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British and American Works imported and for Sale, at the smallest possible advance upon the wholesale prices. i: 'A NDREW HENDERSON, Auctioneer and' Commission Merchant, No,.32, Yonge Su., POTION 6 her feed Big A ~References,--Thomas Clarkson, Esq., Presi- dent of the Board of Trade; John Robertson. | Esq., Messrs. A. Ogilvie & Co.; Messrs. How- ard Fitch; Messrs. D. Crawford & Co. . "PUNCTUALITY 11 BROWN ¢& FLAMER, Late of Philadelphia, 4 FrASHONABLE BOOT AND SHOE MAKERS, No 33 " King Street West. All work warranted to be done ina Superior Style. Repairing done with neatness and dis- atch. Feet measured on anatouzical principles, , Toronto, March 18th, 1854. 2 CLOTHING STORE, _ KING STREET EAST. Zou r ubscribe thas just received a very su- ae ee 'iasotimnent sof West of England "Broad - Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins, Tweeds, Vesting of the newest pattern and material. very article belonging to a gentleman's com- e outfit kept veges on hand. fais O. HARCOURT, _ ma. 131m, 11, King Street East. -- is ines The Homestead. BY LADY SPENCER. It is not as it used to be, When you and I were young; Whn round each elm and mapie tree The honeysuckles clung; But still I love the cottage where I passed my early years, Though nota single face is there That memory endears. It is not as it used to he! The moss is on the roof, And from their nests beneath the eaves The swallows keep aloof. The robins--how they used to sing 'When you and I were young, And bow did flit the wild bee's wing The opening flowers among. It is not as it used to be! The voices loved of yore, And the forms that we were wont to see, We see and hear no more. No more! Alas! we look in, vain For those to whom We clung, And loyed as we can Jove but once, When you and I were young. Literature. Homeless and Friendless, Tvs Tt is asad thing to think these words are true, touchingly and heart-rendingly true, as applied to any of our fellow-creatures now wandering the stree's of this great city. On a sunny morning of last week, which suc- ceeded one of those cold, drizzling nights of rain that made us shiver to look out upon, we were coming down one of the streets not a great way from the centre of wealth and luxury, the St. Nicholas Hotel, when our step was arrested by the sight of a female figure leaning acainst a lamp-post at. the corner of a cross-street. We might have passed a hundred such figures without see- ing or noticing them; but there was some- thing in the appearance of this one that. at- tracted our attention at the very first glance. Though we had not then seen her face, there was something in the appearance of her dress that told the sad tale of the two words at the head of this item. She was tall and well formed. Upon her shoulders hung, in graceful folds, the sad remains of a tine cloth cloak. Her' dress was once a rich muslin de laine. It was faded now, and six inches of the skirt told that its wearer had wandered the muddy streets tl-e long, lone rainy night. We turned the corner and walk- ed on, wondering somewhat why she stood thus upon the street waiting for the world to.go by. We were not satisfied and looked back to see what sort of a face was owned by the wearer of that bedrageled dress.-- One look did not sutfiice. There was a melancholy sadness spread over her. coun- tenance like a mask, but it wasnot thick en- ough to hide the look of by-gone days. We knew her. 'To be fully satished, however, we crossed over and stood by the side of one of the huge piles of bricks that encumber our streets in all directions, the debris of de- molished tenements. Upon the opposite side uf the street stood the debris of another pull- ed-down tenement--a tenement not made wit!: hands--one which human skill can ne- ver build--one which human ingenuity may adorn and make beautitul, and fit fora home in Heaven--one which human--inhuman-- beings have pulled down and left a mere wreck of what It was created to be--a form in God's own image, a worthy worshipper of its Creaior, A score of masons were. busy at work putting back the old bricks, adding new mortar, putting in new beams and braces, rearing up, relitting and replenishing the old tenement. It was time it was done, for it had stood there the allotted three-score years and ten of human life. Time had made its mark upon it, and it was pulled duwn and rebuilt. That was not. the. case with the other tenement, for it had not stoud one third of that time, and yet. it had been pulled down! Who did it? There is.yet life enough in the ruin to speak, let that answer. While we stood contemplating the specta- cle before us, the masons upon the building over our heads were sending down gibes and jeers, heart-wounding words, and calling opprobrious names to one whom, a short, year ago, they would have spoken to with respect, or courted for favour; for