The Montreal witness, 4 janvier 1847, lundi 4 janvier 1847

[" VOL.IL TL TER a FAMILY NEWSPAPER.MONTREAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 4.1847.\u2018 ; te, WITNESS _ WEEKLY REVIEW AND.No.1 QOUATNTCLYT ONS AND ORIGINAL ARTICLES.wr en, tre me INTELLECTUAL GREATNESS.BY TUE REV.B.SLIGHT, : Words should be correct types of our thoughts.But many words are without any correct or definite meaning and what is still worse, many things will not correspond with the words used to designate them.; A ; There is, perhaps, not a greater pervertion of human languaze than that which is employed In giving \u2018 flaitering titles unto men.\u201d How many titles and distinctions of lifz gre utterly misapplied!\" You might be tempted to think, in some instances, that they had only been given \"in contempt, as intended to imply (he opposite ; or, rather; as sarcastically to intimate what the individuals \u2018ought to be, than what they really are.We have many Honousables, and .Right Honourables without a particle of honour.Many a person has M.A.appended to bis namey who is not even acquainted with, much less Master of any one Art.Many others have D.D.attached to their usual cogromens, who would not pass-for ordinary divines, to say nothing of their being desrned in that divine branch of knowledge.* It is Telated in history shat on the death \u2018of Seleuces Philopater, he was succeeded byehis brother\u2019 Antiochus.On his ascension to the throne he took the name of Epiphanes, or the 1Hustrious The life of this individual is mixed up with Seripture transactions.In the sacred books, things are called by.their true names, and represented in their trué'characters.The prophet Daniel predicted of this illustrious man, that he would be a vile person! and the Hebrew word he uses signifies déspicable.The historian testifies that he was truly all these terms \u201ccan express.Piideaux,\u2019 from the Heathen historians, relates many wl his tricks, and Jow-lived revellings; and says, that many instead of Epiphanes, or the Illustrious, called him Epinames \u2018or the Madman.And if the texts of Scripture, or soand common sense were but applied to many other individuals, they would undountedly be stripped of their fancied honours, and \u201cfictitious titles.In like manner, some \u2018persons obtain the \u2018epithet great who have no legitimate claim to such a dis- \u201ctinction: and some others bave really and legitimately such a claim who have never acquired its application.; There are many resemblances and counterfeits of that which is.Some men acquire this distinction on no solid considerations.À fine figure; an expressive countenance ; a sanarove voice ; a ready flow of language ; the ornaments of diction; a knowledge, and command of the arts and tricks of oratory; all contribute to pass off a man as à great man.On the other hand, there y persons, whe, although they possess the germ of greatness of c! tet, are, notwithstanding so un- ; proposées in\u2019 their manner and habits, that they are thereby prevented from gaining the estimation of the generality of their audience.\u2018This fact should impress young men with the necemity of pairing off every \u2018excrescence.Demosthenes with the disadvantages of a neglected education, weak lungs, a defective pronunciation, distorted features, and awkw:rd habits,t by dint of application, and almast incredible industry cohquered all (hese defects, and rose to his grest eminence as the prince, and pérfect model of orators.All the above- mentioned qualifications may be possessed without the higher qualities of the mind, which are emential to real elevation.Yet a man may be more pépular who merely possesses them, than one who is endowed with those higher qualities, and is destitute of these ornaments.Popularity and ability are not ajvays identical.That which glitters, however, is in some quarters siore admired than solid gold itself.The orator paints with words; the intellectual man places before us substantial forms, and the essential attributes and properties of things.Good paintings are beautiful, and worthy of admiration ; bat some admire them more than realites.Those qualities, especially those constituting true and genuine eratory, possessed, in addition to intellect of « high order, are elements sf greatness: but they will never entitle à man to such a distinction, who is destitute of solid intellectual endowments.In other words, sithough oratory, and external ornaments are valuable auxiliaries, yet tle mere possession of them exclusively, does not constitute true greatnes.© Cénnezions, Vol.ti, po 183.+ Many are the curious Inbits formed by speakers in the act of addressing an audience.There is ofen nothing more ridiculous,\u201d says Mr Addison, (Spectator, No.407,) \u201c they the gestures of an English speaker.You ses some of them running thé hands into their pockets as far as ever they can thrust them, and others lo&ing with great attention on a piece of paper that bas nothing written of it; yo may see a smart theiorician turnisg bis hat in his hands, mouldingit into different cocks, examining sometimes the lining of in and sometimesthe button, during the whole harangue A deaf man would think he was cleapentng a beaver, when, perhaps, he is talking of the fate of the British naion.I remember when | was s young man, and weed to (requent Westainster Hall, there was & counselior\u2019 who never pleaded without a piece ofpackthrend io his hand, which he used to twist about à thumb or & finger di the while he was speaking: the wags of those days used to call it the thnad of Lis discourse, for he was not able to ulter « Word without it.One of bis clients who was mere merry than wise, stole it from him one day in the midst of his pleading; but he bad better have let it alone, for he lon hia cause by the jest.\u201d It has been remarked that effort of mind put fork in « peculivr place, needs the masociations of the place in onder to ther being pat forth at all.Lock speaks of à men, \u2018who, baving learned Lo tance in a chamber where his trunk 167, could never afterwerds dance wthont the trunk.Some ministers who are able in the pulpit, are ulterly Jowerlem on the platform.The observation has boon advanced that lawyks eminent at the bar, seldom add to their legal distinctions by their app@rance in Parliament.Divested of the atrey of inde, jury, counsel, and (mabey thev loose the sources of their oratory.lljant Erskine faibd ut his figgt effort, and never afterwards gained any escendency.Curraf, who, it might be thought no circumstance could embarrass, declared, © it wig he was nothing.\u201d Some speakers in Parliament bave curbus habits.Sir R.Peel is not divestnd of them Lord J.Ruse] approacivs the iable, places both bis thumbs upon its edge, and pushing himself back from it, sdvances again.snd repests the moves it, .meni have so @tion at ail, but stand like statues.Young epoakors should sarrowly watch ives, and carefully correct every tendency to particules bit, atude, or manner, for wi they feel any predi- , Favourable circumstances have raised some\u2019 individuals to distinction.Such persons have.been drawn into a sphere of action by some casualily, or stirring event; aiid have been susjained for a time by a series of favourable occutresces.In consequence they have been aroused (0 some coucurrent'exertion and efforts, they would otherwise never have attempted.The nature of the events were such, that they must have been absolutely stupid had they not displayed some activity.These events have, to all appearance, been directed by their skill, but in fact, have been brought (0 pase in a manner purely providential.In consequence there bas been a halo of glory shed around them.Sill there have been no profound plans emanating from themselves, neither any clearsighted wisdom in directing the machinery in operation.Notwithstanding their favourable position ; their minds have never been expanded ; their intellectual capacity has never been enlarged ; or their amount of knowledge has never been materially increased.It must be admitted that it designates a mind possessed, at least, of ability amounting to mediocrity, to keep up with these events, or they would not have derived profit from them to any extent, however favourable: for there have been persons thus circumstanced who have in no degree derived any advantage from it, yea, who have only made it the occasion of demonstrating their imbecility.But it is a still greater proof of decided and superior ability, when any man, with many impediments, and labouring under many discouragements manifests the force of his powers, by controlling those untoward events, and tising above them all into distinction.Where great powers of mind are possessed by an individual, it becomes a matter of necessity, by an inward prompting, to put them into action: he is urged on by the impetus of his mind.He overcomes many and great difficalties\u2014levels high, and smoothes rugged places: stems the torrent, aud buffets the tide: the diamond bursts the crust hy the friction of its own activity, and shines with splendour and brilliancy.There are times and seasons which enable & man to distinguish himself, but those times themselves would not be so much distinguished but for men who are clearheaded; of strong and mighty minds; who can grasp every circom- stance, and control events.It is sometimes difficalt to ascertain when the times have influenced the men, and when the men bave controlled the times, and when each bave mutually operated upon the other.The latter case is the more general.Volumes might be filled, and in fact have been filled with examples of such noble individuals.\u201c Pigmi igtnies oti h | ef ma Pi ah is on Als We must also admit that howsaever great the innate capabilities of à man may be, yet be must have scope for action ; for even some of jhe brightest geniuses have been indabled to favourable events with which they have been connected.Men of considerable ability may remain in obscurity for want of favourable opportunities, and < waste their sweetness in the desert air.\u201d And even gems of the first water may be hid in the «dark cavems\u201d of the ocean; bat such a man would still possess intrinsic qualities of an eminent nature.Their to the free air and invigorating sun give elegance to their form, brilliancy to their colour, and lustre to their veins.Though eminent geniuses may often, yet they cannot always originate such opportunities, The causes of Anti-Slavery, of Repeal, and of Free Trade, have given occasion for the exhibition of some individuals who otherwise, perhaps, might have remained in oblivion, We should, perhaps, have known nothing of Wilberforce, of O\u2019Confftil, and of Cobden, but for the causes alluded to, in which they have respectively beea deeply engaged.There are often great and stirring questions and events, out of which some persons, who have not much genuine talent, know well how to produce an interest.By espousing popular views on interesting topics, and by pandering to the taste of the populace they contrive to rise to distinction.It is à fact also, that there are certain, what we may call conventional usages, in some societies, the leading features of which are to afford mutual support and applause: and in order to carry out their views there is a well-known effort to depreciate and crush those who refuse to render their aid.Young aspirants soon understand this, without its being explained to them.They soon discover that if they will not condescend to those practices they must be content to remain in obscurity.A small number bave 100 much noble independence to yield to such base venality, but the generality will submit to the necessity, and a few gladly seize such an opportunity of rising to distinction.These bractises are mean ; but nothing is too mean for some, if thereby they may gain popularity and applause, The idea of following public opinion, merely because it is the public opinion, is detestable.Those who follow public opiniqn, concur in the opinions, sentiments, aid practices of others, because they generality do, when at the same time it is against their judgment, if indeed they possess any ; and all because they bave not strength of mind, or courage enough to stand up against it, Public opinion, like fashion, is often unfounded in res- son.It originates for the moat part in the doctrine of some one who is considered influential ; and such a doctrine is slavishly followed by the majority of men, as though they had no resson or judgment of their own to guide them.Or, in other words, the public have no opinion at all.Their sentiments are too frequently an echo of sentiments which have some how or other found currency.A popular man is not always a great man, and often a great man is no} populsr.Mere boldness is the means of the elevation of vatious persons, who have very little else to recommend them.Such persons possess no delicacy of feeling, no nice perception of securacy.They dash at something, right or wrong, and happen te be right; and, therefore, gain some distinction.By variews efforts they keep themsslves for a) time in a favorable position with the pal ic, until they commit some egaregiows blunder ; and thea they rink te their own proper level.In general.we may say, scarcely any person will ries to mueh eminence without a'sufiicient degree of confidence.D.Bloner was an exoep- tion : but although he had timidity in excess, yet be powessed great mental energy, which pressed bith forward.Self-respect and self- confidence act reciprocally on each other., The abeence of self-réspash induces a want ot self-confidence.The individual supposes the abs sence of those qualities-and attractions which would render him sccep~ table : he becomes debased in bis own eyes, and in bis person he be- \u2018trays the condition of \u2018his mind.In the\u2019 presence of Persons whom \u2018he considers superior be acts in a béshful, constrmned and awkward than- ner, he feels afraid of speaking, acting, or undertakihg any thing which would exhibit him.\u2019 i conscious of his own grace will never be found adorned with the feathers of the peacock ; neither will one conscious of his own strength ever be found in the lion\u2019s skin ; he has nothing to do with fictitious appendages.He is not afraid of being underrated, and will therefore be content to appear true 10 nature, and in all the simplicity of originality of character.He apes, imitates or affects nothing.The monkey or the baboon will never be a man: for whatsoever tricks he may play, or however he may strut with consequential air, he has not the brain: of a man.It is possibe that the character of greatness may be acquired by in several instances, Others lay plans, perform many preparatory works, none of which may be very prominent, or much exposed to observation, but which bave, nevertheless, cost great effort of genius.The persons alluded to in the first instance have noticed a fit opportu- nity\u2014have moved in their sphere\u2014have acted on their plans, and have gained all the credit of having performed a great operation: wheveas they never had the genius or ability to originate such plans themselves.1t would not be difficult to name persons who have passed for original ginal principles, from which, when combined, to produce some grand display : another may enter upon it and simply throw the principles, civil, social, literary, philanthropic, and religious life?Americus Vespucious was not the discoverer of the new world ; yet it bears his name: many of the reputed inventors of the most useful discoveries of the present time received their first bints from others.Raikes did not commence the first Sabbath School; yet he is reputed the founder: cosdjutors.(To de centiauod,) NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.New York, 19h December, 1846, CHRISTIAN UNION.The town of Poughkeepsie, on the Hudson River, above this city, than the Alliance, as appears by the following account :\u2014 For some Presbyterian, and Congregational churches have met at nine o\u2019clock on Monday morning, weekly, for the purpose of prayer, conversation on the state of religion in our churches, giving an analysis of our discourses on the Sabbath, and devising plans for the building up of Christ\u2019s kingdom ; at these meetings we have had high enjoyment, and sat together in heavenly places in Christ.\u201d They bave increased in interest from the beginning, and been as profilable os plesgant.Asa result of this ministerial union, we find the most delightful union among our churches, These are «like priest like people,\u201d ind.our different congregations vie with each other in promoting brotherly leve.We have & Union Tract Distribution Society, a Union Suñday School Society, and on the first Monday of the year we meet and-fill the large and commodious sanctuary of our Dutch Reformed brethren, and spend the evening in exhortation, singing, and prayer; in which ¥xer~ cises all the ministers take a part.The pastors exchange with \u2018each other on the Sabbath, and supply each other's desks when one happens to be absent.The most delightful harmoby prevails in\u2018onr churches.\u201d « Ephraim does not envy Judah, nor Judah vex Ephraim,\u201d sad I really believe that so far as pleasant ministerial intercourse fs con cerned, we are as happy as if we belonged to the same denomination.1£it be asked, bow is it possible to preserve peace for so many years consecutively ?I answer, we never ask each \u2018other to say « Shibboe.loth.\u201d We can ali say, « Christ crucified,\u201d and is the same dialect.And we are one in Him, each enjoys bis own liberty\u2019in Christ as to things row essential.Thas we « dwell together in unity.\u201d Buch is the lovely picture which might be exhibited iri* every city, town, and\u2019 hamlet of the land ; but alas ! such, it must be owned, is very fer being the cave.So much has been written, eaid, and acted on the subject of Christian union of late, that my own mind bas more than .usual been occupied with the sabjeet, I bave read and ought a good deal about it, and the results are bri¢fly as follows :\u2014It must be granted that there can be po real union of believers where there ig bot firit a rected and growing love aad union to thé Saviour.The state of the churchis in this country exhibit melancholy evidence of the want of this growing union to Grist, The statistical returns, where published, exhibit, in the largest namber of cases, 8 decrease of members instead of an incrense.If we look ground us in our resfifetive nei we find true ond earnest piety very deficient.This state of affelis bas & desdening influence on the few who do (though in an \u2018imperfect manner) Jove the Saviour and bis cause on-the earth.What b the proper remedy for this stete of things! \u2018The remedy ligp.with epch of us who profess to love the Saviour, \u201cIt is nef in getting up revival exciteménts, in gathering cainp meetings, id splendid alliance opovo- cations, in providing costly and splendid churshes, in mers | shost Christian walon without mricus endesvokis bo cf it out, in » * A self-seqking spirit is a sure sign of littleness of character.A min entering upon the labours of others.This has actually been the case .geniuses who have only been mere imitators and plagiarists.An office\u2019 +, may have been occupied by one who has long toiled in preparing ori- thus prepared to their hands together, aud they are amalgamated and * constructed into new and beautiful forms.Has it not often been so ia _ the idea of free trade did not originate with Cobden; yet he receives ~ the honours to tbe almost entire exclusion of its originators, and his .have worked out the problem of Christian union much more cleatly \u201c years past the ministers of the Dutch Reformed, Baptist, Methodist, | adopting means to support and extend the gospel at home and abroad; But it is in each individual Christian cultivating « a clossr walk with God.\u201d The path to the prosperity of the church and Christian union lies chiefly through the closet, personal earnestness in prayer, self-ex- amination, and the ewltivation of hely thoughts and desires, are the means of accomplishment.Could we all be aroused to ve thus, how s00n would those possessad of such feelings, be drawn together unitedly, to supplicate the throne of grace for the prosperity of Zion ; how soon | would the public prayer meeting become the place where Christians love to meet together, how soon would such meelings become larger in number, as well as more lively, interesting, and profitable ; how soon \u2018would the mere hearers of the gospel be attracted and drawn within the boly and pleasant circle; how soon would entrances be made into the enclosures of sectarianism, and permit the followers of the same Saviour, heirs of the same bliss and glory, to enter into each others grounds, and enjoy the blissful communion and fellowship of kindred minds, possessors of kindred hopes and glorious expectations; how soon would the gospel be sent to the perishing; how soon would the world become filied with the glory of God in Christ Jesus; how soon would the millenial glory dawn, in all its grand and blissful realities, upon our now unhappy and wicked world.As Christians, let each of us see that we are not stumbling blocks in the way of this bright vision of bliss and glory.Followers of Jesus, if you \u2018 sow sparingly you shall reap sparingly.\u201d There is a time to favor Zion, yea, a set time; when will that time come ?When Christians are alive to the great importance of living a truly religious life; when they are aroused to feel the desolations, and to pray for the prosperity of Zion.Then, and not titl then, will the Lord arise to favor Zion.Christians, how high is our vocation ; how great our responsibility! O that we may be enabled to realise it more, to remember it more, to perform it better, to feel that we are made the almoners of the Divine bounty to a perishing world, and that wo is unto us if we are found unfaithful to our high trust.Ww.G.