tions. We trust that Mr. McLain will be encouraged in the discharge of his arduous duties by all the friends of our country and Africa and of our Redeemer. We rely upon his well tried zeal, activity and ability to carry out the benevolent view of the society in regard to the various provisions and details of this important expedition.

THE WEST INDIES.

THE recent intelligence from Kingston and Jamaica shows that the population is neither satisfied nor quiet. We trust however, that the present existing evils will give way before education and firm and just legislation. We observe the following in a late number of the Journal of Commerce.

The Legislature of Jamaica was prorogued on the 18th January, without passing the usual Stamp Act. This, it appears, is likely to cause great inconvenience, and serious loss and reduction in the revenue. The right of the Council to alter a money bill was denied, it seems, by the Assembly at their last meeting; and a mistake having occurred in dating the stamp act sent to the Council this Session, and which Act is considered of that genius, the Council rather than again come under the displeasure of the House, exercised their legislative right and rejected it!

From the Jamaica Despatch, January 18.

It is our painful duty to apprize our British readers that the calamities to which the inhabitants of this unfortunate Colony have recently been subjected are not yet brought to an end; but that the unavoidable visitation of Heaven, which we hoped would chasten and subdue unruly spirits, have been followed up by acts of turbulence and popular outrage, concluded by alarming incendiary attempts. This will prove to the government and people of Great Britain the jeopardy in which the peace and property of the Jamaica colonists have been placed by the unlicensed liberty which has been preached and claimed for the newly emancipated people, who consider themselves, not only free to neglect work, but to riot and revel in defiance of the law, and to break the peace of the city at pleasure.

MARYLAND.

THE Bill which passed the House of Delegates of this State to abridge the privileges and rights the free people of color, within its limits has been rejected by the Senate. Several large public meetings were held in different parts of the State, to protest against the passage of this bill. We wish to see nothing done which will infringe upon the freedom of the choice, as to residence, of any free people who are peaceable and obedient to the laws. The Maryland Colonization Journal is right in declaring that the creed of the Colonizationists has ever been "to remove the free man of color with his own consent to the coast of Africa," thus benefiting all classes in Africa and America.

At one of the public meetings in Baltimore, Mr. Thomas C. Connolly offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, each of the states of this Union is competent to the enactment and enforcement of laws upon the subject of slavery, as well as upon all other subjects of internal policy; and that we hold all interference from external sources, other than that moral influence of mind upon mind which now pervades the civilized world, to be unwarrantable, unjust and oppressive.

Resolved, also,-That occupying a medium position between the two great sections of our country whose interests and feelings are diametrically opposed to each other on the subject of slavery, we hold it to be our solemn duty, in legislating upon it, to respect the prejudices and predilections of neither the one nor the other, but to be governed solely by such motives as would prompt us to desire the honor and welfare of our State, and are in accordance with the spirit of universal benevolence.

We learn that a bequest of five hundred dollars has recently been made to the Mendi Mission by the late Horatio Taylor, of Nelson, Portage county, Ohio.-Jour. of Com.

FROM AFRICA.

By the arrival of the Naumkeag at Salem, intelligence is received of the safe arrival of the Amistad Africans at Sierra Leone. It will be recollected that they sailed in the bark Gentleman, Captain Morris. The Journal of Commerce states, that "the owners of the bark received a letter from Captain Morris, via Salem, dated on the African coast, February 13, in which he states that the Africans and Missionaries all arrived 'in good health. They were landed at Freetown, Sierra Leone, the certificate of which fact, given by Messrs. Steel and Raymond, missionaries, is dated January 18. After landing her cargo, the bark proceeded to leeward, and Captain Morris wrote by the Salem vessel from a place considerably south of Sierra Leone. No letters were received from the Missionaries by this vessel. They probably supposed that letters from Sierra Leone, via London, would reach this country sooner than letters left on board the bark, to be put on board any vessel she might fall in with."

EMANCIPATION IN THE FRENCH COLONIES.-The Paris Moniteur publishes a return of the negroes emancipated in the French Colonies from the close of 1830 until 1842, from which it results that their number was

By an arrival yesterday from Sierra Leone, letters have been received to Feb. 19th from Messrs. Steel, Raymond and Wilson, the Missionaries who accompanied the Mendians to their native land. They had been one month at Sierra Leone, and in excellent health, with the exception of Mrs. Raymond and her infant daughter, who had the fever slightly. There were difficulties about their reaching Mendi, and Mr. Steele, under the advice of the new British Governor, Sir George Macdonald, had gone, with Cinque and two others, on an exploring tour. His return was daily expected. There were several hundreds of Mendians at Sierra Leone, some of whom had recognized several of the Amistad Africans. The Mendians continued to study, but some of them had rushed into their former licentious habits. The Missionaries, however, were full of hope.-N. Y. Tribune.

