The Montreal witness, 3 mai 1854, mercredi 3 mai 1854

[" «tj ir 2 20 mean ee a MONTREAL WITNESS, \u2014 WEEKLY REVIEW AND FAMIL Y NEWSPAPER .\u2014 VOL.IX.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1854.YAR WAWS.CANADA.Fuexcn Parexs.\u2014 Our confrere of Le Pays who, as sn Editor, is among the most pe reads a lecture to his putrons upon the rmall encourag- ment which the French portion of the mercantile community gives to the press.He says that the population of French origin in Lower Canada, when compared with that of Engl extraction, six to one, and that potwithstanding this lurge excess in numbers, they unly support eight ps.pers, and two magaziner, none of which sppear daily, while the Englsh population sustain ninetuen, of which six issue every morning in summer, and, he might have sdded, will hereafter do so the whole year round.\u2014 Sun.S7, Lawnznoz Sreauers \u2014-These steamers ure heresfter to sail from Liverpuol on the 10th end 25th of cach month; and from Montreal an the 5th and 20th, Tux Brat Oats.\u2014 Mr James Findlay of Nichol, has made expesimer:ts by which be has been convinced of the greut superiority of Sevich barley oats over Canadian oete.He finds that 18 Scolch barley vate weigh ss much us 21 Can: n.Of Scotch cats he hae raised in the same season, on the same soil, snd under the seme treatment, 70 bushels weighing 48 lbs.te the bushel, against 50 bushels of Canadin cats weighing 36 ibs.to the bushel \u2014Elora Backwoodeman.Bap Booxs.\u2014The Collector at Cobourg last week reized a quantity of obscene books, consigned to Mr.House, bookseller of this town.Such works are probibiled by law, and their sale is attended with pensl conse quences, We are glad to knuw that the work of demoralizing the minds of youth has received, at leust, 8 temporary quictus here.We can scarcely ine a more reprehensible article u(traffic than that in lewd books.Nothing could be better calculated in open the flnod gates of immorality than such importstions.The Collector at Coburg deserves ail prawe for thus curtailing their influence for evil.We believe this importation vi * cheap literature\u201d will make a public bunfire in a few daye.\u2014 Cobrurg Sua.Cawanian Crepit.\u2014The Lundun Globe snys:\u2014It is jost twenty years sinée 1he province of Canada first borrowed money of his country, ~The loan was for twenty yesrs, and the time being up un Saturday lasi, the ls: of April, 1854, the whole sum due was paid in fuli cut of the Surplus reve.vues of the province.This fact speaks volumes for the progress uf the Culo- ny.\"A SENSIBLE Move.\u2014We are glad to notice that our Council hes made & sensible move at last, which greatly benefit the town.That is, bav- ing employment for thues persons who are so very fond of going to goal, and who reside there nine months out of twelve.We obeerved this morning, on going op John St., some len or twelve © strong and able-bodied men,\u201d amusing themselves by breaking stunes for the Corporation.Thisie the tirst move of this kind they ever made, and it appears to be a beneficial one so far, This is justly termed * capital punishment.\"\u2014 Hamilton Jour.ral.Lisez Casz.\u2014The case of White cs.Brown, resulted in the Jury nat 9 rosiogs thus virtually establishing the charges made by Mr.Brown egainst r.White.Our Cuwnrtar.\u2014The following will show (hat we are not exactly \u2018so slow\u2019 as ovr neighbours are in the habit of depicting + Steamboats commenced running between \u2018Toronto, Kingston and Hamilton on the [0th Apnl\u2014It is said neatly 1,000 new buildings will be erected in Toronto during 1854.Mechanics of all kinds sre wanted.\u2014Real estate speculations are going on in all parte of the Province.\u2014The Grand Trunk Railway is ressing sl various points.It is estimated there are 10,000 laborers at work upon it.\u2014The towns of Cobourg snd Port Hope are about tu extend their harbor facilities.The railways now being constructed by thess two interior, are going ahead very rapidly.\u2014The iron is now laid Toronto to Georgian Bay, within fifteen miles of ite northern terminus.Passengers by August can leare Rochester in the morning and be at Sault Ste.Marie in 1he next day evening.\u2014 The Grand Trunk Telegraph Lime has now 1,500 miles of wire in working urder, with eighty five offi ces.\u2014 Sykes & Co, have the contract for building the Montreal and Bytown Railrond, for $4,000,000, and the Brockville and Georgun Bay Rond for $4,000,600.\u2014Tne cost of all the railways now being constructed in the Provinces is estimated at $80,000,000.The noney comes chiefly from England on Municipal Debentures and Government Stocks.\u201d GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT.DixnER TO THE EARL OF ELGIN, GOVERNOR-GENERAL 0F CANADA \u2014 On Thursday night, s sumptuous banquet was given at the London Tavern, in honor of the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., Governor General of Canada, and to celebrate the success of his Lordship\u2019s administration of the overament of that colony.Lord J.Russell presided on the occasion, Lord Elgin, the guest of the evning occupying a seat on the Chairman's right.A very distinguished and numerous company attended on the occasion.Encuien anp FrExci SoLbiers \u2014 IU is said that the British snd French soldiers, except for a short time in 1792, have wit fought under the ramr banner since the wars of the Crusades.The rieniry that will exist in the allied army, to exceed each other in decds vi dating, will make them terrible to their Ruselan foes.CosT or Bracxino Boors\u2014The boys of the Ragged Scho.Shoe.black Society in London, earned by cleaning shoes in the street.during the yoar 1853, the sum of eight hnndred and fifiy-three pound number of pairs of boots cleaned during the year by thirty six boys, was Lwo bun- dred and four thousand seven hundred and filly, or about four thousand pair every week.ReaieTration.\u2014 Lrd El:ho has obinined leave to introduce into the Hause of Commons a bill ie tha registration of births, denths and m-rringes in Scat.land.Tha registra un is prup sed to be compulsory.There io tn be a general registry office n1 Edinburgh.under the the fleputy Clerk Registrar, Registrar.Goneral, wid Registrars throughuut tie country, under th intendence of the Sher: No attempt 18 10 de Madu the marrage law.\u2014 Scottish Guardian.Advance IN Price ur HEnr.\u2014Two munths sgn, Russian hemp was £44 per wn in the London Market, now it js £73, UNAUTHORISED Dxrurations To ForziGN Powins \u2014l1 have a Bill which ] propose to lay upon your Lordeh-ps table.It is entitled, An Act to Prevent ary Unauthorized Negotiations or Intercourse touching Public Affairs between the Subjects of Her Majesty and any Foreign Potentate or 8 Ths object of the Bill is 10 enforce the law of nat upon the road from ions respecting blic affairs shall be conducted directly through the Government, or through reign Amb adors and Minivters duly in ixed and respos sible for the New-York was $413,686,9: , advice they give.1 shall be able clearly 10 shew that this is the law of na.| the useessments of 1852.This tions, end Feban be able to show that it has been in several instances | 149,615, or an increase of ove: infrin to be infringed to a degree alarming 10 the public safety\u2014snd that we have an unduubled right to legislat> with respect to the conduct of Br tish subjects abroad \u2014 Lord Campbeil in Mouse 0/ Lords, Mistakes or THE l'Etxonart.\u2014As en illustration of the kind of mistakes incidental to the proscnt system, the following, which have come within our own knowledge, may serve, An invalid gentleman announced to his friends his state of health and his intended movements in the following brief form: + All well.\u2014At Northamplon on Thursduy.\u201d By the umission of punctuation ghd eapitsls, the message received in London was\u2014< All well at Northampton on Thuredsy.\u201d A mute serious mistake arose on the tramamimsion from Newcastle of thie price of tno boats offered for sale.The mossage roc :ived slated the price to be £230, An nrder to purchase wes immedisiely transmitted, but it web aflerwerds found that, owing te the omission of ihs word ** each,\u201d duuble the sum intended had been paid by the agent.When euch errors occur in sending messages from uns part vf England ts unuther, it may be supposed thal matisrs sre not improved when the messsge« have lo underga translativns on being transmitted to the Ceatinent; end scummunications sre somolimes received no mymerinus 95 would defy the Sphynz to unriddio them.Dut nothwith ding errors such ae these frequently uecur, they sre only exceptions to the general correot.\" , by which it - , 10 the prejudice of public aflairs, in ths country\u2014that it is lisble | ments of 1853.\u2014N.¥.paper \u2014 news vf teleprapth.ic messager, and every day handreds of important transe.tions wre (ected, and lurge sume of money are paid, on faith of the aceura cy of these mewager, and without cause of complaint.\u2014 London paper, Tus Cusser.\u2014Mr.Hind, writing Lo the Times says thal the nucleus «f the | comet that eveaing was rather more than 5000 miles in diameter, and the ex tent of the tail 6,000.000 miles.At ha best views he was certain of the ex.wience of » luminous jet, thrown out from the star-like print rome 30,000 mies along the preceding border of the tail,\u2014an appearance which haa been remarked in several previous comets.THe PLARET Mans.\u2014A correspondent of a London paper calls attention to the aspect of tain planet, as follows :\u2014\u201c He is so situsted at this lime, being nearly in eppotition, as to allow observers a very fair view of his seas, continents, and polar ocean.On exem'ning him carefully with a good five- foot achromatic by Dolland, | was struck by observing a fine dark line, eut ting off a segment around the southern pole at a somewhat greater distance than (he antarctic circle would be from the south pole of (be Earth.\u201d France.\u2014The fo'lowing \u2018 order of (be day\u201d has been addressed by the Marshal to the a-ldirrs of Africa :\u2014\u201c Soldiers.\u2014In a few days you are to leave for the Fast.You are going to defend ailies unjurtly attacked, and to take up the defiance flung by tbe Czar at the nations of the West.From the Baltic to the Mediterranean Europe will applaud your efforts and your success.You will combat ride by side wilh the English, the Turk« Egyptians You know what is due to comrades\u2014union and cordiali intercourse of the camp, devotedne-s 15 the common caurefon the field of battle.France and England, rivals in other times, are now friends and The two countr es have learned to esteem each other while combating.{hey command the seus.and their fleets will feed the army, white is in the camp uf the enemy.The Turks and Egyptisns have heid ainst the enemy eince the commencement of the war.Alone and unaided they bave beaten them in tevers) actions.What will they do when seconded by your battalions 7\u2014Soldiers ! The eagles of he Empire resume their flight\u2014no: to mecsce Europe, but ts» defend it.Bear them on once more, ae jour fathers bore them befo:e you; and, like them, let us sll.before we quit France, repeat the cry which so often led them to vietory\u2014* Vive l\u2019Empereur !* A.De St.Anvaup, Marthal of France, Commander-in-Chis lof the Army of the East.\u201d War SonGs IN Pans\u2014| be streets of Paris have been lately inundated wilh songs calculated to stir up tlie war-like spirit of France against Russia The Czar and the Cossacks are he'd up as demons, and Nicholas himsef painted in colors which might make him be taken for his elder namesske.The whole of these songe are sanctioned by the Minister of the Interior, and each copy bears the stamp of his office Wan Preranatron.\u2014 The Emperor has ordered a line of telegraph to be conetructed from $1.Petersburg along the Finnish coast, up to Hango Point, between Heisingfors and Abo.The 12,000 Russian (ruope, the usual ge rison of Finland, have, for the most part, been removed to Oesterbottes, on the east cuet of the Gulf of Bulhn:a.In Helsingfurs, there are ten, ard in the rest of the shipbuilding yards on the Bay of Finland, there are forty gunboats building.EVACUATPON UF ALAND.\u2014 An Imperial ukace has been read in the churches, announcing that the military matériel and the whole garrison will be removed to other points, and the defence of the islands will be entrusted to the inhabitants.We thick that the latter will not display over much energy in this direction.CronstapT.\u2014The following description of Cronstadt, given in a Berlin ournal, althuugh incomplete, may not be uninteresting at the present moment : \u2014* Cron t is eiluaied on the island of Kusline, at the eastern corner of tle Finland Golf, The island, about 14 English miles long and proportionately narrow, is close to the mouth of the Ni and may be regarded as the port of 8t.Petersburg, whence it is distant about 18 miles (English.) The town, which owes its foundation to Peter the Great, contains about 30,000 Inhabitants, and ie intersected by Lhe Peter and Catherina canals.On the northern side of the island stand the powerful Alex~ snder ramparts, constructed of solid granite blocks and armed with heaviest guns.On the southern flank of this is the harbour, the channolto which is defended by the citadel, erected on a rocky foundation, and on the uppasite side by the Kronslt fortress.Properly speaking, there exist three harboure for ships of war within the island, with dock: arvenale, building yards, and so forth.A fourth and emslier harbour for mereantile veseels likewise exiols within the defences, The oid MenschikoT lace has long been converted into a foundry, arsenal, and schoo! for pilus he Marine Hospital is arranged lor 2,600 patients.In order to diminish dangers that may veewr from fire, all woden constructions have been pulled down, and ull superfluous stores removed.\u201d ConsranvinorLe.\u2014All political intercourse is broken off between Turkey and the kingdom of Greece, and the cessation of all commercial relations will follow.Sume person even uf opinion that ali the Greek subjects established at Conttantinople, and hero ure some fifteen thousand.will have to leave the Sultan's dominions, What wll become of the Greek merchant navy now the corn trade is stopped?It numbers 5000 sail.The Greek mariners bave lost their employment, and it is feared that the ) Coreair will again be abroad, The Porte hae resulved to permit the for mation of foreign legious, and it i» belicved that a Polish, Hungarian, and Halian carpe will ehorily be organised.The thousands of exiles who have found a refuge on Turkish ro} will thus find employment, The Turkish Government has adopted this resolution mainly in ennsguence of the de- purture of inany hundred mes fur Gresce, to enlist wad jo n the standard of Ziveila and Karsirkuki.Last week 450 exiles embarked in the Bisphoius, near Beycos, not far from where the fl were lying, on board a Greek merchantman, and ssiled fur the Archipelago, Dimsxtrenceted Mumeicexce.\u2014The Lancaster Guardien informs its readers that the The:nton free echonls are opened for the admission of the voor ebildren of Lhe patishea of Burton and Thornton, in Lonsdale, and thet about 50 children of each sex sre already admitted to the benofit of tre institution, This beautiful edifice has been built and endowed a1 the ale expeme of Mr.Richard Thornton, a well-known merchant of London, and ats cost of £15,000, to commemorate the place of hw nat sthopisT Pasaciens \u2014The number of itinerant preachers of the Wust leyan Methodins of Great Brituin ie little over 830, and of local preachers, botweun 13,000 and 14,000.The number of members in 1850 was 358,277, but in consequence of agilations «n the part of the Reformers, their numbers for the yo ar 1863 were only 270,265, showing à diminution in three years of 87,312.= UNITED STATES.Assuseen Vazue \u2014Lant yeor, the totel amessed value of property in , being an advance of ever sixty millions on tthe total of the nesersments ghty-1wo millume dollars apon | Sr.Thomae\u2014The ship * Henry Kneeland,\" from St.Thomas, March 17th, arrived at New.Bedford on Wednesday.She roporte lhat the cholera, \"which had destroyed 1500 inhabitants ai 8t.Thomus during the winter months, had entirely dinppeared, and that it was remarkably healthy there.Tux SouTarN Uonvention.\u2014The Convention on Thursday resolved to ppoint a cummitice who sliowld memotislize Congress on the following sulijectn :\u20141st.Tho remission of duties on railroad irun.\u2014 2d.The improves the merchant service by the establishment of apprenticeship system und Lhe preventivn of desertions.\u20143d.Tho exploration of the Amazon by teamers.\u20144ih.The establishinant of line of steamers between some Southern port and the mouth of the Am a putt in Brezil.\u2014bth, The establishment of & direst mail route, by stesmors, be.wesn a Southern port and Europe.\u20148th.Upon the improvement of harbors and navigable rivers.\u2014 Nations! Ere.Fonuion Inaignation.~While it is not improbable that ons effect of the war in Europe will be, the deersase of immigration to this eouniry from Germany, and Great Britsin and Ireland, thers are reasons to believe that emigration from Northern Euiops will be greatly quickened.The New York Evening Peat publishes an extract from « loiter, written by an Ameri- No.22.in Sweden, he has been astonished st the panie of the public mind.+ Et has been calculated.by one well acquainted with the matter, (hat there were, in the beginning of March, fourteen thousand perenns in Sweden and Norway, prepared to take their depastare for the New Warld.Most of Thwse wi'l arrive a1 New York, on their way to the * Far West,\u2019 where will settle down and become à part and parcel of the great Republic.\u201d Lot.them come ; a better class of immigrants it would be hard tv find.\u2014 Ng.ronal Era.crive Fire axp Loss or Lirx.\u2014A Bee broke out on Tues- dsy, adjoining the old American Hotel.Almost before (he alarm could be given, the flames rose high above the roof.As some of the firemen and insurance watch were actively engaged in removing goods from the main floor, and probably thirty others were in tbe rear, atlempting to get = hose up in {bat direction, to an upper story.the gable wall suddenly gav: way, falling outwards, snd burying severs] firemen in he ruins.Their comrades were laboring incessan\u2018ly to recover the bodies of those overwhelmed by the rubbish.\u2018The object was to eut through the foundation walls of the adjoiving building, into the cellsr benea\u2018h the fire, where distressing cries and moans were constantly heard.Between fifteen and (wenty were rescued in this manner, several of whom were shockingly disfigured by fire and contu- tions, betides having broken bones, While these efforts were in progress, other walls feli atlendcd with more terrible effects than the firsi.hen lanterns were brought, u borrible spectacle was presented.While come were vain'y struggling to free themselves, various parts of bodies were discernible thrrugh the thick dust end smoke.projecting from the mass of rubbist: prbe list of dead and wourided.0 far as ascertaized, numbers 33, \u2014N.Y- Paper.Tue State Maueer-A few days agu, 46 slaves, including many women end childre:, were sold, et New Orleans, for $37.470.Ons mon brought $3000, an ther $1970, and others from $1600 10 $1700.RELIGIOUS NEWS, Dr.Kitto has, we regret 10 hear, been visited with a paralytic stroke, which ontirely unfits him for futher l-terary labour.A subseription has been commenced on bis behalf.Convers rroM Poreny.\u2014Niely-eght converts frum Popery were wa Wednesday, the 5th instant, confirmed in Berm-ndeey by the Lord Bishop of Winchester ;\"they were all prepared for this ritc by the Rev.Dr, Armstrong, with the assistance of the agents of the Society for Engleh Church Missions 10 Roman Catholice.= DEPARTURE or CoNGREGATIONAL Minisrens ror THE Easr.\u2014On Monday, the Rev.Dr.Raffles left Liverpool on his journey to the East.He will be jvived in Lundon by the Rev.Dr.Halley, of Manchester, the Rev.J.B.Brown, and another clergyman resident in the Metrupolis, all of whom are {> accompany him, It is understond that they will proced, in the first in.ance, to Rome, and, after making a short stay, if circumstances permit, arry out their intention of visiting Jerusalem, and other places of interest iz the Holy Land.\u2014 Leeds Mercury.Tuk CHRISTIANS IN Torker Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, in a recent despaich to the Earl of Clarendon, expressed the satisfaction which he had to report, * that the firman fur establishing Christian evidence on ao equality with Museniman throughout the Turkish empire wus compieted, and that no time would be iost in promulgating it.\u201d \u2018Tue Duxæ or Brauronts Cuuncu Livines.\u2014Hlis Grace the Duke of Beaufurt, who has recently succeeded to be title and estatos, han antiounesé his intention of disposing by anctiun of the ecclesiastical beneficon in his gift.The beneficce offered for enle are the vicarage of Monmouth, the vicarage of St.Thomas's Monmouth, ihe vicarage of Mayn, the vicarage of Rod- church, the rectory of Lansoy, the rectory of Guernesey, the vicarage of Monkswood, the incumbency of Laniechen, the incombency of ok- grange, the incumbeney of Chapelbili, and the incombescy of St.Awan.Church property of this description is generally estimated as worth about ten fears purchase, upon which calcuiation bis Grace will net about £15,090 by the sale.\u2014 Morning paper.Giascow Mussionany Cuuncues.\u2014Active effurts are boing made by several of the leading denominations to reach the outcast population in Glasgow, by missionary or tesritorisl churehes.\u2014The Free church bas ten icte under the special charge of ten of ihe ministers with their seavions nd peuple, in each of which there is a mission station, and ese of more missionary schools.The United Presbyterian Church has four distriets where mimionary operations are vigorously carried on.Pars Recaro ron tue Sasuatn.\u2014The pepal Nestorian Patriareh of Mosul a stiort time since, gave written permisssion to several papal villages, to work on the Sabbath in removing sculptured baile from Kborsabad to the French Consul.And the French Consul chuee the Sabbath for a feast, to which he invited the Pasha end other dignitaries of the city, the papal Nes- torisn Patriarch with some of his clergy, and such other persons of distise- tion ad not sufficient regard for the Sabbath, vr manliness enough to decline the invitation.IrpraND.=I 1s fully in Lhe extreme tor Romianieu to attribule the defec.ton from the ranks of Pupery to Protestantism in [retend to \u201c soup \u201d fact of very numerous conversions in 1 Islend from che Popish to the Protestant Faith, is undeniable ; and the cheap and nasty\u201d doggerel of the * Souper\u2019s Hymn,\u201d which graces Roman Catholic periodicals, is only a thin veil to cover the chagrin of mortified Priests and Bishope, ** The Conversion of James Nchol* from Prolestantiom to l'apery, is deemed a matter of such grave imporlauce, as tu warrant its being placed ss number one in the series of the Hulifex Roman Cathohc Tracts for the es, but c.mversions, in an upposite direction, from Pupery tu Pre.testanti e treated with Chat lv which only find suitable utterance jo a Hymn on * Matton Bru The Dublin Nation remarks: \u201cThe Ireh nation is fast dissvivi the Jewish nation dissulvod before the curse of Gud\u2014as the Carthager nativn dissolved before the sword of R:ime.asthe red indian race silentiy dissolved befors the face of the white man.Priest Fitzgerald in & recent epcech, wdmits, ** Our nation and our Church sre perishing.