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other fiscal regulations, shall be re- 
moved ;— 
That the slaves shall be protected by 
law iu the possession, and also in the trans- 
mission, by bequest or otherwise, of any 
property they may acquire ;— 
That means shall be provided of reli- 
gious instruction for the slaves, and of 
Christian education for their children ;— 
That the driving system shall be pe-- 
remptorily aud entirely abolished, so that 
. the whip shall no longer be the stimulant 
of labour ;— 
That an end shall also be absolutely put 
to the degrading corporal punishment of 
females ; and that measures shall be taken 
to restrain, generally, the power of arbi- 
trary punishment, and to prevent its 
abuse ;—= 
That, the means of religious instruction 
being provided, the Sundays shall be given 
up to the slaves for rest, recreation, and 
religious instruction and worship (Sunday 
markets being abolished); and that equi- 
valent time shall be allowed them, on other 
days, for the cultivation of their provision 
grounds ;— 
That the marriage of slaves shall be au- 
thorised, and sanctioned by law; and that 
they shall likewise be protected in the 
enjoyment of their connubial rights. 
In reviewing the resolutions adopted 
by parliament, and the declared inten- 
tions of his Majesty’s government, the 
committee see very abundant cause of 
congratulation. They feel much grati- 
fied, both by the admissions which they 
involve, and by the concurrent determi- 
nation, which bas been expressed by his 
Majesty’s government and by parlia- 
ment, to proceed to the immediate re- 
dress of some of the existing evils, and to 
secure eventuaily the extinction of the 
very state of slavery. 
Let not, however, the friends of our 
enslaved fellow-subjects assume that 
their work is accomplished. In fact, it 
is only begun. Weate ouly entering on 
the ficld of ourlabours. We have made, 
it-is true, a fair and hopeful commence- 
ment. The influence of the public 
feeling which has been so remarkably 
displayed, has effected much, But the 
ground we have already gained may be 
Jost; and, still more, our farther pro- 
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gress may be delayed, or even wholly 
obstructed, if we should remit our 
efforts. Nothing which has oceurred 
ought to have the effect of relaxing, in 
the very sliglitest degree, our vigilance 
and activity. On the contrary, the snc- 
cess already obtained should only sti- 
mulate us to increased exertion; for 
whatever measures, with a view to the 
ultimate attainment of our objects, were 
previously deemed necessary, may be 
considered as no less imperiously called 
for at the present moment. 
In. this persuasion, the committee 
would particularly recommend that 
associations should be formed in every. 
part of the United Kingdom, for the 
purpose of co-operating to diffuse infor- 
mation, to procure the reqnisite funds, 
and to call forth the distinct expression 
of public opinion on the subject. 
The committee feel that their cause 
owes much to those petitioners who, in’ 
the last session, addressed parliament 
with such promptitude and effect. They 
trust that the same earnest pleadings 
will be renewed at an early period of 
the next session. They trust that, not 
only from the same places which have, 
already raised their voice in the sacred 
cause of justice and humanity, but from, 
every county and every town in the 
United Kingdom, one energetic and 
concurrent appeal will be made to both 
houses of the Jegislature, in behalf of 
our enslaved fellow-subjects; praying 
that they may be admitted, at the earliest 
safe and practicable period, to a partici- 
pation in those civil rights and_privi- 
leges, and in those moral and religious 
blessings, which are enjoyed by other 
classes of his Majesty’s subjects: and 
that this nation may not be permitted to 
incur the farther guilt (vow that our 
eyes are opened to the flagrant iniquity 
of such a course of conduct) of daily 
augmenting the miserable victims of an 
unjust and merciless policy, by suliject- 
ing the children, who may hereafter be 
born, to the same state of abject and de- 
grading bondage to which we have been 
the criminal instruments of reducing 
their progenitors. 
NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. 
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Overture, composed and published for a 
complete land; by William Howgill, of 
Whiteliaven. 7s. 6d. 
HIS overture, which consists of 
three ably-conceived aid well- 
coutrasied movements, is Hot published in 
score, but in separate parts. The picce 
opens with a Presto-bridlante in common 
time of four crotche!s, which is relieyed 
by an Affettuoso in two crotchets, that. , 
leads to an Adlegretto in six quayers. 
If viewing these movements, independ- 
ently 
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