The Montreal witness, 5 janvier 1861, samedi 5 janvier 1861

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.XVI.THE BIBLE WOMEN OF MONTREAL.(To the Editor of the Montreal Witness.) MoxTukac, December 316t, 1850, Sm,\u2014I notice that the Bible Society bas intruduced in Montreal the system of visitation by \" Bible women.\u201d There can be no doubt, if properly carried out and fully developed, this sgency will Le invaluable, but the Society place prominently in their circular a request for donations of clothing, &c.Now undoubtedly destitution exists, and unquestionably it should be relieved.But I think it is worthy of attention that the mission of the \u201cBible women\u201d in England has been firstly and mainly directed to leading the bardened, the wretched, the depraved and the oporessed to the only source of happiness ; and secoudiy, to aiding and directing the poor to helping themselves, Indiscriminate almsgiving is bad.It lowers a man's selt-respect and selt-reliance, and should only be made use of in extreme cisrs.There are many who think that if they give their money or clothes or other articles for this object, they have donc their share.But they have not begun it.If they give \u201c ali their goods to feed the poor aud have not charity,\u201d it is of no avail.Real Christian charity here and elsewhere is vastly lacking.How many who thus give, if they searched their hearts, would find therein the sentiment\u2014* God, I thank Thee that Iam not as other men are !* Far be it from me to impute motives to others in this or in any other matter.But what I do want to sce, and what, it cannot be denied, is not very often to be met with, is the spirit that can look on the fallen, the depraved, aye, and the criminal too, as brothers; the spirit that, on witnessing their degradation, shail say, thus should I Lave been but for the grace of God.Be it remarked tbat the mou in this bumble frame of nind hay no cauee to associate himself with wickedness of agy kind, but he has cause earnestly to seek out tle clusses alluded to, and extending to them the right hand of brotherly love to say :\u2014* Hear what Christ bas said, who died for thee ! \u2018though thy sins be red as crimson, they shall be white as snow! Ay! arouse thee, my brother, from thy state of torpor, from thy life of sin.Thou must walk softly ali the days of thy life in the bitterness of thy soul, Lut continue not thy warfare against the God that made thee.Thou seest somewhat of the punishment entailed by sin, here! Flee from that which shall be undying.Now thou hast no hope, here or hereafter ; but core to Jesus and He will save thee from the wrath to come.\u201d Let it not be forgotten too, that poverty is not al- wars caused by vice.There are many deserving poor, and there arc many undeserving poor.* Remember the poor,\u201d not the deserving poor only, but all.Let us hope that the \u201cLible women\u201d of Montreal will pursue their work fo some such spirit as their sisters in Fngland, quietly bint steadily, searching out and seeking in the highways and hedges those whom their Master would not have neglected were He now on earth.May they turn many from dead works to serve the living God.May they stop at nothing that repels them or disgusts them, but steadily proclaim, He willetl not the death of uo sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live.They may be repuleed again and again, but let them not be die- couraged for another trial : they may strike a chord that shall unloose the heart ard find utterance in the words, \u201c| will arise and go to my Father.\u201d The above hurried remarks upon a step that bas been taken in the right direction are only jotted down as the thoughts of one who has considered much and long on these subjects.Doubtless the matter is in good hands, and will de carried on in a Christian and catholic spirit.If it beso, I have no doubt as to the resnity.\u201cCome ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepured for you from the foundation of the world.For ! was hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; [ was a stranger and ye tack me in; naked and yo clothed me; I was sick and ye visited me; I was in prison sud ye came unto me.\u201cVerily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of those my brethren, ye did it unto me.Yours obediently, N.DISTRAINING FOR TYTHES IN CANADA.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Dear Sim,\u2014I take the liberty of sending you a few details relative to the affair of Messrs.Forté and Rochon, and will feel obliged if you will please insert them in the Witness.In February, 1859, Mr.Forté and his family, residing in the parish of St.Augustin, left the Church of Rome.Iu the month of June, in company with Mr.Edward Marshall, of Grand Chicot, he placed in the hands of the priest of that parlsh, & letter stating that ho Lad abandoned the Romish Church, at the same time giving somo of his reasons for so doing.Having taken that step, be paid his tithes, for 1838, to the priest, thanked him for the spicitunl services he had received from him, and then informed him that be and his family would no longer need them, since they were decided to follow the (lospeM and to renounce tho er- tors of Rome.The prieal read only a portion of the Jeter in their presence, and, instead of answering them with civility, bo on the contrary began to insult Md.Forté and Mr.Marshall, who immediately went Agay, leaving the priest in bis wrath.Mr, Rochon, residing also in the parish of St, Augua- , left tbo Church of Rome in tho Autumn of 1858, bhving, in presence of sevcral persons, declared to the sut of that parish that be was leaving the Romish Jaaieh, for ever, unless its doctrines could be proved be in arcordance with those of the Gospel, Instead arguments, the priest, following the usual routine, ve him insults, and began to pre d T.Forié, ao that \u201cthey were f d persecuted.These favorite arguments of the priest had not the red effoct upon Me.Rochon, who, in (be fall of against him an erably annoyed are, at all events, sincere.We pu' 3tish it in justice to though we think there is enov gh disclosed in it to make the case worse than W 4 {nought it was, if that be possible.We have not r oom to-day, however, for farther remarks.\u2014En.Wir, Bouk for Chris\u2019 y t what the Great Law) ans to go by, will you Insert wha if shall AF of witli thee; cven among you, in that plac like! à htm beat, (hou shalt not oppress hima.\u201d Dout.33 cb 15th and t6th vs.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1861.Doudiet, then pastor of the Evangelical Clureh at Belle Riviere.Messrs.Forté and Rochon, baving left the Romizh Church before sced-time, and the priest having represented them as heretics and wicked Swiss, into whose house no one ought to enter, and with whom none should do any business, they thought, very naturally, that they were free from Homish bondage, and therefore they paid no tithes for that year.But they were mistaken, Last June they were commanded to appear before the Court of Commissaries of St.Augustin, and condemned Ly Mr.Paquette to settle accounts witb the Rev.Mr.Thebege, priest of suid parish, Mr.Forte to pay twenty and Mr.Rochon ten dollars,\u2014that is, about four times as much as they would have paid bud they remained in tbe Romish Church.Although condemued to pay, yet they did not think it right and advisable to go and settle accounts with 2 man who bad not worked for them, but who they thought bad still enough self-respect to abandon the suit, if be was not desirous of dishonoring himself in the yes of dis parishioners, by forcing the Protestants to pay him what they did not owe.Yet they were disappointed, for on the 17th inst.a Bailiff was sent from St.Eustache, to seize the stock of Messrs, Forté and Rochon, which ia to be sold on the 3rd of January next.They not being in a prosperous condition, the payment of the trial costs and fine will be a great burden for them, and I am afraid that one of them will be ruined.Will uot the Protestants, who enjoy the great privilege of liberty, won for them by the courage and blood of their forefathers, come to the aid of Messrs.Forté and Rockon, who are as yet exposed to the rapacious cruelty and injustice of Rome ?M.{What do Irish Roman Catbulics, who bated tythes so heartily in Ireland, say to the above 7\u2014Ep.Wir] THE EXTRADITION CASE.(Ty the Editor of the Montreal Witness.) UrasTForn, Dec.27, 1860.Dear Sir, \u2014 The Extradition Case bas created a great sensation in all parts of Canada, here as well as ¢lse- where, and this is, so far as it goes, as it should be.If Anderson can be retained we will sll here rejoice in such an event with you, but the implication of one of our magistrates unfavorably with the case is wholly unfair and unjust.First, to imply, a8 some have done, that Mathews had received bribe money from Anderson's prosecutors, 38 not a fact; and so far from this being the case, I am informed by Mr.Mathews himself, that Le has not received anything yet for bis services in the case.If any person will make the statement as a fact, be will give him a chance to prove it.The main facts are simply these, so far a3 known: \u2014Mr.Mathews has been obliged to take the case in hand, as you will presently sce.Auderson's informer is a colored man, who laid the complaint before John D.Sauls, of Unondaga, about eight miles below (his, and as it was not convenient for him to keep a prisoner there, he was brought to Brantford, the county town, and lodged in our gaol.Mr.Mathews being one of our most active magistrates, the case was left with bim to investigate, along with other magistrates, from time to time, a9 evidence was obtained\u2014the principal witnesses being on their way from Missouri.This was in April last.Mr.Mathews fecling for the prisoner's situation, and knowing that Lis case wasa hard one, as he under- stocd it then, received discretionary powers from Ilis Honor Mr.Justice McLean, who was silting in the Court of Queca's Bench here at that time, and willingly discharged the prisoner from custody for want of further testimony against him\u2014not by compulsion, as bas been erroncously stated.About three hours after bis discharge, Mr.Mathews received a telegram that the Missouri witnesses would be here that night, and to keep Anderson.This was sent from Detroit, and they were then on thei way here.1 can bear testimony to the fact that Mr.Mathews expressed himself to others as well as to myself highly pleased that he had discharged prisoner, nud advised him to keep out of the way, so that he might not be necessitated to re-arrest him.1 make these few statements of (acts to set you right, having noticed in a recent issue that A petition was being got up, by young men, L bclieve, to bave Anderson retained and Mr.Mathews censured, which, I thiuk, is a piece of injustice iutlicted upon one who has done all he could to liberate the prisoner the second time, but tho evidence being so strong against him this time, ho could not use discretionary wers.It ia sufficient to say that bis decisiors bare n sustained by the Attorney (General as wel\u2019, ag two of the judges out of the three in Toronto.1 },nve been led to make these facts known to you, tha\u2019; the truth sud not sympathy might prevail.[will « ly aay furs ther, that [ am confident the colored m 4p bas not a truer friend and woil-wisher in Can 43g than Mr.Mathews, Yours, &c., J MT {The writer of the above lotter isa 4 excellent mam, whose facts may be relied upon, ar « whose opinions Mr.Matthews, on the principle « A hoaring both sides ; TO TUE LAW AND THR TESTIMONY.(To the Edit pp of the Montreal Witness.) Sim, \u2014Beliorin\" à the Scriptures to be the best Law \" \"Foor sid upon a point now in dispute.Thou 8\" 4 wot deliver unto bis master the servant Y akch is escaped from his master to thee.he shall choose in one of thy gates, where dt 1869, had one of bis children baptised\u2019 by the Rev.Mr.State, ror has the Lord abrogated the merciful probi- bition,\u2014it stands firm still\u2014and wee to them that overlook it.Vixnex.{The Lord bas tot abrogated this law, but Chief Justice Robinson has, The Almighty is evidently où one side and the Canadian Court of Queen's Bench on the other, and the question is which shall be obeyed ?\u2014Fp.Wir.) THE EXTRADITION CASE.(From Prescott Telegraph.) The case of Anderson, the fugitive slave, his not yet been disposed of.Chief Justice Robinson bas decided that there is no rule on which an appeal could be claimed : but if the Court of Appeals chose to entertain the matter, the Court of Qucen\u2019s Bench would offer no opposition.In the mean time Arder- son remains in at Toronto.We oniy express the sentiment of the whole Canadian community when we hope that the Government will not, on any account, deliver this man up to the slave catchers of Missouri, If Anderson were a free man the case would be different.Then, on rendition.he would be tried impartially by laws similar to our own, and if found to have acted in self-defence whes the bomi- cide was committed, he would be discharged: but as a fugitive slave, he would not only be denied a fair trial, but would probably not be allowed a trial by jury at all.By the laws of Missouri a slave dares not, under any provocation, raise his hand against bis master : and at the present time a homicide committed by a fugitive slave upon a white man would not be declared justifiable by any jury in the State, no matter how provocative the circumstances might have been.How many cases of Lynching have occurred of late years in consequence of the perpetration of less heinous crimes than that of murder! If Anderson should be rendered up to the man-bunters of Missouri, scarcely a fugitive slave in Canada wouid be safe, and the boast of our free soil being an asylum for the oppressed of the world would be bol- low, a deception and asnare.Thereisa law higher, ard more consonant with christian aspirations then Statute law.we mean the law of humanity.And our laws are often left in abeyance, when the cause | of humanity is to be promoted thereby.Our laws say that locks shall not be broken without per | mission ; yet if à house be on fire, people will not.stop tp inquire about the proprietary of the building.If ouc law be as Chief Justice Robinson reads i such, that under it Anderson ouzht and must be rende- ed up to the slave power of Missouri, then we say: there is a nobler, and wore humane, and more godlike law than the Ashburton Treaty, the law which ! is implanted in every christian heart, urging us to) succor the distressed : and urges that Aaderson shall not be sent back to be probably roasted ut the stake \u2014why ?because he would not granted a fair trial, the crime of which he is charged merging in and be- | ing superseded by ove not known to our Courts, acd; from the penalties of which be could not possibly; escape, even if inits visitation he bad acted in defence of bis own lite.This is the first case of the kind which has occurred, and we hope it will not be made © a precedent to be followed, by a horde of merciless! savages who would trump up charges by the hundred | against men and women in Canada, whose only crime » is that they have thrown off the fetters of their bondage.5 large meeting has been held in Toronto, at; which strong resolutions were passed, disapproving of the decision of the Queen's Rench in this case, and requesting petitions to be got up to Government on behalf of the fugitive.\u2014 NEW ZEALAND.