__ TER LUVISW, THE LAST RECOLLECTIONS OF NAPOLEON.(Abridged from Blackwood's Mugazine.; History or tue Carnivivy or Narorson ar St.Hezema.By General Cuunt Montholon.2 vols.London: Colburn.There are few things more striking than the analogy in civil and physical changes of the world.'Thero have been in the history of man periods as distinctive as in the history of nations.From these periods society and nations have alike assumed new aspects, and the world has comnienced a new career.The fall of the Roman Empire was the demarcation between the old world and the new.It was the moral deluge, out of which a new condition of man, new laws, pew forms of Religion, new styles of thought, almost a totally new configuration of human society, were to arise.A new settlement of the civil world took place : power absorbed by one race of mankind was to be divided among various races ; and the development of principles of government and society, hitherto unknown, was to be scarcely less memorable, less unexpected, or less productive, than that voyage by which Columbus doubled the space of the habitable lobe.& The Reformation was another mighty change.It introduced civil liberty into the empire of tyranny, religion into the realm of superstition, and science into the depths of national ignorance.The French Revolution was the last, and not the least powerful change within human experience.Its purpose is, like its operation, still dubious.Whether it came simply for wrath, or simply for restoration\u2014whether, like the earthquake of Lisbon, it came only to destroy, and leave its ruins visible for a century to come ; to clear the ground of incumbrances too massive for the hand of man, and open the soil for exertions nobler than the old, muat be left to time to interpret.But there can be no question, that the most prominent agency, the most powerful influence, and the most dazzling lustre, of à period in which all the stronger impulses of our being were in the wildest activity, centred in the character of one man, and that man\u2014Napoleon.It is evidently a law of Providence, that all the great changes of society shall be the work of individual minds.Yet when we recollect the difficulty of effecting any general change, embracing the infinite varieties of human interests, caprices, passions, and purposes, nothing could seem more improbable.But it has always been the course of things, Without Charlemagne, the little principalities of Gothic Europe would never have been systematized into an empire ;\u2014without Luther, what could have been the progress of the Reformation 1\u2014without Napoleon, the French Revolution would have burnt itself out, vanished into air, or sunk into ashes.He alone collected its materials, combined them into a new and powerful shape, crowned this being of his own formation with the imperial robe, erected it in the centre of Europe, and called the nations to bow down before a new idol, like the gods of the Indian known only by its mysterious frown, the starting splendor of its diadem, and the swords and serpents grasped in its bands.\u2018That the character of Napoleon was a singular compound of] the highest intellectual powers with the lowest moral qualities, is evidently the true description of this extraordinary being.This combination alone accounts for the rapidity, the splendor of his career, and the sudden and terrible completeness of his fall.Nothing less than pre-eminent capacity could have shot him up through the clouds and tempests of the Revolution into the highest place of power.A mixture of this force of mind aud desperate selfishness of heart could alone have suggested and sustained the system of the Imperial wars, policy, and ambition ; and the discovery of his utter faithlessness could alone have rendered all thrones hopeless of binding him by the common bonds of sovereign to sovereign, and compelled them to find their only security for the peace Euro in consigning him to a dungeon.He was the only instance in modern bistory of] & monarch dethroned by a universal conviction ; warred against by mankind, as the sole object of the war ; delivered over into eaptivity by the unanimous j nt of nations : and held in the same unrelaxing and judicial fetters until he died.It is another striking feature of this catastrophe, that the whole family of Napoleon sank along with him, y noither possessed bis faculties, nor were guilty of his offences.Butas they had risen solely by him, they perished entirely with him.Future history will continually hover over this period of our annals, as the one which most resembles some of those fabrice.tions of the Oriental genuis, in which human events sre continually under the guidance of spirits of the air; in which fan.\u2019 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.tastic Jolaces are erected by a spell, and the treasures of the earth developed by the wave of & wand\u2014in which the mendicant of this bour is exalted inte the prince of the nest; and while the wonder still glitters betoro tho eye, another sign of the wecromancer dissolves the whole pageant into air again.Hu- maa recollection has no record of so much power, so widely distributed, and apparently so fixed above all de ordinary casu- altias of the world, so instantly and so irretrievably overthrown.The kinge of earth are not undone at a blow ; kingdoms de not change their rulers without a struggle.Great passions and monarchies.But the four diadoms of the Napoleon race fell from their wearers\u2019 brows with scarcely a touch from the hand of man, The surrouder of the crown by Napoleon extinguished the crowns actually ruling over willions, and virtually influencing the whols Continent, They were extinguished, too, ut tho moment when the Imperial crown disappeared, It had no sooner been crushed at Waterloo, than they all fell into fragments, of themselves ;\u2014the whole dynasty went down with Napoleon into the dungeon, and not one of them has since returned to the world.The name of General Count Montholon is well known to this country, as that of a brave officer, who, after acquiring distinguished rank ju the French army by his sword, followed Napoleon to St.Helena : remained with him during his captivity ; and upon his death was made the depository of his papers, and his executor.But his own language, in à fetter dated from the Castle of Ham in June, 1844, gives the best account of his authority and his proceedings.\u201cA soldier of the Ropublic, a brigadier.general at twenty years of age, and minister-plenipotentinry in Germany in 1812 and 1813, I could, like others, have left memoirs concerning the things which I saw; but the whole is effaced from my mind in resence of a single thing, a single event, and a single man.\u2018The thing is Waterloo; the event, the fall of the Empire ; and tho man, Napoleon,\u201d - He then proceeds to tell us, that he shared the St.Helena captivity for six years ; that for forty-two nights he watched the dying bed of the ex-monarch ; ad that, by Napoleon's express desire, he closed his eyes.The narrative commences with the return of Napoleon to Paris after his renown, his throne, and his dynasty were alike crushed by the British charge at Waterloo.He reached Paris at six in the morning of the 21st.Ît is now clear that the greatest blunder of this extraordinary man was his flight from the army.If he had remained at its head, let its shattered condition be what it might, he would have been powerlul, have awed the growing hostility of the capital, and have probably been able to make peace alike for himself and his nation.But by hurrying to Paris all was lost: he stripped himself of his strength; he threw himself on the mercy of his enemies ; and palpably capitulated to the men who, but the day hefore, were trembling under the fear of his vengeance.Count Monthiolon makes a remark on the facility with which courtiers make their escape from a fallen throne, which has heen so often exemplified in history.But it was never more strikingly exemplified than in the double overthrow of Na- oleon.\u201c At Fontainbleau, in 1814,\u201d euys the Count, * when hastened to offer to carry him off with the troops under my command, I found no one in those vast corridors, formerly too small for the crowd of courtiers, except the Duke of Bassane and two sides-de.camp.\u201d His whole court, down to his Mameluke and valet, hed run off to Paris, to look for pay and place under the Bourbons.In a similar case in the next year, at the Elysee Bourbon, he found but two counts and an equerry.It was perfectly plain to all the world but Napoleon himself that his fate was decided.Count Montholon gives a briefbut striking description of the confusion, dismay, and despair, into which Waterloo had thrown the Bonapartists,.He had hurried to the Elysee a few hours afler the arrival of Bonaparte from the field.He met the Duke of Vicenza coming out, with a countenance of dejection, and asked him what was going on.\u201c All is lost,\u201d wasthe answer.\u201cYou arrived to-day, as you did at Fontainbleau, only to see the emperor resign his crown.The leaders of the Chambers desire his abdication.They will have it; and in a week Louis XVIII, will be in Paris.At night on the 19th, a short note in pencil was loft with my Swiss, announcing the destruction of| the army.The same notice was given to Carnot.The last telegraphic despatch had brought news of victory; we both hastened to the Duke of Otranto ; he assured mo with all his cadaverous coldness that he knew nothing.He knew all, how.over, 1 am well assured, Events sucueeded each other with the rapidity of lightning ; there is no longer any possible illusion.All is lost, and the Bourbons will be here in a week.\u201d About this time strange circumstances took place.One of the ministers had brought some negotiable paper to the amount of several millions of francs into the Emperor's chamber.The pocket was placed under ons of the cushions of the sofa.Only one person, and that ons à man of rank who had served in Italy, entered the chamber.Napoleon went to look for the money, calculated a moment, and 8 million and a hall\u2019 of francs, or about £680,000 sterling, had been taken in the interim.Those were times for thicvery, and the plunderers of] Europe were now on the alert, to make spoil of each other.The Allies wore still advancing, but they were not yet in sight ; and the moh of Paris, who had been at first delighted to find the war was at an end, having nothing else to do, and thinking that as Wellington and Blucher had not arrived within a week, they would not arrive within a century, began to clamor Vive l\u2019Empereur ! Fouche and the provisional government began to foel alarm, and it was determined to keep Napoleon out of ht of the mob.Accordingly they ordored him to be taken to Mul- maison ; and on the 25th towards nightfall, Napoleon submissively quitted the Elysee, and went to Malmaison.At Mal.maison he remained for the great part of the time, in evident fear of being put to death, and in Eee a prisoner.~Such was the fate of the most powerful sovereign that Europe had seen since Charlemagne.Such was the humiliation of the conqueror, who, but seven years before, had summoned the continental sovereigns to bow down to his foot.stool at Erfurth; and who wrote to Taima the actor these words of supreme ai nce Come to Erfurth, and you shall play before a pit.full of] rom this period, day by day, a succession of measures was adopted by the government to tighten his obain.He was ordered to set out for the coast, nominally with the intsntion of] iving him a passage to America.But we must doubt that great havoc have always preceded and followed the fall of 1847 off the mask which he had worn s0 many years.And it was impossiblo for him to expect forgiveness, in cass of any future return of Napoleon to power.But Napoleon, in America, would have heen at all times within one.and-twenty days of Paris.And the mere probability of his return would litve been enough to make many a pillow sleepless in Paris.We are to recol lect, also, that the English ministry must have been perfectly aware of the arrest of Napoleon ; that Bt.Holena had been already mentioned as a place of security for his person ; and that if\u2019 it was essential to the safety of Europe\u2014a matter about \u2018which Fouche probably cared but little ; it was not less ossen- tial to the safety of Fouche's own neck,\u2014a matter about which he always cared very much, that the Ex-Emperor should never set (vot in France again.Who could have once belioved that the most fiery of soldiers, the most subtile of statesmen, aud the proudest of sovereigns, would ever be the subject of & rescript like the following?It begins with an absolute command that * Napoleon Bonaparte™ (it has already dropped the emperor) \u201c shail remain in the roads of the Isle of Aix hl the arrival of passports,\u201d It then proceeds : \u2014\u201c1t is of importance to the well-being of the state, which should not be indifferent to him, that he should remain till his fate, and that of his amily have been definitively regulated.French honor is interested in such an issue; but in the mean time every precaution should be taken for the personal safety of Napoleon, and that he must not bo allowed to leave tho place of his present sojourn, (Signed) \u201c Tur Duke or OtraNTo.\u201cTug Prince or Ecxuune.\u201d There was now no alternative.Napoleon must either remain and full nto the hands of Louis XVIII., who had already proclaimed him traitor and un outlaw, or he must try to make his escape by sea, On the 29th of June, at five o\u2019clock in the evening, he entered the carriag: hich was to convey him to the coast, leaving Paris behind, *- which he was never Lo return alive, but to which his remains \u201cave returned in a posthumous triumph twenty-six years after, ou the 15thof September, 1840.On his arrival at Roclfort, all the talent of the French for projects was immediately in full exercise.Never was there so many castles in the air built in so short a time, Proposals were made to smuggle the prisioner to the United States in a Danish merchant vessel, in which, in case of search he was to be barrelled in a hogshead perforated with breathing holes.Another project was, to put him on board a kind of fishing- boat manned by midshipmen, and thus escape the English.A third project proposed, that the two French frigates anchored under the guns of the Ise of Aix should put to sea together; that onc of them should run along side Captain Maitland's ship, and attack her fiercely, with the hope ofdistracting her attention even with the certainty of being destroyed, while the other frigate made her escape with Napoleon on board.This is what the French would call grande pensée, and quite as heroic as any thing ins melodrama of the Porte St, Martin.But the captain of the leading frigate declined the distinction, aud evidently thought it not necessary that he and his crew chould be blown out of the water, as they certainly would have boen if they came in contact with the \"Bellerophon ; so this third project perished.After a few days of this busy foolery, the prisoner, startled by new reports of the success of the Allies every whore, and too sagaclous not to feel that the hands of the French king might be the most dangerous into which the murderer of Es D\u2019Enghien could fall ; looking with evident contempt upon the foolish projects for his escape, and censcious that his day was come, resolved to throw himself into the hands of Captain Mait- land, the commander of the Bellerophon, then anchored in Basque roads.On the night of the 10th, Savary and Las Cases were sent on board the English ship to inquire whether the captain would allow a French or neutral ship, or the frigates with Napoleon on board, to pass free I\u2014Captain Maitland simply answered, that he had received no orders except those ordinarily given in case of war; but that he should attack the frigates if they attempted to pass ; that if a neutral flag came in his way, he would order it to be searched as usual.But that, in consequence of the peculiar naturs of the case, he would communicate with the admiral in command.But events now thickened.On the 12th, the Paris journals arrived, announcing the entrance of the Allies into Paris, and the establishment of Louis XVIIL in the Tuilleries! All was renewed confusion, consternation, and projects.On the next day Joseph Bonaparte came to the Isle of Ais, to propose the escape of his fallen brother in a merchant vessel from Bordeaux, for America, and remain in his plice.This offer was generous, but it could scarcely be accepted by any human being, and it was refused.But delay was becoming doubly hazardous.It was perfectly possible that the fist measure of the new government would be an order for his Wizure, and the next, for his execution.On that evening he decided to accept the offer of the chassemarées, to go on board before morning, and trust to the Joung midshipmen and chance for his passage across the At.antic.We know no history more instructve thanthese \u201c last days\u201d of a fugitive Emperor.That he might have qsonpod a week before, is certain, for the harbor wasnot then blockaded; that he might have made bis way among the channels of that very difficult and obstructed coast, even the blockade, is possible ; that he might have found his way, by a hundred roads, out of France, or reached the remnant of lia armies, is clear, for all his brothers escaped by land, But tlat he still hesitated\u2014and alone hesitated ; that this man\u2014the most memorable for decision, famed for promptitude, for the discovery of the true point of danger, daring to the height of rashiess, when daring wes de.manded\u2014should bave paused at the very instant when his fate seomed to be in his own hand, more resembles a preternatural loss of faculty than the course of natre.His whole conduct on the shore of France is to be equilled only by his conduct among tho ashes of Moscow,\u2014it wai infatuation, Napoleon after vainly attempting 10 obtainun official pledge of s favorable reception in England, from Captain Maitland embarked In the Bellerophon.There was but one preliminary to lis departure now to take place.It was the execution of an ofler from the Government to examine the Langage in the stricteit manner, and to require the surrender of all money or jewels y value in the possession of Napoleon and his suite, Necessary us this act was, for the prevention of bribery, aud attempts tdescaps from St.Helena, not for any undue seizure of private ry, for à most ample allowance was already inted government for the expenses of the prisoner, this duty siems to have been most intention, Fouche, the head of the government, had now thrown imperfoctly performed.As the Couit tells us, \u201cthe grand- 1847 marshal gave up 4000 Napoleons, as constituting the Emeprors\u2019 chest.We kept secret about 400,000 francs in gold\u2014from threé to four bundred thoasand francs in valuables and diamonds, and letters of Credit for more than four millions of francs.\u201d Whether this imarense sum was overlooked by the extraordinary negligence of thuse whose duty it was to fulfil the ordors of government, or whether their search was bafilled, the narrative does not disclose, But there can be no question that the suits were bound to deliver up all that they possessed; and there can be as little question that with such sums of money at his disposal, Napoleon's subsequent complaints of poverty were ridiculous, end that the subsequent sale of his plate to supply his table was merely for the purpose of exciting a clamor, sud was charlatanish and contemptible.We pass over the details of the voyage.On the 16th of October, 1815, the Northumberland cast anchor in the roads at St.Helena.The Count remarks that the 17th, the day on which he disembarked, reminded him of a disastrous day.It was the anniversary of the last day of the battle of Leipsig.If distance from all the habitable parts of the globe were to be the merits of Napoleon\u2019s prison, nothing could have been more appropriate than the island of St Helena.It was two thousand leagues from Europe, twelve hundred leagues from the Cape, and nine hundred from any continent.A volcanic rock in the centre of the ocean.In the month of April, the frigate Phaeton anchored in the roads, having the new governor, Sir Hudson Lowe, with his family on board.Sir Hudson is now where neither praise nor blame can reach him, but the choice was unfortunate in the vory point for which probably he had been chosen ;\u2014he had been Colonel of the Corsican regiment in our service, had served niuch in the Mediterranean, and had already been (as far as we remember) the object of Napoleon\u2019s biterness in some of his Italian manifestoes.There can be no doubt that the mildest of governors would have been no favorite with the prisoner of] Longwood, But in the present instance Napoleon\u2019s blood boiled at the idea of being placed under tbe jurisdiction of the colonel of the Corsican rangers; and be, accordigly took every opportunity of exhibiting his indignation\u2014a sort of feeling which, in a foreigner, and especially one of southern blood, always amounts to fury.THE HISTORY OF THE DOG.(From the Eclectic Review.) : Tus Doo.By Willam Youatt.8vo, pp.268.Lyndon : C.Knight sad Co.\\ Tue iTuroar or uz Doa.By W.C.L.Martin.