The Montreal witness, 30 novembre 1859, mercredi 30 novembre 1859

[" MIONT TEE IL, COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.XIV.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1859.No.96.Canadian Press.THE NEW CROWN LANDS REGULATIONS.{From Hustings Chronicle.) We are desirous of calling attention to the new Crown Lands Regulations, which come into force on the first day of January next.These Regulations require that all purchasers of Lands under Government shall pay up all arrears to that date, or lose their farms and all their improvements.It is unnecessary to discuss the unwise aud oppressive character of such a regulation.All must see that what ever has been the motive which influenced our Government in insisting upon such hard terms, the practical result will be exceedingly distressing to a large number of the poor but worthy settlers in our back woods ; and what is the worst feature of the case, we venture to say that there are many settlers who, on account of the infrequency and difficulty of com munication with the front settlements, have as yet not even heard of the existence of Mr.Vankough.net's new Regulations ; and many of them will not until some greedy land speculator comes to dispossess them, or compel them to re-purchase their own improvements.We do not deny that Governments should fix upon some time when all arrears should be collected, but we do think it exceedingly harsh and injudicious for them to enforce payment upon such short notice, and during the existence of such financial embarrass, ment and commercial depression.It is true that trade is reviving, and that the crops of last year were above the average.Yet every one must know that these advantages will not more than counterbalance the revenues of past seasons, and that it will require more than one year's prosperity to place our farmers, and especially the poor settlers in our backwoods, in a position to liquidate theaccumalated responsibilities of former years.The poor excuse is not, however available \u2018to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, as his Regulations were made during the most severe pressure of our financial depression, and before the productiveness of this year's crop could be known.Although no relaxation of the \u201c Regulations\u2019 has Leen promised, yet we hope that Mr.Vankoughnet will eee the necessity of postponing the period of their enforcement.We would, however, advise all parties interested to be prepared for the worst, or they may find themselves subject to the * tender mercies\u2019 of heartless speculators, at the expiration of six short weeks hence.THE LATE REV.JOHN BAYNE, D.D., OF GALT.(From Dumfries Reformer.) John Bayne was the only son in a numerous and bappy household.There was another son, younger than be, but that child died carly, He grew up un- His father was a der peculiarly favorable auspices.ntleman, his mother wasa lady, and both were hristians.By the father\u2019s side he was a Bayne of Tulloch, On the mother's side he was à Hay.From infancy he associated with the refined and the good, surrounded by all the elegance and quiet of à mause in the best of establishments, not fettered and not in.duiged, the pride of a gentle mother, the favorite of ba PY sisters, and the companion of a manly and pon y father.Under such training, neitherside of his nature was uneducated, the gentle was fully elicited, and the vigorous as fully developed.He was a happy boy, and in later life could recall no early care, save that which a constitutional lack of hopefulness sometimes occasioned.What English school he at tended we do not know ; but be soon passed from the study of Lennie to higher branches in the grammar school of Greenock.How long he continued in that institution we cannot now learn, but it seems certain that he left it about the year 1819, and soon afterwards entered the junior classes in Glasgow College.There he continued till Le had gone through, at least the curriculum in Arts, and we believe, until he had studied Theology also.But he did more than attend to the studies which his future profession demanded.As he grew to manhood he studied medicine, and was no sciclat in that branch of knowledge, retaining till the day of his death the deepest interest in its developments.Hetook no degree in Arts, because, while at College, he believed that a Scottish M.À.did not add to the reputation of ita possessor; a feeling which led him to take the deepest interest in recent University reforms, and to hail with delight anything tending to raise the standard of scholarship in the schools of his native land.We do not know when or where he was licensed to preach the Gospel ; but of this we are aware that he was much in Edinburgh after leaving Glasgow, on very intimate terms with Dr.Andrew Thompson, and much in the society of Dr.Chalmers, whose lectures he there attended.The former died in 1R31, and Dr, Chalmers was busied in his * Water of Leith\u201d operations in 1833, at which time Mr.Bayne aided him in the collection of statistics and in the house.bold visitations.Before this period, we presume it was, that he travelled in Norway, and had spent twelve months in & parish in Orkney.It could not have been after it, since we soon find him in Canada, first officiating a winter in St.Andrews Church, Toronto, and next, in 1835, settling in Galt.Since then his history is a part of the history of Canadian Pres- byterinnism, fore the Disruption he was busy at every aynod, at the Disruption he led the minority, aad to the last he retained unchallenged, the foremost position in all the councils of his Church.The par- ticalars now thrown together arc meagre indeed ; bad time been ours, we could have added dates and facts of much interest.THE MONTREAL # WITNESS.\u201d (From the Globe.) Our intention has been called to an article in the Montreal Fitness on the subject of the demand of the authorities of Victoria College for more publie aid to that Institution.The portion of the article oo which we have a few words to say, is as fol- ows :\u2014 \u2018 W2 notice that the Globe and the Upper Canada liberal papers maintain a profound silence on a question of such vital importance to the future liberty, peace and prosperity of Canada ; and we would almost be inclined to infer from this silence that we were taking an cxaggerated view of the danger, did we not remember that all the time the Baldwin-Lafontaine administration was granting acts for ecclesiastical corporations wholesale, that influential journal and those which follow in its wake, were as silent on the subject as they arc now with respect to this Methodist claim.Then the Montreal Witness was left, as it is now, to fight almost single-handed, the battle against Rome, for inboth cases it is really Rome we have to contend with, although in the present case the Methodist Conference is willing to act as (he lion's provider.Were later evidence of the Globe's power of keeping silence, wher it suits the personal political views of its proprietor, wanting, we would point to the recent sudden and entire cessation of all the articles about the encroachments of Popery, so long as be expected to form 8 misistry composed partly of Roman Catholics.Ita silente on the Methodist College question is, therefore, no proof whatever that it is not ome of vital importance, but only that it does not suit the proprietor to speak out.\u201d No doubt of it! All wisdom, sll patriotism, ail genuine love of Protestantism is centered in and monopolised by the Montreal Witness and \u201cits pro- rietor.\u201d From the glorious day when it first saw ight to the present speaking, the Witness has had to fight the whole battle of truth and justice \u201calmost single-hauded 1» e have great respect for the earnestness and consistency with which the ¥¥itness has always oped the errors and encroachments of Romanism ; ut bowever well \u2018¢ ita proprietor\u201d way deem himself cut out for the office of Father Confensor, we decidedly decline to enter his confessional.It will be time enough for \u2018\u2018 the proprietor\u201d of the Witness to begin reading us lectures, and imputing sinister motives, when he finds a sentence in the Globe varying from the principles we have ever maintained.It is a little too much to be told not only what subjects we must write upon, and the views we shall express, but the exact amount, of space we are to devote to them,\u2014uuder the penalty of having our motives assailed in the Montreal Witness.It is not sufficient that we were the first to attack the selfish and unpatriotic crusade of Doctors Nelles and Ryerson, and gave up a large portion of our space for weeks, till the merits of the controversy were fully sifted; but we must, forsooth, be silly enough to aid the crusaders in keeping public attention fastened forever on the subject, and force into importance an agitation with which hardly a man in the community can be found to sympathize.After seventeen years\u2019 bat tling for University reform, and hearty co-opera- tion with the best friends of the national institution, it is barely possible that we in Toronto may know almost as well as the Witness and \u2018its editor\u201d in Montreal what course we ought to follow.\u2014 The reference of the Witness to Ecclesiastical Corporations\u2019 Act is as ungenerous and groundless as the other.From 1850 to the present moment, what man in public life bas pursued the same firm, unwavering course in re; to these hurtful institutions as Mr.Brown?The year 1849 was the only other year in which the Baldwin Lafontaine Government held power\u2014and though Mr, Brown was that session totally unconnected with newspapers or politics, the fact that a number of Corporation Act passed that year without opposition eutitles the just, charitable * proprietor\u201d of the Montreal Hitnessafter the lapse of ten years to indulge in base insinuations against the motives of that gentleman ! The alleged sudden and entire cessation in the Globe of \u201c all the articles on the encroachments of Popery\u201d\u2014is simply another piece of groundless impertinence.In what other general newspaper is there published ao large a portion of the news of the day in reference to Popery ?-and from what source have equally firm denuucintions appeared against the recent Manifesto of the Bishops\u2014against Father Bruyere's dinner apeech\u2014or against the Starr abduction?If the en- eroachments of Popery occupy less space in our columns\u2014it is simply because thers are fower encroachments to resist.We have no idea that men are to be converted from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism by newspaper articles.It is the effect of the Papal system on the civil liberties of the people at home and abroad that the journalist has to do with; and when these have been assailed by the machinations of prieatoraft, we bave atoud ready to do our stare in the melee, and, maugre the lectures of our cotemporary, hope always to continue to do the same, When the Roman Catholic Hierarchy brought their influence to bear in the political arena against the Liberal party in their efforts to secularize the Clergy Iesorves-\u2014we denounced their proceedings with all our strength.When session after session they forced from the pusillanimity of the Government fresh grants of public money to fill the coffers of the churoh, we protested with all indignation.When year afler year they demanded now Corporation Acts to lock up large tracts of land from cultivation and improvement, we opposed them urgently and incessantly.And when the noblest institution of our land\u2014the Common School system of Upper Canada\u2014was threatened with slow but sure destruction, by the hypocritical ery of infidelity raised against it, we sought to rouse, and did arouse the alarm of the people, and to rally them in its defence.When there has been real work to do, there has been no ¢ profound silence\u201d in this quarter : and when it has to done again, we shall be found where we have ever been.But will the * proprietor\u201d of the Witness permit us in turn to recommend him to look at home a little in this matter.Will the Fitness reflect that in all the bitter contests we have named, and in all the other similar strifes that have arisen\u2014 notin one case has the first aggression proceeded from the Roman Catholics of Upper Canada.It was the Lower Canadians who placed their fiat ou the secu larization of the Reserves; it was they who carried off the spoils in the shape of annual plunder for church purposes from the public chest; it was they alone who advocated and enforced the locking up of church lands by priestly corporations; it was they who, though sustained by hardly 8 man in Upper Canada, forced their ecclesiastical institutions by hw upon the people of Upper Canada ; it was a French priest who raised the first complaint in Upper Ca nada against the national school system ; and it is French Canadians who bave kept up the agitation in the Assembly againstit, in spite of the protests tions of an immense majority of the people of the West and their representatives in Parliament.The Roman Catholics of Upper Canada never sought the position of a separate political party\u2014they were content to stand their chance in the melee with their Protestant fellow-subjects,\u2014until the schemes of the Lower Canada hierarchy forced the contest of sectarianism on the community.But yearafter year these grasping demands of the Lower Canada Hierarchy ve been pressed on the Legislature\u2014and what aid have the Lower Canada Protestanislent us in resisting them ?There are seventeen Protestant representatives in the assembly from Lower Canada constituencies, and two hundred thousand Protestant population in that section of the Province\u2014and what bas their course been during all these contests, but one of nn varying subserviency to the Roman Catholic priesthood?Who but they have been the palliators, the advocates of e very new Papal device\u2014the ready panegy- rists of the designing men who palled the wires?Is it any wonder that the people in this section, sick of pusillanimity in Lower Canada and the recreancy of lace-hunters in Upper Canada\u2014seek eagerly for a dissolution of the Elion as the only mode of settling for ever in Upper Canada the grasping demands of sectarianism?Were the scheme of the Corvention once in operation, and the two provinces scparated for all local purposes, we venture to assert that in Upper Canada very few hands would be raised throughout the land against the entire separation of Church and State, the entire abolition of money grants for sectarian purposes, the entire abolition of special parliamentary legislation in favour of land- grasping sectarian institutions.Let us, then, recommend our Montreal cotemporary to turn his admonitions nearer home; and to point out to his fellow- Protestants in Lower Canada, how the imposition of a differential duty on sugar and tea, or a loan for Lake St.Peter, or a grab of $400,000 of public plunder for the townships, will send the whole generation of them flat in the mud at the very sight of a Soutane.CANADIAN NEWS.Natcaar History Socrkry.\u2014Thbe \u2018! Aquaria\u201d (eleven in number) are now open for the inspection ofmembers sud their families ; and we know ofno more instructive way of spending an hour occasioually than at the rooms of the Museum.We hope also to see a large accession of members, now the long winter evenings have commenced, and tho claims of business are not so urgent.\u2014Montreal Paper.Oautiox to Cartsrs.\u2014A Canadian carter, named Louis Laroche, was brought before tbe Recorder yesterday morning for driving fariously in St.Paul street.le was fined in the sum of 23a.Last Tair or Tus Szason.\u2014The steamer * Napoleon\u201d left port on her last trip for Three Rivers with a heavy Tord of freight on Saturday P.M.After discharging at that port, she will proceed to winter quarters at Sorel, With the exception of the ferry boats, the brigantine Elezar\u201d is the only vessel in port ; she was disc ug flour on Saturday.The river is ms yet clear of floating ico; the basins also aro free.\u2014 Montreal Gazette.Damaar ay tae Froop ar Lormimure.\u2014We learn that all the bridges in that county, with few exceptions have been washed away by the inte rains.The seigniorial grist and Sour wills at St.Patrick's belonging to Arthur Ross, Ksq., of Montreal, seignior, were also carried of.The country in many places was entirely under water, and the roads were rendered impassable, and were converted into tremendous furrows by the current.\u2014 Quebec Mercury.Ervzcr or tia Storx.\u2014The severe easterly storm of snow and rain experienced here for the last three days, bas caused (he rivers in this vicinity to rise toan relght seldom known at this early period of the winter.We have heard that considerable loss of timb:e has been sustained by the breaking of booms, &c., espe- clally in the Nicolet and St.Anne Rivers.Atthe latter, we understand, the mills belonging to Mr.Methot have been carried away by the flood.\u2014 Three Rivers Inquirer, Dratu or Crier Juarice MacacLay.\u2014Chlef Justice Macaulay was taken suddenly ill in convocatka, at Toronto, on Saturday afternoon, and died in an hour of disease of the heart.S7arrres or Cawana.\u2014On the 5th of December, the consolidated Statutes of Canada came into force, by proclamation of his Excellency the Governor Ge: No nation 50 young as Canada has ever accomplished 30 important an achievement.The State of New York itself, hag not done it, so that in this instance it must be allowed that the Beaver is as smart as the Eagle The consolidation of our statutes has been a laborious undertaking ; but the task is at length completed, and we shall ali reap the advantage of a digest of ail our statutes in one volume, or in sections of a volume, ifwe do not choose to purchase the whole.1f our politicians would only let us be quiet for three or four years till we have conned over the volume and made ourselves master of the \u201c consolidated\u201d laws by which we are governed, they would confer a great boon upon wx One of the greatest curses that a pation or a church can suffer, is the frequent making and unmaking of iw laws, and the evil is aggravated when the operstiom costs us $800 or $900 a day.We have plenty of good Wholesome Iams if only men oeld work them out.It will not ifficult for a person of ordinary intelligence to master the consolidated statu and thus undes- stand what very few persons do understand\u2014the laws of the country.\u2014 Evangelical Witness.Cor.Gorrn\u2014The Quebec Gazette understands that the Hon.Colonel Gould, commanding the forces im New Zealand, and connected by marriage with some of our leading families in Canada, has lately been sp- pointed Lieutenant-Goveruor of the above colomy.His numerous friends in this country, to whom he was known as Captain of the 65th regiment, and endeared by many amiable and soldier-like qualities, will, we ars sure, receive this announcement with pleasure.SrTTLERS WaxTED.\u2014A late visitor to the Addington Colonization Road describes the country as filling rapidly, and the settlers as doing wel.Of the fres lots 175 have been taken up, and 1000 acres.of land cleared and cropped ; and of the lands for sale in the rear 22,000 acres have been disposed of by the Agents with the condition of actual settlement.A flour apd several saw mills have been erected, besides school houses, stores, blacksmiths stops, and taverns.The soil is generally good, the climate healthy, the country well watered by lakes and rivers abounding with and the woods are full of game.Marble, lead, iron other minerals have been discovered.The Addingtem Road has been extended to the Madawaska, and 18 miles east to open up a communication with Renfrew ; nod is about to be extended to intersect the Opeonge Road.Persons intending to settle, or who desire te observe the progress of what appears to be a very suo- cessful experiment should proceed by Grand Trunk Railway to Napanee, from whence & good macadamised road leads to tke settlement.Why should Canadians emigrate when frec land on a fine road, within communication with civilization, can be obtaincd by every man capable of swinging an axe?Law AKD LAwWvERs\u2014An interesting suit was tried at the Cobourg Assizes, before Mr.Justice Richards, in which the Hon.J.H.Cameron was plaintiff, and Mr.W.H.Boulton, formerly M.P.P.for Toronto, defendant.It was an action to recover the defendants proportion of a certain bond for £5,000 in which the partis were co-sureties, which bad been paid by Me Cameron.When the bond became due, defendant, te avoid his liability, went to Europe, and remained some years; and now set up the statute of limitation.The counsel for plaintiff, Mcasrs Galt and Eccles, commented with extreme severity on the dishonesty and ingratitude of defendant in attempting to evade tie payment of a just debt, particularly as the plais.d in 1848 forgiven him a debt of £1500.The jus returned a verdict for the amount claimed, £1,768.Drara vxomr Stepictovs Circrustasces.\u2014Abouts month sep dissipated, worthless character, vulgarly called * Taylor Wood,\u201d was found dead in his bed ia Scarboro\u2019 under circumstances\u2014to say the least\u2014 suspicious.He, and his wife and son, young mam about eightcen years of age, bad been carousing together, and from the testimony of the neighbours, it appears they quarrelled, and the drunken revel ended ina fght, The next morning the old man was found in bis dead, his body presentiug tbe appearance of violent usage.Warnixo to Mornkns.\u2014A child three years old, belonging to Mr.Gibbard in Burford, C.W., in the absence of its mother for a few minutes, approached so near the stove that its clothes took fire and burned it to such a degree that it shortly died.Another wara- ing to mothers not to leave their young charges alone.Laxx Hurox Trapz.\u2014The Owen Sound Times speaku in flattering terms of the brisk trade growing up between Owen Sound and the Bruce and Wellington Mines and the Sault St.Marie.The steamer \u201c Plougt- boy\u201d left there last week with a very large quantity of flour in bags, kegs of butter, &c.About 30 sheep, and between 15 and 20 head of cattle, with about 60 geese and turkeys, completed the live stock.There were alse 60d hogs on board.There is always, the Times, à cash market at remunerating prices, ma these articles at the north ; and this enables dealext offer cash for every article of agricultural prod.os brought to town.Taox Buinass ox toe Gezar Westean Raicway \u2014 The Great Western Railway Company of Canada bave lately caused to be built in Eugland two iron bridges for their road, \u2014ons to span the Deajardins Canal, sad the other the Welland.They havejboen shipped to Ce- nada in pieces, True Gate on Laxæ Honox.