The Montreal witness, 13 janvier 1851, lundi 13 janvier 1851

[" | ONTREAL WITNESS, WEEKLY REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.\u2014 \u2014 = \u2014\u2014 MONTREAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 185 1.THE NEWS CANADA.\u2014À mecting has been held at Markhym.Mr.Peter Perry in the C! t which wes rosolved thet among the objects suught foe-\u2014\u2014more immediately relating 10 the internal government of Cs ada \u2014are: lot.Religious equality.2nd.Increased representation in our Le; iature, based on population.3rd.An elcative Governor, 4:h.An elect Legislative Council.5th.The cdntrul and apprinttnent of all County officers 3 he placed the hands of the County Councils.6th.Uiennial and fixed Parliaments.and the time for holding Parliumentary clectiona fixed by act of Parlament.7th.General Law ftrform, and the abulition of the Court nf Chancery.8th.No cxpenditare of Public money, without the previous consent of Parliament.Yih.No pension to be fixed on by a neral law, but each individual case to be submitted to the Legislature to bo determined upon by its own merits, 10h, Retrenchment throughout all the departments of State.This, we ruvpose, is the exposition of he * clear grit creed, and we venture to predict that it will daily gain popularity, With respect to the Court of Chancery, the focfing is daily rising against it, Under its late management, it was an enormous nuisance ; under its present it is enotmously expensive buth to the country and to the suiturs.From what we can gather.je much more expensive and dilatory in the Upper than in the Lower Section of the Province.In the latter, the equity und the common law jurisdictions were never scparated \u2014 ramseripl.The Journal of Education for December contains an interesting letter trom Dr.Ryerson, giving an account of educational arrangements in Eng- tend.We are glad to observe, in the Prospectus of the yulume for the pro.sent yer, intimatiuns of increasing vigor in the.management, and promises of ndditiobal engravings, illustrative of objecta in Natural History, Science, and An.Tho subscription jist we hope will be greatly enlarged, \u2014 Pilst.tzowrer your Drips \u2014Many of our readers may nat be a br an Act pas-ed during the last Session of Parliament, it is now nec \\ at Jeast will be, after the firat day of January.1851, that ali deeds should be registered.The law to which we refer is the 13th and 141h of Victor, chap, 63.The third sentivn enacts that, * every conveyance in to be held fraudulent and void, us mguinst any subsequent purchaser, or creditur, who registers « judyment, unless such couvoyance shall be first registered.\u201d By the fourth section, priority is given lo the first conveyance, of to the first judgment, registered: avd by the eighth section, the mere fact of registration i» declared tu be full notice to all purchascrs.This natute then dnes in effect, render compu'sury the registration of ali docde, mortgages, jadgments, conveyance, bille of sale, &e., &c, aod it may be well it should be gencrally known, \u2014Statesman ; Smokinc.\u2014It has been ascertained that the great fire which lately oc- earred in Frederickton, New Brunswick, by which about £100,000 Soh of property was destroyed, wan the effect of smoking.man was swi Es barn, and mokinga pipe al the same time, from which the fire fell, \u2018easn:d the destruction of that large amount of pruperty.\u2018This shuuld be a 0 those who indulge tn the pernicious practice of smoking.\u2014 Delle.cille Iatelligencer.; Tus Gaur Parer Mure is now manufaëturing printing paper of fair quality, as well as the fincr kinds of wrapping paper.good market for rage and flax is now to be had in Gult.\u2014Damfries Reformer.; ; \u2018Tue Hux.W B.Rusistox, who was engaged in settiing the difficulties with tho Indiana at Mica Bay, has been remunerated for his services by the Government.\u2018The sum awarded 10 him was five hundred pounds.The Guverifinent cannot, in this instance, be charged with niggardliness.\u2014 Christian Guardian.; Tavern Licenses.\u2014The testotalers of Kingston have made choice of seven of their number to act as Inspectors of Taverns for the envuing yosr, and the Whig is eo wroth nt what he terms their * consummate impu- Crzan Gurr Pratr dence,\u201d thal, sen al the risk of packet and person, he is inciting the King- stoniens to ler and feather the Sons of Temperance.\u2014 Patriot.Raizavave.