(Knight's Weekly Volume, xliv.) London, - In addition to the guardianship of houses, and their eetrices in 1ho chass or in war, the strongest and most ferocious dogs were highly valued for the combats of the amphitheatre, Nor was it only in life animals administered to the gratifieation of the polished citizens of for they were served up at lable, and, according to Pliny, were considered exquisite! A cooked dog was thought place at sumptuons feasts, and at the festivals in honour of secration.Amongst various nations à similar taste etill prevails\u2014the Chinese lation dogs for the table on vegetable dist\u2014with the South Sea re the Pod is a favourits dish\u2014in Guinea, dog\u2019s flesh is in high estimation\u2014and Mr.Fraser relates, that during the Niger Expedition, a fat and handsome English dog, belonging to one of the officers, was stolen by ives to gratify the luxurious palate of the King at Coomassie! OuyJewish prejudice aguinet the flesh of Lhis \u201c unclean\u201d animal isnot a littlg shocked by these practices.Yet there have been instances of Englishmen who have had sufficient philosophy to conquer the aversion, and (hat they have ea.joyed the meal.Foster, in his * Voyage Round thé World,\" urges that Nature has intended dogs for food by making thogso prolifie, and Mr.Wilson, in his * Essays on the Origin and Natural Hijory of Domesticated Animah,\u201d takes the same view, and expresees his ofision, that there is no reason why the practice of eating dog's flesh should nj be more extensively adopted.It in certainly remarkable that whilst Efopeans have lost the Jewish aversion to hog's flesh, they maintain that the dog ; still we must confess, thet our own philosophy is by no gmos strong enough to \u2018overcome the disgust which the Initer delicacy excité We may now glance at a few of tho valuable sexe present time, rendered by dogs in the different pe commencing with the northern regions, we find thet] in Kamtaschatka, there are several broods of large wintee for drawing sledges over the hardened snow The ordinary load fur five doge, is about two hundred or two hundred angi ty pounds, exclusive of the sledge and driver, and they will travel fm sixty to one hundred miles per day.Me.Martin has quoted from Simiral Vod Wrangell's « Expedition to the Polar Seas,\u201d a very intereatifg account of the dogs in those regions :\u2014 \u201c Of all the animals that live in bigWaorth latitudes,\u201d the admiral remarks, \u201c nono are eo deserving of being noticed ns the dog.The companion of man in §i climates from the islands of the South Seas, where be fefds on bananas, to the Polar Bea, where his food is fish, he herg plays & part to which he is unaccustomed in more favoured regions.Necessity has taught the inhabitants of the more northgm countries to employ these comparatively weak animals fof draught.On all the coasts of the Polar Sea, from the Obi Jo Bebring\u2019s Straits, in Greenland, Kamtschatka, and the Kurfle Islands, the dogs are made to draw sledges, loaded with pefons and goods, and for considerable journeys, These dogs pre much resemblance to the wolf.Those born iff winter enter on their training the following autumn, but are nit used on long journeys until the third year.The feeding anftraining is a particular art, and much skill is required in deping and guiding.The best trained dogs are used as leadofs and as the quick and steady going of the team, usually of twelve dogs, and the safety of the traveller, depand ity and docility of the leader, no pains are in their equcation, so that they may always obey their master\u2019s voice, andfadt he tempted from their courses when they come on the scentpf game.- In travelling across the wide tundra, itf dark nights, or when the vast-plain is veiled in impenetrable fist, or in storms or snow tempests, when the traveller is in dager of missing the sheltering powarns, and of perishing in snow, he will frequently owe, his safoty to a good leader.the animal has ever been in this plain.and has stopped with master at the powarna, he will be sure to bring the sledgejt the place where the hut lies deeply buried in snow; when afrived at ie he will suddenly stop, and indicate significantly the fpot where his master must dig.\u201d\u2014Martin, pp.110\u2014113, \u2018The Esquimaux dog is of very great to the natives around Daffin's Bay.It provides them with clothing sad food by the capture of the rein- es which are, at tbe of the world.And THE MONTREAL WITNESS.desr, and, by its keen scont, detects (he seals that lie concealed in holes under the ice of the lakes.\u2018The Esquimeux, in their summer cxcursians, load their dogs with provisions, &c., hung In paniers across the back, and in winter, harness them (0 the sledge.In the dreary regions of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego, the savage inhabitants derive so much advantage from these animals in the guardienship of their huts, and in procuring their precarious supply of food, that they eet n very high value upon them.Bo much is Lhis the case, thet in times of famine, they sacrifice old wumen and become cannibals, rather than destroy a single dog, for, say they, * Doge catch otters; old women are good for nothing!\u201d In Western Asia, the Turkoman hordes, and the wandering tribes of Persia, use a breed of woll.like dogs for the guardianship of (heir Bocks of shoep and eattle.The dutics of those dogs are simply to watch over and protest the flucks.A much more responsible cffiee in intalligontly fillsd by the shepherd's dog of this country, which gathers the wandering sheep, and drives them in the right dircetion.\u2018This description of the qualities of the shepherd's dog may be illustentod by a very interesting account of the important services rendered, on one occasion, to Jamo Hogg, tho Ettrick shepherd, by his dog * Sirah.\u201d It is given by Mr, Youatt:\u2014 \u201c On one night, a large flock of lambs that were under the Burick shepherd's care, frightened by something, scampered away in three different directions across tho hills, in spite of all that he could do to keep them together.* Sirrah,\u2019 said the shepherd, * they're a\u2019 awa !\u2019 \u201cIt was too dark for the dog and his master to see each other at any eonsiderable distance, but Sirrah understood him, and set off after the fugitives.The night passed on, and Hogg and his assistant traversed every neighbouring hill in anxioue| but fruitless search for the lambs, but he could hear nothing of them nor of the dog, and he was returning to his master with the doleful intelligence that he had lost all Lis lambs.* On our way home, however,\u2019 gays he, * we discovered a lot of lamba at the bottom of a deep ravine, called the Flesh Cleuch, and the indefatigable Sirrah standing in front of them, looking round for some relief, but still true te his charge.We concluded that it was one of the divisions which Sirrah had been unable to manage, until he came to that commanding situation.But what was our astonishment when we discovered that not one lamb of the flock was missing! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark, is beyond my comprehension.The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising sun ; and, if all the shepherds in the forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater promptitude.All that I can say is, that [ never felt so grateful to any creature under the sun, as I did to my honest Sirrah that morning.\u2019 \"\u2014 Youat?, pp.62, 63.Mr.Hogg's experience taught him to believe that a single shepherd with his dog could accomplish more in guthering a flock of sheep, than twenty shopherds could do without dogs, and he further expresses the opinion that the additional cost which would be incurred, in the absence of these animals, by the employment of herdsmen to manage the sheep, to gather them from the bills, force them into houses and folds, and to drive them to markets, .would be mare than the profits of the whole flock would be capable of maintaining.We have yet to refer to the invaluable services, rendered by the dog, in the preservation of human life.We might fill our pages with illuetrative anecdotes.On many occasions, drowning men, apparently without the lightest prospect of deliverance, huve been enved by the noble efforts of these Gaithfol animale.In cases of shipwresk, when the sea has been rolling fearfully with the raging storm, the Newfoundlaud dog has fought his way through the waves, and fetching a rope from the vemel, has formed a communication between the despairing milors and the shore\u2014thus preserving them from destruction.In addition to these instances, it is only necessary to mention Mount Saint Bernard, to recall to our readers a vivid recollection of the inestimable services rendered by the dogu of that frozen region.Mr.Youstt says:\u2014 On the top of Mount St.Bernard, and near one of the most dangerous passes, is a convent, in which js preserved a breed of large dogs trained to search for the benighted and frozen wanderer.very night, and particularly when the wind blows tempestuously, some of these dogs are sent out.They traverse every path about the mountains, and their scent is 30 exquisite that they can discover the travellor, although he may lie many feet deep in the snow.Having found him, they set to work, and endeavour to scrape away the snow, uttering a deep bark that reverberates from rock to rock, and tells those who are watching in the convent that some poor wretch is in peril.Generally a little flask of spirits ia tied round the neck of the animal, by drinking which the beuighted traveller may recruit his strength, until more effectual rescue arrive.The monks hasten in the direction of the sound, and often succeed in rekindling the vital spark before it is quite extinguished, Very many travellers have been thus rescued from death by these benevolent men and their intelligent and interesting quadruped servants.\u201d\u2014 Youatt, p.52.One of these Bernurdine dogs preserved the lives of not less than forty persons, and in consequence of his services received a medal as à badge of distinction, which wes tied round his neck.He, at length, was killed by the fall of an avalanche, whilst be was engaged in his noble vocation.His form is preserved by a besutiful cograving, which ¢ represents him as saving a child which he had found in the Glacier of Baleore, and cherished and warmed, and indroed to allmb upon bis shoulders, and thus preserved from, olhorwiss certain, destruction.\u201d THE MARTYR TORREY.\u2018Tue Menoira or Cuanres T.Tonar, Boston.Our readers will remember the extraordinary fate of this minister of the Gospel, who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, and among a people professing tv enjoy pure Chrisisnity, petiehed in a dungeon, for obeying the spirit and letter of the Bible, fur doing as he would be done by, for sacoour- ing (he uppresesd, for letting the bond go free.Had Torrey been immolated by the fury of & mob, thers might havo remained the excuse that its action was at variance with tho wishes of the great body of the people; but he was condemned by lew to & long period of imprisonment for siding slaves to escape ; and when the fact was published that his beullh would not bear ova.stant confinement\u2014that the ehoice lay between liberation and death\u2014he was still retained, and perished by inches, under the immediate cognizance of the authorities of Maryland.Bome may thnk that this relentioss cruelty could only arise from the absence of power in (he executive to pardon; but this excuse would be quite erroneous.Nay, a if to make the case tbe bye.word of the world, a rufSan who bad besn convicted of carrying on the African slave.trade was imprisened ia (he same goal with Torrey; and this inhuman monster was pardoned, while all applications of Torrey\u2019s friende were refused, This forcibly reminds us of the story of Christ, Barrabas, and African slave trade; but thess fruits only show the unspeakably atrocious nature of the system.We are aware that when Torrey\u2019s discase was known to be mortal, and that he could not survive beyond « fow days, the authorities of Maryland offered to pardon him, upon condition that the price of the slaves he bad freed should be paid to their owner ; but this very arrangement had been steadily refused as long as any probability of his recovery remuined.It is another proof, and perhaps the saddest of ali, of the biisding and debasing influence of slavery, that probably the great majority of the Chris, Lians of the United States have no sympathy for this poor persecuted follower of theit common Master.\u2018They meer at his excessive philanthrupy, repeat wise saws about his imprudence, and deelare that he could expect nothing else when ke broke the laws of the slave states.They might, on the same principle, condemn Peter and John fur hearkening to God rather than to mea\u2014Acts iv.As if fecling, however, that this is a very insufficient ground for withholding their sympathies from poor Torrey, they find another and much morc plausible in the alleged (act that he assisted slaves to escape on the Sabbath day, by procuring a vehiclo for them, sad, if we remember right, driving it himsell.What will those who venerate the letter of the law wo highly, to the exclusion, we fear, of much of its spirit, say Lo te following passage :-\u2014 \u201c And the ruler of the syna answered with indignation, Jesus had healed on the Sebbath-day, and said unto people, There ure eix days in which men ought to work : in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath-day.The Lord then answered him and said, Thou hypucrite ! doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or Ais ase from the otal, and lead him away to watering 1 And ought not this women, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan Fath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be locecd from this bond on the Sabbath-day *\u201d\u2014buko xiii.14-16.We quote from the Memoirs the following tender and beautiful letter, written by Torrey to bis wife, and have only to add, that the profits of the work go to his bereaved fan My Dear Wire\u2014It is now nearly or quite midnight, and my poor, rheumatic body aches so severely that I cannot write, either in prose or in rhyme, such a note as I fancied I could write, to give with the only lock of hair I ever gave you that I remember.It looks so like taking a memorial of a departed friend, or of one that we never expect to see again, The mother ofall ¢ the faithful\u201d was adorned with bracelets, though the Scripture does not say whether or not a lovelock of her husband\u2019s hair was entwined among the gold work.Doubtless a love of Isaac\u2019s good taste, would net have neglected such a point, especially as he bad to do his courting by proxy ! Well, my dear Mar , to-day may open the way for our union again ; or It may separate us for many, many years, If the latter, I trust we shall not need memorials so frail as a lock of hair to recall each to the other.Yet the hair is the most enduring portion of our bodily system.Long after the flesh and bones become small, impalpable dust, the hair, * the glory of the head,\u2019 retains its colour and strength, Nay, it even grows, while the rest of the body is decaying\u2014thus seeming to possess an almost independent vitality of its own.So may it be with our affection, when ¢ flesh shall fail\u201d us and our ies decay and every memorial of them perish.So may it be with us when heart,\u201d too, shall fail us, and all our earthly relations cease.May Almighty God, then, be the strength of our heart, and our portion forever.If, in another world, these undying elements of our spiritual nature are controlled, as I doubt not they are, by the same principles that regulate all holy intercourse here while we may have no locks of hair for & bracelet, we shall not want many a sweet remembrance, in every word and deed of kindness, every mutual prayer, every act of service to our Lord, in which we engaged together ; and above all, in the children he has given us to train » for Him.Whether He frees me, or not, to help you, o may He bless you richly ; and may you be a bracelet on His hands in the day he shall appear to \u201c be glorified in his saints.\u201d Your affectionate husband, G.T.Tornær.NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS, (From the Now.York Evangelist.) Estonian Sysontues, Clamified and Explained, with Practical Exercises, br & F.Graham, Edited, &e.by Heary Reed, LL.D.D.Appletoa This i» an admirable work for schools, for which we suppose it was designed.The study of synonymes and the detection of the nice shades of différence is words apparently similar, is one of the mast useful, if not the only way, of sequiring any accurate knowledge of the language.It has been sadly overlooked in the ordinary curriculum of study, and left to the research of later years, when noceasity compels the acquisition of what ought to bo as familiar as orthography itself.The present work is arranged with «kill and ingenuity ; and besides being clear in ite definitions and copious in its illustrations, it provides 8 praxis on each group of synonymes, which will finely assist in fizing the distinctions in the mind, and give an accuracy which could only be otherwise acquired by long practicc\u2014and perhaps not then.We are sure, teachers and scholars will feel indebted to Prof.Reed, for bringing the work to our access.D'Acssana\u2019s Hirrory or THE Ruronmation.Revised edition, 4 vols.Robert Carter.Mr Carter hus been at the expense of obtaining duplionts stereotype plates of Oliver & Boyd's now edition of this renowned work, which hes bean retranslated under the special superintendence of the author, and re.vieed word by word by himself, Ae great complaints were made of inae.curate Lranslations, and as the work has already given rise to no small cos.troversy, and is likely to do more in that way, Dr D'Aubigne thought it best not to be misrepresented.This, then, is the only authentic edition, and alone bears the anthor's sanction.It is afforded for $1.50 the set, notwithstanding its much improved uppearanes.If in all the world there are yet men of women who have not read this noble work, we sincerely hops that the issue of so fine an edition may tempt them to undertake what they will never regret.Parson's Courrere Wonzs.In 3 vol, Bvo, led by Rev Am Cummings.Portland: Hyds, Lord & Duren.New.York: French.Two volumes of this work, which bas been looked for with very general interest, have appoared, in s form highly creditable to the enterprising pubs tishers, and attractive to readers.The fimt contains Mr Cummings\u2019 well known Memoir of Payson, which has enjoyed à popularity never before accorded to a religious biography, considerably enlarged and rovised, and Pay.wn's Thoughts.The second contains Sermons and Addresses, most of which have before appeared in scparate volumes, but not ali.A third ve.lume will soun be issucd, which will probably be composed chiefly of new matter.\u2018There is everything in thess noble volumes to render them popu- far and naeful.\u2018The remarkable life and spiritus] attainments of the gified author; the sweet yet earnest and hallowed spirit of piety which pervades and quickens every page; and the impassioned cloquence and feeling ia which the large beart of the preacher poured itself cut, are all elements of power und attraction, such as few men and fow writers of modern times the people.We do not sy that it would have been consistent in those who have exhibited, For family religious reading, and for private Christians, the carry on the Americas slave trade (0 imprison & man for participation in the.ia work i most cordially 10 be commended; while the ministry will need no testimony of curs to the worth sud the charm of Payson's writings.We Dopo that this beautiful and collected form will create a wider sale, and a more universal diffusien of truths so excellent and so timely.eus Wivrass.WITNBSSS \u2014 MONTREAL, JANUARY 4, 1847.TO SUBSCRIBERS.As there are many places, which our travelling agents cannot reach for three or four months, and others that will not be reached at all, it will be well for all subscribers, whether New or Old, to remit to the office forthwith, and not wait for a visit.New Subscribers will be furnished with the Second Volume, from the beginning, if they order promply.i We take it for granted that ali Subscribers, who have not notified the Publisher to the contrary, intend to continue, and supply them accordingly.ONE THING REMAINS UNCHANGED.« Time rolls its ceaseless course,\u201d and sweeps away not only generation after generation of men, but the fashions, the politics, the wars, and, to a great extent, the opinions and the literature of each generation with it.Where now are the gigantic tomes of the Fathers and the schoolmen\u2014where the endless verses of the Troubadours and count- Tess romances of chivalry \u2014where the novels, in twelve volumes folio, over which the French literati poted with intense delight a century or two ago\u2014 where the Spect tors, the Ramblers, and the Tatlets, which «constituted, in the eyes of our fathers, the ne plus ultra of literary excellence ?