\u2014On Friday night and Saturday our lake was visited by the most violent storm which bas been folt on its borders for years.We have never known the wind blow so hard, or the water in the river rise 30 high as it did on Saturday evening last.Fortunately, the navigation oa the lakea is thinning out at this time of the year, by vessels laying up \u20ac: the winter, or we should have had to record many disasters.The waves rose so high ea the coast along the township of Sarnia that more bank was washed away in one night than years have been able to effect.\u2014 Sarnia Tribune.- Obiaf Justicn Carer où je Brans ey been distinguis! er sty in conf upos him the honor of Knighthood.er eu ob, aS fe oe ale f = \u2014 A.2.EE 762 British Press.WAR WITH ROME! (From British Ensign.) Every mao, however fucble soever his powers, or humble his position, hus on carth a measure of duty to perform, which ho ought to view as bis special mission.This duty\u2014 this mission \u2014 depends in a great degree on his light combined with his power.Action, to be steady and vigorous, must proceed from nonviction\u2014deep, de vout conviction.Now, we consider no small part of vur duty\u2014 our mission\u2014to cousist in watching over the interests of evangelical truth, and making war against Popery, both in its incipient condition and in ita matured developments.We consider the interests, both spiritual and temporal, not only of this our native land, but of the whole earth, to be inseparable from Evangelical Protestantism.Wehave from childhood been addiet- od to the earnest perusal of Protestant and anti- Papal literature.Opposition to Popery has through life been not merely a principle but a ion withus! We watch its movements as those that watch for the morning ! With eager gaze we follow it in all its windings, both at home and abroad.We keep our eye fixed more cspe- cially on its Periodioal Literature, both the cheap and the costly, which we view as a vital index.The result of all this ie.that we are constantly alive to its enormities, and to the evils which are to be apprehended.Of the many notable things which of late have attracted us, all indicating the ownward movement of the Vatican, and the rooted strength of its determination to make a conquest of England, the most significant is the following from the redoubtable pen of Car- Hil Wiseman, on the Subjugstion of the Eng- \u201c If ever there was a land in which work is to be doae, and perhaps much to suffer, it is here.I skull not say too much, if I say that we have to subjuzate and subdue, to conquer and rule an imperial race ; we have to do with a will which reigns throughout the world as the will of old Rome reigned once; we have to bend or break that will, which nations and kingdoms have found invincible and inflezible.We have to gather for this work the rough stones of this great peo- Ple, and to perfect them as gems for the sanctuary of God.Tt is goo] for us to be here, because a nobler field could not be chosen than England on which to fight the battle of the Church.What Constantinople, and Ephesus, and Africa were to the heresies of old England is to the last, com- lex, and masifold beresy of modern times.\u2014 ere it conquered in England, it would be conquered throughout the world.All its lines meet here, and therefore in England the Church of God must be gathered in its strength.\u201d So thioks and so s the Prince of the Red Hat, the author of the truculent Manifesto from tbe Flaminian Gate! The thoughts here set forth ure doubtless, noble, and the diction worthy of them.The avowal is frank, the purpose grand, the policy plain! The Cardinal has a clear conception of the difficulty of the enterprise, and the magnitude of its importance to his cause.Would that the same could be affirmed of the bulk of our readers, and of our fellow-countrymen at large! It is, however, we regret to say, lamentably otherwise.The project is simple and definite.It is just to quer aod rule\u201d Eogland! That is all\u2014 nothing less, nothing more.Bat that doncall is done !'\u2014Rome is triumphant in every clime.The world is once more at the feet of Antichrist! The Cardinal bas thoroughly mastered the idea in all its parts, attributes and relations.He is wise in counsel and potent in fight.Here, then, Protestant brethren '\u2014here, fur the thousandth time, the British churches aro forewarned of the perils which impend over them, but never before have they been so from so exalted a quarter.The shrewdest observer, the sblest mao, and the highest dignitary of the Popish Church in these realms thus boldly states bis opinions in the face of the world! If, after this, the Protestants of Eogland still slumber, the blame will be their own, and they will richly descrve the doom which awaits them! They heard the heavy tread of the advancing foe, but they besded not! They saw him approach with prancing steed and flaming sword, and with their own hands they opened to him the gates of the city! Cardinal Wiseman deals not in idle words.He means all that he says, and be will iabor for its secomplishment.All the Pspists of Europe, for many yesrs pest, have been praying for the conversion of England; and with both hands they are toiliog to fulfil their own petitions.They are everywhere collecting money for that .The whole system of British society Fine vigorously worked for its furtherance.No means are unemployed to get Popish tutors into families, schools, and colleges.The Press is largely in their hands, in the character of woll-disguised Reporters, Contributors, snd Editors.The system is also powerfully repro sented in the Senste House.Truly, it is no marvel if the Head of the Papal Church looks forward with confidence to the ultimate subjugation of the British Isles! Tbe authors of the eaterprise sre y strengthened from the fact that Popery is strong ia pro- THE MONTREAL WITNESS.portion as piety is low.The Government of the country is but slightly tinged with the true spirit of Evangelioal Protestantism.All the high places of the land are still wrapped in dark- veas.True Popery is therefore less an object of aversion than true picty.Pride may rebel sgaiust the former, but the heart recoils from the latter! The fact that the money of the State is given with so lavish a hand to sustain Popish schools is a very striking circumstance.The additional fact that £30,000 per annum is set sp for the support of the Popish College of aynooth, in which there are constantly undergoing preparation for the service of the l\u2019opisb Church iu Fogland and her colonies a regiment of from five to aix hundred students, more than double the number in all the ten Independent Colleges of Great Britain, ought to wake the dead ! ITALY.(From the Commonwealth.) Unless we can suppose that the Italian war of 1859 should be followed by no result, and that the upheasing of the Italiau people was a mere paseing commotion, which should rumble along the ground and be forgotten, like one of these slight shocks of carthquake-nature that seem to be too decp to come to the surface, we must conclude that the affairs of Italy are no nearera settlement than they were even before the war commenced, and the French army miade their way into the plains of Lombardy.Italy is not yet out of the tangled wood.Her cry is still the cry of distress, not the ery of rejoicing.She is still at her wits end.She is still rocking to and fro, not knowing on which side she may full \u2014not knowing where to seek safety\u2014not knowing whether to look east or west for the salvation that seems to tarry.Let her trust to herself, she seems unable to pavigate through the surrounding difficulties\u2014let her trust to ber friends, she seems destined to cucounter the disappoint ment of her hopes.Her's is a case of no ordinary difficulty.Her course is far from being tbe clear course that has lain before other countries when they resolved to rid themselves of oppression.She bas not only a foreign, bu: an internal enemy.She might drive out the foreigner, and, if that were all, she would be no nearer to constitutional freedom.She might cast down her kings and princes, but even then she would not be free.Her struggle is not like that of the Netherlands, where the expulsion of the Spaniard was the one problem that required to be solved \u2014 nor like that of Scotland, where tho preservation of the national independence was the single focus to which all rays of patriotism were directed \u2014 nor like that of England, where the curbing of the despotie power of the crown was the sum total of all that was stricen for\u2014nor like that of the United States of America, where sclf-govern- ment aud self-taxation drew the clear line of duty for every man who ranged himself on the side of legitimate religion\u2014nor like that of France, where all in autt~rity were to be swept off in a common avalanche of destruction.Italy is mot like any of these.She has the same elements, it is true, in her strife\u2014abe has somewhat of each and all.But she has something which these countries knew not of.She has another and a totally different clement, mixing itself up like a poison with all the ingredients of her struggle.She cannot be free without renouncing her religion, True, the same might be said of the Netherlands, the same, at another riod, might be said of England and Scotland.ut in those cases the religion had been renounced by the people, and in throwing off the former faith and all the tyranny connected with it, they were throwing off a faith in which they no longer placed their trust, and from which, so far as they were concerned, the spirit had departed for ever.They insurged against a faith that was a faith for them no logon They were free to carry out their freedom.But not so with Italy.The foreign tyranny is not the only tyranoy\u2014the State tyranny is not the only {pranoy-\u2014nor do these two combined represent the full extent of the Italian problem.Italy is the seat of \u201cthe Church,\u201d and the Church is tyrannical \u2014but the faith has not yet departed rom the people.The people cannot shake off the tyranny without also ehaking off the Church, and the change of opinion has not yet taken place which would induce them to abandon the eccle- sisstioal inatitations to whioh they have been accustomed.Italy's hardship lies in this\u2014that the tyranny from which she suffers is incorporated with the ecclesiastical inatitutons to which she still appends ber faith, If her faith io those institutions had departed, as depart it must at no very distant date, her course would be quite clear, and straightforward.She would demolisb the whole\u2014tbe tiara as well as the crown, the altar as well as the throve.But she has not yet come Lo that point, exoept indeed in the extreme section of Italian society that would not hesitate to give the plange, and to drown the pontiff as well as the prince.That course cannot well be expected from Victor Emmanuel, even if he were to turn out another Henry VIII.The political position of Italy is in faot not dissimilar to that of England in the 16th century, with this exception that the Ps puoy is located on Italian territory.But otherwise, ly, and especially the northern portion of it, is as England in the reign of Henry VIII \u2014tbe suppression of the monasteries and convents, the resumption of the Church lands, and the gradual subjugation of the priesthood to the authority of the cuil power.Bo long, however, ss the faith is not changed, it is not possible for Victor Emrua- nuel to work out the problem of constitutional freedom.But then comes the question\u2014will the Catho- lie world allow the Pupal power to be disposed of according to the convictions that may ultimately prevail in the locality where the Papacy is situated?That is the grave question of modern times.We are even inclined to side with some of the ultra-Catholics of Ireland in their expressed opinion that the continuance of this struggle must resolve itself ultimately into a struggle tween the two creeds, and that the conflict before us all may be the death grapple of the two principles that now divide the people and the nations of Europe.The Papacy must either survive, or it must perish.If it survive, Italy cannot now be freed, and must defer to a later day the emancipation that she seeks in vain.If it perish, wo can scarcely anticipute that the catastrophe would take place without violent convulsions, such as those that seem to be dimly foreshadowed in the prophecies relating to the later times of the world.Every circumstance\u2014cvery occurrence that is taking place around us\u2014every inference that can be drawn from history\u2014every warning, vague as it may be, that seems given by prophetic satici- pation, calls imperatively on the free nations of the earth to hold themselves in readiness, and to be prepared.A storm of no ordinary character may be just about to break, and once more Britain may be called upon to compete for the caam- ionship of the world.Despotism may possibly Be doomed, but may determine to die with a sword in its hand.The continental natioms, in fact, seem to require the commotion and turmoil of war to stir them out of the stagnation into which they have fallen.We need not be appalled, but we ought to be prepared.We ought to be ready for whatever duty may be demanded at the hand of the nation which alone in Europe prevents the despotic powers from overwhelning liberty, and trampling down truth.BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.Da.Liviscsrose\u2014Oxrorn & Camsripoe Miæiox To CENTRAL Arnica.\u2014The labours of Dr.Liting- stone bave at last received their most appropriate recoguition.The two great Universities of England have met together, and by common accord have founded a scheme of missions to follow in the foot steps of the illustrious Scotsman.Honour, such ns the Universities can confer, has been meted out with 1.0 nizzard haud to the humble missionary who bas given to this age of the world the most illustrious example of true heroism.The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the most eloquent man in the State, and the Bishop of Oxford, the most eloquent man in the great English Church, have almost exhausted pane- gytic to pay a becoming tribute to the labourer in Christ's vineyard, who, far from home, is reviving on earth the example of tbe apostles.Chancellors, Masters of Colleges, Provosts, Presidents, Professors, Bishops, learned doctors, and members of Parliament have all concurred, not only in the recognition of Dr.Livingstone's high vocation, but in the recognition of the fact, that while he has apparently been teaching Christianity to the heathen he has also been teaching Christianity to the Church.The beggarly remnants of sectarianism, and the small idola- tries of this, that, or the other peculiarity, are thrust out of sight in presence of the Christian fact that there a world lies in wickedness, in darkness, in error, and in crime, and that there the pious man has stepped forth with the light in his hand to illuminate the dark places of the earth.In this respect, David Livingstone is the greatest teacher of his age.In the estimation of the Christian church, he bumanised the African continent and brought its people within the pale of brotherhood.Weare now ound to civilise and Christianise them.They are no longer hopeless savages out of reach, but human men and woman, whom the Church must teach and instruct, Livingstone was the man who first opened the eyes of the world and of the English universities of that truth, old as it is, and plaioly as it is written in words of Scripture.The seed he bas sown now bears fruit, and Oxford and Cambridge Liave agreed together 10 found a mission and to enlighten Africa.Tue Isvuuvs or Bukz.\u2014The Conalitutionnel contains an article on the Isthmus of Seuz question, which bas made a considerable sensation on account of its hostile tone towards England.The article begins by the assertion that the prohibition sent by the Sultan to the Pasha of Egypt has been obtaived by the influence of Bir H.Bulwer.\u201cIt was important to the Powers of Europe, and more especially to France, to know this fact officially.\u201d France need not be astonished or indignant at the knowledge, for it is only in accordance with the eternally aggresive and selfish policy of England, ke, &c.e article then proceeds to charge England with the design of ruining M.de ps'e company, in order, at @ future time, to cut through the isthmus itself, and thus to complete her line of exclusive fortresses from Jersey to the Eust Indies, aud at the same time put herself 1n & position to cut of all com munication between France and Algerin, This plan, it wt ia & very grand conception, but two embi- tious for the present day, and France will not stand it.Revivar, Fruir.\u2014The Belfast News letter, u revival journal, mentions the fullowing facts to prove the beneficial character of thin movement :-\u2014\u2018 As à proof of the eubatantial good effected by the move ment in the district of Ballymena, we may give à faw statistionl facts as to public-houses, for the wceuracy of which we vouch.During the three frst years, 1854.5-6, » steady increase is perceptible, and during 18567 nod 1868 the number continued ulmost at the highest.For the present year there is a decrease, as compared with last, of no fewer than twenty-seven virtaally fighting out precisely the same problems licenses, or, in other words, many public-houses in \u2014\u2014 NovEmser 36, 1859 the district will not resume business.A fact such ns (bis is worth & hundred generalities, and goes Lo prove that drunkenness is decreasing wherever the revival bas taken root.Tug Evanoxricar AitiaxcE Av Tur Maxsiox.Hovse.\u2014On Tuesday night a conversazione was held ut the Mansion house, to meet the Council of the Evangelical Alliance and others interested in the union of English and Continental Christians.Among those present were :\u2014Sir Jobn Lawrence and Lad; Lawreuce, Sir Heory Havelock, Rev.Sir.William Dunbar, General Alexander, J.C.Colquboun, Eeq,, Professor Lorimer, Rev.W.Artbur,\u2014Heuderson, Esy.(Glasgon), Teva, T.Binney, E.Auriol, C.Molyneux, .Hall, and William Goode, Professor Hoppus, Rev.T.Campbell (Belfast), Dr.Tidman, Dr, Steane.After refreshments had been partaken of in one of the ante-rooms, the company adjourned to the Egyptian Hall.The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, and, in opening the proceedings, said, that he need not say that be was heartil delighted 10 see those before him in the Kgyptian Tra, and to give tbem a hearty welcome.He trusted that that gathering would long be remembered as a token for good \u2014and that from that meeting many others might spring.They were aware of the object which had brought them together,\u2014the Evangelical Alliance,\u2014 to support its views and extend its influence.That the meeting might tend to increase their faith and love, aud to unite all Christians together in bonds of Christian fellowship, he heartily prayed.Tue RovaL CHARTER was a favourite vessel, and hence probably the number, the extraordinary number, of ngers on board from Melbourne and the other Colonies.There seems to have been something in the affair wholly fatuitous! The vessel ranked with the finest on the line, her commander was à prince of bis class, and the voyage out and home was the shortest upon record.That the people might be cheered on the way a baud of musicians was taken on board with them.Thus they came merrily along till once more their delighted vision rested on the white cliff of Old England.Rejoicing in the speed and safety of their passage, they made » handsome present to 1he Captain and also to one of the two Reverend passengers who had couducted worship amunget them.All hearts rejoiced in the past, and were filled with hope as to the future.\u2014 Amid the sweet delusion the Divine command went forth: Old Ocean promptly obeyed, and, after, fora little, tossing the splendid ship as a bauble, he seized her in fury, broke her as a rod, and tore herin pieces, precipitating the petrified and shrieking multitude into the all-devouring-abysa ! HonnisLe BruTALITY THROUGH Drixk.\u2014There is now in custody at Wednesbury a man named Joseph Hill, who has been guilty of the most revolting brutality upon an Irishman named John Malony.Hill and Malony, with others, had been drinking together in Mr.Woodward's public house in High street, before they procecded together to the house of one of the party, in a court at the rear of Mr.Woodward's.Here a previously commenced dispute waa resumed and Hill, seizing Malony, struck him, and then held down his heud before the fire with one hand, whilst with the other he took from the grate a kettle of boiling water.He first tried to pour the water down Malony\u2019s throat, but was unable, and the scalding water ran over Malony's face.Hill then poured the water into his victim's ears, and over the other portions of his head and face! Despite hisscreams and struggles, Hill continued to hold him in front of the fire, and thus greatly increased the otherwise intense torture that he was suffering.Here he held bim till the poor fellow became burut as well us scalded.\u2014 When at length Malory was released, be seemed to have little vitality remaining in his system ; the hair cume off his bead, and bis countenance was shock ingly disfigured.À surgeou was sent for and was noon in attendance, but expressed grave doubts of the man's recovery.On Saturday, a local paper reported that the case had had a fatal termination, but from inquiries on the spot we learn that the announcement is premature; that, though still in o dangerous slate, and suffering great agony, yet the injuries have not so alarming an appearance as at first they had.Pemivicatiox of Fort, Waren\u2014As Imronr- ANT Discoveny.\u2014Mr.Thos.Spencer, the discoverer of electrotype, has made another important discovery.He has ascertained that the magnetic oxide of iron, which abounds in rocky strata, and in sands &c., attracts oxygen, whether it exists in water or in air, and polarises it\u2014that this polarised oxygen, is the salubryfying ozone\u2014that this ozone, so formed destroys all discolouring and polluting organic solutions in water, and converts them into the sparkling and refreshing carbonic acid of the healthful spring.Even sewerage water can be thus instantaneously purified.Moreover Mr.Spencer bas discovered that the apparently mechanical process of filtration, is itself magnetical, and it is now known that all substances are constitutionally more or less subjects to magneti- cal influence, thus all extraneous matters suspend in water may be rapidly atteacted in filtration, and 80 separated, and this may be done whether on 8 great scale or a small, either by the magnetic oxide or black sand of iron, by a mixture of this with ordinary sand, or by various other means, and Mr.Spencer bas discovered a solid porus combination, of carbon with magnetic oxide, prepared from Cumberland hætmarite, which is said to have very great filtering powers.\u2014 Builder.Tax Faenca Anny 1x Irany.