St. Mary's beacon., 1853-01-13

RIwcRopT THE HIST0RIAN.-tte w
The son OF one of the most distinguishes
Unisarisn di vipsaof The laanhsR century.
Brought IN in M Atmosphere OF sravs
and humane ca,holicity, his constant les.
son vas the supreInest liberty OF moraa
investigation. A, the age OF seventeen no
wen, to Germany, and studied ct Collin
gen. While there, though Q mere youth
he often preached to the quiet sefma"
congregations in the vicinity, IN tneif na-
tive tongue. Pursuing his studies VITA
ardour, and stirred by . singular intel:
lectual Yesilessness, his mind darteo
through the fields OF scholastic culture,
hiving the sweets, quite ignorant oil their
future use In Berlin, he became &C.
quainied with Schleiermacher WOLF ana
Savigny He first saw Goethe IN Jena.
The old man was walking in his garden
in The morning, clad with German care.
lessness, in heavy loose coat and trousers
without . wais,eoat. He talked pleas
anily OF many things IS they strolied.
Inquiring abou, Lord Byron, who was
then O, the height OF his fame, ne re-
marked. though without passion or III.
feeling. that the English poet had model;
led his Manfred upon Faust. The young
SUDDEN, afterward met Lord Byron in
Italy, and visited him at his villa, near
Lsghorn. Byron denisdeshs eitargeAci
Goethe about Manfred, and said that ne
had never read Faust. Ii vas in the
s2I, while he was writing Don Juan.
When his viaiter rose to take leave,
the po-t took down q volume containing
tine last canios he had then written OF the
poem. and wrote his nst7e in them. as .
remembrance " from Noel Byron. - The
career Of the his, orian, after returning to
this country, is q matter ofPublie record
NEsRo EAAsctPArloS.-The following
remarks Of the London Times on the re-
suit Of negro emancipation in the British
West India islands, are entitled TO weight
in the consider ration OF those OF our coun-
trvmen, " no, under the pretence OF phi.
lan,hrophv, NEEDLE with the relation OF
master and Slave, and recklessly tampsr
with the future happiness OF our colofed
population.
Our legislation has been dictated by
the presumed necessities Of the African
slave. After the Emancipation Act.
large charge was assessed upon the
colony in aid OF the civil and religions
institutions for the benefit Of the entran-
chsed negro, and il was hoped that these
colored subjects Of the Crown would
soon be assimilated 10 their fellow citi.
zens. From all the information which
reaches Tie no less than from the VISIBLE
probabilities Of the case, we are con-
strained TO believe that these hopes have
been falsifed. The negro has not &C.
CURED with his freedom any habi'a OF
industry or morality. Fills independence
10 little better than that OF an uncap,ured
brute. Having accepted few OF the res
traints Of civilization, he ~ amenabls to
few Of its necessities; and the wants Of
his nature are % easily satisfied, that At
the current rate Of wages, he 10 called
upon for nothing but hiful or desul,ory
he 6IacTs. thsrsTore, instead % BE-
coming intelligent husbsndmen. have
become Migrants and squausrs, and il 10
now apPrehended that with the failure Of
cultivation in the island will come the
failure Of its resources for instructine or
controlling ito population. So imminent
does this communication appear, that
memorials have been signed BY classes
Of colonial society hitherto standing aloof
from politics, and not only the bench and
the bar, but the bishop, clergy, and
ministers of ell denominations in the
islasds without exception, have recorded
their conviction that, in the absence Of
timely relief the religious and education
al institutions of the island must be aban.
doned, and the masses Of the population
| retrogads to barbarisln."