The Montreal witness, 22 mars 1847, lundi 22 mars 1847

[" MONTREAL WITNESS REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.WEEKLY aman re re EE eee voL, IL .MONTREAL, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1847.No.12 \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014_ rene Ee \u2014_ QOUWUTITLVALL LAND AND ORIGINAL ARTICLES.GLIMPSES OF GEOLOGY.\u2014Do.III.(We are enabled to resume the publication of these important papers after a considerable interval.\u2014En.) In our last article, we noticed some of the leading phenomena exhibited in the earliest system of rocks known, and had to survey our world, not clothed with green fields, nor shaded, as now, by + highest woods impenetrable,\u201d that \u2018To star or sunlight spread their umbrage broad, And brown us evening 3\u201d nor vocal with that harmony of countless chords which rises from animate nalure\u2014but mollen throughout into à universal sea of fire.We have now come to a period when à state of things, different in many points, presents itself to us, when the aqueous vapour that before hung overhead, has condensed and fallen to the earth, letting in on it the sunshine, and revealing the sky around.The outer crust of our world has bardened into granite and, it may be, in some places into trap, in its many varieties.There is now a firm earth, and a wide spread sea, with what seems land, looming in the distance.The era of the reign of fire has passed away, and bas given place to a gentler power.Henceforth water is to be the great agent in the formation and modification of the external solid matter of our globe.The rocks next in (he ascending scale to the igneous, are those which form the division of the stratified, known by the name ot metamorphic, in allusion to the alteration produced on them by heat\u2014 or «hypozaic®® from the absence in them, so far as has been discovered, of orgapic remains.They have been subdivided into three systems, the lowest being called the gneissic, the next, the mica- schist; and the uppermost, the Cumbrian, and comprehend gneiss, mica-schist, quartz, crystaliine, limestone, and some other rocks of less importance, forming altogether a mass, whose thickness we can- rot estimate at less than several miles.Indeed the gneissic rocks alone bave a thickness, which even Professor Phillips, \u201c one of the most cautious of geologists,\u201d felis us «exceeds many thousand yards,\u201d (Smith\u2019s Scripture and Geology, 401,) an evidence of the extreme antiquity of the earth, to which we shall recur.Proof of the squeous origin ot this great family of rocks is incon- testibly shewn by the stratification they exhibit, which, though nearly obliferated in some places, may yet be distinctly traced in most.We do not find, however, in gneiss, that easy division into thin plates, which marks other precipitated rocks, the evitence which gains it a place among them being rather that offered by the more marked structure of its masses, which we find disposed in ¢ beds\u201d or great layers.; One great peculiarity of the metamorphic rocks is their crystalline structure, from which they take their name, and of which gneiss and quartz are good examples.That this has been caused by the influence of heat is evident, but it is not so clearly demonstrable from what source this agency has been derived.By some, it is thought that currents of gas of various kinds, disengaged at great depths, may have given out heat in their passage through the different rocks to the surface, and that this amount, though inconsiderable at any particular time, has become equal to the effects observed by accumulation, in the course of ages.That gaseous fluids have this strange power of forcing their way through the densest sulids known cannot be denied, since examples of it are common, as in the gneiss rocks of Clermont.in Central France, which are saturated with carbonic acid gas, and cleft throughout by it.Nor is there any difficulty in accounting for the origin of almost any quantily of these fluids in the body of the earth, since it has been ascertained that about half the ponderable matter of those parts of the globe, with which we are acquainted, by exact observation, is composed of oxygen.\u2014( Phillips.) But notwithstanding these facts, the hypothesis seems to our mind unsatisfactory, and by no means so natural as that which derives the alterations on the various strata, from the action of heat disengaged from igneous rocks in the process of cooling.The pavement of the earth, if we may use the expression, seems during the metamorphic period to have been in the state in which we sometimes find currents of lava, solidified on the surface, but still of a high temperatare at a small depth from it.The ocean of the gneiss must have been very extended, though we cannot now tell its limits.Whether organization in any form existed in it, is a question much debated, thers being, apparently, no well supported instances, hitherto, of the occurrence in the rocks of the period, of any tiaces of organic remains.There have been, indeed, announcements from lime to time of the discovery of the markings left by marine plants, but further inquiry bas, we believe, without any exception, shown that, in the cases where they have been real, these impressions are referrible to a later age.We have therefore no means of knowing whether, at this early period, God had introduced organic forms, either vegelable or animai, on the earth.It is quite possible that they may have existed, and that their remains may bave been obliterated by the action of heat on the Fock in which they were buried, as we find in fossiliferous strata, at their contact with injected veins of trap.Nor would there be any positive reason to beliave that they did not, from the different condition of our globe then, as compared with its condition now.It seems probable that the ocean was not such as ours ix, but of a much higher temperatore, from the proximity to it of subterranean fire, so that the plants and animals of our day would at once have been destroyed by it.There are no limits, bowever, to Almighty power, snd we cannot doubt that, had God Pleased, He could bave created organizations fitted for it, aid to whom its heat would have been congenial.He could peaple the scorching soil of Mercury, or the perpetual winter of Saturn, with beings to whom no other world would be equally suited.But we have no proof that He thus acted in the case of our earth.From all we have hitherto learned, that early scene was, rather, untenanted by animate creatures, and unclothed by verdure.Little variety then adorned the landscape.An ocean of great depth stretched far and wide, and the sullen dash of its waters against granite spires that rose from among them, alone broke in on the lifeless silence.Morning rose then as now, but there were no hearts to be cheered by its brightness; no Rowers to lift up their heads and welcome it: the sun travelled onwards in the greatness of his strength, but his splendours fell uselessly on a world of desolation and emptiness; and (he radiaut expanse of night spoke silently from ity depths, of eternity and God, as it does now, though our freiful bustle for perishable things shuts out its voice ; but the dull earth bore no burden of spirits, such as we are, to be taught by it, and rolled heedlessty on through the blue fields in which fay its course.Nor did this state of (hings last only for a brief period, but for one which included ages.The thickness of the gneiss strata alone, exclusive of the others of the metamorphic series, show that they must have taken thousands of years in their formation.The process by which they were formed ix one of exceeding slowness, being no less than the wearing down and removal, and consolidation of the hardest rock known, namely granite.The trituration, depositing, and permanent fixation of a very few inches of this rock,\u201d says Pye Smith, «would be a liberal allowance for a hundred years.\u201d But we cannot measure the gneiss system by inches, or by feet, scarcely even by yards, but rather by miles.What space of time then must have been consumed in its production, how many generations, how many centuries?Yet to this we have to add the ages required for the formation of the mica-schist and the Cumbiian strata, which are also of great thickness ; and who can say what term of years must have been required to build them up in the depths of the ocean?It is on such evidences that geologists build their fundamental doctrine of the great antiquity of our earth; not on any arbitrary speculations, but on a firm basis of irrefragable truths.Hence, however opposed it may be to our preconceived notions, we are not at liberty to gainsay it, but must receive it with gratitude to God that He has put such a discovery within our reach.Nor is it for us to require that we should know the reasons for which the Creator exerted his power in this.way rather than any other, on this part of his works.It is enough for us to see that such bas been bis course, and it becomes us to rest assured that, however mysterious and inexplicable to our finite minds, it must have been the best and wisest.The habit we too much indulge of applying our own estimates of what is right and expedient to be done to the plans of the Almighty, should be laid aside, and a spirit of meekness and humility cultivated, tbat we may be led at once to accept the disclosures God makes of His ways, without question, and with adoring faith.Let us pray to Him that we may be enabled to seek after truth, without prejudice, and earnestly, and that, having gained it, we may be strengthened to welcome it at once, and follow all its teachings.Nothing is more unphilosophical than to require an explanation of any truths as a condition of our assenting to them; all (hat is essential to belief is, that the existence of that on which it is to be exercised is proved.In the present case, while the purposes of the Crealor in exerting His power, as He did, are not fully known to us; His course of action itself is fraught with instructive lessons.It enables us to realize His greatness more vividly than we generally do; it shows us how small a point in the illimitable past man and all his concerns occupy ; and enforces on us the truth that, \u201cone day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,\u201d rolling back the record of time till it sppears to us like an eternity, and still pointing to & preceding infinity, in which He dwelt from everlasting.Toronto.BENEFIT SOCIETIES.It is much (0 be deplored that good men, when discussing matters affecting the prosperity of religion, should ever allow themselves to indulge, either directly or by implication, in unfounded assertion, in querulous complaining, or in rash invective ; such a course must necessarily injure the cause they are attempting fo advocate.Iam led to offer the above remark, and to trouble you, from having read in the Witness, of the 8th inst., an article extracted from the Puritan, and headed \u2018\u2018 How few at the Prayer Meeting.\u201d If the evil there complained of exists, lock it boldly and honestly in the face; trace it to its source ; and then endeavour to apply à remedy ; but do not endeavour to excite prejudice against a numerous and influential association, unless you are prepared to prove, by indubitable facts, that their operation is injurious ; but, above all, do not damage «nd expose loridicule « cause involving the best interests of mankind, the cause of religion, by putting forth in its support statements in the disguise of questions which have not a shadow of foundation.It is not true that members of Odd-Fellows® Lodgen are obliged to attend the weekly meetings of those lodges, or subject 1hemselves to be fined.\u201cIt is not my intention to defend or to support the institation, or the proceedings of those so-called secret associations.Theis ostensible object is benevolent, and by their own ments or demerits let them stand ar fall.One thing, I think, is absolutely certain, and that is, that all the real benefits that it bas ever been pretended could be realized by those associations, ought to be, and could be much detter obtained within the pale of a Christian Church.But are they to be 20 obtained?Alas! truth compels me to answer, no! Will you allow me to offer some suggestions on the pressing nature of the duty which the exigencies of the times is calling upon the church (o perform, and That every individual member of the great family of man, no matter what bis rank or condition in life, is exposed to the visitation of misfortune, and to the calamity of sickness, is a general proposition of so self-evident à nature as to have the character of a mere truism ; and that uo individual can foresee, or with any degree of certainty ward off, or prevent, the train of distressing circumstances arising from the visitation of misfortune or of sickness, is no less true and self-evident.In view of these facts, many have been the devices by which men have sought to make provision for alleviating misfortune, and relieving the distress too frequently oceasioned by sickness ; all which devices have, however, necessarily been based upon one principle, the accumulation of a fund, during health and prosperity, to which recourse might be had in a season of adversity or sickness, It is not at all necessary to enter upon any enquiry into, or any explanation of, the details of the various plans hy which so desirable a resultas that above named has been sought to be obtained ; but simply to express a decided opinion, founded upon pretty extensive inquiry and experience, that it has frequently been sought in a manner in which no Christian could, uninjured, take a past, and perhaps never in such a manner as that the Christian could, without upbraiding of conscience, say, whilst taking & part, I am f urthering, to the utmost of my power, my Masters cause, ard promoting most efficiently the best interests of my fellow-men.Now, nothing can be clearer than that no disciple of the Redeemer, whilst seeking to perform so obvious a duty as in the making provision for the hour of adversity or distress, should be exposed to the tempta- lion incident to joining in any measures for that purpose, or have to encounter the danger of carrying on those measures, where the most remote probability existed of receiving damage in his Christian character.For the express and implied declarations of the Word of God makes it imperative upon the church, that within her pale the brotherhood should at all times receive, with ready kindness, all the sympathy and relief of which their particular case may stand in need, when placed in distressing or dangerous circumstances ; and as it is sufficiently obvious that in this mater tie church is subject to the same laws as every other body of men, therefore the same or similar means must be adopted to meet these requirements.In short, a fund must be raised, but that fund must be raised from different motives, and administered in a different spirit from that which has hitherto generally obtained.The whole spirit of Christianity, considered as à code of ethics, is pure benevolence\u2014and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, a general summary thereof.En à similar spirit, and of à similar character, should everything be which may emanate from those professing to obey its requirements.Here there should be no cold, selfish and wordty calculations, on the one hand ; or on the other, watchful and jealous fears.Christianity cannot live in such an atmosphere.The contributions Lo the formation of the fund should therefore be free and voluntary ; and yet there must be no possibility of any one lording it over his brother, by an affectation of extending eleemosynary aid, it is therefore indispensable that a right to assistance from a fund of the nature in question, must be based upon contribution to the formation of that fund.In view of those principles, it appears to me that the way io meet the case is by the formation, within each church, of an association, to consist of all the adult male and female members thereof, who may become contributors to a fund for the purpose of mutual assistance and relief, That esch person, desirous of becoming a contributor, shall be required to state in wriling the amount he or she is willing to contribute weekly to the said fund, That the aggregate amount of the contributions (hus agreed to be paid, should be divided by the aggregate number of the contributors, and, from the average thus obtained, applied to the most approved tables, each member should be entitled to such sum per week in sickness, and his or her surviving relatives or friends to such sum at death, as the tables may shew the fund to be able to pay.For example, should the average amount of contribution be one shilling per week for each member, then the benefit to be paid to each will be about twenty-five shillings per week in sickness, and from fifteen to twenty pounds at death.For the management of the affairs of an association of this nature, there would be required a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, and four directors for each hundred members.Perhaps the pastor of the church should be in all cases ez-officio president, all other officers to be elected by ballot; and their business should be, in addition to the general management of the association, to visit daily in rotation, and see that every attention is paid to any sick member.Braxaw.Montreal, SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS.BY DR.D\u2014\u2014, Antimony ir frequently atiuded to in Scripture (particularly by the Prophet Isaiah) as a cosmetic, used by females.This still obtains in the East.A bodkin is dipped in the black pigment, and the eyslids being shut upon it, it is drawn through.This has the double effect of acling as a mild astringent to the eye in the glare of a tropical sun, and by the contrast adds brilliancy to that organ.© Atise, kill and eat.\u201d The gourmands of Europe and America will think this but a questionable practice, seeing (bat they don\u2019t dress their food for & week or ten days after it has come from the butcher; but it is widely different in the torrid zone.At some seasons of the year we can kill our kid tiow it appears to me that duty may be fulfilled.after nightfall on the previous evening; but, generally speaking, it 90 must be killed the same day it is to be used.The meat dremed for to-day\u2019s dinner cannot be kept for to-morrow, which operates much in favour of the mefurs, (sweepers who are oulcasts and pariahs, but who are kind enough to say \u201c they are of the same caste as master\u201d), and what is over, and in Calcuita-housekeeping there is about three limes as much over as there iy used, after gorging these gentry and their families, goes to the half caste Portuguese beggars, who thus live on the fat of the land.+ Shake the dust from ofl thy feet.\u201d This is an expression of extreme indignation still common in the Fast.1t is performed by bending the knee so as to raise the foot to a level of the knee of the leg on which you stand, and then with the palm of the hand, slapping the stipper of the uplifted foot with more or less energy, as the exigencies of the occasion may require.An Arab once refused to stand out of the way of my gig, and received an admonition in the shape of a sharp cut across the shoulders from my whip.| never saw human indignation so furiously expressed ; he displayed a case of teeth that a wolf might have been excused for being vain of, ran after the gig, cursing me in the name of God and the Prophet, and concluded by shaking the ¢ dust from off his feet.\u201d What the meaning of this pantomime may be when transiated into language, I know not; but I should think it means, « {shall not polute myself by retaining about me the very dust that I have contracted in your presence, and therefore 1 rid myself of it.\u201d \u201c For we have seen his star in the east.\u201d A belief in judicial astrology is universal among the natives of India.When | was there, though the high caste Brahmins were almost uniformly free thinkers, they kept it a secret, or onlv spoke of it to such Europeans as they considered trustworthy ; though now, Iam told, it is openly professed, since the doctrines of my late friend, Ram Mohun Roy, have come into fashion in the rast.But though denying revealed religion, they retain a full credulity in the influence of the stars, and at the birth of a child, or undertaking any important matter, they never fail to consult some learned astrologer as Lo the result.HOME TRUTHS.