\u2014There is no truth in @ report that Marshal Vaillant avd the French army of occupation of Central Lualy are on the point of cuming bome.So far from it, contracts have been made in Italy for supplying the whole army throughout the winter and up to the lst of May, It is much more likely that tbe force will be augmented than reduced.Cardinal Morl Fukxcu Bisuors ox Linxary.\u2014Cardinal Morlot, the Archhishop of Paris, who bad not hitherto followed suit in the episcopal crusade against civil liberty in the Homan States, has now, we are told by the Univers, issued his circular letter, The exact number of prelstes who have thus * pronounced ie, according to this authority, fifty-four, aod the movement is still going on.\u2014 À circuler from t*» Horse Guardsrequosts that officers commanding regiments and depots will discourage by every mess in their power officers smnok- ing in the mess-room.The wmander-in-Chief does not howevar object to their amoking in tbe snte- room. PRY Ee.Novemser 30, 1859.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.763 American Press.THE DAY OF EXECUTION.(From N.Y.Independent.) Friday of next week is the day fixed by the court for the execution of John Brown.Unless with a view to pander to the sppetite of Vir ginians for a bloody demonstration, Gov.Wise shall respite the old man until the 16th, when his comrades are to be hung, before our next issue can reach our readers, the execution will have passed ; and therefore we now throw out a few suggestions with reference to the day.In permitting the scutence of death to take effect, Gov.Wise will act against the unanimous sentiment of the North.We say unanimous, for after all our reading and inquiry on the subject, we have been able to learn of but one man who thinks that John Brown ought to be hung ; that man is the editor of the N.Y.Observer, who even after such men as the editors of the Herald and the Journal of Commerce have endeavored, from motives of expediency, to sta, Brown's execution, still clamors for it, as wi the conscience of an inquisitor ! For ourselves, we cannot resist the conviction that God has in view the overthrow of Slavery, in all the steps of this ead but most impressive event.No servilo insurrection at the South, not even a combination among the sluves reaching through all the States, and a simultancous uprising from the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, could have awakened such a sensation throughout the country, as did the raid of John Brown into Virginia.This unprecedented assault upon the institution of slavery opened a new and irrepressible cause of agitation and alarm.Men having personal interest to serve, were ready to make war upon Slavery at the hazard of their own lives.This fact has commanded the attention of thousands who would have given but a passing thought to a negro insurrection, und has led them to inquire, What ¢s the system that provoked such an assault?What is the cause for which these brave and honest men are willing to die?And now, as if on purpose that this lesson might not be lost, the Virginians have done everything to concentrate public attention upon the scene.The cxaggera- tions of danger into which their own fears betrayed them, the movements of their Governor and their militia, the telegraphic rumors and alarms, the suspicion and vigilance manifested toward strangers, all kept up the excitement, till every newspaper in the land was filled with it, and every reader made familiar with its details.The indecent haste of the court to obtain a verdict of guilty against the prisoner, the rude treatment of counsel from abroad, the disregard of the forms and proprietics of law,\u2014all this infuriate zeal of the slave power, in contrast with the mauly demeauor and conscientions integrity of the prisoner, has excited universal discussion as to the principles of the case.And again, the speedy dose assigned to the tragedy, bas prevented auy such decline of public interest as time would have insured.Had John Brown been sentenced to be hung six months hence, the day of his excoution would hardly have been remembered by the great body of tho reading public.But the court in its cagerness for publicity in the whole transaction, lus made sure that everybody shall ponder that event with unabated interest till the sentence shall be executed.The day of execution will fix and crown these munifold impressions.Aud what is it that is thus on trial bofore the great public of these United States?What is it that is undergoing the scrutiny of thousands of cager eyes?What is it that will be hung up on the gallows in tho gaze of all men?Not Joh Brown, but Slavery! John Brown has already reecived the verdict of the people as à brave and honest man, Governor Wise himself has told the world that he nevor saw such courage, truthful- oss, und sincerity, as he saw in that wounded old man at Harper's Ferry, indicted for murder and treason.The letters of Brown, and his speeches to the court, havo convinced all men that Governor Wise read him truly.Misguided as he was by his seal for the oppressed, wild and unwarrantable as was his whole scheme for their emancipation, he yet stands forth in his motives, his spirit, and his intention, the bravest, truest noblest man Virginia has seen since her race of Revolutionary heroes passed away.It is impossible to hang such a wan so as to attach to his name any of the obloquy of the gallows.For him it has no terrors, and it van inflict no reproach upon his memory.Not John Brown but Slavery will be gibbeted, when he hangs upon tho gallows.Slavery itsclf will receive tho scorn and excoration it has invoked for him.That execution will strengthen and consolidate the fecling of tho North in determined and irrepressible hatred of tho barbarism that makes traitors and oriminals of men who scok to deliver tho op- ressod.Just this was needed to arouse iho orth to the porils that threaten the nation from tho preponderance of tho slave-power in tho Federal Administration, Just this briof inauguration of a reign of terror was neodod, to prepare the way for that poscafal but triumphant revolution by the bullot-box, which shall wrest the govorn- ment ordained for liberty, from tho tyranny that bes usurped it.When Juhn Brown is exoouted, it will be seen that he has done his work even moro effectually than if he had sucoeeded in running off à few hundred slaves.The bare financial cost of ll the prosecutions and precautions that have growu out of bis invasion, the proclamations and rewards of the Governor, the maintenance of the troops in all their fidgety excursions, the distribution of fire-arms throughout the state, \u2014the money bill that Virginia must pay for John Brown, will make a serious inroad upon her profits in negroes for the year.The terror by night that rules in every household upon her soil, driving sleep from mothers and children, and starting Governor and troops upon rail way marches on the Sabbath; the anxicties and fears that for months to come will burden ber population; incendiarism aud assassination baunting the sleep of those who have participated in these trials, and perhaps marking them as victims; the spirit of revenge which that execution will awaken in thousands of slaves made desperate by hope deferred ;\u2014all this will make the cost of slavery to Virginia greater than she can bear.The ridicule, scorn, and indignation of the civilized world which Virginia will draw upon herself by this execution, will soon make intolerable u system that can be maintained only at such fearful cost.John Brown has done his work.John Brown swinging upon the gallows, will toll the death-knell of slavery.But the friends of freedom must take heed that they do not mar bis work by any mistake on the day of his exceution impressive and memorable.We would suggest that on that day there be special prayer in families and public assemblies for the specdy and peaceable emancipation of the slaves ; thut on that day special contributions be made as a memorial of John Brown, and for the future support of bis family ; and that in the evening of that day, there be as far as possible simultaneous public meetings to concentrate the feeling and unite the action of the North against slavery.Then when the body of John Brown shall be delivered to his family, there will be an opportunity for a fuoeral ovation which shall teach the world that the mistakes and infirmities of our humanity in a good cause, cannot repress our admiration of the hero who braved death for the weak and the wronged.JOHN BROWN'S LAST APPEAL TO À COURT.On Saturday last, John Brown, by counsel, made his last appeal to a Virginia tribunal.Within a few hours\u2019 time, the five Judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals uttered their unapimous opinion that the judgment of the Jefferson County Court, under which the old man awaits death by haogiag on the 2ud day of December, was right ; and therefore they denied his petition for a writ of error.The indictment upon which Brown was tried contained four counts\u2014for treason, for advising and conspiring with slaves and others to rebel, and for murder.Charged jointly with others, he was tried alone.One general judgment of death was entered upon the whole of it.The grounds of his application for a writ of error were few.He claimed, first, that the judgment against him was erroneous, because it \u2018was not averred in the treason count, that at the time of the offence charged, he was a citizen of the State of Virginia or of the United States.The law is well settled, that treason is a breach of allegiance, and can be comuitted only by one who owes allegiance, either temporary or perpetual.Brown appealed to the Court, that if the judgment against him on all the counts, in- elnding this defective one of treason, was to stand, he would be put out of all possible reach of the Executive clemency.That clemeney n could have reached him, on the contrary, if the judgment bad only been on the other counts of the indictment.Secondly, he claimed that the judgment under which he now awaits death was erroneous, in that the Court below denied his application that tho prosecution be made to elect some one count upon which to try him, and abandon the rest.@ was entitled to that election, First : because the offence of treason is not pardonable by the Governor of Virginia, and therefore a count charging it should not have been united in an indictment with counts for offences that ure pardonable.Second : Because the punishment upon conviction upon each of the counts was not necessarily the same ; that while it was inevitably capital upon ono of them, upon the others be might have been found guilty only of a misdemeanor, or of a simple manslaughter.Thirdly, ho insisted that the Court below should have i.1structed the Jury that if they believed, from the evidence, that at the time of the committing of the aots charged in the count for treason, he was not u citison of Virginia, but of another State, he could not be convicted under it.Fourthly, ho claimed that the finding by the Jury upon the counts for conspiring with slaves to rebel, and for killing \u201cfour wbito men and ono freo negro, in manner sud form as aforessid,\u201d was too uncertain and inconsistent to warrant a judgment of death.Briety, and withous any delay painful to the tenso expectation of the Virginia mind, d'd the five Judges of tho Appeals Court say to John Brown, through his counsel, \u201c The judgment under which you aro to be \u201chung by the neck until you are dead, is plainly right.\u201d His counsel wero not allowed to be board.their part.They should arrange to make the |?) From this decision of the Virginia Judges an appesl of Brown's cuse has already been taken to the high eourt of Public Opinion in America.What the judgment of that august tribunal will be, time will show.It will, however, in all probability, not be finally rendered until after Brown is dead and buried.BROWN'S CONVERSATION.Brown's conversation is singularly attractive.His manner is magnetic.It attracts every one who approaches him, and while be talks he reigns.The other prisoners venerate him.Stephens sits in his bed, usually with his face away from the window, and listens all day to \u201c the captain's\u201d words, seldom offering a syllable, except when called upon.Sometimes he gets a little excited, and springs forward to make clear some point upon which \u201cthe captain\u201d is in doubt, but bis five bullets, in head and breast, weigh him down, and he is soon exhausted.As for the other men \u2014Copeland, Green and Coppie\u2014they are always sending messages to \u2018\u201c the captain,\u201d assuring him that \u201cit was not they who confessed, and he mustn't growl at them, but at Cook.\u201d MR.WARD AT PEKIN.(From N.Y.Tribune.) Mr.Ward's visit to Pekin, according to what 8 to be the semi-official account of it published in the North China Herald, was exclusively taken up in discussing the terms of an audience with the emperor, which, after all, did not take place.At one period of the negotiation, the terms seemed to be almost arranged.It was proposed that the commissioners ehould address him a letter, stating that the emperor intended to grant him the honor of an audience to present the President's letter, and that Mr.Ward, in bis reply, should declare his readiness to pay the same marks of respect to the emperor that he would do to the President, without any addition or diminution.It was arranged that, in the execution of this plan, a table should be placed before the emperor, on approaching which Mr.Ward should bow according to his representation of what was usual on an introduction to the President, at which moment, as if to save the honor of Chinese etiquette, two chamberlains should rush to him with the exclamation, \u201c Don't kneel!\u201d Mr.Ward was then to deposit the President's letter on the table, from which it was to be taken by one of the chamberlains, who, on his knees, would hand it to the emperor.This plan, however, failed ; the emperor having concluded that, unless Mr.Ward would agree to kneel, or at least to touch one finger to the ground, he could not see him.It is supposed that the Chinese declined to carry out the proposed arrangement for fear Mr.Ward might cheat them after all in not truly repeating at Pekin the ceremonial in use at Washington\u2014a point as to which the celestials had to rely entirely on Mr, Ward's representations.If Mr.Ward escaped humiliations at Pekin\u2014 and that he did so it appears to be the main object of the account to which we bave referred to make out-\u2014it is certain that his visit thither was nothing to boast of.He carried letters of introduction to the Russian resident, but was prevented from sccing him, and, under pretense that he should go where he pleased and sec what he wanted so soon as the terms of the audience were arranged, was prevented, in fact, from going anywhere or seeing anything.It would have been much more for his own and the national dignity if, instead of insisting upon going to Pekin, he had been content to ex- changs the ratifieations with the commissioners at Shanghae, as they had originally proposed.It remains now to be seen what the treaty, the ratification of which has thus at last been attained, really amounts to.We are inclined to think that, with the exception of the most favored nation clause, it adds very little, nothing indeed of any particular value, to the provisions of the old treaty.That clause, though in abeyance at resent, on account of the non-ratification of the British and French treaties, may hereafter prove of value.Whatever privileges the French and English may succeed in compelling the Chinese to concedo, will, in virtue of it, redound to us.AMERICAN NEWS.Dury or Tue OPerRSsED To Surrxr.\u2014 While the oppressed must suffer patiently so long as there is no hope of redress, is it wrong for them chen (here is a reasonable of success, to rise to achieve their own emancipation.Then Washington was the chief of traitors.Is this reserved right of revolution in all oppressed communities confined to race and color?Is it not the right of the Italian ns well ag the Greek, of tho Anglo-African as well as of the Austro-Hungarian ?i the probability of success ahould ever warrant the attempt at revolution by the oppressed of the South, would it be any greater wrong for any man to identify bis prowess and his life with their cause, than it was for Jafayetto and Kosciusko to bare their steel for American independence?If John Brown, as he so pertinently asks, bad thus interfered to deliver twenty of the first families of Virginia from captivity in Mexico, would not every Virginian have applauded the deed ! Of course he would have gone upon such & brave adventure at Liv own perily liable to ba executed by Mexican law.But would any Virginian have thought him guilty of a crime?Virginians forges that stavery involves a permanent atate of war between the conquerors and the conquered.Hostilitics may be long suspended, but are liable at aay moment to be resewed.John Brown the crusader, made war upon Virginia in the interest of the weaker of the two hostile powers ber soil.He failed of course ; but the wrong of his act lies neither in the motive that prompted it, noe in the object st which be aimed\u2014the emancipation of the captives\u2014bot in sitempting what was desper- stely hopeless, and, fherefore, unwarrantable.Yet the moral dignity of bis deportment on bis trial and of bis speech to the court, almost redeemed the madness of the act.The day of John Brown's exe cation will be a sorry day for Virginia.Her Go- vemor will see tbe ghost of Banquo in the Couneil- room and in bis very bed-chamber.Troops of im- agioary terrors will scare sleep from the eyes of her slavebolders, and the blood of the hero will sow her soil with quick and direful retribution.\u2014N.¥.Independent.Lasp or Tue Fxzz.\u2014The grand jury at Norfolk, Va., have found a true bill on an indictment against 8.Dacenburg, who keeps a clothing and ahoe store in that city, for sediticus language, calculated to incite insurrection.The Day Buok says :\u2014* The first count charged him with having used the words, \u2018 John Brown was a good man, and was fighting a good cause, and did nothing but what any honest man would do.\u201d And the second count charged that he had uttered the following expressions: \u2018John Brown was Sighting in a good cause, (meaning that be was fighting in the cause, of the slave against the master,) and that owners have no right of property in their slaves ;\u2019 and said that \u2018 Brown did nothing but what any otber honest man would do.\u2019 Danenbarg left the city a few days ago, baving an intimation that he had got himself into trouble.Bis case will come on early in the present term of the Superior Court, now in session.Femare Lasor 1x New YonE.\u2014At à meeting in New York on Friday of the Widows\u2019 Friend Society, several instances, showing the low price paid for £ male labor, were quoted.Une woman, who made children's leather Toon, could get but 31 cents per dozen pairs, aod could make but balf a dozen pairs r diem.Another, a maker of linen coats, received ut 31 cents each, and could make but one per day.Another woman got but 25 cents per pair for making hoary cloth pants.Another woman, at making children\u2019s clothing, earns $1.26 per week., who makes cotton shirts, gets eix cents each for making them, and manages to earn 73 cents per week.Sap Wrymixo tr.\u2014The Baliston, N.Y., Journal says: \u2018Mr, Alfred Hamilton, of this to was brought before the Court of Sessiors last wi for forgery, and pleaded guilty.He was sentenced to Clinton prison for two years.Some few years Mr, Hamilton was tbe owner of a good faim in ston, and the prossessor of 40,000 or 50,000 dollars besides ; but like hundreds of other young men placed in similar circumstances, he became the victim of strong drink and squandered all, and bas finally closed his brief career in the State Prison.: Westers Derression.\u2014lowa and Minnesota are suffering under the crushing depression in their mo- etary affairs.They bave BE uce to spare, bot no money to move it with.In the interior of Iows, corn can be bought with cash for fourteen cents per bushel, and so up to eighteen in barter.AgsassiSaTED.\u2014About two weeks ago a cargo of slaves was landed rear Trinidad de Cubs.Oze of the inspectors of customs\u2014a young Creole \u2014informed the Government of the fact, and the same night he was assassinated.Tnt Rocces\u2019 GaL1env.\u2014The daguerseotyçes ez- hibited in the Rogues\u2019 Gallery are increasing w vum- ber, and continue to attract much attention.As je some classes of thieves are not well represented, ut among those whose likenemes bave been obtained, are many of the leading pickpockets, burglars, shoplifters ad swindlers in the coun The puctures airendy very frequently lean to the detection of offenders, and they atc further advantageous by refreshing the memories of officers.Fuirox STRERt PRaykR-MErtTixa.\u2014 The noonday prayer-meetings in the old Fulton street church are as uumerously attended as ever.Yesterday a mother sent a request for prayer, saying that cue year ao she sent a request for prayer for her twosons.Oue of those sons, she says, has been converted, and the other is very thoughtful.She begs a continual in terest in tbe prayers of the meeting.The following letter was read in the meeting : BrookLys, Nov.11, 1889.Mn.Presipext\u2014 Dear Sir: 1 have frequently attended the Fulton-street prayer-meetiog, and thanks be to God, much good has it done me.I aw à prodigal son; Ileft my native land, and last Murch landed in this city, without à friend, and without a hope in Jesus; but God in his kind providence has brought me to repentance and in my wanderings di rected me to this place where | found Jesus.fm vow a member of the Mariners\u2019 Church in this city, and am about to enter as à teacher in the Sabba School connected with that church, and ask the prayers of this meeting that I may be kept faithfe! uoto the end, and have a greater desire given me to devote my time, talents, and all I posecss, to serve Jesus, the blessed Saviour, who has done 30 much for me.I also ask the prayers of God's people tbat sister, her husband and family, in Australia, and four bro- thera in England, way be converted and brought to a saving knowledge of the truth as it is in Jeaus.À gentleman said: I have in my pocket @ letter from a lady in Wales.She was in this mesting a \u2018enr ago last August.She often sat in this little room.hen she went away sho bought the \u2018 Noon Prayer- Meeting\u201d and * The Power of Prayer,\u201d gathered all the information she couldabout this meeting, and went ber way.Now she writes that she ttle bnew what good those buoks would do.They had been the means oË one of the most powerful revivals ever seen in the place where she dwelt, or iu ali Wales.The \u201cower of Prayer\u201d hus been translated into Welsh and is now circulating over Wales, He also mentioned facts which liad been received by the last steamer fiom Newcastle-on- Tyne.Since tbe 15 of September last 1,300 bave been hopefully converted.In Sun.derland, à large town near, 300 had been converted in à single week.The uightly meetings numbered from 2,000 to 3,000 souls.The revival was called the Alliance Revival, because all denomiuationsabared n it.