The Montreal witness, 1 août 1868, samedi 1 août 1868

[" COMMERCIAL REVIE W AND FAMILY NE JE = WSPAPER.Vou.XXIII.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1868.No.62.« Advocates\u2019 Library\u201d there.In answer, I emphatically deny that any sheet such as described is to be found in the Advocates\u2019 Library.From a personal examination, made in the Advocates\u2019 Library some six months ago, I could discover no such original, nor any shest of the National Covenant of any importance save one, dated 1639, which appeared to be a renewal of the Covenant of 1638, signed chiefly by the same noblemen and others previously subscribing (but in this instance in their character as Parliamentary representatives), and of which a CORRESPONDENCE.PAYMENTS DEFERRED.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Sim, \u2014I hear it is intended by the retail grocers to get up a list of all debtors who, from their position in society, get into debt, and when the grocer wants his money, he is told, By and by ; that it was so expensive to move in and out to the country that he must wait until whatever time it suite the debtorto pay.And others that are protected by the Government, will tell them photo-zincograph some time ago was made by to do their best.Now, I think that the retail ; the Ordnance-Survey office, and exhibited as a thoemakers and clothiers should join with the | fae simile of the National Covenant of Scotland.grocers and furnish a list that would perbaps (4 that sheet there are not over 300 names.prevent some parties in future from doing honest Another unsupported assertion Thomas McNab men out of their goods.Yours, makes is, that \u201c there were many hundred copies HosssTY.made, of which the document now in this city [A good remedy would be to sell for cash.\u2014 ! may very possibly be one.\u201d Thomas McNabiss Ed.) | superior authority to history._\u2014 | Everybody understands, Mr.Edisor, that the PENIANISM, | term * signing the Oovenent\u201d bas reference as touch tothe matter of the bond sa to the sheet or sheets on which the matter is indorsed.In that sents, no matter how many sheets containing duplicates of the text of the Covenant there may have bren made, each sheet signed by different parties claims to be as much an origina! a3 the other ; while, at the same time, it would quire coliected together the total namber of sheets signed,to form the Grand National Covenant of Bootland.Genuineness admitted, it only remains & question for antiquarians to settle comparative values.Here, then, are the claims to importance preferred for the parchment I possess.Its a large sheet; it bears the date 1638 ; it contains the leading noblemen's names, with about 400 names of individuals of more or less note, subscribing \" for\u201d different places surrounding Edinburgh, and scattered over nearly one.balf of Scotland, which ehows unmistakably that it could have been begun to be signed as a 1ceal sheet, but must have been signed at a common gathering such as the one in Edinburgh in 1638.To this description I may add tbat the document contains many of the names of persons who afterwarda sign as representatives the sheet in the Advocates\u2019 Library.Whether one or more sheets were likely to be subscribed in Ediaburgh on the great occasion may be beat supposed from the fact that 60,000 persons, as history computes, were then areembled together.If then,the sheet which I hold be oue of tbe few originale (not copies) begun to be signed in Edinburgh in 1638 (as learned critica have believed, and as I claim for it nothing more), I am content\u2014* Thomas McNab\u201d and long list of authoritios notwith- standing-to dote over my \u201c treasure\u201d with undiminished faith and affection without danger of deluding either myself or an intelligent public.1 em, sir, your obd\u2019t.servant, d a.Hontreal, 21st July, 1868, [We can give no more space to this matter.Ep.Wit] (To the Editor of the Witness.) Moran Caxrag, Essex Co, N.Y, July 24, 1868.Bin, \u2014Bupposing you would like to know wkat is going on in regard to Fenianism here about, I take the liberty to inform you that several attempts bave been made in this town to form am organization this summer, but ali have proved failures thus far, and, if other localities were no more successful than this one, Oanads may quiet ber fears.The leaders are loud in their boasta; but they fail, or have -hitherto, to get material here.Respectfully yours, Marruxw Darcas, Formerly of 47th Regt., H.B.M.Army.BEMARES, {There has never, we think, been the alightest cause for apprehension concerning Fenianism anywhere since the agssssination of Mr, McGee, snd the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred \u2014Ep.] THE BAPTIST CHURCH AT WESTERLY.