(From the Montreal Herald.) Our readers are, doubtless, aware that a partial rising of the natives against the authorities took place in New Plymouth about a year ago: and, by the latest advices from the colony, it appenrs that the insurgents, although balf-naked and lialtarmed savages and never exceeding 600 in number, have, so far, succeeded in keeping the field asainet à force of 3,000 eftective men, amply equipped with artillery and all the munitions of war, commanded by a veteran General and an unusually large number of Colonels and other officers.\u201clt is true\" \u2014we quote from the London Zïmes of the 20th ultimo\u2014 that the native force was reduced to much less than one- tenth of that at the disposal of Giencral Pratt, but it is equally true that the three expeditions which had been made since the former accounts bad proved futile, that the most brilliant exploit of our soldiers was the demolition of a few empty pahe, and that wherever resistance was offered, even on open ground, they fell back.It would be ludicrous, were it not so disgraceful and disastrous, to hear that a truinpery stockade, interlaced and strengthened with green flax, cannot bo breached by a 6X pourder, or that au European force nearly as large as that with which Clive won Plassey, and aided by artillery, must wait for mortars before it can advance nst another similar position.Yet bese aro simple facts, and give by no means an exaggerated idea of our discomfiture.The northern natives, whose voluntary retirement has alone relieved New Plymouth from # state of sicge, bave carried with them © borses, sheep, cattle, carts, and plunder of all sorts,\u201d the proper- {of our ruined settlers, whose wives and families hate been deported for safety to Nelson, and who No.2.those which inhabit the Great Waikato Valley azd still profess friendly intentions, are raid to be deli- berating\u2014not how they shall make their peace with the Government but,\u2014 whether, bavinz already sent Wirimu Kingi large reinforcements, they shall ex: tend the theatre of war by making an attack upon Auckland.\u201d Our great London contemporary's bypothesis, in view of this, assuredly much more disgraceful than ludicrous, inefhcieney of General Pratt and bis army, appears to us more ingenious than sound\u2014he sug- zests \u2018 that the very insignif£cance, coupled with the boastful insolence, of the enemy unsteadies our men and puzzles our commanders, just as at chess a bad ard reckless player is sometimes a more formidable antazonist than a master of the came : and adds that the phenomenon would not be absolutely without parallel, for the famous British column of Iontenoy was mude of the same stuff as those Draroons who fled like sheep before the famished and baifarmed Highlanders at l'restonpans.We are, we confess, not much inclined to accept this ingenious excuse for General Pratt and his men: bat folly agree with the Times\u2019 concluding remarks upon tbe duty of the Government under the circomstacces\u2014the Thunderer says :\u2014 ++ It is very natural that the colonists should clamour fur reinforcements from England, sod much is ex- ccted from the arrival of the 14th Regiment in cember : but the Home Government may well feel that if numbers could insure success.the troops now at Taranaki are more than enough to crush anything short of a general Maori rebellion.aad of this tbe best accounts assure us that there is little pros \u2018Fect.What the true remedy may be it is for the Colonial-office to discover : our duty is done when we have eliminated the salient facts, 50 as to exhibit the magnitude of the evil.\u2018It is not the most peculiar, but it is one of the most vexatious perplexities counected with this war.that the legality of thcse proceedings out of which it arose is openly challenged.Be this, however, as it may, we contend that the primary question is purely military.Order must precede liberty, aud no Government can listen to armed remorstrances.especially when they take the form of outrare and rapine.Muny of the natives now in open hostility to the Queen's authority bave not so much as the pretence of a rrievance, and are ravazinz our bome- steads, after the manner of border warfare, out ot mere lawlessuc ss and love of plunder.If we left the management native affairs to our colonists we should not, strictiy speakinz, ove them any assistance in the present crisis.But from mouves of justice and humanity we reserve the control of this department for the bone Government.and such a reservation of power involves correspouding obligations.Une of these is that of sacriticing all consi- derativu for individual feelings and interests 10 the paramount neces re-cstablishing tbe Queen\u2019 authority andj.ber subjects, however, bu- miliatins the conce or ensazements that justice may afterwards require to be made.\u201d Takise rae Cisse: \u2014Mondar, the ISth day of Jan- nary, is the day appointed for taking tbe Census of this Province.Extensive arrangements bave been made to have the work accurately and effectively done.~The commissioners are enjoined to appoint intelligent, temperate and respectable persons enumerators, and are thus called upon to perform their duty with * fidelity and zeal: © Be pleased to remember that upon the result of your labors will depend the truthfulness of the representation, not only of the population out of the material resources and social condition of your district.and it is the hope and expectation of this Department that you will execute your important trust with tidelity acd zeal.\u201d The Hamilton Spectator remarks that there can be little fear of ihe Census being inosrrectly taken under the circumstances, for it is evidept that Government are doing everything that can ly be done to have the numbering of the people correct.The public should also bear in mind that it is au offeace punishable by fine, for any party to give false information in connection with the taking of the Census, or refusing 10 answer an cnumerator's enguiriss \u2014l, \u20ac.Paper, Extraonpisanv Ortnaue.\u2014We bare to record today one of the most daring outrages, which bas per haps ever been perpetrated in this city.A respectable lady, the sister-in-law vf à professional gentleman.leff her brotber-in-law's house in upper Bleury Street on Sunday about mid-day, and was proceeding towards town along that part of the street which borders on the property of Colonel Evans, when she was assaulted by some scoundrel, who threw her down and made the most determined attempt to ravish her.He culy de risted when a servant belonging to the Conveat drove up in a sleigh, upon which he at once took to Hight.Itis believed that the perpetrator of this audacious villany, in a frequented part of the city and io mid-day, is sufficiently identitied to make his apprehension almost certain.We trust be will be adequately punished.\u2014 Herald of 1st.L'vxiox Rvanasuiquu ve Jevyes Gaxs.\u2014This French Young Men's Christian Association celebrated its first anniversary on Tuesday evening last, in the French Protestant Institute for Young L .About eighty persons, neatly all French, were and enjoyed themselves very much, The Me: \u2018snner, Doudiet, and Cyr, took part in the cit.The report was read by Mr.W.N.Cote.| speeches, there were recitations, music and This is the first tea meeting got up by the Fren Protestants of this city.and it appears to bavg been very successful.\u2014 Com- muricated.Page, who was arrested slong with Archambault in are \\bmeelves huddied together in the litte town, without being able to strike a blow in self-detence.dugitive slave law was allowed in that slave Meanwhile tribes about Wellington, as well as t \u20ac the ng case, was on Thu aduitted to bail for | bis appareres at the next Oourt Queen's Bench.Bail bas been refured sor Archambault.es wens oily Le 10 ; THE MONTREAL WITNESS.JANUARY 5, 1861.British Press.THE CAPTURE OF PEKIN.i (From Scottish Guardian.) | The capture of l'ekin is one of the most important historical events of the century.For 100 years we bave heard occasionally of that mysterious city.of its ancient Christian episcopate, its Christian temple, its schools and ces and its, illuminated mountain.But the glimpses we have obtained are few and far between.The assault upon l\u2019ekin is but the symbol of the break-up of the Tartar Government.The old crust of apathy, cruelty, and arrogance is broken throuyh, and the presence {the troops of the two most civilised nations of the earth must change the whole political and social life of three hundred millions of ple.Pekin consists of two, or rather of three, dis tinet cities, The Chinese town is on the right of the canal which falls into the Peiho, the Tartar city is on the left, and by the left the allies were marching.We infer, then, that leaving the Chinese town unmolested, the allies attacked the Tartar Cuts.The walis of the latter are forty feet high, with towers seven or eight stories high, at intervals, The cates, of which there are five laid down in Wyld's map, are each a complete fortress, with parade-ground and barrack accommodation for many thousand soldiers.The walls are from twenty to thirty feet in thickness, asd fifteen horsemen could gallop on them abreast.\u2014 There are towers nine stories in height on cach side of the gate, with cannon mounted on every story.From the descriptions given by travellers who have visited Pekin, it would appear that the fortifications of that city much resembled those of Delhi, but are much greater in extent.The Tartar city is surrounded by a deep branch of the Peiho, while the Emperor's palace forms a second fortified city within the great cnclosure.As the telegrams state that the Summer Palace of the Emperor was taken, ite probable that no assault had been made when the mail left, upon the grand palace in the city.The Summer Palace of the Emperor is at Yuen-min-Yuen, five miles to the NEWS BY BRITISH MAIL.In our British papers, just received, we find the following items :\u2014 Intelligence was receited at the Foreign Utice où Saturday evening last, by telegraph from St Petersburg, that on 26th October peace was coucluded with the Tartars at Pekin : that ratiticationd were exchanged on the 5th November ; ard that on the 2th the allies commenced to evacuate Pekin, Sone doubts have bee cast on the nuthenticity of the information by the d ficulties of the route, During à rat, We have ceived to early intelligence by ssian route ; but the telegraptov lines in the central provinces of the empire may hi treu extended, and our Ambassador to Russia and t overnment here are apparently & tistied of the truth of this statement.The allies, we understand.will noi abandon the surth ¢f China during the winter, but will take quarters at Tien-tsin, or sou position pear the coast.We publisk the despatches connected with the capture of Pekin.The Chinese intelligeace has caused a considerable advance in Consols, which, as it originates not in monetary, but political causes, bas Leen accompanied by little or no :bange iu other securities.An advance of 2a.per quarteron wheat was obtaived in London on Monday : and yesterday, a still larger rise appears to bave been paid in Liverpoul.The stock of corn in the ports being very large, the rise is not likely to extend much farther.The Paris Cor.of the Gilubc says :\u2014The decree abolishing passports In favour of British visitors to France will strike a chord meant to vibrate harmoniously on your side of the Channel, especially when it is known that the Empress Eugenie hes got the credit of basten- ing a long determined step, and that this is her acknow- leJgment of the cordiality she bas met with from all classes of society while over the water.But it is also a blow to all the antiquated restrictions of Continental Europe, and its worn-out dynasties will truly infer that «a new comer has got amongst us.\u201d In another letter from Paris it is aid :\u2014# The Empress, 1 nm told, speaks in raptures about the cordial way in which she was greeted in England, from ber Majesty the Queen at Windsor down to the most bumble British subject.The hearty cheering of the people seems to have had great effect on this gentle-hearted and impressionable lady.1 should not be surprised if you have another Imperial visit paid rou ere long.\u201d Several remarkable crimes have recently occurred in connection with railway 1ravelling on the Continent.In France, two individuals, at different places and times, and in Italy one person, bare been killed in carriages, apparenty by 6 fellow-passenger, for purposes of revenge or robbery.The criminals have not bees appre- bended in any of these cases.Aa armistice bas been proposed between the besiegers nod the besieged of Gaeta, which may conclude the northward of Pekin.The troops, then, appear to have taken a detour for the purpose of cutting off the Emperor's retreat into Tartary.This palace contained the accumulated treasures of all the preceding monarchs of China.The telegram announces that \u201cthe spoil was immense.\u201d The Emperor may have carried off jewels and coin, but he could not carry away the vast statues of gold and silver nor those wonderful works of barbaric wealth of which old writers tell us.The soldiers will have abundant prize money, and that will reconcile them to wintering in Pukin.The severity of a Pekin winter is nothing but a bugbear, invented by the Chinese.Mr, Staun- ton did not leave Pekin until the month of November.Mr.Bell, tbe liussian agent, found the climate mild in December.The Russians remain on the banks of the Amoor all through the wis- ter, and their district is three hundred miles north of Pekin.The allies bave splendid accommodation in the various colleges and Buddhist temples.Tbe Chinese, ever anxious to trade, will afford a market.As Pekin is but 90 miles from the Taku forts, and Ticn-tsin is occupied by the allies, there can be no difficulty felt in ther be mild, juoks can proceed to the capital; if the Peiho be frozen, the transit can be maintained as readily as in Canada.Thetroops which bave borne the extremes of the Crimes and India will not hesitate to brave a winter at Pekin.The Emperor is said to have fled to Tartary or Mantchouria.It is not at all improbable that he is quietly concealed within the precincts of bis palace.Yeb was said to bave fled from his yamun at Canton, but after the lapse of three or four days, be was discovered in the person of sn obese mandarin.The present Friperor of China is à man utterly cnervated by voluptuousness, snd almost incapable of a journey into Tartary.If he has fled, he virtually resigns the throne, and perhaps Siog-ko-linsin, or the leader of the Tai- pings, may bid for the sovereignty.The capture of Pekin had become a matter of necessity, not of choice; and it is curious, that spparently without design, the forces of the western nations are once again on the frontier lines of Rumisn conquest.À march of 120 miles from Pekin would lead to the southernwost of the Russian settlements on the Amoor.The future historian, too, will remark that two of the most cruel, the moat faithless, and the most retrogressive of governments fell in the sane yoar.There is a strikiog similarity in the dress station, and policy of the courts of Rome sud of Pekin.The forms of worship are nearly identical.In both countries there are regulars uod irregulars; there ure monks, friars, and nuns.Both governments have been unteachable, and both stunted the human mind.\u2019 From the des- truetion of both will date & new era of civilization and Christianity.