The Montreal witness, 1 mai 1861, mercredi 1 mai 1861

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL XVI.PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT.LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.Quenec, April 25 The louse met at three o'clock.Mr.Desaulles moved that the evidence adduced before the Commitive, a3 to tbe Montarville election, be Jaid before the House \u2014Carried.MI.McKay's Will Settlement Bill wag read a second time and passed.The Ifouse then went into Committee of the Whole va the Registration of Judgments Repeal Bill, made some progress, rose and asked leave to sit again.The Trade Marks 'rotection Bill was read a second time.The Ionse then adjourned, Arme 26.\u2014Hon.Mr.Vankouglinet staled in repiy to Mr.Tache, that the committee to investigate charges of cruelty preferred agaivst the Superintendent of the Reformatory Prison at Islc-aux-Noix, bad completely e*- onerated that Officer.Querec, April 29, 1861.\u2014The Sorel Election Com- mistes was struck, consisting of Mr.Patton, Chairman ; Messrs.Perry, Proulx, Seymour, and Hollis Smith.Mr.Reesor moved for & return relative to York Roads.Mr.Christiv's Bill respecting the Diddeford Road allowance, was read a second time.Mr.Vankougbnets Bill to Repcal the Registration of Judgments Act in Upper Canada, was adopted in Committee.Mr.Campbell's Bill to incorporate the Kingston Fire and Marine Insurance Company, reported.The Council then adjourned.LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.Queseo, April 25.\u2014The debate on Representation by Population was continued last evening by ifessrs.Mc- Micken and Dawson.The House adjourned at 11 o'clock.To-day the Provincial Secretary laid on the talle a report from tho Prison Inspectors in ference to the charges preferred against the Warden of the Reformatory Prison at Isle aux Noix.On motion of Mr.Tache, the bill relating to Turnpike Ronds in Montreal was referred to the Select Committee.A Bill was introduced by Mr.Ferguson to amend ihe Act to Diminish the number of Licenses for selling fo- toxicating Liquors by Retail.The Debate on Representation by Population was then resumed by Mr.Morrison.Messrs.Sicotte and Chapais followed.The House divided at 1 a.m., as follows: YEas, Messrs.Abbot, Alleyn, Archambault, Baby, Beaubien, Bourasss, Buchanan, Bureau, Campbell, Caron, Atty.Gen.Cartier, Cauchon, Cbapais, Cimon, Coutice, Daoust, Dawson, Desauloiers, Dionne, Dorion, Dufresne, Dunkin, Ferres, Fortier, Fournier, Galt, Gaudet, Gill, Hesth, Herbert, Huot, Jobin, Labelle, Lacoste, Lafram- boise, Langevin, Laporte.LeBouthillier, Lemieux, Loranger, Loux, Attorney General Macdonald, J.8.Macdonald, McCann, McGee, Meagher, Mongenais, Sol.Gen.Morin, Ouimet, Panet, Papineau, Piche, Playfair, W.F.Powell, Price, Roblin, Rose, R.W.Scott, Sicotte, Simard, Simpson, Sinceone, Starnes, Tasse, Thibaudeau, \u2018Turcotte, Webb\u201467.Nave, Messrs.Aikens, Bell, Beojamin, Biggar, Barton, Burwell, Cameron, Curling, Clarke, Connor, Cook, Oraik, Dorland, Ferguson, Finlayson, Foley, Gould, Gowan, Harcourt, Holmes, Macbeth, D.À.Mc- Donald, Mackenzie, MeLeod, A.P.Macdonald, Mc- Dougall, McMicken, Morrison, Mowat, Mupro, Notman, Patrick, W.Burwell, Purdy, Robinson, James Ross, Rykert, Rymal, W.Scott, Sherwood, Short, 8, Smith, Somerville, Stirton, Tett, Wallbridge, White, Wilson, Wright\u201449.April 26.\u2014To-day a Bill was int: oduced by Mr.Dunkin to enable John Erricson to obtain letters patent for an improved Caloric Engine.J.8.Macdonald inquired of the Government whether the Federal Government of the United States, had applied for the purchase or loan of any arms in their possession.Atty.Gen.Cartier said the Government could not answer this question without notice.The House then took up the report of Committee of Supply, which was adopted.Atty.(en, Macdonald then moved the second resd- ing of the Bill respecting Bankrupts aod Bankrupt istates in Upper Canada.Messrs.Saudfield Macdonald, Dorion, Foley, Wilson, Mowatt and Macdougall 9 ke against the measure, and the House adjourned without a division.Quesro, 27th April, 1861.\u2014 After the recess, the debate on the Bankruptcy Bill was continued.Messrs, Smith, Sherwood, Burton, and Robinson su ported the measure.1 was opposed by Messrs J.8.Macdonald, Loranger, Patrick, Borland, Biggar, and Wilson.No vote taken.The House adjourned carly, on motion of Mr, Cartier.Before adjournment, Attorney-General East gave notice that in future Government measures would be taken up on Wednesdays as well as Thursdays.Quussc, April 29, 1861.\u2014To-day a Bill was introduced by Mr, Lemieux to explain certain portions of the Consolidated Acts of Canada, relative to the admission of Students.A Bill was also introduced by Mr, Johu Cameron to amend the Act incorporating the Metropolitan Gas and Water Company of Toronto.Mr.Foley moved that the petition of Jon Montgomery, of Toronto, for compensation for losses sustained at the time of tho Rebellion, be referred to a Select Committee, but at the suggestion of the Attorney Ge- noral West, was withdrawn till tbe petition was presented and circulated.Mr.Starnes moved the appointment of a Select Gom- wittee to Inquire into the working of 22 Vie., cap.85, regulating the rato of interest.The Ocmmittes to be composed of Messrs.Tasse, McMicken, Simpron, Cameron, McDougall, Bourases, Campbell, Cayley, Carling and the mover.À long discussion ensucd, which had not terminated when the Speaker left tho Chair ut 6 o'clock.The evening semion was aorupled with the second readings of private bills, The Louse rose at half-past o'clock, MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1861.CHURCR OF ENGLAND INTELLIGENCE.(To the Editor of the Montreal Witness.) Sin,\u2014In remitting another year's subscription, ! do myself the pleasure of signifying the satisfaction with which I continue to support your enterprise, You bave lately had letters from two clergymen of the Church to\u2019 which I belong, oue of whom expressed dissatisfaction, the other a wish for more information respecting the missionary operations of our church.As à reader of the Iifness from its commencement, I take this opportunity of eaying that my brethren probably do not sufliciently uppreciate the difticulty which you must experience in selecting that portion of Church of England intelligence for insertion which would not call forth controversy.1 give you credit for a wish to act with fairness towards us as well as oi.er religious bodies.The second of your correspondears above al- Juded to, suggests three publications frum which you might select the intelligence he would like you to insert, Two of them, I am sure, would not give you a fair view of the missionary activity of the Church of England ; in fact, I think he must bave meant the New York Protestant Churchman, snd not The Churchman, which latter assuredly would not furnish tbe kind of intelligence you would wish to insert.The thought has struck me, whetber one of your three editions of the Wifacss might not become the vehicle of intelligence specially interesting to the sound-hearted, evangelical members of the Church of England in Canada ; for instance, your Weekly \u2014the main portion of your secular news, once in type, would do for that us well as the other ditions; you would require an Episcopalian editor to furnish the matter which is to give to that edition i's distinctive character ; make Lim free frum overbearing or restricting influence either from bis own or from other denominations.Many Protcstant Episcopalians would welcome such a periodical, while the members of otber churches would have tbe clioice of your two other editions.Perhaps you may find room for the following items of Church of England intelligence :\u2014 Ispra\u2014Bishop Denltry, of MnJras, died on the 41h of March.He must bave labored in odin nearly 50 years, of which 12 as Dishop; a consistent promoter of evangelical principles, and warm friend of the mis sionary cause.Many Londoners recollect him about 1848 as temporary successor to the Rev.Baptist Noel at St.John's Chapel, Bedtord Row, the well-known sphere of Cecil's sud Daniel Wilson's highly blessed ministry.May God direct the appointment of a successor to that important post, in which he so actively forwarded the diffusion of Gospel truth.The Diocese of Madras Includes the Church Missionary Society's station of Tinnevelley, from which have lately been received deeply interesting accounts of a revival among the great number of nominal Christians.The missionaries are greatly enconraged by the effectual aid they are sow receivirg fram spiritually-minded native as sistants.Partsu Cuuncu or ST.Grorex's-Ix-rne-East, Lox- poN.\u2014This bas happily ceased to be the scene of disturbance ; threats have been muttered that the Rector, Mr, Bryan King, would come back from the Continent and restore his innovations ; but I find an advertisement in the Record newspaper for an Assistant Curate, application to bu made to the clergyman placed in charge by the Bishop of London, which justifies the hope that an evangelical man would be accepted.No others would look for vacancies to suit them among the advertisements in the Record.The Bishop deserves credit for the manner in which he has gained the day againat the Romanizing Rector ; if regret is felt that a wrong-doer bad his own pernicious way much too long, the difficulty must not be forgotten of constiwting à tribnual to which summary power in such matters could be entrusted.Tue RerorMATION IN Tears, \u2014Some of your readers who heard the Rev.Mr.Gubbins\u2019 appeals last year in behalf of the Irish Society, would derive pleasure from your inserting the following description of the effect of ils operations in the parish of Doon; it was given by the Rev.W.Fitzpatrick, in replying to an address presented \u2018to him on his removal to another sphere of labor:\u2014\u201cI have seen in the scriptural schools of the parish, at certain times, an average st tendance of 200 children.Twelve or fiftecn years ago, the Bible was a proscribed book ; but within the last twolve years, about 1,200 persons bave been delivered from Romanism, thus acknowledging the Bible as the Word of God\u2014the rule of faith an Jrociice.Several hundreds of copies have been circulated among the Roman Catholics of the parish and district; very many Roman Catholic inhabitants now possces and read the Holy Scriptures; many hase carried them to foreign lands.Doon was once a very field of blood, a bioud-stained land, tho very abodo of crime the refuge of the murderer ; but how changed! Twill not recall those dark scenes which were enacted, as you know, in the place where Satan's seat war.Happily, Doon ia no longer the head-quarters of all the evil that disgraced our country, but a very fortress on the side of God and truth.1 have no hesitation in saying that, if any person who had spent a weck in Doon, in February, 1851, when I went there, \"were to spend 8 week in it at the present time, he would not be able to recognise mfdch more than the mountains and great of nature.The people, tho dwellings, the resent & different aspect.\u201d The enceess of ty's Inbors in tbat parish required the building of a church, costing £2,000, and three school-bouses with residences, costing £800, within the epace of ten cars, Mny it be sustained by the prayers and the iberality of Protestant Christiane ! Axorigr CLERGYMAN oF THE Cuvaci oF ENGLAND.[We thank the writer of the above for the interest he takes in the Witness, for his kind suggestions, and especially for the tems of intelligence.The method he suggests of devoting the weekly edition to ono denomination, would, we fear, scarcely work vell, as other denominations might equally claim editions ; and besides, the arrangements for such a change would be complicated and expensive.We will, however, be de- tighted to receive à regular eummary of intelligence, | ecclesiustical aod missionary, connected with the Epis- © copa! or any other Evangelical Churebh\u2014En.Wir.] 1 EDUCATIONAL We make the following extracts from articles in the last U.C.Journal of Education, which by the by is an admirable compilation of important information, and suggestions on the great subject of education.Ur first extract will be from an article copied from the Musserhusetts Teacher on the introduction of pbysi- cal culture into the schools of Massachusetts.Every one will recognize the picture it presents of a school girl :\u2014 PHYSICAL TRAINING IN COMMON SCHOOLS.We see that the Superintendent of the Boston schools recommends the general adoption of gymnastic exercise.Jtseems 10 ug that there is no moverient of the day of greater importance to the sclolar iudividualty, or which is destined to Lave a greater influence upon the well-being of the country, than this of the great systematic physical training of children.For success in life, vigorous health is of fat greater importance than bigh intellectuul culture.Energy is what rules the world.* * * We never see alittle girl staggering bome under à load of books or knitting, ber brow over them at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, without wondering tbat our citizens donot arm themselves at once with carving knives, pokers, clubs or any weajous at hand and chase out the managers of our common schools, as they would wild beasts, that were devouring their children.We bail the introduction of physical training into our common schools as being calculated to make tbe Americans the finest race of men, physically, that tbe world bas ever seen ; but we value it more as an important step in carrying to a still bigher point tbe unparalleled intellectual cultivation of our people.; THE POWER OF KINDNESS ON THE PART OF TEACHERS, \u201cMother, mayn't | go to school with Abby to day ?\u201d usked a bright-eyed, wide awake little boy, As bis sister was prepating for school.\u201d \u201cWhy you are not old enough to go to the school,\u201d replied the mother, \u201c wbat would the teacher do with Jou, if you were not stiller than you are ut home sometimes ?\u201d 1 don't believe she'd punish me, mother, for she said good morning to me wben she passed uz, aud | don't believe but she wants me to come to school.I will sit still mother, try me this once and see if I don\u2019t.If 1 am naughty, I won't ask you tv let me go again.\u201d Wouid it not be worth while, teackers, to say good morning or some pleasant word to every child we meet, ifit would influence them to form as good resolves as Hitle Willie?And who knows the infleence à single word or look may bave upon a child, even long after it is forgotten by the one who bestowed it?«] hated the first teacher [ bad,\u201d exclaimed a young lady, \u201cbe always looked so sour.\u201d Who doe ot relish pleasant and encouraging words, or looks, better than sour ones?\u2018I wished thata teacher would look as smilingly upon the scholars, as she did upon me,\u201d said a visitor.Smiles are better than frowns, my friend, and à pleasant Good morning\u201d is worth more than an averted look.Try it.\u2014M.A.B.MR.ROSE AND THE LOWER CANADIAN COURT HOUSES AND JAILS.(From the Montreal Herald.) A question was raised à night or two ago in Parlis- ment, which, though it occupied comparatirely little of the time of the House, was but a part of one vast extent and jwportance.We refer to the discussion respecting the contracts for the erection of Court Houses and Jails in Lower Canada.With respect to the mode in which that subject has been dealt with, we believe that Mr.Rose chiefly, as chief of the Department, and the ministry in general, were wholly right, and their assailunts\u2014who were mainly sucl enemies as those of a man's own house proverbially are\u2014were, of course, just as entirely wrong.I\u20acthere be anything at all upon which the government of 8 country should take a firm stand it is on the resolution toenforce every contract, exactly as one olits members would do, if be had made it for his own benefit.1f tLere be anything more ruinous to the finances, and more demoralizing to the people and government than another, it is the changing the conditions of contracts, and allowing contractors to receive amounts in excess of those which they are entitled to under their ments, With such a system contractors are always electioncering agents.We bave always protested against that course, and shall always lend our strenuous support, whatever that may worth, to & ministry who will firmly resist these demands upon them.We wish that the purchaser of the York Roads, who also publishes a ministerial organ at Toronto; that Mr.cMicken, M.P.P.for Niagara, who bas recently received several years of pay, more than the Department at one time held him to be entitled to; and that » crow.of others whose names would occupy too much of our space, had been treated with tho samo justice, as has been à plied to the original contractors for the Lower Canadian Jails and Court Houses.We cannot.we confess, account for the excessive zeal for the strict pound of flesh in this particular case; but regarding it onite own merits\u2014witbout remembering how many thousand pounds Mr, Beattie got, in direct opposition to the recommendation of the (\u2018omwissioners appointed by tho (Government jhemselves \u2014and banishing from our minds its jnconsistency with other similar facts\u2014wo say the Government merits every praise.The facts of the case appear to be these, that Meears.Skelsey and No.35.in question within a certain time, proceeded in a most dilatory manver with the work, and sil the while drew pay, to an amount which at the moment the work wes taken out of their hands considerably exceeded the value which they had given in labor and materials.The Department does not seem to have been very wide awake on that head.However, at fast the contractors were notified that they must proceed within a certain time, or if not, the work would Le resumed.They failed to fulfil their duty, and other builders were procured.The Department, of course, claims sgainst Lhe contractors, the excess of payments, snd sles the difference between their price, and the higher price, which has to be paid to the new eontractors.\u2014The latter, not satisfied with the decision of the Board of Works, bave applied for an arbitration, and this Mr.Rose has consented to give, if the sureties of the contractors will join in the bond to adhere to the award.This last condition is represented as something unheard of; but it is plainly one of strict justice: for bow could the sureties be bound by a new engagement to which they have not given their consent?We are not sure that the method of obtaining new contractors by private letters, instead of br advertising publicly 1s 30 unobjectionable, especially if the first contractors were to be made answerable for the difference of cost.But in other respects, we think an excellent exampl-: bas been set, which ought to be followed throughout, There.must, however, no McMicken and Beattin jobs if such a rule as this is to prevail, for a contract respecting bricks and mortar is no more sacred than one respecting turnpike roads.or Custom House salaries, We have one other hope to express, and that is, that neither Mr.Sinclair nor Mr.Skelsey - may be able to find a constituency next election, or else we sre tolerably sure, that an entirely new light will dawn upon the Treasury Benches withiu a year or so, exactly as it hapnened in the case of Mr.A.P.MacDonald, who declared to bis electors that he bad not a claim tor one penny agsinst tbe Gorern- ment : but who vury soon after bis return saw one on the ground, and like a wise wan, picked it up; obtaining thereby, a very rect little number of thousand dollar bills.Tug GOVERMENT AND TUE GoasD TeiNg Rawway.\u2014The Ministry has sent down to Parliament à copy of a report of the Committee of the Executive Council of tbe 19th March, by which it appears that tbe Government granted to the Company a loan of $120,000, to aid in the payment of arrears of wages, which the Directors represented, without such aid, would lead to the immediate stoppage of the road.The said advance was granted through the Upper Canada Bank, upon the understanding that all surplus earnings of the road should be paid in weekly in discn-:ge of tbe said loan, which has been done to the ¢ tent of $1000.\u2014 Herald.Tae ApproacHixé CoMkT.\u2014A communication from Harvard Observatory announces that the comet is growing brighter, and is already visible to the naked eye, near the tail of Draco.It will pass across the Great Bear, and will be near the Bowl of the Dipper in eight or mine days.But tbe most remarkable fact about the comet is, that it will on the 12th of May be almost exactly where the earth was on the 19th of April ; 30 that if ite perihelion passage were twenty-three days earlier, the earth would pass through the body of the comet.\u2014 JAdcertiser.\u2014According to the Boston Âtlas of the 26th, arms have been bought in Canada for the us of the Northern (U.8.) Volunteer Companies :\u2014* Governor Andrews received from Canada yesterday, six thousand rifle muskets, with the sword bayonet.They will probably be used to arm some of the voluntest companies now recruiting in this Stale.\u201d We learn from an officer of militia, who was cogoizant of the application, that the statement of our Boston contemporary is à pure invention.\u2014 Leader, Great Sats of Towssmir Laxps von ACTUAL SETTLEMENT.\u2014Our readers may have noticed, ia the report of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, recently issued, the particulars of an arraogment effected, by which upwards of 900,000 acres of land in the Ottawa valley, forming no less than ten townships, have been disposed of to a number of well-known capitalists for the purpose of actual settlement.This isa fact, the importance of which cau hacdly be overestimated ; for it shows that, at last, the value of Cavads sss field for emigration and investment is becomi recognized in au appreciable form by that influenti class in the old country which, more than all others, it is most desirous to have intersted in our welfate and progress.There bas been no deviation, even in this large business, from the terms ef settlement required fom the humblest settler, which way be taken as an earnest of the bona fide character of the speculagon.The transaction, indeed, is one, the immense value of which, tous, we can bardly realise from the necessary formal notice of it contained in the Commissioner\u2019s report.The labor and the capital of the great pumber of people that mus tbe employed in the clearisg aud setslement of s0 vast a tract of the primeval forest, as that embraced in ten townships, must, as every one will see, add considerably to our wealth, But, besides the compliance with the full terme of settlement exacted by the Department.these Engiish capitalists bavo given a further proof of their sincerity by paying, as an instalment of the purchase money, upwards of $19,000, While où the subject, it is, perbaps, only rightthat we should meu- tion that the negociations in conncetion with it were initiated and brought to a conclusion by the junior member for Torontn, Mr.J.B.Robinson, who bas thus given an unmistakable proof of great business cnergy and tact.Let ua hope to see some further efforts on bis part in the same direction.As itis, be bas proved himself a true benefactor to bis coun- Sinclair having undertaken to build the Court Houses try.