The Montreal witness, 6 janvier 1851, lundi 6 janvier 1851

[" _\u2014 WT Se\u2014\u2014 \u2018REAL ITNESS, WEEKLY REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.\u2014 me \u2014 MONTREAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1851.- PEER No.1 have entered int, \u2014 nations.France, Spain, and Portugal, it in said, ian 10 the scheino; und a hape is held out that 0 the arrangement, The most adranced opinion on CANADA.the Continent seems tu be in favar af the selection of en entirely neutral Revucrion IN rne Annr.\u2014 We understand that the fullowing changes are po to bo made in the Military establishment of the Province :\u2014Colonel Prit- |}, chard, Capt.Claremont, and the Esrl of Errol leave the Suff; Mr, Co sussioner Elliutt, at present une of the principal officers of H.M.Urdnanee, ie Lo leave thin city, for England ; and there ate to be reductions of une Clerk in the office of the Military Sccretary, snd of two in thal of the Quarter que Muster.Hereafter there will bo but threo eominands instead of four, allow.eu ed for tho Province.We believe that Mr, Elliot is appointed to the English Commission on reduction in the expenses of the Army.\u2014 Herald, New Yeans Davix MosTREAL\u2014Wednerduy wes Now Year's Day, and being fine aud smild, and guvd sleighing, wav colebrated with even more ir liveliness than ususl.Greal was the whirl of slcighs, und at pupular doors the bits of white paste.board flew in like a theatrical snowstorm, aud panting servants toiled to collect them, \u2018Tho strects were enlivened by the processions of firemen, and there was a goull deal ef trumpeting, whooping, and {ha hollowing, which might have been better spared.Very differnt from n \u201cToronta Chrisman, great sobriety prevailed, and by six o'elock every thing was still ns mudnight.The next day, and indecd\u201d yesterday, tlicre was a lof good deal of visiting.\u2018The town has now put so enlarged, and so much |g, scattered and surrounded by villas, that all who have x pretty exlrnaive connection require all tho three days of grace to discharge tho social obli- gution.\u2014 Transcript, Saturday.Urrtontaces asp Hosesrv.\u20143r.Geutle, of St.the fifty pounds lust by his man on Tuesday, from of a pour fatiner, residing about (wo unles from wae announced at the Church door on Wedn erier, young LaRose stepped out and said he 3 money on the road, which hie was ready to deliver Lo the owner ; and which, pre when calied for un Thursday, by Mr.Guntie, waa landed over unopened.wi The honorable conduct of young Lukose is the mére 10 be commended, from the circumstance that ins family is very poor, and the father without hands, both having been frozen, It is pleasant Lo record a bnght spot of honor like this, amid Lhe rascalities that wo musi daily ehrauicle.\u2014 Gazette, ; Tue Genenat Mansogmest or a Fanm 19 Lowen Caxaps,.\u2014Wo have | received this pamphlet, which the Governor General is causing to be distri- Eustache, has recovered irtin LuRose, the sun rent.When the loss y morsing, by the public lo mhevitably lead, to a split in the Cabinet, if put to a try.Nemes are given which at prosent we canno p negotiations are hinted at which have, fur a long time, been pending.which divulged, or rather discovared by Lord Job learn the opinian uf Lord Grey on the mi Lord Palmerston was most infelicitondy evasive, been warking à mecret 1 discombinre, spiritual worship of the Protestant fuif the Duke of Norfolk, the first Peer of the realm, ad fuund & large parcel of Catholio ; and his Grace Celle ue that ot Catholice are not united u the highest Peer of the A the Gurernment ol the cou ty.the Archbisho; Bishops and the Clergy, the dverwhelming 1 int of intersretion, \u2014say Cape Horn,\u2014which would have the advantage of ing sgrecablo tu the Americans.GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT.Screw Long tv tue Casiser.