The Montreal witness, 14 août 1869, samedi 14 août 1869

[" COMMERCIAL REVIE by bog Bai, W AND FANILY NEWSPAPER, Vor.XXVI.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1869.No.66.CORRESPONDENCE.NoVA SCOTIA CORRESPONDENCE.Yaruoora, N.S, Aug.2.My last letter closed with rome refereaces +ze Wesleyan Nethodistr, and the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces.Resuming the opie ecclesiastical where it was broken cif rather abruptly, I avail myeelf of he rummary given by the Presbyterian Witness, of the pre- seedings of tha late Synod of the latter denom:- ation, to present a few fects to your readers, many of whom are interested in the progress of Christian Work.Toe attendance at the Synod was large, and the unity of spirit al] that could te expected or desired.This Oburc1 was formel by tbe union of two Presbyterian bodies; dat 20 marks of the old division appeared in the voting.The Elderanip was fairly represented, but left the business too much to the ministers.The College question received much attention The importance of settiog apart its professors exclusively to that work, and relieving them from pastoral duty is recognized \u2014the only difS- culty being the want of fonds.Dalhousie College furaighes the preliminary course for the divinity students, and does the work satisfactorily, The desirableness of a union of all tranches of Prasbyteriana in the Lower Prc- vinces Gadi frequent expression, and from in the winds of many.Dr.Clarke, of mherst, brought friendly greetings to the Synod on be- Laifof the reformed Presbyterians, The sup- rlewentary scheme, which embodies the prine:- ple that the strong should help the weak, is to te wrought wilh vigor.The Irish Presbyterian Church and the Pree Church of Scotland, aid in this work.The fund for the widows acd or- sass of misisters is making progresr, bat all ministeraare not connected with it.A new d is established for the support of aged and iadrm ministers.The Byuod bag authorizad +ks Board of Foreign Missions to call ministers work ia the foreign fisld.This is regarded 33a step is advance.It ig generally admitted :kat the vigorous efforts made by the Preabyte- \u2018isa Charch of the Lower Provizces to do its fart {1 carrying the gospel to the heathen have doze much to strengthen this denomination at some.This is the rale which Oh.ist has estab- «shed.aad the proof is found everywhere.The Wealeyan Conference of Eastern R-itiah America introduced a new feature at its late i039 beld fn Charlottetown, P.E.I.\u201c After examination of character, its deliberations 121 business were conducted in the presence of eth lay frienda a3 chose to occupy the galle- Hièz,\"=I quote from the report of the procesdings bed in the Provincial Wesleyan.The Lange was hailed with enthusiasm, and was ade witbeut the formality of à vote.The ura- almity aad besrtiness took rome by surprise; and Lo evils\u2014not even what was fenred fome, a greater amount of epeech-making\u2014re- ted.The feeling seems to ba growing ia denomination in these Provinces that etsps 38t be taken to secure a larger co-operation of intelligent laymen in the tranaactioa of confe- \u2018erence business.One great want of the Church of Obtist is thohearty ec-operation cfali in doing the Master's work, and another is the abolition of any of the minor differences of Christiane, as lecominational tests.We have too msay de- Lominatic Tho distinctions between many of them are so insignificant that the commos Kid ia scarcely able to appreciate them ; but Ferse than all, they waste the energies of good ceo, and furnish sn excuse to Mary for their tility to Obristianity itself.The time bas some when earnest and thoughtful Ohristians of trèry name should seek to solve the problem of Wilizing, with the least possible waste, all the Micurces of the Christian Church, No existing \u201ce2omination, without serions modification, sold successfully wield these resources.The Wesleyan Con\u2018erence placed upon ity Ziautes, for the first time, m resolution upon \u201cPopular Amusemente.\u201d High ground was \u2018zen.It embodied the principle: \u201c Ye are ol your own; ye are bought with a price; \u2018herefore glorify God in Four body and spirit which are God's.\u201d The Srood of the Presbyterian Oburch of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, ia connection with the Church of Seotland, met at Obatham, Y.B, on the evening of Wednesday, the 30th Jae.This was the second version of the united body.The retiring moderator~\u2014tbe old- 8: minister in the Synod\u2014preached ; and after sermor, the principle of choosing by seniority § tring followed, Dr.Donald, of St.John, N.B., Was elected to preside, which he did till tha close of Saturday's session.framed its work on Monday morning, it was and that the moderator and other members wl left by the steumer \u2018* Rothesay Castle\u201d for hediae, on their way homeward, A Tespecta- re Working quorum remained, which called ° \u20ac ex-moîerator to the chair, and appointed & committee to draw ap & mioute rega-ding the : tentées, who reported in the afternoon, Luresing regret that these gentlemen should are acted in gach an extraordinary manner, 3d recommended that the moderators chair, » en vacant by the abdication of Dr Donald, or iied by the appointment of another moders.ug The report was ado ted, and Rer.À.W.boa en, of Pioton, N.8, wus elected to the pacrable office, which be holds till the last pur cnesdsy in June, 1870, when be will preach Hu; tm sermon, \u2018in Bt.Matthew's church, Vax, where the third session of the 8; nod is lo be held.The Presbyrerian \" Tae abdication of he moderator is 100 the en atical history ; and ire AY in which it bas been treated, i 151 likely to be repeated.\u201d on +32 Question of union with the other body of Pets esiang was before tbe Synod, and he lente LF resolution was introduced but de- T 8 msjsrity of ope: © That « commit- a h of \u20ac ci vi be stated that abou brought out of t performed iary among us?ba; merchants and some others bave gold crusher\u2014the first erected is bas been recently put in operation a ahort dic- , and the results.thus far, The nigbts Lare been tance from the town, Republic, teip once a week.merits of the case, \u2018When the Synod be twoshorse ca : The elders of Barney\u2019s River were informed tbat obstacles to union existed at present, but that,when these were removed, the amalgamation must take place.Thus, the Synod stands pledged to the principle of unior, and thers 10 can be po doubt the event wil \u20ac atheriogs of two denominations: before many years.e aanusl guhetiogs The Rev.Joba Goodwill received a farce] address, being on the eve of departure to the South Sen Islands, which is the foreiga ficid sllotted him.Mr.Robertson, à gentleman who bas spent four or five years in thes» islands, | tradicg, offered bis services as an additional | missionary.A friendly conference with & view to take edvantage of t Boally, it was referred to the Foreign M Committee, who are empowered to act at their discretion in the matter, A missicnary meeting of s very interesting character, was held on Monday evening, which was addressed by Meare, Goodwill, Robertson, and others.named gave the number of Protestant ministers engaged in foreign missions as 1,780 ; with 634 ive ministers in addition, and many more As the reqult of their labors, t 1,500,000 persors had been be darkness of heathenism.Mr.Robertson testified to the value of the work by the nine missiozaries laboring in the islands with which he ig converssnt.He gave very interesting details of the Liabitg of the people, etc.As thess were tte results of personal observation, they were beard with the The ve assistante.eepest interest, A Bible Society, to be called \u201cThe Nova Scotia Auxiliary of the National Bible Society of Scotland,\u201d was recently formed at Pictou.Itappeals to the benevolence of the Christian publie, but particularly to Scotchman acd tke descendants of Scotchmen, for aid.Ia it necessary, One naturally asks, to form suck an auxil- i The fact that the metrical veraion of the Psalms, in use by macy Presbyterians, is bound in the same volume, ceems to be the chief reason for this movement ; bat fait desirable that every denomination ehould eg tablish a Bible Society of its own, for the sake of Incorporating its Psalms, and bymre and spiritual songs, with the authorizad version of the Scriptures?Surely not, and yet that which would warrant the movement ia oze instance would justify it in all others.July has been a month of considersble activity.The fishing interest bas prospered; the price of fish ruling higher in the early part of the month than it bas done for years.y crop, which has been better \u2018than usual, is in process of harvesting, and the weather The dry goods teen bay.A in the county\u2014 as been very favorable.re beyond expectation.Tey cool, retarding the growth of Indian corn and other crops, which demand greater warmth.Potatoes lock well, Out of 83} miles of railway now building between Windsor and Annapolis, 66 miles are Dow in running order, and the whole lice will be opened, it is said, by the clcse of 1869.A change in the management of our railway: been made, by which one f the lines in both Proviness.Of polities not much is to be recorded.Some of our papers advocate annexation ; others natinted praise of the and bard words against Canada end Great Britain, vrhile the majority oppose the new movement, Our sew steamer has begun to ply between this port and Hal 'fax.She performs the round She is wel!