The Montreal witness, 29 février 1868, samedi 29 février 1868

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.Vor.XXIII MONTREAL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 180s, No.18.ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE MUN- TREAL TEMPERANCE SOUIETY.The tbirty-fifth anniversary meeting of the, Montreal Temperance Buciety took place last Tuesday night in th: Baptist Church, Beaver Hall, The atiendance way not 83 numerous as sustained by its winisters, it can never guina trowna and jeers of unsympathiziog men; but permanent Lold upon (be public mind.This | once having taken root, they live ewrnally.The wemorial was well received, aud, in most cases, Rev.President concluded his remarks by pointing led to the adoption of resolutions fuvorubie to | out, to parents especially, the dangers their increased effurté in tbe cause of temperance.youth were continually in from those Hague Late in Deo, 10.000 copies of an illustrated spots in our midat,\u2014the grocery and groggery might bave been expected.The Chair was takez at 8 p.m.by John Dou- gall, Beg, in the absence of the Rav.Dr.Taylor, the President of the Society, sung and prayer offered.The Ouainma= called on the Secretary, Rev, 8.B.Gundy, to read the anual report for ths | past year.1 tract entitled, \u201c The Dom'niou Tract,\u201d embracing ia Blory calied tbe \u2018 Bridal Wine-Oup,\u201d were prin:ed and cireulated as widely as possible, A bymn Was | with a view to lesen the drinking which prevails to so alarming au extent during the boli- day season.The good accomplished by these tracts, and by the public meeting which was ; lheid on the 30th Dec., some of which became Dr.Taylor baving eatered, now took the known to the committee, will, it is hoped, prove Chair, when Le Secretary read the report.lasting.ANNUAL REPORT.| An effort was made during the year to con- In submitting to the friends and supporters of Yene the leading friends of temperance in the the Montreal Temperance Bocisty brief state- several provinces for the purpose of forming a ment of the labora of another year, tbe Commit- | tociety for the Duminion of Canada.Circulars tee feel it to be their duty gratefully to acknow- were accordingly sent, to which replies were ledge the goodness of God, by whose blessing | 9olicited.From tbe nature of these replies, their efforts to advauce the cause of temperance ' it was thought unwise to attempt the forma- bave, in an encouraging degree, been rendered | tion of such ociety at present; but that successful.In accepting the trust reposed in it would be desirable to call a convention them last year, thie Comittee resolved, in view | Of the leading friends of temperance, with of the increasing tacilities for, and (he constant |® view to increase the harmony, vigor, and Jy multiplying evils and miseries of, intemper- efficiency of exisling temperance organizations, ance, to prosecute the work of the society with À society similar to that contemplated by the increased zeal aud activity.To carry out that committee bas pince been formed in Toronto purpose with any messure of success, it b:came under the title of \u201cTue Ontario Temperance quite clear that one or more lecturing agents Association,\u201d the principal object of wbich is to ehould be employed to visit the country, lecture combine tue labors of existing societies.Should cn temperance, organiz+ Branch Societies and it be found impossible to b-ing about à D vui- Bands of Hope, circulate temperance tracts, and Bional Convention, an earavat effort should in every way possible leaven the public mind with bv made during the ensuing summer to con- temperance principles.vene the leading temperance men of the pro- Shortly sfier tte annual meeting, the Com- vioce of Quebec and the eastern portion of mittee were eall=d togethér, and, after mature the province of Uatario.Petitions have recent- @eliberation, this important measure was deter- |y been prepared and forwarded to the Legisla- mined on.Mr.Thos.Hutchings, who had been turc of this province, asking them to withdraw employed by kindred societies as leccuring agent, the license revenue from muvicipalities, inas- and, consequently, was not without experience much as the present system teads rather to io- in the work, was then open to an engagement.Crease than diminish the number of places in The Comuitiee entered into an agreement Which intoxicating drinks are sold, and eailing with him, at first for two months, bat from the : their attention to (be importance of providing success of his labors, and the increased iiberality 80 inebsiate asylum or asylums for the proof the friends of tie society, they were encou- vince.raged to extend the engagement to the end of the In closing thi brief report of the year's labors, year, duriog which time he bas been in the em- | your committee desire to express the hope tbat Moyment of the Society, with the exception of the efforts put forth, often in feebleness, but al- 8.x weeks, which he epent in Nova Scotia.The ways with prayer, bave been the means, under following is a statament of his work :\u2014He visit- the Divine blessing, of awakening, in many ed 160 places, addressed 185 m-etinge, organized | minds, an increased interest in this good cause ; 52 branches of the Society, aad about 20 Bande of confirming many in the priaciplea of total of Hope, obtained 1853 signatures to the pledge, | abstinence ; of leading many to embrace those ta which 281 have since bien added.Île dis- principles; and of encouraging the friends of tributed 6,000 temperance papers and tracts, temperence, whether connected with this or and travelled 2,651 miles.About 11,100 persons attended the meetings held by the agent, the average attendance being 69 on each occa- Bion.It is also pleasing to beable toatate that 72 clergymen co-operated with him in these \u2018that 1h year upon which we now enter, the meetings.Rev.T.L.Wilkingon, of Bolton, thirts-fifih of our existence, may be one of up.was also employed ag lecturing agent for one | equalled labor and unprecedented success, month, commencing early in April.Though | , the w ather and roads were very unfavorable Moved by Rev.8.B.Guaby, seconded by Mr.for bis work, so much 80 that be was not able Tos.HrTczIxae :\u2014 ; ; ta complete the month's l+bor, be beld 15 pub- Resolved, \u2014That the report which hes just voleat enterprise, with increased coergy and zal Your committee would also express th hope lic meetings, organized 7 branches of the been read be adopted and printed under the di- which cansot fail to prove a safeguard to thea \u2018 i bers.Several | reciion of the committee, and that the following ero ie Bins parts of the , individuals be the cffi:e-besrera and committee city and suburbs by membera of the Committee, | for the present year :\u2014 some of which resulted in the formation of President\u2014Rev.Wm.Taylor, D.D.Branch Societies.Arrangements were made, Vice-Presidents\u2014Mesars.John Dougall, James eariy in tbe year, for holding montbly public Court, Robt, Oampbell, D.P.Janes, and J.A.meetings, a plan which it was found very difficult | Mathewson.i i i Treasurer\u2014J.C.Becket.to carry out regularly.Six meetings, however, i Becretary\u2014Rer.8.B.Gands.were held, with varied results: four in the Me- a chanics\u2019 Hall, one in the Lecture-Room of Commitise\u2014Rev.H.Wilkes, D.D.; Revds.J.Erskine Oburch, and one in that of the Ameri.B.Bonar, D.H.McVicar, Geo.Douglas, J.M.can Church.The last, which was held in the | Gibson.Thos.Lafleur, J.B.Clarkson, A, Mac- Mechanics\u2019 Hall on the 30th of Dec., waa very 'donald, T.Gales, A.Youug, 8.J.Hunter, 0.largely attended.A spirited and interesting Jackson ; Messre.Joho Hall, T.8.Brown, Robt.address was delivered by Hon.8.L.Tiley.A Irwin, Jobn Sinclair, Chatles Alexander, Laird large number of ministers were on the platform, | Patoo, L.B.Scott, B.Muir, B2nj.Lyman, TM.some of whom made brief but forcible remarks.Bryson, Geo.Huger, Geo, Childs, G.W.Weaver, The Sabbath afternoon meetings have been re-, W.J.Patterson, F.E.Grafton ; Dr.Carpenter : gularly continued.and with unabated interest, | Messrs.John Gardiner, John Ritchie, W.H.Urr, under be able management of Messrs.Dougall, T.J.Telfer, and E.Atwater, wilh power to add Jages, Patterson, and Hall.From the large ! té their number.number wbo attended these meetings, from the ' Rav.Dr.Tavior rose and said, that, after religions tone of most of the addresses, and |the lucid and comprehensive report which bad from the clear and faithful testimony that is be- ' just been read, it would be superfluous oo Lis ing constantly given in favor of total absunence, | part to occupy their time in making a long great good cannot fail to result, very much of speech.He was sorry tosee so smali an atlend- \u2018which will only be revealed when the great day | ance that evening.He would bave liked could abail declare it.As the result of these elfaris | it have Leen possible for every man and woman in the city and suburbs, 78 meetings have beeu | ia Montreal who have any doubts as to whether held, 4 branches formed, and about © 33 signa- their Society waa really doing any good, to have tures obtained to the pledge ; making a tutal of - been there to have beard the cheering and hope.278 meetiaga beld, 63 branches and about 20 ful report that had jist heen read.The amount Banda of Hope organized, more than 3,000 names of work done during the past year was great.added to the pledge, and more than 16,000 iracts No doubt good, aud very much gon i, hd already end papers distributed during the year.| been dobe; and the seed which bad been Two thousand copies of the annual report, to gown, althongh it might pot be clearly per- which the coostitution of the Society was ap- ceptible to human eses at pres:ut, was sill pended, were printed and circulated, chi-fiy by rooting itself deep, and graving itee\u2019f indelbly the agents of the Society.on many of both the jiresent matured and the Lithographic circulars were also seat to rising generation.The rer.chairman illus.branches of the Society, in which they were trated his remarks by an anecdote of his own urged to bold montbly public meetings ; to form experience in sowing the seeds of total absti- juvenile temperance societies, in connection nence.He said that in 1833, whilst in Scot.with Sabbath or day schools; to circulste tem- land, be, after mature deliberation, came perance tracts and periodicais, and in every way [to the conclusion that the most effectual practicable to promote the cause of temperance.and the only safe plan to prevent drunken- Reports have been received from some of the ness becoming habitus] among the youths branches, showing & good deal of zeal and ac.{of not only bis own district, but ail over tivity in the prosecution of their work.Scotland, was by following no middle course, Early in the year, » petition was presented to no moderate drinking, but by total sbstinsnce the Oity Council, setting forth the evils of the from all and every thing that wold intoxicate present licensing system, and urging them to unddebase a man, The theory was so bold and so Testrict as much as possible the sale of intoxi.startling, and the opposition raised against him ceting drinks.À member of the Council bav- so great, that be felt inclined to despair of ever ing given notice that he would move for a doing good.Bat knowing that be had Truth refutation of the Sabbath laws in tbe interest of on his sfde, he continued his advocacy of this fruit-dealers ; and fearing that such a measure geand principle, warring against his opponents, would, if carried, resuit in the of intoxicat- meeting thejr one-sided arguments with naked ing drinks, and render couvictions for such an trathe, and lesviog the results to his Divine offence much more dificult, the committee pre- | Master.Bo bitter was the opposition, that it sented a memorial to the Council, praying them was partly the cause of his resigning bis charge to negative all attempts t) legalize any kind of and coming hitber among straugers.He re- traffic on the Lord's-Day.A memorial was teat turned again on a visit in 1863, and on visiting to several of the synods and conferences, his former charge, he was tejriced to find which met io Jue last, reminding thers that that the seeds he bad sown amid almost much of the past success of the temperance | universal opposition, bad, by God's blessing, cause was owing to the advocacy of ita principles taken root.mod slmast imperceptibly sprung bY ministers of the Gospel, and that, unless this foto lie.Tratk snd love never die.They may kindred societies, to prosecute this moat bene- shops in Montreal, He called on all to help, by petitions and otherwise, to remove, by legislation, tbe puwer to sell grog where useful and | necessary articles were Also sold.Mr.Tsos, Horcuixus then rose to second the resc'ution moved by tbe Rev, L.B.Gruody.He would refer to a few leading poiuta connected with bis past labors.It was with no slight feelings of gratitude 10 Almighty God that he bad been the humble instrument, through His blessing, of establishing 63 branches of Montreal Temperance Societies.The speaker then gave the names of the different Lownabips and villuges in which they bad bren established, 46 of which were in the province of Quebec, and 17 in the province of On'ario, The speaker proceeded to say that Le had uniformly met with nought but fraternal help and assistance from the different temperance movement a powerful auxiliary to the advaucement of tbe Gôspel of Jesus Christ.After relating many cheering instances which had come under his own personal observation as to the incaleu'able amount of good effected through the agency of the efforts of the Montreal Temper wee Society, be adverted to the sbauty 1 wen and luwbsrers during the winter.Care- \"lees aad ignorant as this class of men are i thought to 1): by many, he found in them eager \\ and ready listeners to God's word, aud willing- i ly acquiescing with bim in his arguments on the one band, that drink is prolific of sin and ctime, and, on the other, that total abstinence ia (he source and stepping-stone to much tist ia | great and good.He related several anecdotes to show what great results would attend & mission specially appointed to visit these hardy sons of toil during their winter avocations in the busb.Bibles, books, and tracts found a ready welcome among them, and those who had them not, borrowed from those who had.He hoped the good work would be carried on with ear- neotuess and vigor.The parent society bad attained a very high position, and he hoped the liberality of their friends would enable them still to widen its already extensive field of labor.He conciuded by seconding the resolution, which was carried unanimously.Rev.À.Youwo then moved the second reso- lation :\u2014 Resolved, \u2014That in the opinion of this meeting, the tempersuce cause is mainly successful in its mission in raising barriers, by whick, those whu bave not already become the vicums of strong drinks, may be preserved (rom their en- snariug infi-ence; and inasmuch as its chief power in this direction must be ex reised on the youth of our country, it ia the duty of Chris- | tian parents, Sablath-schiool teachers, and otbe:s who Lave tke training of the young placed in | heir hands, to do all they can to implant in g those principles of total abstincuce brought in contact, and or recognized in the | their wind iu after life.The rev.gentleman, in the course of bis re- marke, made a powerful appeal to parenls and guardiang on the main point embodied in the regolution ; namely, the guarding of our youth from the dangers of the intoxicating cup, Very few, indeed, among the respectalile youths, ever took to dricking from a liking to it, or from any desire to emulate the low wit which drink inspires.No boy ever took to drink by seeing others drink ; he would loathe and ebun an intoxicated man, even were that mau his own | father.It was the drinking babits of society | which always planted the first seeds of a desi for strong driok iv our youth ; and as long as !tbat custom exiat-d, eo long would there be i need of still more faith, more courage, and more | entnest prayer, in waging little with the grim {demon of Intemperance.The spenker forcibly | depicted the crila arising from the sacrifice lo that despotic tyrant, Oustom.How was it tbat, advanced so fur as we are in civilization, men {cannot bind & business transaction, christen a ! child, or bury a relative, witbont the inevitable I strong driok being passed round?Many an unsuspecting son and daughter has thus taken his or her firat sip of the poison, simply because custom demanded it.But who can say, or foretell, how or when they will take their last sip of it, after having once excited the fancies of the appetite, and joined the followers of custom The rev.gentleman concluded by earnestly asking parents and puardians of children to apply his remarks to themselves, and, for the love they bore to their own and others, to banish the custom of social drinking from among them.Rev.Mr.Laruaur seconded the resolution.He said that the pubjsct of temperance had, I from the firet, had his earnest attention.A minister or à Christian man might possibly take {glass of wine without getting any the worse for it; but, if they did 20, bow could they go and tell otber men that they ought not to driok?Io order to preach temperance, we must strictly practise it ourselves, and be hoped no man would undertake to advocate the cause without he was à strict adherent to the principles he professed.The Rev.gentleman made a few humorous remarks on the taste of Englishmen for strong drink.He supposed that, being 30 strong wud stable themselves, they thought light wines, &o., were not drink suitable for men of their stamina, slthcugh they generally acknowled that whiskey was a match and s master for them, He was glad to say that, among his converts, be found that the most God-fearing among them were juveriably teetotalers; and, when once they pad taken the pledge, they rarely or never wens back to their old babits.He was convinced that temperance bad done & vast amount of good, and it would have his hearty support in furthering the eatension of ita principles.The resolution was put and carried.Rer.Mr.HoxTER moved the third resolution: Resolved,\u2014 That we record our gratitude to Almighty God for the measure of success which has followed the efforts of the committee and \u2018the labors of their agent during tle past year : ministers of the Gospel with whom be bad been | cause be Lesrtily espoused by the © sureh aud | be hidden by persecution, or by the feur of te | and in view of the constautly-increasing facilities for, and the ever-wideniug aod ever-deso- lating effects, of intemverance \u2014lbis meeting pledges itself to increased vigor in the prosecution of the temperance reformation, and greater liberality in suataining those who, by public meetings, the circulation of tricts, and the employment of lecturing agents, srs doing so much to carry forward a work which cannot fail to exercise a healthy influence on the religious, the social, and the material prosnerity of our country, This, said the speaker, spzaks well for tem- perauce.God bus Liessed the efforts of the society during tbe-past year, and although it bad sustained many drawbacks, be was glad to find bat bey were ctill undaunted, hopeful, and vigorous.Let uot the amalluess of their success depress their effsris,\u2014a pebble cast into the mighty ocean was able 10 penetrate its depths, aud a kind and loving word when spoken jin faith sud bope, uuder the Divine bl-ssing, was ab'e to stic the smuil, long-smothered voice of couscieuce in the heart of the vileat and most degraded of mankind.The seed they bad sown | may, perbaps, never be matured in their time; | nevertheless, they might be assured that their | labors were not idly wasted.They had cast their bread on the waters, and He who bad sured them that after many days it would return to theui agaia, would most certainly fulfil Lig promise.Ju uoticing the large numer of Bands of Hope already formed under the i auspices of 1k:is Society.he said that they were accused by many persons of endeavoring to supplant religion in the minds of the young with the principles of total abstinence, a3 though ) Temperance principles were u bar to religion.