\u2014nay, where already are Byron and the Author of Waverly, with their countless imitators ?They were the idols of their day ; they are scarcely cold in their graves, and now who speaks of them\u2014who quotes them?We venture to say, only those whose impressions of them were received when their works had all the fresb- ness and charm of novelty.The young men and women who have grown up since, are, we think, better acquainted with Chambers\u2019 Journal, Missionary Enterprise in the South Seas, the Penny Magazine, the Thunderer of the Times, or the light and delicate sarcasms of Punch.The Parlour Anaual and the Literary Periodical have taken the place of the Romance of the Forest and Don Juan.It is the custom to lament, or to affect to lament, this wholesale obli- ion of authors and their works ; but we think it is not only the natural course of things, but the most desirable, If we had all that Chaldee, Egyptian, Hindoo, Chinese, Greek, Roman, and Middle Age literature «could boast, could we read a millionth part of it, and would it be worth reading even if we could?Will any one who was acquainted with the contents of a circulating library even twenty years ago, say that they should be the permanent objects of human study ?We venture to say, however, that no valuable principle or thought in all the countless mass of human literature has been lost.On the contrary, as if to realize the doctrine of transmigration, every thing valuable has been transferred or re-produced in countless forms and Ways, and probably each time better than the former ; so that, whilst the original Chaldee or Egyptian author of an original idea, and the manuscript in which it appeared, have passed into hopeless oblivion, with perhaps fifty generations of imitators since, the idea itself sur- wives, and brightens and burns in the pages of some book issued yes- ferday.But, in the midst of this endless change and succession of opinions and books, is there nothing that remains permanent?There is.One Book, like its Author, continues unchanged and unchangeable ; not one line of 11 is altered ; not one word of it is lost.Commentators, annotators, expositors, and expounders, have employed their ingenuity upon it for ages, and innumerable have been the works, many of them of a high order of excellence, that have been written on it.These have served their purpose, lived their day, and been forgotten ; but the text Temains as fresh, and as rich a subject for a notation, commentary, and exposition, as ever.Every senlence has probably been the subject of a sermon ; some have served lor the ground-work of hundreds of eloquent discourses\u2014all of which, like their authors, have passed, or are passing away, but the texts remain to be the subjects of numberless discourses yet to come, which will, in their turn, serve their purpose, and be as ephemeral as their predecessors.Is not thus the most striking of all proofs of the difference of origin between that blessed book and all others\u2014the one permanent as its author, the others fleeting a3 theirs ?The compositions of man are like the waters that sometimes ripple gently, and sometimes dash and foam against the granite promontory, \u2018whilst the Bible is like that unchanging rock itself.Human literature is lke the clouds that sometimes gild, but much more frequently darken, the mountain summit, whilst the Word of God is like the sublime and changeless mountain, The sermons and expositions of Scripture are like the leaves shed every year, while the Scriptures are like the giant tree which bears these leaves, and which, whilst they are fleeting and fading, spreads its branches wider and wider.If it were possible to preserve, to reed, and to remember even a thousandth part of the excellent human compositions that have appeared, what time, what room would there be for the Scriptures?We would be, to use John Newton's figure, all our life reckoning halfpence, and completely neglecting the gold.This should not be, and ât will not be, and, therefore, it is an unalterable sentence, that the works of men shall pass away and be forgotten ; and instead of grier- Sag over it, we should rejoice.In this respect the literature of the present day is more in accordance with the nature of things than that of previous ages.It does not lay alaim to permanency ; it submits voluntarily, and with a good grace fo the ephemeral character ; it is fike the flower which opens its glories, te the firet ray of morning, to shut for ever before the sun reaches the noontide, or that which bursts in the evening to diffuse its fragrance for a night and then perish leaving, however, a prolific and abundant In former times a Savant spent lifetime in composing a book, and then published it, in three or four huge folio volumes, to be à light to all fetare ages ; and snugly does it lie, enveloped in dust and cobwebs, en ibs ground-shelf of some antique library.The author of the present day condenses his thoughts into a leading article for a newspaper which is read next day by thousands, producing an impression for et evil ca every mind with which it comes in contact, and is forthwith east ssids both by the writer and the readers, with scarcely a probe- Bllity of ever being recalled aniess in some new form.Theas refigstiscs are incidental to (he season which reminds us of, THE MONTREAL WITNESS.the lapse of time ; and the practical improvement we would deduce from them is, that the Holy Scriptures should be most highly prized and eamestiy studied, seeing that the true wisdom which they impart is permanent, while all else is transitory.EDUCATION AND THE BANNER.In our last reply to the Banner we requested him to show how state education and scriptural education, ooth of which he advocated, could be combined without involving the establishment principle.And this we thought a very fair request to make of one who has undertaken generally to enlighten the public on the subject of education, and who has in particular objected to the plans that we have advanced.Did the Editor of the Banner respond to this reasonable request?Not at all.His only reply was a single sentence, raising the old quibble about the word Church, and bastening into another subject, viz., slavery.Are we to infer from this conduct on the part of the champion of state education that he finds the two things irreconcilable, or will he yet attempt to shew how they can co-exist, or rather how both attributes can belong to the same system?We wish to treat the Bonner with all courtesy and fairness ; but really if he declines this issue\u2014if he will not explain the working of his plan, supposing him to have one, we cannot see how the conclusion can be avoided that his position is untenable\u2014that his theory will not bear explanation and examination.But although we observed this disposition to blink the question, we thought it might arise from an aversion to continue the controversy, (somewhat tardy, seeing it was he who commenced it), and therefore would not have noticed the matter, but for a renewed attack upon the plan of education under the control of churches or religious denominations, wbich appears in last Banner, and which we will probably review at leisure.We cannot help, however, noticing in the meantime that our cotemporaty has again changed bis ground.He began by advocating state education, but when pressed by arguments, shewing the necessily for the religious element in education, he quietly changed the object of his advocacy into scripture education.A most important change, of which we trust his readers will not lose sight.And now in reply to our statement that he would bave alt children driven nto the state schools, he accuses us of falsehood, and affirms that he is and always has been in favor of free and uncontrolled education.With the same reason might the advocates of an established church affirm that they are in favor of free trade in religion, because they did not compel any one to come to that church ; all they required was that people should pay for it, and after that they might pay for as many churches of their own as they chose.À state system of education is supported in part at least out of the taxes ; all must contribute to these taxes, and therefore the Banner\u201d: system would compel people to pay for the state schools, allowing them, it is true, the great privilege of paying a second time, if they chose, for schools according to their own liking.This would certainly be a new discovery in the theory of free trade, and we appeal to the common sense of the public if our position is not borne out\u2014 that the advocates of state schools, and the Banner among the number, would drive all the children of the nation into them under the penalty of either remaining without education, or of paying twice for it.If the Banner does not understand the unavoidable conclusion of his own arguments, it is not our fault.About (he beginning of the articles in the Witness in favor of religious education, and consequently of leaving all education to the voluntary principle, a minister from the country, in whose judgment we have much confidence, objected to our views as tending to upset the stale system, upon which Canada at present depends, We advanced the argument about the compulsory support of state schools whether well ot ill conducted, and Le replied it was a very true one, « | have to pay,\u201d said he, for a school according to law, to which I cannot send my children, both on account of the distance and the manner in which it is conducted, and I bave to pay for them again at a school which is more convenient, and of which I can approve.This paying twice is 2 great hardship,\u201d added he ; \u201cand I suppose it would be best to leave people to themselves.\u201d What we have all along advocated was that religious men, either organised in a church capacity, or in Christian education societies, or as individuals, should as fast and as far as possible establish schools upon a religious basis, and by the excelience of their system, and the cheapness of their charges, attract as many children as possible unto them, leaving alt full liberty to establish whatever other schools they choose.Yet this system, so far at least as it may be managed by religious denominations, according to the Bonner, would be Romish despotism, even though no one was compelled to support it, whilst a state system, which every one is compelled to support, would be perfect freedom! Nay, a state system would be a Christian system, because the state is the people, and there is Christianity among the people! Ob ! rare logic.Apply this argument to the Canton de Vaud.We have not time for further remarks at present, but request attention to the extracts from American papers in another colamn, which show (hat their state system, which has hitherto been thought a model for imitation, begins to trouble the religious public, \u2014 REVIEW OF NEWS.There is little of importance to note during the last week.The money market in the United States is manifesting symptoms of aD excited state ; interest being as high as nine per cent.The debates in Congress, more especially with respect to the war with Mexico, are conducted with much animation, but at great length.In Canada, the electrié telegraph has been fairly introduced, and is now in operation between Toronto and Hamilton.The usual holiday festivities bave not, so far as we can judge, been marked in this city with so much intemperance this year as on many formar occasions an indication, we hope, of an advance in public mo- ity.The vazious items of news, domestic and foreign, will be found under their appropriate heads.À meeting, to form à Horticultural Seciety, will be held at the office of the Montreal Insurance Company, Great St.James\u2019 Street, to-mor- row (Tuesday) afternoon at two o'clock.Subscribers, snd all who forl an interest in the object, are invited to attend.We trust the im- portant science and art of Gardening (for it is both) will at length receive a due share of public attention in this city.1847 SOCIAL INFPROVEMENT\u2014 EARLY SHOP-SMUTTING, In these days of social improvement, it is a delightful snd not uncommon spectacle to see Lhe great of the earth come forward to advocate the rights and interests of the humble ; a striking inslance of which occurred recently in Manchester, at what is called « » great demonstration in favour of the early closing movement.\u201d The following is a description of the meeting, and we subjoin Lord John Manners® speech, the only one for which we have room :\u2014 A great meeling was held on Thursday evening, at the Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, in favour of the eurly-clos ng movement.It was attended by Geurge Wilson, Esg.(late President of the League), who had been requested to preside, Lord John Manners, M.P., Wm, Ewart, Ew., M.t., C.Hindley, Esq., M.P., Joseph Brotheiton, Esq., M.P., Charles Knight, Esq.(the eminent Jublishiery ot London), tbe Rev.Dr.Vaughan, W.B.Hod n, Kxq., LL.D.(Liverpool), the Hon, and Rev.Baptiet W.Noel, W.B.Watkins, Esq., Mayor of Manchester, and other influential individuals.The meeting consisted of about 2000 people when business commenced, but in an hour sfierwards the whole all was crowded\u2014and there could not be less than 5000 or 6000 persons present.A great number of ladies were present, and the meeting was of a highly-respectable and influential character.+\" 0° + eo + + + 0 Lord John Manners next came forward, and was loudly cheered, He said\u2014 Ladies and Gentlemen\u2014At tht magnificent festival which was so lately held in this hall, Lord Morpeth alluded, in terms of hopeful eulogy, to the meeting [ have now de honor to address.Lord Morpeth wax right in ascribing to the Manchester und Salford Early- closing Association otjrets and aims kindred to those of the Manchester Atheneum.Indeed, I should rather say that the success of the Athenzum mainly depends on the success of this movement, which we are ass-mbled here to celebrate and promote.Applause.For in vain, ladies and gentlemen, do the lil rary and classroom hold out their inducements and allurements to the 1ising youth of Manchester, if bodily strength and mental vigor are alike exhaust-d by the toil of a day that is half stolen from the niglit,\u2014 Cheers.Or if, in some few instances, undeterred by lanzor and lassitude, an hour or two is snatched from the scanty portion of time allowed for slumber, and devoted to reading, alas! at what a price is the knowledge or the recreation so obteined purchased! We call, then, and thn influential gatherin; ~hows that we do not call in vain, upon all who regard favorably (and what Manchestir man do's nui ?) the Athenzum, to help us in curtailing the hours devoted by the traders, shopkrepers, and all engaged in mercantie and profesional pursuits, to business.\u2014Cheers.The space in public opinion eccupied by the recent Atheneum festival, induced me to put this ples in the frout rank: but | know there are few Here who do not feel there is a yet stronger appeal to the moral and religious sy pathies of all invested with any de:ree of power.If the science of this woild, à a moderate acquaintance with literature, if a rational enjoyment of worldly recreation, be incompatible with that eystem of cesseless ta! against which we thus protest, bow fares it with that religiou« traning and education which is to fit man for bere- after 7\u2014 Hear.hear.How can the youths and the maidens, who, in= stead of ministe,ing 9 commerce, may be said, under the system Iam condemning, to be scrificed to it, how can they, with jaded bodies, stunted int-llerts, ard crushed affections, be hrought to receive a profit by tirat mora and religious education which, as immortal beings, they claim, and have a right to expect, in a Christian land,\u2014 Hear, hear.Nor is it any answer to say that education and religion have one da in seven\u2014the people can taught on Sunday, and prform their reli- [ginus duties on Sunday.Why, even if it were true that religion is & thing to be put as but once a-werk, and forgotten and put aside six days out of seven.is it not notorious that these long ours of weekly toil go practically prevent those who suffer them fiom spending the Sunday religioudy.([nsulted, outraged nature, avenges herself on that day ; sleep loads the eyelids of the exhausted apprentice, snd worn-out millimer, long afler the church-going bells have ceased to sound.Is this a fancy of mine, gentlemen ¢ Alas, we have it stated in the parliamentary report: and in the touching language of homely truth, speaking of \u2018be millinery houses in London, a witness says, \u2014 «¢ The young persas are often s0 much fatigued, that they lie in bed so late nn Sunday not to be able to to church In some few houses, the wor aot carried on so Tate at night, and the young women go to church\u201d Well, our obj-ct is to convert these some few houses into the gresl majority\u2014cheers\u2014and vindicate for those who minister to onr comforts and luxuries, the enjoyment of that privilege which is the birthright of all born under à Chiistian state of worshipping God, and cating¥o' their immortal souls.Away, too, with that cant which, in the abtsed name ot freedom, would subject the poor and helpless to the mgt grinding of tyrannies.We, the emplayers of labour, or the purchastrs of its products, are not fiee in the eye of God, even if we are xo in the eye of a human legislature, to do as we like in this matter, and abjore all rexponsinility.From\u2019 individuals, and from communities, there will at last be a\u201d reckoning demanded, and the pedantic jargon of wme wealth-favouring philosophi~m will not be found to extenvate the cruelties and oppressions I now speak of.\u2014 Cheers.I would, ladirs and gentlemen, J could repesl those eamest and touching words which, when I was l«st in this hall, I heard Mr.Cobden\u2014loud and protracted cheering\u2014ulter, on the awful responsibility attached to great and mighty Manchester: their sense hus remained in my reco'lection, the exact words I disremember.Happy, indeed, should I be were he with us to-night in person, as he is in good wishes and sympathy, to repeat that earnest warning, and to bid the rich and thriving.whom he was addressing, remember, that in vain did the fame, and the wealth, and the power ot Manchester increase, unless the virtue, and the intelligence, and the social aud moral happiness of her toiling children, inrieased in an equal proportion.\u2014 Loud cheering.We are tiix night endeavouring 10 fulfil Mr.Cobden\u2019s noble aspirations.English people used 10 boast that, however in other lands out-duor amusements might more readily be o-tained by the sons and daughters of industry.in England alone was to be found the per- - fection of howe.How many racy sayings and national songs nif to the depth and prevalence of this idea.\u201d But à home, even though ft.be well furnished and comfortable, loses i's most gracious and most endearing character, when it ceases to be more than u sleeping place for the exhau«ted son of industry.The blazing fi e, the snug comer, .the cheerful conversation, the blessed intercourse with chitdren\u2014all, all are lost, when, long after sunset, long after the weary pessant has.reached his bumbl- r cottage, the apprentice or the clerk retums to his.home.Let statesmen axk themselves, if that kingdom is really pros= petous, or truly safe, in which the ides of home is becoming every ear less and less of à reality to thousands and thousands?Again, of ate years the Government hax thought right to institute in some of our large towns schools of designs with the laudable intention of encouraging and dev-loping native English talent, Can the employersof labor in this wealthy town assist in that n-tional object more readily than by adding to the leisure hours of those young persons who can avail themselves of the instruction offered in these schools of design ?Surely not: and I for one am old-fashioned enough to regard with sae tisfaction anything which may tend to make English manufacture in~ dependent of French skill, and emancipste English industry from the reign of French taste \u2014Hesr, hrar Such, then, are some of the more inent reasons which induce me to claim pablic se fer - the Mänchester and Saltord Early-closing Association.Nor will | in- thin place shrink from saying, that while so many efforts are being: made, so many books written, so many schemes devised, lo add to the wealth of the country,and whil=,in popular estimation, the making of money appears to be the mai abject of he science of Po itical economy, itis most important that a place like Manchester should show it does not.forget that the distribution of wealth is equally important with its aequi= sition ; and let me say, without flsttery, that Manchesier has in several ways shown her appreciation of this truth.The weekly haifholiday, the - blie parks, the public bathe, and nw this humane movement, most rably distinguish Manchester ; and, I dare say, many who hear me have found out, that in this social progress, as in moral improve 1847 meat, the thare is no \" Ta\u201d arth, e you estal ed your parks, you instantly fee your want of bath: than heretofore, you will remember there are other e: where long hours are still maintained.(Great applause.) Well, 1 had ave you built your churches, schools are directly Pequired ; and now are you closing your shops and warchouses earlier the answer is, Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with thy THE MONTREAL WITNESS.eternal abode.And the language of this solemn truth is, in the wor of inspiration, « Prepare to meet thy God.\u201d Should any inquire, what shall be done that we may be prepared ?God.\u201d As all must shortly exchange worlds, it is of the greatest rather rejoice over what Las been done, and augur well from (hat fori importance that all be ready for that solemn event.the future, than repine over what remains to be done.the mistak tented with our past success.social improv 3 f mu offices and good will, that binds the various classes of this migh (Cheers) i th ire in which I now am; and, .porto gent English community, as fellow-subjects of the same im: rial crown.fellow-liegemen of the same Bound to help and assist when we may, an gallant English people.(Cheers.) A conviction that such is ou ul ty has brought me here to-night, in answer to your invitation.(Cheers) EF have rendered myself, at your call, not from any vain r advocacy ; but Hearty sympathy in your generous efforts, and to give proof of my ayiety lo see all sorts and conditions of Englishmen regarding with just pride every undertaking which has for its ohject the elevation of any portion of their fellow-countrymen.belief that this good cause can be promoted by my poo to express M this practica (Loud and long-coutinued cheering-) DANGER OF INRELIGIOUS EDUCATION.