\u2014 To the Massachusetts Senate an amendment to the attachment laws bas been adopied.exempiing the library of 8 _debtor to the value of $399 from attachment.The present amount ia $30.} \u2019 4 Law i rn Ae vous = ' \u2014\u2014 ~ UT i | \u2014 0 Sant ef SE re re EE 2 \\ 764 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.- Noveuser 30, 1859, MF Subecribers to whose name à star (*) is sitached, are respectfully informed that their mabecription expires with the present number.If they have not already renewed their subscription, they will oblige by enclosing the amount in an covelope by return of post, addressed John Dougall, Witness Office, Montreal.TME WITNESS.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV.30.Convsts or Ixsme Paces -Second page: \u201c War with Rome.\u201d This article shows that the aggressive spirit of Popery and tbe truckling of Protestant governments to the Papal system, demand the utmost vigilance of Protestant Christians everywhere.Whilst Protestant denominations are striving to sustain them- wives and contributing to missions for the conversion of Roman Catholics, the governments of Great Britain aad of these colonies are annually giving immense mms of money, professedly for education, but which the [irics's use mainly for the propagation of the tenets of their church.\u201cItaly.\u201d The Roman Question and the cause of liberty are oo closely connected with Italy, thet the present history of that country should be watched with intense interest.Third page : \u201c The Day of Execution ;\u201d \u201c John Brown's Last Appeal to a Court.\u201d These articles are of special interest just now.* Mr.Ward at Pekin.\u201d Sixth and Seventh pages: \u201cThe Two Rules and how they Worked ;\u201d \u201c Some Unsuspected House- Plants ;\u201d \u201c A Mean Man ;\u201d \u201c The Safety-Lamp ;\u201d \u201c The Use of Plaster in Michigan; \u201cAn Extensive Pear Orchard ;\u201d \u201c Old Jobn Brown at Harper's Ferry;\" # Medicine ;\u201d \u201c A Drunken Man's Arguments :\u201d \u201cThe Tree of a Thousand Uses;\u201d \u201c Faults in Prayer; \u201cChristian Treasury.\u201d Cuosz or Tux Yran\u2014The year is rapidly drawing ment its close ; we hope our friends are kindly bearing i» mind the extension of our subecription list.If we are to receive a large increase of subscribers now is the time.Will our friends please do their best to aid us?Me.Parrensox, who is at present travelling as a Temperance Lecturer on bebalf of the Montreal Temperance Society, writes to the Witness aa follows, wader date 26th Nov.:\u2014 The weather has been very stormy, but the meetings Brompton Falls\u201424 signed the pledge ; Windsor Mills \u20144: signed the pledge ; Trenbolmville\u20146 signers ; Danville\u20146 signed, of whom two were the only in- tmperate persons present; Melbourne\u2014very large and influential meeting, 23 signed ; Lawrenceville\u2014 MW signers.At Durham the Sons of Temperance and Band of Hope are prosperous.At Trepholmrille, the Sons of Temperance and Band of Hope are flourishing.The latter has 51 members.At Danville, the Band of Hope has 79 members, and the Temperance Union 68.Sons of Temperance very active at Melbourne.A Band of Hope will be organized soon.Attention is invited to the advertisement of future sppointments.THE * GLOBE\u201d AND DENOMINATIONAL ENDOWMENTS.We copy on the first page the Globe's reply to the Witness : first, that our readers may see ita defence, and second, that we may make some farther remarks spon the subject to which it refers, The first of these is, thet the Globe is a fair and manly opponent, giving what is said against him io full, and then wsaewering it if he can.Would that we could say the same thing of the Christies Guardian.That paper, we regret to say, has pursued towards us a course which has only been paralleled by that of the True Witness.It never copies our articles or gives any fair view of our argument, but quotes some incidental mæntence out of its connection, gives it an extent of meaning we never contemplated, and replies to it probably in two or thres columns, as if the proposition in that sentence were the whole, or, at all events, the ohief part of our argument.This must bave been apparent to every one who reads both papers, and we ask the upright and sincere Christian men who comprise the great bulk of the Wesleyan Methodist ministers and membership in Canada, whether it is right to resign the colamns of their organ to articles written in the style and spirit of those to which we refer?Wa would also ask, if they do not conscientiously think there west be something wrong in & cause, the advocates of which seem to fall into a style incompatible with the calm dignity of conscious truth and justice?It will be seen that the Globe, Lo the article in question, dose not deny anything stated by the Witness, Bat pleads something else as sn offset.We said it \u2018wae eatisely silent about Ecclesiastical Corporations win the Baldwin-Lafontaine Administration, or rather tbe Parliament which it controlled, was granting in profusion the most objectionable charters to the Church of Roms.At that time we issued the most earnest appeals almost every week ; we showed the extreme danger to the country of Corporations hold- lag lands extensively in morimain, and especially Roman Catholic Corporations, which are all virta- ally one, and that under the control of a centralized focsiga Power; we published supplements, set:ing forth these argumsmis, and sent them specially to | ory Maher of both Houses of the Logisistura ; we 3 A implored Upper Canada liberal members and Upper Canada liberal papers to come out and, as they could have done, put a stop to the suicidal business of granting these charters: but not one of them had the courage to do so, though all knew that what we urged was true.In private conversation, the Members said it would not suit their party to bring up such a question, and the Globe, which was the great organ of the party, evidently thought so too.At all events, all our appeals for help to resist the grievous wrong and vain, as appear to be our appeals now for help to resist another insidious attack of the same disease which is 80 deeply seated in the body-politic of Canada ;\u2014we mean the cravings of religious bodies for power and property.The Globe does not claim that he opposed Ecclesiastical Corporations or the encroachments of Rome at the time of which we speak, but says it is ungenerous to allude to it, seeing that it has done such good service in the cause since.Now, itis quite true that it has done more service in that cause since than any other paper, and we have over and over again given all credit we could ; we bave also copied more articles from tbe Globe tban perhaps from all other papers in Canada, sud no one rejoiced more in the extension of ils circulation and ioflu- ence.Neither would we have brought up its deficiencies of 1849 at all, did we not see a repetition of them in 1859, There are many points in the Globe's article which might be profitably dwelt upon.We have only space to notice briefly one or two of them.It is probably true that Roman Catholics are not to be converted to any extent by newspaper articles, although the power of truth is very great; but the same thing may be said of political opponents, and yet the Globe does not, therefore, cease to write political articles.Besides, it is not the conversion of Roman Catholics that is aimed at in the class of articles in question, but the resistance of a dangerous, political aud social enemy\u2014a government within a government\u2014an ecclesiastical aristocracy secking and obtaining most extensive territorial influence in addition to its spiritual powers\u2014a secret oligarchy too powerful for the civil government.The Globe knows all this very well, and is only seeking to divert atten- Roman Catholics.With reference to another argument of the Globe, we may ask\u2014Since when did it learn that to speak out once upon a question is all that duty requires?Does he not, on the contrary, iterate and reiterate for months and years, almost daily, his facts and arguments in any cause in which be believes and is willing to speak out! Why, then, ignore week after week and month after month the Wesleyan agitation for college endowment, which is going on so diligently all over the country?If he believes the Wesleyan ministers are right, he should come out on their side.If he believes the question to be one of no consequence, he is quite right to pass it over in silence; but if he believes this to be a most dangerous movement for the future peace and prosperity of Canada, he is bound to speak out upon it however it may affect bis party.Neither will it do to consider tbe matter as a mere affair of personal ambition on the part of Des.Ryerson and Nelles, and speak of these gentlemen alone.The Conference bas endorsed their views, sad every Wesleyan minister in the country has to put himself in the same position, unless, as we hope, the good sense and patriotism of many of them prove too strong for the influence of the prime movers in this business.At all events, we are assured by reliable parties from the West that this renewal of the Clergy Reserves agitation is condemned by many influential lay members of the church, JOHN BROWN, THE MARTYR OF FREEDOM.Jobn Brown, who now lies under sentence of death in Charlestown, Virginis, for attempting to emancipate slaves, snd who is to be executed on Friday next, is, at the present moment, the most prominent object of interest in North America.Himself no common man, bis position is very remarkable one, and, so far as appears from the gigantic results of bis feeble foray into Virginia, he is an instrument in the bands of Divine Providence for the accomplishment of great purposes.Captain Johu Brown is a Puritan of the Puritans, being the sixth in direct descent from one of the Pilgrims of the * Mayflower.\u201d Of a religious family and religiously brought up from his childhood, be resolved, in bis youth, to study for the ministry, but bad to relinquish his stadies on account of the weakness of bis eyes.He then engaged in secular pursuits, and was twice married, having, by each wife, o large family, whom he brought up in the strictest Integrity, and with tender, parental affection.Indeed, the key to bis recent extraordinary conduct Is, we believe, only to be found in his strong love for bis children, and consequent sympathy with the bereavements and other wronge of negro parents and their offspring.Through & long life John Brown has, by the testimony of all who knew bim, muintaived an exemplary character for purity, honor, rectitude snd philanthropy ; and a fow years ago, when on the shady side of fifty, he removed with his second wife\u2014a noble woman and Biting companion~and his children, now grown up, to Kansas, \u2014there to found a family which should perpetuate, in the far West, the liberty, virtues and enterprise of the old Puritan stock.But Kansas had been marked out by slavery as her own, aad such freedom- loving settlers as Joho Brown were considered in- teuders by the Southern Siates and the Federal Govern ment, and, accordingly, all the worst rufians of all tbe Blave States were lot loose upon its peaceful settlers injustice that was being inflicted on the country were ; tion from the real issue by speaking of converting j like bands of hell-bounds, to hunt them to death.This they did in à fashion which made their name a by-word in the earth.In these Kansas troubles, of world-wide renown, Jobu Brown was a tower of strength oo the side of freedom.Meu trusted bim, and were willing to act under his command.lle inspired every one with confidence and respect, and, in fact, exerted an influence so remarkable uver those around him, that in an carlier age it would have been deemed the effect of enchantment or witchcraft.We cannot do better, with respect to this part of Lrown\u2019s career, than quote the words of Henry Ward Beecher :\u2014 « Au old man, kind at heart industrious, peaceful, went forth, with u large family of -lildren, to seek a new home iu Kansas.That infaut colony held thousands of souls as noble as liberty ever inspired or religion enriched.A great scowling slave state, its nearest neighbor, sought to tread down this liberty loving colony, and to dragoon slavery into it by force of arms.The armed citizens of another state crossed the state lines, destroyed the freedom of the ballot-box, prevented a fair expression of public sentiment, corruptly usurped law-making power, and ordained by fraud laws as infamous as the sun ever saw, assaulted its infant settlements with armed hordes, ravaged the fields, destroyed harvests and herds, and carried death to 8 multitude of cabins.The United States Government had no marines for this occasion! No Federal troops were posted by cars night andday for the poor, the weak, the grossly wronged men in Kansas.There was an army there that unfurled the banner of the Union, but it was on the side of the wrong-doers, not on the side of the injured.* It was in this field,\" we still use the wordsof Henry Ward Beecher, \u201cthat Brown received his impulse.A tender father, whose life was in his sons\u2019 life, he saw his first born seized like a felon, chained, driven across the country, crazed by suffering and heat, beaten by the officer in charge, like a dog, and long lying at death\u2019s door.Another noble boy, without warning, without offense, unarmed, in open day, in the midst of the city, was shot dead! No justice sought out the murderers.No United States attorney was dispatched in bot haste.No marines or soldiers aided the wronged and weak! The shot that struck the child\u2019s heart crazed the father\u2019s brain.Revolving his wrongs, and nursing his hatred of that deadly system that Breeds such contempt of justice and humagity, at length his phantoms assume a form, and organize such an enterprise as one might expect from à man whom grief had bereft of good judgment.He goes to the beart of a slave state, One man\u2014and sixteen followers! he seizes two thousand brave Virginians and holds them in duress! When a great state attacked a handful of weak col: onists, the Government and nation were torpid, but when seventeen men attacked a sovereign state, then Maryland arms, and Virginia arms, and the United States Government arms, and they three rush against seventeen men.\u2019 We are not at all sure that Jobn Brown's mind was crazed, although he had endured the oppression which is proverbially said to make a wise man mad.We see nothing in all bis subsequent conduct that manifests greater madness than was exhibited by William Tell or William Wallace, or any other hero of ancient or modern times, unless it be this distinction, that these men showed their noble daring in behalf of their own liberties and those of their kindred and race, whereas John Brown's was for a race to which be could claim no relationship, and io which he had no personal interest whatever.If this constitutes madness, then Jolin Brown was mad ; to us it appears an almost god-like element in his heroism.We need not detail again the raid on Harper's Ferry, in which this noble old man, like a modern Don Quixote, and with all the purity, honor, benevolence and courage of that inimitable character, bore down, lance ia rest, upon the South, and overthrew it ;\u2014but we cannot resist the temptation of again quoting from Henry Ward Beecher's sermon on the subject :\u2014 4 A burning fragment struck the earth near Harper's Ferry.If the fragment of au exploding aerolite had fallen down out of the air, while the meteor swept on, it would not have been more sudden, or less appsrently connected either with à cause or an effect .\u2018 Seventeen men, white men, without a military base, without supplies, without artillery, without organization more than a squad of militia, attacked a state, and undertook to release and Lead away an enslaved race! They do not appear to have been called by the sufferers, nor to have been welcomed by them.They volunteered a grace, and sought to enforce its acceptance, \u201c Seventeen men terrified two thousand brave Vir.ginisns into two days\u2019 submission, \u2014 thal cannot be got over! Do what yon please\u2014muster a crowd of supposed confederates, call the roll of conspirators, and include the noblest men of these states, and exhibit this imaginary army before the people, and, in the end, it will appear that scventeen white men overawed a town of two thousand brave Virginians, and held them captives until the sun bad gone laughing twice around the globe! \u201cTravellers tell us that the G of Iceland\u2014 those singular boiling springs of the nortb\u2014may be transported with fury by plucking up & handful of Fras or turf, and throwing them into the springs.! he hot springs of Virginia are of the same kind A handful of men was thrown into them, and what a boiling there has been ! e270 Te Te ee ee a ** But, meanwhile, no one can fail to ses that this oor, child bereft old man, is tho mantiest of them all, Bold, unflinching, honest, without deceit or dodge, refusing to take technical advantages of any sort; but openly avowing his principles and motives, glory ing in them in danger and death, as much as when in security\u2014that wounded old father is the most se.markable figure in this whole drama.The Governor, the officers of the state, and all the attorneys, are pigmies compared to him.\u201d Itic sald that Arabian matrons stilled their babes with the name of Richard Coeur de Lion, and we have no doubt the name of John Brown would prove as potent all over the South if the matrons bad courage enough to pronounes it; but the terror throughout all that region appears to bave reached an appalling beight.Aad is there not à cause?What family, living apart from others as do those of the planters, would like to be exposed, not only to forays from without, which, as we bave seen, may take place a any hour, but to the torch and knife of its owy ser vante ?When & man's foes are they of his own household, the case is indeed a hard one; yet this is the normal condition of slavebolding.It is said, and we believe truly, that the sudden sound of a bell at night, or firing of a musket, or sven à loud shout, makes the Southern mother clasp her babes to her bosom in wild dismay, and the Southern father grasp Lis weapons In frantic haste.And this is the price paid for slavery! Truly, the wrong is not all on tbe side of the blacks.The slavebolders wrong themselves and their families scarcely less than they do their slaves.Teal, if \u201c Righteousneas exalteth a nation,\u201d iniquity depresses and debases it.They that do wrong and are Godforsaken in consequence, will, as the Scripture assures us, \"tremble at a falling leaf\u201d and \u201cflee when no man pursueth.\u201d We have already chronicled Jobn Brown\u2019s hasty trial and condemnation, together with bis noble bearing and unconquerable courage as, stretched on his pallet, backed, gashed and ghastly, he was brought into court, to face the fury of a population madly howling for his blood.And now the last act in this dreadful tragedy is to be consummated.Before our paper can again issue from the press, one of ibe most noble and heroic souls in the United States will be in eternity, if the purposes of man hold good.This is no cause of alarm to John Brown, who has for perhaps half a century put his trust in God bis Saviour, and has no fear of meeting death in whatever way his Master may appoint; indeed, ke hopes to accomplish more good by bis death than he could do by his life, and is cheerfully ready for whatever may be his fate; but it will be a terrible day for his executors.As John Brown swings on the gallows, as has been well said, he will silently toll the death-knell of slavery; for all good and true men, whether North or South, will ask if that system is to be tolerated which demands such sacrifices \u2014 which demands that the very impersonation of rectitude, honor, courage and philanthropy must be hanged like a dog for endeavoring to promote human freedom.And here we may briefly explain the legal aspect of the case, which is not, perhaps, generally appreciated.It is acknowledged by all eminent jurists\u2014except, perhaps, Chief Justice Taney, whose eminence is in iojus- tice\u2014that a state of slavery is a state of war.The slave ig first made such by masterful violence, and he is retained in slavery in the samo way.He owes, in common law or equity, no allegiance or duty to his master, but, on the contrary, is fully warranted in escaping whenever he can; and if bis master oppose his attempt by force, he is justified in using force, even to siaying, in return.Accordingly, were a slave who, in attempting to escape, had taken his master's horse, and fought with and killed his master, to reach Canada, or any other foreign country having a treaty of extradition with the United States, he would not be delivered up either on the charge of robbery or mar- der; all that be had done would be regarded as justi- fisble at common law.It is only where a slave code prevails that he would be punished at all.Beeing, then, that this state of war exists between masters and slaves, allics may join either side, at their own peril, and, taking all the consequences, just as allies may join two belligerent nations.Hitherto all the allies have been on the side of the slave-holder\u2014 be being able to pay for them ; but a principle stronger than the love of gold bas at last animated a few allies to espouse the cause of the slave, and by the laws of slavery they are to die for it.But they bave done no wrong, any more than Lafayette did when he aided the British Colonies to become the United States.Nay, John Brown treated his prisoners with courtesy and kindness, and refrained, as far as possible, from shea- ding blood\u2014preferring to compromise bis own position rather than injure others.For this chivalric kindpess both to blacks and whites, both to slaves and slaveholders, he dics a felon's death; and the question arises, what are men who have hearts in their bosoms to do about it?We rejoice to see by an article which we copy from the N.Y.Independent, that there is a call for Prayer-Meetings in every town, village and city in the Free States for Friday morning next, just previous to Brown's execution, at which he and his family and his companions are to be remembered, as well as the cause for which he dies ; end also for public meetings in the evening of that day to concentrate public indignation on the system which requires such a man for its sacrifice.We rejoice also to see that the colored men, for whose race Brown bas dared and suffered so much have called similar meetings on that day in this city which, we trust, will not be left exclusively to them.There are hearts to sympathize with heroism and affliction in white bosoms here ns well as in those of a darker color, May there bo many sich meetings in Canada.