(From a Country Correspondent.) I have of late had my attention ca\u2019led to evils that abound in our land, and I think [ cn trace many of them to the great want of moral and religious principle in our members of Parliament, Now, if such is the case, are nut the religious part of the community much \u2018o blame for sending such en as they do as their representatives?1 believe it is generally thought that a new election is not far off; would it not, therefore, be consistent with the character of the Witness to call the attention of every man of principle to the necessity of not voting for any man, whatever his nolitical character may be, unless be be at least a good moral character, and, if possible, also religious.It is but of late years that I bave come to see the necessily for such men being - sent as our representatives.I formerly thought if I could get a talented man, holding the same political views with myself, that nothing more was wanted; but now it appears to me absurd to expect that men, who are drunkards themselves, will make laws {o promote temperance ; or that men, who re ularly break the Lords day, will make laws against Sabbath desecration.Look, again, at the public offices of the country.By whom are they filled up?Is it by men of piety, who seek the glory of God and the good of their country in all they do?O no; it is very often by worthless, indolent persons, who have never been able to do any good for themselves, but who have been either members of Parliament, and by this means obtained office, or supporters and hangers-on of some \u2018member, who was in duty bound to provide for them.It appears to me that if the character of every office-holder, member of Parliament, and magistrate in Canada was examined into, it would, (making sllowance for many bright exceptions), as a whole, present a fearful picture, and cause every thinking man to exclaim, this certainly cannot be a Christian country, that has such men for its rulers! Now, although there is nothing like a majority of the inhabitants Christians, yet, wherever there is one, be possesses a certain influence among his neighbours, many of whom Know not who lo vote for at elections, and consequently are led hy some person in whom they have confidence, so that if you could bring the duty of Christians in this respect before them, and get them to act in accordance with it, we would soon see great changes.There would by and by be no steam-hoat or stage travelling on the Sabbath, no mail carrying, no granting of licenses to commit murder by alcoholic poison, « and there would be a stop put to the many ways in which open sin and profanity are carried on.I therefore hope you will, at an early date, be able to take up the subject, and point out the duly of all in this respect, in such a full and clear manner, that be that runneth may read.NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.New York, 9th March, 1847.\u2018THE HUTCIITSONS.Public concerts are places I rarely visit, as it affords me no pleasure to bear mere sounds without words, or when words are heard, they are generally sentimental nonsense, or else in praise of sour, intemperance, of & mete string of words without any useful tendency or object.I have read and beard 80 much of the superior singing and clues of songs sung by the Huichisons, thas I determined to go and bear them at the Tabernacle the other evening ; and I can truly say my expectations were not disappointed, Their style of] singing is so simple and natural, the words so distinctly ultered, and the subjects so good in themselves, that no real lover of music can be other than highly pleased.The house, thongh very large, was well filled by à very respectable audience, and il is with heartfelt satisfaction that § state the fact, that although they sung several Anti-Slavery songs, not the slightest token of disapprobation was manifested, but, on the contrary, they were much applauded.Phila- delpbia ought to hide bersalf in shame and disgrace for their Pro- Slavery pesecution of these same singers, when they visited that city during this winter.These singers, whilst they keep public favour in view, do not seem to study so much what is popular, as what is good in itseil; consequently, 1 think they sing such songs as they love most themselves, and have therefore practised most, and consequently bave attained perfection in.Their songs combine the moral and religions, the useful and the philanthropie, the grave and the bumorous, in à peculiarly happy manner.The three brothers THE MONTREAL WITNESS.which is generally attractive Lo tbe most stoical beholder, and which, by the way, 1s not often met with in this quarter.This | assert as 8 general rule ; (hete are, of couise, ver: happy exceptions.But to the songa- -1st, The four sung, with aid of two violins and violincello, + We're with you once again, kind friends ;* 2.¢¢ The Otd Church Bell.\u201d \u2018Then one of the brothers sung most beautifully, ile doeth ail things well :** the sounds and words ring in my ear yet.Next the whole sung the ¢« Bridge of Sighs,\u201d ¢ 0, the life of a farmer for me,\u201d to the tune of « O for a life on the ocean's wave.\u201d Their version contained more truth than the laiter, for \u20186 À life on the ocean\u2019s wave\u201d contains more romance than truth.¢ The Mountaineer,\u201d* © The Slave\u2019s Appeat,\u201d\u201d «The Old Granite State,\u201d were excellently sung.Miss Abby alone sung, in a very engaging manner, the ¢ May Queen,\u201d the fable of the % Spider and the Fly,\u201d &e.But the song which was worth (bem ail,in my opinion, is as follows :\u2014 \u2018There is a good time coming, boys, A good time coming: We nay nat tive lo see the day, But earth shud] gheten in the ray OF the gol time coming Cannon halls may nid the truth, But thaught's weapon stronger ; Well win our battle by ite aid ;\u2014 Wait « little longer.\u2018There's a good tine coming, boys, A good tine coming : \u2018The peu shall supsisede the sword, And right, it might, shall be the ford, In the good time coming.Worth, nat birth, shall rule mankind, And be acknowledicd stronger ; \u2018I'he proper impulse bins been given i\u2014 Wart a little longer.Theres a goad tine coming, boys, A goud time : War in ull me A monster of In the gued Nations sirall not quarrel then, \u201cUa prove which i the stronger ; Nor slaughter men for glory\u2019s sake :\u2014 Wait a little longer.There's a gnod time coming, boys, A good time coming : ateful rivalries of erced Shall nut make their martyre blecd In the good time commg, Religion shall be sion of pride, And flourish ul! the sivonger; And Chanty shall trim her lamp ; Wait a little longer.\u2018There's a good time coming, boys, A good time com And « poor man\u2019s family Shall nut be his misery, In the good time coming.Every chdd vhall be a help, To mnke his right wrm stronger ; \u201cI'he happier he, the more ho has; \u2014 Wait a little longer, There's à good time coming, boys, A gon tine coming : Little children shail not toil Under, or shove, the sil, In the time coming ; But shall play in heslthful fields, Till limbe and mind grow stronger ; And every one shall rcud and write ;\u2014 Wait a little longer.There's » gnod time coming, boys, À good Lime coming : The le shall be temperate, And ll luve instead of hale, In the good time coming.They shall vee and not abuse, And make all virtue stronger, \u201cThe reformation has begun ;\u2014 Wait a little longer.There's a good time coming, boys, À good time caning : Let us asd it all we can, Every woman, cvery man, \u201cThe good time coming.Smallest helps, if rightly given, Make the impulse stronger : \"Twill be strong enough one day ;\u2014 Wait a little longer.In conclusion, if the Hutchisons should visit Montreal, all your readers who can ought to ro and hear them ; and, I ibink, I can promise they will not be disappointed of spending a few hours most delightfully, and, if they reflect on the sentiments, not unprofitably either.W.G.(The above song is by Charles Mackay, and appeared first, we believe, in the Daily News.Our only objection to it is, that it does not point out the agency by which the ¢ good time?is to be brought about, viz., the Gospel.\u2014Ep.) \u2014 ER REVIEW.PASCAL\u2019S PROVINCIAL LETTERS.\u2018Tue Provixcsan Levrens or Braise Pascar.À New Translation.With Historien! Introduction and Notes.By the Rev Thomas M'Crie.Kdin.burgh: John Johnstone.(From the Free Church Magazine ) Our readers may have stood on some of the lands along the coast of the German Ocean\u2014t Fife, the Redhead, or Girdleness\u2014and as they looked out u the waters, amid the sunshine of closing April, or of early May, they may have seen a haze gradually rising, aw if from the sea, al the horizon, scarcely perceptible at first, but expanding, like the little cloud of the Scriptures, till it shrouded the sky, and slowly effaced the scene.On it rolled in a dank and soaking Âatr, more penetrating than the heaviest showers, nipping vegetable life, and spreading u chill more intolerable than the biting blasts of winter through the frame of man.And a parallel to this may be found in our present religious position as a country.A few short years ago, Evangelism appeared in the ascendant.A Church, supposed to be free, ually becoming purer, and in that proportion more deeply rooted in the affections of the people, was taking possession of the land; and, to the rficial ohserver, at least, it appoared projectin head- e East Nook of] are plain, respectable-looking young men, whilst the sister, Miss Abby, carries in ber face that open, affable, pleasant appearance, not unlikely that Scotland might soon become, in some degree, 1847 like what Geneva, in Calvin\u2019s days, was said by Knox to be\u2014 \u201cThe most perfect school of Christ that ever was on the earth since the duys of the Apostles,\u201d But side by side with Evangelism, there was springing up, observed or cured for only by a few, the thoroughly Anti-cbristian syste, which has in every uge delighted to obliterate the truth, and efface its most blessed cHects among men.Popery was doing by stealth what the Gospel was doing on the wide arena of the nation ; and what many would not regard as aught but an effute superstition, or a uow harmless creed, was reviving in its old malignity\u2014its vehement antagonism to all that emanates from God.Like the Aaur in our illustration, it has gradually rolled in, threatening to obscure all that is lovely and of good report, nipping, as in the bud, the promise of fruit unto righteousness, and preparing to expend, what we hope will prove its dying energies, in one struggle more with the truth as it is in Jesus\u2014the power of tim that is almighty.As in the days that are past, so in ours, Jesuitism is heading these efforts.From Indus to the Pole\u2014from Rome to China \u2014to America\u2014Tuhiti\u2014in a word, throughout the world, Jesuits are again plying their unprincipled vocation, and wielding their influence for the euthralment of the nations.We have not ex- net statistics of thoir efforts in our laud, because there still exists a necessity for their doing evil in some respects by stealth, But we know that they are represented in the high courts of Parliament.\u2018They have emissaries of intense activity, and manifold accomplishments of the Sesuitical type, in Oxfe:d and Cambridge.\u2018They wield, to a large extent, the public press.There is some reason to suppose that they have \u2018crept into the palace of royalty.Month after month, or rather, week after week, is unmasking some of them in the Established Church of England, cating her bread to fit them the better for effecting her overthrow ; and all that is needed, we think, to manifest in this island a Jesuit foree, of which multitudes have no conception, is some favourable juncture, such as they will be all prompt to embrace, and all resolute to improve.\u201cThe naked sword, whose hilt is at Rome,\u201d is already brandished, and yet men will not regard it; nay, thousands are blind to its exjs- tence, The Jesuits now creep\u2014in ten years they will dictate, in ten more they will persecute, and yet men do not lay it to cart, Yet rampant as Popery, or what has been called the heart's core of Popery, Jesuitism, is, there was a time when it was more vigorous still, In France, about two centuries ago, it had the control of kings, by means of their mistresses.It had gained the ear of rulers and potentates.The Church, the army, the nation, were bowed down beneath its bondage ; and though a rival sect, the fiery l'ranciscans, did, from time to time, offer battle to the Jesuits, the contest was ever unequal \u2014the followers of Xavier and Loyola combining cunning with fanaticism, and power with the most thorough lack of principle that ever disgraced society, carried all before them.In religion, such religion as France then possessed, the Jesuits were monarchs of all they surveyed\u2014the sects which disputed their authority were so often baffled, that the contest was well nigh abandoned.But when the Almighty Overruler has a work to achieve, he soon finds instruments tu accomplish his purpose.Religion was fast being effaced.Even moral principle between man und man had well.nigh perished ; an agent was needed to drive back the growing evil; and one was found in the person of Blaise Pascal.He was born at Clermont, in the year 1623, and from hie tenderest years evinced the most extraordinary precocity of mental power.So early as his fifteenth year, fo wrote a Treatise on Conic Sections ; and was early invited by Christina, Queen of Sweden, along with other distinguished men, to adorn her court, and give lustre to her reign.He employed much of his time in an attempt, which eventually proved nearly fruitless, to construct a calculating machine, which should supersede the manipulations of certain departments of science ; and about that period, the Jesuits, who have systematically been the enemies of true philosophy, took deep offence at bis discoveries.They attacked and defamed Pascal regarding some observations by which he divided with Torricelli, the pupil of Galileo, the honour of first determining the weight of the atmosphere.But in spite of their attacks, one of the most competent judges of modern times, Sir David Brewster, has recorded that the calculations and experiments of Pascal form the basis of modern science of pneumatics.In the year 1641, his health became impaired by study ; so that from that period he never passed a day without pain.In 1647, he was deprived, by paralysis, of the use of his limbs; and we have thus to add the name of Pascal to that of Robert Hall and others, who conducted their highest speculations, or exerted their mightiest energies, (shall we say it?) under the stimulus of excruciating bodily pain.Hitherto the life of Pascal had been one of singular propriety, or moral beauty, on the principles of Romaniam ; but he had not given that prominence to religious subjecty which he was destined yet todo.A much-loved sister, Jacqueline, hecame a nun in Port-Royal, a noted institution in the neighbourhood of Paris, and Pascal's separation from her, combined with his bodily weakness, and an accident occasioned by the restiveness of his horses, which proved all but fatal, gave a deeper and more decided tone to his religion.In à country retreat, he, in consequence, addicted himself to the close study of the Scriptures.In bis retirement, however, he was only gathering strength for a warfare which be was in Providence Sestined to wage.The religious society at Port-Royal had made some attempts to reform Popery, without abandoning the system, but even the slight modifica.tinns which they « ted provoked the most determined hostility on the part of the Jesuits; and nothing could appease n their indignation but the utler extermination of an institution that had become offensive, because approximating by a slight degree nearer to the truth in religion than Jesuitism would tolerate.It was thus that feud between the Jesuits and Jan- senists began, which for a time agitated the whole of France, and which spread its effects even into Italy and to Rome.The Bishop of Ypres (Jansen) advocated the purest and best tenets of Augustine ; the Jesuits abandoned the fathers, because they were not sufficiently corrupt to countenance the moral enormities of the followers of Loyola; and the controversy was ing rider in a Church which boasts of its unity and peace, when Pascal descended into the arenas to mingle his genius aud his piety with those of Jansen, Arnauld, Nicole, and others, who were anxious for some shade of improvement in the system called religion, but really superstition, which then prevailed.Protestants, abandoning at once the opinions of Augus- 1847 tine, because he was frequently inconsistent with himself, the dogmas of the \u2018Thomists, and every sect of Romanists, appeal at once to the Word of God; and with it before us, there can be no doubt that the Jansenists approached nearer to the truth than the men who plotted and toiled for their extermination, \u201c /T'he grace of God was somewhat more exalted ; the pride of] man was somewhat mors abased in the cloisters of Port-Royal, at Paria, than in the oalace of the general of the Jesuits at Roine ; hut even that measure of improvement, we repeat, pure and unalloyed Popery could not endure.Kings took part in the strug, fo the sovereign of Poland combined with the monarch of Frauce in thwarting the truth\u2014for it and tyranny can | never co-exist.Urged by such influences, the reigning pontiff condemned the tenets of Jansen ; and after various vicissitudes, the institute of Port-Royal was abolished, while its inmates were driven into exile, imprisoned, or hurried to the grave with broken hearts.Co It was this controversy which gave rise to the Provincial Letters of Pascal, now translated by Mr M\u2018Crie.(Tu be Continued.) MEMOIR OF JOHN B.GOUGIL.Written by himself.Boston and London.\"Tio following condensation of this celebrated man's history is from the London Christian Witness, the paragraphs in small type being our own.Juha B.Gough was born at Sandgate, on the coast of Kent, England, in 1817, and wus bronght to Americs when twelve yoars of age.He shortly afterwards obtained a place as errand boy in the Methodist book store, New York, where lic tearned book-binding.His affiirs soon began to look prosperous, and he sent for his father, mother, and sisters.The latter came, but his father was unable to leave England, on account of his receiving a pension.\u201cOh! how happy did I feel,\u201d says he, * that evening when my parent first made tea in our own home, Our three cups and saucers made quite a grand show, and in imagination wo were rich in viands, although our meal was frugal enough.\u201d But this happiness was not destined to last long.In the summer of 1834, his mother was suddenly removed by a stroke of apoplexy ; and here began his ruin.His key-stone was gone\u2014 the arch soon followed.His sister separated from him to board ucar where she worked, and he was left alone.Having a fine voice and a good stock of songs, his company was courted by dissipated young men, with whom he laughed, sang, and drank, till both character and money weré gone, He then joined a company of strolling players, as an actor in low comedy; but they quitted the town without paying, and so left him as pooras ever.He then returned to his trade, but left it from the love of drink : then took to the sea, of which the first voyage was enough : and he once more returned to the bookbinding at Newburyport.Here he married, and might have lived comfortably enough but for his invincible love of drink, which returned upon him with such power that in a few weeks he sunk as low as ever, And here a generous Englishman perceiving that he had talents, and those of no common order, assisted bim to set up in business for himself; and he was again on the high road to prosperity, but his old enemy conquered ; he shall speak for himself: ¢ Five months only did I remain in business, and during that short period I sunk gradually deeper and deeper in the scale of] degradation.I was now the slave of a habit which bad become completely my master, and which fastened its remorseless fangs in my very vitals.Thought was a torturing thing.When | looked back, memory drew fearful pictures in lines of lurid flame, and whenever I dared to anticipate the future, hope refused to illumine my onward path.I dwelt in one awful present.Nothing to solace me\u2014nothing to beckon me onwards to a better state.\u201d His business declined\u2014he grew poorer and poorer\u2014his days dragged heavily on; life itsell was 5 burden.He could not sit alone withoul rum, and drank glass after glass till he became stupified.After drinking without intermission for three days at one time, be could not sleep until he deadened his nervous excitement by smoking ; but the ashes from his pipe set fire to his bed, and he was exposed as a drunkard to the friends who came lo his rescuo.What followed is best described in his own language.\u201cThe fright produced by this accident, and very narrow escape, in some degree sobered me : but what I feared more than anything else was the exposure, Now all would be known, and I feared my name would become more than ever n by-word and a reproach.Will it be believed that I again sought refuge in rum?No sooner had I recovered from the fright than I sent out, procured a pint of rum and drank it all in less than half an hour?Yet so it was.And now, cramps attacked me in m; limbs which raked me with agony, and my temples throbbed as if they would burst.So ill was I, that I became seriously alarmed, and begged the people of the house to send for a physician.