then she _wore the. adornments of dress and the smiles of beauty. _ Those cruel words--thoughtless words not vicious ones, perhaps, fell heavily upon one heart; not hers--that was beyond the reach of hard words--she had rather hear them than kindly ones for her heart was seared. Our hand went involuntarily into our pocket and clutched a coin; it was onl, a small one. We shall never miss that quar- ter, we never shall forget the look that met us when we gave it, or words that came in answer to our question,-- "Mary, why don't you go home?" " Home! I have none, nor friends either." Homeless and friendless! A young girl in the streets all night without a that she could call home. _ "Have you no home? live, then? " "In the street: I wish I did not live any- where. J'll go to Dutch Bill's grocery, and soon forget 1 do live. He turned me out of doors last night; I had no money then. He will let me in now I have got a quarter." Where do you Had we done a deed of charity or a deed of wrong? 'The heart said it was well-in- tended, but truth told usit would be applied to support--the license system of the rum trade. S73 We said a few words, and Mary went and sat down upon a door-step and held her old cloak up to her face to hide a tear. place to go. "Friend! Devil! He robbed his employ- er to buy wine and treat me, as he did when you first knew me, a poor, hard-work- ing, but happy sewing-virl, when I used to go out almost every night with him to Jate suppers, until, until don't ask me what. See whatIam. You heard what these brick-layers called me. " Where is Will?" "I saw him last night dressed like a gentleman with another, just such a poor simpleton as I was a year ago, going into a gilded sepulehre. How Jong before she will be a mother, a miserable outcast, poor drunk- en -- you heard what they called me. Who made me so? I could send Will to the Penitentiary. with a breath. What would be the use? He would come out a --they would fire guns in the Park-- hero--they would fire gu i Pana ce perhaps; I should not hear them. 1 should then be dead---if not, drunk. It © matters not which. Who eares for me, or what | am now? Look at me. Do you see the Mary that made shirts for you. Look, [see my work now. You have it on, It is not yet worn out asl am. 'The stitch has lasted longer than the stitcher.. 'The thread of cot- ton lives. The thread of life destroyed.-- Oh, rum! rum! rum!" She got up, and walked rapidly away to- wards a place "licensed to accommodate travellers," where she might drown herseli in forgetfulness, with the very cause of her ruin. Tis a sad tale, but a true one: it has a sequel; the readers of The Tribune have read ihat. Our story was written when the reporter brought in the item, published a few mornings since, of a girl found dead in a cellar of a new building in Reade-st. We had a suspicion, a painful feeing that it mivht be--we went to see--it was Mary.-- Two years ago she was blithe and beautiful, industrious, poor, virtuous and happy. She was tempted, flattered, mortified at not being able to dress as richly as others she met in the street or saloon in her evening walk with Will, accepted presents (stolen, dry goods,) ate late suppers, drank wine, and became what we found her in the street; then drasik cheap rum, peisoned alcohol, and died Home- fess and Friendless ina cellar. She is dead. Rum isnot. We. shall say on Tuesday we have done our duty towards killing it. If not successful we shall try again, and again. Who will do with us one little deed. to avenge Mary ?--WNew York Tribune. Newspaper-dom. It is beyond my comprehension how Me- thu-aleh lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years without a newspaper; or, what the mischief Noah did during that " forty days " shower, when he had exhausted the study of Natural History. Jt makes me yawn to think of it. Orwhat later generations did, the famished half-hour before meals; or, when travelling, when the old stege-coach crept up a steep. nill, some dusiy, hot sum- mer noon. Shade of Franklin! how they must have been ennuyed ! How did they ever know when flour had "yiz"'--or what was the market price of pork, small tooth combs, cotton, wool and molasses? How. did they. know whether Queen Victoria had "made her brother an uncle or an aunt?" What. christianized gouty old men and snappish old ladies ?