the trees and banks were now passing, to return no more. Kentucky home, with wife and children, and indulgent owners; St. Clare home, with all its refinements and splendours; the golden head of Eva, with its saint-like eyes; the proud, gay, handsome, seemingly careless, yet ever kind St Clare; hours of ease and indulgent leisure,-all gone! and in place thereof, what remains?

It is one of the bitterest apportionments of a lot of slavery, that the negro, sympathetic and assimilative, after acquiring, in a refined family, the tastes and feelings which form the atmosphere of such a place, is not the less liable to become the bond-slave of the coarsest and most brutal,-just as a chair or table, which once decorated the superb saloon, comes, at last, battered and defaced, to the bar-room of some filthy tavern, or some low haunt of vulgar debauchery. The great difference is, that the table and chair cannot feel, and the man can; for even a legal enactment that he shall be "taken, reputed, adjudged in law, to be a chattel personal," cannot blot out his soul, with its own private little world of memories, hopes, loves, fears, and desires.

Mr. Simon Legree, Tom's master, had purchased slaves at one place and another, in New Orleans, to the number of eight, and driven them, hand cuffed, in couples of two and two, down to the good steamer Pirate, which lay at the levee, ready for a trip up the Red river,

Having got them fairly on board, and the boat being off, he came round, with that air of efficiency which ever characterized him, to take a review of them. Stopping opposite to Tom, who had been attired for sale in his best broadcloth suit, with well-starched linen and shining boots, he briefly expressed himself as follows:

"Stand up."

Tom stood up.

"Take off that stock!" and as Tom, encumbered by his fetters, proceeded to do it, he assisted him, by pulling it, with no gentle hand, from his neck, and putting it into his pocket.

Legree now turned to Tom's trunk, which, previous to this he had been ransacking, and, taking from it a pair of old pantaloons and a dilapidated coat, which Tom had been wont to put on about his stable-work, he said, liberating Tom's hands from the handcuffs, and pointing to a recess in among the boxes,

"You go there and put these on !"

Tom obeyed, and in a few moments returned.
"Take off your boots," said Mr. Legree.
Tom did so.

"There," said the former, throwing him a pair of coarse, stout shoes, such as were common among the slaves, put these on."

In Tom's hurried exchange, he had not forgotten to transfer his cherished Bible to his pocket. It was well he did so; for Mr. Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets. He drew out a silk handkerchief, and put it into his own pocket. Several little trifies, which Tom had treasured, chiefly because they had amused Eva, he looked upon with a contemptuous grunt, and tossed them over his shoulder into the river.

Tom's hymn-book, which, in his hurry, he had forgotten, he now held up and turned over.

So, what's yer

"Humph! pious, to be sure. name,-you belong to the church, eh?" "Yes Mas'r." said Tom firmly.

"Well Ill soon have that out of you. I have none o' yer bawling, praying, singing niggers on my place; so remember. Now, mind yourself." he said, with a stamp and a fierce glance of his gray eye, directed at Tom. "I'm your church now! You understand,-you've got to be as I say."

Something within the black man answered No! but Simon Legree heard no voice. He only glared for a moment on the downcast face of Tom, and walked off. He took Tom's trunk, which contained a very neat and abundant wadrobe, to the forecastle, where it was soon sorrounded by various With much laughing, at the hands of the boat. expense of niggers who tried to be gentlemen, the articles very readily sold to one and another, and the empty trunk finally put up at auction. It was a good joke, they all thought, especially to see how Tom looked after his things, as they were going this way and that; and then the auction of the trunk, that was funnier than all, and occasioned abundant witticisms.

This little affair being over, Simon sauntered up again to his property.

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Now, Tom, I've relieved you of any extra them clothes. It'll be long enough 'fore you get baggage, you see. Take mighty good care of

more.

suit has to do for one year on my place." I go in for making niggers careful; one Simon next walked up to the place where Emmeline was sitting, chained to another woman. the chin, "keep up your spirits." "Well, my dear," he said chucking her under

The involuntary look of horror, fright and aversion, with which the girl regarded him, did not escape his eye. He frowned fiercely,

"None o' your shines, gal! you's got to keep a pleasant face, when I speak to ye, d'ye hear? And you, you old yellow poco moonshine!" he said, giving a shove to the mulatto woman to whom Emmeline was chained, "don't you carry that sort of a face! You's got to look chipper, I tell ye!"

"I say, all on ye," he said retreating a pace or two back, "look at me,-look at me,-look me right in the eye,-straight, now!" said he stamping his foot at every pause.