\u2014It is reported in Usndon, but on what thority we cannot tell, that the suspected intrigues of some partice in nnexinn witli the Papal Government, either have already led, or mu ion of the Minis- leh : and secret plicate some personages high in office, and within tha Jast few weeks only hn Russell.We should like tr 8 At the Guildhall dinner The Ieish Pap ste, who ve been planted, as seedlings, at Malta, Florence, and ther places, have 1, witich it 1s expeeted will explode 10 their own The Irish Papist who, at the mint, excisrd the Dei Gratis the Quorn, and the Def, Fidei, from the two shilling coin, the florin, will ily be rewarded according to his cxeelling merite.\u2014 Liverpool Mail, Losnos, Deceusze 13, 1550.\u2014Our gracious Sovereion har now from th Throne declared, aim, * her firm determination, under God's blessing, to aintain, unimpaired, the religious liberty, which is so Juntly prized by the n eurent safezuacd, the pure and nd if donbl can be enterinined na what that means, I need anly point to tie brief, but expressive letter of d a most devout Roman a.montane views,\u201d [ately pounded, wre tatally imcompatible with allegiance to vor Sovereign und la our Cuneututions \u201cThis is precisely what I anticipated.The Roman matter, The Sorcreign on the Throne, Roman Catholic ! the Prime Minister and d cleven-twelfthy of the rity of the Laity, together is esteemed fur sense and ho.plo of this country, and to uphold, th the Bar, the Press, and cvery class th nesty throughout the kingdom, all unite in condemning snd resisting this buted among the cultivators of Lower Canada at the commencement of this burefaced ultra-montane attempt to reconvert tho English nation, and to year.We learn that a great number uf copies have been sent 10 all the Curés fe of the differcnt parishes of the country, who are requested to distribute q thom.\u2014 Translated from the Minerve.[Sce out Agriculteral column.\u2014 En.a Wir.We here received the January number of the Presbyterian, with a spirited wood cut uf the new church, in connection with the blished Church of Seutland, où Bourer Hall.\u2014When completed with its spire, which wo hope 000 10 see, it will be one of the most elegant ecclesiustical building in the place, and from its commanding site, à great ornament to the town.\u2014 Trax script.Te Stoce.\u2014The London (C.W.) Free Press describing the Christmas Eve show in the Western metropolis, enumerates, \u201c a Beef weighing 13 cwt., » a Hog 800 Ibe, and Muttun, in vor opinion, fatled beyond the ue of the PU table\u201d OF the lattor article we have plenty in Montreal, of which we bo.{PU lieve the largest portion of the fat goes to the tallaw-chandler.Tux Official Gazette ha advertisement, from the Receirer-Goneral, ating that ho is prepared to redeem a certain amount, all Provincial De.bentares chargeable wn the Consolidated Fund, which bear interest at six per cent, per annum, and mature within five years from the present date, at at par, and all those the same period to run before maturity, bearing 3% five per cent., interes a discount of one per cend, per annum.\u2014Also, that the Receiver-General will redeem * Quebec Fire Loss\u201d Debentures, to a limited amount, at per, or, will Exchange all Debentures chargeableon the Consolidated Fund, being within ton yours of matarity, fur others at twenty Lin bearing interest at ex per cent, payable un Coupons.\u2014 Gasetle, this vraing.\u2018Queste.\u2014There is now building in Quebec a ship which will be the largest merchant vessel alloat.Quebce hou three newspapers published in English and three in French; and Quebec has the largest aliop in the Province, \u2014 Chronicle.Tus Munperous Tasrsic.\u2014An inquest was hold by the Coroner of this District on the 23rd instant, on the body of a man named William Mureny, in who occupied the garret of a most miserable house in the St.Lewis Suburbs, the widowed father of two sons, seven and nine years of age.It appeared on evidence that, on the Saturday evening previous, he was returning home wilh a piece of naited beef, and piece of pork, which he exchanged in u {tw of fasten upon us a band of Popish Bishops.the halle of the Liberator.the whole uf the splendid furniture and other household goods were sold for the rum of 354.3v.8d., and were bought in by tho Natinnal Bank of Ire.Ind.The goods were left there pending some contemplated arrangements.doi ty the fact by @ jury.Al the rest of the property will be suld as à matter has been Ottoman General expected this, and replied to their demand by then at the head of 4000 imperial Wronps whom he had assembled in the inside of some barracks.The combat was desperate, and lasted more than 1 therefore remain perfectly tran.ized about the result.At the same time, I do not believe that The agi.throughout tbe country will, in the smallcat degree, be abated, until a clear and deliberate act of legislation shall place the supremacy of Protes (antism beyond all cavil, or reach of danger, \u201cfrom whatever quarter it may proceed.