\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 EDITORIAL NOTICES.\u2014 Our city readers sro reminded of the Annual Meeting of the Ladies French Canadian Missionary So- clety, In the lecture room of Zion Church, this evenlog.\u2014 There is to be the Annual Boclal Gatbering oe Bt.Andrews\u2019 day, la the Oity Ooncert Hall, at which addresses and music will delight the mudience; and there will be a refreshment table for the benefit of (he 8t.Andrews Home.We regret to add that the ob- Joctionable feature of this entertainment, namely, promiscuous dancing is to be kept up this year also.These public balls at late hours are exessdisgly ob Jectionable. ! Novrmser 30, 1859.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.765 \u2014 A meeting of tha Ladies\u2019 Auziliary to the City Mission, will be held in the Rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, on Thursday evening, at half- t seven o'clock.All ladies who feel an interest in City Mission work are invited to attend.\u2014 We call attention to tbe advertisement of the Annual Soiree of tbe Montreal Temperance Society, on Tuesday evening, the 6th of December, in Nordheimer's Hall.We understand Principal Dawson has kindly consented to take the chair, and it is hoped and expected that the gathering will be a large and happy one.\u2014 The remarks of the Ilustings Chronicle on the first page respecting the Crown Lands regulations are seasonable, and wo trust that the Government, in the presert plethorice condition of the Treasury will deal tenderly with settlers who have not been able to meet the payments on their land.\u2014 The colored people of thls city have resolved to observe Friday next, the day appointed for the execution of old John Brown, with appropriate religious services.At mine o'clock a prayer-meeting will be beld \u2018for the purpose of supplicating Almighty God that He will impart unto John Brown His sustaining grace, and the comfort of His gracious spirit, during the fearful trial which awaits bim in meeting the extreme penalty of the law, iu consequence of his attempt to release our brethren in bonds.\u2019 At balf-past ten a sermon will be preached, and in the evening, at 7 o'clock, s public meeting will be held, at which addresses will be delivered by Dr.Howe of Boston and other gentlemen.Collections will be taken to aid the fand for the support of Jobn Brown's family.We have no doubt but that others besides colored persons will unite in the above services, and thus show their sympathy for a wronged people.\u2014 The United Presbyterian congregation of Chat ham, C.W., lately held a soiree, at which a large sum of money was realised ; out of which the pastor, Rev.Mr.Walker, was presented with $100.\u2014 The Montreal Auxiliary Bible Society has just issued another number of the * Bible Reporter.\u201d It can be obtained at the Depository.\u2014 Christ Church Cathedral was opened for public worship on Sabbath last.Itisa splendid edifice.\u2014 There were three services; the preachers being the Bishop, the Dean, and the Arch-Deacon.Tbe Gazette contains the sermons, we believe, in full.All the services were crowded, especially the evening ome, at which the seats were free.\u2014 The government police in this city have again been discharged for the winter.It does not appear right to turn a number of men adrift at this season of the year, when employment cannot be obtained.\u2014 À cotemporary saya: \u2014\" On Saturday last there were few criminals before the Recorder's Court; only nine prisoners appeared, and eight of these were for drnokenness.\u201d The daily record of our police courts show that, but for the liquor traffic the number of offences and of criminals would be very small.Nine prisoners, and eight of these for drunkenness, is a strong argument for the prohibition of the liquor traffic.\u2014 A-little-sbort-of-cash is the name of the most prevalent complaint In Canada; and, like a celebrated character of the olden time, we seem as a people, to bare no remedy for this disease of the pocket.Borrowing, as he pathetically said, only lingers it and lingers it! And yet almost the only Canadian way of liquidating what Americans call indebtedness, is to contract new debts.As a striking instance of this short-of-cash disease, we may mention that the Treasurer of a certain County has lent the funds thereof to the County Councillors, who must bave boen very needy, sud who are tho only parties that can call him to account for malversation.Thus the rate-payers wee their funds divided among private individuals before their eyes, without having any power to help themselves till next election, when the same Councillors may be able to bribe a majority of the woters with a pact of their own money.\u2014 The Courrier du Canada, the special organ of the Jesuits, says it is reported that a despatch bas been received from England, directing the Jesuit's College of Quebec, occupied since the conquest as a Barrack, to be given up to the Province for educational purposes.If this be true, the Province will doubtless gire it up at once to the Order of Jesus, which is again in the ascendant; and Protestant denominations which want grants for their own colleges, will doubtless sustain the measure.\u2014 The St.John's, Bhefford ond Stanstead Railway ls aow completed to Granby.\u2014 The New York Observer has not ceased to pour the most abusive language upon John Brown and his companions, as inhuman robbers, murderers, incea- diaries, traitors, &c., &c., and it is the only paper ia all the northern states which demands their execution.In the rotribution which is fast overtaking the slaveholders, the nortbern doughbfaccs of the Observer kind may not suffer, but they certainly deserve to do so more than the slavehoiders themselves.Let the re- liglous reading public of Canada remember this conduct of the Observer, which is of & piace with its defence of the Tract Society for blotting out of the books it republished every trace of sympathy for the oppressed slave or condemnation of the oppressor.\u2014 The Rev.Dr.Begg, atthe recent meeting of the Lothian Synod of the Free Church of Scotland, intro duoed a resolution, appointing s committes to inquire into the state of houses of working people In thei bounds in relation to the morality of the people.A «eemmittes of Ohriatian men might very properly ster {ato such an inquiry in this city.Feslixy or Isszceniry in Tue Soure.\u2014Josiah Quincy, jr., of Boston, in à recent lecture speaking of the fear entertained by women in the South of servile insurrections, said: More than forty years ago, John Randolph said, in one of his speeches, he night bell never tolls for tire in Richmond that the mother does not clasp her infant closer to her bosom.\u201d That fear still exists.A lady of my family travelled in the interior of Virginia just after the massacre committed by the slaves Southampton.She was received with true Virginia hospitality ; everything hore the appearance of wealth and tranquillity in à familv of a mother and five young ladies, whose beauty and refinement shed a charm over the home which they adorned.It seemed to be the abode of happiness, [But appearances are deceitful.The lady of the house confined her real feelings to her guests.All her husband's property consisted of slaves on the plontation.These she was ready to abandon if she and her daughters could only live in the Northren States, and support themselves Ly the labor of their bands.This feeling was easily ac: counted for by the scones through which she bad just passed.The news of the iusurrection had been received.But few white men belonged to the place, and she was left alone, surrounded by slaves, with no male protector.She fortified the house, and armed her daughters with rifles, determined, if resistance was unavailisg, to destroy them with her own hand, and set fire to the building, and escape by death from a fate more to be dreaded.She remained for many hours in this position, and when at length a gentleman rode up she fainted.I once heard a Southern entleman laugh at the idea of being afraid of slaves, ut shortly after, when speaking of another subject, he told me be never went to his bed in his life without & pair of loaded pistols under hia pillow.Tae Fricar at Harper's Ferrv.\u2014 From Charles town we learn that Gov.Wise left Harper's Ferry yesterday morning, after receiving a dispatch from Gov.Parker of Pennsylvania tendering him the services of 10,000 men, and offering to station a fuard slong the boundary of Pennsylvania and aryland.Gov.Wise responded that Virginia was able to protect her honor berself.Ou Tuesday night, about 9 o'clock, a tremendous excitement was caused by the firing of a gun.Women and children were greatly frightened; shutters were closed, and lights extinguished.A sentinel had mistaken a cow for a man\u2014chalienged her, and the cow paying no attention to the challenge, the sentinel fired upon her.Again, late at night the residents of the village were startled by the reports of three guns.\u2014 A sentinel came rushing into camp and reported that he had challenged three men, who, instead of haiting, fired upon him.A search was set on foot, but no 4 three men\" could be found.It was evident, however, that the \u2018scare\u2019 was the work of the soldiers, who take immense quantities of ardent spirits down to xeep their chivalrous spirits up.Major-Gen.Ta- liaferro has been directed to take command of sll the forces.: \u2014 The builders of the Winan\u2019s steamer, more familiarly knows as the * Cigar\" steamer, are so satisfied with its work on the recent trial trip at Baltimore, that they are preparing material for the con struction of a much larger one.The new one will combine many alterations and improvements, which the experience with the present one have suggested.BY TELEGRAPH.LOSS OF THE \u201c INDIAN.\u201d Hauirax, November 25.\u2014The war steamer ¢ Gladiator\u2019\u2019 bas returned to Halifax with the remainder of the survivors of the \u201c Indian.\u201d The ship is totally broken to pieces, and only a small portion of her stern in visible.Very little of her cargo was drifted ashore, and itis so dam as to be worthless.\u2014 Complaints are made of the robbery and plunder of the passengers by the natives, and legal enquiry will be made.The mails have been saved and forwarded via Wiudsor in care of the purser.She bad $ cabin and 30ateerage passengers, the latier mostly Germans and Hungarians.The crew numbered 77 men.The cargo consisted of 200 tons of bale goods, 100 tons of iron, aud the balance coal.The ship ran on the ledge while on a speed of 8 miles an hour.The weather at the time was hazy, but not thick.The captain was deceived br the soundings, and supposed he was off Cape Sable when the vessel struck.She tore off her bottom and filled almost instantly.The engineers opened the valves of the boilers, thus re venting an explosion.The boats, numbers 12 and 13 were got out and lowered, when a sudden crash took place, nnd the vessel parted amidships.The steerage passengers now made a rush for the boats, and sunk Nos.1 and 2, drowning the engineers, several of tbe crew and passengers, and two women and children.Boat No.4, under the command of Mr Smith and the 2nd officers was blown out to ses.Boats 5, 6, and 7 were sunk or damaged.Mr.Tibbett's, the 4th officer's boat, reached the shore.Mr.Biggan's, the 3ed officer's boat, broke adrift, leaky, and it was supposed was lost on shore.À boat with three ladies, accompanied by their husbands, beat about 9 hours in & cold sleet and high sea, but landed pafely.The forward part of the ship disappeared at daybreak.James Standwell, steward : Thos.Lond, chief cook.The following is a list of the cabin ngers, all of whom have been saved.Hou.Mr.Botsford, Mr.and Mrs.Meldeum, Mr.and Mrs.Patterson, Mr.and Mrs.Street, Mr.Elliot.Bosrox, Nov.26,\u2014The British schooner *¢ Wave\u201d arrived at this port from Charlottetown, Prince Edward's Island, reporta having picked up on the 21st instant, off Mary Joseph, & boat containing 5 of the crow of the ¢ Indian\u2019?and brought them to this port.81.Jouxs, N.B., Nov.28th.-The following is & list of the steerage passengers by the ¢ Indian = Savep\u2014A.G.Howland, Frans Kulstat, wife and 4 children; Mr.Eickmans, Richard Brown, G.Croman, Wim.Cross, Joseph Mann, Antoine Bor- greson, Win.Mason, M.Pierson.Daowren-\u2014Lewis J.Mamer, wife and 3 children ; Twenty-seven persons are dead, None of their bodies ge.Johns, Dee.7, 1859 Sutton, Dec.19, 1009.have been recovered.It is impossible to give | Ls Colle, «8 x [Bottom \u201cmu {omplete list, but the following are known to be Bioline, \" \u201c pe \u201c lost :\u2014 \u201c « |Cowsnaville, * Crew.\u2014James Lang, the Joiner; John Herron, Fhilipaturgh, \u201c5e Vu Sbeford, \u201c seamen ; Henry Carroll, Wm.Roes, 3rd engineer; Pélghebargh.\"18 « Adamer ll tre, «4 = Robert Ritchie, 4th engineer ; John Millan, Fireman : Dunbam Corners wie Wost l'uroham, * 0, * Mrs.Eikmann and child, Alex.Dean, James Dixon, Thomas Chanonhouse, Wm.Johnstone.\u2019 \u201c PonrLasn, Nov.25\u2014\u201c The steamship \u2018\u2018 Hon- garian\u201d arrived at Halifax last night at ten o'clock, and left at eleven, taking 1st, 2nd, and 4th officers, 1st 2nd 5th engineers, sod fifty of the Indian's\u201d crew, Captain Smith remains at Halifax till the wreck is sold.\u201d PoarLaxb, Nov.28tb.\u2014 The account from Halifax says that boat No.4, with five men, was blown out to sea, &c.This boat was found and the men carried to Boston, so it makes number lost 22.(Signed,) Taomas RosERTSON, Purser.COMMERCIAL REVIEW.MuxTREAL, Nov.29, 1559.A thaw last week took away much of the snow, but the weather has set in cold this week.The canals are closed for the season.\u2014 Aneffort is lu contemplation on the part of influential merchants ju Chicago, Milwaukie and Detroit to induce the Canadian Government to enlarge and deepen its cansls so as to permit large vessels to pass freely between the great lakes and the ocean.\u2014 Complaints are made by Montreal importers of sugars and other articles subject to heavy duty, that the same goods are virtually admitted at some of the Custom Houses of Canads West at amuch lower rate.It is alleged that Sugars, or whatever clse may be the commodity, are entered at some ports at a less weight or measure than the actual contents of the packages, there being no means adopted by the Custom Houses in question to verify or cheek the entries.If a hogshead of sugar containing 14 ewt, for instance, be passed as 12 ewt., It is obvious that 2 ewt.will come in duty free, or in other words, the duty will be diminished to the importer one-sixth.Now, it is obvious that justice to the fair trader, as well as to the revenue, requires that all should be treated exactly alike.Will Mr.Gait or Mr.Bouchette be pleased to ascertain what collectors cause everything subject to specific duty to be weighed or measured, and what collectors take the Emporter\u2019s word.\u2014 Business in imported goods is nearly closed, and produce has generally been inactive.WiksT.\u2014There is very little arriving, and sales bave been made at $1,11 to $1,121.The prize now would probably be higher, on account of a rise in New York.OATS, BARLEY, PEAS.\u2014No change, and very little doing.FLOUR.\u2014The New York market having advanced considerably during the last few days, this market has to some extent followed.Bales of Superfine have been effected for the past four days st $5,05 to 85,20, being firm at the latter rate to-day.Fancy is held at 85,40 to $5.50, and Extras 66 to #6,75.There is no supply of the lower grades in market, and they command very high prices in proportion to quality.PrOVISIONs.\u2014Barrelled Pork and Beef are very dull, the latter being unsaleable, and the low qualities of Pork bringing very low prices.Mess Pork bas been sold as low as $17, the demand being very slack at this season.DrEssEp Hogs are in active demand for the ety trade at #5) to $64, the latter being for good 300 averages.BuTreR.\u2014The ordinary qualities are very dull, and the choice qualities very scarce.There is, therefore, not much doing.Btore-packed ls nominal at about 13 cents, and dairy 18 to 18 cents, OF even more.There are still some supplies arriving.In other articles there is nothing specially noteworthy.JOUN DOUGALE, COMMISSION MERCHANT.MONTREAL MARKET REPORT.Corrected by Clerks of Bonsecours and St.Ann's Markle, \u2018 y Tuesday, November 29.) \u2019 WHEAT may be quoted at 58.to 5s.63.Supply small.QATs meet with ready sale at 1s.11d.to 20.Supply fair.Bauer ge.to Ju.6d.Supply small.INDIAN CORN may be quoted at 3s.to 3s.6d., and slow sale.There is a very small supply.PEAS may be quoted at 3a.6d.to 3s.84.Supply large.BUCKWIKAT 28.6d.to 3s.Very small supply.Rre\u2014None in the market.FLAX SEED 56.to 8s.6d.Bought in small quantities of two to three bushels.Supply small.to TIMOTHY SEED 9s.Ug.BAG FLOUR 138.to Good supply.OATMEAL 10s.to 11 Bupply vei r.Ts resh 1a.24.to To.14; Balt 10d.to 11d.Kaos 10d.to.11d POTATOES 3s.6d.to 4.per bag of 1} bushels.HAY AND StrAw\u2014Hay $8 to $10.50; Straw, 64 to $5.25.APPLES may be quoted at 92,50 to #5.REMARKS.\u2014Attendance at markets very fair, also the supply of produce.A large supply of all kinds of meats.NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014Nov.20.\u2014{ By Telegraph.] Flour 5 cents better.Wheat 1 to 2 cents better.Rye quiet at 90 cents.Coru steady.Barley in fair request ats to 84 cents.Oats dull at 46} to 47} cents for Western State and Canadian.Fcas quiet at 76 to 80 ceats.Pork quiet and vache ed Lard dull.Ashes in fair demand ; Pots $3,12, Pearls 85,25.MONTREAL CATTLE MARKET.[WEEK EXDING NOT.9.) Cattle, extra, none ; first quality, 95 to 95} ; second and third, to $41.Mik Com $25,435 12d go cach Sheep, ti to $8 cach.Lambs, §2 to #3.tops #51 to #64, Ides, 86} to 87.Pelts, Tic.to $1 each.\u2018Tallow, 7c.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.ATTOINTMENTS OF MR.PATTERSON, of the Montreal Temperance Society :\u2014 J'ECTVRER WANTED by the Lower Canada BOARD OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.The Sub Committeo ofthe Board being desirous to make arrangements for the delivery, before affiliated lustitutes, of short series of Popu- iar Lectures, upon Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Me- chanies, or some branch of applied science specially useful for the instruction of mechanics, applications will be re- celved from gentlemen prepared to undertake tho delivery.Apply, with testimonials of experivuce or acquirements, to B.CHAMBERLIN, B.C.L., November 2% Secretary.ANTED, by a French Protestant man of mature age, a place as servant in a good family.He bas served several years lo Paris in that capacity.Address \u201c Jeremie Stoekbourg, Bonsecours Hotel, 8 St.Paul Street.\u201d Rehr.noe: Rev.N.Oye, Loranger's Blosk, Cralg Street, spposide EW CITY GAS COMPANY.\u2014FRICE OF COKB REDUCED to $4 per Chaldros, delivered within the City Limits.November 20th, 1369.J.LYMAN & CO.'B SELECT PREPARA~ * TIONS.\u2014FLUID MAGYESIA\u2014nearly double ordinary strength.Dr.Churehlll\u2019s Chemiea) Food, an elegant preparstion, for Debility, Weakness, Consumption, &e.Oleine of Cod Liver Oil.Pure Cod Liver Oil, fresh from Newfoundland.Oleine and Quinine.Pure Extract of Jamalea Sarsasparilis, made from real Ja maies Sarsaparilla, imported for this purpose.PIEREAN FLUSN, the best preparation for the growth the Hair eure of Dandriff, Headache, &e.8.J.LYMAN & Co., November 28.Place 4\u2019 Armes.ILBEAN'S PERFECTUS LAST, patented July 18, 1859.The Subscriber begs to direct the attention of the citizens of Montreal and the public in general, to kis improved method of manufacturing LASTS, for which he has obtained a patent.This invention is a method of making lasts which shall be an exact counterpart, so far as shape and size is concerned, of the foot or feet of any individual\u2014 thus obviating the pain and annoyance in s0 many instances caused to persons wearing boots and shoes made om owdi- nary lasts.The following certificates will be conviseing of its tility : August 29, 1599.I have much pleasure in testifying to the of Ms.Piibeamve © Perfectus Last,\u201d having, Experionee roved them to have all the properties which be claims for hem.F.BCHOLES.Of firm of Childs, Scholes, & Ames.Montreal, Aug Zth, 1850.I have much pleasure in testi that hav Mr.David Pilbeam, in the nse of his Amt lamp satisfied therewith.The boots and shoes made therefrom completely fit the feet and afford comfort not hitherto attained.W.8 CHILDS.Of Arm Brown & Childs.Montreal, Sept.1, 1850.\u2018These are to certify that Mr.Pilbeam has furnished me with a pair of his patent Lasts, from which I have had boots eer eajorci oetore 3 Wearing soir co! ve ever fore in wes made boots.JAMES MINE DAVID PILBEAM, 90 McGill 8¢ Montreal, Aug.20.1858.DEAR SiR,\u2014The shoes made on the * Perfectus Last\u201d are absolutely without fault.Yours, &c.WAM.SMYTH, Jr.UEBEC.\u2014Branch Bible Society Meetings In commes- with this Auxiliary, will be held in the County of Me- gantic as follows :\u2014 Bt.Sylvester, in the Wesleyan Chureb, Dee.Zz, : o'elock pm Leeds, 28, Lambie\u2019s Mills, in the Free Church, \u201c 29,11 « am.Lans is volent, ! 54 1 PE relan« Taverns, Fresbyterian Church, in the pm 6th Range, - - - = Jam 2,11 \u201cam Collections will be made in aid of the funds of the Society.The Rev.D.Marsh, of Quebec, and Rev.Mr.Brown, of Leeds, will accompany the Travelling Agent, Mr.Blyth, and address the meetings.Other ministers and gentlemen will also take part In the same.EroLsa PERIODICALS.\u2014 Wesleyan Methodist Magazines, Family Treasury, Leisure Hour, Sunday at Home, British Workman, Band of Hope, kc.kc.ke.The Subscriber, in again ealling the attention of his nrumerous friends and the Christian publie generally to these invaluable Monthlies, would gratefully ackmowledge the liberal support he has experienced for many years, and res- pectfuily solicits & continuance of their patronage.During the past year a duty of ten per cent has been imposed upon Books, Periodicals, &c., bat no additional charge will be made on the above, except the \u2018 British Workman\u201d and \u201c Band of Hope,\u201d the Subscriber (while in England) baving made such arrangements with the publishers ss will enable him to furnish these periodicals at the usual rates.Wesleyan M.Mag.$3.00per an.Leisure Hour, $1.30 Lo æ bridged, do.1.50 do.Sunday at Home, 1.80 Christian Mis.