\u2014 His Royal the Priace Consort, Chan: cellor of the U niegrsity of Cambridge, being pleased to give sunually & gold medal for the encouragement of English poetry, the Vice-Chancellor gives notice that the nrize will be given this year to such resident undergraduste as shall compose the best Poem on * The Prince of Wales at the Tomb of Washington,\u201d N.B.\u2014The exercises sre to be sent Julian war.Great efforts are made in diplomatic circles to obtain from Austria a transfer of Venetia.The Australien gold diggings, according to letters from Melbourne to £üth October, bad produced 1,620,- 458 oz., being 191,423 oz.fewer than iu the previous year: and bad exported 265,412 oz.less than in 1833, being in value equal to nearly one million sterling.\u2014 The arrivals of British manufactures exceed the demand, and on agitation for a protective duty of ten per cent exists.The Empress of the French has intimated her intention of returning to England next semmer, and of making n tour of visits ia Scotland.There are now no less than six vacant sees in France.The Emperor does not fill them up because he g¥nows the Pope would not confirm his appointments.This state of things cannot last much longer.BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.PriscE ALFRED IN AraicA.\u2014 Prince Alfred seems to curry a friendly memory of Aberdeen and the Scottish north along with bit even to the outof- the-way world of South Africa.While at Natal in the end of September.he paid a visit to the little village of Harrismith, which is so called, we presume, in honour of the lately deceased veteran, whose name it eo closely resembles.The Prince was attended jor Cowell; the young Prince's Governor.An address was very naturally presented to tbe royal youth, not the less heartfelt for the distance from ume, The gentleman appointed to present the address was a gentlemau from Aberdeen, Mr.N.M'Kechnie, son of the late Rev.Mr.M'Kechnie.Woodside.Confectioners are not to be met with at every town in Natal, and Mrs, McKechuie had prepared certain cakes, not, we presume, euch as are most characteristic of * the land o cakes,\u201d for the Prince's refreshment.On bis Royal Highness being informed that they had been made by an Aberdeen lady, he said, brightening up with even a more sunny look than usual, that be knew Aberdeen well, aul for the sake of Aberdeen and the lady together, he asked permission to put the rest of the cakes in his pocket.\u2014 Aberdeen Terald.Tui Pore\u2019s Fisanciat.Empannas-hENTs.\u2014 The Roman correspondent of the Z'inies, writing on 27th ult., says :\u2014In their difliculties the Pope's ministers the have, I understand, applied to the Rothschilds for aid.They were desirous that one of those eminent capitalists should undertake the arrangement of their finances, should put matters into as favourable a train as possible, and also make an advance on resources hereafter to flow in, The agent to whom the plication was made is reported to have suid that wo Mortara affair had very muchindisposed the Jews to render any assistance to the Pope, hat nevertheless be would see what could be done ; and it is said tbat be ended hy accepting the receipt of Peter's pce as the basis of the operation.I kvow not whether it be on the strength of this that some of the papal party have bien heard to any that the trea sury was solvent for the next six months.If thisbe true, which is doubtful, something must have been done to secure supplie, for those that were reckoned upon up to & very short time so were certainly not sufficient to carry on with for that period.Goop News rnom Cuixa.\u2014 Bethel Shipasiailing the Ocean und in Foreign Ports.\u2014The ship ¢* Benefactor,\u201d is already widely known as à sailing letbel, filly named.She was at Hong Kong at latest ad.vices, May 3lat, and thronged religious meetings were held on hoard of her, À letter just received from a pious sailor on bosrd saya :\u2014!¢ God's holy Spirit has heen poured down in showers.The meetings on board the * Benefactor\u2019 have been very precious, aud weny from the English Navy bave met with us.We have often seen the quarter deck decked ous balla but never before for the worship of Almighty God.into the Vice-Chancellor on or before March 1, 1861, and are uot to exceed two hundred lines in length.The meetings have been well attended by captains, officers and men from the merchant ships in port.pt : ; by Sir G.G the Gove f th lony.aud providing necessaries for the troops.If the wea- KA ir G.Grey, the Governar of e colony.an fi \"Our captain bas given us the privilege of going on |board other sbips and to the Bethel to attend prayer meetings.\u201d LooTivu or Tux Emvenor or CHixa's Parace.:\u2014The Emperor's summer palace was only occupied \u201cby 300 eunuchs, and 30 or 40 men in charge of the j gardens.They made a slight show of resistance, when two were killed and two French oflicers wounded.The next day the palace was given up to indie | criminate loot after the French had made the first {selection.The public reception hall, the state and private bediooms, ante-rooms, boudoirs, and every ther apartment bas been ransacked.Aiticles of verfu of native aud foreign workmanship were taken, 1 or broken, if too large to be carried away.Ornameu- tal lattice-work, screens, jade stone ornaments, jars, clocks, watches, and other pivces of mechanism, CuF- tains, and furniture, \u2014noue have escaped frou: destruction.There were extensive wardrobes of every \u201carticle of dress; coats richly embroidered in silk aud | gold thread, in the Imperial dragon pattern, boots, | head-dressex, faus, &e., in fuct rooms all but filled with them.There must bave been 70,000 or 50,000 pieces of silks in rolls, which at Canton cost $20 or $30 each.Huodreds were thrown down sad tram- sled on, and the floor covered thickly with them.Men were throwiug tbem at each other, and all taking as many as they could carry.They were used instead of rope to secure the loading of \u2018carts filled with them.A treasury containing a large quantity of gold ingots and Sycee silver is under charge of a fosrd, and ir to be divided between the English and French.The total value of property destroyed would amouat to a large instalment of the indemnity claimed.A party of the French went through the apartments breaking everything that remained\u2014 mirrors, screens, &c\u2014in revenge for the treatment the released prisoners, their countrymen, had received.Much dissatisfaction has been expressed at the decision of the Commander-in-Chief, that only those of the troops who marched at the last halting-place are tc participate in the prize money ; all the rest, those at the depot at Tung-Chow and elsewhere, being excluded.The Commander-in- Chief and general officers bave waived their right to share.A gold jug of great value was presented to the Commander-in-Chief by the army.A general order from the British Commander-iu-Chief desired that all articles taken by all officers and men were to be sent in for sale by public auction for the benefit of the army, which was done.All were yermitted to have 1h2 articles brought away by themselves valued, and bave the option of taking or rejecting them.Many beautiful and curious souvenirs were thus obtained at a nominal price.The sale realised 32,000 dollars, which, with the.value ofthe treasure, estimated at 61,000 dollars, is to be divided as prize- money on the spot.Tue INconE-TAx IN Ixpia.\u2014The Bombay Gu: zette says, \u2014 We have a budget of bad news to send home this fortnight.From all parts of the country the most gloomy accounts continue to be received of the state of public feeling in reference to the In.come-tax.Since the forms of the returns to be sent iu to Government have been issued, the spirit of opposition to the tax has been revived in an intensified form, and from onc end of India to the other there is universal discontent.In Bombay the old trick of +i shutting up shop\u201d has been tried again, but this time itis likely to be more successful thau before.\u2014 No formal contract has Leen entered into, but there is a general understanding that business shall be sus- nded altogether till be Income/tax is abolished.The movement began in the country from which bardly à single order for goods has been received for some time past.Now the native dealers of Bombay have joined in it, and for the last week it has been utterly impossible for wholesale dealers to sell a piece of cloth in the bazaar.The resolution of the native merchants is, to get rid of the stocks in hand, and then close their shops.It is even reported that the grain merchants bave given directions to their Mo- ussil agents to send no more grain into Bombay.Tue Late Captain Axpersox.\u2014The intelligence from China regarding the murder of Captain or Lieu tenant Anderson, when a prisoner in the hands of 1.|the Chinese, will create special pain in Scotland among many relatives and friends.Captain Ander son, though only twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age.had rendered distinguished services in India, and had already attained celebrity and trust in the forces employed under Sir lope Grant in China.When the mating in India broke out, he accompanied his regiment, the Bombay Fusiliers, to the Punjaub, where he greatly distinguished himself.He was afterwards attached to \u2018* Modson's Horse,\u201d in which celebrated force he acted as brigade-major, serving with it at Lucknow.After the suppression of the mutiny, he applied for employment in the Expedition to China, and from his acknowledged ability he was appointed to an important command in Fane's Irre- ar Cavalry.He distinguished himself particular- fr with the Cavalry Brigade previous to and during the taking of the Taku Forts; and it is inferred that he had heen selected to the honour of commandin the escort accompanying the English and French diplomatic officers who wero 80 basely betrayed and 80 cruelly treated.In private life, Lieutenant Anderson, from his amiable aud generous disposition, was greatly beloved by bis many friends.\u2014 Scotsman.TREATMENT oF ThE Pnisoxkrs.~The Hong Kong overland Register of Uct.20 states that Captain Anderson and Mr, do Norman died from the effects of the brutal trestment of their Tartar captors.A sergeant of the Sikh cavalry bas deposed that all the prisoncrs were most inhumanly used, having their wrists bound with cords and an insuflicient quantity of food supplied them.No information has heen obtained about Captain Israbazon aud Mr, Boulby, the Times special correspondent.À letter from the camp says that Mossra.l\u2019urkes and Luck, whilet with San-ko-lin-sin's army, were forced to kneel before every mandarin, however petty, and have their faces rubbed in the dust.\u2018l'hey werc bound with their hands behind them nnd carried on horses to Tung-chow, and thence in the same state, in one of the carts of the country, to Pokin, when they were placed in dungeons, and remained so for some time.Mr.Parkes was beaten when be did not instantly roply to a question, and Me.Loch because bo could not speak Chinese.\u2014 Me.Layard, the calebrated Nineveh and Baby- fon man, has been elected for Bouthwark in the room of 8ir Charles Napier, deceased.Esronts ror THE FaLLxy.\u2014A report has been issued as to the results of the midnight meeting movement in London to rescue fallen women.These mectings have been beld for a period of nine months, twelve of which bave had for their object the liberation of English women, and two have been devoted to French women of the same class, who abound in the metropolis.It is cstimated that these meetings have been attended by 2,100 females, of whow up wards of two hundred have been taken from the course of life they were jursuing: and this success bas resolved the promoters of the original movement to resume the meetings during the ensuing winter.Resvuprioy oF THE Mipsicur Megrixeas,.\u2014Afler su interval of about four months, the gentlemen form: ing the Committee for carrying out the Midnight Meeting movement for the reclamation of fallen women, determined to recommence holding the meetings at the West Eud and otber paris of the metropolis, and to continue them not only throughout the winter, but up to August next, if they are enabled to do sn.The proceedings of the first of these series of gatherings were brought to a close at three o'clock on Saturday morning, when more than twenty of the unfortunate women accepted the invitation offered them, and left the St.James's Restaurant in Regent street in cabs, and accompanied by some members of the committee, to the homes belonging to the tocieties connected witb the movement.\u2014 London Paper.Resisrous Wasu-HousEs.\u2014A journal of Augsburg cuntains the following singular announcement : ** We think right to call general attention to the public wash-house of the hospital of this town, which is perfectly organized in every respect.Not only bave all the latest jmprovements been introduced into it, but regard is had to the difference in religious creeds of the customers.Thus the linen of Roman Catholics and that of Protestants are washed in separate tubs.The washed linen is afterward placed in a wheel which, it is true, is consecrated to both forms of worship, and there, by a centrifugal apparatus belonging equally to botb religions, it is freed from the water it contains.But the Roman Catholic linen is afterward carried into the Catholic drying-place, and the Protestant into that appointed for sel, and then it is distributed to its owners.\u201d Tne Mortara Case.\u2014We are giad to learn that the agitation for the release of the child Mortara is not being allowed to rest.The Jewish Chronicle states that one of the chief advocates at the Paris bar is engaged to draw up a memorial for French use.The French Jews propose that the father Mortara shall be invited to come to Paris, and that tbe action of the deputations shall be in support of his paternal claims.The Jewish president, M.Car- valho, in a letter, says, \u2018 May God touch the heart of Sovereigns, and deliver this child from the spiritual and temporal Egypt which bolds him! The next step will be for the Jews of France to assure themselves of the co-operation of Israelites of other countries.Of the unanimity of Protestants there can be no doubt.\u201d Farnen Dauy iv TrovnLe.\u2014The Galway Findi- cator states that the horse and car of Father Daly have been seized by the collector of income-tax.The reverend gentleman bad driven to the Galway lauk, leaving bis vehicle outside while he transacted his business.On coming out be found two sturdy fellows in possession of his goods and chattels.It ia said that he owes many years of the tax to scveral collectors.DistraixT For Easter Dves.\u2014The town of Ac- cringtou was the scene of great excitement on Monday last.Two of ita citizens has been distrained in | payment of the Easter dues, and Monday was the ay appointed for the sale of the boots which had been takrn from one, and of the watches which had been taken from another.Iefore the sale com: menced a great meeting was held, at which speeches coudemnatory of the system of compulsory payments for religious purposes were delivered.Rie auc tioneer was considerably frightened, but this happily was the worst thing that happened.Cost oF Excrism Nrwsearens,\u2014-The Loudon daily newspapers cost more than double the price pai for the best daily journals in the United States, he London Daily News cost $17.50 a year, the Advertiser $19.50, Chronicle, $19.50, Post, 822,50, Times, 825.The ¢Thunderer\u201d is furnished by London agents on the second day after its publication, at the rate of $19.50 per annum.Winter Garpexs.