\u2014 Correspondent Montreal Courier.Sauts ar DERRYSANE Aserr \u2014Distrews hus et length found its wey to At a sheriff's sale at Derryoane somo timo since t they were again recently brought to the hsinmer by the sheriff.The rehase of the furniture by the National Bank has been impeached as frau- lent, and on application to the Court, an issue was granted last week ta \u2018The prices at which the course.Alas, how wre lhe mighty fallen! National Bank bought the furniture nay be imagined from the fact, that the entire furniture, &e., of ** The Liberator'a Rou, sale bed, &e., soid for 8s.64.\u201d Gara Inpusraiar Shaw or 1851.\u2014The demand for exhibition room far exceeds the possibility of accom:uwlation; and the Lucal Committees have reecived instructions 10 prepare exhibitors * to submit to a strict exercise of judgment, #0 us to seduce the total demands of space to the amount that the building will furnish.\u201d Tcexer.\u2014The news from Torkey is important.A terrible chastisement ted on the insurgents of Alsppo.On the evening of the 7th, invited the principal chiefs of the insurgents to come to him.epted his invitation, persuaded that the four of fresh disturbances ke them respected.\u201d Kerm Pasha had them placed under arrest.The insurgents finding their chicfa did not return, rushed toarme, and came numbers oi about 1000 and insolently demanded their liberation.The charging \u2018enty-four hours; but the result was favorable ta the Turks.Three Mus.tavern, in the neighborhood, fur a certain quantity of spirituous liquor.This suiman quarters, Karlek, Bubeusaa, and El Bab Neitad, which were the liquor io seems to have drank (bat night, and (he day following (Sunday), 0 us lo have kept himself in a state of continued incbriety.ing of Sunday, une of the children was forcibly sent out by barcfuoted and with scarcely any clothing, to the tavern fur more liquor ; this, also, was pu drank, snd ir.the night two women occupying the lower part of the house, hearing some cuntinued moaning, went to inquits, and found him inscmible, Asmstance was soughl from the neighbors, but in an hour after he was dead.\"Tha testimony proved that neither the deceased nor the childron wero seen, for months past, to have used other food than dry bread ;~\u2014one of the bays acknowledged that he did pot often drink liquor, because he seldom had coppers Lo procuce it ; that, when he had a copper Mrs.\u2014\u2014., the tavern of kesper, gave him part of 8 glass.The House was without a stuva in any part of it, during this winter, until the day of the inquest, On examination, the stomach was found to contain about a pint of spirituous ligaur, and the most unequivocal anpearance of eanguineuus apoplexy, occasioned by habi- al snd excessive drinking.\u2018The verdict was given aceordingly.\u2014Quebee zette.Tasos iv Porz.\u2014 The couniry back of Kingston supplies a great deal mote Pork than it gets credit for.\u2018Tliree Kingston packers have been busily employed since the middis of November, Messrs, Scobell, Spence, and Collins, und are likely to be employed for another month to coins.Visiting Me.Scobell's establishment yesterday, we learnt from him, that up to date he bad received and packed 1100 hogs, making 700 barrels park, wit enough pork uncut to fill 600 barrels more, Messrs, Spence and Collins have done 40 proportion.\u2014Britisk W.Arrxcrivg Accinewr.