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Dean Sm,\u2014In your paper of June 19th, under the heading * Intolerance,\u201d after commenting on the exclusion of G.H.Stewart, of Philadelphia, from the Reformed Presbyterian Church, for singing * Rock of Ages\u201d and \u201c communing with other denominations,\u201d you reflect sharply on the supposed sing of the Baptists as follows :\u2014 \u201c This is a fitting accompaniment for the cutting off of the Baptist church at Westerly, Rhode Island, for participating in a communion season with other .churches of that place as the result of a glorious revival of religion.\u201d Permit me to say that an editor, and a \u2018\u201ccatholic one\u201d as you claim to be, should, when censuring 8 religious denomination, be careful about the grounds on which he does so.You have in some way been very erroneously informed about Westerly.The Baptist Oburch there never communed with other denominations, It never was \u201ccut off\u201d by tue Baptists, nor even censured by them.Oa the contrary, few ministers in Rhode Island sre more highly esteemed than my old friend, Frederick Dennison of the Westerly Church, and few churches are more heartily upited with the Baptists of that honored little State than the Weaterly Church.Permit me to say, in conclusion, that I have locked upon you as a man of firm and decided convictions, and I have honored you for it; but it seema to me that true liberality requires you cordially to admit that other Christian men may have firm and decided convictions also, and yet tbat they may be no more chargeable with bigotry and intolerance than you are yourself.Bigotry and intolerance are matters which pertain to the spirit of men, and not to their creed.And mssuredly no man can cure either of these serious faults, unless he himself showa a spirit free from these grievous evils.1am, very truly, R.A, Fra.Breadaibane, June 20th, 1868.[The statement rerpecting the Baptist Church in Westerly, R.L, to which we referred, appeared prominently in many of the religicus papers of the States, and did not, so far as we saw, meet with auy contradiction.We, therefore, bad no doubt of ite truth until we received the above letter.In our paragraph we also alluded to the case of Mr, Tyng; but we did not enter into the abatract question in the case either of the Reformed Presbyterian, the Episcopalian, or the Baptist denominations, all of which, we presumed, had sated perfectly conscientiously,\u2014Eb.] BEE-CULTURE.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Sa, \u2014For & number of years ! have devoted much time and attention to the study of the honey-bee, aad have found it à business abounding with interest to the lover of nature ; and I think that the time is not far distant when bee- culture will become an important branch of rural economy in the Dominion of Canada.Buta few years ago and this industrious insect was almost unknown in this part of the country.Now, however, it is quite different.In many hum from early morn till night.That knowledge and attention are necessary for their proper management, but little experience is required to prove.Iu visiting the various bee-keepers throughout the country, I best are the ones that speak the loudest of their success.Those who adopt such mottoes ag, \u201clet the bees alone,\u201d or \u201c give them their own way,\u201d are pretty gure, ere long, to pronounce bees a nuigance, and bee-keeping & humbug.Sometimes, however, in favorable seasons, their maxims almost appear to carry with them some weight; but when reverses come, and they are called to contend againat difficulties which they do not understand, they are pretty sure to regret, in thelr dilemma, their lack of apiarian Knowledge.Much has been done by inexperienced bee keepers to unfavorably impress the public as to tbe value of bees.By them many colonies are sent out not fit for stock-hives in any way, and {lt success inevitably follows.Otber persons in the vicinity, who might, were the circumstances different, become successful apia- riaug, take note of these failures, and determine to have nothing to do with & business in which they very naturally conclude many must fail where one succeeds.On those who think of keeping bees I would places the air is enlivened with their merry Red Pi: al find that those who understand their business M: THE NATIONAL COVENANT OF 8SC0T- LAND.