HALIBURTON, THOMAS CHANDLER, ex-colonial judge, author, and politician, was born at Windsor, in Nova Scotia, in 1796. His father, the hon. Mr. Justice- Haliburton, of Nova Scotia, was descended from an ancient Scottish family. Haliburton received his education at King's college in Nova Scotia, afterwards practiced as a barrister, and became a member of the house of assembly. He was raised to the bench of the common pleas of the colony in 1829, and in 1840 became judge of the supreme court. In 1850 he retired from the bench, and took up his residence in England, which he had always regarded as his mother-country. In 1838 he received the degree of D.C.', from the uni versity of Oxford, and in 1859 took his seat on the conservative benches of the house of commons as at r. for Launceston, which lie represented until his death. Haliburton is best known as the author of Sam 8.7c1c, the name of a Yankee clockmaker and peddler, a sort of American Sam Weller, whose quaint drollery, unsophisticated wit, knowledge of human nature, and aptitude in the use of what lie calls "soft sawder," have given him a fair chance of immortality. In a subsequent series, the author brings Sam Slick
to England as an attaché of the United States legation, and is thus enabled to offer many shrewd and humorous observations on the aspects of British society, especially in regard to the upper classes and their pampered servants. Sam Slick has been almost uni versally read in the United States, where its extravagances are keenly relished. It has enjoyed a. wide popularity in England. and has also been translated into many continental languages. l laliburton is also author of the Letter-bag of the Great Western, Wise Saws and _1///dera Instances, Nature and human Nature, Bubbles of Canada, Rule and Misrule of the Enyask in America, and A History of Nova Scotia. IIe died in Aug., 18f;5, having attained a place and fame difficult to acquire at all times—that of a man whose humor was nurtured in one country, and became naturalized in another; for humor is the least exotic of the gifts of genius.