-appoicted, and onteat themselves with a: ives satisfaction.The O:angemen had a grand demoss:ration at Pictou on the 13th July, Are these demonstrations iency TORONTO CORRESPONDENCE Tonouro, Aug.The backmen's strike, which commeacel a week since, shows no signs of drawicg to a close, as the police commissioners express themselves equally determined to hold out as the strikers.Public opinion cannot be said to support either side, but is much divided as to the The cause of the strike was the adoption of new regulations and tariff by the police commissioners, to which tbe hack.men otjicted, The princips] changes sought to effected were the abolition of ths system of charging by sections, Into which tke city was | divided, according to the old tariff, instead of which distance was to be made the basis, and it was to bs left optional with the fare to pay ty time, in case he preferred doing so, at the rate of one cent.per minute.It was proposed by the commissioners tbat the hackmen should take the experiment of working under the new tariff for one week, in order to give it a fair trial, but they totally refused to listen to this preposie tion, and prooteded to take the extreme step of striking, They urge, and with some show of rea- 90, that the ca-riages in Toronto are paatir or in point of appearance and finish to t 1 take place s eld, a offer; ission gentleman bas charge It passed off quietly.needed to give effi.to Protestantism?Could we not dispense with them without detriment to tke good case ?A B.supe- ose in London, Montreal, sod otber cities whose tariffs have been consulted by the commisaion- ere aad partiaily adopted in framing tte new rates.There certainly is a much finer array of to be witnessed oa our treats than is the case in most cities, but what is demanded by the general public is no: 80 wach s loxarious and splendidly ited up ve- bicle at » correspondingly high Bure ss cheap, clean, aud dscent conveyance.Th Per way would be to have two cl =A) was sometime a plundered right and left, \u2014ana the experienced take very good cars before biring & back to come to a definite agreement with the driver as to the fare, By godoisg there is no difficulty in obtaining their servioesat a reasonable Tate.Whatever tariff may be adopted will make very little difference in point of fact, An abortive effort was recently made by some of the members of the Corn Ezchauge to intrc- duce the monopoly of confiaing the publication of ita reports to one paper, in imitation of the system pursued in Montreal.Tenders for the exclusive privilege of publishing the reports were called for, but as the press are either ir- different or averse to the scheme it will, in al] probability, be abandoned.The Telegraph and Leader have deaounced it strongly and will not tender, which will bave the cffset of killing it, It ip surely contrary to the enlightened spirit of the times to institute a monopoly of intelligence such as this, and though it may result in a trifling increase of revenue to the Exchange itis a question whether that would not be counterbalanced by tbe hostile infl ence of tbe rejected newspapers, who would, doubtless, oppose the inter- eats of an institution which refased them the privilege of publisbing ita reporte.The regatta which took place on Saturday was one of the most pleasing and successful affairs of the kind that has ever taken place here.The deepest interest was taken in it by every one, and for days before it took place it was the universal thems.On Saturday afternoon the whole city flocked down to the Bay, stores were closed, business was everywhere abandonet and » Sabbath quiet reigned in the deserted streets.Oa and around the water all was Life and excitement.The wharves, the shipping, and the neighboring buildings were crowded with spectators, and some hal\u2019-Icz2n stesmer3 which took up a position near the starting point ia the middle of the Bsy were packed as full as was consic- ten with safety, at half a dollars bead.Erers- thing in the shape of a baat that was procurable was in requisition.The number present is variously estimated at from ten to twenty thou- aud, and I am inclined to think tholatler nearer the mark.Tbe presence of the famous St.Johng crew was of cource the chief Attraction, the four-oared out-rigge: race\u2014the only one in which they participated\u2014being put last in the programme in order to keep up the excitement.The result as every oae of course anticipated was in their favor.They headed the race from the start, pulling steadily, eviiently cot putting forth their full strength but taking it quite coolly.None of their competitors came euffi- ciently pear them during the contest to leave any room for doubt ag to the ultimate issue, though they evidently did their beat and strained every nerve.The gallant New-Brunawickers were loudly cheered as they came in.The championship of the Bay, was closely contested between R.H.Haycock of Ottawa, the champion of last year, and Robt.Berry\u2014better known as * Black Bab\" of Toronto\u2014Haycock being again the victor.Perhaps however the most exciting race was thet of the four-oared in-rigged boats, where the competitors were more on an equality and consequently a» keener struggle ensued.The \" Emma\u201d of Toronto, and the \u201c Eirol\u201d of Ottawa, ran the latter portion of the race neck and neck, if this expression be allowable in squatics, and the former came iz only about two seconds ahead.Everything west off well and it is wortby of note that, notwithstanding the number of vessels on the Bay, and the crowds of people on board of ateamers, not a single accident occirred.The Mason bail case is being watched with much interest as likely to confirm or disprove the theories of those who assert that the Police Magistrate hax been playing into the bands of this npotorious man.It will be remembered that when Mason was some months since tried before Police Magistrate McNabb for stabbing Nichol, he was committed for trial, and subsequently released on bail.An applics- tion is now made to the Chief-Justice in Oham- bers to cancel the bail-bonds and recommit Ma- aon to jail, on the ground that the names of the bondsmen given were fictitious, and that there are no such persons to be found.The sureties are John Patterson sod Robert Peck, described As being \u201cof the township of York,\u201d but no such parties are known there.The case, when brought up last week, was postponed at the request of the Attorney-General, in order to allow the Police Magistrate and County Attorney McNabb (they are both McNabl\u2019s, though not related) to clear themselves by the production of the bail, if poasible.The responsibility reste between these two officials, a ticularly grave from the fact that was previously taken for Mason in se, the eurety being none other than one of informers.TRAIN ON FIRB.(From a Correspondent ) As the Cincinnati Express was, on Tuesday night, approaching Brocton, a tation on the Lake Sbore railroad, eight miles west of Dunkirk, the passengers wore startled by @ sudden burst of light, which, lightulng-like, {iluminated the cas foran instant.Within à minute or two afterwards, & lurid glare, becoming quickly wore intense, abore tbe horizon to theeastward, led every one to conjecture tbat there was a large fire ut the station the train was then approaching, or in the surrounding woods.Afow momenta further only elapsed, when, sa the train emerged from amongst the trees to the open fields, » sight, not acon to be forgotten by those who witnessed it, buret on the ge * À train on fire!\u201d came simultaneously from every lip, and onward came, on the Pittsburg road, down the alll-side at a Sfty mile pace, a cosl-oil train io a mage of flames, and feariog behind it helf & mile to mile, a continuous seetbing of fire.The brakes of the express firat- Tie 9.Iy, while a cheaper means of locomotion i ve jstled on at once and the train stopped, Le pe eppolated to take Into consideration the red to those who ate willing to ride fa a less for the tracks of the two roids meet just be.from the on 021 A8 $3GRested by the memorial gorgeous vehicle.Pencéioait , however, the yond the Brocton station.Onward sped the tbe Siders ok Barney's River, and report at tariff system fa a delumion and a myth.[It is Sery mass, and, a8 it came nearer aad ran al- ot tty a of Bynod next your.\u201d This was rarely adbered to by heokmea who charge most 1 with the Lake Story track, Îte ter- al disposal of the uestior, however.whatever they oan get.The uninitiated are\u2018 si£c speed waa very observable, The night bad been dark, but now the scene was awfully grand, The whole surrouadiog country was itlumiaated, The thought just then occurred to most of the resulted.The train wag first observed Brocton station, when eight miles distant, ag came down the beavy incline on the long bill- side, and the switches were at once opened to Lake Shore road to admit it on the main track,and were,as a consequence, closed for the express.No brakes were on, and tbe fiaming cars, as if unto9- teolable, dashed onward, past the station, to Old Brocton, a mile beyond, before was stopped and detached.The buroing oil now poured from the tanks on the cars in streams, down the embankmeat on eitber side of the track, destroying ties, telegraph poles, fences, the water-tank Louse, and one or two small houses near by in ite progress.The beat became #0 intense that the iron rails beat like wire.It now transpired that a part of the train had been detached two or three mies away, and the distant glare of light, which cone tinued in that direction for an hour or two, showed that these cars were also ja flames.An explosion had taken piace near this point, snd this bad given rise to the sudden lightoiog-like light observed by the expired passengers.Some hours elmpsed before the track could bs rendered passable, acd even when the express passed over the scene, at 3 a.m, on its way to Buffalo, the remuants of the cars and oil-tanke were still burning.WOMEN'S RIGHTS.(To the Editor of the Witness.) Daan Siz, \u2014Permit me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to express my aurprise, that in this age of boasted intelligence, there should be so much pratiog about Women's Rights.Have we not already rights involving duties more thas sufficient to eugross the time, snd exhaust the energies, of the majority of womer?Let us glance, for 8 moment, at some of the rights we enjoy: We have the right to make home happy, whether in affluence or in mors bumble circumatances ; the right to feed instruct the ignorant, to reclaim the vicious, to raise the fallen, to win back to the path of virtue those who bave strayed; the right to cheer the disconsolate, to encourage the despairing, and bumbly point the dying \" to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world.