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cuav. xxv. The Little l:Zvaugelist——.\Iaternal “Exertions"

—'l‘opsy at her Old Games—A wicked Ileurt

—-Topsy‘s Loves—A young Christian. is was hunday allernoon. St Clare was stretch- ed on a bamboo lounge in the verandah, solac- iug himself with a cigar. .\Iarie lay reclined on I sofa. oppmiite the window opening on the. verandah, closely secluded, under an awning oi transparent uze, from the outrages of the mosqiiitos, and languidly holding in her hand an ele aiitly bound prayer-hook. She was bold- ing it because it was Sunday, and she imagined she had been reading it—thoug-h. in fact, she had been only tnkin a succecsion of short naps, with it 0 ion in her ands.

Miss phelia, who, after some rummaging, had hunted up a small Methodist meeting wit - in riding distance; had gone out, with Tom, as driver, toattend it, and Eva had accompa- nied them. .

“ I say, Augustine,” said Marie, after dosin s while, " I must send to the city after in ol Doctor Posey; I'm sure I've got the comp int of the heart.”

“ Well; why need you send for him ' This doctor that attends Eva seems skililil."

-‘ i would not trust him in a critical case,” said Marie; “and I think I may say mine is becoming so ! I’ve been thinking of it these or three nights st; I have such distressing pains, and such strange feelings. _ .

“ 0 Marie, you are his: I on't believe it’s heart-complaint. "

H I dare say you don‘t," said Marie ; " I was prepared to expect tluu. You can be alarmed enough if Eva coughs or has the least thin the matter with her, but you never think

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" If in particular! agreeableto yi_iu to have heart-disaaaa, why, ‘ll try and maintain you have it," said St. Clare;“l didn't know it

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was. ,

-* Well, I only hope you wcn'tbssorryfcr this when it's too late 9" said Marie; “ bill. boliowit or not, my distress about DUI, and the exertions l have made with that dear child, have developed what I have lo sI_is ."

What the asierrioirs were which no referred to it would have been dilleult to stat’. St. Clare quietly made this commentary to liiuissil,

went on smoking, like a heard-hear

wretsli ofa man as he was, till a carriage drove up before the vsrandah, and Eva and Miss Ophelia ali hted.

)Iiu- Op olia marched straight to hes-own chamber, to put away her bonnet and shawl, as was always her manner, before she spoke a word on any subject; while Eva came at §t. Clars's- call, and was sitting on_his lines, giv- ingrlpn an account of the ssrvicesthey d h

on . T soon heard loud sxclainations from Miss Ophsl a's room (which, like the one in which they wars sitting, opened on to the versndnh), an violent reproof addressed to somebody. “ What new witchcraft has Tops been brew- ingl” aalisd St. Clare. “ That commotion is of her li;adisii_ig, I'll be bound !"

, in a moment after, Miss Ophelia in high indignation, came dragging the culprit al

“ out here, now!’’ she said.

" I aria r master."

" hat‘s ths case now!" asked Augustine.

" Thecsssis, that cannot be planned wiih this child any longer! li’s past all bearing. fiesh and bllird eiinsoi endure ii! iidsrs, ldlocgeddhsr

, hsahuitosiny;snwatuca his do, y hut w’hs'r'a l poi my key, _snd_hal gone so my“ arena, and go; IdbI')|l‘lnel irkiiniupigi sodcatits to ieeesioms s o s‘ so Oil. usvsasaw siiyihirvgliks it in m lifs.'li

I told you. cousin," said sric, " that you'd find out that these cralatures can't be brought I|l‘p without ssvsriiy. if had my way, now,’ s c said, locking rsproschfuliy at St. Clare, “ I’d aanrl that s ‘Id out, and have hsrthsrouuhly whi -

;|'-d have her whi ltill she couldn't stan l

" ldaa'i don ‘t " Si Clare * Tell me

I , . . ' ofdlha m'lfl;d worulan ! l neva‘r aahw above a c-rca wsaass i d ‘th lfkil rII.0|' ahsarvalut. Olillflf, i.ft:a;nIia"d ilr:ir ow: w:y wl tam, sisossarsas. '

" There is no use in ihis shilly-shslly way of yours, St. Clare!” raid Maris. “ Cousin in “ms: of -on-0. and sha ssss it sow as plain is

0.!