\u2018They did so ; but I immediately repented having summoned him, and endeavoured, but ineffectually, to get out of his way when he arrived, He saw at a glance what was the matter with me, ordered the persons about me to watch me carefully, and on no account tolet me have any spirituous liquors.Everything stimulating was rigorously denied me, and then came on the drunkard\u2019s remorseless torturer\u2014delirium tremens, in all its terrors, attacked me.For three days I endured more agony than pen could describe.Who can tell the horrors of that hor.rable malady, 2 ravated as it is by the ever-abidingconscions- ness that it is solf-sought.Hideous faces appeared on the walls, and on the ceiling, and on the floors ; foul thingscrept along the bed-cloths, and glaring eyes peered into mine.I was at one time surrounded by millions of monstrous spiders, which crawled slowly over every limb, while the beaded drops of perspiration would start to my brow, and my limbs would shiver until the bed rattled sgain.Strange lights would dance before my eyes, and then suddenly the very blackness of darkness would appal me by its donse gloom.And then the sceno would change.I was falling\u2014falling ewifily as an arrow far down into some terrible abyss, and so like reality was it, that as I fell L could see the rocky sides of the horrible shaft, where mocking, jibing, fiend-like forms were perched ; and I could feel the air rushing past me, making ™ air stream oùt by the force of the un.whelesome blast.\u2018Thon the paroxysm sometimes ceased for a few moments, and I sank back on my pallet drenched in perspiration, utterly exhausted, and feeling a dreadful certainty of] the renewal of my torments.By the mercy of God I survived this awful seizure ; and when I arose, [ Was a weak, broken.down man.\u201d He then sent for his wife, and obtained employment ; but his employers having discovered his habits threatened to discharge, THE MONTREAL WITNESS.so far as to bourd at 8 \u2018Temperance House, to avoid temptation.At this juncture his wife, who had been declining, was ordered rum,\u2014and be shared the poison.He drank freely, and the usual effects followed.\u2018Ten days of suspense ensued, at the end of} which his wife and child both died.He then suys\u2014 \u201c During the miserable hours of darkness 1 would steal from my lonely bed to the place where my dead wife and child lay, and in agony of soul pass my shaking band over their cold faces, and then return to bed after a draught of rum, which I had obtained, and hidden under the pillow of my wretched couch.At such times, all the events of the past would return with horrible distinctness to my recollection ; and many a time did E wish to die, for hope had well nigh deserted me, both with respect to this wor.d and the next,\u201d \u2018Through the love of drink he left his situation, and as the only remaining means of getting rum, he repaired to the lowest grog-shops, and there sung and told stories to a set of men who supplied him with drink in return.But still he seems to have had glimmerings of conviction.He says: \u2014 \u201cThrough the mists of memory my mother's face would often appear, just as it was when 1 stood by her knee and listened to tbe lessons of wisdom and goodness from her loving lips.1 would see ber mild reproving face, and seem to hear her warning voice : and, surrounded by my rintous companions, at certain seasons reason would struggle for the throne whence she had been driven,\u2014and I, while enjoying the loud plaudits of] sols, * Suw a hand they could nal sce, Which biekon'd me away.\u201d The sabbath was now disregarded, and usually spent in the country, with no companion but the rum.-bottle { \u201c Utterly wretched and abandoned, I have stood by the rail- way-track with a vague wish to lie across it, drink myself into oblivion, and Jet the cars go over me.Once I stood by the rails with a bottle of lyudanum clattering against my lips, and had nearly been a suicide ; but the mercy of God interpused, and I escaped the sin of self-murder.All night long have 1 lain on the damp grass which covered my wife\u2019s grave, steeped to the very lips in poverty, degradation, and micery! Frequently was I tempted to take my life, yet I clung instinctively to existence.Sleep was often a stranger to my eyelids, and many a night would [ spend in the open air; sometimes in a miserable state of inebriation, and at other times in a half-sober condition.All this time [often resolved that I would drink no more\u2014that I would break the chain that bound me; but still I continued in the same course, breaking every promise I made to myself and others, and continuing an ohject of scorn and contempt.[ felt that few, if any, pitied me ; and that any should love me was entirely out of the question.Yet was [ yearning intensely for sympathy,\u201d Such was Gough's misery, but rescue was at hand.He was sought bya kind stranger, wis persuaded him to sign the pledge of total abstinence, which he promised to do at a temperance meeting on the following evening.We aguin quote his own words: #1 went on my way much touched by the kind interest that, at last, some one had taken in my weifare.I said to myself, \u201cIf it should be the last act of my life, [will perform my promise and sign it, even though I die in the attempt ; for that man has placed confidence in me, and thersfore I love him.\u2019 « All next day the coming event of ths evening was continually before my mind\u2019s eye, and it seemed to me as if the appetite which had so lung controlled me exerted more power over me than ever.It grew stronger than I bad at any time known it, now that I was about to rid myself of it Uatil noon I struggled against its cravings ; and then, unable to endure my misery any longer, [ made some excuse for leaving the shop, and went nearly a mile inorder to procure one more glass, with which to appease the demon who so tortured me.\u201cThe day wore wearily away; and when evening came I determined, in spite of many a besitation, to perform the promise I had made to the stranger the night before.The meeting was to be held at the Lower Town-hall, Worcester ; and thither, clad in an old brown surtout, closely buttoned up to the chin, that my ragged habiliments beneath might not be visible, I repaired.I took n place among the rest; and when an opportunity of speaking presented itself, [ requested permission fo be beard, which was readily granted .I lifted my quivering hand, and then and there told them what rum had done for me.| related how Î was once respectable and happy, and had a home ; but that now [ was a houseless, miserable, scath- ed, diseased, an\u2018! blighted outcast from society.I said scarce a hope remained to me of ever becoming that which I once was ; but having promised to sign the pledge I was determined not to break my word, and would now affix my name to it.In my palsied hand I with difficulty grasped the pen, and in crooked characters, | signed the total ahstinence pledge, and resolved to free myself from the inexorable tyrant\u2014Rum!\u201d Since that time John B.Gough has been by fer the most prominent and effective temperance lecturer of tho New World, \"The hardened convict has raised his manacled hand to wipe sway fast flowing (care under his elo quence.Grave senators have lister.ed, wondered, and been convinced by hin pathetic appeals, and even solid divines, who had resisted ail other argumente to join the ranks of tlie temperance society, have given in to his all but irresistible entreaties.[tis among the youth of both sexes, however, that he has perhaps produced the greatest impression; so much so, that where he has lectured, drinking usages have in & great imeasuro ceased.But lot us mark the danger of having once farmed the drunkard\u2019s appetite.When Mr.Gough was in the v-rv zenith of his fume and uscfulness, after he had passed through many States more like 8 trisinphant conqueror than a temperance lecturer\u2014after ho had induced thousands and tens of VWiousands to sign the pledge\u2014after he hyd professcd, and it in believed, wae truly converted to Chrint, he full oreo more\u2014and that even lower than bofors.There is a deep myslory connceted with this memorable fall-\u2014probebly it was à plot egainet him, cerlainiy ho was deficient in prtidence ; but, however it was, ho suddenly disappeared, whcn on lho eve of icaving New-York for Montreal, whero he had engaged to lecture, and though every means was tried to discover him, it was only afler s weck that he was (ound senseless and halpices in an obscure house of an oscuro street in New York, He had no coneciousness of what had passed fiom the day when he first dirappeared, after having taken à glass of soda water with a stranger who claimed acquaintence with him, into witich glam the stranger seemed to drop some drug.Fora long time the wrotched sufferer havered between life and death, mind and body being alike enfeebled ; but by great care and deep sympathy on tho part of the Chiistiun brethren in the churob (ibe Rev.E.M.Kirk's), and bis temperance friends, he wae again recruited, aud w now lecturing wilh even greater power and success than vet, ofles alluding humbly and toachingly to his last fall as the mest awful proof of the dangee of forming the appetite for strong drink.And ie it notes?Whoever nurses this appetite 91 drinking, will certainly find at the inst that Uiey huvo been cherishing a sef- pent to sling them to death.Reader, ara you forming John B.Gough's sp.petite 1 Buy nat that he was a weak man snd yuu arc wrong one.Are you stronger than Alexander the Great, Burns, Sheridan, Byron, and a host of other men of mighty mind, all of whom bave sunk bufore this appetite, when once formed.\u201cThere is perhups na stronger cass on record than that which we have been cansidering of Lhe dunger of forming the sppetite for wrong drink ; and beit observed this appetite ia invariably formed Sefure the victun in aware, and he only kaows it when too lute.\u2018Tho only safe path is Lo avoid temptation.< THE REVELATIONS OF ASTRONOMY.(Continued from North British Review.) Before we quit the subject of double stars, we must again refer to the remarkable rescarches of Professor Bessel, from which there is reason to believe that thore are inary systems, in which only one of the two stars is visible, because only one is luminous.En the same manner as Mr.Adams and M.Le Verrier found irregularities in the motion of Uranus, which could only be explained by the action of another planet more remote, s0 Professor Bessel found certain irregularities in the motion of Sirius and Procyon, which could only be explained by their moving in orbits under the influence of central forces, and consequently round another star, whizh, being invisible, must be a non-luminous one.If this ingenious deduction shall he confirmed, as the other has been, by the actual discovery of the disturbing body, which, unless it has a certain degree of luminosity, we cannot expect, or if the existence of the dark companions of Sirius and Procyon be admitted by astronomers on the evidence of (heir disturbing influence, we must abandon all those speculations respecting orders of distances in the heavens founded on the supposed connection between the size and brightness of a star and its distance.If there be dark stars, or rather, stars whose light is so fuint that our best telescopes cannot descry them, there may be similar bodies, of different degrees of luminosity, in which the luminosity is either uniformly diffused over their surface, as in the case of our own sun, or in which certain portions are much brighter than others, as appears to be the case in variable stars.Should this very probable supposition Le true, then may the faintest, or, what is the same thing in bodies without discs, the smallest star be the nearest, and the brightest the most remote.The very existence, indeed, of variable stars, proves that distance cannot be inferred from brightness, The variation in the light of stars, which has been so generally observed, may arise from different causes; but when it returns every three days, as in the case of Algol, we must ascribe it to the rotation of the star about its axis, which brings necessarily into view darker and lighter portions of its surface.Sir W.Herschel has enumerated thirteen stars that are either lost or have undergone some great change, and he has also given a numerous list of stars that have chan their i- tudes since Flamsteed\u2019s time, and a smaller [ist of stars that have recently become visible.The collection of stars into groups of specific forms has naturally attracted the notice of astronomers, and we owe the hest portion of our knowledge of such groups to Sit W.Herschel.\u2018These clusters have commonly a spherical form, and Sir John Herschel affirms that many of them, whose area \u201c does not exceed 8 or 10 minutes, or not more than a tenth part of the Moon,\u201d must contain at least ten or twenty thousand stars.The stars which compose these clusters are often so remote or s0 small that they appear only as a white space in the heavens, sometinies with and sometimes without stars.In proportion, however, as the telescope has been improved, these nebulæ have been resolved into stars, and, as we have stated in preceding articles, the star dust, and world mist, and nebulosity of speculative writers, have in many cases displayed their component stars in the grand telescope of Lord Rosse.Captain Smith, as most of us had previously done, till they became the basis of mischievous speculation, has adopted olf the extravagant ideas about nebulous matter and its condensation into stars; but while he styles the nebuiæ \u201c chaotic rudiments under active arrangement, advancing towards organization and beauty,\u201d he neutralizes this opinion by the confession \u201cthat nature has yet to be caught in the fact of condensing the phos- |phorescent or self-luminous matter, diffused through certain regions of space into future systems, according to the plausible speculations of Sir W, Herschel.\u201d As Dr.ichol, the most popular and eloquent expounder of the nebular hypothesis, bas, with a true greatness of mind, and under the influence of Lord Rosse\u2019s discoverios, publicly renounced it, we shall not again eater into its discussion ; but, in illustration of the views which we have given of the mater which composes comets, we are desirous of Jointing out the probability that luminous matter incapable of being resolved into stars, because not stellar, may yet be detected by powerful telescopes.If it be quite certain, as itappears to be, that the light of the comets is wholly reflected light, and if it be true that there are dark stars forming parts of our binary systems, then these stars must be illuminated, however feebly, by the bright self-luminous companions with which they revolve, Hence it follows, that if other planetary systems have the same number of comets as ours, and if the binary systems with dark stars are numerous, a great quantity of reflected light must exist in the universe, and may be rendered visible by powerful telescopes, when masses of it lie behind one another in the same line.Having thus surveyed the various forma of matter which compose the sidereal universe, we are naturally led to inquire whether our own solar system is at rest in space, moving only in its individual pats, or revolves along with other systems about some remote but unknown centre.Dr.Halley conceived it possible that there might be a common centre round which the whole starry firmament revolved, but Tobias Mayer rendered it probable by Te discovery of tha proper motions of a number of stars, As in a wood, he says, tho trees to which we approach separate from cach other, in apparent distance, while those wiich remain bshind appear to become closer and closer, 50 should the stars eparate in that quarter of the heavens to which our system is moving, while in that which it is leaving, thoy should mpproach nearer to each other, Sir William Herschel found that the proper motion of 44 stars out of 56 were such as indicated an advance of our system towards a point in the constellation Herculis in R.Ascension 250° 52\u2019 30\u201d, and North Polar distance, 40° 22.The celebrated Swedish astronomer, M.Argelander of Abo, extending the in- but on promise of amendment retained him ; and he even went within thers, and is ie fret brought into being and fostered by moderate uiry to 300 stars, was led to the same conclusion, and places de point to which we are moving in 357° 49° of R.Ascension, THE MONTREAL WITNESS, 1847 EE and 28° 49\u2019 7\u201d of North Declination.Hence it is the opinion of many astronomers that the solar system is advancing at the rate of one-tenth of a second annually, or of 1° in 36,000 years, so that if this motion is round à centre, it will require 965 + 36,000 = 13,140,000, or thirteen millions of years to complete a revolution.Tug Fanuzas' Lisuany.Monthly.New York : tireely & M\u2018Flmth.Montreal : R.W.Lay.$5 por anus.\u2018The Mereh number of this periodical has been laid on out table, and contains, as usanl, forty-cight prges of a standard agricultural work, viz.\u2014The Book of the Farm, richly iltustruted with woodcuts, and the same number of pages of the Journal of Agriculture, containing articles upon @ variety of mieresting and important agricultural subjects.The number is abo embellished with a fine\" colourrd plate of tho Ayrshue Bull Geordie,\u201d owned by R.L.Colt, of New Jorsey.\u2018Vue Eccecrie Mavsuse.Monthly.New York W.H.Bidewell.Montreal: R, W.Lay.The March number of this periodical contains a long article on the Marquis of Montrose and the Covenanters, from the Quarterly Review; and another on Bancrofve History of the United States, from the Edinburgh Review; with several other articles of less note, but all interesting, from other Reviews and Magasinos.The miscellancous department is ua usual interesting, though some vf the cxiracts and tales aro of rather 8 lighter character than appears to us allogether in socurdauce with the general tone of the work.New Subscribers are requested to order from 1st April, as back numbers cannot now be supplied.Subscribers who have not remitted for the first year yet, are respect Sully requested to do so without delay, viz., 17s.6d.each.TEER WITNESS.MONTREAL, MARCH 22, 1847.NEW ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT.About twelve months ago, the profound and original mind of Dr.Justin Edwards, then engaged in enforcing the duty of Sabbath observance, very happily suggested the following as worthy objects for the attention of the World\u2019s Evangelical Alliance.1st.That every human being has a right to possess, and ouglit to be supplied with the Word of God.24.That every human being bas a right to the Sabbath for the study of that Word.These were noble and comprehensive axioms, which will one day be recognized and insisted upon by all Christians, whatever obstacles of popish or heathenish superstitions, or of godless laws and rulers, may stand in the way.The ides was caught by the friends of the slave, who doubtless thought that the charges of fanaticism, in- cendiatism, ambitions political views, &e.&ec., so frequently brought against their other efforts even by good men, could not tie against a plan baving simply in view to supply the American slave with the Bible.The first person who was asked to enter into this plan, and give it the influence of his great and merited reputation, was Dr.Justin Edwards himself; but, we grieve to say, that, so far as we know, he has never made any response to tbat call for the application of bis own principles at bome.