... humiliating as it is—that slavery is carried on, not only by the Sultan of Zanzibar, but by those responsible for the Government of the British Empire. The excuse given for it is, that there is danger of the slave-owners revolting if slavery was abolished. What ...

... rOLITlCAL SLAVERY. It were a thrice-told tale to discourse about the Slave Circular. That famous document has been beaten out like corn under the flail. There is lie grain of wheat to be found among the wasie straw of parliamentary rhetoric. The nood ...

... papers, respecting it. The same nobk duke, replying to Lord Shaftesbury, who asked whether the Government intended to suppress slavery in Cyprus, said Government would be in a position to state what course they intended to pursue when they had received Sir ...

... interfere with the status of domestic slavery in Zanzibar, nor with the b'^ia iide transport of slaves from one part of the Sultan's territory to another, which does not indicate that deep abhorrence of slavery now expressed on public platforms. More ...

... of Grrf^afe Britain were indebted very deeply indeed to their coloured brethren, as we had been far too prone to look on slavery as a heathen institution, and let it never be forgotten that it was the shameful legacy we left. and; for which we were in ...

... fighting for what the South Wales miners fought fat in the seventies, resisting the policy which would take them back to slavery, defending them- selves against being compelled to live according to the dictates of one man. He regretted his Lordship's ...

... on board any of her Majesty's ships should be treated as free, and neither removed nor ordered to leave on the ground of slavery and that an address should be presented to the Crown for the with- drawal of all circulars limiting the discretion of 0001- ...

... from a political and financial point of view. The revenue was rjkKidly increasing, and the ordinance for the. abolition of slavery was working Stcoothty, except in so far as the intermixture of French stations with our own upon tbs coast create a conflict ...

... to Africa, gives a favourable account of the new settlement at Lake Nyassa in a letter to Jupiter Junior. He states that slavery has depopulated many of the fairest parts, but that the common people of the neigh- bourhood worship the very name of the ...

... for the forced labour impos- d upon fh natives of a portion of South Africa, and have thus intro. duced a modified firm of slavery under the Government of Grent Britain Mr. Jones, in the course of his remarks, said that the war on the Indian frontier was ...

... utter abhorence of the aecureed systena r slavery, the cornerstone of the constit. Ution of the Confederate States, and hopes that the Union tnay be firmiy re-establiahed by the total overthrow of Negro Slavery. , f ~~~EDWÆD WILLIAMS, Chairoman. Derbyniodd ...

... in mind that, although her Majesty's Government is desirous by every means in its power to remove or mitigate the evils of slavery, yet her Majesty's ships are not intended for the reception of persons other than their officers and crew. A commanding officer ...