The Montreal witness, 5 février 1849, lundi 5 février 1849

[" MONTREAL WITNESS WEEKLY REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.IV.MONTREAL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1849, loser, with a note requesting him to accept it us a recumpense for the one »f taken in 1847.\u2014 Boston Atlas.1 THR NEWS.CANADA.Custonrvixs mom He Hout Lixo ~The Norfolk Baacon mentions es about 700,000 volumes, exclusive of tract publica .î among the curinsition brought to this country by Licut.Lynch, commander works, more than 18,000,000 pages have Fiez-\u2014About Jalr-past four p'elock yesterday morning, lames mure son of the Dead Sea Expedition (who arrived from the Mediterrancan last week, | the last 19 months.In 18 suing from a small house in Craig + property p in the U, 8.Ship Supply), the fullowing :\u2014~A number of specimens of the senger) published 8000 copies ; there are now L No.6.| tained of the same till Tuesday evening last, when a watch was sent to the 25 States, and in Canada and Mexico, exclusive of nearly 100 tudents who are accupied in its service during the summer vacations, In 840 the suciety circulated lem than 300,000 volumes; last your it issued those various gratuitously during erin {now American Mes- ,000 copies of it cireulated.Me.Jun Kelly.utile house being wood, ws enveloped in the destructive LE rh Dead Ses The River Jordaus the Poot ot hier ens i inti i , , #hileah, gments| Then there were only 61,000 copies nf the Christian Family Alman element befure water could be procured The fire speedily communicated of the Pillar of Balt into which Lot's wife was trans}, rmed, as punishment printed: now the edition for 1849 already exceeds 200,000, and the demand 10 the back premises, und to Mr.Kane's ont-houses, the property of Mr.John Ryan.Six houses now caught, and were in short time reduced fo fast, we are informed that the pillar froin which it wai \u2018taken rises nearly 40 for her disobedience to the command of the Almig: \u2018y.In regard to this] is unsupplied.\u2014 Observer.Mussions.\u2014The Missionary Soeiety of the Methodist Episcopal Church ashes.Une building was eublet to twelve fumities, many of whom fost the feet high d yi u oo slonary À 3 8 ¢ ; gh, stands exactly in the spot designated by the ,\"ible, and that Lieut.has now furty-nine missionaries employed in Oregon, Africa, and South reater portion of such asticles of furniture, clothing, &cc., us they possessed.Lynch exprenses the confident opinion that it is the rey resentative of what America, and three hundred and Fe lubouring smong the Germane, he following are the names of somo of the parties burnt out :\u2014Mcasrs was Lot's wife, We believe it bee on hat] 4 .+ \u201cnrri wi .C , Dredge, Hyland, ¥08 s wife We believe nt n secn bulore \u2018or many conturies, Bod, tna wean, Rod deny ont, Care red he Ete Josephus records its existence, There are many other uriosities on board oi and Quebec Offices for ret 2300.The other parties had no insurance.rade of wood from the Holy Mount, abolls from the wheres of the Deng Bro | \u201c'Acsxowtenonent.\u2014We, the undersigned, sufferers by the late firo in |@#Zelles, &cc.Bleury Street, deen it a duly incumbent upon us to return our sincere thanks valuable practical result of the establishment of linos of the magnetic tele.| pl ndians, Swedes and Norwegians, in the United States, Tie total number f church members under missionaries\u2019 charge, is 31,699.There are the Supply\u2014an Egyptisn mummy, a pair of Uie cattle oi Arabia, rosaries seventy-two missionaries among the Germans, of whom 6000 bave became hurch members, \u2014 .¥.Evangelist.Goon ExaxeLe.\u2014One of the most extensive sugar refining establishments Heavine Tuz Hurnicane.\u2014The Cincinnati Chronicle mentions a very | in the country, ie that of the Messrs.Stuart in Chambers street.em.loy about two hundred persons.On New Year's day, these gentfomen to Edward und David Muse, Exes.for the humane and hospitable manner graph along the seaboard and lakes, The solegraphs now gives notice of the presented each individual in their establishment with a handsome copy of m which they have received the children and aged peuple who were suffer- storms that commence on any portion of the northern lakes.If 8 north.di ing under the inclemency of a cold and bitter morning ; as also the opening west storm begins at Chicage de Toledo, noties af the fect is immodiately ie Bible.\u2014 New Vork paper.EntioutEneD Muntricence\u2014 Some Lime ago, John Henderson, Esq., of of theif comfortable houses as a receptacle for provisions, furniture, &¢., and forwarded to shipmasters at Bufialo and Cleaveland, or, if à storm begins at Park, presented a copy of + James' Earnest Ministry\" to every minister, aduvinistering refreshments to those who stuod must in need.Signod by her of the laut named places, notice of it is sent to shipmasters al the pi twelve individuals, mostly heads of families.western Vossel ; ; ; ; î poris.Vossels are (hereby informed of the approach of storms, and J Fine \u2014About aine o'clock last night, a fire broke aut ta a brick house in St, may delay their departure until it is rafs Lo leave, 1 hee been ascertained of Henry Street, vecupied by a milliner.Tho new Union\u201d fire engino was Et winds Iravel at certain rates\u2014a hurricane at the rate «of sixty miles an on the spot, and, with the assistance of tho others and Lhe Hose Company, hour, and lees furious winds at slower fates, A northwest storm of great confined to Lhe Louse where it originnted.\u2014 Moatreal Herald.reacher, and prudent of the United Presbyterian Church.Since thon, olin Hope, Feq., W.8.Edinburgh, has en to su every minister f the Church of Scotland with a copy of Fee excel ere Monks or La Trarre.\u2014The steamer Marthe Washington landed hero esterday forty-three monks of the order of La Trappe, dircet from France, epeedily extinguished the flames.We are happy to say that the fire was vislence, commencing at Chicagu, may be looked for at Buflalo at a certain They arrived in New Orleans after a voyage of only thirty days from Havre, Fine.\u2014 We regrot extremely to learn that the house of Culonel Davidson, of Dewittville, Beauharnois, was burned to the ground of the furniture was saved, but a large guantity of provisi valuable property were lost, Colonel Davidson's entire lues je but we nndcrstand that half of this sum is covered by insurance.The ac.Peed re from the stove pipes catching fire, during the sbeence of the be detained in port until the storm is ayer.| ou Amy.\u2014 raze fe i i FakEbom AND SLavEnY.\u2014 The aren of Maryland in acres is 6,040,000\u2014 ounx eee Hot Toa oem tite va Thabo) at Queboc M707 that of Massachueetts but 4,640,000.The population.of Maryland in br gentlemen of all parties, his honor the Mayor being in the chair, and the 1820 was 407,350\u2014that of Massachusetts was 523,287.\u2018The population \u2018own Clerk, Secretary.The moeting was addressed by leading gentlemen The increase of the } f Maryland in 20 61 862 sers, h : population of Maryland in years was that of vi of the city, in English and French, and resolutions adopted fuvorable to the Massachusetts, in the same period, increased 214,412.And in Maryland, | bi vork.\u2014Ib.40,000 of that increase was in the City of Bultimore\u2014while the population hour.A vessel about to depart westward, apprised of thie fact, will remain in the ship Brunswick, and immediate in port until the storm arrives and expends it fury, Life and property will ington for Kentucky.They proceed from here to the neighbourhood of thon frequently be waved, which would otherwise be exposed to peril and Bardstown, where they possess 1400 acres of ground.They design perma.t £500, ipwreck.So also, when a violent soutli.west wind is sweeping along the nently locating themselves ut that point.There are six priests among them, ?{southern coast of the United States, information of it may be immediately evidently men of superior minds.They are strict in their hubils, and very forwarded to the northern seaports, that vessels, on the eve of starting, may industrious.They bring with them a large quantity of utensils, and an of Maryland in 1810 was 369,232\u2014that of Massachusetts was 737,699.appointed by the Pope, Catholic Bishup of 1he Dioeese of Chi y re-shipped on the Martha Wash- ite variety of fruits, flowers, garden seeds, trees, &e.; in fact, every- ng necemary to establish a + colony in the wilds of Kentocky.\"\u2014 Lew ville Courier, December 19, Brasor or Cutcaco\u2014 The Rev.Mr.Vauderville, of St.Louis, has been , in place f the late lamented Bishop Quarter, The Bishop elect is a Belgian by rth, and of the order of the Society of Jesus, Revicion asong tug SLaves.\u2014We have noticed lately in several of the Caprrat.Pusinuent.\u2014We inuet decline to insert the letter on Capital of most of the counties has diminished, In Maryland.i i i A r A .yland, the number of our Southern States, evidences of a desire an the part of the whites to promote Punishment.We believe that tho Law of God and the safety If society population engaged in agriculture nt the last census (1840) was 62,946.En the clovation of the coloured people by means of mure extensive religions in- demand that a murderer, prove mu on .other purauils the number was 29,041\u2014about one.third consumers 10 two.fluences than havo heretofore exivted.\u2014 Louisville Journal.be put to death, and this we have often sisted.It ie rather tou much to thirds producers of agricultural productions.In Massachusetts, the number \u2018Twenty.Skconp or Dzosmser.\u2014The two hundred and twenty.seventh ask us to fill our columns with arguments contrary to our awn opinions.We engaged in agriculture was 87,839, and in other pursuits 125,067\u2014more anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, was celebrated at Plymouth b; would hang no man for any crimes but treason and murder, and that not on consamors than producers\u2014s#ordin i ° .© ; 5 x a market for tie farmer, and con-|a circumstantial evidence afone, and we are opposed to public exeeutions.suming not only the products of the farmer of Massachusetts, bat those uf public service, at which Rev.Dr, Worcester, of Salem, preached.hooss for his toxt the words of boly writ\u2014* Children\u2019s children are the Thet \u2026 the fuil extent to which wo are prepared Lu go in relaxation of the te Maryland farmer als.\u2014 Maryland Free Press.crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.\u201d The sermon death penalty, \u2014 Courier, Stgsamno win A Trozr.\u2014A novel exhibition was presented in Wash | was rich in historical matter, and the spirit of the Pilgrims pervaded the Prorosen Seranate Distaicr.\u2014A County Meeting has been held in inglon Street and on the Neck lately.Herr Driesbneb made his appearance whole discourse.He spoke of their [ilgrimege as « missionary ote-\u2014one Shefford, numerously attended, at which Reso nr have been Pasmed, urging the necessity of bringing to the doors of the inhabitants a means of : ; obisiming justice, Both n ci ti Ed criminal mutlers, à little more speedily, comedies, but a bona-fide four and less expensively, than at present, The objoot of those who took part in the meeting is, to form inta a Judicial District all that tract of coun'ry lying between Lake Mempiiramagog and Missisquoi Bay, the Province Line and the Beignorial Settlements, for the triat of all cases, civil and crimi \u2018The inhabitants will not be satisfied with the provision contemplated ; thal flying Circuit Court, with s jurisdiction of £20 or £50 in civil matters, end no enminal jorisdiction whatever, The Sheffurd people appear to be in earnest, 30d have appointed a Committee to confer ou the subject with their neighbours in Missisquoi.We have not yet seen the Judicature Bill, and are consequently ignorant of its provisions, but we are convinced of one thing, that public justice, civil and criminal, will never be properly adminis tered in Lowar Canada, until regular Circuits are established, by the cum- bination of two or thres Counties into a Judicial District, to be visited twice in each year by two judgés, one of whom shall take the civil and the other the criminal business.That every man should be compelied to resort to Montreal, whether as plaintiff, defendant, witness, or juror, from the extremities of tiie present immense District, is an utter obstruction of justice which cannot be tolerated.Justice should be at the door of every citizen in a counlry enjoying free institutions.We observe that gentlemen of opposite political opiniuns have joined ia this expression of opinion.The Committes named to carry out the Resolutions are, Dr.R.Parmelee, Jas.Thomson, Eeq., Meme.Slareus Dougherty, Cima.Allen, James O'Halloran, and Gilbert Armstrong.The Commitiee to confor with Missisquoi are, Messre, Dougherty and Herbert, Dr.Foster and Capt.Wood.\u2014 1b.; Proroszp New County.large meoting of part of the inhabitants of the County of Leinster wan held n few days ago, at which Resolutions were d for attempting Lo obtain the erection of the Towne'ips of Rawdon, ildare and its augmentation, Wexford, Chertsey and Cathcart, all exclu- evel: pled by wottlers of British and Ineh origin, intu à separats county for all legal purposes, and to retain its present name, Leineter.Anvuiher Resolution suggests that free grants of land, or, at least, a reduction in price, should be granted to actual settlers on the wild lands in the reas of Kilkenny, Rawdon and Kildare.This boon has already been granted to French Canadian metilers on the suuth bank of the St.Lawrence, to settlers on the Ottawa and in Upper Canada ; 80 we see no good reasun why the same grant should not be extended to those who now seek to oblain it in the County of Leinster.Wo Anna Kiusep.\u2014On Thursday last, Mr.G.Miller, third line of Bathurst, killed a Wolvorsen, or Wild Cat, measuring about two feet high and thires feet long, of & darkish grey colour.His head and claws were similar to those oe common house cat, only several times as large, Altogether he wag rather a dan; customer to meet in the woods.We understand that an animal of this description had destroyed a great number uf sheep, and some calves, in the back concessions of Bathurst and Drummond, during last Fall.