(Loud laughter.) He was determined to have his opinion.

As he had said before, the 28th day of June being fixed for the coronation of all the negroes in the island, that is the day they ought to be released from the apprenticeship.
(Thundering and deafening roars of laughter).

(Here the honorable member was told that the Queen was to be crowned on that day.) Ah, well, he had made a mistake, but he would tell the house the truth, _he had made up his mind to give his apprentices freedom on that day, but he did not wish to do it without his neighbors doing the same, lest they should say he was setting a bad example_.

He would press his motion to a division.
It had been seconded by his honorable friend on his right .-- (Aside, "Good, didn't you promise to second it ?") The honorable member then read his motion, and handed it up to the clerk." The "mistake" of this liberal descendant of Israel, which excited so much merriment was, after all, not a very unfortunate one, _if_ the "crown" of manhood is more important than that of monarchy.

The members objected to so near an approach to _immediatism_, not, however, be it remarked, on account of the unfitness of the apprentices, (slaves) but their own convenience.