\u201d We ask, are such rights not sufficiently exalted to satisfy the moat aspiring ?Then, why seek an extension of rights, involving duties eo dia- tasteful to our sex?I can scarcely suppress my contempt for the man, who, under ths fair guise of elevating woman, would draw ber from the sphere so cougenial to ber feelings, ard thrust ber into the arena of political strife, to combat for Parlisweatary hbocess.I stand smasod at (Le woman who would go forth deek- ing laurels in the balls of legislation.In my bumble opinion, woman's true elevation cos- sists in being properly educated, aod in dis- ctarging faithfully the Cuties of her station ; not to become the rival, but the companion of man.A Woman, OABBAGE CATERPILLAR.(To the Editor of the Daily Witness.) Daag Sir, \u2014 Can you, or any of the numerous readers of your excellent paper, kindly inform me what to do to destroy the gresa caterpillars that infest cabbages?These pests demtroyel everything last year, and thresten to do the same again this year.I have tried many things, but have failed to destroy them.Hoping some of your readers may have been more successful, and that they will let me know what to de, I remair, yours very truly, Ixgrrarn.St, Remi, Aug, 6, 1868, OPEV-AIR TEMPERANOE MEETING.Last Tuesday evening another succenful orer- air temperance meeting was held in the Old Hay market square.The attendance was large, and the proceedings were characterized by the greatest good order and good feeling, while the interest way sustained throughout by s number of short practical speeches following each other in rapid succession.Me.Dougall, in bis opening remarks, exposed the fallacy made use of by those, wko, in oppcs- ing the principles of teetotslers, place drunkec- ness pt gluttony on the same footicg and tkeo argue that it is just as reasonable to aik sll to sin from food because some go !o injurious excess in the use of it, as to require all to give up the use of intoxicating drinks.Tbe diff.:- ence is that food is necessary, whereas intoxicat ing beverages are pot.The only drink mas needs, or that is beneficial for him, in water Ia some one or other of ite forme, and alcobol is only a poisonous ingredient, which proves burt- fal in the highest degree ta individuals acd 53- cloty, FA Libby, s workman connected with the St, Lawrence glass-works, then addressed the meeting.He sald that religion, morality, and ter- perance went hand in band, snd neither could flourish without the others.The greatest opposition temperance mes had to encounter was from those in high placer, who took the drinking castoms of society under the shield of their resumed respectability.They were the wolves B sheep's clothing, who ravaged aod destroyed the community, under the pretence of protecting their dearest interests.They Were the people who, whenever an attempt was made to put down intemperance by law, stepped forward ja defence of what they called the liberty of the subject.He had taken part in promotiog the movement agaînat the liquor traffio in the State of Maine, and he knew, from experience, how difficalt It was to combat the inflaence of sub who had drunken busbande, to use a® 1be wesns in their power to reclaim thew, and concluded by exhorting all tbe friends of temperance \u2018à work for the abolition of the liquor trafic, as this wag the turest way to advance tbe religi- ous, mors], and material latereete of the con- wugity, passenzers that, had the express been thirty seconds earlier, o terrible accident might have from the the locomotive | the bungry and clothe the naked; the right to d men ay these.He urged the women preset, | Father McGinnis then made a few reatarky où the great evils wrought by intemperance, pofnting to bimself as an illastration of these.He then alluded, in elcquent terme, to the gresi good accomplished by Father Mathew, apd asked ali those, who wished to share the rich reward of glory he had gone to enjoy, to take à {Patt io the noble work in wbich be bad beer [eugsged.This address was deeply afectiog.Nr.Ward, from Point 6: Charles, anid, as a working-man, he bad in kia own experience (Tosraed the benefits of total abstinence.He | came to Montreal ruined by drink, but be signed [the pledge, became a temperance man, aud | now, be was proud and happy to say, be occupied a position of comparative independence.| Ha did not blame the tavern-keepers #0 muck asthe men who patronized and supported them.1 there were none to drink there would #008 be none to sell intosieating liquors.In bis native village in Leland, containing & population of about 9,060, almost every second house was at one time tavern, but through the influence of Father Matbew, all this was changed, and every tavern was closed or converted into a coffez-house.He described the miserable condition of the drunkerd, who often did not know whether tbe earth was under oe over him, or whether he belonged to bimself or to & policeman ; sud he advised those who did not wish to be reduced to thia pitiable condition to sign the pledge.Mr.Ritchie animad verted severely upon those who sneer at teetotalers, as men who are so far gone with drink, that they canuot restrain themselves without signing a pledge to refrain from it altogether, Buch people are themselves generally the elaves of the appetite they make so light of.Mr.Higgine, from Cote 8t.Pau\u2019, said if some of the women and ehildren present would bat tell their experiencee, these would prove more powerful Arguments against intoxicating drinks than all the temperance speeches that could be made.He believed the great prop of the liquor traffic was the revenue which tb State derived from it.Let this once be cut off aud the Legiz- lature could be more easily induced to pat it own.Mr.Dougal\u2019, in closing, said the thauks of the Moatres] Temperance Society ware due the audience for the deep attention with which they had listened to tLe speeches, and the geatle- manly manner in which tiey had conducted themaelves during tbe meeting.He advised all who had not already done 60, to sign the pledge at once.The pledgc-book was at present to be found in Mr.Grafton's book-tore ; but at tbe meeting on next Tacsday evening, arralge- ments would be wade to bave it on the ground, for the greater convenience of those who might wish to add their namea to it.six1d ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE PROVINOIAL ASSOCIATION OF PRU- TESTANT TEACHERS OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC.The Sixth Auuual Convention of the Pec- vincial Association of Protestant Teschers of this Province, will be held in Waterloc, Que, on tha 25th and 2Gih of August, 1869.The Grand Trunk Company bare conzeated to give double Journey tickets for sirglo face, to and from S:.Johns, to those about to attend the Convention, who present to the Ticket Agent, at the commencement of the journey, proper certificates, which may be procured from (he Sectes tary, A.Duff, jar, Sherbrooke.The Stand:izad, Sbefford and Chambly Rail- rosd, and the Canada acd Vermont Junction Railroad Companies, bave kindly graated & like privilege, and free return tickets from Waterloo will be issued ty the Secretary to those who Lave come over these roads.Persors comisg by Grand Truck Railway t> St.Johua, take the tsvstead, Shefford & Chambly Railroad thence to Waterloo, The people of Waterloo desire tboze attend ind to accept their hospitality, The Chairman's address will be Hon.O.Dankin, D.© poriant practical sut je experienced teschere, | It ia desired tbat the greater part of the time of tke convention be occupied with d'ecussions cn the essays.Tee following subjects for discussion bave teen suggested :\u2014 1.la not a National System of SeLoc!s etser- tial 10 à Free People?3 Qugbtor ought not Rel'glous Instru to be imparted in Elementary Schools ?3.Should sectarian grants and endowments be withdrawn ?4.In the character of onr Canadian Text-booke ll that could be desired ?5.What should be the number cf Lours of daily attendance in School ?6.What ate the best meats of improving 8:hoo1 Attendance?7.la how many studice may 8 schclar be prc- ; Stably engaged at ote period 7 8, Should wore time and attention be devoted to Elocation in our High Bobools ?9.Are the Natural Sciences too mucb nc- glected in our High Schools ?Officers of Local Associations ate requested to do sliin thelr power to make 1be meeting known sad to secure a full attendance.Coples of the Report of the last Annuel Convention, and of the Constitution of te Agac- cietion will be forwarded to sll who desire them, on application to the Sscretary.To enable any members of the Convention to vitit Lake Mempbremagog, the Grand Trunk Company have offered to furnish tickets for | baif-fare from Sherbrooko to any station op thet line, to sny one wbo presente & proper certifis jose, which will be furnished by the Secretary at tbe Convention.ave been promised by Drauw, Aug.Lod Tubbernait, in the County of Sligo, & party twenty-five men attacked s dwelling carried off some fire- arme.Big of the mamuders bave been arrested, and two or three bave been identified as persons \"who were formerly imprisoned for Fenianism. a a Ut eT ï ; + ' : 513 THE MONTREAL WITNESS Avcust 14, 1869, Contemporary Press.TBE TWO ALTERNATIVES \u2014WHY CHINA CANNUT BECOME A BECOXD INDla, (From the Fall Mail Gazette.) There are in reality but two alternatives open :5 this counizy io determining its relations witb China.We might make the undoubted weak- ess Of the central Government an excuse for having vo dealings except with tbe authorities of each town or district, and for conducting our negotiations with the latter on a footing of constant armed intervention.It might be possible,f the matter could be jadged putely by local considerations, to allege reasons cf some | weight in support of such & policy.On more | general grounds, however, it is open to a fatal! objecuon.It would startuscn & road which conld lead to no other gosl tban (be assomption by Great Britain of tbe admipiatration ofs great part of the Chinese Empire.We could not fn conscience destroy the only power tor which the peaceable inhabitants ean look for aid | or protection without beiog prepared to take ' its duties on ourselves.lo otter words, we should have to make Chios s second Indis, with very little chance of the experiment being ate: tended with equal success.There is 20 East | Indis Company to do the work for us, and eves if there were, there is oo probability that Russis or France wonld sit otill while the work wes being done.If the plan is rejected, we bave; 1.0 choice tut to respect the Pekin Government ourselves, and to do our best 10 make others respect it.