\u2018The farmers in that vicinity will not be SIT} 10 learn that the enemy of their flocks has been caught at last.\u2014Perth Mysterious Disarrzanance or à Man\u2014On Monday week last, Thomas Kelly, of Cavan, loft the howe of Mr.Young on the gravel road for Port Hope, with & promise to return in a short tine, but kas nevor been seen since.Great exertions have been made fur his discovery without effect.\u2018This is the second myslerious disappearansé within six weeks, Mr.W.Adame, who ing, and leuped upon his master, licking tin face and showing 0 entitement.Drisebach bad to Shp bis several times to cop bim off.After of the opportunity \u2014 Boston Transcript.whether she should be buried in Protestant er Catholic ground.The hus should be buried.Matters were then comprom vice was allowed to be performed over the body at the house, and she was to © tossod about carelemiy.The Sheriff finally quolicd the outbreak, and the interment took place in Protestant ground.since December 1847.Their a; und cost $1,512,700, Of these tion of $687,000 0, Pa., 12 were built in Cincinnati city, at n valua.0 on.\u2014There are later accounts at New York from Oregon.The Indian troubles were still rife, and a proclamation, by Mr.H.A.G.Lee, ht hable tu be nccupied by American settlers, Mr, troops, under American officers, shall render tlieir resumption safe.M:Bean of the Hon.Hudson Bay Company, writes that Leapent Jaune, 8 ave (akon shelter in Oregon city.borhaud of Sierra Gordo, rendering that place, as well as other frequented routes throu; wholly unable Lo disperse (| oung horses.A fow hours previous the same party Jlundered neighboring ranchero; and on the Sth, at Ojvscasceiles, they uals, wounded some others and made prisoners of four youn call on the GGovemnment for suacor, but the Government can offer th nothing but useless pity.The Minister of Finance is unable to hegocial the luan of $800,000, in consequence of Lhe propomls not conforming to in an elegant sleigh, with his pet tiger by his side ; not the tiger of English object they kept steadily in view, ane natonishing the city, Driesbach alightod with his Liger at the Tremont House, | be trained for the work of the a and taking it into one of the apartments invited gentlemen lo walk in and bo ronr, was founded on the Bible; and they thought no institution worth the introduced ; but there wure few who scemed anxious to avail themselves of raising, political or secular, that was not based upon the \u201c Rock of Ages.\u201d During the whole day, one of the most vivlent mow-storms was raging, Rior ar « Funenac.\u2014The Lonesdale Democrat gives a long account of that we have had fur a long time.The howling winds, the raging waters a riot at that place about a week ago.A Protestant young man married a of * Massachusetts Bay.\u201d and the intense cold, spoke most eloquently of tha wife whose parents were Catholics, The wife dying, a dispute arose as to sufferings of these noble men, t Elizabethtown, Pa., 16, st a valuation of $324,000; serious inconvenience nd the public.3.This aren, ont 78,000; at Whealing 8, a1 $130,000; and the the postmasters aud others wiil of course understand that Lransmission to oes Wheeling 41 $120,000; end the the chief office of money.order accounts fur the Sunday will terminate.\u201d that h nai i ttt sick woman, & Be misionaty labours aiukl be surpended the Ms | tonded ame of the Birmingham sents.Bron this sobosl des wha at.Robberies and murders sre the constant topics of the press.\"The dpoople church, The proj that was, the erection of ihe altar of tiger.He woemed to enjoy the sieigh- faith, and the establishment of religion un this Western continent.Fer this ther sigue of they platted their sohonls that wil might read the Bible, and within ten years f their landing laid \u2018the foundation of a University, that the young might stry.The whole structure they sought to Loao's Dav Osszrvance.\u2014The following official announcement refers to band insisted that she should he buried where he could rest by her side the abolition of a practice which, on account of (he monstrous desecration ut his death.The parents expremed their fixed dotermination to havo her of the Lord's day which it involved, bad caused much grief, and called interred in Catholic ground, Each party sought legal advice, which result.forth remonstrances, from the friends of religion in the mother t= ed in the decision that the husband Had tho Fight to direct wher his wifo| ** General Post Office, London, December.\u2014On and after the lat of Ja., 50 that the Catholic ser.Dusty next, the transaction of money-order business on the Sunday will be ntirely discontinued throughout England snd Wales.But Lo meet the be buried in Protestant ground.But on the day of the funeral, just us the convenience of the working classes, the various offices will be kept open for body was placed in the hearse, the father came forward and loudly claimed money-order business tll eight o'clock on the Saturday night \u201c(or as late that the body should go to Catholic ground.\u2018Thereupen, à fearial riot en.between six and eight as the receipt or despatch of mails will allow), ez.toed, in which a large number of people participated, and the coffin was cOpting whers the surveyor shall deem such arrangement juncessmty.\u2018The peculiar arrangement at each office will de announced to the public y special notification.2.As the personal attendance of the parties interested Werceus Extenrmise.\u2014Ninety steamboats have been built on the Ohio is not required either at the issue or payment of a money order, tho Post.te i ity is 21,406 tons, Master General is of opinion that this restriction, by which a 1 nomber A in CE 1 f and others will be allowed needful reet, may be made without any ent being general, Burning Tue Scarrry am Protestant Association, held a few days siice, Mr.1 Binminonam.\u2014At a mating of the Birming.\u2026 the oor.the Indian Superintendent, had desiared the Cayuse territory forfeited, and responding secretary, rolated an extraordinary occurrence ES taken has ale notified Bishop place during the past week, in London.Prentice street, in that town.A poor man Catholic, residing there, had a daughter who at.New Testament, out of which she had been reading to her mother, when Chief of the Walla-Wallus, had hung one the murderers of the American the priest came in, and seeing it, tore the contents out of the covers, put Missionaries, and was in pursuit of the others, Fifty blankets had been them into the fire, and held them down with his stick till suflicisntly cone offered for the capture of the principal murderors, and twenty-five for less sumed, remarking that he would eo serve ali such books that be met with in prominent culprite :\u2014half the amount for their scalps.Several Missionaries the houses where he visited.Inperenprrr Councn iv France.\u2014Messrs.Monod, Gasparin, and others, \u2014 30 i i igh-{ who have withdrawn from the National Protestant Church in France, have ony Cobbs, among thom some while men, infest the neigh taken the steps fur organizing an independent church.The plan is ely Mexico, very dangerous to travellers.The Government are this :\u2014The reformed churches of France must constitute themselves ; = Ge bandittt, Oe the 7ib a party of 70 savages ever declares that he adopts the Confoaion of Faith which they have ao.attacked the inhabitants of \u2014\u2014., killing 90, snd wounding many more : lished, will be n member of these churches.There will be at Paris « - they carried off 9 young persons, with many valuables, also n number of Salting Committee, composed of the Rev.Armand Delille and Rev.Frederie , and MM.Agenor de Gasparin and de Mimont.The re; tatives led 1 individ.of the churches will meet ther in Paris, if God permit, in the month of ! woven individ May next, for the purpose ot drawing up the constitution of the faithfol jectors of this movement ihe hope that all faithful independent churches will unite with the new church in forming in France a charch having the ssme Confession of Faith and the same organisation.mr was found drowned being the first.Should Kelly be found dead, we hope that the proper autharitics will pay the greatest alieution to the case.\u2014Port Hope Advertiser, KuvxsT.\u2014On Thursday last, an inquest was held before J.Dunbar, Esq., upon the body of John M\u2018Nea, who was found dead near the house lately escupied by Mrs.Bmwn, near tho Wharf, It appears from the evidence, that the deceased wes one of those unfortuuate inobriales, wioes lives, too generally, have a tragical ending.lie had taken off his pantaloons under the impression that he was ia his bed-toom.\u2018The verdict returned by the Jururs was \u201c Found dead by exposure to cold in consequence of drunk- anes.\u201d How many more verdicts of this melancholy character do grog Tenders require to bring them to Lhe decision of furnishing no whisky or other spirits Lo already drunken men?We think that the Government the terme of the la: Tue Buantso Wezt\u2014Thers is a very singulue cireamstence in Shelby county, Texas, uf a well that has been burning about tweive months, at the wme logs over the well, from which ho had used water for several yours, Sometime after the woods caught fire, and the timber burning fell in, snd ignited some substance, su to be stone coal.The rainy seasons bave not extinguished it, bat it burnt incessuntiy, It does oot give a ve agrecable feeling to tbe visitor ; for it is neither sublime or beautiful ; but dark oloudj uf smoke that is continually rising, & beholder is foreibly con.Yinced that there is netually fire and brimetuns in the subterranean regi former residence of Judge Lusk, When he moved from the plave, he laid foteph, of second daughter of Mr.F, Duclos, College Sirest, 291k ui 8 from the deep grumbling noise that is heard, the sulphtirous smell, and the Marion Sommerville, both to Anas, eldest BIRTHS, Montreal\u201480th ult,, Mrs.8.Benjamin, of « daughter.98th uit, Mre, J, H, ughter, 1st inet, Mes, BR, 4 \u2018Tylea, of a son, 1ut instant, Mrs, @, laughter.22ad ult,, Mrs, William McDonaid, of a daughter, MARRIAGES.Montresi\u201435th uktimo, by the Rev.John McLoud, Mi, M, Babooek, te Mary, Rov, Mr, Ace, ningham, roi oadow, to Mise f Graady, C.K., McMullen, of Ch ruguay, to Sarah, deugbter of Soi ermois, Lut last , by the Rev, Mr, Eliigood, Mr, of thia city, Flambero?=I6ih dif, hy the Rev.D, Connell, Mr, Lake H f Flambo: - eur of the Barony de Longuenit, le dasghter of George Hal Charleston, L, C.\u2014Charles I, |.G1 À i i Various results are con} i perhapssome geologist can give eum to] Anne, 1000 daughter of \u2014 Trapme 9.le moto Sing.power to Magistrates of sending this unfortunate So 2s minds of supouodiog bien by showing what wilbe] DEAT ; Tie Evecrnio Liair.\u2014The genilemen of the Telegraphie office in this \u2018ho final termination of the Buming Well.\u2014 Presbyterian.Montreal\u201490th ult,, Ann Nix, wifs of Mr.Willism Stafford, aged 76 years.3043 Qh et Tl ly hh ed RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, hr A roved eminently suceeseful.© smal int roa a, ; abat at many verde distance from the office.\u2014Hamilton Spectator.Tue Ausuioaw Trace Socirry.\u2014That the Amerisan people are not ng Eee Horbier Mestore see a por) oaths, J wholly engrossed by the , and ins UNITED STATES.usefulness of somes of our A Cass or Comscimnor.\u2014A pou ones of this city, some two benevolent institutions, ke the American Tract Society for exemple.Le 139, while at the Gymoesiam, Buy! Hall, trad stolen from the dress.£n 1840 its income was less than $i 18,000; Inst your it exceeded $337, Tom à valuable pdd watch since which tise notrase bas boea ob- Then it had no colport:urs in ite employ : now Ît has over 250 laboring in 15 ion fur money making, ie evident from the grime.io religions J = ad Fritive, son of Mr.Wie Rick Jota og aguoui Hamilton Charles MeGauria, Inte of County Wicklow, Ireland, ag yours, Mary Metiids, deughier of John Kndeger, Esq.aged 1 menthe, ist uit,, Caged i, C.W\u2014$tné uit, Mine Ha t, sister ofthe Hos.Hast, of Chambly, 8 yours, 1.Auguatin\u2014gist uit, Mr, 1sssc Dorval, Carmer, aged 80 years andfts days, 42 ANNIVERSARY LBW TINGS.ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.Monday, Jan.29, 1849.After prayer the chairman, Capt.Maitland, announced that, notwithstanding the depression of the times, this Society was in a flourishing state as compared with former .He then called upon the Se- eretary of the Society, the Rev.J.Girdwood, to read the Re- rt.From this document it appeared, that the total number of Tracts and Publications received during the year was 90,012, and the total number issued, 77,394.That the sales at the Depository had been for Cash, £196, and on Credit, £166\u2014making a total of £362.An effort to sclt books, Ste, by à colporteur, had not met with encouraging success, hitherto, in the city ; but it was intended to send him into the rural Districts where, it was hoped, bis success would be ter.The gratuitous distribution of tracts had been greater than any former year, amounting to £76 in value, and in number to 55,562.The Jubilee Fund of the Parent Society, is to be expended chiefly in providing tracts and publications for Ireland and continental Eu- \"he American Tract Society has been doing far more during the past year, than any previous one, especialty in circulating wholesome literature by means of colporteurs.