\u2014 Chronicle. i | t ; Na 9 THE MONTKEAL WITNESS.May 1, 1861.British Press.STATE OF EUROPE, Fem Live pond Courier of the 10th March) Lord Palmerston * hoped\u201d that spring would ripen into summer without bringing with it a rupture of the peace of Furape.When we have no certaintivs we rest upon hopes, and at the prescat is rising in Europe.That whieh broke out in | moment those entertained by Lord Palmerston +\u201d are nat of the brichtest.The French papers deny that any additimal French ships have been Syria : but ter state that the entire French tiet is proparias th take to seain three divisions, 14 perforux some manœuvres ia open waters.\u2014 There is nothing to prevent one or two vf these divisions manwreing off towards Syria, Is the British flzet preparing to take to sca in three divisions also?Waaterer be the immediate design of this movement of the French fleet, and the vast military preparations made throushout France, there is 1) nestion that both form parts of an, extensive plan gradusly being developed.Arms ure sant in vast quantities from Sardinia to the hundrid defenceless men and Women.for the appressed Poles.RUMOURS OF WAG Fret Eh tah Wate) It begins to be man ) st that n new storm ), and ended with the fall of Greta this winter, was coalined within the Alps; but the coming tempest will plainly be on no such limited scale.| «Lt threatens to il the whole of Europe.In cvery eombirs th.re is taickeniog of the air, à darkenin: of the hurrizon, a rising of the waters, in short, north and south there are signs of trouble and | portents of\u2019 changes of a more sweeping character than any which * the present generation bas wit- pesged, The tidings wafted to our shores by! every post, from every land, far or near, are the! | same\u2014tamine, wars, and rumours of wars, Such is the unvarying tale that reaches us from both east and west, We had beca promising ourselves | quiet.Italy was on the road to liberty, \u2014the| d This is power to st precisely the way to creste European sympathy [felt inclined ?Or can we permit a partition of ar way to the Fast whenever she the Ottoman dominions betwixt France and Rus.\u201ci1\u2014a0 arrangement very possibly in conteru- plation at Parviz and St.Petersb would suit both parties?This, be the eonse- quences what they may ratnot permit: and, averse as we are to war, we should yet feel ourselves compe Led, if not from regard to cur own 2, 8% one that position, yet from regard to the moral welture of the whale eastern world, to mwasure vrais with any power that should dare occupy that land.We know of ouly one svlution which the question of Turkey can have, and we are not very san zuine that that solution will come immediately, though well assured that it will come cventually.On its scuboard is anold and vencrable land, and, scattered, throuzhout the carth, without a country, without a home, without political rights is an old and venerable people, who still call that land their own, and whose lengiogs to return to it, and whose hopes of one dug possessing it, are irrepressible and imperishable, At this hour, when the very soil seems to teem with perished nation- jalities, when everywhere throughout Europe the frontier of Turkey which looks towards Germany.Pope's temporal power was circumscribed withia | Atfi-st these arms were sent boldly up the {almost the old ruinous walls of Rome, \u2014the very Dab.until the Ea:lish representative iuter- Hapsburz was becoming liberal.* Europe,\u201d said fered.Loaterly they Have heen linded où detached portions of the erst of Dilmatia, and the Porte nas now a large squadrnn at Antivart for the express object of pr-veotiaz the disembarkation of arms or mititary supples, Toen, the Huo- garians demaad the withdrawal of oll the Huo.arian = ddiers from the Austrian arœy in Vone- tia, aad reqaire tine they should be yuartered in Uungary 1welf.This mesure would injure Austria doubly.Fir-cly, it wou'd take away the fivwer of her so'diery frow Venice: and secondiy.it woald give additional strancth ta the Huo- arian, it the spirit of national ty should, as the Huagarians beieve it would, provail over the discipline and logaity of the tr ops.Mcanwhile, , plourhshare.\"prophet.but with the prophet we may à man the other day, not likely to be led away by food fancies, our veteran Prime Minister to wit, \u2014* Furope is becoming constitutional.\u201d We shall have a new world, said we to oursclves,\u2014a 'worll of free Governments, of happy races,\u2014a word withont camps.without armies.or other in- steuments,\u2014and relics of a detunet despotism.\u2014 ; Weare about to convert the sword into the hold trouble.\u201d Some emergency has called Garibaldi from Caprera.He is not one of those who love to wear soft raiment und live in king's houses, and we may be sure the business is important which ! + We looked for peace, Th the counted a marvel that the Jews should rise 7\u2014 i Are they not entitled tu claim their land ?Is it \u2018advantageously held by any other race ?{they to prefer such a claim, who could deny its Austria is rapidly strenzthening her ary in Venetia by levies of savaze Crosts, who are not nawil ing to have « chance of good plunder and at that the Court of Vienna, so far from entertain: 7 ule batchery.Tne desizo of Giribaldi, a« fur ine the purpase of abandoning Venetia, is dream- asit can be ascertained, is to rouse the Iun- ing of recovering the Duchies, A bold sally from parians, in order to employ Austria whil: he her cocampment might put her in at least tem- wakes à descent upon Venice.Certain it is that porary possession of thew.The urmy of occu- the fur-ien refuzees in London have received | pation at Rowe is, being strengthened ; and, des- remittances trom abro«d within the list few pite the decree of the Italian Parliament that they days, and are providing themselves with arms and ; must have the old capital, the evacuation of Rome necessaries for same expected expedition.Gari-' grows more hopeless than before.At the same bald s unexpected presence at Turin is under-| moment that Garibaldi visits Turin, the French briugs him to Court.Austrian troops are now ; being massed on the Po; and it becomes plain | stood to have been caused bya desire to concert plans with Cavour.Hunzarian refugees are arriving at Genoy, and being formed into battal- lions.If war breaks ont, it is manifest that not Marshals liold a council of war in the Tuileries; and one of their number is about to depart on a tour of inspection of the fortresses on the cistern and north-castern frontier, as if storms merely Hunzury and Venetia will be the scene | were expected in that quarter.Louis Napoleon of it, hut that Puland, dismemb:red as it is, the labours without pause in the work of building frontier provinces of Turkey, and possibly the | iron war-vessels of tremendous size, destined to Tyrol miy be ensayed.In any case, an outbreak either in Hunzary or Venetia would bring Russia intn the field.Then comes the dismemberment of Turkey, aod (At must compel England to show her teeth, The trade of the Levant and our rvute to India cannot \u2018be lost or given away.\" The Hungarian and Bohemian Parliaments sitting at Pesth and Buda are quite as recalcitrant as the opposition in the French Chambers.Roth insist upon poe seing complete control over the ways and means,\u201d that is, over the Government, and by both, the acts of the insurgents of 1849, called by them martyrs, are eulorised.Toereis no news from Rome,the Pope apparent 15 pot haviog quite recovere from his fainting fit, or the fatigue necisioned by the delivery nf his jaa fulmination.But the bishops ure busy clse- where.Five of them have been detected in attempts to carry out a formidable conspiracy, the head quarters of which are at Nuples.A duke, n general, the five bishops, and a vast number of reantionists, have been placed in prison, and Na.plos is quiet.As Kossuth raised a point of law respecting the abdication of King Ferdinand of Auitria, asserting that he had formally abdicated the Hungariza (row, the President of the Cruncil of Magoates, (*yuat Apponyi, 0a Saturday last.11id before the nobles the formal abdication of Hungary by that monaroh.At Warsaw, the Agricultural Society has been dissolved : the pretext is, that state commissioners could do the work better, It will be recollected, that during the Warsaw dragonsde the members of this society.men of high position, were fired upon by the Rassian soldiers.Fearful details of the effects of the famine in Indias are brought by the lute mail.The residents ure doing their utmost to forward suplies ; snd they will be greatly cheered und encouraged when they learn the extraordiuary sympathy for India mavifested in Liverpool and J.onden by the amount of moncy subscribed on euch®hort notice.Important and distressing news came by telegraph last night.The French priests haviog become too troublesome, the Emperor has (threatened them, through M.Delangle, with an applice- tion of the laws which iuflict imprisonment and banishment un persons speukiog evil of Im- is] dignitaries.At Warsaw there has been snother savage butchery.(\u2018rowds of unarmed people puraded the city on Monday, and because they ventured bear the castle, although the streets were filled with troops, the cavalry rode them down aod the infantry fired upon them killing upwards of one figure in no ordinary conflict.Ilis fleet has not gone ta Beyrout, but it rendezvous at Toulon, and is about to perform some evolutions at sea oo a grand scale.But perbaps the most serious complication of all is the outbreak, on a formidable scale, of a re-actionary conspiracy at Naples.The Bourbons have not yet lost spirit and hope.They have men and money at command; they have powerful machinery, ready-made to their hands, for executing their plans ; end before finally abandoning power they are prepared to play a bald game, which may yet astonish und embroil Europe.The political situation, instead of clearing up, grows every day more sombre.By much the more formidable question, however, to Britain, is the Eastern question.That question tends rapidly to war, and in that war we cannot stand neutral, We permit our cm- pire to be parted ia twain, our prestige to be grievously damaged, aud our sovereignty of the seas more than questioned, should we allow cither France or Îtussia to seat themselves at Constantinople.One thing is plain, the Sultan cannot long remain there; and we koow the powerful competitora who contend for the honor of possessing bis dominions, or of sharing them botwixt them.The most sanguine ammongst us have now abandoned the hope of the resuscitation of that empire, or of graftiog constitutional or progres sive ideas on the Turkish rule.There is à stage when reforms conserve a nation, by infusing new blood into it; but there is a stage, also, when reforms but hasten the dissolution and disorganization of a nation.Tho words admit of a wider application than has yet been given to them, that \u201cno mun putteth new wine into old bottles, else the bottles break.\u201d Turkey is too old a bottle to contain this new wine.So far as the experiment has gone, the effect has heen to shiver into splinters the fragile and time-worm utensil.Italy may be found, too, to have pasted the point when reformation is possible.The powerful effervescence of the new liquor which bas been poured into it is in some danger of burating it; but there can be little question that Tarkey has long since assed this stage; snd the only effect of letting in western political ideas will found to be, to give loose to religious strifes, to à war of races, und tu a general break up at the last.l\u2019rance foresees this, snd has taken her measures in accordance with what she knows most be the inevitable result.Louis Napoleon will never let go his hold upon Syria, Every day will multiply the distractions of that country, and every day will multiply the pretexts for tbe French retaining military occupation of it.Butcan we permit this?(\u2018un we permit France to be mistress of the seu-board oF the Levant, having it in her spectacle is beheld of the upening of political :c- pulelires, aud the risinr of the politically dead, should ic be deewed a thing impossible that the dry bones of the Hebrew nationality should live ?When the [talians have risen, and are claiming their cities and their ficlds from those who have | trodden thew down and meted them out for a thousand years,\u2014 when the ITunzarians are ris- ins, \u2014when the Poles are risine, \u2014 when Lumer- \"ous nameless tribes that skirt the western domin- lions of the Sultan ure rising,\u2014should it be ac- \u201cnot still theirs, and can it ever be lawfully and Were justice?Not France; not Russia; not even the Sultan ; while it would be in full sccordance with the policy of Britain.The settlement of that old race in Syria would satisfy all the conditions of the political emergency.It would clothe these old shores with industry and cultivation ; it would carry back arts and letters to the lands that were their cradle; it would create, and create in a day, a mighty power in bebalf of liberty and civilization at the gateway of the Kast; and it would erect a barrier which would guard our path to India on the one side, and repel the Muscovite hordes on the other.BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.Rev.Mr Serreeox's New Cuarkr.\u2014The interior of the metropolitan tabernacle, as | can testify from personal inspection, is very beautiful as well as commodious.There is a peculiar lightness as well as elegance in the aspect of the double galleries round the building.The intertwined iron work in front of these galleries, naintedin white and gold,and the graceful Corinthian columns supporting them, each crowned with gas jets, produce a fine effect.There are two platform, each with circular fronts.The lower is oceupied by the choir, reporters and strangers, who enter from behind\u2014the upper by Me.Spurgeon himself, and his elders seated behind Lim.He rises from a couch at one side, walks forward to the front into a projecting recess on the platform, formed by a graceful curve.Ile begivs with a short prayer.lle then announces a hymu, and the sight presented by the vast audience rising up to sing, coupled with their jubilant and unanimous shout of praise, is most impressive.The preacher then reads, aud having briefly expounded a chapter, announces another hymu., He afterwards delivers his sermon, which is distinctly heard in every part of the building.What sirikes the stranger on entering is, the vastness of the edifice.The externst length of the whole structure is 200 feet, with a fromage of 101 feet.The interior is 146 feet in length, by 81 feet in breadth, and the height from the ground floor to the lantern in the roof is 91 feet.The number of sittings provided is 4,200, with standing room for an additional 2,000, Each gallery has its own staircase in solid stone, aup- ported by wrought-iron carriages of extraordinary strength, Ly an ingenious arrangement each stream of people entering or retiring from cither of the galleries, will he entirely removed from the other.Sixteen doors admit of Such facility that an audience of 15,000 can with case quit the building in (ive minutes, Te Zamnest MissronartEe.\u2014Important intelli gence had been received from the interior respecting the Zambesi mission, connected with the London Missionary Society.It will be remembered that, some months ago, information reached London of the sudden decease of the Jtev.Mr.and Mrs, Helmore, the Rev.Mr.Price's child, and several natives, forming the mission party at Linyanti, the station of the Makalolo tribe, under the chief Sekeletu.The Rev.Mr.Price, with his wife, and Me.Helmore\u2019s surviving children, after losing their friends, st once took their leave of Bekeletu's place; but as they had litle knowledge of the country into which they passed, fears were entertained for their safety, us well as that of the Rav.J.Mackenzie, who, it was known, had left the station nt Bamangwato to procced to join the mission at Linyanti.An exploring party, Leaded by the venerable lobert MofTuy, and aided by funds from friends in the colony, was sent out from Kuruman in search of them.Ou the twelfth day after leaving Kuruman they met with a messenger bearing letters for the itev.Mr.Moffat, and informing bim that the Rev.Mears.Price and Mackenzie were safe at Lechu- latebe's Town, st Lake Ngami.The lev.Me.Price hud a perilous journey from Linyanti, hut his chief misfortune was the loss of Mes.I\u2019rice, who died on the way.Romisn Bisors axn Manniace.\u2014The Bishops of the four provinces of Genoa, Milan, Turin, and Ver- celli, have sent un address to King Victor Kmmanuel, protesting agaitst the institution of civil marriage, and claiming thal marriage should be exclusively re- cognised as n sacrament of the Church.Nes IN aathe léduestion Commissioners report, Me, Brookfield put the two following questions to 1,344 children in the first classes of 53 schools, containing 6,500 seholurs; 17 of the schools were goud, 19 fair, and 17 inferior : What is the cost of live dozen vies ut five foi ard * What do you mean by that state of lite into which it shall dese God to call you?\u201d 1 in 104 of the 1018] number of scholars in 52 schools, and 14 in 100 of the fist classes, found the paice of five dozen egos at five fur 2d: and 2 in 100 of the total scholars, aud 11 au 100 of the first classes, new what wis meant by \u201cthe state of life to which it shull please God to call me.\u201d Toe esneasy Crse\u2014\"The Established Presbytery of Dunblane are wt present hearing withessos in bd half ot the Government presentee, Me, Tugiam, A more tedious process it is scarcely possible to conceive : and the burden of the evidence just amounts to this, that there is no defect in Mr.Fogram's utterance, and that any dillieulty which may have been experienced in hznring him is owing to there being an echo in the church.Mr, Calvert, lecturer oy elocution in the New College, Edinburgh, was examined on Tuesday evening in suppott of this view : but ufier practically testing the acoustic properties of the building, by reciting several passes from popular pieces, he said that there was not much echo in the church, Whatever way the Presbytery de cide, the case is sure 10 reach the General Assemlly.who will this yeur lave fuur or five cases of disputed settlements 10 consider.Every successive year ix only making more pluin the absolute worthlessnera ot Lord Aberdeen's Act, unless it he devised fur the purpose of introducing dissension into parishes, und impairing the usefulness of preseuntees, engrossing the time of Presbyterics for whole months in posing of almest every conceliable fom of Ciev tion, and wentally torturing simple-minded people in forcing them to give the most refined and subtle definitions in answer to questions which even the young lawyers, who for the most part pet them.would themselves be wholly unable to nuswer.~ Neoteh Pap Tue Ske 1x Loxpos.\u2014Tlhere is a good hope that the unfortunate dispute between the Luilding trades and their employers will be umicably scitled.The masters, to do them justice, ere anxious to come to terms with the men: and the men have a salutary dread of another strike, if it can be avoided.At present the matter stands thus: \u2014The firms where the strike wns threatened have had an interview with deputatious from their men, in which it is proposed that the work sha'l be paid by the hour; that the work shall be continued for ten bours each working day, except Saturday, when the men would buve a balfholiday, dropping work at one o'clock.The payment for this at 7d as hour would amount to £1 123 111d: and as the present wages paid by the day and working till four o\u2019clock on Saturdays, is £1 13s, the masters expresced their willingness, ut the request of the deputation, to throw the odd balf- penny into the bargnin.Tne result of this would be, that the workman would have the same wages as before the dispute ; and a1 they did not threaten to strike fur more, there is of course nothing to complain of on that score, What they wanted was a 1eduction of five hours\u2019 labour in the week; their masters propose a compromise, by giving them 24 hours ut giving it them all in a lump, instead of spreading it in a thin layer over all the days of the week.The men are to meet tomorrow to consider of this proposal, and it is carnestly to Le hoped tbat they will accept it.There would be a greater probability of their doing so if they were treated with a little more consideration by the newspapers in their masters\u2019 intcrests.\u2014 London Letter.Tur Mysteriovs Murper at Roan.\u2014There is now no room to hope that this mysterious crime will be discovered\u2014at any rate through ordinary means.The small number of persons who composed the household on the fatal night are fast being separated.Elizabeth Gough is at her home in the suburbs of London.Miss Constance IKgnt is on the point of leaviag for a school in I'rance, her brother William is already from home, and the rest of the family will leave Ioad-hill-house ina day or two, whither it is not generally known; but it is believed they intend travelling for some time, The contents of the now cclebrated house will shortly be offered for public sale, and doubtless the public will avail themaclves of the privileges of an auction day to grati(y & curiosity 80 much felt to view the scene of the mysterious murder.The cot, from which the ill-futed child was taken to his cruel death, will not be sold.The house aud grounds are fur sale, but there does not seem to he much disposition on the part of any one to occupy so famous a residence, As to the crime itself, we believe it is now given up os being among the things which are too mysterious to be inquired into.MopeuatTonsitir or Inisit PRESBYTERIAN ASSEN nvy.\u2014The Belfast l\u2019resbytery on Tuesday unanimously nominated tne Rev.Jobn Macnaughton (late of Paisley) for this office, The Carrickfergus Presbytery have also made the same proposal.MoUERATORSHIP OF JSTABLISTIZD ASHEMBLY.\u2014 Some of the pupers are authorized to announce, on what authority is not stated, that the Rev.Dr.Anderson of Newburgh will be proposed for the Mode: ratorship of the Fstablished Assembly, in opposition to the person named by the old Moderators, whose nomination will, however, in all probability, be successful.Dr.Smith of Tuverary is, we hiclieve, to be proposed by the old Moderator.Tue Crsrons Duties.\u2014The Red River finances are in a flourishing condition.Whatever else may be unsatisfactory in our present condition, in this res: pect at loaat, there is no reason to complain, Independently of the usual annual revenue which we may confidently count upon, there wre in our treasury, at present funds sufficient for some years lo come.So ar well, and If wo but had n moro eflicient system of collecting the customs duties, it is certain that the annual revenue Would be much lurger and more funds would be thus svuilalle for publie improvements.It is only now that the American duties on oods imported last year are being collected! This elay must entail considerable loss to the revenue, for not oaly have parties imported twice or thrice since last spring who will nevertheless, take good care to pay only one invoice, but some non-residents who came and traded hers In 1860 have left without paying any duties.