\u201d The gunboat policy naturally finds | the inhabitants of a maritime village more im- pressitle than Goverament department 1,000 | miles off, Bat if we are to prevail by milder! methods the Government department is better suited for our purpose than the villagers.There can be no real antagonism between tbe in-| tereats of Obina and England.The trade which is of so much importance to the latter, can hardly be of less importance to the former.If tbe Chinese rank among the largest customers of Great Britain, Eoglishmen bold still more promivent position among the customers of Obins.Pekin diplomacy kas pever ehown itself regardless of this fact, except when tbe recognition of it has been demanded on terms to which no Government can be expected to accede except under the pressure of actual vio: lence.The surcst way to impede the natural development of our commerce in Ohina is to associate it in tbe minds of the Chinese nation with a persistent diseregard of ita political in- dependecce.If we mak nothing for which we are not prepared to give a fair equivalent, wo shall enlist on our side the commercisl instincts of a singulsrly industrious people.That thoce instincts have in many caces done eo little for us is to be attributed to the pains we have formerly taken to peutralize them.We have done our best to try to persuade the Chinese that our favorite amusement is to defy their prejudices, and our most eetiled purpose to outrage their patriotism, and then we gosbout wondering that they not eager to trade with te on our own terms.[tis to be hoped tbat whenever the treaty of Tien-tsin comes under Con- siderstion again, ite revision will be conducted in that tetter spirit which has of late begun, tq characterizs our Obiceze policy.pr THE INSTALLATION OF SERRANO.We President's ngbt mde, read the following ! THE INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY.\"nation of tbe coustey, have found a moderately say Une, with favorable gradients throughout.upesch :\u2014\"Senores Diputadon,\u2014With tbe CTe8* gor 15 41150 DINB\u2014gCHNERY AND CLIMATE OX ppg puilway will cross the etl, shout four miles tioa of the constitutional power, wbich you bare deigned to confide to me, and wii:h 1 gratefully accept, a new period of the Revolution of September commenced.© cc , Individusl rights will ba exorcised peacefully | and orderly ; our credit will be augmented both | in and out of Spain ; and liberty be extended upon the firm base of moral and material order | \u201430 that the monarch whom the Corles Con- stitutentes may Lereafter elect may commence bis reign prosperously and happily for the country, to which I bare conseersted all my anxie- | ties, all my watchfvloess, and my whole existence\u201d After the Regent had finished the read- of this address and bad been + embraced\u201d by Rivero, be sat down amid loud applsuse.President Rivero, without rising, thea spoke, (not read) 85 follows :\u2014\u201c The Cortes Constituentes bave beard witb lively satisfaction the poble words and exalted propositions of the Regent, who bas been elevated to bis post by the almost unsuimity of your votes.All of us, together with tbe Regent, have from to-day onwards but one single banner.\u2018All for the country, snd all for the country!\u201d (Tremendous applause.) Serrano then retired, after saluting tbe House, amid cries of \u201c Viva el Regente,\u201d followed by Vivus to Spain, to the Constitution, and to the Presidect of the Cortea\u2014the latter respond ing by calling for a Viva to the National Sove- 1eignty.NORTHERN GERMANY.Dr.Bootb, writing la the £m.Christian World, tbue describes the religions condition of Nortb Germany : \u201c Just awakening, as thes?States of Northern Germany are, to the full consciousness of their united strength in European politics, and moving oo steadily to a compact and solid orgavizstion of their material resources, there is, perhaps, just now & want of general interest io spiritual and eternal trutbs- The public mind is all engrossed with thoughts of finance, national consolidation, and resistance to enemies who are hostile to their cherished aims.The spirit of the people is strung up to the highest piteb of interest in these subjects, and (here is & tanifested purpose to place the mighty German gation io the front rank of intelligence and power.Amid all this there is, however, 8 deep religious lite in Germany.The Bible is diffused and read in the schools and families.Its truths bave s strong hold upon the conscience of the people.No bamlet can be found without its parish church, and in mest of its ten thoueand pulpits the gospel fa preached with simplicity and power, There has been manifestly & great advance in popular respect for Christisnity.The ratiopalistic teachers, wto once held pos- seasion of the field of controversy, have been fairly met and routed by the Christian scholars who bave put on the armor of the truth during the present generation.There has been a great quickening in reference to evangelistic work, end the time has pasted when earnest piety was a reproach in Germany.There is great room for progress.They want deeper earnestness; they want 8 greater reverence for the Sabbath ; they want more zeal io forcing the subject of salvation on the people.And yet, in contrast with the past, there is great progress ; and overy- thing indicates that the work of Gol will be more pure and thorough in the future.\u201d MR, NUBPHY'S ARREST.On the 17th inst, writes the Madrid correspondent of the Témes, Marshal Serrano was duly installed in tbe Regency of Spain, end in the ce of a brilliant assemblage took the cath to the Oorstitutior.At two O'clock the Regent left bis residence in bis private carrisge, snd drove alorg the Oalle de Alcsls, Puerta del Sol, and Oarrera de San Geronimo, to the Palace of the Cortes.All the balconies on the way were richly draped.The road was lined on the oce side by troops and on the other by volunteers.His carriage was drawa by only two borses, with their ordi- mary barness.He sat alone in the uniform of & captain-general.The Captain-Genersl of Mad - rid rode by bis right side.Bix sdjutants, with s troop of cavalry and auotber of mounted volunteers, preceded the conch, and a great num- of generals and other officers rede behind, follow od by a considerable escort.In frout of the Palace of tbe Cortes tue Oivic Guard were drawn up, sod tbe artillery and cavalry oceu- pied the sireot as far down ag the Prado.A salvo of 21 guns announced bis arrival.la the portico, which was ricbly carpeted, be was received by the committee, who accompanied him to the \u201cSalon de las Sesiones\u201d The galleries were completely crowded, and large numbers of lad- jos hai tobe accommodated with teats ou the floor of the House, The French, Italian, Austrian, Proasien, Russian, and American Ministers occupied the Diplomatic Gallery.The British Legation was represented by Mr Ffrerch, ! the first secretary, who is becoming very popu.ler with the British residents in his new eapac- ity as Chargé 6\u2019 Affaires, until a successor is appointed 10 Sir Jobn Crampton.Previous tothe Regony's entrance one of the secretaries read the decree of bis nomination, and, when this was over, Berrano entered, preceded by two of the macebearers and the Committes.The whole of the House rose as be entered, except President Rivero, who remained seated in one of two glid- od chairs which hed been placed on the raised latform of the presidential tribure\u2014the tribune teelf baviog been removed.The other chelr was for Serrano, who, after bowing to tbe House snd the Prendent, took bis seat upon it.He looked exceedingly pale and nervous.When sll was still be knelt on a red velvet cushion which bad been placed for the purpose, while Rivero, in slow and measured tones, sald, \u201c Do you swear to keep, sud to cause Lo be kept, the Qonstitution of the Bpauish nation of 1869, and the laws of the country, not locking in what Fou do to suything but the good and the liberty of the country?Berrano replied, in a volce trembling with emotion, \"1 ewesr; and if in what I bave sworn, or any part of it, Î do anything to tbe contrary, ] ought not to be obeyed, and anything I do is contravention of it shonld be null and of no value\u201d His emotion was 20 reat that be completely broke down befcre he ad Snished the formula, end bad to refresh his memory by recourse to & written copy.Pres! dent Rivero replied\u2014\" If so you do, God and the country will reward you; but if vot, they will demand it of you \u201d and then turning to the audience remarked, \u201cThe Cortes Constituentes have wituessed and beard tbe oath the Regent bes just taken to the Constitution of the nation and the Jaws of ibe country.