... purpose. The initiation of American slavery lies at the door of England. The question is therefore one we should aproach tenderly and forbearingly. Our cotton trade makes us even the subsidisers of American slavery. Necessity, it is true, justifies this ...

... FOREIGN SLAVERY. Sir R. INGLIS gave notice that on the 10th of May I e would bring forward a motion on the subject of foreign slavery. GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTION. An Hon. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, said could state, on the part of Mr. Baillie ...

... NEGRO SLAVERY. I Lord COLVILLE said he rose to postpone a motion of ' which he had given notice, on the subject of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies. He regretted being obliged to postpone this motion, but he did so not from any fault of his ...

... NEGRO SLAVERY. Mr. LITTLETON presented five petitions from Newcastleunder-Line, Stone, and other places in the countyot Stafford, against negro slavery. Sir GEORGE MURRAY gave notice that be should, on Thursday next, move for leave to bring in a Bill ...

... NEGRO SLAVERY. Earl GROSVENOR, in presenting a petition from Worksop, in Northamptonshire, praying for the mitigation of Negro Slavery, adverted to some similar petition which he had presented on a former occasion. Their Lordships, he said, were aware ...

... NEGRO SLAVERY. Petitions for the abolition of Negro Slavery were presented —by Lord Talbot, from two places in the North Riding of Yorkshire; by Lord Somers, from the Mayor and Freemen of the city of Hereford—from other places in that county, and from ...

... SLAVERY IN INDIA. Mr. O'CONNELL wished to ask the right hon. baronet, the President of the Board of Control, when the report of the commission appointed in 1839, to inquire into the subject of slavery in India, would be laid before the house? Sir J. C ...

... SLAVERY. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—Mr. Westhead thinks that a differential duty placed on slave-grown cotton would hasten the period of emancipation. Of this there can be no doubt, if placed upon all slave products ' as slaves then would become valueless; ...

... NEGRO SLAVERY. Mr. WILKS presented a petition from a certain congregation of Baptists, complaining of the treatment which the Missionaries experienced in the West Indies, and praying for the total abolition of negro slavery. ...

... COLONIAL SLAVERY. Mr. STANLEY moved the order of the day for the House resolving itself into Committee on the Colonial Slavery Bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL wished to know from the Noble Lord (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) whether, in case of the debate on ...

... COLONIAL SLAVERY. The following are the Resolutions for the Abolition of Colonial Slavery, proposed by Mr. Secretary Stanley, 14th May, 1833: 1. That it is the opinion of this Committee that immediate and effectual measures be taken for the entire abolition ...

... COTTON AND SLAVERY. TO THE EDITOR. t, S ,l! l ,—lt is now nearly a month since the papers relative It trade which we are told is as 'brisk as ever, t h e te,promised to 'be laid on the table; and, I hope , a fter tdu ct ° aYs, some member will move for ...