\u2014The Hon.Mr.Seymour, Engineer of the State of New York avi g returned from his excursion to Lake Simcoe, left town yestorday morning for be States, hin companion Mr.Storoy having setarned home gn Friday, nfter completing his arrangements with the Board of Diroctora®f the Oniaro, Simove and Huron Railroad, \u2014the contract for tho work having been finally adjusted, ed and sealed by both parties.The cerminty of Wiis important undertaking being proceeded with to completion, ie nuw fully established, and we congratulate nll concerned on the success that bas crowed their efforts.We refer equal satisfaction, to the movement going forward wn favor of the railronds frum the head watcrs of Lake Ontario to Prescott and Montreal.Ever since the publication, in out columns, of the very satisfact ry lettors fio INCaptain Strachan, on the subject of the To.onto and Prescott Railroad, ther has been an energetic movement all along the line, in faver of the pruject, which cannot fail of success, if faithfully followed aut, \u2018The clear and lucid exposition of Lhe subject, given by Capt.Ste: chan in his letter, took immediate hold of the public mind, and the frui'e arc already perceptible, in votes at public meetings, in favor of granta being m de bv the municinalitics, by the issue of debentures or otherwise in aid of the undertaking.The Great Western Railroad is also, we are glad to see, in a progressi re state, portions of the work being actually advertised fur eon Cact.hese are satisfuciory indications at the close of the year, which leads us to the entrance of 1851.\u2014 Colomiat.A Railroad meeting was held at Bt.Andrews on the 26th ult, when it was agreed to recommend the municipality of the County of Two Mountains, to take stock to the amount of £30,100 in the projected Montreal and Prescott Railroad, pruvided that the said Railroad pass through the County of Two Mount Montreal Herald.Conmgno, \u2014We observe with grest pleasure an snnouneement by the Lessees of the St.Lawrence and Atlantic Ruilroad, to the sffect that no spirituous lignurs will be allowed * on cr about the works.\u201d The Contractors will find this regulation av profitable fo themselves, will salutary ta the workmen, \u201cFhe rails are laid down, we understand, as far as 10 or 11 miles beyond St.Hyacinthe, und tho road will be opened to Melbourne in the Spring \u2014 Pilot.Th abitants of Oxford have resolved to take Stock in the Grea: Western road to the amount of £25,000.\u2014 Christian Guardian.The United Ceunties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry have voted £40,000 to the Prescott and Montreal Rail road \u2014 1b.\u2018The Kingaton Cu ration, on Mond ening, unanimously resolved ; That (his Council, us the represen! fur local purposes of the citisans of Kingaton, believe that the, sxpress the mimost unanimous opinion of their tituents, when they resoive that they are prepared to take such part in furthering a Provincial Railroad, to pass through this city, as is com.mensurste with the means and population of the place, in comparinon with thoss of other municipalities through which the said road may pam; and that they pledge themselves, that action will bo taken by the Corporation of Kingston, in proper season, to the same extent as taken by other Corporations où Use route of the proposed Railroad, uf same population.\u201d\u2014 Ih, Preparations, we understand, are being made Lo enlèrge and srengiben the Suspension Bridge below the Falls, ~The work will commence early in the Spring, and.when completed, will be strong enough to admit of the passage of railroad cars across the structore.\u2014 16.GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT.Tae Duke or NoaroLx.\u2014Lord Bosutnont publishes, in the Times, the following letter received by hia from the Duke of Norfolk :\u2014 \u201c Anunost Castes, Nov.$8, My Dear Lotd,~I sq entirely coincide with the opiniuns in your to Lord Zetiand that Ï muet write to you to express my agreement with you.1 ehould think that many must feel, ss we do, that uitramontane opinions sre totally incompatible with allegiance to our Soversign and with our ion.1 remain, my dear Lord, faithfully yours, Noxrotx.To the Lord Beaumont.» Insranv.\u2014Many meetings have been held in Ireland on the subject of Led John Russell's letter (0 the Bisbop vf Durham.At a mesting et Cesileber, Mr.Moors, M.P., * warned the Minister.be he who he may, thai Irishmen would tr.ok no inevlt to their faith.Thy time might come - | when their aid might be useful and their resentincnt dangerous, and an walt | naw inflicted, may be then futally remombered.