\u201d Berrano core from bis keees and taking bis seat on the chair at (From the Christian World.) Mr.Newdegate is not satisfed with the treatment which Mr, Murphy, the \u2018\u2018 No-Popery\u201d lecturer, bas received either from tte Mayor of Birmingham or tbe Home Office.The bon.gen- tieman does not admire Me.Murpby'a style of lecturing; but, apart from the individual, be is of opin\u2018on that in his person sn attack bas been made on the right ot free discussion ; and be charges Mr.Bruce with having acted upon sn obsolets statute in order to reach him.Mr.Roebuck paid this Act had been denounced by Mr, For, and would bave been repealed bad it not escaped the notice of the Liberal party.In making these statements in the House of Com- wons on Friday evening, immediately after the disposal of the Irish Church question.Mr.Newdegate also animadrerted upoa the conduct of the Mayor of Birmingbaw, against whom an action is now yeading, for having locked up Mr.Murphy sll night in a cell, and prohibitiog bi from lecturing to that town.Mr.Bruce vindicated the course he bad pursued.Nr.Murphy's appearances in the north of England bad siwaya Leen followed by breaches of tue peace.At South Shields the Irish Roman Cs- tholica bad gettered in force at one of his lecturer, acd had smashed the windows of the ball where Mr.Murphy's friends were assembled, besides violently susultiog several of the audience.Br.Murphy was a controversial lecturer, and selected subjects offensive to Roman Oathc- i tice, aud likely to creste disturbance.He tacked the coufessions!, charging for his lectures on it 1s, and sdm.tling nobody but men; whilst for those on traneubatantistion, the seven sacraments, aod the powers of the Virgin Mary, bis terms of admission were from 2d.to 44, He was not responsible for the law to which Mr, Newdegate bad referred ; but, as he found it in the atatute-book, he bad no besitation in puttio, it in force.The Attorney-General also justifie what bad been done, spoke strongly against Mr.Murphy, end said tba*, under all the gircam- stancer, (be course adopted was the best to Lorn tumult, snd ia all probability bloodshed.r.Munts sod Mr.Downing took the same view ; while Mr.T.Chambers disapproved of the step taker.The question was not one of Popety or Protestantism, but of the right of free speech.Mr.Murphy war, be beld, entitled to the prc- tection of the law wben he proposed to deliver & lecture upon any one of the subjects referred to ; and be further contended that the principle laid down by the Home Secretary and the À:- | torney- General amounted to this \u2014that the li.\"berty of free speech should io fature entirely depend upon bow many would disagree with Mr.Murphy.Lord C, liemilton denied that Mr.| Murphy was more of an agitator than Mr.Bright bad beer, and asked what would that right bon.gentleman have thought if his arguments In favor of the abolition of the corn laws bad been met by bis opponents getting up disturbances.After à little scons between tbe Speaker and Mr.Newdegate on the right of the latter to reply, » motion which amonnted to « vote of censure on (be Home Secretary was negatived without a division.[Tbe House of Commons will, doubtless, reverse this vote with a will before many years, TRE ROCIE.(From Correspondance of Toronto Telegraph) Dausovsts, N B., 24th July.\u2014The Commis- sioncrs would assemble, it was understcod, Montreal, snd proceed by railway to Riviere da day, the 2018 July, the party bad collected, including the Ohief Eogineer and bis assistants on the district.The line starts directly from the station of the Grand Trunk Railway, and in s very short distance crorses the Riviere du Loup, by bridge 390 feet in length, immediately above the very beautiful falls at that place.Directly after crowing the river, the line runs round a rather aharp curve, aod through a heavy rock side-hill cuiting, after which, it descends to a level terrace, and runs through well-settled French country.A good force of men are at work on the rock cutting, and gangs of men sod horses are at work all along this contract of 30 miles.In all, about 500 men are at work upon this contract.Many culverts and water-courses are already completed, and many in progress.A considerable quantity of gradiog is in active progress, several long cuttings and embankments being in a forward state, The rest important structure to the bridge at Riviere du Loup ie at Isle Verte, where the work is actirely progressing.After inspecting (be works in progress for several miles in the vicisity of Riviere du Loap, the party embarked, on the evening of the 30th, on board the Government steamer, the \u201c Lady Head.\" WORK AT TROIS PISTOLES.The next morning the stesmer wa3 at snchor at Trois Pistoles, where it was found that some heavy work has to be done.This is on contract No.2.The grading throughout the whole of contracts Nos.1 and 2 is in a forward state, ard, except at two or three heavy places, will be completed, it is expected, this (sll.Upwards of 500 men are employed upon No.2, sad the Messrs.Worthington, who are the contractors for one and two, about 49 milles fn all, are pushing forward the work with great energy.They have been fortunate in finding good stone for the culverts in close proximity to the works, and consequently they have already got a considerable part of this work in a very forward state.All the culvert work appears to be done in a moat satisfactory manner.A large, 18 foot, arch culvert, about 2 miles east of Trois Pistoles, bas one of its walls already completed up to the course from which the arch will spring, and is us fine a piece of solid, well-executed work as is to be found in Oarais.The length of this calvert is about 75 feet.Competent inspectors are appointed to overlook the masonry, and, from the character of the work executed, so far, they sppest to be thoroughly doing their duty THD TEOLS PISTOLES BRIDGS, The heaviest work vpon contracts one and two ia at the crossing of the Trois Pistoles river, about ons mile and a-balf west of the village of tbat name.The river and valley through which it raza are about 1,100 feet wide at the point where the line crosses them, and the milway will run ata height of about 70 feet from the bed of the river.This crossing is the heaviest work between Riviere du Loup and the Metis\u2014a distance of abont 80 miles.Où the west side of the river the line is carried for nearly two miles across 8 number of gorges in which there will be several culverts, and & number of side-hill embankments, The bridge which will be 500 feet long will start from the weat bank, and be carried nearly balf-way acrors the flvs, thus placing the bridge across the main channel, and allowing no check to the flaw of the river.The bridge is spproached on the west side by a heavy embankment about 40 feet deep, made from cutting of tho etiffest kind of blue clay.This bank will be about 800 feet long, and is being actively conatructed.The material on both sides Loup, where I west to look for them.On Tues- | from its mouth, and ascerd by easy grades the | bigh land between the Bt Lawrence acd tbe Res- \"tigouche.It then descends to the level of Lake Metapedis ; then ruos along the banks of the \u2018Mateped:a river, which it crosses once instead of fourteen times £8 proposed criginally by Ma jor Bobiasou.The scenery aloog the line through the valley of the Metapedis and Restigouche, end along the sbores of tbe Bay of Chaleurs, will be the finest of any railway on this continent ; but 1 must defer speaking more particularly of this till my next letter.0 LITTLE METIS AND GASPE.On Thursday afternoon the \u201c Lady Head\" again got under weigh, and in less than 3 bours anchored again in the bay at Little Metis.Here a drive of about & miles, through a well-culti- vated Scotch settlement, brought the Commissioners to the point where the line will nearly reach its bighest level above the Bt.Lawrence.The view from bere is magoifizent, stretching far away cn the west to the bills in the neighborhood of Trois Pistoles, and on ile east along the bold shore towards Gas; 6.Embarking again at Sugarfall, the © Laiy Hend\u201d steamed awsy for Gazpe Here, for the present, 1 may pause in my account of the Iz.tercolcnial Railway.SPIRIT OF THE EUROPEAN PRESS.AFFAIRS IN NEW ZEALAND.The Iateat news from New Zsaland is depreea- ingenough.A telegram from Sydaey, dated June 189, says: The rebels bave surprised the troops ; four cficers ani nine privates were killed.This massacre will be regarded by the colonists ss only 8 verification of the predictions that were uttered when it was known that Eogland bad decided on removing tbe Imperial army.The Pait Mail Gazette, July 7, says :\u2014 In February of the present year Governor Bowen reported that the natives were watching the progress of events, eapecially with regard to tbe removal of the Queen's troops, with gloomy irresolution;\u201d and that the settlers on their parts were making strenuous efforts to arm themselves against the troubles which they si impending.He bad ssoertained that the Fenians bad been busily engaged among the Maories, telling them that they were a different people from the Eoglish and Scotch, snd that they bated last year at Bydney the Queen's son.\u201d At the same time the governor bad to inform the Ool- onisl Secretary of the murder of & Wesleyan missionary and other Europeans at a place about thirty miles from New Plymoath On this occasion, as on many others, Sir G.F.Bowen expressed hia regret at the recall of the Queen's troops.He contended that the settlers could not of themselves be expected to keep the Maoriea in order.A letter from the chief, Titokowaru, to the officer commanding the forces last December, served to show the inflexible spirit which animated tbe natives.\u201c We are Maories,\u201d wrote the chief, with New Zealand for our country.Bethink you; there has been fixed between you and us a grest gulf,\u2014 even the océan.Why did you not take thought before you crossed over Lither?We did nut crose from hence over to you.Away with you from our country to your own country in the midst of the ocean!\u201d \u2018 Those who know the Maories best,\u201d the Goveraor sent word, \u201c believe that the letter cited above is à warning that the insurgents will make oo more peace with the colonists.