| This was the very opposite of what th Society sought to do.Their teachiog waz that our Lord bad explicitly said, no drunkard can enter the kingdom of Heaven, snd their aim was to remove and take away that which made drunkards of men, who were made in God's own image.It was to lift ot of the deep abyss of intoxication and degradation those who bad | wiready fallen.No sane man would bold out | hopes of eternal life to a drunkard without telling him be must first of all cast 0) bis besetting sin.Temperance is not, and never was, attempted to be preached as a substitute for the religion of Christ; but as the greatest ay well ss |the most powerful ausilary to religion.| Another argument often used st the present day by many who are no doubt practical ms well as professing Christians, when asked why they do uot give their persona! moral support to this great cause of lemperauce, by subscribing themselves as members, is that they have no need to sign a pledge.They verer have fallen, and are certain they never will fall, into babit of intoxication.Temperauce.say they, is a : good and great cause, and worthy of all support; but there is no need of preaching it to us, who Lave no uc auited for the i poor wretch who does not know when to driuk aad when not to drisk.All very good, my friends, sail the speaker: but what sbout the | example, of érinking at all, that you get them?| Again, you refer us to those who are wealthy nod great on the rolls of fame.who fillow the | genteel pocial-drivking customs of society, and ! point to them as proofs that men can be great «nd yet not be total-ahstineace men.We also can point to A lusg array of those who are great and noble, learned and virtuous, and who have figured in both the present and past generation, who have worked out à long and practical life, unaided ty the unnatural | stimulus which drink afords.And these great | men are not ashamed to ackncwledge, before all men, their unalterable conviction that strong i drink in any form is not necessary to man.Ani \u2018 great a they are, itis such men as these whose , linode sre ever atretched forth, and whose voices \"ure ever heard meekly pleading for and with that mort iguoble and degraded ning of all God's creation, a drunken fellow.creatnre.Re.!ferring to the mccusmion sometimes made | BÆ4inat them by the opporen's of tempercace, \u2018tnat they alwaye had some touching woe-be- gone tale to relate to frighten the people into becoming temperance men, the speaker smd that on uml very evening he had received by post a most horrible tale of the .end uf a young man who a short time back was ! the deltght and joy of a widowed mother, a lov.\"ing protector to a fond sister, and estermed by -a large circle of friends in this city.Only recently be fell.Fashionable custom first presented the poison-enp to bis lips, and be allowed | himself to be persuaded tbat there was no harm :io & man of bis character and determination | taking a social glnes with a friend.He allowed | the fear of tbe jeers of fazbiouable society Lo | congrer him na it bad thousands before ; and like hundreds of thousands of {asbion's victims, .be now lies, unrepentant and dishonored, in a ldrunkard's grave.This was no tale studied and constricted to enlist tbeir sympatbies on the side of lemperan'e:\u2014it we a true one, and the letter he held in bis tmnd contained the heart-rending news.\u2014 The rev.gentleman concluded by sppealing to those assembled to unite and baad together, and support each otber in the noble work now going on.He was sure that où the first alarm of an invasion by Fenians of their beloved country, young and old would rise to a man, and deluge tbe land with their beart's best blood, in defence of their native soil and frerdom ; but a far deadlier enemy than Fenianism was at work in their midst in the form of iutemperance, with its thousand concomitant horrors.With this we must grapple, and cest not until it shall be come as a thing of the past amongst us.The rev.geatleman concluded his remarks, which bad been repeatedly applauded, by moving the resolution, Mr.J.DovaaLy, in rising to second the last resolution seid, that after the stirring appeals of the speakers who had preceded bim, snd the lateness of the Lour, be would detain them for a very short time.The great and good cause of temperance, and the blasting, peace- destroying, withering, aod waddeving demon ef intemperance, had been fairly placed h-fore them that evening.\u2018Whey bad heard no ro- | mauve: no too higbly-colored pictures bad been drawn as 10 the cause and effect of cach.Let them study it well.It needed no stretch of the | imagination to see what intoxication had done, ; and still was doing among us.It lay at our \u2018very doors.He appealed for continued support to their societies, iu order that, during tbe ensuing year, they might extend their operations over 8 wider dwar ct, and cou \u2018luded by seconding the resolution, which was put and carried usanimously.The proceedings were then com ing of the doxology.| \u2014\u2014\u2014 ! LETTER FRUN NEW YURK.: New Yone, Feb.21, 1855.| Spring, which has been anxiously looked for, | bas just made its appearance here.The winte: | has been unusually long and severe, both aa regards weather and want; for the N.Y.ferait, of Tuesd «y last, announced \u201cthat, at the least calculation, there were over one bundred thousand people out of employment.\u201d This want of \u2018employment bas bad the effect of checking the | progress of l\u2019'eniaulem in New York, I am in- cluited by sipg- - formed ; for it is geuerally remarked that, when money is flush, the Fenian organizers commence their usual game of fleecioz.1 Lave not either seen or heard of a Fenian since wy arrival, now # week past; and tla only bupe of Irelands being (iu the words of Davie] O'Gorur 1) \u201cgreat, glorious, aod free, firat fluwer of tbe cartb and first gem of the ses,\u201d | ob erved posted up, and in large poster-atyle, © Gud save lreland.\u201d Tha placard bad evidently Leen intended for moms Fenian gathering before the bord times; but the bill-poster covered over the placard save these words, which, 1 bope, will yet be verified.The roads aod city-raslway tracks are, just now, guch ag we may expect six weeks hence.Horse-feah is being reduced very much by the extra labor caused by the heavy roads, most of which might be saved, it 8 portion of the bun- dred thousand unemploy-d were engaged to clear off the snow, which, in most streets, is quite loose, sloppy, and filthy.[fur:es are continually failiog and failing in their eForts 10 drag along cars, som» of which contain B5 passengers.Four borses are attached to many of the cars that are obstructed by grades; but it is cruel, in be great city of New York, tos.the poor horses treated 0 nianarcitully by man.Newspaper offi ppear lu me to be the ouly places that are doing a really good business.They are ail tbe time crowded, for folks bere believe tbat, when business is dull, advertising will bave à good-effect, as the general reader bas plenty of time to peruse the papers and pur- | chase when it is nece rary.It is astouzsbicg to see tbe fine, massive hiildings that hace been and açe beiug put up by \u2018be different leadir @ papers bere.Great | r-parations are bring made, two, for the election campaign, with a view to further prosperity.: THE BiBLE-BOUSS, as it is generally catled bere, is just what it represents on 11a front entrance.A large statue of our Saviour stands vut promioently, with the Bible in bis bands, expounding the Scriptutes, as it were: and inside, everything wears a beaven- ly aspect.Cleanliness 1 strictly obeerved inall its departments, and it wouid take more lime tban I can give, and more space than the Witness can afford, to detail all that could be written about it.However, | kuow the fiiends of this great institution will be glad to learn that, whilst other employments Lave bad to be relin- quwhed, owing to the hard times, the eame number of employés have been retained in tke Bible- house; and they are row printing 6,000 volumes per day, in sixteen different languages.employing over 130 males ard females AMERICAN NEWS, ~~ A lady of Tray complains, io a loca! paper, that tbe young men who attend her receptions have ruined the paper in ber parlors by resting their oily heads againet it.\u2014 The gatt-ring of sponge amoug the Baha- me lslar*:, for conversion into ledding, eusbions, &c., or for uee in general upkolstery, is becoming a business of much magnitude.Filly-seven versels are engaged in the trade.\u2014 Bisbop Purcell (R.C.), of Cincinnati, who during the war was an ardent loyalist, kaa come out buldly in favor of free thought among the Uatholics.He says : \u201c Thers is no power, human or divine, that can ruske a mac to believe a religion, or anything else, against his bonest enlightened convictions.\u201d He purposes to join the Bible Society, and help to circulate the scriptures.| = One of the most notable services connected * with the Week of Prager was thal which closed the series of meetings in Newport, R.I Two Methodist, the Congregatiovalist, and the Second Baptist churches united on Bunday evening in partaking of the Lord's Bupper.The Baptist pastor (Rev.Oharles H.Malcom) presided, sided by the other clergymen, It was à most beautiful aud solemn scene, not soon to be forgotten.Loxawvirr.\u2014Dr.Lambert recently lectured in New York on \u201cFamily Inheritance, and the Personal Indications of Longevity\u201d Dr.Lambert, in the course of bis lecture said: \u201cI was asked the other day by a friend, How long do you believe Mr.Vanderbilt will live ® [ask you, a3 ! have a considerable amount of money nding on his death, and wish to know whether ought to insure or not.\u201d I replied : \u201c[ believe Mr.Vanderbilt will live 10 or 15 years longer, &s hin mother lived to 87 years of age, aud be greatly resembles ber.He is now 74 years of age, and when 58, about the age at which Lis father died, be was severely ill from an attack of lung fever, but recovered, and tte Vaaderbilt died out.It is & maiter of great importance to estimate the life of such a man, whose very sneeze makes all Wall street tremble\u201d He then showed an analogy between vegetable and , bumag life, and shortly after concluded. THE MONTREAL WITNESS.FEBRUARY 29, 1868.138 CS i 1d di i i Many Frenchmen are alive to the danger of! Me:hod'at Church in New Jersey, and said that Due otber ke, C t mpora Press Dee mu rou disappess.Beside thin he this pi of \u201chin s nnd have spoken tte, there were more communicants belonging to it 1868.$23,862 61 onte Pp * Laborer must have the ballot; with that in bis 8 ngs, 8 ken, c D en te D ee bank == hand he will no longer be at tbe mercy of and talked against it, for some time past; but than the whole of the Episcopal Church in the Due other nks, THE ENGLISH FARM L ABORER.grasping landlords.nothing practical had been accomplished until United States.The Metbodist Church bad 6,885 15 and subscribed Mr.Brighvs plans are just and practicable.M.Dusuy, having at once the will and the pow- lately held its centenary, 15,657 45 (From Public Opinion) viations which he revom- |er, determined to set & pew fashion, He bas|$8,500,000 for the propagation of the gospel Glyn'sacc'nt, 1868.$299,300 00 Phe description given by Mr.Fawcett of the roland sep > at to them ; and sooner accordingly established, at the Government ex- ali over the world, He also said that preaching \u201c « 1868.207,278 OI degraded state of our agricultural poor was not or later she will inevitably obtain them.Yet | pense, courses of lectures on & great variety of was Bot his only offence: be bad sppess 4 in gov \u2018 , \u2014_ 92,021 91 in any degree overdrawn.The pessant at bis | even with these we doubt whether she will be subjects; bas engaged accomplished and learn- citizen's dress, and gave out & hym W overnmen account, best is où 1Le verge of destitution.He bas no satisfied.The reduction of the Established od men to take charge of them, and has open- Methodist hymn-book, beginving,\u2014 866.$],149,430 75 resources for & rainy day; and, indeed, ail bis | Church 10 what all churches ought lo be\u2014a|ed them to the wives and daughters of France \u201c Hanten » loners to be wise, =, overnment account, - days are rainy.If be can earn enough to give | voluntary, self-supporting orgas'zation of wor- without charge.Uf course, this proceeding a Fay rot for to-morrow us à» ; 1868.0000 00e.+.1,133,430 75 ; his chi :ren food, be cannot honorably support shippers\u2014will do more toward the creation of bas provoked a wide discussion, and bas made an 82 it appens, | fs very yma be been ia \u2014_\u2014\u2014\u2014 18,000 Ch them.Even when in bealth Le is half à pau- better feeling between 1be sister islands than 8 great commotion, The clergy are down upon use a Protestant Fyiscopal net, or 8 total reducti etiabii \u2014 per, à cendent fur Lis few scant luxuries on the uny other one thing.A change in the tenure it, to & man.They preach against it, pray |bundred years before it was adopte > rol i 0 ue ono lia lity.$788,302 13 char »f those who are above him in society, of the land will also do much, but that Me | against it, aud write against it, with an intem- Methodists, If Mr.Tyog bad gone to St.Al- Nuw let us examine in what manner tho az- perate zeal that shows they fear their citadel is in danger.Foremost among them ig M.Dupan- loup, Lhe Bishop of Orleans, who pours out the bans, and gone through the mummeries prac- sed there, or read the prayers for the dead, which be then read ag follows : sui w es, the woul of bis toil is the workh is nothi g s0 stupelying as want.vu sickness cumes, or old age approach- Brights scheme will effect it we are by no means ouse, There: sure.The Incumbered-Ratates Act threw a It it doeg not | rest deal of land iuto the hands of small pro- gets have been reduced, and we shall see where the funds ave come from :\u2014 Specie, notes, and ba- Ÿ ki utal, it renders bim oblu The prietora, yet it was not found that the farms vials of big wrath on M.Dueuy and bis schemes, *O Lord, our Redeemer, who hast purchased 5 ances, 1868.41.943 2 Egricrataral bare has no interest 1m Hifo be-' Tere any better cultivated, or poverty any less | which be declares aro calculated to destroy the | maukiod by Thive own blood, paising u3 by Thy Specie, notes, and ba ss, 4 yond beer and bread.He kuows nothing and eevere, or the peasuntry any more provident or | established reputation of French girls for do- | deatu from ihe sting of death, sn given us| oes, 1868.8,069 66 yarca for nothing out of the narrow range of his industrious.Besides, what evidence havre we cility and maidenly modesty.The good Bi- jererluatiog | 0 by Thy jrsurrection gran ral $33,853 5b daily Ixbor, and is happy chiefly in thia, that he that any considerable number of the proprietors shoy's objections seem ludicrous to Eoglish and bo all who ave fallen usleep in ho mess, a © Debentures, &c.1866.$52,802 51 \" is only vaguely conscious of his misery.Eng- will be willing to sell?The distribution of a American ear: With all bis praises of the deserts, or int i cities, at ses, Or en , an « « 1868.21,162 53 lish rural life bas indeed little that is \u2018Arcadian few hundred acres here and there will bave little French virgins, be scems to charge them with in all places to ogs and priests, and bishops, to 30,640 ©: about it.Oar laboring poor live in cottages | eff et.If the peasantry generally can be made an excessive frailty, for he avers that, if they solitary and the wedde pio all ages sad gene- Notes discounted, that are for the most part scarcely better than | proprietors, or at least if ownership can be held attend these lectures, the policeman and the cations, and fi them for Thy heavenly kingdom, 1866.02.$2,225,169 30 hovels, in which common decency cannot be} out In prospect as the sure reward of thrift, then -tudent of the Latin Quarter will look at them, whe E oy bie repo bo, by Thy di Notes discounted, observed ; their children are ill-taught or wholly we shall see a rapid improvement in the cozdi- and we are left to infer that if a man looks at) O Lord, Pour ain of ife, who, by 7 di 1868.10.J 1,843,311 71 ignorant; and the rustic iunocence \u2018of which our tion of the country ; but the improvement must them they are undone.Our readers will, per- vine manboot d oes set ree captives, merc ful 3 DE seman «a poets sing 80 pleasantly, exists only in their ve general before it cen irfluence the drift of bas, bardly believe that this is the Bishop's |grant uote y servants w pra ence 0 Tee Mortgages, 1866.