We have the account of a successful revolution for the
overthrow of " Faustin the First, Emperor of Hayti." It will be remembered that Soulouque was originally elected President of Hayti, but that setting aside his oaths to maintain the Republic, he overturned the Government and proclaimed himself "Emperor." He end his wife were crowned with great pomp ; and he created an order of nobility, which has been ridiculed for its titles of Lemonade and Marmalade, and other dignities of the Jam Pot ; as if the new Emperor designed an ultra-Quixotic burlesque on "the sweets of office." For several years Sou- louque succeeded in maintaining himself, with an occasional outbreak which he has put down at the cost of many lives. But all the time it was evident that a large portion of the people 'were opposed to the Empire. On the 224 of December, Geffrard, formerly Governor of Jacmel—an estimable person, viewed with natural jealousy by Soulouque—managed to escape from Port an Prince, where he had been under surveillance for some time, —took boat with but two followers—landed at Gonaines, where he was received with open arms by the people ; and at the latest dates he was master of the northern part of the island, with every pros- pect of entirely overthrowing the "empire." In fact, from the most reliable sources, we have little doubt that the Republic has by this time been reatablished. Hayti should be the school of the Negro in self-government and civilization, and if the Anti- slavery party, whether of England or America, had devoted to the instruction of Hayti, all the labour and (other people's) money that they have devoted to preventing the orderly and natural solution of the Black problem, they might by this time have done some substantial good.
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