Refine Search

LITERARY MISCELLANEA

... where he cannot be replaced except at considerable expense. This is one thing which peculiarly aggravates the do- mestic slavery of Mozambique, viz., the facilitywith which the negro is replaced. To keep them in subjection, every opportunity is seized ...

LITERATURE

... frontiers, a simple collision between two peppery captains, a breath of national reproach stronger than usual on the subject of slavery, would cause the mass to topple over, and to bury those whom it had sheltered. They heeded not these bodings; they trusted ...

LITERATURE

... her companion. There is a good deal of dirty work transscted by these two, and the lady is re- duced to a horrble state-of slavery by the comn- panion. All their machinations are, however, foiled by the straightforwvard chivalry of a noble- hearted doctor ...

REVIEWS OF BOOKS

... resist the overweeaicg influnceuiof the honse of Lowther. Tho chief tpo e'tvelt on in his address were ;the abolition of slavery,'the total rermoval of reli- gious disabilities, retrenoLimnoa± in the public expendi- ture, end a redaction within moderate ...

LITERATURE

... will find ample details in Mr. Crookes report. BOOKS, &aC., RECEIVED. HEnts for Whom they may Concern.-No. 1. England's Free Slavery. Dedicated to Government.,' The Fisancial Reformer for September. Birchin-lane Book-keeping: or the New Knack of Mud- dling ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... Collamer, of Vermont, a man of more than average mind-far above the grade of Andrew Johnsois ; and, though ean opponent to slavery, a fair and just-minded op. ponent, and we shall have hopes of liberal treatment of the south ...

MR. LECKY'S RISE AND INFLUENCE OF RATIONALISM

... Euro~e. By W. E. I-I. Lrci;v, MA.A Two Volumes. (London: Longman and Co.) were the aristocratic influences of the ancient slavery, or the military tendelicies of the feudal era of European civilization. It is clearly confusion to suppose that all influences ...

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

... cotton had risen In price or mills had began to work short tie, Mr. Gregory was eagerthst England houldsnlutathenewflagof slavery; andthe political reactonlatsa who wereready then as they are now to abet his antl-popular purpdse,; we- moved, not by care ...

LITERATURE

... the men and women who are wavering, torn- ing to the south as a nation of humane gentlemen, take up MSrs. Kemble's book. Slavery has of late, and to our shame, been almost advocated in England. The friends of the south have discovered that it is not, ...

MR. DICKENS IN AMERICA

... by English residents here. BAit, with the exception of a few newspapers, which cannot forgive hini for tilc exposures of slavery contained in his American Notes, his reception ini this country has been everywhere of unreserved cordiality. This has ...

LITERATURE

... which does great credit to the knowledge and manner of its author, Mr. 'Siddons. The author is in favour of the abolition of slavery.. Werecommend his pages to all who desire to have a fair idea of the history 'of our American cousins. : 'IRICHARD COHDS, ...