-- What kept the old maids from making mince: meat.of pretty young girls? What did love- sick damsels do for "sweet bits of poetry " and "touching continued stories? Where did their papas find a solace when the coffee was muddy, the toast smoked, and the beef. steak raw or done to. leather? What did cab-drivers do, while waiting fora tardy pa- tron? What did draymen do, when there was "a great calm" at the drygoods store of Go Ahead & Co? What screen did hus- bands dodge behind when their wives ask- ed them for money ? , Some people define happiness to be one thing, and some another. I define it to be a room "carpeted and furnished" with " exchanges," with a place cleared in the middle for two arm-chair --one for a clever editor, and one for yourself. I say it is to take up those papers, one by one, and laugh over the funny things and skip the stupid ones, to admire the ingenuity .of would be literary lights who pilfer one half of their original (?) ideas. and steal the remainder. I say it is to. shtidder a thanksgiving that you are not in the marriage list, and to try, for the hundredth time, to solve the riddle: how can each paper that passes through your hands be the best and cheapest perio- dical in the known world ?" I say itis to look round an editorial sanc- tum, inwardly chuckling at the. forlorn ap- pearance it makes without feminine fingers to keep it tidy; to see the louking-glass veil- ed with cobwebs; the dust on the desk thick | enough to write your name in; the wash- bowl and towel mulatto colour; the soap liquitied. to a jelly, (editors like soft soap!) ; the table covered with a heterogencous mass of manuscripts, and paper folders, and wafers and stamps, and blotting-paper, and envelopes, and tailor's bills, and letters com- plimentary, belligerent and pacific. I say it is to hear the editor complain, with a frown, of the heat and his headache; to conceal a smile, while you sugoest the probability of relief it a window. should be opened; to see him start at your superior profundity; to hear him say, with a groan, how much " proof" he has to read, before he can leave for home; to take off your gloves and help him to correct it;--to hear him say there is a book fur review, which he has not time to look over; to take a folder and cut the leaves, and affix guide-boards for notice at all the fine passages; to see him kick over Poor Mary ! | you help him toit) very much like the mouse who gnawed the lion out of the net, and then to take up his paper some days after, and find a paragraph endorsed by him, "deplor- ing the intellectual inferiority of women." Leaves nh BB Children and their influences. Nearer to glory they stand than we, in this world and the next. It was a gentle and not unholy fancy that made the Portu- guese artist, Siquiero, in one of his sweet pictures, form of millions of infant faces the floor of heaven, dividing it thus from. the vault beneath with its groups of the damaed For how many, women has this image been realized? How many have been saved from despair and sin by the voice and smile. of those: unconscious little ones ?-- The woman who Is a mother dwells in the immediate presence of guardian angels-- She bears on for her children's sake, she will toil for them, die for them, and live for them which ts sometimes harder stil]-- The neglected, miserable, maltreated wife, has still one brigat spot in her home. that Carkness a watchiight burns; she has her children's love--she will strive for her ehildren. The angry and outraged "oman sees in their tiny features a pleading more eloquent than words; her wrath against her husband melts in the sunshine of their eyes. Idiots are they wha i» family quarrels, seek to punish the mother by parting her from her offspring; for in that blasphemy against nature they do violence to God's own decrees, and lift away from his heart the consecrated instrument of His power. The fact that there are careless and unnatural mothers does not destroy the argument. are men who are murderers, children who are monsters. Nature makes exceptions to all her great unswerving rules; they will re- main to the end of time, and among them none.more general, more pure or unfuiling, than the love of a mother for her child. Mazzini--Kossuth--Sanders. Lonvon. No. 45, Weymouth-st., Portland-place, Friday, June 2, 1854. GenriemeN: In the Morning Advertiser of yesterday I observe a letter, which is in- troduced as being a recent one from Mazzini, addressed to an Abolition Society at Man- chester. The letter is, however, without date, and as Mazzini is nct now in London to answer for himself, we are at a loss to vuess at the time it was written. It speaks ayainst Slavery in general, but not a word occurs Init of American atfairs in this way; and it concludes by the emphatic and weighty declaration, that " Free men only Cau achieve the work of freedom"; and that "throughout all Hurope' °* * * " de- secrated by arbitrary tyrannical powers"-- " by Czars, Emperors and Popes? 