As by a fascination, every eye was now directed to the glaring greenish-gray eye of Simon.

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"Now," said he, doubling his great heavy fist into something resembling a blacksmith's hammer, d'ye see this fist? Heft it!" he said, bringing it down on Tom's hand. "Look at these yer bones! Well, I tell ye this yer fist has got as hard as iron knocking down niggers. I never see the nigger, yet, I could'nt bring down with one crack," said he, bringing his fist down so near to the face of Tom that he winked and drew dack. "I don't keep none of yer cussed overseers; I does my own overseering; and I tell you things is seen to. You's every one on ye got to toe the mark, I tell ye; quick,-straight,-the moment I speak; That's the way to keep in with me. Ye won't find no soft spot in me, nowhere. So, now, mind yerselves; for I don't show no mercy!"

The women involuntarily drew in their breath, and the whole gang sat with downcast, dejected

faces. Meanwhile, Simon turned on his heel, and marched up to the bar of the boat for a dram.

"That's the way I begin with my niggers," he said, to a gentlemanly man, who had stood by him during this speech. It's my system to begin strong, just let 'em know what to expect."

"Indeed!" said the stranger, looking upon him with the curiosity of a naturalist studying some out-of-the-way specimen.

"Yes, indeed. I'm none o' yer gentlemen planters, with lily fingers, to slop round and be cheated by some old cuss of an overseer! Just feel of my knuckles, now; look at my fist. Tell ye, sir, the flesh on't has come jest like a stone, practising on niggers,-feel on it."

The stranger applied his fingers to the implement in question, and simply said,

""Tis hard enough; and, I suppose," he added, "practise has made your heart just like it."

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Why, yes, I may say so," said Simon, with a hearty laugh. "I reckon there's as little soft in me as in any one going. Tell you, nobody comes it over me! Niggers never gets round me, neither with squalling nor soft soap,-that's a fact.

"You have a fine lot there.'

"Real," said Simon. "There's that Tom, they telled me he was suthin' uncommon. I paid a little high for him, tendin' him for a driver and managing chap; only get the notions out that he's larnt by bein' treated as niggers never ought to be, he'll do prime! The yellow woman I got took in in. I rayther think she's sickly, but I shall put her through for what she's worth; she may last I don't go for savin' niggers. Use up and buy more's my way;-makes you less trouble, and I'm quite sure it comes cheaper in the in the end;" and Simon sipped his glass.

a year or two.

"And how long do they generally last ?" said the stranger.

"Well, donno; 'cordin' as their constitution is, Stout fellers last six or seven; trashy ones gets worked up in two or three. I used to, when I fust begun, have considerable trouble fussin' with 'em and trying to make 'em hold out,-doctorn' on 'em up when they's sick, and givin' on 'em clothes and blankets, and what not, tryin' to keep 'em decent and comfortable. Law, 'twasn't no use; I lost money on 'em, and 'twas heaps o' trouble. Now, you see, I just put 'em straight through sick or well. When one nigger's dead, I buy another; and I find it comes cheaper and easier, every way."

THE SQUIREEN.-My countryman, Yorick, spakes the truth, when he says "Slavery, thou art a bitter draught!" I wish I had the wiping down of that same Legree with an oaken towel, for a few seconds!

THE DOCTOR.-Do not forget, Squireen, however, that all planters are not so bad as

Legree.

THE MAJOR.—“'Tis true 'tis pity, pity 'tis

'tis true!"

THE DOCTOR.-Pray expound your paradox, Crabtree !

THE MAJOR.-I shall let Mrs. Stowe do so for me. The stranger above referred to is accosted by a gentleman, who remarks:

The stranger turned away, and seated himself

beside a gentlemen, who had been listening to the conversation with repressed uneasiness.

"You must not take that fellow to be any specimen of Southern planters," said he. "I hope not," said the young gentleman, with emphasis.

"He is a mean, low, brutal fellow!" said the other.

"And yet your laws allow him to hold any number of human beings subject to his absolute will, without even a shadow of protection; and, low as he is, you cannot say that there are not many such."

"Well," said the other, "there are also many considerate and humane men among planters."

"Granted," said the young man; but, in my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole system could not keep foot-hold for an hour. If there were no planters except such as that one," said he, pointing with his finger to Legree, who stood with his back to them, "the whole thing would go down like a mill-stone. It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality."

