planter courts on evidence obtained by subornation of perjury; or else assailed with the mob violence which only finds a parallel in the Southern slave states of America. But all has been in vain. These deeds of violence, discovering more fully the embruting effects of slavery upon those mixed up with its administration, have only resulted in giving greater intensity to the rising storm of national indignation against the monster wrong, until king, lords, and commons have all been compelled to bow before it, and the fiat has gone forth that slavery shall pollute the British empire no longer. The The persecuting combination has been shattered. Colonial Church Union, comprising all the planters and nearly all the whites of the colony, is no more. "He that sitteth in the heavens laughed at them, the Lord had them in derision." "He broke them with a rod of iron, and dashed them in pieces like a potter's vessel." Nearly all the leaders in the godless conspiracy, and not a few of the minor actors, sleep in bloody or premature graves, brought down to the dust by such an astounding series of suicides, accidents, and sudden deaths, as clearly marks a providential retribution, compelling survivors to acknowledge, "The hand of the Lord is in this." And the father and founder of the wicked association, a so-called minister of the Gospel, singled out for eminence of punishment and sorrow, has been driven from his charge and from the country by a terrible domestic catastrophe, which he is constrained to recognise as a punitive providence that makes the ears of all who listen to the sad story to tingle. Amongst the persecutors who have passed away from life under a cloud are the two men who sold themselves to work wickedness in connexion with the "Courant" newspaper; the termination of their evil career, and that of the paper they were associated with, serving to shed light upon the Scripture, "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished." The "Jamaica Courant" continued its vile career for several years, its pages polluted from time to time with blasphemy, sedition, and slander; pandering to the vices and prejudices of the slave-oppressing fraternity, and breathing envenomed bitterness towards all who were even supposed to favour the cause of the slave. For a season it prospered in its evil course. Its circulation was great, its influence unrivalled, and its two directors, now entered into partnership, derived a very considerable revenue of some thousands per annum from the profits of the publication. But, like Jonah's gourd, the vile print was blasted and withered in a night, and when at the very acme of its prosperity and power. Some erratic changes in the views of Mr. Beaumont concerning slavery had brought him somewhat into discredit with the planting interest, and, to preserve the prestige of the paper uninjured, the partnership with Bruce was professedly dissolved, though, as afterwards appeared, the largest share of the interest in the concern was still vested in Mr. Beaumont. As it was necessary to preserve appearances, the business was left very largely to Bruce, who, as might have been expected from such a man, betrayed the trust reposed in him, and sought to advance his own interests by sacrificing those of his principal. On making this discovery, a violent quarrel ensued, and Beaumont seized upon the establishment. But the business had so entirely passed into the hands of the junior partner that he at once, without a day's notice, stopped the issue of the paper. Other newspaper proprietors stepped in, and occupied the ground; and the "Jamaica Courant," one of the worst prints that ever disgraced the press, ceased to exist. Litigation followed. Bruce, speedily impoverished, became a bankrupt. When he came before the court, charged with fraudulent bankruptcy, it was proved that he had falsified the books of the firm, and destroyed, in revenge, all the papers and vouchers; recklessly sacrificing his own share of the property in order to damage his opponent. The chief justice, in sentencing him to twelve months' imprisonment, declared that it was the most aggravated case of fraudulent bankruptcy that ever came under his observation. Bruce had often gloried in the persecution and imprisonment of Christian missionaries; and had not only urged the planter magistrates to shut up chapels and imprison the preachers, but had advised them to hang the missionaries in the woods of St. James and Trelawney to diversify the scenery. Now it comes home to himself. A loathsome disease, that had clung to him for years, was aggravated by his imprisonment; and he left the gaol a pitiable wreck, sunk almost as low as poverty, disease, and vice can suck a human being. A few of his former friends subscribed to get him a passage to England; and, without leaving one to mourn his departure, he quitted the land where he had lived only to work evil and give intensity to corrupting influences, to find a watery grave in the broad Atlantic. Found dead in his berth, his already corrupted remains were consigned to a resting place far down beneath the rolling waves. Greatly reduced in circumstances by the dishonesty of his unprincipled associate, and by the litigation it occasioned, Mr. Beaumont, also, soon after left the island in which he had made no little stir and bustle; but which no longer presented to him a field of profitable enterprise. He had seen and felt that "the getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death." The gains gotten by unscrupulous advocacy of the foulest system of oppression that ever saw the sun, had melted from his grasp like snow in summer. One after another, he had seen the bad men, whose hands he had strengthened in wickedness, drop, in rapid succession, to the grave; smitten down in the full vigour of lusty manhood. Nor is he permitted long to survive them. That he has seen the error of his ways, in some respects, is certain. Before his departure from the colony, where he prostituted to evil, abilities which might have opened to him a course of distinguished usefulness, he has, to the astonishment of many, become the defender and advocate of the missionaries he so often abused and misrepresented. But, whether he lived to renounce the infidel creed which, in a spirit of bravado, he boasted of having adopted, is not known. The somewhat tragic circumstances of his death left this important question undecided with us, though not with the Searcher of hearts. He died, and made no sign. He was seated on the top of a coach by which he was travelling, in the north of Britain, during the night, in a hard winter. Rendered more susceptible of the effects of cold by a long residence in the tropics, he became chilled and frozen; and, yielding to the slumber so deadly in such circumstances, the current of life was silently arrested, and stood still. In the morning only a cold, stiffened corpse represented the strong and vigorous man who had so lightly ascended to the top of the vehicle 'he preceding night. All efforts to restore animation failed. The immortal spirit, with its stupendous responsibilities, had passed away to the presence of its Maker XV. THE MIDSHIPMEN'S FROLIC. O, When we swallow down Intoxicating wine, we drink damnation! C. Johnson. HERE are some persons who are greatly afraid of going too far in acknowledging God, whether in the works of His hands, or in the administration of His provi dence. "The works of nature" is a phrase often used to evade the recognition of the Divine Creator in His handiwork. "Poetic justice" is the euphemistic expression sometimes employed to keep out of view, as far as possible, the interposition of the All-seeing Governor of the universe, when, in the ordinary course of human affairs, a providence of righteous retribution is exercised, and the Divine word is fulfilled, "With what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again." If our minds are suitably impressed with the idea of that minute observation and control of all sublunary affairs so clearly expressed in those words of Holy Scripture," Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; but the very hairs of your head are all numbered," —we shall often recognise in passing events the chastening and correcting hand of Him who rules the world in righteousness, and whose eye is "in every place, beholding the evil and the good." In 1831" the hell-like saturnalia of martial law was proclaimed in Jamaica, and continued with its horrors for seven or eight weeks. According to some of the legal men of ន |