\u2018The Montreal city distributors have been more active than in former years, and have distributed 38,495 tracts in English and French.Rev.C.DeWolfe moved the adoption of the Report.He said this Was a great occasion, being the Jubilee year of the Parent Tract Society.This Society was cradled amid storms,\u2014when Bonaparte\u2019s wer was at ite height,\u2014and it has gone on increasing in strength.res resuscitating tbe great works of the great non-conformiat divines, Howe, Flavel, &c., and making them speak in a variety of languages which the authors never knew.Especially were the efforts of the American Tract Society to circulate these books in the \u2018wilderness worthy of note.He had found the tract entitled ¢ The Sinners Friend >> extremely advantageous in one period of his own minis Bishop M¢ilvain had at one time been appointed chaplain of an American Military Academy, he was informed that most of the officers and cadets were infidels\u2014but, a tract of the American Tract Society presented to a cadet awakened a deep interest, and was the commencement of a revival which extended un:il nearly every student was brought under the power of the Gospel.The world had tried for centuries to regenerate itself by science and useful knowledge bat bad failed\u2014these leaves of the Gospel which this Society was scattering were forthe healing of the nations, and were succeeding in their mission, A tract would find its way through a scarcely open door, where no minister nor missionary could find entrance.Let, then, this great, noble, catholic Society be endeared to all and sup- potted by all.The Tract Society had sent liberal donations of books to every Wesleyan Station; and, wherever he had been, he had been told at the Depositories of Lhe Society, to take as many of its publications as he pleased.The second resolution read as follows : \u2014 2.That although Commercial distress has decreased our income, yet it is a subject for thankfulness to have it in our power to say, it has mof had the same effect upon our usefulness; and believing as we do, that the best as well as the moet pleasing mode of counteracting Error is to disseminate \u201cFroth, the undertakings therefore of this Society cull upon all to pray carn.estly fot its future welfare and success, The Rev.H.Wilkes, on moving the second resolution, mentioned the following anecdote which bad come to bis knowledge last summer.À young man of fine address, a preacher of universalism, very eloquently urged his peculiar sentiments, which, stript of their colouring, were neither more nor less than that God was too kind tobe holy, true, or just.Two good old Deacons deeply regretting the course of this fine young man, made him the subject of persevering and earnest prayer.He removed to another place where tracts were sent to his house.He was indignant, and told bis servant never to admit them.Oue entitled « Forty Reasous for not being a Universalist\" was, however, put under his door, and though he frequently was on the point of destroying it, it as often escaped.At last be thought, why am 1 so disturbed at this tract?If | am right I need not fear it, [ will read it and answer the objections.He read it, and found, at least, twenty of them that he could not answer.The two Deacons were raying for him, a bundred miles of, and that tract did its office.minister, for be is now «& laborious and successful evangelical preacher of the word of God, had told him (Mr.Wilkes) that for ten Teun he had served the devil with all his powers, and he was now und to serve his Saviour with, at least, equal energy.Mr.W.stated that he was, on the present occasion, a substitute for the Hon.Mr.Price, who had intended to move the resolution he held, bad his parliamentary duty permitted ; and concluded by commending the Society to public favour and support.3.That Lhe principles of this Society being Catholic, and its doings unos.tent il should feel bound to further its efforts to impruve the spiritual conditi © people of Canada, by devising libera) things for it on this its Anniversary.The Rev.À.D.Campbell moved the third resolution.After re- grelting that there was no meeting of the Evangelical Alliance among these Anniversaries, he gave an interesting sketch of the rise and progress of that association in Britain.In looking back on the reports of the Montreal Tract Society, he found that in four years they had seduced their debt to the Parent society one half; but should this Society continue to be indebted to the Parent Society at all\u2014when that Society bad to provide for lands that were sitting in the shadow of death, such as China and India?He thought not.Nay, without free conrtibutions, this Societs could not say it was taking an interest in the grangelization of the woifi.The Rev.John Jenkins seconded the resolution.He had been a tract distributor himselt in India\u2014sll missionaries are 50 and all missions are dependant, to a considerable extent, on the Tract Society for the means of extending the Gospel.He believed the germ of the Evangelical Alliance had been found in the Tract and Bible Societies, The more catholicity there was found among churches\u2014the more these churches would prosper, There was more real Catholicity on this platform than throughout the whole Church which arrogaied exclus- sively to itself the name of Catholic.The catholicity of this Society was, therefore, one of the strongest reasons why it.should be guner- ally supported.He earnestly urged the duty of prayer upon tract distributors.The Rev.J.M¢Lond said, look at this institution, rennin, throughout the whole earth, circulating words of truth, and love, and mercy.Le not this the angel having the everlasting gospel to preach?It is the forernnner of the Bi iety.Tracts lead men to the Bible.We need something to counteract the polluting literature which is scattering all over the country.The Tract Society is just the instrument for The colporteurs were doing a great work in ing Bunyan, Baxter, Boston, &e., to every quarter of the United States, to counteract the literature in question.We need colporteurs in this country; they are a branch of the great army of the Lomb.He trusted lo see the day soon, when there would be colporteurs sestter- ing good books and tracts through every part of Canada.But the Spirit's influence was necessary to the success of the tract effort.Let us pray for that Spirit.To illustrate the power of the Spirit, he stated the following anecdote :\u2014 A gentleman gave o tract, entitled « The Swearer\u2019s Prayer,\u201d to & seaman, who bappened once, during & «alm, to read it to bis shipmates, when the whole crew, previously exceedingly profane, were affected, and not only gav i Lee 7 were\u2019 much addicted, but some of hem tunes to fo) 4.That we bail the present time ss © favourable opportunity of scknaw.Indging our gratitude to the Parent Soolcty, and the American Tract Soviny for their past services to us, and lo give uilerance to the prayer, that the \u201cGiver of all Goud\u201d will continue to bless end prosper Chose Institutions THE MONTREAL WITNESS.which have been the means of doing so much for the oxtensien vf Lhe Ra- doemer's Kingdom.Tbe Rev.My.Marling, in moving the last resolution, remarked, that as our parent society was getting up in years, being now fifty, it became this auxiliary, which iv a thriving youth, to contribute to its support.He therefore fully concurred in the suggestion made by Mr, Campbel), of sending a free gift to the Tract Society of London as soon as possible.There was one branch of the Society\u2019s eflorts which he wished had been more alluded to, namely, its publications for the young, not merely of tracts, but books upon almost every subject that it was necessary or important to know, The public had long been deeply injured by the taint of infidelity which ran through many of the most popular standard works on history and science ; as examples of which he might instance Gibbon\u2019s History of the Roman Empire, and Combes Constitution of Man.The beautifully-written history, or clearly-explained science, were in all such cases the wings of the arrow to carey it Lo its mark, and the intidel principles mixed up with them were the poison which often remained in the vitals, With a far-seeing wisdom, the Tract Society had determined to counteract this evil, and were now publishing equally good histories and works of science and information, but recognising God as Governor of the world, and deeply leavened with the Gospel instead of infidelity.These books were chiefly designed for the young, and he thought Christian parents should bear this in mind, and always visit the depository of the Tract Society first when selecting literature for their children.Mr.Girdwood then called the attention of house-keepers to a fact mentioned by the colpotteurs, viz., that in seeking access to Protestant families he was often catechised by Roman Catholic servants respecting the character of his books, and when they found they were not Romish prayer-books, &e., they shut the door in his face.The meeting closed with the doxology and benediction.The collection was £10 165.84.ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANADA SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.Tuesday, January 30th, 1849.Hon.James Ferrier in the Chair.After praise and prayer, the Chairman rose and said\u2014he could not refrain from giving his testimony to the value of the Sabbath school.Many who are now useful in society, were once teachers and scholars in the Sabbath schonl.Even parents who are able to teach their children find advantage in sending them to school, il is of great assistance.And to those who have no means of religious intruction, otherwise, itis admirably adapted.Often the young,thus instructed,return to teach their parents.This Union lias been the means of establishing many schools and is well entitled to support.An excellent report was read by T.A.Gibson, Esg., one of the Secretasies,\u2014 extracts from which will be given hereafter, The Rev.R.McGill moved the adoption of the report.He said: Very much of the interest taken in, and the advantages detived from, these meetings, depended on the spirit in which we came to them.We ought to feel that the subject came home to us very closely.When the Athenian orator would rouse the people of Greece agoinst Philip, he appealed to their love of home and family, and thus speaking he aroused the whole nation against the enemy.What object can engage the attention, more important than the training of youth ?Life takes its impression from the way in which our youth is spent.The object of this union is to take up mind at its earliest stage and cast it into the mould of divine truth, at a time when it is most susceptible of impression.When we cansider the present time, we find there is a tendency to divorce religion from secular education,\u2014lo banish the Bible from common schools ; and there was great difficully in obtaining proper teachers, men of piety.He considered it the duty of the church to see that religions instruction is communicated to the young.He did not consider it as by any means sufficient that the \u201cschool should be opened and closed with prayer.If the teacher is not bim- self à man of prayer, it rather lended to prejudice the mind against the truth.This difficulty must be met by bringing the children where the truth may be correctly taught.The object of this society was to unite all who seek to advance religion by teaching the young, to encourage one another by correspondence, circulation of books, &c.He said in the Sabbath school the teacher was working for his own benefit, as well as that of the children, the effect was beneficial on bis own mind.He referred to the Missionary Record, and paid a just tribute to the publisher for his zeal in maintaining this useful Juvenile publication.He said that there was reason to believe, that God was bringing good out of the revolutions sow happening in the world.He often thought of the influence the Record must bave in extending the missionary spirit.After & quarter of a century, its 3600 readers will have become teachers, and perhaps soie of them missionaries.Canada, be said, is destined lo become a great nation.When we see the extent of the country, its fertility, its capabilities of every kind, we are justified in saying 50; what then is to be its religious state ?It must be formed now.The religious character of New England was impressed on it by its Puritan founders.What then is our duty to Canada, in these circumstances 7 Mr.George Hagar seconded 1bis resolution.2.That the peculist adaptation of Sunday Schauls as 1 means of imparting to the rising generation a knowiedge oi the Gospel of vur Lord Jesus Christ, furnishes an irremetible incentive to every Christian, 10 wid in their universal diffusion The Rev.W.Taylor moved the second resolution.His brother, he said, had spoken of Canada becoming a great empire ; he believed he was a true prophet.Tbe present time is the mere gern of its greatness.He said Parliament was then assembled about matters of great importance, There was some difference between it and the assembly now befure him.They did not place the mace on the the table, but they placed Ged\u2019s word, and acted on his authority.In our house, be said, there were various denominations, but we enjoy the advantage of there being no opposition.They were all on one side, the side of the crown.The affsirs which would come before them would have quite as great an influence on the destinies of Canada, as those which engage the other house.We begin with the instruction of the young.They had heard the report read, and he trusted it had produced a proper effect on their mind.\u2018The Union must be supported.his society canoot be dispensed with, The special charge was committed to Peter by the Saviour, «Feed my lambs,\u201d as if there was a danger of its being neglected, Just before ascending to heaven, he gave this charge, which should be pondered by evety one.The rev.gentleman here reminded the children present of the advantages they enjoyed, and addressed himself, for a few minutes, directly to them.