\u2014Some of the grand people of Paris have bad their garden roofed over wäth glass, and converted, with the aid of hot air and ejxtensive importation of flowers, into !\u2018 the most chaÿming of winter Paradises,\u201d\u2019 where they receive their visitors and give clegant little fetes champetres, to tthe great * admiration of those who are invited, and theyequally , great despair of those who are not.; Russia 1x THE CRIMEA AND AT THE AMOR.\u2014A St.Petersburg letter states that the Itussian %;overu- ment is taking measures to re-people the (yrimen, , and that the colonization of the country Jon the Amoor is also advancing.ST.Gronok's-15-Tité-EasT.\u2014The Bishop of L ondon has issucd & monition interdicting the Romish form of altar, and other innovations at St.George's n-tho- Vast.The curate las therefore resigned.\u2014 The Cardinal Archbishop having arrived at Naples, manifestations against Lin took place L efore bis palace.Sumo shouted \u201cthe Pope for ever!\u201d and others \u201cGaribaldi forever !\u201d A riot then en, wed.The mob besieged the palace and tried to set wt on fire, The disorder lasted 18 hours, and only tefrmin.ated when the Archbishop appeared on tho ba lcony holding tbe Italian tri-go red lag.\u2014 Latters have been received from Fort Ru pert, from Captain Richards, R.N., who is surveying at that place, to the effect that upwards of 700 or 800 Indians were going through the most frightful 0) gies some days since under the wild excitement of a ok, supplied them by the Hudson's Bay Company.«= Tho members of three bodies of Methodiat® in Preston\u2014Wesloyan, l\u2019rimitive, and Free Chnrch\u2014 have held in the Corn Iixcbange of that town, 5! reat demonstration against the liquor traffic and, the riuking habits of the country.\u201d \u2014 Of twelve thousand miles of submarine cables laid in various\u2018places, thers are not now twelve hjan-|.dred miles in working order.The only route for» world telegraph is by Bebring'a Birsits, where the cables can laid, and, if necessary, and ', paired, as tho water is only two hundred feet deep JANUARY 5, (561.| American Press.TRE SECESSION MOVEMENT\u2014REAL UB- JECTS OF THE REVOLUTIONISTS.(From Tribune Special Correspondent.) Wasmscrox, Dec.24, 1860.Day by day it grows more aud more clear that the object of the revolutionists is to break up the Union, not for the purpose of separatin the slave- holding from the non-slaveholding States, but to form a new Union and Constitution, constructed for the nationalization and perpetuation of Slavery.The expectation is that the secession of a certain number of States, with all the agitation and apprehension that will grow out of it, will politically revolutionize enough ofthe Free States to enable the Slaveholding States to accomplish this purpose.And the calcula: tion is a very simple one.be Slavery people demand Constitutional guaranties on these points: 1.That property in slaves shall be put on the footing of all other property in the Territories and in the States.2.That the slasebolders sball be protected in all the Territories, and Slavery be established therein by constitutional provision.3.That Slavery shall not be abolished in the District of Columbia, in the National Dockyards, Forts, or elsewhere, under National jurisdiction, and the inter-State slave traffic shall not be forbidden.These and kindred provisions referring to Fugitive Slave laws, Personal Liberty bills, &c., incorporated into the Constitution, will make the new Union, in the language of Mr.Lincoln, \u201call slave.\u201d Tn other words, it will make it a thorougb-going slaveholding confederacy.There are difliculties in the scheme, but uiter all, it may prove more feasible than many now are vil- ling to admit.f ten of the Free States can be won over under the fright and terror of dissolution.that is enough to consummate it.The question is, are those ten States to be found ?Let it be remembered that the threatened alternative of the modest gentlemen and patriots who propose and advocate the scheme, is the destruction of the Government, civil war, and universal ruin.1 remarked a week or two ago that, withall South Carolina's apparent precipitancy, it was very likely that even that excessively pugnacious community would pretermit her assault on Fort Moultrie, and otherwise omit important acts of sovereignty that seemed imminent on secession aking place.It turns out that all this is entirely true, and that ali resistance to the United States authority ia postponed to a more convenient season.It will undoubtedly seem incredible to moderate men that this audacious secession movement has simply the purposes in view I Lave here suggested.But there are, nevertheless, the best of reasons for believing that such are the ends its more wary leaders aim at.itis confidently believed thatthe whole line of border Free States can be got into the project, and that the commercial interests of New-York will bring her in also.As to New-England, the contrivance looks to her possible expulsion, or her voluntary de- clipation to accede to the terms of the proposed reconstruction.It ia not really desired or expected to obtain any concessions of the character demanded out of the present Con, It is not supposed that either that body or the times are ripe.It is not any part of the plan to sare the Union.The design is to break it up, with a view to bring down the Free States to propose or acquiesce in its reconstruction on the terms the Sluveholding States are willing to accept.There are no signs that I can see of war, or blood: shed, or resistance to Federal authority even in the Seceding States.They will threaten it all, in their attitude of secession, after they shall have withdrawn, unless the Free States come to terms.1 think I sce all this, in the guarded and often preguaut language of the leaders of the movement, and in their coolness of demeanor, in view of what seems to so many an imminent, dire catastrophe.Unless this be so, we hare some surprising impersonations of imperturba- ility.No doubt the plan is a Lold onc, environed by difficulti-s and dangers great enough to affright many leading men in the Slaveholding States.It tries the nerves of thousands who silently watch, or gently express resistance.It alarms conservative minds.But the schemo is nevertheless characteristic of the Slavery lenders, nnd its success is predicated on the fears of the North, und the honest desire of the people everywhere not to see this Union broken up, or incur the risk of having the Government broken down by revolutionists.f is a case in which timidity is expected to yield to audacity.Is it an unreasonable expectation, or does the plan differ from the usual methods by which mankind have been enerally ruled?Why, then, shouldn't it succeed ?\u2018an the Free States bold steady under the pressure ?We shall see.J.8.P.THE CRISIS.(From the Boston Recorder.) We ought to consider it a great favor if Christ should come forth in the midst of this tempest and hush the winds and waves, 50 as to secure tv us unharmed our much valued Union, And yet, perbaps, he is Jreparing some better things for us, and for his king- om bere.l\u2019erhaps he has n design to make two na tions out of the two forms of civilization, which hitherto, though with conflicting interests, have been hound together in our Union.Perhaps he designs 10 set that part of our nation which repels slavery Ly itaolf ; so that it may develop itself antrammelled and go forth upon the great West, with institutions the freest possible.And perhaps he designs to set forth those institutions which embrace domestic slavery, to stand by themselves, and work out their true nature.Derbaps be has à grand problem of this nature to solve for the instruction ofthe world.And if so, all our efforts to preserve the Union will be prevailing.Then while we would say nothing to diminish any onc\u2018e sense of the value of the Union, or efforts to presorre it, we would persuado to calmness in nwait ug the purpcse which God ivanfolding.Lt is quite ible, afterall, that a better state ef things may secured to the States that do not secede, by the departure of those that now propose to go.And | | THE MONTREAL WITNESS.the storm that is now passing may be followed by brighter suns than we have yet seen.\u2018ere we inhabitants of the Stat~s now threaten ing secession, and were we required to face all the perils that are open to them, we should indeed be disusyed.But the evils which are in prospect for ts at the North, we may calmly snd submissively endure, thankful that we are delivered from those peculiar to the South ; and thankful for the assurance which we have, that God will bring good out of the evil.Whatever may be the case at the South, where a monarchy is dimly foreshadowed, we may be sure, that at the North, though tbe Union dies, free insti: tutions will live ; and United States will still expand upon a space broad enough for a vast nation.° THE DISTRESS IN KANSAS.Gen.8.C.Pomeroy, the Chairman of the Committee for the distribution of the aid sent to Kansas, writes as follows in regard to the suffering and want that comes under his observation: \u2014 # No one of us has yet realized the distress, even now, of our people.More than fifty teams from the remote counties are camped in about town, \u2018 waiting for the cars to come in.\u2019 We bave bad some delay in the trains, but I expect all the back cars loaded for this place will be in to-morrow.+ But what is a car load \u2018among so many ?\u2019 Some men have waited here eight days : \u2018 left their families with nothing but buffalo meat,\u201d and \u2018 dare not return without bread.4] have not received a boot or shoe yet.Men come a long distance with home made shoes of raw buffalo hide, and tell me their \u2018 families have notbing.I have received one roll of cloth to-day from Galesburg by express \u2018 free'\u2014the first contribution.Galesburg & Knoxville continue to be first among the foremost.What a good people they must be! When I told a good lady that Mr.Burdett came all the way with his car load, and saw such a demand for more that he went immediately back for another load, \u2018 Ah, said she, ¢ tell me his name again.I want to call my baby after him.\u2019 i The weather begins to get cold.Ice is running iv the river; the winds blow a piercing and mournful blast ; every gale that sweepe across the prairie is full of tidings of sorrow.Little children are crying for bread; strong men who look bold and defiant, will ask me out of my office to some retired corner, where they can tell me a tale of sorrow that would break down the proudest heart, always urging me not to tell or publish their case.Men who stand proudly among their fellows, will bow as tender and subdued as children when telling me of their last \u201cloaf of bread,\u201d of the sick * wife or child who can't eat coro meal,\u201d and beg flour for the sick ones.\u201c1 have heard enough within one week to makea volume.I cannot write more.\u201d SECESSION ITEMS.(From N.Y.Tribune, Dec.31st.) The release of the Captain of the slaver \u2018Bonita\u2019 at Charleston, on Saturday, shows clearly the spirit of the organized mob which now rules South Carolina with a merciless despotisin.That mob aims at the reopening of the slave trade, and will not tolerate the punishment of slavers.And yet these insane plotters affect 10 believe that they will be supported y the public opinion of the civilized world! It appears by Secretary Floyd's letter of resignation that there has been à sort of secret treaty between the Executive of the United States and the revolutionists of South Carolina.Congress should at once look into this.By what right does the President enter into negotiations with meu who openly avow their purpose to destroy the Government?What waa it that has covered the name of Benedict Arnold with eternal infamy ?In the Committee of Thirty-Three on Saturday, the proposal to establish Slavery south of 36° 30 was rejected ; and thereupon three Soutbern members withdrew.Then the rest of the Committce agreed to admit New-Mexico as a Slave State ; and that proposition will be reported to the House as the result of the Committee\u2019s labors.Some of the more decided Hepublicans opposed it, and very properly too, as we think.The South Carolina mob on Saturday captured a United States revenue cutter, in Charleston harbor, the officer in command resiguing just beforeband, His behaviour is doubtless the Heation of chivalry, and he will no doubt be rewarded by a commission as Admiral in the navy of the new nation.We do not understand that the United States Government contemplate recoveriug the captured vessel.Mr.Buchanan probably fears that to reclaim it would lead not to a collision with South Carolina, but to that assassination of himself by some Southern hero, the fear of which he has of late repeatedly and weep- ingly avowed.r.Floyd, Secretary of War, after being cngaged in jobs and swindles to the tune of & million an half, finally goes out of office because seventy-fire soldiers have been moved from one United States fort to another! Ile ought to have been dismissed ignominionsly by the verdict of the proper tribunal, Instead of this, he resigns on a question of principle and goss home, like the late Secretary of the Treasury, to promote openly the treason which be has secretly used all his oflicisl power to favor.Such are the traitors who, by a dispensation of Providence, have had à temporary control of the Government.But, thank God! another class of men are coming in.TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.Bostox, Dec.30, 1860.\u2014Three buildings in Kingston Street were partially destroyed by fire this morning ; loss about $8,000, The Suffolk lend Works were damaged by fice to-day to the amount of $10,000.Cuantestos, Doc, 31, 1860.\u2014The Prepident stated that tlie question before the body yesterday on the closing of the secret session, was à resolution relative to tho removal of the lighthouse nnd buoys.Me.Chestnut moved they go Into secret session.Cuarcæston, Jan.1.\u2014In the Convention (be President received & bighly important communication from Commissioners at Washington, and immediately went into weoret scesion.Commander L'ettigrew, of Castle Pinkney, issucd orders against the approach of boats to the wharf under serious penalty.The lsdies have tendered their services at the forts.The Palmette Guards have charge of the arsenal, where the Pulmetto flag waves, appointed Commissioners to Alabama, Florida, Missis- pi, Arkansas and Georgis.An ordinance in secret session was passed, definiog and punishing treason with death without the benefit of clergy.Wasuixstrox, Jan.1.\u2014An earnest address to the people of tbe United States is prepared, recoromendiog thers tu rally to compromise on basis of propositions of Senators Crittenden and Bigler.The sloop-of-war * Brooklyn,\u201d at Norfolk, is officered and manned for any emergency.Deputy Sergeant-at-arms is now in New York summoning witnesses in Bailey's case.Russell will be bailed to-day, Cuanrestoxn, Jan.1.\u2014 À Baltimore despatch, in which Henry W.Davis figures, says the Committee of 23 have agreed upon an amicable adjustment of the Southern difficulties.A general ojrinion ia that the des- patchis false.