(To the Editor of the Daily Witness.) Sin, =\" Thomas McNab\u201d must be a very indefatigable man.Itisherd to undersiand how be could exert himself to such à degree in this hot weather, unless to prove himself to be a ve: learned person.As & champion for Scottis nationalities, not only Montreal, but Scotchmen on the wholes American continent, ought to feel considerably indebted to him for correcting their Jgnoranes- One thiog is at least now evident, jat he seems quite ns anxious to annibilate your subscriber © 0.0.\u201d by a flourish of trum- pete as be is to establish the history of the important Scottish National Bond.Another thing is equally clear, tbat what information he now a he did not possess at the time he wrote his first letter.It in pitiable to see & man coming forward to set the public right on a subject on which he himself displayed more ignorance than they.Bat Thomas McNab must of course go beyond bis authorities, None of the latter take notice of the place where the alleged original is deposited, but their quoter assumes It for them.** In Bdin- Large be asserts in one lace, and io another ke finds (he does not say bow) thatit is in the impress the importance of buying only, when possible, of some reliable, practical bee-kesper who understands the condition of each stock in bis possession.The advantages of doin, gumerous, There are 80 many things that detract from the value of a stock that every available means should he used to guard against them.Two hives standing side by side may appear equally good and prosperous, while one is actually worth double or treble the other.The queen may be barren, or there may be no queen at all; foul-brood may be working its destruction ; the bee-moth may bave obtained à foeting in it ; or too large à proportion of the comb msy be drone-comb, rendering it for ever after profitiess.These niceties, with many others, purchasers know nothing about, neither do the inexperienced, from whom they are buying.Otber advantages [ will not take space to mention, but will merely say that, from a person of practical knowledge, enough information can generally be obtained at one interview to insure success till thers is an opportunity to study the business in detail ; while, from others, about all ebtained is directions to let the boss take their own course, and wait patiently the coming of \u201cluck.\u201d The severity of the past winter tested pretty thoroughly the merits of out-door wintering bees.The \u201cdormant state,\u201d so strongly advocated by some bee-ksepers as saving honey, still continues deep and unbroken.Spring, with all its beauties, bas, as yet, failed to arouse the sleepers to revel in the abundance of their almost unbroken stores.It is to be hoped that those who have lost one-third of their bees will think about the matter; that those who have lost one-half will look to the cause; and that those who have lost all will not quit the business in disgust, but will \u201ctry again,\u201d giviog their willing servants such protection as will insure their safe passage through our rough and boisterous winters, Mine were wiotered in a cellar prepared for the purpose, with ample ventilation.During the four months they were housed, \u2014from the first of Dacember to the first of April,\u2014there was but 8 logs of five bundred to the hive, and an average consumption of honey of nine pounds.If any person can report as satisfactorily of outdoor wintering, without any protection, I would be pleased to hear from them, sa I would then bave one exception to what I have set down as rule.G.C.Miia.Mount Hanley, N.8., June, 1868, QUEBEC CORRESPONDENCE.Quesec, July 24.Business has shown more signa of activity during the past week, end sales to a large extent bave bern made, both of staple and other Roods.Country buyers are coming in, and, ss the prospects of better crops are now more cheering, a good midsummer and fall trade is expected.PORT OF QUEBEC, The arrival of sailing vessels at this season continues to outnumber those of last year.Five bundred and twenty vessels, forming 310,485 tons, have arrived here up to dats, against 464 vessels and 303,723 tons at the corresponding date last year, being a difference in favor of this year of 56 vessels and 6,772 tons.Of ocean éteamers, 