\u2014 He then continued.The resolution, Le suid, spoke of the necessity of edueation\u2014all admitted that\u2014but the ath school was required in order that education should be really suited to the requirements of man.If Canada rise, it would be more by the schoolmaster than the politician, The schoolmaster must be sent abroad.There is no need for arguing on the value of education ; but he was quite prepared to argue for the supariority of (be truth which we or in the Sabbath School.We do not teach, he said, philosophical theories, nor sectarian dogmas, but only the truth unadulterated, resented in a way which the comparatively unsophistieated minds children are able to understand.What we teach is calculated to promote the prosperity of Canada.Look at the character of our teachen, the pious youth of the Frovince.He concurred in what was said by the revious speaker, respectin the impropriety of religion being taugbt le referted to the cheapness of this plan.There was no femune It was done from a principle of gratitude and love, not for hire.Not all the gold of California could purchase the lahour of bim or her, who from Sabbath to Sabbath taught in the School.But what neither gold nor authority eould command, the grace of God inducer.The Rev.Mr.Leishman seconded this resolution, He spoke of the adaptation of the Sabbath School to its ohject.It was the duty y irreligious men.of the disciples of Christ to continue to do 'h1 work allotted to them, 1849 and, io addition to the duty of not forsuling the Asmemtliog of ourselves together, there was the duty of feading the lambs.Teachers should endeavour to communicate instruction in the most simple man ner.Thus broken down it will tell on the heart.Others are ever at work for the devil, and they must not ceass endeavouring iv lead the minds of the young to Christ.Parents should remember their duties.The Sabbath\u201d School cannot supersede Home instruction\u2014they ought to work together.The object of the Union was in obedience to the command, * go ye into all (be world.\u201d The Union says, if one society can organize a second, the second a third, and the third a fourth, the work will go on.This is the object of the Union.It is now about twelve years since it commenced ils lubours.From ra submitted from time to time, it has shown its efficiency in strengthening existing Schools, and sending forth libraries.any can teach well in the Sabbath School, who may not, in a more public and open manner, be able to speak for Christ.\u201c In the morning,\u2019 he concluded, \u201csow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand.\u201d The Almighty will keep and bless those who engage in his service, and thus endeavour to extend his cause ; and they shall find that the promise is true that their « labour is not vain in the Lord.\u201d 8.That we rejoice to learn, that ne less thun four Distriet Uninne, auxilisry tw the Canada Bunduy School Union, have been formed during the past year, theugh the labours of the Agent; thal we hail this as happy evidenss of the ingreasing prosperity ol this great cause, and of increusing interest foit in it by the churches; and call upon Christians tn sustuin this Society with the means of cultivating this extended field of labor.The Rev.Mr.Wilkes moved the third resolution.He said the object of the agency was to improve existing Schools, and augment their number.Few things are more important than this.In every section of the country there was need of improvement.In London, lately, the teachers hiad been endeavouring to fit themselves better for their duties, by means of lectures and other modes of instruction.At one of their meetings, a gentleman said that he lately heard of a teacher io one of the country districts of England, whose class put questions to him which he was unable lo answer.They were little band of infidels, he said, and he must put them out of the School.Teachers of this kind we do not wish.We require those who are willing to keep in advance of the class, and be really able to teach the young.The object of this Union is to form Sabbath Schools.This is of the deepest importance to Canada.Its object is also to endeavour to elevate the style of teaching.For carrying out these objects, however, money is required.The Agent must be paid ; he cannot go on hisown charges.The speaker concluded with an earnest appeal foc the support of the Union.The Rev.Mr.Marling, in seconding the third resolution, would add his testimony to the usefulness of the Agent.This is not the time to expect the formation of many societies.In all parts of the world we find destruction rather than construction.The human race is like a boy just escaped from School ; they wish for freedom; they enquire about everything.The idea of this Union is great and noble.Ît is our duty to endeavour to bring as many to assist in it as possible.All the visible fruit of the past year, as shown by the report, is the formation of five District Unions.But he was well aware that good otherwise has been done.No Union was formed in Kingston, still good had been done there.In Toronto he believed some fault had been found with the name.They doubted the propriety of this Union taking the name « Canada Sunday School Union ;\u201d* they wished to have an independent Union.There was real good, however, done in Toronto.Their minds had been called to the importance of Sabbath School teaching.À series of lectures on the subject was advertised ; this was partly the result of your agent\u2019s labours.\u201d He also would remind them that money was required to send Agents, and to send books to our back settlements, in some of which the only teaching is reading the Bible from Matthew to Revelation.This, of itself, by the blessing of God, can make wise unto salvation; but still be knew that they would all admit the desirableness of sending libraries to such places.4.That now lender our thanks to the Religious Tract Society and Sunday School Union of London, airo, to the American Sunday Schoo) Union of New York, lor lh» efficient uid affwded this Bocicty; and that we now respectfully solicit a continuance of their countenance and support.The Rev.Mr.McLoud moved the fourth resolution.He alluded to California as rich in gold, and many were going to labour for it, but he reminded his audience thut there lay around them a material more valuable, and which wonld better repay their work.There were immortal minds, and he would urge on them the duty of carrying out the objects of this Union, and increasing the number and efficiency of Sabbath Schools.The appointment of office-bearers for the ensuing year was moved by John Redpath, Esq., seconded by H.Vennor, Esq.; and after the doxology and blessing, the meeting closed.The amount of the collection was £12.ANNIVERSARY OF THE MONTREAL BIBLE SOCIETY.Wednesday, Jan.31, 1849.Dr.Holmes in the chair.After praise and prayer, the chairman, with a few prefatory remarks, called onthe Rev Mr.Wilkes, Corresponding Secretary, to read the Report ; {rom which.we learned (bat, Rotwitbstanding the peculiar depression urider which every enterprise suffered during the past year, yet, this Society had exceeded in its receipts and issues any previous year, except 1847, in which they were unusually large.Having read the Report, the Rev.gentleman tendered his resignation of the office of Cotresponding Secretary, which he bad beld for twelve years, adding that he felt no diminution of interest in a work which was the best and greatest which the mind and heart of man could be engaged in, He then introduced the Rev.Mr.Taylor, who had been chosen @s his successor.Before giving a aketch of the addresses delivered on this occasion, we may mention our gratification to notice four of our legislators on the platform,\u2014two from the Upper and two from the Lower House, the two latter being members of the Ministry.The Jemen in question were the Sion.Peter MGill, Hon.James Ferrier, Hoo.Malcolm Cameron, and Hon, J.H.Price.1t is a good omen for our country when those who make the laws are induced, from interest in the circulation of the word of God, to leave secular business, however important, to attend a meeting to do honour to the word of God.Our leve may thus be expected to be based on the unalterable rule of right.he first resolution was moved by the Rav.Dr.Cramp, who said that an etesmed minister had expressed regret that no place had been left for a meeting of the Evangelical Alliance.Concurring in his brother\u2019s love for that alliance, he rejoiced that though thers was no meeting in name, yet there was in reality.This wes & meeting of the Evangelical 4 lisnce ; and be had much satisfaction in feelin that the Alliance existed in substance and spirit since the formation o tbe Bible Society.He deemed it u high duty on all these anniversezy occasions to express gratitude to God for the Bible.Is it nat a holy and blessed book, guiding the mind of man to God, directing the enquirer in difficulty, a solace to the mourner and the dying.\u201d We do well to make knownits truths to all.Let us be thankful also for the Bible Society.It approves itselt to every Christian heart, so entirely Protestant and yet Catholic.We must sprova of it from its adaptation to, and harmony with, Gods plan of bringing man to bimooif.It disseminates the truth of God to man, without mixture of error, and God uses it ta produce \u201c that holiness without which no man shall see him.\u201d He observed that the report called him back to early years\u2014 to the days of the first President and Secretary, who have since retired to Weir heavenly rest, when the entire issues of the Society for many years, wers not more than is now issued in one year, We bave bere proof how God calis forth the zeal of his prople\u2014as one withdraws another is ready to enter on the labour.He has ceased to wack miracles, yet suitable men are prepared to translate, being directed by him in the work, thus showing his presence with the Society.The report, he said, alluded to openings for the circulation of the Bible.it had stood the denunciations of the Vatican; and the people of 1G Ay Aa oy 1849 italy were now calling for the Bible, In Germany, atheism was denying ite elsims, but still the demand continued for the Word of Gode are not afraid.These apostles of infidelity may oppose, yet God is with us\u2014His word shall never pass away.The rev.gentleman here gave an interesting sketch of the demand on the continent of Eu- Tope Ër the Bible.He said, in these circumstances, it is matter for thankfulness that the Bible Society exists.We have not now our plans lv make.Weare now in full organization, quite ready for action.Let us ask ourselves in what we demgn or do, how we shall feel on à retrospect of it, Man: things we may question, but in regard to the circulation of the Bible, if we do it in the proper spirit, we shall look back on it with pleasure even in eternity.Rev.Mr.Leishman seconded the resolution.He said : The place in which this meeting was held called for reflection.Time was when no such enterprise could have been permitted bere.That time is past.Yet, memorials of it remain, Our fellow countrymen refuse to read the Bible.He noticed the fact that an effort is being made for France alone; and said :\u2014If this succeed, the influence will extend, and there may be reaction on the French Canadians, It is well that the report be published, tbat others hearing what has been done may go and do likewise ; that others also may exert themselves to make known the things pertaining to salvation.The chairman here noticed the fact of the former President of the Society, the Hon.Peter M-Gill, being on the platform, and in name of the Committee, expressed his pleasure that there was no diminution of his interest in the Society, to which Mr.M¢Gill briefly responded.e said he felt no diminution of interest in the Society.He was a humble believer in the truths of the Bible, and he rejoiced to see a Society so important advancing.There was a wide field for effort.It was cerainly mysterious that so much of the world was still in darkness.But one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and we may rest assured that his word shall be fulfilied, and that the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the channel of the sea.Thé work is pre-eminently good, and all should be ready to contribute to it.Hs would be always ready, according lo his ability.2, That thia Mevting, recognizing the Word of the Living God as the chief uieaus «of presesving the trun knowledge of the Divine character and will asniomgst menthe only rule of faith and praetice\u2014greatly rejoice in its aunually extending circulation in every part of the world.The Rev, Mr.Taylor moved a vote of thanks to the Rev.Mr.Wilkes for his services ns Secretary, which was responded to by the rising of the congregation, and Mr.Wilkes having acknowledged the same, the Hon.Étalcols Cameron moved {be second resolution.He hed much pleusure in bearing testimony to the Bible Society.He deemed il a high privilege to withdraw for an hour or two from the turmoil of political matters to join the friends around him, on a platform, where there was nothing to disturb the mind.He concurred with & previous speaker in thanks for the book of truth from which came all the social and political blessings we enjoy.He said the resolution spoke of the Bible as the rule of faith and practice.He had been early tsught that the Scriptures were the only rule there is no other way in which we can know God.In looking over the history of Christendom, we are led to \u2018the conclusion that whenever additions are made 10 the knowledge here communicated ; whenever tradition bas been brought in, civil and religious blessings have been in- jared, aud sometimes Jost, To the Bible we owe these blessings ; it is the very foundation of civil and religious liberty.He would allude for a moment to its effect on legislation.It was the habit of some to condemn the old Testament dispensation, Yet, four thousand years have passed over our world, and in the Pentateuch we find all that is wise and merciful in legislation.We find in it only seventeen crimes for which the punishment of death is awarded, while in England, until very lately, there were one hundred and forty, When we look at the moral law where our duty to God and man is so clearly and briefly laid down, we find there the nucleus of all wise legislation.In the old Testament we have not merely the weightier matters of the law, but much that is beautiful in sentiment.It forbids the vexing the widow, the stranger, or the fatheriess.The Israelites were not to return to glean their flelds, or their vineyards, but leave what remained for the poor.The benevolence of the Bible is seen, in its command, not to take of the poor the upper and nether mill-sione as a pledge\u2014to pay the labourer daily, and this might be well imitated now-a-days, * to pay the lahourer his hire before the sun go down.\u201d Its principles carried out would make the earth as the garden of the Lord, there would be the chosen abode of true freedom.Verily, * where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.