\u201d My.O Higgna, M.P., neat addrersed the meeting.Tho ur, M:.Cannon, P.P., proposed, s that a momonal to Îler Majesty be prepared for ber faithful loving subjects in this country, praying tier to remove from her couneila a Minster in \u2018whom the peoplo \u2018of Ireland have nu confidence, and whom they no longer ith honor,\u201d Duke of Wellington has recummended an sddition of 50,000 men tu the English armv.: Accounls from Australia say that Smith O'Brien had mudu an unsuccessful sitempt 10 escape tn California.{ccurase or Tesrzrance I Esutavn \u2014A recent English authority hears this Lestunany to the fect, that even the idulized * social usages\u201d of England are at length perceptibly giving way befure the temperance effurta: | It with pleasure we also observe, in many pisces, * a change coming! spirit of tho ti Bacchanalinn dinner-parties are passing nwa d tea.partics arc taken their p'aces.During the past six mon soirecs live been given to Richard Cobden, at Sheffield ; James Silk Buckingham, io Scotland ; Dr.Wardlaw, in Edinburgh ; Sir Jushua Walmsley, in Bulton, At the anniversary of the Bristol Athenæum, 1,400 sat down 13gea.* The number of persons taken up in n state of drunkenness 16 also on the decreure.Ths Christiun Times says, that in 1831 onc person in 43 fell inte the hands of the police in » state of intoxication, but in 1848, 1 | wan uno in 110; being, in 1831, 32635; 1848, 16,481.\" i \u2018The Portugese Frigste \u201c Donna Maria\u201d blew up vif Macno, on the anniversary of the m irriagze of thy Queen of Portugsi.All the officers, men.nd others un buard, including sume of the United States Ship \u201c M excepting J ufficer and 15 men, perished.Faance.\u2014Ata banquet given by the President of the Assembly, he said that if dicunion should occur between the Guvernment and the Assembly, the latter wonld not be responsitle for what would befal the country.| Irat.y.\u2014The trial of the society call-d * United Italians\u201d has been concluded.Six were condemned to death, and the Ec-mimeter and 5 vthers to 3) years\u2019 imprisonment.UNITED STATES.JaMaica.\u2014AL our last dates from Jamnica tu the 12th inst.the Cholera was still raping with frightful severity.A statement has bren made by the Attorney General at a meting of the Council, in regard to the probable condition of the estates in the Island, after the d:eappesrance of the Cholera.It appears that the laboring classes huve been the prioripal victims of the discave, and that several estates have lust Weir whole laboring furce by ira ravages.The Attorney General proposcs that the Governar be requested tu apply to the Home Government for African laborers to supply the depopulated estates, referring tv the captured Africans now at the Dépôt in Sierra Leone.The question of colored immigration from the United States has been made the subject of official discussion and excites much interest, Iti poerd that the [ree culured Americans of the Southern States may enjoy the liberties and equality in Jamaica which are virtually denied them on the soil of our Republic.\u2014 Tribune.Prorenty tm Massachuserra \u2014It has been ascertained that the veiuntion of the State will be very nearly double that of 1840.The wlole real end personal property was valued then ut two hundred and ninety-nine millions.It will not now be less than 500,000.000.The valuation of Middlesex County roaches the sum of eighty.five millions standing next to Soffolk, which is about «me hundred and eighty milions.Nurfulk Cuenty has also made great advances in wealth as cumpared with 1840, especially in the city of Ruzbury, snd the towns of Dorchester and Brookline.\u2014Hur.Recorder.A Fage Cirrzen of Philadelphia waw arrested on Saturday, as fugitive held to labor in Maryland, taken before Commissioner Ingraliam, his identity sworn 10 by single person, & stranger, who said he was from Muryland, i cr would allow no delay, buton that evidence * declared formalities required by the law had boen fulfilled, and being 's ¢ igentity,\u201d he ordered him to be placed in posses.ut on being taken to bs alleged owner in Maryland, ho proved not to be the man, and, fortunately for him, the claimant had the justice to sel him at liberty, instead of sending him to the o.dealers at Baltimore; no that on Monday he joyfully retuened to his wife and children.Bat it shows the arbitrariness and wickednoss uf the Fugitive act.Sune Exovan'\u2014 A correspondent wants to know why pays Adam Giben for his enforced detention in Philadelphia and conveyance as a prisoner and a Slave tu Elkton, Md.