MISSION. The N. Y. Commercial says: The Rev. Bishop Soule, who was deputed by the last General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to visit the Wesleyan connexion at its next conference, expects to sail from this city on the 13th of May, in the packet ship Stephen Whitney. The Rev. T. B. Sargent, of Baltimore, accompanies the Bishop. From Liverpool, Bishop Soule will proceed to Dublin to be present at the Irish Conference to be held in June, whence he will proceed to London, to attend the British Conference in July. After his official visit to England, he will leave that country for Liberia, Western Africa, to visit the Methodist missions in that country.

RIGHT OF SEARCH.

THE Times of 30th ult. contains Lord Aberdeen's reply to Mr. Stevenson's note on the right of search, and in its remarks upon this state paper says:

"Lord Aberdeen begins by disclaiming all responsibility for any expressions used by his predecessor, Lord Palmerston. He then explicitly repeats his former renunciation on the part of this country of all claim to a right of search over American vessels in time of peace; and observes that when a vessel is once ascertained to be American, the British cruisers are ordered to obtain from all interference with her, BE SHE SLAVER OR OTHERWISE. With American vessels, whatever be their destination, British cruisers have no pretention in any manner to interfere. Such vessels must be permitted, if engaged in it, to enjoy a monoply of this unhallowed trade; but the British government," concludes Lord Aberdeen, "will never endure that the fraudulent use of the American flag shall extend the iniquity to other nations, by whom it is abhorred, and who have entered into solemn treaties with this country for its entire suppression."

THE NIGER EXPEDITION.-In reply to a question Lord Stanley stated "that it was not the intention of the Government to send out any new expedition to the Niger, still less one composed of white persons. On the part of the Government he disclaimed all wish to assert any right of sovereignty in that quarter of the world. It was not deemed altogether expedient to abandon the settlement already made, and although any persons going out to settle there must do so on their own responsibility, yet Government would give them the protection of a small armed steamer, manned by negroes."

ADDITIONAL EMIGRANTS FOR LIBERIA.

OUR Agent (who has been for some months in Tennessee) Mr. Levi T. Walker, writes from Abingdon, Virginia, under date of April 11th, "our company numbering seventy, passed through here to day, and it is expected they will reach Lynchbuig in two weeks from this time."

Several of these emigrants will have horses, wagons, &c., to sell when they get to Lynchburg. They are depending very much on the sale of these to get to Liberia.

I have not time to mention particulars, more than to say, that about one half of the company have means, or have them provided for them. The others have but little. The character of the emigrants is good.

One family of eight persons from the Missionary station at Little Osage, Missouri, and was on their way to embark for the Colony at New Orleans. They are represented as first rate emigrants and have been taught in the Sunday schools of the Harmony stations Thirteen persons are now in Norfolk from the State of Illinois waiting for their departure.

Many others, and from various points are anxious to remove to Liberia. Shall the means be supplied ?

CONTRIBUTIONS to, and receipts by, the American Colonization
Society, from the 25th March to the 20th April, 1842.

ΜΑΙΝΕ.

Gorham, Mrs. E. Leverett to constitute Rev. John S. Davenport, a
Life Member,

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Chester, per Capt. Geo. Barker-Hon. S. Bell $5, Mr. Orcutt $1, C.
Brown (boy) 13cts., J. Tompkins $1 50, Mrs. S. T. Hale, $1, Mrs.
P. Bell $5,

Charlestown, per Rev. R. Porter-J. Crosby $1, W. Briggs $1, Hon.
E. Stevens $3, G. Olcott $5, (the above $10 on account of a Life
Membership for Rev. J. Crosby,) S. Hubbard $1, O. Hastings $1,
Hampstead, Ladies of Rev. J. C. M. Bartley's Congregation, in part
to constitute him a Life Meinber,

MASSACHUSETTS.

Westboro', Ladies of Rev. Charles B. Kittredge's Congregation in part

to constitute him a Life Member,

Chicopee Falls, Collection in Congregational church,

Cabbotville,

do

do

Newburyport, Rev. Dr. Danna,

do

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Norwich city,

do

do

do

do

do

do 1st payment on account of

subscription of $10 per annum for five years, by the late Erastus

Coit, deceased, per his Administrator,

Haddam, Collection per Rev. J. C. Tenney,

Deep River, R. S. Marvin (with $1 50 for Repository,)

NEW YORK.

Buffalo, Walter Joy, subscription for '41, per Hon. S. Wilkeson,

PENNSYLVANIA.