$62,580 85 ages.Irish politics.principal objection, but he makes none more in faith a dwelling-place in the joy of pars ise.ni 1868 62,206 33 Sach a state of things is melancholy enough! The legislative uion of the two countries forcible.Tt isnot likely that the discussion will Où Lord, our Saviour, who dost \u2018eed Thy faitk- a 374 82 in à nation which calls itself Christian and ci- Mr, Bright touches lightly.He will not cou- end bere, Since so important a personage as ful peoplein a green pasture, and lead them 10 peal Estate, 1866.$1,673,623 37 vil'zed, and we are grateful to any one who en- gent to & separation, because he believes that a M.Duruy hag started this reform, a large license the waters of comfort, turn Zot away, hy ser-| u Mm 1868.1.332942 26 deavors to attract public attention Lo the sub- Parliament of the United Kingdom, gitling a1 will no doubt be allowed in defending it; and vants from that plensant lao of rest.\u201c OT TU 340,681 11 ject.It is something to awaken thought and St.8.epheu\u2019s, can do as much for Ireland as a the believers in the necessity of improving the Mr.Nash closed the case for qe prosecution S088 Je cite interest ; 1f is something to know that Nations! Parliament sitting at Dublin.Let us eduntion of French women are too large 8 clas, | I opening the charg?he said hat the opposing $753,054 35 this great social evil is not tamely endured, and show the Irish people, be says, that we can go- and _iaclude too many of the best intellects in counsel bad eo ken or ar ers, and not for The '68 recapitulation of assets and liabilities that if there be a remedy the nation is ready to vern them justly and inteliigently ; let us the State, to leave us in any doubt that fhe he pes court.« pin 50 denie % the Gone) be compares with that of 66, as follows :\u2014 apply it.Even those who cannot agree with sweep away old wrongs; let us retorm old cussion will result in great improvements in the charg in pi minister of e cape be Liabilities, Nov, '66.-.$25672,007 51 a Mr, Fawcett in all the schemes by which he nd they will have no reason to de- present system, if, in fact, it does not sweep it preached e ospel.] Jor Instance, a u ON a GE ++ $2872,007 51 would revolutionize rurel society, must heartily mand a geparation.But be has left out of his away altogether., preached 0 a oe stun A fe.; on on, woud 3 3,003,416 agree and wholly sympathize with him whea be calculation one important element.Sentiment | We ask the attention of a'l patriotic French be mot be OP | pat ee HA eed Total reduction.5 568,591 0 insists upon the paramount importance of the often bas more to do with political revolutions Ganadians to the above article.\u2014Eo.Wir] î Pres ve had ape» bu Tiers ol a great Assets, Nov., 66.4 061869 5 question, and «x;resses bis bope that in the new than reason, The bostility which was created pr eres between in re Gere and «Jan.8.2384404 12 Parliament it will receive all the attention it so uy centuries of oppression cannot be obliterated MORALS AT WEST POINT.practisiog it rte on oe which Ey Tyog \u2014_ i eserves.y expunging a few laws from u in Chi i jed existe i ish © \u2019 Total reduction.a \u201cord to let such à question alone.books.The wound still smarts after the arrow (Letter in Chicago Tribune.) Tas tried existed in the Romieh Uhurch Defont It seems on it Jub .Sernaes 76 It is one of national importance, and atfacts our bas been withdrawn, Great Britain may prove At West Point there is no moral influence the a oP a vw Lea © a ee ed.$568,591 40 bave be ebts wo e amount of vitality as 8 people.Why, it may be asked, her ability and her purpose to legisiate fairly for Not even tbe common barriers of scciety are pi or Ton he 0 on T i .alued $617 465 peen wiped of , with assets ; are there marks of progress and improvement Ireland ; but if the [rish people prefer to legis- there to check and restrain the strong tendency ¢ ag er) o Ei Aad a Prot an rs qe Sas 36 act beire appar oom sum of $108,- \u2018 in all otter directions, while the agricultural late for theraselves, if they cannot forget in à towards vice.Religion there is not even a name, a hot ies to atten bot ; bas > hii 3 cannot im i 8 apparcatly accounted for.We laborer, instead of reaping any advantages day the wrongs of 4 hundred gears, what then ?save to be Ecoffed at and derided.The natural o without attempting toevangelize New Jersey imagice how sensible men could receive (Laughter.) If he would say they were all Christians, and be bad nothing more to do, why was Christopher Myers under his teaching fur four years, never becoming à communivant ?(Hisces.) He then read the declaration signed by members of tbe Episcopal Church in fiver of Mr.Tyng, and atked tf they who sigred it dared the 5 indred 5 3 with satisfaction, or even patience, such a The justice which the distinguished English Re.meagre ekeleton of a statement.Tastesd of à full report, we have an outline of assets and liabilities.No means are afforded of judging what assets are good and what are bad, although | every one admits that a large proportion are now , of no value.What, in the name of all that iz to stand up aod ray be who did not preach the : reasonable, is the sense of parading an imag'- Gospel of Clirist preached the Gospel of Ant | nary surplus?Why this farce of deception by Christ.Why, these men do net know what | which no one i3 deceived ?they are talking about; the only excuse thatcap: We are anxious to kcow bow long this kind be made for them is that they must ha intensely | of thing ia to continue.[oterest is accumula\u2018- ignorant.(Tronieal langhter, aud cries of Ub! 18g at the rate of $130,000 a year.Tte er- Ob!) Sborily after this, Mr.Nash closed Lis \\ pense of management ia not less than $10,007, address, a little after 3, ard tke Court was ad- and the solicitors\u2019 fees must be a formidable jenreed.! item, at least $1,000.We suppose the best of (he land hasbeen disposed of, and the best of tke 1 other assots real'zod.If thirteen montha have been consumed in accomplishing the results now paraded as evidence of activity aad skill in winding up, bow long will it take, ou the same result of all this is immorality, vulgarity, profanity, and licentiousnesa to à fearful degree.Much of this is checked by the strict contige- ment and rigid discipline ; but it \u2018bursts forth at every opportusity, and nothing but a strong thorough recrzanizing of the whole course of r nancial prosperily, is in a worse con- moe than be ware Tndred years ago ?former advocates must be meted out to them, Mr.Fawcett quoted a paseage from Arthur |bat they will bardly ba satisfied until they have Young, who, after visiting some et wore, s op the continent, observed that the #fféc ,; .CE peoperiy was sufficient to turn sand into THE SCHOOL UF TAL FU E\u2014FDUOA- ro gold.He might, with propriety, have ulso Aa - | training can ever change the moral atmosphere qrossl another preg be ky oo (Fram N.I, Tribune) |\" Fong men go there every year with good J vferri w RA.\u2019 mao goa Hes eee of ground In every cisiized country de world.the habits, with uneullied reputations, and ere six be) lt Elsa Young lised in the question of the education 9 Le tue In 181 paths bave jassed they are comp'etely de- teen entniy, hat the advantage tten comirg Lo she rue Ed eco or bauched,\u2014their ideas are all changed.The oad red ny tL inborer has been lost io the portance.o wer oo es i * ee od , principles which were as dear to them as life are possessed re he deems bimaeif fortimate are avait the lavé oc ee growl; bound |}, ken and forgotten.Morally, they aro suip- Treen tain bouse-shelter near bis work, pie may be settle suet = eg = Le wrecked, and those who come after them im- ii hot for sed to walk three or four miles to pe nels - Mos ae bild ace bars Be, bibe their ideas and follow their bad example.he ù a toil, \u20ac There wag some syupathy, also, erred : Lut how 1 on ! en ve il Aug d | Ta order to make their practices more distinetly in bor : da a, between master and servant, whether by compulsion ky Yb bv f su known to you, | will begin with the time the Pa CAE he diderence in social rank bad what they are to be taught, whether useful O7 now cadet reports, He is put under the charge pa ened by educa useless things, are questions that, it is BOW] rho der cadets, who, under the pretence of (From Toronto Telegraph.) not Leen widened by education, and partly Le- getting to be seen, cannot be put of with c F \u2018 v e e i i © t bim with the ta élit ause the customs of the time, and the simple ty.1 family concerned teaching him disciplice, tres th It was clear as noon-day that à certain clique rroi ; ; , = sde of living, allowed of friendly intercourse.safety et od ue State et or foun.à greatest brutality, aad thos whose etd do heap had an interest in keeping matters quiet, and Oe et aaa! slag: i that the farmer should ili ic care for him will R8sl3t the \u20ac P trom the day the firat truat-deed was filled, up to pi we 3 aëmi- Of course mo one ich satisiel bis grand- a ta, EE His quo multe and petty indignities hat Bim.oe is Wednesday fast, that clique bas been in hes as istered pei.Jeo of on per gout.Jn the father ; all we desire ie, 1bat the laborer should \u2018 i in th © or hing Made to repeat, rom e mouths of bis tormen- cendant, and tbat clique bas stifled inquiry.nd as ste far \u20ac participate in the progress of bis employer, D ee ou due beginning «nul to-day.Ort (be vilest and most pe movies and Tranancions (ha should uve ba probed J we can learn tere is but one opision among ite \u2014_\u2014 [ali taint, d imbecility, Spa | songs ; stand upon a manteipiece and à the bottom bave been ignored ; frauds the most ; Ti : MIN BRIGHT ON THE IRISH QUESTION.Sey Fronch levity and apie) aglish (upon some vulgar subject) bis audience of manifest bave been passed over in silence een the business is wound bi the better fcr Jom \u201d | materialism and conceit, all come aut of the Older cadets, notil bis limba are ready to fail of | and we feel justified in saying that the condon- ail concerned, except, perhaps, he trustees.(From New York Tithune.) schools ; aud \u2018tis useless to bupe tnt these their duty, and many other harassing bings ; ing iniquity so y laring, the tacit exculpa.ion of deiner all the es it ig a matter of lr.Bright has made an important speech at faulta will mend themeeves so long as ibe cause (some of which 1 would not Le decent 10 Write) | jucapacity, pretence, and arrogance, 30 blatan! re ion rs ace on td nt taken of 1 © Mr., 3 \"of the evil ine.Te reason of the puperi- V°! .; ; | and destructive, shows eitlier a lack of moral = bei ; i at prieur ne vu rity of (ie German people, particularly of the You may ask why an American youth of any .courage simply contemptible, or a willingness would ot arly Se be investigated the my : ee xing of ail questions.\u2014what sha'l be Prussians, to the otier peoples of Europe, in SPitit will endure such things, aud why the of-| to sacrifice, for the sake of quiet, every praci- | credit u th ions that brought s0 much dis- i ad?OF the general and \u20ac unger- morals, in intelligence, in tbrift, in ali the quali- | ficers allow it.First, when a new cadet arrives, ple of honesty.Is it to go forth to the world hi od tt ao its directors, and oe died ction of the pecp'e, And the long ties that make men fi for society, is owing, | Le is alone, without friends, and st once he is that, in this Canada, sharebolders can br swinde | S10 00 Hod 80 expedite the business of Conse of oppression and misgovernment by more than 10 ail other causes combined, to the | pt pren ur (eur or thiry ae yor led Gut of their resources with impunity ; that ' Te old der Mr end mot been for Me Street end i e hardly ko .A in .which tbis state of feeling has been prod ced, y the money\"of the widow and the orpban ic- On the trust.\u2018fr.Paterson, the ones admirable syetem of public instruction estab- ç I that (bere is no dispute.How to lished here and 0 the complele way in which not.If be dare to disobey, be must fight, \u20acls6 vested in Bank funds can be lavished on the THE BANK OF UPPER CANADA.\\ \\ he aspumes t 2 his: the opinion of the corps will be that be is a ing speculat tue dishonest ad elected, was actually one of the directors who the popular bitterness by reforming the that system is carried out.And it is possible + ; | grasping speculator or the dishonest a ventur- | d imine a is the great problems to which that the growing interest in the subject of educa- coward.If he fights, he is sure of being beaten; er without provoking inquiry.We can tell | allowed the acts so much complained of to be for à stronger man ie Always pitted against him, perpetrated.Mr.Street, also one of the oid and itis a custom of the corps for the third- board, scoured the conutry collecting proxies, ard put into the ballot-box at least 8,000 of tLe votes by which Mr.Paterson secured bis election.With all the influences brought to bear {against kim, Mr.Mead was only defeated ty 1,177, and 437 of his votes were rejected on technical grounds.Had the contest been between Mr.Mead and Mr.Paterson, there is co | doubt that tbe former would have been elected.| However, the end is not yet.A day of reckon- | ing will come, and then not all the craft or ic- , Buence of those who muat feel themselves blame- ; worthy will prevent due justice being meted 0: | to those who were instrumental in bringing 1 about what bas proved in many ways a national calamity.British statesmen bave to bend themselves, The wrongs of Ireland be sums up uuder two heads : the first is the Established Church ; the second is the tenure vf lard.On these depend the whole irish difficulty, and on (them, too, may depend the duration or the decay of tke Empire.The Established Church in Ireland is n political State organization ; it was jmposed upon Ireland for the purpose of buildioæ up Englieh interests, placing the Irish at the fect of their conquerors, and making them fee] that they were the servants of an English master.It was uplield in early times by.cruel penal laws, and it is supported now by unjust taxation.For tbe mami nna = of this eatab- Yehment, which 19 dewsied by ail but a very small munori'y of the population, the Govera- ment sets apart the sum of £13.000,000 ; to | stop the grumblings of tbe Irish lresbyteriane, | an anouel grant of £40,000 is made to that de- | nomination; the grest majority of the people, be Roman Catholics, get nothing st all.This, says Ne.Bright, 10 just #8 if the Government were to gire £13,000,000 to Birmiogham and Manchester, which number about as many people as the Established Church io Ireland, and to the reat of the British Empire nots penny.Now, here is & standiag icjustice which must be swept away at once.Let us give, he says, to each depomination a moderste allowance, proportioned to its numbers, aud, this done, lot them #11 shift for themselves, with no further belp and | 10 interference (rom the State, Thence\u2018ortb let all the churches be self-supporting.This plan tion, snd the increasing concern manifested gl to the deficiencies of existing methods, may 5 training\u201d a owing to the silent influence of the Piussian | Clase Lo Eee Pi à pont mon ee example.But, for whatover reason, it is cer- | the new-comers.You may exclaim, * What tain that the interest and the congern ate felt, high-toned honor!\u2019 It is the honée which Even Spain, degraded ag thet miserable country iss point cadets show to new cadels.After is, below the level even of Turkey, feels of late going into esmp, the new cadet, or * Plebe,\u201d ns some suspicion that she is in 8 bad way, and a movement bas been made there to establish bet- be is called, matt do meer ae io het Jchools and to compel ihe atenisnce OF pipes, and 611\u2019 pails of water, which bave been ., = to make work for bim ; these ment can be boped for s0 long as Isabella and upset on purpose 1 : the priests continue to bold the nation by the ad other Cabas move Ve ge ot the name throat; but it is something that there exists him at all times.If he refnse to work, be is any party io the kingdom atrong enough to start struck, or & pail of water is (brown upon him, a movement toward a better slate of things.In irs + and then the public opinion of the corps requires France, a wore interesting, because & More Lim to fight; and, with seconds, umpire, aod all hopeful, condition of ifnirs attracts our atten- ot ; ; ve Mini ç tbe chnipmeuts of the prize-ring, these affairs of tion.M.Duruy, the able Minister of Public In-| Lonor come off.Bren the\u201d mess-ball this struction, has proposed plans, and even beguo petty tyrannical system ie displayed; the \u201cPlebes\u201d to carry some of them into operativn, for the better education of French girls, more particu- pid lowed only what the older cadets do not larly those of the higher class.He is trying to : get them out of ro hands of the stand There Are & certain number of the upper nuns, who at present bave almost the ex- clases of tke cadets appointed officers over the clvsive charge of their inetruction,==witl reat, aud, If tbey bave any dislike for any of the what result, fn one direction at least, bas fourth-claes (Plebes), they show their revenge.been clearly and elcquently pointed\u2019 out ful spirit by reporting them for deeds which by Monsieur Michelet in bis\u2019 Ln Femme\" they bave never committed.The old cadets do A \u201c not consider it dishonorable to treat à \u201c Plebe\u201d Monsieur Duruy wishes to give girls a wider course of hudies than tbe Church allows.ii mauner.They are dead to every ides of He tlioks it is neces-ary to enlarge their minds TRIAL OF TRE REV.STEPHEN B.TYNG.and to teach them to think, while tbe Oburch is anxious to keep them ignorant, rod to pre- The Tyg trisl was remimed on Tuesday in vent them from thinking.The Romish Church those sleek trustees, those clamorers for quiet, | these excasers of swindling, that they, by their very idolence, are doing the monetary institutions of this country grievous wrong.They have deprecinted Bank stocks; they have created à feeling of suspicion ; and till investors become assured that there is some punishment, moral or legal, for acquiescence or participation in wrong-doing, capital, be it large or amall, will seek honest bandiing in other and foreign quarters.Justice to those who bave been made the victims of trick and fraud unites wilh public morality in à demand for a thorough rod efficient investigation of tte causes that led to results unhappy in the extreme.Every mao who lost sixpence by the failure ot the bak of Upper Canada hag a Tight to etand | forward and insiat that these trustees shall doj Tye Sim 5 rae their duty.In Novemirr, 1866, we gare to ine! gress vad ou firmer tl A pate nie oi lr, Camels spel Swe Hots is, low, very slow inde, wits - i d appearance of being sure, either.da with bank funds, and on Wednesday, the Torre ie poète hant 1} op Ba 12th day of February, 1868, it leaks out that] rT; Sai phant there which out measurts ppoo Saib, and which promises to ns dac- Mr.Gas jee Tan debe te he Bank gerous te ls keepers as dat tant th the WB $3,400.fo | \u2019 » panic- i we demanded an investigation into the Berry afe Foly VA A Sele Je fair, and fifteen mouths afterwards it is coolly he will break out at the next Fall elections, and Oe 0 Bery sbisined, in some ny not only damage etate politics, but possibly ee- , ; ok funds, and the dan, i ; only pecarit for that large amount is an old dE a complerion af rhone of ee me pail A xonirea\u2019 goniemporary speaks o°| other hand, are fond of the animal, and evident: te arm oe Cem, If me grt it 1 pin : then i \u2014 long ago,and with otbers formed the basis of | the Jon in Looe te Tage De on i \u2014 | once adopted, publie sentiment will change; the people will feel that the past fa to be forgot.