\u2014niso, who paid the officers\u2019 expenses dr taking on \u2014alss, whether Mr.Commissioner Ingraham pockets 810 or 85 for his decision that Gibson war Emery Rice, and therefore remanding him into Slave:y.In tho absence of definite information, we can only say that w.presume Gibson hes not been and will not bu paid a cent fur the loss of his time and liberty\u2014( what business has he 10 be n nigger!) \u2014that Uncle Sam's, eapacious fab supplies the cust of the iransportation\u2014and that Mr.Ingraham | has the 810 in his pocket and puthing short.Husnt he earned Uno lust cont of it?Whe would du the seme job for less 1\u2014 Tribune.Paren Minos tx Massacuvesrrs.\u2014Uf the 97 paper mille in the State of; Massachusetts, 32 are in Berkshire county, and of these 32, ninctevn are in.the town of Lec, alune.Paper-making is tho one great interest of Ure place, and same of tie most successful and famous manufacturers in the country carry on their business there.! Veny NarvnaL \u2014Since the acceptance of the Boundary Bill by Texas, her debt has increased wonderfully.Hundreds uf claims are naw presented ! before unheard of.1tscems probable the whole of the §10,000,000 wilt | be necessary to pay the debt.The sugar crop in Texas has partially failed.Newerarns.\u2014 Publishers of all newspapers in the State of New York are requested to send to the Secretary of State two copies of each newspaper published by them on the first of January, 1831, or the eurliest publication { after that time; one copy to be depusited in the State Library, and the other to be seat to the World's Fair.A Bio Sutr.\u2014New York is famous for large ships, but one is about to be : built hy Williams & Son, of Willismsburgh, that promises to surpass in ; magnitude any merchant ship afloat.She will be twa thousand eight hundred tons burthen, and her length two hundred and thirty foot, or seven feet longer than tho United States siup.of.the-linc Pennayfvanie.She 10 to bave three decks, and will be able to carry & vest number of passengers.Mn.Carvin has obtained his liberty, by giving bonds to the State of Maryland in the sum of $19,000, 10 appest and be tried for sn asrault with intent to kil, upon « geng of men whose approach he first learncd by being Knucked from his seat wi club and laid helpless on the ground, surrounded by numbers who were ifficulty kept from Laking his life on the sput.| He well and in good Axotien.\u2014On Mondey afternoon, & man who wse Writing on dinner at the Pacifie Hotel, was violenily seized and dragged wut of the room, and carried before Commissioner Charles M.Hall, and an immediate diepreal demanded by one Parker, who professed to be an agent for somebody in Virginie.The Cominissioner, however, poutponed 1he examination till Tuseday, - st the earnest remonstrances of the srapatient claimant.claimant failed to offer satisfactory pmol; and yet the aan is detained in custody on somo pretext, the validity of which will probably be tried in our courts, A Contaarr.\u2014On Monday evening, the 23d of December, at the dianer of the Now England Society attho Amor Huuee, à man profusely syled the * God.like,\u201d and foisomely vaunted as the \u2018* Defendes of the tity.tion,\u201d made a speech in whish be lauded the sterner virtues ™ of the Pilgrims, and yet declared {1st heir descendants are nut calied upon to « imitate,\u201d but only to * emulate \u201d those virtues.At the same hour there on of his owner; man, whose office was not that of making speeches at dinner but of waitin on the table, who bud been arrested na a lugitive slave under à law whici would n have become law but for the influence and efforts of this same descendant of the Puritans, who would not imitate their storn re for right drawn from the higher law.While the Defender was drinking down wine and flattery, at Astor House, the Defencsless was in the lvok.up revulving in y the probabilities of being made & slave by the \u2018 Constitution.\u201d On \u2018Tuesdey morning, * the grd-lke™* recaved at the ystem of enlistinent gives weight to the report.that the i + crown land | firenty opposed by Uie whole province, witly the exception of a small fraction | the performance of divine was lying in the cusudy of the United States Marshal of this distrier anothor y a My HaH the adulatione of the Union Safely Com ini upin tho benefits and glurics nf tin Union.AL the asroe.hour, ang oo four of the same building, the mighty power af the Union we rem recleas.y applied to crush à man made in the image of Gud.