\u201d An organ of Romenism wrke: * Shall the soapers and tract distributors ncoomplish the work which sli the force of England, fer three hundred years, has been unable to effect 1\"\u2014 Halifax Weer Lonvon Jewe\u2019 Socterr.\u2014Thres individuals bi been confirmed ut Jerusalem, one of whom had been u papist.A German Jew, who confessed the Messiah with eyes filied with eats of joy, attributes his conversion to the influence of a Jew nuw settled in trade in Tarsus, « man (ull of sent and love, and persuading sli whe cume within bie reacli, to repent and belive.«=1n Alezandria a Jew hae been baptized, whe was obi to fice from Hungary, his native country, and becamo cumvinged of the truth through the labors of missionaries in Jerusalem \u2014An inquirer of long standing bas come 10 the knowledge of the ruth in Constantin sple.\u2014Two men, whe re of age, the other nineteen, have scaled thé profession of in Chries in Bucharest.Twu baptioms have taken place in the vicinity of Dantzic- Much inquiry preveils among the Juws of Ameterdams, and a very interesting cave of conversion has occured, This Sucicty is sue.tained by members of the Episcopal Cliurch, has awssione in Europe, Ama and Africa; and employs twenty clergymen, GN) lay missionary agente, Bible and tract didtridutors and sclicolmasters, besides a physicien and bie assistants.Fifty of these laborers ate Christian Israchites.Tu laLaxps or rue Sga.\u2014 The \"London Miswoary Society have à mie- vion in 1he islands of Now Caivdonia, whecte most wonderful changes have taken place within the past two years.** A sione chapel has been built, 100 feel by 40, with walls nino or ten leet high and three thick, which is filled every Sabbath, At Lifu, were have come tu un end.Cannibalism, ence inf ed.Pulrgamy is doing sbanduned, tom.The whole island has abandoned hes- enity.Two of the four divissens of Mare, en island near Lilu, have become Chrietian.At one station there ate filtysons candidates for Church membership At another station a Chapel, 198 feet by 30, is fillad avery Sabbath, and the budy of the peuple, old and youag, are striving tv learn to read.On Alofi, the inbaditante of which ure nature ally witd and ungovernable, u dwiriol extending Âve miles along (he const has outwardly become Christian.\u2018The isles of the nea are erally * waiting for Hie law.\u2019 and seem to upon Christians ti pray the Lord vf the hee mn can gentleman now in Stockholm, in which he says (hat, during his travels vest to send forth lnborers int his harvest I\" 154 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Mar 3, 1854 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 ss cn SR SE = - Cuers ee = = the political state of Eorope is not very (ree, yet the anxious inquiries doubtedly were, it was received by the country in OOTINPOBARY PRESS.lee je of strangers as to the real force of England snd France, the nem- on apathy.Even for the avantages of an eTiention aay cernes _ _- Lo i Der of ships of war in the Black Sea and in 1he Baltic, betray their tion of the elective franchise, the community could ill sflord to incur TRAVELLING INCONVENIENCES.j fears.Those who do not see in the Emperor Nicholas 8 species of in- \u2018in present eireumstances, the hazard of a change of Ministry, or the fallible pontiff are well aware of the adversaries he will have against turmoil of a contested election; and therefore the determination an- him, hey do not conceal from themselves that the Baltic and | nounced by Lord John Russell has diffused, we believe, universal : n de hi the Euxiae, traversed by the English and French fleets, will soon be satisfaction throughout the counlty, even as the House of Commons it- Steambosts can fail to perceive how numerous and bow great are rel ! the theatre of terrible disasters, which will avenge Sinope ; and they |selt appeared to breathe more freely on Tuesday night after its leader wants and defects, so far as the comfort and convenience of the pub- feel that, whatever be the termination of the war, Russia will have 10 had relieved it of the oppressive incubus of \u2018the bill.\u2019\u2014Scotfish lie are concerned.This is specially observable in railwag travelling.i peur the cost of it.The Emperor Nicholas himself, notwithstanding, Guardian.: For instance, in leaving New York by the morning Express Train Minis efforts to appear csim and full of hopes, bears on his features the 7 o'sleck, there may be many parties obliged to go, trustiog Lo gel-i traces of anxious and troubled days and sleepless nights, and the dis- | (From the Globe.) Na one who bas occasion to travel much on our Railways and CHRISTIAN POPULATION OF TURKEY.ting their morning \u2018epast by the way at the ordinary stopping places.The train, however, gets in some way, behind time, and ao such op- rtenity is afforded.Reaching Albany, there is only time to hasten vom the one car to the other, and any spare moment you may have, has to be devoted lo an enquiry after your baggage\u2014and thus you pass oa fiom place to place, always hoping that a moment\u2019s halt will eventually occur, but never roalize the object of your hoge, ot if a few moments be given, you may be placed in the tantalizing predica-; meat of dashing down the morsel you have raised to your mouth, the bells assuring you that another moment\u2019s delay will leave you bebiad.Now, we think sil this might be remedied, by having a room set apart in one of the cars, where meals could be procured at all hours at, reassnable prices, and every convenience enjoyed.We see no valid argument against immedistely making some such arrangement.Then as to proper ventilation in the cars\u2014this appears 10 be a hopeless sub- garding it.ere appea | ject, so much bas been said re, ts to nome- dium between suffocation and freezing.Can this not be remedied ?The clouds of duct that add to one\u2019s discomfort are scarcely worth notice in comparison with the other evils.The bad accommodation on Steamboats for deck passengers and emigrants should be remedied.The comfort and convenience of ol there ought to be studied quite as much as those of the cubin passengers.Shelter from rain and storm, facility in procurin food and every other necessary accommodation ought to be provided.We are aware that greal improvements in this respect have taken place, and we trust that these will be studied still further.In crosring the lake à few days ago, we bad occasion to take à look at the arrangments made in the Pesrless in these respects, and we were happy to find that they are every way worthy of the boat.There is a room forward where deck passengers can be supplied with coffee or food of any kind, at any hour, ai reasonable prices, and everything is very clean and comfortabie.This is keeping up with the spirit of the age, and we hope that ere long, all cause of complaint on this score, will be deme away with, in the case of all our steamboats and railways.AFFAIRS IN THE EAST.(From the British Banner.) The plot is still thickening in tbe East.The forces of England and of France are rapidly collecting on the field of conflict.The Commanders-in-Chief, both of France and of England have taken their departure.Every day is pouring fresh divisions into Malta, and successively transporting them thence 10 Constantinople.The hearts of the Turks ase being greatly cheered by the constant arrivals of the Anglo-French troops; and there seems now a probability that no great and decisive action will take place until the combined forces be The position and purpose of Austria and Prussia are still involved in mystery.Toere has been much talk of an Alliance, offensive and defensive, between them ; and it would appear, that the object of this is less on their own account than on that of Russia.They are represented as bound to see, that no terms of peace shall be imposed upon her at tne expense of any portion of her territory, which, per- &aps, means, rightly interpreted, that nothing shall be done which ball lead fo the restoration of Poland, and the consequent disgorgiog of he several robbe:s.Rumour, true or false, improves as she proceeds ; t is new insinuated, that every day Austria and Prussia are getting wider apart.it is to some extent believed that Austria will join the Western Powers, and go for the evacuation of the Provinces, while secordiay to apprarances, Prussia will side with the Czar.À report was current in ibe Metropolis yesterday, that Coevalier Bunsen was recalled.Lust night Lord John Russell stated in the House of Commons, that the Government bad no information to that effect; but the Times of this morning has expressed itself as follows :\u2014 « The allusion we made yesterday morning to the possibility of Chevalier Baosen\u2019s withdrawal from the post of Prussian Ministers at this Court was followed, after a very brief interval, by the announce- went, telegraphed from Berlia by our own correspondent, that the Prassian Minister is actually recalled.Ji appears that no formal communication (co this effect had reached London yesterday evening ; dut there is no doubt that our statement is correct, and that a courier is now on the road with despatches to this effect.\u201d After this, we presume, no doubt can remain as to the truth; and the inference is obvious.[It will, nevertheless, be to act the part of the deepest infatuation for Prussia to side with Russia against the whole of tbe Great Powers.In the mean time, it seems clear, it is vot the Prussian people, but the Prussian Government that biggles and hesitates, and labours to play double.The greatest men of the uation ate daly alive to the dangers to which liberty if\u201d exposed from Bemis.M.Vincke, in the Chamber, uttered himself with the following unmistakable vigour: \u2014¢ If you are a European Fower, you are bound to combat the projects of Russia to the death ; if you are not, attach yourselves more closely to those who can shelter your weaknesr.\u201d These are wordy of reason as well as of patriotism, an unquestionably they will find an echo in the heart of Prussia.STATE OF PUBLIC FEELING IN ST.PETERSBURG.(From Paris Correspon ent of Times.) The acconots brought by eccasional travellers who arrive from St.Petersburg, relative to state of opinion in that city, and particularly among the u clases, would show that a great change is observable there.hose sentirents, so far as can be ascertained under a regime like (bat of Russia, are different according to the class of| ple by whom they aie expressed.But six or eight montis ago, when war had not assumed its more terrible aspect, while it was yet bat a menace for the lutere, and when sil chance of the submission et Turkey or of the division of the great Powers had not died away, | \u201cevery spirit was animated with the same ardour.Noble and plebeian, grate and simple, soldier and civilian, were certain of success.The Senviction that no State of Europe would bazard war for the sake ot Turkey made them entbusiastic and insolent.In every part of the empire (be crusade against the Massolmans was preached.TheCzar, was encouraged with entbusiastic shouts to persevere in the Holy War, fer it was firmly believed 1bat the moment Rus ppesred armed before Europe, opposition lo bis will would ce: by magic.If we con credit what we now hear, à marked chang taken place - of course, among the lower classes, who still have faith in the in- wiacibility as in the Tafsllimlity of the Czar, but aniong those whose knowledge of foreign countries, and whose just appreciation of the im- massity of the resistance be will encounter, enable them to judge more impartially of_the real state of things.These classes have gradually lost their confidence in the success of their master, as they wit- mess tbe union which s sense of common danger bas effected among the great States of the Continent ; doubt bas succeeded to security, aad despesdency te presumption, as tbe terrible truth broke on them of che formation an irresistible league against their ambitious and vo- principled Sovereign.The war is still popular with the mass of the people, whe ste ready to believe every invention of the clergy, and Whese illusions are Kept wp by the bulletins of tbe Russian Generals sent cach day (rem the seat of war, with details of victories vo grest oad 00 numeions that if enly half were true, Turkey ought long since to have been omni The acbles, who well know what little! credit those pom ves deserve, are not deceived by them.It\u2019 may be presam be salons of St, Potersburg conversation on that io ( appointments of the last few months have done on him the work of years.The principal topic of conversation for some weeks past in the salons of Si.Petersburg is a dream which the Emperor has had, and which he has reconnted to some of the courtiers.For four consecutive nights, it seems, the patron saint of Russia appeared to him in bis hatf-sleeping, half-waking moments, and sternly catechized him as to his motives in undertaking the crusade against the Turks; and whether the conquest of the Ottoman empire wa< prompted by ambition or the desire to plant the Cross on the territory of the unbeliever.The Emperor aseuted the saintly visitor, nearly in the same terms as those employed to Sir Hamilton Seymour, that he was above all paltry and personal considerations ; he gave his word as a gentleman ihat religion, and religion alone, was the cause of his taking up arms; end though the acquisition of territory might follow from the success of his armies ; vet that such aggrandisement would sorely afflict him ; nevertheless, be added, if it were in the inscrutable designs of Providence that the Muscorite sway should extend to the Bosphorus, he n.ust resign himself to the decree.The saint, it appears, was at first ! as incredalous as the British Minister as to the sincerity of his Impe- tial protege; he repeated his visits and his questions, ech time more steraly than before.The Emperor got rather impatient at so much cross questioning, and in a moment of irritation swore lustily in good Slavonic, that he repudiated (he insinuations of his visitor, and that his only object was the triumph of the orthodox faith.This little ebullition of temper, though tather profanely displayed, calmed St.Nicholas, and the last words uttered by him wera, « Pursue thy pro: jeet, my son, and in the name of God, who has sent me to you, promise you victory * This tale was soon bruited abroad, and from the salons of the nobles circulated among the lowest ciarses of the people, and is perhaps st this moment related, with the usual additions, in every part of the Russian emp It would appear that the Czar has not the monopoly of dreams ; visions finve also disturbed the slumbers of King Otho of Greece.His Hellenic Majesty has likewise been assured that he has also a mission.This mission was revealed to him by a monk, and it is nothing more or less than that his hand is the one which sball plant the Cross on the dome of St.Sophia, and to this dream, it seems, he listens mote than to the advice and warnings of bis best friends.LONDON YOUNG MEN\u2019S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.The ninth annual meeting of this excellent association was recently beld in Exeter Hall.The Chair was taken by the Earl of Harrowby, A very encouraging report was read by the Secretary of the operations and prospects of tbe association, after which several resolutions in conformity with the object of the meeting, were unanimousiy agreed to: \u2014 The Rev.J.C.Ryle, in seconding one of the resolutions, said that he regarded this Yong Men\u2019s Christian Association, in the dark and dangerous days in which we live, as one of the greatest lights in the horizon all around us.First of all, the work in which it was engaged was a good work, and it was seldom that a good work went on with so much undeviating prosperity.It was a work, moreover, carried on by young men, and it was not always or cften thatsuch an agenc carried on an enterprise wilh so much pe:severance.And further, it was a work carried on in a pre-eminently catholic spirit, and with one simple end in view-\u2014the diffusion among men of the truths of the ever-blessed Gospel.\u2014This association often reminded him of an incident in the life of Martin Luther.One day, the great reformer had separated from Philip Melancthon, after a consultation on the state of rel gion as It then existed, in the greatest despondency and gloom.In a few hours afterwards he happened to approach the walls of a school-house where a number of boys were reading the German Bible, aad the catechism which inculcated the doctrines contained in the Holy Word, and a great change came over bis mind in an instant.He again met Melancthon, ¢ Courage, Philip!\u201d said he; ¢ I have heard (his day a race of young theologians being trained up, who whatever happens to you and me, will never become obedient again to the Pope of Rome.\u201d Now, when he saw sn association like this athered in the very heart of the metropolis, taking its stand on thoroughly Christian principles, and declaring that they will stand on p the common ground of the Bible, and maintain the common truths of the Protestant religion, and see it prosper as this association has done, (From the New York Evangelist.) , Not the least interesting and important of the issues 10 be awaited, lin the great War, whose first echoes have just reached us from Europe, is the effect it will have upon the social and political condition of the vast Christian population of Turkey.In the European half of the Ottoman Empire, the Moslems have for centuries held in subjection a population three or four times as numerous as themselves, In other countries this danger and disadvantage might he remedied by making friends and equals of the subject-people, as was done by England in Ireland, in similar circumstances, and with races quite as dissimilar and in about the same proportion.But as the Turk can treat the Chrise tian with equality and justice, only by practically renouncing a fun- \u2018damental maxim of his creed, and as exclusiveness forms an essential [element of Islamism, the imptession has become almost universal, that |the emancipation of the Christian races in Turkey is only possible in the downfall of the Moslem power which holds them in subjection.And as the growth, in numbers, intelligence and wealib, of these aub- jeet populations, has rendered their emancipation at some time, inevitable, it has long been assumed as a foregone result, that the Turkish Empire was doomed to extinction ; and the Emperor Nicholas\u2019s figure of the ¢ sick man, ready to die,\u201d has really expressed the idea of Christendom respecting its political condition and prospects.But the world may have been too fast in assuming the infl:xible- ness of Islamism, as well as the decay and weakness of Turkey.The unexpected vigor lately manifested by the Porte, and the resources speedily gathered for the war, have given a new aspect to the politi- eal health of Turkey ; and the fourth article of the Convention entered into with England and France, if finally adopted, may cerrect our notions with regard to the future of its Christian races.By that clause, it is provided that the Christian subjects of the Porte shall be invested with all the rights of citizenship, and thus be placed upon a pat, before the law, with its Moslem subjects.If this shall be done\u2014 and itis the announced purpose of the British government to secure it\u2014 it will not only constitute one of the most pregnant and interesting events of modern bistory, but will put a new phase upon the entire question of the future of the Turkish Empire.If the Christian races of Turkey can be emancipated, and endowed with ihe rights, blessings and privileges of a constitutional government, not aly will the causes of discontent be removed, and the barrier to amalgamation between the conquerors and subjects be taken away, but all motives for sympathy with Russia, or with'any other external Furopean poser, be entirely destroyed.The Turkish Empire may become a free go- vernmeat, containing within its scope races no more diverse nor hostile than those subsisting amicably together under the sway of Great Britain, or Austria, or Denmark.For practical freedom the Christians of Turkey, as it now is, have nothing to gain by substituting the role of the Czar for that of the Sultan ; if their civil and religious rights are secured by law, according to English ideas of justice and equality, there would be unspeakable reasons for rejecting the friendship of Russia.Tarkey would present as united and contented a population as any European nation.The Christian population of Turkey constitutes a peculiar and most y interesting community, whether we regard their numbers, their sufferings, ot their history.Mahomet II, planted the cresceat upon the towers of Constantinople, in the memorable year ot 1453; and since that the Moslem has triumphed, often with a severity that has no parallel, over the followers of the cross.It is estimated that in European Turkey, (here are not less than 11,000,000 of Christians professing the Greek religion ; 300,000 Roman Catholics, and 100,000 Armenian Christians.[na the Asiatic haif of the Empire, the proportion of Mohammedans is much larger.Probably 2,000,000 would be a large estimate for the Greeks who have retained their language and religion ; two millions more of Armenians; 200,000 Jacobites, remains of the old Monophyaite heretics of Mesopotamia and Syria; 200,000 Nestorians, and 400,000 Roman Catholics, chiefly the Maronites of Mount Lebanon\u2014 would comprise the Christian element of the population of Turkey in Asia; while the Mobammedan population, Turk, Tattar, and Arab, probably numbers three times that amount.For many years the oppression of these Christisn races have been gradually growing less.Reforms have been going on in Turkey, since the destruction of the Janisarries in 1828, with a com- hensiveness and rapidity that have no equalin any other European he felt that he could not do other than thank God, and say, whatever pre P y tha q : pe : country.In 1837, all expressions or deeds of petsonal contempt, or evils may come upon the Church to which [ belong, or whatever May hostility towards Christions, were forbidden ; and in 1839, the Rete be attending the country in which we are, there is here a body of young men who will, amid it all, keep a firm and steadfast hold of the truth.There were two words in the resolution which to his own mind appeared of the deepest interest\u2014< conversion\u201d and * edification.\u201d He earnestly trusted, that these two words, as long as (be association should continue to exist, would be the standard under which they fought and labored, and the motio which they always carried on their forefront.Whatever other men who are ministers might think fit to do, by way of exalting the Church, dwelling exclusively on the Sacraments, and teaching the laity the power of their orders, and the necessity of attending the ministry of themselves, he for one would direct big chief and most zealous aim to promote the conversion of every man in his congregation who has hitherto given no evidence of a renewal and sanctification of bis heart.Far be it from him lo undervalue mere morality, and he protested against the representation which bad been made by a certain Edinburgh Reviewer on Church patties, that the Evangelical clergy of this land hold that morality is worthless, but be still must ever contend that there was something far greater.vast importance ; but Igt a man attain all the knowledge possible in every department of science and of art, it would indeed be found worthless so far as a future existence was concerned, if he went dowo to the grave an unconverted man, destitute of the knowledge of Jesus Chrint.He feared that men were apt at che present day to think too much of the greatness of mind,\u2014that cleverness and intellectual greatness were sufficient to cover over all moral defects.The speaker next dwelt at some legth upon the great responsibility which attaches to thase who have become converted themselves, to sevck lo convert others and lead them to Christ.The term ¢< edification\u2019 was next adverted to, and the fect that men who were most snxious lo edify othets, secuted the greatest blessings to their awa souls, wan clearly exemplified, and the speaker closed his address by prepine upon his hearers the paramount duty of self-dedifi:ation unto God.