"You certainly have a high opinion of my good nature," said the planter, smiling; "but I advise you not to talk quite so loud, as there are people on board the boat who might not be quite so tolerant to opinion as what I am. You had better wait till I get up to my plantation, and there you may abuse us all, quite at your leisure." THE DOCTOR.-Have you seen the Chevalier Bunsen's Memoirs of Niebuhr?

THE MAJOR.—I have glanced an eye over them, but it would require more time than I can afford just at present, idle though I seem to be, to enter fully into the consideration of a life wound round with so much to charm the intellect, and captivate the feelings.

THE LAIRD. I hae heard tell o' his great Roman heestory, but I never forgathered with it nor with the buik ye noo speak o'. Is it an unco learned wark?

THE DOCTOR.-It is a mirror in which we see reflected the various phases of a character essentially German, and in which are made to pass before us, with life-like similitude, the circumstances of an eventful life.

taken the task of holding this mirror up to THE MAJOR.-Who did you say had under

view?

THE DOCTOR.-The Chevalier BUNSEN assisted by Professsors BRANDIS and LOEBALL, edition which I obtained at our publisher's. very incorrectly spelt Lorbell in the American They have executed their task well, in the several departments which it is to be presumed they undertook. We can hardly suppose, that any one individual would be equally familiar character of such a man. with all the points either of the history or There are four different aspects under which we may view him, each of which is in itself a study. As a historian, a diplomatist, a traveller, and a

member of the social circle. To encounter him in the first would be a task of magnitude, one which has staggered some of the boldest of our british critics; with the second the generality of readers are not familiar; and the third and last are so graphically pourtrayed in his letters, that we cannot read them without becoming inspired as it were with a strong desire to know all of him, To many, the time required to cull from correspondence the items of general interest, is a serious impediment to the pursuit. He, however, who wishes to gain a clear knowledge from a brief account, will do well to read the review of this work in Blackwood for May. The principal points are brought out in a very pleasing manner by a skilful hand.

THE MAJOR-On the subject of Niebuhr's social and domestic life, I happened to meet

with an anecdote of much interest in the Athenæuin the other day and marked the passage. It is as follows:

"Madame Hensler's relations to Niebuhr were very curious and very German. During his residence at Kiel, she became a young and beautiful widow. He was an extremely shy and nervous boy-though a man already in ripeness of character and in grasp of intellect; and in reference to his first interview with Dorah Hensler, he wrote to his father:

"I felt to a painful degree, my timidity and bashfulness before ladies; however much I improve in either society, I am sure I must get worse and worse every day in their eyes.' Dora's father in-law, Dr. Hensler, was a profoundly learned man; but he was even then astonished at the bashful boy's extraordinary knowledge of the ancient world, and at his faculty for historical divination. In his family circle Niebuhr was soon at home. The ladies were very kind to himand he made the young Madame Hensler an offer of his hand. She-a Pietist in religion-had made a vow at her husband's grave never to marry again and as she was disposed to keep her vow, as she could not marry Niebuhr herself, he asked her to choose a wife for him,-and after some thought she selected her own sister Amelia. In his Union with this lady, Niebuhr was happy for some years. He succeeded in the world-served the state in very high officesacquired the frienship of the first men in Germany-and, through the delivery of his lectures on Roman History at Berlin, raised himself to a high place in the intellectual hierarchy of Europe. His wife died—and he again solicited Dorah Hensler to accept his hand.-But she adhered to her vow; and again failing in his suit, he again requested her to provide a substitute. It would seem that the vow only stood between her and himself for she still retained him in the family. This time she selected her cousin Gretchen, and, -strange as all this seems to us-he married her -Dorah's refusals do not appear, therefore, to have caused any, even momentary suspension of the friendship between Niebuhr and herself. His letters to her-ever kind, serene, affectionate presents an unbroken series."

THE DOCTOR.-He seems to have invested the persons of his wives with a veil or covering of sentiment alone.-This idealism of love is something of which we know nothing in practical every day intercourse, and is perhaps more than anything else demonstrative of the elements of that philosophy, which controls in so remarkable a degree the German mind.

THE LAIRD.-Hoot man! we dinna want ony o your farfetched pheelosophical disquisitions. At ony rate it is time to be aff. McLear gie's your arm, you're strong eneuch to support me doun the hill.

COLONIAL CHIT-CHAT.

THE Home Government have come to the resolution of sending some of H. M. ships to protect our Colonial Fisheries in the North Eastern waters. This is a most judicious determination. Though hitherto the encroachments of the United States fishermen have not been manifested in any very glaring act of aggression, still an evil of this description is most easily checked in the bud. "A stitch in time, saves nine," says the sage old adage, and most applicable is the dictum to the case in question.