\u2018The subject has not, however, been allowed to drop ; and some gentlemen have earnestly devoted themselves, in a spirit, we think, of meekness and love, to this glorious work of supplying the whole slave population of the United States with the Word of God.Let Christians be called upon to join in this work, and we do not see how they can vefuse whether they are abolitionists or not ; let the American Bible Societies, who have miserably neglected their duty in this matter hitherto, be brought up, by an enlightened public sentiment, to fulfil the requirements of their position ; let the Bible be given, and light, truth, and liberty, will follow\u2014and, what is more, the en ancipated slaves will be better fitted for liberty after possessing the Scriptures, though we would not by any means make their present ignorance an argument for retaining them in bondage one hour.Let this point be carried, we say, snd the education necessary to read the Rible must follow, and the seventh day to study it in must soon become the slaves own property, and then slavery, whether abolished in name or not, will substantially cease: because, so soon as the Church of Christ demands the spiritual rights of the slave, his temporal rights must, ax a necessary consequence, flow from the improved state of public opinion.Mern'ime, one of the most cheering features of this new, and certainly most unobjectionable anti-slavery movement, is, the enlisting in its favour some who have hitherlo kept carefully aloof] from all other measures that savouted of abolition, as an instance of which we give the following letter from the Rev, E.N.Kirk, of Boston, and trust that all who have hitherto occupied the same position with Mr.Kirk will now declare similar sentiments :\u2014 Boston, Feh, 20, 1847.GrwtLEMEN,\u2014I am much gratified lo find you engaged in hehalf of the oppressed, in à way which appears to me unexceplionatle and greatly desirable, 1 cannot doubt that the American Bible Society may immediately have access to à large number of the African population in the South and South-western dtates.And | sm willing to put one Bible into every dwelling of that unhappy people, even where there are none able to read.The mere possibility that it may induce one to acquire the ahility to read, or the possibility that some visitor may read to them from their own Bible, fully justifies the expense ; nay, without sny superstitious re rd to the volume, I regard the mere presence of it desirable.Every human being ought to have free access to the word of God in his vernacular tongue.1 moreover approve of your movement because no righteons ob- elion nor obstruction can be offered to it.No man or body of men as 8 right to prevent any human being from learning to read, and from reading the word of God.And every human being ha mission from God to do all (hat is in his power to commu word to every other human being.\u2018The fact that there a enacted against it, whelher in Ancient Rome or in Modern Rome, in Mecen or in Charleston, in no way affecie our duty; and he that binders us in this good work, must answer to Christ for it.Tu therefore most cordial in lending my aid to encourage the American Bible Society in the work of distribution among the slaves of free America.Enclosed is a slight testimonial of my the expenses of the committee.Yours respectfally, ne sympathy to aid in defraying pwanp N.Kirx.Messrs.Gilbert, Lovejoy, snd others.THE LADIES FRENCH CANADIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.This society held its anniversary meeting in the Lecture Room of Zion Chuch, on Wednesday afternoon last, the Rev.Henry Wilkes in the Chair.The attendance of ladies was good, and some important considerations were suggested by the report and the speakers who addressed the meeting.From the report we learned that the society had nearly paid for the Belle Riviére Farm, upon which the educational institution was first placed, but since the removal of that institution, and the determination, on the part of the parent society, to sell a part of the farm, the ladies had preferred to labour for the support of the school directly\u2014 for which object their last soirée had cleared nearly £40, The Rev.P.Wolll suggested the propriety of devoting more aiten- tion to the girls?school under Mrs.Tanner; stating that if Protestants weie little interested in it, the priests were quite the reverse.They had made several effuts to break it up; one of which was to send Roman Catholic ladies, who pretended intimate acquaintance wilh some of (he pupils, and invited them to go to their houses where they would be treated, nut as poor girls, but as young ladies.Another was to send in a girl who begged to be taken asa pupil, but disappeared in two or thiee days, ufler having embraced every opportunity to poison the minds of the other scholars, by telling them what nice clothes and fine things they would get if they would only leave that school.The girls had, however, all remained firm, with the exception of a very young one, who ran away immediately after the leaving of the emissary in question.One of the pupils had been induced to go for a few days to a school kept by a Roman Catholic lady, where she was treated with great attention and respect.She was also taken to a priest, with whom she sustained 8 controversy for some hours, but, so far from being led back to the Romish Church, she was only more and more convinced of the fallacy of that system, and returned with much satisfaction to Mrs.Tanner.It is the policy of the Romish Church, continued Mr.Wolff, and a very wise ane, to monopolize as much as possible the education of females, an object which they seek even more eatnestly than that of the other sex ; and why?Because these young females of the present day were to be the mothers of the future generation, and in that relation possess an almost irresistible influence over them.The greatest exertions are making every where, hy that church, to educate females ; in New York, for instance, they have orphan asylums, and though they sometimes refuse boys, they never refuse girls, No wonder then that they consider this female school in Montreal a matter of great importance ; let Protestants only do the same.He advised the ladies to consider this female school as mote especially their own effort, to visit it, ascertain its wants, and labour for its support and extension.Depend upon it, said the speaker, if you only educate the boys, the work will be but half done.Mr.Dougall said, if female education was every where eminently important, it was pre-eminently so among the French Canadians.The customs and manners of that people made the wife the manager of the pecuniary concerns of the family, and the negociator of its business transactions.The Canadian women had hitherto possessed nearly all the education that was to be found among the people, and any change that was to reach the mass must do it, humanly speaking, through the female mind.How important, in this light, wes the in- Mitution recently commenced under Mrs.Tanner for the education of Canadian girls | If we only educate boys, they will either marry Roman Catholic wives, and so, probably, fall back into the Church of Rome, or wives speaking English, and so be absorbed into the Anglo- Canadian population ; but if both sexes are educated, we may expect to see them ullimately diflusing a good influence in many parts of the country, s¢ Chistian French Canadian families.Mrs, Tanners school has from sixteen to nineteen pupils, who receive a good education in the ordinary branches, besides regular scripture instruction, and training in household duties, needie woik, &e ; and their progress has been very encouraging.Mrs.Tanner was now ably assisted by Miss Dupuis, recently from New York, who had been sent providentially to the help of the institution.The present house was quite full, and there were yet several applications ; so that Mrs.Tanner had no doubt if & much larger building were procured it would soon be filled.One remarkable fact respecting this school, as well as the Pointe aux Trembles institute, where there were 50 boys, was, that only one case of sickness had occurred in each this winter, neither of which were severe or of long continuance, and this 100 in a season when there is much sickness in many private families.Mr.Gridley said, he did not think that these missions to Canadian Romanists loomed so large 10 those who were on the apot, as they did to those at a distance ; but certainly in the States they were looked upon as the noblest effurte of Canzdian Christians.And what they specially admired was, that these missions bearded the lion of Popery in his very den.This effort to educate French Canadian females was one which specially commended itself 10 his mind, and he believed would do so to Christians generally.But, said he, you must not be satisfied with a common dwelling-house, which is crowded with some sixteen or nineteen pupils; you must have a respectable building that will present some attraction for the eye, and you may rely upon its being filled and supported too.He could not sanction the costly displays made by the Church of Ronie to captivate the people : but we must remember that Romanists were bred fiom their infancy to judge greatly by outward appearances ; and although the attractive character of a building could not change the heart, yet the opposite might repel the individual from entering à place where the heart might he reached.He therefore earnestly advised all the Christion ladies of Montreal to unite for the establishment'of à female seminary on à suitable scale.The Rev.H.Wilkes adverted feelingly to the sad consequences of Protestants sending their daughters to convents for the purpose of learning French, and affirmed, fiom instances which had come to his knowledge, that there was great danger of their religious principles being tampered with, and of their being induced to embrace Popery.He said, no consideration would induce him to send a daughler to & convent, and suggested the extreme importance.of making provision in any French Canadian school for the reception of young ladies of British or American families desirous of learning French.After the gentlemen retired, we understand the Indies discussed their plans fot the coming year; one of which is to raise a fund by means of annual subscriptions of £1 each ; that is, one hundred ladies are to be sought, who will pledge themselves lo contribute four dollars esch within the year, and raise the sum, If they se fit, either by collecting WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.The 26th annivessery of the Montreal Branch Society has been held during the past week, The sermons on Sanday, March 14, were preached Ly Rev.Messy.Wilkes, Cramp, Giiisy, Richey, and Churehill.The annual meeting was held on\u2019 Monday evening in St.James\u201d * Street Church, and hy adjournment, on Tuesday evening in Quebec Suburbs, and on Wednesday evening in Griffintown.The report, which was presented to the meeting, was full of interesting facts and valuable statistical information.It commenced by drawing attention to the different Theological Institutions and Normal Schools for training native teachers in foreign lands, established by and under the care of the missionaries of this society.These are found at Columbo, in South Ceylon ; at Auckland, in New Zealand ; at Varon, in the Friendly Islands ; in the Fejee Islands at Lakemba ; at Farmer- field and Haslope Hills in Southern Africa; at King Tom\u2019s Point, Sierra Leone, and Akrah, Cape Const Castle, in Western Africa.The review of translation and printing operations shews great activity in the publication of the Bible and elementary books in Ceylon, Friendly Islands, Fejee do., and at Albany and Kaffraria in Southern Africa ;\u2014in the latter place alone 93,750 half-sheets of the Bible have been printed during the year.A general statistical retrospact presents the following statement :\u2014In Europe there are 31 stations occupied, 50 missionaries employed, 4,964 members in the church, and 604% children and adults in the schools.In Ceylon and Continental India, 37 missionaiies, 1661 members, 7391 scholars.In Australasia and Polynesia, 52 missionaries, 14,040 members, 16,974 scholars.In Southern and Western Africa, 61 missionaries, 7,946 members, 10,257 scholars.In (he West Indies, 86 missionaries, 55,947 members, 19,273 scholars.In British North America, 101 missionaries, 18,592 members, 11,688 scholars.The following is a general summary of the whole :\u2014 Circuits or Stations - - - 24 Chapels and Preaching Places - - 2,522 Missionaries - - - - - 8397 Catechisis and Paid Agenis - - 847 Unpaid Agents - - - - 6,833 Members in Church Fellowship - - 103,150 On Trial for Membership - - 4,315 Scholars - - - - 71,625 Printing Presses - > - 8 The following shows the financial operations of the year :\u2014 Income - - - £112523 9 6 Expenditure - - - 112,056 14 8 Of the above income, £11,674 4s.7d.was received from foreign stations, and of this, £968 3s.41d.was contributed by Canada East, of which sum Montreal fumished\u2014 General Contributions, - - - £265 6 3 Ladies Association - - - 90 6 104 S.S.Children\u2019s New Yess\u2019s Offerin, - 4917 4 Total - - £40510 54 In addition to the reverand gentlemen who took a part in the services of the Sabbath, an eloquent address was delivered on Monday evening by George Elder, Esq.The collections exceeded those of the past year.REVIEW OF NEWS.Et is difficult to arrive at the truth from neirapapers.We stated in last number that Col.Benton had gone to Mexico to act as representative of the President upon the authority of the most positive statements to that effect in respectable American papers.It turns out that the President refused him the full and unprecedented powers which he demanded, and that he would take nothing less, so that the © responsibility\u201d remains where it was, upon the President alone.The New York Evangelist tecommends the American Government to pay the Mexicana the three millions of dollars, withdraw their troops, seitle all the claims of American citizens upon Mexico out of the United States Treasury, and cousider peace cheaply purchased on these terms, after all the loss of blood ard treasure that has siready been incurred.Ifa waryin which they are scarcely opposed, be such a terrible scourge lo the nation making it, what would a war with another strong and belligerent nation be ?The war was, it is suid, undeitaken chiefly to promote and consolidate the interests of the « peculiar\u201d but toltering institution of the South\u2014Domestic Slavery ; but we are informed, both by the papers and by a gentleman who passed some time at Washington this winter, that it has been the occasion of much more general and decided opposition to slavery among Northern men than ever was seen before.In fact, slavery, which no one dared even to hint at a few years ago, and concerning which ali motions, petitions, &c., were immediately suppressed, bas been fhe subject of discussion all winter at Wasb= ington, leaving little room or time for any thing else.The Journal de Quebec says that the first edition of the Manuel de Temperance, by the Ablé Chiniquy, which consisted of 10,000 copies, is nearly sold, and that a new edition will be issued soon.The priests recommend it (o the people from the pulpit.This work, though inculcating nbatinence from intoxicating drinks eloquently, and therefore so far 0 be recommended, is sadly disfigured by the superstitions of the Church of Rome, which are made very prominent.On the 16th inst., & meeting of the Congregation of Trinity Church in this city was held, for the purpose of forming sn association for the propagation of the Gospel, in connexion with the incorporated Church Society of the Diocese of Quebec.The number of sleighs that have come into Montreal this winter with produce, especially from the south shore, is, we believe, quite unprecedented.Some days as many as six hundred arrive, we ua- derstand, by a single road, that from Laprairie ; and though a cos.siderable number of these are loaded with wood and hay, a large proportion bring grain, pork, ke.ke.Now, us the quantity brought has bees much grester than usual, and the prices bave been very much higher, (for instance, cals, that used to bring 1s.3d., are 3s.1d.3 peste, that used to be 1s.8d.to Ze, are now Se.to Bs.6d.,) it should follow, 89 & necessary consequence, that farmers must be in a very comfortable pesition 8s compared with former years : à fact which will, we hope, become evident by Increased subscription liste for ail good periodicals.In the midat of abundant food for the body, We among other female friends, or making and selling some kind of work.entreat the people of Canada not to neglect food for the mind. \u20ac 1847 The Attorney-General (East), has given his opinion upon a question submitted to Mr.Cayley, by the Montreal Board of Trade, respecting the Free Navigation of the St.Lawrence.It is to this effect, that the Provincial authorities bave no power whatever in the matter, snd it is added, that should a foreign vessel proceed above Quebec, any customhouse officer might seize her and bring the question before the proper tribunal for adjudication.The Montreal Board of Trade have memorialized his Excellency the Governor, showing ¢ that the Jaws which press most injuriously upon the energies of the inhabitants of this Province\u2014restriciing the freedom of their commerce\u2014 discouraging that spirit of industry and enterprise which ought to be fostered end promoted\u2014and, in short, depressing the general welfure, by retarding the development of the varied resources of the Province, are\u2014First, the British Navigation Laws; secondly, the Emperial Differential Duties ; thirdly, the Duties levied on Agricullural Produce ; and lastly, the restrictions maintained against foreign vessels navigating the St.Lawrence.\u201d The first and last they wish promptly modified to such an extent as will leave the people of this Colony free to employ the cheapest vessels they can procure, whether they be British or Foreign.\u201d The differential duties they wish wholly repealed.The duties on agricultural produce they consider very injurious, and wish the tolls on the canals to be revised.To all which his Excellency replied, * that he was fully impressed with the importance of all the subjects referred to in the Memorial, and would not fail to press them upon the attention of the Imperial and Provincial authorities.\u201d The Mail is bourly expected.The money market continues very tight.À state of things, doubtless, chiefly caused by the Mexican war, which acts as a drain of specie.from New York.We have had a thaw for some days, but winter has returned in the shape of a snow-storm to-day.THE NORTHERN STAND.From the New York Evangelist.The speeches of some of our Northern representatives in Congress on the Wilmot proviso, were very manly, and in just accordance with true American principles.We were struck with the following forcible passage from the speech of Hon.Bradford R.Wood, of Albany, on the interest which the North has in this question of slavery : ¢ This is a national question.It is not a question of mere dollars and cents.It isnot a mere political question.Et is one in which the North has a higher and deeper stake than the South possibly can have.It is a question whether, in the government af the country, she shall be borne down by the influence of your slaveho!ding aristoc-atic institutions, that have not in them the first element of democracy.question whether this Republic shall be weakened, cramped, and de- led, by an institution doomed of God and man.We know something of the curse of slavery, and we have seen more ; and had we not got rid of it, we should have been in as bad a condition as your more northern slave States now are.Hug this institation to your own bosom, if you choose, until it eats out your very vitals; but let it not blast, and blight, and curse, with the mildew \u2018of heaven, any other postion of God\u2019s heritage, save where, by leave of the Constitution, it now exists, Say what you will, it hangs over this country a black and rtentous cloud.Do gentl:men suppose we are blind, that we cannot look.on this picture, an on that?* I do not wish to make any invidious comparisons, but I am reminded, that in 1790, Virginia contained twice the population of New York.With fewer square miles of territory, and a less genial climate, in 1840, New York had twice the number of inhabitants of Virginia ; at the former period, the representation of Virginia was the largest in the National Legislature ; now it is the fourth in number.The cause of all this cannot be mistaken.Why, sir, when I hear gentlemen tolk of the beauties and blessings of slavery, and roundly affirm that it is one of the best institutions in the world, [ am strongly reminded of the ¢ Tale of the tub,\u2019 and of Peter\u2019s insisting that a loaf of bread was a shoulder of mutton; and because Martin and John would not believe it, flying into a furious passion and turning them both out of doors.Whether we shall be turned out of the Union, for believing the evidence of our own eyes, instead of your assertions, remains to be seen.¢ Do you not see, says one, \u201cthat powerful and leading Commonwealth,\u2019 with her masts of commerce, her railroads, and canals, rich in every resource, and abundant in ever: element of greatness?Do you not see her luxuriant and highly cuf- tivated fields, laden with the choicest of fruits, and pouring wealth into the lap of theirowners?Do you not see those neat cottages, inhabited by happy and contented laborers, devoted (o their masters, and clinging to them with child-like confidence and affection?No, I see no such thing ; but T see & Commonwealth once powerful, now no longer so\u2014wilhout commerce, without resources, and all things wearing the aspect of decay.I see fields, once fertile, now almost as barren as if the sirocco of the desert had swept over them.