- 050 do.Family Treasury,2.00 do.8.8.Magazine, .050 do.Britis Workman,0.30 do.Early Days, - 0.25 do.Band of Hope, 015 do.Sundays Schools will be supplied with the British Workman\u2019 and the \u201c Band of Hope,\u201d free of postage, at the above rates, in quantities not less than twenty copies; payment strictly in advance.English and American Newspapers supplied at the lowest prices.Illustrated L.News $9.00 News of the World .$500 do do Times 525 Lloyd's Weekly .8.00 Illus.Times in Monthly Watchman .parts - .- .» 375 Willner and Smith's .10.00 Punch .+ - 0 080 The Postage rates on Magazines under 3 oz.1 cent, over 3 oz.4 cents cach.Address, post-pald, E.PICKUP, Montreal.E.P.bas Just received a large supply of Wesley's Hymns, {a all styles of bindings, which he offers cheap for onsh :\u2014 Purple sheep, cheap edi.Brown sheep 8vo.108.tion, 6imo.ls.8d.C'd calf, marble do Ie.od Embossed, gilt, mo.3s.0d.do do gilt do Red orpurples , 48m0.2¢.éd.Morocco gilt do.lle.Od.Roan emb'd, gilt do 3s 3d.le sheep mo.do do do extra louble column .ol 46mo.- .- 3s.Md.Roan emb\u2019d, glitdo 8s.0d Imitation morocco, gilt Colored calf, git do \u2018te.Md.480.1 2 3a.vd.Morocco gilt - 70.04.Colored Caif, gilt témo.te.éd.do vxtrado .10s.Od.Red and purple 32mo.3s.0d.Colored calf, gilt Svo.fe.Of.R.or| e sh 24mo.3e.éd.Morocco, gilt do 10s od.Roan emb'd, gilt do 4s.64.do lo extra do 125.éd.Colored Calf, gilt do 56.9d.Roan emb\u2019d, Brown sh sruo.5s.XL Bible and Colored calf, Rite do.7s.64.Calf,giltdo .109.8d.Brown sheep 12mo.6s.9d.Colored calf, gis, re- Imitation morocco, gilt, ferences do .158 9.extra +.tos.6d.Moroeco, gilt do do 175.té Colored calf, marble do 9s.0d.do do gilt do 10.0d.As we have this year « Weekly Line of Steamers to and from Kurope, Subscribers may depend upon the prompt execution of their orders.He will also procure from England or the United States, or Book, and deliver the same at the Publisher's prices, with the additional ten per cent duty added.A Liberal discount to the trade.Oi respcetfully sollcited.Montreal, Nov.19, 1860.EW BOOKS for sale, Wholesale and Retail, at the Book and Stationery Warehouse, 36 Great St.James Street, Moutreat.Ten Ycare of Preacher\u2019s Life ; by Rev.W.H.à 4.Mibure, - - .-84 Power of [ilustration.For Ministers and Teachers, 8785 - < 10 The Tearsof Jesus, - - - + = = 48 The Roman Question ; by About.A deeply Interesting volume, - - « - 30 The Manufacture ofOils from Bitutminous Sud- stances, capable of supplying Burmisg Fluids - - - - »o Losing and Taking of Mansou!; or, Lectures on the Holy War, 04-60 Gualuness\u2019 Sermons, (the Irish preacher), - 86 Life of De.Banting, - - - - - - 56 Adam Bede; by George Elliott, - - - 64 (GAHADIAN FARMER'5 ALMANAC\u2014Seld Wholesale and Retail at the \u201c WITKESS ** OFFICE.3b eas, Viger Bquare.or is.Gé.per dose.Cheaper by the gross.cafe 766 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Novemszr 30, 1859 = Mothers and Children.THE TWO RULES, AND HOW THEY WORKED.Well, there is a sly, insinuating family that goes creeping in all by-places, and lives where you never dreamed flowers would live.One of these plants is fond of old, warm garrets, and dark, damp closets and corners.It takes root in old books and papers, and in clothes \u201c Here are two rules for you, Fred,\u201d said Giles | that have been long laid away.Here it spreads Warner, looking up from the paper be was reading, and addressing a younger brother, who was sitting by the stove, playing with a favorite dog.\u201c Well, what are they ?Jet's have them,\u201d said Fred suspendin bis with the dog.\u201cThe first is ever get vexed with anything you can help.The second is, never get vexed with anything you can\u2019t help.\u201d Are not these rules as applicable to you as to me ?\u201d inquired Fred, archly.\u201cNo doubt of that,\u201d replied Giles, good-bu- moredly ; \u201c but then it is so much easier to hand over a piece of good advice to another than to keep it for onc's own personal use.It is a kind of generoeity that don't require any self-denial.\u201d Fred laughed.in green, brown, and dirty patches, which your mother calls mildew.Aud that is the right name, though I doubt if she told you it was a blossoming vegetable as truly as your byacinths.Another of this family, so wide-spread, is always at home in the pantries and buttery, is in the cellar, or even in your desk in school.Instead of growing in the ground as a plant should, it takes root in Bread and cake, and is particularly fond of cheese.In a single night ten thousand little plants will grow and spread like a soft, blue cloud throughout a loaf, and in the morning the cook declares * the bread's moldy,\u201d The little plant is mold.But how did it get into my desk, and grow on that piece of apple ?Why, the air is full of its invisible seeds, floatiog everywhere ; \u201c But what say you,\u201d continued Giles, \u201cto but they will only sprout in confined, damp, or these rules?How would it work if we should {warm places.On the right soil, thousands will adopt them 7° \u201cI think they take a pretty wide and clean sweep,\u201d said Fred.They don't leave a fellow any chance at all to get vexed.\u201d \u201c That might be an objection to them,\u201d said Giles, \u201cif any one was wiser, better, or happier for getting vexed.I think they are sensible rules.Itis foolish to vex ourselves about avy- thing that can be helped, and it is useless to vex ourselves about what can\u2019t be helped.Let us assist cach other to remember and obey these two simple rules.What say you ?\u201d \u201cI'll agree to it,\u201d said Fred, who was usuall ready to agree to anything his brother proposed, if it was only proposed good-humoredly.\u201c That's too bad I\" exclaimed Fred the ext morning, while making his preparations for school.8 \u201c What is tbe matter ?\u201d inquired Giles.\u201cI have broken my shoe-string, aud it is vexatious; I'm in such a hurry.\u201d \u201cIt is vexatious, no doubt,\u201d replied Giles but you mast not get vexed ; for this is one of the things that can be helped.You can find a string in the left corner of the upper drawer of mother\u2019s bureau.\u201d \u201c But we shall be late at school,\u201d said Fred.\u201c No, we shan't\u201d said Giles.We shall only have to walk a little faster.Besides, if you keep cool, you will find the string, and put itio much sooner than you can if you become vexed and worried.\u201d * That's true,\u201d said Fred, as be started for the string, quite restored to good humor.Several opportunities occurred during the day for putting in practice the newly-adopted rules.The last was this : In the evecing Giles broke the blade of bis knife, while whittling « bard piece of wood.\u201cTt can\u2019t be helped,\u201d mid Fred, \u201c so you must not get vexed about it.\u201d It might have been helped,\u201d said Giles, \u201c but I can do better than to fret about it.I can learn a lesson of eare for the future, whioh may some day save a knife more valuable than this.The rules work well.Let's try them to-mor- row.\u201d The next morning Fred devoted an hour before school to writing 8 composition.After he had written half a dozen lines, his mother called him off to do something for her.During his absence, his sister Lucy made use of his pen and ink to write her name in a achool-book.In doing this, she carelessly let fall a drop of ink on the page he was writing.Fred returned while she was busily employed in doing what she could to repair the mischief.\u201cYou have made a great blot on my composition,\u201d be exclaimed, looking over ber shoulder.\u201c1 am very sorry.I did not mean to do it,\u201d mid Lucy.Fred wus so vexed that he would have snswered his sister very roughly if Giles had not inter, Lo \u201cTake care, Fred; you know the thing is done, and can't be helped.\u201d Fred tried hard to suppress his vexation.\u201cI knov it was an accident,\u201d he said pleasantly, after a brief struggle with himself, Lucy left the room, and Fred sat down again te his composition.After a moment, he looked up.\u201cNo great barm has been done, after all,\u201d be mid.\u201cTwo or three alterations are much nocded, and, if I write it over again, I can make \u201c Bo much for a cool bead, and not getting vexed,\u201d mid Giles laughing.\u201c Our rules work welL\"\u2014Merry's Museum.SOME UNSUSPECTED HOUSE-PLANTS.I do pot mean that stand of green and four- isbing geraniums and roses, which bas just been stationed in your south window, the pet of your soxions thoughts, which you Aspe to be able to keep through the winter, though if you do it will be the first time.I nk you to look at a few very bumble, unno- tioed plants, which are found io and about every house the world over.Do you know thst plants grow and spread by thousands sll over the sides your bouse sud stone steps, and from gurst Les, continually multiplied and died out gs come into life and decay ina few minutes.Yes, that tiny mold is a vegetable, with root, stem, and blossom.On the south side of the street, in the city, and on the worth side of every building, bricks, and stones turn green.Most likely you thought it was aly turning green, and never asked the reason.The microscope shows it to be a minute plant, whose name is lichen, and it has a near relative in the woods, growing on stumps and the old bark, on stones and fence-rails.This last is larger and prettier to the naked eye.n the field, these small vegetables are the dread of farmers.For if the weather is wet, rot, mildew, smut, rust, and blight, all species of Fungus, (that is the family name,) run riot over the fields, and planting themselves upon the grain, destroy its life.Have you never picked an ear of corn that was all swollen and spotted blue and black ?That was blight.Faruers call it a disease; but it is a vegetable.It is certain.however, if the sun shines, and the grain is strong and healthy, that these plants will not grow upon it.One name is given to all these\u2014the Fungi.Some of them grow in ink, in milk, and vinegar, and, more curious still, some on living animals.Young Men\u2019s Department.A MEAN MAN.It takes a New York merchant to cipher out the actual cash value of an upright, dowaright, genuine nobleman.There are so many mean men nowadays that an extra crop of any other sort is not looked for during the present generation.Now and then a man of the right stamp is discovered, but they are like angels visits.\u2014 Reader, of course we don't mean you, but we wish to tell you about a certain neighbor of yours \u2014even if he should happen to be a relation\u2014 and if you should see your face in the glass, don't be frightened.The one we particularly refer to is a merchant, and he regularly comes to the New York market.He always expects the house he deals with to furnish bim with all the ncw packiog-boxes he needs, free of charge.He always expects, as he is a * liberal buyer,\u201d that either a coat or a dress pattern, a pair of boots, a hat, or a pen-knife, will bo presented to him at least once a year.He always expects to be behind time in the payment of his bills at least twenty or thirty days, and then be \u201c offended\u201d if interest is charged.He always cxpects to get his goods a \u201c little cheaper\u201d than any other man, as he bas olways been à \u2018great friend to the house.\u201d He always thinks that the goods he wants are very undesirable, are going out of fashion, or are alittle damaged, and therefore should be sold to him at ¢ something of.\u201d Ho always bas faith in his own statements, but don't believe anything that is said to him by anybody else, unless it is demonstrated.le always finds bis \u201c goods short\u201d on bis arrival home, and makes claim on at least every other bill purchased.Whether or not he * mes- sures looss,\u201d counts carelessly, has a long yard stick, or « big thumb, we cannot say.He always forgets the injanction, \u201c Mind your own business,\u201d and is forever meddling with the affairs of his neighbors.He always is troubled at the prosperity of those around him, and unless he can \u201c a little ahead\u201d of everybody, he pines and frets continually.He always will tako advantage of ¢/ peculiar circumstances\u201d to promote bis own interest, however damaging his course may be to others.He always thinks be is the \u201c best man jn town,\u201d and therefore no other is entitled to \u201cdis tinguished consideration.\u201d He always finds so many other mean men in his vicinity, that he is forever discouraged in bis noble efforts to \u201c elevate the standard of meroan- tile shuraater.Joue je always forgets to inclose à ge-atam when writing a letter toa friend, ling form tion on » matter of * great importance\u201d to\u2014 bimwelf.He twee * dodges\" when you kindly aim at him à truth for his special welfare, knoscing that said truth was intended specially for his neighbor., He is the very man, Mr.\u2014 (but we won't mention bis name), for whom we have propres this medicine, and he won't take a bit of it, not he.Now what is to bo done with this man?At resent Le is s troublesome fellow.We would ike to reform him if possible.What shall we do with him ?\u2014 Independent.THE SAFETY-LAMP.I should not like uny one that I loved to go down into a coal-mine without a safety-lawp.And I would fain persusde all young men who read this address, to use a safety-lamp io this dark and dangerous world.There is one ready for all who will use it.That safety-lamp is the Bible.The Bible is God's merciful provision for sinful man's soul, \u2014the map by which he must steer his course, if he would obtain eternal life.All that we need to know, in order to make us peaceful, holy, or happy, is there richly contained.If a young mun would know how to begin life well, let him bear what David says :\u2014 \u201cWherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ?by taking heed thereto according to thy word,\u201d (Psalm exix.9.) ; Young men, I charge you to wake a habit of reading the Bible, and not to let the habit Le broken.Let not the laughter] of companions,\u2014 let not the bad customs of the family you may live in,\u2014let none of these things prevent your doing it.Determine that you will not only kare a Bible, but also make time to read it too.Suffer no man to persuade you that it is only a book for Sunday-school children and old women.It is the book from which King David got wisdom and understanding.It is the book which young Timothy knew from his childhood.Never be ashamed of reading it.Do not * despise the word.\u201d (Prov.xiii.13.) Read it with prayer for the Spirit's grace, to make you understand it.Bishop Beveridge says well, \u201c A man may as soon read the letter of Scripture without eyes, as understand the Spirit without grace.\u201d Read it reverently, as the word of God, not of man\u2014believing implicitly that what it approves is right, and what it condemns is wrong.Be very sure that every doctrine which will not staod the test of Scripture is false.This will keep you from being tossed to and fro, and carried about by the dangerous opinions of these latter days.very sure that every practice in your life which is contrary to Scripture, is sinful, and must be given up.This will settle many a question of conscience, and cut the knot of many a doubt.And read it regularly.This is the only way to become \u201c mighty in the Scriptures.\u201d A hasty glance at the Bible now and then does little good.At that rate you will never become familiar with its treasures, or feel the sword of the Spirit fitted to your hand in the hour of conflict.But got your mind stored with Scripture, by diligent reading, and you will soon discover its value and power.Texts will rite up in your hearts in the moment of temptation.Commands will suggest themsclves in seasons of doubt.Promises will come across your thoughts in the time of discouragement.And thus you will experience the truth of David's words, \u201cThy word have T hid in my heart, that T might not sin against thee\u201d (palm.exix.11); and of Solomon's words, ©\u201c When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou slecpest it shall keep thee; aod when thou awakest it shall talk with thee.\u201d (Prov.vi, 22.) I dwell on these things more because this is an age of reading.Of making many books there seems no end, though few of them are really profitable.\u2018There seems a rage for cheap printing and publishing.Newspapers of every sort abound, and the tone of some, which bave the widest circulation, tells badly for the taste of the age, Amidst the flood of dangerous reading, I plead for my Master's Book,\u2014I eall upon you not to forget tho book of tho soul.Let not newspapers, novels, and romances be read, while the Prophets and Ajwstlos lie despised.Let not the exciting and licentious swallow up your attention, while the edifying and esnotifying can find no place in your mind.Ryle, Agriculture.THE USE OF PLASTER IN MICHIGAN.We have a lottor from F.Smith, of Ionis Co., Mich., giving à detail of the effeot of plaster upon some of the sandy land in that section, which cannot be profitably cultivated except by the use of plaster and clover.\u201cBut,\u201d he says, \u201cif it inkept to clover à suitable portion of the time, and plaster to the amount of even 50lbs.per ncro sown, it will increaso in roductiveness, Tho cntorprising, intelligent farmer asks for no better land than the openings old and plains of Michigan ; but the lazy, fashioned farmer soon starvos out.This fact is p being exemplified all around us contioually.Plus ter is more valuable, at the same price per pound, to the ownors of sandy land, than tho best conven- trated manures, for there is no one of them the effects of which would be so great at the rate of 100 lbs.per acre.An intelligent farmer of this county has said that farmers here cannot afford to draw barn yard manwre if furnished them without cost.This may be put down as an extreme opinion, but I have sometimes thought it nea) correct.His ides was, that plaster would in crease the productiveness of the soil to as grey an extent as the manure at much Jess expense.| have never seen as great an increase of hay from a top-dressing of manure, as from a dressing 100lbs.of plaster per acre.\u201c There are various opinions as to the bey time for sowing plaster ; but, for my part, | think it can hardly bo sown ats wrong time; though Ihave seen the best results when it hu been sown in May.Most farmers are anxious to get fresh ground plaster, or at least that which has never been wet ; but for my use the older jt is the better, and I would like to have it saturated with the drainings of a barn yard.Among sere.ral barrels of plaster which { ones puichared at Tonia, was one that had not only been wet, but had lain in the water.I thought on firet opening it thut it would not pay for the trouble of sowing, but on further thought I concluded totry it.T'sowed it on wheat, in May ; the ground having been previously seeded to clover, It did not seem to increase the growth of the wheat much, though it gave it durk color and cansed it to ripen later.But when the wheat was removed, the effect on the clover became apparent for it grew at a wonderful rate, soon covering the stubble, blossoming out, and finally falling down and carrying the stubble with it.\u201c There are still a good many farmers to be found who say they cannot afford to row plaster: but such, if their land be sandy, generally die cover, after a few years trial, that they cannot afford to keep their farms.There js also oo cugionally one who says that plaster acts as an unnatural stimulant, and will soon spoil land.Such nonscose is hardly worth notice, except to rep diate it.Nature or Providence could not hare stored up for the inhabitants of this countrys greater blessing than they will find and are nov finding, in the gypsum beds of Grand Rapids and vicinity, \u201c1 have spoken of the effecta of plaster just as they appear to those unscquainted with its chemical mature.To such, that 100 lbs.of stone-dust, seattered over an acre of ground, should double and treble its productiveness, is truly mys terious ; yet it is certaioly true.\"\u2014N.l\u201d.Tribune, AN EXTENSIVE PEAR ORCHARD.The past week we visited a very extensive pear orchard in this county, perhaps the largest in Western New York, planted by Messra.Stark & Mattison, embracing forty-five acres, on which are growing over 4,800 young standard pear trees, all healthy, and making a good growth, and many of them Doaring good fruit.So well pleased were we with the appearance of this orchard, that we made a rather careful examina tion, and gained some facts, which may be of interest and profit to our readers.These tres were from three to five years old when planted, which was done during the winter of 1857-8 The soi! is o clay loam, or as the proprietor expressed it, a * limestone loam\u201d for cight to ten inches or more, subsoil clay, though not very stiff, having an admixture of loam, with a little sand, the whole resting upon fossil lime rock.The ground was prepared by subsoiling, about eighteen inches deep, and the trees planted twenty feet apart each way.In setting them out, the roots were covered with earth to the depth of about one inch, over which was spread something | like two inches of stablo manure.The remair- ing portion of tho opening was then filled with : carth to grade.Tho planting being completed, \u2018 the upper portion of the routs were about one | inch below the sverago grade of the soil.Aboot onc balf' a bushel of earth was placed at the foot of cach tree, in a conical form, immediately after planting, which was allowed to remain until the middle of May, and was then lovelled aud the eurtb spaded as deep as practicablo without interrupting the roots, for 8 spaco of six feet in diameter.In the full of 1858, a mulching of about two bushols of manure was given to es tree, over which was placed earth in pyramidal form to tho depth of one foot, to proteot frou mico and severity of winter.This was allowed to remain until the first of May last, when all was made level, and spaded as before, over 20 area seven fect in diameter.The trunk of every treo, from the ground to the branches, is covered with a bag mado of cottos cloth, sufficiently large to admit of three or four ears growth, the cloth being fastened to the {omer branches, snd banging to tho ground.This, the proprietors believe, protects the trunks from the sun, and from sudden changes of temperature, and in a groat measure prevents blight and other evils, such as the hardening of tho bark tho cor- traction of the pores, thus preventing the fre flow of sap and neoossary exhalation.\u2014 Rural New Yorker.i How ro Kezr Miuk.\u2014You all know that i you can preveat tho oresin from rising, the mil will be more palstablo and healthy, with the particles of cream mixed through it, than skin milk, or than milk fresh from the cow, with the fresh teste and odor.To prepare milk in this way, tako it while warm from the cow, set it fn! 8 cool place, and stir it continually until œil the animal heat is ous, and no cream will rise after that operation.Try it, aud see how much it wi be improved for fasllg use. | NovEMBER 30, 1859.