+ Become,\u201d he said, * a light in your own dark day, an example in your own sinful generation, and you will then be enabled to leave the world with the conviction that you have not lived in vein.\u201d Posrronement or TRE Reronm Bren.\u2014The Reform Bill has bren withdrawn for present session.[t was foreseen that the measure would provoke sn amount of opposition in Parliament, which might pro he Government, and in ali probability render 0 dissolution either event at the prevent time would seriously mar thr bormoniou: hearty feeling wilh which the country hug embarked io bostilities against Russia, the Government bps wisely agree to avoid the danger hr po ing the bill.The country will give Lord J.Russell ample eredit for his undisguised reluctance to take this step ; whilst it will trast to Ministers for the reproduction of the measure on the first favourable opportunity, well considere4 and important as many Intellectual and mental improvement was of But It cannot be concealed that,isertle many a question that bas long bung dark provisions of the bill un-'faie of Europe.brated Haiti-sherif of Gulhane was promulzated, by which the life, honor and property of the subjects of the Purte, the equalization of taxes, the destruction of the oppressive system of farming them, and a regular method of conscription for military service, wete secured.Since then, European customs, ideas, costumes, hive become (he fashion ; schools have been established, the press made free, justice secured to all ; and, finally, entire religious toleration to all religious worship, granted.These changes, though of course encountering much opposition, have been carried into effect wilh surptising Adelity, and extent; and what is lacking to their complete triumph, the Porte bas evinced a sincere and earnest determination to secure.Up to the time of the visit of Prince Menchikoff, with the insolent demands of the Czar, there was probably no European nation more rapidly, or peacefully, or certainly, sloughing off its old despotisms and Or 1 more vigorously plying the agencies and influences of civilization, than Turkey.With many instances of individual oppression, the Christisn sects of the Empire were gradually ostaining release from one hardship after another, and becoming more and more conscious that their true freedom is identified with the integrity of the Empire.Though the Czar has long been systematically intriguing with these sects, especially since the acquisition of the trans-Caucasian provinces in 1828, where the Catholikos of the Armenian« resides, it has appeared that Russian alliances were very much sought for y During the present war, Christian bas vied with Moslem in enthusiasm à ia; and if the struggle goes on, and the Christians are nvested with eitizenship, there is no reason to doubt they will prove faithful and efhcient adherents of the throne, Taney bave nothing to gain by à chang- of masters, but everything to lose.The nominal identity of religion would not compensate them for the increased oppression to which the rule of the Czar would subject them; and there are differences of race which no religious sympathy could overcome.1 There is reason, therefore, in the sagacious remark of Lord Pal- | merston, in the recent grant debate in Parliament\u2014tbat the Czar {has been induced to unde:take his desperate aggression more from the fear thet the christian popu'stions of Turkey were getting wholly hegond his reach, than from any sympathy with the oppressions which they nuw experience.The old cherished ambition of Russis, of reviving the empire of Constantine, snd of annexing the headship of he Catholic Church with the Czarate, bid fait to be rendered im- posible by the reform and regeneration of the Turkish government ; and !f he did not now seize the pear which he and bis lathers have heen anxiously wailing the maturity of, he could never get il, This is the real key to the policy of the Cans, Perhaps he will get the pest prrhaps it will garnered by its rightful owners \u2014perhspe be forn to pieces in the rerambie.The next fow year, parhaps months ' may rt marvelous changes in the poli'ical « eu ot the Kay and jy over the mind and Mar: 3, 1854.A DAY WITH THE TURKS ON BOARD STEAMER.(From Letters of Irenaua in New York Observes ) ! It was after dark in December Jast when we reached the steamer wl the gulf of Smyrna, bound for Constantinople, Had we known what was Deore us, it is more than probable that we should have torfeited : our passage money and waited for another vessel.The war with Russia is calling for all the fighting men that can be raised in the Turkish dominions, and though we heard that some troops from! Smyrna wera ready to go to Constantinople, we had no thought of having the pleasure of their company, nor the sori of company they would prove, should they be ourfellow travellers.We foand it rough in getting from the wharf to the steamer, and once or twice, in the half mile of rowing in the bay, I thought we were to be swamped.\u2018The excitemont ef bis run mace us glad to get under the lee of the steamer, where we were surprised to find scores of small boats before us, loaded with men scaling the sides of tne ship with ropes, and shouting from the boats below to those on board, The step-ladder was (bronged s0 that it seemed impossible for us to make the ascent.Some were struggling to get up, snd others ay determined to get down ; all was confusion, but by dint of persevirance, pushing our way through at some risk of being pushed into the sea, we reached the deck, where the scene before us began to unfold in colours far from inviting or propitious.Three or four companies of volunteers from the interior of Asia Minor, wild men of the mountains, Turks, Arabs, Nubians, and those whose tribe or tox, * it wonld be difficult to define, a savage horde, armed (0 the teeth many of them, and some with no arms, well clothed some, and others half clad, were now crowding on deck, and spreading themselves over the ship.With their luggage for the battle-fields in great bundles, they were making rough beds for themselves, and packing ciosely together, at once for the purpose of keeping each other warm and making room for the troop.Some were howling and shouting, some Were singing and laughing, more of them rave aud sullen, frowning and gloomy, refusing companionship with those sbout them, they sat wrapped in their blankets and meditations.: The work of lading was still going on ; merchandise and coal were hoisted in along with the Turks and their plunder, increasing the uproar, Many of these rough fellows bad come from a warmer climate than this, and as the night was cold, they bovered near the machinery and smoke-pipe, sitting down on the warmest place they could find, and shivering even there.A lot of them, sheltered by the gunwale from the wind, were metry, and made music on a rude instrument in imitation of a drum\u2014an earthern jar with a dried skin streiched over the mouth of it, which they bad beat with the band.Some of them made an attempt at singing, and a wretched attempt it was, making night hideous, Fortunately their arms were taken from them as fast as they came on board, all but their yataghan, a dirk which each one wore in his girdle.There was a great choice of places, even on deck, and the selections was nol made without trouble ; several fights occurred, the dirks flourished madly, the chiefs.interfered, and each company being arranged by itself and the chiefs, of all being encamped together, the rival hosts were finally distributed in their respective quarters, There was no disposition on the part of any of the cabin passengers to turn in.We hed taken refuge in the cabin, but this was not safe from the intrusion of our new companions.They began to peer into the windows and down the passage way, and sitracted by the appearance of comfort below, contrasted with the dreary and wretched state of things above, they were tempted to come down.We had the door closed, but they raised the batchway, swung themselves over, and dropped down into the midst of us\u2014ugly looking | customets, and just the sort of people a man does not wish to sleep with.At length, as the evening wore away, we made all fast, shut our state-toom door, and commending ourselves to Providence, feeling that we were in His hands, though exposed to the tender mercies of the Turk, we went to bed and fell asleep.Strange that we become : 20 accustomed to danger, and be so insensible in the midst of it.A bundred voices were raging on deck when I went 10 sleep; there \u2018wes the trampling of a wild horde of savage men right over my head ; they were suis from cold, and knew that warm quarters were below them, and within their reach, and I had very little doubt (bat they would take possession of them in the course of a few hours, but for all that [ was soon asleep.And when I awoke, ss I did at midnight or soon after, it was not from the uproar of the wild men, or the breaking in of the cadin doors, or the cal 1 awoke to the most profound silence (bat ever pervaded a ship.Not & voice was to be heard : not a foot was stirring.The savages were all asleep.So the infant, the weary mother, the tossed sailor, the soldier, the 3sge, the worn traveller, on the field or the sea, abroad or at home, all asleep! Blessed be He who ¢ giveth bis beloved sleep.\u201d He sendeth rain on the just and the unjust, aod Moslem and Chris) tian sleep together under the Crescent and the Cross.THE FIRST VIEW OF CONSTANTINOPLE.Dec.15.\u2014 Mr.Righter roused me early, and summoned me on! deck to see the sun rise, us we were about to come in sight of (he city of Constantine.It was a morning never to be forgotten till all sense of | the beautiful and glorious has passed away, or a vision of brighter: magnificence is revealed.The snow-capped summit of Mount O:ym- us was now resplendent in the yellow beams of the rising sun, and.Bese were streaming along (he hill sides and flowing into the plains, with a wastefulness of glory that excited and charmed us as we slood high on the bows of the ship to take the view in the first blush of its opening charms, And there stood the swelling domes, the arowy.minarets, the shining palaces and towers nf Constantinople gleaming! in the morning sun.At first view a mass of temples and buman! habitations wete crowded on 8 mountain side, and the gardens, cy-! presses, and pinnacles appeared to be thrown in the midst of them withoxt regard to arrangement ; but we soon distinguished Stamboul and Scuteri, and then we rushed hy the Seraglio Palace into the! mouth of the Golden Horn, Pera rose from the water\u2019s edge with! the new marble Palace of the Sultan on the Bosphorus, and there we, came to anchor, having Séutari behind us, Stamboul on our right, with St.Sophia, the St.Peter's of the Moslem, aid a score of\u2019 mosques with their surrounding minarets in full view ; and Pera sur-! mounted by the Russian Palace on our left.The Gulden Hom, an: atm of the sea, was stretched out hefore us, clasped by a bridge, and\u2019 filled with the shipping of every elime; a sight, in all its parts, of: such extraordinary elements of beauty and grandeur, as the approach to no other city in the world presents.No wonder that it has been beseiged twenty-six limes! No wonder thal every conqueror who! comes in sight of it covets it and resolves to have it! No wonder that Nicholas longs (0 transfer his paisce from the frozen borders of Finland to this enchanting zone .SELECTIONS.} Great Missionary ConvextioN.\u2014In the month of February last, | 8 meting was held in the Concert Hall, in the city of Philadelphia, when a very large number of the clergy of the various evangelical denominations, and other, met ta heat the Rev.Dr.Duff, of Calcutta, on the subject of missions.This eloquent and devoted missionary of\u2019 the cross brought before the meeting the necessity of sending into the missionary field 8 greater number of faithful servants of Christ, to preach the living word.After urging upon the audience the demands which God in his providence is making on the ehurch of Christ, to devote their efforts more earnestly to evangelizing the world, the following resolution was offered, and unanimously adopted :\u2014\u2014 Resolved, That we earnestly recommend that a general Missionary Conference, representing all the friends of Christ en aged in the great work of the evangelization of the world, be beld during Dr.Duf\u2019s visit to this country, in order to illustrate the practical merits of Ihe church, to excile an increased interest in her holy work, and to combine and judisiously direct her efforts for (be salvation of, millions of our race who are perishing for lsck of knowledge; and it is recommended that such s genera! Érissiooary Conference be held early in May, and that à committee be appointed to make tbe necessary arrangements.\u2014 N, ¥, Evangelist.to arms to fight the Ne THE MONTREAL WETNESS.Custetian Brxevoresce.\u2014Query : How®can wealihy men in tbe Charch of Jesus Christ, in this age of light and intelligence, when Chuistianity is essaying the sublime work of the world\u2019s evangrliza- tion, refuse a liberal response fo the urgent colls of and yet, at the same time, not be guilty before God, and held amenable to the judgment for their fearful recreance to duly 7 The above query was forcibly addressed to my mind and heast, while labouring the past year on a rich eircuil in Southwestern Virginia ; and, with your permission, 1 will give the aritAmetre of (bat wealthy circoil\u2019s benevolence last year.Figures sometimes reveal startling facts.But to the point.A brother minister and myself, on pretty reliable data, estimated and reckoned the aggregate wealth of the membership to be over Two HUNDRED THOUSAND DoLLARS.Well, now to the facts mn tbe case.Tnat circuit, for preacher and presidin, elder, all told, paid, by dint of great effort, à li:tle over $300, and raise the enormous sum of $12 for the missionary cause, and $5 for the worn- out preachers, widows, and orphans.But not only so.Fearful that their benevolence was operating on too large à scale, they must trench upon the interests of the Christian Advocate end Journal somewhat.Brother » for many years a class-leader and steward in the Chusch, and worth, by common consent, $30,000, if not more, must have his Advocate siopped for the year 1854, because he could not afford, it would seem, to pay $10 quarterage for the preacher, and $1.25 for the Advocate and Journal, Next Brother -\u2014 is approached on the subject, and though worth $20,000, and clearing on his eatile well on to a thousand dollars a year, he orders the discontinuance of his Advocate because he has subscribed for a country paper this year.Brother \u2014\u2014, worth from $10,000 to $15,000, cannot pay $1 25 for the Advocate this year.Thus | might proceed; but as the picture, in its further contemplation, takes a darker and more gloomy colouring, J forbear.ow, I ask, in the name of reason and religion, and in view of the awful decisions of the judgment hour, whether such a slate of thin as the above figures make oul, argues the presence of healthy, soul- saving Christianity among that people ?[f, from beginning to end, Christianity is a system of benevolence, and a constant recognition of the truth of the divine utterance, that «it is more blessed to give than to receive,\u201d is it a small offence to be insensible to the calls of the Church and humanity, where God has given the means in abuu- dance ?Let the Bible and conscience answer.ALPHA.\u201c Avarice is the root of all evil.\u201d joy religion, while they neither love God nor their neighbour.Could there be greater or more hopeless spiritual blindness 7\u2014 Christian Advocate and Journal.HomaGE To Cuuncu CEREMONIES CANNOT BE Exvorcep sy Law.\u2014The Judges of the Superior Court yesterday delivered judgment, quashing Lhe conviction and fine recorded, ageinst Narcisse Filiau for refusing to doff bis hat while the R.C.procession of the Host passed where he stood.\u2014 Quebec Mercy This decision settles a long existing dispute respecting an absurd custom that bas prevailed in Canada, and which some thirty or forty years ago, was troublesome to strangers, who occasionally visited Lower Canada.We believe, however, that it has grown into disuse, ! generally, and little attention of late years bas been given to it.From the name of the offender we suppose he isa Roman Catholic, and \u2018hence the imposition of a fine upon him by a lower Court.Within a [church all visitors should comply with the usages of the denomination, when made known to them, and if they cannot do this should abstain from going there.In the public sireets, however, whether it be * the procession of the Host?\u2019 or an ord nary funeral train, it is ab- suid to require any one to pull off his 1at.Many yearsago the Chief Justice of U, per Canada (Powel) hal occasion to pass through the Main Street of ontreal, when the Host was passing, aud it was demanded of him to pull of his hat.The old gentleman, however, refused, and when torce was attempted, soon convinced his assailant, by a tangible argument, that he was a man not to be trifled with in \u2018the public highway.\u2014N.¥.Com.Adv.! TRISTAN D\u2019AcuNasa.\u2014Extract of a letter from a correspondent of \"the N.Y.Journal of Commerce dated St.Helena, Feb.18: \u2014 jf By recent advices from the Island of Tristian d\u2019Acunaba, off | East coast of Africa, we have learned the death of old Governor Glass, who for many years has, with his people of a hundred or more, dwelt in that Island.He died about the last week in December, of a most painful cancer, that for a few years had been destroying his chin and throat.He was not far from sighty years of age, and bas made himself known, and respected by a large number of masters of ships that have touched there for supplies, by bis kindness and attention.A great many of the American whaling fleet out in these s=as touch at :that island for fresh supplies, though they seldom anchor, because of the sudden storms of wind that endanger their safety.The island is about 48 miles in circumference, exceedingly rocky and mountainous ; land from the prevailing Northerly winds sweeping oft times with the i force of & hurricane, the poor people can grow Fats else than potatoes, \u2014all grains breaking down by the first storm.Then, too, the yield of potatoes, though superior in quality, is necessarily small, for every year the crop must be put into new ground, as the soil is not deep, nd the brary rains wash out its strength and virtue, leaving little else but the rocky sub-siratum.There are about one hundred and fifty, or less, inhsbitants on this lone Isle, of whom only eight are men, the remainder being women and children.Rev.Mr.Taylor, sent out from England by the Foreign Missionory Society, dwells mong them, instructing their children, and preaching to them Since he death of their patriarchal Governor, he has written to England in behalf of the people for a ship to take them all away, either to find 8 home in Oregon on your own Pacific Coast, or in the new world of Australia.They have long been dissatisfied, and tbe failure of their crops creates the fear of starvation.It would indeed be a mercy to relieve them from the solitary, hard-working life they had led on that rock ; snd yet the facilities of the island for water and fresh provisions so long afforded whale ships cruising there bave been such, that their loss will be essentially felt.* A MaxLy Positiox.\u2014 Charles E.Watkins, Eeq.was arrested recent ly at Milwaukie, for icipating in the rescue of the alledged slave in that place.Mr.Walking went quielly before the Commissioner, and on being presented with Lhe charge against him, arose and stated that he supposed ne understood the offense with which be was charged, and then addressed the Commissioner as follows :\u2014 «Fit be an offense that I visited a man in prison, then I am guilty.| If it be a crime to sympathize with those who are in aflliction, then, 1 am not ambitious to sppear altogether innocent.It is true that: {when sent for, I visited a man in prison.in chains and dragged in an inclement night, without covering upon | his bead, and with scarce any clothing upon his person, to s distant jail, I did not approve the acl.[tis trae that when | saw the stains, of blood from bis hleeding wounds, | was not wholly insensible, to bis sufferings and wrongs.But that | advised him that he could bave à fair trial by jury, or that his case would be heard by sn impartial court, I deny.Tin complexion forbid the one, and [ should have been false to my convictions if I had given him ne assurance of the other.The only consolations | did or could give him was his right to the writ of habeas corpus, and I explained to bim that such writ was a writ of right, à writ that the Fugitive Slave Act had aot taken away, \"and the only right thet was leit a man of his complexion under his accusation.The benefits of thie writ I vouchsafed to secure to him.It was applied for against the Sheriff who actually held him under restraint, and the writ defented by (be return in fiction of law that he was in the legal caslody of the Marshal.Another writ was applied for and sgrved upon the Marshal.\u2018To (his, according to local \u2018precedent, there was open and avowed disobedience, and the prisoner, disappointed, was without hope, As a last resort, application was made to Judge Miller, but be refused any interference, persisting (bat the Marshal ought nat lo ohey the writ of habeas corpus from a State court, and that he would not then entertain the case himself.benevolence, i ' It tempts men to hope they en-! 1t is true that when the! prisoner told me that he had been knocked down with clubs, bound | 165 jbere stated.I do confess that I vindicated the right of habeas cor- us.That I declared it to be the grest bulwerk of personal liberty.here was no man 30 obscure that it could be denied te him, none se bizh as to refuse obedience to it.That when this writ was pat at defiance, and all obedience refused, and all means bad been exhausted to enforce it, I do further confess that | made public ackuowledg- ment from ihe top of a fence post that | had proceeded in Ibe Jaw as {far as I had any knowledge of the practice, and that as counsel for the prisoner, I left it for others to proceed in the case accoi itheir sound judgment ; and [ understand that the prisoner with the manner in which they conducted the case.Now, Mr.Com- ,missioner, to all this | confess, and plead not guilly to the complaint, {and shail at all times be ready for trial, and if [ am not convicted [ all entertain at no time any suspicion that it is from aay fault of the Court.If { am convicled, when the term of my imprisonment shall have expired, the people will again see me upon the fence post ready to vindicate the writ of habeas corpus as the surest protection of our prison houses as well as the liberty of the citizen.