Philadelphia, "A Friend," per Rev. Mr. Brainerd,

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Washington, Campbell & Coyle, for 1842, $5, Jos. R. Ingle $10,
Per Joseph Etter-Thomas Datcher, (colored) 25 cts., Mr. Adler
50cts., W. G. Ridgeley $1, W. B. Todd $3, Rev. R. R. Gurley
$5, Hon. J. R. Underwood $9, T. Havenner $1, J. Gideon $5,
Hon. H. P. B. Maxwell $10, Cash 50 cts., 50, 50, 50, 50, $1,

VIRGIΝΙΑ.

Big Lick, Mrs. Sarah Betts, subscription for two years from 8th October last, per Z. W. Micon, Esq.,

Total Contributions,

38 25 53 25

20 00 20 00

$285 21

FOR REPOSITORY.

MAINE.-South Berwick, G. C. Walsingford; Wells, W. Bourne; Gorham,
Mrs. P. C. Marsh for Teacher's Seminary, each $1 50 for 1842,

4 50

6 50

NEW HAMPSHIRE. -Durham, B. Thompson to March 1843, $2; Chester, J.
Tompkins, Mrs. R. Tenny, Rev. J. Clements, each $1 50 for '42,
MASSACHUSETTS. - Worcester, J. W. Goodrich to July 42, $3; Springfield,
per Rev. C. J. Tenney-D. Bontaine, E. Palmer, T. Bond, James Hooker,
J. Brewer, 2d, P. Wilcox, John Hooker, H. Adams, S. Sanborn, S. Smith,
D. C. Brewer, Mrs. Prudence Howard, R. A. Chapman, each $1 50 for '42 22 50

CONNECTICUT.-Deep River, R. S. Marvin for '42, $1 50; Farmington, A.
Bidwell for '41 and '42, $3,

NEW YORK.-Buffalo, H. Slade in full to January, 1842,
PENNSYLVANIA. -New Hope, Hon. S. D. Ingham to 1843,
Онко.-Xenia, J. Galloway, S. Galloway, J. Vanelon, J. McMillan, H. Mc-
Millan, and Dr. Banks, Massies Creek, J. Nesbit and J. Hemphill each
$1 50 for 1842; Newark, Rev. S. Wylie in full $1 50; Findley, Wilson
Vance, $3,

Collections by Rev. Joseph Collins in Virginia, reported to the Society in July, 1841, but not before acknowledged.

John Withers $5, Rachel Bowen $1, G. Gray $1, Wm. A. Bowen $2, H.
Hamilton $5, Miss Bowen $1, P. B. Bowen $2, C. Kemper $3, J. M.
Young $2, J. B. Downman $10, J. G. Beall $5, R. S. Randolph $5, C. J.
Storer $5, C. C. Randolph $6, W. H. Gaines $2 21, T. Shearman $5, B.
Hixon $10, A Friend $4, Wm. Byrne $5, J. Picket $10, B. Hough $2, A.
Ball $5, L. Carter $5, L. Marders $2, B. T. Chinn $10, G. Challen $1, S.
Saunders $2, Mr. Coxhe $2, C. Thomas $2, A. Harrison $2, J. Gibson $5,
A Friend $2, A Friend $1, W. J. Weir an annual subscription $10, J. W.
Tyler $5, W. Coone $3, J. A. Carter $5,

$153 21

CONVENTION OF THE FRIENDS OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION, HELD IN THE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON CITY, MAY 4th, 1842.

(MOST IMPORTANT MEETING.)

THIS Convention assembled at half past 7 o'clock in the evening of the 4th of May, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, the use of which had been granted by the House for the occasion. The Hon. Joseph R. Underwood, of Kentucky, was unanimously chosen to preside, and Matthew St. Clair Clarke, Esq., appointed Secretary.

The Rev. William Hawley invoked the divine blessing upon the proceed ings. Mr. Gurley, the Secretary of the American Colonization Society, rose and in effect said:

MR. PRESIDENT :-At the request of the Executive Committee of the American Colonization Society, I venture to submit to this Convention, a few remarks touching the objects which may be deemed worthy of the consideration of this Convention. I regret that this duty has not devolved upon some one abler to do justice to the cause we have assembled to promote. But apologies on this occasion are perhaps worse than impertinent, and I shall at once say, that we are called upon to give our best thoughts and energies to advance a scheme of vast magnitude and deepest interest to our free colored population, to such as may become free, to our national Union, and to Africa; which embraces in its promised beneficence two races of men, and two continents. Sir, the fathers of the Society never imagined that this scheme could be carried into complete effect-I doubt even whether they anticipated the results which have been already attained, without the countenance and co-operation of the General Government and the State Governments. The American Colonization Society, at its origin, presented a memorial to Congress in which they say, "Your memorialists are dele gated by a numerous and highly respectable association of their fellow citi