\u2014We are informed (hats most heact.rending occurrence tuk place in the Township of Orford, on or (the 61h of co November ult, A young girl sbout 18, by the name of Margaret Sh Ford, daughter of Henr, Ford, à respectable in that township, went to the barn to cull into dinner a number of hands then employed at a thresh.en ing machine.She pleyfuily propused to get on the horse power and have & ride with e youth who w ving the horses.Sho was told to be careful of raising lez dross as she sloppod over the coonacling rod, but unfurtunate.ly it caught in passing, and bofure the machine could be stopped it wound uj her olothes, and twine her body in a moet frightful manner around th Her bones were literally smashed.She was, howarer, taken up ali 2 be nd an remained sensible, by à merciful Providence, sad without pain, for about [and escaped to the boat.twelve hours, when she calmly expired.\u2014 Kent Advertiser, Loss or Liss.\u2014Thres French Canndians\u2014all brothers\u2014were burned to death last week in Charlottenburg! Ist engaged in boiling potash, It is presumed that they wore intoxicated, and that the shaaty took fire whilst they slept.They became suffocated by he emoke, and subsequently consumed by the Toronto Guardian, Mesaew Cuain 1x Tue Unreunertr.\u2014We are happy to learn that a Lec.{rehip of Hebrew and Oriental Literature has been established in the Sen Mr, H.was Tator of Hebraw Literature for about siz yours in ings College, and discharged his duties with unqualified spprobation.\u2014 A Common Meaipian.\u2014It ie stated in the French journals that in consequence of the confusion existing between the maritiaie calculations of diftvre ent powers, and the unfortunate cosurtences to which it som: mes leads, scat of the revolt\u2014having been almost entirely destmyed, n the even- dred of the rebels fell in the struggle, and the remninder, with the inh: tants of the aboyo quarters, have fied from Aleppo, the Turkish ea property of the rebels will be devoted by the authorities to Christiane for ther losses un the 14th and 13th October, and to rebuild the three churches which were buent, Total, $178,000, ment will vary but hutle from tho true stale of Ue case.\u2014Louirzille Courier.upon the recent \u201c cab case ™ in this formetly of Cloveland, whowe career is a most impressive warning to hiv old subjected to alternato indulgence and severity on tho partof his never tiring marches and sleepless nights given to marsuding.\u2014Since his return, he Gevrge Trumet arrived in Buffalo, and procured Sheldon'e cab, wil Ho was driven tothe Lake beach, whers M ve Aul the report that the free silers are Fugit Eighteen hun.Not n single Christian fell in tie terrible ai rauing them, mnify the UNITED STATES.Hoas.\u2014 According to a calculation made last evening, the total number hoge 10 be killed here this season, is expacied to reach 178,000, as follows Louisville, (fully), 130,000 ; Jefersonville, 30,000; New Albany, 18,000.We think that the result will show that the bore state- Venstont.\u2014The late legislature pnescd an act giving to persons claimed fugitive slavos the benefit of habeas corpus and tris by jury in the State Courta, und requiring the States\u2019 attorneys {n the several counties to act fur the parties arrestod es fugitives, to seo that they bave their rights, We have no belief that the United States will ever interfere with the inherent right uf a sovereign Siate 10 protect ite uwn inhabitants on its own territory.Tue Way or Trarsonemons.\u2014The Cleveland Plain Dealer in remnrking | y.says that Livingston Sheldon, was mpanions.He will ba recollected as tire wild and sprightly son of R.eldon, late Prasident of the City Bank, much given to el y-larking, snd iv father, He noted for listed in the Volunteers, and went to Mezico.\u2014There he wi Mr.us been cab driving in Boffalo.About two weeks à, ing to driven to the steamboat.Sheldon and another cabman, by threats, &e., extorted from him five dollars; ter five was alé attempted to be extoried of him, bat he broke sway he perpetrators were arresied, indicted for high.Fobbery, found guilty, and sentenced rn State Prison.\u2014Bvffalo Com.Advertiser.CondagsétonaL.