(From the American Biblical Repertory.) The plan of confining the instruction of the schools to secular branches exclusively, and leaving the parent or pastor to look sfter th religious education of the children, is becoming the popular theory in this country.It is already difficult, in many places, to relain eve the reading of the Scriptures in the public schools.avowedly secular.Now with regard to this scheme, it ma, excluded, we believe to be peculiar to the nineteenth century.itis obvious that education without religion is ireligious.Ant be neutral.and in fact is not neutral.The effort to keep out religio from all the books and all the instructions, gives tiem of necessity al irreligious and infidel character.Again, the common school is th only place of education for a large class of our people.They hav neither rect us influence.A 3 has been strenuously resisted.hii who would send his son Yo a college from which mligion had bee: banished, in which there were no prayers, no preaching of the gospel, no binlical instruction 7 Butif we shrink from such aa ungodly mod But let us avoid i the whole, and sitling down con- oof looking on part 8 It is then, as one more r ; go por ement, as one more link in the chain of mutual good tant that we embrace the doctrines that the Saviour taught, and imi- i ; on tate the example he set us, i that T bid God speed to this enterprise, (Continue BE Heaven knows there is much yet to be done ; much in the : \u2018 in thi facturin rural sphere of action from which | come, much Joa citizens + opportunity, « letting our light so shine, that others may see our good acious Sovereign, we are sympathise when we can do no more, in our mutual efforts to amelicrate the condition of the The whole system is in the hands of men of the world, in many of our States, tnd is remarked that it is a novel and fearful experiment.The idea of giving an education to the children of a country from which religion is to be Again, it cannot vental nor pastoral instruction, to supply 1ts deficiency or cor- in, this plan is so repugnant to the convictions of the better part of the community, that its introduttion into our col- Where is the Christian parent But while we are on our way to heaven, let us strive to imitate him who came from above, and went about doing good.It is all impor- While passing out of one year into another, let us ask God to correct in us all that is improper, and enable us to do good to all as we have -| works and glorify God.\u201d That all may take the Bible for the rule of their faith and practice is the prayer of T.Ossoon.r \u2014_\u2014 THE REV.CALEB STRONG.1t is our painful duty to announce the death of the Rev.Caleb Strong, (son of the Hon.Lewis Strong, of Northamp- J ton, Massachusetts) who was ordained over the American Presbyterian Church of this city about seven years ago, as its third pastor.Mr.Strong was present at the meeting of the Sabbath schools on New Year's Day, in apparent good health, and now, in the short space of between filly and sixty hours from the commencement of his illness, he is a corpse.His disease was, we understand, an inflammatory affection of the bowels, which, although extremely painful, left him in the enjoyment of his faculties to the last; and he died in the fulness of the blessings of the gospel of peace, this morning about two o'clock.May this striking instance of the uncertainty of life, and the importance of being prepated to meet our God while in health, preach, as with the tones of a trumpet, to all who are living in thoughtless security, Mr.Strong was nearly thirty-one years of age, and leaves a widow, to whom he was united only a few months ago.He was lovely in his life, and his last end has been that of the righteous.\u2014 e n n e e THE ANNUAL MEETINGS OF SABBATH SCHOOLS.On New-year\u2019s Day morning the usual gatherings of Sabbath-school o| children took place, giving proof of undiminished efficiency in this of education for the few who enjoy the advantages of n classical edu-| branch of Christian effort.cation, why should we consent fo the great mass of the children of the The schools in connexion with the following bodies, viz., the United country, bring subjected to chis system in the common shools ?Un- Secession, the Baptist, the Congregational, the Free Church, and the der die pie ve Whar thy oy ity \u2018of the American Presbyterian, met in the place of worship belonging to the highest degree tyrannical.to say what shall be taught in schools which the peofle sustain \u2018What more right have they to say that no religion sh people, or à mere clique, which in fact commonly control .matters, than they bave to say that Popery shall be taug! another part of the State as to the education of their own children 1f the people of a particular district choose to bave à sch the Westminster or the Heidleberg catechism is taught, we fatter, and were addressed by the Rev.Mr.Alexander, of the Free Church, Cole Street.The parents and teachers present on the oc- ne casion were addressed by the Rev.Mr.Gridley, of Vermont, at pre- have the people in one part to control the wishes and coprictions of sent supplying the Goesford Street Congregational Church.7| The Methodist Sabbath Schools also collected in great strength at in which their church in St.James Street, and were appropriately addressed.not see Other Sabbath-schools in connexion with other hodies met separately, on what principle of religious liberty the state has a right to interfere nd in many the children were treated to refreshments.and say it shal draw your own money from the public und ?This appears to us not be done ; if you teach your religion, you shall not a| Upon the whole, we trust it was for the young a happy aud profit- strange doctrine in a free country ; and yet it is, if wg mistake not, able day.the practical working of the popular systems in e Union.We are not dispose: all its mighty part of the d to submit hi any such fctation.we cannot see with any patience the whole school system a tate, wi infucnge, wielded by a Secretary of Stak, or by a school JACQUES CARTIER SQUARE.It is proposed to give the name of Jacques Cartier to (he place or commissioner, or by clique of Unitarian or \u2018Infidelstatesmen, es the |square, which is about to be cleared by the removal of the market case may be.We regard this whole theory of am tion in the common schools, enforced by the penalt the public funds and state patronage, as unjust and tendeney.The people of each district have a schools as religious as they please ; and if they have the right severally of drawing their proper pi lic stock.The conviclion, we are persuaded, is f of the minds of good people, that the common sch assuming not a mere negative, but a positively taking possessioi system is rapidly Christian charac- secular educa-|sheds, heretofore called the Newmarket, in this city ; and the propriety of exclusion from of erecting a statue to the memory of that amiable and enterprising t to ake their voyager is suggested.This statue would stand at the foot of the not agree, they Square facing upon the river, and would be, so far as we know, the ions of the pub-| first and only memorial to the discoverer of Canada.Now, this sug- M gestion appears to us unexceptionable, and we hope to see it carried out.If we have monuments to military and naval warriors, such as fer, and that in self-defence, and in the discharge their highest duty Wolf, Nelson, Brock, and Tecumseth, why should we not have one to s against it, an which each churel ves to be the trut to God and their country, they must set thems adopt the system of hil schools; schools i ah teach fully, fairly and eamestiy what it of God.PREACHING TO THE YOUN This peculiarly interesting and profitable, ment of ministerial labor, has long heen ca very difficult depart- on with remarkable d! the hero who added Canada to the known world, and opened an almost h boundless sphere for human enterprise and increase ?The monuments bh of warriors have one abjection at least, viz., that they are erected for victories gained, and must necessarily be offensive to the paity conquered, but a monument to a benefactor of the human race, excites no such feelings.He belongs to all nations.There is no saying how much the unseemly practice of self-glorifi- cation and boasting over victories, has tended to keep up bad feeling success by the Rev.M.Gaussen of Geneve, fpecting whose efforts Letween nations, whose best interests should make them friends.ailult auditors were i resting service, Th employed and it was de ightful to see how as to secure the attention, to excite the cul telligence of his auditory, then relate an anecdote, in a moment sltustrative scene, then diverge into pra and then appeal to their feelings in some of exhortation.At no moment did he all t the whole was of so elevated and in impossible even for the most cultivated well as pleased.1 do not know that 1 ev appeared to me to approach so near to the ing religious truth to the young.\u201d We are happy to lear, that the Re attend on the second Sabbath of every Deginning next Sabbath.\u2014Subject : the hi ry of Joseph.REFLECTIONS FOR THE IRW YEAR.Though as far of as the District of Osgood, does not forget Canada, but Sections for publication, as bis New extensive circle of acquaintance \u2014 To all friends 1 wish to by salutations common on the return of t This year, as usual, Will conve t rw year.led with boys and girls Now he would jly them with questions, r describe to them some : ig ; al or doctrinal inquiries, Reviere farm, which is yet about £100.It is therefore hoped that ching and simple strains friends of the case will generally exert themselves in disposing of the the interest to flag ; and 4; : \u2018 lectual à cast, ag == tickets as well as attend personally.The time and place will be notified hot to feel benefited asi\u201d OF next, witnessed any thing which fection of the art of teach- sabia, our old friend, Mr.[templates the formation of the following judicious re- the patronaj , aad I send to them the central loses, the following extract from the Rev.Mr.A rander\u2019s recent tour in Switzerland will afford some particulars.« Here I found the body of the chapel nearly] comprising (he class, while à large number | and under the galleries.Ît was a deeply leamed Professor appeared not only quite at France, Britain, and the United States, present striking illustrations of this truth.We suppose no Briton has visited Plattsburg or Amen rican Queenston Heights, and heard the vulgar boastings over the battles o fought at these places respectively, without feeling keenly, how much Brae amongst his juven- {such conduct tends to keep up national animosities.île students, but very highly to enjoy the fuercise in which he was cessfully he managed of his class.Nothing is instructions so SOIREE, We are requested to intimate that the Ladies of the French Cana- | dian Missionary Society will hold a Soirée next week, the proceeds of which will be applied to the payment of the balance due on the Belle \u2014 The ¢ Canada Christian Advocate,\u201d an able religious paper published at Cobourg, comes to us this week much englarged sud improved, X.Wilkes of Zion Church, {we trust its Subscription list will be at least proportionately enlarged.Montreal, intends to deliver an address he young and ail who may th, at 3 o\u2019clock afternoon, RELIGIOUS NEWS, Connission ve THE Fare Cavacn.\u2014The annual meeting of the Commission of tbe Free Church, who represent the Genera) Assembly during the interval betwsen ta meetings, was held in Edinb Nov, 18h.The cpl subject ounsidered was the scheme for establishing parochial schools r, Candlish presented u par for carrying the project into effect, which con.(1.) Congregational schoule in every parish, under ga and direetion of the congregation, the teachers of which are to be chosen by the church.(8.) Missionary schools, not connecled with iar\u2019s salutations to bis very an; particular church.to be under the special care of a Committee of ths General Assembly.(3) Model and Grammar schools, to be established in the forincr to serve asspreimens of the right way of teaching : and the latter for a higher grade of study.(4.) Normal schools, for the preparation of teachers, also under the control of the Assembly's Committee} to ty miltions of our race to their] whom likewise, the Gooeral Superintendrnt of tbe schools is te be immedi.and wil tion of the Highlands, by the failure of the crops, slau occupied the attention of the Commission, and collections were recommended in all the éhurches, \u2018Thers is à very deep fecling excited by the sufferngs of these: pons High \" landers, The minister's sustentation fund amounts this yeur to £38.601 8a.being £909 20.8d.lows than last year.The Committee pusscd a strong minuto upholding the Edinburgh and Glasgow railrasd in discontinuing ite Sunday train.Ecclesinstical business ius a range wide enough in Scotland to embrace all the objuets of benevalence \u2014N.Y.Ecangelist, Axti-Churcu ano State \u2014 The Anti-State Church Associstion, from en sneonsideruble beginning, has becoine a large and pipular body, whose mmflu- ence begins 10 be felt.Huving the prestige of the signal success ul the Anti.Corn Law Leaguo to sucourage them, ils fonnders ure pursuing similar plan for bringing the subject befure (he minds of the people.À cmwded meeting of the Avsocintion was held ut the London Tavem, Nov 5th at which Rev.Dr.Price presided, and wevoral of the wont distinguisind Dissenting clergymen wern prescnl.Among the speukers was Rev John Burnet, who mausfested his usual point and eloquence Rev, Dr.Cox also spoke with effect.11 was resulved 10 open the winter campaign by a series of 13 lectures, in London, on the general subject.Tho meeting udjourned in high spirits, and with better eucouraguments for effort Lhun bave » ver before existed.\u2014 fhid.Future Pu znts.\u2014The extraordinary developments of latent Univer- salism in England, ut the Jute Evangelical Alliance, are giving unwonted interest to the annual Congregational Lecture, establishes by the Congregational Union, which thin year 18 delivered by the evlebrale Dr.Hamilton, of Leeds, one of the most powerful thinkers and most elegant writers of the dy, on the subject of the «ternal punishinent of the wicked.Seven lectures of the course have been already given, to crowded audiences, compused of the most intelligent classes.The seventh lecture brought the lecture to the consideration uf the scriplural terms by which eternal panwhments are expressed.From all appearances Use scrics ure very much needed in England, and give promise of dong much good.\u2014 Ibid.BisLicar.Cure \u2014The Governinent proposed lo endow a new Professorship of Biblical Criticism in the University of Edinburgh.At «\u20ac meeting of the Town Council, on its being made known that no students would be atlowed tu attend he lectures but thus: who had passed through a Presbytery of the Established Church, one of the members moved that Lhe gift be refused.Jt wus finally referred to a committee to find out whether il was intended that the foundation should be ss exclu ive, and to report further action.\u2014Fbid.Romaniss.\u2014The Hon.Miss Middleton and Miss Byrn took the veil, and entered the Order of Mercy in London, Mr.Henry Pownull, son of H.Pownall, Esq., of Spring-grove, Hounslow, has fom given in his allegisnce to the Cbureh of Rome.r.Newnan arrived ui Rome on the 29th ult,, and was received by his Holiness the Pope and the higher clesgy with every mark of distinction and regard.Ki is expected that Mr, Newman will receive the sacred orders at me.It is said that a metropolitan daily moming newspaper is abut lo pass into the hands of the Rownanists, and that » distinguishied Roma, Catholic peer, resident in a midland county will be uns of the principsl proprietors.A dictine Monastery is about fo be established at St Joseph, in Penn.sylves It is the first establishment of the kind in the United States.The community is composed of 8 Prior, Father Bonilnce Wimmer ; Father Maxi- milan Gœtner, two Lheologiane, four scholusties, and seversi laymen: they have recently arnved in the country from Bavaria, and it may be expeeted that they wil engage in vigarvus efforts to nequire influence iu the education of youth.They will probably find some Prutestant parents who expose their sons to the danger of such inuence by placing them in that establsam ;nt.Tux Jesorrs \u2014The population of Fano, in tbe legation of Pesaro and Urb no, have risen in arms against the Jesuits.The population, believing that the Jesuits were conspiring against the Pope, effectid a forcible en trance into their convent, and ili-treated some of the inmates.A demon stration was likewise made against some Jesuits at Perouss.\u2018I'he Unscerz announces that five Koman Uatholic missionaries embarked at Nantes, on the 7th instant, for Singapore.MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, It is believed that the French Government pays 50,000 fr.(£21,000) yearly for newspaper support, besides bestowing ribands and places.Stavear iv Tunkey.\u2014Lett re from Constantinople of the 30th ultimo, announce that Lord Palmerston has seat & note to Porte, demanding the abolition of slavery in the Ottoman Empire, oie ball of a Dutch paper, the Hundelsblad, has been sold for 250,007 Tins, Tue Zouurenzie \u2014There is no prospect of the treaty of commerce, concluded between Great Britain and the Zollverein in 1841, bemg renowed, owing Lo the strenuvus opposition of one of the southern states Germany, which is anxious to introduce the reciprocity system, and to favour the establishment of naticos! mercantile manne.The mflvential party opposed to differential duties in the Zollverem is considered to have lost groun 1, \u2018or they were still anxious Lo cultivate ihe allance with Englund, tu renew the treaty of 1841 The PoTaro Disgase.\u2014Baron Lichig imagines the essence of the potato disease tn consist in the conversion of the albumen, a usuul cons itoont of healthy potatoes, into caseine & principle which, by its great instability of compoeilion, is supposed tu Cause the potato to pulrily rapidly The Rev.F.Dauveney states, in the Taunton Courier, that he has discovered by the microscope u minute insect, cr; stal like and transparent, resembling a spider, in midst of potato mildew, evi lent feeding on it, and tnaking ite nestamung the thread-beds of fungi, From observations made, there must be more than 100 in a single taber, Russia \u2014S¢.Petersburgh, Noo.14 \u2014An extraordinary Gazette anounces that on the 16th of October, the troops of Schamyl were eoropletely defeated with 800 men killed, 300 taken prisonvrs, aud the loss of nearly all their antil- lery.SwITIERLAXD.\u2014 Geneva, Noe.14.\u2014The detestable principles of communiem are unhappily very prevalent in this country, and it is said thet a party, which sume power, is determined to endeavour to force them on government, under pretence of the necessity of breaking down what they call the aristocracy of money.Them men purpose nuthing less than to make an universal distribution of all property, and it is needless to say that the very atiempt 10 put their ductrines inl practice will create anarchy and bloodshed.Abdel.Kader is reporied to have entered the province of Oran, at the head of B00 cavalry.Orders have been issued by the French Guvernment to suspend the cx.pedition againet Madaguecare Mr.Leverrier, the discoverer of the new planet, @ appointed to the new chair of mathemalies applied to astronomy in France.The administrations of the French customs as abulished the examination q bd lugguge of the passengers cuming into France by lis raiiroud from giom.M.Odillon Barrot, the French deputy, hes been rojourning at Constan- tinophe ; end it is asserted that he has received from the Sultan pressats of pipes and shawls to the value of £20.000.\u2018The Paris papers annocnce the death of the celebrated historian, Michelet, whose late we called * Pricets, Women, und Families,\u201d excued eo much attention.\u201cThe Prussian Government has ordered the construction of a number of basta ut Stettin, for the defence of the port in case of war.\u2018The French Government has received infoemstion of the di a Guadeloupe, of a considerable mine of sulphur, in the soufriere Basse Terre, the surface of which suuk during the late esrthquake.\u2018The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin has just addressed a rescript to the head of the Jewish communion in lue duminions, declaring that after St.John's day, 1847, the annual tax paid by the Jews shall sup pressed, The ancient and noble abbey of Dissentis, in the Canton of the Grisone, was wntirely consumed on the bight of the 27h ull.Its magnificent chureh, ite treasure, and ite rich and splendid library, were completely destrayed.The friar, who discharged the functions of cook.pershud in the Aames.The abby of Dsentis, unded in the seventh century by Sigebert, « Neolch benedictine, had been before burned in 1790.© Baer.Root Baean.\u2014A baker of Vienna hes made a discovery, which, at the present moment, may prove of high impotisuce\u2014tbe ues ol beetroot ia muking bresd.Two loaves, one consist ing of one-half, the other of fire.eighthe beet.root, the remainder being of wheat flour, were sent for the inspection of the ministers of agriculture and oummeree, good household broad, je bread is made in thé usuat manner, only with leve water and à little mors salt.The beetroot must be grated at the moment of caking use of it New Potas Exrepirion.\u2014Af tho last meeting of the Royal phic Sociely, i was announced by Sir J.H Polly that the Hodwn's Bay Cur.pany had fitted out a well.oquipped expedition, for the purpose of ssrveying the unexplored portion of the north west coast of America. TED NISORLLANY.= - SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH POETS.Marve [This writer was cotemporary of Cromwell.We subjoin two extracts, the first of which depicts the Summer Iules in the glowing language of praise whioh was common among the old voyagers.] ! BERMUDAS, Where the remote Bermudas ride, In the ocean\u2019s bosom unespied ; From a small boat, thut row\u2019d along, \u2018The list\u2019ning winds receiv'd this song.What should we do but sing his praise, That led us thro\u2019 the wat\u2019ry maze, Unto an isle so long unknown, Aud yet far kinder than our own ?.Where he the buge sea-monsters wracks, \u2018That lift the deep upon their backs.He lunds ux on a grassy stage, Safe from \u2018he stonins, and prelates\u2019 rage, He gave us this eternal spring, Which here enamels every thing ; And sends the fowls to us in care, .On daily visits thro\u2019 the air.He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green light, And does in the pomegranates close Jewels more rich than Ormus shows, He makes the figs our mouths to meet ; And throws the melons at our feet.But apples, plants of such a price, No tree coulil ever bear them twice.With cedars, chosen by his hand, From Lebanon, he stores the land.And makes the hollow seas, that roar, Proclaim the ambergrease.on shore.He cast (of which we rather boast) The gospel\u2019s pearl upon our coast, And in these rocks for us did frame A temple, where to sound his name.Oh! let our voice his praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's vault: Which, thence (perhaps) rebounding, may, Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.Thus sung they, in the English boat, Auholy and à cheertul note; And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time.THE GARDEN.How vainly men themselves amaze, \u2018To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their incessant labours see Crown\u2019d from some single herb, or tree, \u2018Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid ; While all the flow\u2019rs, and trees do close, To weave the garlands of Repose, Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear! Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companys of men.Your sacred plants, if bere below, Only smong the plants will grow.Society ia all but rude To this delicious solitude.Here at the fountain\u2019s sliding foot, Or at some fruit-tree\u2019s mossy root, Casting the body\u2019s vest aside, My soul into the Loughs does glide: There, like a bird, it sits and sings, Then whets, and claps its silver wings ; And, till prepar'd for longer flight, \u2018Waves in its plumes the various light.How well the skilful gard\u2019ner drew Of flow\u2019rs, and herbs, this dial new: Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run: And, aa it works, th® industrious bee Computes his time as well as we, How could such sweet and wholesome hours Be reckon'd Lut with herbs and flow\u2019rs, FEMALE INFLUENCE AND OBLIGATIONS.Paizz Essav.By Rev.N.S.S.Bzman, Troy.\u201cThe extent of Female Influence, and the importance of exerting it in favour of Christianity,\u201d are subjects which, perhaps, have never, as yot, powerfully arrested the attention, or deeply impressed the hearts of Christians.Much has been said, and much written, on the moral power exerted upon the world by female character and conduct ; but these themes have been more frequently associated with poetry and fiction, than with religion and eternity.Tho interests of Christianity and the world require that this subject should be presented to the female mind in the simple light of fact and the Bible ; and that Woxan, who has, to eay the least, her full share, under God, in moulding the destinies of the world, should understand the extent of] her influence, and feel her consequent responsibility ; and thus be prepared to call forth her own appropriate powers in serving God and doing good to his fallen creatures.As to the extent of Female Influence in our world, it is beyond computation immense.It is often less noisy and imposing than that of the other sex, and for this reason has sometimes been overlooked ; but it is always pervading and powerful.In ail civilized countries it is an influence which reaches the deep sacret springs of human action; and not unfrequently brings about great and decisive changes in the sentiments, the morals, and the happiness of the community, by means the most simple and uatural, Pat which are hidden fom an ordinary eye.It is an influence every where exerted.Its boundaries are those of the earth, and its duration can be measured only by eternity.This fact ought to be known and felt ; it ought to be written, in all its length and breadth, on the female heart.Till this fact fs known and felt, females can never be prepared, in the best and highest sense, either to live or die ; can never be qualified to discharge, on the most elevated principles and to THE MONTREAL WITNESS.the fullest effect, thoir duties either to God or man.On this int, lot females peruse, with deop and prayerful attention, the Following romarks :\u2014 The influence of your sex exerts itself over the earliest periods of rational life.\"The first being that the child knows is its mother.\u2018l'o the young heast, the mother is the first object of affection and reverence.Her eye and voice, her tears and Smiles, her caresses and reproofs, are the subjects of infant observation ; and these present the earliest leggon that the young immortal ever learns.From the very nalure of the case, mothers tnust impress their own image upon their children.The feelings, passions, and expressions of the mother, will become imperceptibly, and almost neccesarily, tho foelings, passions, and expressions of the child.'F'o mothers, more than to any other human beings, is committed the important business of moulding the intellect and heart of every successive generation.This talent God himself has lodged with you that are mothers ; and it is a talent which cannot be wrapped \u201cin a napkin,\u201d or buried * in the earth,\u201d with impunity.Howlfüll ot interest is the thought, that the infant who lies in the cradle, or in its mother\u2019s arms, is now receiving the outlines which ma form the character of the future man or woman! Lifo or doat may be convoyed iu the earliest accents which are remembered from maternal lips.The pious mother may put forth an influence which, blessed of God, may save her child.The mother who is living without God, and without a Scriptural hope, though her example may not be that of direct and positive irreligion, may put forth an influence which will destroy the soul of that little one, who is thrown, helpless and ignorant, upon her care and instruction, If females were all Christizns, and such Christians as they ought to be, a hope might be cherished.that the world would soon converted.~The next generation might live in à new earth, and, as à part oftheir employment, colebrate the final victories of the cross.i Female influence is great in the family circle.It always has been so, and it always will be so.In countries blessed by civilization and Christianity, the wife and mother is à kind of presiding spirit in the sanctuury of domestic life.Her influence, of whatever character it may be, whether malignant or benign, spreads itself over the labitation, and takes deep and fast hold on the sentiments, the interests, and the hearts of this little community.Children, whether young or old, do not easily forget their mother.To trample on her authority, to thwart her wishes, to &port with her tears, and to grieve her spirit, must always cause many a pang on the part of her offspring.Before her influence can annihilated, the ties of nature must be sundered, and the Jast amiable sensibility Le obliterated from the heart.\u2018The wife, too, in all ordinary circumstances, must exert an influence over the husband.She is his chosen companion.Her dominion is the fireside and the family circle.The early instruction of the children, the regulation of the domestics, and the entire policy of the household are committed to her.The order, the moral habits, the piety and the happiness of families, are more emphatically under the control of females than they are of the other sex.While the husband and the father is pursuing his business abroad, the wife and mother is, perhaps, imparting a cast of character to those around her at home, which may extend through many generations ; which will continue, either in dark or splendid lines when our world shall be burned up, and the sun and stars shall have gone out.It will always depend much on female influence, whether religion shall be admitted into the family, or whether the door shall bo shut against its entrance ; whether \u201c the curse of the Lord\u201d shall be there, as it is \u201c in the house of the wicked,\u201d or his blessing, as it is \u201c in the hubitation of the just.\u201d Prov.iii.33.(To be Continued) \u2019 POPULAR VIEW OF EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.(From the London Patriot.) As early as in the 84th year of the Christian era the Romans bad conquered the Caledonians.The Church of Rome then planted ler missionaries in various parts of the Kingdom, and, in process of time, her monasteries were to be found in every part of the land.By the middle of the sixteenth century, the inhabitants on the east coast had established a considerable trade with the inhabitants of the opposite continent.The reformation in Germany under Luther, was now shaking that kingdom.Amongst the converts 10 the Protestant faith, were some Dutch sailors.These men were engaged in trading to the towns on the banks of the Forth.They brought over some of Luther's tracts ; the truths these tracts contained found a lodgment in the heart of one of the professors of the University of St.Andrew's, then an institution of the Church of Rome ; they were blessed by God to his conversion.He sought to impress them on his fellow-men,\u2014the Churck of Rome became alarmed,\u2014the Scottish Estates, or Parliament, at her instigation, passed an Act prohibiting, under heavy penalties, the importation of Luther's works.The preamble to this Act declared, that * Scotland had hitherto heen clean of all such filth and etuff\u201d Professor Hamilton was not to be daunted by this persecution.land to proclaim the tenets and doctrines of the Reformation with increased devotedness and zeal.He prepared the way for John Knox.\u2018The history of that great | good man is well known.He stamped on Scotland the image of her future greatness, and that scal has never been de .One of the projects of John Knox contemplated the erection of a Protestant Church for every thousand of the population, and, in connexion with every church a parish school.This plan was legalised, Government having endowed the Church out of the confiscated revenues of the Catholic monasteries, and made the schools chargeable, partly at & small fee from the parents of the children taught, who could afford to pay, and partly on the land.Fe was provided by the Protestant Church, that the literary and religious qualifications of the teacher and the preacher, should be co-equal.Thus were planted in Scotland, when her pula- tion was scarcely a million.800 churches and 800 schools.In these circumstances, the education of Scotland took its rise.An educated people having grown up, it was found that Scotland was too limited for the profitable development of cultivated minds, and afforded but little scope for the practical application of literary or professional talent.By the force of circumstances, many were thus led to emigrate, some to England\u2014others, abroad.In most cases, these emigrants succes in amassing wealth ; and, being animated more by the feelings of the pairiot than those of the cosmopolite, not a few bequeathed rge sums of money for educational purposes in their native He paid a visit to Luther, and returned to Scot- [paral 1847 land.In this way Bursaries\u2014or.what in England are termed Exhibitions\u2014were fou in connexion with almost every parish school in Scotland ; and, as these Exhibitions were awarded, impartially, on tg score of merit,\u2014tho poorer children, however, being always preferred,\u2014education was thus brought within the reach o ovdey poor family-in the kingdom.\"These Bursaries, or Exhibitions, tiave been of the whole, faithfully mapaged, and are à great and Btowing source of revenue ut the present day.And not only at schools, but ii the colleges and universities, were these Bursaries available ; and although there are no fewer than five universities in Scotland, while England possesses only three,\u2014yet, at each university, the number of studonts on Exhibitions is fully one half the num.Ler attending on foes, Increased demand for university education, led to an increased demand for preparatory education, as well as a keen competition amongst teachers ; and just in proportion as the to wns outgrow the resources of the parish schools, were voluntary schools established, and teaching thus became an important profession.This sketch of the rise, progress, and present state of education in Scotland naturally suggests the inquiry, How are the schools conducted, and what kind of education Is imparted, which has thus been so succeseful in its results 7 We reply thus :\u2014 There was originally but ofie system of education in Scot- land\u2014the Parochial ; there are now three, viz., the Parochial, the Sessional, and the Monitorial.The Parochial system is conducted in this wise : the pupils are arranged into\u2019 classes, rising from the elementary, through ten.or twelve gradations, to such a standard of knowledge in language, mathematics, and the physical sciences, as the teacher shall adjudge and certify as constituting a qualification for the college and university.Each class is conducted according to certain laws founded on the principle of reward for merit, the highest honour being to maintain the top of the class for a given time.The mode of instruction is soverely personal.No boy can escape the vigilance of bis teacher; and the moment any one fails to answer the question put, these below him have severally the opportunity of replying, ard thus the boy who answers satisfactorily, should he happen to be at the bottom of the class, takes his place above the defaulter, withont exciting the jealousy of those previously above iim.This is the uniform daily practice under the Parochial sysem ; and on occasions of public examinations it is yet more severely applied.In the Parochial schools, teaching by menory is slways practised, until the pupil in English gets trough the elementary branches; and, in the languages, untf he can translate freely.As a relief to this trying system, thero is great variety in the curriculum of study ; and as soon as any pupil gives proof that he possesses some eculiar ordes of talont, the bent of his genius is encouraged y such an adaptation of means to the end as shall develope fully the mostal predominants of his mind.The Sessional system is that which \u201cascribes intellectual and bodily improvement to exercises and reiteration of exercises,\u201d answering by original exercises, questions upon books, and on the facts and principles contained in them, which the studen: is compelled to think for himself and to evince his acquaintance with the subject.This, in England, is called the interrogaive aystem, and promises to be yet more generally and extensively applied.The Mouibrial eystom was introduced to Scotland under very interesting aad peculiar circumstances, viz: \u2014A young man, whose paretits were very poor, had just got as far advanced in education as evabled him to compete successfully for a bursary at the Universky of St.Andrew's, sufficiently valuable to enable bim to go tarough the course necessary to qualify for the degree of M of Arts.He supported himself at the university, as many other young men in Scotland do, by teaching à school during tie vacation, and, when at college, leaving it in charge of some other rising student.He chose the clerical profession, and wis licensed to preach as 8 probationer in the Church of BcotlaM.Unable to sustain himself by preaching, he devoted his energies to the instruction of two youths, whose parents were wealthy residents in America.He went there with them, but returned again to Scotland, and eventually gota chaplaincy in the East India Company's service.One day, while musing on the mode of teaching youth, in one of the academies at Mads, he observed some Hindoo boys drawing figuros and lines with their fingers on the sand, one taking the lead by delineations which the others followed.The ides of teaching after this rhode struck his mind.He set to work it out, was successful, to enable him to do justice to his new scheme, the Governhent put sufficient funds at his disposal to found & Monitorial itution.That institution gave rise to what is termed the Madras system, and the founder of it, whose history we have sketched, was Dr.Bell, Having realised large property in India, Dr.Bell returned to his native land, and afler a food deal of dispute with Joseph Lancaster, in England, to whom à similar idea bed suggested itself, and who founded the Lancasterian system, ho died, be: ueathing nearly the whole of his property to endow schools in destitute localities, to be conducted according to his own plan, under the trusteeship of Cor- tions in towns, and Presbyteries of the Church Scotland in the country, - This system does not appear to prosper in Scotland.e pupils taught in it are seldom able to compete with those taught in the parochial and sessional schools ; and & universit education being a desideratum with most parents in8 ) those only who are very poor, and consequently do not look forward to this priritege» avail themselves of the cheap and popular education of Dr.Bell.(To bs Continued.) SHAKER FARM.The present settlement of Shakers or United Brethren, at Now Lebanon, was the first spot on which this sect ever | They commenced here about forty years The society consists at present of about 600 persons, more than half of whom are females, From small beginnings they have acquired large possessions, holding at this time not less than seven thousand acres of land, mostly lying contiguously.We spent few hours examining various objects connected with this community.Their buildings are all built in the moet substantial manner, and are constructed with particular regard (o convenience.One of their barns is considered in all gapects the best contrived and the most perfect of any wo have seen.It is one hundred and forty-one feet long, BRy feet wide, and twenty-five feet h in the walls, It consists of three stories.The basement is devoted to the stock and the storage of vegetables in winter, 1847 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.à ird to bay and grain.The main entrance |atrany and forbade the alienation of lands'in mortmain, With! - Lost.Somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two houss, the mo nd sh dr io which, from the barn being on rega to the administration of justice : besides prohibiting all de-|each set with sixty diamond minutes.No reward is or they .As : i \" itil lost fe \u2014 Americ .the side ofa hill, is nearly level with the ground.À floor runs nials or delays of it, it fixed the Court of Common Pleas at West- Stay or comin, Trousie When the child of God has sow ar- ngthwise through the barn on this-étory, and the hay and the minster, that the ruitors might no longer be harassed with follaw- » -¥hen - Lu articles re pitched downward into the bays on ooh sido, [ing the king\u2019s person in all his progresses ; and at the same time upon.d hia merloly conceros La oui bi mie that be Begins 10 Lean \u2014The bara is capable of contéining two hundred tons of hay, [brought the trial of issues home tothe Very doors of the freeholders, hand.For his faithful covenant Ged will not leave hiv 10 settle down and it ie s0 disposed that scafcoly any of it has to be ruisedjby directing swsizes to be taken in the proper counties, and|in the love of this world, but will pluck away his pillows of earthly higher than \u2018the wagon from which it is thrown.Only two establishing annual éireuits.It confrimed and established the|comfort and quietness, and compel him to go to his Savior weary and hands are necessary.to unload\u2014one to pitch off, and \u2018one to liberties of the city off.ondon, and all other cities, boroughs, towns, heavy laden for rest.\u2014 Ohio Observer.207 I keep the mow level, thus saving a great amount of labor, com.and ports of the kingdom.And lastly (which alone would have], Duxr Proconine The editor of the Visitor tells us that by using pared with what ie required in barns oï common construction.merited the title that it bears of the great charter,) it protected edn soil plough, is crops of.ee were incremsed last year one The apartments for the cattle are complete.\u2014The walls, [every individual of the nation in the free enjoyment of his life, in| bagkets were gathered to ee a Tues tind which are of very solid stone.work, are plastered and though |liberty, and his property, unless declared tv be forfeited by the|and quantity of manure being used in both cases.At two hundred cool in summer, we should suppose they would be so warm in judgmeut of his peers or the law of the land.\u201d ; bushels to the acre, this is a gain of three hundred bushels on six acres winter that no frost would be found there; windows in each| Such a concession from the king was not gained without a|of land, these at ffty cents per bushel would amount lo one hundred side pormit free ventilation.~The fodder is thrown into racks Violent struggle ; in fact he was compelled 1o yield it by an armed and fifty dollars for subsoiling six acres in & single year\u2014to say foth- for the stock from the \u201c feeding floor\u201d in the second story.In| force, consisting of u very large portion of the baronage, which hein of the gain on the crops for the next balf a dozen years.The font of the racks are mangers to catch any saws that drop |W0P far too feeble to resist with effect.The names of the chiefs difference on each farm of any size would in twenty years amount fo from the racks, as the fodder is pulled out by the animals.a ro preserved oy the chroniclers of the Sime, and in the Charter Deacon Topp\u2014on Tie Reason Wav.