4%)? "are millions of White Slaves, suffering, strugyling, expiring in Lialy, in Poland, in Hunyary,". whose emanvipatiun he earn- estiy eutveats may not be forgotten in zeal lor the black race. -- | regret, therefore, to see the letter so introduced, by the gentle- man giving lt publicity, as to lead the im- pression that il was intended by Mazzini to bear upon the exciting slave coatroversy now convulsing the Untied States. Tn Mazzin's absence, the great import- ance of an explanation going out to America by the mail which will carry his letter, and tie knowledge [ have of the perfect: under- derstanding which exists between your- selve- and Mazzini, induce me to ask, in jus- tice to myself and the question, that you will correct mei, in recent statements of mine to friends at hume, I have, through any misapprehension, misstated the views of the Kepubl.can leaders in regard to Ka- ropean interference with American internal atfairs. _ From my repeated interviews with you all, during my stay in London, and our cluse and earnest discussion of all the lead- ing' points of yuur policy, L have felt autho- rised to say that it Js your deliberate judg- ment that such interterence was in opposi- lion to the principle of State Rights, a car- dinal principle ot the Democratic statesmen of Italy, Hungary, France, Poland and, Germany. A paper dcclaring this was, be- lore -being .seut. to America, expressely shown to Mazzini; and was then sent to the Louisville Democrat (Kentucky) and wiil be found in a March issue of that journal. Le States, as the sentimeat of the European Republican leaders in Londun, that they have faith in the honor and venerosity and Justice of the Southern States, that they will do of themselyes what is right, in re- gard to the slaves, and the better for being ieft calm and free of irriation from any ex- ternal influences. ~The Republican statesmen of Europe, deeply interested in the history of the strug- gles and glorious success of the great Re- pubiic of Ameriva, must know that the ex- istence of Slavery in the United States is an inheritance from the British Govern- ment, and that it involves, at the present day, questions of much greater magnitude than the simple cash value of the slaves; and that social and political equality cannot be created by foreign intervention. But the whole history of the United States as a Government, and as a pedple, shows that they have practically done more than any other nation for the advancement of the African race. And that, in taking the lead of every Government in the world, in the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which was continued That's what I call happiness !--Fern In? So there 'gently important that their only unshackled In the condition of the negroes in the Southern States, who are not, as in Italy, Hungary, France and, Poland, a refined and tyranny of their rulers, but a benighted race advancing, under the care of their American masters, from the barbarism which led them to sell each other into Slavery for a few trinkets, to a highly re- spectale grade of civilization and Christian- the prosperity and good yovernment of . the American Negro Republic of Liberia, whose respectable President is a manumitted American slave, from the Southern State of Virginia. » iIn the establishment of this America-African colony by the purchase of several hundred miles of slave coast, and the appropriation, "by State legislation and individua! donation, of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the comfortable passage and prosperous. estab- lishment of the American blacks; the most generous, the most disinterested act of be- nevolence ever shown by one people great and powerful to another inferior and weak. through which gleams, for 'all known ages, the first light which has beamed upon 'Ethiopia, a benevolence in which the South- ern State governments and Southern mas- ters have been the leaders and munificent patrons. ae In that the United States is the only country on earth where white men and soldier and sailor in service is not under the degradation of the lash. dats Lastly--In the heroic republicn act of the chivalrous Ingraham, a citizen of a Southern State, who struck a blow for free citizenship, which resounded under: every throne in Bihropéic age ee 1 ve In all these instances, they must recog- nise a national character, to which can sale- lv be entrusted all questions of its own in- ternal policy, with the certainty of 'a solu- tion honorable to America, to Christianity, and to mankind. ee They know that strife and ill-blood be- tween the Northern and Southern péople of the enemies of Democracy, now enthroned on the necks of the people of the European Continent; and must feel that, at this mo- ment, critical of the fate of miilions on mil- lions of the finest races on earth, struggling for the sway of mind over force,.of free thought over brute obedience, it is most ur- friends on earth--the people of the United States--should harmonize all differences, so that they may present to Europe an unbroken front, and give vigor to the movement, hav- ing for its aim--That the virtue and intel-. lect of Europe shall guide its destinies! Satisfied as I am that the Republicans of Europe--because, of their appreciation of the Constitution of the United States, and of their joy in the onward and expansive career of