The following is the speech of Sir Gaspard Le Marchant at the close of the Legislative Session of Newfoundland, which has excited so much sensation in that Province:

"In closing this the last Session of the present General Assembly, I must express my deep regret, that in the place of the harmony and concord that marked the earlier part of our Legislative career, party contentions, and acrimonious debates have occupied the time, which might have been usefully devoted to the development of the resources of the island, and the promotion of the welfare of its inhabitants; and I may also add, that I feel disappointment, that after four years Legislation I have it not in my power to congratulate Newfoundland on the benefits derived from your labours, being commensurate with the length of time consumed in your deliberations, or with the necessary expense with which the same have been attended."

In January last, Mr. Dulmage a custom officer, (as we learn from the Brockville Recorder), seized at Maitland the horse, cutter and merchandize of an American oyster peddler named Putten who had been dealing without a license. The seizure being reported to Government was approved of, and the articles sold accordingly. Some time after

THERE is not much to engage attention from the Continent of Enrope. The principal topics of interest being embraced in the speech from

the Throne.

ROYAL SPEECH FROM THE THRONE. "MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

"I am induced by considerations of public policy to release you at an earlier period than usual from your Legislative duties.

"The zeal and diligence, however, with which you have applied yourselves to your Parliamentary labours, have enabled me, in this comparatively short Session, to give my assent to many measures of high importance, and, I trust, of great and and permanent advantage.

"I receive from all Foreign Powers assurances that they are animated by the most friendly dispositions towards this country; and I entertain a confident hope that the amicable relations happily subsisting between the principal European States, may be so firmly established as, under Divine Providence, to secure to the world a long continuance of the blessings of peace. To this great end my attention will be unremittingly di

rected.

"I rejoice that the final settlement of the affairs of Holstein and Schleswig, by the general concurrence of the Powers chiefly interested, has removed one cause of recent difference and of future anxiety.

"The amicable termination of the discussions which have taken place between the sublime Porte and the Pasha of Egypt, afford a guarantee for the tranquility of the East, and an encouragement to the extension of commercial enterprise.

"The refusal, on the part of the King of Ava, of redress, justly demanded for insults and injuries offered to my subjects at Rangoon, has necessarily led to an interruption of friendly relations with that Sovereign. The promptitude and vigour with which the Gov. Gen. of India has taken the measures thus rendered unavoidable, have merited my entire approbation; and I am confident that you will participate in the satisfaction with which I have observed the conduct of all the naval and military forces, European and Indian, by whose valour and discipline the important captures of Rangoon and Martaban have been accomplished; and in the hope which I entertain that these signal successes may lead to an early and honourable peace.

"Treaties have been concluded by my naval the African Chiefs whose rule extends along the commanders with the King of Dahomey and all Bight of Benin, for the total abolition of the Slave Trade, which is at present wholly suppressed upon that coast.

"I have had great satisfaction in giving my assent to the measure which you have wisely adopted for the better organisation of the Militia; a constitutional force, which, being limited to purposes of internal defence, can afford no just ground of jealousy to neighbouring powers; but which, in the event of any sudden and unforeseen disturbance of my foreign relations, would at all times contribute essentially to the protection and security of my dominions.

"GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

"I thank you for the liberal provision which you have made for the exigence of the public service. The expenditure which you have authorised shall be applied with a due regard to economy and efficiency.

"The recent discoveries of extensive goldfields have produced, in the Australian Colonies, a temporary disturbance of society, requiring prompt attention. I have taken such steps as appeared to be most urgently necessary for the mitigation of this serious evil. I shall continue anxiously to watch over the important results which must follow from these discoveries. I have willingly concurred with you in an Act which, by rendering available to the service of those Colonies the portion arising within them of the hereditary revenue placed at the disposal of Parliament on my accession to the Throne, may enable them to meet their necessarily increased expenditure. "MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

"I have gladly assented to the important bill which you have passed for effecting reforms, long and anxiously desired, in the practice and proceedings of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity, and generally for improving the administration of justice. Every measure which simplifies the forms, and diminishes the delay and expense of legal proceedings, without introducing uncertainty of decision, impairing the authority of the Courts, or lowering the high standard of the Judicial Bench, is a valuable boon conferred upon the community at large.

"I hope that the measure which you have adopted for promoting extramural interment of the dead, and for improving the supply of water,