\u2014Ah! says one, it is very open space is left between the racks and rangers, whic 13 ted, they p a day gled difficult to conquer temper, this old evil temper.{Don\u2019t you know lows tho animals ready access to fresh air, provents the hay |feeling of reapect and gratitude, the respect and gratitude which |why?* says the deacon.¢Simply because we all wonder why every in the racks from being made unpalatable by their breath, and [men pay to those who have obtained for them the extension of body is so fretful and passionate, and st about correcting the fault in gives room also to slip in boxes, when it is wished to feed with political privileges, though it may appear that those privileges| them, and never attempt it upon ourselves.To reduce the ideaton slops or \u2018roots, \u2014The man who had charge of the stock said he were nothing more than rights of which they had been deprived, (numerical term you bave a dozen personsiin your family.\u2014Eaeh E .\u2018 sel : 5 | ane receives, 1-12th of your influence in this r ct\u2014whereas if you could feed and take care of a hundred animals in this barn, with [and to which therefore they may be said to have been justly en begin with yourself, x exert all, a hatever (hat may be which is loss labour than he could manage twenty in any other barn he titled.They appear the patriots of a rude age, and the mists off 0) to 12-12ths.And when you have corrected I, the whol ever saw.The cattle stand on a platform with a gentle slope, distance and antiquity obscure to ua the selfishness and the other ofthat 12-12ths reacts with accumutated force upon the whole dozen Which renders it easier to keep them clean anddry.The cows evils (if such existed) which were manifested in the contest.The members of your family,\u2019 aro tied with chains around the neck, and are always milked first name is that of Robert Fitz Walter, who belonged to the] Tue Came, AND vire NexoLe\u2019s Eve.\u2014 Lord Nugent, in his recent : : d winter.h ilked exactly great family of Clare.The title given to him as head of the host| publication, Lands, Classical and Sacred, has given an application of ut their sills, ri punctual are the eg ar this, that 7 was Marshal of the Army of God and of the Holy Church.Next [the words which at once proves the fitness of the expression for pel shout i Appartment and the herdsman told us at|to him come Eustace de Vesci, Richard de Percy, Robert de Roos, subject our Saviour had in view.Lord Nugent describes himself as what moment the cows would be in their places.Peter de Brus, Nicholas de Stutevile, Saier de Quenci, earl of] fanion, walk out of eo EE os rs through The Larnyard is so contrived that nous of the manure is Wincheater, the esrls of Clare, Essex, and Norfolk, William de {ype èye of the needle,\u201d in other words, iA small side gate.This wasted, It is kept littered with straw and such waste matters Mowbray, Robert de Vere, Fulk Fitz Warine, William de Mon- his lordship conceives to be a common expression, and explanatory of as can be procured, and the manure from the stalls is made into \u2018acute, William de Beauchamp, and many others of families long|our Saviour\u2019s words; for, he adds, the sumpter camel cannot pass compost with that in the yard, mixed with muck, and is not |afier famous in English history, the progenitors of the ancient] thiough unless with great difficulty, and stripped of his load, his trap- used until it has become fine by decomposition,\u2014 dm.pa per.baronial houses of England, pings, and his merchandise.i i \u2018rounkes or Temrenance im Massacmuezrrs.\u2014One hundred and fift The charter was signed, or rather sealed, not in any house, but a beloved commonwealth have placed the vale tr in the open field, at a place called Runnymede, between Windsor |\\ntoxicating drinks under the ban their decided condcmnati d ha DOOMSDAY BOOK.and Staines ; but it was not merely by an accidental meeting of | thinly driven\u2019 it from their precinets.\u201cAt ol em parance meeting held pi two armies at that place that this act was done there, for it ap-|week in the town of Abington, 383 persons came forward together and = ; ; 4?i signed the pledge, of whom more than 200 are young men, the strength and son dite Soc De fama, pot fra pears by Matthew of Westminster, that Runnymede was a place |ugned piece mn # > 30 J where troatics concerning the peace of the kingdom had been Corn Srmsugns Tha books of subscription to the capital stock of the pi grub Tuna dpc gp hdafln?ofien made.a was Jone with great solemmity.The memor- ocean seam navigation company are now ope at number 41 Broad street, .= \u2014 Pen: t , With tl iptions, wi ,000.wags men aio ood of a.cog! Jonelhq WLP fal doy wa Tune Py Coclpedie ST won hf sd amr, 0 t bei ing to jon, i este bmi hEsomdanfaa lo Olu uno seLEcTIONS.Gilg ro mpl tng lees SRST ert, «Gop 13 4 Sun,\u201d\u2014And man is in_his peribelion when he ean love their confidence in the successful result of this undertaking, and we may UL pa Naw Be act 7 och a Fu Sud xd pond.pla é and forgive like God.The personation of sin is darkness\u2014outer, ut-|safely conclude that thé new stock will be promptly taken up, the more termoet darkness ; and he who loves revenge, as Satan does, must flee | ially as in future subscriptions the preference is to be given to hase a to his own place, beyond the light of God\u2019s countenance.who subscribed for the first $500,000 of the capital.The enterprise, management, con scarcely fail to be profitable, as in abundantly IRE a Al Geil aod, |.© N k-toom in state of perspiration, as|PrOper Ez pif .watbpal.1k ANsdos Du: qe the mone yon ne cout yaar pores.Hate open proach proved by the success which has attended the Great Western.\u2014Spectaler.: .© 1ÉrAvEnt Paren «7 Wasuisoros.\u2014Dr.Bailey, who has conducted : | contagious diseases with an empty stomach, nor sit between he sick ARTS i incinnati i coo: ats pent Nusecom Tzgeo.old and the fre, because the heat attracts the thin vapor.the Morning Herald, liars oy Bape, ee, bas idee The above is facsimile of on of doy Hook, à ALLIGATORS 1% JAvA.\u2014In my enumeration of animals dangerous 10) from that paper to become the editor of (ue National Era, the new anti, The above is a facsimile of a portion of Doomsday Book, à very (man, T omitted the alligator which infests every river and mudd creek [slavery journal about to be esiablished st Washington.J.G.Whittier snd ancient British record, and may be er ona Charta.with the lin Java, and grows to a very large size.Atthe mouth of the Batavia Ber.A.A Phelps are fo bo amocisiod with hin = corrempandin editors.following acco an ol 3 river, they are very numerous and dangerous, iculatly to Europe- Dr.Bailey's place in the Morning Herald ia y Stanley Matthews, ang.\u201d It Sikes ona as extraordinai re see ohn r coloured natives Esq., a young lawyer.Dr.Bailey has undertaken & highly difficult and MAGNA CHARTA bathing in the ri ithin vi al li Soppe th © reaponsible post, for which his industry and coolness of temper finely sdapt The terms of the compact between the feudal chief and bis de- [to give the animal @ thought, or to euliciante ory from or proximity.him.Our sument hope bn, that, keeping Clear of at side sesions, hia vi pendants underwent frequent changes in the middle ages, the con- Yel, were a European to enter the waler by the ade of the natives, bis (oc al shoton of avery.Es bas véluntariiy taken an 0x.sequence for the most part of resistance made by the tenants, and minutes in this world would be few.I recollect an instance that oc- d'out poet ; and he should not marvel if all Lis patience and good feel.struggles to regain liberties which had been originally surrendered carred on the occasion of a party of troops embarking at Batavia for(i; were put in requisition.\u2014 Evangelist.taken f them by the force and power of the chief.When the eastward, during the Java war.The men had ail gone off, with] \u2018Nomone\u2014The packet ship Petersburg, miled from Boston, for England, or taken Irom them by i in th Fe of th ° the exception of three sergeants, who were to follow in the ship\u2019s jolly |on Satnrday, with 20,500 bush, Indian corn, 300 hhds.tallow, 15,000 bbls, a material alteration was made in the terms the compact, a re- |pogt, which was waiting for them at the wharf, two of them stepped Aour, 1,200 do.naval stores, 500 bls, apples, 400 do.sperm oil, 200 do.soe cord was made of tt in writing.These records are called char- into the boat; but the third, in following, missed his footing, und fell pege.100 do.onions, 60 cases clocks, 150 rocking chairs, 15,000 ibs.wool, ters, in the restricted use of à term which is popularly applied to [with his leg in the water, and his body over the gunwale of the boat, ides sundry small lots of Yankee notions, and 50 steerage passengers.> : i i fn the United States army, tho military force has been augmented from almost every species of early diplomas.In less than an instant, an alligator darted from under the wharf, and S640 30.000 nen The regular pr Sender the law of last session.Such à charter is that called the Magna Charta granted by seized the unfortunate \u2018man by the leg, while his companions in the 8, rank le, but de King John, but acting in his twofold character of the lord of à boat laid hold of his Shoulders.The poor fellow called out to his ve ne de 9, rank wid se aa war ay To body of feudatories, and the sovereign of the realm.This charter ere on or proves A thr tramaast, and eared off pire.\u2018The estimated appropriations for fortifications next year amounts foe rogue i, niin] be of euler 3: \u201cth en trl ly wind, ho mi\u201d 0° \u2014 0 Q - could trace Lhe monstei\u2019s course the wa; wn the river wil tion of rights which had been enjoyed in England before the Con- the victim in his immense mon.Davison Recollection of twenty- Fie with th SCRIPTURE JLLUSTR ATION.Conese ix.6 quest, and which are said to have been gran y King Henry I.(one years in Java, Singapore, ustralia, ina.\u201c wi ereof, whic! thereof.\u201d\u201d\u2014 Genesis, ix.\u201cn his accession.However, if it did not propery found the] One reason why God hax scattered up and down several degrees of| The former verse seems, from the vory form of its expression, Jiberties which the English nation enjoys, or if it were not the Pleasure and pain, in all the things that environ and affect us, and manifestly intended to grant animal diet as an extension of the original of those privil and franchises which the barons (or lended them together in almost all that our thoughts and senses have original grant of the * green herb.\u201d Here we have a restric.\u2018 à o with, is, that we, finding imperfection, issatisfaction, and want| _.; .the chief tenants of tho crown, for the names are here equivalent,) todos ith a hat we 8 nd j pet ction distatifuction, and » ant tion as the form in which this grant may ve used.Some ecclesiastical persons, citizens, burgesses, and merchants enjoy, it afford Lon might be led to seek it in ny enjoyment of Him, with whom commentators understand this as intended to preclude such a recalled into existence, it defined, it settled them, it formed in its {here is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures for ever- horrid mode of using animal food as Bruce relates of the Abys- yrrition state a document to which appeal might be made, under |more.\u2014 Locke.siniane, who cut flesh from the living animal, taking care not whose protection any person who had any interest in itmight find| Tne Frozen Drap ar Toe Hospice or THE GRAND Sr.Braap.[to injure a vital part, and eat it quivering with life and reeking shelter, and which served, as if it were a portion of the cowmon \u2014The scene of greatest interest al the Hospice, asolemn extraordinary in blood, The restriction was repeated in the Mossic Law, law of the land, to guide the judges to the decisions they pro- interest indeed, is that of the Morgue, or building where the deadiand also exists in the religion of Mohammed ; and at present ; a .x bodi i Th some of them : .nounced in all questions betwéen the king and any portion of the| ces, of lost travellers are deposited.There they are, some of them both Jews and Mohammedans understand their law to direct q when the breath of life departed, and the Dead Angel, with his instru therm to abstain from eating blood, and the flesh of such animal people.© d snow, sii d embalmed them for ages, Th \u2018 The independence and rights of the church were also secured Te ace wiih mou, and bones, and human dust.heaped as have not been bled to death in such a manner that every by the great charter.in confusion.Dut around the wall are groups of poor sufferers in the [separable particle of the vital fluid has been extracted, The Magna Charta has been printed in a great variety of forms ;]very position in which they were found, as rigid as marble, and in this Jews and ohammedans, therefore, cut the throats very deeply there are fac-similes of a copy of it which was made at the time, ait, by the preserving element of an eternal frost, almost as uncrum- of the animals they intend for food; and neither of these reli- and still exists in the British Museum, and of another preserved bling.There is a mother and her child, a most affecting image ot sul ioe like to eat meat killed by our butchers, because the at Lincoln, and translations of it into the English language.It is fering and bib only sas ack part Jee skal being oats Blood is less completely extracted by our process.\u20ac thus so easily accessible, that it will not be expected that we shall] pfoided in her eareful a areful in vain on, to shield give a copy of it, or even a complete abstract of its multifarious her off ting from the elemental wrath of the tempest.The snow fell DAILY BREAD.Provisions, some of which are completely obsolete, and the terms fast and thick, and the hurricane wound them both up in one white Janvany, 4.obscure.Instead of this we shall give the satisfactory abridge- shroud, and buried them.There is also a tall, strong man, standing Oh that the salvation of Israel ere come out of Zion! When 1he Lord ment of Blackstone in his ¢ Commentaries,\u201d who has besides un alone, the face dried and black, but the white, unbroken teeth firmly briny tb buck the captivity o bis peoples Jacob shal rejoice, und fant expresa treatise on this charter.set and closed, grinning from the fleshiess jaws\u2014it is a most awful sh ad, mm xiv.7.-~Divine Answer.make you \u201cTh h 2 he, iberties of the spectacle.The face seems to look at you from the recesses of the[ free, yo shall bo free indesd.John vii.36, Bee also verses 31, 32.hureh © great charter,\u201d says he, confirmed many liberties of the sepulchre, as if it would tell you the story of a fearful desth-struggle| Not as if sin should be utterly destroyed, of entire] dead, and could chureb, and redressed many grievances incident to feudal tenures, [ty Coco There are other groups more indistinct, but these two|not stir any more in the heart of believers ; for the Scripture speaks of no small moment at this time ; though now, unless considered 4ry never to be forgotten, and the whole of these dried and frozen of them ss baving still the lusts and motions of sin; (Gal.v.17;) attentively and with this retrospect, they seem but of trifling cob- remnants of humanity are à terrifie demonstration of the foarfulness of but it imports only that it bas no power either to condemn or to rei cern.But besides these feudal provisions, care was aleo taken this mountain when the elements, let loose in fury, encounter the over us; nay, it shall bs weakened more and more; (Rom.vi.5 \u2019 hi Christ reigns in the hears even where sin dwells, in tbe therein protect j i presi - x this through the grated window ;| 14 ;) so that ty ar ee ae ons, then fre iobepEY ot ent pu ok ake solemnly and diinctly visible, midst of his enemies; and it Is a dangerous error indeed to betieve tly arising fr i is- th t light enony tresses or other te a A eget dis- and to hd in f .powertal record of mental and physical agony, and (that sin is destroyed ia the root.11 it were so, whence those frequent and from the tyrannical abuse of the prerogative of ance of maternal love in death.\u2018That little child, hiding ita face in ils mo-| expressions sad exhortations to crucify, withstand, and rule over it?p ve urvey ther\u2019s bosom, and both frozen to death :\u2014one can never forget the|\u2014Gal.v.34.and pre-emption.It fixed the forfeiture of lands for felony in the mement i hlese | Dr.Now a Savi bis throne, same manner as it still remains; peobibited for the future the heen por he pir ihe token of death Mont Diane.With pg in er =; ; .: 3 eever\u2019s Wandermgs of à Pülgrim of A yea; grants of exclusive fisheries, and the erection of new bridges soas| Inrzveacwt Conpuct or CHRISTIAN CoxurzaaTions.\u2014~In many of He rare dy priatoors groan, oh tho neighbourhood.With respect to private righte : it|our congregations we witness à restleseüoss and confusion while the 1 a ham ho heir Nghe.0 , ished the testamentary power of the subject over part of his|benediction Is pronounced.Such conduct savours as little of reverence Sand whoa hia Soa dome nmi a) eatate, the rest being distributed among hie wife and chil- [88 it does of good breeding.This is not the time for adjusting articles 14 shan't be suid thet preying breath po ; it laid down the law of dower ms it hath continued ever of dress, ot getting ready, asif in haste to leave the house of God, We Was ever © in vein sinc6 ; and prohibited the appeals of women, unless for the death separaté, pariapes not to meet again on earth, and we should all retire This shall be known when we are dead, î pri ante, Tn oratory of publie Toy and national con.prvine § at the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God our And left on record, cern, it enjoined : : ; Len ic polley \u201con- lheaven er, and the communion of the Hoy Ghost, may abide That ages yet unborn way md , enjoined an uniformity of weights and measures ; gave evar.\u2014Repor{ on Posture in Public Prayer by Committes And trast and praise the t new encouragements to commerce by the protection of merchant-'of New Jersey Synod.\u2014Bogatsky's Treasury, 8 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.1847 TIE NE Extension or +E CTR Trisosara t u the Covers.TH ment have recently taken Tate consideration series oi ements for] Montreal\u20142%th ult., Mrs O.5 == effecting an mediate communication with Royal pelaces, government | S08.Mru Babine, of Leon, mtesa, of 8 con, 3008 tu, Mre Dr Altken, of & CANADA offices, dockyard, gurrisons, nd fortresses throughout the kingdom ey by (Bry mons, Liclsnd\u201423d November, the wih of R.A.Young, Esg., of Quebec, \u2018LL means of the electric telegraph, ai in use ou verious railway lines, Dusdas\u20148th ult, Atm meeting held on Tuesday of the subscribers, Lo the proposed fom \u2014 Daily News egraph, y \u2019 « \u2019 y of ves ul., Mrs Lanne Harper, of s ses, 13h ult,, Mrs Frederick Upton, pany for connecting Montreal with Toronto by Blectrd nçne ie ; e It har been erroneously stated that the Admiralty is reducing the roger 4 Quel jh\u20143éth ult,, Mra W.A, Husband, of s son.19th ult,, Mrs A, M¢Carkin- graphe the Com was nized cle the ae F4 a isons] cou complements of her Majesty's ships.Buch is not the fact ; the admiralty ronto Electro | metic Telegraph Company, 1 - merel n adjusting crews, so as peither to underman nor overman.mitiee was rointed to make ull the necessary immediate pram mente, Wasnt % Lanoni \u2014Farmers in Limerick and the adjoining counties ue » son.161k ste Mrs Johe Coward, of a daughter, 30th uit Mrs Griffith The Minerve States that s curpe of Volugeurs is being formed in Montrer | were never so deficient, at this season of the year, in the breadth of tillage New Glasyon- a he vite of Licut.Sling, din Regt.of o daughter, the commmnd of which has been offered to and accepted by Colonel De) jand ready for seed to grow the ensuing year\u2019s crop; and this applies not ow\u201421th Novemil rs Jubn Lloyd, ot 4 son, h e | ¢ i Buniley, Goderich\u201420th ult, Mre Alfred W, O: Salaberry.[Lis to consist of six companies, who will wear the uniform of merely to corn, but to vegetable gardens.They complain, and with sad 1 Androwers TL wis the with of tbe Rev, Wm.Abbotis of Juugiter.the ancient Canadian Voltigeury, | truth, of the want of farm labourers, whom the public works in every par-| Touronto\u2014s8us ult , the wil of Thomas G, Riduut, Esq, of » duugler.A meeting was held at Totw's Hotel on Tuesday last, to consider the près ski afmost wholly engrous at present, to the serious detriment of field cul- MARRIAGES.priety of erecting xine munuinent to the mentory of the lato Lord Metoalfe, {vation and husbandry pursuits in general, Unless the peasantry are ine] Moutr wi\u2014tstinst., Mr Henry TFipiive, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr, Bulmer, the Honourable Peter M-Gill in the Chair, After some conversation, (bel duced to relum to their natural and accustomed labor, we y belicve Barnes EE ve Me Jevee H, \u20ac andwing to Kise Julia Little, object was approved of, and a Comnjittos uf seven gentiemen appointed for | that the prospects of the yesr 1847-8 will be far more disastrous to Ire- ford: Boa ult,, Mr Ocorge D, Cook, tu Caroline P., daughter of 8.L.Hunger.the purpose vi carrying it out, | tand than the people are aware of\u2014 Lunerick Chronicle.leadiay Rectory, furrey\u2014251h November tbe Rev.James Begg, Newington, to Metanenouy OccuraEncE.\u2014We have to add another to the long list] Trre O'Coxnett Faminv.