[1 may have some bearing oa the contemplated attack on Fort Sumpter.Wasmsutox, Jan.1\u2014The Foreign Ministers, in court costume, and afterwards the Army and Navy Officers, paid their respects to the President.Paitanezemia, Jan.2\u2014Three salutes, of 33 guns each, were fired in honor of Major Anderson.21 were fired at Trenton, N.J., yesterday.Wasimyaros, Jan.2.\u2014In the Senate, Mr.Davis of Mississippi, offered a resolution authorizing the President to withdraw the Federal garrisons from South Carolins, and directing him to recognize ber right to keep troops, and ships of war.Not acted upon.Caanuestos, Jan, 2.\u2014The President announced the result of the balloting for Commissioners in certain States.The Convention then went into secret session, to ballot for Commissioners to Georgia and Texas.The Columbia artillery, numbering 50 men, arrived bere at 1 o'clock to-day, and proceeded to the Harbor.They will use cannon belonging to Charleston.2000 pounds of powder bave been ordered to one of the forts.BaLTixoux, Jan.2.\u2014The special correspondent of the American, at Charleston, furnishes the following items :\u2014 Military operations are very active, and every point of importance is fully maintained.The attitude of the Administration is regarded as warlike.If the worst comes, Carolina will meet it though the people are cast down.The city i nightly patrolled by the military.It is proposed to starve out the troops at Fort Sumpter, and then attack them on rafts with the aid of the batteries already erected.No clearances for vessels have been made out under the new regime.The first vessel that arrives from Lir- erpool will create & rumpus.Savor Hook, Dec.31, 1850.The \u201c Kangaroo,\u201d Liverpool 19th, bas arrived.She was detained at Queenston until the morning of tbe 21st, to carry the mail destined ria Galway.The « Kangaroo\u201d baa 33 cabin and 190 steerage passen- Ts.The « Africa\u201d arrived ont on the 19th.The Russian Government have received news of the conclusion and ratification of peace in China.The allies had evacuated Pekin, to which city the Emperor was about to return.New Yonx, January 3, 1861.The \u2018 Australasian\u201d left Queenston on 24th Dec.Daesos, Saturday cvening.\u2014The official Dresden Journal to-day apnouuces that the King, after Laving suffered during six days from gevere cold, was attacked on Friday with measles.The Ministry are entrusted with the entire direction of the Government during the illness of the King.Liverroor Markers, Dec.24.\u2014Breadsiuffs firm, and tendency upwards.Coro a sbade dearer\u2014Mixed and Yellow, 39s.Provisions unchanged.Consots 22: to 92; on account es dividend.AMERICAN NEWS.Merisy ox Shirpoanp\u2014 TRE Cartais's Sox MuR- perkb.\u2014The clipper-ship ** Hussar\u2019 of New-Bedford.Capt.Howland, srrived last evening from Batavia and Padang, baving on board twenty-four prisoners, the mutineers of the ship Staghound,\u201d\u201d among whom is James Morris, who, in an affray on board, stabbed the second officer, a son of Capt.Hussey, of the \u201c Staghound.\u201d His wounds terminated fatally after lingering nine days in great azony.Morris also stabbed the first officer, but the injuries were slight, and he recovered.The prisoner Morris is a low, thick seamen, about 27 years of age.sandy complexion, moustaches, and imperial, intellizent, and very communicative.He states that he, as well as the rest of the crow, was badly treated during the passage, but always obeyed orders, as given by the oflicers.He gives the following account of the occurrence :\u2014The ship having a cargo of 100 coolies, it was necessary to keep a strict watch upon them, or they would rise and endeavor to take ion of the vessel.Upon this occasion, the hatches being open for ventilation, the coolies took advantage of it and rose en wnasse, and endeavored to take possession of the ship.The crew, foremost among whom 8 was himself, made an onstaught upon them, and after killing a number, and driving others into the sea succeeded in getting the remainder below.Subsequently Morris says he was ill treated and abused for not making more efforts than he did to suppress the outbreak ; and upon the occasion of the fatal encoun: ter, ho waa crossing the bridge, (about three feet wide) leading from the poop to the main deck house, when the second officer (Mr.Hussey, the deceased) called him some hard names, which he took no no tice of.Îlussey theu seixed a large bucket, and knocked him down.After recovering from the blow aud while under great excitement, he drew his sheath- knife, which was at his side, aud plunged it into Hussey\u2019s abdomen.Hussey then ran to the cabin, but scarcely hag he (Morris) left the bridge, when the first oflicer made an attack upon him, when he also stabbed him.The entire crew, upon hearing of the occurrence, immediately refused duty, and with: out making any resistance, were allowed to be imprisoned.They had twenty-four ren who have been nine nionths in prison.Visit or Prixex ALrasp.\u2014 You are to have ano ther royal visitor in the course of the next few months, Her Majesty's second son, Prince Alfred, is about to cross North Atlantic, in pursuance of hia naval training as a ¢ middy.\u201d His Royal Higbuoess, who has only returned from a rather extensive cruise in the South Atlantic, is shortly to join, it is stated, the + Bt.George,\u201d 90, screw, Captain the Hon, F.Kger- at Plymouth, for the ** Euryalus.\u201d The Rev.L.Onslow, chaplain and naval instructor of the 11 The President of the Convention has | latter ship, will also join the \u2018 St.ieorge,\u201d as special instructor to the Prince.Mr.Harris, one of the midshipmen of the * Euryalus,\u201d son of Capt.Harris of the * Britannis, ?training ship at Portsmouth, has been sclected to accompany the Prince in the \u201cSt.fieorge.\u201d* In this ship the royal midshipman will visit the West India Islands and North America.He is almost sure, therefore, to put in at some one or other of your ports, perhaps New-York.It is gratifying to find that her Snjerty has selected a clergyman of the Church of England as the special instructor to ber son during the journeying through the perils of the great deep.Prince Alfred is now in his seventeenth year, and is highly spoken of as à youth of intelligence and spirit, while at the same time he possesses all the kindness and smisbility of disposition which his royal parents so fully display.\u2014 English Cor.of N.Y.Churchman.Liscoin's CHARACTER £Y à Fairsn.\u2014He never gets in debt\u2014enters into nn speculations, but bas pursued his profession and the acquirement of know- edge with unwearied diligence.He earned the name of \u2018 Honest Abe\u2019 yearsago, for, from him, all felt that they would always get an honest legal opinion.If the party could not convince him De had right and equity on bis side, he would not espouse it for love or mosey, for friend or fue, but if be could make it appear that his cause was just, rich or poor, he would take bold of it with all his powers, and a knowledge of this fact had great weight with the Court and Jury.He has not been known to utter an oath, or taste a drop of any intoxicating liquor for twenty years, and we always supposed be was a member of the Presbyterian church, which he regularly attended, waking part in the Sabbath school exercises : but my wife, who is a member, says he is not a communicant, though his wife is.An adversary cannot scare or drive him, and what is more, no \u2018man living, however great his friend, can per- susde him from dvinz what be ibinks is right, or turn him from a known path of duty, to the right or left.I tell you he is a real ¢ Old Hickory\u2019 yet be is a fine, good-natured, genial companion: in short.be is the best man J ever was acrjusinted with, and you may rely upon it he will prove himself equal to the position assigned him.A Casiser APPOISTMEST.\u2014The St.Louis Democrat, on Friday last, states with \u2018tbe permission of both Mr.Lincoln and Mr.Bates,\u201d that Hon.Edward Bates, of St.Louis, will occupy a seat in Mr.Lincoln's cabinet.The department to be assigned to Mr.Bates, is not yet determined upon.The Ic.terior has been suggested, but it seems more probable from his professional eminence that be will receive the Attorney-Generalship.Aside from all special fitness of this sort, however, the country has cause to rejoice at this excellent selection.He has been known very widely as a statesman of sound and moderate views, wise and practical in his judgment, and epjoying the froits of a long experience, without ever having been reckoned as a politician.His name is a guaranty to All parts of the country.for the prudence and impartial pstriot- ism of the new administration.\u2014 The Albany Evening Journal has intellige.ce from South Carolina to the effect that the Convention in secret session has imposed a tax of $16 a head upon all the slaves in the State.As South Carolin owas in round numbers 400,000 slaves, the aggregate product of such a tax would be #,100,000.This is a large sum to be taken from the pockets of the slave-owners : but it will not last long in that war against the United States which South Carolina seems to be bent on undertaking.The fact that suchatax bas been decreed shows that the ides put forth some time since by an up-country member of the Legisls- tute, that the property in whose interest the revolution is special!y vi fertaken should be made to pay its cost, bas beeu adopted by the Convention.However, if matters go on long at the present rate, there will be no property of any sort left in the State.Crstopy or THE BrreE CRILDREN.\u2014It was an: nounced a fow days ago that the question of the custody and care of the children of Mr.aud Mrs.Burch had been brought before the Court by a writ of habeas corpus.A dispatch, received in Albany on Friday evening, states that the care of the youngest child \u201chas been awarded, by order of the Court, to Mrs.Burch.Deatn reom Bervisc.\u2014Ann Elizabeth Moore.the little girl who was so terribly injured in consequence of her clothes taking fire, on Tuesday morning, on Washington strect, expired this morning.Her age was tive vears and one mouth\u2014Harerhill Publisher.\u2014 The London correspondent of The NewOrleans Delta says there is talk in England of permitting the Prince of Wales to break through the live of blood royal marriages and seek a lady to share the throne with bim, wherever be lists.The match with Prussia is broken off, and the chances for an advant us match with royalty being very few, the non-blood royal may bare the privilege of furnishing a Queen for England.\u2014 A letter from New Orleans, dated Dec.8, says : + Commission houses here bave stopped makiog ad vauce, on negroes.There is un average decline of four hundred dollars ju the value of ney com- red with last seas.n, aud the trade is dull.\u201d Robert White, special Commissioner at Romney, Virginis, sold on Thursday ast, a ne, man, about 35 years, and a good blacksmith, for $300.Two months ago he would bave brought $1,500.\u2014 Dir.Wickham, who has been on trial at Sussex, N.J., for the murder, by poison, of Mrs.Cole, bas been convicted of wurder in the second degree.It appears that he induced the husband to obtain an in- surnace upon her life for #3000, and then deliberate: ly ndministered poison, just as the poor woman was recovering from the exhaustion of childbirth, \u2014 As evidence of the little regard felt for buman life in Washington, it is only necessary to refer to the fact that a couple of men were shot near the Navy- yard on Wednesday, within sight of the national capitol, in » political emeute, and an ofticer of the municipal authorities was nearly beaten to death, without eliciting scarcely a passing reloark from usually well: informed citizens.NE \u2014 Rev.J.C.Fletchepin a recent lecture on Brasil, said the press was as fête Ÿ Brazil as in New York: and the br requires 4 nter to be paid both his paper and advertisements in advance.; \u2014The South Caroline semapapers head their extracts from the New York jouraals-* The Foreign Press.\u201d .Ce ype oo re mer 12 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.JANUARY 5, 1861.\"Montreal Witness\u201d for 1861, ontreal wimess\u201d for 1001, The MONTREAL WITNESS is nom-scelarian in religion, though very decidedly Evangelical in its tone and influence.11 is free from party politics.though strongly im favor of truth, justice and freedom.It spares mo pains to keep up with the news of the day, and is a relisble commercial record.11 also devotes much space to literature snitable for family reading, and altogether is designed to be equally in: teresting to young and old of bath sexes.The Minister, the Merchant.the Farmer.and the family, will, it is hoped.find it alike :nteresting.Of this paper three editions are published as under :\u2014 The DAILY WITSESS, contalniag 4 pages, is published crery afternoon.and sent by the evening malls at $3 per aspam.The city is supplied by news-venders.The MosTREAL WITNK&5, containing 5 pages, is pub lished every Wednesday and Saturday morning, and sent by the early morning mails at $2 per annum.When sent by carriers 1a the city, the price is $3.The WEEKLY WITNESS, containing 12 pages.Is published every Thursday mornimy.and sent by mail at 81.500.per Anum.1a all the abore editions the price is uniform\u2014payadle in sdvance\u2014and the paper stops when the subscription expires, unless renewed.The portage is payable by the Sudseriber, quarterly in advance,at his own Post office, at the rate of half-a-cent cach umber.For all Sudscribers out of Canada.half a-cent a Number is to be remitted with, and ia addition to.the Subscription price.Al Subecriptions and Communications to be addressed to JOHX DOUGALL, PROFRIETOR © WITSE>4,\" MONTREAL.THE VIENESS.SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 1861.Cosrxxts or Ixsipr Paczs.\u2014Second page: \u2014* The Capture of Pekin.\u201d \u2018 News by British Mail.\u201d \u201c British and Foreign News.\u201d Third page :\u2014* The Secession Morement\u2014Real Object of the Revolutionists.\u201d The Crisis.\u201d \u201c The Distress in Kansas.\u201d * Secession Items.\u201d ¢ Telegraphic Items.\u201d \u201c American News.\u201d Sixth and Seventh pages: \u2014\" Winter.\u201d * On the Rise and Progress of the Reformation in Scotland.\u201d \u201c Selections.\u201d \u201c Happy Land not Far Away.\u201d \u2018 Rest in Jesus.\" \u201cDeacon Kass and his Clashviile Friends.\" \u201cMore Priestly Will Making.\u201d \u2018 Christian Treasury.\u201d Tue Pazxicm Liskaries.\u2014The offer which we made of Sabbath School Lioraries to those who would remit the largest lists of subscribers for 1861, has scarcely elicited any response.The said lists, in order to compete, were to be sent not later than 35th December, \u2014one object being to forestall the great press of business \u2018which annually occurs on and about New Year's Day ; but tbe ouly considerable lists sent on or before 25th December, are sach as bave been forwarded annually for years back, aud therefore the object we had in view, namely, to obtain @ large accession of sub- seribere, bas not been answered.Nevertheless, the aid Jists are fully entitled to the premiums, and all tbe more that the gentlemen who sent them bare for years been kind and efficient friends of the Wines.The $50 Library goes to Mr.Dallas, Orillia, who remitted for a list amounting to $64.46.The 25 Library goes to Mr.Brodie, Quebec, who remitted $31.The $12 Library goes to Mr.T.T.Higgiason, of Hawkesbury, who remitted $30.The $6 Library goea to a gentleman ia Melrose, who does not wish bis name published.He remitted $20.The parties above-named will please send instructions a3 to the kind of books they wish sent, and they will be forwarded, at wholesale prices, to the amount named ; but carrisge will be paid by the receiver.If any one prefers carb, he may draw at sight for the amount, or let us know how to remit it.New Yxaus Day ix MosTREaL.