27 have arrived, forming 33,078 tons, against 24 stesmers and 30,372 tons luat year, showing a difference of three steamers and 2,930 tons more to date.There appears to be a large falliog-off in the arrivals from the Lower Provinces this season.STATEMENT OF ARRIVALS AND TONNAGE, Comparative statemeut of arrivals and jonnage at aebec, from sea, in 1867 and 1888, up aly :\u2014 1567.vessels.004,723 tons, 1568\u2014520 % ,.B10,485 ¢ More 5% 4772 tons more this year.Number of ocean steamers which arrived to this date, and to corresponding date lust year :\u2014 IR67\u201421 steamers.80,148 tons.1868\u201427 + 83,078 * More 2,930 tons more this year.Comparative statement of arrivala and tonnage from the Lower Provinces up to date, aud corresponding date last year :\u2014 1887\u20141M vessels, 10,848 tons, 15@8\u2014 72 \"\" 7,401 \u20ac Less 23 2,914 less this year.BUPERVISOR OF OULLERS' OFFICE.Comparative Staternent of Timber, Masts, Bow.sprita, Spars, Staves, &c., measured avd culled to date :\u2014 1866, 1887.1868, Waney White Pine 1,012,058 450,484 283,21 White Pine.6608400 4107.9 92,6551 ne.a 176018 185,002 DIS RS G62 116502 887 257,789 \"644,55 7270 1%.8,77 5, 1452 102108 4150 M6 W4 837,108 4m 71853 1094317 sa di 092.3 007.6.1,18 1814.5.2 19 267, WM.QUINN, 8upervi QUEBEC, July 24, 1868, TH TIMBER TRADE.During the past fortnight, there have been tome large sales of White Pine, and prices remain otiff.Although not much may be left in consequence of the low water, still, the effect of the drought is perceptible, as rafts are delayed from five to six weeks in reaching market, and our stock of White Pine being low, holders are firm, and as timber arrives, if of good quality, it is placed at full prices.The prices realized lately, are Tid to 74d.for 50 feet; Bd.to 9d.for 85 to 69, and for 70 to 75, 10d.to 104d.fred Pine=-ls gre-tly reduced in stock, and were it not for its continued depression in the English markets would command more attention.Oak\u2014Oontinues to arrive in quantity, and is very little inquired for.Elm is in good demand, and the same may be said of Tamarac of fair size and quality, Staves\u2014Both Standard and Puncheon, especially the former, are dull and depressed.Deals\u2014Continue scarce and high, Pine particularly, and the continued dry weather curtails the quantity manufactured.Freighta=\u2014Ate ncarce, few vessels offering, sod although we bave not heard of anything over 26s.6d.for Liverpool or the Clyde, we do not believe any tonnage can be procured unless at advanced rates; 282.bas been given for Bristol, and 29s.for Sharpness Point ; London, 81s, for timber, and 80s, for dry deals.Since writing the above 17s.bas been given for Liverpool, J.Bast Fossrru & Co, GENERAL TRADD.Now that most of the vessels with general cargoes have arrived, wholesale deslers bave extensive and varied stocks, sales sre more readily elected, and purchasers are buying freely.Coals and salt continue to arrive daily; the stock is anutually heavy, and prices consequently rule ow.Brl.Slaves.TEN WEATHER has at last padergone & change, the temperature being much cooler, copious rain baving fallen + accompanied with heavy thunder snd vivid lightoing.Large quantities of hay bave been |ituated on the third Boor of the rear of the building.All the furniture of this room safely housed in this vicinity, and crops generally | was destroyed, sud the roof sbove fell intc look well.The timely rain will have a good it, but the floor remained almost unirjured.A effect, and & more cheering prospect prevails at | fireman belocging to No, 5 Station, named Mann, present, SirLeY NEW AND SUPERB SLEEPING-CAR.| The Vermont Central Railway Company bave | wag in this room when the roof fell in, and was obliged to jump ont of the window, and by the fali be received serious ivjuries on the head and a cut upon one of hia wrists, He was taker to Dr.Horsey's and is doing well.Two other just put upon their line & new sleeping-oar | firemen, named Johnson and D xon, narrowly of extraordinary comfort, convenience, and taste, Tu these days of railway travel when a night bas so frequently to be spent on the road, the placing of one of these cars thereon attains to the rank of an event; and to chronicle the same, and describe the amount of material comfort connected therewith, combined with a dieplay verging upon tbe magnificent, is fully worthy of the appropriation of time and space which we devote to it.The car to which we refer ls some forty-six feet