Slavery In New Grenada

With regard to New Grenada, the stutements by Mr. Druce, theBritish proconsul at Carthagena, would go to show that several of.our protestant Anglo-Saxon repiiblics might learn lessons of justice and humanity frorn these Meriskano-EIisprano-Indo-Negro Rotnanists of South America. The population of New Grenada in 1835, was 1,686,038; of whom 38,340 were slaves. No slaves are imported into the country. In criminal cases, the slave is equally protected with the t reeman , and even more so, an officer being appointed by law, called "persoziero municipal." for the express purpose of d'efending them. All the laws passed during the last ten years have been favorable to the slaves. A. law of July 21, 1821, declares the children born after that time to be ["vee on altnining the oge of 18 years. Thcre is also a public fund for the manumission of sla ves, which frees about fifty a year. All free men in that country enjoy pqual privileges; no dislinction of color is observeii in theeye of tlie law. Colored men admiltcd to all offices of the State, provided they possess t!ie legal requisitos, viz: age, property, and general capacity! The consul at Panama states the populatiüu of the ïslhmus at 74,579, of whom only 880 are slaves. Of 100 persons, he .says about 10 are whites, 15 blacks, 20 Indians, 25 zambos, or Indian and black, and 30 meztizos, or Indian and white. - Mornhig Ckronicle.