\u201d Mr.Waikias | 88ve bail in the sum of $2,000, for his appearance at the July term of ithe U.S.Court, at Madison ; Mr.Townsend, of the firm of Townsend & Finkler, becoming his security.\u2014 Milwaukie Sentinel, 5th.Tunxisy Coa Viinzs.\u2014Betwetn the Bosphorus and Heraclea are boundless fields of coal, which crops out on 1he side of the hills, so that no mining would be required to get the coal ; snd besides this | great facility in its production, the bills ate of sach an easy slope that 8 tramroad would convey the coal-waggons down to the ships on the sea coast without any difficulty.No nation but the Turks would de- .lay to make use of such a source of enormous wealth as this coal would naturally supply, when it can be had with such remarkable ease so near to Lhe great maritime city of Constantinople.It seems (to be a peculiarily in bumaa nature that those who are too stupid to undertake any useful work are frequently jealous of the interference of others who are more able and willing than themselves, as the old fable of the dog and the manger exemplifies.1 understand that more {Ben one English company bave been desirous of opening these immense mines of wealth, on the condition of paying a large sum or a | good per centage to the Tarkish Goverament po they are jealous lof a foreignei\u2019s uadertaking that which th-y are incapable of carry- fies out themselves.So English steamers bring English coal t9 Constantinople, which costs I don\u2019t know what by the time it arrives within a few miles of a spot which is as well furnished with the most (useful, if not the most ornamental, of minerals as Newcastle-apon- | Tyne itself.[Since this was written the coal-field of Eragle bas been opened under the direction of English engineers, sod the coals are sent to Constantinopte.J\u2014 he Hon.Robert Curzon's Armenia.\u2018Tue Russian Caxraicns or 1828-29.\u2014 When tbe Russians invaded Turkey ia 1828, they lost 50,000 men by sickness alone, by want of the necessaries of life, and neglect of the commissariat department ; 50,000 Ru:sians died on the plains of Turkey, not one man of whom was killed in batule, for their advance was not resisted by the Turks.In the next year (1829) the Russians lost 60,000 men between the Pruth and the city of Adrianople.Some of these, however, were legitimately slain in battle, When they arrived at Adrianople the troops were in so wretched a condition from sickness and want of food, that not 7000 men were able to bear arms; how many thousands of horses and mules perished in these two years is noi koqwn.The Turkish Government was totally ignorant of this deplorable state of affairs at Adrianople till some time afterwards, when the infelli- gence came too late.If the Turks had known what was going on, not one single Russian would have seen bis native land again; even a3 it was, out of 120,000 men, not 6000 ever re-crossed the Ramian frontier alive.Since the days of Cain, the first murderer, among all nations, and among all religions, he who kills his fellow creatures without just cause, is looked upon with horror and disgust, and is pursned by the avenging curse of God and man.What, then, shall be thought of that individual who, without reason, without the slightest\u201d sbow of justice, right, or justifiable pretence, from bis own caprice, te satisfy his own feelings, and last of pride end arrogance, destroys for his amusement, in two years, more than 100,000 of his fellow creatures?Shall not their biood cry out for vengence ?bas not each of these men a soul, immortal ss their dbutcher\u2019s?had not many of them, many thousands of them, perhaps, more faith, more trust in God, higher talents, than their destroyer '\u2014 Cureon\u2019s rmenia.FINLAND.-In the year 1831 Finland was subdivided administrative} into eight circles, or Lans, and in this circle lies Viborg, a town whic enjoys a rather active export trade.The town is about twelve versus from the harbor, lies at the end of à large bay, and consists of the main town sod two suburbs, united by a bridge (0 the island on which the castle stands, and is about 74 miles NW.of St Petersburg.It contains a Greek cathedial, a church for the Swedes and Germans, another for the Ficns, a Roman Catholic chapel, some *choots, and\u2019 about 3500 inhabitants.The port of Viborg is of great extent, and is enclosed by two larga islands, which form, as it were, two natural break waters, As a fortress it ranks high, both for position ang strengih,\u2014 the sea washes nearly tbe whole length of the outer wall, white battery upon battery commands every spreonch, The view of this fron- jtier fortress, with its churches and domes Bashing in the sun, and its long line of batteries and bastions rising in massive strength from the water\u2019s edge, is very striking.Attacked often by the Ras- sians, it defended iteelf with great bravery, and in 1710, it was be- jseiged by Peter the Great, and taken, afler à hard struggle of several weeks\u2019 duration.The peace of 1721, known as the treaty of Nystad I put the Czar in definite possessica of st and the neighbouring country ; and in 1745 the treaty of Abo enlarged still furiber the conquest \u2014 The Swedes, since the days of Peter the Great, have always played 8 losing game when at war with the Russians, particularly as the [at- \u201cter have always succeeded in gainingthe assis'ance of the Germanic \u2018kings of Denmark.For nearly a century the conquered portions of kin (Finland, distinguished as Gamla Finland, or Ancient Fioland, were jsubject to the same regulations in civil matters as the rest of the Russian empire.In (bis circle, or Lans, already named, zontiguous to | Viborg, is Helsingtors, tbe capital of the Russian government of Fi { It has now about 16,000 inbabitants, and the song torteese ra borg protecting the entrance of the barbor.The fortifications mount cannon, and contain barracks and casemates for a garrison of 12,- 000 men.Helsingtors liesin lattitude 60 degress 9 mins, 42 sec.N° long.25 degs.57 mins.37 sec.E.; at the mouth of the Vanna, about 180 miles W.N.W.of St Petersburg.The town is, historically speaking, comparatively of modern creation, baving been founded by Gustavus Vasa in the sixteenth century.The Russians bave greatly sugmented and improved Helsingfots since it came into their s- sion, more particularly since the year 1819, when it became the capital of Finland ; the removal 10 it of the University of Abo, apd the Senate, after the conflagration of the town in 1827, also materiall linreased its importance, The streets are long, large, and Mid vut at right angles, as in most other Russian towns.The remains of the library saved from the fire of Abo, ate prenetved there.It consists of aboul 80,000 volumes, chiefly editions of the clamics, taken by Chars les the Twelfih from the monastries during the Seven Years\u2019 War, The harbor is capacious, and ranks as one of ihe best in 1be Baltie, and important trade is carried on in timber, corn, and fish.Helsing- fors is the residence of the Governor-General, and the seat of important courts and public offices;\u2014it contains the Senate House, several churches, and hai manufactures of linen, rail-cloth, and tobacco.Circassia.\u2014How should a people be conquered who have a spirit 3 noble as the Hungarian, and mountains, instead of plaine, for a bat.tle-deld and a refuge?Il England and Turkey dou us,\u201d exclaimed one of their chiefs, :* we sha'l burn our houses and property, and retire to the bigh rocks, and there defend ourselves till (he last man falls.\u201d And (his was not the momentary enthusiasm of sce man.In congresses and councils it has been repeatediy declared thal if the Russians succeeded in erecting forts in every hay of the coast, (be in~ « When this had all transpired, I Jo now here confess that I did te habitants would never yield.\u201c¢ We have shundance of mountains,\u201d u large and respectable concourse of people, state what of facts I have they have often said :\u2014and to these we will retire and defend eure if we are saable to retain the cost.\u201d They have, however, made stupendous efforts to retain the coast, and, on the whole, with suceers.Their rocks and trees are incessantly al! alive with human eyes.Ifa friendly vessel artives with salt (their great want) or other commodities, out rush a string of nen into the sea to seize the rope; ot boats full of armed men to row round the vessel and divert the Russian fre.If the Russiane draw near to cut out a vesse! or storm à fort, there is sure Lo he some breastwork, if only of hurdles filled with shingles, and concesling à treuch ; and from behind the aim (a- Ken is always deadly.Their songs are a curious contrast to the Russian hymns of the soldiery\u2014a contrast which reminds the traveller of that which is on record in the case of the siege of Jerusalem, when the Roman Trumpets in the camp sounded barsh and mechanical in comparison with the wild Hebrew music which swelled from the city walls.The Russians chaunt the hymns prescribed and taught.The Circassians have their barde, who extort and prophesy.« Young men, rash forth lo the battle: for brave youths love war.If you fall you are martyrs.If you live, you have half of that glory.\u201d This is is no mere romance.It ic about the most solid and significant fact of the last half century, this successful defiance of Russia by Cir- : cassia alone, when all the test of the world gave way.That sittle country has weathered the long, dreary storm; and now the worst is, we may hope, past.The Black Sea is opened, never more to be closed.EE ARTICLES ON INSIDE PAGES.Page.154;Selecuons - Travelling Incoaveniences - Affairs in the East .- * IPrutnastingtion State { Public Fecling mSt Pe.Fast Young Men - tersburgh - - - Lo.Suing Wieat - London Young Men's Christian Saturation of Seeds Association - - « = * |Poetiy\u2014Missionsts A # (Rel-gion of the Nes E.Christian Populat on of Turkey A day with the Turks on Brerd Steamer tv - 155 Thy will.O Lore, be done < {Always dr what is righ Tus WISNASS.WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1554.\u2014 The Telegraph Station some distance below Quebec reports no inward-bound vessels in sight.The ice at Carouge, nine miles above Quebec, is stil good.\u2014 Lord John Rusrell stated in Parliament that ample proof had been furnished that the Greek insurrection 10 the Turkish Provinces was not a spontaneous outbreak, but had heen contrived and fostered by the Government of Greece ; and, consequently, that power was justly held responsible for the revolt of the Greek subjects of Turkey.\u2014 It was feared a few years agothat Americans were indifferent to the movements of Rome,\u2014 whetber that fear was well founded or not we cannot say,\u2014but there seems no reason for entertaining such fear in the present day.The restless opposition of Rome to the principles of liberty and Protestantism have called forth a strong antagonistic spirit, and within a year not a few papers have been started, huv- ing for their objects, resistance to the encroachments of the Romish Church, snd keeping Protestants awake to her movements.Cardinal Wiseman\u2019s policy in Britain has been attended by a similar result, calling forth several able anti-Romish journals, and .a Protestant family newspaper is about to be started in Edinburgh, the prominent design of which is to carry out the spirit and objects of an aggregate meeting of Protestants recently held in that city.\u2014 The Rev.H.Lancashire, of Manningville, having accepled an invitation from the Congregationalist Church at Lanark, tv become its pastor, will enter upon the pastorate during the present month.\u2014 At the request of a number of citizens, the Mayor has called a Public Meeting, to be held in the City Concert Hall, to-morrow evening, for the pu of conveying to Her Majesty the assurance of the cordial and united support of the citizens of Montreal, in the ecniest in which tbe British and French nations have been compelled te participate, with the expression of their warmest sympathies with such of their fellow-sabjects as may be personally engaged in that contest.\u2014 Ontbe fast day in Quebec, the collections on behalf of the wives and children of wldiers serving in the Eastern war, amounted to over two bundred and twenty pounds.\u2014 The Indian Missions in the Hudsons\u2019 Bay territory, commenced by the English Wesleyan Missionary Society, have been recently transferred 10 the charge of the Upper Canada Conference of the Methodist Church.The Rev.Messrs.Hurlburt, R.Brooking and A.Salt, with their families, leave for the Mission Stations in s few deys.The Hudson Bay Territory is estimated to contain an Indian population exceeding fifty-thousand persons.\u2014 No tidings have yet been received of the City of Giasgow steamship, now mote than two months out, and with nearly fourhun- dred soute op board.Nothing has been heard either of twc vessels which left New York for Live: |, in November last.The number of vessels which are never heard of after leaving pon, is much greater than many would suppose.À return issued from Llyod\u2019s several months since, showed an annual average of about 70 vessels of which nothing had been heard since their leaving port.Save or MonxLanns.\u2014 We understard that the Ladies of the Congregation have purchased Monklands from Mr.C.S.Monk for £9000.\u2014Herald.The effect of extending the powers of the old ecclesiastical corporations to hold property, which was done pretty generally by eur parliament a Jew years ago, was to enable them to invest in additional real estate, the accumulations of capital which were rapidly accruing through the rise in the value of property.rents, &c., then belouging to them, so that they can buy up by degrees, any desirable property that is offered, and through course of years lock up in morimain, a large portion of the property of the cuy ot country.\u2018The above paragraph refers, we presume, to an arquisition nf this tind, and ia only one of the acquisitions by Ecclesisstical Corpoin- tions which are eontinnally taking place over the land.The Nuns of the Congreyation sre sn educational order, and Monklands is bought we presume, for 8 Convent School.DR.DUFF.We continue the outline of Dr.Duf®s address at the public break- sen.Elementary education was of no account in Indis.[1 was-only a igh and thorough education that would do.This was ibe only thing (hat aitracied the youth.The venerable Dr.Carey had exclaimed, no children of respectable caste could in past years, be Sound at Mission Schools.Now they were crowding to them in gresier numbers than can be received.This was a result of the education given.; Co When Dr.laglis introduced the subject of the India Mission be- Sesu the Church of Scotland, ihe proposition adopted was to raise and Gand £5000.The interest of which was to be applied in Mision- ay effort.1 annual collection was not thought of, although there was no other collection in the church but one for Gaelic Schools.Thot wes 1!» day of small things, but it was s great event, inae- wmuch as it reversed the awful resolution adopted by the Assembly is \"96, formally repudiating Missionary efforts Dr.Doff out to Sadia with great difficulty.It was a good while before he got a Kiconce te go 10 indie.\u201cIt wes ditticult to obinin à passage.His chip was wrecked, aud it was only after many \u2018rials and dangers chai he reached Calcutia; but he believed there was no strength or wigor of Christian life but what is wrought out of toils and sufferings.3 MONTKEAL WITNESS.At first it seemed as if nothing could be done but te learn the language aud speak to individuals ; and as he went out with the Blis- sionaries, day after day, it appeared 10 bim that this would never accomplish ~nything.Bus by snd by.light began to dawn.The Hindous were prepared by the British victories, by the conquest of Tippoo anu the bringing of his children as capiives to Calcutta, 10 beliave that the British were settled over them, and their power firmly esablished.Then, having acrived at this conviction, the Ludiane, who sre a shrewed people, thuught it would be for thair interest to learn English.They, therefore, commenced listle schools, but cauld get no teachers.At last, à walchmaker of no education, and he was sorry to add, mo religion, took it into his head that it would! be a good thing to teach these children, and he and some of the natives so wrought with the government, that the Hindoo Cul- lege was established.this College was to teach the English language und the sciences, but no religion, an though it had not been wong esablished prier to Dr.Duff®s visiting ludia, the fruits were then beginning 10 be seen.The young n.en who attended it foriued Societies aud held discussions, and it was discovered that they were Atheists.They had lost all confidence in their own lsuperstitions, and had received no religion insteaë.Their minds were liberated, however.an! they spoke with great freedom.They quoted English authors, and one even advocated female education, a thing then perfectly unknown in India.This speaker said, these old Brabmins must all come down some day, and \u2018a man will be a maa for a\u2019 that\" These words of Burns, from Hindoo lips, electrified him, (Dr.Duff}) snd rendered it evident that the schools esiablis! ed by the Rrahimics and British Government, were producing results which they neither contemplated nor -desired.To show iow the science, taught in these schools, upset the Brahminical religion, one instance would suffice.The Hindoo theory of eclipses is as follows :\u2014The water of immortality was lost.The gods went to inquire of Bramah®where it was.In the bottom of the ocean was the answer.How shall we get it up?Churn the ocean.How shall we churn it?Take Meru mountain for a churn stick.This mountain stands 11,000 miles above the earth, and 11,000 miles down in it.(The Hindou measurements are all magnificent.) Where shall we get a rope to go round it ?There is a god who is in the form of à serpent, with a tail many huadred tbousand miles long.Use him.Well, this serpent was twisted round the mountain, and the good gods were to pull one end, and the ba.l gods the other, aliernately running backward aud forward, till the sea wae churned.But now the question arose on what to rest the end of their churn-stick.They applied to ali the animals, but they refused.At last the old (athe: and king of the Tortoises consented, whose back is many tiou- sands of miles broad.So they rested the mountain on him, and went to work, but he found it more fatiguing than he expected, and had to breathe heavily.Thi: drawing in and forcing out-of the ocean by the tortoise, in breathing, causes the tides ; and sometimes he gets very tired and makes a struggle to free himself, which is the cause of earthquakes.After sufficient churniog, the water of immortality came up, and the good gods (there are degrees of ness among Indian gods, but we would think them all bad enough) drank of it, but drove away the bad gods lest they should also drink and become immortal.One of these evil spirits, however, disguised himself so cunnisgly, that he was not distinguished from a good god until he had the water actually at his mouth, when the sun and moon, bein, very clear seeing gods, detected him, and informed the chief gode who instantly cut off his head witha scimetar.The body, not having tasted the water of immortality, perished and fell down, deranging millions of worlds in its fall ; but the head, having taated, became immortal, and whirled off through the heavens, engaged in an endleas pursuit of the sun and morn, against which it is animated with the most intense hatred, for having discovered him.Whenever he overiakes either, he makes a bite at it and this is the cause of eclipses.When an eclipse occurs, all the people believe themselves unclean and break all their earthenware as if a death had occurred in each family, and goverament has to proclaim the day of every eclipse a holiday, to let the people go down to the Ganges to cleanse themselves, so that Hindooism is intimately mixed up with civil government.These educated young men, knowing the absurdity of this theory of eclipses, lost all faith in the rest of Hindooism ; and, baviog nothing else in its stead, became athiests, and such, sooner or later, will the effect of all education without the Bible.This view may be against human wisdom and experience, but God would honor his own Way.And he (Dr.Duff) would sooner lay his head on the block than be instromentai in raising up a system of education without the Bible.He saw the state of tbe Hindoo youth, and tried in many ways to obtain access 10 them on the subject of religion, but in vain, so at last he remembered the anecdote of Edward Irvine and the infidel shoemaker.This zealous minister, who was io the babit of visiting and spesking personally 10 those whom he met on the subject of religion, once entered the shop of a shoemaker, who held all religion end priestcralt in hatred and contempt, and whe drove him off with insull and contumely Edward was retiring discomfitted, when he thought he must not give him up so easily, and remembering that Parlia'rent Lad that very day taken off or diminished the leather duties, he went back, aod said \u201c By-the-bye, dtd you hear the news 1\u201d ¢ What news 7\u201d said the shoemaker, gruffly.\u201c Parliament has just taken the duty off leather.\u201d® + Taken he duty off leather I\"?exclaimed the shoemaker.*¢ Here, take a chair, and ell me about it.\"\u2014 Mr.Irvine took à chair and became quite familiar with the shoemaker.and in the course of this intercourse had abundant opportu- any of introducing the great subject of religion.So, said Dr.Duff, [ determined to talk with these educated young Hindoos about leather, or rather about the arts and sciences, which was the same thing in their case.They were aided in philosophy asd mathematics, and when intimacy was established, the subject of religion came up, and they were sppesled to if it were logical or philosophical to condemn Christianity without having examined it or knowing anything about ir.Red Te They were thus led to agree tostudy it, provi could first prove to em the existence of a God at all, and on this point they agreed to give him a hearing if he would allow them to contradiet him whenever they chose.He scenrdingly lectured on this subject, which was the first religious instruction delivered by a Missionary in Calcutta to high caste Indian Foul snd it created a terrible disturbance.He had buried himself in the native town of Calcutta on purpose, having no one to aid him or sympathize wilh him in his plans and views, and this was the first resuls.The in.fluentis natives and the old European residents said that such things were noi 10 be tolerated, or the British power was at an end I=tha the Missionary must be sent back to Britain, and that the youths at the college must be strictly prohibited from any intercourse with Missionaries He (Dr.Dulf) expected to be sent back, for the Government had then the power to do sn, a power which was taken away by (he British parliement io 1833.Bus Lord William Ben- tink, the best Governor who hed ever ruled in India, was ihen in office, aod Dr.Duff went and told him everything, receiving the Plewsin srsurance that he should not be disvorbed if he conducted imseif with prudence and allowed the present storm to blow over a little.Dr.Duff opened à school in his own hired house, opposite the Hindon College.which was stiended through the inflaence of Remahoun Roy, an enlightened Hindno, by several good caste Indian youth, and this wae the beginning of the Institution which has since been known through the world.Remahoun Roy\u2019s reason for preferring his school 10 the Hindoo College was, that the later was without religion, and he thought religion, and especially the morality of Christianity snd the Lords prayer, which was used in this school from the beginning, necessary to the youth.He therefore entered into his plans and sided him.