\u2014 Nor\u2019 Wealer. May |, 1661 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.276 American Press.IS THIS THE END?(From NY.Trdune, 24th.) Mayor Brown vf Baltimore had an interview with President Lincoln, his Cabinet, and his Comimand-r- in-Chief, on Sunduy last.Ile begun by protestiog against the passage of any more Northern troops through Baltimore, beca.:de of the fcarfu! excitement prevailing in thut city! The President, acting under Gen.Scott's advice, agreed that our troops should hereafter avoid the streets of that city, provided their advance to Washington weto not obstructed in other directions.The Muyor, thus cucoursged, went on (be says) to suggest to Mr, Lincoln \u201ca course of policy that would give peace to the country, wud especially the withdrawal of all arders conten plating the passage of troups through any vaur of Maryland.\u201d As (tas wus rather n polite way of advising the Jresident to jack bis trunk and stast for the North, Lis present quarters being wanted by Jedi.Davis, we think the Mayor should have closed hy juurantet ing Lim a safe conduct throuzh sand, provided ke vent uumtied and allowed no Massachusetts man to neconpany him.We trust that we have at leust rexched the buttom où this Border-Ntate Concilialion business, so assiduously out the last few months.We thou + of Sumpter, the invest ment of 15, with the destruction of the Harper's Ferry Arsenal, and the burning ot all the National vessels and other property at Notfulk Navy.Yard, hud about fivished it, but it scems that there was a lower deep.1he Union Mayor of Baltimore, who, backed iy its Uniontiovernor, who dared to wake this suggestion to the resident of the United States, was perfectly aware that citizens of Massachusetts, flging to the defense of the National Capital on that President's requisition, and utterly unsuspicious of covert hostility in Baltimore, were butchered iu the streets of thut city two days bufore\u2014that the two Railroads reaching Baltimore from the North and Fast had been broken up by their orders the day before on purpose to prevent any support reaching the Government from the Free Siates\u2014that the telegraphs hitherward had likewise been broken up for a like reason\u2014thst the Government had already applied to their city for provisions to feed its de fenders in Washington, and been peremptorily re fused, no Union merchaut daring to sell them so much as à biscuit, for fear of the mob\u2014that the known Union men of Baltimore had been awed into flight or submiesion by that mob; llenry Winter Davis, for*one, having to Hy from his house to escape violence and probable death\u2014aud that crery approach to Washington through Maryland was that moment practically closed agains, the Loyalists and ogien to the Secessionists.So much the Mayor of Laltimore must bave known when he asked the President of the United States in effect to evacuate Washington and fly to some I'ree State, yet he was not kicked down stairs and out of the White House! We must believe that the degradation of our Government, which began with the unresisted seizure of its property and revenues in Charleston, touched bottom in this conference at the White House, aup- posing that Mayor Browu bas reported its substance with anything like accuracy.Whatever the future may bave in store for us, we are sure that we have passed through the Valley of Humiliation and are enceforth rising to the broad tablelund of Manhood and Self: Respect.NO MARCHING AROUND BALTIMORE.(From the N.Y, Tribune, 24th.) We have received the following letter from one of the popular leaders of the Democratic party in this city: % You are right.Keep it before the people : No MARCIUING AROUND BALTIMORE.For the present tet our battle cry be, Tunorcn BALTIMORE AT EVERY nazann |] pray you say to the Government that the people demand The right of «tay to the Capital, «and will have it.« J ain ready, if there be an occasion for it to be one of un army over whose dead bodies our living soldicrs may marchin triumph to Washington.1 mean what 1 say.I havelived thirty-seven years, and 1 care not to survive my country.Tnnoveu BarTiNoRE AT ALL Hazanps!\u201d \u201chis ia the sentiment of the People.There should be no marching around Baltimore.There should be no stopping of the mails and no cutting of the telegraph wires hy the ruflians, murderers and traitors of that misguided city.GEORGE LAW ON TiIE WAR, New-York, April 25, 1861.To Tue Presmest or TuE United StAtEs\u2014 Sir : The people of the J'ree States have now been for some time cut oft from communication with the capital of their country by a mob in the City of Dalti- more.'I'roops of the General Gioverument have been attacked and shot down by the mob, in their passage through that ir in pursuance to the orders of the Government, The lines of communiention have been destroyed, nnd the authority of the General Covert- ment has heen set at defiance.This state of things lias been permitted to continue for nearly n week, and our troops going to the capital huve been delay: od and have had to find their way by irregular sud vireuitous routes, very much to their inconvenience, Citizens of the Free States have vither been prevented altogether from visiting the capital or from return: ing thence to their homes, or bave been compelled to run the gauntlet, being subjected to ull sorta of insult and danger, and have had to resort to the most circuitous routes by private conveyance und at exorbitant expense, All facilities by \u2018mail aud telegraph have been cut off hy the same unlawful assemblage in Iallimore and other parts of Maryland, at a time when free communication in so much required botweon tho tree States and Washington.The public mind is nireudy excited to the highest point that this state of things has been so long tolerated ; and the people are determined that freo and uninterrupted communication with the seat of (iovern- ment sball be immediately established, not by cir- caltous routes, but by the direct lines of communiea- tion that they have horotofore traveled over.And it is demanded of f;overnment that they at once take measures to open and establish those lines of communication, sud that they protect sud preserve them Unless this is done the people will be compelled to take itinto their own hands, let the consequences be what they may, It is certaisly most desirable that this be done through the rexu- larly constituted authorities nt Washington; and the tiovernment is earnestly desired to act without delay.There is eutire ununimity vf fecliog on the part of the people of the Free Stutes tu sustain the Goveru- from suy further interruption.and let them full where they will.ment and maintain the Union.L trust, Mr.President, that this letter will not Le received unkindly, as in writing it I simply do what I feel it to be my duty as a citizen to do in this ex traordinary state of things.{ have the honor to be, Sir, Your most nbedient servant Geonse Law.BY TELEGRAPH.New York, » s from Ls stimore, indi tions ul te comment wound, The ste Pennsylvania line within the past week.The war preg ever, New regiments re continually forming, volunteers are ready at hand Piano 14, April he Tha populace is not aware of 1d probally mob him.Ley Wag arr Richmond in irons.on Sunday evening.A Washington despatch of Wednesdny says Vir- tion cf hostilities The President's One of the deputation suid that 15,000 Mury landers would sage of troops over her soil, to which M ginia and Maryland demand ces until ufler Session of Congress.answer was prompt and decided in the negative.contest the pu I the President replied that he presumed there was room enungh in ter soil to bury 75,000 men.The * Pawnee\u201d was at Vushiogton.The same correspondent says, Dr, Garrett, u son-in-law of 11.4, Wise, has sent Lis wife nnd family to tbe North for safety.A large number of Virginians are in this city who have been driven out of that State, because they would nut take the oath of allegiance to the State.Frm viLLE, MARYLAND.\u2014A train started for Wash- When it reached the - junction, the Federal 1reops were found lining the road, and it seizure, 8,000 volantecrs are À Lattery has been erected at Yorktown, and another three miles above Richmond, for There are 4,000 treopa at Harper's There will be 25,000 troops in Richmond by It is reported that the troops at Tarper's Ferry have been ordered to a point near Washington.from Baltimore expresses confidence that the Seceasion rule in the city will Le soon overthrown.À gentleman declares publicly in the parlors of Barpum's Hotel, that the Secessionists will At three o'clock Several ten miles towards Washington.The oflicers of the * Columbia\u201d fear the Pawnee i probably unfounded.A Balui- more gentleman arrived here who states that the Federal troops ocenpied Arlington Ileightson Tuesday.Mannisnure, April 26.\u2014A large number of Virginians arrived to-night, ric Chambersburg.They were required to take the test oath to take up arms or be ington, April zu.put buck, apprebendin in Ricbmond.war purposes, Ferry.Saturday.An intelligent person not be allowed to remain in tbe city.yesterday evening, Washington was «quiet, regiments marched taken; their fears are impressed.A large and enthusiastic meeling of the British residents was held last night to aid the movement to equip who feel desirous of the British Volunteer Regiment, marching through Baltimore.A letter from George Law to the President urges the If not done by order of the Government, the people will be compelled to opening of the Laltimore route.take it into their own hands.The Stites ard Union of Washington has suspended, the people having threatened to demolish tbe office ifit continued to advocate the Southern Confederacy.A letter from the wife of Bishop Polk of Louisiana says that her house was burned over her head by negroes on the night of 121, also the residence of Bisbop Elliott.A number of gentlemen people are arming everywhere.North Carolina for Union sentiments.A deputation of Sioux and Chippewa tribes offered 300 warriors to the President.Hon.John Sherman has just juinet Ohio troops ns & private.30,000 Pennsylvanians have thus far responded to the call for volunteers, and the Governor says he is literal- lle has accepted 19,- drilled regiments arrived to-day from A large number of persons arrived at York, Pu., yesterday from Baltimore, from whence they had fied.ly mobbed with offers of more.000.Two well Pittsburg.Piicaoeuenia, April 20.\u2014A private timore says that the city quiet again, are passing Susquebanua.tight artillery battery.The Petersburg Erpress gays there are 10,000 troops 500 at Nor- at Itichmond, 4000 at llnrper's Ferry, and folk, including 230 from Georgia, , WuwxeTox, Del, April 26, 1851,\u2014Gorernor Burton Das issued a proclamation, ealling out the troops to defend the Union.Governor Leteler, of Vieginia, cities.Blasstrst, Mo, April 23, 1861.\u2014Thero is but tittle sympathy in Northern Missouri with the Secessionists, ami Lhe reports that our railway and other publie con voyances bave been or are likely 10 bo interfered with, is wholly unfounded.Great fears are entertained in the Border Countien of Maryland of the entire Slave population.April 27,\u2014Tlie latest advices w hicls ste that the rule of the secession mob is becoming distasteful to n large por- {I The Uniss men are guiving awl stripes again flost over the bead-quartera of the minute men, and on Lutchers\u2019 Hill.Five hamlred shaves ure reported to have crossed the arations in New York arc as active aa ani \u2014Senator Mason is in this v3 be came here to settle the estate of bis À secret vigilance committee is watching = presence April 27.\u20141t is reported that Gen.Har- td at Harper's Ferry, and carried through Jeit.Davis was in Montgomery from the South report that A man was hanged ia letter from Bal- that the troops from Annapolis to Washington without interruption, (hat there seems no desire or intention to in- terfore, that the Conservative sentiment is predominate ing again, aud tint all feel moro hopelul of peace to-day.ft is rumonced that the Government has 8 detache ment of troops protecting the workmen who are repair ing the\u2019 bridges on the Philadelphia Railway, cast of 1t will be for the mails and travel only, A large schooner from New York, towed by a tug, was brought to by a ghot from the Fortress of Monroe, which passed through the tug.The cargo Was seized, It consisted of military stores for Virginia, and a full lues taaued A proclamation, prohibiting the exportation of Hour to Northern Peneysiup, April 26,\u2014Five Muioe Umber men, order- | ed out of Virginie, passed here.They report that! three schooners, the * Gen, Koox,\u201d © Victory\u201d and « Georgia, of Maine, were seized in Pakunka River, Virginiu.Caunon were placed aboard the ¥ Gen.Knox\u201d and the Secession flag hoisted.The Maine men were ordered 10 leave by Col.Lee on Saturday, sod placed under guard, They obtained a pass from Gov.Letcher out of the State, They were interrupted frequently.Living intercepted by tbe troopa st Baltimore they ap-; plied to Guvernor Trimble personaliy, who expressed | regret that the travellers were interfered with, and pro-j tected their departure.Cutrano, April 26,\u2014The [linois troops, acting under the Presidents orders, erossed to St.Luuis, advance upon the Federal Arsensl at St.Louis, anil brought away 21,010 stand of arms and a piece of artillery with | ammuuition.There wus no fighting.AMERICAN NEWS.: Piotr STULENTS\u2014The reports from fuity two col- lezes show that umon, less (ban six thousand atu- 5 tere are two thousand five hundred and seven: members of the Church, tweive hundred and} ity of whom ate preparing for the ministry.| 13 an encouratinz fact aud should lead Chris to continue to pray for their sons receiving education.nt, Paper, \u2014It is c-timated th uded annualiy from the Churehes in Enyland fur the one vice of drunken- | tine There uppalling statistics are accounted for by | Bb bewyaper Writer on the yruuted that habitual drink.| ing is reidom recognized as a sufficient rant for exclusion.À correspondent of the Hritish Standard (Congregational) says: ** At the present time | know of a Church tbat bus been broken up lately : from this very cause, nearly every member being charged with the sin of intemperance, not cue mem ber daring to exercise discipline upon anotber for fear of a like exposure bims If: and, owinr to this cause, for some months past the Loid's Supper bus | not been dispensed.\"\u2014 Am.Paper.| + 50,000 persons ! 3,000 Christian ENT OF ComMERCE OF THE Mississter1.\u2014The issippi Liver extends 2,100 miles from frozen re- s of the North to the sunny South, and with the A uri river, is 4,500 miles in length.It wouid reach from New York across the Atlantic Ocean, or from France to Turkey and the Caspian Sea.Its average depth is tifty feet, and its width over half a mile.The floods are more than a month travelling from its source to its delta.The trappers can exchange the furs of animals caught by them ou the Upper Mississippi for the tropical fruits gathered on the banks below.The total value of steamers afloat on the river and its trhutaries, is more than $60,000, 000, numbering 1,600 boats, with rcove than twice the stenmboatl tounsge of England.It drains an area of 1,200,000 square miles, and washes the shores of twelve powerful States.In one single reservoir at Lake Pepin, between Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2,500 miles from the sea, the navies ofthe world might ride st auchor.\u201c Wontny or IntraTion \u2014 À z«llant exploit was that of the young feilows at Washington the other night, who went over to Virginia and captured 8 rebel steamer londed with arms, It was all the more gallant because they acted on their own motion, with.ont waiting for orders from the Government.There ave plenty of chances to render such service to the countes.AU along the Virginin and Maryland line there are opportunities for brave mea to make effective dashes at the enemy.There are in Marylaud, for instance, towns where the Union men have been persecuted, robbed and driven forth.In Virginia, there is Harper's Ferry, with its mob of Virginia brigands.Why does not some enterprising Pennsylvanian raise a force of five bundred men, mostly mounted, with one or two smart pieces of flying artillery, if they can be got conveniently, and, without waiting for orders, fall upon these nests of rebels and traitors with the suddenness and the fatality of lightning ?Pepend upon it, there are brilliant feats to be done.Where are the Pennsylvanians to do them ?\u2014 Tribune.Peptic Orisios 15 New ExcLann.\u2014\u201c The New- buryport Herald, who has ail along taken the pro- slavery and compromise side, now holds the following language :\u2014It would have pleased us more, if we could have seen moderation and an attempt at conciliation on either or both sides; if, since Sumpter and Pickens are not essential to our safety, and the States in which they are situated deern them essential to their anfety, they could have been given up, for we should have been no weaker und they no stronger thereby.But s0 it could not be, and they have chosen to fight fret.Vers well, fight let it be then, and let the guns of Sumpter unite us all.When we euter upon a war honor and humanity demand that we should make it as short as possible.There can be no doubt that the free States, numbeting two to one of all the South in population aud havirg abundant wenlth and credit, must conquer; and the more forcibly and the more expeditiously we move, the better.Let Mr.Lincoln cull for o hundred thousand men ns soon us the railronds enn carry them to the nearest point of action: 10 be followed by another hundred thousand, as soon as they can be mustered ; and a third hundred thousand to stand in reserve.1 we ara to lizht to the subjugation of vur opponents, they will all be needed: and if we ure to negotiate hereafier, it must be done on 1he drum head.[tis too late now to nsk whether we provoked this fight by sending ships to Sumpter, or they by resisting them : it is too Inte to talk nbout the past, or dally in action, to hesitate ov grow pale at the thought of blood.All those things were in their place months age.We have chosen war or heen forced into it: and it makes ro difference which, Now we must follow it up without the shrinking of a nerve or the quivering of « lip.If Virgina and other border Sates scvede, the work is only the more difficult ut it must bedoue, Norshould we hesitate it legal and constitutional objections sre raised : the necessities of war\u2014especially civil war\u2014are above all technical forms, and we presume that every man who was ready to fire the first gun, Was rea for any change of government: \u2014if not, we are, [tis barely wossible if the war becomes general that our present forus may survive, and quite as possible that the wan on the white horse way come, Let it be as it will, those who iunuguarate war must bave considered all those contingencies\u2014they huve trken the respon- f| be suspected Mon Law.\u2014In Philadelphia strongly, in some of the minor towns of Pennylvania more mildly, bot still decidrdly, im New York very definitely and in our own city, threateningly, the spirit which sanctions the punishinent of men expressing treasonable sentiments by illegal force seema to exist.Again we desire to protest against this, and to appeal to our own citizens in the name of the just cause of Jaw and order which they have espousesl, not to allow this spirit to control their action, It is essentially wrong, for whatever purpose it is resorted to, and it fur- rishes & weapon Lu the opponents of good government, which unce placed in their bards, it will be very difficult to wrest from them, It iss bad sign when any set of men, in the service of any principle, in a community where lawful redress for injury or proper regulation by public opinion, is as pessible as In aur own, to resort to the brutal violence of mob Jaw.It throws u taint upon their cause which it is almost impossible tu wipe out.\u2014 Albany Statesman.New York, April 24.\u2014Geveral Wool issued order, yesterday, for the delivery of 10,600 muekéts and 100,000 cartridges to the Obio treo e, now at Harris.bury.He has recommended by special courier to the rovernment, the bringing of 50,000 troops into imore.+ the route throuzb Hal nto the field within ebels from } nn of New Orleans pi.Daniel 5.Diekinzon, Liakt, remarked that be dif neces: would the field, and open He would aio bri auf ote to d'-perse the bold that citr and take pu und the mouth of the Missi in u speech here, on Mon would strike now in vir mi wipe: the South from the fa SPRINGFIELD, Jin, April ZU.! asked for from Iliuoi., are full, and wii probably all be in camp by Tuesday.Double the vom quired have been offered and 1huse not a cepted \u2018will be hiid as a reserve.Back rroM a Vovaug ABRoab, asp Goixe rom TE CotsTRY.\u2014 President Stecris, of Amherst College, after goivy a8 far as Besten and paging his passage money, bas decided not 10 go to Europe at present.In some remarks to the students on his return, he said.** I wocld no more leave my native country at this time thao I would: cert my house when it was on fire.\u201d A Correct Coupany.\u2014 Amberst College is first iu the field of all our seminaries of learning.Un Mou- day morning.after prayer, a company of sixty volunteers, from the different clue:es, was formed in less than an hour, and the roll forwarded to Gov.Andrew by that day's mail.Profs.Clark and Hooker are leaders in the movement, and will act as officers, if the company is mustered into service, Arms and a drill master will be at once procured from Loston.\u2014 The people will no longer be content with defending the Federal Capital.By the end of this week, patriotism will have planted 25,000 troops iu Wash ington.The stream is only just beginning to pour.By the first of May, 50,000 wiil be encamped along the Potomac.Will they be satisfied to idle away their time on the northerly bank of (bat river, waitin tor Jeff.Davis to come and attack them?No! They, with the 50,000 more that wili be pressing upon their heels by the last of May, will be led across the river to Richmond! Acd they will go, snd that den of rehels and traitors will be broken up and destroyed.Qu to Richmond !\" is the ery.\u2014 Tribune.\u2014 \"Through Baltimore to Washington!\u201d is the motto of the patriot suldiery now rushing to arms in the Free States.In going to the National Uapital, in obedience to the cull of their country, they have no intention to turn short angles or turn devious courses, either to avoid the Plug-Uglies of Baltimore or please their allies the late hypocritical Unionists of Largland.They propose to go to Washington \u201cby the usually travelled route,\u201d as the law directs.If Baltimore objects, they will insist.If she resists unto blood, they will remove her out of the way, and go over the spot where Baltimore used to stand.\u2014 fb.