in length, and contains twenty-two double berths, capable of accommodating forty-four persons.The fittings are of the richeat character, the main body of the interior wood-work of the car being black walnut, with chesnut panelling.Stout Brussels carpeting covers the Aoor, while the curtains\u2014so distinctive a feature in sleeping cars\u2014are alternately of figured crimson snd blue damask.The seats are covered with crimeon silk-plush, and at night serre as a basis for the lower bed; whilst the roof of the car is of 8 most delicate tint, tastefully frescoed in illuminated colors, and lighted by elongated panels of stained glass; the whole with ita many pendant lamps, having a tone of oriental luxury and repose.\u2018The mechanism whereby ao much comfort, convenience, and display, ia con- doused, so to speak, within the limits of railwsy- car, may not be of much moment to thesleepy traveller therein.Bat in the present instance it may be stated, that the surface for the lower tier of beds is obtained on a somewhat new principle, namely, by drawing out towards the front that which is simply a sest by day, and at the same time lowering horizontally, to the same level, the back of the same, the mattress being laid on the broad surface thus obtained.On a shelf above this are stowed away the mattress, pillows, sheets, and coverles for the two beds, these articles being covered d'ring the day with a rich valance of figured crimson and blue.At esch end of the car is a large mirror, also a washroom and water-cloget, respectively for ladies and gentlemen ; and at one end, beyond sll these, is a closet containing the different caangen of bed linen.The body of the car is lighted with three lamps.There is also 8 lamp in each wagh-room and water-closet; the light being fornished from sperm candles, as being safer then kerosene, the candle itself requiring no attention, being contimnally forced upwards as fast as it is burned by means of a spring of coiled wire.The light from these candles is more subdued than that obtained from kerosene ; and, in order tbat the tired eyelids of the sleeper may not be 100 rudely opened by any drawing or withdrawing of the curtains, the cur- tain-books are covered with leather.Straws show in which way the wind blows, and this little circumstance shows bow carefully the company bave, in the details of these sleeping-cars, studied the comfort of those who shall travel by them.They have been built at the Company's awn workshop, at 8t.Albans, and it would seem to be difficalt to reasonably desirs more than is i bere furnished for comfort; whilst, for safety, tbe car ig furnished with one of Cramer's patent safe:y-breska; and, for health, is ventilated in géo tbe most approved manuer with Howard\u2019s ventilators, and though, it is to be prequmed, smoking ie not allowed, expectorsting bus been moat liberally provided for, a silver-plated spittoon being furnished to each section of the car.Show has, however, been by no means obtained at the expense of substance, for the mattresses and seats are stuffed with the best curled bair, and the cost of the entire vehicle is not less than $10,000, , Itis possible that in the foregoing sketch we may bave omitted a few of the minutiæ which minister to the perfection of this locomotive couch, \u2014for couch it is as well as car,\u2014but each section is cozy in tbe extreme, and tbe whole may be described as a \u201c Sleepy Hollow,\u201d in which the traveller, having a weli-filied purse ands clear conscience, may bowl along \u201cThrough the ead waste and middle of the bight\u201d to Boston (and by September to New York) without changing cars, and step from it as fresh as when, in the morning, be leaves the door of his own suburban dwelling to proceed to bis office, BURNING OF THE CENTRAL HOSE STATION, At about half-past eleven Wednesday night, à fire was discovered in the upper part of the bay- loft in Oheneville street, in rear of the\u2019 Fire Station, and forming a portion of that building.The firemen belonging to the Station at once attached the hose to the bydrant in the building, and, carrying the hose upstairs, played upon the flames.It was to no purpose, however, for the fire gained upon them until is reached the front part of the building.Owing to the great height at which the fire was raging, there was some difficulty in reaching it effectually with water, The fire burned with extreme ferceness in the tear of the building, where stands a sort of tower, within