\u201d He (Dr.D) hat lived to see some nf these inquiring young men converied to Christ snd labouring dili- genuly to build up the cause they once hated snl ridiculed.The one wh had sung *\u2018 a man\u2019s s man for a\u2019 tha\u201d had become an ur- dained Mini-ler sud Missionary in conection with the Episcopal Church, and who was converted through that man\u2019s instrumentality, waa the first Christian Missionary who had crossed the Sutlej.The Doctor closed in a strain of impassioned eloquence rarely surpassed, appealing 10 his hearers to engage earnestly in the Missionary work by their prayers, sympathy, and co-operation.Dr.Wilkes said he was free to confess that after the faithful appeals of the preceding evening, in behalf of Missions, setting forth that there were territorial divisions in India containing each a popu- laton of fiom one to three millions, io which no resident Missionary had ever been\u2014that he thought it was wrong fur four, five, or six Ministers to crowd togetlier into a linle village of Canada, and struggle hard for some eighty or a hundred hearers a piece, when one good Minister might do all the work as well or better, aud the rest might go to the heathen, ond each have a parish containing millions.Ho moved a series of resolutions expressive of a high sense of the pleasure and profit Montreal kad derived fiom Dr.Duffs visit, and promising gremly increased interest and co-operation in this Missionary work.These resolutions, after brief and appropriate speeches from the Revds.Dr.Taylor, Dr.M\u2018Gill, Mr, M\u2018Loud, Mr.Scott and Mr.A.D.Campbell, were carried unanimously, and one of the most iieresting, instructive, snd enthusiastic mestings we ever attended, broke up by the singing of part of Heber\u2019s Misisonary Hymu.We may add, that since Dr.Duff left, there have been several meetings in this city concerning direct missionary efforts on the part of Canadian Christians, the resuit of which we hope to give ere long.MR.KEELOGG., This able and excellent Lecturer having concluded his nearly six months engigetient with the Montreal Temperance Society, gave an account of his labours on Monday evening week in the Lecture Room of the Americau Presbyterian Church.On this occasion Henry Lyman, Esq., one of the Vice Presidents of the Society, occupied the Chair, and the Rev.Dr.Taylor offered prayer.1.Kellogg stated that he had, since the 6th of November last, visited 80 towns and villages in Easiern Canada, and delivered 113 lectures, and what was rather remarkable, though it had been in the severest season of the year, not one of his app-intments bad been broken by bad weather.Ac these meetings collections had been taken up, as instructed by the Montreal Society ; but no particular urgency or personal solicitation had been used.Some metings pjelde very little, while in other places the collection was very iberal, and the whole amounted to a litile orer £130.Three thousand eight hundred and nineteen peisons had signed the total abstinence pledge ; that is, they had come forward and signed it io the face of the world, which was the best way.Of this number some were total abstainers before ; but a great majority were drunkards, and some of these common drunkards.Some, also, were influental persons in their localities, but moderate drinkers, whose influence would now be thrown on the right side of this question.He had every where received a kind, generous, cordial welcome, and enjoyed a hearty hospitality, for which he tendered his best thanks, although this was nothing more than his Jrevions experience of four years amoug the colonists in the British American Provinces had led him to expect.The people every where felt ard expressed lively gratitude to the Montreal Temperauce Society for sending 8 Lecturer among them, and expressed a strong hope that a long interval would not be permitted again to elapse before à similar visit.Every where, also, there was a very favorable feeling with regard to the Maine Law.In many places, indeed, where the firm friends of be Temperance cause were tired of organizing Societies on the old principle, they would commence again with alacrity, in order to secure the Maine Law.They found something more than persuasion necessary to save the drunkard from temptation and the young from snares.The people in the country would come from far and near to hear anything about the Maine Law, which was evidenily the object of general hope and desire.But to secure the passage of such a law it was necessary that a Lecturer should be in the field all the timo.It was the personal visit and living voice that raised up an interest, and in order to secure such an agency, the Montreal Temperance Society should be well supported.It was only a central Society that could engage a Lecturer and arrange meetings.The couniry eocieties would come out to the meetings and support the effort cordially and liberally, but they could not, in the nature of the case, make the arrangements.This society, from its position, history, and the general confidence in it, was the one to do the work, and to this end it should have its treasury filled.Nor was the subscribing to efforts of this kind a losing business.At the Anniversary meeting of this Society, nearly 3 months ago, Dr.Taylor had made an appeal to sustain a travelling Lecturer, which was responded to by a subscription of nearly £70 on the spot.Was this mocey lost?By no means.In one village he had visited since, which contained two taverns, all the inhabitants had signed the pledge, ihe taverns were given up, and £50 was subscribed for a library\u2014of that amount £25 ad alreacy been spent in Montreal.Every man who gave u drinking would have consideiable more to spend in clothing himself and family, procuring furniture, books, newspapers, and o great va- tiety of useful things, so that it was a very moderate estimate to calculate that 2000 of 1hose, who had signed the pledge at his meet- inge, would each spend, on the average, £2 more this year in purchasing goods, nearly all of which would come from Monireal.Was this not a fair return on an invesiment of £701 Why, the time is come when the Montreal Temperance Society should not need to beg the Merchants, and Banks, and Insurance Offices, of Montreal, to support Temperance Lecturers ; but these parties should beg the \u201cociety to lake their subecripiions and employ them in this way.There is no better guaraniez of debts, or preventive of fires, or promoter of industry, \u201cwealth and prosperity, than the temperance reformation.And you should send large\u201d deputations, 10 your Baok- ers and Insurance Companies, and demand their ten or twenty pounds each for this cause.It is their own interest as well as the public gond they are promoting.Monreal should, in her central position, take à high stand in every good work.and so secure the confidence, esteem and gratiuds of the country.She will.in this way, make herself\u2019 the center of streams of commerce, from fat and near, of which nothing will be able to deprive her.If you.as a city, were now to spend £1000 on this cause, judiciously, you would so promote the business and prosperity of the country that the return would be enormous.The begging then should be'on the side of (be owners of property, capitalusis, and business men.But this was only the pecuniary view of the case, the to be accomplished was fai more more important.Many families had not enjoyed a happy hour for years until they signed ihe pledge last winter.r.K.went on to illustrate this part of the subject, together with the necessity and reasonableness of the Maine Law, st length, and on the conclusion of his addrens appropriste resolutions were pass which wil} bejfound in the Temperance Advocate.PUBLIC BREAKFAST, As an appropriate conclusion to Mr.Kellogg's zealous and valuable labours in Lower Canada he was invited by the Committee of the Montreal Temperance Society to a public breakfast, in Mr.Du- clos\u2019 Temperance Hotel, on the morning of his departure for the West The company, about sixty in number, consisied of the most rominent friends of the Temperance Reform in the city, including Fr or six Ministers.Mrs.Kellogg aud a number of Isdies Were also resent.After breakfast, which was served in excellent style, the resident of the Montreal Society, who ocoupied the chair, briefly stated that the object of this gathering of the friends of the cause May 3, 1864.who Rad been laboring most ably and faithfully for the good of Can: during the; whole Winter, and who was therefore well entitled to this mark of respect st our Lands.He (the Chairman) thought that Mr.Kellogg had a peculiar call to, and adaptation for, these Provinces, considering what he had done formerly in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, aud now in Lower Canada, and he hoped Canada, both West and East, would do her part towards retaining him amongst us, at all events, till we carry the Maine Law, and that Mr.Kellogg on his side would manifest towards Canada a virtue which he hol himself highly commended ou the preceding evening, ander the name of Stick-to-ativeness.Mr.Kellogg acknowledged his sense of the kindness and appreciation of his services, shown by the Montreal Society ; he encou- i them to persevere in their good work, and though he was Jeav- ing them, by all means, to keep one lecturer or another continually in the field.He said the benetit was very great in promoting the Temperance cause, and the country very highly prized the visits of tecturing agents.There was everything to gained by an earnest and frequent expression of one\u2019s own convictions.Railways had a rule that whenever the Conductor saw any signal made in earnest, that he did not understand, he was to stop and ascertain what it meant ; and this was a law of our nature.We must stop and ascertain what à man means when he comes to us expressing his own earnest convictions, We should also expect much.When Neal Dow was labouring for his great object he was pointed out as \u201c À man who was fool enough to believe that he could get a prohibitory law.\u201d Well, he was just fool enough to believe it, and he got it.Temperance men were not earnest enough, and did not expect enough.There were enough of Temperance men in Montreal to carry every election if they were only in earnest ; and this was the case in a great portion of the country, ; The Rev.Wm.Scott, in moving the resolution which was published in our last, gracefully added a tribute of praise to the self- denial of Mrs.Kellogg.who, in consenting to such frequent and long separations from\u2019 her husband, was doing and suffering as much for the cause as any one.Mr.Becket, in seconding the resolution, stated that letters had beer received (rem nearly every part of the country visited by Mr.Kellogg, and they uniformly bore the highest testimony to Mr Kellogg's ability and usefulness, and the benefit derived from his visit- The resolution was supported in short addresses by Rev.Dr.Taylor, Rev.J.MeLoud, John Redpath, Esq., Mr.Brown, avd other gentlemen, and adopted with great cordiality.The Rev.D.Inglis closed with prayer, commitiing Mr.Kelloge and his partner, tu the Divine care and blessing, in their intended journey to, and labours in.Canada West.QUEBEC CORRESPONDENCE OF MONTREAL WITNESS.Quepec, 21st April, 1854.A stranger visiting Quebec at this moment, and witnessing its present aspect, weuld be inclined to form rather 22 unfavorable opinion of our climate.The river covered for several miles with a broad sheet of ice, and snow lying eeveral feet deep over the streets of the city and adjacent cosatry.One of the longest, most severe and tedious winters known to the oldest inhabitant is only just now shewing eigns of drawing to a close.Fuel and provisions have been very dear, and house expenses are nearly double what they were in former years.Happily, however, the labouring classes have received good wages, and many employers liberally increased the salaries of those depending on a fixed income for support.The weather for the last few days bas been warm and pleasant, ice and snow melting rapidly ; but it will probably be the first week in May before the river is quite clear and open for navigation.A party has been engaged for several days cutting a channel through the ice to open water at Point Levi, to enable the light-ship to get out of her winter Quarters at Taylor's Slip, and proceed to her station down the river.The vessels detained here last fall by the sudden close of the navigation are awaiting the removal of the ice to proceed on their voyage.Several of those also detained below from the same cause are returniog to Port for repairs, being all more or less injured by the action of the ice.A few have been condemned as wrecks, and so\u2018d for account of the underwriters.The United Kingdom, & large ship that wintered at Indian Cove.proceeded to sea on Wednes a last, being the first vessel sailing from Port this season.Many of the new vessels built during the winter will be ready to launch first open water.Tt isexpected that seamen will be very scarce and wages enormously high.Freights are opening at 508.to 60s, for timber, and £7 10s.to £8 10s.for deals, and these rates will probably be maintained throughout the season.It is expected that the Steamship Cleopatra, advertised to leave Liverpool on the 10th instant.will be the first vessel arriving from sea.The proprietors of the American Steamers having been induced to abandon their intention of sending boats round from the Hudson 10 ply in the St.Lawrence, will leave the field free from competition 10 the present occupants.This is much to be regretted, as last years experience proved the necessity of having additional boats on this line : the difficulty of procuring (reight and the high rates were the subject of universal complaint.The increasing demand for for- wardiog craft will no doubt induce many engaged in this business to send a supply of suitable vessels (0 Quebec this season as they are likely to obfain constant and remunerative employment.A depot for the Grand Trunk Railroad at Point Levi will produce a great change in that place.Warelionses, Docks, Wharves, &e.wl be required, and that villaze will ere long become a thriving pulous town.The Company not having come to terms with the Be poration for the occupation of the Cul-de-sac, Are now endeavouring to obtain a valuable property at the East India Wharf.which is in many respects in a much more desirable position for a Quebec terminus.The ice bridge to the opposite shore has not altogether answered the expectations that were entertained, but it will, neverthe- lesy, be fond advautageous to secure its annual formation, owing to the increasing intercourse with the South Share, consequent upon the completion of the Grand Trunk Railroad ; and as there is always open water at the extreme point where the Depot, Warehouses and Wharves are likely to be built, vessels can arrive and depart many weeks before the ice leaves the river.\u2018The North Shore Railroëd is now under caniract to be completed in 8 years at £8,000 currency per mile.A report from the chief engineer has just been publishe |.and affords the mow fsttering prospects for this undertaking.Stock is being rapidly taken up for the Northern Railroad to Lake St.Johns; a spirited enterprise just originated hy the citizens of Quebec.It will open up aback country ésessing many advaniages, and most valuable resources whic are now locked in the embrace of a dense wilderness.On the completion of all the Roads now projected.Quebec will become she terminus of many important Railway communications which will vender her position one of great importance and add much to her naturally great advantages for prosecuting an extensive and lucrative commerce.The building, now in course of preparation for temporary nocupa- tion asa Parliament House, is a large edifice, belonging to the Sisters of Charity, situated just ouraide Se.John\u2019s Gate, on the brow of the Cod, overlooking the populous suburh of St.Roch.lis exterior ia of a better style of arabitecture than is generally adopte in the erection of Roman Catholic ediSoes in thia city.À graceful staple and cupola surmounts the buil-ling, from which an extensive and pioturesque visw is obidined.The selection of this place is, was todo honor to one of its most zealous and suceessful champions | u THE MONTREAL WITNESS 0 the whole, probably the best that could have been mae.\u2014 [ he Old Parliament Bui'ding, with its blackened and ruined wails, | presents a most desolaie appearance.; .Wbere the future seat of Goverament willbe permanently located | is a problem yet to be solved, It was supposed that some of the speeches made at the entertainment given to Lord Elgin, ino London, wotld shadow forth some new phase in colonial policy.t Parliament will meet in June, and the measures then proposed, condemae lately announced by authority in the Morning Chronicle.157 uently, in its instractions it far beyond what is te be found in e official catechism of the Counc pli Trent.This bs a proof, that in spite of the Univers there still remain in France a certain sumber of msderste Catholics.The Archbishop of Paris is himself a friend of progress; he has always, as much as ible, contended against the despotism of Louis Napoleon ; be fias never flattered him in his public discourses, and on several occasions, he bas openly the Ultramontane pretantions of the Univers.Bui, hat are we to think, when we hear that on next Sunday, in the will be those communicated to the fitness, some months ago, snd rts it is impossible for a real Catholic sincerely 10 love truth! The establishment of a new journal, the Quebec Observer, row church of the Archbishopric, are to be exposed to the adoration of gives five English newspapers toa population of about 10.000, whi., the faithful, the thorns of the crown of Jesus Christ, as likewise the only «wo are printed for à French population of about 30,000.A small, neat, handsome building, han lately been erected for | public worship by the Bajrist congregation in this city.\u2018The open-| ing service was conducted on a Wednesday evening, by the Rev, Dr.Cook, and the ministers of the Wesleyan, Congregational.and) Free Piesbyterian Churches, preached appropriate discourses, on the following \u2018Sabbath.The pastor of (his church, (the Rev.Mr.: Marsh.) has won the universal esteem of the eitizens of Quebec, and has contributed much towards the moral, intellectual and religious, culture of this community, having also delivered several scientific; lectures upon interesting subjects.; The Literary and Historical Society sustained a great loss by the destruction of their property contained in the Parliament buildings.They had just commenced a new era in their existence, under ihe most Hattering auspices.On the occasion of their opening meeting, an interesting paper was read by Professor Andrews, after which the company were invited to partake of tea, coffee, cakes, &c.The; emertaintent was one of much social, agreeable and intellectual | intercourse.Lt is to be hoped that Parliament will make a liberal! grant to this valuable institution.The Quebec Library Associatior maintains its prosperous and encouraging position ; but, from lack of adequate support, no?one Public Lecture has been delivered under its auspices this season ; a sad commentary upon the literary tastes and intellectual culture of the commanity- | The usual winter festivities have passed over with their peculiar characteristies of Canadian Society.Theatricals and balls forming | the chief and most prominent amusements.Those that deserve a | favorable notice, are the athletic and wholesome exercise of anow- shoeing, curling and skating ; the later graceful amusement is quite a favorite among the ladies, and will likely become very popular.| sinec it is patranized by the Queen of England.A subscription list is cireulating for the ereetion of a suitaise edifice at Mount Hermon Cemetery.in which to hold funeral services.This burial place is beagtifully situated a few miles out of Lhe city.on the Carouge Road, and occupies an area of several acres, forming a gentle slope on the brow of the hill, overlooking the St.Law- | rence, commanding an extensive and delightful view of the river! and surrounding country.Several chaste and elegant monumenis are already erected in memory of departed relatives; the road to the cemetery is always kept in excellent order, many béautifui villas and country residences with luxuariant fields and verdant lawns greet the eye in every direction, the tourist will find this spo: well worthy of a visit after indulging in the historice® recollections of the celebrated Plains of Abraham.It is proposed to erect, in some suitable place, a monument as a memorial of Jacques Cartier.That bold, adventurous mariner, of St.Malo, as he leaned upon the rail of La Petite Hermoine, and pensively gazed on the bold promontory that breke upon his view, could have but litle imagined the change which has since heen wrought over the wild scene that (here mel bis wondering gaze.8.PARIS CORRESPONDENCE OF MONTREAL WITNESS.Pans, April 4th, 1354.Stu,\u2014In my last letter I gave you a sketch of the state of Protestantism in Paris, and in my next communication I trust I shall be able to give you many particulars on the state of our religion in France, for the anaiversaries of our religious societies will commence on the 24th of April; I will then inform you of the principal facts brought out on the occasion.Fot the present I shail begin by speaking of Catholicism in Paris, its literature, and its faculties of Theology.2 you well know, Catholic literature has always been wanting in good works, corresponding to the calls of modern times; there is nothing surprising in this, for Catholicism is condemned by its very nature to remain a slranger to all real progress ; but their literary lervor was wholly directed to the past, and I do not believe that the whole history of literature presents examples of works so conscientious and so extensive as Ihe collections of the Fathers, made in the last century by the order of Benedictines, and at the present time, in Paris, Vy the Abbe Migne, of whom I shall here make some mention.M.Migne is one of the most prolific Catholic writers of our ume ; it was he who founded the public paper the Univers, 10 the spirit of which he gave a directiqn totally different from that which now animates that ultramontane periodical.M.Migne has ever Leea a Gallican and a partisan of instruction ; he has even beea condemned by the Pope for his 00 liberal principles.When Le renounced the Univers, he began to edit the Verite, a journal which 1s the organ of a moderate Catholicism, and more impartial thao one would expect.However, it is by his works on Christian antiquity that Mr.Migue is become celebrated in France.He has formed the gigautic plan of publishing io volumes ofthe same size, ail the writings of the Fathers of the ancient church, all these of distinguished Catholic authors up to our present time, as well as those of the apologists of Christianity, not omitting thos of the Protestants.His plan is aiready in full execution, and what he has publishedon the first centuries is remarkable for the beauly of the print, the unexceptionable care given to the text, and the accuracy of the quotations.It is a subject of interest to visit the offices in which iis colossal undertaking is accomplished, and I would advise all your countrymen who intend going to Paris, to spend an afternoon in the Faubourg de Montrouge, the suburb in which the offices are {sermons : ¢ Look at England, with her Pope in nails of his cross.You must observe that there are several char- ches who pretend also to possess the same thorns aod the same nails.It is now, duriag Lent, that one may hear the most distinguished preachers of the Catholic taich.