[I see miserable hov- ele, filled with a miserable, degraded, and vicious population, and that very population not unfrequently flying to the cold snows of Canada for protection from the vengeance of a pursuing and threatening master.Sir, this very morning, the inhabitants at the other end of the Avenue were early disturbed by the wild shrieks of female distress; a young woman almost as white (as I am informed) as your wives and daughters, with her hands strongly bound, was dragged through the street hy A brute, in human shape, claiming to be her owner, and threatening to hush hei ns hy stamping and crushing her on the pavement, while she (i ing that she was free) wildly appealed to the gathering crowd (o protect her.IRE\u2019 AND.The following appalling p'ctue is extracted from a lecture vecently delivered in the Tabernacle, New York.Surely some remedy wilt be found for the gigantic evil :\u2014 The Socal, State or Ineraxv.\u2014The soil is the only source of life, and out of this come many evils.One of the worst is that of extreme competition.Every vacant spot becomes an object of deadly strife.It is generally given (o that person who offers the highest price, and shouts the\u201d loudest promise.He soon finde out in bis despair, that he has undertaken (00 much, The landlord has spent no capital on it; the fenaut las none to spend ; and of the produce which is torn from its savage nakedness, the bulk goes to the absent proprietor and to the established church, The soil deteriorates.The andlord will not lower his demands.The tenant cannot pay them, und he is ejected.The landlord gives the place to another, and (he ruined tenant knows not where to find a shelter.Though law has driven him out from bis familiar hearth, nature compels him to return.He will prow] around the miserable abode that gave his poverty à tefuge\u2014the hut that gave his little ones a home ; the roof that shielded the mother of his children.He cannot reason\u2014his blood rushes back to its fount: his whole nature is excited; his brain is convulsed in delirium ; he is mad in his houseless distraction, and io bis madness he slays, perhaps, his blameless succesnor, His former landlord is, possibly, a magistrate, ate hands him to the constable\u2014Lthe constable delivers him to the judge.After due forms of trial, the judge consigne him to the executioner, and the executioner closes the tragedy.This is hut one of a hundred, that vary litife in pot or incident.The scaffold is the stage, with which, as yet Ireland has been the best acquainted, and on thal she has witnessed many a terrible drama~ black, silent, bloody, and monotonous ! THE MONTREAL WITNESS.93 \u201d KINGSTCN BETHEL SOCIETY.This most laudable association beld its first anniversary meeting on the Bth inst., the Hon.J.B.Marks in the chair.We make the following interesting extracts from the report then submitted :\u2014 At a meeting held in the City Hall on the first Monday of March 1846, a Bethel Society was organised for the moral and spiritual improvement of seamen and their families ; à constitution having been read and astopted, officers were chosen for the ensuing year, at which time a liberal collection was taken, amounting to £6 11s 114.The sitention of the managing committee was then directed towards procuring a suitable house for the contemplated enterprise, which was at length obtained through the kindness of Mr.Seobell in renting one to the Society for a nominal sum.The preaching was kindly and promptly supplied by ministers of the town of different denominations.A liberal subscription was raised by the citizens of Kingston, Garden Island, and some Itiendly seamen, and many useful and valuable donations were received towards preparing and furnishing the house for a Bethel.In the same month a public meeting of shipmasters, owners, and seamen was held in Mr.Proby\u2019s sail-loft, to consider the subject of forming a Marine Temperance Society.The mecting was opened with prayet by Mr.James Doyle, and the Marine Temperance Society of Kingston was organised \u2014 Captain Thomas Maxwell was elected President, and Mr.Anthony Friel, Secretary, at which time 55 members signed the pledge ; but from the dispersing of the officers and members of the soriety, that amount of good has not been accomplished that the friends of Temperance could wish.Notwithstanding this complaint, your commit\u2018ee may say that while all has not been done that should have been done, yet they have reason to hope that good has been effected during (he past year through the instramentality of this Society.And as we have more lime to devote lo the improvement of our morals in winter than summer, your committee, at their last meeting, nied Captain A.C.Ross to open a correspondence with persons ble to the cause of temperance in all the important ports on the Lakes to form branch societies to act in union with thins your committee flatter themselves, and have reason to hope, that this organization of itself will give a fresh impetus to the cause.There is in this city a Provident and Savings Bank, which might be a great blessing to'seamen, The amount deposited by sailors the past year is £222 184.14, being a much larger sum than any previous year; and large sums of money have been sent by others from hence to friends and parents in those parts where destitution and privation.if not starvation, stare the inhabitants in the face, which must have : to many an essential and timely relief.\u2018The report then gues on to mention with sympathy several cases of sudden and violent deaths among seamen on the lakes during the year, and concludes as follows :\u2014 The immediate objects presented before you prospectively are certainly most desirable, viz., 10 obtain some suitable person as missionar: to seamen in the port of Kingston, Garden Liland, and Portsmout] Harbour ; to establish 2 temperance boarding house for seamen on Chistian principles; and a free school for the education of seamen\u2019s children.THE LUMBER TRADE.There is no branch of our colonial trade which we consider so much taxed as the lumber trade ; and there is none where energy, industry, and patient toil are more conspicuous.Passing the winter in the woods ; constantly in the water making up rafts in the spring; ex- d to the dangers of the navigation to Quebec; the life of the lumberer is one ot hardshi » and ought to secure for bim some permanent reward.Yet of all this class, how few become-wealthy! The government, which ought to encourage, seems to have done every thing it could to depress it, whilst the ieulty of getting their timber to market stands (as it slways bas done) a terrible obstacle in the wa of those engaged in this most important branch of our trade.Althoug ahont £39,000 is derived from licenses to cut timber, and although ali protection, or nearly all, has been withdrawn in England, and we are made to compete with the world, there is scarcely one article which enters into the cost of its production which is not heavily taxed.Take first the article of mess pork.The import of this article, on the average of the last three years, has been about 20,000 bbis., nearly the whole of which is consumed by the lumberman.\u201d The duty on this article amounts fo 11s per bbl.(say 3s sterling per cwt.imperial, and 2s sterling per 100 Ibs.provincial.) Now, we ask, is it right that an article which enters so largely into the cost of timber as this, should be taxed so enormously, and for no purpose ?It is not roduced to any extent in Canada, and does not affect the limited import from Western Canada of prime and prime mess, as is proved by the price of (hese qualities in the New York market; prime and prime mess heing usually beld there at similar rates to our own, while mess is sold here at all the duty and charges over quotations in New York.On the article of flour, loo, there is a duty of 3a per bbl.; corn 9 cts.per bushel; hay 6s per ton; iron chains 12 per cent.; horses and oxen 30w each, &c.: and yet the government have up to this very hour, notwithstanding all de revenue received from that source, done almost nothing in making roads from the St, Lawrence to the Ottaws.Pork, flour, hay, and oats, which might be taken across the country from the Rideau Canal on a good road, are taken to Montreal, and thence transhipped to Bytown, thence to be carted nine miles, and again transhipped two or three times before it reaches a point where it could be placed, was there a turnpike road, at a saving of at least 7s 6d per bbl.It may be said that the government have spent large sums of money in building slides; but this is no gift.Rates are charged on all these slides, which leave a handsome return for the amount invested.We trust that every lumberman, and all interested in the timher trade, will unite in petitioning the legislature at the approaching meeting of parliament, for the total and complete repeal of all duties whatever on articles that are required to aid the manufacturing indus: try of the province.\u2014 Economist.NEW METHODIST CHURCH IN QUEBEC.The Wesleyan Methodists of Quebec have it in contemplation to posed erect a new and spacious Gothic Church, in order to provide accommodations for the increase of the body\u2014and perhaps stirred up thereto, in some degree, by the astonishing efforts made in the same line, within these two or three years, by the brethren in Montreal.The following pleasing intelligence respecting it is extracted from a letter written by a friend in Quebec, and received in this city on Satarday : « We had a meeting last night (Wednesday) on the subject of the erection of a new Methodist Chureh, when upwards of £ were subscribed in aid thereof.\u201d HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.The meeting, called by the Mayor, took place on Tuesday last, and was addressed by several gentlemen, most of whom seemed to be in favour of obtaining an Act to assess the city for the support of u|gemoe.General House of Industry.The Seminary were willing to give ten acres of \u2018land, in case such an establishment ware built by voluntary contribution.The Mayor was very desirous that such a house should not be made an incentive to idleness and pauperism.The following speech by Mr.Berthelot appears to us worthy of note.We copy from the Gazette :\u2014 were afflicted only hy that greatest of all scourges, drunken idleness; A great number were young men\u2014masons, carpenters and of a other trades.He blamed the magistrales, and himself among them, for the facility with which they permitted the increase of means to encourage this vice.There were now before the magistrates 350 applications for tavern licenses, from each of which would spring new crimes.He repeated that out of 700 families tnore than two-thirds were in distress from idleness and drunkenness.Now it was for these people that a House of Industry was to be built\u2014it was to be a House for work ; for there was no person who had his legs even, or his arms, who could not work for his living.This was not to hiner other charitaile institutions \u2014- it was nol to prevent distress, but to keep the- mendicants out of the streets, who now infested them.BEANS.We call the attention of our agricultural friends to the article in this sheet upon the culture of White Beans.In the uncertainty of the potato crop, this substitute, for we know families who have used it to a considerable extent, as such, assymes much more than ordinary importance, Though all who know any thing of pork and beans, the American dish, par excellence, will admit that the latter is an important crop at any time.We have reason to know that this kind of bean is admirably adapted for the climate of Canada, coming, ns it does, speedily to maturity.We are requested to state, for the information of those desirous of uniting with the Montreal Horticultural Society, that the subscription list is now ready for signature, and may be found at the shop of Mesars.8.J.Lyman & Co., Chemists, Place D\u2019Armes.We intend to give Judge Day\u2019s Address before the Montreal Horticultural Society in our next.RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.Barrirvs 13 vise Unitep Stares,\u2014There are in the United States 7,083 regular Baptist churches, with 5.351 ordamed ministers, 1.165 licensed preachers, and 655,536 communicants.Including the Anti- mission, Seventh Day, Free Will Baptists, &ec., there are 13,624 churches, 8,287 ordained preacliers, and 1,000,719 communicants.The regular Baptisis have 14 colleges, 8 theological schuuls, 20 weekly newspapers, 11 monthly, and » quarterly periodical._ Porery ax Havri\u2014Rev, Mr.Graves, editor of the Christion Reflector, in a letter in that journal, gives the following infurmation in reference ti the Ronan Catholic religion in Hayt.We shonld suppme that in no other country in the world is Popery thus cireumatanced : \u2018The Faytien Catholies refuse any allegiunce whutever to the Pope of Rome.\u2018They regard tbe Papal authority as opposcd to their national and civil liberty ; and, in eon- sistency with\u201d their republican principles, they allow of no archbishops, bishops, deans, or uther church dignitaries, save the single order of priests; und of the appointing ur deposing of these tho President claims the right and power.\u2018The Raman Cutholie religion is, therefore, not only recognized by the government as the stato religion, but 1» subject to legislative regulations and executive authority.Protestuntinn bas thus one decided advantage over Romanism, for entire toleration is granted; and with the internal regulations vi Protestant churches, and the conduct of their wiaisters, there is no governmental juterference.: ProtesranTisæ 18 Evsorr.\u2014In a late letter from St.Petersburg, Dr.Baird says that in Denmark, (with a ulation of 2,250,000) there are 1800 Protestant ministers, and four Catholic priests.In Norway, among a population of 1,250,000, between 350 and 400 Prutestant ministers, and not onc Ruman Catholic church, In Sweden, whose population is 3,250,000, there are 2,500 Protestant ministers, one Rumun Catholic chureh, and two priests, Bu that in these four Scandinavian countries, whose united population surpasses eight millions, there are about 5,774 Protestant ministers, and six Roman Calholie churches and seven priosts.Unrramuanien.\u2014The Rev.E, 8.Gannett of Buston, successor of the late Dr.Channing, onc of the fathers of modern Unitarianiem, hoe, it is said, publicly attempted to prove that the gospels by Matthew, Mark, Luke, snd John, were not written under « divme inspiration.\u2018Theodore Parker preceded Mr.Gunnett in this denial of the divine inspiration of the Scriptures, und the course of each and both, evinces the natural tendency of Unitarian unbelief, Whenever a man seriously sets himself down to explain away those scriptural passages, which affirm or imply the supreme divinity of Jesus Christ, he is engaged in work which must sooner or luter destroy his reverence for Scripture, and induce unbelief of those divine sanctions, by which its reccption is encouraged and enfurced.In other worde, infidelity, in relation to the whole scheme of religion, is very apt lo be the result of à denial of thin chief doctrine of Christisnity.Staavax MeoLrey.\u2014We find a singular item in one of the New York daily papers, to this effect, that a certain young nctress is regularly empluyed to sing in une of the churches, where idle young men are altracted Lo hear lier exercise her vocal powers, and that recently abe was sen in her in the organ gallery on the Sabbath, singing the praises of God, as far at least as Lhe outward action went, although on the evenmg before she was seen on the stage of the Bowery Theatre, prreonating the Devil, in some low farce ! ! What in to ba thought of such a mixture of the sacred with the devilish, and how ean a church claim a primitive and sposiolicsl origin, which thus depends for auxiliaries on the camp of Satan?Alas: for the degeneracy of the times.Ma, Taarneer's Tho court or the committee has decided in the casc of the Rev.Jose; pnell, who was tried on a charge of refusing the Right Rev.Bishop Whittingham to administer the communion of the Lord\u2019 Supper wo his (Trapncll\u2019s) congregation, and niso for using indecorvus language toward the Bishop.le war found guilty of the laltcr offince and acquited of the former charge.Thusit hus been catablished that the Bishop has no right to administer the sacrament to congregations in his diocess, unless invited to do so by the rector of said church\u2014a most important decision.\u2014Erangrlist.HonnisLE Human Sacririces ar Caraman.\u2014The London Patriot com tains & communication received from the Rev.J.Clarke, Baptist missionary, Western Africa, and dated Clarence, Fernando Po, Oct, 27, 1846, relating Lo a most horrid and cruel custam still prevalent in those parts, namely, the immolation of numerous hapless and innocent victims on the desth of a tayal personage.Mr.Clarke writes: \u2014* At Calabar, there has been a fens.ful sacrifice of more (han one red persons fur a son of the late King.The creaturs had been dancing egbe all the da; or palm wine in large quantities, when he dicd the me night.Ît ie sop- ho was poisoned.This may be the case, or it may not; we cannet tell.\u2018The aged mother ened out in Afriern frenzy that she had lost her fast child, and now had none to whom to leave her property, and therefore plenty of slaves must bo sacrificed, Those at market, and all who heard in time, fed into the bush, and will romain ouncealod, or oul of the 4 until the sacrifices ccase, which is minclimes more than a whole year, aged mother spoke not in vain; many were the willing slaves to execute hes will.\u2018The sacrifiec took place, nor was it bloodless.reo holes were dug inn howe.The corps was put into the first, with a number of young women.Into the second, slaves were put; and into the third the elaugh.tered Creoles of town-born people.The pi ion foe sach hole was stated «8 follows :\u2014Thirty femslo slaves, forty malo slaves, and iwenty.nine Creoles, Much war done by Mr.Waddell and Mr.Edgerly of the Scoteb missions, and by Captain Milbourne of the Dove, in the service of the Bap- tit missions, to persuade King Eyamby to prevent tho sacrifice ; but \" try to it could not be sfiscted: Bnocriva Waërr or Human Lire\u2014A writer in the National IntellS.7, whose intelligence and candour are vouched for by the edits of that paper, states that he hus * hoard it said that of the twenty-four thoe= sand which we bave had for the last sight months on the Rio Grande, eight thousand have died, or been disabled by disease and wounds, and bave been sent home ** Lono Voragee.\u20148ome of ing lon The pra Ey packets from London and Li Cd lon, which left Portsmouth on Die ad not reached ork on Wednesday, being then in the sisty.ninth day.Tho Hendrick Hudwmn has been out sixty.ons days.The Hottinguet, from Liverpol, fiy.oix days.Naw Consr.\u2014A teloscapic comet hiss been discovered at the Cambridge the Wi À oy O.Berthelot, Esq., said, that in the Catholic Asylum there were nearly seven hundeed persons, out of whom at least three-fourths Observatory.It ie near tie slar 18 Andromeda, 04 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.1847 who with sickness in her (amily, and struggling with the deep-| blown off, and you will never complain again, that you cannn THR NMISORLLANY ost poverty, hat expended her last peuny, lived in daily hope raise beans, because they are tou v'oublesoune to savor : = == hut an individual Who had kindy furnished her work, (andl When situated something like Mr.Robinson, we have tried GOD I8 LIGHT.whose residence she did not know,) would call for it, and of the plan recommended by him, and upprove of it.Where there BY T.BINNEY.course pay her ; but no, while she was uhsent, other work not| was no stones at hand, we used small chunks of wood in their Eternal Light! Eternal Light! asked for, was left, but no pay for the pieces finished.place.In the more stony and silicious soils of the east, the A kind hearted visitor among the beneficiaries of the Alms stakes, &c., are unnecessary, beans will cure well enough on ee in near sight\u2014 House, informed we that a Te days since a woman called at tho hare ground, After being thrashed, the beans should be \u201cThat shrinks not, but with calm delight the office for assistance.It was lute on Saturday uflornoon-= cleaned, in the same manner that grain is, and then put nto Can live, and look on Thee.and as it is à rule not to relieve until a visitor hus personulty |larrels or sacks and sent to market.The whiter they are in \u2018 investigated the wants of the applicant, she was told they coulil|culour, and the neater thoy uppesr, the quicker they sell and The apirits that surround thy throne, not attend to her before Monday, \u2018The woman's dejected and the bigher the price they bring.May bear the burning lis, grief worn appearaucs attracted the attention of the visitor\u2014| Propvcr.\u2014This varies greatly according to soil and cultiva.But that is surely theirs alone, and after she left, he said, 1 lelieve we ought to attend to that {tion, When planted with corn, 7 to 12 bushels is a fair yield For they have neser, never known case to.day; the woman is evidently suffering, and she mny|por acre; when planted alone, 20 to 25 bushels.We are A fullen world like this.starve before Monday.