Miuophdia had just till!!! 'I' of indi na- tion ihsi belongs to ihe iliorouglr‘ houssk:sp- er, and this had been pretty acti y roussilliy the sriifies and wsstefnlni-ss of Ilia‘ child; in hot, may at my lady readers must own that , should have tell just so in her circumstancuarhui Marie's words want beyond bar, and she (alt-I3

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" I wouldn't have the child trsatsd so has the world," she said ; " but I am sure, Aiizuslins, I don‘! now what is do. Pvstsusht and taught, I'VE! . till I'm tired. I've whip has. I've punished hot in Iraq wayluss this of; and still I|is:s' vi: shsrvnssi am." W “i Q ‘ is» n u use i ' «I- Clsrs,eall.'ia; the skilrhp,s.o Urn.

ops] some up 6 her round, hard syss gliiisvlnp and b inliiau with ,a misfits of apprshsnalvsrioa

“ Lor, yes, mns‘r! old missus used to say so, too. She whipped me it heap harder, and used to pull my bar, and knock my head agin the door : but it didn‘t do me no good! I specu if they's to pull every spear 0’ bar out o’ my head, it wouldn't do no good neither-—-I’s so wi ! laws! In uothin’ but a nigger, no

1' 9" - . “ Well, I shall have to give her up,” said Miss Ophelia ; “ I can't have that trouble any

onger. _

“ Well. I'd just like to ask ons question," said St. Clare’.

" What is itl" .

“ Why. if your Gospel is not strong enough to save one heathen child. that you can have at lioiue here, all to yourself, what’s the use of sending one or two poor missionaries ofi‘ with it among thousands of just such ! I suppose this child is about a fair sample of what thousands- of thousands of your heathen are.” .

Miss Ophelia did not make an immediate answer ; and Eva, who had stood a silent sp_ec- tator of the scene thus far, niado a silent _si to Topsy to follow her. There was a lit_t s gnu-room at the ooi-iisrsif the verandah, which . . Clare used as a sort of reading-room ; and Elvis and T pg disappeared into this

“ What's va going about now?

lure; “ I mean to see."

And, advancing on dates, he liflnd up a air- tain that covered the g ssdoor, and looked in. In a moment, laying his finger on his lips. he made a silent gesture to Miss Ophelia to come and look. There sat the two children on the floor, with their side ‘faces towards them—ll‘op- sy with her usual air of carslsss drollsvy and unoonnern; t opposite to her, Eva, h_er whole face fervent with feeling, and tsars, in her large c s.

“ What oes make you so bad, Topsy? Why won't yo}; try it!!!‘ good‘ Don’t you love ' 0 iv

an . -‘ Dunno notbin ’ bout love: and sicli, that's all," said Topsy “ But you love your father "Nevsrhad nons, ye-know. I toiled ya Miss Eva." _ *‘ Oh, I know," saidliva sadly; “ but had nt you any brother or sister. or ivunt. or ’.’ " No, none on ’em—-never had nothing nor

lace. I: said St.

I loves candy

bud: mother !” that,

obody., _ _ ' " But Topsy, ifyou it only try to bs.good, ou ' ht’ —— _ _ “ Couldn't nasr bs nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good." Topsy. “ If‘ 00'“ be skinned, and come white, ‘d than."

“ But 0 can love you, if you aroblack, Topsy. in Ophelia would-love yini it you m '1! g .

w Topsy-pve ahs short, blunt laugh, that vyas her common inoph of expressing incsodulity. “ Don’tyouthiukso"’-IisdEvv.. . “ No ; she can’t bar ins, ‘muse I'm a nigger; she'd as soon have a toad touch her. Thane can't

bod l ' , and niggers can't do no- llliinhy IoiI:l?tl§£I':" said Topsy, beginning to whistle.