| ten and a pew ers of justice is opening before The question of laud-tenure cated, Mr.Bright's remedy ie dr a Commission of Parliament buy up of absentets and any other land which owners , the girl from are willing to sell, ard lease 1t to the peasant- | and deliberately etuliified ber, farmers on terms which will enable them, in the rant, course cf say thirty-five years or less, to become | their free use, encour: the actual owners of the soil.The prospect of of e ownership, aud the & rteinty meanwhile of the | mise for indulgence by a superstitious and siav.tenure so long as the rent was paid, would be ish derotion to church duties, and has sue.powerful incentives to industry; tue peaten would no longer be hindered from improving the faim by the precariousness of his holding, and.with a direct interest in the stabl'iy an: order vf (Le country, bis proneness 10 plus and long ago sa: wes weakened, aod it shiewdly concluded thal the only way to regaiu its lost nurobe is more compli | get control of the race in its infancy.fly this: Let it has been try the estates | tte mothers, prrjudice, to theexclusive control cfihe Church w tbat i.bold on the men of France es Was to And this ing for years to do by menus of Having the exclusive charge of ber entliest youth, it has patiently has kept her igno- dwarfed ber mental facnities by preventing aged bet iu frivolous ways spending ber time, allowing her to compro- ticeeded in making the present generation of French mothers almost ss bigoted as Spaniards, land willing to surrender the education of their d children, dyed io the very womb with Catholic St, Peter's Church, New York.Judge Fullerton addressed the Court.The case was & pre- ventment against the Rev.Mr.Tyng for officiating in the parish of another minister without the latter's permission ; if that wag all, the matter could he easily disposed of, but it involved a disnute between the two great parties of the Church, He read over the testimony of Drs.Muhlenberg and Tyag, touching clergymen preaching in other parishes, and, also, in relation to the use of the prayer book at special services without reapouses in cases where books were not to be bad.He called attention to the resolutions which were passed at the meeting of * the American Church Union,\u201d complimenting the Bishop for having, after such & long for- besrance, determined to enforce the law of the Church and bave it sustained, Ie spoke of the k our demand for a strict inquiry.The trustees bave bad 8 period of thirteen monthy iu which to familiarize themselves with the past; but no attempt bas been made by them to tell the shareholders what became of their money, how and why it was lost.But what are the trustees doing ?By comparing the two siatements (for 1866 and 1868), we are enabled to form some idea of what these gentlemen appointed to wind up the bank affairs have bsen about, and to guess at the probable period when the shareholders may bave to reflect seriously on their double liability.Circulation, 1866.$722,006 00 \u201c 1868,.280,050 00 ; \u2014 $442,036 00 Deporits, 1868.$369,601 89 1868, 147,054 83 \u2014_\u2014 222,508 76 pretty sure to make some change, and that.8 at present situated, almost any change would inure to their benefit.It looks very much, now, as if the thing might issue in the repeal of the existing law, and the failure to enact, in [4 lace, any law whatever.This would give t0 the advocates of the most unrestrained sale of Tiquors a short triumph ; but it would be very shott, for the better class of conservatives, and the most respectable advocates of the license system, are as really opposed to such a saturos: lin as that would introduce, as the prohibition: ists can bs, All things considered, the situs: tion of the responsible parties whose busizess it i» to endeavor to barmenize the anti-probibitios interests i not one to be envied; and their 9 chance for permanent control of the state \"oy melting away day by day, à good deal faster than the winter's snow.\u2014 Zorton paper.Ï ?i v ?Pasrvarr 29, 1868, BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.= À fire, resulting in considerable 10 the parish church of 8t.Nicholas, Liverpool, (Eng), took place on the evening of Feb.5th, \u2014 The Corkonians, on the oceasion of Geo, Francis Train's third lecture there, broke into the room without paying, smashed all the forms, tore down the gas-pipe, and left George to foot the bill.He did so, and left Cork in à hurry, \u2014 It is stated that the Rev.Dr.Moffat, the well known African missionary, and tbe fatber- in-law of Dr.Livingston, will shortly pay s visit to England.The last reports represented Lis famous son-in-law as slill living, though it is pearly time to expect yet another contradiction.\u2014 The English aud Scotch pap-rs give circumstantial accounts of the logs of property and life occasioned by the fearful storm of wind aud rain which swept over the greater part of the island on Friday and Saturday, the lust of Ja- ouary aod firat of February.Such a storm and deluge bad not been experienced for more than | thirty years.\u2014 We are glad to find from the E linburgh meeting that the Scotch people are not inditler- \u201cnt to the quesiion of the enlargement of their Tepresentativn in the House of Commons, and bat, ere Parliament meets, we are likely to bave an active agitation on behinlf of what is no mure than bare justice to Scotland.\u2014tilusg uw d'ust, = The address of the loyal Irishmen of London to the Queen, which was got up Ly Mr.Digby Seymour some time ago, bas received 13,000 signatures, and further names continue daily to b> added to it.It is reported from Limerick that 400 priests Lave signed the de- v\u2018aration in favor of the repeal of the Union.\u2014 Irish paper.\u2014 The Su{urday Review declares that a reform in ths dress of \u201clower class fma'es,\u201d and maid-servan(s iu particular, can only be brought about in one way.Theren:tion in favor of a neat and timple siyl: must come from above, aud nut from below ; in the way cfexample, not precept.When * Jud.cs of position and fortune\u201d ceasato lavish their thou-uada va millinery, their copyists w the uursery and ki°chen will | an omnibus, coming from the railway, and cou- | taining, among others, two Americans, waa | cease to spend their weges on a sim:sr object THE MONTREAL properly attended to, but she soon expired.In à few minutes he secured bis drag, snd with it brought out the deceased woman, whose body bad tated some distance down the stream, and must bave been in the walter from 20 to 30 mi- | nutes.Life was quite extincl.Tle verdict was that tbe deceased woman committed both WITNESS, in which the cable telegraph was used.The | the live years, subjects Lhe land to revert tothe | bills of the cable company for this service United States.This entry cannot, in any event, ' amount to about $10,000, and Russia is of opi- become liable to debts contracted prior to the is- nion that this couatry should pay them.Me.suing the patent.No one can acquire more than Beward declines 10 do #0, a3 he coneiders the | one-quarter section under this ; bat none | charge uot 4 proper one.Theappropriatiun for are prevented from buying adjoining or other the purchase of the territory is therc'ure beld in Juad at government price.One who bas served acts while in & state of ungound mind, brought | abeyance by the House Commitiee ou Foreign ia the regular or volunteer army or navy of the | about by her ir\u2018emperate snd profligate habits.English Paper.! y Bociety of Arts (Jan.17th) contains deta\u2019ls of an intercsting project, elatorately pisoned, by Mr.Wm.Riddis, civil engineer, \u201cfur the preparation mud distribut'ou of Lot f:o®, by delvery awud foicz pip:6, at the bomus of tli: people in cities aod towns.\u201d A Curraman Buerontisa à Houz Mission.\u2014 | By the last Ohioa mail, Mr.Whompod, the bos- | pitable Chinese merchant at Singapore, sent £50 {to the Royal Naval Scriptare-Readera\u2019 Society.+ This is the third donation of like amount bestowed Ly this kiud-hearted and charitable Chi- naman on Royal naval associations.\u2014 English i Duper, Tux LASD Suid aT NAariks.~A private let- Iter, dated at Sorrento, 11aly.January 31, gives the following patienlars of the land-slip at Naples :\u2014 We bave bad a wonderful escape from death.A monutain over 600 feet wih ve the rond fell jist na we reached the spat, and after we hind crossed the barricade in the rond, the remaining portions of the mouutain rile came down with the roar of artillery.1iit this is nothiog to wiat bag just occurred at Naples.Bayard Taylor and family resided at No.21 | Suats Luci, sud | went twice tu the house to secure an apartment there, and the situation was : very lovely ; and should certainly have resided there if the rooms had been large enough.The | house stood on the principal street\u2014the Obiajs , \u2014and stretching away up over 1t was a hill with house above house, fur several Lundred feet.Taylor, thank God.came to Sorrento a few ways ago, to see us; and yesterday the whole side of the Hill on the Chisja gave way, and 80 persons are lost in the ruins.Taylor's house is entirely Luried beneath the wreck of thres upper ones; and 1 am sorry to say that Hor Fooo Druvsav.\u2014The Journal of the | whole or a part of these charges.Affairs, at Lhe instance of Secretary Beward itis United States not les: than 14 days, is not to be said, uatil Rusa\u2019s sees fit to offer to pay ibe | deprived of the benefits of this act by reason of | being less than 21 years old.Under jrcemption i ruliug, it has Leen decided that a young woman , Feb.24 \u2014Adjutant.-Gene- Bewsonep, lus Fe I of fuil agé, and capable by her own efforts to | ral Huyaie telegraphed to Gen Logan to stand 1 I ! h firmly by Mr.Stanton, assuring him of the sup- fulfil the requirements.is untitled to precapt, port of the Grand Army of the Republic.for it ia admitted that the term \u201cman\u201d applies .I to both sex-3; but to prevent lsrge bodies of h Ra Es Eastman i land from going into one fumily, and thus ubus- | ! vices of the Ztat Ragiment of this District, to ng prices Pr cou ST acted for the PEt bo the peace at Washington, tv be ready man's application is not to by recogaizad if she la hours notice.belongs to ber father's family.We presume that nt er at one te eme rule wil ay 10 bul pesos der e Homestead Act.Leidquurters this evening.The street-cornure © \u2014 -\u2014 \u2018 - are crowded with excited groups, canvassing! CANADIAN NEWS, the impeachment question.The Republicaus, | canee, | generally, are cheering for Congress, i The city of Q A te.ving yearly deep | Msmory, Cox, Fib.30 \u2014Mr.Stephen Ives, To HC C15 0 Unehve is gelling y drepe proprietor of the Meriden House, in whose hotel! 11,119 debt.The true balauce of debt is $,- Mr.P.Do vas called © \" i ; r.P.Douglas vus called a niggers\u201d and from \u2014 The Methodat Cloireh at Waterloo was | destroyed hy fice Inst Tuesdiy.The fire is sup- I whose public tabie Mr.Dotigles was «jreted, ! this morning brutally assault d Captain Rigs, Aton etal ges, 3 To lave taken from the stose-pipes, Cost, $6,000; ingurud for $1,000.\"editor of the Meriden Kecord, for commenting \u2014 Tue Quebec Cironiele says: \u2014The Inland y don the affaire.Much excitemunt prevails here, aud populer indignation is aroused against [ves, \"Revenue Department in this cily bave bad more than wa ordinary run of success, in enforcing | who has been arrested and beld to auswer both the law to protect the lawful distiller and spirit.\u2018im civil aud criminal actions, i Boston, Feb.19.\u2014Gov., Bullock has vetoed .fi y d the bill repealiog the State Coustabulary law, dealer against cheap whiskey.Two stills and summing up his reasons thus :\u2014* Because | am | their apparatus bave just been seized near the convinved that Lhe great body of the people of City, and cunfisented to the Crown.Tle per- Massachusetts have indicated no desire for the 858 Who worked them are liable to a five of abolition of the State Constabulary law ; be- $200, and imprisonment unsil payment.: cause, in my judgment, the public interests and \u2014 Col.Bradly, who made the cffr to the peo- j aafety demaud additional means for the sure ple of Sherbruoke relative to establishing a cot- | i and speedy detection sud punishment of crime ; | ton factory la that town, has withdrawn bis and because, in the event of the passage of any | cfler, the necessary tock not lisving been raised | [od law regulating the sale of Iiquors, as is | to comply with Lis terms.They do not yet de- | obviously expected by the people, the protec.| apair of accomplishing the objvet, however, and tin of the public, the faith of the Siate, aud | ellirts are to be made, a4 the sugg-stion of Mr.the rights of individuals, should not Le im-, Heneker, to enlist Canadian capitalists in the perilled by intrusting its execution to municipal undertakivg.\u2014 There died at Wandsworth, à few, weeks prssing at the time, and that all the passengers 20, the last survivor of the noble band of ladies | perished.1 went into Naples to-day to see the who formed the first Newgate Prison Committee, | scene of the disaster, and am sick at beart.| established in 1817, under the leadership of the | late Nea.Elizibeth Fry.This was Mrs.Fiza ; beth Coventry, wha has lived to the ripe old tumbling 4 age of 95.She forms a prominent figure in the bottom of it all.\u201d celebrated picture, by Mr.Jerry Barrett, repre- \u2014\u2014\u2014 senting Mra.Fry aud ber comjaaions visting AMERICAN NEWS.Newgate, officers.\u201d \u2014 Tle Hutford smelting works in Ascot | 189 \u2014_ \u2014 Mr.Thos.Gard, of Guelph towaship, sold; the other day, in Guelph, two pigs, which weighed respectively 761 Ibs.and 691 Le.\u2014 Morrisburgh is competing with Cornwall for the erection of a cotton factory, to cost $200,000.Cornwall is back ward in aupplyiog the $50,000 required, and Morrisburgh proposes to do it herself, ~\u2014 Tbe proprietor of tke * Elysium Saloon,\u201d in Toronto, threatena a libel suit against Rey, Mr.Stevenson, who took the establishment for one of big illustrations of Pandemonium in a recent germon, The salooniet fartber objecta to the rev.gentlemau's suggeation, ao publicly wade, for & motto above the door: Abandon bope, all ye wlio enter here.\u201d Der Sxow ~The Listowel Zanner says: In this section of country we have more snow than has bee known at this 1 eason ever since the place was settle i.\u2018Tue roais are very bso} and in many plares jobb rs have Leen com;.ell d to slop work; the grent depth cf snow preves ting them working in tle wo.ds.Water is getting scarce, and w thaw is wuch needed.DastanoLy Ut ritAGE \u2014The Sarnia Obese ver is informed ofn dastardly « utrage which wee perpetrated on the family of Mr.Thomus wright, of Plympton, on tte ec onivg of the Jk inst, After they bat retiod Lote, three ear, broke into the hons- a as and Mrs.Euwright, when the Int'ez Legges to take all the monty ju the Dose, or ayn! else they wanted, but to spate their lives, I appeal bad the effect of causing them to de yt in their violence, aud to commence & search tr the money, resulting in the Snding of $5 or +.Failing iv obtaining any more mowey, they wets to the atable, took out the Lorees, and rode «tf towards Sarnia, \u2014Lwo of them, as is supposrd, riding on one borse.All the rascals are know, and will probably be caught.Honma avc FataL Accinext \u2014Tbe L wel firmner gives the details of an accide which is sufficient to make the stoutest shud.r.It eaye:\u2014A young wan, named Jesse Mil: while working in Mr.Mitchell's saw-ti\u2019l, at Lisadel, in the towuship of Howick, on Thur - day last, slipped down and feil agninat the saw.Before be was able to recover himse'f, his rig! t leg was literally split in two from the foot to the | knee; acd, in endeavoring to raise Limself HF.he again fell over, when the saw raugbt bim cu 6 ALuosr a RsPETITION OF Te AndorLs Das worked by tiie Messrs.Adama, turned out in ten | the left side, cutting a tert Ule gah crosswise road, due here at seven o'cloct, was about tar.! miles weat of Lowell, the sleepag ul ihe ladies\u2019 car were thrown fiom (he trac by a.