\u201d When we look over the world\u2019s history and see the dreary catalogue of its murders and crimes, we find that human life is never estimated at its true value, except where the Bible is free.The genius of liberty may hover fora while, like the dove from the ark, over other lands, but finding no rest for her foot, she at once flies away to find « land from which the Bible is not excluded.Urge, then, as you value life, liberty, and property ; urge the circulation of the Bible, and see that you take 8 personal interest in its truths.\u201c [fe is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside,\u201d In this better and higher sense it is the only support and stay which the soul of man can have, when called to pass from this state of being into another.Rev.Mr.DeWolfe, in seconding the resolution, said it did him good to mingle with the lesding minds of the dors and hear that theology in which they were at one, spoken in «thoughts that breathe and \u2018words that burn.\u201d On this platform he was rejoiced to ses Doctors of Divinity, Professors, Ministers of all denominations, and Honorable Councillors not a few, all met to honor the Bible.The Rev.Gentleman, in an eloquent address, showed the necessity of churches and ministers abiding by the ouly rule of faith, and that in proportion as they left it, darkness came upon them.So it was manifested in the Eastern snd Western Churches of Europe, no matter what beautiful ceremonies and music they had, they were compelled to tum to the Protestant churches and say, ¢ give us of your oil for our lampe sre ne oul.\u201d Darkness must ever rest where the Bible is excluded.he speaker made some interesting and eloquent allusions to the place which the Bible seems about te take in France and other nations of Europe, J of national character, particularly, he said, that of Scotchmen, whose custom of cramming\u201d their houses, schools, and places of worship with the Bible, he highly lauded.3.That as the recent astonishing events on the Continent of Europe exhibit the adorable and inscrutable wisdom of God, in removing those ob.etrestions which for ages have impeded the circulation of His Word, \u2014and ne the Holy Beriptures bear an important relation to the temporel and eternal prosperity of menkiod,\u2014the friends of truth and righteousness are under the welghliest obligations to exert themselves 10 the utmost of their ability in premoling the objects of this Auxiliary to the British and Fureign Bible Society.Rev.A.D, Campbell, in moving the third resolution, said be rejoiced to stand once more on the platform of a Bible Society.He estesmed it a high privilege to advocate its claims.As the successor of one (Rev.M.Willoughby) who was ever loterested in the Tract and Bible Societi Europe, as all preparing the way for that kingdom which shall never be shaken, It often pained him to think that not long ago there were only 60 Romish Churches in England, and now more than 1000, and these arising mostly from defalcations from bis own Church.Yet he trasted they would be brought back.Great is the truth, and it will prevail, To the eye of faith how glorious the prospect, fn the fuifil- ment of the prophecy, Babylon the great is fallen.When we lock at this, we may bope yet one day to bear Christ preached in our Mos- trea} Cathedral\u2014to ses a minister of God stand there, and proclaim, ae Paul did on Mars Hill, \u201c1 perceive in all things ys ate too superstitious.\u201d How glorious to see the ohjects of \u2018present idolatry cast to the moles and the effect which it is admitted to have in the formation 25 , he could not withhold his testimony, The Rev.|; Gentleman alluded to the events now es, on the continent of THE MONTREAL WITNESS.bats.Bible.Christ on thefMount said, referring to temporal matters, 4 after all these things do the Gentiles seek ; but seek ye first the Kingdom of God.\u201d ere wus a reference to nations as well as individuals here.As long as they acted in accordance with the law of God they prospered, and in proportion as they departed from his ways, he withdrew from them.In the history ot Great Britain, when Popety had sway, there was poverty, inisery, and distress; she was not in the prete position she now occupies until Rome was thrown off and the ible circulated.Then darkness passed away, und Britain rose amongst the nations, Providence is now watching over England.There was much talk of civil and religious liberty, and there is nothing like it, but unless sided by the circulation of the Soriptures it is naught.If these things are so, then we must see the duty of circulating the Bible ; and all who are here should henceforward do all in their power for the Bible Society.The Hon.J H.Price seconded the resolution.He agreed with his bon.friend and colleague, Mr, Cameron, that it wasindeed sweet to lend à band iu this cause.The report said that not more than a wil- lion and a half copies of the Word of God were circulated by the Parent Society, during the past year.At this rate it would take 600 years to supply the world, and all this time how many immortal spirits were ing away.He noticed a singular coincidence.At the time that uonaparte crossed the Alps, and carried war over the most of Europe, but was stopped ed Russia où the one hand, and by Turkey on the other, it was prophesied that the next war would be a war ot opinion.That hus now come, and has taken the same course, and been stopped the same way.Providence has prepared the way for the entrance of light.Europe but lately was snrrounded by ramparts, which are now broken down.The opposing power has been paralyzed by the people.Yet the hand of God was init.The Bible is entering and will have à force which no acmy can witheland.Seltish men sometimes say, why not teach the people of England instead of sending the Scriptures abroad.But he had always noticed that persons who spoke thus were willing Lo do least for people at home themselves.The waters which fall on the face of the earth pass to the sea, and thence return to refzesh the thirsty soil.So widely extended benevo- lence lias her returns too in the civilization of other lunds, which re-|P ceive of her merchandise and load her ships.Eugland possesses wealth, for she possesses the Bible.The hon.gentleman here remarked that he wished to keep within the 15 minutes ailoited to speakers.Chairman : that applies onty to ministers.Well | am & minister, though not a minister of the gospel.Providence did not so order it ; but though not set for the defence and confirmation of the truths of the gospel, yet [ have contended for truth.I have contended for civil and religious liberty, grounded on the serip- tures ; for wherever they are read, there truth prevails, there God\u2019s govesnment is admitted, there is ¢very blessing which man can here enjoy.rie hon.gentleman having addressed the Chairman by mistake as Mr.Speaker, took occasion in apologizing to allude most happily to th force of habit, and thus closed bis address : Christian mothers, let me entreat you to take advantage of this element inthe human constitntion, to instil into your children the abit of venerating the Bible, studying its import and bowing in submission to its precepts.If you intend your sons for merchants, the Bible will teach them probity and diligence, if you wish them to rise as public men, the Bible will teach them forbearance, moderation, and justice.In a word, if you desire them to be useful and happy on earth, and to attain a crown of glory in heaven, you must imbue their minds with the principles and spirit of the Bible io their earty years.The Rev.Mr.M¢Loud said :\u2014We had heard of the value and necessity of the Bible.We are here in peculiar circumstances, in the nidst of a population of 600,000, who are told that the Bible is a bad book for them to read, and that it is only good for the priests, and not much for them either.He wished to ask why it was dangerous?why it was prohibited by the Primate?ls it opposed to civil rights?Nay, it is the very charter of freedom.Jeflersvi.was not the first who said that all men are created free and equal.The Bible said so before him.1t teaches to love thy neighbour as thyself.It declares that ¢ God made of one blood, all men, to dwell on the face of the earth.\u201d Is it fikely to deprive us of any political rights?Folly to think so, What blotted slavery from the escutcheon of England, and earned the fairest laurel in her history ?The Bible.And this same Bible will remove it from this side of the Atlantic too.It circulates through every slave state.\u201c Do that wbich is just and equal to your servants,\u201d is its language.Apply, then, the principle of justice and equality, and slavery comes to an end.The leaven is now working.He looked for the day when America will be delivered fiom the plague-spot which now rests on her.Many long for this.Jefferson did when he introduced a resolution into the legislature, designing its removal.There is nothing, then, in the Bible injurious to civil rights.Again, we ask the Primate it the circulation of the Bible would interfere with education?Compare Lower Canada with Scotland, England, or the New England States, and then judge.Are they afraid, then, it might injure commerce, manufactures, or agriculture?It will be found that the greatest energy in ail of these pursuits is found with those who use the Bible.One only reason can we find for the prohibition in question.There is no Popedom, temporal or spiritual, sanctioned in the Bible.On the contrary, it secures civil and spiritual freedom, But the things seen are temporal.The resolution notices, also, the eternal prospects which the Scriptures hold out, If the world is to be regenerated, the Bible must be circulated.¢ Sanctify them through thy truth\u2014thy word is truth,\u201d We are under © deep obliga'ion to support this Society ; and we would say to each\u2014 « How much do you love it?\u201d Trade snd commerce are cettainly very much depressed, and every one must retrench; but shall retrenchment begin at the bouse of God?He trusted not.Rev.Mr.Jeukins briefly seconded this resolution.4 That the thanks of this Meeting are due to the British and Foreign Bible Society for its efficient sid tn this Auxiliary, through which an extensive purtion of Canad supplied with the word of hfe; and that the manifest tokens of Divine approbation resting on the Parent Iastitution, and other kindred Societies, demand devout acknowledgment to the Author of every guod and avery perfect gift.The Rev.Mr.M94, and which threatens to solve these difficuities after its own terrible fashion, by proscription and death.In short, whilst the principal guarantees of social order are suspended, shaken or divided, the ancient and malignant phalanx of the French Revolution in all its terrors is compact, desperate, and resolved.Whatever the \u2018Government of France may be, there lies its greatest and most immediate danger ; and in its resistance to those enemies of mankind it will command the complete support of the friends of order in all countries.The most fatal blow to General Cavaignac was the mere suspicion that tie had been implicated in the imprudent proposal to confer national rewards on those assassins and plunderers who are the heroes and martyrs of the modern Jacobins.But under all these vicissitudes that party of anarchy subsists ; and ere long we shall probably learn that Door desperate attempt has been made to recover the influence which it lost in June, and which this election seems likely to place] Amgether beyond its reach, unless it can be recovered where it arose, on barricades of Paris.PAPACY AND THE POPE, (From the N.Y.Evongelist.) \u2018The Pope, who opened his reign so auspiciously, and the first nets of whese administration were hailed with such entbusiasm by his own and by the whole Christian world, is now a fugitive from his minions.\u2018The Pope of progress, the Pope of the people, the Rege- -merator of Italy, sits no longer on the Quirinal, speaks no longer from the Vatican.What has brought about this change?We believe *éhe explanation may be given ina few words he Pope felt the ; re of the universal progress ofthe age; he attempted to imdue Papacy with the spirit of this pro 3 bat he soon found that ress could not be associated with the Papacy ; that its infallibility ed immobility, and that toreform was to destroy.We may, per- \u2018Bape, be too hasty in charging Pius IX.with insincerity.Hel he *been-one of the people, or one of the nobles merely, be might have \u2018been the foremost among Italian patriots.The real dificulty lay not so much in the man ss in his position.What he actually did was only a stern reproach of the prpasye He established a Papa) post-office, through which bis people might address him directly, and once a week he pave ublic audiences; be became, in some sort, the prince and father of bis le.And this implied (hat the Vicegerent of the mor- «ifui Son of had before been an inaccessible sovereign.What eugèt à man, claiming to hold such an office, to be, if not the father of poor, erring and sufferingmen?He ertcouraged men of science.Us permitied the formation of & railroad company.He made enquiries respecting the best method of diffusing education among the lower classes.Ho appointed a commission to reform gross abuses in the judiciary code.And this implied that the Papacy had left undone what the nations on every side were familiar with, and what bad been fully developed, even where the heavenly government of the Pope had never been recognised.Countries filled with hetetics, had educated the people, while Romans were grovelling in ignorance ; had perfected the mechanic arts, agriculture and commerce, while Rome was surrounded by uncultivated deserts, and was destitute of manufactures and alwvst every form of productive industry ; had railroads running in every direction, while Rome had only miserable highways.