\u2014 Independent, RELIGIOUS NEWS.Tue Jesvire' Esrare o Mantreal Witness states that it has received frum various quarters * list there in a determination on the part | rieste\u2019 party to drive through a measure, next session, forthe Pan ration of the Joguits® estates ty the Church of Rome.\u201d We can hard! credit the extraurdinary intention hers aseribed to the parties named.We cannot forget, however, that it is not long age that application was made to the head nf the government for the restoration of these estates ; and that pplication was very properly met by Lord Elgin with an unequivoeal refusal, \u2018Fhe Church of Rome hae nat the sl of a claim tr these tates ; they are to all intente nnd purposes much pub! property as she nd any attempt to pervert them to seclarian purposes wilt be uf Fi population = Faranta Examiner.Da.Beaven\u2014Puts furih à claim in prospeet of retiring fenm the T- University.Te eur demanded is a Sand mes .ma Port joa is unly nine thousand seven hundred and PPUINTHENT.\u2014The appuiatment of Mr.Herehfelder to Hebrew and Oriental Literature, in the Convery of Tovar, Lectareship of The salary 18 £150 per annum, with the fees, £1 por tern fof each student.We sew mo adveronermente 1 ih piblic papers, calling upon candidates ty make » oa ication, and trensait their testinomels.This requircs oxplans- Roman Carisonie Lisexacurer.\u2014We have just heard ingi which are worth notice at a time w.en the Homan Cater, pe very much disgusted at the resistance which tie Protestants of England are making, not to the appointment of Papal Bishops in England, for flat would be perfoctly unobjectionable, but t3 their appointment in an offensive und unconstitatanal manner; one of these 18 the seizure and emfiseati a of « package of Bibles ut Havana, by the.anthorities, and thos Bibles.ter.in the English language, not intended for disifibation among the Spanish populstion.bul brenght witis him by a Prolestant Minister, the Agent of the Seamen's Friend Suciety, for circulation among English and American seamen in the pt.The other ina Papal roscript, absolutely furbidding the inuance of Protsstant worshi © i Site et Core, whip in [ome in the Chapel of the United A New Cuvgcn.\u2014IL is stated that the leading Tractari conte; 8 scession (ror Use Church of England, and the.formation of a re gious community, ty be called tie * Primitive Church of England.\u201d The Morning Advertiser refess to the projeet the following terme :\u2014Some of the parties to whom we refer have cunscientious ecrusles against recogni- ang the supremacy of the Pupe ; others cannot bring their minda to acqui esce in the propisty of worshipping the Virgin Mary ; while thers com.der tho doctrine of priestly celibacy as aliogether unwarranted by Scripture.Besides, several of the Puseyite clergy, whe, it is believed, are on the eve of following Mr.Bennett, are married men, and consequently were they to jn the Church of Rome they would at once be divested of their clarion} importance, and be reduced 1s the humiliating necessity of submitting to be Just amidst the host of undisiinguisied laymen.The New Charch of England will be, it is said, based en the principle of recognising the ight of every clergyman within its pale to practse whatever ritoal he may prefer ; the undermanding, huwever, being that the ritual, as welt as the doctrines, will be essentialiy Romish.It m understood that ample funds for erecting new churches, and carrying on public worship in them, will be st the dis posal of the leadsts of this embryn new sect.The Rev.Mr.Bannett bas faund it noceasary to resign the living of Knightsbridge, the Bihup of London ba net length interposed, a viow lo put 8 sop to the rev.gentle.sn's Puseyistic innovations, le wil i i m te Funegiatic innoratiin will probably be an influential member Missions to Tue Jewe.\u2014 The Free Church of S reiesi among the Jews at the following places: At Pesth, oe Han European mission , Urou Hunga chers, and four Bible agents.In Austria, ong wrissionary.In Constantinople, wo missionaries and tw teachers for German Jews, two for Spanish Jews, and one for Lralinns.© Tue Hionr Ciruacit Seiarr 13 Ispis.\u20141t appears by the late news from India, that the controversy between Diesenters and the Established Church had broken aul fiercely at Bumhay, tho Bishop denying the right of interment in connected ground t» Dissenters, and threstening with some mre- vus penalty all undertakers who might asset ut a ( } ® clergyman of tho Established Church to fuser mot ationded by he Society for the Promotinn of Christian Knowlud, i the sun of £300 in aid of fund originated by the er tee ice next year in tbe various continental lan- guages.Coxversinxs.