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SLAVERY.—INTERESTING INVESTIGATION

... who had claimed their freedom, Let net the advocates of slavery hope from'this fact to shelter their system from'tbe odieim which it deserves; fur be it re- wemlsered, that in Bermnda slavery exists in a fornl comparn- tively mild, and that even in this ...

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 6

... a mouhif'ied slavery shiotld be perotitted lit England, which, would he followed iii the Coilonies, he expressly says (takting it for gzranted that tile modified slavery inl Etgignd would not at nil1 tulfeci the conl- lihtion of slavery in thle Colonies) ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 19

... put in jeopardy, without a complete indemnity against the possible consequences resulting from the abolition of slavery. The crime of slavery, however, was the crime of the nation, and every individual of the nation ought to contribute his efforts to put ...

INSOLENCE OF THE POLICE

... traust in~te people tyrannical laws, and to reduce this countjiy, Whiffilv vainly bosts of its free iiuti to t ndfiat.bect slavery. . S ure .it ,is,qhliiost time for .the . people to have some power in the m~amiemfnt of their ouiu *ir*, tbey ot~ht, 'in ...

THE NAVIGATION LAWS

... Commons by Lord Palmerston, when he objected to Mr. Ctsrlwell being on tile slavery committee [hear, hear]. Lord Palmerstonn said that the town of Liverpool having au interest in slavery, Mr. Cardwell would not beso free to exercise his own judgment as other ...

POLICE

... LORD MASYOR thought that the age of the child was too tender, and that a ten years' apprenticeship was too long a course of slavery to doom any human being to. Alderman COWAN held the same opinion, and questioned the boy as to his fancy for the business ...

THE HANGMAN AND THE JUDGE; OR, A LETTER FROM JACK KETCH TO MR. JUSTICE ALDERSON, REVISED BY THE ORDINARY OF ..

... wife of hiI bosom, the children she might have borne to him, his father, if he had one; and be would have to lead a life of slavery, degradation, and misery, in a foreign land, where he would bave no one to solace him, and where he would he severely puuished: ...

HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY—NOV. 13

... Gibraltar in 1818, And imported to Barbadoes, and from thence to Adtitila in 1820, and there illegally detain ed in a state of slavery, c litrary to tbe provisions of the Slave (Cneohihalion Act. It was alsa stated in anether Court, that John Smith and Raclel ...

OLD BAILEY

... abolition of slavery ci from the Dey of Algiers, heretofore receiving sums of to money firomn the Ironmonger's Companiy for the redemp- its tion of British slaves, bequeathed to them in trust, by ha will of a former member having bwen himselfin slavery.' d We ...

IRELAND

... Ohio, which cojitaithed an argument in favour of slavery. He besides sass, with tp ?? that it appeared in the columcns of the Piloi. He denounced that letter. It came from Ohio, where there was no slavery; and three persons who called themselves Irishmen ...

Petitions for the Reduction of Postage

... Parliament as- they did in the ^ last,, they willl exeed tho- enormocus number -presented for .the.total abolition of 1egrO slavery. In thesession of 1837 file postage petltions only-. were presented to the House of Commone ; in that of 1838, S20, whieh ...