\u2014The follo ing from the « Nation,\u201d isa very Mein) third dnughtes of the Rev, Ferdinand Fuithfuil, of melancholy incidents by which this seuson seems to be distinguished, in pretty paragrapli as it stands\u2014* explanation would spoil it :\"\u2014+ Morgan (ue pu VO ul te the Rev.T, Nichols, to Miss trwin, ; both sections of the Province, beyond any other of recent dute.Ou Christ-|D'Connelt, Esqo, second son of Mr.O'Connell, has beet appointed Regis- on Me Burts cheat daughter of Mr T.Lannin, vas Day last, the wife of a respectable #abitan at St.Michel, named Roy, lier of Deeds, with a salary of £13008 year by the Whigs.\u201d ionel Midout, Esq,, tv Louisa, eldest daughter of caine to visit the Parish Church, aud with her à so of about ten years ofl Rear DisTuzss.\u2014As à convincing proof of the dreadful state of the weason, Eau, ; age.By rome misfortune, he strayed from his mothers side, and was trade in Worcester, we bave only lo mention that duri the last fortnight November der Rohert Neilson, to Miss Burak Potter.341d Nov,, missed by her between five and six o'clock i the evening.Instant search no egs than sixty-eight wedding-rings have been purchased chiefly from f J 7 B 1 : : e\u2014tath ult.Mr Merrill Bayley, of B 10 Mise 8 Tous made, which continued over Saturday and Sunday without intermission the wives of weavers, by ane jeweller, residing in the Bull Ring, Kidder rar 10h ule, Hr Jobe Button, ta Sins re sreh Chapmar, , , by jeweller, residing & i \u2014the police of the city rendering ali the aid in their power.On Monday miuster.\u2014 Worresterskire Chronicle.\u201418th ult., Me Join M'Fasiane, to Isabella, cldest daugbter of Mr Robert evening the dead body was found in the bush near Leonard's.There| \u201cTue Mauxere\u2014The prices of ccrtain kinds of * bread stuff,\u201d which had 18th uit., Me F.Armatros was no living testimony of the precise nature of his fate, but from the ap-| yujten slightly, show a tendency to advance again; and on Saturday, oxtmen} 21st ule, M, N, Corry, E rance un] position of the corpse, il was pretty evident that he had laid lin Gluagçow was 16.per loud ligher.Tho millers buve been working over.own overwhelmed with cold and fatigue, had taken off his coat 10 cover time for severul weeks past, and the prices of wil wa nee informed, are his head and form a pillow, and had di d in the act of rubbing bis fingers |100 par cent.higher than they were (hree months since, \u2018Phere is no pro- (Set ult,, Mr G,R, Von Norman, to Miss Berrie, with snow, probably to prevent (sout-bites.\u2014 Montreal Guzeite.| babihty of the markets taking a decided upward turn again, however, us| Woodstock\u201410th ult, M James Simpson, to Miss Mary Baguley, The Quebec Mercury laments the apathy of its citizens in not taking st\u20acP® y mols are arriving heavily Hagen with grain and Indian meal in our ports DEATHS.for eccunng telegraphie communication with other parts of the Province, and from the United States, and sll the great corn-growing countries of Europe.ult., aged 17 months, Maric Sophie, second deughier of Mr O.points to the * rapid rise and steady progress\u201d of Montreal as a proof of what \u2018i.Inst advices from the United States settle the question as to the supply Churtrain er, nd ult., Mr Leon Garcau, aged 39 years, th ule, of con.enterprize and pereverance will do.of corn from that quarter\u2014there is io feat of any deficiency.Ou the receipt 31) prion, Mansfeld Chetan, wife of Mr We, Rubino, ped A ean, aes! Accipexta.\u2014Yest ray morning, as the son of N.G.Reynolds, Eeq., of intelligence frm England, prices rose, but full again directly ; of course, Me Jolin M Mullan ated LU Jars.Mr John Vilintt, aged 8 yours, Seth ult.was takimg oats to hix father's hi reos, ho was very badly bruised by one of because of the abundant supplics pressing on the market.We have further Mudehine Anne, ton dnughter of ©.H.Castle, Fug, 300 ult, the infant son of the horses kicking him several times before he, suid pare i\" Mr.accounts, too, of corn accumulated al Odessa, Varna, and other ports in the or Aitker.dik inst.Rev.Culch Strong, AM.Minfster of the American Presby- Reynolds hearing the - hastened to the stable, where lie found his son Euxine, for want of ships to bring it away.Freight has been quite unat- 21 ingeri if under the horses fect, bas: been trodden upon and very much injured.winable at thes: ports for the ant month., Immense uantitics of corn (says nouer ia he Ey oar Ses mod very painful ines, Anne, wifo of Dr Having removed his oo.M .went to the por which seemed very much the Nuremberg Courier) have boen stored up in Moldavia, Wallachia, and JH fom Je, Corporal Jub Casey, in the oth year of bin age, 13h ult, frightened.He pat the hore gently, which at length breumequiet.Mr.Lower Hungary.The price of bread in Paris during the second fortnight of \"F511 Fears AOR, dest daughter of Dr A ; Le le bare Siren he again cuumenced Kicking mos Novernber was aiecd Ba rend fr vo puund font of tie fiat qualiys| Sammons aie, Mr Acs inder Comin, DE and aged 16 years.furiously, knucking Lim d wn.As he fell he caught the hiurse, en We under | and that of the second quality to 38 centimes.Corn, however, was dechm-| Kingston \u2014Béth ult., Mred 80 years, Mr Thomas Watley, stand, about he legs, to which he held fast, not being able to paurione him.| ing in the provincial markets of France.\u2014 Scotch paper.Pacton\u20142tth ult., of à lingering complaint, Mehitable, wife of Mr C.Pier, aged self until the horse bad literally tired himself out, whon Mr.R.crept away le Society or Faienns.\u2014The Society of Friends in tus city, have bee-951h ult, Hiram | ewis, youngest child of Me James Scott 2 years from boliind lim.He just escaped with his life, being very muclt bruised ramed subsenplions among their own budy for the purpose of su phy ho ad ee ei ged 19 on ead T days, youngest er He Som about the head and body, and it was thought had some ribs broken.On the oor of Waterford with broth during four days in ca week.Toy Fave Friw, j jilton\u2014Ésth uit, the wife of D.C, Gunn, of a son, on\u2014111h ult, Mrs George Davidson, of her, 14th ult, Mrs Adam Mary, duughtor of Mr Robt, Buel n, .D.lo Rose, eldest daughter of Janes ridgo\u201428tk ult,, Mr Luther D.Taylor, to Miss Mekitable Biabiey, Toronton 191h ult, Mr Lewie Bates, to Mary, third daughter, of Mr, Jobin Loe.same day, as Dr.Hope was returning from Hun rford, he was thrown from mado an engagement with Mr.Thompson, of Gearge Street, wlio is to fur- se Catherines\u20141Bt uls,, Lydia Martha, deughter of Mr Gcorge Oil), of Pelham, his buggy and very much injured.This accident was caused by the run | igh them with 1,792 Ibe of beef cach week, which will be reduced into room a5th lL, nged 18 years, after n long and painful illncas, Lucy, daugh- ning away of à team of borsos, which followed the Doctor, and despite sll broth, and served out indiscrinsinately to the destitute pour of tho city.\u2014 ter uf Mr Joecph Carbort, attempts to keep out of their caught his buggy by the wheel, turning it Waterford Freeman.almost cutirely over, and throwing him oul amongst the wheels of the wag- 9 DestrucmivE Fiag\u2014One of the most destructive fires witnessed in the or n We sd yemerday, ae we Bars almost every day, à runaway in town.metropolis TIE Fa Oe oe ucsiay morn ¢, shortly before two| MUNTREAL WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT .~Jan.4.iy s we think the authoritics should see that persons lcaving their homes clock, on the ext nsive premises occupied by Messrs.Palmer, the patent IMPORTED GOODS, louse To the streets, are dealt with according to the town regulations.\u2014Belle- candle manufacturers, in Great Compton-gtrest, Clerkenwell, where a fire + ds 4d se ds d.ville Chron, 17th December, .occurred of great ext nt about three years ago.An immense stock of can-| Corres, per Jb.\u2014 Leatnea sole, prib.0 504 & 0 11} BaneRooms,\u2014It will be seen by our advertising columns, that the! dies and raw materials were in the building at the time, and the loss, include Laguavra, 0 74 6 0 0 Do barness,.1 els magistiates residing in this city, held à meeting, on Friday last, with a ing the valuable steam machinery, cannot be less than £5,400.Conte,perchaldron 25 0 a 30 0 Do.calfskineperih.3 4 6 3 6 view of carrying out the recommendations of the late Court of Quarter| |xonwoop.\u2014The revenue authorities have permilted ironwood, à epe-l Fisu, Dry Cod Do.Kips per dasen 50 0 # 75 © Sessions, garding Tavern Licenses.The unlimited system of licensing cies of cedar or mahogany, the produce of America, to be admitted duty wt 15 0 a 17 6 |Do Upperperside 9 3 «fi 3 heretofore practised, hns been a fruitful source of 8 great portion of the free, an importation into this country from the place mentioned, being of] tekled Mouasezs, per eu 18«19 erime committed in this district; and we are glad to find the magistracy opinion that the wood in question comes under the description of furni- rl, 16 0 « 00 6 Ors, Linscod, Br at length awakening to the subject.The number of grog shops in this ure wood, and is admissabie to enter free of duty under the order of the Fi 55 0 a 60 0 gal.3 0 a 31 eity is frightful.Turn where you will and the everlasting s:gn of * Bar| Lords of the Treasury of the 22ad ult.Ha mon, in 3 ome 29 a 310 Room\" stares you in the face.How so many houses\u2014or, rather, tooma| In à letier to the Nation, the Rev.John Kenyon a Catholic priest, talks erring 915 0 917 6 43846 \u2014have been licensed, passes our compreheusion, for we cannot imagine of « desperate infamy lowering over the close of G'Connell\u2019a career,\u201d and F Rai 3665310 that a tithe of them could comply with the requirements of the act.\"On| contends that it ia time for Ireland to seek another leadet No 5 ito 60400 the dreadful eff-cts of these shebeen houses it is not necessary for us to dilate, A DisTiNGuisHED PoactER.\u2014A paragraph iu the papers recently an- a.inch, per 0 0 ne 110 6 3 0 Almost every crime committed traces its origin to them, indirectly if not! nounced that the Duke of Marlborough was accompanied in & shooting ex-| y, tie pe ib, 0 2 .0 3 286629 directly.Searcely « Coroner\u2019s Jury but what returns a verdict of ** Died cursion by his lntely-married Duchess, and that the latter personally took Valontit, | 1e.06 ; D 6e Rice, Carnline, por from Intemperance.\u201d\u201d Under these circumstances, we trust the tes nat in the amusements of the day, and with her own hand Lilied several Currants, Sante, « à 12b.98 9 «00 0 will make thorough work of it, and not, as some time since, leave num- head of game, OF the fact there we apprehend, no doubt; but it has| Grams, per 100 fi.EantIndia,1191b none ber of licenses greater than it was before they took the matter in hand\u2014| been followed up by consequences little apprehended at the time.{ufor- 8Spx 7422 6 «25 0 |gacr, Liverpool, Teronte Colonist.; mations, it would seem, have been lodged against the Duchess for shootin 9° x73 0 aM 0 .00a180 § Dorassena Acciomer.\u2014Ao accident occurred on Monday afternoon without a licence.It j# supposed that this unusual step, which, if follow: 10 xx 23 6 «24 0 0650 which has resulted in the death of Mr.Charles Boulton, second son of the| up must in all probability to a conviction, has been sdoptod in retalia- 12 21696 0 « 0 0 «0S Hon.Henry John Boulton.Mr.Boullon was driving tandem on Front (jon for some severe measures recently taken by the Duke to punish certain 4 21037 66 00 0 Hi «03 Street, when the hoses took (right and ran off, and threw hit out with great trespassers upon his \u2018manorial rights.non, English Bar, violence, fracturing his skull.\u2018The family have been thrown into great feo 40 a 00 3 «5 6 diirees by ths occurrence, Tho deceased was about 20 years of ape, h UNITED STATES.oe i\" 3 .8 : § as 0 Feux at Haxiton.u morning we lea y telegrap! ; .Scotch Pig,No.a that a fire occurred in Hamilton, which destroyed pine houses and several .Mourr-\u2014Bicknol's Reporter says\u2014* As predicted by ws a month or tre Swedish Bar, 20 0 & 0 U ° a 4 A horses.Since then we have received the Commerciei Advertiarr of the since, money is becoming scarce and rates are ruing, Good paper out oi 4.24th instant, from which we gather the following partieulars:-\u2014About 12 doors cannot be negotisted for less then 9 per cent.The Banks are rather STEEL, Engl, Bat.un.clock last night a fire broks out in the building on Upper John Breet, eo a ene] cannot form u confident opinion of the probable termination per Bh 9a l 0 $ : : 8 occupied by M.\u2018James Mullin, as a stable.\u2018The building fronted on the he xican war.; Co col 2238 street, and was connected with a row of frame houses.extending round the OsskcTs or TE Was.\u2014Tbe New York Commercial Advertiser gives the pri «00 6.29 corner, and occupying nearly a fourth of the Court House Square.All| following warning without any intimation how tho danger ie to bo resisted : cs 0 00 9 91 this Uock was Timed, \u2018and the fire was finally got under at Mr.Lee's} \u2014* Great \u2018and combined effurts seem 10 ba making southward, and without Thre, per box, 1 C 5 « 0 9 « 26 bakery.The following persons have suffered by 45 \u2018calamity :\u2014J.Muilin, |much distinction of prie 10 extend our boundary line to the Sierra Mudra, 1 X55 $ « 60 stables; Mr.James, watchmaker; Mr.Tracy, shoemaker; Mr \u2018Mullin's which of course will take in thre or four more Mexican States, and if ad- nea sv 0 tavern; Mr.Docherty, shoemaker ; Mr.Sproole, do ; D.Nelligan, tavern ; mitted into the Union, resume, Lo be slaveholding.\u201d ; \u2014 Mr.Lec\u2019s hakery and dwelling house, and à small building occupied as à Coar.\u2014An extensi of bituminous coal, of excellent quality, bas been PRUDUCE PRICES CURRENT\u2014Mowrxear, Jan.4, 1667.magistrate\u2019s office.The origin of the fire is uot accounted for.\u2014 Toronto discovered ut Guerrero, Mexican town of 4000 inhabitants, situsted on the ¢ Canadian.Salado River, 125 mi bove Camargo.1t is now worked by un American Aees, P owt 5 d.5 ¢ Beer, Pri eo & 8 d company, and promises to vast importance, as it removes the princi , Pola,per cw! a , Prime Moss, GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.chaste to steamboat navigation on the \"Rio Grande, into which the Salada Pearls.22 6023 0 porbel.2001bs.47 6 « 3 9 Mrcuanics\u2019 Waors.\u2014It was mentioned at u late meeting of delegates at ers.; Froun, Canada Su.Bre a « Manchester, England, by the secretary of that body, that upwards of 300.000 Wannina.e were yosterdsy ehown a email cup, said to have been perfine, per bel.6 prod ol 00 0 «0 6 pounds sterling hed been expended by Mechanics, during the last fifteen urchased in this city, on which were the words * Perish Blavery ! prosper 196 Ibe, 271 628 0 or, ou .in an endeavour to advance their wages.freedom 1 We could scarcely suppuss that it could have been intentionally Do.Fine 2% 0s27 0 Poax.Mess,perbri.B 62750 A Great Facr\u2014AL a recent meeting to cetublish « juvenile in| brought to this market by any une; though it was found in the hands of n| Do.Sour.none pone $ .Be Manchester, the Archbishop of Dublin said they could educate fifty children |negro : butit might perbaps be well enough for our citizens to be on the look Do.Middlings.hone P ime Mew.0 .52 6 at the sume cost that they could keep une soldier, oul, as the enemies of our institution ure growing both bold and numerous.Indian Meal, 1681018 D «00 0 rime, \u2026 : .be A arabe fal, In Mancheator, was opened for publis worship, on \u2014Sevanneh epublicen.Outen), bl 2806.35 0 000 0 Bo er 7607 Sabbath last.by the Laticr Day Saints.Mr.Octave Aluzan, of Baton Runge, had au altorcation with » nogro on Guar, Wheat U.C.Borren, ue .4 Mr.Commissioner Burge has euspendod, for 18 raanths, the certificate of the Let inst, & few miles (roma the Lovwn, and the negro lifinu his aze in à Best, Gills, .5 0-5 3 Curr, full milk, 0.50 0 Mr, W.H.Tempest, late of Leods, sharcbroker, who bad engaged in rail.threatening manner, Mr.Altizan ahot him dead.\u2014N.O.Mercury, Dec 10.) Do.LC.permin.0 0a 0 3 wa 00 tbe., .\u201c 3 « 0 way transactions without adequato capital.CueveLaxp.\u2014The high freights of Use lust season hes given « great impetux Banter, Minot, .\u2026 3 048 xD, per lb.8 .0 Eat Risxa.\u2014AÂ number vf young men in Glasgow have agreed to meet to the carrying trade.\u2014Ît is astonishing what success has sttended tho busi Oars, \u201c : nome | Tazsow, per Ib.0 .6h at an early hour in the moming, for the purpose of improving their minds, ness owing lo plenty at home und scarcity adroed.T i 6400 \u201cThose lato pay a fine, which goes to the purchase of bouks, Lo be read by the society of early risers.Govennxest Epucarson.\u2014It is said that it is not the intention of Govern.Hudson came out half finished in October, run one month, and earned a Monday Merming, Jan.4, 1647.$9,000.The schooner Clay was sold in the spring for $5,000; she has Ames \u2014Notbing to note.The following is the latest comparative cloared during the season $4,500.The steiner Eapire, \u2018we are credibly statement : ment 10 propose any plan of natiunal education to Parliament.inforwed has cleared $60,000 in her scason\u2019s business.\u2014d'isindesier.1st January, 1847.Mestino or PAnLIAMENT.\u2014The meeting of Parliament for the dis- The petition of the Society of Friends of New England, praying for peace Pot.Pearl.Total.patch of business will not be d more than a week beyond the time| with Mexico, has been rejeied by the Senate of the United States.A bill In Bore.80 218 ns } 1804 w which it is prorogued.\u2018The 19th of January is said to be the day] was introduced on the for organization of a territorial goverument Delivered to 148 \u201c 198 fixed, for Oregon.The Sonate has confirmed Mr.Bancroft's appointment as \u2014_\u2014 We t to state that Lady Augusta Sophia Catbeurt died at Catheart Minter to Englund.1st January, 1846.House, Ltenfrewabire, the seat of her noble relative, the Easl Catheart, on IntentsTino To Batrieu Suavenouness\u2014There are plenty of British In Store.\u2026 1358 103$ 2388 2569 the 18th ult.subjects in different countries who hold slaves.They can expect no favor Delivered to Stores.938 263 1184 Mr.OConnell has been directed by bis medical advisers to leave Dublin] from Lord Palmerston.When in power before, as Ign retary, he ane ; abstinence from political excitement being deemed indis-|issued several orders hy British consuls and other public servants hold.Decrease, 1st Jan., 1847.ble in the present state of his health, Sixteen clerks have just Leen | ing slaves.Tt secms haa now taken a sicp further, and cust the estates| Fzoun.\u2014Nothing to quote.Quotations nominal.i from ti Repent Amociation, and a kind of general notice served of all British subjects who dic in the possession of slave property out uf the THOS.M.TAYLOR, upon all the rest to out for other situations.in the palmy days of Lion and coghizance of the government of their country-\u2014terrible retri- cu Broker.open! the staff at Conciliation Hall numbered about 100 persops\u2014this| bution! The following notice appears in a late Southern paper\u2014 = morning it wes about 36, and tbe ensuing week will open with 16, Nomicz ro Barrsent Sussecre\u2014Tho undersigned has roceived instructions pre Captain Warner har at length had a full and fair trial of bis \u201clong to publish for We information of all Britwh subjects, tint Her Mujosty's range)\u201d and the result of the experiments tried on the 28th ultimo, before Guvernment havo come to the determination of prohibiting ail British func.The # Montreal Witnses\" shed every Monday sfiernoen, for des missioners appointed by Government to test its power, has been | tiunaries, residing in élavebolding countries, ro admis Erin to hoemuise| ibe Froprisor, Joka Do DEL tn Élchaage Courts ansatisfactory-\u2014in fact, a complete (ailure.The experiments were made| of decensed persons, in cases in which slaves form part.of the property of the Anausl Subscription, exclusive of Postage, 170.«d,\u2014Do,, il paid in sd- a ri near the veut of the Marquis of Anglesey, Master-General décussed.CHARLES DUNKIN W, AVE, rene Shorter periods, in proportion, tordre copies tds prise wil je Ordnance .8, M.fot 8, and N.Carolina.ru At a meeting of the Ballinasios Umon Agricultural Society, on Tuesdsy,i December 10, 1848.see ern » for preservation, on Index Sir M.D.\u2018Bellow, on being awarded & pnse for the best drainage, vid pe A Heavr Cantasor.\u2014We learn that Messrs.Chollsr & Jones, of this weeny rte of ho Taos!\u201d proterve oh & deserved no credit on the oecasion ; the merit waa due to his son, who, when village, have made & contact with gurernment, for the casting of firs han.All orders and remittances are 10 be addrosaed te, SX Zubeen Mrs dene became wo prevalent in the country, resolved tu abandon à (out dred tons of bub shells, at ve cents per pound, intendod for the Muzican Wadsworth, Al eras Co eit.\u2019 he was about to make through Sree sed Torker.in bo to expend the var} Meet Fos fe ç Now York à bohalt of » » .money wl his journey would have cost him giving employment to poor o Rev.Wm, Fowlor, of New York, Buperintendeat on behalf of the Weertr Jounnas it Published fr the poopie i 7 Britias Conference of 1be denoimination of PS er dt Churches Tiss Prorui\u2019s Mioanine arp Weskte AL i in drainage.prietor, Wednesday Morning, et Se Annum, It has been Saicutated that the sam annually paid to the waaberwomen |in the United Btates, died on Friday night Inst from sung stun of the brain, able Jo Ll mer 10 be ddrased, Pod paid, AH p R D.and lautdreees of London, amounts 1 £5,000, He bad been labouring under great debility since his return from Canads, M adewarth, No 4, Exchange Court.England pays to Holland, Belgium, and Holstein, £700,000 per annum whete ho had overiazed hie strength in his for the cause of missions.for bulter.w=N.¥.Commercrel Adverticer.3 O.BECKET, FAINTER, S11] oT.PAUL STRISR "]