[ attend regularly their lectures, and J own that I have been struck by their ignorance and their coarseness.For instancé.the Abbé Combalot, (the same who, two years ago, boasted of converting Geneva 10 Catholicism, and in the course of 10 years.of celebrating mass in the church where Calvin preached.) the Abbé Combalot repeats here the lectures which I eard him pronounce at Geneva.Now, 1t is impossible to imagine viler comparisons or more vulgar language, accompanied with more ignorance and insincerity.For instance, he exclaims in one of his tticoats,\u201d and in another, \u2018 See those Protestants, they change their religion every week, as one does one\u2019s shirt.\u201d (On which one of my neighbours observed that there are people who change their linen every other day, and that it is more cleanly.) M.Combalot pretends that - land is on the brink of ruin, that the United States ate a prey to horrors of anarchy, and as he cannot deny that the Protestants are very active in their religious works, he pretends that it is the activity of worms, swarming as they emerge from a dead body! What think you of al! that, and how can you credit that all this is preached in the centre of the Faubourg St.Germain; that is 10 say, the most aristocratical quarter of Paris, and that M.Combalo: numbers among his congregation, the flower of nobility ?_ Gesæva.\u2014While at Paria they are preaching against Protestantism, at Geneva they have recomm®nced this spring their conferences against Catholicism.You know that these conferences were held for the first time last year, and that their purpose is 10 discuss all the more important points of controversy.An immense concourse attends them\u2014as many as three thousand listeners have been numbered.The subject chosen this year, is The Work of Christ in the Church.The firat discourse which treated of Jesus Christ, the head of the Church and which, consequently, denied the power of the Pope, was pronounced by MM.Bungener, the well-known author of the Council of Trent, and of a Sermon under Louis XIV.works which have been translated into English.and which you may bave perused.M.Bungener has great talent as a controversialist ; he is, owever, considered to be somewhat harsh in his judgments.For my part, | am satisfied to see the religious activity manifested io the bosom of the Established Church io Geneva.But, at the same time, I regret that while attacking their adversaries, the clergymen of Géneva do not apply :hemselves to establish their own faith on a more evangelical base, and to drive away all the Socinianism that still exists among them.It would appear that the Free Church, (Merle d\u2019Aubigné and Gaussen,) bas vainly protested against that mixture of philosophy and religion which characterises the theology of the Established Church in Geneva: up to this day, they have no confession of faith.Among ber ministers, some believe that Jesus Christ is God, while others consider him as a simple man; some believe in the doctrine of atonement, while others maintain it to be a barbarous tenet ; moreover, some contest the ancient reformed doctrine of salvation through Faith.The official catechism taught in the colleges scarcely mentions salvaiion through the blood of Jesus Christ, considers the Holy Ghost as an influence, acd establishes its morality on usefulness; for instance, you must not lie.Why?Because it might cause you much aonoyance, &c., &c.Such things must appear to you very extraordinary, and you will easily comprehend how the Free Church bas had so much to contend with in re-establishing the simple Gospel truths.Præpmont.\u2014The Chamber of Representatives in Piedmont has just proclaimed an entire religious liberty.You are aware that already in 1848, Charles Alberthad proclaimed liberty of conscience and reinatated (he Vaudois in their rights as citizens.\u201d But they had not yet reformed the penal code, an article of which probibited any attack, either direct or indirect, against the religion of the State.Now, the priests pretended that Protestant preaching was an indirect attack agaiost Catholicism, and thas it was, that notwithstanding the statute of Charles Alben, they had often succeeded in persecuting the Protestarts, and in causing their places of worship to be shut up.The necessity of re-establishing order in such a state of things was felt, and the government proposed tothe Chamber, that a modification should Ëe made in the penal code,\u2014a step which has been adopted by a great majority, in.spite of the violent opposition of several Ultramontane deputies.This important measure was taken about the middie of March.Swrnes.\u2014 lt isa painful task to have to point out examples of intolerance in Protestant countries, more especially after having seen Piedmont give such a striking proof of toleration.I have already spoken 10 you of the persecutions exercised by the Swedish government against the Disseoters.At present it is the Catholics whom they t.eat with such rigour.I have read in th: Journal of Stockholm, that the King's attorsey has prosecuted before the high court of eriminal justice seven women, for having been converted 10 Catholicism.8 invokes inst them a law of 1686, implicitly abrogated by ibe constitution which governs Swe Jen, since 45 years.Should he triumph in his application, the accused persons will be torn from their husbands and children, exiled incapacitated to inherit, having farfeited their civil rights, and being struck with civil death like malefactors.Nobody can be a better Protestant than myself, but [ declare that I cannot witness such laws, withou.blushing for the government who makes them.Is not truth potent enough of itsell without its being necessary 10 defend it, to have recourse to imprisonment and exile ?Is it not obvious thet such measures must increase Catholic fanaticism, and that it is giving it a right to .M.Mi iv 2 ith thi t exquisit à k situated.M.Migne receives strangers with the most exquisite] 1 itself à marlyr ?One has only to read the Univers and the other politeness, and does the honou's of his establishment himself.ht unites everything.The types are founded, the books are printed, the paper is glazed and bound, &c., &., under the same root.They use the stereotype printing, ev that the leaden moulds may be preserved for future new editions.books of the offices weigh 352 pounds: 300 workmen vie with wach other in activity.and five steam engines cau, if required.produce 2400 large quarto volumes in 4 hours.In the warehouses, whois posse: Each of the three account [tempt at intoleranc.Catholic papers, to see the advantage they take of such conduct, and 10 understand how dangerous and hurtful it is 10 our cause.Dexuark.\u2014The petty King of Denmark is also making an ate You know that after the warin 1851, he touk possession of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, the whole population of which are Lutherans, and speak (ierman.Now the Kiog, seed with a desire of divesting the Duchy of its natio one is apprehensive of losing one\u2019s way in the midst of a labyrinth character, to assimilate it entirely to his own states, will ao longer of books, piled up, and of which the number may by approxima-| allow that language to be spoken, and has given orders that proach= \u2018the poor tion be computed at a million.This stupendous labour has met |ers should be sent there who speak Daw: » consequently with the approbation and encouragement of nearly all, the French [inhabitants are deprived of all nourishment for their souls, me of them go so far As 10 consider it one of the most |are unacquainted with the Danish language.10 Protestantism, and think to have dis- odious?Bishops.deadly weapons to op) as they Is not such conduct In the time of ihe Apostles, the pastors instructed in the covered in it a powerful antidote egaimst the poison spread by the (language of their flocks; but, in our time, it is the flocks who must Biblical Societies.M.Migne numbers most, and the principal of his subscribers, among the Protestants.The Biblical Societies could assuredly not give t ir, Migne ie hourly expecting, in recompense of his services, to be conlemned by the Congregation de l\u2019Index, for having in- serie! in his collection à few Protestant works! At the close of wy last letter | mentioned the inauguration, of the Faculty of Tuealogy in Paris.This Faculty ia not looked upon favourably by the Pope, nor by the Uliramontanes, for it has the In this, however, they are much mistaken, for|learn the language of their pastors.Avstria\u2014Has appointed only one Protestant chaplain in her army.He may be said to have the most exiensive parish in the world, for © same testimony with regard to the Bishops.Moreover, (thers are in the Austrian army 50,000 Protestant soldiers | War is at length offieially declared.Wa shall soon hear of the movements of out Livops in Turkey.The vanguard of the French army has marched off, under the command of General Caaroben.Marshal S.Arnault, General-in-chief, is still in Paris, as hkewiso Prince Napoleon, who commands the bedy of reserve.We are in daily expectation of witnessing the of the English troope, to prelvmtion 10 teach a mitigated Catholicism, of the nature of Bossuai\u2019s, and tu defend the priviledges of the Gall cen church ; conse whom the Parisians are preparing tu give the most cordial rece pos \u2018 158 PROCRASTINATION.K ie seldom that à day passes hy without the reiterated war- ninge againet delay, with which 1be Seriptures abound, heing forcibly recalled to our minds by tidings of sudden death, or some axher unlooked for and awful calamity having befallen |< some or other of our fellow beings.* Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.\u201d & Say not ye, to-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get in; whereas, ye know not what sholl be on the morrow.\u201d ese are texts of holy writ, which cannot be too constantly called to remembrance.One of the startling circumstances, to which 1 have ailuded, occured some years since in a town in which I at that time resided, and as | have often thought that the narrative of it might he made profitable ts some who are disposed to defer their repentance to a more convenient season than that « sow,\u201d which is the only time we are told of as \u201c\u2018 the time of acceptance,\u201d | will here record it.A family of strangers came from a distant part of the world, and took up their abode in the country town of which I bave spoken.It consisted of a gentleman, high in military rank, his wife, 2 woman who had been of exceeding great beauty, and who, though no longer young, still preserved so large a portion of her youthful charms as to make her appearance exceedingly noble and striking, and some sons and daughters, most of them beyond the age of childhood.The whole family were, at the time of their arrival amongst us, of a gay and frivolous character ; but, as time passed on, the grace of God worked in the hearts of some of the younger members of the household, and by means of close associatiof with a christian family in their near neighbourhood, with whom some peculiar circumstances brought them into connexion, and the benefits of a Gospel ministry, which it pleased God to open to them, the eldest son, and two of the daughters, were led to take up the service of Christ, and east in their lot with bis people.But the parents did not so.To them the word of God's truth seemed to be sounded in vain.Years passed on, they saw one fair girl sink into an early grave, * rejoicing in the hope of the glory of God,\u201d another rise from a giddy, thoughtless child into a wo- manboed richly adorned with christian graces ; they saw their son become the prey of dire and protracied disease, and at last fall a victim to its ravages, yet upheld amidst the fiery trial to which he was subjected by the arm of Him who *¢ bath conquered death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel,\u201d yet they, the parents, were not saved.The mother, however, although she \u201c refused tn hear the voice of the charmer,\u201d was, neverthelers, not at ease in her sins, she stilled and stifled the voice of conscience indeed ; but though she was not without fear, she remained without repentance.\u201cI wish | was religious,\u201d said she one day to a christian friend, whose heart yearned to soe her become aa beir of salvation, \u201cT wish I was ; but [am not.I well know that I am ali wrong, and if I B on as Ido, I can never be saved.\u201d Her friend urged on her to go af once to Christ, pleading his readiness to receive all who came to him ; she entreated her to read the Scriptures, and to attend the ministry of the good clergyman, whose instruction bad been so greatly blessed to her children, to begin at once and go on the following Sabbath.Her reply was, 1 do mean to do some day, but not at present, Ido not kite to bear Mr.B., [ know what he says is true, and | cannot forget it all day ; it makes me very unbappy to bear him, and thereiore I do not choose to do so at present.Some day I fully mean to give up the world, and become religious ; but I cannot yet, and 1 would rather you would noi say axfÿ more about it.\u201d That Sabbath passed unheeded.Two days after, alarm was THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Young Men\u2019s Department.« FAST YOUNG MEN.\u201d An intelligent and virtuous young man will have neither vices nor vanities ; he will not be in the habit of spending his earnings on expensive pleasures\u2014in dress and ornaments, at theatres and asinoes.His spare time will be given to bouke\u2014to the acquiei- tion of general knowledge, er to mastering the theory of business, and getting ready for possible openings and opportunities; to innocent recreation ; to intercourse with respeciable friends and [acquaintance ; to geuing or doing good.He will risk nothing by late hours at night; he will excite no suspicions in the morning by his heavy eyes and languid gait\u2014hiy geping and absence suggesting the idea that some folly or debauch had made him stupid and useless when he should be wide awake.\u2018There will 'be no glaring mistakes in his accounts ; ro frequent necessity for revision : he will not be continually wanting more time to get up what is required ; he will not stare with ignorant wonder, or be silent with conscious shame, when appealed to about something that he ought to know, or might have krown, and the thorough .masterhood of which, had he known it, would have been the making of him.He will not be passed vver as unpromising or incompetent, when necessary changes sre to be made n the establishment, opening, 10 the tested and qualified, the observed and approved, a rise in rank and advancement of income.In the same way, the journeyman and mechanic, who may have litle thought, prospect, or ambition of being anything else, by industry.steadiness, sobriety, and all the other virtues which worldly prudence recommends, but which religion at once inculcstes end secures, will keep in work, gain confidence, and gradually get to be a sort of fixiure about the place ; he will have things comfortable and happy at home, a coat on his back and à watch in his pocket, bread in the kitchen and books on the shelves; his family will all be respectable in appearance, and will always be at worship on the working-man\u2019s day of weekly rest; his children will mostly receive a somewhat higher education than their father, and, though Ae may not, it is next to certain that they, or some of them, will rise to a higher level in life.\u2014So of the master : the Mar 3, 1854.\u2018Agriculture and Horticulture.SPRING WHEAT.There are several inducements to lead farmers to use e ery available acre for raising spring wheat.This crop is not always au certain or as valuable as the winter varielies, yet it may be safely put down as one of the most profitable crops (han can be sown the present spring.À few hinte to its cultivation may be valuable, Soil.The soil should be as warm as possible : the short seu.son allowed for growth and maturity requires a genial soil.If the eeason proves favorable, spring wheat will do wel! on cold clay lands, but the chances are better for that sown upon a dry, warm, loamy soil.If the land was ploughed in the fall, and has been exposed to freezing and crumbling in the winter, so much the better.Such land is ready for sowing without the further use of the plough.Where the subsoil is not poisonous, deep ploughing is very desirable ; as it will be better penetrated by the warm air.Let a part of a field be subsoil ploughed, snd we can {almost guarantee that the yield will be much greater 1hat on that part of the field which has received only the ordinary trestment with the common plough.Kind of Seed.It may not always he convenient to procure the best seed.Get the kind most available, which hss been tried and proved in your vicinity.The Black Sea is not so good a quality as many others, but, in consequence of ils scarcely ever being attacked by the fly, is highly prized.\u2018There are two varieties of this, the red and white chaff.The red is generally preferred, because must hardy.The white produces the best flour.The flour of the red is usually of a dark color, but it is sweet, and as palatable and nutritious as the white variety of winter wheat ; and although it may not bring as high prices in the market, it is equally good for homie use.There are other varieties of spring wheat which are of a superior quality, though probably not equal to the Biack Sea in resisting the fly, such ae the Siberian, Îtalian, &c.Time af Sowing.Spring wheat should be sown either quite early or somewhat late.That sown early comes to maturity be- young principal, venturing into business as a partaer or alone, who has probity, honour, scrupulous integrity; who displays activity, tact, attention; who conecientiously limits his private expenses ; and who, whatever he has to deny himself, struggles to maintain his commercial credit; who, as at once a religious and sensible man, has quiet conscience, a pure heart, a true lip, clean hands aod a clear head ;\u2014why, all these things have a natural tendency to help him cn\u2014not to mention God's blessing on earnest goodness and hunest work, © The hand of the diligent maketh rich.\u201d But there is such a thing as a dilgent but bad man making money, and, from God withholding his blessing, & putting it into a bag with holes.\u201d And there is such a thing as « God giving à man power to get wealth ;\u201d blessing ¢ his basket and his store ;\u201d\u2019 advancing him MB condition and honour, and thus, age after age, repeating the story, and realizing again the experience of the young Hebrew exile\u2014¢ the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man.\u201d .À know it is thought that religious people have a great many drains upon them in the way of pavments and subscriptions to to this and the other institution or society.Why, a worldly man will often spend more in a single evening, in giving a ball and supper, or treating 8 party to the opers, than many a religious man®of the same rank is required to pay for his religion in a year.Depend upon it, the truth, in more senses than one, is that there is nothing so expensive as sin ; nothing so exhausting as pleasure, The man who is the slave of neither may have other expenses, but, all things else being equal, he will generally be best prepared for making a deposit, getting credit or security, or taking a step onwards from his present position, A carefulness to maintain an inward harmony with the upper world, by preserving him from the follies and clothing him with the virtues of this, will often command, without his siming st them as a chief end, the given that Mrs.G.bad fallen down, speechless, in paralysis, prosperity and ruccess which the laws that regulate society attach, and it was so.For two whole years she lay as a helpless in- 23 a natural consequence, to inexpensive habits and true woith.fant ; the brain and the motive powers alone were touched by So with respect to old age.The way in which a good man the disease, ber general health was unbroken, her personal \u2018uses his body and soul, his heart and conscience ; the principles , beauty undisturbe indeed increased, and never, even in youth, 3nd habits favourable to character ; the practical course conducive could she have looked more beautiful than as she lay motion.to comfort, competence, and success; why, all these have a less on that couch, in ber while dress, her cheek unfaded and fall, her eyes brighter than when in health, her bair untinged, by gray ; nor could one gather from her aspect, that ail was a, black in her mind.The casket was there, but the jewel: direct bearing, by way of natural consequence, upon long life.He, who inherits a good constitution, May\u2014baring accidents\u2014 generally live as long as he likes.All the laws of our nature, when respected and obeyed, work in favour of us ; they are in- which bad eo long lain in it useless, or perverted from its right tended to do this\u2014to promote growth and development, to give use, and been made to dishogour instead of glorifying ita Ma-'strengih, comymctness, elastic force, health, perpetuity \u2014euch ker, was now broken and destroyed.\u2018The time to which this perpetuity ss may belong to a physical system like ours.Disease poor wanderer had looked to as that which was to be given to God, and used to obtain reconciliation with him, never came.No aniculate word ever again passed those lips, \u201cwhich four; days since, bad put aside the offers of mercy; she was eut down in her strength, and lay a touching monuments of the danger and folly of delay.Day by day her pious daughter read the word of God, and| prayed by the side of the belpiesr mother; day by day did she! lead ber christian friends, and that kind pastor, whose teaching she had «n lamentably neglected, to her side, hoping and pray- iag that God would even yet, in her feebleness, bring sume word home to her heart, and give ber life.But no word or sign of consciousness, ever again cheered the heart of her child, and at the end of two years, another stroke of the same disease, called her soul away to ite dread account.Does not this brief, but strikiog story, say loudly to all whe hoor it \u201c Work while it is called to-day, the night cometh, in which no man can work.\u201d Domsstic Duries.\u2014The elegant and accomplished Lady Mary Wortley Montague, whe figured in the fashionable as well us the literary circles of her time, hes said that \u201c the most minute détails of household economy become elegant and refined when they are ennobled by sentiment,\u201d and they are truly ennobled whea we attend to them either (ro.a sense of duty, or considers- tion for a parent, or love to a husband.