\u2014 We understand that the Government bave directed Commander Breeze of the Navy Yard to charter 20 steamers of light draft, for three months\u2019 service ; to arm them with nine inch pivot guns and fit them out forsea.Probably the intention of this fleet is to catch and sink the Jeff.Davis privateers wherever found.\u2014 1b.\u2014 One of the most authentic and most gratifying items of our latest news from Washington is, that Mr.Lincoln said to a deputation from Baltimore, oo Monday last, that if the passage of United States troops was again obstructed be would lay their city innshes.That's the way to talk to the traitors, \u2014 The first actual success on the side of the United States in this war was achieved at Alexandria, Va, on Friday night last.A party of fourteen went from Washington aud seized & steamer there with several thousand stand of arms belonging to the rebels, com: pelled the engineer to lire Up, and brought her in triumph to Washinton.\u2014 J.C.Wright of Uswego.trom Washington, says that General Scott remarked to a group of gentlemen, who pointed to him the report about his resignation :\u2014* He could more easily believe that they would trample the American flag in the dust than he of resigning at this hour of trial.No, airs! Please God, À will tight many years yet for this Union, and that, too, under the protecting folds of the star spangled banner.\u201d A Gouv CoxstituTion.\u2014The late Mr.Buckingham was editor of the Boston Courier for twenty- four years, to which must be added a dozen years or more of editorial duty upon weekly papers, aud yet he lived to be eighty-one jeu of age.He must havo possessed a wonderful tenacity of life.\u2014 tm.Paper.\u2014 À letter {vom Havana mentions that the custom of suicide among the Asiatics [Coolies ] still continues.Recentiy a lot of bodies, disposed in order for interment, seven in number, were discovered on a bill near a sugar estate ; they had evidently taken a liqui poison, aud by agreement,\u2014[ These Covlies are id- vapped in Ching, und treated as slaves in Cuba.\u2014 Eo.Wir.) \u2014 A firm in Amberst, Mass, are manufacturing about fifteen hundred pounds of artiticial leather daily from scraps of leather and old pieces of rope.It bus not been introduced out of New England, yet tho demand is reported 10 be greater than the supply, sibilities, and now the worst evil that can happen is delay and want of efficiency.\u201d The process of making it is similar to that of manu facturing paper. LA.En dt he Sword ade aim SAS = | 1276 ~~.THE MONTREAL WITNESS, Mary 1, 1861.TERMS OF THE +\u2018 MONTREAL WITNESs.\" The Darty WITNISS conta affernooa, and sent he vening mails af 64 per annum.The city is supplied ews venders.The MONTRKAL Wilviss couteluiug » pages, is pad- lished every Wodoestsy aud Saturday morums, and sent by the carly morning mals vt #2 perannem.When sent by carriers in the esty, tbe price is #2 The WKFKIX WiTNKSS, Somtalning 2 every Thursday morniog.and seat by annum.In all the above editions the price {s uniform\u2014 payable fa ads anc\u2014an i the paper s10ps when the subscription expires utlcss renewed.2 pages in pubashed ea ls published at 8120 per The postage is payable by the Subseriber, quarteriy in ad vance, at Lis own l'uvt-cifice, at the rate of half-a-cont cach : number, For all Subseriptions out of Canada.haif a-cent a Number 1» 10 be remitted with.and in addition to, the subscription price, AI Sabaeriptions and Communications to be addres-cd to JOHN DOUGALL, PHOPAIETUR * WITNLs4 Montreal.| THE WINES.WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, asl.Coxrexrs or Ixsipe Parks \u2014Second page :\u2014* State of Europe.\u201d \u201c Rumours vf War.\u201d + British and Foreign News.\u201d Third page :\u2014\u201c Is This The End?\u201d * No Marching Around Baltimore\u201d George Law on the War.\u201d \u201cDy Telegraph.\u201c American News.\u201d Sixth and Seventh pages :\u2014 Tae Pearl of Days.\u2014 * The B-st Bed.\u201d © The Right.\u201d \u201cA Dollar ou the Conscience.\u201d * The Struggle for Freedom ™ \u201clp Mer moriam.\u201d \u201c- Lets Wait Tull Afwer Dark.© Popular Refreshments.» Christian Treasury.\u201d » | A Peace Puorosar.\u2014 An item in the United States dispatches of Saturday, aad in which Ex-President Pierce's name is mentioned 83 & pesce-maker, is explained by our Special Telegram,\u2014Mr.lagersoll of Philadelphia baviog proposed that tbe Ex-Presidents of | the United States act as arbitrators, or peace-mskers, between the bellizerent South and North.Unless tie, Southern Hotspurs see the hopelessness of their position, | now 1bat the men of the North, Democrats as well as Republicans, are up in arms agajust them, the prope- sal will not be acceptable to them, because four of the Er'3, Van Buren, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan are for tbe Federal Union, and support Lincoln in bis posi- | tioo.A proposal from them might therefore be looked upon with distrust.On the other band, the pro-Slz- : very antecedents of these gentlemen, conjoined \u2018vith the known character of Ex-President Tyler of Virginia, » Secessionist, shoul! be an effectual barrier to any mediation by them ou behalf of the now living North.\u2018Was Psices roz Fracs.\u2014It is stated that one firm in ! New York City bave ali tbe buntiog ip that market in their possession.They keep sixty girls constantly at work.The demand for flags bas raised the price of bunting from four dollars and seventy-five cents a piece to twenty-eight dollars, and book-muslin, usually worth six to ten cents, now brings three doliars a yard ! Tes Smrrixo.\u2014Tbe harbor is rapidly filling up with shipping.The \u201c Jura,\u201d the first in port of the Cuna- dian Steamsbip Line for the season, arrived abouts p.m.oo Saturday.The \u201c Jurs'is a magnificent vessel; she is being unloaded by two steam-engines on the wharf.The steamer *\u2018 Magnet\u201d is at the mouth of the Cansl, to run for Hamilton as soon as the Beau- harnois Canal is clear.The new iron steamer \u201c Montreal,\u201d for the Quebec line, is lyiog outside tbe Canal, where carpenters are engaged on tbe wood-work.The \u201ciron Duke\u201d commenced plying regularly on Monday morning to St.Lamberis, in connection with the Montreal and Champlain Railway.Cuup Muspez.\u2014loformation was given tu Lhe Police oa Satarday, which led to the discovery that a servant girl in & house in St.Paul Street, had given birth to a! child, and caused its death.The body of tbe infant is said to have been found suspended by the feet from a nail ia the girl's bed-room, and covered with a garment.She wes subsequently removed to the General Hospital.Drs.Picaud and Craik made a pos! morfem examination ; and, after bearing their evidence, and some further jo- vestigation, the Coroner's Jury returned à verdict of murder against Margaret Webster.\u201d Cases of infanticide are becoming fearfully common in Montreal, notwithstanding the essy means of getting rid of children supplied by the Foundling Hospital.Tus Munoga iy Tix Jai.\u2014The inquest oa the body of Neatelle, who was killed io the Jail on Thursday moroing, terminated on Friday.The verdict wes as follows :\u2014 \u201cThe Jurors upon tbeir oatb do say, and declare.that tbe ssid Antoine Nentelle, laborer, of tba Perish of 8t.Jerome, was killed br one Thomas Marcille, 07 tbe Parish of Montreal, ou the 25tb day of April, 1861, in the common jail of the district of Montreal, in the City of Montres! ; that the said Thomas Marcille, at the moment be killed the said Antoine Nentelle, was Isboring under mental alienation.\u201c The Jurors aforesaid, in renderiog this verdict, re.ret that their duty compells them 10 make the follow.g observations : That this deplorable occurrence might have been avoided by the exercise of greater vigilance, and by plsciug the prisoner, Thomas Marcille, io m separate ward, and especially by keeping out of reach of prison- ors all iron and other dangerous Implements, one of which, in the hands of Thomss Marcille, caused the death of ose ApWive Nentelle, it having been estah- lished that in the ward where the prisoner was confined, + That the limited accommodation, aud small nuwber ! of wards in the jail of this Jli-trict, make it imperative in the vitficers of the jail to mingle and confine together the prisoners, save and lunatic, which excites the ap.prebension that «ceurre f like nature may agai take place: and demo s the absolute necessity tor the erection «f anottier Lunatic Asylum, in the District of Montreal\u201d Er case of Rev.Mr.Probbie vs.Sir William Johnston and Builliv Russell, two of the Directors of the Edinburgh aod Glasgow Bunk, has \u2018ust been concluded Lefore the Court of Session lv the verdict of a jury.The pursuer alleged that ke was induced to purchase sud retain stock in said Bank, by talse and fraudulent represents- tions on the part of the Directors in their reports and circulars, and the jury Las decided that the representations of said Directors were false, but not fraudulent, This verdict the foreman of the jury thought was for the pursuer, but the Lord Justice Clerk said it was for the defendants : ivasmuch as the pursuer lad undertaken to prove both points, and had failed in one, and that the most important.Jn the course of Lis charge, the learned judge defined a false statement to be one that was simply untrue: but in order to render it frau- duleat, the persons making it must know it to be untrue, and make it with the intention of deceiving.Several other points of interest were laid down by the judge, such as that directors of joint-stock banks, being men in business themselves, could not be expected to bare aa intimate knowledge of the uflairs of tbe banks over which they presided, but only a general knowledge aeired 1rom the representations of the vificers of the bank, and a periodical inspection of their balance.sheets, vouchers and assets: and further, thas their responsibility to the sharebulders was greatly diminished, if the imprudent things wbich they did, such as declaring too lurge dividends or issuing too flourishivg reports aud circulars, were at the instance and by the desire of the shaichbolders themselves, expressed at tbeir angual and other meetings.The plaintilF'3 counsel took exceptions 10 the judge's charge, and there will, doubtless, be further litigation.The expense in printing so far in this trial has been nearly £1,000, besides eight counsel, agents, accountants, &c.This case bas an important bearing ou the suits pending against the directors of the Western Bank, which are fur very much greater amounts, and which, we should think, will not be pressed after the charge of Lord Justice Clerk.Cheat ava Go asoutt Dos Case \u2014The gieat Bap FexuisG AGaix Bevwees Fraxce axp Exetaxp.\u2014 The attendance of the Princes of the house of Orleai on the funeral of their kioswoman,\u2014the late Duche: of Kent, Queen Victoria's mother, \u2014bas been considered an offence by Louis Napoleon, tbe present Emperor of the French ; who, besides diplomatic representations cf displeasure, bas inspired, as it i3 believed, an ingolent articie on the subject in the Presse.The British journals are bigbly incensed at this impertinent Interference with our Queen's domestic end family ar- rangetnents, and speak of the said Louis Napoleon in à way that is anythiog but flattering.There are many indicatioue,\u2014of whicb tbia is only one,\u2014of an impending struggle in Europe of no ordinary magoitude, The fullowing is tbe way Louis Napoleon's interference is treated ; mot by a political or vulgar paper, but by the dignified, judicious, sod religious Edinburgh Witness :\u2014 Apart from the gross inbumanity of the Emperor's interference, its presumpuous and dictatorial character is insufferable.Ishe the lord-paramount of the British Sovereign, that he should peremptorily and baugbtily call ber to account?The throne of France has neither the pre-eminence nor the iudependence of the British thrope ; yet in this instance he treats the lat.\u2026r as bis footstool.He cannot have forgotten the intense and gencrul indignation excited in this country by his attempted cuercion of à British Ministry to expel foreign refugees from a sanctuary here.His recent design was \u201c another of the same,\u201d but more audacious, inasmuch as, instead of constraining & British, Government, he j sought to frighten the Queen herself, and that, too, when her Majesty was overwhelmed with grief for the death of her inestimable mother.In presuming to school and to scold our Queen as tu ber course of conduct ju private life, he must have provoked tbe scurn of a mind that has not a little of her ances- tre:s Queen Elizabetl'e courage ; mod, unguestionably, the enormity of bis arrogance will ever be remembered by all classes of our countrymen with the keenest te- scotment.Tux N.Ÿ.OnskRvER \u2014We bave 80 often referred to the pro-slavery spirit of the N.Ÿ.Ohscrrer, that justice demands we should give its views \u2018a favor of the present position of the North.Tho \u201c\u2019deerver sees that the course of the South is opposed tc all that is just and honorable, and conies to the conclusion that whatever the result may be, the government must be upheld.The Obserrer says: \u2014 \u201cThe most earnest opponents of the war policy, who have believed that the conflict might be settled without blood, have come forward as one man to contend for the existence of a government of law, the foundations of which are assailed.The first duty of every citizen is to uphold the Government under which he lives: Pro- prety, life, happiness are all at stake.If ho does pot like the goveroment let bim leave it, but if be lives under [t he must uphold it, or take the fate of those who resiat the orninancs or Gob.The Constitution is the exponent of government, the charter of our liberties as well as the limit of power.It hinds the ruler as well as the people, and we uphold the government only while it is true to the instrument it is sworn to protect, We yield to Laws, aod they are our defence as well as our restraiot.In such times ag these, the excited masses of men are ready to be a law unto themselves, 10 demand submission to their will, instead of reverence for the statutes of the State.But the suprems- «y of law must be maintained, and the despotism of unlicensed multitudes suppressed.Our political creed is therefore summarily comprehended lo these words :\u2014 \u201cUPHOLD THE GovEXAMENT, TBE CONSTITUTION AND THE there were also seven lunatic prisoners.Laws!\" .NORTH AND SOUTH, That it was the duty of President Liscolu to take the watlike stand which be has taken, has, we think, been satisfactorily proved.ladecd, we should nut \u201cbave expected any oùt of Disie's Laud to take a stand against ie It eiple could Lave any jatience with reasoning na \"to its expediency.Yet we nse seen it gravely argued Cin bigh quarters, that as Britain lost by tLe war against ber American Colonies, so the American Government can gain nothing by forcing the traitorous States to submission.This is so far true.The CGuvernment will gain vnothing\u2014any more than a wan attacked by a mad ball would gain should be slay bis assailant.Yet such a man would consider bimself amply repaid for his pains by the saving of Lis own life.It is not necessary to imagine Jeit, Davis travelling northward with & conquering army, and driviog out the established Giovernmwent.[t would be suflicient that President Lincoln should once acknowledge the Slave States, or such of them as wished, to be out of the Union, After that, be might watch each remaining State quietly consideriog the expediency of taking possession of all the Federal preperty within its borders, and cuunting itself an independent Empire.Before the last decided stand was taken, the whole flag of the {'wion scemed ou the point of resolving itself into its several stars And stripes.Yet, had such a cou- summation not been immediate, the Central Government would for the future Lave found it tu be its principal duty lo watch tb feelings prevalent in the vurious States, us a meichant watches the maiketz, lest io some vagary of displeasure, or some Hight of ambition, any of them should seize on imperfectiy garrisoned forts, and declare itself separate from the Union.Yet, in the face of all this, there was evident, on the part of the goverament and of tbe people, not only Democrats but Republicans, an intense reluctance to commence the war.Lincoln had sworn fidelity to bis post, which, under the circumstances, involved war; yet so much was tue feeling of the people against it, tlat it would have beeu difficult for him to strike the first blow ; but this duty be was fortunately spared by the impatience of the Southerners, Nor waa this reluctance for war anything but most natural.Civil war is usually considered the most dreadful of calamities ; yet how much more horrible that which is now inaugurated promises to be\u2014pot only a civil but a servile war\u2014not only brother fighting against brother, restrained from enormities by kindred ties and feelings of manhood, but the savage madness of the slave burstiog forth from hia chains.Horrible as this may be, we say it is right that the negroes should now be encouraged to rise and assert their freedom, regardless of consequences, and that the Northern men should regard them as brothers in the fight.It is right they should be free; and were there no moral principle involved, the North bas a right thus to rid itself of the bone of contention which bas been the cause of the whole trouble.Lord Chatbaro, in tbe English Parliament, nobly spoke against the employment of Indians against the Americans in the war of Independence, yet, bad the slavery of these Indians been the cause of that war, be would have hailed the opportunity of letting them free themselves.Are there no Jobn Browns now to go South and tell them their opportunities?No swarthy Garibaldi to show hie countrymen the way of freedom ; to disabuse their minds of the ideas which have been so widely circulated among them\u2014tbat the North is seeking their destruction, and that it is for their best interest to fight against it\u2014to inspire them with the courage they so much lack, and to lead them on to victory?Cannot one be found, in this hour of need, to emulate the heroic Touissaint, who, though born with A jet black skin, and a slave, proved himself more than a match for Napoleon in everything but treachery.Should such a movement be made, the issue of tbe war, at present so vaoertain, must imme.dittely be settled ; for however powerfully these warlike rebels may act against the North, they would be perfectly impotent to withetand the loss of property, the anxiety and the absolute famine which would be the result of such w rising, although the negroes should never procure a sword or strike a blow.In the face of all this, we find & Massachusetts general offering bis services to put duwn a rising of the blacks, a move which, as far as can be judged from the bare facts, shows more kind-heartedoess than genorslship.Such balf-snd-balf policy must immediately cease.President Lincoln bas nothing now to fear from the backwardness of the North to support bis aternest measures but woe to him end his advisers i¢ they shriok from duty now.ceed ug though no une guided by prin- THE WAR IN THE UNITED STATES.The enthusiasm of the Free States in this war of principle is greater than language can describe.Everywhere men of wealth are pouring forth their money like water to equip volunteers and support their families in their absence.Everywhere young, middle- aged, and even old men are offering themselves for the war, with the determination to sbed their blood for their country; and everywhere fathers aad mothers, yes, even widows, are giving up their sons, aud young wives are giving up their husbands to their country without a shadow of hesitation.Everywhere, also, the sex which is not permitted to enlist as soldiers, is preparing clothing, accoutrements and banners for the volunteers, and bands of ladies ure offering themselves to go a8 nurses for the wounded.The nation which was supposed Dy the world to have given itself up to the worship of the dollar, slows, in this emergency, that dollars are as nothing in ite estimation ; nay, that lie itself Jo of no consideration compared with the maintenance of freedom and: the assertion of right.The American pation has been nursiog a viper in its bosom, and it is only whea that viper attempts to sting it to death that it wakes up to ita peril.Like the strong man of old, the Phillistives ure upon it, and like him aldo, it is going forth fo sbako itself as it was wont.The sublimity cf thie spectacle cfa nation of freemen suddenly sinking all differences and contentions, however long and bitterly waged, and rallying as one man to the defence of their institutions, every mau feeling that tle nation is him and he is tbe nation, cannot fail to strike the whole world with wonder, and to inspire renewed confidence in those popular institutions, which, through the arrogance, injustice and treachery of the slavebolders, and the quiet submisgion of the Free States, were everywhere fast becoming a byword and s reproach.Already is tho swelling of this mighty wave cf patriotic eotbusiasm beginning to be felt, Maryland, which, as it lies nearest the Free States, will naturally be the first to realize the state of feeling that pervades them, is manifesting sigoa of fear and submission.The Marylanders do not wish just yet to see their capital put into the past tense, whicl would unquestionably be the case if it continues to obstruct the communication of tho Free States with the Federal Government.It is no empty threat when the Northern papers announce that if their troops cannot go through Baltimore to the defence of Washington, they will march over the ground where Baltimore stood.Neither is there any doubt now that those who may be convicted of levying war against the United States will be hacged, and that therefore, the present war i3 one of life and death with the Southern leaders, if they do pot submit within the twenty dass allowed by the l'reideat's proclamation.Where the enthusiase \u2018s go gencral, it appears almost vain to give particular instances of it; and yet, in this way, probably, the best notion of the whole may be obtained.We shall, therefore, briefly describe some of the + zenes produced by it during the last tew days :\u2014 THE GREAT MEETING IN NEW YORK.There was & meeting of 100,000 citizens of New York, in Union Square, on Saturday week, at which there were five stands for speakers, occupied by prominent men of all parties.Each of theses stands was visited in turn by Major Anderson, who displayed the Star Spangled Banner which had been riddled and Sually shot dowa by the rebel\u2019s balls at Fort Sumpter ; but which be had, after one of the most heroic defences on record, brought away with him, according to the terms of capitulation which he dictated.This flag caused immense enthusiasm, more especially, when it was put ioto the iron hand of the colossal statue of Washington, which stands in the middle of the Square, surrounded by not less than ten thousand banners, borne by the crowd or waving from the buildings around, AN INSTANCE SHOWING THE GENERAL FEELING, On Monday morning a member of the Seventh Regiment started from his place of business to make purchases of a few needful articles during the campaign.He first went to a shoe store in Ann street and selected a pair of good stout boots; after they were wrap ped up be asked the proprietor the price, when he replied, \u201c\u2018 I perceive from your cap you belong to the Seventh Regiment, and there is nothing to pay, for I am willing to furnish boots gratis to every member of that Regiment who will come to my store.