our country and people--offer: the only element of power which would be faith- ful to America, in: the event of the United States becoming involved in a war with, any Huropean monarehy, and Iam anxious that no misrepresentations, designed or acciden- tal, shoul¢ place their chosen representatives in a false position before any portion of the American people... With these views, I respectfully ask you to say whether or not I am justified in a-- suring friends in the United States that the Republican representatives of Europe do in no way desire to interfere with any domes- tic question, in the United States, and es- pecially with one wherein, besides the sub- ject of Slavery, so many other eonsiderations of a political character are involved, Your faithful friend, . Grorce N. Sanpers. © To Louis. Kossuth and others, Representa- tives. of Jeffersonian Republicanism in Europe. No. 21, Anpua Roan, Recent's Park, ) London, June 3, 1854. Dear Str: Upon carefully reading your letter, I reply that, while. deploring the ex- istence of Slavery anywhere, all my influ-. ences are against foreign interference with the affairs of another nation. Besides, though be it from natural. necessity, be it from the impassivity of its leading statesmen, the United States do not appear conscious of their competent position; still I consider the strength and prosperity of the only re- publican power on earth so important tothe future destinies of the world that I certain- ly would never contribute anything to its in- | ternal, divisions, Nay, true to my princi- ples, I cannot recognise any, division. in America; I look to the brotherhood of the great Republic as a whole, and have too high a respect for the American people, as one undivided body of sincere republicans, not to believe they will of themselves, with all the light before them, make their nation a model for every other, You are quite right in your belief that Mazzini's letter has no reference' to the pre- sent agitation in the United States; this is made certain by the fact of its being an old letter. F _ With high regard and sincere esteem, yours respectfully, L. Kossvra. | George N. Sanders. <i --<-@- The Poor. Man's Church. A memorial has just been forwarded to Lord Palmerston, setting forth the facts of a case which affords a: striking commentary on-some of the statements, ventured upon by the supporters of Church-rates in the late de- civilized people, abased and crushed by the ity: the visible proof of which is shown in- women are really free, and where even 'the' the United States are music and luxury to he sdiened: light--a, doubt might be fairly entertained eennihi PROSPECTUS jcetry. To our inquiry, "What has become of | the chair, because he cannot get hold of the | many years after by the British Govern- Hants, and the following is the material por-| deed, those very territories | which were ob- © OP . We ee ee your trend William ?'4she replied. right word for an editorial; to feel (while | ment. tion of their allegation :-- tained from Spain in ha and formed into "On Monday, the 24th April, Isaac Early and Henry Larkham--married men, one having a family of two, the other of three children--labourers, earning less than nine shillings and sixpence each a wi) | sad par- ishioners of Ringwood, having «ed po- verty and utter inability to pay °° -Chureh- 9d. and 1s. 104d. respectively (2gre appre- hended on 4 warrant--were "/edcuffed to- gether, though offering no. resistance---were retained in hold until the next day, and were then conveyed to Winchester Gaol, where, on their arrival, they were stripped, washed, their'own clothes exchanged for the prison common felons. . They were allowed no com- munion with their friends, even by letter; were kept in continual confinement (with the exception of about an hour daily for exercise, ) within a cell measuring about nine feet by five ; and were compelled, when thus permit- a sort of mask, to prevent them: seeing around them ; and all these indignities heaped upon them, their only crime being poverty, and consequent inability to meet the demands of the ¢ National Church!' 'Public feeling 'was soon aroused, and a subscription set on foot ; and by this measure these poor men were released--one of them after an incar- weeks," Ds We understand that the two victims have petitioned the House of Commons on the sub- ject, and the attention of the House is likely to be called to it-- British Banner. Negro Emancipation. On Monday evening' last, a lecture on Negro Emancipation was delivered in the Old Meeting House, St. Clement's, by' the Rey. S. R., Ward, of Canada--a 'coloured gentleman, who had escaped from slavery, and become a minister of the gospel to the fugitive slaves that had found freedom in our American colonies. His fame as an eloquent pleader of nogro emancipation and colonial missions in general, attracted a crowded Having been briefly