\u2014 Congresa bas appropriated $50,000 fur (ne broken rail.Toey became detached from the the 11h I cent.wat or reguius, \u2014 The Grand Lodge B.A.0.Good Templurs | held its first annnal cession at Moe's River on Th report showed that during \u2014 Sixty years ago, there were no Protestant Christians in Travancore, Southern [odia.Now.what do we behold ?There are at this point alone 27,000, and 500 native assistante, and 11 ordained native -mivisters.At Nagercuil, the principal station in the district, there is a large Christian village of 800 souls, a printing-office, girls\u2019 boarding-sciool, native church, and boys\u2019 | school, with theological classer, with three European and two uative ordained missionaries.Wonderful triumpls of grace ! \u2014 Mrs.Lily Maxwell bas won something more than fame by her vote at Manchester for Mr.Jacob Bright, Sue became au otj-ct of interest.lavestigation showed that she was n greer-grocer, doing a small business iu a re- apcctable way.Now ber small business hrs lino come a large one, for the Radicals and thew wives made a poiot of giving and sending custom to this practicul demonstrator of woman's relief of destitute American Fouiaus now in England and Ireland.\u2014itia aid, Ly an Indiana paper, that upwarls , of ten thousard persons Lave become chureh- members in that State ag the results of the re- vivale experienced.=~ Both Houses of the New Jersey Legislature parecd à resolution, last evenicg, of sympathy with President Jobneon in his struggle with ! Congress.\u2014 A bill bag been reported in the Pennsylva- unin Legislature, prohibiting the use of oil or cx- plogive fluids for lighting purposes in railroad cars; also agninat tie practice of locking the + doors of cars when travelling.«= Dispatchea to New York state :hat the cholera is raging terribly in Buenos Ayres, there being from 150 to 180 victims daily.Tle cit:iz:us were flying from the city.At Valis main track and rolied dewn ar cmbankwent! the year 123 members were initiated into 1he some twenty fest ir height laodiog Lrttom Order, and that al tis time there are 800 wen upwards.The passeazers in hoth cars were bers in the Orler in this Province, The quea- | kpuked round, aud several biii ed to a gren'er tion of amalgauiation with any otber Order was or less extent.The stoves were torn from their decided in Lie negative, i fasteningy, the doors broken open, aul the fice pol 1) vision or Towx:iurs-\u2014We have geen : Bentteled All over the car.The ladies cartook gith pleasure tLat the miechiorous bili of M.fire, and for a time it was feared that it woul | Baasette, for the dismemberment of the Town.be destroyed.and a nnmber of the passengers \u2018 sLips of Grauhy aud Roston hns veen postponed who were lying helpless within it meet a horri- © (Teg Kalenda, [1 was well 15 resist a ble death.Tue coals from the stove set fire to principle which would have hnd the most fatal tbe clothing of the passengers, burning several consequences We cannot adit that the ad- of them, some badly, but nose dangeron-ly.wmimstralors ot the Church of Rome may cut DisarrraraNCE oF MeN Asp Womkn.\u2014One and earve at their wiil the existing divisicns of of the alarming things of New York life is the \u2018the Towushipa, which have become establisied \"numerous diesppesrance of women and men.i: public opmion.\u2014«r.ky Moncteur, The \u201c personals\u201d in the newspapers show this! pa Parar ZuvAVES vaou Caxapa \u2014The to some cxient, but give a limit'd idea of the, \\aureau Mande publishes a letter [ om Rome, | real facta.At tbe office of the Chief of U-tee in which it is stated that the Canadien Zounves \u2018 | tives a list is kept of Lhe young and old who go in the Papal army are to be distributed by.isineli .y \u2019 asten.\u2014The Milwaukee Sentinel uf Saturiny duys as follows: quantity of \u20ac per cent ore [from the hip-joint to the back-bone, alms Fe or eo ay re aor any Ereat length 18a58:\u2014\" Yesterisy mornusg, about Lal-p st smelted, 130,769 Ibe: product 6,000 Ibs, of 90 Severing the leg from the body.In thig state og down, and 1 Wink Vesuvius is at the Lures o'clock, a3 ibe train ou the St.Pau, Mail- per cent.blister copper, and £9,019 Ibs.35 per | Was carried to a house near he, air) Burge , 2 was imtnedintely ect for.Ile lingered thi until Sunday, when death jut an end to Lis s1°- fringe.The young man was a ant twenty-or.years of age, and we understand wag nine the only sunport of twn aged parents reaidir 2 the township of Howick, NEW BUSSWICK.RéPEAL CH TRE Union.\u2014 TueChaitam 6° er gays that, unl:ee tiere Le ace reorgar zi.tion of the D ominivn Govcrutnent, * the rez the Union will be as popular in 1hia provi.cv na it is in Nora Scotia, ne, from the manner in wbich our claima were iguor-d and our rire senfatives treated during the last session of |\" linn nt, the people have lost all hope of reccis- ing eny justice at tbe hauda of the prescot Government.\u201d MsLascn uv Ciactæarance.\u2014Dutiog le storm on the 151k instant, an aged w(man nam-d Archbold, upwards of eights years of ge, got lost while crossing the south-west branch of the Miramichi River, ned died from cxbaustion and exposire \u2014 (leaner, Rrrgar.\u2014One or two private meetings of i à Nueva 210 out of 270 laborers on the railroad i .À grea Ler h > péople in Hancbesier bave become Ne Mc] Bhd died almost at ove, and.tbe poole wer well's customers or patrons, I suppose they | Bying in au directions, ; must be called bere.Oddly enough, it turos \u2014 A Wasbington dispatch ssys that the out shat she is not an advocate of woman's | friends of Senator Wade are going to demand rights; did not get herself put on the registry bis nomination for the Vice-Prealdency on the from any theoretical notion that she as a wo- ticket with Gen, Grant, asa concession to the man ought to vote ; but from a very practical : radical element of the country.Obio will pro- notion that Mr.Jacob Bright, whom she greatly : brbly be & unit for Grant and Wade at Chicago admired, ought to be elected.| ~The friends of temperance in Michigan = The finances of France are in a bad condi.bave issued an address to the people of that tion, ag the report just out shows, Much is made State, urging the adoption of the article in the of the cost of tbe late Luxembourg dispute, and | proposed new constitution prohibiting the trafic ag little ns possible of the enormous current ex.| in intoxicating liquors.Tae election occurs on penditures entailed by the unpopular army bill, | the first Monday ia April, and this article is and the Mexican expedition.The minister, | 8eparately submitted.; bowerer, in a guarded manner, admits that, \u2014 Mra.McGrudy, of Lowell, Vt.Irish, and France may ba beld liable to pay the bonds of | the mother of fourteen children, signed a trans- «tbe Mexican empire which were guaranteed by | fer of her property to her son, and then, regret- the government.To meet these extraordinary \"ting the act, killed herself in the moat horrible demands, bs declares that a new loan is vecea- - WAY possible, first backing ler throat with an sary.The report then gives the details of the axe, and then with a rezor succeeded in sever- loan.The amount proposed is 440,000,000 \u2018ing arteries and wiudpipe.After all that man- francs (« later London telegrau bas it 750,000,- | gling, she lived more than a day.000), which is to be taken by public subscription.M.Magne concludes his report by anap- Democratic Convention are instrucled to vote \u2014 The Wisconsin delegates to the National peal to the patriotiem of ths French people.\u2014 On Monday evening, an inquest was beld at Leicester on the bodies of Emma Stone Oroft and Amy Preston Croft, daughter of the above, ; The latter bad Leen drowned by the former, who bad subsequently committed self-destruction, \u2018 also by drowning.The mother of the child was iu her 34th year, and for many years bad led suimmoral life.About seven years ago she wag At some open-air amusements, when a young man named Ci Croft, of respectable position, a clerk in a solicitor's office in the town, fell in love with her, and shortly afterwards married her.They lived together but a little time, as lier husband, on fiading that she was leading a profligate .li\u2018e, abandoned her and went to America, and has not since been heard of.Bhehad threatened to destroy the child, sad also to take away ber own life, and on one occasion pearly succeeded in committing suicide by wéans of laudanum.Où Saturday morning she returned home about one o'clock, \u2018and, seamed very strange.She had taken several glasses of ale during the day and about six o'clock in the evening, while her mother was feeding the child, she snatched it out of ber Isp, and ran out with it ; but, as it was supposed she was going to s neighbor's, no notice was taken oftheact.A few miuutes afterwards she \u2018Wag seen to throw the child into the caval.She then threw her bonnet and the child's hood aside, and rushed into the water herself.A man, named Rudkio, who saw this, went to bis own premises and procured a drag, snd was using it in endeavoring to reach the deceased, when from the excitement Le let it slip through his bands into the water.arrived, he went to his yard, loosened a bat, and pushed 1t towards the floating bodies.He soon sncceeded in rescuiog 1be child, who was atill alive, and abe was taken into the house and Assistance having i ! for Pendleton, and he will receive the vote of \"the State.Two Congressional l'atricts instruct for him, Dubuque County, lows, also instructs the delegates to vote for him.The Dubuque Herald raiges the Pendleton flag.\u2014 James Smellie, a Scotchman, belonging in Glasgow, was burned to death at 38 Third avenue, New York.It is aupposed that he set fire to bis underclothiog while attempting to (light bis pipe\u2014he having been intoxicated.He , iad $5,400 in his possession.Papers showed that be bad resided in Montreal, and tbat he was | about to sail for the old county.It is alleged , that his was a case of spontaneous combustion, «= Gen.Lorenzo Thomas, whom tbe President appointed to the war oflice, was, during the war, Adjutant-General.In March, 1862, be was despatched by Secretary Stanton to the South-West, to organize regiments of colored troops.The officer of the same name, who figured so prominently at Chattanooga, Nesb- ville, and other points at the West, and since the war has been in command in Tennessee, is Gen.George H.Thomas.=\u2014Congress bas passed a bill providing that no person who ney bave been duly arrested, tried, | convicted, adjudged guilty of murder, piracy, assassination, arson, robbery, or forgery, shall be allowed if conviction bas not been reversed, to enter or remain in the United States.The bill authorises the President on the production of satisfactory proof thet any such person hes entered or is about to enter the United States, to return or cause to ba returned, such convict to the country from which be comes or in which he may have been convicted.= When Secretary Seward was negotiating | with the Russian government for the purchase | of Alagka, thers was considerable correspondence between Washington and St.Petersburgh, \u2018 run away ; some desert their families and are not tracked ; many sre enticed into gambling and other dens; many are murdered, and are buried in vaulta or secret pits, or thrown overboard to float out to sea.The increasing number of these disappearances is very startling.and especially are they so in connection with tbe great number of persons out of employment.In the back part of Brooklyn, bighway robbery is becoming #0 common that farmers dare not.go to market alone, and not only go in companies but go armed.Travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho was never more perilous than is travelling from some part of Long Island to this j city.F.paper.Tux Wasmuæston Dirricciry.\u2014The Tribunes Washington telegram says, that ss soon as , Stanton\u2019s removal became generally known, the whole Capitol was thrown into the greatest excitement, The House, from 3 o'clock until 5, presented a scene that has not been witusssed since tbe war times, when the news of 8 great victory, or defeat, to our arms, was announced, Members gathered in knots alyout the floor and cloak-rooms excitedly discussing the subject.All sorta of rumors were afiost.Prominent members eat down and wrole letters to Secretary Stanton to stand firm, and refuse to yield, while several representatives left their places and called on him in person.Tnere was direct telegraphic communication between the Capitol and the war-office, by which means Congress was kept informed of matters at the latter point, The Tribune says editorially :\u2014* Mr.Johnson will achieve no coup d'état, Nature, in denying - him the courage proportioned to big vanity, bas | made lim proof against great crimes.His forte lies entirely in peecadilloes, When Congress concludes to impeach him for petty misdemeanors, it will find plenty of them.But if it waits for high crimes, he will serve out his term in feverish peacefulness, and empty feinte.\u201d Tae TMoussrsan Law or tex U.8.\u2014Any person who ie the bead of a family, or who Is 31 years of age, and who is a citizen of the United States, or who has filed his intention to become ouch, as required by the naturallzation laws, and who baa never borne arms against the United States, or given aid) and comfort to its enemies, is entitled to enter one-quarter section (160 acres) or less of the unoccupied public lands upon which such person may have filed a preëmplion claim, or which may be subject to entry, st $1.25 or less per acre, or 80 acres, if appraised, at $2.50 per acre.After five years of actual settlement, a patent will be issued upon the payment of office fes, part of which are to be paid upon first applics- tion, the total amount of which is not far from $15.Tu case of the death of the applicant, his widow, or, in case of ber death, the heirs are entitled to a patent; and so also are the heirs of a widow, if she makes \u2018the application in the first instance; but proof must be furnished of five years\u2019 occupancy and settlement.To abandon the land for a period of six montbe during out from home and are beard of no more.See groups of 20 or 25 each, among the different | opponents of the Government have bren held in companies, io order that they may communicate \u2018 our city to discuss tbe propriety of joinieg in everywhere the fire by which they are animated, ' the Repeal movement that is now agitating else being present, it ia caught from the stove, ls projected at Windsor, to be constructed of of a hundred and twenty-five feet, at n cost > $20,000.Mr.Turner, of Beantford, is the architect, Tomas in Toronto and tore a portion of her ress, killed, it bit six other persons, but only one seriously.Trudell, councillor for the township of Tilbury East, died on the 18th inst, from injuries received from a piece of timber falling upon him, their late Warden, Arthur Tew, Eig, with tbe sum of $135 as a testimonial of esteem, J in à verdict of wilful murder against William Fergusson, for shooting the little child Eilen and give to\u201d the several battalions the élan | which should be common to them with the soldiers of France.At Rome.it ig said, there is an impression that the Canadian movement will bave a considerable eflect in favor of recruiting.ft is dificult just now to get good soldiers in France.There are plenty of subscribers, but not as many recruits as are desired.The character of the Canadians already enlisted\u2014Mesers.Prendergast, Desileto, Henault, Murray, and Larocque\u2014makes tbe authorétieadesire to have more.ONTARIO, \u2014 Father Cliniquy lectured in Perth on Catholicism the other night.ing to : 100 was given to him.\u2014 Whonping-tough is now very prevalent in Perth and vicinity, and is of a particularly severe type Quite a number of children have died from its efects lately, while otbers are lying dangerously ill.\u2014 The Pembroke f/4server laughs at some of its exchanges because they grumble at 25 degrees below zero, while in the Upper Ottawa regions it is quite common for the thermometer to range about 35 aud 40 during (be winter.= Guelph bonsta of 19 hotels, paying a license of $6+ each per annum, and three ta- loons, paying & licenee of $100 each per annum.The amount recelved from these licenses is $1,440.=~ Pooley, the absconding produce merchant | of Guelph, just before leaving, borrowed $1,000 i from one or two confiding friends.; ~ The Cornwall Freeholder says that à young | girl of Mr.Wm.linwes, aged 15 years, residing near Dickinson's Landing, was buroed to death on the 13th inst.She wi cripple, and no one : supposed her clothes = À magnificent new Roman-Cattolic Church white brick, with frontage of fifty-five and depth =~ On Thursday last, à mad dog attacked à It was driven away, and, before it wap = The Chathaor Planet learna that Mr.Clovis = The people of Blenheim have presented == A coroner's jury, at Dundas, have brought À collection amount- ' Nova Scotis.As Mr.Anglin is not co-operating, I tbe St.John repealers ought to see that they (cannot influence any large number of the Anti- | Confederate party.\u2014St.John Telegraph, Tre Rainway.\u2014On (be Fredericton Branch railway, notwithstanding the inclement winte we are experiencing, the work goes on briskly Several substantinl culverts have been built «nd some beavy \u2018gullets\u201d have been pushed through fn the vicinity of the mills, Opening ; the ground at this season will operate advantageously in the spring aud save a deal of cutting \u2014ih.PEnsonsEL or 1s Hovsm.\u2014A remarkab'e feature in the present House is ita youthful ns- pect.The majority of ita members are quite | young, and not bad-lockiuæ on the wkole, and itis just u question whether the speaking talent |e this House, embr: \u201c28, A9 it dues, à capital selection of ambitions youug \u201c0H, 18 not, upon the whole, quiteequal to the last.a Dominion 81cce.\u2014Can any of our Goverd- ment contemporaries tell us how much was \"subscribed io these Lower Provinces to the Do- ; minion Stock, for which Mr.Ruse invited ten.iders?Has there been enough taken up to pay «for the advertising ?\u2014 Globe.| Sraur Domime.\u2014 One business man in the vicinity of Fredericion will pay $1,500 & year into tbe Dominion Treasury in the stape of stamp duties.For (bis and \u2018all other blessings of Confederation, let us try to be truly thankful.Aotive Baxevo.ence.\u2014 George Kere, Rag, W.P., recently fitted up a echool-bouse for young girlsin Chatham, at his own expense; and a number of the inlmbitants of the town thanked bim io a very complimentary address.MOYA SCOTIA.A Bracastion ABOUT TBE Tanirr.