\u201d He then went to a dry goods establishment and selected a blanket, for which they positively refused to take pay.As the last act of duty in discharging his in.lebteduess before leaving in the service of bis country, he went to the hotel where he had been boarding, aod after taking his dinner, asked the landlord for his bill ; the reply was, * Your bill is all settled, sir; [ will take no money from a member of any regi: ment who is about to take up arms in defense of Es country.\" CONTRIBUTIONS OF MONEY.Several cities have appropriated large sams of money to arm the men and support the families of soldiers.The Common Council of New York has appropriated $1,000,000 for equipments, and $500,000 for the support of families of volunteers; Philadelphia, $1,000,000 for the families of volunteers; Lowell, $8,000; Boston, $100,000 ; Norwich, $14,000.Other cities have donated ina corresponding manner.Immense sums are being raised by private subscription all over the country.Let the money be poured out like water! THE CAUSES AND EFFRCTS OF THE PRESENT CIVIL WAR IN THE STATES.There can be no question in any well foformed mind that the sole cause of the present civil war in the United States is Slavery.That institution was an element of discord at the furmation of the Union, which it was fondly boped would gradually disappear; but instead of that\u2014like all permitted sing\u2014it grew in strength and audacity, till its tyrannical exactions knew no bounds.To these exactions the Northern, or Free States, tamely submitted, until the recent Presidential Election ; and even then, though it cast its votes for an Administration on the side of freedom, it was willing to continue to submit to Fugitive Slave Laws, and many other unjust and humiliating conditions, int order to preserve the Union.\u201d Indeed, it was only & week or two before the Secessionlsts opened fire upon Fort Sumter, that & family of fugitive slaves wero taken openly and without hicdrance from Chicago, the commercial capital of the great liberty-loving North- West, to Springfield, the home of Abraham Lincoln, the Republican President of the United States, and there adjudged to be sent back Lo perpetual bondage ; a sentence which was carried out without remorse, nnd without the Joterference of 8 single friend of the slave, That, however, we believe, was the last fugitive slave case that will ever stain tho annals of the Free States ; for, whatever other effect this War may produce, it will, wo thluk, unqustionsbly abolish the Fugitive Slave Law.But abject as was the submission of the North, and furlous as its leading politicians, capltailsts, ministers, May 1, 1861 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.277 churches and religious societies were against agitation on the subject of slavery, the first gun fired at Fort Sumtper broke the spell.The craven spirit which made congregntions kick out ministers who uttered 8 single just und manly sentiment on the subject of slavery, and caused religious societies to blot out every line about slavery in the booky re-published by them,\u2014tbis craven spirit, we say, this negation of manhood, disappeared at ouce, aud a3 if miraculously, from the Northern mind; aod sentiments of manhood, courage, patriotism and justice touk its place.There is no quastion that tbe South ealeulated upon aid and comfort from a very lurge party al the North, They thought the ass which they had ridden for thirty or forty years would never open his mouth against them.They bad seen incredible truckling and submissiun, and caleulated upun Ms continuance; and who eball say that such ealculation Lad not every probability on its side?But like many other wise calculations of designing men, this one las been signally frustrated.The Lord bas sent such 8 spirit abroad among the people, that all in the Northern States arc entbusias- tic for the preservation of the Union, with the exception of a very few individuals, who have through sheer fear to assume the same external appearance us those around them.There is, however, this to be said in favor cf the consistency of the Northera majority, which so long submitted to the behests of slavery,\u2014wbich tolerated such men as Buchanan, and Floyd, and Rhyuders in power, \u2014wbich put the Court House of Boston in chains, and turned out in their strength to restored fugitive to bondage, \u2014which upheld the Tract Society ia its re- fugal to publish anything about slavery, and which prevented even churches from giving any testimony on the grest national sin and national wrong.This majority did and suffered all these things to preserve the Union, and great must the love for that Union have been which paid such a price for it.And now iv is precisely the same love for the Union which prompts the boldest, the most uncompromising, aad the sternest measures of defence and even coercion, when it is found that the long-suffering, submissive poliey has been upavaiiing.The aspects of the North, so ditferent and apparently opposite before and after tue inauguration of civil war, are realiy only diverse manifestations of the same state of feeling, The same object is viewed aod sought from a different stand point.The fearful state of commotion, destruction and sacrifice, both North and South, is, we apprehend, only what the Scripture teaches nations as well as individuals to expect, when it says: \u201c Le sure your sin will find you out;\u201d and the only safe way out of this complication of civil war is to forsake the sin\u2014or, in other words, to abolish slavery.We ace, therefore, not & little disappointed to find none of the Northern presses or leaders taking this ground.The talk isload about maintaining the Union, razing Baltimors to the ground, \u201c thirty-four States and no less,\u201d &¢., &¢., but not a word about proclaiming liberty to the staves and giving them homesteads, as is done in Russia.Nota word about raisiog a few regiments of colored soldiers, nad asking no questions whether they are fugitive slaves or not.We repeat, the careful exclusion of any hint about freedom to tbe slaves, eveu from the fiery diatribes of the Tribune and other leading papers, makes us thick that more thorough men are needed than any that have yet appeared on the stage of pub- Tic lifo in the States.May they arise soon, for surely (Lis ig the time for whatever organic changes are required! THE BANKRUPTCY BILL.(To the Editor of the Wilness.) .Moxtrear, 25th April, 1861.Sin,\u2014 While the subject of a Bankrupt Law is before the public, I think it well that the cost of that law in England should be brought promioeatly forward.|, therefore, clip from the Loadon J'imes of 1st April, the inclosed; which, if it does not open the eyes of the commercial men of this city, [ koow nothing that will arouse them.If any one will take the trouble to rend turough the proposed act, they will at once perceive that the main object of the promoters of this menaure for Upper Canada, is to find snug berths for some score or more of their friende\u2014tbe Barristers,\u2014 who will take the oyster, and leave only tlse shell for the unfortunate creditors.If you think tho information worth communicating, you will oblige, Yours truly, ConuERCE.\u2018Tue BaxKkRUPTOY Corrr.\u2014A return has been pe issued showing the income of the \u2018 messengers\u201d of the Bankruptey Court, who have been described by the Attorney-General as performing slight duties, which might be executed by very subordinate officers.Four of the * messengers\u201d of the court in London state their \u2018net roceipta\u201d last year at above £1,000 each, one at £1,230, and the net receipta of one of tle messengers at Birmiogham wero £1,118.This is about the same remuneration as that of a County Court judge.These charges being paid or deducted, like the solicitor's bill and the officini nssignec's remuneration, out of the assets of the several estates, are not included in the return of the * cost of the court,\u201d which is about 4'80,000 a year, the chief items being £562,000 for snlnrics of the commissioners, tho registrars, and other officers paid by salary, and £20,000 for the inevitable © compensations\u201d and for retiting annuities.The \u201c jndicint statistics\u201d of lass year stated the official assignees\u2019 charges for 8 YOAT to be rather more than £50,000, tho messengers\u2019, an brokers\u2019, and auctioneers\u2019, £47,000; the solicitors\u2019 bills above £130,000 ; the assets administered about £1,000, 000 ; proviog the statement that when the administration of an estate is intrusted to the Bankruptey Court as it now le, à third of the property goes into other pockets than those of the creditors.\u2014 The London, England, Industrial Exhibition is to open on the first of May, 1802, Steam und Waterpower will be provided free of charge.\u2014 The Seventh Annual Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Australasinn Conference, recently met at Sydney.The Rev.S.Rabone bad been appolated President by the English Conference; about 6fty ministers were io attendance.EDITORIAL ITEMS.\u2014 The telegraph to-day makes an extraordinary statement, concerning the loan of British arms to the American Government, which we must for the preseat regard as doubtful, Should it prove true, however, it would be a magnanimous return for tbe persistent policy ot the American Government and people toward Britain.\u2014 Several young men in Montreal are said to have received cutntnissions ju the U.8.Militia force.\u2014 We understand that there isan extensi nsmigra- tion of French Canadians from the States.Every day is bringing crowds, nasty mechanics.The reason assigned is, that there is no employment this Sum:mer fur arthang ; perhaps unwitlingness to be mixed up in the War, Lag something to with the movement.\u2014 Un the afternoon of Thursday, tle 25th instant, the following gentlemen passed their fioul examination in the University of McGill College, Medical Faculty, for the degree of M.D., consisting of Theory and l\u2019rac- tice of Medicine, Surgery, Obstitrics, Medical Jurisprudence, Clinical Medicice, and Clinical Surgery, viz.: Jumes Gun, C.W.; F.Austin, Montreal, C.E.; Donald McGillivray, Vaukleeklill, C.W.In the primary branches of Materiu Medica, lustitutes of Medicine, Anatomy and Chemistry, the following gentlemen :\u2014 D.Beattie, Aylmer; E.H.Trenboliue, Treaholmeville ; and C.II.Church, Aylmer.\u2014- The Treasurer of the St.George's Society acknowledges with thauks, a donation from Dr.Hill, Ottawa City, of $5.00 fur the relief uf the English poor who suffered by the late inundativn.\u2014 On Tuesday, April 23, the corner stone of a Wesleyan Methodist Church, was laid at Henrysburg, in the Hemmingford Circuit, by Colonel Scriver.The interest of the ceremony aud favorable weather brought à respectable audience.In a cavity below the stone, was placed a botlle, containing copies of the Christiun Guardian and lotreal Witness, also, à document bearing the mame of the Minister on the Circuit, Trustees of the building, Architect, sod Chairman of the District, the Rev.L B.Howard.Appropriate addresses were delivered by Col.Scriver; Liev.E.B.Ityckman, B.A, of Odelltown ; Rev.W.Hall, of Franklin; and Rev.H.J.Bland, Superintendent of the Circuit.The building will be of brick, and when completed, will be an ornament to à pretty neighbourhood ; and we trust, bless ing to the industrious population around.\u2014 Cum.\u2014 The London Indian Relicf Fund Committee, has sent out £20,000 to aid the famished natives of Travan core.A much larger sum would probably go by the next steamer.\u2014 A prize was lately offered for the best essay on the best means of infusing a missionary spirit into the education of the young.\u201d No fewer than 475 essays have been received by the adjudicators.\u2014 Two or three sad cases of drunken ministers have recently been befure tbe church courts in Scotland, in which the plea of insanity lias been set up on bebalf of the accused ; and there is no question in one sense, at least, that drunkenness is inzanity, and tbat of the worst kind.\u2014 Mr, Spooner, Who Las 50 long resisted in the House of Commons the encroachments of Popery in Great Britain, haa been compelled on account of age to relinquish the position of a Protestant leader.Are.quisition signed by upwards of 4,000 of the most influential Protestants of Britain of nll denominations, has been presented to G.HI.Whalley, Esq, MP, to beg that Le will occupy the place of leader to the opposition to ail national endowments of Popery.He has already given notice of a motion to repeal the May- nooth Endowment act.# Dyixe Leaacy, to the people of his charge, by Nicho- 1as Murray, D.D.\"\u2014An interest attaches to these Sermons of Kirwan's, * On Things Unseen and Eternal,\u201d from the fact that they were prepared for bis people whilst be bitaself was on the confines of that world about which he was writing.The course was to consist of five sermons ; but the author only lived to complete four of them.~The subjects treated of are :\u2014\u201c À Future World.\u201d \u201cA Personal God.\u201d \u201cThe Soul.\"\u2014 The Intermediate State.\u201d Tuuxperstonu ar BraxTrorp\u2014We make tbe following extract from a letter dated Brantford 24th April := On the morning of the 220d there were evident signs of aa approaching tbunder-storm.About 10 o'clock it came on.It did not last long, but was terrific while it continued.The lightning struck the spire of the Free Church, made its course downward by splitting the tin covering, breaking windows, splintering the lock of the main entrance, and leaving the door open.The crash was frightful.\u201d BY TELEGRAPH.New Yous, April 29, 1861, \u2014By an arrival from Sa- vannal yesterday, we learn that three privateers, ready equipped, were in that port on 23d inst.Pennsylvania bas been called upon by the Gen.Go- verament for 21 more Regts., to which she will respond with the addition of 10,000 men, as & margin to fill up losses occasioned by battle or disease.Governor Curtin in his Message to the Pennsylvanis Legistature, it is said, will declare that that State will rmit no hostile soil to lie between the Naticnal Capi tal and the States loyal to the Union.He will recommend the appropriation of not less than $3,000,000, and perhaps £5,000,009, for the prosecution of the War for the Union, on the part of Pennaylvania, We ive repeated nssurances from Virginia, that no invasion of the Capital would over be permitted from her soil.It las been determined by the Administration to increase cach arm of the service to au aggregate of 25,000 ; and that the ports of Virginia and North Carolina sbalt be included in the blockade of Southern harbors.Pennsylvania will soon bave an effective force of 40,000 men in the fiold.0.J.Tngersoll, of Philadelphia, has invited all the living ex-Presidents to become arbitrators to settle the differences between the North and South.Wasmnaton, April 28.\u2014The capital is now consid- cred safe from Southern rebels, There are 15,000 troops in first-rate fighting order: they would like to (ight too, but will probably have to go a little farther to doit.The administration is determined to prosecute the war with vigor.It has both backbone nnd muscle, as the country will in good time eve, The Capital ie à lively place, and more ike an army rendezvons than the sent of legislation, \u2014you see fow but soldiers in the streets.Gen.Scott and the cabinet are not idle, and rest nssured, the General is preparing a dose for Jeff Davis aud bis miuions, which it will be hard to take; it is prophesied that the whole Bouth will be on its knees begging for mercy within sixty days.2,000 brass belts stamped with the Virginie coat of arme have been seized.Colonel Stetson, of the Astor House, declines sll pay for feeding the Massachusetts troops.New Your, April Orleans stats (but the attempt to negoliate the Confederacy lonn is à failure.The soldiers are not paid yet, but well supplied with provisions ; they ure short of arms snd ammunition.BALTIMOLE, Aÿt Private 8.II.Needham, of the fith Masauchiniet's Legiment, died this morning.He! was struck he back of the head with paving-stones at the riot, laving kis skull fractured.+ The ordinance ut the Secession of Virginia is published.It repeals the ratitication of the Constitution of the United State: by Virginia, and resumes all rights.and powers, \u2018 Freon con, ML, April 27,\u2014A dozen American flags were raised in lidiimore on Friday, but the chief : of police orders] all tiags to be taken down during the Session of the General Assewby.In some instances there were refusals, nud avrests were made, The union men bave control of the barracks and arme.BauTixone, April 27.\u2014The propeller # Essex,\u201d landed at St.Carrol, on Collier's flats, last evening, with à number of troops and munitions of war, and then proceeded to Fort McHenty, landing troops and munitions there.Several ships were overbauled on Thursday in attempting to leave the barbor, and detuined.Puicaberrma, April 27.\u2014The Captalo-General of Cuba has refused to acknowledge the Southera Commissioners, except a8 citizens of the United States, Telegraphic communication with Baltimore and Washington js re-establisbed.The office at Daltimore js under State surveillance, und no messages for Washington are permitted unless of a private or mercantile nature.Bosros, April .7th.\u2014The report that two more Regi- | ments of Massachusetts troops will be called, for renews | the enthy fasm of our military.They can be put in i marching order in three days.The town of Taunton voiel $40,000 for war par- poses.Ricudoxs, Van, April 27th \u2014It js reported here \u2018hat a despatch bas been received by Gov.Leteber from the Secretary of War at Washiagton, inquiring whether if he came to Richmond be would be protected, bis par- pose being to ask for an armistice of 60 days.Buitimore vie Herd A: Graro \u2014The forti the coast of Virginia, especially the ap; Norfolk and Portsmouth, ar: advancing.Six hundred men are hard at work on them.MaryrAn, April 27.\u2014Legislature meets to-day.The Message of Governor Hicks brieily details the events wbich induced him to call them together at this time.He bad laboured cacae:tly to induce the President of the United States to forego his purpose of passing troops from the North through Maryland, but the reply was that a military necessity rendered it unavoidable.Ie refused his consent to Gen.Lutler of Massachusetts to land bis forces, aud he protested against his taking possession of the Annapolis railroad.His own convictions are, tbat the only safety of Maryland lies in preserving a neutrel position between the brethren of the North and the South, He Lad lioped that Maryland might bave acted as a mediator.He cannot counsel Maryland to take sides against the Government until it shall commit outrages upon her which could justify them in resisting its authority.The House reforred the matter toaspecial committee, who are instructed to report in regard to the legality of specie payments by the bauks.They adopted an address to the people of Maryland, stating that the Legislature will not pass any act of Secession ; but, if the people desire it, they will give them au opportunity to declare for themselves their future destiny.Sr.Louis, 27th.\u2014The Republican states, that Governor Jackson has unreservedly declared his policy to be peace, and that he convenes the Legislature only for the purpose of more perfectly organizing the Militia, and putting the State of Missouri in & proper attitude of defense ; that be told Sterling Price, tbe President of tbe State Convention, that that body ought not to be called together for the purpose of passing a Secession Ordinance ; that he was in favor of retaining the present status leaving it to circumstances as they may arise to determine the best course for Missonri to puraue.COMMERCIAL REVIEW.Tvespav, Noon, April 30, 1861.The weather continues cloudy, with much rain this forenoon ; the heavy showers of Subbath have made the country roads very bad, and travelling is difficult.Railroad traffic is steadily increasing; yesterday the first bouts from the upper St, Lawrence arrived in port, all deeply laden ; and ia the afternoon, the ship * Cule- donia,\u201d the first sailing-vessel from sea, arrived in port.Produce of all kinds is now comiog forward in quantity.The receipts of principal articles by Gt.T.Railroad, for week ending 27th inst, were as follows :\u2014 Flour, barrels, 21 Ashes, barrels.Wheat, bushel + Oatiucal, ** 3m Peas, \u2018 Fork.31 Butter, kege, 0 Tallow.\u201c+ ™ The steamer \u201c Bowmauvillo\u201d brought 3,400 barrels of Flour ; the * Huron,\" 5,132 barrels ; and the © St.Lawrence,\u201d 681 barrels.arrived yesterday.The markets for Breadetully are firmer and improving.At Toronto on 26th inst, Fall Wheat was stendy at $1.16 to $1.20; Flour quiet, At Hamilton, où eame day, Fall Wheat waz quoted at £1 to $1.10; Spriog, 90 to 94¢c.And at London, Fall Wheat $1.10 to $1.12jc ; Spring, 93 to 95c.The Montreal market for Flour has been more animated during the past two days, and the quotation for No.1 Superfine is now higher.WigaT AxD Fuors,\u2014The prospects for Wheat and Flour are considered decidedly better.The stocks in Britain ae roported as quite small, considering the immense importations, and the New York and other Kustorn markets are very bare.This is indicated both by the recent advance iu price, and the very low rate of freight to Britain at New York just now.\u201cWhilst the \u201cShandon\u2019 here has 9e.stg.per quacter for Wheat, the rate of freight in New York is 7d.pet bushel, or 4.8d.per quarter.This low rato m st be caused by scarcity of produce to ship, or unwillingness to ship it, or probe- bly both reasons combined, as the demand on half of the troops now called out is causing quite an activity in the Flour as well as the Pork market.10 is expected that the fleet of vessels at Montreal will be much greater this Spring than any former year, and therefore, the rates of freight may bo lower than was once feared.Un the other hand, all accounts agree that the quantity (rom the interior will bo very large.Grocemies.\u2014Thero is no now feature in the market here.Relative to Tens, latest advices f,om Hong-Kong, (Feb.14, 1861,) state that the total export of Greens 27.\u2014Private advices from New ation to notice in quotations.Slaughter Sole ie ia gond request, and a fair demand exists for Canadian Calfskins from 28 to 3G lbs.per dozen.Caxapiay Cotvox Yara.\u2014A day or two ago, the Globe said: \u2014* We bad opportunity of inspecting samples of the ficst lot of colton yarn manufactured in this Province, the product of the factory of Mr, Juseph Wright, Dundas.