\u2014The ceiebration of this day began with watch-night services in the Metbo- dist Churches.Tbe sermon in Great St.James Strcet Church was by Rev, Mr.Bcrymgeour, of ihe Free Church of Scotland, and the midnight prayer by Rev.Mr.Howard.The audience was large, comprising a considerable attendance from other denominations.Whilst religious people were thus engaged, or at home, a great number of frolicksome youths, such as are called in Scripture vain fellows, were parading the streets in sleigbs or on fool, \u201c waking the dull ear of night\u201d with all kinds of noises.A party of them passing the Wesleyan Church when (be meeting was dismissed, struck up, \u201cOn Caanan's Happy Shore we'll meet to part no more,\u201d ke.I: was difficult to say whetber one should be more pleased to find that Sabbath Bschool instruction reaches such youtbs, or grieved that it Las not more effect upon them.The morning broke in the midst of à fall of snow, which cootinued till after noon,\u2014tbe temperature being very mild throughout the day.Shortly after nine o'clock the Sabbath Hchools began to assemble, and those of five or six denominations united, as usual, iv the American Presbyterian Church, where the services were exceedingly appropriate and impressive.There was also a great gathering in the Wesleyan Church, and the schools of the Chareb of Scotland snd Church of England met, we believe, In their respective schoolrooms.Before these meetings were ove:, the great business of the dey\u2014paying visita\u2014had begus, and the streets were pretty full of callers 0.foot and in sleighs, by eleven o'clock.This old French custom, which used to extend over a week at the New Year, is vow ina great measure confined to New Years Day itself: and hence those who bave many calls to make, have to begin earlier and cootinne later.Nome began their rounds yesterday shortly after ten in the morning, and some con\u2019inued till after six inthecvening.Throughout the dey the greatest good humor prevailed, and everybody wished everybody else a happy New Year.In 00 house visited by us were there any symptoms of intoxicating drinks: but we met with rome old stagers who said that in every house they bad visited,\u2014and the fact might have been juferred from their chirruping appearance, though they bad not mentioned it-\u2014 liquors were zet forth in abundance, So very different and cven opposite may be tbe experience of those who keep different kinds of company.Towards the afier- noon, also, companies of youtbs in sleighs and on foot were going about, evidently the worse of liquor; so that, though upon the whole our New Years Day showed a great deal less intemperance than in the olden times, or than a New York or Scotch New Years Day at present, yet there was a painful amount of it even in this favored city in 186], thirty-three Fears after ibe commencement of the temperance refor- wation.Fier Derantuest.\u2014Mr.Bertram, the Chief of the Fire Department of this city, has presented his report for the past year, from which we glean the following par- tieulars :\u2014 In course of 1860 the Brigade was called out 97 times, 47 being false alarms.Two fires happened outside the city Limits.The number extinguished Ly use of the bydrants was 32 : the aid vf the Department for the re- maïnder was not needed.Only one house was totally destroyed, which was situated at a higher level than the reservoir.The number of fires in each Ward.with the loss sustained, were :\u2014 Fires, Amount loss, 81,015 Total.Amount Insured.Excese of 10ss over Insnrance Number of Stone and Bri Number of Wooden do.The Chief recommends the adoption of the American system of Fire-Alarm-Telegraphs.Altogether bis report is a satisfactory one; the Brigade is in à high state of efficiency: the working expense is reduced to the minimum; and in various ways the men have contributed materially to reducs the city's pecuniary outlay.Fizes.\u2014On Monday night, about 10 o'clock, there was an alarm of fire, caused by the igniting of some clothes hung up in 8 garret room, in premises on St.Paul Street, opposite the Barracks.The firemen were promptly on the spot, and soon confined the flames to the room where it originated: the damage is covered by insurance.The house is owned by Hon.Mr.Cartier, and is occupied by à number of females.\u2014The alarm last night about © o'clock, was occasioned by the bura- ing of a foul chimney of a house on Bonaventure Street.Tus ICE-DEIDGE\u2014FATAL ACCIDENT.\u2014The ice has taken opposite the city, but no road bas been branched out, and crossing is not attempted.A boy fell through yesterday, but was rescued.Sleighs have been crossing this morning at Longueuil, but the patb is very uncertain ; and the comparatively bigh temperature to-day will render it more so.Three men tried to cross at Longueuil last week ; they all broke through, two disappearing altogether, the third, being caught by the arms, was frozen in.He was rescued, and narrowly escaped death from the exposure, Excitins News raon Tue UnittD Statzs.\u2014There were rumours afloat last week that a slave-insurrection was imminent in the south-western part of Georgia, and that planters were preparing to send their wives and young children fo the Norih !\u2014but it lacked confirmation.Tbe latest advices from Washington are to tbe effect, that Major Anderson would not be withdrawn from Fort Sumpter iu the meantime, the seces- sioniets in the cabinet haviog bern outvoted on the question ; the President, however, distinctiy declared that the gallant Major would be censured for disobedience to orders, and for burning the gun-carriages at Fort Moultrie.Vice-President Breckinridge has expressed the decided opinion that Anderson was fully justified in his course; Gen.Scott had aleo written a bigbly commendatory letter to him.[tis further stated (hat Gencrel 8.had informed Mr.Floyd, the Chief of the War Bureau, that as be bad jssued orders in disregard of his (the General's) authority, be would bold no further commnication with bim.Floyd bas now resigned, and General Scott is spoken of to succeed bim, asthe only way Buchanan can escape the responsibility of doing anything\u2014the old veteran being willing to take the responsibility of doing his duty.The proceedings at Charleston, 8.C., on Saturday, were of a most exciting character.The State autbori- ties had scized 8 revenue-cutler, the captain of which bad resigned, evidently for the purpose of letting the vessel and the captured slaver she bad in charge fall into the bands of tbe revolationists.Massachusetts and New Hampshire are preparing to respond promptly, to any demaod tbat may be made for troops to sustain the Union and the Federal laws, aod tbe \u2018 Old Public Functionary\"\u201d at Wasbington is in a terrible dilemme ° \u2014 The announcement has since been made ia Ne- York papers that Gen.Beott had declined to act as Secretary-at-War, but that Nr.Holt, Postmaster-Gen- eral, was to act pro-fem.This arrangement had created intense excitement among Secessionists, and had restored coufider:ce among tbe friends of the Union.THE SABBATH SCHOOL MEETING ON NEW YEARS DAY.There is probably no more appropriate way of spending an hour in the morning of New Year's Day, than by gathering Sabbath Schools and their friends together to pray, sing hymns and hear brief addresses to children, parents and teachers.The annual meetings of this kind in Montreal are growing, we think, in favor; and that beld io the American Presbyterian Church ob Tuesday morsiug was one of the best of the whole series.Dr.Wilkes presided, giving out tbe bymos, reading the scriptures, aod closing the meeting.Rev.Mr.Goadby offered the openitg prayer, and the addresses were delivered by Rev.Mesars.Scrymgeour and Kemp.Mr.Serym eour, in addressing the children, secured their attention by mingling bistory with instruction.He said :\u2014If any one were to travel over the world vow, he would find many large cities and towns alt crowded with people, and all busy: and if any one bad gone over the same ground a hundred years ago, he would bave found similar cruwds similarly occupied, but not one of the same persons ; and the same would be the case 100 years betore that again.Every generation, without a single exception, sank into the grave.A great king of old, when reviewing his army of a million of men, burst into tears, and when asked the reason, replied that in a few years, of all these men belonging to s0 many nations, and now looking so strong and proud, mot ome would remain alive, And we might feel a dash of sadness in looking at so many fine healthy children when we reflected that in a few years every one must die, and some perhaps very soon.How important then, nay, Low urgent to prepare for death! A wicked king had a jester or fool who pleased bim with his jokes, and he gave him a ring to wear till he found & greater foot than bimself.Years passed away, and tbe king was struck with a loathsome disease which must end in death.Al bis flatterers forsook bim, but the fool remained faithful.Once when at- teadiog bis dying master, the kiog said to bim:\u2014\u201c I am going on a long journey.\u201d * Have you made preparations for it?\u201d asked the fool.\u201cNo,\u201d said the king, \u201cthat is what troubles me most, | bave made no preparation for it.\u201d \u201cDid you not know that you were going to take this journey ?said the fool.\u201c Yes,\u201d replied the king.The fool then drew tbe ring from his finger and presented it to the king, saying :\u2014* If you knew you had to take a long journey and made no preparation for it, you should wear this ring.\u201d He, Mr.8, hoped no one there would be such a fool as thut king.if they would make preparation for that long journey which all must take, it should be done at once, for no one know how soon he must set out.Rev.Mr.Kemp, in addressing teachers, exhorted them to make the scriptures the attraction of the school\u2014to depend oa the Word of God as their means of success, and to cudeavour to understand it themselves, in order to make their scholars understand it.But inasmuch as children\u2019s hearts were almost as difficult of access as thoso of grown persons, they must accompany all their teaching with prayer, that the Lord would open those hearts.To parents, Mr.K.said they bad a great and important part to do in preparing and belping their children with their lesions, and seeing that they went punctually, The Sabbath School did not free them from their responsibility as parents to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord ; no one could relieve them of that responsibility ; but it had some advantages which no home Instruction, however good, possessed.Christ gave a commission to His church to feed the lambs as well as the sheep, and Sabbath Schools were the method of carrying out this commission.No substitute could be found that would supersede the public preaching of the Gospel, and he was convinced that no private instruction, which, however, should be carried on diligently sod simultaneously, could be considered a substitute for the Sabbath Hchool.The last exercise was the singing of the hymn \u201cThere is rest for the weary,\u201d which is becoming remarkably popular at public religious meetings in Montreal ; and tbe meeting closed with the Doxology and Benediction.THE NE PLUS ULTRA OF QUACKERY.Our readers will have noticed an advertisement in many of the papers to consumptives, offering to send tbe recipe for curing consumption, free of charge, on reccipt of stamps, and signed Rev.E.A.Wilson, Wil- liamaburgh, N.Y.On applying to the Rev.gentalitho- graphic letter and pamphlet is sent containing the following prescription :\u2014 RECIPE FOR CONSUMPTION, ARTHMA, BRONCHITIS, sonOruLA, Kc.Extract Blodgett, thres ounces; Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda, one half ounce ; lado (Pura,) oue drachm ; Meconin, one half seruple, ; Extraet\u201d Cln- chona, two drachme; Loaf Sugar, owe pound ; Pure Port Wine, one balf pint; Warm Water, one quart.To prepare the above Recipe properly, all the powders and extracts should be thoroughly compounded and mixed well together, and placed in a vessel or bottle holding at least three pints; then pour in the bottle about a half pint of hot water, and shake well, which will turn the whole a bright red color.let it stand a few moments, then add the other pint and a half of hot water with the sugar dissolved in It; also add the wine, (or if you have not wine, rum or Holland gin wiltdo.) Boake weil; when cold itis ready for use.Dose\u2014one large table-spoonful four times a day.The Rev.quack adds, that the Blodgelti and the other fine cxiracts are very costly ; and any reliable druggist, to prepare the same for you, will charge at least from $3.25 to $3, and he can hardly do it at that price and turnieh the pure and unadulterated articles, unless the demand was great, and that on the receipt of $2 be will send the patient a package already prepared of the pure articles which he imports from no mercenary motive but simply from a sense of Christian duty to bis fellow-men \u201d The patient after applying to the Druggist finds there is no such preparation as Extract of Blodgettii as he might as well ask for Ext.Smithli or Jonesii, sends to his Rev.Correspondeut for the pure article which he in due course receives with the advice to continue the remedy, as it will take some time for the system to be affected, consequently a customer is secured for $10 worth of the remedy.In order to show the philanthropy and high religious character of the Rev.Quack, accompanying every circular is tbe following advertisement :\u2014 Tus Paston's Girr To THE Youxo Convent, embracing a complete outline of Christian duty; by Rev.Edward À.Wilson.