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.767 The Miscellany.pes TT - OLD JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY.BY C.H.WEBER.There's a Hutter in the Southern Land, a tremor in the air ; For the rice plains are invaded, the cotton fields laid bare; ; And the cry of Help\u2019 and ¢ Treason\u2019 rings aloud from tongue and pen\u2014 John Brown has crossed the borders with a host of fifteen men! Hot ye gallants of the Southern Land, come leave (Le mazy dance, ; And quick unto the rescue, with steed and shield and lunce; There are traitors in the country, there are traitors in the town, And tbe whites look very blueish, the blacks are very Brown.Come, rouse ye, gallant Southrons! \u2018 Virginia never tires With rating of her doughty sons, the sons of dougbty sires ; But tell me, if a single John thus storms your ferry towns, What would the \u2018Old Dominion\u2019 do against a score of Browns ?Start not, O dainty Northmen! when shricks ring on your ear, The \u201c shrieks\u2019 of ¢ Bleeding Kansas\u2019 were à merry thing to hear ; And the plaints from broken hearthstones brought stoile-wreaths to your brow; You laughed at \u2018shrieking Kansas '\u2014who are the shrickers now?Or it may be you've forgotten the woes of wbich tell; But the father's soul remembered, remembered but too well The son \"whose sleep is dreamless upon the bloody Pain, The night of naked horror that turned the daughter's drain.His steps were sore misguided, but the old man's brain was crazed With visions of his bitter wrongs\u2014yourselres the phantom raised; And the ones that loosed the sluico gates should surely not complain, When the crimson flood at neap-tide flows to their doors again.\u2014 Chicago Journal.MEDICINE Musiog of all my Father's love, How sweet it is! Methought I heard a gentle voice : Child, here's the cup\u2014 I've mixed it\u2014drink it up.My heart did sink\u2014I could no more rejoice.O Father, must it be?Yes, child, it must.\u2018Then give the needed medicine; Be by my side.Only thy face don't hide.Ill drink it all\u2014it must be good\u2014'tis thine.From an old English Tract.A DRUNKEN MAN'S ARGUMENTS.\u201cDon\u2019t you believe in the doctrine of predestination ?\u201d \u2018 Yes, I believe it as the Apostlo Paul states it.\u201d \u2018 Well, then, you can go this far; you will admit that God knows just what will happen, and that, therefore, there is no uncertainty about it?\u201d «Yes, I can that far.\u201d \u201cThen what is tho use of your talking to me about drinking rum, since it is certain that I shall drink every dram that God knows I will drink ?\u201d The speaker was a well-informed and fine-look- ing mao, who had on the clothes of a meohanic.The above specimen of his metaphysics must suffice, Ha was one of the best mechanics in our county, and whilst sober had laid up property.In an ovil hour he yielded to the temptations of an old habit of drinkiog rum.He descended from one stage of degradation to another with t rapidity, and his best friends despaired of is reformation.One day 1 met him in the office of a lswyer.Although in the forenoon, he was quite tipey.\u2014 He was such a bright man, 80 superior in many respoots, that [ was pained to seo him going to ruin.My feelings were indicated in my coun- tonaaoo, and perhaps antisipating an admonition, he said, \u201c I sce you want to talk to me about my habits.\u201d 1 admitted it.« 1 thought so,\u201d said he, \u201cand now as I want you to confine yourself to things nes, let me tell ou some things which you are supposed to say, ut which you need not wy, for know them already a groat deal better than you can tell me I\u201d \u201c You wore just thinking what » shame it ie that a man whose mechanical skill is souglit after at & high price, and who could make himself independent in a short time, should sacrifice all thls to his drunken appetite, and reduco himself to pauperism.Beoandid.Were you not thinking so?\u201d 4 said hie had hit the nail on the head.\u201c I thought #0,\u201d said he ; \u201c now you need not say anything on this point, for T am already oon vinoed; I know what à fool I am in this ros tr Pie Then you were thinking of my tremblin perves,\u201d he continued, \u201cand were amased that dare pour this \u2018distilled damnation\u2019 down into my stomach, when I am on the verge of delirium tremens all the time.Confess now, if you wore not thioking of this?\u201d 1 was not disposed to deny it.\u201cJust 80,\" he said.\u201c Now, sir, I know about this matter better than you do.Î have felt all that Gough or Dr, Jewett has described.I have seen the devils which haunt the vietim, and I know that he who has this disease, for the time is in perdition.You can't tell we anythiog on that point, so when you speak, please omit this !\u201d 1 could not suppress a smile at the man\u2019s in- geuuity and frankness.\u201c But,\u201d said he, \u201c there is another view of my case which you are disposed to urge.You want to remind me how ten years ago I courted my wife, (and no mun has a better wife than mine,) and how she refused to marry me until she was assured that I had left off drinking.I loved her then and I love ber now.I promised to treat her 25 à Inau should treat a wife.You want to remind we that I have by my drunkenness cou- verted my home into a place of torment, and that 1 have actually laid violent hands on my wife I\u201d His voice trembled and his eye moistened as be alluded to his wife.\u201cAnd there are my children.You want to remind me of the dangers and sorrows I am exposing them to; but you, sir, cannot tell me anything pertaining to my family.I know all about it.I curse myself as a wretch and a fool.I have no mercy in my self-condemnings.Yes, sir, I koow all about this by an experience which may the Lord deliver you from! So you need say nothing to me on this subject.\u201d I could not but admit that he had drawn the case with a bolder hand than I would have dared to attempt.\u201cBut there is one chief argument which you meant to try on me.You wanted to draw a motive for reformation from the future retribution which God will visit on the drunkard.It isa terrible motive, and I believe it to be a true one.I believe there is a hell ; nay, I know there is, for I have sometimes felt its fires, and have seen its tormentors.I sometimes am overwhelmed with agony at the bare anticipation of meeting God in judgment.I admit thet I am hurrying very fast in that direction, and present appearances indicate that I shall be turned into hell as a drunk- This was not said definntly or jestingly, but with gravity and fecling.\u2019 \u201c And so you need say nothing to me about this point.1 know it already, but if you have anything now to urge, I shall be glad to hear it!\u201d And thus Le anticipated, and most forcibly stated some of the general arguments which a person would be likely to use in endeavoring to recall him to a life of temperance.I could not refrain from laughing to see how he had taken the wind out of my sails.But thoroughly warmed with his subject, my neighbor stated his case still further, \u201c Sir, you know nothing about the appetite for rum.el father taught me to drink it from my childhood, 1 inherited drunkenness from him, and I was a drunkard before I was of age.For the love of my wife I made a mighty effort to conquer my appetite, and thought I had succeeded.Time and temptation showed me my mistake.The appetite was not removed.In duo time it woke like a raging demon, and filled me with unutterable torments.I would think of my property and my reputation ; then of my health and the horrors of delirium tremens ; then of my wife, and children, and home ; and then of the hell into which the drunkard will be cast.I would rush into my business with furious energy, aud thus try to overcome the appetite, and yet in tho face of all those motives, I would go straight to the tavern and drink myself drank.My remorseand shame wero added to other motives to keep me from repeating the doed, but all these seemed like the ropes and withes ou the limbs of Samson.This, sir, is my case; hace you anything new to add which Tam not already better acquainted with than you can be Tt was the most impressive temperance disoourse I had ever heard, because pronounced with that unction which came from a terrible experience of the evil which held him with its death grip.But there is a bright side to the picture.The half-drunk lecturer whose discourse I have out lined, in spite of his gloomy anticipations to the contrary, has reformed his life, and for several Jur has lived & sober life, during which time he as aoquired property rapidly.Within » fw Roles I Foor of two other cases quite similar.Both these men were far gone us the one described, and were regarded as per- feotly desperate cases, but both of them were reformed, and are now in independent ciroumstanoes.T write these fuota to cnoourage all whom they may concern.\u2014N.J.l'uper.THE TREE OF A THOUSAND USES.In à library at Venice there is à work of Cicero, the grost Roman orator, written on the inner bark of a linden-tree, I am sure you would like very much to see it, and wonder why Cicero took the trouble of writing on so coarse a material.But the purpose for which he employed this bark is only one of hundreds of uses to which the linden can be applied.Do you know the lindon-tree, with its fragrant gold-tinted blossoms and its pleasant, cool shade ?It is often planted in cities, where its thiok branches screen so well the houses from both sun and dust, while they shelter swarms of bees, who come to gather the honey-drope from their leaves.In the beautiful months of June and July, à great many children cau be scen in Switzerland, some climbing the linden-trees, others standing under their shade, all busy pulling and gathering the blossoms ; for in that country, as well as in France, the blossoms of this trec are used ss a very pleasant beverage.Virgil, the great Latin poet, of whom you will learn when you are older, has written some beautiful lines about the honey made from the linden flowers.Itisindeed even now considered the best, and it is always interesting to observe the industrious little bees humming their good- humored song all the time they work, thus giving litle children, and old ones too, a lesson o cheerfulness ever to be remembered.The drink made of the linden-blossoms is used instead of tea by the inhabitants of whole mountain districts.That is the reason why the children there watch with eager cyes their firat opening ; and a pretty sight it is to see the little ones, accompanied by their mothers, or in merry troops, as they go, on some bright afternoon, to fill their baskets with the swect-scented flowers, happy enough if during their barvest-time they have not been mistaken by the bees for some of the blossoms themselves, and have been stung.The linden-blossoms are also used for medicinal purposes, and are sold by the village children to those who go around the country every autumn in order to purchase them as well as other wild dried flowers.Not less useful are the bark and the wood of that pretty tree.Coarse snuff is made with its outer bark, (though, for all that, I would never recommend snuff-taking, which, except when it is required for health, is a very bad habit,) while the inper bark is manufactured into matting, used for packing, or protecting fruit trees from the frost in winter.You may bave seen some pretty little boxes, pen-holdera and card-cases, which come from England aod are called \u201cTunbridge ware.\u201d These are made of the wood of the linden, which is very smooth and close-grained.In St.Pauls Cathedral, in London, T have seen some exquisite clusters of fruits and flowers, carved also from the same wood by a very celebrated English sculptor.Artists use the charcoal of the linden for sketching, and find it better for that purpose than any other.The uses of this valuable tree are so numerous and varied, and they have been so long known, that even in the time of Pliny it was already called © The tree of a thousand uses.\u201d Nothing is useless in creation, God has made all things for some good purpose, which in His wisdom He leaves us to find out.A source of profit and pleasure will be found by these children who, in their walks and rambles, learn to look with a discerning eye on the beautiful works of nature about them.\u2014Children\u2019s Gazette.FAULTS IN PRAYER.Private prayer ought to be regarded as a pleasure and privilege rather than a duty.But publie prayer may fitly be spoken of as a duty, since it is seldom that one would of choice pray publicly for his own devotion, but only because it is his duty to tho brotherhood.No service needs more, and noue is susceptible of so little improvement by means of iustruction.This is an exercise into which men cannot be drilled.It is ungracious even to oriticise what purports to be an nddress to God.Yet there are some suggestions which we may venture to make.We may think it very importaut that the pastor, or some leading officer, should be faithful with the younger members of the church in pointing out blemishes and faults, which may easily be corrected at first, but which, if suffered to go on, will become ineradicable.Oue man falls into à whining tone, another prays in an inaudible whisper, another exalts his voice far beyond the natural conversational pitob, and otherslose their natural tones entirely, and pray in a kind of sacred falsetto.Some talk in tenor, but pray in bass ; some converse in upper bess tones, but pray in tenor tones.If a brother first speaks and then prays, a stranger listening from the outside would think that two different men had been spesking.This habit becomes very marked in tbe ministrations of ministers of some branches of Christ's church, many of whom come, at length to have a conversation voice, a praying voice, a human voive, à reading voice, and a preaching voice.Men are seldom entirely true to themselvesand natural in their prayers.There is a certain round of topics supposed to be necessary lo a symmetrical prayer.These they punetiliously introduce, whether their heart oraves such utterance or not.If, when a Christian brother is in the full tido of auch s prayer, uttering his regular succession of topics, Christ should really appear before him, how extremely impertinent would most of his petitions seem addressed to a living and visible Saviour! Thus a man's real feeling is not expressed ; and matters quite good in themselves, but almost wholly indifiercnt to him, oon- stitute the bulk of potition.Reverential tones and well connected sentences, expressing very proper ideas do uot constitute prayer.The very eavence of prayer is, that it conveys the res! desires or thoughts of the supplisnt.When a man really reveres God, how eimple is the language of veneration! If a man's heart is breaking with sorrow, or depressed by care, or fretted |.y ill adjusted affairs, why should he leave the real strain of feeling, and strike into a false key ?It is remarkable how skiilfully men will com triva to avoid all real interests, and express al most wholly those which are not real to thom.A man prays for the glory of God, for the advanee- ment of his kingdom, for the evangelization ef the\u2019 world ; but he does not allude to the specialities in which his very life may stand, nor to the wants which every day are working their impress upon his character.The cares, Be petty annoyances, the impatience of temper, pride, self-indulgence, selfishness, consciously and unconscioualy ; or os f the other band, the gladness of daily life, the blessings of home, the felicities of friendship, the joys and successes of life, in short, all the things which one would talk of toa venerable t, in an hour of confidence, are excluded from prayer.Without a doubt, reserve and deli must be often exercised in the disclosure of one\u2019s secret and private experiences.But this is not to be carried so far as to strip prayer of all its leaves and blossoms, and leave it like a formal bush or tree in winter, with barren branches standing in bold outline against a cold sky.Power or CemieviaNiTY.\u2014If the Useful Knowledge Society dwindles, whilst Religious Tract Societies prosper; if Mechanics\u2019 Institutes languish and expire, whilst Young Men's Christian Associations are spreading far and wide; if Robert Owen's postrums for the education of the young without religion are given up as rot tenness, despite of Lord Brougham\u2019s patronage, whilst Sunday schools and ragged schools are becoming more and more influential for good; if City, Missions and Exeter Hall Sermons are, for our demse population, supplementing the glorious work of the Bible Society, and doing for the cause of morals that which merely human expedients have failed in accomplishing, \u2014it is because the foolishness of preaching\u2019 is, after all, sn engine more powerful than * the wisdom of this world.\"\u2014 English Paper.A WooLE CLass CONVERTED.\u2014A scene occurred in one of our churches on the last Sabbath.Some fifteen persons made a pnblic profession of faith, and of these fifteen at least ten were from the Sabbath school.But a more interesting fact connected with it was, that eight of these ten were brought in from one single class.The teacher of that class had twelve youths from fifteen to nineteen years of agc uuder his instruction.He had been laboring earnestly for their salvation, and God had permitted him, in ¢ former communion seasons, to see some come out and sit at the sacramental table ; but the last Sabhath he peruitted him to ses the remaining eight\u2014and there, at the Lord's table, sat the servant of God, while every one of his class was gathered around him, eating bread and drinking wine in the name of Jesus.\u2014Christian Intelligencer.ExTEMPORE MicRoscoPE.\u2014 When it is desired to examine a small object, and à microscoi is not at hand, an extempore one may be quickly made by filling two small, white glass Facet (such as homeopathic medicines are put upin wil do) with water or other clear liquid.Cross these at right angles over one another, and look at the object through the crass, when it will be scen considerably magnified.\u2014 Scientific Artisan.BEAUTIFUL SIMPLICITY.\u2014À Scotch girl was converted under the preaching of Whitefield.When asked if her heart was changed, ber true and beautiful answer was\u2014\u201c Something I know is changed ; it may be the world, it may be my heart ; there is a great change somewhere, I'm sure, for everything is different from what it once vas.\" \u2014 The editor of the Eastport Sentinel talks wisely when he says that if there be not in a religious society a few individuals who spend time and thought in promoting its interests; whe never neglect the little duties which must be done; who counsel and encourage the pastor; who purpose to be present at a religious and business meetings ; if these few are not to be found in society it cannot long exist.CHRISTIAN TREASURY.Tus Wono or Gon.\u2014~All Scripture is given A im spiration of God.\u20143 Timothy iil.16.Search the Scriptures.\u2014~John v.39.Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.\u2014Epbesians vi.17.That through patience and comfort of tbe Scriptures, nigh bave hope.\u2014Romans xv.4.Thy word bave I bid ta mine heart, that I might not siu against thee.\u2014Psalm cxix.11.Open thou mine eyes, that [ may behold wondrous th ngs out of thy law.\u2014Psalm exix.18.© how love I thy law! it is my meditation alt the day.\u2014 Paslw cxix.9 \u2018The Bible is \u201cthe lamp to our feet, and the light w our path ;\u201d it is the compass by which we muet direct our course, and the sword with which we muet ght our spiritual enemies.Whatever we possess of earthly treasures, we should value nolking so much as ou Bible.We must march, by diligent prayerful study, for its precious truths, as men look for gold ta the saud; and when found, bide them in our beard and memory by recollection and meditation, 80 68 to have them ready at baud for any hour of need.Thuy Jerus answered the tempter with, \u201cIt is written,\u201d and thus David \u201ckept himself trom the paths of the destroyer.\u201d\u2014(Pe.xvil.4.) But we need the light and teachiog of the Holy Spirit, and should never open te Scriptares without pray! ug tbat be would open oar eyes, and guide us into all tre - «1 2 =\" ee dat ae | mate tant ln = Ve bs Cp Am A sn i 768 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Novemser 30, 1859 MRTES, MARRIAGES & DEATHS.BIRTHS.Montreal\u201425ih inst, Mrs.William M\u2018Aulay, of & danghicr.Quebec\u2014Tih inst, Mrs.J.8.Hossack, of a son.St Mars'e\u201419th inst, Mre.Charles Ingersoll, of \u20ac danghter.Stratford\u201423rd inst, Mrs.John Hamiiton, of « daughter.Toronto\u201423rd inst, Mrs.C.E.English, of a son.MARRIAGES.Montreal-25th inst.by :be Rer.Dr.Taylor, John Cowper, Lachine Road, to Jane, third daughter of Thos.Bruce, English River.Belleville\u201417th inst by the Rev.E.B.Harper, Mr.Alfred Foster, to Miss Sophia Lyon.Three Rivers\u201423rd inst, by the Rev.D.B.Madden, George B.Houliston, Keg.J.P, to Isabella, third danghter of George Baptist, Esq.DEATHS.Montreal\u2014:':ù inst, Elma, youngest daughter of William Kinloch, aged two years.and : mouth.Baroston, C.E\u2014Sth inst, Sarah \u201c.Young, daughter of David Yonng, jr., ayed 9 years, and 10 months.Markham.C.W.\u201419th just, Mrs.Frances Barkey, aged §1 years and 4 months.Petite Cote\u20142th inst, Mr.Daniel Drummond, aged 4, 57 years.ADYERTISEMENTS.AD MASTER WANTED for the United Gram mar and Common School of Gananoque, on the 15th Janmary, 130.Nope but those who havc a thorough know- Ledge of the Normal School mode of teaching need Apply.A Liberal Salary will be given.Applications and testi- meoutals will be received (prepaid) till the 25th Dycember, 1888, by S$.MCCAMMON, Secretary- T.\u2018Gananoque, 2d Nov., Ing.JREAT WESTERN INSURANCE & TRUST COMPANY \u2014Hkan WE, mpany's Building, 403 Waluut-Street, Philadelphia T * Hom.C.C.LATHROP .- - President JAMES WRIGHT - +.Secretary.AUTHORIZED CAPIT $500,000 ASSETS, over 1e +» +» FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE.OCEAN AND INLAND MARINE RIBKS ON HULL, CARGO, AND FREIGHT.General ageney for Canads, 18 Great St.Jamce Street, Montreal.CANADA LOCAL BOAED : \u2018Authorized to adjust and decide upon all Claims for Lons under Policies issued in Canada, and the General Agent to accept service of writ in Canada } Hon.L T.Devxwoxp, M.P.P., Chairman Thomas Morland, Esq, Ein 8.Freer, Esq.Gerdon M'Kenzie, Esq., 8.H.Thompson, Esq.BOARD OF REFERENCE, QUEBEC.Hom.George Pemberton, Isaie G Esq.James Gillespie.Esq., | Ra Tat Ra, BOARD OF REFERENCE, OTTAWA.James Stephenson, > Edw.McGillivray, Enq.Edward Griffin, Tan | Joseph Aumond, - STANDIXG COUNSEL: Hom.Lewis T.Drummond, Q.C., M.P.P., for Canada East.Heary Eccles, Esq., Q-C.for Canada West.SOLICITORS © Messrs.Rose and Ritchie, Montreal.Mesers.Crooks and Cameron, Toronto.Mesars.Levis & Pinbey, Ottawa BANKERS: The Commercial Bank of Canada, Montreal BROKERS : Merers.Holmes & Kitty, Montreal INsPECTORS : Hector Munro, Esq, for Canads East.E.H.Whitmarsh, Esq., for Canada West.Latest Financial Statement, Forms of Application, Policies, and every ioformation desired, can be obtained at the Office of the General Agent, or of any of the Agents of the Company throughout Canada.J.LEANDER STARR, General Agent fur Canada Montreal, Nov.25, 1833.