Lord lBeaclnsiieild hsuea~rd Brii ah mil~ilio's over Mi' Gladtonso eamad fivu ldoollty cauup'ignoi, coa.A. Egy~ ad te fucoCelot ...

PARLIAMENTARY NEWS

... of regia the natives rather than that the 3atives were the afraid of the Boers. Nevertheless the supprts- smnurd lsion of slavery would be insisted upon, end other move I precantions taken to secure the safety and highl .comfort ef the natives. The debate ...