ball was supposed to have struck his head, as his face
became instantly covered with blood. He sprang up in
the water, and shrieked in his agony. The bystanders
were becoming so excited at the horrible sight that
the Southerners retreated from the bank, and took
counsel together as to what was best to be done. Meanwhile
the poor slave came to the shore, and was supposed
to be dying, upon which his pursuers remarked, that
"Dead niggers were not worth taking south," and were
walking away, when the fugitive unexpectedly revived.
As he in his turn was walking away, supported by
another coloured man, the Virginia people, perceiving
that he was alive, pursued him, called upon him to
stop, and threatened to shoot anybody who should
protect him. The threat took effect, for the crowd
actually did retire, and there was nothing for it but
for poor Bill to take to the water again, which he did.
In the water he remained for upwards of an hour, and
there his pursuers dared not follow him. At length
they appear themselves to have been intimidated by the
menacing attitude of the crowd, who were preparing
to arrest them, for they retired of their own accord.
Bill waded some distance up the river, and then
got out. He was found by some coloured women
lying senseless in a corn-field. What was his fate
is not mentioned, but it seems probable that he died of
his wounds. The public feeling is strongly excited in
favour of these wretched fugitives. A letter from
Columbus, in Ohio, published in the New York Times,
gives some interesting particulars on this subject. "The
sailors upon the lakes," says the writer, "black and
white, always sympathise with the victim of oppression,
and are generally ready to afford him a safe and free
passage to Canada.If the fugitive arrive on the lake
shore in the season of the year when there is no
navigation, he generally remains in some one of the Western
Reserve counties, until the boat commences running in
the spring. The anti-slavery sentiment has been such
there for years that no fugitive has been taken thence
back into slavery. Sometimes the number which
collect in a winter is quite large. They generally arm
themselves, and are sworn to die in defence of each
other. Indeed, a large proportion of the fugitives who
now escape carry a bowie-knife and revolver. I once
knew thirty of these fugitives come forth from their
hiding-places, armed with guns and rifles to protect a
brother fugitive. The slave-hunter was glad to escape
without his victim. This summer two fugitives, a man
and his wife, passed through this State, both of them
armed with a knife and revolver, travelling in the
daytime, defying danger, refusing assistance only as they
paid for it, as they would not involve any one in the
penalties of the fugitive law, and declaring they would
take the life of any one who should attempt to arrest
them. In this way they went safely through the State.
In the applause with which the representation of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin upon the stage in New York has
been received, we have an illustration of the sympathies
of the masses for the oppressed. This sympathy with
them is almost universal. Our teamsters, engineers,
conductors, and breakmen upon our railroads, captains
and all hands on our lake steamboats, are all actuated by
it. Many a fugitive passes through the State concealed
in railroad cars, and with the connivance of those
engaged in running the trains." From the present
state of public feeling, we may expect that some
alteration will be made in a law, the operation of which
is attended with such revolting barbarities.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

SETTING aside the mere reprints and new editions,
the publications of the past month are comprised in
an unusually brief list. The new books have been
too scanty even for the rough classification which is
generally attempted in this place, and must be named
simply in the order of their appearance. Lord De Grey
has derived from the Wellington Dispatches and other
similar authorities a volume of Characteristics of the
Duke of Wellington, considered apart from his military
talents. Mr. Bradshaw has published an Illustrated
Handbook to Belgium and the Rhine. Mr. Oxenford
has translated from the French of Messrs. Callery and
Yvan, the former the interpreter and the latter the
physician of the French embassy in China, their History
of the Insurrection in China; not only a book of great
liveliness and intelligence, but written in an uncommon
spirit of friendliness to England; and, by the present
translator, brought down to the latest dates of the
remarkable event described in it. The author of "Mary
Powell" has founded upon Mr. Morley's recent biography
of the famous old potter of France, a story which is
sufficiently explained by its title of The Provocations of
Madame Palissy. Mrs. Howitt has translated in three
bulky volumes Fredrika Bremer's impressions and
experiences of America under the title of the Homes of
the New World. Miss Catherine Sinclair has devoted one
small volume to considerations connected with a
particular class of London Homes. Lord Grey has
published a second edition of his Colonial Policy of Lord
John Russell's Administration, which claims mention
here for the "additions" it contains. M. Soyer has
compiled, with the very classical title of the Pantropheon,
a History of Food and its preparation from the earliest
ages, which must be admitted to be a subject not likely
to lose its interest or importance down to the very latest
ages. The Rev. J. W. Taylor has celebrated the
disinterested exertions and zealous benevolence of one
of the leading supporters of the Free Church movement
in Scotland, in a Memoir of the late David M. M.
Crichton. Mr. John Wynne has published Three
Original Plays, a five-act comedy, a two-act historical
drama, and a four-act romantic Mexican drama,
strongly inviting the attention of managers. Miss
Crawford has published a small volume on French
Confectionary Adapted for English Families. Miss
Strickland has completed the fourth volume of her
Lives of the Queens of Scotland, but without yet
completing the Life of Mary Stuart, which will extend
into another volume. A Life of Edmund Burke,
by Mr. Peter Burke, a history of the Three
Presidencies of India, by Mr. John Capper, and a
Handbook of Foliage and Foreground Drawing, by
Mr. G. Barnard, the drawing-master of Rugby School,
are the original contributions of the month to Messrs.
Ingram and Cooke's popular libraries. The Archbishop
of Dublin has collected into a volume his Cautions for
the Times, a series of tracts of which the main design
has been to counteract the insidious attempts of what is
called Puseyism to retain its hold upon the Church of
England. Sir George Stephen has explained in a
course of lectures, which he has issued in a small
volume, the Principles of Commerce and Commercial
Law. Mr. Robson has translated Emile de Bonnechose's
History of France, a compact and fair summary
of the leading events of French history to the accession
of Louis Philippe, well designed for ordinary school use.
A very easy German Grammar, and an Advanced Latin
Exercises, have been added to Messrs. Chambers's useful
"educational course." Mr. Francis Newman has
collected, condensed, and abridged, with the full
sanction and assistance of the orator himself, the Select
Speeches of Kossuth, delivered during his visit to
America. From America itself we have Mr. Samuel
Eliot's History of the Early Christians, and the
opening number of an Illustrated Catalogue of the
New York Great Exhibition. The Rev. Mr. Berkeley
Jones has written his Adventures in Australia during
the last and present year; and Mr. Macilwain has
written Memoirs of John Abernethy, as a debt due
from a pupil to his old master, whose lectures, writings,
and character are presented in a very pleasing view.
Four novels conclude our list—the Colonel, Raymond
de Monthault, and Ailieford, each in three volumes,
and the last by the author of "John Drayton;" and,
in two volumes, an Indian story called Oakfield or
Fellowship in the East.