\u2014The Hali- faz Witness says :\u2014\u201c We see no reason why the duty on brandy should be decressed when the duty on molasses ie increased.This ls surely a move in the wrong direction.There used to be a duty of 8 Shillings per gallon on brandy; ft is now 4 sbiliings.This change alone would make a difference of $200,000 for the wholes Dominion.Tmpose 40 cents additional on brandy, adopt the N.8.tariff on tbis one article and you can do away with several very objectionable imports.Gin, whiskey, and rum also pay lower under the Dominion tarif than under the old Nova-Scotia tariff.Why it should be so we cannot tell.Why not adopt the Nova-Scotia tarif with regard to spirits, and then give ug the Nova-Scotia system of free postage for newspapers and un- taxed flour and cornmeal, and a lower (ax on sugar and molasses 7\u2019 New Inpuatriae Exterpniez.\u2014New brick aud pottery works, conducted by & company, bave just been started at Pictou, and more extensive Washington.operations will be carried on in the spring. F 140 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Fesruary 29, 1868.\u201cBuss, Mannsacns, axp Dsaras.-\u2014 No novices inserted unless paid in advanos.Births and deaths, 25c.; marriages, 50c.- THE WHI, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 186 AGENTS WANTED FOR PUBLICATIONS oF THE WITNESS OFFICE, Agents wanted in every city and county of the Do:sinion of Canada, to canvass for The Daily Wiltess.\u2026.\u2026.$3.00 per an.Montreas Witness, (semi-weekly) 200 \u201c Wec!y Wilness.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.vue.1,00 # Oaza/isn Messenger, twice a + BOL seen anes .\u201c , Canada (Quebec and Ontario).= A new paper salied the Blue- Vos is tobe | Tata little distance to get into the cars.The inventors; wl commenced at Digby, N.8., on the 4th of March.| coroner's jury of Dauville deserve much credit thing with Cansdian inventions.From the in- | regularly passed in the way prescribed by the It is to be devoted to the advocacy of the union of these provinces to the American republic.\u2014 There ia now at the disposal of tbe Fisber- men's Relief Committee in Halifax the sum of ! $12,0W,\u2014about $17,000 of which comes from The Nova- Scotian Goverment contributes $5,000 to this fund, and besides this amount the local relief has been comparatively small.= The Newfourdland Parliament was opened on the 30th January.The Governor, in big speech, asked for aa expression of opinion on the desirability of Confederation.A large mbeting, subsequently beld at St.Johns, pussed a number of resolutions pretty strongly urging: the inexpediency of entering the Confederation New Dominion Monthly.until the present distraptions of the Dominion | were satisfactorily settled.A msjority of the | SEAI-W BEKLY SYNOPSIS OF MONTREAL ifor their faithful verdict, and the coroner, ss | ventors stand-point, tbe New-Brunswick law times go, deserves credit also for permitting .gives the Province an advantage; but from the them to render it.\u2014 i t ad 3 Francs.\u2014At the recent debate in the Corps ie most advantageous | Liyistatif on the press law, a member con-| Tus SraveoLs in tax Srares.\u2014The late civil nected with the Siccls wished to read a legal | war in the States, though it pretty effectually decision, showing that that paper bad been un- {'acotobod the saske of slavery, did not entirely justly prosecuted.The President would mot (Kill it, The reba planters were most unwise- permit Lim to do $0.Ober members insisted !ly allowed to retain thelr immense planta.| on his right to make the cxplanstion.Te scene | tions, which they had justly forfeited by fight- became tumiiltuous.The President declared ; ing against tbe Union, and thus to remaia 1masters ' the sitting closed, and (hé Guvernment party 40 far as employment was concerned, of the left.The Opposition continued together, pro- | freedmen.This positicn of power they are now \u201ctesting against the conduct of the President, |exerting, to defeat any plan of reconstruction luntil the Chamber was cleared by force.All.which will give the colored people the franchise, Lis is ominous, especially the employment of bopiag when they get the power again into force.It was sometbing similar that caused the their own hands tore-enslave their former siaves wnfall of the Bourbons and the elevation of hy apprenticeship laws, and police regulations.NEWS.House are also averse to any presen action in | de the matter.! The all-abso:bing local topie is tbe munici- \u2014 Tue Karl of Derby has resigned, and Mr.pal election.It is mauy years since à contes! Disraeli succeeds | im in the premiership.for the mayoralty was carried on with such; \u2014 Th: lesdiag journals of London agree spirit and resolution.Mir.Workman le, at the.that (here is no one s0 capable of leading the present writing, considerably abead, but b's, Tory party as Yr.Disraeli.supporters do not yet feel that heis secure; And,, \u2014 Lord Stauley will probably be made a moreover, it is desirable that he should bo re- \u2018 peer, representing the Government in the House turned by & very large majority.The result of of Lords.the contest in the wads is yet doubtful.\u2014\u2014Tbe | \u2014 Mr.Disraeli, the new premier of England, water question bas again become pressing.The lis nearly as old & man «8 bis predecessor, the Water Depariment have been obliged to resort | Ear! of Derby, being about sixty years of age.to the primitive plan of supplying the city by He first entered Parliament in 1837, for the means of water-barrels.This state of 1bings is | borough of Maidstone, and since 1848 haa been owing to the extraordinarily low state of the | the recogn\u2019zed leader of the Conservative party.river this winter, combined with the rapid| \u2014 A cheap edition of Green Victoria's Jour- growth of the city.\u2014\u2014This is especially the nal will shortly be issued, which will be within season of entertainments, and tbe Montreal Gym- ihe means of all to purchase.pastic club gave one on Thursday night, the 27th \u2014 The rather carious fact bas just been made inst.in the Mechanics\u2019 Hail, for the benefit of public, through a decree of the Council of the the M-ntreal General Hospital.The place was Russian Empire, that a secretary bas been at- erowded, and \u2018be performance very clever and tached to the suite of Queen Olga, of Greece, Louis Philippe.Tag Rivat Tract Socikriss.\u2014After lengthened negotiations, the American Tract Society, New York, and the American Tract Society, Boston, have amalgamated so far that the ; latter withdraws all its collecting agenta from the field, and makes no direct appeal to churches for funds.It is, however, at liberty to receive any funds that are gent to it spontaneously from churches or, individuals, and it may appesl to; the latter.Both Sccietiea will continue to publish tracts and books as heretofore, and each will sell the publications of the other so far ss it approves of them.The Boston Bociety also: withdraws its depot from New York, and the | New York Society from Boston.Remanzapul TelsL.\u2014An extraordinary trial bas taken place at Prague, Antonia Schwalina was the wife of a shoemaker, who, through disease in bis eyes, had to give up his trade and take to begging, from which he went on to stealing, and bad to flee the country, leaving , This was the way the planters did in Jamaica, neither using the land to advantage themselves nor allowing the negroea to use it, for upwards of thirly years, and enacting and enforcing ua- .endurable laws, till they excited & rict, and {then massacring tbe blacks wholesale, The ex-glavebolders of the South, intend, evidently, to play the same game ag the Jamaica planters, aud they are aided by the Democrats of the North and the President.Thus, if they get | their way, the South may be like Jamaica for thirty years to come.The Republican party wished to place the South in the advantageous position of Barbadoes and other of the West-In- dia Islande, where the ex-slavebolders accepted emancipation, with its legitimate consequences frankly, and where peace and prosperity have, | in consequence, prevailed.But this party finds itself checked and bampered everywhere by the territorial power of the ex-slavebolders.[tap- pears, however, as if the latter were, through President Johnson, insisting upon a fresh resort to arms, in which cage their estates will greatly admired.\u2014\u2014The Montreal Temperance Society, also, beld its aunual meeting cn Tuesday evening, the 26:h inst.: and the St.Pat- ticks Temperance Society, of 1Lis city, has beld a crowded meeting in St.Patrick's church to listen to the Rev.Me.Barrett, on temperance.A very large accession of names to the temperance.pledge was the consequence \u2014\u2014On Thursday morning, à Dr.Patton, cf this cts, was found dead in bis b-d.The deceazed had settld in Moztreal about a year ago, mod furmerly was whose salary is paid by the Russian Foreign Of- fee.~ Itis said that the Pope has positively re- fuged the Cardinal's hat to the Archbishop of Paris, unless, eating humble pie like Cardinal Andrea, he will publicly retract some offensive opinions which be bolde.acd thiz the Archbishop refuses to do.\u2014 An old French eailor, nam~d Li gas, who his wife and three children destitute.She wad yndoubtedly follow their slaves, and the South ejected with them from her wretched lodgings, .will be left unembarrassed to ccmmence a of which she could mot pay tbe rent, and, be- career of peace and prosrerity.It is not, cause of torrents of rain, took refuge in a shed, however, at all likely that the South will show from which she was also expelled.The wretched gop, family bad therefore to eleep in the open air, and from that time the mother taiked of killing ber children.She several times told her daugk- ter, ten years old, to throw her youngest IMPEACHMENT.The first instasce of impeachment of the Pre sident, under the constitution of the United States, has occurred ; we need not say in what fought against the British Admiral Cook in the ; ; ; ; .brothe to the water ; but Le little girl did West Indies, and was taken prisoner there, died other in hy 8 \" nt seem lo understaud her to be in carnest.circumstances, All our readers know that the surgeon ox board the Montreal Ocean Steamship line, The cause of Lis death is at present doutifu}, -L> icquest having been postpened to recen\u2019ly at Lea Eboulements.The old man wore the decoration of the St.Hrlena mal.\u2014 Mr.Dickens Lins announced that it is his Southern 8:ites seceded from the Union and set up a government of their own, and that they \u2018Que eveuing the motler, when che returned i fron labor, reiterated her command, witli threats; allow of the contents of the stomach being ana- pe present jutention to sail for Britain, in the steam- Jud, \u2014-_- HE ship \u2018\u2018 Cuba,\u201d on the 220d of April rext.EDITORIAL IT EMS.| \u2014 The American House of Representatives and next day, when she was working in tke fields, the little girl led ber infact brother by the hand into a wood, weeping all the way, and threw bim into & deep torrent.When the were completely subdued, afier a long and beroic struggle, in which the sacrifices and sufferings on hotb sides were upon a scale un- ! paralleted in modern warfare, It is equally ; Ç passed the resolutions yesterday afternoon im- \u2014 Tue Hon.Robert Spence, Collector of Cuz- | cenching President Johnson, by a vote of 128 toms at Toronto.died yesterday.ito \u2014 The Kingston W\u2019Aig eugges!s that our mili- | tary cadets abould be required to give security that io case they leave the country they should .he obliged to return the bounty.\u2014 An exchange statis that the congregation of Trinity Church, Cornwall, subscribed within twenty-four hours $6,335 tu tbe Bishop Strachan Me moriu!-Chureh Fund.\u2014 la accordance wiih the Interpretation Act passed by the Domwion Parliament, there will | be two sew legal holidays in this Province, \u2014 Asb-Wednezday (tc-day) and Easter-Monday.\u2014 The Toronto people had ihe greatest suow-storm of the season yesterday and the previous day.They bave ten-feet drifts in «tbe streets, and tbeir trains are stuck fest in the | snow.\u2014 At a caucusof the Nova-Scotian memtcra of the Dominion Parliament, held recently in Halilax, it was resolved that they should unitedly return to Ottawa, \u2014 The Grafton-street Wesleyan church in\u2019 47.= The impeachment of President Jobnson seems to be go certain, that Mr.Wade, the President of the Senate, and Mr.Johnsou's legal suc- cesscr, is already forming his Cabinet.= President Juarez bas obtained leave of absence for six months to visit Washington.Six months\u2019 time is quite long enough for tbe wretched mother was informed of this, she re-.well known that, towards the close of thisatrug- | fused to believe it.The facts became known, | gle, tbe dominant party at the North, which and she was accused of premeditated infanticide.| bad mainiy carried it through, elected Abraham Never, it is said, was a trial go affecting.The Lincoln, of Illinois, for a second term of the Pre- crying of the poor mother, and the simple recital | sidency, and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, of the little daughter, drew tears from all eyes; for Vice-President.The latter was thus ho- but, notwithstanding a warm defence by her nored because he was the most prominent | advocate, she was condemoed to death, and outspoken defender of tbe Union belonging to ihe seceded States, without re- Puesvpicr\u2014A Nova-Scotia gentleman who gard to the moral character of the man, | constitution, \u2014by a two-thirds vote over the President's veto, Ft therefore becomes clear | people's stand-point, it is the Canadian law that : that the President is determined to avail himself, if he can, of bis position as Commauder-ir - Okief of the army, to set aside acts of Congress.To deprive him of this power, and to prevent the nullifying of the will of the people, as expressed through Congress, there is, it now ap- .pears, only one effectual way; namely, to impeach and depose bim, and to this last resort Congreza has hzen most reluctantly driven.+ Impeachment is an extreme measure, \u2014g0 extreme, indeed, that it bas never bitherto been re- .sorted to in all the party conflicts of the United States ; but the occasion that calls forit appears to be extreme also.It is neither more nor less \u2018than the decision of (be question whether the , representatives of the people, duly elected to \u2018their office, eball rule ; or one man, who was not elected to the office he filia.But though impeachment is an extreme measure, it is perfectly constitutional, and the House of Representatives is the sole judge of the circumstances requiring it, ag the Senateis the sole } tribunal before which the impeached President can be tried, and from whose sentence there is no appeal.Congress ja vested by the constite- tion with this extraordinary and uncontrolled power, for the very purpose of preventing usurpe- tion on the part of the President, and therefors it may be lawfully and properly exerted if there te good grounds for anticipating that ugurpa- tion, though notbing actually very bad may have yet been done.Of course, however, the grounds must be clear, or the people will not austais Congress in such action, THE POSTAL ACT.The attacks by the press on the postal bill and its authors, are, we think, quite too indis- erituinate.That act, notwithstanding some shortcomings, really deserves, as a whole, great praise.It reduces letter postage to three cents, \u2014the same rate as in the United Statez, i and, allowing for difference of cireumatances, .About the same rate as in Britain, \u2014which is, is itself, an immense boon, that will, it is to be hoped, double the correspondence of th: country, aad the beneiit arisivg from such an | increase of intellectual achivity sud intercourse will, undoubtedly, be very great.This uniform | alzee-cent postage has valy tw$ drawbacks, which do not, s0 far a3 we know, exist either in Britain or the United States, \u2014oue being a ; further tax for delivery, aud the other, the op.(tion of sending letters napaid, subject to a postage of Give cents.The measure, a3 brought in by the department, did not contain this option, but it was unwisely, we think, insisted upon in the Senate.When postage is so cheap, it should be considered no bardship to prepay letters, but rather an egregious piece of carelessness or meanness to send them unpaid.We hope 10 see this defect in the act speedily remedied.With respect to the charge for delivery, | the department retaing the power to abolish if, | wben and where it sees fit: and we hope it will exert that power at once, 30 a3 not ooly ¢3 possible alienation of Juarez\u2019 political friends, | tried to canvags for the New Dominivn Monthly oy i tog often the cate in elections.For render the act bigbly papnla-.bat to do away and the formation of a hostile government.\u2014 A resoluticn to remove the seat of government from Washington to some point in the Mississippi valley, was recently submitted to the House of Representatives, by Mr.Paine, a Wis- only twenty against it.\u2014 The Governor and Treasurer of Louisisna ! bave officiaily informed General Hancock tbat ' the finances ef the State are so completely exhausted, that the machinery of government can no longer be kept running, \u2014 À promiceut Democrat has moved, in Congress, to renow the diplomatic intercourse \u2018cansin member, and was lost by à majority of writes to the Pe fotos i ; in while after tte pistol which struck down | 1 must tell you that Confederation is so re- j .; | pulsire to the mrjority of Nova-Scotans, that Abrabam Lincoln had made him President, Mr.tbe Month'y, or almost anythiog elce from Ca- © Johnson completely distanced tte Northern nada, for some time, Will not be popular.! Radica'sin hatred to rebels, and threats of what have tried the Monthly, oat am doing much he would do unto them; but soon after he etter for a Boston periodical.i | «The Monthly would 1: more acceptable\u2019 turned suddenly round, and, by the most exag- = : gerated stretch of the pardoning power on re- | with colored covers, inetead of white.