introduced by the Rev. A, Reed.) sti The Rev. Si: R. Ward commenced his address by a very eloquent description of the attractions Canada held out to emigrants, and he stated that its population was increas- ing at an enormous ratio, and that thousands of Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen were continually pouring into the country. He then pointed out the necessity that the foundations of the colony should be placed on a firm and a sound basis, and that it was a question of the deepest importance for the country to determine, whether, by its assist- ance to Canada, that colony should be founded in righteousness, or whether, through neglect, it should be suffered to grow up in ignorance, and thus become a reproach to us. He then entered upon a consideration of the important trust which had been committed to our hands in the numerous colonies which belonging to us. | We:had colonies, he said, in every part of the globe, and they were not unimportant colonies either as regarded their extent of territory, their enormous agricultu- ral and commercial resources, the great moral 'influence which they were destined to wield, their contiguity to the heathen coun- tries of the world, or the facilities by which through their means these countries could be reached. On the last of these considerations he more particularly dwelt. He had no doubt that Britain would exert every influ- ence in her power to develop the commercial resources of her colonies, but---when we knew that the children of this world were in their generation wiser than the children of whether so much care would be used to develop their moral resources. God, how- ever, seemed to be raising up the British people for some great purpose. They were, for instance, the rulers of the great Australian colony, which was so situate that it could not exist without exerting great influence on the benighted people in that portion of the globe. If to those who went thither to dig gold, we gave knowledge and an appreciation of the hidden treasures and the power of Christianity,--if, as fast as population con- centrated there from all portions of the globe, we took care they were made acquainted with the laws of Christ through his gospel, --if, as fast as the population teemed on the island, the gospel was taken to their doors-- the effect for good, first upon the island itself and then upon the surrounding islands, South- Eastern Africa, and: Southern: Asia, could not but be great indeed. If we only saw how great were our responsibilities, growing' out of our advantages, for the evangelization of the world through the medium of our colo- nies, we should be more earnest in the import- ant work which we had to.do. He submitted that it was a cause for thankfulness that God had given to Great Britain such colonies, through which 'we could reach the heathen world. The rev. gentleman then referred more particularly to the Canadian missions, and the great importance of encouraging and assisting them, as a means of counteracting the ill ef-. fects of, and ultimately of removing the evil | of, slavery. He had no hesitation in say- ing that the British American colonies ad- joined the very worst country on the face of the earth ; and he would give them his reasons for making that statement. It was a country making the greatest pretensions to religion and progress,--the United States, he meant--and yet it was a country that held one-sixth of the population in just such a manner as sheep and oxen were held in England... There was not a Catholic country on the earth in which such laws ex- isted prohibiting the education of slaves, as bate. The memorialists are the Diseening ministers and other inhabitants of Ringwood, 'in some parts of the United States. In- rates assessed upon them, amou-;,ag to 1s. | garb, and were, in all respects, treated as. ted statedly to revisit the open air, to wear ceration of eight days, the other of three. 'speaker then described the condition of the blacksin Canada. He said he was happy. to say that the preaching of the ,gospel was 'said of the West Indies, and he' could 'the testimony of missionaries that inno othe 'portion of the British empire had the Christian however, the option "of becoming free at their labor for that period; and many of day. When, however, the term of the ap- 'their labor was. only worth about 1s. 6d. a while the old proprietors talked of the lazi- without at once showing their pugnacious 'propensities ; and if Johu Mitchell were to and it was determined to hold them "up to 'pecuniary assistance, . liver an address upon Canada on | future occasion fn St. Andrew's Hall. The Doxology was then sung, and the no Ca- i] States, had laws such as disgraced | -and- tholic country, as he would prove by bye. The sole reason of the war with Mexico was the same as that. of Cain's mur- der of his brother--* because his own deeds were evil and his brother's. righteous." Mexico had freed her slaves, and for that reason, and that alone, war. was declared Pie against her, When Spai twar with her colonies, and the Me: s were about to make.an attempt to deliver Cuba and _ Porto Rico from the Spanish yo - American Government declared that if they proceeded to carry out such intention, they would oppose them by. force of arms ; the reason alleged being that the freeing of the -- slaves in those islands would produce disaf- fection amongst the slave population of the United States. 