whiob the hose are kept suspended.By great exertions these were saved.All the reserves were called out, and soon there were nearly a dozen atreams playing upon the build- Ing; but at such a great disadvantage were the firemen obliged to work, that the fire, in spite of them, crept siong under the roof toward Craig atreet, and it was not until a hose was carried upon the roof of the adjoining building (Mr, Parson's) that the progress of the flames in this direction could be arrested.After extraordinary exertions and display of personal bravery on the part of the firemen, the flames were subdued.Tt seemed that the principal damage had been dons to the Firemen's Hall,\u2014a large room | escaped with their lives after placing themselves ia a position of great danger.In the second story below the hall, the fireman Jobnson lives with bis family.All escaped uninjured, but bis furniture is much damaged by water, and was not insured.The building itself was insured for $4,000, and Chief Bertram's furniture, which was injured coly by water, was also insured.Noone can give any explanations a8 to the cause of the fire.The firemen of this station, unusually active and vigilant, were sitting in front of the building all the evening, aud the fiest intimation they had of the fire wads spark.falling from the loft to the stable.The firemen think it must have taken from the garret, but the master of this station, Johnson, never allowed any one in this garret.Two or three daya ago be found the scuttle of the garret which opens to the roof, unaccountably open, whea he shut it up and gave strict ordera for no ons to interfere with it, but it is belisved to have been open again last night.About nine months ago, s fire broke out in this identical place, but was soor extinguished.ANOTIRR PIRE.Abont one o'clock, while all the tire-police were busily engaged at the central station, & fire broke out in a hay-shed on the premises occupied by Mr.Brousseau, near the corner of St.Urbain and St.Catherine streets.Two hese reels burried up from the central station, and soon had the fiames subdued.The damage was small, although the building was destroyed.The firs is sup posed to have been the work of sn incendiary to draw attention from the fire then raging at the central station, THE OTTAWA CANAL.The following letter appears in the Londor Times of the 220d of June :\u2014 \u201c 40 Old Srosd St, E., Jane 21, 1868, \u201c Sis\u2014In & recent impression (12th inst).you directed attention to the suggested opening of navigation from Lake Huron to through French River, Lake Nipissing, the Matawan, anc the Ottawa, to the St.Lawrence, which woald reduce the distance between Chicago and Montreal from 1,348 to 930 miles.\u201cThe improvement of tbe navigation between these places is a gubject of great public import- snoe, and will probably before long become « more prominent one.It involves the develop ment of the vast resources of the \u2018 Far West\u2019 of Americs, and the means by which the products are to ve brought to our shores.Grain, which is much needed and therefore dear in Europe, is so cheap there that it ia sometimes used, not as food, but as fuel.The explanation of this anomaly is very simple.The capabilities of production are almost unlimited, but the means of transport ace altogether insufficient.\u201c The Huron and Ontario Canal would not only open direct communication in ses-going vessels of 1,000 to 1,200 tons burthen, between Chicago and Liverpool, but it would become the proper and natural road for an immense traffic in the products of the West to reacb the United States, through the markets of New York and Pennaylvania by Oawego, aod Boston by Ogdensburg.This canal may in fact be regarded eg a great international requirement to weet the wants of many communities, and ita construction appears to bea commercial necessity.\u201c Yours very respectfully, \u201c W.C.MoKunxa\u201d Dsaru or TEE Rav.W.O.Buaxs.