* To furnish a room,\u201d continues this lady, \u201c is no longer a common-place sffair, shared with upholsterers snd cabint-makers ; itis decorating the place where | am to meet a friend or lover.To order dinner is not merely arranging a meal with my cook ; itis preparing refreshments for him whom | love.These necessary occupations, vidwed in this light by à person capable of strong sitachments, are se many pleasures, and afford her far more delight than the is disorder, Jerangement, obstruction, infection; life may be endangered by casualty, terminated in a moment by accident, and soon.Now, there may be no avoiding a ligh*ning, or escaping a alorm at sea, or surviving a collizon on the rail.Fracture and injury from external things, death from unknown or uncontrollable causes, must be put out of the discussion.We then say, that according to all natural laws, a thoroughly virtuous, and therefore regu'ar and lemperale man, will not be likely to shorten life by sowiug the seeds of disease within himself, or occasioning functions] derangement.He will be better able than others to resist infection, to be unhurt by any mysterious, malignant miasma; and he will not be exposed to some accidents that are often fatal, those which never happen but to inconsideration, folly and recklessness.He will sustain, too, better, and for a longer time, the wear and tenr and toil of life.The vicious die early.They fall like shadows or tumble like wrecks snd ruins into the grave, often while quite young, almost always before forty, The wicked \u201cliveth not half his days.\u201d The world st once ratifies the truth and assigns the reason by describing the dissolute as ¢ fast men; that is, they live; they pend their twelve hours in six, getting through the whole before the meridisn, and dropping out of sight and into darkness while others are in the glow and glory of life.* Their sun goes down while it is yet day.\u201d And they might have helped it.Many » one dies long befôre he need.Your men of genius, like Burns and Byron, to whom, when dissipated and orofligate, thirty-seven is so fatal ; and your ebscure and nameless ** wandering stars,\u201d who wasie their youth in libertine indulgence ; they cannot live long.They must dis early.They put on the steam till they blow up the boiler.They run at such a rate, that the fire goes out for want of fuel.The machinery is destroyed by reckless speed and rapid wear.Nothing can save them.Their physical system esnnot stand the strain they pus it © ; while the alate of their minds in often such, that the soul would est through the games and shows which constitute the amusements of the world.\u201d escspe from the incessant hell of its own thoughte.\u2014 Binney.fore the appearance of the fly, and that sown late does not get to a fit state to be attacked till after this pest has ceased its ravages, The best plan is to put in the seed, if possible, as soon as the (ground will answer to be worked, and if it cannot be done then, ito delay several weeks.Sow spring wheat where the winter variely has been killed lout by frost.We have found it quite profitable to sow spring wheat upon fields, or parts of fields, where the frost has killed out that sown in the fall.The ground meede no preparation.The cost of the seed is trifling, compared with the loss ol the use of the ground.Our plan is to go over the field, and wherever there are a few square rods more than half killed out, scatier on the spring seed, and then go over it with a hoe or light harrow.Usually, at harvest, the winter wheat will ripen a litle earlier, and in barvesting, the patches of the spring variety can te left to be cut afterwards.The winter wheat mingled with the spring, will not be entirely lost, even if it stands a few days till the other ripene.We have ofien had both come to muturity at the same time.SATURATION OF SEEDS.In some cases we seem to gain by saturating eeeds in various liquids.Parsnip and carrot seeds are so dry, that various weeds get the start of them, unless they are moistened in some degree before planting.In regard to Indian corn there may be some dispute.We have generally succeeded best with corn, without soaking the seed, There is always some risk run with steeps.For after the corn has swollen, it should be planted at once ; as in case of its drying again and shrinking, it fails to vegetate, Saltpeter is recommended both to render the seed unpalatable to crows and equirrels, and \u20180 impregnate it with matter to aid its growth, Tar also is recommended as a sure scarecrow.When tar is used, a small infusion in warm water is said to be sufficient ; and if a thick coating of tar is laid on seed corn, it will not be likely to vegetate.We have generally found it most safe to plant seed corn in ita dryest slate, and trust to the weather and our traps, to keep all vermin away.As the cost of seed for an acre of corn is trifling, it is advisable to drop an extra number of kernels in each hill ; and (hen if the crows and the cut worn find a living elsewhere, or meet a premature death, the stalks of corn are easily thinned out by hand at the first hoeing.It is no harder labor to pull upan extra cornstalk, than to pull a weed.The most convenient distance for the hills is one pace.This gives 4,000 hills to an acre.One pint of corn to each hill, gives 624 bushels per acre.This will do very well, unless you go for 8 premium crop,\u2014in such cage your corn will cost you more than when your chief aim is to do well and have a good harvest, with a reasonable quantity of manure, and a reasonable amount of labor.\u2014 Ploughman, Lime Dust on PLANTS\u2014An English orchardist, whose orchard occupies 50 acres, protects his trees from caterpillars and other insects by shaking over the young foilage quick lime pulverized and sifted through a fine sieve.He puts the lime into a tin conical canister perforated a1 one end, and with a long handie.The time for using it is the dew of the morning, or whenever the leaves are damp.He has found it very effectual, Grinpine Bones For Manvur.\u2014Mr.P.R.Lamb, of Toronto, has erected machinery for grinding bones for manure.It is the first enterprise of the kind ever attempted in this country.The annual value of the ground bones used in England, principally for turnips, is said to be £200,000 sterling.Professor Croft and Rutland, of Toronto University, have published in an agricultural periodical, s joint letter, in which they call public atiention to the importance of bones as a manure.The fact of machinery being now in existence for grinding bones, will doubt.lees cause farmers to collect and preserve them for the purpose of applying them, in à prepared state, as manure to the soil.How mvcH Porx wiLL A Buster or Corn Maxe1\u2014W.M.Jackson, of Missouri, put three hogs in à pen pnd three in « lot, and fed them equally, six barrels, (30 bushels,) of corn, in forty days, commencing Oct.28th.The average live weight, when put up, was 175 pounds.Those in the lot gained most one 88 pounds.One in the pen 84 pounds.The experiment shows that one bushel of corn will make 15 pounds of pork; snd that the six barrels of corn made $11 25¢ work of pork, at 24 substance of the most robust body, and make for itself a way of te.per pound, and that the fermer gets 12] cis.for hie labor of feeding per bushel, over selling at 25 cts, per bushel. Mar 3, 1864 TEE MEISOBLLANY.{For tne Monvazar Witness.MISSIONARY APPEAL.Ch fdren of this favar'd land, Where th Gompel sualight glows, Mark! & voice from distant strand \u2018Tells a tale of d-epest wues.Neath Hindostan's burning sky \u2014 Ou the Ganges fertile shore \u2014 Where the Himaiayss, high, Echo to the thunder®s rosr, \u2014 Where, up'n the wids-apread plain, Hosts of haman brings strive, Moral death, and darkness teigo\u2014 Cruel superstitions thrive.Where Benares' temple spires Point in mack'ry (0 the sky\u2014 Sons and daughters, mnthers, sires, Raise tn idol gode their cry.Then nn holy Sabbath-bell Cheers, with music soft and sweet, But, instead, 8 mournful knell Evermore their spirits greet.Children of this happy chime, Who of Jeaus Christ may learn, When you hear of heathen crime, D» your hearte within you burn ?Would you that each idol god, Form'd by skill of human hands, Should be level'd with the sod, In those fur.off heathen lands 7 Work, then, work in Jesus\u2019 name, Fight the battle of the cross ; If yon long tn spread His fame, Count al! other things but loss.Give your money, give your pray'rs, Guve the talents God gives you, Give the lives Hin'merey spares\u2014 Work.with purprse strong and true.Then, whea Christ shall claim His own, Many a star of lu Glitring io your heav'nly crown, Shall your toile, and carcs repay- Evous Montreal, April 24, 1854.[The lady who uses the above signature, is not, as we supposed, the Editor of the Maple Leaf, that lady\u2019s signature being E.H.L.\u2014 Eo.M.Wir.) RELIGION OF THE NEW ENGLAND INDIANS.The religion of the Indians, was a seligion of fear, not of love, They seldom offered worship to the Supreme good Being, but paid great respect, with many outward ceremonies, to Hobamok, the evil spirit.The powews,\u2014=a set of people partly imposters and partly themselves deceived, who acted as priests, as physicians, and as jugglers,\u2014 were the recognized agents in averting the mischiefs which this evil principle might bring upon them.The Lndians were not idolaters in the strictest sense of the word ; they had no uncouth figures of clay or stone, like the Hindoos and Chinese of the present day ; no beautiful carved images of fair marble, like the ancient Greeks ; no paintings, nor dolls dressed in tinsel, like the followers of the Pope of Rome.But they adored the sun, the moon, the earth, the fire.While they acknowledged the existence of one Great Doer of good, and also believed in another invisible being, the great doer of mischief, every wind had its manitlo, or spirit, every swamp its lurking evil.The thunder spoke to them from the invisible world; spirits came down in the falling rain, and were tossed about in the whirling snow.The southwest sky, with its sweet sunset colors, the southwest winds, softest and most delicious of all, the storms which came rolling up from that quarter, caused them to place there the chief residence of their principal deity.There, 100, as was natural, were the happy hunting-grounds of the departed, \u2014 not in the north, whence rushed the icy winds of winter, and not in the east, where booined the sullen Atlantic.oe The formal worship of the Indians consisted chiefly of songs, dances, and feasts, with prayers addressed to the sun and moon for such things as they desired,\u2014rain, or fair weather, or victory over their enemies, or recovery from sickness, or a succesaful hunting.\u2014Nonantum and Natick.ALWAYS DO WHAT IS RIGHT.The teuly great are those who always do what is right.To be withheld from acting wisely and conscientiously, by motives of temporary policy or fear, is to behave not only like a coward, but like a traitor to the principles of justice, A man should think less of what may he said of his conduct at the time than of the verdict that may be pronounced a few years in advance.[tis by neglecting this, by sacrificing principle to expediency, that character is lost; and character once lost, is with difficulty regained.Besides, the firat decline (rom right leads to others.[tis like the etast in sliding down a hill.But there is a worse feature than even this, in succumbing to baseness, meanness, or wrong Habit soon dulls the moral perceptions, so that, in time, men come to perpetrate, without a remorseful pang, acts at which originally they would have been astounded.© [4 thy servant a dog that he should do this thing, ™ is the indignant exclamation of many a person, who eventuelly commits the very deed he sbhorred.Arnold's treason grew up in his mind by slow degrees, nurtured by extravagance and sup- osed neglect, Washington, by slways being rigidiy correct, left fenind à name that will never cesse to be reverenced.To say merely that honesty is the best policy,\u201d and thus sp.peal 10 the selfish part of our nature, ina peor way toinduce men to do right conscientiously, Better the nobler and higher ground that right should be done for right's sake.\u2014 Philadelphia Ledger.THY WILL, O GOD, BE DONE.This is a most dificult prayer to utter with heart-felt sincerity ; for the grace of submission to a chastinng Father is the hardest and the rarest, perhaps, of all Christian attainments-=there ie such a temptation to any rebellion when the blow cuts deep.A litle one is taken ; and a «cradle despens into 8 grave.\u201d A wrong, and performs all the functions of repentance of sin ex-; Ya noble and gifted non is cut of in his sinewy prime\u2014a son who|adeissd bim to mingle in seenas of gaiety ; Epesially, said he was the whole world to her who leaned upon him.A lovely \u201cao to the Italian theatre, and if Carlivi does not dispel your daughter withers and droops; her beauty falls off like the rose\u2019 gloom, your case must be disperate indeed.\u2019 \u2018Alas, sir, replied leaves, and presently she goeth down to darkness and the worm.[the patient, * I myself, am Carlini and while I make all Paris Beside such new, made graves, unbelief mutters its reproaches, fuil of laughter and merriment, | am dying with melanchol \u2018not loud but deep.\u201d But submission whispers, with falterirg and chagrin.\u201d What a commentary on those pleasures in whic THE MONTREAL WITNESS.lips and choking utterance, « Thy will, O God, be done.\u201d ; À celebrated divine of New England tells us that, soun after; the death of his wife, hia two loveiy children were taken from! him, within a few hours of esch other, \u2018 My cup of sorcow,\u201d| ie says, \u201c was filled tothe brim.I stood a fesv momerts and view- long home, never to return.| felt at first as if [ could not submit to such a complicated affliction.My heart rose in all its strength against the government of God, snd then suddenly sank under its distress in a way that slarmed me.[ sprang up and said to myself, «[ am going into distraction ; I must submit.or I am undone forever.\u201d In a few moments [ waa pecfectly calm and resigned to the will of God.I never enjoyed greater bap-, piness than during that day and the next.My mind was full of, God, and I used to look over towards the burying ground, and: long for the time when I could be laid beside my departed wife, and my litle ones.\u201d Now, this was beautiful.Here was true submission.Here was a kissing of the rod until it was found that it had heney in it.The excellence of this spirit of submission is, that it quietly per.mite God to hold the sceptre.It refers every thing to him.It leaves every thing with him.Such faith makes a Christain quiet * as a child that is weaned of its mother.\u201d Such faith sinks the mountain tv a plain.It transformed sn heir of sin into a marvellous likeness to him who, amid the darkeness of Gethsemane, cried out, \u201c Nevertheless, Father ! not as 1 will, but as thou wilt.\u201d\u2014 Christian Intelligencer.| | \u2018 È DO YOU PRAY?David did.\u2014His circumstances, indeed, were unfavorable.A crown was upon his head.The cares of a kingdom pressed him.He might have said\u2014* I have no time.\u201d But he prayed.He prayed much.It was one of his most influential habits.What proofs and illustrations abound in those wonderful compositions, the Pealms.How touching, earaest, sublime often, were his cries unto God.How have his spiritual exercises been an incitement and pattern of devotion in every succeeding sge.Daniel did.\u2014He was indeed a statesman and courtier.He lived in the midst of idolators.To them hit religion was offensive.The king bade him not to pray unto Jehovah.If he did, it was at mortal peril.The great men of Babylon conspired to make this very thing the means of his ruin.Still he prayed.He did it, not ostentatiously, but without concealment.His religious principle waa stronger than his fear of men.¢ Three times a day he kneeled and prayed and gave thanks before bis God, os aforetime.\u201d .Paul did.\u2014I: was the first pulse and expression of his new life in Christ.«Behold he prayeth !\u201d said the Spirit.The fact was the surprising but conclusive proof of his spiritual change and transition.From being Saul the persecutor, il was thus shown, he had bzcome Paul the saint.However, after that event, was his life one of prayer, as well as heroic labor\u2014of prayer for himself\u2014for his counteymen\u2014for the Gentile worid\u2014 for the bloudbought chureh.Holier, intenser, sublimer aspira- ed the the remains of my two darlings, who had gone to their: so many indulge to keep up the spirits and drive away melancholy.Birps or AveTRALIA.\u2014I'be melody common to the English woods is not heard in the Australian forests, the notes pry being far more generally monotonous and discordant, than me- sical.Some are familiarly styled after their tones.The bell.bird has won the appellation from the resemblance of its deep full voice to the sound of a bell.\u2018The coachman has that title from its chief note being a long clear whistle, finishing with a noise exactly resembling the smart crack of a whip, The Anife-grinder is distinguished by giving utterance tos sound, which might be mistaken for that of grinding a knife on the grindstone, siut the most extraordinary chant is that of the laughing jackass, which it is impossible to hear without risibility.¢ He commences,\u201d says a writer, * by a low cackling sound, gradually growing 1.,uder, like that of a hen ina fuss ; then suddently changing bis note, be so closely imitates Punch\u2019s penny trumpet, that you would almost affirm it was, indeed, the jolly ¢ roo-t00-100\u2019 of that public favourite you heard.Next comes the prolonged bray of an ass, done to the life, followed by an articulate exclamation, apparently addressed to the listener, sounding very like, * Oh, what a Guy!\u201d and the whole winds up with a suppressed chuckle, ending in an uproarious burst of laughter.\u201d Where many of these merry birds congregate together, the effect is droll in the estreme, prove.king the most gloomy-minded listener to laugh in concert, First one begins alone, and laughs lustily at the top of bis voice ; à second, third, and fourth, then take up the strain like glee-singers, till the whole party are fairly of, and the very trees seem to peal out along with them.The Lrd is one of the parrot tribe, useful as an adroit destroyer of snakes, guanas, and other reptiles.CHRISTIAN TREASURY.+ Wherefore he is able to save lo the utlermont.\u201d\u2014Heb.vii.25.O, what a great sweet word that © vrTERMOsT !\u201d Do you think of it sain, and again.and again.You will find it to stretch itself beyond all your objections, nay, all ygur conceptions.It is God\u2019s uttermoat.and therefore it is aff infinite uttermost : wouid to God I could use it against all Satan\u2019s temptations, against all my more clamerous and dangerous workings of unbelief! Satan be silent\u2014unbelief be silent ; Jesus is able to save to the uttermost.We may say of this * utter most,\u201d as Paul speaks of the love of God\u2014its height, its depths, its lengths, its breadihs, are immeasurable and incomprehensible.\u2014 Burder.Divine grace, even in the heart of weak and sinful man, is an invincible thing.Drown it in the waters of adversity, it rises more beautiful, as not being drowned indeed, but only washed ; throw it into the surface of fiery trials, and it comes out purer, and loses nothing but the dross which our corrupt nature mixes with it.\u2014 Leighton Meditation is the soul's telescope, whereby, in her long re- tions probably never ascended from a soul this side of heaven.Jesus Christ did.\u2014It is a most impressive truth.It ought to be pondered by all who do not pray.The Savior was perfect.He was divine.He sustained no such relations of dependence as we sustain.He had no sina to be forgiven, There were in him no lusts to be restrained and purified.He was subject to no temptations he could not resist.He was assailed by no enemies he could not conquer.He had life in himself.He had creative power, He had infinite merit.But he prayed.He prayed in earnest, and with his disciples.¢ Cold mountains and the midaigh air Witnessed the fervor of his prayer.\u201d Yes\u2014David, Daniel.Paul, Jesus Christ, all prayed.They! were men of prayer.; Do you pray ?\u2014Presbyterian of the West.i A ReLictoy of Tixes axp Seasoxs.\u2014There is a religion | which is too sincere for hypocrisy, but too transient to be prof- : table ; too superficial to reach the hearst, too unproductive to proceed from it.It is slight, but, as far as it goes, not false.It has discernment enough to distinguish sin, but not firmness enough to oppose it ; compunction sufficient to soften the heart, but not vigour sufficient to reform it.[It laments when it does | cept forsaking it.It has everything of devotion except the stability, and gives everything to religion except the heart.This is a religion of times, events.and circumstances ; it is brought it into play by accidents, and dwindles away with the occasion which called it out.Festivals and fasts, which occur but seldom, are much observed, and it is to be feared, because they occur but seldom ; while the great (estival which comes every week, comes 100 often to be so respectfully treated.The piety of these people comes out much in sickness, but is apt to retreat again as recovery approaches.Ifthay die, they are placed by their admirers in the Saints\u2019 Calendar; il they recover, hey go back into the world they had renounced, and again suspend their amendment, as often as death suspends bis blow.\u2014 Mrs.H.Moore.Patvrue RecRers.\u2014Bulwer, a man of genius, and greatly admired by some, »aid in a letter to a gentleman in Boston, in 1813 \u201c ( have closed my career as à writer of fiction.[am gloomy and unhappy.[ have exhausted the powers of life in chasing pleasure where it is not to be found.\u201d How much better if Bulwer had discovered his mistake at an earlier period.Had he employed his gitted mind in strongthening the cords of virtue, in repressing unholy passions instead of fanning them, how different would have been his review of life.\u201c[am gloomy and unhappy!\u201d Richard Baxter said mo such thing at the close of his useful life.He had written much, but he had not \u2018chased plessure where it is not to be found.\u2019 John Bunyan made no such record at the close of his life ; nor did Owen, or Edwards, or Brainard, or Wesley, Fuller, or Scott, or Payson.Men will reap as they sow, in spite of all their bopes aud efforts to the contrary.We have often thought of the Italian actor in Paris.He was gloomy sod un.t {great and noble, and should therefore strive to be divinely move, she diecerneth God and beaven as though they were nigh at hand.Extracts rrox Marraew Hexnv.\u2014There may be many forward hearers, where there are but few true believers.Prayers of faith are filed in heaven, and though not presently answered are not forgotten.In God's gracious dealings with us we ought to observe his gracious regard to us.Mercies long waited for when they come at last are the more acceptable.No distance or disadvantage of place shall prove a prejudice to those for whom God bas favours in store.\u2018Those who have tound favour with God should not give way to disquieting, distrustful tears.Those who are by adoption the children of God are divinely Such as are Gilled with the Holy Ghost have low thoughts of their own merits, and high thoughts of God's favours.SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATION.* Pergamos.*\u2014Revelations ii, I2.\u2018This city, the capital of Hellespontic Mysia, was situatét] on the right bank of the River Caicus, nearly sixty-fpor miles to the north of Smyrns.Its ancient consideration mky be inferred from its possessing a library of 200,000 volumes, which Antony and Cleopatra transferredto Alexandria.Ii is also noted as the birth.place ofthe physician Galen.It still, in its decline, retains some part of its ancient importance ; and, under the name of Bergamo, contains a population which Mr.Macfarlane estimates at 14,000, of which there are about 3000 Greeks, 300 Armenians, and not quite 300 Jews; the rest are Turks.The same traveller says, The approach to this ancient and decayed city was as impressive as well might be.After crossing the Caicus, [ saw, looking over three vast tumu- li or sepulcheal barrows, similar to those of the plains of Troy, the Turkish city of Pergamus, with its tall minarets and taller cypresses, situated on the lower acclivities and at the foot of the Acropolis, whose bold gray brow was crowned by the rugged walls of a barbarous castle, the usurper of the site of a magnificent Greek temple.