'The rey. gentleman then proceeded to mention the various efforts made by the United States, in their negotia- -- tions with this Government, to obtain per-_ mission to capture runaway slaves in Cana- da. In 1827 a communication was' sent to _Downing-street to. that effect, but no notice whatever was taken of it; and again in 1842, when the Ashburton treaty. was con- cludéd, endeavors were made to smuggle in- to it a clause to the same effect, but without : )Success.. 'The United States, he said, wasa Christian country, and yet it prohibited the circulation of the Bible amongst slayes, un- der severe penalties. An agent of the Bible ) Society, when in Louisiana, was'upon one occasion about. to bestow a copy ofthe Scriptures upon a poor slave, when he was arrested and brought to trial for the offence, and was only acquitted because the jury be- _ lieved his 'strenuous assertion, that he was ignorant of the existence of such avlaw,to be true--the judge cautioning him never again tO interfere with institutions which "were as dear to the people of the State as religion itself!" In that same State, if a person taught a slave to. spell the name of Jesus Christ, the punishment for the first of- fence was a fine of £100, and for the second -- the penalty of death. The lecturer then -- went on to state that his parents were slaves ; that his father had been his arm with a penknife up to the ha making a trifling mistake,.and had back so lacerated with the whip that mother had. been. obliged to wash it with -- brine in order to prevent mortification. He was himself born a slave, and that circum stance, perhaps, had given some tinge to his statements; his audience might, therefore, believe or disbelieve them as they thought -- proper. Now, it was nota barbarous coun- try in which these scenes took place ; but it was a nation which professed to be guided by the Bible, and at the same time peremp- torily refused it to 500,000 families. 'The > Net attended with great success amongst, them, ns and that they were as loyal as any of her Majesty's subjects. The same might' be _ yther religion so controlling an influenceasamongst __ the negroes. Now he would tell them of the -- ruin of the island of Jamaica. Twenty years ago the slaves were freed by the British Government, but had previously to servean apprenticeship of seven years. They had, once by paying their masters the value of them did so by paying at the rate of 3s.. per prenticeship expired they were told: that day. They went to work at these low wages and by great economy saved enough -- to enable them to purchase land ; and there were now 100,000 of them who owned on the average about three acres each. 1 'he consequence was they soon found out that by working for themselves they could earn -- £50 per acre, while their former' masters' only offered them from £13 to £18, 'They therefore preferred to be their own masters, os ness of the negroes: and' said the country was being ruined. Thes¢ facts he had late- ly discovered in the course of some business transactions he had had in Jamaica. The _ speaker then proceeded to describe in glow- | ing colors the enthusiastic loyalty which characterised the free negroes in Canada. He said he had seen in the papers that John -- Mitchell, the recreant Irishman, proposed to go and invade. Canada. A. Tory paper, however, had quietly remarked that they had fugitive slaves enough in Canada to attend to him, and that they would, as the s y ng Wie, " blow him into the middle of next week" if he was foolish enough to make his ap- pearance there. The negroes: v ould not'en- -- ne & dure a word to be said against the go there it would. be the finishing up of all _ his follies in this world... They were a loyal and progressive people--a people who had won the good regards of their fellow citizens, the view of the United States and. sayy " See here the men you have crushed." And it was hoped in that way to abolish slavery. The rev. gentleman then urged the claims of the Colomal Missionary Society to the sym--- pathy and support of the Christian world, -- and concluded with an eloquent appeal for 'The Rev. A. Reed thanked the lecturer -- on the part of the meeting for his able ad- dress, and stated that Mr. Ward would de- proceedings terminated. A collection was & aia | | | ( 7 a a made at the doors, amounting to about £10.