\u2014The flowing persons ar said to have 1 Roman Catholics :\u2014Lard and dy Camden ; Mr.Moses MP Ems Nigel Kennedy.brother to the Marquis of Ait; Lady Sumex Lonnor; Rev.Mr.Anderson, of the University of Osford; Rev.R.J.Butler, M-A.fureerly Unapluin to the Lord High Commis oner of the fonian Islands, me BIRTHS, Montreat~1st inst, Mrs \u2018tro Hazar, ofa son, daughter, Mts 3iConkuy, ui» daughter.Tmt, Mrs W Haddon, of sun.8h imst, Mrs J Kingston Avr uit, the Saroness de Lougueiil, 516 duughne acotie, CE\u201431nt ult, the wife nf the Rav Chas Moric Quebec\u201430th ul, Mra T Bickel n.Morice, of a son.Toronto=31et ull, Mes G C Raiffensiein, of 8 son, MARRIAGES Montreal\u20142rd inst, by the Rev J Jenkins, J Brandon, Eng, to J ter of the late Rev y.SIN inet, dy the Rev RHO, Wer Rove: Eee br © Elisshath, Jaughter of Arch Ferguson, sq.TI inst, the Rev C eclor ol ol ly ever Handyeide, Juar, daughter of D Hans Fra, or Crem Eva, of Scotinad, to All Carleton Plece=Sist ult, by the Rev F Gray, Mr Wa Scout, to Sutherland, \u2018 Lopraitie\u20143nd Mo Wm R Orr, of a Jao Auld, of a'sou, iss Margaret Mr G Outrout, je, 10 Mins Christie M' Ph Felarboror=19ih ail, Mr J Forrest Braman, of Douro lest ronal one, Brown, of Belfast, Ireland, to Macy, second deughter of BR Morrow, Esq, Co Ce Mtanbridge-iei inst, by the Rev F N Jersey, M ed dmughter ot Joseph 8 Due Fa a nd annie, iry to Augusta, Torun un.by ihe Rev Dr Burns Mr W Evans, to Mi Brown ice, NY\u2014281h ult, Toe! 2 re fom of Mrs dé land, Es9, to Dorinds, oaly daughter of the late O ol ve, Quedec\u201438th olt, Hr Thon Ÿ.MF Ca To prie cA os Young, to Mise Mary Ann Knowics, DEATHS.3 Montrea!=8th ire, Magy, wil of J F Boatw, Compton, C Ri Wh jmat, Coriolis Aie j wid Edinburgh, aged 62 yosrs, Mary M:Dewaid, of Glen Rey Col Jno P y, oped 10 yours, Rlitabeta Mistleberger, widow of the late G Plate, Kuq, \u201c y Aylmer\u20142ith ult, Mr RT Cumming, aged | .SR 38h alt.Major KI ah Beoard to.years Aut inst, Hi Walker, J ets Mary, wife re\u201424¢l 1, .où i mean ets Mar wife of Mr T Smith, and only surviving elph =FBih ult, Mr Arter, aged i , Edad, elden RE Sn County of Weare.ayed iY year nds sident som 00 J Grange le\u2014300h ult, F wife of oe Hei 0, and eldent daugbier of th ass, Capt less, tong and favo keown sa ja on the Lawrence, a, Xr ky, ship-e oldent son of Mrs E Thorsber, à 84 you us, Mr Thon Christe; d of Quebec, and n native ot Aberdeen, Srpiiend 74 routes for mans Tours 6 msrohnne 81 Johao, CE-\u20142Ith + will of John Rosier, Eog.lus: ordun, Merchant, eged 31 years, Ean ne ul ag ears, Ma DD.ia Uignrme Restor of Br Jamar bn porter rive late Rev BQ Short, Totonto~tud inst, of the croup, Edward H, 2a of Mr W Hedge, aged $ years, 10 ~ COTEMPORALY PRESS.THE CONFESSIONAL.(From the &ritis) Benner.) Popery to be hated must be seen ; and to be seen it must be exhibited.Nothing so much tended for generations to keep alive the fes- vor of Protestantism as the recollection of its impiety and its crimes ; and nothing can resuscitate those feelings but a further exhibition of these facts, und facts which are every hour passing around us, We have selected, then, the Confessional, as the first demonstration, because of the unquestionable character of that which in practised by the Lrish priesthood.We ray unquestionable, because of the deman- strable proof which can be adduced from the text books that are used in the College of Maynooth.It is universally known that confession is held as a sacrament of the first class, aud is universally practised ; it constitutes the great chain by which the Romish world sre riveted to the throne of the Papacy\u2019; and the most decisive methods have been adopied by the Council of Trent, to give this sacrament universal efficacy, since it has ruled, that itis a of God, and {hat refusal to confees shall expose to excommunication ; while the person so excommunicated shall be deprived of Christian burial\u2014so-called,\u2014 amongst the Papists the clim.x of human calamity.So important is it dermed to maintain the terrible ascendancy which this gives over human kind, that the Pope himself uniformly\u201d goes through the farce | of confession; notwithstanding his infullibility and his assumed perfect holiness\u2014the quality which leads to his name,\u2014¢ven he kneels before his confessor, as if he were the meanest of mankind, eonfessing sin, and hearing correction, receiving and performing such penances as may be imposed