\u201d Accordingly be found his way to her | peesuaded that, by subsoiling, even the poorest gravel lund, and home\u2014a deep basement, with a four-light sash, and destitute only lightly top dressing it with the proper kind of wanure, of every thing like comfort, She wasan American, and re-|from 30 to 35 bushels per acre may be counted upon as an recently lefl 8 widow, with two children, one of four years, and {average ; and if so, beans would be a much more profitable a babe of seven months\u2014autterly destitute.Notwithstanding crop than anything else which could be produced from it.\u2014 the babe was sick, she had been driven by the pinchings of| The highest product which we have known taken from a single hunger and the wants of her little ones, to leave the babe incre was 53 bushels, but we have heard of 60 bushels being Oh! how shall I, whose native sphere fs durk\u2014whose mind is dim\u2014 Before the Ineffuble appear, And on my naked spirit bear That uucreated beam ?\u2018Ébere is a way for man to rise charge of the elder one that morning, and go and scrub several raised, To that sublime abode\u2014 hours for à ludy in Broadway, who when her work was done,| VaLur.\u2014White beans of a good quality, well cleaned, and An offering and a sacritice\u2014 told her to come on Monday for her money.What could she neatly put up, usually bring trom $1,00 to $1,75 per bushel in A Holy Spirit's energies\u2014 do?\u2018There was no resource left but to apply to the Alme this market ; and occasionally they are worth from $2,00 to An Advocate with God.House.Thither she went, but was again put off, and starva- $2.50.We do not recollect of their being less than §1,00 for lion stared her in the face.Who can describe the anguish of] years.The straw is valuable as food for sheep, and when These, these prepare us for the sight (hat mother as sho returned empty-handed to her little ones, or properly cured they eat it with avidity.Or Majesty above; her gratitude for the unexpected relief afforded by the visitor?The sous of ignorance and night i Can stand in the \u201c Eternal Light\u201d CULTURE OF WHITE BEANS.PRIVATE INTERPRETATION.Through the * Eternal Love!\u201d (From an Ohio Paper.) It is known to every body how strenuously the Catholice oppose the reading of the Bible, or rather, I should sav, thé reader Soir.\u2014 The bcan will grow well on any soil, from the atiffest PRAYER.clay to the hottest sand ; but in our experience of its culture, exercising hie mind on the Bille which he reads.He may read Go, when the mormng shineth, we have found that of a light grave), abounding somewhat with may a ve a New Toomey, = J oS A oh nm.fe Go, when the moon is bright, stone, to suit it best.In a clay soil the bean does not ripen sol Yom Wie 16, © God - owed the oid nt he os ' 3 phone Gio, when the eve declineth, well, or show so pure a white, and it is somewhat subject to], egolten Son » ke or to tha Matt or 28 30 Pre Ns on'y Go, in the hush of night 3 mould and rot ; in rich loams it runs too much to vine ; and in me all ye that labour and pd e \u2014 Pt \u201c51 di rnd unto Gio, with pure mind and feeling, light shifting sands its growth is small and somewhat parched.est?\" 8 and he way read a o y pd ee Hh he Bo Fling earthly care away, PreragaTioNn\u2014We are supposing the soil a hard poor| to to put a meanine Upon them heh it toi © ME not And in thy chamber kneeling, gravel ; in this case\u2019 it is customary to plough about 3 inches |, avoid nach a ue to them, sine 5 ! ave als ifficult Do thou it secret pray.deep ; but as the bean sends out innumerable fine roots from, be understood 8 they are to be rad ®t prin - Or, if \"tis e'er denied thee its main stem, it is important to have the ground loose and) at his peril he must not.He id guilty of the crime of private inellow to a grester depth, and yet kecp the most fertile part of] it on the top.Seep.\u2014The best kind of field bean, is of small size, plump, round, slightly oblong of shape, und a white colour.PLANTING.\u2014For this purpose, some prefer throwing the field into ridges ; but this should only be resorted to when the soil is stiff, or possesses à superabuudant imoisture ; in every other case, planting on a level surface is best; Drills 2 1.2 10 3 feet 1n solitude to pray, Should holy thoughts come o'er thee When friends are round thy way; E\u2019en then the silent breathing OF thy spirit raised above, Wil) reach His throne of glory, \u2018Where is mercy, truth, and love.interpretation, if he dues.Before he pretends to understand those passages, he must inquire how the church has always interpreted them, and what the popes and general councils have thought about them, and how ail the fathers, from B -rnabas to Bernard, not one excepied, have understuod them.Well, now, it strikes me as rather hard upon the poor sinner, that he should be made 10 go through this Jong and difficult prucess hefore he is permitted to admire the love of God in the gift of his Son, and before he Uh! not a joy or blessing apart is the favourite method of planting with those'who are .With this can we compare, desirous of making the most of their ground; hills 2 1-2 to 3 That to Jew s for rest.And romeo a not help et The power that he bas given us feet distant each way, answer nearly as well; some sow broad-|;, not s0 vel at à à when one reads such passa , to under.To pour our souls in prayer ; cast, but when this is done, no after-culture can follow, and the] stand them in to the obvious import of own re, When\u2019er thou pit\u2019st in sadness, crop is liable to be lessened by the growth of weeds, and the} =p boli \u20ac « Does p ; , Before His foutstoo! fall, land is left in a foul state.\u2014Beans are frequently grown among ut the Cat olie ake, a not Peter condemn private in- And remember, in thy gladness, corn.being planted between cach hill at the second time of terpretation t 6 n sy point us = his 24 Epistle, i.20, His grace, who gave thee all.hoeiug.\u2018Lie crap underthese circumstances is small; it takes rr i Now Jou as at the Scripture ay also from that of the corn and it may be considered upon the .FRIENDSHIP.whole, as scarcely paying for the ont trouble of culture, kt is though they have no great attachment to the Bible, are as glad as any people can be, when they can get hold of a passage of it, which seems to establish some tenet of theirs.And as only a very small portion of the Bible has even the appearance of favouring them, one may observe with what eagerness they seize customary to plunt beans after corn and potatoes are got in.The first\u201d week in June is quite early enough in this climate ; farther north, the last of May is perhaps better ; it grows quick, and we have seen first rate crops gathered from planting That friendship were but friendship\u2019s name, Whch only dwells in roseate bower, But flies with loss of health and fame, And shuns the suffering, lingering hour.us Inte as the 15th of June, in the latitude of 42 deg.The UPON and with what tenacity they cling to the rare passages But that which sits by misery's side, quantity of seed usually allowed per acre, in hills, is one bushel ; Cer bend i uta hoy fo wits tia pas And [ondly aids the drooping head ; in drills, it would require a little more ; broad-cast, at least two ingly tisk what Protestants can have to reply to it Which bids the bursting hears confide, bushels.Yet this will depend something upon the size of the dent a ply it.Aud pity\u2019s tear unseen bath shed.bean used, and the economy in dropping the seed.Six to seven Now, in the name of Protestants, I will state in two or three beans should bo dropped in each hill, and four or five stalks be (Particulars what we have to gy in opposition to the Catholic in- Which o\u2019er the sufferer's couch will bend, left to bear ; in drills, drop the seed every two or three inches, ference from these words of Peter.We say that that passage And sympathetic hope impart\u2014 and leave a plant every four or six inches.When planted in dovs not make for the Catholic cauce, first, because if the right This, this is friendsbip\u2019s hallowed end, hills, the field may be checked out by a light one-horse plough of private judgment and private interpretation is taken away by The noblest impulse of the heart.as for corn, then drop the seed by hand, and cover with a hoe it, as they affirm, yet it is taken away with respect to only a small or shovel plough ; for drills run the plough about two inches part of the Bible, via , the prophetic part.He does not say that GIVE THE LABOURER HIS HIRE.deep, then drop as above, or from a long necked bottle, or a tin any other part, the historical, the didactie, or the hortatory, is of a cup with a hole in the bottom and a handle atiached to it, slightly private interpretation, but only the prophetic, that part in which (From the N.¥.Advocate and Guardian.) shaking the cup or bottle as the person dropping walks along.something is foretold.He does not say no Scripture, but « no «The a of hm thet is hired shall not abide with thee all night until Children are best for this work, as they are not obliged to stoo prophecy of the Senpture is of any private interpretation,\u201d Al- Tacs tit ahah give him his hire, neither shail the sun go down as much as men, and they will do it quite 8s rapidly and well.lowing, then, to the Catholic sl which he contends for, we are upon it; for he is poor, and sciteth his heart upon it; lest he cry sguinst|\u2014After dropping, cover ahout two inches deep with the hoe, left with by far the larger part of the Bible open to private inter- ehes unto the Lord, and it bo sin unto thoe.\u201d\u2014\u2014Dcut.xsiv.15.or tarn hack i hind with the plough.When this is finished, pretation.Peter restricts us only in the matter of prophecy ! How much suffering does the neglect of this simple and jt is best to pass a light roller over the ground.Fordrill plant- But secondly, let me soy, that to whatever the remark of the manifestly just direction, occasion to the poor\u2014and that too |ing,thore are various machines which answer as well for beans apostle has reference, it can easily be shown that it does not mean often moro from thoughtlessriess, than necessity on the part of|as for corn, but in stony ground, or « atiff soil, they do not| what the Catholic understands it to mean.This is evident from their employers.cover well, what follows it.I wish the reader would turn to the passage.Perhaps in order to make immediate payment, a bill must be| Arrer-CurTore.\u2014 This is very simple.and only requires He will perceive that Peter, having said that no prophecy of the changed, or some other trifling inconvenience subtnitted to, or [the cultivator to be passed up snd down the rows two or three Scripture is of any privaie interpretation, proceeds to assign the a desired purchase must be for the time deferred\u2014to avoid |Jifferent times during tho season, for the purpose of kceping |resson of that assertion, or rather, as [ think, goes into a further which, the poor woman who has toiled all day at washing orithe weeds down and stirring the earth, followed by a slight and fuller explanation of what he had said: « For the prophecy house cleaning, is requested to call to-morrow or next week.|hilling with the hoe or à light plough, throwing the dirt to the| came not in old time by the will of man, (that is, it was not of The seamstress or dreas-maker, too, who carries home 8 part plants.liuman invention, it did not express the conjectures of men,) but of her work when finished, hoping she wiil ba offered pay for it, Harvesting.\u2014This should be done in dry weather as soon holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.\u201d is often doomed to sou! sickening disappointment, and some.as the bean is well formed, and there is no danger of its mould.Now | would ask if this reason confirms the Catholic view of times driven to desperation, by being told, when all her work is|ing or shrinking ; if left till touched by a hard frost, the pods|the passage 1 Is the fact that the Bible was written by men in- finished, the bill will be settled\u2014nor dare she comp.ain, lest [are liable to crack open, und much waste ensues from their |#pired of God to write it, any reason why it should not be of pris she offend her employers and lose their work.shelling.When sown broad-cust on smooth land, the most Yale interpretation ?Does the circumstance that God gave them \u2018And men of families, who at best can earn but à scanty eup-[rapid way of harvesting is by mowing ; when in hills or drills, [the thoughts, and even suggested to them the words in which they port for their loved ones\u2014how are their hearts tortured with especially in rough ground, it is customary to pull the vines by should clothe them, render the production so unintelligible, or so anxiety, as they must roturn to them Saturday night after Satur.| hand, which being light work, and demanding a good deal of] equivocal in its meaning, that a private individual cannot be day night, with only à fraction of what is due to them.I have |stoaping, may also, like the dropping of the seed, be performed trusted to read it?That would be to say that God cannot make frequently visited 8 family thus circumstanced\u2014as worthy by children.As the bean-vines are pulled, they are thrown himeelf understood as easily as men can! The Catholic argu- American family; the wife is extremely feeble, and often en-|into small heaps, and sunned daily, like hay.As enon as ment from this pasege may be stated thus: the Bible is an in- tirely prostrated disease ; andthres little children are depend- |sufficiently dry, they should be taken to the barn, thrashed, and apired book, therefore too obscure and ambiguous to be of private ent on them.Not long since, I called in the middle of the|the straw stacked.We have never found it answer to stack interpretation I~ Inspired, therefore unintelligibic ! week, and sho told me, that with the best economy they had|beans before bein thrashed, they bave invariable hocame dark| If it Le eo hard to understand whit God says, hos war the already expended all the last week's earnings, an knew not coloured or spotted, and in addition to this, we lost more or less Divine Saviour able to make himself understood by the common how to turn themselvon till Saturday night.The woman was by rot and mould.Mr.Solon Robinson, Vol, VIII, of the Cul-|people who heard him gladly?I ruspeet they Trew what he very sick, and the interim seemed an age to wait.Their wants |tivator, recommends the following method of curing beans on a [meant when he said, «Come unto me, and I will give you rest.\u201d were partially supplied, aud on Monday following, 1 inquired ot|cluy soil in Indiana :\u2014 The sermon on the mount scems to have been understood by their little girl, * Did your father got his money on Saturday| Take poles or stakes, (common fence stakes) into your bean [those who heard it.No one thought of asking how others un- night?\u201d \u201cNo, ma'sm.\u201d Whats volume of misery did this |Geld, and set them stiff in the ground, at convenient distances derstood it.No one felt the necessity of an interpreter: every intelligence unfold to me 1\u2014\"This woman had frequently brought apart, which experience will soon show you, and puta few sticke|one exercited his private judgment on what Christ mid.Now, on severe relapses by phing her needle as soon as she could |or stones around for à bottom, and then, as you pull an arm.full,|sv that what Jesus anid to the people, and they found no sit up in bed, in order to to their small income.She will [take them to the stakes, and lay them around, the roots always difScuity in understanding it, had been taken down in writing at avidentiy soon exchange her sufferings for the beavenly rest.[to the stake, as high ae you can reach, and tie the top course [the time, would not they who understood it when they ity Another respectable American woman in my neighbourhood, with & string, ec & litle straw, to prevent them from being have equally understood it when they read it?The spol dis- 1847 courses of Christ were intelligible : have they become un.ntelli- gible by being written 7 To return for a moment lo the passage in Peter.I consider that the word rendered in verse 20, intepretation, should be tran slated as Dr.M\u2018Knight trunslates it, invention; or, ss another renders it, impulse : and verse 21 should be considered as eapls.natory of that which precedes it.If the apostle really intended to deny the right of private judgment, why does he in verse 19 exhort all the saints, to whom he wrote, to take heed to © the more wure word of prophecy,\u201d the very thing in reference to which he is supposed to deny the right of private judgment! Why should they take heed to it, if it is not of private imerpretation and why does he speak of it as * a light that shineth in 8 dark lace 1\u201d ?Finally: 1f no part of Scripture is of private interpretation, then of course the passage of Scripture, 2 Pet.i.20, is not of private intepretation: and yet the Catholic exercises his private judgment upon it, and submits it to the private judgment of the rotestant, in the hope thereby of making him a Caihdlic! No part of Scripture, according to him, may be privately interpreted, but that which affirms that no purê, not even itself.may be privately interpreted !\u2014 Thoughts on Popery, by Dr.Nevins, CHAPTERS FOR CHILDREN.\u2014No.IV.CHINESE MANDARIN EATING WITH CHQP-STICKS.The word Mandar\u201d has a Portuguese origin, and signifies an officer of the government, whether civil or military.These form the nobility or aristocracy of China, and are selected to occupy these posts of honour from even the meancst grades of society, provided they have mounted «the cloudy ladder\u201d of literary fame.Strange as it may scem, there is probably no other country on the globe where education, irrespective of wealth or rank, is so valued, for the Emperor chooses none for his officers but men-of highest attainments and most commanding abilities.Of the civil mandarins, there are estimated to be no fewer than fourteen thousand, who are divided into nine ranks, each of which is distinguished by a double badge\u2014the colour of the globe on the apex or point of the cap, and the embroidery on the front and back of their official vestments ; their state robes are beautifully embroidered, a liberal portion being wrought with gold thread; each has an enormous bead necklace, extending below the waist in front, with a string of court beads attached to it at the hinder part of the neck, which reaches down to the middle of the back ; the caps are dome-shaped, with the lower portion turned up, and forming a broad rim, which is faced with black velvet; the top of the cap is surmounted by a globular button or ball, the colour and jnaterial of which are an index to the rank of the wearer ; these are sometimes red, light blue, dark blue, crystal, white stone, and gold ; besides this distinctive button\u2014the removal of which, by the onler of the Emperor, would be to degrade the person and to unfit him for any post of honour in his dominions\u2014each grade of mandarin las a characteristic badge worn upon the breast and me back; this is a square piece of purple silk covered with various embroidery ; ite centre is occupied with the figure of a bird, a dragon, or a tiger; on all state occasions the figure of a dragon denotes the Ewperor, while that of a tiger marks his ministers, These mere outward decorations, however, are not infallible signs of the real rank of the wearer, for permission to assume the nominal rauk and the distinctive costume, without possessing the powers of any of the official grades, may be obtained frum the Emperor, by the payment of a large sum, of which we have an example in the case of Howqua, the wealthiest of the Hong merchants, who purchased his nominal rank at the enormous price of one hundred thousand dollars.In their general deportment, the civil rulers of the Celestial Empire are exceedingly haughty, austere, and distant, Dignity with them is manifested by sullenness and stiffness ; not a muscle of the lace or member of the body must be moved unnecessarily ; and a slow pace, undiverted eycs and motioniess arms, are essential to their rank.On appearing abroad, each mandarin is permitted to have four bearers to his sedan, and a train of attendants and flatterers.These precede the chair; some of them carry gongs, on which hey sirike at regular intervals\u2014the number of strokes intervening being significant of the grade of the officer; others in a loud long-drawn shout announce the presence of his Emperor's representative, admonishing them to * Clear the road ;\u201d* \u201c Be etill and retire\u201d a third party carry chains, which they jingle in concert; the fourth, acting the part of the Roman lictors, bear the rods for punishing offenders, while the rear consists of a miscellaneous group of servants and followers, who bear large red umbrellas, or red tablet boards, on which are inscribed, in gilt characters, the name and official dignity of their master and patron.