\u201d He afterwards showed that the colonists had not the means of self-protection.The great msjority of them, be said, were emigrants from the laboring classes of Eogland, never having borne arms until they were en- tolled in the colonial militis.The Maories on tbe otber hand, were born soldiers, and some of them were trained to great skill in buab-fighting.Agaio, the settlers live chitfly along the sea- of the river ia the same, and ie very diffizult to work, coming out in large blocks of blue clay.On the east side of the river the embankment will be about 1,400 feet long, and about 65 high, at the deepest point.Large gangs of men and borses are at work on both sides of the river, and the contractors are preparing to pot in tramways and tip wagons, a3 soon as the haul gets long enough to use them with advantage.Au excellent stone quarey for the piers of the bridge has been found on the St.Lawrence, about 9 miles from Troie Pistoles, to which point the stone is now being brought in scows.MBIZRI.WORTHINGTON'S MOVEMENTS, One of the Wortbingtons lives at Riviere du Loup, and the other at Trois Pistoles.They have now at work on these two contracts upwards of 1,000 men, and sre pushicg forward the work with great energy and skill.WORKS AT BO.Leaving Trois Pistoles, in the afternoon of Wedneaday, the \u201c Lady Head\u201d proceeded to Bic, ! where & landiog was made in about 24 hours.Bio, is very beautifully situated in m cluster of hills, of various heights and shapes, snd is a spot of great picturesque beauty.Bic is the headquarters of contract No.5, which was awarded to Mr.Haycock of Ottawa.He took the contract about the end of April, and has already made covsiderable arrangements for ostrying on the work, baviog now about 350 men at work grading the line at several points.Thete is not much bridge oe culvert work on bis sontract, but the large part of the grading rock.RIMDOiKI AND 178 ECENBRE, At dark, tbe party again embarked, and, on Thursdsy morning, the © Lady Head\u201d was at anchor io Rimouski Bay.Contract No.5 ends bere.The village is large snd very prettily situated.Work {a ging on on both sides of the Rimouski river, which will be spanned by a bridge 300 feet in length.The conntry from Riviere du Loup to Rimouski (a like à continuous village, very similar,in its general characteristics, 10 that butween Obaudiere and Riviere da Loup.The scenery in many places is exceedingly fine, and for tourists seeking o healthful relief from city life, no more delightful trip could be made then from Quebec down the river and gulf of the St.Lawrence, RINOUIKI TO MBTAPRDIA.From Rimouski the line will rua through & very level country, for about 23 miles, to the Me- tie, crossing the Metapedia Road.course of the live from the Metis to the mouth of the Motajedis hes been à source of considerable \u2014Ep.Wir] labor to the engineers, who, after careful exami- shore : \u2014'* They occupy, as it were, the circumference of & circle, whereas the Maories are intrenched in the almoat impenetrable mountains and forests of the centre, whence they can send forth foraya in every direction.\u201d If thelmperial troops which held charge of some of the towne, and thus left the colonists free to go out into the 21d sgainst the natives, were withdrawr, ths position of the colony would become critical.This view waa very forcibly set forth in a letter written by the Rev.Mr.Whiteley, the Wesleyan Missionary who bad labored thirty-five years among the natives, and who wes murdered by them in February.The natives, he declared were convinced that they might carry on their warfare against the while man uamolested by England.\u201c As we failed to conguer them when we bad 10,000 soldiers and all their big gons in the land, we have now no chauge whatever.\u201d They saw England bearing the burden of an Abyssinian waz for the relief of less than & bun- dred Europeans, while in New Zaæaland there were thousands of men, wemen, and children who could no longer obtain the protection of their mother country.It was trae that the New Zealand Parliament requested the withdrawal of the troops; but why?Because the colonists were told that they must bear the expense of the war, and they hoped that the natives had been fed to see the mistake of their courte.They thought that the departure of the soldiers would be received as an evidence of friendly feeling.Bat they could not cultivate their farms and go out to fight tbe Maories at tte same time, Mr.Whiteley continued : = When I visit the out.settlements of our en- terprisiog Buoglih families, it is painfal to think bow vary easily might all the effects of their ln.dustry be destroyed, and themeelves\u2014husbands, wives, cbildren\u2014all tomabawked and devoured, without any one being tbe wiser till all was over.And these are the men who have to pay the war debt of three millions! O Britain! how canst thcu be so forgetful of thy far-off chil dren?But the Lord reignetb.Let this thought check my complaints, and rebuke my despondency.! Better thav m To me Thou a Taaading fears, As we have aaid, this missionary, whose cba.acter stood very bigh in the colony, was murdered with all bis family few weeks after he had written this letter, Another letter which farther serves to bring out clearly the colonists\u2019 view was addressed to the Colonial Secretary by Mr.J.C.Firth, » well-known end respected merchant of Auckland, The \u201cpolicy of abandonment\u201d upon which be considered Bogland bad entered, was certain to brivg ruin to the colony.It was not the Quesn, \u201cas was abown by their shooting gro the fault of the settlers tbat Maori broken out.From the foundation cf ua bad down to 1863 native affairs were vod, the absolate control of the Queens represent.tive During that period not one acre of native land had been purchased by the colonists with, out the intervention of the Crown, The Tara.naki war and the Waikato war of 1863 fig in a great messure the result of the policy NY sued by the Imperial governcrs of the colon or Deuolated households snd miltions of debts rk ; ths proof that the cslonists had stood nob) re tbe Gorernmert.\u2018At length, weary struggle which the divided counsels of Imperial governors and Imperial generals bad rendered equally costly and Inglorious, tbe Imperia) Government sonounced its determination, upley, certain conditions were accepted, to withiray from New Z:alend, and leave the colonisia to their fate.Recent events have shown that fy, to be a hard one.\u201d \u20ac RISECT.ON CF THE CNIVERSITY TR:T BILL BY Guy LORDS, The University Test B.l], which aims at 1broy.ing open the Uuiveraities to men of all religions, is regarded by the Timer as showing that tte days are passed when it was considered à my.ter of national conceru and national beefiy % maintain what might be beliosed to be tbe true form of religion.It goes où to Bay : * By tacit consent, religion has ceased to be regarded agof pecessity a matter of ostional concern, gud public men have io practice adopted the prigei.ple laid down by Lord Macaulay, that Governments abould in the fist 1nstance be guided by temporal otjecta and civil maxims.Now, we can well understacd the House of Lords repudi- sting this tendency of modern life, and refusing, as a matter of principle, to act on it, They would, doubtless, be overborne, and the course of opinion, even within thelr own body, would probably, in time compel them to yield to the currest; but, so long as they stood on grounds of conscience, their position would not be without dignity sud would command respect.The course, on tbe other hand, which can neither ba saccessfal nor honorable, is to yield on tbe p:ig- ciple, and then to endeavor to maintain existing arrangements\u2014which generally mean existing privileges \u2014by haggling and bargaining over details.This is the course which bas been adopted on the Irish Church Bill, snd the vote of last night is simply another illustration of it.It is obvious that such & policy is io danger of bringing the two Houses into collision on und where the popular force cannot seraple to exert its full power.\u201d CHEAP POSTAGE.The Daily News (July 20) asys :\u2014We sre ag:- tating in this country for a halfpenny postage stamp, to be applied to printed matter, or at least to newspapers, Bat we observe with some interest that they are agitating in Germaoy for a similar tariff to be applied to written coumur- ications, provided they are open and issued in a certain simple form.They sre agitating for a card-post, by which ia meant that & card, the size of an ordinary envelope, ehould be dropped into the post-office and conveyed to its destins- tion for a halfpesty.One side of tbe card would bear the address and the proper stamp; the other side would carry the message.No one thinks a penny too much for the conves- ance of a closed letter ; but there are pumerous communications which we are all content to leave open, and which, if presented to the post- office in a convenient form, they might easily ale ford to carry for a balfpenny, if for that som they can carry a newspaper.Atsny rate thin German suggestion is worthy of consideration.THE CASE OF FANNY OLIVER.(From the Christian World.) Conuiderable interest Is being excited by tte case of Fanny Maria Oliver, condemned to death at Worcester, on the 20th inst, for the murder of her husband by arsenical poisoning.Toe verdict of the jury, returned after twenty wh nutes\u2019 deliberation, was accompanied witb 4 recommendation to mercy.This, we presume, wag occasioned by the fact that the evidence was circumstantial, and that the presence of arsenie in the body was slight, and was discor- ered only by the nas of medical tests.The woman, on bearing the verdict, uttered a # of some length, protesting ber innocence, dt claring that she loved ber husband, and calling God to witness oo ber bepalf, \u201cI am EC: guilty,\u201d sbe said, \u201cby my going to besren.The evidences not her may be briefly 16 counted.She was à milliner, and in the courié of ber business cleaned bonnets.Bbe bad co tracted sn improper intimacy with 8 mid of the name of Brice, and she bad, without bf te band's knowledge, drawn ali the money oe he bad in a building fund.The husband d in May, Iu the preceding April Mes Ort went to a chemists shop and purchased si i ling's worth of arsenic, stating that ste require it for cleaning bonnets.The chemist reins her of the deadly character of arsenic, sod fof gested oxalic acid as preferable for her puro He required, egally bound, à witnest te sale, end she fetched # Woman named Le house.She signed ber own mame, DURE \u201cFanny Burgess,\u2019 and gare à false & el The woman Whitehouse asked wb; g 7 by & name which was not her own, #0 and plied, * Oh, for nothing.