\u2014The name of this devoted missionary appears in our obituary list to-day.Intelligence of bis death, on the 4th of April, was brought by the last overland mail.Though accounts of kis illness bad been received by several of tbe latest arrivals, yet, we understand, » fatal issue was not anticipated.Some thirty years ago the name of Mr.Burns was well known over the length and breadth of Scotland tbrough his connection with the great revival movement which then took place.That movement, in fact, was originated by bis agency, and all through its course be was one of its most conapicuous, earnest, and successful promoters.Oommencing from & sermon preached by him, soon after be was licensed, in his tatber\u2019s parish of Kilayth, Ît was carried on at St.Peters, in Dundee, the pulpit of which be filled during the lamented M'Cheyne\u2019s absence on his Jewish mission, and afterwards more generally, through an itinerant mission.It is the barest truth to say that seldom, in these Inter times, bas any preaching 30 thrilled and impressed such multitudes ae bis discourses did.Even those who were doubtful a8 to some of ita effects never once questioned the purity, the unfeigned simplicity, the thorough genuineness of intent, which characterized man.His indefatigable and self-denying labors during these early years wero but an earnest of the qualities which were to distinguish his Life work.In 1847 be was ordeined as the Siret missionary of the English Presbyteriac Oburch.China was tbe field to which be was sent.For the last twenty-one years be had wrought there fearlessly, wisely, and sucoessfully\u2014having beer home only once, and that for a short period, bis return beiog necessitated by the claims upon his atteotion of a fellow-missionsry whom ho pindly accompanied.Mr.Burns was in bis Sfty-third year, baring been born at Kilsyth in 1815.He was licensed as & preacher by the Presbytery of Glasgow, in 1839.\u2014Scotch paper.[The Rev.W.C.Burns, whose death is recorded above, visited Oanads about 35 years ago, and travelled through the whole country, preaching the gospel everywhere.Kis visit will never be forgotten by those who beard bim.\u2014 En.Wir] 490 Contemporary Press.JOHN BRIGHT AT LIMBRIOK.Whilst Mr.Bright has been paying a visit to | Mr.Peabody in Ireland, the Liberal party ic Limerick bave invited him to & dinner in that fed éity, and presented him with an address, On| this occasion he was as outspoken as is usual: with him.He said (we quote from the New | York Tribune) be always desired to be a preacher of political righteousness to his countrymen, oo which, after all, the happiness of states depends.Speaking of the opinions o\u2019 those in the room THE MONTREAL WITNESS.\u2018keeps in tbe background auch wen as Dr.New- | man, sod advances to the highest post within lit gift in England so poor & creature aa the tita- lar 4 Archbishop of Westminster.\u201d It is the faction which has engrafted on the creed of the Oburob the idolatry of the Virgin and the bles- hemy of the Immaculate Conception, and on live of the Oburoh, the principle of the Pa infallibility.It represents the intense and unforgiving hatred of the clergy to the caity and independence of Italy; it is the party of Neapolitan brigandage and underground treason it is the enemy of conatitutionalism in Belgium end Austria, of liberty in France, of i : oivilization in Spain, of education in Spanish Tho pren dre ee, noue peter Irland ! America.It is the \u2018party of that famous encye- be msked the meeting to listen to him, adding ; lical which denounces every principle of liberal that an act which the parlisment of the United '20Ught and popular government ; which abhors Kingdom could pass it could also repeal, said that I:eland, like every other country in Europe, bad s right to desire national independ- enoe, but the time had not come yet for the discnssion of that subject, but he cffered to Ire- lend the reciprocity of sentiment of his countrymen, tbe members of a great and noble empire, and share in its glory mod prosperity.There might be some one who would say it was too| Lats, but be did not think go, though be merely threw out the remark as a theory, which proper legislation could realize in practice.Referring to hig sojourn inthe Valley of the Shannon, be said that Ireland could be made one of the fairest flowers on earth.He suggested to the, Imperial Parliament to undo the legislation of the last 200 years, without doing any great 1D-, jury to the ecclesiastical arrangements of the country, so as not to affect individual interests, He referred to the land question, and said his Plan was to restore to the farming classes a proprietary right without any spoliation of the in- {ereats of the present owners of the soll.Speaking of the Established Church, he said that it} was to tbe earnest, thoughtful, and honeatly- ; minded Protestants in the country that the ar- guoeni was to be addressed; and were he | addressing s similar number of men such as the | meeting waa composed of, he