\u2018The sample, compared with the American yarn, was even, upiform in texture, and in strength superior, (104 judges of the article speak of it in the highest manner.The rate st which it cao be mannfaetured and sold is as low, if not lower, than the imparted article, which i much inferior ia qua.y.\u201d The following are current rates for to-day :\u2014 Frove.\u2014Fiac, $i to $440 ; Saperfine, No.2, $4.90 \"te $5; Supetfine, No, 1, $5.20 to $5.23; Fancy, wanted but none in market ; Exira, $5.90 to $6.10 Superior Extra, $6.50 0 $7.Bas-Frovr.\u20143$2.65 to $2.75.Wiear\u2014 Dall: $1.12 to $1.14 for good U.C.Spring, ex-card.Peas \u2014Little doing : 70 to Tic.per 66 1bs.Brrres.\u2014 Good store-packed would bring 12 to 12}¢.there i3 some ioquiry, but market over supplied with; inferior.Good, in tiooets, ig scarce, and if choice would bring better prices.Astes \u2014Pots, $T.10 ; Pearlz, ST50.The quantity inspected at the Stores duriog week ending 27th inst, was, Pots, 193 barrels ; Pearls, 33 barrels.Oaruear\u2014Quiet, price: nominal : $t.15to $4.25, Provisroxs.\u2014Beef, zo transactions.Mess Pork, $20 to #21 : Prime Mess, $15.59 to $17, 10% barrels brought latter price; Prime, $14.59 to £15.50.Eco: \u2014In lots to-lay, 64, to 53d.Sesns\u2014Duli: Timotky, $2,50 to $5 Clover, $5 to $5.50 per £9 bs.Leatuez Prices 83 before :\u2014 Hemlock Spanish Sole.Lest Lo.de.and, per ib, cie.ta 22e.N ae «3be.to 19e.Do.do.No, 1, tordiaar: 20e.ta 21\u20ac, Do.do.No.2, 7e.ta 18e.Heralo: aurhter, No.1.80 = No.2.he.to pv Damace Le.to 15\u20ac Waxed Upper, light and me .10 We To, us.heavy.J to ze.Splits, do.lu to 26e.0.102% .to 45\u20ac.PE to 28e \u2026 ta 60c- to 70.to Me to 18e to 37he.Patent do.- to 1sie.Buffed.per foot.tot JOHN DOL sion Merchant.HAY AND STRAW MARKET.The market for Hay bas been better supplied, and pow that navigation is fuirly open aud market boats running, prices are decliniog again.There were 99 loads weighed at the Victoria Square hay-scalesiduriog last week, and prices range from $14 to $16.50 per 100 bundles.During the same time there were 40 loads of Straw weighed, and prices were $7.50 10 $8.50 per 100 bundles.Recxirrs or Proptcæ By LACHISE Cana.\u2014Steamer ¢ Wellington,\u201d 657 barrels Flour, D.& E.McLean; 1,068, Law Young & Co.: 1,600, Janes, Oliver & Co.; 89, John Dougall.Per * Huron,\u201d 1,700 barrels Flour, John Dougall: 1,735, J.0.Moffatt.Per \u201c Protection, 200 birrels Flour, order ; 800, Jobu Dougall ; 850, D.& E.McLesn & Co.; 31 brls.Ashes, Jobn Dougall : 106 barrels Pork, Eager.NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014[By Telegraph)\u2014 April 29.Flour\u2014Receipts 20,127 brls; sales 6,000 bris ; State and Western very ficm, but quiet; Super $5.20 to 5.25; Extra $5.30 to 5.40.Grain\u2014 Wheat a shade firmer for good grades ; White Western $1.45 to 1.60; White Canada $1.47.Corn is a shade Grmer, but quiet; small sales of old Mixed Western at 68¢ io store.Oats dutl and heavy; Southern and Jersey 31 to 33c ; Northern and Western 344 to 36c.Provisions\u2014Pork dull and unchanged; Mess $13.25 to 18.50; Prime $13.25 to 12.50.Lard drooping; sales at 9} 109i.Groceries generally tending downwards in prices.Stocks better and moderately active.Money\u2014Rather more demand and sales flrmer at 5 to Gon call.Exchange dalt.New Yosz, April 30.Flour duil sud 5c.lower ; receipts, 14,026 barrels.\u2014 Wheat dull and drooping; receipts, 12,912 bushels.\u2014 Corn steady with a light supply ; receipts, 6,226 bush.Rye firm at 78¢.Pork dull and beavy, Lard steady.Astes steady\u2014Pota $5.62 5 Pearls $5.63.Oats dull and heavy at 34 to 38c, for Western, Canadian and State.Barley dullat 55to T0c.Peas dullat 73 to 8c.~NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.TpENDERs ro) Tenders will be received until noos of the TH day of HAY.1561.by the Secretary of the Building Commitive, for the erection of a STONE CHURCH tn the vilage of Huotingdon, sgreeably to Plans and Speei- fications, which can de eva by applyiug to the undersigned.Tenders must etate separately for the Manon Work, for Carpentcr aud Joiner Work, Plastering, Pantiog end Finishing : and also for the whole work together, A.Mc\u2018 ALLUM, Seo\u2018y and Tressurer- Iluntingdou.April 30th, 1861.tw MONTREAL SMITHFIELD C4 TTLE YARD.vor ECELVINU, CARE AND SALE OF CATTLE, HORSKS, B \"EEE, PLUS, âc., &e, A6, Corner-of Wellington and Queen Streets, Montreal BREARKY & TAYLOR, Proprietors.Full particubirs dy Circular free, on Application, * April 30, 1361.sw imo.ADUCATION.\u2014The next Term of the French Protestant 4; Institute for Young Ladies, will open in Mr.Jenking'e liouse, corner of Lagauchetiere and Geuervieye Streets, Bear teaver Hall 1111), on MONDAY the 6th of MAY next, Day Scholars are received.The Courses embraces.besides com.stant practice ln Lraking.Grammar, Transiations of French inte Eoelon Faldo Groaraphy History gi ccltiog so, Arithmet: jeograph: of France and of French\u2019 Literature, Rhetoric snd Yogic is his way pupils do not only sequire the French language but alec the different branches of a good education.further 3 particulars, send for & Prospectus.or spply o% sdlswiw Montreal, April 0, 1961.+i \u2014 Total Abstinetice from BISLSAL TEMPERANCE-\u2014Tota! te of Health\u2014 from all Chine, from 1st July, 1860, to date, were only 2,010,477 Ibe., against 13,381,383 lbs.for corresponding period of previous year, showing a deficiency of log 0s 1bs., say, in ronud numbers, ten million and a half be.Intoxicatin Liquors in Man's Normal Sia! The Doetrine of the Rible\u2014by Joh Mair.M.D., with col Iatea of the Stomach as affeated by strong drink \u2014 Price $1.Pabiohed snd for fale Wholesale nad Retail at she NERY WAREROUSE, BOOK AND BTATIV Se Great Bt Jumes 8 Luareur.\u2014The market rewsains quiet, with no alter- (Opposite Wesleyan Cuurek-) Aprit 29, 1801.a \u2014\u2014 - mea a H 278 TIE MONTREAL WITNESS, May 1, 1861.Mothers and Children.TRE PEARL OF DAYS.Throw geme, throw costly gems away, Ur pear tke deep, But rememiwr, ob remember, Thy Sabbath days to keep.The learl of Dare, ol give it not To indolence and sloth, Else may thy God demand it back With vengeance and with wrath.Ch give it not, ob give it not To ple and tg mirth, Save to the joy that angels know, Tre bls SEER XIN the Sabbaths Thon Last gir 5 We return to Thee vith truits of holiness, i Lifes fair tree.As steps of gold, now may they Tea To glory and to Ged: A pathway formed of priceless gems That saiow alone have trod.throw costly pearls any Or gold into the deep, But remember, ob remember ! Thy Sabbath Days to keep.= dic How, THE BEST BED.Of the cight pounds whick a man cats and drinks in a day.it is thought that not less than five pounds leave bis body through the skin.\u2014 And of these five pounds a considerable per cent- age escapes durinz the night while he is in bed.The lsrzer part of this is water, but in addition there is much effete and poisonous matter.This being iu great part gaseous in form, permeates every part of the bed.Thus al) parts of the bed, mattress, blankets, as well as sheets, soon become foul and need purification.The mattress needs this renovation quite as much as the sheets.To allow sheets to be used without washing or changing, three or six months, is regarded as bad house-keeping, but I insist if jrersation by the company, it would do very little eut a round bole in the little thing's dress, just the delights of lite.over the heart, and then carry it about for ob.harm.But to expose the baby's arme, members so far removed from the heart, and with such fecble circulation ut beet, is a most pernicious ractice.Put the bulb of a thermometer in a aby \u2019s mouth, the mercury rises to 99 degrees, Now carry the same bulb to its little hand ; if the arm be bare and the evening cool, the mercury will sink te 40 dexrces, OI course all the blood which flows through these grms and hands must - of the heart.Need I say that when these cold currents of blood flow back into the chest, the child's general vitality must be more or less compromised ?And need Tadd that we ought not to Le surprised at the frequeatly recurring affections of the lungs, throat, and stomach.I have | seen more than one child with habitual cough und | hearseness, or choking with mucus, entirely and j permanently relieved by siniply keeping its arms {aod bands warm.Every observing and progres.jsive physician bas daily opportunities to witness the same simple cure\u2014 Laris © Nes Gymnos- RI Frkons AROUT SLUEPR\u2014De, Hall, in his y * Journal of Health,\u201d says :\u2014\" One of the very »worst economies of time is that filched from ne- jvessary sleep.Multitudes of business men in large cities count it as a saving of time if they fail from 20 to 40 dezrces below the temperature ! can make a journey of a bundred or two miles at | night by steam-boat or railway.It is a ruinous mistake.It never fails to be followed by a want of general well-foeling for several days after, if, indeed, the man does not return home actually sick, or so near it us to be unfit for all attention to his business.Tho first great recipe for sound, \u2018connected, and refreshing sleep, is physical excr- jcise.We caution parents particuiarly not to al- !low their children to be waked up of mornings; 1let nature wake them up.But bave a care that | they go to bed at an early hour, and let it be ear- \u2018lier and earlier, until it is found that they wake up of themselves in full time to dress for break- a thin sheet can absorb enough of the poisonous | fast.Being waked up carlier, and allowed to in a few days, a thick mattress which can absorb and retain a thousand times as much of these; poisonous excretions needs to be purified as often certainly as once in three months, A sheet can be washed.A mattress cannot be renovated in this way.Indeed there is no way of cleaning a mattress but by steaming it, or picking it to pieces, and thus, in fragments exposing it to the direct rays of the sun.As these pro- Cesses are scarcely practicable with any of the ordinary mattresses, | am decidedly of the opinion that the good old fashioned straw bed, that can be changed every three months with fresh straw, and the tick washed, is sweetest and the healthiest of beds.If in the winter season the porousness of the straw bed makes it a little uncomfortable, spread over it a comforter, or two woollen blankets, which should be washed as often as every two weeks.With this arrangement, if you wash all the bed-covering as often as once in two or three weeks, you will have a delightful healthy bed.Now if you leave the bed to air, with open windows during the day, and not make it up for the night before evening, you will have added greatly to the sweetness of your rest, and in con- Sequence to the tone of your healtb.\u2014Dr.D.eis, UszrvL Mepicar Hixte.\u2014If a person swallows any poison whatever, or bas fallen into any convulsions from having overloaded the stomach, av instantaneous remedy is a \u201cteaspoonful of common salt and as much ground mustard, stirred rapidly in a teacup of water, warm or cold, and swallowed instantly.It is scarce -down before it begins to come up, bringing with it the contents of the stomach ; and lest there be any remnant of poison, however small, let the white of an egg, or a teacup full of strong coffee be swallowed as soon as the stomach is quiet ; because these nullify many virulent poisons.In cases of scalding or burning the body, immersing the part in cold water gives entire relief, as instantancously us the lightning.Meanwhile, get some common dry flour, und apply it an inch or two thick on the injured part the moment it emerges from the water, and keep sprinkling on the flour through anything like à pepper-box cover, 50 as to put it on erenly.Do nothing clse ; drink nothing but water; eat nothing until improvement commences, exocpt some dry bread softened in very weak tea of some kind.\u201cCures of frightful Lurnings have been performed in this way, as wonderful us the are painless.We ynce saved the life of an infant who bad been inudvertently drugged with laudanum, which was fast sinking into the sleep which has no waking, by giving it strong coffee, cleared with the white of un egg\u2014s teaspoonful every five minutes\u2014until it ceased to become drowsy.\u2014 Cincinnatus, LITTLE CHILDREN'S DRESSES, \u2014 A distin.ished physician, who died many years pines in city of l\u2019aris, made this statement :\u2014\u201c I believe that daring the twenty-six years I have practised my profession in this city, twenty thousand children have been carried to the cemeteries, a sacrifice to the ubsurd custom of cxposing them to the weather with their arms naked.\u201d I bave often thought if a mother were anxious to show the soft white akin of ber buby, and would excretions of the body to make it unfiit for use gogege in difficult or any studies late, and just before retiring, has given many a beautiful and promising child brain fever, or determined ordinary ailwents to the production of water on the rain.\u201d Young Men\u2019s Department.THE RIGHT.Stand for the right, through tbick or thin, Let rogues uphold the wrong; Be manful, cheerful; in the din, Triumph is with the strong.Whate'er the bad way say or do, Fight for the honest part; What bodes a frown, a growl to you, If teuth sustains the beart! A DOLLAR ON THE CONSCIENCE, \u2018 Fifty-five cents a yard, I believe you said ?' The customer was opening her purse.Now fifty cents a yard was the price of the goods, and 80 Mr.Levering had informed the lady, She misunderstood him, however.In the community, Mr.Levering had the reputation of being a consientious,\u201d high-minded mau.Ile knew that he was thus estimated, and self-complacently apropriated the good opinion as clearly his due.It came instantly to the lip of Mr.Levering to say, \u2018Yes, fifty-five\u2019 The love of gain was strong in his mind, and he was ever ready to accede to new plans for adding dollar to dollar.\u2014 But, cre the words were uttered, a disturbing perception of something wrong restrained him.\u2018I wish twenty yards,\u2019 said the customer, taking it for granted that fifty-five cents was the price of the goods, Mr.Levering was still silent; though he commenced promptly to measure off the goods.\u2018Not dear at that price, remarked the lady.\u2018I think Joot,\u2019 said the storekeeper.\u2018 I bought the ease of goods from which this picce was taken, ow.\u2019 \u2018 Twenty yards at fifty-five cents! Just cleven dollars The customer opened her purse as sho thus spoke, and counted out the sum in glittering gold dollars.\u201cThat is right, T believe, and she pushed the money towards Mr.Levering, who with a kind of n automutic movement of his hand, drew forward the coin, and swept it into his till, \u201cSend the bundle to No.1300, Aruyle street, said the lady, with a bland smile, an she turned from the counter, and tho haulf-bewildered store- J keeper.Stay madam ! there is a slight mistake ! The words were in Mr.Levering's thoughts, and on the point of gaining utterance, but he had not the courage to speuk.[le had gained a dollar in the transaction beyond his duc, and sirendy it wns lying heavily on his conscience.Willingly would be have thrown it off; but when sbout to do so, the quick suggestion came, thut in acknowledgement to the lady the fact of her having puid five cents a yard too much, he might falter in his explanation, und thus betray bis nitewrpt to do her rong.And go he kept silence and let her depart beyond recall.Any thing gained at the price of virtuon self.Tepect is acquired at too large a cost.A single dollar on the conscience may press to heavily as ! children, It was so in the present case.Vain was it that Mr.Levering sought self justification.Argue the matter as he would, he found it impossible to cseape the smarting con- vietion that he had unjustly exacged » dollar from one of his customers.Many times through the day he found himself in a musing ubstracted state, and en rousing himself\u2019 therefrom, he came conscious, in his external t'iouzlit that it was the dollar by which he was troubled, \u2018Tm very foolish.\u2019 said he, mentally, as he walked homeward, after closing his store for the evening.* Very foolish to worry myself about a trifle like this.The woods were cheap cough at fifty-five cents, and she is quite as well contented with her bargain as it\u2019 she had only paid fifty.But it would not do.The dollar was on his conseience and he sought in vain to remove it by efforts of this kind, Mr.Levering had «wife and three pleasant They were the sunlight of his home, When the business of the day was over, he usually returned to his own fireside with bouyant feeling.It was not vo on this occasion.There wasa pressure on his bosom\u2014a want of sclf-satisfaction.The kiss of his wife, and the clinging arms of his children, as they were twined around his neck, did not bring the old delirtht.* What is the matter with you this cvenins, dear?Are you not well 7\u201d inquired Mrs.Levering, breaking in upon the thoughtful mood of i her husband, as he sat in unwonted silence.\u2018Fm perfectly well,\" he replied, rousing himself and forcing a swile, \u2018You look sober.\u2019 \u201cDo I?\" Another forced smile.¢ Something troubles you, I'm afraid.*O no: it's all in your imagination.¢ Are you sick papa?\u2019 now asks a bright little fellow, clambering upon bis knee.\u2018Why no, love, I'm not sick.think so * Because you didn\u2019t play horses with me.\u2019 \u2018Oh dear! Is that the ground of your suspicion ?\u2019 replicd the father laughing.\u2018Come! we'll soon scatter them to the winds.\u201d And Mr.Levering commenced a game of romps with the children.Lut he tired before the grew weary, nor did be, from the beginning, eater into this sport with his usual zest.¢ Does your head ache, pa?\u2019 inquired the child who had previously suggested sickness as he saw bis father leave the floor, and seat himself, with some gravity of manner on a chair.\u201c Not this cvening,\u2019 answered Mr.Levering.\u201cWhy don't you play longer, then ?\" \u2018Oh pa!\" exclaimed another child, speaking from a sudden thought, \u2018 you don\u2019t know what a time we had at school to-day.\u2019 Why did you to bear down & man\u2019s spirits, and rob him of all \u201cAh! what was the cause 7\u2019 ¢ Oh you'll hardly believe it.But Eddy J ones | stole a dollar from Maggy Enfield I\" \u2018Stole a dollar?ejaculated Mr.Levering.\u2014 His voice was husky, and he felt a cold thrill passing along every nerve.\u2018Yes, pa, be stole a dollar! dreadful.\u2019 \u2018 Perhaps he was wrongly accused,\u2019 suggested Mrs.Levering.\u2018Emma Wilson saw him do it, and they found the dollar in his pocket.Oh! he looked s0 pale, and it made me almost sick to hear him cry as if his heart would break.\u2019 * What did they do with him?\u2019 asked Mrs.Levering.* They sent for his motber and she took him home.Wasn't it dreadful ?\u2019 \u2018It must have been dreadful for his poor mother,\u201d Mr.Levering ventured to remark.\u2018 but more dreadful for him,\u2019 said Mrs, Levering.Will he ever forget his crime and disgrace?\u2019 Will the pressure of that dollar on his conscience ever be removed ?He may never do so wicked an act again but the memory of that wrong decd cannot be wholly effaced from his mind.\u2019 How rebukingly fell all these words on the cars of Mr.Levering! Ah! what would he not then bave given to bave the weight of that dollar removed ?Its pressure was so great as almost to suffocate him.It wasall in vain that he tried to be cheerful, or take un interest in what was passing immediately around him.The innocent prattle of his children had lost its wonted charm, and there secmed an accusing expression in tho oye of his wife, as, in the concern his changed aspect had occasioned she looked soberly upon him.Unable to bear all this, Mr.Levering went out, something unusual for him, and walked the streets for an hour, Un his return the children were in bed, and he had regnined sufficient sell\u2019 control to meet his wife with a less disturbed ap- pearanco.On the next morning, Mr.Levering felt something better.SIcep had left his mind tranquil.Still there was a pressure on his feolings which thought could trace to that unlucky dollar.About an hour after going to his store, Mr, Lovering saw his customer of the day previous entor and move towards the place where bo stoood bchind his counter, His heart gave n sudden bound und the color rose tu his face.An necusing con- reicnee way quick to conlude na to the object of ber visit.But he soon saw that no muspi- cion of wroog dealing was in the Judy's mind.\u2014 With a plensunt half recognition, she asked to look at certain articles, from which she made purchases and in prime for them, placed a ten dollar bill in the band of tho storckeeper.Oh! wasn't it ¢ That weight shall be off my conscience,\u201d suid Mr.Levering to himself, ss he began counting out the change duc his customer ; and purposely he gave her one dollar more than was justly hers in that transaction.The lady glanecd her eye over the money and seemed slightly bewildered, Then, much to the store-kecper's relief, opened her purse and dropped it therein.¢ Ml right again! was the mental cjaculation of Mr.Levering, as he saw the purse disappear in the lady's pocket, while his breast expanded with a sense of relief, The customer turned from the counter, and had nearly pained the door when she paused, drew out her purse, and emptying the contents of one end into her hand, carefully noted the amount.Then walking back, she snid with a thoughtful air,\u2014 \u201cI think you have made a mistake in the change, Mr.Levering.\u2019 \u20181 presume not, ma'am.I gave you four and thirty-five,\u201d was the quick reply.¢ Four thirty-five,\u2019 said the lady musingly.\u201cYes, here 1s just four thirty-five,\u201d \u2018That's right, yes; that's right.\u201d Mi.Lever ing spoke somewhat nervously, * The article came to six dollars and sixty-tive cents, I believe 7 \u201cYes, yes ; that vas it * Then three dollars and thirty-five cents will be my rizht change said the lady, placing « small gold coin on the counter.\u2018 You gave me + too much.\u2019 | | The customer turned away and retired from {the store, leaving that dollur still on the con- | science of Mr.Levering.¢ I'll throw it into the | street,\u2019 said he to himself impatiently.* Or give it to the first beggar thut comes along.'