... that gallant and lamented soldier; and, pass, ing over his earlier services, whilst was in subordinate situations, in the West Indies, Corsica, and elsewhere, we shall lay before our readers tome of tbe opinions expressed by Ihe author of Tbe Subaltern (for ...

... countrymen’s civil as well of every description of Reform. No doubt, the friends of gradual emancipation to the Slaves, in the West Indies, wish it to be equally slow in its progress, in our Colonies, as it was in the mother country. A happy illustration of the ...

... the British Constitution—to the design of the Toleration Acts—and to the ess« mial rights of our fellow subjects in the West Indies, we regard as decisive proof of the mcorrigib’e nature of the system of colonial slavery, and an additional reason for seeking ...

... similar crisis come it would; and there is no hope that our countrymen could be induced, in such a quarrel, to recompense the West Indies. These are our notions regarding the practicability of gradual emancipation:—we have also strong doubts whether the idea ...

... that a'l this loss and privation, and restraint, is undergone for purpose under Heaven, hut to enable the planters in the West Indies indulge their expensive taste for flogging of paying labourers; and perpetuate a •vstem more ruinous human life and human ...

... Cholera, early in November, was rapidly descending the ' and wou'd, doubt, reach New Orleans, whence would easily spread the West Indies and South America. It had scarcely been felt Boston, and in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland. . n d Prince Edward ...

... forward to demand, categorical- Jy, whether the Candidates would support the immediate emancipation of the slaves, in the West Indies; and be would define he meant by immediate emancipation, that there might be no fencing about terma. He meant, then, that ...

... ihis House never did admit the rieht of the House of Commons to legislate on the internal alfjirs Jamaica, even »heu the West Indies were indirectly represented in Parliament, never can concede that a House of Commons, which is to exist upon ihe principle ...

... and, will seen from the extracts we are about to make, their masters fully rival, in cruelty, the slave-drivers of the West Indies One of the persons examined, was Alexander Dean, an “overlooker at Dundee, aged about 27, and who had been about years ...

... fourths of the consumption, or 213,000 lbs. The East Indies about 20,000.000. The West Indies 1.600,000 only. All the cotton, except the growth of the East and West Indies, pays a duty of |d. per lb. This duty would, last year, exceed 690,000/.; and would ...

... a degree, he goes, or is rather sent, to Ireland, with feelings similar to those of rich planter's heir in visiting the West Indies. He has heard the people are but one remove above savages; and, as he neither understands their customs, nor has any interest ...

... and Captain Hart, we believe, will start, but we imagine the others will decline —Ballythannon Herald. Slavery in the West Indies —A Cabinet Council was held, last night, at the house of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the subject, as we understand ...