upon him\u2014it is, however, to be presumed, they | are seldom very heavy.The mara of Protestants have scarcely any idea of this exercise.The scratiny is terrible beyond comprehersion or expression, in the hands of an able, unfeeling, unprincipled, re- motselese and designing man.The person who is placed in the confessional is reduced to the choice of evils, either to confess everything, or to virtually perjure himself by concealing something.If he confess everything, how terrible his position! How deep his humiliation (rom being so comp'etely in the power of a fellow creature! But if, through fear or shame, he conceal anything, he is in a position still more fearful, and becomes the subject of a burden of guilt still more intolerable, He is distinctly taught to believe that he speaks not to men but to God, and that if he lie, he lies to God and not to man ; that case is an exact repetition of that of Auanias and Sapphira.Everything is done 10 render the deed impressive and supernatural.| When the penitent cames into the church, so called, he takes holy | water and sprinkles his face; and making the sign of the cross, he says over a prescribed prayer; then he goes on and kneels down before the great altar, where the great hos: is kept, in a neat and rich tabernacle, with a brass or siiver lamp hanging before it, burning, continually, night and day.There he makes a prayer to the ¢ Holy Sacrament of the Altar; afterwards to the Virgin Mary, and then to the titular saints of the Church.He then turns about on his knees, and visits five altars ; or, if the edifice be one of an humble character, with only one altar, he approaches it five times, saving each time a Paternoster, an Ave Maria, and a Gloria Patri, hen be rises and goes to the confessionary\u2014that is the place where the confessor sits in awful silence, with a cap in the form of a cross, holding a crucifix before him, with the body of Christ suspended thereon ; and there the poor trembling creature, kneeling dowa, implores his blessing ; and then commences the work of confession, stimulated by the most pungent interrogatories that the skill of man can apply.But we shalt five an account of the scene.We feel ourselves now approaching forbidden territory, according to the established code of religious proprieties, to which we have already been referring, and for the present we shall submit ; and not only so, but present an example of a prede- cegsor\u2014 the Editor of the English edition of the celebrated work of Dr.Charles Eliott.That gentleman apologises as follows for the omission from «The Garden of the Soul,\u201d ~the universal manual of the Romish Church in these realme\u2014of points of inquiry which appertain to the Seventh Commandment.It will be observed, that he repeatedly refers to Dens\u2019 Theology ; and let it be remembered that this is the text-book of the Irish priesthood, and will, therefore, furnish some idea of the sacrament, so-called, as it in practised by that body \u2014 à body which Englishmen are annually taxed to prepare for the undertaking.Let us hear the writer:\u2014 The interrogatories connected with the seventh Commandment (the sixth of the Roman Catholics,) are so indecent that we purposely omit them.\u2018Their publication, by Bishop Challoner, gives fea:ful indication what a cage of unclean thoughts his heart must have been, when such sentiments were indited and circulated among a people professing tobe the followers of Christ, and 1he members of a pure and holy Church.Nevertheless, the obscene pages of Dr.Challoner are purity unsullied, when compared with those of Peter Dens.We cannot enter the confessional with him as our guide.The instructions with which he furnishes the priests, treat of subjects which we dare not name.How agonising must be the feelings of à husband or a father, when hearing those principles of potluting Shacenity with which the mind of the priest is replete, for the examination of his wife and daughters in the dark and secret confessional, where the poor, unprotected female, bound under terror, and constrained, of necessity, to eternal silence, can have no refuge or escape, no husband or father at band, to hear and to drag from his den the monster who, under the cloak of religion, can put every feeling of the heart upon the rack, and, in proportion to her delicacy, het sensibility, her very reverence for what she, unhappily, believes to be an ordinance of God, instead of an invention of Satanic guilt and tyranny, can bow her apitit into his power, humble her into the very