... SLAVERY AND LETTERS. The latest addition to the roll American poets, Mr Maurice Thomson, name that is destined to become better known, native of the South ; and he has just published an essay in which he gives a luminous explanation of why the South has ...

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... SLAVERY IN INDIA. The runjaub authorities are just now engaged In trying to stop a traffic in slaves which is said to have existed from time immemorial. So the Pa ily New,: Calcutta correspondent tells us. But what have the runjaub authorities been thinking ...

... THE CONFERENCE ON SLAVERY. At the forthcoming Conference upon Slavery, to be held Brussels, the following representatives of this country have been appointed tiio Government to act as Plenipotentiaries :—Lord Vivian and Sir John Kirk, assisted the following ...

... SLAVERY IN CUBA. Madrid, Friday,—The Council of State today adopted bill regulating the conditions service of the negroes in Cuba, reducing the number of working hours, and prohibiting corporal punishment. Tub ALBANIANS and MONTENEGRINS. Ragusa. Friday ...

... SLAVERY IN CUBA. Emancipation appears to be making way in Cuba at last. Some reports from the English Consul-General and Vice-Consols in Cuba, which have just been issued, show that steady progress is being made. Since the Muret Law tame into operation ...

... SLAVERY IN CHINA. In a recent report to the Department of State in Washington, Colonel Denby, the United States Minister to Pekin, says that Chinese writers attribute the origin of slavery in that country to crime, the first slaves being felons. They ...

... SLAVERY AND LABOUR. The difficulties in regard to labour supply which follow the emancipation of slaves are referred to in reports by Mr. W. F. Segrace from Baltimore, and by Mr. F. S. Hampshire, Acting Consul at Santos, in Brazil. Mr. Segrave says that ...

... BRITISH SLAVERY. In article on the above subject the Liverpool Porcupine says ; —And yet now, even now, with that the wall—hand writing in the blood of Burke and Cavendish, handwriting surely as awestriking and ominous as ever gleamed lurid with doom ...

... SLAVERY IN TANGIER A correspondent, telegraphing from Gibraltar cn Monday, says:— I heard of the sale of another slave in Tangier. It was that of a woman who was sold for 37 dols. Not long since a slave (a woman) was admitted to the French hospital, ...

... SLAVERY IN EGYPT. A deputation, consisting of several members of Parliament and supporters of the British Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, waited upon Earl Granville yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office, to urge upon Government the necessity for exerting ...

... TRAMCAR AND 'BUS SLAVERY. One of the speakers at the early morning meetleg of the tramway and 'bus men in London, over which Lord Rosebery presided, told his story in a stirring, manly fashion, and it was quite strong enough to excite general sympathy ...