\u2018The Pope released from prison, of recalled from exile six thousand men.And this implied the tyranny which had filled the prisons with the best citizens of Rome, or had expatriated them.The Pope emancipated the Jews.They were already free in Germany, Englaud, France and America.He opened the library of the Vatican.It hud hitherto been closed, while all the public libraries of the world gave free access to scholars from every nation, He for a time took part with bis countrymen aginst the Austrians, and seemed to fuvor the restoration of Îtalian nationality.And yet Popes had been in Italy for more than a thousand years, without doing anything for Italian nationality.What be attempted to do, we say, showed what had not been done, where, with the pretensions of tue Papacy, every improvement for the good of man ought to bave been first of all accomplished.What was the Papucy worth, when every glorious improvement was going on where sts power was a inere forin or utterly unfelt, while Lere at Rome everything remained staguant as if autiquity were taking its everlasting repose upon the seven hills?Pius IX., u man of intelligence, seemed to feel that something must be dane iu reality or in appearance ; and be set his hand to work in the things we have named above.Perhaps it was à political farce that he intended tu play ; perhapse he was entranced by the Gream of a pa- tiiot Pope, Buta faice must come to an end ; and à dream must soon vau- ish before reality.Had the Pope been true to the spirit of progress, he must have educated the people, and permitted the free circulation of books, and among the rest the Bible.But no educated people can live at Rome with the Bible in their bands, and succumb to the miserable mununeries and deceptions of that religion.Had he been true to the spirit of progress he must have encouraged commerce and every form of industry.But the people of Rome, enriched by their own enterprise and industry, instead of depending upon the revenues and trade drawn into the Holy City, by pilgrimages and religious shows, would soon escape from the Papat charm, and feel the sense of personal power and independence.Railroads would bring the opinions and example of other nations nto too close proximity.The restoration of Italian nationality \u2014ihe most glorious and the dearest object of patrivtic aspira- tions\u2014can have no attraction for the Papacy.What nationality can embody the Papal States?What shall be the form of government ?Who shall be King or President ?Shall the Pope himself be the fiead of the government?Then the whole of ltuly is resolved into Papal States, aud the mighty evil is enlarged.Shall the Pope cease to be a civil ruler?Then tie associations of the past ages are vanished, the splendor of the triple crown is faded, the fulminations of the Vatican are empty words.No longer a monarch among monarchs, ne longer a King of kings, how will he hold a comparison with the Gre- gories of the past, or maintamn even the form of supremacy ?No, the Papacy is a growth of old and worn-out centuries, struggling to main- tan a feeble life amid the light and freedom of the fresh and vigorous present, where all (he aliments of national being ministers to other opinions and institutions.If it live at all, it must live by continuing 10 draw sustenance from the past: like an ivy, it must entwine itseli around ancient ruins.Let itattempt to unite itself with the modern world and it perishes.Pius EX, if not convinced before, now probably sees this clearly enough.He returns, therefore, to the oid precedents, authorities, usages, and spirit.He entrenches himself in the fortresses of his infaliible predecessors.He has played his faice, or he has completed his venturesome experiment; and now he must pause.Be it what it may, farce or experiment, itis a failure.To be a tive Pope ie musi cease to be alrue man.If he is faithless to Italy, he 1s again becoming faithful to his position.His recent Hight was probaly intended as a stroke of policy.He is no longer a Papal patriot, but be now becomes & Papal martyr.He calls forth prayers and masses.The Virgin and Saints are ppealed to.The sympathies of the whole Romith world sre attempted to be moved in hisbehalf.The measure will be likely to have partial success, but it must prove fruitless in the end.Centuries ago the Papal dignity and power waned at Avignon.What can be its fate, to duy, at Gaeta ?it is probable he will soon find it for his interest to return to the Vatican.But he will return with shorn beams and diminished strength.The successor of St.Peter has fled in a humiliating dis- fine.Itisa partof his history which will ever surround him.hat an association in the eyes of his subjects! The charm of supernatural dignity, of infallible wisdow, of indomitable courage, of tient endurance, of inexorable determination, is fled forever.The ope can be an august martyr only before the high altar of St.Peter\u2019sit there be any men at Rome, the fate of the Papacy is decided.Here, t00, is tite beginning of the end, and the end canot be far distant.THE MAYOR AND THE LICENSE SYSTEM.(From the Boston Recorder.) Last week we gave the remarks of his Honor the Mayor, in regard to the attempt to put down intemperance by withholding licenses for the sule of intoxicating drinks.The attempt he pronounced emphatically to be \u201can experiment failed.\u201d And now be proposce to regulate a busivess which has ever defied and eluded alt regulations.He lays great stress upon the impossility of completely eulorcing the prohibitory laws ; as though any law can be fully enforced, so long as unprincipled men are tempted to its violation.Plato spoke the truth when he said, that there are many good laws ; but that one more is needed, namely, & law that those laws shall be better observed.Who believes that the existing wholesale laws upon the subject of the rum-trade cannot be as thoroughly enforced as any statute in the book, if the city magistrates and officers were disposed to risk their popularity, and forego their esse, by vigorous efforts to put them in full force.t is another saying of Plato\u2019s, that good laws grow out of bad manners.And if the state of morals among us is so low as Mr.Bigelow asserts, then there is vo much more need of stringent laws, strictly enforced, to correct the evil.If it is true, as he states, that the present laws cannot be carried into execution, on account of the ness and stubborness of the liquor-sellers, theo what law can sustained against the determination of such as are determined to break them.On this principle, we shall soon be called on to give up all eivil regalstion but such as no one cares to infringe upon.We may as well give up all municipal enaciments ; and 1 e time we find that we can do without them, we shall be able also to dispense with & mayor, and other executive officers.- Mr.Bigelow would seem to be under n mistake, as to the prevalence of drunkenness in this city, beyond what might be expecied in such a population, In New York, they bave grog-sheps licensed by the thousand, and as many more unlicensed.But the licence system there does not protect them from the ravages of intemperance 90 well as the opposite system protects us here.It is otated on documentary authority, that, in [846, the numbers of persons arrested and tried in this city for drunkenness was .In 1847, it was 642 And last year, it was 631; being 106 less than it was (wo years before.This would indicate, contrary lo what many suppose, à get improvement in respect to this part of the public morals, We were in a good way.Alas, that we should leave it, to return te the old demoralizing plan ! Boston hus always a large number of transient persons in its streets, \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 the arresting officers.The whole discredit ought not to rest upon the settled population of the city, of whom by far the greater part will deplore the expected change in the policy of the city government.All the recent elections, in which the question of temperance bas been in the least involved, have shown that large majori of the citizeus are warmly opposed to anything like a license-system.NO NECESSITY OF A PANIC.(From the National Eva.) We do not yet see any indications from the Southern press, that authorise the apprehensioi of a speedy end to theUnion.That there is a mighty movementamong the devotees of paity,and the dissolution gentry, lo create a sensation, is quite apparent.Mr.Calboun and his cligue,are doubtless anxious to make Southern men believe their honor and sights in peril , and to separate them from all political association with tbe North, so as to promote his ulterior views respecting a Southern Confederacy, where Slavery may reign in undisturbed supremacy, and John C.Calhoun be exalted \u2018its grand embodiment.Democratic partisans in the same section, embittered by recent defeat, cut oft from all expectation of office, and bent upon embarrasing their opponents, contribute their part to the getting up of a \u201c crisis,\u201d which may break up the Whig national organization, and completely cheat that party out of its triumph, by compelling General Taylor to become the - ident of a section, instead of the union.The Southern Whigs, too, feurful of meeting this combined onset directly, may talk solemnly about the necessity of dissolution, should the worst come 10 the worst, and appear to fall in with the paroxysmal movement for fear of losing caste.But, after all, our nerves are not much shaken.The Phit- adelphia North American, speaks in terrific tones of the consequences of Disunion, and appears willing to appal the South.We do oot exactly perceive the necessity of this, tor we cannot deem the danger of dissolution imminent ; and if it were, it seems to us wise to take the matter coolly.We have gloried in the Union as much as anybody, and still feel'a strong attachment to it.But these is only vie sale rule where a confederation of sovereign States cannot agree and that is, separation, in all good feeling, When the herdsmen of Lot and Abraham quatrelled, and their interests interfered with each other, the two brethren separated ; but, 50 f'ar as we learn, maintained thereafter the most friendly relations with each other.When Paul and Barnabas found themselves at swords\u2019 point, they separated, each going his own way, and thus preserved harmony by division.1 perpetual discord is to poison all the intercourse of Nosth and South, or if their joint partnership is to be prostituted irrevocably to the propa.andism of Slavery, orif the South, whenever a measure dispieases it, will unite in caucus, and be satisfied with nothing less than absolute submission from all other sections, it seems to us far better that a movement be made in a calm, fraternal manner, for a general Convention of the States, to determine upon the safest and most equitable mode of dissolving their connection, and reorganizing in new combinations.There is no necessity of being heated upon the subject.[It is one of immense importance, equalled in its magnitude only by the original work of, Jorming the present Union.Our tuthers subjected their passions and prejudices to the government of reason, when they undertook to educe order out of the chaos of the American States.We, their children, having the benefit of their example, being admonished by their errors, and with increased experience, ought to be able to go manfully, caimly, sensibly, about the work of re-formation, ify indeed, it be impossible to live together any longer.The American People, North and South, are excitable on ordinary occasions, and given to blustering a little ; but when a great occasion presents itself, a great danger impends, a great duty is to be done, their common sense and sleadiness triumph.Ifthe South must have a division of the Union, if it is really in earnest upon the subject, then let reasonable men in all sections address themselves to the work.Let there be no helter-skeller operations\u2014no direful prophecies\u2014no maledictions\u2014no crimination or recrimination\u2014no reproaches\u2014but let us come togetiier in General Convention for the last time, divide our possessions and if the results be two organizations, slavehold and non slaveholding, let God judge between us, and human vengeance sleep.The Free Union would then be exempt from all responsibility forslavery.Its support and countenance would no longer be given to the system.The Slave Union could no longer reproach thelr former brethren with bad faith and oppressive legislation.Each might work out its own destiny, undisturbed by clashing interests and prejudices, unembarrassed aud unmanned by perpetual and degrading compromises.© submit these views, not because we wish the Union dissolved, but to show that ali pasties would do well to look at the subject calmly and in good temper.It the slaveholdets are sesolved to reject the Uniou, unless they can rule it, we bad better separate.It is folly to suppose that civilization in this country is absolutely dependent upon one form of political or social organization.We have tried the Union\u2014it bas worked admirably in many respects.We, non-slave- holders, would prefer its continuance ; but we are far from believi that either ruin or anarchy will necessarily follow its dissolution.gd is the blind, unreasoning devotion of the aon-slaveholders to the Union which emboldens the slaveholdets to tbe exaction of conditions not in the original bond.Let the former give to the winds their fears, show that they value the Union ouly as & means to certain great ends\u2014li- berty, peace, and progress\u2014prove their readiness to dissolve it wi ever it shall become inconsistent with these ends, and try without hesitation, other forms of social existence\u2014and a period would ba put to all this senseless declamation about a dissolution of the Union.[ue Races 1n IRELAND.\u2014In freland there have been, and there still are, many other races (primitive races, perhaps, of whom we know little or nothing), not yet extinct; developed occasionally and unexpectedly amongst the subsequent waves of other races which have swept over or sojourned on the soil of Ireland; primitive races connected with these Lithunanian and Wendes races of the Black Forest, sources of the Danube and shares of the Baltic, not yet extinct in these countries, but influencing by (beir presence the blood of Central Germany, of Belgium, and the Rhine.The Phænician exists in South Ireland, wilh his fine oval face, black hair, large expressive eyes, snd oriental feelings.That distinguished student, Mr, ercival Lord, who rose so rapidly to reputation in India, was a native, I think, of Cork, but evidently of the Phænician race.The Dane; that is the Saxon, seized on Eastern Ireland; the Basque probably had a share in the population of South Ireland ; the Ceit of the north-west of Tretand bas, it is said, his peculiarities.It is in Iretan in one tract only of \"Scotland, where we meet those m: mains, the round towers; monuments coeval perhaps with the pyramids!