dust beneath his feet, if she be vir- fuous ; or drag her, if it be ible, and be be so inclined, into the paths of profligate seduction! No Popish priest can translate certain portions of the instructions for the confessional, then look a Roman \u2018Catholic husband or father in the face, and teil him of the parity and divinity of the auricular service, when he sees the questions which the priest dares to put to his wife or daughter, but which she is compelled 10 bary within that bosom which has been 20 cruelly wrung and tortured during the diabolical investiga Let any parent become acquainted with the unpronounceahle ions of Dens\u2019 Theology on this topic, and be would, with pleasure, exchange the horrors of the confessional for the persecutions of heresy, and prefer the stake id daughter to the racks of that moral inquisition to there compelled to submit.No mother who regards her offspring with a parent\u2019s love, could undertake to prepare ber child to answer the infernal catechism which is thrown open to the tyranny, the licentiousness, or tbe curiosity of & priest, in the confessional of Dens\u2019 Theology.No husband that was not the betrayer, instead of the guardian of hiv wife, could whisper in her ear what she is com- lied to listen to in the m al confessional of Dens\u2019 Theo- ogy.If that bond of 8; secrecy which they call the seal, and which is their principal engine for extorting the thoughts of the heart, were to be broken, no female could ever dare to utter to sister, mo- thet, husband, or any human ear, what she bas been forced to hear and speak, when stretehad on the rack of the confessional of Deny\u2019 Theology.Here is the mighty secret of this inquisitorial cell of ini- Quity and of death ; il is not the aystem of licentiouenese, awful as this de, but the universal and tyranny which it upholds.It is not ite effect upon tbe fe ind or feelings, but the awful subjection into which, necessarily, and unconsciously, it brings the minds of, men, end prosirates the heart of a nation into abject submission to & wisked Priesthood.No man of common intelect could dive into the secrets of this prison-bouse, could rend the iniquity of that confessional, and deubt, for a moment, the awful state of bondage, and horrible subjection into which it must subdus the female mind ; and in proportion to the virtue, (he delicacy, the religious fealings of that mind, so must be thi i » power that has | ence the dictation of Russia.The notorious league between Denmark and itself made the pro be no longe: tenable, the defeat of Russie, and to this end they are exercising their utmost activity and influence.it will decide whether Russia is tobe the dominant influence in ern, as she is in Central Europe, THE MONTREAL WITNESS.me _ \u2014 Does this seem to the reader strong ?Its one defect iv in its It comes infinitely short of the facts it attempts tn describe\u2014 which no description ean do justice.It muy be doubted whether any report can, although we have reposts before us of a character the most trighttul to contemplate.We close, then, for the present, by inquiring of our readers whether they ure prepared to pay, in perpetsity, themselves, their children, and theis children\u2019s children, £31,000 per annum to help on the work of moral devastation in these reatms ?SWEDEN IN 1850, (From the New York Tribune.) Within the past six months, the kingdom of Sweden, which up to that period had remained comparatively quiet snd unmoved in the midst of the European revolution, appears to have felt the outer circles of those waves of political agitation which run from the fiery centres of France and Germany.\u2018I'he position taken by Sweden with regard to the Danish question, manifesting (lie subserviency of her Government te Lhe dictation of Russia, has of tate altracted attention to her condition and the pround she will be likely to occupy when the two conflicting [binein es of European politics bave closed for the final struggle.We find an interesting article on this subject in a late number of the Ausland, periodical published at Stuitgard by Cotta, the main points of which we translate for the readers of The Tribune.On the death of Charles XIV., (Bernadoite,) who during his life cautiously opposed every plan for the revision of the Constitution, all eyes were turned on Oscar |, The general demand for Reform was #0 pressing that the King finally conceded so far as to promulgate a project which, while it abolished the old system of representation recognizing four classes of society, established