\u201d With refercoce to the first paragraph above, cord, pardoned them wholesale, \u2014restoring their we think it shows an amount of prc judics quite | OFfeited estates to them, and endeavoring to unworthy of intelligent men.If the New Do\u2019 reinstate them in the government of the South minion Monthly bad helped to impose Confede- | 80d the councils of the nation, without any of \"tation on Nova Scotia, it Would bave been the safeguards rendered necessary by their dispo- natural enough for Nova-Scotians to give it a\" ition and previous conduct.Thus the fruits of Halifax, was entirely destroyed by fire on Sun | with tbe Papai Government, which was broken day evening, just before the hour for evening | up when the Pope recognized the Confederate wide berth; butif it is wholly innocent in the I many #acrifi.cs and so much valor in the field premises (unless its name be in fault), why Were being rapidly Blched away by one man, worship.\u2014 The Nova Scolisn Legislature will be adjourned to-day.Yesterday the Attorney-General moved that, as 2000 a3 Nuva Scotia was released from the boda of the Goented ration, she would be prepared to bear & [ull atare of the expenses of the Intercoloniui Railway, \u2014 In the New Bruoswick Legislature, notice has been given of a motion against newapaper- postage and tbe slamp-act ; and of another ju favor of the revenue being raised from articles of luxury rather than from the necessaries of life.= Oa the assembling of the Dominion Parliament io March, the St.John Telegraph says, the Hon.Joka If.Gray, of that city, à member of the committee appointed to frame an insolvent law for the Dominivn, will urge the adoption of the Canadian law.The Telegraph also adds tbat the United States Congress considered this States and sbut up the American Protestant Oburch at Rome.This is a consistent move on the part of the Democratic party, for thres reasons :\u201418t.The recognition of the Coufederate States was probably no impropriety in its eyes.20d.That parly includes, in its supporters, all, or , nearly all, tte Roman Catholics of the United States; and 3rd.It does not care about reli- , gious liberty, either in the Southern States or Rome.== As à word of advice to British statesmen in , the present crisis, the New York Albion urges ! them to \u201c meet the dissatisfied Irishmen with a free passage to British North America, end five years\u2019 profitehle employment after they get bere, together with a free grant of a homestead in | perpetuity, for themselves as weil as their offspring, ~~instead of meeting them with a detested Irish constabulary ; and the time is not far distant when blessings will take the place of curs- ir.provisions that they adopted I fogs throughcut that small but discontented almost eatirely.\" \u2014 The Hon.W.B.Kionrar, member of the: 214: _\u2014_\" Legislative Council of New Brunswick, died sud- Buippeny PraTronus ==After the sad accident deply st 8t.Jobo on Thursday last.The de.at Danrille, which resulted in the death of one ceased was distinguished in political life, having ' of out fellow-citisens, and the pointing out by been a member of hth Houses of Parliament, the coronmt\u2019s jury of the cause of that accident, Solicitor.General aod Attorney-General, Re.| it 10 to be boped that all railroad station-mas.corder of St.Jobin, Judge of the Quurt of Vice.) ters will be careful to see that their platforms Admiralty, Clerk of the Peace, and Judpe of | are cleared of snow and ice, aud that there is Probates.He wes alco highly esteemed as a nothing about them calculated to make a person Chriatiso gentleman, and for tbe last three yiars alide or trip.All conductors, alao, should be was President of the New Urunswick Aux.liery, careful to allow sullicient time, after the cry to the British and Furrign Bible Soc to 35m for ordinary and good par- ngale of two car-loads very choice at ss =1.> 0.Cor-Maatk, per th.\u2014A sale last evening of 5 tons of city-cured tems at 8fc., aud 50 tons of Bacon, at Tic.Pong, per brl.of 200 lbs\u2014Mess, $19.25 to $19.50; Thin Mess, $16.25 to $16.75; Prime Mess beld at $14.30 to $15, and Prime at $14 to $14.50.Financiat.\u2014 Sterling Exchange quiet ; , Bankers\u2019 60-day rafts on Loodon, 81 to 10 premium for cash; counter or discount-rate, 111 premiuns.Beat Private, 94 premium.Documentary And Produce Bills, 8j lo 9 premium, (The rate for 50-day Sterling Exchange in New York city to-diy, ns reported by telegraph, waa 93 premium.) Huying aod selling of Demand.drafis on New Yorl, 20 to 294 dis.,~tle qo.tation for gold 10 that city at noon yesterday being 141}.Gold drafts on New York, t tiseount, Latest Wasrkry Apvioks.\u2014The following are (he latest Western Advices received by teles graph at tbe Corn Exchange :\u2014 Mitwacgss, Feb, 26 \u2014Wheat, No.1, $1 984 in store; No.2, $t 93 in store; receipts, 5,- 000 bushels, Flour, $9.00.Mess Pork, i $28 50, Cutoann, Feb.26.\u2014No.1 Wheat, $135 lin etore: receipts, 5,000 bushels.; ship- \u2018meats, 9,400 bu.Corn, 78{c.: receipts, 41,- 000 bushels : shipments, 8,000 bushels.Mess .Pork, dull, $24.00.SPECLAL NOTICES } \u2014De, Colhyj'a Pills can be used by the most delicale.\u2014\u2014-1'se Jacob's Rbeumatic Liquid.|\u2014= nant Hnie-Gloss prevents tbe haie from | urging gray.= The la-t day3 of ex-President Martin Van aren were matte com\u2019ortable by the use of Jonna Whitecormby's Asthma Remedy.Letters 1005 porzssion fi his physician, and from Mr Van Buren himeel:, «xpress much gratitica- tion with the fesuit of ite uge.Joseph Burgett & Ca, Proprirtors, Boston aud New York, \u2014 In tins changeable climate of ours, a cold is easily taken, and, without due care, another will be contracted un top of it,\u2014oue cold thus running into another, until the accompanyiog cough becomes ecttled and confirmed.straining and racking the lungs, and ultimately stimulate ing the production of tubercles.A majority of existing cases of clearly defined pulmonary dis- enses are thus accounted for.Thousands are now allowing themselves to drift through the preliminary symptums under the delusion that they are troubled with \u201cnothing but a light cold.\u201d How ubrious is it, therefore, that a coll should be carefully cared for from its incipiencr, for both industrial awd commercial purposes, have been discussed nud adopted, and are | now submitted for your Excellency's sanction | Independently of the important measures, 8° large number of cther bille, some of 8 public and others of a local or private nature, have occupied our attention.We bave the happiness to assure your Excellency that our discussions as to all these weighty interests have been invariably marked by the greatest harmony and cordia'ity ; and we do not doubt that the example of this legislature will ¥ nd to increase the existing sentiments of mutual sff-etion between all subjects of Her Majesty without distinction of religion or origin,and of fidrlity and devotion to Her Majesty and to the constitution, which are sn calculated to assure the peace and proaperily ofa great and chap.108 incorporating the town of St.Johns.important Provirce.some materisl part of the instrument wrilteu over them, And beiog dated ms well.The drawer of ills in the Dominion and the maker of notes must stamp and initial and date the stamps, and the acceptor of bills drawn out of the Dominion, under besvy penalty.A party coming into possession of an unstamped note or bill may double stamp it, and the instrumeut will thus become valid in his bands, otherwise \"itis null; but the party who ought by law to have affixed the stamp duty is not try this re- ! lieved from the penalities for bis failure.The I Act further provides that stamped paper may be uged ns in Great Britain.The amount of *stamp duty to be affixed {s very olightly altered.Ttisl cent for bills and notes of $23 and under ; | 3 cents if aver $25 and up to $30: and 3 cents \u201cif over §50.towards the close of the werk.evinced rather more signs of activity, and n considerable amount of wool was disposed of at a shade lower prices.The demand is almost exclusively for consumption, and sales are generally in small parcels.California, Texas, and the low fears of dangerous results will be dissipated.grades of pulled, are the descriptions most inde- oy by all medicine dealers; price, 23c.per box.mand ; there have nlso been some considerable , ea'ea of fleece and foreign carpet wools.Salesof | A Nxuizcrzo Coven, Coup, or Sons TeRoAT, fleece foot up about 450,000 1ba, at a range of which might be checked by m simple remedy, from 36¢.to 4lc.==lbed.| like \u201c Brown's Bronchial Trozhes\u201d if allowed to progress may terminate seriously.Fo: MONTREAL OATTLE MARKET.\u2014Feb.28.Bronchitis, Asthaia, Ou'arrh, and Congumptive Cattle, Extra, none: First Quality, $750; Coughs, * The Troches* are nied with advan- Second and Third, $7.00 to $600; Miloh tage, giving oftentimes immediate relief, Singera Cows, $25 to $30; Rates, $40.00 to $43.00 and public speakers will find them algo excellent and every exertion us:d to rid the systemof its effects.Coughs and colds, pulmonary, broz- chial, sod asthmatic affections, are readily cured by that standard preparation, \u201cBryan's Pulmonic Wafers,\u201d and, by promptly resorting to them, ali Sheep, $3 50 to $5.00 ; Lmnba, $2 50 to $3 00 ; to clear the voice and render artcalation woa- weght tune GTering ; dressed, $600 derfuily easy. 148 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.FesruARy 29, 1868.Family Reading.dp would you like & rose ?\"\" said sLe, THE PORTS COMPLAINT AGAINST EDI- TURS.* Bilence.ye woives, while Ratf howls, And imakes nigbi lideuus,\u2014auswer him, ye ow.\" deep blush mounting up over his plain fen- walked away.1.\u2018While graybeards write on themes political, \u2014 Oonfederation, eash, and reciprocity ; The young, of late, Lave grown poetical, Indulging oft in strange verbosity.But editors are wisely critical, Or poeay, of singular atrocity, \u2018Would be in print, for rhymers ask it ; Aspiring to the press, we go te \u201c Basket\u201d | she, if he does wear poor clothes.kindly spoken to Ly a lovely little stranger.tune, How pleased Maggic will be! iw pleased Maguie will be! sang the thought; and hisfvet kepttime to it, all the way along; i, There lie the offspring of our tender brains, Until their little heat completely cools ; Ah me! the throes und starp poetic paine To bear them all; we Lroke prosudaical rales, And other graver sins pollute our strains.How kind our clief to seldom call us fools ! He views our failures undisturb'd in thought, And emiles, perchance, at ruins be hes wrought.the sky, be came to à very pour, mean neighborhood, and turned 15 at an open cntrance- way, Tanding he pushed open the door uf a room full of shaduws, where à young girl sut bend: ing by the low window, striving to catch the lost ray of daylight on her \u201cHard ait yet, Magie?about time t) uke a bieathin #80 it is, Tom, suid Mar ue she pushed back the ba bead; \u201chut 1 ork, a, There crush'd for ever lieg the rural poet, Or that which issu: d from bis teemieg gkuil; Minerva-like, as ancicnt fubles show it, hing, from her fore His brain was big with ode, with sonnets full; night, 1 have lost ro much time lately.But now, alas! the world can tever kuow it, Tia morning I hud a faint turn, and wis, He fondly thought himself the sacred bull, obliged to lie down fur au hour, It put me The true Osiris : \u2014here the wicked laugh, Lack a great deal.\u201d And say be is at most & Llatart calf.i + ls tue pun iu your back worse 2! w voice softened without his knowing it.\u2018 : Ç «No, not much ; but Mra.Spaulding came, A common editor appears to bim Likeformer popes, wbo ruled a deztn thrones, Or hideous heathen tyrant tierce as grim, Whose music most esteemed is sighs and groans ; Where in his gloomy sanctum, drear and dim, He sits astride a pile of buman bones, Ard sll who dare to outrage sense or style, He instant dooms to that rejected pile.before I could get it to suit her.to stand long on my feat.dress.She says Leads and satin pipin, ] it out here, v.There also lies the city poetaster, Or there his batter part is represented ; Hin pauper thoughta be looh'd upon as vaster Than ever paper bore or brain invented ; Yet prudence would have sav'd the sad disaster : Ales! he rush'd to press like one demented, So fi:es the silly moth at scorcLing light, And sore disabled crawls a sorry sight.to sew on.\u201d You don't know, Magie, how I hate the wear on their dresses, Every bead seems like a tear that has trickled from the eye of some poor, overworked dressmaker or seamstress Mrs.Spaulding always frets aud mukes you miseralle when ehe comes.1 suppose she wonld have evergthing in the 1 atest atyle, if it cust the last difp of blood in | your body.\u201d ¢ Don't ta'k inthat war, Tom.Youkuow I could not get along without her work.She s°ems unreasunable aud frelty sometiméa, to te sure; but no doubt she lias a good many things to tiy her.To day she was teiling me how the cuok kef: last night, and the cham: bermaid this morning, and how unrrateful everybody is.I sometimes think, if we knew i people's worries and vexations, we should This dreadful fate 18 not their final doom, | pity justead of blaming them.\u201d ; \"Tis better than to waëte i:1 slow decay : That's you sil over, Mugrie, trying to The monthly term bas come to clear tbe room; lind an excuse foreveryhody's fauits.1 dun't The Inst, the fata).inal, doomfui day, \u2014 eare à flip for Mre.Spaulding this evening, at Devouriog fire must every acrup consume.anyrate.It's Saturday night; and no school; With mocking gibes, to gatter far away, 50 I shall stay at home with yon.\u201d We will They bear the \u201cBasket\u201d ;\u2014woe to scribe and tuck away her #ilk ekirts and ftummididdles, lover, ! and think no more ab ut ber.\u201d A lurid flame goes up, and all is over.\u201cBut I must work, Tom.\" ! «No, you must not, and sha'l not.vi There lie the lines to melt ungentle maids, Enigmas dark, and morals done in rhyme, Diluted, prosy essays of all grades, | From middling dowa to literary crime; Thro\u2019 realms of thought are made audacious raids, That lack that fatal \u2018\u2018step\u201d of the sublime.Here blasted hope bas reach'd i's last ab ode, Essay on canto piled, sonnet on ode.VIL Sit Vill O ever-glorious, placid self-conceit, If anexpos'd, thou soothest every care : The little thou mak'st great, the bitter sweet, Excepting sense, what can with thee compare?But trial cczaes, ensuring our defeat, \u2018The source of all our comfort proves our snare.Outshone at once, we find our little taper, Aud cloudy castles turned to thinner vapor, while I light tiie lamp.\" Maggie quietly vbeved.It rather pleased her to Be ordered round by Tom.When the lamp was lit, Tom thought it time to display his treasure.«See what I have brought you,\u201d said he, holding up the rose.\u201c\u2018O Tom! this is just what I have been x, longing for - lag.ow beautiful; how > exquisite ! hat lovely buds! nd Mag- Let pe vabaipz posts take pére true; je pressed the flower to her lips in childish In fact, we did it al our own expense, elight.\u201c This is little bit of heaven, Tom ; And hope it may be sanctifisd to you, yoa don't know how'it rests me.It smells The very few who write with sterling sense, exactly like (hat l\u2019rince-Albert rose that used Possess a knowledge that we never knew ;\u2014 | to bloom under the south windows of our old To speak of these, we feel unequal, rathen homestead in Kden.I've heen thinking For one should know the most to judge another.about that very rose to-day.It seems ax R.¢.though, every now and then, a whiff of the Stanbridge, C.E.! dear old perfume came throngh the window, ees i mingled with odors of new-mown bay and ONLY A ROSE.clover blossoms, BY AUGUSTA LARNED.Roses, roses, everywhere! loses twining over the balcony, coquetting with the dark alone, laying their soft blushing faces against the fine lace of the parlor windows, hanging wreaths and garlands above the doorway, sporting and making merry in a perfect ros jubilee, Little Girace came bounding from the bal.cour, in the early dusk of a June evening, 3 ith her ha.ds full of buds and blossoms.#0 mamm! there's a poor boy out there, | leaning over the fence, and gazing up at the roses as if he worshipped them, Can't I give bim one?! # You romantic little thing, what do you suppose that boy cares about à rose?He would pull it to pieces or throw it away in less than five miuutes ; besides, 1 do not wish you to speak to such people *\u2019 \u201cHe isn't a beggur, mamma.His clothes are clean, and he has à true, good fuce.think 8 rose would make bim happy; and, you know, you have always told me it is my duty to make people happy when I can do so by a little act of kindness.\u201d \u201cYou sre a silly little puss ; but I eur pose must have your own way this time.\u201d Thank you, mamma, Now, let me see: which one shall I choose to give him?The: are all so pretty, so aweet; but this, 1 think, is the ver prettiest that hes bloomed on the vine,\u201d She heldup à lovely half-blown rose, that glowed among its rich leaves, with three shy buds beside st, like a group of hashful children clinging to an elder sister's skirta.Tom\u2014for that was the boy's name\u2014still stood Jeaning idly over the rail, when Grace ised herself on the tips of her bronze boots, ust three steps from the pavement, lier curls lowing back, snd quite a glow of excitement on her beautiful face, sighed.\u201cBut you haven't told me, Tom, where you got this rose.\u201d It wan an alventure, Mazgie,\u2014a splendid one.all about it.\u201d watching Tom get tea.work.cups and plates on the table, belterskelter, in boy fashion, \u201cSee what we up with sugar, will be prime.\u201d Maggie's left hand ga to the table.A boy's rough made for such things, eTohal I the table,\" said she.have a feast for & king.\" gotten ber weariness and ti \u201cNow for (be adventure,\u201d cried she ; «1 do so long to hear it.\u201d \u201cWell, Maggie\u201d\u2014Tom ves engaged in eutting a thicl that formed the principal part of their meal\u2014 ~\u2014 street, and stop grand house to take breath, and look the roses that covered it, wh tripping down the brown-stone steps, aud offered me this rose.\" \u201cYou are joking, Tom.\u201d \u201cNo lam not: Ÿ is the sober truth.