\u201d What an antiquity, no dou\u2019, could we but trace it, belongs incontestibly to Ireland ; at all events, to its race! But may it net.be that other races are just as ancient ?\u2014 Medical Times.Tue Growrn or Tne Weer.\u2014No one, remarks the editor of the Cineln- nat! Atlas, who is not on the spot, ean form an wdequale ides of the rapidity snd completeness with whish towns and settlements have been made on the Mississippi.During the season pret.four steumbouts have run re, » the Falls of Bt.Anthony, and had more business than they could do.À new boat has bacn procured, and five boats will run to the Falls nest spring.When we consider that the Malle of St.Anthony are soven hundred miles above 81.Lonis, in the heart of what was recently the Indian country, we can understand that such a busines now is = wonderful fact, Such facts, however, are constantly oecorring, The fided of emigration is wpresding over the North West with recistiess energy.At the Falls of St Croix, six! miles north of the Falls of St, Anthony, there ie a great dem ersetod which is saloulated for Gcen saw mille.The courtey is fuil of fine timber, and the lumber businces is now the principal pursuit thers.At the mouth of Crow Wing, fifty miles wot of Bt.Anthony, there are also scitioments, In thet remote region, the proosss of population snd civilisation is going on with great rapidity.In less than twenty years Wisconsin, lowa, per og nesota, will contalo two millions of people ; and lung before that time, few waves of emigmtion will flow far beyond that into new wilderness \u2018lands, who farnish a large portion of the cases which arrest the atténtion of JA Thus à lu rt of that lation which eomes from Europe will be ab.sorbod in ee fe and Woods untroddes by oivitizstion.pe 8 7. 1849 TER MISOBLLANY.A PRAYER IN AFFLICTION.«J will eny unto God, du not condemn me; show me whercfare thou con.tendest with me \u2014Jub, 3.2.Father in heaven! who art with me contend:ng\u2014 0, hear my prayer, thou just, yel angry God! Wile low this spirit, in contrition bending, Doth * kisa thy rod.\u201d Condemn me not ; but heed the voice of sighing\u2014 \"Tlic burning drops, that from these eyelids full ; And while as suppliant l'un before thes lying, Here thou my call.And deizn to show me, kind, forgiving Fathor 7 Why \"tis so long vince thou on me hast smiled ; Oh ! spun not this request\u2014but pity rather Thine erring child, If 1 have sought to gain man's worthless favour, More than the praise which comes alune frum beaven : 1 wourn my folly\u2014for thy sake, dear Saviour, Be it forgiven.Or.if concealed an idol in this bosom, Praying devation to u erenture.ove, Let not the blight which hath destruyed hope's blossom Vain chasteniog prove.Is it that I have used, as but abusing, The rich abundance, which thy hand did pour, \u2018That now the Lumblesl wants thou art refusing Which 1 implore 1 If these offences from my view are hidden Decp in the secret ehumbern of my soul, Or any cherished love, by tlie forbi , \u2018There bath control \u2014 Make me to know my sin or my omission, Aad I will weep in penitence, alone ; Drink uorrow's cup, and say, with meek submission, THY WILL PE DONE.\" Fur the Montreal Witness.DUTIES OF CHURCH MEMBERS.\u2014No.IV.A PROMPT AND SYSTEMATIC ATTENTION TO ASSOCIATE DUTIES, The Church, as a whole, hus duties, to which every member ought to feel himeelf committed.If it is to walk in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfurt of the Holy Ghost, it must not only worship, but acf for the welfare of men, and the glory of God.Our Lord adverts to one class of these duties in his solemn description of the judgment.The least of his brethren are to be fod when hungry, clothed when naked, visited when sick and in prison.Moreover, he declared, \u201c the poor ye have always with you.\u201d Whatever the Church undertakes in this mater, it is a plain duty of every member to feel himself, and herself, committed toit.The duty is to Christ.This is sometimes forgotten, or such apologies for neglect as we sometimes hear could not be offered.Because one dislikes the method of doing it, and another dislikes some of those who engaga in the work, and another feels strange and lonely among his fellows, it seems to be supposed that there is exemption from duty.Let it be inquired how euch excuses would sound in reply to our Lord\u2019s thrilling charge at the Inst day.© 1 was an hungered,\u201d &c.\u201c Lord, | did not like the le\u2019 who engaged in this work, or they were not social enough in their manner of doing it, of, I was so much engaged in adorning my own person, that I could not attend to the poor \u201d or, ¢ Lord, I knew others would do it, and I was glad toshift the burden upon them.\u201d The question is plain and solemn, is this allegiance to Christ?What must be the rejoinder from the lips of truth and rity ?P in, the Churches have a work to accomplish for Christ, which demands such pecuniary contributions as he enables them to afford, It is ever \u201c according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.\u201d None is entitled to give what rightfully belongs to another, but the Christian may deny himself that be may cast into the treasury of the Lord.It is is well said by Jay, \u201c tho mistake of many ie, that they suppose every thing is their own, whereas nothing is their own.\u201d They are only stewards of the manifold grace of God.They think they may sleep as much as they liko\u2014drese as much as they like\u2014consume as much as they like\u2014but the Scripture is our rule, and not our own inclination.There is the cause of God, and of the poor, to be thought of, as well as our own gratification.The first lesson in the school of Christ is self-denial; where, in the lives of sume, does this ever appear?The support of the institutions of religion among ourselves has the first cluim ; it has a demand on our Justice as well as benevolence.We sustain them for our own benefit and that of our families, as well as for the good of the multitude, To negloct this duty is \u201c to rob God.\u201d It was precisely this neglect, which is so denominated in the question by the prophet Malachi, * will a man rob God 1\u201d \u2018The Sabbath School, and the work of Missions at home and abroad are laid upon the Churches for their contributions, their efforts, and theit prayers.Included in this last is the training of young brethren selected and appointed by the Churches for the work of the holy ministry.They may need help to proceed, and if 80, the Churches are plainly bound to render it.Nor ought institutions, for the suppression of vice, Le forgotten in their charities, If we rightly understand the matter, these are among the duties of Church members to Christ, They are not dependent on being asked to perform them.They may not be innocently shifted n other shoulders.In some measure, and according to ability, every one is under obligation.The temper of mind which repels the application of a fellow Christian who undertakes the of collection, or which so manœuvres as 10 creep away from avoid it, is certainly wot a Christ-like tose of spirit.He said, \u201cIt is more blessed to give than to receive.\u201d And the Apostle sppeals, yo know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, shat though he was rich, yet for your sakes be became poor COFFEE, CHOCOLATE, AND TEA.In the year 1556, & violent tumuit arose in Constantinople ; the shiefs of the priests attacked the sultan, and threatened him with .all the sarrors which their office placed at their command, the res- ton being the brilliant success of the first coffoe-houses, which \u201cwere in that year opened.These were crowded all day, while the om 8 were almost deserted.The sulin relieved himeelf| of all difficulty by the means most profitable to himself; he laid à heavy tax upon the coffés-houses, and thus, quieting the muftis, obtained a considerable revenue ; for in spite of this the uve of 1125,000 tons does not, perhaps, reach £3,700,000.The coffee was THE MONTREAL WITNESS.coffee spread with wonderful rapidity over Zurope.In 1651 the Greek Pasqua opened the first London coffee-house in George-' yard, Lombard-street (according to M\u2018Cullagh in St.Michael's: Alley, Cornbill, in the place where the Virginia coffee-house lately wivod) ; and in 1671 the first in Marseilles was established.he ptesent production is probably about 250,000 tons, while 150 years\u2019 agoitscarcely exceeded 8000 tous.[n 1820 Vou Humboldt estimated the consumption of Europe at 75,000 tons, valued at £4,500,000; while the value of the present consumption of originally drawn from a large brown vessel into small cups, which, were handed round more particularly during religious services, and this affords a ready explanation of why this beverage immediately became, to some of the orthodox Mahommeduns, an object of entnily, snd, above all, a subject for exceedingly learned tlieo.logical researches.The opposers oi\u2019 coffee even went so far ag to affirm that the countenances of those who drank coffee would, on the day of resurrection, appear blacker than the coffee grounds.Since, however, according to the Koran, women do not enter Paradise, they may indulge without fear in the enjoyment of their favourite beverage, When the Spaniards first landed in Mexico they became acquainted with a native beverage, which had been used from time immemorial, called by the natives chocollati, and prepared from the seeds ofa tree which they named cacanoaquahuitl (cacno tree).Wherever Spanish dominion has subsequently extended to, there also has the use of chocolate reached, and the! rest of Europe has asserted an abundant claim to a share in this new beverage.In the commencement of the seventeenth century a quantity of carefully packed dried green leaves were presented to a Russian embassy in China, in return for their gifts of splendid sable furs, and even forced upon them in spite of their protestations against euch useless wares.But when they brought the same to Moscow, and had them prepared according to the directions, the tea, for such it was, (ound equally great approval, Almost at the same time, the Dutch East India Company attempted to sell 10 the Chinese, sage, which at that time was used as tea is now, and they obtained in exchange Chinese tea.In 1644 the English East Iudia Company considered that they made a brillinnt present to the Queen of Eng'and in the shape of two pounds of tea.The use of tea as a beverage in China goes back to the earliest periuds, and the traditions speak of it distinctly so early as the third century.At the period when the Europeans first became acquainted with it, it was already spread over the whole of south-eastern Asia, and Europe did nut long remain behind its teachers.No less than 25,000 tons are annually exported by sea from China ; over Kiachta, some 5000; to Thibet, India, &c., perhaps nearly 15,000.In China and Japan themselves, certainly 200,000 are consumed, so that the whole produce is not over-estimated at 250.000 tons.\u2014 The Plant, a Bio] graphy, by Schielden.1 A RELIGIOUS BROTHERHOOD OF ROBBERS.The Dakoits, although in their aggregation and in their following acknowledged leaders or sirdars, they bore an analogy to the brigands of the south of Europe, or the banditti of the middle ages, yet resembled more nearly some of the illegal confederations which have been organized in modern days and more civilised communities in Europe, in their assembling by night only, and dispersing and following peaceable occupations during the day, most of them being engaged in the cultivation, of the soil, or following mechanical trades.ladividuals among them were well known as sirdars, by whom their expeditions wore projected, and by whose orders the gang was assembled atan appointed spot, generally a grove near the village to be attacked.\u2018The members of the gang, whe were secretly known to the sirdars, and sometimes to each other, repaired to the place, variously armed, chiefly with swords, clube, and pikes, and some with matchlocks.Their numbers varied from 10 or 1510 50 or 60.When collected, their marauding excursion was usually preluded by a religious caremony, the worship of the goddess Durga, the patroness of thi ves, typified by a water- pot,or a few blades of grass.\u2018The ceremony wus conducted ty a Brahmin of degraded condition and dissolute life.Having propitiated the goddess by a promise of a portion of their spoil, they marched with ligbted torches, and little attempt at concealment, beyond disguising their faces by pigment, or covering their faces with masks, to the object of their expedition, usually the dwelling of some shopkeeper or money-changer, in which it was expected to discover treasure.Occasionally, the motive of the attack was vengeance ; aud information given by the householder, or some of his family, against any ofthe members of the gang, brought upon bim the resentment of the whole fraternity, Upon entering the village, it was customary to fire a gun, aa a signa! to the inhabitants to keep within their dwellings.