*- Tops , poorchild, Ilova you I'’ said Eva, with a and an burst of feeling, and layinghher‘ little, thin, white hand on topsy's~aliou r; “ I love you, becnuss u haven’t had any tithes, or mother, or frienda-because you've been a poor, abussd child! I love and I want you to be . I_-in my unwe_ . Topsy. and I think. I it live a great while,and'it really grievos use to have you-' be so naughty. I widiyou would is to be , for my sake: it's only a little while I aha I be with you.

The round, keen eyes of tbsablack child were overcast with tetra: largo, bri ht drops rolled heavily down, one by one, andsflild on the little white hand Yes, in that moment any of real belief. a may of heavenly love, had aetrated

darkness of her hsathsa soul l S laid her sad down between her see. wept sobbed; while tbs beautiful child, bendi her, looked like tbs’ picture» of some angel sao<*ing to reclaim 0- Inner-

“ Poor opsy !" said Eva, " dop’utyou know that Jesus loves all alike! I_Ie is you as wil- ling to love you as me. He will help you to be

and you can go to heaven at last, and be

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a over ight

an aiigolfor aver, yuatiasuiuoh as if you -WC!" white. Only thinkiofait, Toprpy, yopcan tire’ i M.- oin s rigs a .

of thsss spmh_ bri v UI030

“ 0 dear Miss ! dear-_ Miss Dru!" said the child, “ I will 1 will try! I nsvor-did care iusdiin’ about it fore."

‘St. Claroat this instant dro the curtain. “It puts me in mind of m

Miss Ophelia. " It’s true what she told me: if we want to 'ss sight tothe blind, we must

be wining to o as Christ did--all them to us, a air on titan.“ “ ‘vs alwa had a judics against no

gross,” said D Oph ; “and it's a fact,

never could bear to havsthist phild touch me ; ‘ 9 .

but I didn't think she knew-it. " Trustiany child to find_that out," said St.

L - rm.’ kaepsu it . n= 0 I‘hblelei'o;h‘tlma.‘allothe in the vforld Io benefits ¢'dd,aud_all the sabsuni ikvoprs

you can do th _ of gratitude while that fueling of repugnance utsoi is. ' " I don't know how I an hsl it,” said Miss halia; they as dissgsssa to mo-this %d in particular. How can] kslp fooling ’ II

remains in the heart; it‘! It q|l£§l'_U“i 59¢.‘ ,

" Eva dasa, it seems.”

" Wall,-shs’a so loving!- Mtsrall, thou h, she's .nor more than Ohristolikc.” said ias Ophelia: -“I wish I were like her. Bhsmlght teach Issson "

-iii':o:iss'siL tbs rm em. . inn. child lad bssuvuaad'bdiistssict an old disciple, it it soon so." saldila Ohm.

~ob4Q¢a.u _. .q..... -...... I Rt1IltlNO‘ihlo«'dOUO often tempta ps s

-with ---I-id“-“res to tell falsehoods. ma. . at it “ t makes Myra” sol" said 8t. "L ~ ,.id",,,',' 3 my M kw n alt?’ 'i:°,:°u”.d“n°,-,:‘hI'l b'h""-d V“. .:,U'h|V0’t|3?)¥lll'IClQ(l a debt! may tliihh u ' 4.-,,, kg“ ;» - hmqofpsymaui, but csaditors liars bsissr Staci! _ I hurt said'l‘opsy, _ , _ _ 40||IIPIlQi 9,‘ flhsly says son" insusonssthsa debtors: being naupasststsous 45- ‘s-.’°'a"“"' "‘.°l'."i.i‘.'l’l'.'."""' "°‘~ W - I"-' °'>~'!9'-".‘i!9.!9'*l .-.........ti:i—'- . W W .. .

or,” he said to'

had received but of what he ought to

OOLOIIIAL LEGISLATURE

Hons: or Assnsanv, March I853. DEBATE ON THE S

['l‘hs Debates on this Bi||—-the several questions arising out of which occupied so much of the rims and siisniion of the Asseaihly——have klrendy extended to so grsai a length, that ihe Ru-porier, in ordsr to securs publication of the whole, * has been obliged to give conclusion in a much condensed or summary ‘ iorui.] ‘

A'I'l‘0BNEY GENERAUB SALARY. llousa in Committee on Mr. Clark's slaries Bill-— Mi-. Fraser in the Chair.