Æ LECTURES.\u2014A Series of Short Practical Lee- tures will be delivered under the auspices of the Montreal Young Men's Christian Association and City Mission, im tbe American Church Free Bchool, Dalhousie Street, i BAI OT ney ov.- Dr.es ; Nov.17, r.Mev.24, by fev.J.Goadby ; Dee.1, by Rev.W.McClure ; Dee.8, by Rev.Dr.Taylor; Dec.15, by Mr.ood; .29, by Rev.J.Massey; 2, by Mr.P.W.We Dec.J.B.Bonar.Doors open at Half past 7 M.\u2014ADMISSION FRER.HOCOLATE, COCOA, &C.\u2014Taylor Brothers Cro- OOLATE and \"OA ; Fry's & Bona do.do.; Mott's dodo.; W.Baker & Co.'s do.do.Ale Fremeh Chocolate, of euperior quailt ; Broma, Cocoa eke, Cracked Cocos Coton Bells, Cocos Beams.For Bale by ! Movember 21.GEORGE CHILDS.UST RECEIVED,\u2014Very Superior English Watches FUI Gold end Sires Caen) Superior Eng \u2014ALBO\u2014 A full supply of Pebble Spectacles.JOHN WOOD & BON.STATE OF WN.SMYTH & Co.\u2014NOTICE.\u2014 \u2018The Subscriber, duly appointed A: Trustee to the Coll Chain.Tstate of WILLIAM SMYTH & 0O.of this City, requests Potash Kettles and Coolers.ait having claime againet said Estate to render the Sugar Kettles.oame duly oeniised i and those indebted thereto, to make im- B; aad Shovels.Axes.mediate pay JAMES SCULTHORP, fron bus pe\u201d \u201d Arting Trustee to Kstate of Composition Gas Pipe.\u2014Lead Pipe.Wu Bmyth & Co., Montreal, Sheed , 3toélb.Pie Nov.22, 1089.i Craig Street Cova Sore Eh form.Montreal, Nov.3 edage, .+ Also, à large assortment of Bholf Goods.ANTED.\u2014A to tuition is FERRIER & Co.young lady accustomed desirous of procuring s sltustion as teacher In a school, er ernoes in @ private family.Apply af the Witness Mostroal, November 22, 1000.~ CHRISTIAN ALMANAC for 1800.Sent the usual terms 1534.mail, post-paid, single copy 64; or three les , » CRE TTEN ESS\" OFFICES HE SABBATH-SCHOOL BELL, containing 15) Tunes and If ymns, is one of the best collections ever Pries 12 cents sash, or $10 per 100.« WITNESS * OFFICE.AILY MONITOR bei: rtion of Seripture, an D Anecdote end à Verse of HPs tor overs doy In the suar.Cloth, plain, ie.6d.; full gilt, 2s.34.; free by mall.* WITNESS\" OFFICE.[Fn PROVINCIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY \u2014(Estabiished 1425.) /nco- by Act of Partioment.CAPITAL\u2014OUE MILLION STEMLING.Canana: Head (Moe, Montreal, ¥ Groat Bt.James Street.Dinactous:\u2014Huok TaYLok, Ki ., Advocate; R.D.Couuis, ri Merchant ; Wi.Knm NerONE, Esq., Mer- a =; Lanny, Ee, Advocate D fodionl ddwiser, WK.YhASKR, M.I).| Legal Advisers, .BEvyirus & DUNKIN; Bacretarg for Canada, A AVIDSON PARK KE.LIF DEPARTMENT.Ep in the best style.Parties LA\u2018 ND FANCY SILKS, at B cx A McDUNNOUGIL, HUIR & Cas, 183 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.ANTLES, RAGLANS M % NO! GLOVES, UNDER-GARMENTS.MINGS.MCDUNNOUGU, MUIR & Co.DU.» MUIR & Cu, OSIERT H \u2018 McDUNKOUGH, MUIR & Co.LACK AND COLORED CLOTH, SEALSKIN, B NEL BLANKETS, &¢.185 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.JRENCH MERIN DRESS GOODS, TKIM- CASSIMERE, FLANN ; McD OUGH, MUIR & Co.MeoLRmna GOODS, in great varicty, at the Oldest a Mourning Establishment.McDUNNOUGH, MUIR & Co., 123 Notre Dame Street, Montreal.ANTILLAS =).CALDWELL & Co.will bave N out the winter Styles of Mantiliss on the 18th inst.Maving commenced manufacturing Ladies\u2019 CLOAKS, they are now prepared to offer inducements to purchasers.200 St.Paul Street Montreal, Nov.18, 1859.NOVELTIES, \u2014Ci.AkK, WINKS & Co.are receiving a per * North Briton\" and * Anglo-Saxon,\u201d now in port, one hundred pack: , comprising all the novelties of the season, selected speclally for the late fall trade, in the British and foreign markets by our Mr.Clark, who, to supply the increasing demands of our trade, again remains in He tain this fall and winter to forward the latest noveltles they are produced.Town al country buyers invited to call and examine the stock at Iloyer's Block, No.1 Custom house Square, and 70, 71, 72 and 73 Commissioncrs\u2019 Street.CLARK, WINKS & CO.Montreal, October 23th, INO LARKE & CO.\u2014In order to protect ourselves against the numerous fraudulent imitations of our ** CABLE LAID THREAD and POLISHED THREAD,\u201d false in length, and inferior in quality, we beg to intimate that we have altered our WRAPPER, which, place of Blue, will now be a Drab color, and bear a vi.w of our works, with the Paris and Brussels Exhibition Prize Medals.Purchasers will please note that our Trade Mark is CLARKE & CO.'8, without Christian Name or Initial Letter.SEEDIILL AXD CUMBERLAND MILLS, Palsicy, Scotland.he undersiyued invites the attention of Count illers to the consignments of Upper Canada Spring Wheat which be fe dail receiving, and which he can supply at market prices, cither from the track at Point St.Charles or from store.Orders will meet with the same attention, and be supplied at the same price as if the purchascrs were personally present.270 St.l\u2019aul Street, Montreal.UDSON BAY COMPANY'S BUFFALO ROBES of the four les, in Original Bales of about itty eash, or in packs of twelve cach.JOHN DOUGALL Couxissiox MERCHANT, 270 St.Paul Street.TARCH! STARCH!! STARCH 111\u2014The Purest, the Strongert, and the most Economical Starch in the country is BROWN BRo's.CANADIAN PATENT STARCIL 16, Grey Nun Street, Montreal, August 23, 1869.GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, used in the Royal Laundry, and pronounced by LIKR MAJESTY'S LAUXDLESS, to be the finest Starch she ever used When net ask for GLEXFIELD PATENT STARCH, sce that you get it, as Inferior kinds are often substituted.Sold by all Grocers, &c.ke.RY GOODS.\u20148T.LAWR] CE HOUSE, 9 McGill Street, second door from Notre Dame Street.John Tape & Co, have just received a large assortment of BAL- MORAL SKIRT! Montreal Oct.21.RY GOODS.\u2014JAMES JOHNSON & Co., would res- peetfully inform their customers and the Trade generally, that they have removed from St.Paul Street to the new \u2018building, No.42 St.Peter Street, corner of Recollet Street, and are now receiving nud opening their Fall Stock, comprising the newest styles in all descriptions of Fancy Dry Goods, ith a very extensive assortment In every department ; 0, a large and well-assorted stock of Heavy Staple Cotton and Woollen Goods, to which they solicit the inspection of town and country buyers.JARs BAYLIS, Importer of CARPETING, FLoon O11, CLoTH.&e.\u2014MONTREAL : 74 Great St.James St.near the Ottawa Hotel.ToroNTu: 2 Commercial Buildings, Yonge Street.CARPETING of every description and newest designs.FLOOR OIL-CLOTHS of varions makes and styles of the most celebrated Enylish and American manufactures.COCOA HATTINGS, of all Widths, Druggets, Door Mats, Stair Carpets, Hassocks and 3 Every article warranted to be what it {s represented.s made up and Oil Cloths laid by an experlenced Up- hoisterer.Church Cushlons made to order, and l\u2019ews Stted at adistanee, by eending an order, accompanied with a remittance or reference, served as well as if on the et.In Consequence of doing chiefly a Casti BUsiNEss, gooda are sold at the jowest possible prices.JAMES BAYLIS, 74 Great St.James Street, 3 doors East of Ottawa Hotel, and opposite The Oftices of Grand Trunk Hallway.ARDW ARE .\u2014Bar Iron, Common and Refined.Hoop and Band.\u20148heet Iron, Common and Russia.Canada Plates\u2014Staffordshire, Hatton, Swansea, Pontypool.Steel\u2014Cast, 5; and Bhear.Nails\u2014Cut, t and Pressed.Tin Plates\u2014IC, IX, DX, DXX.Glass\u20147} x to 20 x 30\u2014Putty.Oil-Baw Rotled, \u201c Blundell*s.* Turpentine\u2014Varnishes.Faints in Oil\u2014Best White Lead.prin Ald alee, \u2018owder, Dg\u2014 Canister.Shot, All Numbers.= , 18 Bt.Francois Xavier Street.ARDWARE AT PRIVATE SALE \u2014§| Ha AREAS forming s la amount ol BTA TLE BIRMINGHAM, SHEPYILL! and AMERICAN HEAVY and SHELF Articles, 34 Private Bale, at Heduced Prices, op ALEX.BRYSON & Co, Auctioneers.M°xEREAL MARBLE WORKS, KsTANLIaNED 1850\u2014Mesers.MAVOR & MORGAN (late W.C.iyatt & Co.) have always on hand a large and varied Stock CL LRT CEE wl on I OL EA sca bold ant lease nscri ons in a clear .orders will receive KAPECIAL CARE.Cous- ARBLE WORKS, corner of Craig and Bt.Peter Streets VOR & M Montreal, July 12, 1850.ORG ]RORTANT TO COAL OIL DEALERS.\u2014The reigned Is mow prepared to All ail orders immedi- Lely on thelr réception, For the Brat HurINED Cort On, ly A ing chiefy a Cas business, buyers can rel; upon bu, inj a adventage, evorythiog Des offered othe Towest M.M.LIVINGSTONE.Grrr PATENT DOUBLE STOVEB.\u2014CoME AXD BKK THE NEW gants PATENT DounLE BTOYR\u2014 The SCOTTIEH DYINCIAL ASSURANCE COM - outes the business LATE ASAURANCE in ali ie branches tüe Best Double Stove ever Maoufuctured, It la AU bnsinses transactions nally concluded in Canada.a beautiful model warranted not to break by heat; a FIER DEPARTMENT.erecies aæouud of ho tua any ous Buocer tf alates * any of ve Insurance effected at maderato rates of Premium, and TA BREVET EE ne 7 losses pald establishment of claim without reference 260} 81.Paul Étreet.Office.A.DAVIDNON PARKER, Sveretary.Montreal, Sopt., 16, 1050 AUCTION SALES BY HENRY J, SHAW.2 NSIVE ANNUAL BOOK BALES, Hrnbrac Xr Caner of Valuable w aud Jecond Hand Hocke = several Consignme from the London sud York te .\u2018embracing several lundred FAMILY works of Literature, Arts and Scicuces, Blogra- Ae.Re.\u2014AlBO\u2014 Beveral ignments of Valuable Second Hand Books, forming the collections of various Libraries, and vmbracing many valuable works in the departments of Literature an fence.See Nate will be held at the NEw STORE, Cathedral Block, Notre Dame Street, and will commence on TUESDAY even: ing, November) { be continued until the whole are Sold.87 Sale af SEVEN o'clock cach Evento.HENRY J.SIIAW, Auctioneer.November 1 HE Subscriber has on hand for Private Sale a great variety of FURNITEK CABINET WARK, from the Penitentiary Cabinet Worl Kingston, and from the ex- teusive Furuituro Manufactory of Wm.Drum of Quebec, as well as from several Furuiture Manufactories in the city.This varicty embraces Superior Sofas, \u2019l'ete-a-Tetes, Couches, Easy and Rocking Chairs, Curled Hair Scat Chairs, all in Hair Cloth or Damask ; Fine French Hedsteads, Cheap do, Wood Seat Chairs, Rocking aud Cane Seat do, Dining, Centre and Hall T and Chairs, Dining Koow and Offlec Chairs, Bureaus, Washstands, Chest Drawers, Boperior Office Desks in Uak and Black Walnut; a great variety of Book Cares, &c., &e., &c.\u2018The above are manufactured of the best seasoned Woods\u2014 Rosewood.Unk, Black Walout, Mahogany aud Ash ; and will be sold in many instances below net cost.The subscriber has on hand Wrought Iron and Bronze Bedateade, Curled JJair Mattrassce.Also, a varie of New Sooking Btoves forenoon Kegul ec! over; ur; foret .wr y LS J.SAW Auctioneer.Commercial Sales Room, | St.Francois Xavier Street.JAVAGE & LYMAN lave reccived :\u2014 pEUEEMON ETERS in Japacned Cases, 8, 10, J2, & 14 inches.THERMOMETERS In Jrory on Ebony, &, 10, & 12 inches.THERMOMETERS In Leather Cases, for pocket, 6, &, & 101n.THERMOMETERS In ltosewood Cases, 18 inches long, for Pablie Rooms.THERMOMETERS for registering extreme Heat.THERMOMETERS for registering extreme Cold.CATHEDRAL BLock, Notre Dame Street Centre.IRECT FROM PARIS.\u2014Farioa\u2019s Eau de Cologne snd Toilet Vinegar, Cork & Wood Floats, French Jujube and Gum Drops, Fau de Botot, French Hair, Nail and Tooth Brushes, Puff Boxes, &c., &¢.1859.xes, INEST BERMUDA ARROWROOT\u2014Cro) Virgia Honey in the Comb, (finest quality) in \u2014ALBO\u2014 Straïîned Honcr, fn Olb and 121b jars.Just received and for Bale by J.GARDNER, Chemi st, Oetober 7.West End, Notre Dame Strect.HEAP GROCERIES.\u2014W.D.8TRoUD is still sup- lying Black, Green, or Mixed Teas, at 2a.64.per ib., and the finest Java, or the l'ine Mountain Pes-Berry Ceylon Softee as ls 3d.per lb.Store:\u201433 St Lawrence Kain \u2018cet.EA ack and Green, Imported dircet from China, for Family use, in packages of 101b.to 141b.cach.Good Franks y 28.0d.per 1b.Fine Imperial, 2s.6d.per Ib.Do.Young Hyson, 2s.Fine Gunpowder, 2s.Fine do.do.25.6.¢ Good Strong Souchong, 2s 6d The best Teas imported, Finest Gunpowder, Finest Young Hyson, best Souchong, and best Oolong, 3s.0d per Ib.EDWARD GEE & Co., 27 Great Bt.James 8t., Montreal.EAS.\u20141n Store and for Sale : 1,000 HALF CHESTS FINE GREEN and BLACK CI TEAS, Crop 1558 & 1850.DAVID TORRANCE & Co.Montreal, Nov.18 1359.URRANTSE\u2014CROP 159.For Sale : 100 BARRELS prime quality.DAVID TORRANCE & CO.Nov.18.WASTED, for School Section No.4, Pakenham, a Teacher holding a first-class eertificate, to whom a liberal ralary will be given.Unexocptional testimonials will Le required.Ity Order of Trustees, JAMES MCLEOD, Seo.-Tree.Pakenham, Nov, 14th, 1859, PrRECENTOR WANTED.\u2014WAXTED, Precentor for tho United Presbyterian Church (Kev.Dr.Taylor's).Application to be made to WARDEN KING, Esq, (of Rogers & King) 55 Craig Street, or to Nov.11.JOMN C.BECKET, Soss-Clerk L ITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL INBTI- TUTE, FAIRFAX, VERMONT.\u2014Rev.E.B.Smith, D.D., President.uarters commence Aux.31, Nov.16, 1850.The course of study fa thorough nif systematic.\u2014 Accommodations ample and expensce moderate, varying from $85 to $150 per year of 44 weeks.For further information oly to Rev.John Goadby or James Mline, Faq., 43Great St.James Street, Montresl, who will answer ail inquiries and furnish circulars of the school.8.L.ELLIOTT, Bc.Fairfax, Vt., July 2, 1860, ! RCHAIA y or, BTUDIKS OF THE COSMOGONY AND NATURAL LIISTORY OF TIR HEBREW SCRIPTURER By J.W.Dawson, L.L.D., ¥.G.8., Principal of Meuill Col- Le Montreal, author of \u2018 Acadiaa Geology,\u201d* &e\u2014No sul s have of late years more oceupled the attention of thinking men than the alleged di cles between the Mosaic and the Geological accounts of the origin of the world.and the antagonism of many of the recent fheories of the origin of the human race to the secount given by the inspired writers.It affords the Publishers great pleasure to bring under the notice of the public a book ob n salject so interesting and important, by an author whose abilities are no well known both in Europe and in America, and who Is so well fitted by his previous studies for the treatment of such topics.y feel convlaced that It will at once take a high rank mos, the publications of the English and American press, and will form a welcome and valuable addition to Christian #8 well as to scientific literature.The work will be published carly in November.It will contain 420 , and wili be printed in a bold, clear type, lu à manner compare favorably with publicetions PE similar character in other countries.Price, in neat cloth, @1,25.DAWBON & SON, B.No.2, Great Bt.James Bt., Montreal.pue STERKOSCOPE is the most delightful amusement ever Introduced Into the fami , Family should be without one.ly \u201ccirele.\u201cNo Montreal, has ALEX.MURRAY, 181 Notre Dame Breet, st and beat assorted stock of BLinks shown In and be res I I tion of the same by all who wish to Pores Rh ec- tion at the lowest possible figure.Tatertor Views of French Palaces, best Colored Transpa- nl .each.Interior Views of Fope's Palaces, best Colored Transparent, Exterior Views in Parl v bost erior | A 2 Parle, Rome, \u2018enice, #c., Colored Exterior Views in Paris, Home, Venice, &e., 20d quality, Swiss Winter Beence, 8: K - Pony, pact Beenes, now Kfoots, bent Colored Transpa.Comets Sad Kallway Boenes, best Colored Transparent, Growps, Evening Partin, French Blo .Colored Transparent ro each ; ood asta » best Col Best Colored Hlides, Comio Groups, &é., 50e.each, Views, Groups, &e., 30s.sach.French, alin and wise Scence, C .Interior French and Toman Tals o a: ao.BOP Views of Victoria lridge in ite various stages, each.Miscellaneous Views = Kagiand, Biatuai ape 208.\u201c tous?Good btercoscopes from 81,50 u ards.made to purchasers of on dose of any opens of Viegauctlon Co uisels of 83 hue 10d upwards tent free to any of cipt of cash, and purchasers may rel selection made for therm thom the tiasa of Views Remember sre sers Stand, 151 Notre Dame Street, (Corner ANK OF MONTREAL.\u2014Notice is here! B that a Dividend of Four per Cent, upon Thay dire Stock of this Institution, has been this da lared, for the current half year, and that the same will Fay.Hanking House, fa this city, on and after THÜLEDAY i he Tremeier Books will closed ie Transfer « will be 30th of November, both days Tac tustre.To the 16th to tne (Hy order of the Board,) CHAS.F.BMITHERS, A 3 Hank of Montreal, srlotant Casbier.Moutreal, th Oct., 1659.HOP TO LET.\u2014~That well known stand cupled by A.Ramsay, Painter, corner of Great St.James Strects, 80 long os.MeGUf oi \u2014Also,\u2014 OFFICES over the above Store, and an OFFICK inf, François Xavier Street.Apply to \u201c JOUN PARBLOW, 328.Francois Xavier Étreet, ) drei SPOOL THREAD, so favorably known in London and New York, is made b machinery of the most recent invention fe of a sitky finish and of great uniformity, and han, to a great extent, where known, superseded the old makes.May be had of HOBLS & MARTIN, 8 for Manufacturer, su Lemoine Btreet or OMMINY, &.\u2014Juat recived, Cholee Southern liom tiny, lecker's Faring, Wheaten Grits, Grabam Flour, Buckwheat and Ltice Flour, Sweet Corn, and bhaker Tomato Catsup.For sale by GE.CHILDS, Nov.18 27 Notre Dame Street, OMMINSION BUSINESS.\u2014The undersigucd offcrs his services for the sale of produce, to which the follow- Ing rules will be observed.\u20180 sell on arrival, unless directed to the contrary by the Sumer ; long experience showing this 10 be, on the «virage, cs! \u2018To zpare no exertion iu order to produce the highest pries log.Beep down all charges to the lowest point.To return account Sales, and remit or pay over the pre- eceds, with the least possible delay.\u2018The rates of commission will be as follows, exclusive of freights and any other expenses actually incurred, viz:\u2014 On Ashes, 1 i4 per cent.On Flour, Grain, Provisions, Butter, &¢., 2 3-2 per cent.Securities bought or sold at 1 per cent.era, à moderate In case of advances being made to consi additional commission in be charged.usurances, if required, to be specially ordered.JOHN DOUGALL, 270 Bt.Paul Street.P.8.\u2014The Montreal Hitness contaius à Commercial Review twice à weck, giving the state of the markets and prospects, procured from the best sources of information.\u2014J.D, PhENx FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Lombard street and Charing Cross, London.ÉSTARLISHED IN 1782.GILLESPIE, MOFFATT & Co., Agents for Canada.JAXKES DAVISON, Manager.Insurances against Loss by Fire are effeeted on the most favorable Terms, and Losses pald without reference to the Board in London.No charge made for Folieles.Head A Ade) Montreal, I2th May, 1558.NSURANCE NOTICE.\u2014 THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY continues to Insure Property on most favorable terms, and at the lowest rates by any good English Company OFFICE :\u201415 Water Street, on the Wharf.H.L.ROUTH, AcgxT.Montreal, Sept.34, 1659.EPISATION: 810 per Jour pare for Board and Tultion at the Fort Edward Institute.Y.Buperior instrme- tion in all the branches of a Classical, Commercial or Ornamental Éducation.Canada References : the Wealeyan cler- gymenand James I.Mathewson of Montreal.Forcirculars spy et Mr.Pickup » News-Room, Montreal, or write to tl Tincipal, Rev.Joseph E.King, A.M., Fort Edward, N.Y.JUST, PUBLISHED, STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS of the of \u201cVICTORIA BRIDGE In itn various stages of construe tion ; also, of the CITY and ISLAND of Montreal, by W.Notman.Price 30 conts cach, and may be had in Sete of 12, 24 or 38, In handsome cloth casce, with letterpress descrip Mate De had où ail prineipal plo Depots, and at À ad at all the principal Btercoscopie ts, a Wo iotmants, n Bieury Street, Montreal.ctober 14.A NEW BOOK .\u2014Proparing for the press, * \u2018The Tee- dA totaler'« Vade Mecum,\u201d cloth, 12mo., 500 p.p., only One Dollar.~This work wlll contain several distinet departments, comprising the followin, valuable information required hy every temperance man În Canada :\u20141.The History of the Temperance Enterprise, embracing the origin of the moderate and total tinence aystemn, Rechabite, Washingtonian, Sons of Temperance, Good Femplurs, Cadets and Band of Hope organizations.2.Prohibitory Liquor Law estion 3.Temperance Poetry, Songs and Hymns, 4.emperance Facts aud Anecdotes.5.Dialogues and Pleces for public occasions.6.Miscellancous Matter.R.D.WADSWORTH.Publish: Hamilton, C.W., November.1859.BRowxs BRONCHIAL TROCHES.\u2014 Coughs, colds, hoarsences, and Influenza, irritation, soreness, or any affection of the throat cured, the Lacking cough in consumption, bronchitis, whooping cough, asthma, catarrh, relieved, by brown's Rrouchlal Troches, or cough losenges.«A simple and elegant combiuation for Coughs,\u201d &¢.\u2014 Dr.G.F.Bigelow, Iloston.* Have proved extremely scrviceable for Hoarseness.\"\u2014 Rev.Henry Ward Beecher.\u201cI recommend their use to l'ublic Speakcra.*\u2014Reor.E.Il.Chapin, New York.fectual in remoring, Hoarseness and Irritation of the Throat eo common with Bpeskers and Singers.M.Stacy Johnson, LaGrange, Ga, Tcacher of Music, Bouth- ern Female College.© Two or three firmes 1 have been attacked LA Bronehitis 20 as to make me fear that I should be compelled to desist from minieteria) labor, through disorder of the throat, Bat from moderate use of the \" [now find myself able to preach niglitly, for weeks together, without the slightest Inconvenience.** Rev.EK.B.RYCKMAN, A.B., Montreal Wesleyan Minlater.Bold by all Druggiste in Canada, at 25 cents per box.BUSINESS CARDS J.W.HOPKINS, (Late of Hopkins, Lawford and Nelson,) ARCHITECT, Orvice\u2014No.3 \u201c Union BuiLnimae.* EDWARD LEWIS MONTIRAMBERT, ADVOCATE, 18 Se.Peter Street, Quebec.OMMISBION BUSINESS.\u2014M'LENNEN & KYLE, Goners) Comminsion Merchante and Dealers in Grain, Jour, Oatmeal, and General Produce.Agents for J.& = er.Hi usrclburgh, Beotland, Macufacturers of Ru: Hemp Twines.Bor Also, for Barrows Celebrated States Lime.Young's Buildings, M\u2018Gil] Street, Montreal, ICKENSON & BREWSTER, Bu Dentist, removed to No.33, Great Bt.James Bf opposite Tattersalls.Montreal, March 12, 1860.LEX, BRYBON & CO.slon Merchants, Platt's Street, adjoining the Too) Store.E*£.* FOUNDRY, King Street, (Near Canal Basis) Montreal.\u2018 asd Commie: Di 0, 877 Bt.Peal ings, ERBERT MORTIMER, Brock BHOKER, N Hoe Land and Geaceni Agent, Ho.ar, Sor Kast,) Toronto \u2014\u2014 The \u201c MONTREAL WITNESS\" ia printed and published it.James PE Fr Eh "]