À work which every new convert and all church members should possess.The above work is entirely uusectarian, and is endorsed by the most distinguished Divines.It is handsome 8ro.volume of 624 pages, beautifully illustrated with steel engravings.Johnson & Bros, are the publishers.Price $3, handsomely bound in leather; in muslin, $2.We understand the Rev.Quack i» receiving a rich reward for his disinterested efforts, and is Lecoming as rapidiy wealthy as his rival on the same line, *'the Physician whose sands of life are nearly run out,\u201d who ia still young and hearty, and owner of the large block of stores in Jersey City, where he holds an office.FINANCIAL REVIEW FOR 1860.The year just closed bas been, on the whole, a year of prosperity, aud, but for tightness in the money market, aod depression in the price of one great staple, there would have been reason for universal congratulation.It has been a year of steady industry, as distinguished from speculation, and generally a year of retrenchment and economy; so that what bas been made bas been well applied, and not dissipated.The close of the year 1857 found the country\u2014at least the Western portion of it\u2014prostrate under a load of indebtedoess.The earnings of industry, the fruits of the farm, and the gains of commerce for years to come, had alike been anticipated, and in many cases spent.In Western Canada almost every other person had contracted heavy engagements, spreading over future years, which could ouly be met out of savings, and was tasting tbe bitterness of looking forward to an indefinite period of struggling and privation.To get rid of such engagements was impossible, while to fulfil them was certain to absorb all that could be laid by for years, even with the most rigid economy.In many cases, indeed, the fulfilment of agreements pointed to certain ruin.And, at the end, there would be, as a reward, worthless wild lands, or miserable town plots.Men of business bad practiced a system of endorsing for each other to such an extent, that hardly any man could tell whether he was solvent or not.For, even if able to pay his own debts, to pay his neighbor's in addition might bring him dcwn.Great public works, for the most part, (the Victoria Bridge excepted) bad stopped ; numbers of mechanics were out of employment in our towns, and many Municipalities found themselves stranded upon a bhalf- finished railway, or helplessly in debt for a finished one, never likely to pay even running expenses, The Banks were contractiog to the utmost possible limit, and scanoing their bills-receivable with anxiety and fear, The year 1858, opening in gloom, may be said to have closed, in many parts of the country, in yet deeper darkness.Hope deferred had made thousands of hearts sick.At the end of 1857, many who paid somewhat of their embarrassments, hoped to overcome them by diligence and economy for tho future.But as timc passed on, their embarrassment deepened and widened, Debts fondly hoped to be good, had turned out bad, and endorsements given on the assurance that they should never bo called up, had been pressed to payment.Another deficient harvest had crippled the farmer, made the importer\u2019s trade light, till farther de- precited real estate left the Banks short of funds, and impoverished the country.Gloomy, however, as matters seemed, they were, in reality, better than at the close of the previous year.A commencement bad been made in good earnest, of & system of retrenchment.Farmers bad been drivea to abandon the ruinous system of continual wheat growing, and were beginning to study rotation of crops, raising of stock, fattening hogs for market, and other modes of increasing tho product of land.Some parts of the country bad scarcely been touched by the fever of speculation, and were pursuing their ordinary course of quiet industry.This, indeed, may be said of Lower Canada generally.The lumber interest, that great source of wealth and employmont, bad been comparatively unbarmed, and the parties engaged ia it, and places dependent upon it, hud done well, Great numbers of mechanics had left the country, so that what work remained to be dons gave employment to the remaining hoods.Aud if knowledge of the disease is ball tie cure, the country wes half cured of its depression, for every one, by that time, bad found out bis real position, and the cause of it.So opened 1860.The close of 1850 exhibited a marked improvement.There had been an abundant harvest, and the great stapler of agriculture had commanded good prices.\u2018The mountain of indebtedness had been per- oeptibly lowered, \u2014great numbers of old and longstanding debls had been paid,\u2014the storekeepe who bad stood through the panic, was in good spieits, parily because of debts being paid hiro, and parily because be had bettor prospects of the remainder.Many debts which had been marked \u201cbad\u201d in 1658 were now put dows as only \u2018 doubtful\u201d and many then marked \u201c doubtful,\u201d bad become \u201cgood.\u201d Retrenchment and economy were beginning to bear fruit, and there bad arisen a thorough determination to persevere io such a course until difficulty was entirely removed.JaNvaARy 5, 1861.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.13 Protestant Cemetery, and one in the Jewish place of; ber of sales have beca made to pacers at our qaota- | Mask Rats,.30.00 to $0.10 Red Fox,.01.25 to 81.50 luterment.Of the whole number, 26 were children.tions.Barrciled Pork is inactive.ok \"126 HR Leaver per Ibn: inn = \u2014 The Adminstrator of the (Government Las issued | GROCER \u2014The wholesale market for Groceries Northern do.300 80 Lyox,.lute 2.00 lebrr.LL.Meanwhile the lumber business was going on and extending ; manufactures were taking root ln Montreal, giving rise to employment and wealth; trade was be- comiog healthy and vigorous ; new channels of enterprise were opening up in the great regions of the northwest; while in ho east, the navigation of the St.Lawrence was being improved, agriculture steadily pursued, and the fisheries of cur coasts developed.Tbua opeuvd tbe year 1800.At its close, we must first acknowledge the bounty of Providence in giving ug an abundant Lurvest.Such a year of iucrease this land bas perbaps never known.The earth has brought forth of every seed after bis kind, and every fruit after his kind, in profusion.We have had not only large crops of wheat, but of all grains; we bave bad abundance too of all kinds of vegetables and fruits.We Lave fodder for our cattle in the winter, and abundance of food both for mau and beast.This year, therefore, has seen great progress in the reduction of liabilities und paying off old debts, Judgments, execu- tious and chattel mortgages, huve been got rid of in great numbers, und many «à man who begun the year a slave, 50 to speak, is now frec ; and many more who have been toiling in darkness and despoodency, begin to see daylight through the gloom.Years may elapse before they throw off the entire burden of debts, but they now hope to do it, and bope with good reason.The good harvest of last year gave a stimulus to agricultural improvements, whick were in danger of being neglected through sheer discouragement.Progress has been general throughout the year, and in all parts signs of enterprise and industry are visible.Trade, commerce and manufactures have been vigorously prosecuted, and, for the most part, with good returns.Our mechanics and farm Isborers have done well, and we make special mention in this connection of one striking fact.Ina Western town, which suffered ae severely as any other from the panic of 1857, the deposits iu its Savings Bank have steadily increased for some time back, and are now double the amount they were a year ago.Thus, on all sides, so fur as this country is conc raed, there is reason for congratulation aod thankfulges: Not that there have been no individual disasters and reverses.These there ever will be.Net that we have no cause to tremble while we rejoice.3The clouds on the horizon, to the South of us, have not yet passed away.But while we fear, we may still be hopeful ; and commencing the New Year with a spirit of hopefulness, of industry, of economy and of enterprise, we may look forward, by the blessing of God, to success iu 1861.EDITORIAL ITEMS.\u2014 We ind it impossible to get ur subscription books brought up for a few days, s0 as to koow precisely who has remitted, and who has not, or who are new subscribers.We shall, therefore, continue to send to all old subcribers up to number 4, which will be the last sent to any who bave not renewed.We hope, bow- ever, that all will renew.With respect to new sub- scribera there will be an unavoidable delay of a day or two before all are placed on the despatch books.\u2014 Subscribers who wish to biod the volume for 1859, may bave any viissing numbers supplied gratis if we bappen to have them on hand, provided they apply within a month, \u2014 The Rev.Mr.Duvernet, rector of Hemmingford, will preach io St.Luke's Church, Dorchester Street, on Sabbath next, morning and evening.\u2014 Young men are reminded of the meeting in the Rooma of the Young Men's Christian Association, on Tuesday evening next, at 8 o'clock, All young men are invited to attend.\u2014 The Annual meeting of the Doard of Arts and Manufactures, which was to be held on Wednesday, is 4B postponed until next Tuesday, at 3 p.m.\u2014 We Lave received a copy of a work called the Teetotalers\u2019 Hand Book, which, although not very at- + tractive in title, will be found exceedingly useful for all who are desirous of spreading the cause of temperance in Canada.It is compiled by the Rev.Wm.Scott, aod published by Alfred Deedge, Toronto.The work is in four parts, viz.: 1st.A History of the Cause.2nd.The Probibilory Movement.3rd.Poetry, Sougs and Hymus.4th.Facts and Anecdotes.\u2014 We uaderstand from the Post Oftice that Morey Orders can be obtained on any money order office in Oauads for sums not exceeding $100, and also that Money Orders can be drawn at money order offices in Canada ou nny money order oflice ia Great Britain or Treland for sums not exceeding £5 stg.each order.\u2014 À correspondent of the Transcript states that, on Monday afternoon, the Chairman of tbe Charitable Committee of the Irish Protestant Ienevolent Society, gave a fat turkey to each of the families on the booke\u2014 amounting to about sixty.Acknowledgment is made of a donation from W.K.Boyd, of one bag of flour, for distribution among the Society's pensioner.\u2014 R.Il.Hamilton, Rsq., President of the St.Cleorge's Society, provided a substantial dinner for the inmates of the \u201cSt.Georges Home,\u201d on Naw-Year's-Day, for which the Charitable Committee express their grateful thanks ; they also thank an unknown benefactor for a gift of cakes for tho inmates dinner on Christmas-day.\u2014 The Treasurer of the Ladies\u2019 Benevolent Society ling much pleasure in acknowledglog the receiptof $10, a donation (rom Mes.Laing.\u2014Tbo City Surveyor, Mr.McQuisten, announces that the scotions of the Hy-Law respecting winter roads, will be strictly enforced.\u201d One of them refers to sidewalks, aad provides for the removal and levelling of ice an now, under a penalty of $3 for each infraction.Another provides for tho sprinkling of ashes upon ice or #ongealed snow on the footpaths, or rendering the road by cutting, under a penalty of $2 for sach offence.\u2014 The following law students recently graduated al the College of Ste.Marie :\u2014\u201c Mersre, M.F.Oolovin, K.L.de Bell., :uille, Joseph fora, J.A, Cbapleay, if.B.Wright, 8.Pagnuelo, B.Globensky, A.Lacoste, 0.deo Lormier, A.H.Lyonnais, O.Simard, U.Brien Durocher, À.Bastien, Caron.\u2014 Daring the week ending 29th ult., there wero 37 interment in the Oatholio Bury ; O.D.Paradis, 8, Desnoyers, snd P.lng-ground, 13 ln the his l'roclamation, dated 29th Dec., 1860, for à further prorogation of l\u2019arlisment, until Wednesday the Cth: day of February next.\u2014 À meeting of lumbermen is called at Peterboro\u2019 on | the 11th January, to take into consideration \u201cseveral | matters connected wiih the facilitating the lumber | down the rivers next spring.\u201d \u2014 On tbe Z6th ult, Zepbirin Durand dit Chartier was appointed 8chool-Commisaivner for the County of Champlain, and Joseph Gagnon to same office for County of Temisconata \u2014 The result of an official investigation of the St.Scholastique arson-case was the commitment for trial of Uscar Barcelo, Antoine Barcelo, his brother, and Joseph Durocher, the furmer\u2019s clerk, on the clarge of arson ; Oscar Barcelo as principal, and the others as accessories before nnd afier the fact.Antoine Barcelo was further committed for burning bis own barn on the night of tke 18th November, and his brother Oscar as accessory to that crime, strange to say, there being no insurance on the barn.The elder Barcelo is à Magistrate, Captain in the Militia, and commissioner of Small Causes.\u2014 The Orange body, which delights to show forth the excellence of the form of Christianity which it professes, by the depth of the hatred in which it holds those who sre believed to have done it wrong were hy leat intelligence about to have a grand celebration in Derry.To prevent any counter demonatration, and perhaps to show how much more tolerant they can be than the Catholics of Canada and Ireland, they bad determined on a numerous pre-occupation of the city.It is also said that the Anglican Bishopof Derry, who lately incurred their deadly enmity, was to be burned in effigy.We call upon our fellow-Protestanta of this fraternity in Canada, to show that they are Christians |! and men as well as Protestants, by allowing liberty of Sepi conscience to all, even to those who would deny it to them, and to place the standard of Protestantism around which they so determinedly rally on the finn basis of the Golden Rule.While their rage against the weak judgment of the unfortunate Newcastle is cooling, let them turn aside to see if they cannot find in Canadian injustice to the fugitive a sufficient scope to exercise their righteous icdignation.\u2014 On the 14th ult, President Buchanan recommended that the 4th of January, 1861, (to-morrow) should be observed throughout the United States as a day of humiliation and prayer, on account of the imminent danger which threatens tbe Union.Such a suggestion, if accompanied by the efforts he is solemnly pledged to put forth to prevent the dire calamity, would have fonnd responsive echoes at least in every Northern bosom.The aphorism, * Providence helps those who help themselves,\u201d might be appropriately studied.Does he expect a special interposition ina case where his own neglect of clear and positive duty is so manifest?Hercules told tbe wagoner to put bis own shoulder to the wheel ; and Cromwell is reported to have enjoined his soldiers to put their trust in Providence, but to keep their powder dry.\u2014 The well-known George Law of New York, bas at lenglh been successful in selling a lot of the old Government muskets which he had on hand for years, He has disposed of $19,000 worth to the State of Alabama, at the rate of $13 each.Tbe use of such firearms either for offence or defence appears to be simply an indefinite postponement of secession by warlike means.A day's service with 100 Sharpe's rifles, would do more execution than a week's firing with the 1500 obsolete old flint-locks! Children\u2019s pop-guns would bave beca much cheaper, but scarcely so savage.looking !\u2014for with the Hotspurs of the Slaves States, appearance is everything.Kwox's Cuunes, Duxpas \u2014For the past few month's this place of worship bas been undergoing alterations, and was re-opened last Sabbath.Tbe Rev.Alex.Topp, of Toronto, delivered a very excellent discourse on the occasion; afterwards, the Rev.Mr.Stark, the local pastor, congratulated the congregation on their again being assembled together in their own Church.À collection was taken up, amounting to $68.\u2014 Spectator, COMMERCIAL REVIEW.MoTREaL, Friday, Jan.4, 1861.The weather has been variable fur past two or three days : yesterday was cold aud bleak, with snow ; coun.ry roads are bardencd up again, and travelling is good.Thermometer at 7} this a.m., 13° above zero; at noon, 17° above.Unxanaturrs.\u2014The news from Europe by the \u201c North American\u201d and Australasian\u201d has established the previous rise in breadstuffs in the American mnrket, and the advance continues, The daily increase in prico of Flour at New York city for some time bas been 5 tv 10e.per barrel ; and the consequence is a decided improvement in the Canadian and Western mnrkets.Flour has advanced considerably at Montreal; No.1 Superfine touched $4.80 recently: yesterday there were transactions at our quotations, and liolders not anxious to sell.Flour nod Wheat are coming steadily forward per G.T.Railway.The following quantities of produce arrived at the depot from 17th to 29th ult., both inclusive: \u2014 Flour, barrels.