would ask them if they approved of the eocolesiastionl settle- meat of the country made 300 years ago, or whether the present state of the «oun- fi He | liberty of the prese; which denounces religious try was matisfactory.He belioved that om ; which curses with all its might the equality as the invention of the devil; and maintains in the nineteenth century every fundamental principle of the inquisition, It is the party which justifies the immuring of unwilling girls in perpetual conventual slavery, and the theft of children from heretical parents; which, fo short, seeks to reverse every doctrine for which the church of England has contended since the days of Stephen Langton, and to overthrow every liberty which Europe has achieved during tea centuries of rebellion ags.nst civil snd ecclesinstical tyranny.AUSTRIAN REFORMS.Three specially noticeable laws have in that ! country lately received the sanction of the Emperor, notwithstanding all the efforts put forth to secure hig veto.First \u2014Civin MarriaGe, by which marriage before civil magistrates is made as legal and as binding for all civil purposes as marriage celebrated by religious observances, whether of the Roman Qathclic or any other Church.Second.\u2014PoruLar EpuvaTion is aet free from I the control of the Roman Catholic ecclesisstion by being put into the hands of the civil authorities.We havealready, iu speaking of the Concordat, shown to what an extent the priests controlled the whole machinery of education, and the change therefore is of mighty importance.Third\u2014Fexs PeossLyriam\u2014This legalises all their answer would be in the negative.He religions, and forbids bringing up children looked on the Church as stimulating a hos- against their will in any church whatever.Full tility against itself and against the English that \u2018 civil rights are guaranteed to all, perfectly irre- [ meiniained it, by wbicb it was established and | spective of their religious professions, while a promoted, and be repeated, without fear of | child when of the age of fourteen 19 free to join dispute, or that any one could prove to the eon- , sny church it pleases, and be educated in any teary, that the Established Church in Ireland | school of religious faith preferred, without any vas anti-Protestant by position, and it was, as much anti-English ns | it was anti-Irish, because it made it impossible the country are that we Irish people should be in perfect bar.mooy with English rule in their country.| (Cheers) Speak Established Church would suffer by disestablishment and disendowment, be referred to ihe agitation at the time of the repeal of the corn laws, when it was feared the landed interest would sufler ; but now that question was laid by for ever by those formerly in fesr and doubt.Hej also referred to the repeal of the tax on know- 1 ledge, to maintain bis argument that, instead of suffering, the Established Church, on the contrary, would be the gainer by being dissevered from State control and from its present bondage.The Church would be left in the position of the .other voluntary churches throughout the colo- ive, 23 well as in the United Kingdom, provided «ee congregations undertook to keep their churches and manses left to them in repair; but thee was one change that would take place, that Parliament would take, by commission, possessicn of the tithes and Church lande not essential to tte welfare of the Church, whose membe:z might take consolation ; and be believed 1hat what tock place under the voluntary aysteæ in other churches could take luce with their own, 60 that, instead of belug fettored by the State, there would grow up here, though small, a strong and compact religious communi- 1y, aad they would bs fostered in their position By the sympatby held toward them by commu- méty of interests existing on the strength they possessed and deserved, \u2014 from the foeling that they beld thelr position as 8 Oburch believing in the faith they possessed.It was a poor faith that clung to the State for aid, and 1bey were not courageous ministers be- Beving that Christ was the Head of their Oburcb, and yet were afraid to march out under His baz.vez, but would not look for ita freedom, now that they had seen its state in its t bond- sge.Passing to the resolution adopted in the preset session of Parliament, be said that that was à sentence which would be confirmed dy .rester numbers in fhe ensuing arlisment.He .apked them, would Ireland ea greatand stu- Pandous