\u201d The town consists of small and mean wooden houses, among which appear the remains of early Christian churches, showing \u201c like vast fortresses amidst bar- tacks of wood.\u201d\u201d Here, as elsewhere, we do not pursue any particular investigations concerning such churches, feeling perfectly assured, with Mr.Macfarlane, that * they arose several centuries after the immediate ministry of the apomles, and when Christianity was not & humble and oppreased creed, but the adopted religion of a vast empire.\u201d he pagan temples have fared far worse than the old Christian Churches: * Roe fanes of Jupiter and Diana of Æsculapius, and Venus, were prostrate in the dust; and where they had not been carried away by the Turks, to out up into tombstanes, or to nto mortar, the Corinthian columns and the lonie, the splendid capitals, the cornices and pediments, ¢ all in the highest ornament,\u2019 were thrown in unsightly heaps.\u201d (Macfarlane\u2019s \u2018 Seven bappy like Bulwer.He consulted a phyeician.His physician ocalyptie Churches.\u2019 183%.) \u2014 Pictorial Bidle. WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.UPer the Wock endiag Tuesdoy Evening, May 2, 1854 Fuoon.\u2014Bales at 366.3d.for delivery in May.40.on the spot, with an ups ard tendency for dei-very- Guan.\u2014No transactions Ashes.\u2014 Pots have reached 36s for rovad parcels Pearls Pot miont.-Beei and Pork, nothing do ovisions.\u2014 Beer and Por 0 Borren \u2014Saies at 90.: 0 Escuares 34 per cent.Sroces.\u2014Bank of Moniresl, 24 a Z44 prem City, oh hiro doing.ber bank stocks, ing.Mining srd Reiway Stocks, nothing doing.BIRTIIS.Moatreal\u2014}4:h uli, the wife of Licut.Colonel Erma.tinger, of a daughter.27th uht., Mrs.G.Barrington, of ason.Whol, Mrs.J.M Gilbert, of a son.29h uit, Mrs.Alex.Walker, of a son.Barrie\u2014 15th uit., Ms.James Edwards, of a son.; 16th ult.Mrs.J.Laird, of a daughter.James Hoaston, of à son.Brentford\u201411th uit, Mrs, Ignatios Cockehuti.(fe \"a.Quebee\u201423:d uit, Mes.A.Power, of a daughter.MARRIAGES, Montreel\u201425tb vit, by tbe Rev.D.Inghs.Dr.John Sinclair, Jr, 0 Ms Eizabeth Anne Malcoim.\u201427.b ult, by the Rev.Alex.Mathieson, D.D, James S.Hounter, Eiq, to M99 Graze Manson, youngest daughier of Captain Tiley, of Liverpool, England.27th ait, by the Rev.Wm.Bond, Mr.Ewing G.Smith, 10 Jane, eldest daugtter of the late Mr.Richard Tate.27th wb.the same, Mr.Richard Handley, to Goo:giava rah, youngest daughter of George McDonnell Esq.27th oh, by the Rev.D.Fraser, Mr.Jacob R.McGowan, to Miss Eliza Jane Adame, oi Boston, Mam.Bury\u201419th ult, by the Rev.J.Kemp, the Rev.Samuel Kedey, of Canada West, to Martha, eldest daugh- er of the lale Rev.Jonathan Taylor of Eaton.San Francisco\u2014 March 23rd, Mr.Peter Redpath.of 18th vit, Mes.Sen Jose, 10 Mus Mery Ann, only dsugbter of Mr.i Edward Couk, formerly of Montreal.DEATHS.Montreal\u201423d uit., Mr.Ssmoel Hecry, aged 63 years.23d ult, Morena Ann Sarah Bell, aged 17 years and 3 monthe.Qéib alt, Me.Wiliinm Gragg, 2ged 4 Chambly\u201423rd ult, Walter, son of John Cr: Eg.of ontres], aged 9 years and 11 months.nby\u201424th ult, Mr.Joho Horger, sged 66 yours.London\u201414th vit, Mr.Samuel Peters, Jr., in his 23d years Quelxe26ih alt, Elizabeth Haram, wife of Mr.Robert Joh aged 26 years and 7 months.St.Jobos\u201428th alt., George Asthar, son of E.L.Mootasmbert, Eeq.Simooe\u201417th uit, Peter O'Carr, Esg., M.D., ate of Brantford, aged 25 yoars TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.NEWS BY THE \u201c ARABIA\" Tax Barric \u2014Admirs! Napier's fleet let Kioge Bay for Gotbland.it being rerorted that some of the Russian Ports were open, and that the Russisn squadron was off Faroe, April 30d.\u2014It was reported tbat three American ships were somewhere in the Baltic with stores for the Rus sans, and au Engleh steamer had gune in search of them.Tbe Post, from Hamburgh, 14th, reports that Napier having received a report from Admirs] Plumbridge, that sighteen ships of war were wishing to gain the Port of Revel, was making ready to attack them.Brack Sga.\u2014All the sllied fleets excepting the Chgrle- megae Steamer, were at Konama Bay, Murch [61h Eight French line of battle ships and six steamers are anchered off Varoa.\u2014Further east wers seen ten English line of battle ships and six steamers.All the marines of the floats were to land to protect Varna\u2014 Admiral Dandas bad signalized his cruisers to take, barn, and des- sremihi .His fleet were in communication with Toe nd force.Paimcirautmi2s \u2014Prince Paskiewiteh arrived at Bucharest April 51h \u2014Gortschakoff refains commend of the army, but subject to Paskiewiteb'sorders.The Intier is invested with the same power as he had in Puland.\u2014On 30th March an important eslly was made from Kalifet, and « sanguinary encounter of four hours duration took ce.The Russians were routed and pursued & considerable distance.\u2014From March 30th to April 2nd there were engagements of greater or lesa severity, It wan reported ra wn imporient botile was fought near Rassora April 20d to 4th, with unknown reeolt, some Éghting doubtless did oceur, but details are total'y wanting.The «Cyclope\u201d British war steamer at Malta 7th.brings important news \u2018Turks purposely left free passage lor Rue.sians to Hirsovs, then sitacked them in the rear, after a hard Sight one huif of the Rumsinns were cut to pieces, the remainder retired scrose the Danube.The Turks have evacuated the fortress of Czerravuds in the Dubrudscha.which was sheltered by the Rum The declaration of war by France and England known in Turkey, and caused immense enthustasm.Ît is reported that (he French Col.Dien wes kitled in a recopmsimance.He was a meritorious offices on the staff of Omar Pacha.8t.Petersburg wae siiorminaled, and Te Deums rung for the passage of the Danube.; Tus Gasex Insvasecricn.\u2014Accounts from Janine of the 34, announce thal the Greek insurgents had been tepuloed.\u2014Amwo has been swrrendered.\u2014 Turkish reinforcement kind asrived a3 Theresa end Bule.\u2014The lo esrrictiun makes no progress.and Austrsin Note of re mossirance has bren furwarded 10 Atbene hoidir @ the Greek Guvernmeat lable for all muchief arising fron Lhe Insurrection.Gauar Barrain.\u2014Gen.Sir Riobard Armstrong is dead, He avrved in Canadas snd Indian.~ Admiral Lowe is dead.\u2014 Two marine Engines for Rumis were seized at Napier's works on the Clyde.\u2014The weather is very dry, Ne are complainiag\u2014Ihe Duke of Combridge, Lord Raglia, end +de English Staff arrived at Paris on the 11th, and were cordsilly received by the Parisians.| Napulcon gare them a grand review ol 5.000 men.The carried @ friendly sutogreph letter from Queen Victoria Lo Nepuison.\u2014 English staff have embarked from Marseilles fur the East.Inia.~The everisnd mail is received vis Marssilles, Bombay, March 14th.\u2014 Jt was reporied tbat Dust Mahomed was threatening to oppose the Russians snd Persians, \u2014 The news from Burman is unfavorable\u2014An imeurrection had broke out st Basen, owing to they native be'idays, 1be general and money market was dull, «China dates ere from Hoag Koog to Febra.ry 15:h, and Bbenghas to the 17th.The Russisn expedition hes apprarentiy succeeded in its mission 10 Japan.The Rassias steamer Vostock arrived ar Shenghee on (be 3th February from Noguake, and returned on the 111b.The Vasteck reported that the Emperor of Japan .bad consonied to pegotists, and bad sect minwiers to treat with the Russian admiral.The J ombaass - ure positively announced that tbey will open their ports, but require time.Amoncas squedren at Nagoasksi.had aut arrived fo THE MONTREAL WITNESS.a ; .er p\u2014\u2014\u2014 ARRIVAL OF THE \u201c PACIFIC.\u201d | Naw Your, Ist May.\u2014The * Pacific,\u201d with advices the war, wh the exception of the capture of five Russiat merchant veseels, taken in the Baluc\u2014The Sieamer \u201c Africa\u201d arrived out on ite ght of the 16:h.\u2014 Flour \u2018advanced 1s.Inroarant Frou Mexio.\u2014Nzw Outkans, April 25.\u2014 {The steamship Tezas, I~ bas err.ved bring ing dates ion the Brest engagement and Alvarez.in of Mexico taken place th: latter was routed.The viclory celebrated at the capital with great re on took place.\u2014OÜther ac- a iidiculovs exaggeration.=1t is reported thatthe 51 persons recently arrested in the sch oer Arats, near Sen Bles, lor landing without passports, hao bren carted, heavily chained, to the Capital.Among the prisoncre were 20 native Americans, 12 ;adopted citizens, and 4 Engl shenen, Heavy Raine\u2014The rat has been very severs in New York.\u2014lo Brcklyn on Saturdsy land slide occurred, by which two perrous were kiiled aud several injured.\u2014 The lower part of New York was under water.Thoue ande of cellars and barcments were filled with water.\u2014 At Troy the flood was rently great.Lose of lumber incalculable.A i UNITED STATES.{ Lisents,\u2014President Roborta, in bis annus] message to \"the Assembly uf Liberia, gives an encouraging account (of tbe present condition snd future prospects of the repu- (blie.During the yesr 1653, the revenue uf the republic | was mare cons:deral\u2019e than in unv previvue year.The total receipts into treasury were $35,093, while the public expenditure nr the sume period amounted 10 $332,072.leaving a cash surplus of $3021.\u2018The present Lubilitien of the government amount to $13.924, which, when the assets are deduced, leaves 8 balance against the Stale of $6062, Its believed that during the present year the receipts will be sufficient, not only for the discharge of the ord-nery expeusc®, but alsv for tne liquidation of the present læbilities and the c-mpletiva oi various imporiant public improvements, Caurorwis Staisr:cs.\u2014It appears from the United Ststes Census :eturns, just weaed, that the total population of the State is 230.122, of which 17),B41 wre whiter, 1,678 blacks.31,2\u20ac6 Indians (domest:ca:ed,) and 54,808 fureigners.San Francisco har a population of 34,776; Marysvilie, 4.560.The following shows 3 few of the productions for the yemr 1850, as coped from the report of the Secretary of State: \u2014 Horses 64.773; mules.16,578; cows, 104.339; bee! caitie 315,392; work oxen 29,065; busnels of barley raised, 2973,734; oats 100,497 ; wheat 271,763 ; putatoes 1,393,170; corn 62,532.Acres of land under cultivation 150,784 Number of Quartz mills, 103; capital invesied in quartz mining, §$5,8751,405 ; Placer mining, 84,174,400 9; vther mming uperations, $3 £51,623; otter purpores, $4i,- 061,933.Teunipre SHirwneck \u2014 Upwards of 300 human beings have been swejt logelber into eternity, men, womto, and children.\"The Bsltimore +thip Powdatan, on Lbe pight of the 35th of April, was lying arong shosls below, with the waves weshing over her.\u201cite shp laden with paseengers, :eft Havre for New York on the 1st of March last, under the command of Captain Meyers, of Ba'timore.She was driven among the shoals at Absecon Beach, and remsined there until Sunday evening at five o'clock.before she went to pieces.During the long night of Saturday and the whole of Sundsy the unfortunates were reea clinging to the leeward bulwarks of the ship, with the sea continually washing over them, snd expreting death at the rise of every succeeding wave.No amistance could be offered to them, for the sea then ran 80 high thal a bost (if sny bad been at hand,) would bave been instantly swamped.Between 4 and 5 o'clock on Sunday afternoon the ship\u2019s bulwarks burst, and about Sy persans, at the same moment, were washed over.beard.Mr.Jennings, the wreck-master, with others, made greal eff.rts to save some of those whu were in the water, but in vain.The captain, two, was heard to cry from the sb For God\u2019s sake save some of those who are drowning.\u201d Every exertion was made, but it was of no use.About five o'clock Lhe vessel wos completely broken up ; most of her passenger and crew were drowned, but & few still survived, ctnging to pieces of the wseek.\u2018The shrieks of the dy:ng rose even above ihe roaring of the storm, which seemed to be increasing rather than subsiding in fury.It was at this moment that à buge wave was noticed rolling inwards; the dead and the dying were alike ergulfed within it.and when iL hed passed over them, there was not une left alive of those passengers and crew of the ill-fated Puwhatan \u2014N.Y.paper.A Lucaative Trank.\u2014A beggar boy.in Cincinnati was rearchied a few days since, and in his pocket was found beiween seventeen and eighteea dollars, in dimes, half dines and coppers\u2014all of which he bad collected by begging in the course of tte day.Banks \u2014According 10 a statement pubished by the Secretary of the Tressury, there are in the United States, 985 banks, including branches, whose joint capital stock is $226,724 955 of which $6,688,938 is held by fureigners.Death rwm Poisov.\u2014A Mrs.Stillman, of Bridgeport, [died Jately (rom the effects of poison, taken on the 8th uit.she had drank part of a glass of bottled cider, which a servant brought from the cel er.\u2018The peiron is supposed lo have been corrosive sublimate, mixed for bed ugs, \u2018and {oft with other battles, without being marked! The liquid having evaporated, the sediment became bardened.probably, and when the bottle was cleaned for the cidery de subsience wilhin was not removed by the water.\u2014 American poprr.| Wazas do TUR CR'AINALS CyME YAUM ?\u2014Out of fort Saye recently confined 1 Mo Elouse of Correction in Sout , Boston, but two were from under Protestant influence ; the tcmaining th:rty right were Roman-Caibohes.There mure crimes committed yearly in the intensely Po.county of Tipperary, than in the six gorthern Protes.-tant evanties of Ireland.The proportion ol sulptite in Cordinal Wiseman\"s ducose, compared with the Protes \u201ctants, is twenty-four lu «ne.A RomantsT's Onintox or Aussicans.\u2014T.D.MoGes, another Jrish pet-riot, © à recent lecture in (his city, janid that the majority of the American peuple were un- \u201cfit for republican Institutions.\u2014 Boston Bee.Tornacino Ts Cricacu Rives \u2014The voters of Chi.! engu, by à majurity of 290 votes, decided in favor of oopsuructing 8 lunnel under the river, It is supposed the Tunnel will answer the purpose of the present bridges.The bridges cost $12.000 each, and the expense of repairs and tenders for 1853 2,000 each, It le estimated thet the Tunnel will prove ing of mone ay to the erty in ten years, borides doing sway wilh the bridge nuisance.Woarny or lwration.~~The New Yurk Central Railroad Company elosed sll the dram-shope si their diff.| arent sistion houses slung the entire route of the reed, i Iumemen IcEnsace.The bark Elizabeth, arrived ut New York, from Gibralier, reports having been in contact, op the 26th ult,, in tatstude 46 15 north, long.45 80 west, with great quentities of 100, some of which for.| {med imancues idlands, one hundred and fifiy fest bigh and \"ubout two miles in length, \u2014 American Papers.ihe 19ih, hes arrived.Nothing has teached us from.yextraoidimary rie sn thu price both of labor und horse ADVERTISEMENTS.HE MC eo Terms for Supplying Ice During the Yes» 1854.710 be delivered daily, (double supply on Saturday for 1 Sunduy's use,) (rom the Sth Msy 10 the Jat of Oct.1¢ ibs.per duy fur the sewsun, £1 0 0 20 Ibs, du do.1100 301bs.do do, 20 l0lbe.do fur one memb, 0 6 20 lbs.du.du.010 0 Parues living beyond the undermentioned limits w si] bo charged extra eccording 1o the distance of their residences, viz.\u2014Duw\u2019s Dustnlery, St.Joseph Suburbs ; Richmond Square; North Weal uf Sherbrooke Street ; Cute 8 Baron, snd Papineau Square.The infling advance in prices upon former rates will be thought ressonal's, when Lhe keeping wre taken intu considerat.on.Complaints against the drivers for neglect or any other cause will be prumptly attended lo.Paymente, us usual \u2014Ca H IN Avvance, ALFRED SAVAGE & CO.CLOTHING FOR THE MILLION, And Dry Goods, Whoiesate Only.THE SUBSCRIBER begs 10 inform the Merchants} of Canzda.Railway Contractors, Lumbreces, and al! partes purchasing Ready Made Clothing, that his Stock is most complete, the siyles are jonable, the make substantial, and prices factory.WALTER MACFARLAN, 2184, St.Paul Street, Montreal.N.B\u2014Adrianuple Coats, the neweat article of the season, MT oF Ty Mar 9, 1854 DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP.THE Gapartnerebip heretofore exiting in thie City under the firm +f ADDY & CHILDS was this duy dissolved by mutual consent.Tho business of the Estate will Le settled by either of the undersigned.L.ADDY, GEO.CHIDS.Montres!, May 1st, 1854 HE BUSINESS carried on for the lust 4 years, under (he fitm of ADDY & CHILDS, wll be continued under the name of ADDY & Co., st No, 162 Notte Dame Street, aud 52, St.Lawrence Strect, ADDY & CO.2-22 PRIVATE BOARDING HOUSE.A FEW YOUNG MEN of Good Mors} habits, can he accommodated st No.36 Craig Street.Montreal, 3rd May, 1854.Montreal, May 1st, 1856.THE SEAT OF WAR.Price ls 3d.JOHN DOUGALL, 255, St.Pout Street.N'11054L SCHOOL BOOKS ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SCHOOL BOOK8 Writing Papers and General Stationery, Wholesale, Merchants and Storekeepers ure invited to call.JOHN DUUGALL, 255, St Paul Street.ROAD CLOTHS CASSIMERES DOESKINS & SUMMER COATINGS, just received from the Yorkshire Markets, and for sule low, by attracting universal admirat.on.Just published, No.1 of i WAYMARKS IN THE WILDERNESS: A Monthly Journal of Scriptural Studies, Literary Observations, end Current History.Sa Pledge of the Catholic Spirit and unsectarian aim of the Publication, the names of those asrocisted in this labor of love are subscr: bed, JAMES INGLIS, JOHN HOGG, DAVID INGLIS.Hamilton.Hamilton.Montreal.Orders, Communicationns, and Books ior Rev ew, from Guards East, may be addressed to the Rev.Dav d Inglis, ontreal, \u2018Terms :\u2014One Dollar a yesr, payable gtrictly in advance.JOHN DOUGALL, 255 St.Paul Street, TO GARDENERS AND FLORISTS.Fresh Garden & Flower Seeds.HE SUBSCRIBERS have received, sad are now receiving their usual supplies of ENGLISH & FRENCH SEEDS ; imported by steamers vis Portland and Boston, and which will be found of usus! good quality ; also the following Seeds raised for them by one of the members of the firm from relected toot, viz : White Belgian Carrot, Early Horn Carrot, large Aturingham Carrot, large Red Onion, large Yellow Oaion.WILLIAM LYMAN & Co, St.Paul Street.Montreal, Sid A juil, 1854, SALE OF FRUIT TREES POSTPONED.WING to the lateness of the Spring.and the rapidity of vegetation, afier it set in, the Undersigned has been unable to forward a parcel of FRUIT TREES, &e., for sale this sesson, in Montreal, but expects Lo have a fine lot for that Market in fall.JAMES DOUGALE.Windsor, Ist May, 1854.© SPRING TRADE.THE Undersigoed has in STORE and expects by Sint veescls, Lhe following classes of Goods : = Heavy Cottons, Heavy Linens, Clothiers Shoemak: Upholster \u2014TOOKTNER WITH, \u2014 SILKS, LINENS, MUSLINS, end other Steple Goods, suitable for lown and cuunlry trade, ail at Cash prices JOHN DOUGALL, 255, St.Paul Street.Montreal, 3rd May, 1854.PRIZE SCHOOL BOOKS.HE Subscriber obtained Diplomas at the Provincial Exhibitions held et Hamilton and Muntreat in 1853, for *¢ the Best Collection of School Books printed and bound in Canada for the use of Common and Grammer Schools.\u201d Among there bouks will be found.THE NATIONAL SERIES, Printed from new stereotype plates, on clear paper, and substentially bound.They are page for page with her editions in use in Western Canuds, and great care has been taken Lu tender them equal in every respect to the samples exhibited at the Provincial Exhibition.CURRICULUM LATINUM.\u2018This scrios of Latin Classics hus bce.s published in cheap form, su ag 10 supersede the use of costly impurted bovke.Itcunsists of Cornelius Nepos, Virgilti Georgies, Cicero de Amicitia, Cicero de Senectute, Ovid Cesar de Bello Gallico, Q.Curtivs, Taciti Agricoln, Horslii Cermins.Thess wsy be had separately ur in tro volumes, une of Prose, the viher of Poetry.CHEAP CANADIAN EDITIONS.Walker's Dictionary, Mu: 10's, Webater's and Catholic Spelling Book: large and small Grammars; Lennie'e do.; Walkinghame's Asithmetic, de, ke NEW SCHOUL BOOKS.A History of Canada, new edition, 26.do.in French, just published, 26.A History of Rome, do.2.A History of England, in the Press.Geography of Canada, 0, Romseay's Quarter Dollar Atlas, 12 outlined RL] Rammey's Foriptaro Atine, price 4d.WHOLESALE PAPER WAREHOUSE.\u2018The Subseriber is receiving large additions to his tock of British and Foreign Writing, faving and Wrapping Papers, selscted during winter by himeell in the English Sculch and French markers, He h soriment of Account Buoke, of all sizes snd different modes of ruling, English School Books, Dibles, Prayer Books, kc.HEW RAMBAY, St.Francois Xavier St.Montreal, May 3,-22, 1664.NOTICE, R.T.M.TAYLOR havin with him hie Brother, JA under 1he name of TAYLOR, BROS.Union BeiLpises, Montreal, May 1st, 1844.this day associsted ES W.TAYLOR, they will carry on Business as Brokers and Brokers only, FLETCHER\u2019S HOREHOUND AND LIQUORICE CANDY.HE SUBSCRIBER having obtained from Mr.FreTcuen, the Recipe and sole right to menufacture his celebrated COUGH CANDY, is now prepared to supply the same, Wholesale and Retail, at his establishment, 1774 Notre Dame Street.For sale also at the principal Druggists in the City.None genu\u2018ne unless signed.C.ALEXANDER.Montrea!, 5th April, 1854.TO FARMERS.UST RECEIVED 7000 lbs.Fine large Dutch Clover.1100 ibs.do do Sermont do.4500 lbs.de do Upper Canads do \u2014aLso\u2014 Timothy, Tarce, Lucerne, Mangel Wurtzel, Large Belgian Catrot, Long Orange Carrot, Long Red do Sugar Beet, Large Pareni, Various sorta of fodien Corn, together with a large ae- surtment of flower seeds, of which 25 of the best sorte wil be sent to any part of the pruvince free on receipl of Bs.8.J.LYMAN & Co.Montreal, April 5.FINE NEW HONEY.Pu up in Stone Jars of assorted sizes, suitable for Families and country dealers.WILLIAM LYMAN & Co., St.Paul Street.Montreal, April 5, 1854.WADDING, BATTING, GREY COTTONS.HE Undersigned, as Agent for the Manufacturers, will supply the Trade of Canada, during the approaching season with the following Gouds to the best advaniage, viz :\u2014 1000 Bales and Frumes Wadding, While and Black.500 do.Batting, various qualities.200 du.Domestic Cottons.A Stock of the above Goods conrtuntly on hand, and Orders invited for the Spring and Full Trade, JOHN DOUGALL, 255, St, Paul Street.Montreal, March 29, P.REDPATH, COMMISSION MERCHANT MONTREAL, ASENT for Union Plate Glese Company, St.Helen*s, * near Liverpoul, executes vrders for Rongti, Polished, und Silvered Plate Glass, in any sizes and quantities that may be required.November 30.ss.HERBERT MORTIMER, NOTARY PUBLIC, STOCK BROKER, HOUSE AND GENERAL LAND AGENT.No.80, King Street East, Toronto, (Opporite St.James Church.) Ehe fMomreal tætitness AND PA MULT 713 SPAPER le Published on the Wednesday of each week.te passe ars occupied with Useful and Instructive Reading Matter for Familles, in addition to the General News and Re.ligivus Intelligence of the day.A Literary Supplement is published once a month, grat Terr, 10s, per annum, when paid in advance.18 6d.otherwise.AI letters to bo addrossed to the Prupristor, JOHN DOUGALL, Montreal Witness, Moatresl.Tin ©.Becker, Printer."]