\u2014 But conscience whispered that it wasn't his cither to give away or throw away! Such prodigality, or impulsive benevolence, would Le at the expense of another, and this could not mend the matter, ¢ This ia sll squeamishness, said Mr.Lever ing, trying to argue against his convictions.But it was of no avail.His convictions remained as clear and rebuking as ever.The next day was the Sabbath, and Mr.Levering went to church, as usual, with his family.Searcely had he taken a scat in bis pew, when, on raising his cyes, they rested \u2018on the countenance of the lady from whom he had abstrected the dollar.Ilow quickly bis check flushed! How troubled became instantly the beatings of his heart! Unbappy Mr.Levering! He could vot make the usual responses, that day, in the services; and when the congregation joined in the swelling hymn of praise, his voice was heard not in the genera) thanksgiving.Searcely a word of the cloquent sermon reached bis cars, except sometling about \u2018 dishonest dealing :\u2019 he was too deeply engaged in discussing the question, whether or no he should get rid of the troublesome dollar by dropping it into the contribution box, at the close of the morning service, to listen to the words of the preacher.This question was not settled when the box came round.But this disposition of the money proved onlya temporar paliative.There was still a pressure on his feelings; still a weight on his conscience that gradually became heavier.Poorman! What was he todo?How was he to get this dollar from his conscience?He could not send it back to the lady and tell her the whole truth.Such an exposure of himself would not only be humiliating, but hurtful to his character.It would be seck- ing to do right in the infliction of a wrong to himself.At last, Mr.Levering, who had ascertained tho lady\u2019s name and residence, inclosed her a dollar, anonymously stating that it was her duo; that the writer had obtained it from her unjustly, in u transaction which he did not care to name, and could not rest until he made restitution.Ah] the humiliation of spirit suffered by Mr.Levering in thus seeking to get eaze for his conscience! It was one of his bitterest life experiences.The longer the dollar remained in his possession, the heavier became its pressure, until he could cndure it nolonger.Ile felt not only disgraced in his own cycs, but humbled in the presence of his wife and children.Not for worlds would he have suffered them to look into his heart, If a simple act of restitution could have covered all the past, happy would it have been for Mr.Levering.But this was not possible.The deed was entered in the book of his life, and nothing could cffuce the record.Though obreured by the accumulating dust of time, now and then a hand sweeps unexpectedly over tho page, and the writing is revealed.Though that dollar has been removed from his conscience, and ho is now guiltless of wrong ; yet thero are times when the old pressure is felt with painful distinctness, ISarncat secker after this world's goods, tuke warning by Mr.Levering, and beware how, in a moment of weak yiclding, you get à dollar on Jour conscience.One of two ovils must follow : it will give you pain and trouble, or callous tho spot where it rests.And the latter of these evils si that which is most to bo deplored.\u2014 Two things, well considered, would prevent muny quurrels; first, to have it well ascertained wbothor wo arc not disputing shout terme rather than things ; and secondly, to cxnmine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. May 1, 1861.The Miscellany.THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM.Just God! and shall we cabinly rest, The Christine's scorn\u20141he hedthen's mirthi\u2014 Content tu live the lingering jest And Is word of n mucking eurth?Shall sur vwn glorious laud retain That curse which Europe scorns to bear?Shall ur own brethren drag the chain Which uot even ltussia's toenials wear?mme Up now for Freedom! not in strife Like that your sterner fathers saw\u2014 The awful waste of human bife\u2014 The glory nnd the guilt of war: iSut break the chain\u2014the yoke remove, Aud site to earth oppression\u2019s rod With those mild arms of truth nnd 108, Made mighty through the living God! Down let the shrine of Moloch sink, And leave no traces where it stood © Nor longe: let its idol driuk His daity cup of human blood : Lut rear another altar there, To truth and love and merey given, And Freedom's gift and Freedom's prayer Shall call an answer down from heaven! -4 08, TVhattier, IN MEMORIAM.(laserted by request.) Awid December's withering blast Faded a bright home flower, And they lave laid ber down Lo rest, Young, beautiful and pure.\u201cÎtay winter \u2014Liod thy tempets uj, And thy soft mantle fling, While thon a erystal tear may\u2019st drop er beauty withering.Tiw' fui beneath an icy tomb, À little frost-vipped bud, \u201che now hath risen in Hexven to blocta, Triumphant in ber God.Na longer held by eartbly chorms, Su sweet to mortal eyes, She, fulded in her Suvi Wits us in Paradise.5 arms, Dry up your tears, yemouraing band, And kiss the chastening rod, iiefore you see an angel stand To beckon you to God.Aultsville, 1861.J.K.\u201cLET'S WAIT TILL AFTER DARK!\u201d As I was passing along the street a few days since, 1 saw two boys standing by a shop door quite earnestly engaged in conversation.T heard one of them say : «(tome on ; I'llda it! Til go with you now !\u201d \u201c No,\u201d said the other, \u201clet's wait till after dark I\u201d \u201cMy boys,\u201d said I, stopping in my walk, grieved to see that the first speaker belonged to the mission-school with which I am connected ; \u201cmy boys, I am sorry to hear that.It leads me to suspect that the thing you want to do is something you would be ashamed to do in the day-time.Isn't itso?\u201d They both blushed and hung their heads.I said a few more words to them, invited the boy who was 2 stranger to me to attend the Sunday- school, and passed along.But I could not dismiss the feeling of anxiety that filled my heart.I was afraid my young friend Samuel would be led astray, and it gave me great pain, for he was a bright, intelligent boy, and very regular in his attendance nt the school.I bad an crrand or two to do,which oceupied me nearly balfan hour ; but just as I turned my steps toward home, 1 saw Samuel across the street.I beckoned to him, and ho camo to me with some reluctance.\u201cWhat was it that you and \u2014 were talking about doing after dark ?\u201d I asked.He looked up in my face and answered frankly: #1 don't want to tell you.\" \u201cVery well, you veed not.But wasn't it something you would be ashamed to do in the day-timo ?\" \u201cYes; it was!\" \u201c Was that a good boy, Samuel ?\u201d \u201c« No.\" * Does he go to school with you ?\" \u201cNo.He won't goto school.like to study.\u201d \u201cWhat does he do?time ?\u201d \u201cTn the atreet.He doesn\u2019t do anything.\u201d \u201c* Is he guod company for you, my boy 7\" \u201cNo; I don't suppose be 16.\u201d \u201cYou know ho is not.Keep away from him altogether.If you cannot do him any good, don\u2019t lot him do you nny evil.\u201d Now I would say the same to every boy who reads this paper that I said to Samuel; and 1 want to give you three rules.1, Keep clear of idlo company.Dr, Watts says in ono of his hymns that « Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.\" 2.Keop clear of profane company.The Bible tolls us to \u201c Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in tho way of ovil men.\" 3.Never do anything sftor dark that you would bo afraid or ashamed to do in the day- imo.The groat God oan sce in the darkest might.\u201cThe darknoss and the light are both alike to Lim.\" Nothing can bo conoealed from his all- He doesn\u2019t How does he spent his THE MONTREAL WITNESS.secing eye, not even the wicked thought that you would be afraid to have any one know.Will you not ask him to rive you grace to resist temptation, aud help you to have pure and honest and lovely thoughts, such as he can look upon with pleasure ?EK.POPULAR REFRESIIMENTS.Among the silent means of promoting the sobriety and comfort of the working classes, muy be mentioned the keeping of the public-houses shut till a comparatively late hour in the morning, by which time, (seven o'clock in Glasgow) the industrial classes are all at their work.In this way they escape the temptation\u2014so common before the passing of the Mackenzie Aet\u2014 to indulge in * the worning dram,\u201d which F'ro- fessor Miller justly declared, before the Royal Commission, to be the worst of the whole day.\u2014 And yet, what an inducement Lave the sous of toil to partake in something, as they turn out carly in the ehill morning, with an empty stomach, and with the prospect of several hours\u2019 work be- furc they can get their hungar allayed.Pleasant and healthful as is the morning walk, or zentle gardening cxercise before breakfast, hard work by the hour is then neither pleusant nor healthful.Hence the admirable adaptation of the coffee stands in the carly morning, ut which the workman may have a little wholesome cheer, on the strength of which to proceed to his morning toil ; and thus fulfil the conditions of health in this matter, which have been so often pointed out by physiclogical writers.Amongst others, it was a point much insisted on by the late Dr, Andrew Combe, and science and experience alike testify to its truth, These carly coffce-stands have long been in operation in England, and of late years have come to le extensively adopted in Scotland.Prior to the passing of the Mackenzie Act, the open dramshops presented very dangerous temptations; and after that measure came into operation, some of the wily publicans, under cover of these stands, sought to evade the law.Having set a kitshen table before their door, aud setting it out with a few refreshments, they secretly dis- peased the morning dram ; and this very circumstance, coming to the knowledge of the police, created a strong prejudice against the entire coffee stand system.But the indomitable perseverance of the Abstainers\u2019 Union directorute\u2014in course of which they had repeated iuterviews with the police authorities and the magistrates\u2014 gradually overcame all opposition; and means were instituted on both sides to guard the system against abuse.The police on their part, have excreised a sort of regulative sovereignty as to the localities of these stands, so as to keep them in check, and prevent all wrangling.Tre Abstainers Union have bad repeated meetings with the stand keepers, inviting them and their families to tea, explaining and commending the principles on which the system should be conducted.Salling forth one fine morning this week, in company with a zealous Director of the .Abstainers\u2019 Union, we found the stands in lively opera tion as carly as five o'clock.They scemed for the most part to be well patronized.Some of them, we understand, are beginning to make a little money.The viands, without exception, so far as we could discern, were of excellent quality.The coffee, which we occasionally tasted, was really good.Sodo scones, biscuits, and bread and butter, were the stamina.Iam sandwiches were almost ulways present, and in some cases Welsh rabbits, and a few other varictics, Some of the workmen there spontancously remarked to us that it was a great advantage.Aud so it truly is.À cup of good coffee for à half-penny, and a piece of bread for the same, us often repeated as the appetite may require or the finances allow, saving all homo demands on the poor child-ridden wife at that very early hour, All classes of work people were attracted\u2014the begrimed coul-heaver, the cngincer, the cabman, the policeman.These varicties we mention, because we found thew grouped together at tho first stand we came to.The stands aro put down in convenient corners in the line of the great thoroughfares; one, for example, at cach end of the principal bridges.We were much gratified to perecivo on one of the stands 6 variety of temperance tracts, for sale, or distribution ; and found that the keeper of that stand, who had been a cabuian, was a remarkably conscientious and well dispored man.Unly one man the worse for liquor wus seen by usin alt our rounds.Much os he had suffered from the publican, and haggard ofter a night's debauch, let us hope he received somo good from the water coffee of the stand.Ono feature of the case was to us particularly refreshing, and read volumes on the good accou- plished by the Mackenzie Act, and on the folly, and worso than folly, of such temperance vefor- mers 08 deory or disparage that Act: Not oue publio-bouso wus open till all the workineu had t immersod in thoir activities.À very dilfercut state of things was wont to prevail.The effect of this on publio sobriety must be self-evident.As soven o'clock spprouched, the shutters were taken off the dramshop windows, bit not a door waa opened till the bour had struck.The ub- lioans have a salutary awe of the fine and of the more dreadful terror behind\u2014that of being put in tho black list, and running the risk, at the next licensing term, of getting their licenses withdrawn.\u2014Journal of the Scottish Temperance League, Wear Lasp.\u2014Geclogical research points to the large mixture sof clay in soil as being in- dispensible to continuous production of wheat, and infers its ubsence from the Western prairies as foreshadowing their carly abandonment as wheat fields, Ohio, with a clay loam, produces 1G bushels to cach inhabitant, while Indiana, with a richer soil produces only 84 bushels, and : llinois, with a soil still richer, yields only 7 bushels to cacls inhabitant.While the ratio per acre bios thus been steadily diminishing during halt a century, British agriculiure has been revolutionized the other way, Jere we hare bron shinning the bd too choustion, and like the wasteful cotton-rower, pulling upand moving off to newer Jind that noeded no lubour for manuring.There they have swept the battle-fields of Furope for the bones of friend and foe, brought them, at great expense, to their own shores, and ground then up to fertilize their lands, Ships ate often loaded at New York and Philadelphia with bones for English wheat-fields that ought to have been retained for use ut homie.They have expended an untold sum for guano.More underdrains have been laid in Jingland than in all the world beside.Vertilizers innumerable are consumed in vast quantitics, loots have become a staple of the kisgdom, feeding more eattle than ever, and producing manure io abunduace.DECREASE oF WhEAT.\u2014New York was formerly a great producer of wheat, but her increase in 1850 was not ten per cent over 1840.Many portions of the State which once produced 75 bushels per sere now barcly average 5.An Ens- lish traveller in 1775 was amazed at finding that the land around Albany yielded 30 to 40 bushels per acre, with the most imperfect bu-bandry.while in England their best managed land did not yield baif so much.Yet in 1813 the aver age of the same Albany region had susk to 71 bushels per sere.In Dutchess County, it bad dwindled to 3; in Columbia, to 6; in Renssclacr, to 8; and in Westchester.to 7.In some portions of Maryland and Virginia, wheat is no longer cultivated on land which forty years azo produced abundant crops.Ohio itself, tre second on the list of wheat-producing States, is rapidiy losing grownd.\u2014.1lbany Statesman.PouLtry CHEAPER THAN Pork.\u2014A lady correspondent of the /Fomesteadl has kept an accurate account with her bens for several years, aud comes to the conclusion above stated.One year she kept hens « worth 839,96, at a cost for food of §30.81\u2014total 876,77.These hevs produced in cggs 834,92; in manure 85; in stock at close of the year $50\u2014total £59,92, leaving a profit of 810,15.\" Over and above this profit, she adds\u2014 1 used in the family during the year, ninety-one chickens and fowls, weighing about 300 pounds.\u201d \u201c Another year, kecping more fowls and cating less, she made a still larger profit, while her pork raising cost over 5 cents per pound.\u201d No doubt that poultry properly managed, pay a larger profit than almost any other domestic animal, MEssAGES FROM THE Moox.\u2014OF all the heavenly bodies, the moon it the nearest to us and the casicst to observe, It is especially interesting as the boundary between astronomy and meteorology; every thing above the moon is in the celestial heavens, and consequently belongs to the former science ; everything below the moon is in the terrestrial sky, in the atmosphere, and therefore lics within the domain of the latter.The connection between the moon and the carth is closer than is often suspected, If a line be drawn from the centre of the carth to the centre of the moon, thero lies in it a point (wuch nearer to the moon than to us) where the moon's and the earth's attraction on any material object are exactly equal.If the object be removed a little towards us, it will fall upon the earth; a little the other way, it will be drawn towards the moon.Arago has calculated the force necessary to shoot a body from the moon te reach this intermediate point of equilibrium, and finds it by no means au impossible or unattainable force, Consequently, it is not improbable that many (though perhaps not all) of the meteoric stones that fall, ave sent hither from the moon.Tt would be very possible for an inhabitant of the moon, supposing such inhabitant to exist, to keep up a daily commuyi- cation with the earth by means of projectiles.For us to reply to the correspondence, would be immensely more difficult.The nearncss and con- spicuousncas of the moon have caused the buman race, from the Lighest antiquity, to attribute to it great influence on the variation of the weather.\u2014 All the Year Round, CHINESE Scoot.MasTERs.\u2014The income of a Chinese schoolmaster depends upon the number of his pupils, but they must not exceed 20; beoauss it is held that ho could not attend to a roator number with the nccossary care.Ever oy is bound tu give his teacher anuually the following articles : \u2014 Rice, 50 Ib.; for extra provisions, \u2014lamp oil, 1 catty (111b,); lard, 1 catty; salt, 1 oatty ; tes, 1 catty; nnd, besides, a sum of from 1} dols.to 1 dols., according to the boy's ago and ability.The lessons are continued throughout the whole year, with only one month's holiday at the new-yoar, when the engagement of the teacher always terminates, and a new contract must be made.\u2014 Al the Year Round.\u2014 Cover a fool with gold and he will pass current.\u2014 If a man cheats you once, blame him ; if à second time, blame yourself, 279 De TocqueviLLE's Prorsery.\u2014It is one of the most singular facts in history, that no more acute observer of our institations and no abler commentator upon our constitution has arisen | than De Tocqueville, the French writer, who published his views of Americans and American institutions a quarter of a century ago, He said that our national government had in it no power that individual States could not resist.We quote \u2014* po sooner has the government anything to do | with a State than it begins to parley, to explain its motives, and to justify its conduct\u2014to arzue, to advise, and, in short, anything but command.# = The Constitution fits the government to control individuals, and casily surmount such obstacles «s they may be inclined to offer, but it was by no means established with a view to the possible separation of one or more States from the Union.If the snvercienty of the Union were to engage in a struggle with that of the States at the present day, its defeat may be confidently predicted; and it is not probable that such a struggle would be seriously undertaken.\u201d Again he says\u2014\u201cTt appears to me unquestionable, that if any portion of the Univn seriously desired to separate it-elf from tLe other States, they would not be able, ner.indeed, would they attempt to prevent it; znd that the present Union will only list us bing as the States which compose it choose to continue members of the ¢ nfe- deration.\u201d Serrrysuir\u2014The partiality and warmth of friendship may be a temptation to agree preeipi- tately and without reflection to what both rrudence land equity forbid, and especislly when the friend presents and presses his suit va the very ground of friendship.That is very trying.How can we refuse an old, attached, and valued friend; or one, it way be, to whose kindness we have been more than once indebted ?If a wan stends alone, out of business, and without a dependent family, and has, at the sume time.abundance of wealth to dispose of, be may be \u201cjuite at liberty to make such sacrifice to friendship as he pleases.But suppose the reverse of all this;\u2014then the claims of justice to others must take precedence of the claims of kindness to the friend.\u2014Wurd- os Posthwmons Works, Cmepioob's PRAYER \u2014Qae of the literary | men of England, who bas outgrown many of the - religious influences of bis childhood, gives the following touching sketch of the impression made on him by the habit of prayer taught at bis mother's knee :\u2014* Very singular and very pleasing to me is the remembrance of that simple piety of childhood, of that prayer which was said s0 pune- tually, night and morning, kneelinz by the bedside.What did I think of?What image did I bring before my mind as I repeated my learnt petition with such scrupulous fidelity ?Did Isee some venerable form bending down to listen ?Did be cease to look and listen when I had said it all ?Half prayer, half lesson, how difficult it is now to summon it back again! But this I know, that the bedside where I knelt in this morning and evening devotion, became sacred to me as an altar.I emile as I reeall the innocent superstition that grew up in me, that the prayer must be said Hnecling just there.If, some cold winter's night, I bad crept into bed, thinking to repeat the petition from the warm nest itself, \u2014it was feit in the court of conscience to be \u201cau insufficient rformance ; \u201d there was no sleep to be bad till had risen, and, bed-gowned as Î was, knceled at the accustomed place, and aid it all over again from the beginning to the end.To this day I never sce the little clean, white bed in which à child is to sleep, but I see also the figure of a child knecling at its side.\u201d And I, for a moment, am that child.No high altar in the most ~ump- tuous church in Christendom could prompt my knee to bend like that snow-white coverlet.tucked in for a child's slumber.\u201d CHRISTIAN TREASURY.\u2014THE EXAMINATION.(From Sacramental Miditations, by Rer.Jus, Smith.) - Let à man examine himself.sud so let him eat of tha bread and drink of that cup.\"\u20141 CORIXTULANS XI.19 He that would not be deceived must carefully and prayerfully examine himself in the light of trod's holy word.When we remember that the heart is deceitful above all things, that mauy bave lived and died nuder deception, aod that Satan, the great deceiver, is always busy practising deception upon us, no arguments can be required to prove the necessity of sell examination.The question to be decided is, « Am fin Christ 0\" or, \u201cls Christ in me 2\" 11 1 am not united to Christ, ! cannot hate communion with Christ.If Christ does not live in me, I am dead in trespusses and sins.Take which view you will, there is no qualification for fellowship with Christ at his table, Let me then put a few questions te my conscience, us in the sight of God, and may the Holy Spirit enable me rightly to answer them.Have F been thoroughly convinced of my lost state as a sinuer in the sight of God?Have I'felt the depravity of my heart, aud mourned over the pollution of my vature?Huve 1 fled to Christ as a poor, helpless, naked sinner, for a free and full salvation?Have I committed = soul into the hands of Jesus, to be saved by him alone?Am I expecting to bo saved simply on the ground of what the Lord Jerus did aud suffered ?Is Christ precious to my soul?Am 1 panting and prayiog for holiness 7 If so, Iam scripturally qualified to eat of that bread and drink of that cup.But, if 1 bave none of these evidences, the Lord's table is no place for me, First, lot me be reconciled to God, exercise faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, experience that] am led by the Spirit of God, and then am u welcome guest.