\" \u201cWhat & dear, kind little soul she must |, \u201cOhl vers much indeed ; replied Tom, & tures.He touk the rore, thanked her, and Grace stood and watched him go down the !atreet.He is quite little gentleman, thought Tom's feelings were in a pleasant whirl, uo doubt, for it was quite upselting to be so But there was one thought that kept beating and beating in his heart, like some dear old until, inthe brown dusk, grown browter with gas-lumps lighting up, und stars kiudtiox in Up the steps two ut a time; at the I think it's fer! busied und nersois to- Tom's; and I had to rip the work out three times She is so particular, and you know it always hurts me | Besides, she wanis the trimiving changed ou her short are all the rage in Paris, and she means tu bring There are twenty-tive yards of * pipiag to make, and it tried my poor head to count up the hundreds of beads I should have sight of that shiny, sparkling stuff the ladies : here in this rocking-chair and rest yourself I'm afraid such fancies take away my epirit for work,\u201d Maggie half- Wait until I get tes, and you shall know Maggie sat still, enjoying the rose and t was very funny indeed to see the vigorous way he went 10 First, he set the water boiling over a spiritlamp, just about enough to make tea for a couple of robius; then he (lushed the bave for a treat to-night, Maggie,\u201d and two great oranges came lum.bling out of his jacket pocket.** These, sliced ve the fine touches AW Was not I put the rose in my chine vase, right here in the middle of\u2019 4 Now, I am sure, we They sat down as merry aa lerke.Tom was full of pranks, and Maggie had quite for- En bad pain in lier slice from the baker's loaf *\u2018on my way home to-night I came through a minute before à ur at en à lovely little fairy, in & white dress, with flaxen curls, came bave been, raid Maggie, quite touched, +I wish she could kuow how much pleasure her gift has conferred.\u201d «80 do I, 1wish something would whisper it to her in ber aleep to-night.\u201d + 1{ she only knew how mucha flower is to me,\u201d said Maggie.\u2018* [tseems just likes poem full of sweetness and sentiment, Mother loved flowers so dearly, I think 1 must huve inherited my fondness forthem.1 alwaysas- sociate her with a lily, just as she used to look moving round in her white dress among ths roses aud carnations of the garden at our ol! home.That was beture father's mis fortune.You were too Joung to remember much about thuse days.\u2019 \u201c Youseem always thinking of them, and of Kilen,\u201d \u201c Yes, Tom, it was a true Paradise to me.| go back there every day, and visit the very | birds\u2019 nests I used 10 have under my special protection.\u201d « I'll tell you what, Maggie, I havea plan in my head, which I shall live to carry out, When | yrow up and get rich enough, [ mean to buy back the old place, and take you hone\u201d + What a dreamer you are, Tom.\u201d I #Nu, l'an not a dreamer, il | am persevering, und slick to good steady babi s, à slrall Le sure to succeed iu business, And you koow 1 haves motive in earning money but to spend it un I eliould kate myrelfit 1 did not always bave you before iy eyes, slaving away, up in this dark, dingy room, where the sun never shines.Cheer up, Maggie: you shall have lots of sunshine in your life yer.\u201d Magrie laid her hand on Tom's, and turned away her face.There was sumething shin ing there che did not care to have anybody see.\u201c And now, Magyie, I bave à great big piece of good news tor you.My wages have been raised two dollars a week.Unly think of it, eight dollars & month is quite & little fortune !\u201d \u201cHow glad I am, Tom.You must go at once and buy a swnmer jacket; [ do su hate to see you sweltering in that thick winter one,\u201d \u201cNo, indeed, I shall do no such thing.This isa jolly old coat.| conldu\u2019t work ha't so well in any other.liut l have a use {or the money.1 am going to get that medicine the doctor ordered you to take, \u201cTom!\u201d \u201cNo protesting.I am the nine-tailed ba shaw, and what 1 order must be done, on pain of death, But I have not told you the best part of my newsyet, After the first of July, the store ix to be closed every Saturday afternoon at thiee o'clock; thes ho! for Central Park! We cau atford car-fares now.A quarter won't seem 68 large 10 us as it has sometitnes, | went to see your feet in the grass again, Muggie.1 guess weshall find the sky just us big and blue now as it used to be when we were litle shavers, playing round the dear old homestead.\u201d Maggie's eyes glistened and ran over.¢ How rood the Lord is to me !\u2019 she mur- muted half to herself.\" ++ So I think, Maggie, when Tlook at you.\u201d ** We are richer than millions could make us in loving each other so dearly, Tom; und that all comca from his band too.\u201d They sat with full hearts for a moment, without speaking, when a neighboring bell began ringing the hour.\u201cNine o'clock,\u2019 said Maggie, ufter she had counted the strokes as they fell.\u2018How quickly the eveniug has passed, and how pleasant it has been! I don't know when 1 have felt so light bearted and happy.It must bave been that rose, Tom\u2014only a rose! If we ever do prosper, and grow well-off in the world, I hope we shall no\u201d.lose the secret of extracting en.Joyment from little things.\u2014 Independent .WHO KINDLETH THE FIRE?UY REY.THEO, One article in the © sic law\u2014given from beaven\u2014is this \u2018 fire break out and catch in thorns, so tuat the stacks of corn or the s'anding corn La consumed therewith, he that kindled che fire shall surely make restitution.\u201d This statute had a peculiar necessity in such a hot, dry country as Palestine, where there was a peculiar danger from accidental conflagrations.If a man burned over his slubbie-field, it was necessary, Lefore the dry raes was lighted, to see that the wind was in the right quarter, and every precaution taken that the flames should not kindle upon the property of a neighbor, If any farmer neglected to take these precautions, and the ewifi.footed flames went careering through vineyards, und orchards, and stacks of barley, then he who kindled the fire was required to pay for the damage produced by his own care EBANEES.The sound principle that underliea this law it, that men must sutfer for the evil they do through thoughtiess recklessness, as well as for what they do with malicious intent, Men are to be held accountable, not only for the injuries which they wilfully perpetrate, but for the injuries which they occasion to others through wanton carelessness or even thoughtless indifference, The person who set his neighbor's barley-atacks on fire was required to make restitution, although he did not intend to burn him out.The responsibility comes back on bim who kindled The flames.Let us apply tbe principle of this divine en- actaent to our own times, and point out the moral dengers of playing with fire.Perhaps we may discover that some very respectable peopleare often very destructive incendiaries.1.If Linvite & group of youn men in my louse to surround a card-table, may simply design to furnish them an hour's amusement.But perhaps à lust for gambling may lie ls- tent in some young man's breast, and I may quicken it into life by my offer of & temptation.Therein fire in that pack of cards! And I deliberately place that fire amid the inflammable paseions of that youthful breast.On me reste the consequences of the act, as well as upon him whom 1 lead into tempta- !themselvea, x CUYLER, ! guests Ul the eveuing comes « man whu has (household is in a (ume of excitemert und Mr.Hall save, edie that fir?auv temptation to 30 to (he bad, like some fellows, without any : the husband and father! But to think of bit terness, angry looks, enraged temper, scolding, and complaints of cvery thing around him, makes my very blood run cold, Now, gentlemen, if you see defects in your ood wives, try kindness, and see if it won't & them more good than all the unkind words and cross looks you ever gave them, I often think I have the best huslaud in | the world.He is good and kiud to me in | sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, We are buppier than when we were married nearly twenty years ago.He uever scolds me or brings a long catalogue of complaints ; but he comes in from his daily labor in guo bumor, with a smile on his lips and à aweet kiss lor me, and eays, \u2018* Now, Suay dear, you have dune enough for to-duy; put up the work ;'* und then he seizes sweet litle Nau; with 8 shower of kisses; aud we often ait side by side and chat in the cool evening \\breezes.What woman inthe world wouldn't make such « husband u good wife ?+ Kind words are never lost.\u201d tion.The motive does not alter the result by une iota, * For evli 1s wronght by want of thought, As well us by want of heart.\u201d 2.Among social virtues, none 18 more po- pulur than that of hospitality.When bountifully practised toward he needy, it rises to the dignity of a Christian grace.And urdi- nary hospitalities may beset to the credit of a generous spirit.But here is the master or mistress of a house who spread their table with a lavish provision for the entertainment of their evening guests, Among the abundant viands of that table, the lady of the house places the choicest brands of Madeira wine, and on 8 «idebos:l she sem oui à huge bowl of juviting punch.And among the invited promised the wife of his early love that he will never again yield to his awful appetite sud turn their sweet home into a Ll, He sees the tempter in that accursed punch-bowl, und is pressed very courteously tu take a glasa.\u201d\" The fire ©\u201c catches in the dry thorns\u201d in an instant.He drinks, He goes reeling into bis own door that night, and hus whole CusTEXTION.\u2014Au old divine, cautioning the clergy against cuga ging in violent cuntro- versy, uses the following kappy shwiles: © It \u2018we will be couteuding, let us contend like the olive und the vive, who shall produce the most and hest finit: not like the aspen und the elm, which shall make the most we ize in the wind.\u201d CHILDREN'S CORNER.Tu£ Hruut.axo Boy's Farri.\u2014A traveller in scotiand observed zome choice and rare lauts growing on the edge of a precipice.e could uot reach them, Lut offered to a little Highland boy a hundsons present.if he would cousent to be lowered to the spot by a rope round bis waist.The boy lesitated, He looked at the mouey, and thought of all that it would purchase, for his parents were poor, aod their home had tew of the comforts of life; but then, as he glanced atthe terrible recipice, he shuddered and drew back.At ength his eye brightened, and be said, with decision, \u201c l'il go if futber will bold the rope.\u201d And lie went.This boy's trust,\u201d eays the Rev.Dr.Vive, \u201cis à beautitul illustration of the faith which saves the soul; for, as be put bimselti uto his father\u2019s hands to be Luund with the rope and lowered down the gure to pluck the coveted flowere, 80 must you put yourself into Chiist'8 terror and agony and shume.Noir who Let her who pat that bottie to her neishbor's Eps mike suswer! According to the Jewish law, the inc-ndiary was required to pay the damases of the eons flugration.llut what \u2018 restitution can be made fur a ruined character, a desoluted home, or a broken heart?If my house and its contents are destroyed by tite, the insur BOCE cumpany may restore my pecuniary loss.But they canuot replace the precious keepsakes und the relics of the loved and lost which ny dwelling contained.To-day there are thousands of human bouses in New York and Brooklyn that ure on fire! Ju tlrese burning bodies of our fellow-men ure precious things beyond the weulth of Ophir.\u2014hopes, | talents, faculties, and affections, * * * %; Who kindied those fires?We answer that - every one who tempts another to the eocial glass is a partner in producing the conflagration.Who feed the fires?Unquestionably the venders of strong drink, who, for lucres suke, deal out the liquid flames of-perdition.The proprietors of the 10,000 drinking-saloons in our (win cities do not aim to kill their fel- ' low-meu.But they do kill them, whatever he their secret motives in pursuing their nbo- winuble traflic, At the Lur of God they will be, held responsible, And let me inquire just \u201c here whether those Christian citizens who do, Bhids to Le pardoned.not evenlift a fingertosustain the law which; True Rep Lise \u2014A beautiful block ot hauts the grogselle\u201ds fires duriny God's own marbie was brought me vears ago all the Sabbath ure not themselves partially guilty ; WAY from Paros, for the great sculptor, Ca for some of the consequences of the wide.|11ova, to fashion iuto statue of the great spread contlagration ?Napoleon.It was very pure and beautifa), 3.The artitlery of this divine law a rainst | and Canuva was proud of having sucha splen- incendiarism hus u wide range.It is pointed ' did blcck of marble to work upon.And be against that social nuisauce, the slanderer.thought of how he would coon fashion that \u201cBehold how great a matter hig little fire rough-hewn block into an elegant and vrace- kindleth!\u201d The utterance of evil reports ful figure, and how it would stand in the may be well likened to playin z with tire.For | King's pulace, and be admired by thousands there is but a spark required to set 8 whole 'and thousands, Dut just when he was about neighborhood in ablaze; nud when the flame to commence working upon it, bis «ve dis.gets under way it is beyond all human control.| covered a tiny red line running down \u2018une of No matter hat the spark may have been: its sides.It was a very little one, and many lighted without malicious motive.The ugly people would have th nirat nothing about it; scorch upon the commercial iutegrity of the but Cunova said, \u2018 L cannot work upon this, merchant,or upon the good name of the Chris- It bas a flaw.It is not perfectly pure and tian minister, or upon the reputation of the white.I will not lay my chisel upen ie.\u201d young maiden, may not have bien the Andhedidnot, So, lear chillren, will it be prompting of wiltul malignity: nevertheless, the With your souls.1 there is on them the small- scorch is there: and somebody struck the es! 1aiut of sin when you die, God will say, spark.\u20181 cannot receive this soul.Itis not per A careless word sometimes makes irreme- fectly pure.No: there must not be the faint diable mischief.I bave read that a fooliek est red line, bat they must be perfectly pure young English clerk\u2014fond of practical jokes and white, and there is only one way by which \u2014once said to a friend, \u2018 Have you heard they can become 80, and that is by their be- that E\u2014\u2014 & Co, the bankers, have stop- ing washed in the blood of Jesus.\u2014 Children's d payment?\" He merely meant that the Monitor.nking-house had, as usual, closed up for the - night, But he amused himself by seeing how he had startled his friend.He did not stop to explain bis real meaning.His friend men- | tioned the alarming report to another; the rumor spread, Next day there was a \u201crun upou the bauk,\u201d and Messrs.E\u2014 & Co,, | were obliged to suspend payment! The silly youth did not mean to burn down the commercial credit of a prosperous house : he only | meant to amuse binsell by playing with fire, : And a kindred mischief to bis is perpetrated ' by every one who retails contemptible gossip, | or gives birth to a scurrilous slander.\u201cAn abomination to the Lord is the false witness | RIDDLES.No.277, Tam composed of 14 letters \u2014 My 4, 9, 1, 6, 14, 10 is an oblivious person.My 11, 2, 14, 12, 10, 3 is one of the seasons.My 8,7, 14, 4, 8,12, 10, 3 is a metal box.My 0, 3, 2, 5, 10 is a clamor, My 8, 13, 3, 14 is à grain.My 1, 4, 14, 2, B, 12, 10, 3 is evil.My 8, 6, 14, 12, 13, 9 ie & town in China, My whole will name an Buglish philosopher.No.278, A On four feet, whether I tua or jump or who speaketh lies, and he that soweth dis- | or ph jump walk cord among brethren.\u2019 I am only a fool ; 4.This law agaivat incendinrism applica to \u2014Change my Brat; if I saw or cut or brugh every utterance of spiritual error and iufide- | or sweep, lity.\u201d He who utters a devilish suggestion to 1 am atill but à tool ; corrupt the innocence of chastity sets fire to |-\u2014Cbange again: if you wish to make your a passion, anl becomes the incendiary of a sweetheart weep, soul.He who scatters a pernicious litera.And are such a silly elf, ture comes under the same condemnation.As to drown yourself; He who sows scepticism, by tongue or jen, Very well; Tam a pool.sets tire to {he +» standing corn\u201d of righteous | No.279, opinion.Beware how you play with the : spurks of falsehood ! Beware how sou play eon red or ep ear ab toc, vith re of wicked suggestion, that way g), hi | i kindle a blaze of sig in another's heart! Be- ack, ou eam BT =a, brows, oo, i warg how you Hing an infidel thought among I'm made for you, my lord, and worn with ease, the growing barley of a young aud sensitive Now short aud thick as skin of Russian bear; mind! For, in the day of final reckoning, Now advertised as * light\" for summer wear, you will be cailed up to answer to the ues nde A Like proud Darius, or Thelestris\u2019 tante, son, Who kindled the fire?\u2014The 1 bave been called, P'r'aps falsely, to, \u201cthe pendent.reat.\u201d - The cause of strife was [ in days long flown, A GOOD BUSBAND, BY svsy, And \u201choly\u201d I've beea held abroad, you'll own.\u201cKind words are never lost.\u201d I'm out sometimes, I'm steamed, too, and I'm Toften see articles about the good wife, and pressed, And hy the Pope ere mow I have been blessed.Arms have carried, nay, I bsar them still ; what she must do to make her lusband happy; but rarely anything about a good husband and what he must do to please bis wife.I Legs 1 ne'er had, but can be moved at will, Now in succession three fresh heads supply, A vessel, tben a quadruped, you'll spy, bave baen & wife and mother for nearly twenty Ald last a ditch an ancient fortress round, years, and I believe have done a in my À safeguard once, but now a grassy mound.power to make my husband and children bap.Bebead meas I finieh, 1 sball be | py, and I must say that nothing so much adds 4 common grain which [a the fields you'll se.tom: happiness a8 a kind word fron: my hus.No.280.ban ,, à kind look, & kind act.Oh, how| What is the largest room in the world?cheering, after a hard day's toil at the washtub, or the wheel, or the loom, or the hot tire eosking for harvest hands, or a sleepless night with & sick babe,~\u2014liow cheering is a ANSWERS TO RIDDLES.No.274 \u2014Be len, tea, see.No.276.00\" Pen, Tem tet, kind word and à sweet kiss and a smile from No, 276.\u2014Gander, Fesrvary