+ 10,064) Dresaect IT Rio Wheat, bus 73 Pork, barre! a Ontn, se «Tallow, + 1v0 Rutter, koge, » JU3{Lard, + 33 Ashes, brs.+ AnfOatmesl, + 2 Peas, bushole, 2,681] Starch, boxes, Barley, * 1912 Rye, bushels, .~\u2014 The quotations of Flour at Toronto, on Wednesday afiernoon, were nominally\u2014Superfine, No.1, $4.50 to 84,60 ; Fancy $4,75 to $5 ; Extra $5 to 65,50; Doutlo Extra $6 per barrel.The range for Pall Wheat was $1,10 to $1,17, and the average $1,13 per buabel ; Spring firm at 85¢ to 90¢ fur ordinary to good, prime realizing 9c.Hous axb l\u2019Rovisions.\u2014l'rices in the Western Siates have not quotably changed, but there bas been à great decline in the rate of exchange upon New York, (say 6 to 7 per cent fn favor of Entengo and Milwankco, \u2014currency having improved by the rise in Securities) so that sellcra are benefitted to that extent.We are without our regular advices this morning, in consequence of mail detentions; but n private lutter from Milwaukee, of lst ult, quotes a sale of Mess Purk at $14, packers holding oùt for $t4,50.A telegram from §hicago yesterday, (3d fost) quotes Heavy Mess at 14,75, At Toronto, on the 2d ivst., the market for Drerscd Hogs is reported to have been not very active.Carcases weighing from 100 to 160 lbs, sold at $4,35 to 84,75 por 100 Ibe.; 160 to 250 Iba, $8 to $5,50 ; and from 300 lhe.upwards, $5,718.There bas been raiber en actire market bere for presents no marked change.Teas are in moderate demand and fair supply; our quotations are as in laut report.Sugars are gradually regaining their value in the principal U.8.markets, but there Is no change | bere.Salt is now generally beld at 65 to 0c.with some inquiry ; a great many lots are frozen uj.and will not be available untit Spring.Asnzs.\u2014We recently nuticed a decline in Pota : they are a litle firmer again, and Pearls find ready sale at our figures.The following is the statement for the past year :\u2014 Pots.Pearte Total.I brie.nm 7,370 38,704 ) 2256 + .3.0 The receipts of 1800 are lezs than those of 1659 by 3,781 barrels; and the decrease of shipments last year amounts to 5,510 barrels.Sromaux Accoxmonartos.\u2014Mr.Shanly, Geaeral Manager of the G.T.Railway, bas advertised this morning, that in congeq:ence of lack of storage accommodation at Point St.Charles, and of requisite facilities for discharging grain in bulk, the Company have extended their line to the new stores on Wellington Street ; acd that on and after 10th inst, (during wic- ter,) all produce consigned in bills of lading to \u201cYoungs Stores, Montreal,\u2019 will ba deliverable there, and beld for 48 hours after receipt, free of expense to the owner, but after that tise subject to urual rates of storage.This is a most importan® and much needed arrangement.Wartaso Caxac\u2014The following is the number of vessels which passed up aud down during the pastseason :\u2014 Down.American.British.Up.American.British si & 29 > 161 2 ou 187 91 @5 163 w« hd 204 bl 61 3 51 pi ir s 29 190 \u201c4 00 5 = 1054 5 1304 501 For 1384\u20143,741: for 1869\u2014.580 ; in favor of 1860\u20141,155.Free Porrs.\u2014A proclamation by the Admiuistrator of the Government, dated 30th Nov., 1860, appears in an Extra of tbe Canada Gazette of 31st Dec., declaring that Gaspe and Sault Ste.Marie are Free Ports, from and after tbe first day of January, instant, avd defining 1beir boundaries.Leoa\u2026 Decision.\u2014An importunt decision has been rendered in the Circuit Court of tbis District, under the law for registration of partnerships.The defendants Lad registered with the Clerk of the Pesce, and were not aware that they were also bound to register with the County Liegister.Judge Mook declared the law imperative, and gave judgment against the two defendants for £50 each.FisaxciaL.\u2014The improvement in Stocks in the New York market bas been rapid and marked ; much of the buoyancy being imparted by the demand for Erie and Illinois Central in England.The steamer \u201c Atlantic,\u201d which sailed from New York on the 29th ult, took out 1000 shares of Illinois Central for London ; the sales of that stock during the week on English account bav- ing amounted to 6000 shares.On Monday last transactions bad taken place at 764, the quotations of Saturday being 67 to 69\u2014showiog an advance of 7; per cent.over the highest figures of 29th.On the 3lat, Wall Street was nearly swept of Illinois Central cash stock by foreign orders! It is understood that About three-fourths of the Erie stock is now held by speculators and capitalists in England.The favorable change in securities appears to be as general as it bas been rapid.Domestic exchanges have greatly improved.A report in New York last Monday, that exchange in Chicago was down to 5 per cent, was not credited at the time, although returns had been received nt 7 per cut.A letter received here from Milwaukee of Monday's date, quotesexchange on New York as selling at 51 to 6 per cent.; and a telegram received last night from Chicago, quotes at 4.There is an improvement in the rate of exchange on London ia Montreal, amounting to 14 per cent.over the lowest rates at which produce and commercial bills had recently been selling.\u2014 We quote the following from the circular of Messra.Taylor Bros.of 3rd inst.:\u2014 STOCK.\u2014IIank of Montreal.\u2014Salvs at 114} to 1147: the Jatter price being obtainable to-day.Commercial Bank \u2014No transactions elnce our last: nomidally 108, City Bank.\u2014 Asked for and quoted at 30 to lv6.Ontario Bank.\u2014Sales at 104.Bauk of Upper Cenada\u2014Sales at 674 ex dividend.Rank of Toronto\u2014 A rked for at 101] to 101}.Molson's Bank \u2014Nouc Inthe Market.La Hanque du Peuple\u2014113, In Railway and Miaiog Sharcs still nothtug doing.Telegraph and Gas Co's Stock asked for, and scarce.BONDS AXD DEBENTURES.\u2014Con.M.L.Fund Debentares, bave been taken at par.In Government, Montreal City.Water Worke and Harbor, there 1a nothing we belies e doing.Excuanom \u2014Bank Bills on London, 1034, on New York, 191, Not much offering.MONTREAL WHOLESALE MARKET.FLovrR.\u2014 Advancing ; 8 wholesale lot of No.1 Superfine brought $5.23 yesterday ; and some retail parcels, $5.30 to $5.35.Wholesale range, $5.25 to $5.30, Higher grades nominal ; Fancy, $5.40 to $3.50 ; Extra.$6 to $6.20; Superfine Extra, $6.50 to $7.\u2014This morning, $5.25 said to be refused for 1,000 barrels of a choice brand of No.1 Supertine, and $5 35 asked.Bag-Froug Sales yesterduy of Fyfe Wheat at $2.50.Waurat.\u2014We bear of none offered below $1.10 for U.C.Spring.Corx.\u2014Little deroand, and little in market : ve to 68¢ per 56 Ibs, Pras.\u201470¢ to Tic per Gu lbs.Cugcss.\u2014No alteration; 9c to 19¢ for ordinary : He for choice.BurTan.\u2014Few transactions; 12¢ to 13¢ for inferior store-packed ; 13¢ to lde for good, transactions at lutter figures ; 18¢ to 16¢ for good Dairy.Asus.\u2014First Pots, $5.40; Inferiors, $3.50: Pearls, $3.80, and sell readily.Tarrow \u2014 Market well supplied : No.1 Beef brings 10je.Oaruzar.\u2014 A lot of 135 barrels brought $4.Provisioxs.\u2014Very quiet.Mess Pork, $17 to $19 without transactions.Nothing has been done in lower grades for some lime ; nominal at $13 for Prime Mess, and $10 for Prime, Dazaezo Hoos.\u2014Supply moderate ; the range of price is $5.73 to $6.50; majority of large sales within last day or two were at $5.40.~The price for averages under 200 bs is $5.75 to $6; a sale this morning at $387].For averages of 240 to 250 lbs, $4.23 Lo $6.40; sale last night at latter figures.For choice, say about :100 Ibs, $0.50 was readily paid to-day, Tua.\u2014Twavkay, 40¢ to 480; Young Hysona, 46c to 8be ; Bouehongs and Congous, 40¢ to 506 for ordinary to fine, 50¢ to T0o for higher grades.Buoar.\u2014No quotable change; current rates are $7 to $8.Batr.\u2014Held at 636 to 700.F Unchanged ; Prime Split Herriugs, $4,50 to Hogs, during the week, and prices are better, A num.i lor, $3.30 to $4.Fuñ&\u2014Tbore Is no cbange to note ; we repeat quotations for good qualities = JOHN DOUGALIL.Commission Mrrehant CATTLE MARKETS.MONTREAL MARKET.\u2014 Week ending Jon.The market for Cattle han been better than durtog the previous week, with few offering.The following ia the range af prieca:-First quality Cattle, 985 to $7; 8 cond and Third, #5 59 to M4.; Milk Cowa, 825 t0 445 each, and few ofrring; | 93 tu 08 for Ordinary.#4 ta #10 for Extra, Lamtes to 75 to 88.51; Hides, dull.@5 to How, rough, 7e.COURBE improved © the range Of market K attle being :\u2014Extra #6 50 t6 §7 live weight | First Foye #5; Becond do, 85.25; third do.&: 0: Urdi- oary, $2.75.NEw YORK C117, Jab.2 \u2014 Market opened Gem at an advance for Hee! Cattle, but butchers refused to buy: and at the elose prices wer lower than lust week.Ho, market well supplied, the price ruling from §7 to $7.50 per 15 Ibs dreserd weight.NEW YORK MARKETS.\u2014Jan.3.\u2014By Telegraph.Flour.\u2014sales 5900 bbls : State and Western 5e better, with à moderate demand : Superfine Western State $5.49 10 $5.40: Extra $5.55 to $5.70.Canadian & shade firmer; sales 200 bbls, a $5.70 to $7.25 for extra, Graip.\u2014Wheat lc bigber, with a moderate export demand : sales 19,000 bushels : white Canadian $1.50: Corn a shade firmer: mixed Western 71cto 72e.Oats dull: Southern and Jersey Zlc to 27jc, Northern and Western 375¢ to sic.Provisions.\u2014Pork steady : sales smali: mess $15.27, prime $12 5 to $12.50.Lard steady: sales smail at 43¢ 10 194c for bbl.Groceries.\u2014Coffee\u2014no ales.changed.Stocks are lower, with moderate business.Morey cary.Exchange is steady, with limited als at 104 to 1944.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.EATURES ON PALESTINE AND THE HOLY LAND.BY REV.L.TAYLOR, IN TIIE MECHAXN- ICS\u2019 HALL \u2014The Rev.L.Taylor will deliver à Course of Lectures on \u2018- Palestine and the Hoiy Land.\u201d commenciag on Monday, the 14th of Jarnary.to be contioued on Friday.the Isth, Saturday, the 19th, Tuesday, the \u201c0th, Wednesday, 30th.and Tharsday.the Jlst.Tickets for the Course, $1; Single Tickets.3c.\u2014Children under 12 years of age, half-price, ; Tickets may be had at the Stores of B.Dawson & Son.R.& A.Miller, John Dougall.and at E.Pickup's News- Office.Sogars dull.but un- JPECIAL PRAYER BY THE CHURCH OF GOD +) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.\u2014 As the invits- tion of the British Evangelical Alliance there will be Speelal Union Paye, Meetings, under the superintendence of the Minister! Association of this city, every day during the second week of January, 161.in\" the Rasement of the American Presbyterian Church.from 3 to 1 o'clock each afternoon.The following topics are recommended as the subjects of prayers and sddresses : MuNDAY, Cth JANUARY.\u2014~Homble confession of sin.and prayer for an especial blessing on all the services of the week.and the promotion of brotherly kindsess among all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.TUESDAY, 6th \u2014The attainment of a higher standard of holiness by the children of God.WEINESDAT, 9th.\u2014A large increase of truc: conversions especlally in the families of believers.,; THURSDAY, 10th.\u2014The free circulation of the Word of God and a blessing upon Christian Literature.FRIDAY, 1ith \u2014A large outpourin, of the Holy Spine upon all Bishops, Pastors.and Elders of the Churches, upon seminaries of Christian fearning.and upon every Protes- taut Missionary among Juws or Gentilre, upon the converts of bis station, and upon his feld vfiador.SATURDAY.12th \u2014The speedy overthrow of all false Peli- ions, aad the ful] accomplishuicut cf the prayer.= Thy Étodom come.\u201d There will also be à Union Meeting in Zion Church on Thursday evening, 10th, at half past sercn o'clock, at whieh he topic for Friday will form the subject of prayers and brief addresses.The attendaux of all who love the Lori Jesus Christ.is requestsi at these meetings.Altx F.REMD, Secretary.3sTE THOUSANDDANESBURY HOUSE 1s 6d: O by Mail.post paid.18 N1 Pac Edition, Bound.is.BOOK AND STATIONERY WAREHOUSE 56 Great *t.James Street, opposite the Wesleyan Church.WASTED.~Ten Good Agents to sell Books in Canada Kast.To young men who wish to devote their time te the business durinx the winter months.good inducements red.Address.W.J.Holland.Box 311, Montreal.Montreal.Jan.saw.IRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY\u2014STOR- AGE AT MONTREAL\u2014la consequence of the wat of suftichnt Storage Accommodation at l'oint $t, Charles, ilitics for discharging Grain in balk, the ded the Hallway to the Hon.John vliington Street.avallable during Win.; 1CE 15 IMEREBY GIVEN, that on and after the 10th instant.Prodiuce of ali kids will (on order) be deliverable at those Stopes, where the same will de held for #8 hours after reectpt, frev of expeuse to the owner: but wilt be sub- Jeet after that time to the usual rates of Storage.Produce intended for above Stores must be eonsigacd mn Bitt of Lading to ** Young's Stores.Muotreal.™ Freight will be due and payable vo delivery of proper to the Stores ; and If not patd within ten days thereafter, in forest and two and a half per cent commission will de charged.Warchousc revipts will be detiv, rod to Cousignees when the Freight is paid, W.SHANLY, Montreal, Jan.& General Manager.ponts ter Western and Canadas Mess, Thin Mess, Rump.Prime Mesa and Prime Pork, GILMUUR & CO, 43 St.Teter Street, daw Montreal, Jan, 3, 1861, N ESR PORK.The Subscriber han svverel consige- I ments of Mess ork, (Montreat Laspectiou for Sale.at market prices UGALL, , Commission Merchant.ALLOW.- The Babecriber has for dale, a consi ¢ | of pure Beef Tallow, tn barrels.Orders will suppl JOUN DUUUALL, led at currvat rates.Commission Merchant.FITRRINGE The Subscriber has a consiguæent of Herringe PUR No.1.) for Nale, HUN DOUGALL, Commission Merehant.200 St.l'aul Street.BROUKS & OXNARD, WILLIAM BROOKS, JOUNX EB.OXNARD.COMMISSION & FORWARDING MERCHAXTS, Wholesale Dealers ia Flour, Produc\u2019 and Family Uroceries, : Commercial Street, dels Block, a Age of terring's PorTLaxp, Me.besaplon Base.| \u2019 RKFRRKNCES.\u2014Mesare.Dans à Co, Portiand ; Mesars.Sanborn & Carter, Portland; Wm.Workman & Uo, Preat- deat City Hank, Montres\u2019 ; J.8 Baubure, Esg .Shorbreek.Particular attention to ête sale of Canadian Pro- a a Be pA Trade Advances made on Consignments.APS a eme PE \u2014 14 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.JANUARY 5, 1861 Literary Extracts.WINTER.When gusts of wind, with rain and sleet.Wildly against tbe casemeut beat : Past cresking sigs the tempest roars, And lazy maids let slam the doors; Then down the chimney pulls the smoke, And nature yields to winter's yoke.When horses\u2019 hoofs, well shod with steel.Clang on tbe frozen earth a peal.And shooting stars attract the exe, And northern lights shine famingly Then winter, with its wondrous might, Bridges tke rivers in one night.When Foung men stamp 10 warm their toes.Ard purple turns the drunkard's nose : When girls are wrapped in endless shawls.And slippery roads give Lurtful falls : I Then winter's snowy mantle\u2019s spread.| A coverlet on nature's bed.When kine are huddled in the yard, And muddy lanes turn crisp and bard, When frost bangs white upon the beard: And limbs are numb, and eyes are blearvd : Then, for the badly clad and poor, Cold winter makes the fires roar.ON THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE REFORMATION IN SCOTLAND.(Ker.D.B.Blair in Presbyterian Witncs