+ Kxamiue yourscives, whether ye be in the faith; prove our own solves Know ye not your ows selves, how that Toate Christ is in-you, pi yo be reprobates t+*\u20142 Cor INTHIARN XL 6 a 5 A § ! + 1 280 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Mav 1 1861.BY TELEGRAPH.New York, April 30 \u2014 \u2018arl Scburz, United States Minister to Spain, has ol \u2018ained threv months\u2019 leave of adeence, and, will go West immediately to organise a military force in that quarter.A correspondent of the Philadelplia Proce asserts, in tbe most positive manner, that the British Minister at Washington baa been instructed by his Government to offer to the United States arms, ammunition and troops to aid in suppressiog the rebellion of slave- bolders : that be has sent already to England for 300,000 minie-rifes ; and lastly.that English and French fleets will be sent 10 assist in the blockade of Soutbern ports.Noxwics, NY, April 29\u2014\u201c1 leave bere with a Company of Volunteers this morning.We shall carry tbe Stars and Siripes through Baltimore, or die.\u2014 Signed, J.B, Captain.\u201d ARSISBTEG, April 20.\u2014Full preparations are being made bere 10 put up bridges on the Northern Central Railroad.The Peousylvapia Central bas loaned of à to Government a number of frames for iron which they have always ready *> replace bridges destroyed or burnt on their road.250 carpenters acd other working men Lave been suietis concentrated at York, since Saturday.They be protected br troops as they advance.5 DNegts.are row Iring organized at Camp Curtin, and they wil prebally move to-morrow on York.The intention is to gid every bridge with troops clear through to Baltiz: re : when troops reach that point, they will at-| tem; 10 ass around Baltimore and reach the Relay use, at ibe jusction of Washington acd the Baltimore | ard Olio R.R.That point should they reach, they will hold permanently., n the Mary.alted ia Yeas, | ure to-day, on Secess 13; Nays 53.Bautimore, 29 \u2014 A spontaneous Unica Meeting was beld to-night in Fast Daitimore : nbout 2,000 persons were present, and great enthusiasm was manifested.\u2014 The Naticnal banuer was unfurled.éaily communication with Philadelphia is re-established.\u2018 The Montgomery Mail of Thursday cars that a portion of the crew of the steamer * Star of the West,\" recently taken by the Confederate States as prisoners of war, bave arrived a1 Montgomery for trial.PeivaneLrmia, April 29, JRG1.\u2014Ex-Senator Mason has teen arrested by the United States authorities.A grocer from Charleston who was impressed into the Confederate army, but escaped, reports at the botn- bardment of Fort Sumpter at least 1,000 rebels were killed, and 400 killed in Fort Moultrie, and 20 by Major Acderson's first discharge.The following letter to Mnjor Anderson is pub- lisbed :\u2014 «| am directed by the President to communicate to *you, and through you to the officers and men under \u201cyour command at Forts Moultrie and Sumpter, the approbation of tbe Goverement of your and their judicious and gallant conduct there, apd tender you and them the thanks of tbe Governmeat.(Sigued) + Simon CAMERON.\u201d HauniesvnG, April 24, 1801.\u2014An old Presbyterian clergyman, wbo left Eastern Mississippi, atrived to-dar.Be came through by the Tennessee and Virginia Railway, with 150 passengers from the Gulf States fleeing porth.He s be saw troops at every giation, and that their destination was all northward.He heard them avow that they were going on to attack Wash.Tracy, passeoger in scbr.\u201cD.B.Pitts,\u201d from Charleston, arrived to-day, reports bis farm confiscated und bis wife kicked ard ill-us J, and be himself having received 500 lashes for refusing to fight against the United States.; ; The Richmond papers contain a proclamation of Governor Leteber, ordering the return of all vessels except the steamers \u201c Jamestown\u201d and ¢ Yorktown\u201d to their owners, and appeals to the people not to interfere, and to discountenance ail seizures without legal aatbority, snd appoints officers for different rivers to pee the proclamation carried into effect.Also proclaims to all military organizations to refrain from marching to Richmond till ordered, but to hold themselves in readiness.The arsenal at Fayetteville surrendered to the State authorities with a large number of arms, and Governor Ellis called for 30,000 volunteers additional to the regular militia.Arrival of the.\u2019 BREMEN.\" New Yorx, April 291b\u2014The \u201c Bremen\u201d bricgs Lon- doo advices of the 17th inst.Arrival of the \"ARABIA.\" Hausrax, April 20tb.\u2014 The \u201cArabia\u201d arrived here at Lis p.m.ee Arabia\u201d sailed from Lives 1 on the 20th and Queenstown op the 2181.The ¢ City of Baltimore\u201d on the 18th and tbe North American\u201d on the 19th.fa the Commons the Government announced that they were without official information relative to the alleged annexstion of St.Domingo to Spain.The I:alian question in general, was debated in the House of Lords.The French occupation of Rome was deplored, and the prospect of a collision between Austria and Italy deprecated by all the speakers.In tbe Commons, Lord Jobn Russell stated that all foreign Ministers except tbe American, left Jeddo to be protected by ships of war, in consequence of intimidation being used towards them which the Japagese Government did pot endeavor to check.; The Paris Correspondent of the Daily News says Russia informed France that in consequence of events ot Warsaw, it was impossible 10 join France for the settlement of the Enstern question.[tisalleged aaa reason that Russia regards France as an accomplice in the Polish disturbances.; It bad becn reported in London that President Lincoln was dead.Beveral beavy failures at Marseilles.Bourse higher.Rentes ¢8f 28¢.Garibaldi took bis seat in the Italian Parlisment.Business temporarily suspended by applause.Action of the ministry io disbanding the southern army debated.baldi made à speech so violent that it excited tumbit in tbe chamber.Je made offensive allusions to the ministry, sgainat which Cavour protested.President of tbe Chamber put on bis hat, and the sitting was suspended for 8 brief interval.Garibaldi in resuming moderated, and defended bis comrades in arms ; he sai tbe formation of three di ne of volunteers was not sufficient for national armament.General Bixio made » conciliatory speech.Cavoursaid be accepted words of concilision.Garibaldi explained several facts alluded to by Cavour, expressed Lis belief that Cavour lored Iialy ; be also desiganted the French army us the easmy of uly, because it occupied Rome.Un the 19th, Garibaldi was again received with loud applause.The excitement of the previous dsy bad subsided.Words | 368 to : of references wiil be gl Bo4EP FOR GENTLEMEN.\u2014A Widow Lady first class family houne, where no otber boarders are kept.\u2018They will have the usc of the Dinin; The Bed Rooms are large and airy.Flower Garden attached to the house.Toroxro: 3 King Bireet, 2nd door East of Yonge Street.k of Spring and Bummer Goods, just evel id oe pe on hand a aimali lot of Silk i ats, of superior finish and latest style, which they offer for Bale of concord exchanged between Lavour and Bixio were applauded by all.Garibaldi expfessed himself satisfied.There had bern an attempted reaction in Calabria.Troops were dispatched to the town of Vonaga and de- iivered it from Bourbon adlerents, Austring movements en the Po near Ferrara were weorded.An attack on Sardinia is considered poss commencing with an invasion of the Duchy of Mo ena, which will nt be an infraction of the Villa Franca [© Treaty.Warsaw advices say that matters are daily growing worse.Troops were bisouacked in public squares.The Russian force in Polard is to be raised to 100,000 men Turkish vessels were blockading Albania.The Arabia bas £12,004 in specie, The America arrived at Queenstown on 21st, Riots had taken place at Cracow and Vienna.Fearful inundations bad occurred in Java.Many thousand persons were drowned : whole villages were destroyed : 50,000 people were left destitute.$.Coumencrar\u2014Liverpeel\u2014-Flour dull, quoted as nominal at 1x3 to 505 cd, Wheat quiet but steady Red Western 113 3d to 125 0d: White 125 21 to 14 + Corn dull and quotations barely maintained; M cd: Yeilow 363 Cd to 37s.Pork steady.Lard quiet.Pota steady at Gis od to Ja; Pearls dull, Sugar firm at advanoe of 64.Londan\u2014Hallion in Bank had increased 410,600 Conzols 91° to $! money and 2 account.BIRTHS.MARRIAGES & DEATHS.BIiTHS.Moutresi= April 20.Mra, Andrew MacKay, of & daughter.Menireal\u2014 {sh inet\u2026 Mrs.A \u20ac.Sutherland, of à sous Montreal\u2014-ith mst.the wife of Chas.¥.Blackman.of A Fol.DIED.Où the thilrt.Jad Agnes, dost dyeshter of Wm.F.Lighthall, N.I\".ared i years, 4 months, and 13 day».Montreal\u2014April \u201cth, Hobert McFarlaue, Ex, formerly Merchant, l'erth.Scotland.agred 7 years.ADVERTISEMENTS.ANTED, A COLPORTEUR, \u2014 By the Ottawa Auxilisry Bible society.He muet be able to speak uentiy toth English and French.One having rome exp rience In the work would bepreforred.To a properly quali- tied labourer a liberal salary will be given.Applications, accompanied with certificates of fitness for the office, to be lodged on or before the 15th May uext.[postage paid,) with the * Secretary of the O.A.Bible Society.Otlawa City, vw.April 2 «wii May.WANTED a situation as Teacher jn Canada West, by a Young Lady having an Elementary Normal School Diploma, and several jcar expericnce in teaching : the best ven.Address T.1LE., Montreal.ill 1st My.row April 10, 1461.wishes to obtain two or three Gentlemen to Loard in & and Drawing Rooms.here is an Orchard and Refurences given and required.Apply at this office.February 23.d&swtfb A VALUABLE BUSINESS STAND for Sale in the thriving village of North Gower, C.W.Store and Dwelllog House, with land attached.For Par- iculars apply to MR.STEPHEN FERGUSON, ars, C.W.Ur STEWART & MACINTYRE, Moutresl, April 19, 151, AW WwW.WHEN YOU ABK FOR GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, SEE THAT YOU GET IT, AS LSFERIOR KINDS ARE OFTEN BUBSTITUTED.April 13, 1664.w ONEY.\u2014 Bank Stock and other Securities bought and «old by the Sabecribez to order.JOHN DOUGALI COMMISSION MERCHANT, April 2 ANADA PREPARED CORN FOR PUDDINGS, Blane Mange, &c., made and refiued by the Canada Starch Company.Favardaburg C.W, The great care taken in the preparation of this 10 le such as to merit a preference over sil others.April 13, 1801, JOHN HENRY EVANS, MPORTER of IRON and HARDWARE \u2014Stores and Iron-Yerd : St.Nicholas Street ; Office snd Warchouse 4t.Paul Btreet, MONTREAL December 1, 1859.case.IEAS\u2014830 Half chents \u201cFine,\u201d \u201cExtra Fine,\u201d \u2018Choice, Guapemders, Boschongs sad Uoiopgé, in étock and forvaie 9) ers, Bouchongs an on) ck and for sa pomdert: Ee A EH MATE WaoN, MoüUllt Street, Montreal, April 25, 1861.12-d 8-1.iw, FRESH IMPORTATIONS Of New and Klegant Designs in every varlety of style at the CARPET WAREIHOUSBK, No.74 GREAT BT.JAMES !BTREKT.JAMES BAYLIS, IMPORTER OF CARPETING, FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, de, de, Renpectfully solicits an examination of the above, which includes some MAGNIFICENT PERSIAN I'ATTERNS, Manufactured expressly for himeaclf by the most celebrated \u2018makers of Britain, who keep him supplied with their choicest patterns ss soon an produced, FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, Of superior style and quality, cut to any dimensions.WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.MonTaxaL : 74 Grest St.James Street.April 18, 1861.daw ALBRAITII & BROWN, Merchant Tallors, Me chanles® Enatitute Bullding, Great St.James Atrret, Invite the attention of their Customers and the Lublle in at Low Prices for Cash.April 11, 3881.PORK FOR SALE.EAVY WESTERN AND CANADA MKSE.THIN MES#, PRIME MESS, PRIME.43t.w.for jw.nw law for 4w GILMOUE &,C0., 43 8t.l\u2019eter treet, ble, tf TT sTIRLIXG, M'CALL & CO., 211 81.Paul Street, Corner of St.Joseph Street, ERR OF BRITISH AND FORYIGN 1:Y GOUDR, WHOLESALE, leg to call the attention of Town and Country Juyers fo he Taree and.well assorted Stock of Fancy and Staple Dry du, atl fresh aud new, and just received, wisicle will be dat vers ow prices.ao as to commaud quick sale.An carly call is requested.STIRLING, M'CALI, & CO.21 St.Paul Street.did ewik Montreal, March 10.SPRING IMPORTATIONS, WHOLESALK.ROSS & TEMPLETON, Have Reccived their Stock of MND STAPLE DRY GOODS.WHICH 15 NOW VERY COMPLETE.They cipeciatly invite the attention of Country Merchants to their DRESS AND STRAW GOODS DEPARTMENTS.FANCY 16 LEMOINE STREET.April 5, 1561, tr yor 10xw WANT BEAUTIFUL LINEN.USE THE GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH.USED IX TIE BOY AL LAUNDUY, Phi fs the only March wed in Her Majisty's Laundry.April 13, 3661.ww CHINA, GLASS AND EARTHENWARE, T Subroeribers are now receiving their Spring Stock, to ch they invite the attention of Country Merchanin, In addition to a woud Ceneral Assortment.Hey lave alro a large varivly of Assorted Crates suitable for both seetions vfihe Province - In Glassware, their Stock of Tumblers ia very complete, with every other article of Glassware in Ilouschold use.Prices Low and Terms Fiber: JOUN WATSON & Co.11 Lemoine Strec April 5, 1961.ROSE & NASH, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HAR WARE, EARTHEN WAR Morrisburg, Canada West.COMMISSION BUSINESS, À ESSRS.R.& N., will give thelr best attention {o nny business entrusted to them by parties at a distance, In any or all of the following particular Buying or Sciling l'roduce, Morscs, Cattle or uther Farm Stock; buyiog or selling land ad part of Canada, Furniture, Planos.Mel .&e., KC From Mr.ROSE'S extensive sequuintance in Canada Went, he will be able to render valuable service to parties who may have Land to dispose of In that Section of the Province \u2014(Charges Aodvrate.) Morrisburg, April, 1361, RUSE & NASH.law Leeming) of Groceries and Produce, C 2 consigned to our care to be forwarded, will meet with prompt attention.Wok P.L.also succeed their late father an sole agenta for the well-known house of William Collins, Wholesale Stationer and Publisher, Glasgow, Scotland.Montreal, 28 Bt.Nicholas Street.0 COUNTRY MERCHANTS, \u2014 The undersigned offers his services to Country Merchants or otbers ata distance from Market, as Salesman for the disposal of Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, Hides, Pelte, and Dead Poultry, or otber Market Pfoduce.Parties sending Stock to market should send advice by Mail or Telegraph, in advance, to ensure thelr being taken eare of on arrival.Commission from 2 1-2 to 5 per cent, according to amount of account sales.Remittances promptly made by Bank Dr ft, or as advised WM.MASTERMAN, St.Anne Market, Montreal, Sept.23.OHN GARDNER, CHEMIST & DRUGGIST-29, Weet End, Notre Dame Street, Montreal.\u2014All Chemicals and Drugs warranted genuine.[Physician\u2019s Prescriptions carefully Prepared.I'atent Medicines, Fresh Leeches, Combs, Brushes, and Perfumery.Attendance for the Dispensing of Medicines on Sunday at half-past§ a.m., at half-past 12 and at 5 p.m.well qualified attendance daring J.G.Montreal, Jan.22.ROWN\u2019S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.\u2014Couois, CoI.b8, IOARSANERS, and INFLUENZA, IRRITATION, Borkxkss, or any sflection of the Throat CURED, the HACKING COUG Ld In CoxsUMPTION, BRONCIMTIS, WHOOPING COUGH, ASTHMA, CATARRII, relieved by BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, or CotGH LoZENGES.À simple and elegant combination for Couans, &e.Dr.G.F.BicELow, Bobton.\u201c Have proved extrsmely serviceable for HOARSENESS.\u201d Lev.HENRY WARD BEXCHER.0 f recommend their use to PUBLIC SPRAKERS.\"* Rev.E.LI.CHAFIN, New York « Kfectuat in removing Honrseness and Irritation of he Throat, $0 common swith BrEAKFRS and BINGERS.\u201d Prof.M.STACY JOHNSON, LaGrange, Ga.\u2018Teacher of Murle, Southern Female College.\u201c Two of three times 1 have been attacked by BRONCHITI #0 an to make me fear that [ nhould be compelled to dental from ministerial labor, through disorder of the Throat.But from a moderate une of the \u2018\u2019 Troches\u201d\u201d 1 now find myself able to preach nl bitly, for wecks together, without the slightest Inconvenlence.\u2019 Rev, E.B, RYCKNAN, A.B, Montresl, Wesleyan Minister 8.J.LYMAN & Co., LYMAN, CLARE & Co., ARDNKR, and ail Druggiste in Canada, at 25 cents 3mo.d 3mo.s, w 2mo.w.Bold b; JOHN pet box, Montreal, Feb.18, 1861.TRAW AND FELT HATS, ALSO STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS of alk ports cleaned and altered to t style 4., latest style by No.# Bt.Lawrence Main Street.March 4, 1861.3-mo s.w.Clnsnes will commence où Moxnay, April 15th.An unexpected vacancy for a Boarder occurs.Cots Mouse, Montreal, April 13, 1861.MASA An, HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Vol.8 Just Published.Sent by Mail to any part of Canada on rcecipt of 36.BOOK AND STATIONERY WAREUOUSE.36 Great St.Jamen street.sw tib April 11, 1461, AL EB FOUNDRY.\u2014-GKORGE BRUBI, Kina BT, near the Canal Basin, Montreal, MANGHACTURKR Of i kinds of STEAM ENGINES, Water Machinery, Mill Gearing, Toller Work, Light and Heavy Forgiugn, Machine and Archl- tectural Castioga In Brass of Fron, Tran Steam Pum Mand Fumps of various patterns, Holoting Machines, Wash- Ing Machines, Bark Bills, (3 variet lack Berewa, l'ar- chane Blocks.l'uwrer Presses, &c , &e.Founders\u2019 Materials always on Bale.Orders promptiy exvcuted.l'atterna furnished.March mw, ONFECTIONERYV,\u2014For a supply of good things, cun +10 MOCH IR CONFECTIONKRY, 1% Notrs Dame Kireet, nearly opposite tho Court House.Happy to see you.Montreal, À pril 4, 1662.déowtfbe Montreal, Jan.9, TAT com Bummer Term of Miss Lyman's |\u2019 1861.FRESH SKKDS\u20141661, V8, CLARE & CO.have Just received, per Canadian a vis Portland, and from the United Hates, their usual extensive supplics of English, French and Amerl\u2019 enn GARDEN, GRASS, FIELD und FLOWKIL SEEDS, which they offer to Country Merchants, Farmers and Gar.The seeds are ull tbe growth of t lio in Europe and Amerios, .Amongst them are 200 do Yellow do o 100 do White do do 3000 do Swedish Turnip 1000 do Yellow Aberdeen do 1000 do White Globe do #00 do Leng Orange Cairot 600 do White lelginn do 100 do Altringhon do 200 du Karly Horn do 600 de Boni Ited Mangold Werizel 200 do Yrilow Globe do 200 du Red do do 500 do Blood Beet 20 do Turnip do 60 do Sugar du 200 do Kurly ®ork Cabbage 200 do Drumliead do 150 do Flat Dutch do St.Dents du do lted Pickling do zw0 do Eurly Cucumber 150 do La reen do 25 do A d Faris Cauliflower 35 bush do Gurden Leas 15 do do do Radish 100 do Indinu Corn.various kinds \u2014ALsO\u2014 Lonx ited Duteh Clover Do Rawdon do lo mont do White butch do Western do Timothy, Rye, Red Top Gravy, English Lawn Grass Hemp.Bury aud Rape Seeds, &e., &e.an swt HENIX FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, Lom Lard «treet and Charing Cross, London.ESTABLISHED IN 1782.GILLESIFIR, NOFFATT & Co, Agents for Canads.JAMES DAVISON, Manager.Insurances against Jose by Fire are effected on the most favorable Terms, and Losses paid without reference to the Board in London.No charge made for Policies.Head Aency ofice, Montreal.12th May, 1859, ANADA AND EUROPEAR KXPRESS.\u2014 The British and American Express Co.have opened an Office n Power Buildings, 22 Water Street, Liverpool, for the forwarding of Parcels, Freights and Valuables of every de- seription, by the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's Steamers.neignments solicited.Orders promptly attended to.AGENTS: Liverpool, A.Blackwood, Jr., Tower Buildings, 22 Water &! London, Hill Son & Meadows, (15 Milk Street, Cheapsid Ww (3, W.Wheatly & Co., 150 Leadenhall Street, EC Manchester, Globe kxpress Co, Market Strect Glasgow, do do Miller Street.Dublin, do do Eden Quay.Edinburgh, Win.Crouch, North Bridge Street.Montreal, D.T.Irish, lace D\u2019Arms.\u2018Toronto, M.li.Irish, Toronto Street.Hamilton.D.Irwin, 1 West King Strect.Quebec, VW Bcott, St.Peters Straoct.hingston, « Clurke, King Street.Portland, J Prindle, 90 Exchange Street.And in all the Principal Towns in Canada of whom uy formation may Le obtained.PACKAGES delivered to any Railway Company in the United Kingdom, addresscd care of B.& A.EXPRESS CoM- TANY, 2 Water Street, Liverpool, will be promptly forwarded.I\u2019r¢-payment optional sw.LOWES, Montical, Nov.16, 1860.anager.MONTREAL OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.\u2014WINTLR ARRANGEMENTS.\u2014 Passengers Booked to Londonderry, G gow or Liverpool.\u2014Return Tickets grrated at Reduced Rates.This Compsny\u2019s LINE is composed of the following First- Class Steamships :\u2014 NOVA-BCOTIAN, 2,200 tons, - - BOHEMIAN, 2,200 tous, - - - - NORTH-BRITON, 2,200 tons, CANADIAN, 2,100 tons, - NORTH-AMERICAN, 1800 ton ANGLO-SAXON, 1,800 tons, - - HIBERNIAN, 2,500 tons, NORWEGIAN, 2,500 tons, - - - - \u2014_\u2014 Carrying the Canadian and United States Mails, One of the above Steamahips will sail from LIVERPOOL every Thursday for and from Portland (Maine) every SATURDAY, calor Loch Foyle.Glasgow Passengers are furnished with Free Passage Tickets and from London.derry.\u201cThe following are the dates of Bailing from PORTLAND: Capt.MCMASTER.Capt.GRAXGE.Capt.BoRI \\XD.Capt.GRAHAM.Capt.AITON.Capt.BALLANTINE, NORTH BRITON, - - Saturday, 16th March, 1861.HEMIAN, - ~ - \u201c 28rd + \" HIBERNIAN, (new,) - \u201c NORTH AMERICAN, - NOVA SCOTIAN, - - « CANADIAN, - - - - s NORTH BRITON, - - * RATES OF THROUGH PASSAGE FROM MONTREAL: CABIN.ATEBRAGE.(According to shocommoda- (Ineleding Cooked Provi- D sions) To Glasgow, -$72.50 to $86.50 To Glasgow, > - - -635.80 To Lon'derry,872.50 to $80.50 To Londonderry, - - 50 To Liverpool-$72.50 to $86.50 To Liverpool, - - - - - yr] Berths not secured unt!) paid for.An experienced Surgeon 1s carried op each Steamer.@ For further particulars, apply to EDMONSTONE, ALLAN & CO., Corver of Yourille and Common Streets.December 14.BUSINESS CARDS DR.W.E, BOWMAN, (Licentiate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Cnnada, Graduate of McGill Oollege,) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, M'GiLL STRERT, MONTREAL.DR.J.A.BAZIN, SURGEON DENTIST, 30 GREAT 8T.JAMKA BTREET, MONTREAL.Hr ReEnT MORTIMER, BT00K BROKER, Notary l\u2019ublio, Land and General Agent, No.82, King Street Kast, Toronto BROOKS & OXNARD, JORY X.OXNARD, COMMISSION & FORWARDING MENCHANTS, Wiiolesale Dealers in Flour, Produce and Family Groceries, Commercial Street, opposite (inil's Block, Agency of Herring's | PORTLAND, My, hamplon Safes.lHrHRKNOKA.\u2014Monare.Daas & Co., Portland ; Mererr, Sanborn & Carter, Portland ; Wm.Workman & Co., President City Bank, Montreal ; J.8.Sanborn, Keq , Sherbrook.Br-Partienlar attention paid to the asle of Canadian l'ro- duee, and purchase of Goods for Canadian Trade.Advances made on Consignments.l'he MONTRNAL WITNKSS\" Is printed and published dy Jour DOUGALL, Proprictor, at 36 Great James Siret.House head of Drummond treet, Montreal."]