... + ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING IN THE TOWN HALL. On Thursday evening, a meeting against slavery was held iv the Town Hail. There was a good attendance- In the unavoidable absence of the Mayor, who was ou corporate business in London, the Key. Canon Birch presided ...

... cards wUI not ward off the blow when the inevitable hour arrives. By attempting to repre- sent Mr. Thwaites as the friend of slavery and Mr. Briggs as the advocate of freedom for the slave, they are pandering to the ignorance and the passions of the people ...

... too often, that we bad a slavery existing ia our very midst, a slavery against which we, and against which the Church of England, had not worked so successfully, if it had worked as earnestly, as it had for the abolition of slavery amongst the negroes. He ...

... sufficient reason for thus recei.ing him, bearing in mind that while the British Government desires to mitigate the horrors of slavery, Her Majesty's ships are not intended for the reception of other persons than their own officers and crews. If a fugitive ...

... enthusiastic I meeting was held iv the Music Hall, Sheffield, to j protest against the slave trade in East Africa, and I against slavery in otber parts of the world. The Bey Dr. Sale, Vicar of Sheffield, presided, and he was supported by the clergy and ministers ...

... hundred workmen are thrown out of em- ployment. SPAIN AND THE SLAVERY QUESTION. A telegram from Bilbao states that the announce- ment recently made that tha law for the gradual abolition of slavery bad been signed by tbe King ia incorrect. It is merely the ...

... engaged in its pub- lication. The Tribune haa alao been an earnest ad- vocate of temperance, woman's rights, the abolition of slavery and capital punishment, and other reforms, and is recognised as the organ of the extreme or Radical Republican party. In 1848 ...

... the S7rv Tm^J °Wn Inthrald in my chains by mv ?? , I could bear aU hi« ?? lord. If only to feel that thy wfll £Sa_ That slavery and K^J^gSL Ah. then I could bow S?i ,°Ter rave* To the fate of theS^ Wt The beast of the field. ?? ?? _ By instinct their ...

... result in the unity of the country under free institutions, and aa the American civil war, with Us result in the abohtion of slavery, gave an impulse to the Liberal move- ment, so the disasters of France, though only in part the fruit of her political vagaries ...

... friends for their kind efforts in my favour. Slavery in Ecypt. — The following reply has be ...

... informa- tion as to the alleged prevalence of slavery in the Island of Cyprus. — Lord Cardwell said that as the British flag was floating in the island the noble* Marquis could not mean to say that slavery could possibly exist there now. — Lord Lifford ...

... of any treaty with so determined an upholder of slavery would be practically fruitloas. The whole atmosphere of Z _uzi- bar and almost the whole population are so favourable to the prolongation of slavery by every means, that any treaty eujjagemeuts would ...