Hon. the Sruna. hen, in 18-—, an Act was passed to establish a Salary for the Colo- nial Secretary and Re ‘strar and Clerk of the. Executive Council to €49 in lieu of all ofiicial fees, it was urged, in recommendation of the measure, that it would be the means of sfi'sct'iiig a considerable saving to the country: but,h9 thought, it might, with more propriety, have been spoken o as a Bill to benefit the gentle- man holding the oiiices to which it was applies» ble ; and, in his opinion, should the Coinrnittee adhere to the Resolution, fixing the Attorney General's Salary at £400. to which they had agreed when they last sat upon this Bill, they would, in that particular, he legislating rather for the benefit of the Attorney General, than for the good of the Country. If. taking the grass amount of the Attorney General‘s fecsfor

s last ten years, the average should appear to be £400, then he mi lit give his vote for its be- ing fixed at £350. ie average ‘on that period,

was, however, convinced would be found considerably short of £400; and, therefore, he could not give his voice in favor of more 300. The object of the Bill should be the ef- fectin of such ii. saving to the public. as could be ins consistently with a 'ust consideration of the remuneration due to e _Attoi-uey Gene- ra or s public services: unless that were the ob'ect of the Bill it o ' _ on he said he won (I agree to the fi of. that ofiicer‘s Salar at £300, he did not mean that his being pai that Salary should interfere ' with his prosecution of private professional bu- siness, ot erwise than by his being bound, on account of it, to give the ublic business. at all times, the preference in is o ce. fact, he thought it would be quite absurd, under the Responsible System, to interfere with his (the Attorney General's) private business beyond the restraint imposed by that requirement; on , therefore, was of opinion that, whether he chose to devote himself to the transaction ofbusin s as a money-lender, or to the ma entof t e ahirs of an Insurance Ofice, provi (1 his doing: so was not allowed to interfere wi the proper discharge of his public duties'aa Attorne Geno ral, it was not properly any concern either of the Legislature or o the Government. The boa. the Speaker concluded by ‘so. ing that theiasa of the Attorney General and he Solicitor were both greatly increased by the number of-petty criminal cases brou ht into the Supreme Court, but he he d that t s time was not far . distant wheiisuc cases would‘ be dis red of in a sum- ma way before a Bench of . agiatrutea. He won d not vote for either of the Salaries pro- posed, unless it could be shown that the aver- age amount of the fees of the Attorney General d 3:506’ Solicitor, for the last ten years, was r‘ .

Hon. Mr. Loin. They ou ht to be satisfied that what they contemplate carrying into ef- fect would benefit the countr : or the on a

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not to roceed with it. It mi t work t way. hey should not, he tiought, fix the Saa- lanes on an average for a less period than five years. £100 a year was certainly much beyond the averiip of t e fees of the Solicitor.

Mr. Yno. He was of the same opinion as the Hon. Mr. Lord. As respected the Solicitor Gs- neral. his charges were so niodr.-rate, that there was certainly no necessity for interfering with

them. Hon, Mr. Lorin. The ban. member who brought in the Bill ought to have been prepared

with full and correct statements of the fees, for

some years bsck,of the public ofiicers whose smo-

luments the Bill wasintended to afi'ect. I10 (Hon.

. L.) was not of opinion that the best way yo» insure punctuality and expeditiomon the rtof a public oflcer, was to‘ ' e him a fixed r : it was more likely, on t evcontrary, he thou gt, often to occasion delay and post nsinent. $0: his own part, he was so little in love with the measure, that the dis sol of it which would best ease him, woul ' _ ' handed over to the hon. member (Mr. Clark w o had intro-

duc it to put it into his poc at and do what he liked wit it. Hon. Mr. Tnonivros. The object of the House

in entertaining the Bill was econom , he thought; but to fix the Attorney Gausr ’s Sa- lary at £400 would he the ver reverpe of eco- noin'.. The average by whic the amount of the ary ought to be determined should not be taken on the extrava nt chargsmzdeiby the present Attorney (eneral: iron to be determined by a consideration, not 0 . list he, V8 TO-

csi ; a year to the Attorney. General, whilst, in‘ virtue of thuhappoixitnsoirt, holding other oiloss from which srived n‘uonsider- able amount oi‘ fees, would certa' too much. The hen. the Speaker would be lieved, agree to £350. and he (lion Mr. T.) thought it would be best to reconsider the vots-oftke Cou- initlee lb: £4.00.