\u2014London Sunday School Magazine.GEORGE III, AND THE GYPSY.Geerge IIL, who had been hunting near Windsor once, with his characteristic tenderness of feeling, relinquished the pleasure of the chase out of compassion for his exhausted horse, and ently riding alone through an avenue of the forest, was led by the cry of distress to an open space where, under a branching oak, on little pallet of straw, lay a dying gypsy woman.Dismounting and hastening to the spot, his majesty anxiously enquired of a girl, who was weeping over the sufferer, * What, my dear child, can be done for you?\u201d «Qh, sir, my dyin mother wanted religious porson to teach her, and to pray ich her before she dies.1 ran all the way before it was ight this morning to Windsor and asked for a minister, but no one could| i THE MONTREAL WITNESS.n\u2019s agitated \u2018countenance bore witness that she understood and felt the cruel disappointment.The king,\u2014O lovely lesson for kings !\u2014exclaimed * I am aminister; and God has sent mo to instruct and comfort your mother.\u201d \u2018Then seating himself on a pack, be took the Laud of the gypsy woman, showed the nature and demerit of sin, and pointed her to Jesus, the one and all-eufficient Saviour.His words seemed to sink deep into her heart ; her cyes brightened, she looked up, she smiled, and while an expression of peace stole over her pallid features, her spirit fled away, to bear a precious testimony before the King of kings, of thut minister's faithfulness to his awful charge.When the party, who had missed their sovereign, and were anxiously searching the wood for hitn, rode up, they found him seuted by the corpse, spruking comfort to the weeping children.The sequel is not less heautiful.I quote the words of the nar.tative, * He rose up, put some gold into the hands of the afflicted girls, promised them his protection, and bade them look to Heaven.He thon wiped the tears from his eyes, and mounted his horse.His attendants, greatly affected, stood in silent ad- wiration.Lord L.was going to speak ; but his majesty, turning to the gypsies, and pointing to the breathless corpse, and to the weeping girls, said, with strong emotions.* Who, my lord, who thinkest thou, wus neighbour unt these 77\u201d SELECTIONS.Nxwsraprr Waiting.\u2014 Newspaper writing has grown to be an art of itself.Many a literary man who thought, because the ¢ greater includes the less,\u201d every author is ex-officio qualified to be an editor, has sunk hack into the rear place of the press, after some smart writings had shown his bookish talent and his inability to deal with facts.Others, who could pour forth volumes, have failed, because they could not cope with hydraulic pressure, or prompt selection of salient points needed for the space and rapid comments of the journal, Take the best papers of London or Paris, different as the circumstances of the case may be, and you must allow that it is not everybody that could seize the moral spirit of passing history.The same may be said, with equal justice, of the American press.People of some little talent fancy they can edit a newspaper, if they can do nothing else ; hut they essentially find their mistake.Not only is intellect, but # knowledge of the world, miscelleneous information, tact, industry, rapidity of thought, a nervous style, nnd a capacity at once to catch lhe strong and weak points of every subject, are required for a good editor.\u2014 London Paper.Take Cane of THE Woop.\u2014There are few evils more to he lamented than the destruction of the growing wood.In an able speech delivered a few years since before the French House of Commons, M.Thuan, in relation to this subject, remarked, « That war, pestilence and famine are less terrible afflictions than the destruction of wood.\u201d\u201d ¢Fiance,\u201d observed the statesman, « will disappear as meny flourishing countries have, if she does not follow the example of Cyrus, who planted forests in Asia Minor.It is only the abundance of forests and water that enables China to support her three hundred mil- liens of population, because in this empire, there are more trees planted than destroyed.Spain so highly cultivated, and so densly populated, in the time of the Romans, (he Moors, and even Charles the Filh, owes her desolate aspect at present, to this waste of wood.\u201d The same is the case with most of the countries in Asia, and the same unquestionably, ere long, will be the case in this country, unless efficient and speedy measures are adopted to prevent it.It\u2018is indeed a painful contemplation to behold the useless and wanton destruction so inveterately waged aguinst our nalive forests.\u2014 American Paper.Dancers or YourH.\u2014Says a graphic writer, The history of many a wreck, if written, would Bad something like this: Iwas y father\u2019s son; tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.They indulged my whims, and pampered my appetites, instead of teaching me to control them.My career of indulgence began with sweetmeats and confections.At twelve or thirteen I put away these childish things for the manly indulgence of the cigar, and social glass, \u2014fiom these the way was whort to the card table, the billiard-room, the bowling alley, and the play-house.And, behold in tbe twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night, there met me a woman in the attire of 2 harlot, and sublle of heart, who with much fair speech caused me to yield ; with the flattering of her lips she forced me.I went after her straightway as the ox goeth to the slaughter.or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, till a dart struck through my liver\u2014as a bird hasteth to the snare aud knoweth not that it is for his life.\u201d \u201cO the heart may mourn o'er a close link torn, And scalding fears may roll, Bul \"tis better In weep v'cr the grave so dccp Than the wreck of living soul.\u201d OVERWIHELMING ARGUMENT.\u2014 Dr.Lathrope in one of his sermons says, If it were true that there is no God, what evidence can the Atheist have, that he shall not exist and be miserable after death ?How came he to exist at all?Whatever was the cause of his existence here, may be the cause of his existence hereafter.Or, if there is no cause, be may exist without a cause in another state, as well as in this, And it his corrupt beart and abominable works make him so unhappy bere, that he had rather be annihilated, than run the hazard of a fare existence, what hinders but he may be unbapry for ever?\u2018The man, (hen, is a fool, who wishes there was no God, hoping (hus ta be secure from future misery ; for, admitting there is no God, still he may exist hereatter as well as here : if he does exis his corruptions und vices may render him miserable eternally, as well as for the present.\u201d Be ve srso Reapy.\u2014Let it be our constant care to be ready for heaven, and let us leave it with God to order the circumstances of our removal thither, and that with so much deference to his wisdom that if He shouid refer it to us to choese, we would refer it to him again.Grace teaches us in the midst of life\u2019s greatest comfoits to be willing to die, and in the midst of its greatest crosses to be willing to live.The Saviour was acquainted wilh grief and we must expect to be so too.\u2014 Matthew Henry.; Deasivg with CavILRES.\u2014ÀA company of infidels, not long since challenged their neighbours to à debale.One of the friends of the Bible carried to the meeting a plain, serious Tract, addressed to sceptics, and occupied the time alloited to Lim in reading it to the company.This conduct evinced modesty, and & desire not to gain reputation for himself, but to tnake known the truth.In dealing with such as oppose themselves, great rexponsibility is incurred.He who takes such an occasion to make a fierce exhibition of himself us a disputunt, will be likely to do more harm than good.But he who mildiy brings forward Bite truth, and occup es the attention as much as possible in that way, may preach to great purpose in such conversations.All ambition to make a conquest, for one\u2019s own honour, is to be put away.A friend who ls called to converse much with Universalists, inlorms us that bis usual method is to occupy #8 much of the time as possible in reading passages of Scripture, (bus [resenting them not with human argumentation, but with the word of God.A subduing influence is thus to be hoped for.But we are not unfrequently pained at hearing debates, especially in public conveyances, hotels, &c., in which it seems lo us thet the advocates of the Bible speak with a want of wisdom and humility which must be unhappy in its influence on the opposers, and on all concerned in the discussion, A simple and unambitious presentation of the great truths of the Bible, in their own majesty und power, is a safe method for all.The weak are thus strong, aud the undisciplined judicious and wise.\u2014 Evangelist.INTERESTINO ANTIQUARIAN Discoveur.\u2014On Friday the 19th January, the excavatois on the Caledonian Railway, working in the Avon valley, discovered, a fow miles above Bentock, some bighly ng relics of antiquity.The first object which attracted at- I find to come to pray with my dear mother.\u201d The dying wo.tention was the remains ot what appeared to have been the foundations 95 .opper coins were next turned up, about the size of our half-pen on one sid (here in 8 male head probably of one of the emperors, aud on the obverse 5 Cæsur Rome.\u2019 A sword was next discovered, which appears to be formed of brass, By far the most interesting discovery, however, was that of a small stone trough, inverted and placed upon à flat block of the same material, which was found to contain a brazen or bronze case, round in its form, two feet in length, and six inclies in diameter.Within this case was a manuscript, or rather book, written on vellum, in rolls, was the Roman custom, and each roll connected with the other by a slip of the same material.In length it is altogether about thirty feet, and two in breadth.The writing is beautifully executed, in the Latin language, and at the top the words « Historia Rome,\u201d in large characters, are quite distinct.A cursory examination has led some to ruppose that it is a copy of part of Livy\u2019s celeb:ated history 5 and ss it is expected that the whole of the manuscript can be deciphered, perchance some of the lost books of the Roman historian may be now restored to the literary world.À small masusciipt was also found in the case, also written on parchment, and about a foot square in size, but the writing of this very illegible ; on the buck are the words \u201c Ad Agricolum.\u201d These interesting relics, which probably owe their good preservation to the close manner in which their case was sealed up, have been, in the meantime, carefully taken to Moffat Manse,\u2014 Dumfries Courier.Econoxy 1x TE Scarcity, \u2014If those of the inhabitants of Great Britein and Ireland who are in the habit of using bread newly baked were to use vid baked bread, they would find that three old baked loaves would go as far as five new ones.Were all to adopt this practice, immensely more would be added to the general stock for the puppl of the public than can possibly be brought from America.Old baked bread being much more wholesome than new, the general health of the community would by this plan be promoted.Buows Baran,\u2014It has been calculated that the people might pro~ duce for themselves 5,000,000 quarters of wheat before next harvest, simply by eating brown bread.It is well known that out of 112ibs.of wheal 28lbs, are taken in the shape of bran and course flour, leaving only 84lbs.of fine flour.Now, if the brans only were taken out, which would in no case exceed 7lbs., there would be left 104ibs, of nutritious flour, more wholesome, and more digestible, as every medical man can testify, than the fine flour now in use ; so that us 104 ex- cerds 84 by one fourth, 20,000,000 quarters, which is believed to be about our consumption, would, if dressed in this way, produce as much flour as 25 000,000.\u2014 Sherborne Mercury.How To CouuH.\u2014À writer in the New York Sun, says, it is injurious to cough leaning forward, as it serves to compress the lungs and makes the irritation greater.Persons prone to the enjoyment, should keep the neck straight and throw out the chest.By these means the fangs expand and the windpipe is kept free and clear.There is an art in everything, and the art of coughing is perhaps as important in ita way as any other.À Ciacuratine Lie.\u2014During à speech on the Wilmot Proviso, Mr.Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, paused and drew a balf a dollar from his pocket, and holding it up so that every member of the Honse could see what it was, said: Sir! look at this, sir\u2014look at it, and see its inscription.¢ Liberty\u201d is stamped upon it.Shall we strike it out and insert slavery, or shall we hereafter, in the face of the world, continue to use it as a circulating lie?Yes, for a circulating lie\u2014or shall we make it tell the truth ?SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATION.\u201c And Lot lifted o his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere.\" \u2014Gen.xiii.10.Jordan.\u2014This river, being the principal stream of Palestine, has acquireda distinction much greater than its geographical importance could'have given.It is sometimes called « the river,\u201d by way of eminence, being in fact almost the only stream of the country which continues to flow in summer.The river rises about an hour and a quarters journey (say three or three miles snd a quarter) northeast (rom Banais, the ancient Caesarea Philippi, in a plain near a hill called Tel-el-kadi.Here there are two springs near each other, one smaller than the other, whose walers very soon unite, forming a rapid river, from twelve to fifteen yards across, which rushes over a stony bed into the lower plain, where it is joined by a river which rises to the north-east of Banias.A few miles below their junction the now considerable river enters the small lake of Houle, or Semechomtis (called the waters of Merom\u201d\u201d in the Old Testament).This lake receives several other moun- {ain-streams, some of which seem to have as good claims to be regarded as formirg the Jordan with that to which it is given in the previous statement ; and it would perhaps be safest to consider the lake formed by their union as the real: source of the Jordan.After leaving the lake, the river proceeds about twelve miles to the larger lake, called by various names, but best known as the Sea of Galilee : after leaving whieh, it flows about sevent miles farther, until it ie finally fost in the Dead or Salt Sea, [It discharges into that sea a turbid, deep, and rapid stream, the breadth of which is from two to three hundred feet.The whole course of the river is about one hundred miles in a straight line, from north to south: but, with its windings, it probably does not describe a course of less than one hundred and fifly miles.Burckhardt says that it now bears different names in the various divisions of its course : Dhan near its source ; Ordan lower down, near the Sca of Galilee ; and Skeryd between thet lake and the Dead Seca.DAILY BREAD.Marcu 22.« Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in ail things.Now they do it to obtain & corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.\u201d \u2014 1 Goris.25.+ He that ovorcometh shall inherit all things.\u201d\u2014 Rov.To be only an almost Christian is a very hard thing; but to ben Christian altogether makes all easy and pleasant; and such as desire to have the whole Christ, bis whole salvation and all that is his, must needs give themselves up to him, not only in part, but wholly, according to that fundamental and most reasonable rule, « All for ali; \u201d and, as far as we deny him anything, we make ourselves unhappy but the more we are resigned to him, the mote we are fit to enjoy him and his spititual blessings.ge Many would sonner be persuaded to follow Christ if it was allowed to serve him by halves, and reserve some things to themselves.But what could that profit them ?Christ will not bargained with: and nothing is more dangerous than the ng our hearts betwern bim and the world, or wailing from time time for a more convenient season to break through.Thus you may live many years, and be neither cold nor hot; and so at lest be spewed out of the Lord\u2019s mouth, Consider this well, 0 ye double-minded, lukewarm souls! Christi~ anity requires great striving, and overcoming all things, even our most favourite and darling lusts.Rouse, therefore, thy drowsy heart,\u2014 re thyself no longer,\u2014rise above the trifles of this world, fight the good fight of faith, and lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called.\u2018Take away my darling sin ; Make me willing to be clean; Make me willing to receive What thy goodnim waits to give Force me, Lord, with all to part Tear ail idols from tm rt; Let thy power on me \u2018Take awuy tbe boart of stone ~\u2014Bogatsky. 96 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.1847 that he declared it bis intention to prossoule the war inte the ver.hich had THE NEWS.et Masion, in the conducting of which he would be scoond to a i there.At Yara ear Mortons lie ses ES dut Cesar avt nulles\u201d vas his motto\u2014adding, the President knows in tents, while they wero building their house.An advanced guard ol le, about five hundred in number, had already arrived in the coun.CANADA.oe ear unos wlom th cumpaie y.T .y ; ; hae declined to acce ler whons tho campaign |tey.The A i St.Paraion'a Dav.\u2014The Irish Roman Cathal y cearding has been catried forward with as much success ns was possible andre the Las or ah Man, fine.among tem, 8 toni aon formed in procession from the Reeullet Church, at seven o'elock.[diffculties with which Uiey luboured\u2014Mr.licnton in storming with fury\u2014 \u2014Tho Atrevid at New Orleans a ere emmy.rings ve h Fol .steamer \u2018I'weed, was lost on the son = Bixty persons were drowned.An ex.on Wednesday morning, the 17th inst , and proceeded through the Piece |g cau bear aw rivals in the honours he intends to win\u2014and herein lies the news that the British Royal M d'Armce dure St Jane Street, and scrom tho lly Market Lo We, Berar of bin destino of the Major Generalip, \u2018 L'urihenst nf Carden a commenced abo nek.Isarnaisicrer 10 Pain rnox à Hor-Inon.\u2014Au oxhibition of extraordinar: : ; church was contéctated by tie Coadjator Nxhop sf Mon re, and berm incre te Tani occurred ut the Marsachuete Genera Hapial sy [edition (as seut from Ce re ova ni ; was preached by he Rev.Me.Counuly.It wan past 12 o clock ded Ye Saturday lam, says the Surgical Journal :\u2014A pnticnt was proscit\u2014a man culnrs, from the Pica; ae a od leaf mime additional parti- Ap clergy on ii von ho ant) : res Pre ro m advanced 0, we understand, was Riuriog under paraplegia, seen anothor letter written Lys Spanish Hd pis Te dered the Land avd of ergy.in 4 he sme manner in rh bh they aero Po having a arigin in caries of the Jouer mehr for wich Pre Warren fre rio the above ad eC ens Be .; , + propose je uctusl cautery.tee the ent hind inhaled the letheon, | w vi + ares Boies ae a very showy apy prornec, and prie in : very Jog live.dre Warren run an iron ra heated Oe eat.to the fength of about wry fifir.five pases en in the wool, wed the officers pu crew made Tambor operas he, pi the eh \u201cab ee n inevedible he tao feet, Hi and down the buck, each side 'of the wpine\u2014buruing two lines nt designate to which class re pelonged i.a, ho accuunt doos Tranecript.sn ono wi le.and one un the other, und then carried it 2ig.xag acroas, he.\u201cI'his wecount was derived from the superearg of the vessel, who, w nine DaeauruL Ourrace.\u2014On Saturday morning last, about 1 o'alock, Mr.a tous processes, doc voue distances Tho pationt durjug tie mens wap saved in « boat belonging to the Feed, and had arrived nt Sisal, Hlersieun, of Chambly, wa oh ea Ton brother hws Mr.Grear'a| aid od rom applied to the naked st to whut be Tho \u201cTweed bad 1170, flasks uf auiskoilver un board mad péter vo they onse, beyund the canal, und had renched the bridice when he was attacked |, .\u2018The Spanish brig Emilio had siilcd to render assistance, and they dy & ruffian armed with a pistol, whee at once fieed at en.Two ot hors then Me ThHOURAND THRKE UUNDRED AND THIRYY NOLLARS RENARD Th Po tal piling our, vosecls at Campenchy on the 18th ult.for th sams game forward, bane Low bog Br.lervns hoes on he A pan nial of he Ded tae Ary uf nds Nations, Flee po ue eo rares Paorruura Ocray.\u2014The United States pro Coun mow bk.cil happened tha the ert of Mr Uiaarte, cosard ol thirty thouend three tone fr the UE doltar for eller Deen.Gapiin Suaukinud, from Piuludalpiia, bound Lo, Tunis rawford was, roue time alter, crane by the spot, and Caine to lis vuccour.The names und particular dasoriptions of cach soldier are contained in the endeavouring to enter the inlet, 1 hai quite bur, on the 2h, ull., in For sune ahjeet the laine scout tu have renamed ; var oh ir viet, and advertisement, of the brig Lv irdeall i Frigid saved from the rock when they und that a person was comin bis he hey turhed from \"; \u2014 A ; A J, : , .