\u201d During bet but or {llnoss she gave bim bis medicine, 825 Thursday before bis death, abe sald to bi ke \u201cIf n little extre drop (or dose) wo! pe bim ff Id give It him?Dr.Bill meds etic ful post mortem examination, discover i la all quantity, and ounced ; cause of death was arsenios! poisonité pir evidence, it must be allowed, it fully convincing character.speech to the judge, nor in & letter sud written by ber, dees Mrs.Oilves gives à bei of à single fact by which ite force contd 2 validated, Bhe deals in vague AMEE, totestation, quotes part of 8 bym™ Li al © love for her busbend, and 885% vost ; was ap upjast one, but does not MAH Fie jt la; ireametances on W! han verdict, We confess that ow ® hypothesis that arsenic wal detected 1 fy tbe the evidence ra to op to JOY Ba he tbe trace of arsenic wei del, though sufficient to cause death, to Sencar slight, and arsenic may be used in br our fog, though 1t waa pot proved that rs used it in het bustaens pére Tot ow log lo fe ron walls, in tbe coté children, lucifer matober, i os chalybente waters, and the P! Avausr 14, 1869.THE MONTREAL WITNESS: 514 of our quack or patent med:- doubr is entertained of the correctness of this Marsden and bis wife were standin, oear à small paies ent pie sod os wine, probably in statement, and it is hoped that Mr.Benry Powell £ | -sods, in saccharital cerbonate of iron, va ot 'water-tanks, in green feathers for boanets, 1a s dozen other ways, we are all every day inbaling or imbibing arsenic.\u201d He adds tbat arsenic, thus imbibed, may lie in the system for teu years and then turn up as if re- | cently taken.GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND \u2014 Lady Murray, eldest daugbter of the Duke of Montrose, hau become a convert to the Roman Catholic Church.\u2014 Charles Dickens, jinior, has writtea a tale which will shortly appear in the Gentleman's and Mr.Jenkins, wbo bave been provided with « military escort by the Viceroy of Egypt, will succesd in bringing home the remains of their unfortuante relatives.Da.Livixasrone \u2014Mr.H.À Churchil), 0.B, Her Mejesty's consul and political agent at Zanzibar, has just arrived in this country où Gazette saya :\u2014* We are bappy to hear that Mr.Ohurchill speaks with confidence as to the letters of a date more recent than that of bis that Dr.Livingstone, baviog heard of the dis- Magazine.\u2014 A Southwark tradesman was fined £30 by a London tmsgistrate for selling unwholesome cherries.weighed 57 pounds, death, agency of this fand.proposition.001 tons.\u2014 The Toames Tunnel), which was opened on | August 3ad, 1848, was closed on the 20th inst, | paving thus been a public footway for a period of twenty-one years, lesu thirteen days, = They send trout from tha river Tweed to Paris by the ton ; aad that river has been yield- jog salmon, latterly, of tremendous weights.The largest one csught there withia a century = The wife of Mr.Spurgeon, the great London preacher, a woman of earnest and lovable Christian character, is now suffering from an incurable disease that must soon terminate in \u2014 À rich English cheese-factor hag left £30, 600 for the purpose of promoting the opening of the Sydentam Orystat Palace où Sundays, and £10,000 to the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State patronage and control, \u2014 The Marquis of Westminater has sent £1000 to tbe British Colonial Emigration Fund.will enable the committes to dispatch to Canada from 200 to 250 emigrants.Nearly 3,000 persons have best assisted to emigrate through the \u2014 Goldwin Smitb's letter to an English journal, in which he advises England to make a spontaneous offer of compensation for the mischief done by the * Alabama,\u201d is hooted through out tbe United Kingdom.He bas made himself a lasting unpopularity by daring to make the ~\u2014 From recent official documents we learn that Great Britain in 1814 had only five steamboats of an sggregate tonuags of 285 tons, wbile to-day the immense steam marine of that country abows a total of 3,467 vessels of 967, It is atated that one-balf of the British carrying trade is now done by steam vessels.\u2014 Lord Tauntou, the Heury Labouchere of days goue by, did what few men have doze.He paid back £100,000 compensition money which the Bristol sud Exeter Railway Company bad paid his father for cutting through his lands.Lord Taunton had the honesty to see that his estates were enhanced in value by far more than the ordinary price of the land taken from bim.\u2014 The missing steamer United Kingdom, belonging to tke Anchor Line, and trading between Glasgow and New York, is again called 10 mind by an announcement to the effect that | the Underwriters at Lloyd\u2019s have been invited to discharge their liabilities in respect of the insurances éffacted on the steamer and her cargo \u2014leading to the inference that all hopes as to the safety of the vessel have been abandoned.\u2014 English paper.= Dr.MacGowan, the agent of the East Intia Telegraph Company, is still neging tte pre j2ct of connecting Ohina with the British Territories in India by a telegraph line traversiog Barmab and Yunnan.The Russian telegraph wires extend to the Siberian frontier, but from Kiakts to Pekin and Tien-Toin dispatches are conveycd by couriers on borseback.By the new line immediate communication would be bad with Europe and the New World.Unfortunately tbe Chinese Government is at present opposed to the project.= The Jewess abduction case, which some two years ago caused such gossip and controversy in social circles, is the subj:ct of & trial at the Glamorganshire assires.It will be remembered that Esther Lyons, a Jewish git), lefs her father's house, and, after a considerable absence was found to bave become a Ohristain of the Baptist persuasion, and to be under the protection of a minister named Thomas and his wife.There is no doubt that tke girl is now a Christian, bat the gist of the present trial appears to be whether Me.and Mrs.Thomas improperly induced ber to leave the parental roof.Liverpool Courier.= Among the new English books are the new edition of Oarlyle's, \u201c Life of Schiller,\u201d which contsing a new appendix by Mr.Carlyle, including Goethe\u2019s introduction to the German translation of this work, with /ac similies of the curious copper-plates of Schiller's and Carlyle's residences which adorned it; Raskin\u2019s\u2018 Queen of the Air,\u201d which it seems grow ont of a lecture deliversd by him last winter, and comprites three divisions, under the title of Atheca fn the Heavens,\u201d \u201cAthens in the Eerth\u201d and\u2019 \u201c Athens the Heart ;\u201d and Robt.Buchanan\u2019s \u201cBeandinavian Ballads\u2014\" one of the besatiful Bayard series now current.= The Belfast Northern Whiy of a recent date contains the following item :\u2014* An Irish spinning wheel bas been made to order (through F.H.Lewis, Beq, mayor,) for Ber Most Graclons MNajeaty, by Mr.James McOreery, a wood-tarner ia Con's water mill.\u2018The wheel is cot, of mabogany and Irishalder, nod has been hand- polished in a superb manner.On the stock, the lower end of which s trimmed with silver, inn tie: shamrocks in beg oak, while the rock bolds streak of fine Irish flax from tbe works of the Northern Spinning Company.\u2018We may add that it is selected out of a quantity of flax Which ost 21s.per stone.Oa Thursday the royal wheel will fg Peace el will be forwarded to Buckingham == Thero seems to be now no doubt respectin, the murder of Mr, and Mrs.Powellin Koperinie Mr.Walter Powell, M.P., bas just returned from to be substantially authentio, that Mr.Powell sod his party were attacked and massacred by the Teka tribe, and not by the B:san tribe, as Brat reported.The Bexaus afterwards came Upon the murderers, com them aot only 1 Delloquish the booty, bat to deliver up the odin, and conveyed the bodies to the Bwediah Rissionaries, by whom they were buried, No tbe officer.hem artisan produced a card on which was his name.\u201c Mr.John Bright\u201d The card was \u201c passed \u201d to Mr.Bright who straightway left his place and \u201ccome out.\u201d Our informant goes on\u2014Seeing Bright coming forrard out of the doore, I walks up te bim, and hs says, says he, \u2018 Is this from you?menage that! After a while bo calls me, and be says, \u2018 Go up thar.\u2019 This wes up-a flight of staire, the building of a second tunel under the river, similar to thst at Wasbiogton-strest.The rew braad ia on the increace.creased the reward for his capture to $15.00.Over three bundred men are in pursuit of bim in the country.It bas been ascertained that be actually ventured into St.Louis on Saturday.Jear.\u2014Am.paper.siding st Bouth Bend, Ind., was fatally poisoned mosquitoes from propagating.of ita class this season.The tiabilitios of Raplee be converted in New York from time to time, paying the owners their interest when due.en #0 avoided suspicion, When be disappeared there was about $2,000 in his vault.Ii wasre.Alexandria, with intelligence which is belloved ported that he bad fled to Canada and tsken a atontly deny.den, with his wife and three children, & boy about ten years of age and two girls, visited tteir plot at Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, for tke purpose of looking at the gravecf s relative, snd érréoging some flowers about It.covery of tbe northern portion of Lake Albert Nyaoza by Sir 8.Baker jhas directed bis toute in search of the southern boundary of that lake, and that in the course of a few months it is probable that further news will be beard frcm De, Livingstone himself.\" Tus Umiveanry or Epissores aup Feafinx Mrpicat StopEsta.\u2014An appeal has agsin tesn made to the Senatus Academicus of the Unirer- ; sity of Edinburgh by severalladies, praylng that | it would recommend the University Court to! admit women to the matricalation examinations for medical students, and to the usual examin- ationa for degrees, The petitioners propose to pay the Professors liberally tolecture to them separately ; a0 that we see no other Course op£n to the Senatus but to recommend that the University shall be opened on such terms to women.Sooner or later our Universities must open their gates to females.It would, therefore,be an act of grace on the part of the University and Scotland, sdvancedjas it is in liberal opinions on education, to lead the way, snd afford suitable opportunities of study for ladies enterivg the profession.