\u2018The house against which the operation was designed, was then surrounded ; and whilst some of the gang forced an entrance, others remained as a guard without.Unless exasperated by resistance, or instigated by revenge, the Dakoits did not commonly proceed to murder ; but they perpetrated attroci- ous cruelties upon such persons as refused to give them or were unable to give them, information regarding property which they suspected of having been concealed, durning them with lighted torches, or blazing straw, or wrapping cloth or flux, steeped in oil, round their lirabs, and setting it on fire, or inflicting various tortures which caused immediate or speedy death.The object being accomplished, and the booty secured, the gang retired before daylight, and the individuals resumed their daily occupations, Such was the terror inspired by their atrocities, such the dread of their revenge, that few of their neighbours ventured to inform or give evidence against them, although well aware of their real character and proceedings.The police, intimidated or corrupted, rarely interfered until the robbery was completed, and the perpetrators bad disappeared ; and their interposition was far from welcome to the people, as their unprofitable and vexatious inquiries had frequently no other purpose in view than the extortion of money, as the price of forbearing to drag the villagers, unwilling witnesses, bufore the European magistrate, or even falsely accusing them of being accessary to the crime.\u2014 Wilson's History of India.A CARAVAN IN THE DESERT.The hot film, like the low of à kiln, now trembles over the glistening sands, and plays the most fantastic tricks with the suffering traveller, cheating his vision with an illusory supply of] what his senses madly crave.Half-doxing, helf.dreaming, as I advanced, lulled into vague reverie, the stariling mirage ahifti with magic play, expands in gleaming biue lakes, whose cool borders are adorned with waving groves, and on whose shining; 47 banks the mimie waves, with wonderful illusion, break in long glittering lines of transparent weter\u2014bright, fresh water, so diffor- ent from the leathery decoction of the zemzemia.On our approach the vision recedes, diveolves, combines again into new forme, all Bncifully beautiful ; then slowly fades and leaves but the burning horizon, upon which at wide intervals is seen, perhaps, a dim black speck, appearing over the rolling sandy swell like à ship \u2018ar out at sea ; the film of the Desert gives it gigantic dimensions as it approaches: it proves as it nears us to be à ear- avan of camels from Suez, coming along with doiseless tread,\u2014 a few laconic words are exchanged between the Arabe without stopping ; in another hour it is \u2018eft far behind, until agsin it disap- ears from vision, Thus pase the sultry and silent hours of noon.here is a terrible and triumphant power of the sun upon this wide region of sterility and death, like that of a despot over a realm blighted by his destructive eway: no trace of verdure is there but the stunted shrub, which struggles at wide intervals about the sandy bed of some dried watercourse ; no sign of living thing but the burrow of the rat, the slimy trail of the serpent, or the carcass of the camel, who makes his grave as well as bis home in the wilderness, met with in every stage of decay, from the moment whea the vultures have just fleshed their besks in his fallen corpse, till, stripped of every integument, the wind whistles through the ghastly framework of his naked ribs, and his bones, falling asunder and bleached by heat and wind, serve to mark the appointed track upon which his strength was spent.\u2014From a Journey to Mecca.AusTuaLiAN DiscovRies.\u2014At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, which was held on the 27th uitimo, the Secretary read à most interesting paper on the geography of Cochin China, by Dr.Guizlafl, the celebrated missionary, at the conclusion of which the President informed the meeting that the following letter hud been received from the intrepid Australian traveller, Dr.Leichhardt, conveying probably the last accounts that will be received from him until bis urrival at Swan River:\u2014s April 3, 1848.Cogoon.\u20141 take the last opportunity of giving you an account of my progress.For eleven days we travelled from Mr.Birrell\u2019s station, on the Condamive, to Mr.Macpherson\u2019s, on Fitzroy-down.Although the country was occasionally very difficult, yet everything went on well.My mules are in excellent order\u2014my companions in excellent spirits.ree of my cattle are foot-sore, but 1 shall kill one of them to-night to lay in a necessary stock of diied beef.The Fitzroy-downs, over which 1 travelled for about twenty-two miles from east to west, is indeed a splendid region, and Sir Thomas Mitchell has not exaggerated their beauty in His account.The soil is pebbly and sound, richly grassed, and, to Judge from the myale (acacia penaula,) of most flattering quality.came rigint on Mount Abundance, and passed over a gap of it with my whole train.My latitude agreed with Mitehell\u2019s, I fear that the absence of water on Fitzroy-downs will render this fine country to a great degree unavailable, | observe the thermometer daily atsix a.m., and six p.m., which are the only convenient hours.1 have tried the wet thermometer, but I am afraid my observations will be very deficient.I shall, however, improve on them as [ proceed.The only serious accident that has bappened was the loss of a spade, but we were fortunate enough to repair it at this station, where the superintendent is going to spare us one of his.Although the days are still very hot, the beautiful clear nights are cool, and benumb the musquitoes, which have ceased to trouhie us.Myriads of flies are the only annoyances we have.Sesing bow much I have been favoured in my progress, I am full of hopes that our Almighty Pre- tector will allow me to bring my darling scheme to a successful termination.Ludwig Leichhardt.\u201d\u2019\u2014In a Brmer letter to Captain Philip King, dated March 20, the Doctor says :\u2014< My intention is to go from the Victoria to the northward until I come to the decided waters of the Gulf.If I succeed in my task, I shall solve three very interesting questions \u2014the uorthern, north-western, and western water- heads.\u201d SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATION.They did work wilily, end went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine boities, old, and rent, aud bound up.\u201d\u2014Joshua, ix.4.Of course they profess to do what they would actually bave done had they really come from a distant place.Hence we learn that at this time litle accommodation, except that of lodging, if that, was expected upon a journey, and that every one carried provisions and drink with him, as at present, his rendered necessary their sacks, doubtless for containing their provisions and baggage.All travellers now carry sacks with them for such purposes.If they can afford it, these sacks are large, containing a strange assortment of articles\u2014of dress, bedding, food, and even of pots and pans for cooking the necessary meals.These are usually carried on animals hired for the purpoee, or on the animal which the servant, if any, rides.A poorer traveller reduces bis baggage to narrower limits, so that he wants but emali bags, which being thrown over the back of his ass or mule, he rides upon himself.Those who have but one ass to carry themselves and bag- ge, frequently dismount and walk a conaiderable part of the way to relieve their beasts.This may account for the manner in which the clothes and shoes of the Gibeonites were suppoeed lo have been worn out by long travel, aithough they had asses om which to ride.The bags which travellers use are commonly of stout woollen cloth or carpeting, sometimes strengthened with leather to keep out the wet.Bags of hair cloth are also sometimes used for this purpose, and aimost always for carrying the corn and chopped straw for the cattle.\u2014Pictortal Bible.DAILY BREAD.Feazvary 5.& Forsshe not the works of thine awn bands.\" \u2014Psslm cxazviii.8.Divine \u2018Anewer.© Ilo which hath begun a good work in you, will perform in: until the day of Jesus Christ.\"\u2014Phil.i.6.The right way to grow in grace is to give up thyself wholly te th: besvent Enter, who knoweth ail wo wants, nd has encagd © supply Dem.Then labour diligently to walk with Christ, snd care fahy cherish the new life, which, be it ever so weak and little now, in comparison to the old man, will increase, and gradually outgrew him, as a new skin does the old.May the Lord only give us to watch against the opposite extreme, 20 as never to lulled iate a faise rest, or lukewarm spirit; bui to be ever dili ntiy and seriomly employed in cracifying the Sesh, and using ail the means of grace ¢ then we nesd not be anxiowsly troubled for the growing of the werk of God in our souls.My soul lies cleaving to Lhe duet; Lord, pit divine; Prom vain desires 30d every lust Turn off those eye of mine.1 need the finence of thy grace To epesd mem thy way, Lest 1 should loiter in my ress, Or tern my feet esiray.Are not thy mercies so?\" And thou a faithful God Wilt thou not grant me warmer zeal To run the heavenly road ?\u2014Bogetsky's Treasury.ill, 48 NOTICES FROM THE LAST OFFICIAL GAZETTE.! DISSOLUTIONS OF CO-FARTNERSHIP, Fobeuary 1.\u2014Charlos Maitland Tate, \u2026 and George Horatio Smith, Montruul, under the firm ut Tato snd Smith.January 20.\u2014Jemes W.Dennett and Anson Paul, London, under the firm of Paul and Bennett.COMMISSIONS OF BANKRUPTCY (SUED.January 30.\u2014David Brown, Trader, Durham : first meeting, 7th February, at Montreal, Sgcaerary's Osrice.Montreal, 3d February, 1849, His Excollency the Governor General has been pleased to make the fallowing appointments, viz :\u2014 The Rev.Alexander N.Bethune, the Rev.Alexender M'Nab, Andrew Jeffrey, George M.Boswell, Thos Scott and John Shuter Smith, wires, (obo a Board of Trustees fur Superintending the Grammar Schools in the Neweastle District.John Stewart, Esq.,10 be an Associute Member of the Board of Trustees, for Superintending the Grammar Schools in the District of Huron.His Excellency the Govereor General has been pleased to call to the Legisintive Council James Wylie Euq., of Ramey, Canada West, and Samuel Mille, Esq., vf the city of Hamilton, PROVINCIAL DEBENTURES.2nd February, 1319, lesued during period ended this day.In actual circulatios £7027 10 92,240 COMMERCIAL SUMMARY.« Montreal, Monday, Noon, Feb.5, 1849, Frour.\u2014L tile ur nothing doing during the past week.Price still 24s.6d.for small lots.Large parcels of good brands arc held at 254 Grain.\u2014Wheat, L.C., As.6d.10 4s, 9d.tos.3d.Oats, 1s.2d.to 1s.3d.Pease, 25.6d.to 22.9d., all per minot\u2014rather larger than the bushel, Asnzs.\u2014Both sone, 30s, Receipts light, Provisions.\u2014Beef per bbl.200 Ibr., $6 to $6} for Prime ; 88 to $64 fur Prime Mess, wilh small sales.Pork.$9 to $94 for Prime, and $11 10 $11; for Prune Mess, held, in most cases, at the higher rates.Mess is hold from $16§ to $17.Excrance.\u2014114 per cent, premium.Srocks.\u2014 Eighty.three forfeited consolidated shares of Moutreal Mining Stock were sold at auction, being sufficient to meet all the calls which have not been paid upon 40,000 shares.They brought, including ail instalments to date, 10e.9d.to 112 3d.per share, being an advance, williia the lust month, of abuut 4s., taking inlo account the inetalment paid in the interim.Commercial Bank Stock has been sald at 24 per cent discount.GuvExnment Derentuaks are bought from 3 to 5 per cent discount.Parties having a little money to invest will find Government Debentures a much beter mode of doing it than Savings* Banks.The interoet being 6 per cent, and the discount from 3 to 5, gives, together, 9 to 11 per cent interest, per annum, whilst the security\u2014that of the whole Province\u2014must Le better than any private jostitution can offer.Respecting the Lachine Railway, we would direct attention to the remarks of the Hon.Janes Farrier, in our Parliamentary report.Extracts from Cireular of Mr.T.C.Orr.\u2014Glasgor, 12th January.There is no improvement to note in demand for \u201c duty id\u201d Breadstuffa, but there has been à gnod inquiry within those laut two days far Wheat and Flour * in \u2018bone, and an advance obtained, in some cases, of 6d per barrel Flour, snd 6d per 240 Ibs.Wheat.The price of the fur- mer is 278 to 28s, free.Asics, \u2014Sales are limited to small retail lots, at 45¢.to 48e, Pots ; and 40e.to 44s.Pearls.Trusen.\u2014A good business has been done during the pest week in Quebec Yellow Pine, at §d per foot better prices.NEWS.CORRESPONDENCE, MONTREAL COUAIER.London, Jan.12, 1849.The financial reformers announce the progress of their measures in reference to what seems likely to be the battle.ground of the Session.Mr.Cubden proposes to take the national expenditure at the standard of the year 1835 and makes « reduction accurdingly in the outlay of the Army and Navy, which be cumputes at \"\u20ac6,500,000.\u2018This saving, with some others, and the Jevy of Probate duty on real property, he estimates would amount to 211,500,000, and proposes to employ it in the reduction of the dutica on Tes, \u2018Timber, Butter, Cheese, Malt, soap, Advertisements and oindows.Anuther amateur Bud t has appesred, different in many respects from that of re.Cobden, Mr.M\u2018Gregor, M.P.for Glasgow, is the author of 1he new programme, und his reputation as s Statistician inveue his statements with some authority.He would levy customs duties on only eight les \u2014all articles of luxury, except Tea and Sugar, the present Income Tax, he would impose u duty of five per cent upon the rents or profits of all realised property, whether funded a Fe He roulé reduce the mi.hi expenses £4,250,000 per annum, There are, you wile important differences between the two schersen, and these differences the upponents of ths pio of the plans will not fail to turn to adv: for solution is whether the country is prepared, in the present political aspect of Europe, io iiazard the safety of the Empire by reducing our armament of de.fanes lp the standard of 1835, or even to the level re.-quired by Mr.M'Gregor, Improvement is discernibl le in almost every quarter of the commercial world, The usuai business circulars of the season report cheerfully of the lest fow weeks, and profess to foreses, in the new year, good prospects of sn \u2018active spring trade.\u2018Taking Government Stocks and Railway Shares ao criteria, the start is undoubtedly wn.couraging, end increasing operations in other branches, are tending to diepel the depressing influences that have sa long beon felt by commerce.The Revenue returns, for the year and parter ending January 5, 1849, have been published, bu Customs and f show 8