Hon. the Sulfur stated that tha.bsa.ol‘ the Asttoflldy Guests for the. ears 1849. 1860. and 1 51. amounted to £4: , the average being £!58‘. ’l‘hst.avers~ge. he said. wouldaotjustify a salary oiuop a yssb ,

lion. r. ii shhégthst tkpaynag on

“rs . s £ oh;

. the Attorney ‘allowed

'.of£400 for allpu fobtptribrm by '

-I~5-I~z-- , he vroul ha mush het- . um

tsr paid“: ‘sin: o_tlieArt,&flosr 0! Govern- ‘ ‘ t. v s as rns Gfinfidssarsr men Iilhr fir more than bun ufithoatvf

OI , two vs. ‘bvsllud Chit

t not to be sntertgined. -

Ms. Moniiav. The avenue of the last six years would, he ihouglii,,sfi'ord a proper guidance. it was proclaimed through the papers, he saw, ihsi they were going to gibhei the Aiiorney Gene- ral: that roclaiuaiioa hail not, however, been su- rhoriied y say rocseilinns on ihe pm of that

"U00; and there ore it would go only for what it was worth. The House had certainly been look- ing very closely (as it was their duty in do) into certain doiiliia ofihe .~\ ttosnoy General ;and, in the course of their investigations thereof. he had it could not be dssiad resolved in litilc rough usage: he(Mr. Mooney) himself lisd given hirna prod. but he had done ‘so only because "he thought ha deserved it. There had not been, however, any. intention to treat him unfairly; and with respect in the question cl sfixrd Salary to be allowed him, the Comniiltc had shown the great- est williii near to deal fairly by him. I ' self(Mi. £1 ) had moved that his Salary be 12350 I ear; and he was persua led that. if it were fix-

si that aibouiit, he would be very lihsrsily dealt with. If he (the Attorney General) did not think it enough. he would not be compelled to accept it ; hsiniglii saaiuii. Bur, if It avers fixed at that amount, the alluwsnos would he an ample one; sad if he accepted st, ii would be the fault of ihe Government if he failed in the proper discharge at the duties for thvi perrormsnce of which it was to he paid to him. 'l‘he Hon. Mr. Lord seemed to be afraid that the ratshli-‘hing of a Salary would render him negligent or‘ his duties : but he lMr.'Miioney) would beg leave to tell that hon. geltitleman, lhat it wastlie duty oflhs Governirieiii. of which he was a member, to take care that the Alioroév General gave due attention and diligence to the discharge of his ullicial duties; and if they found tiiai he did not, it would be their duty in dinuiiss him.

It was thus agreed to reconsider the sslarv ofihn Attorney Gsuaral; d the tloinruiitoe entered upon

a iaumaiilsirstion of the question, accordingly. The doing so iodto lire repetition of many remarks which had previously made, as well as to the reproduction of the statcmenis of accunnis and

‘calculations on which the Committee had pre- viously relied for a propei.deisrm'

inaliou of Ihe question. - In’ wh:.i is subjoiosd with reference to this quesiion, the llsportur has endeavnuierl to state, ‘in the fewest words possible, every new , fact and argument elicited by the reiiawsd discus- sion of it.

Mr. Mourcoiixair siatsd that the Attorney Generals’ fess, in his capacity of Adviicple Gene- ra,|.iii.ihe Adniirsliv Court, lssi year were 1-:l30. 'li‘.all fsss nuaeivsd by him in his oflleial capacities were not to be paid into the Treasury, a Salary of £350. a year would, he thought, be quiio enough. ‘ . liosovvovcrn. The fees received by Mr.