\u2014 British Medical Journal, Gerrive Iusioe * Tax Hocss.\"\u2014The Birmingham Gazette that one day last week a Birmingham ertissn wag in London, and, being anxious to ses what the House of Commons was like, aud being desirous also to hear a discussion on trade union matters, he repaired to Westminster, fully resolved to procure admission to \u201c the first assembly.\u201d Mr.B\u2014-, na we shali call the visitor, sauntered up to @ policeman-\u2014and here we leave him to tell his own story :\u2014\u201c Ie Dixon in the House 7\u201d * Don't know,\u201d said the cfficer.\u201c I enw him a few minutes ago.He was ip, but I think he's goue out\u201d \u201cMuntz?\u2019 \u201c Don't know; baven\u2019t seen Munts\u201d \u2018 Bright\u2014is Le a?+ Oh, yes,\u201d said the policeman, sfteren interview with another official.* Bright's there on the Treasury Beach.\u201d * Would you tell bim 1 want to see him ?' was the next remars of our Birmingham visitor, whose appesrance unmistakably indicated that be was one of the genu- ioe working-class sort.* Osn't do that,\u201d ssid *- Send your card.\u201d The Birming- He then on the back wrote the name of \u2018Yes, says I.\u2018Mey I ask what you want ?' ssys Bright quite geptlemsnlike.\u2018 To go inside, says 1.*Oh\u2019enys he, \u2018I think { can I goes up and I was in the House.UNITED STATES.= The Chicago city Government bave ordered tunnel is te be made at La Salle-strcet, = The excitement in Missouri atou Bilder- The Gorernor bas in- \u2014 The amount of money sent through the msils by postal money orders is increasing about one hundred per cent.annually.This year the aggregate foots up thirty million dollars, - wated that the amount will again double next \u2014 À young man named George Deming, rein Chicago, a few days ago, by the carelessness of n draggist, who bim aconite for brandy, den attack of Summer complaint.He died at the Briggs House aa hour after taking the aconite.\u2014 The wife of D:.Alvab H.Hobbs, a prominent physician of Boston, was shot tbrongb the heart and instantly killed on Tuesday evening, by one Msjor White, of Tennessee, in tte presence of her husband ard child.White was stay- Ing in the house, under medical treatment.I: is said that White was in love with the lady\u2014a monomaniac in hin devotion to ber, \u2014 The first part of a donation of 10,000 | Bibles, which tbe United Presbyterian Hall Missionary Society is sendiog out to the emancipated slaves in Americs, was sbipped recently at Glasgow in the ateamabip \u201c Europa,\u201d to Now York.The U.8.Government has announced that it will pass tbe 10,000 Bibles in free of ail dutles and charges.| = An order bas been introduced ia the Common Qouncil at Washington, D.O., \u201c to probibit the raising of mosquitoes \u201d in that city, sad imposes a penalty of from $1 to $3 on every person who sball allow any buoket, tab or other receptacle containing water in their yards without having the same securely covered, to prevent = The Rochester Union says :\u2014Tbe latest re- orts from Penn Yan make tie faflure of the ke lee Banking House appear ay 0as of (he worst ure $133,000, of which over $90,000 balonged to depositors.The worst featurs in the case fa that this banker held a large amount of Federal bonds as collaterals and for safe keeping.Those large sum of money with him, but this bis friends Exraaononany Acowest.\u2014Mr Tbomas Mars.monument st the grave the boy ali behind it, sud placing bis bands on tbe top, he stone cried out \u201c\u201c Peek-a-boo \u201d to bis 'itile sister, The words bad scarcely escaped his lips when the \u2018 monument toppled over from the pedeatal oo | which it stood and fell upon him.The stone was removed as quickly as possible, but it bad crushed bim in a ehockisg manner, driviag his medion certificate, The Medical Times and bead iow the ground, aud smashing all bis ribs.Be died «almost instantly, Treaisew TRAGEDY 1% Poar Junvis.\u2014About safety of Dr.Livingstone, from whom he has bad 8} o'clock on Thursday evening the citizens of Port Jervis were startled by the intelligence reported murder.[It ia Mr.Churchill's opinion that one of the oldest and most reapécted business men of tbe village, Mr.Alexander Swinton, bad been shot dead by Warren Fellows, w jei- dler who for many years has traversed that section of the country, and whose recklessness und violence, when under the ir f aence of liquor, are proverbial.An eager and excited crowd flocked to the scene of the sifray aud found that the worst reports were realized, aud that the murderer had himself bern nearly sent to bis final account by & son of the murdered man.Mr.Swinton was 64 years of age, a native of Scotland, and the head of the well-known firm of Bwinton & Sons, hardware dealers on Front- ot.He leaves à large family, but has no wife living.Warren Feliows a peddier of cigars snd other articles, and bas driven a wagon round this part of the country for many years.He is very generslly known thronghout a large section of country, and wan copaidered a * clever fellow,\u201d except when intoxicated, when Lis turbulence had led him into many sltercations at different times and places.He is à native of Vermont, about 40 years of age, and hap resided ia this place from 13 to 15 years.The circumstances of the affair are substantisliy as follows :\u2014Fellows went into Swinton & Sons store, and, on account of some indecent behavior on bis part, was ordered out by Mr, Swinton.Pellows became incensed, mud, without any furtter provocation, drew a revolver and fired at Mr.Swinton, tbe ball taking effect in the abdomen, nesr the groin.Mr.Swinton fell to the floor and expired in about half an hour, A son of Mr.Swinton then eeiz-d & batohet, with which he struck Fellows two blows upon the bead, producing severe if not fatal wounds.Fellows walked away after the uffray, and went to the Fowler House, where he sank exbausted from loss of blood.Physicians were sent for, who examined his wounds, and found that his skull was fractured, sod that a piece was lodged under the skull.Chloroform was adwministered, and the section of skull abstracted.Except when under the icfl 1ence of chloroform Fellows ia perfectly sensible, although be professes to bave no knowledge of the shooting.He bad been out on a fishing excorsion on the day of the murder, and had, doubtless, been drinking freely, although his companions did not think him much intoxicated.Last evening Le was ins quiet and rational state, although the physicians think his recovery doubtful.~XN.¥.Tribune, BRITISH AMERICA.\u2014 It ia stated that the Governor-General and Lady Young are aout to pay a short visit to Lake George.= Miss Rye has comple:ed the purchase of old jail, Nisgars, which intends to fit up at once as & girl's home, \u2014 Captain Sir Alexander Mackrczie bas retired from the 78th Highlanders, Lieut.Rowley consequently gets a step.= The Detroit vessel owners and mast:ra Lave extensively signed a petition asking the Osnadian Government to make Goderich a barbor of refuge, = The oatmeal mill of Mr.George McLean, Aberfoyle, was totally destroyed by fire on Sut- day morning.Loss, $16,000 ; about twc-hirds issured, \u2014 The large still lately erected in Petrolia by the Ontario Carbon Od Oompany of Hamil ton, was charged with 1,500 barrels of crude oil\u2014aithough it can work with 2,000.= Le Canada givas currency to the rumor against sixteen millions last year, and it ig esti- | chat the Imperial government has promised Sir Francis Hincks to appoint him Comptroller.! General of India, with a salary of $40,000 a | year, + == The Whig contradicts the statement that Father McMahon has left Kingston for the west.It is said that Mr, McMahon bas received the offer of à parish in Oanada from Bishop Horao, and has not yetmade up bis mini to decline it.| = At Bannockburp, Ont, on Saturday, about ® pm, & young man named Allan McLeod was stabbed in the side, the wound penetrating the loft lung.He is not expected to live.He was stabbed by s man named McQarrie, who bas i been arrested, = Houter, the man who shot his wife in Brantford about two weeks ago, slipped awsy from two constables who were taking him to jail, and was immediately oarried off by bis cousin, who was in waitlog with 6 carriage and à team of horses.«= L'Evénement saya it is weil understood that | tke Legislature of Quebec will ba called together in the early part of November, In order that the | seagion may close before Christmas.As regards Outario, we believe the goverament of that province bave a like intention, «= The vacancy in the Parliamentary representation of Three Rivers, caused by the death of the late Sheriff DsNiverville, has already caused à numerous host of Trifluviacs, ae weil ae oibers outside of the oity, to apring into existence, soeking the office.«Five miles of section aix of the intercolo- ciel Railway (Jobin's) bave already been completed.The Commissioners paid a visit to ths section on the 24th ult, and declared them- solves satisfied with the progress and character of the work.About 800 men are employed apon it.=\u2014Tbe elephant, \u201c Tippoo Sahib,\u201d attached to Van Amburgh's menagerie, cestly killed Me.Geo.H, Secord, s merchant of Hamilton, on Toesday night, 1ast week.Mr.Secord was looking for his little boy, sad when parsing near the elphant, (be huge soimal knocked him down, snd then threw him to a distance of about Bfteen fect with hig truak, «= Some unknown misoreants s few nights apo placed a rail 24 feet long thwart the track of Port Hope Railway, with intent to throw the Wbile Mr Lindsay train off the track over n 25 fect em- backment, on one of the abarpest cu:ves on the road, Efforts have beea made to discover the villainy, \u2014 The Toronto breach of promise suit has been compromised, in order to avoid further publicity, the defendant payirz $1,000 cab to bave the suit withdrawn in v \u2018w of his mar- risge with a wealthy widow