- , ich was in February.when hey Gand aL ie man, sn ing, IL ont A Mi een D the New York Legis.Voom supposcd to be a ttl oss.Officers nd crow wore saved , Sato the sleigh.The latter, however, with great presence af wind, presented pr LE Bra enithy man here, sys oF SF Lin Garettc, hun - the butt end of bis whip, und threatened to fire an thems be then hastily| a boy named © Reuben,\u201d alumet white, wh las ho has caused 10 be branded BIRTHS.dragged the unfortunate man from th ground, to which hin hair had beet] iy the face with the words, * À Slave for Life.\" Tho man who perpetrated Mantreal\u20148ih inat., Mrs James Leavere, of naoi 11h int, Mra M.D toed hy tho [rast and his blood.After taking Mr.Hervicux hone, it wan |p, yor jo gn Englwhnian., 13 ra James Hall, of a son, 16th inst Me Mit Dee of found tat his hands and fect were trogen, and 10 cxpeetid that ainputie [00 0 suppress gumbling, which lis passed one House of the Penne on, .y hid ion will have to be performed où more than ons of lux Linke, Ho wan uni |yylvania Legilature, utskes gambling a penitentiary offence, and authorizes {jy hp 6 ble te speak till su ay ; and we belicvo m nat yet ot unger.4 is to] 110 officers of the law tu break spon houses toscarch for gambling apparatus, Oshawa, Whithy\u201410th inst,, the wifo of the Rev, John Pentland, of u dsushter, be supposed that Mr.lHervicux was mistaken for aio person; dn 1 oon the oath of any person made: for tho purpose before the justice of the Buse Mount, near Cuokaville, C.h inst, Mrs P.Z.Romain of s deughter.Certain that the wretches who perpetrated Uo bord crime, wero Way uk eace, and also subjects the offinder to heavy fines for breschies of the law.Freon pe of udnughter.some one, wh they expected to pass; for several other dleighe, passing 10 8157 40 person shall invite anothor to a place of gambling, he shall be held Faronte- wife or wiki, of an, party at Mr.Craw lord's, weru stopped by thew, and their vccupants scrubl|acrmonally pempous:ble for ull loesse the persan thus invited shall sustain, and \" ov aid Herald a a chéld of two montre old wan left at the door of be ned not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars.MARRIAGES.oO EEE DEN aigu vas a tr Fe lan Fe rm oe an o m ne Has ns mon onthe ght fat, wo mem, named 3.fl arte and Fes Br di of other Buen and blown up during tho fire of 1835, for the protection of g\u20146ih ines.Mr Pau) Ross, of Guelph, to Mise Mary Anu Jolnstan, of } ant, tw .- De .the city, by order of Mr.vrence, Wi pe \u2014 Desmartran, weir cussing the ice from Lapratieto Montreal, shont 8 n'eloek the city oder of, Me, Legend au Prend 0150 fmets cieorge M.Abbots, Esq., M,D,, to Caroline L.Lamb, sdopted sa the cvoning, ond had reached that part of the River between Si Pantel Tue Licesse QUESTION IN Venwont.\u2014On Tuesday, 2ud instant, the X meses 13th st., Mr Joseph Browa, of Slipto Tite aud Montrval, when they were stopped Ly two men armed with pistolé,\\eitinons of Vermont determined ut the ballot box the question whether the pli es ME ea du M wha cansmanded them tu ston, and presi demanded their money, traffic in intasicating liquors shuld be permitted any longer, Last year the \u2018Ningnra\u20142d i ames Thomps threatening to kill thew if thev did not duliv this way they took question of license vr tu liconse was detrmined by each county for itacif, Lark wom, £93 10x from Baretie, and $30 from Bices, Fle horse hid he the [but the Legislutore at its lust scesion pansed a fuw to submit the quention to | games M° int Cu meantime, and was sflerwurds found and delivercd by the Police to We pro- |e peaple of the whale State, so that\u201d the traffic should cither be entirely 81 Cather Or ote Willis Smith, to Miss Ellenor Buist, both of th rietor,\u2014 Hei ald.; prohibrted or nllowcd on equal terms in evory town.Bisty-two towns give | Tawndip of Lugth, 7 : ' © We learn from the Pilot, that on the same evening that the eutrage was | majority of 4,172 for no license, and there is overy reason to believe that | Spring ly Wah Jan.Mr William Edward Watkins, to Sarah Ju wed tpn Wr.Hervivus, Me, Murphy, of the Easigrant office, wet {whole Stata has gone (ho saa way.\u2014 Presbyterian.RT OF iiiam Hatrisan, to Miss Mary Ann Porte, dtl} dreadfully beaten near the place where the above avtrage was petpelrates RecaviTiNG AT Tue Ja\u2014Some of the disorderly persons confined in Treasurer, lo Maty, Kecond capte of he tate.317 eames Theo was na tisteke in Mr.Murphy's case, as the rutliaos knew huts well.jul have lately come ta thu conclusion that & boyy of twelve dollars, and Mr Lewis Cameron, to Mrs Bain, 16th int., M¢ Alexander though he cannot identify them.right dullurs & usonth, besides a chance for one hundred snd sixty acre of nheths Jeakin, ; : aE be weive indisidunle are m cumodv, on n charge of ad, in far Vetter than bring coped op in a narrow esl.Seven of thew Charles Grun, of Brantford, to Miss Matilda Aun, third having italy el fre to the property Mr.Myer M.P.P.at the River [bave cntisted within a week pust.\u2014 Rochester Democrat.rent.Two of the party have tururd Queen's evid-neo.< - Cu cures Sortiens OrrnaTion.The cficacy of the inhalation of the Faaubs on vite Corrow Hover.\u2014We hear that an extensive fraad hay vapour af sulphuric ether is an antidote Gr pain in surgical operations was recently been pract d upon tho Bostun Custos hous, Some enterprising rip re de Dr Pa bre 2 Se a, pr Ee Ce cey, patient whee tocs had been Lbitten beyond recovery was \u201cPhi + ie nai 3 ; : aperated upon this morning, by Dr.Dauglen for the removeal of them\u2014ap House.This baggage, it is raid, convinted of vuluablo aces, and the scheme , widow of the Inte Luis Bergue, dit Lajennesse, sped 78 operation ante tediuus and painful even than the amputation of x thigh succeeded au far na to pass throuzh all but one case, which was scized upon years, 18h the Mai Holmes, wife of Mz William Parkyn, sod 3d years, The inhalation was carried on during & minute and a half previaus 19 tie: by the suspicious gentlemen conuccted with the revenue.Probably there in Biythfield, on the Madawask\u2014T4th ult., Mr Henry L more of a story connected with the subject than our intormation allows us Guelph a inst., Eliza, wife of Mr Archibald Arms ., Mce Patrick Foster, of & son, 8s inst., Mrs Murk Tovel, Parkin, of 5 daughter.RKacah Inte Town, bok jh M'Intyre, , of Thorald, to Miss Mary Queter., Mr G.A.Firman, to Ann, cldest deughter of the late Mr only 1 Bride, to Angeline, youngest daugliter of the late DEATH, in, wile of Mr John M\u2018Kentie, nzed 37 years, ghiter of the late Mr Jo E.L, Miller, aged nine bella M*Tavi aged 36 yen: 15th inst., Dame fi ang, aged 35 years, nhrook\u201413th ule,, Elizabeth, wife of Hiram Wm, Seely, after à short but firet incision being made, which evidehily was not felt by the patient, and eB ; the toes were removed without the slightest evidence of pain on his part.w toll.\u2014Boston Courier.painful illness, \u201d ; He did not moan or groan, nor did fie atiempt Ww withdraw bis foot from un.MISCELLANEOUS.aay Fn CO Elizaueth Morril aged 6) ven: formerly of Roy- r «Vi.E 3 dor the sealoe], an involuntary movement siways nude even by the mont ; \" \u2014 stoical endurer of pain.\"Ta aperation over, Hie tubo was taken from bin Staveny 13 Eurer.\u2014Ebrahim Pacha has given freedom to all the slaves in ee Sith er re ieee, Margaret, wis of Mr Walter W.month, when, drawing a Jeng breath, he exclaimed, gazing about lim, his own service.; Eeckelt, in the Zsth year of her age.16i inst.the wifo of Mr lrwin Stafford, a waful trance He did not experience any unpleasant after sen.A Gear Barrie.\u2014 Accounts from Constantinople, dated 13th January, ged about yen nthe TH Lu ) | - He states his first fecting ta have been rigidity of the eye ball, and M80 ANC Circarsitns lave gained a brilliant ristory over the Russians.ai Cathori a ers ov of in ase Btr lan De of Mi Tamm of virion, although he describes this latter effect som-what curiously.On ihe 191h December they sturmed Marquki, having complotely defeated gichard Havens \u201d \" 1 the wie of Be y 1 looked at the ductor bul couldn't see him» He farther said, the Russians, and killed a greut number of them.The loss of the Cirensmi- ToronloTih inat., Willinm, youngest son of Mr Danicl Orvis, aged 7 years 1 \u201c1 felt the knife it was cuttmg round and between my tocs, but it did |#\"e was 300 men.When the accounts Irft, they were preparing to attack gone sd days M Augustüs Jones, of emall-pox, youngest brother of the sot cause me pain.and 1 thought [ winced, and drew back my foot us the \u2018Aboukour.\u2014 Mercantile Library Association News Book.Whitby 2d inst.rane, only surviving son of the late Mr Stillwill Wilson, toes werc being taken off.* He conld not tell whether all wee blank be.Mesaxcnor Catagrrorte \u2014Ruosy, Jun.21.\u2014An inquest was held yes.nged 48 yearn, ! * , fore lim, or whether ho saw any objects.lis breathing, he says, he heard terday, nt Esvenhull, before Mr.Seyrñour, on the bodies of two young men, Williamatown, Gleagarry\u201412th ins with land distinctness, Thus far cven 8 great blessing is proved to be at named Willam Smart, and Smith, who were in the service of a fur.lack, youmtes ib wh wil lim Pen command, snd there is no doubt but that as operaturs here become more ex.Mor residing at Easenhall.On Sunday night tho deceased retired to rest, = ve Senced in administering this strange and powerful agent, more perfect and taking a pan of coals with them, unknowy to their master, to warm their beds, which they afterwards emptied into a pan of charcoal placed near the PRODUCE PRICES CURRENT\u2014Moxregar, M ch 22, 1847.a.in the fourth year of his age, Edward AM, iel K.Church, of Cobeurg.desirable results will be obtamed.Kt temporarily deprives the patient of the .N : power of volition; it deadens the sensibility without affecting the senses.\u2014 sloeping.roum Cor and used for airing the cheese-room.The followin, .do» 4d .& 8 de \u2018Quebec Mercury.morning, as they did not appear ut the ususl time, their door was opened.Asuue, Pots,perewt27 Ga 27 9 Beer, Prime Mess, The Magor and Town Conneil of Cornwall have addrewed the Governor and both were found dead, one on the bed and the other on the floor.À Penrls, .27 Ga 27 9 perbrl, 2001be.G0 © «00 0 General.In his reply His Excellency says:\u2014*1 am decply impressed post mortem exumintion was made, but nothing deleterious being discovered, Foun, Canada Su- Prime, .50 0 «00 0 with a convictian of the great natural reswirces of Canada, and most anxious the inference ww that they had been overcome by the fumes of the charcoal, perfine, per bil.Prime Mess, per that ile governinent and the people should cnoperato for thew development, which was found to have been consumed.The jury returned a verdict, 196 The.:33 663 9 tierce, Wdlbe.00 0 «00 © To this abject my wirenuous exertions will always bo dirccled; and I trust * Accidental Death™ ; Do.Fine, 0e 32 U Ponx, Mese,per br.that befure long 1 shall be abie to render myself, by personal observation, Burrist Orricrrs Roasrep ative ann DEvounen ev Canmmars.\u2014A letter| Do.Sour, .none 200M 90 0 495 0 more miimatcly acquainted with the fertile districts of the West, and their has been received in London, from a officer of H.M.war eeamer Driver,| Do.Middlings, .nono 0 ao 0 enterprising habitant, detailing the particulars ofan engagement between the British and the New Indian Meal, 168M.none Prime, - 0 a00 0 Upwards of £1000 have been collected in Halifax for the relief of Ire.Zealanders, in which ten men of the Carton frigate wero kilicd, and thirteen Outmenl, brl.2241b.33 0 6 33 9 Cargo oc 0 land and Seotlatd, and remitted to England by the Combria, \u2018The town wounded, exclusive of several men of the 83th regiment, The savages| Guy, Whost U.C.Burren, perlb.\u2026 7 ¢ 0 8 and environs of Three Rivera had contributed, ap to Thursduy last, the sum roasted alive two European officer, whom they devoured.The writer adda Beat, Gilbe.3 Csr, full milk, the additional melancholy intelligence of Licat.Philpotts, the sn of the| Do.L.C.per min.o 100 Ibe., 0 250 0 0 Laup, per beat a \u2018Vauow, per Ib, a > = - of £161 10s, 3d.On the 8th instant, the detachment of the 14th Regie LX ! ment, now in garrisn at Cherlottrtown, under the command of Captain Hishop of Exeter, having been scalped, roasted alive, and onten by the Barry, Minot,.Dwyer and Lieut.Trevor, contributed ano day's pay towards the suffering Zewlanders.Shortly after his melancholy rate, the eye.g'ass of tho gallant |Oxra, .of Vrclund.The.amount of contributions to the Irah Relicl Fund, |oficer wes found near (he tpt wher he was murdered nd dev rien) Pa rough-.44a 0 § cived at Toronto, to the 10th March inclusive, wa .tontanD EU .\u2014There is p ayn î received ut tot ou March inel .©, was £1,719 15e 03d a general movement throughout the tons and villages of the north, 0 dol 4.Both sorts were held pra day Morning, March ns UNITED STATES.away with the entertainment usually affurded on the voeasion of funerals, # 64, 10 27e, 9d.; males have since bren made at the rater rate = P ul by Drcrmiux or que License Question.\u2014It will be recollected that there have |urthenenmne to the humbler classes vf the penple, and which often dege-| pearis \u2018are.now dull at 276, 6d.to 27s.96.ls, uo! been three cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, invalving |erates into excess À striking memento of the old Highland funcrals may \"p00 Wey sold to ome Oe during tho carly part of tho week at the constitutionality of the License laws pussed by Mussachumetts, Ihode still be sec à few miles from Corpach, near the western terminus of the 204, 34.o 30s 6d.for delivery in Juno, and 31s.to 3x 94.for delivery in Island, ané New Hampehire, The ground oi objection was, that the pro.Caledonian Canal.On the southern bank of the canal is an ancient bury- May.On Frida.and Saturday the Tmarket became \u201canne.and pid of hibition to cll ardent spirits by the State laws, imterfered with the revenue | ing ground, and beside it a curioys grecn mound of earth in the form of 8 several nda of barres wero-mado at 31s.for delivery in \u2018Jane, 31.Gé Jaws of the general government.These h after long delay wid horseshoe, which wus constructed in that singular shape some centuries 3go, | May and June, and 32e in May .most thorough trial, terminated, and it is decided, the laws of the seve.m order to accuminudete the sitendants at funcesls.After the intennent Wueat-\u2014Lower Usnada Wheat ie coming in freely, and commands ral Stats are nat in conflict with thoes of the general government \u2014Titus the people were seated on the grass in the curve, hile the opening gave ls, 10d.to Gs.3d.per minot, according to quality, and Tie demand of tho he law of New-Humpehire, which controls the power over licenses generally, aceese to tho servants to bring in the wine and apirits con day.Sales have been made at Ge, Gd.tr Ge.Bd.ner mitot cleaned and put and the law of Masmchusetts, which forbids the sale of any smaller quune nccasions, IU is still the custom to hold these orgics occa ok i Muy, cash then, In Upper Canada What there is nuthin Pa tity than twenty.eight gallons, sre all affirmed by the court, The importance moquestered wat, and many : forvid Gelic addres and ul Juaich on pour ÿe a of this decision, now that the people are movin) in so many of the States tn pourcd vat to the memory © tho various partice cum he narrow _ ut à : ; tect themsclves sgninst this denorationg and impoverishuble traffic, can house\u201d in the adjain festing-place.Tho bagpipe, loa, sometimes added Bascer ah a eb po anchor ory delet minote inh bo aver.catimated.Our own liconee law, ; as well un those of Vermont the wild notes of a lament,\u201d which heightencd the effuct of the strange for delivery in Me and New.Jersey, nnd that which we hope soon to see in Penuayivania, de: scones Co y Evxork.\u2014An article in the London Spectator fl eulen.Mees has been sold at ols CITY meaaa CTY euvuo 184.Prime Borf ia vaioublent $10 ee another token of encouragement Lo the (rende vf sobriet: atder, the Oth, under the head af \u201c* Taples of the day,\u201d on * The Coming War in Ed religion, It wri st bo Jorg Dolor the bad business will A Lo.Europe.\u201d has attpieted contiderablo atlention, \u201cThe writer commences by [Perl and Primo Mowe ot a tor has been sold at 76.per I eat all the fre States \u2014Ezamiaer.ying that * the year opens with general presentimenty of war in Europe, Quebec sl se.3d.Rad there had been engagements at ator pe Nonue Livres Detawanr.\u2014=That factious Senate, who, more from fear|and we cannot deny that the balance of probabilities is against ite continu.) KL Fly in.May.00 than from any love for slavery, defeated the wise |ingg much longer, \u201cA strong impression, 18 said, prevails in London, that De onanae, \u2014 Bank rate, 7 per cent.; Private, 6 per cent.ed upon this decision.[strikes another \u2018blow nt the rum interest, and \u2018Tux Conso Wan 1m Paovision rime and P.M.Pork ure held at $13 and $15, but no of what people would ny ; and prudent plan of aba ition in this State, dors not scem tr have quenched Russin in abat 10 pounce upon Au Austria is weak on every side, \"TIHUS.M.TAYLOR the epirit of the Legisiature.\u2018The Legislature passed, just before its adjourn.+and when Rossin seizes the Christian provinces of \u2018Turkey, the aggressions ro er ment, a joint resolution, requestin the Senators and Representatives of that will bo upon Vienna (une thar upon he Porte.AU er is indi ; LI Sate in Comgrem to oj tho addition of new territory to our Union which nant nt the Cracow blunder.Switzerland ie tom ting Austria into suici us \u2014\u2014\u2014 shall not thereutter ve ee.from slavery.ln the sense the voin stond 4 to] projects of intervention, if not of partitivp.ln aly, Austra is threatened TIRUE OF TRA MOXTARAL WITHERS: 3; in the House 10 1a 19, Tho joint resolution doctaring that the Lrgisia with multiplied dangers Prussiv, too, trembles, Overreached by Rusia, The Montreal Witness\u201d ia published every Monday afternoon, for wre ought to provide for calling « Convention, was adopted in the House by she in placed between two fires.In glancing over the volcanic régions on the Proprietor, John Dougall, by R.D.Wadsworth, Exchange Court, a sole of 14 104.In the Senate it was portponed Ww next August by a the map of Europe, the Spectator finds that in all of them war is imminent real Subscription, exclusive of Postage, 17s, 84.\u2014Do., i paid in sd= wote of 5 to 3.Wait a little longer\u2014Lhe race of froedwn ia a long-winded \u2014but the advance of Russia on Europe would provoke & war of Europe un vence, 166.Shorter periods in pr portion, 00e.Rusmia.The designs of Russia are but little understrod by her neighbours.Ta Agonts or Clube remitting in advance for five copies the price will Remoxation or Geneaar.Buwron.\u2014The Hon.Thomas 1, Benton, re.She has assembled » largo army on the frontiors of Cracow, and Austris bo 14a.CORY.te of the *! Witness\" for preservation, sa Index -eently appointed 8 May Gieneral in the Aemy of the United Btates, ten.shows à watchlul alarm.; ; § \u2018he end of the yenr, his resignation of that office tn the Provident of the United States on| Orroox AND Cavtroanis.\u2014The British surveying vossels, the Herald and \u2018All orders remittances ure to be addresed to the Pudlisher, Mr, \u2014tho formor on lhe 18th, and the Wadsworth, All literary communications to the + Editors of the Mon- .real Witness, i\u2014is but cases, post-paid.the 10th inst, The cause of hie resignation w said io bo the refusal uf the Pandora, arrived in the bay of Penama\u20141 ) President to reeall Generals Boott, ' sylor, Patterson, and the other (Generale later on the 16 of January 1847, Their business hers is to Sn he from Mexico, and appoint Genersl Bonton Cummander.in Chief of tive Army | of the bay snd the nei in| \u2018 ey spent the paste ES i A Pro irate ing the Struita do Foca snd the [sland of Vancouver.The officers Tae Prorte's Magazine ann Westy Jot ablished fur the Pro.Ta the correspondence of the N.V.Com.Advertiser, dated March 10,: give iorent \u2018accounts of the value of this leland\u2014some saying it le very| pristor, Jour Doucauz, every Wednesday Morning, at Se per Annum, a conversation is said to have been held with Mr.Benton on the wnbjoct of valuable; others thet it is worthiene, The naturalist iu of the Former opinion.yable in advance, Orders to be addressed, post paid, to Mr.R.D.bor last, and arrived at San Fran- {Vidsworth, No.4, Exchange Court.his appointment as Mujor.General, during whioh he stated it to bs his = Thoy lett {he Straisa on the Sth oS de samme prefabs they .pper aulifornia on moe getiation to go to Mexico with plenary powers\u2014powers to carry om cisco bay American flag fying from the fort and from some Lwenty.8ve 7.©.AROKET, PRINTSS, S13] SV.PAUL sTARST, æar-\u2014powers 10 make pesce\u2014powers to predoribe the terms of pesos, ke.found the "]