\u2014There le Jothing of interest from Washingion exoept letermiaed to move the repeal of the ve Slave Law, RELIGIOUS NEWS.A Tiree Usonrgo,\u2014in another column will be found a communication from Dr, Charbonnel to the Buperiniendent of Common Schools, Our rsity, and that Mr.J.M.Herechlelder has been Appointed to it by the [ale teason for potloing this document, ls gal manner in which th © Bish body with which he i to enter & protest against the ile.ubseribed it.Dr Charbonnel ie not xcept he abjure the schismatical iter hu of Toronto,\u201d Wor ever can be, onnected, ai So en Lady the Queen, in t man\u2019s assumption of the designation of Archbishop of W est.mineter, iv by no meace such » glaring infringement of the Jawe of the Lhe avs powers of he morth\u2014Russis, Sweden, Denmark, snd Hollund\u2014 realm, as theg which bas been perpetrated by the Soman Cathelis Bishop of greoment to open conferences on tho old question uf 8 {Toran Th lo ten years\u2019 imprisonment in the go title having been conferred upon Dr.Charbonnel! by the al Parliament, he may use it, we grant, without being guilty of & misdemeanuur.\u2014 Church.Tre \\Voxex or Livarront.\u2014An address, ably drawn up, frem the women of Liverpnol to the (Quen, gainst th pal aggression, ia at present itt course uf signature in thal town.+f practice of private nursicular ponfession\u201d\u201d æeerne to shack the ladies more than all the other terrors of upery.[Lie stated that the Bishop of Exeter has refused to license the appointment of the Rev, George Bellamy W the office of assistant cur Cl Chapel, Plymouth, to which he hud been appointed, an the geound that y held opinions un the mubject of Baptismal Regencration identiost with those of the Rev.Mr.Gorhnm, Mantras To Popery.\u2014A rorrespondent sends ue the following :\u2014It muy bo news to many of sour readers that in the year 1535, and during the space of ive years and four months, the following were buint by the Pepists, viz : ~5 bishops, 21 divines, 8 gentlemen, 8 nrtificers, &e, 100 husbondmen, servants, and 'aborere, 26 wives, 21 widows, 9 virgine, 2 baye, 2 infants, and ol persecuted, of whom 7 were whipped and 16 died in prison.\u2014 Morning erald, IXDeCENT Abverviseuentes.\u2014In the London Record Giia week appears an offer hy * a gentlcrmen, who is desirous of controling the carelesancss of the public papers in adinitting advertisements which dingraco the\u2019r eolumns,\u2019\u201d \u201c10 meet with 0 few ulhers who have the same fecling, in order by a concerted effort to abate the evil\u201d It is much less surprising that the Press should be successfully tempted in this matter, seeing that such advertisements bring any price, than Lhat people of character, und fathers of families, should read the papers publishing tiem, and roceive them into their houses.One of our Glasgow contemporaties, of whom better things smight be expected, hap his eolutans disgraced this week by three grossly indecent sd.vertisements.Let parents sce to this, \u2018The check is 1m their hande.\u2014 Guardisa.New CuLteat at Evinstaan.\u2014The new Calicge is now 50 far advanced as fo admit of ite being opened in the course of next mo It is the English collegiate syle of architecture, and from ibe ele n of its site at the head of the Mound, is one of the most prominent buildings in the eity.The foundation atone woe laid in 1846, Uy tho late Dr.Chalmers.The edifice measures, in frunt, 165 fret, and extends eouthwards, towards the Castle I1iil, 177 feet.It consists of two storeys, crowned by a range of durtner windows, except upon Ihe east wing, which forms the Free High Church.The main entrance is Ganked by two square towers, tach 121 feet in height.\u2018The parapets are embattled, and the space between the towers is filled by projecting winduwe, surmounted ols by embattled parapets.\u2018The entrance consista of an elegant arch.Behind the front towers, and overlooking the quarangle, are two corresponding octagonal towers, Gnished with battlements or: the top.These fuur towers enclose & space in the middle of the College which forms the central tower; and it is decorated by clusters of chimney shafts.The ground-flour of the building in front is occupied by two cless.rooms and thescnate.hell.Accommadation ia afew provided for a innitor's house and a porter's waiting.room.The whole of the front renge of the fire: floor is intended for the principal library, which is do be ele; fitted up, and measures 125 feel frum east to west.The statue of U Dr.Chalmers now being esecuted by Mr.Steel), isto be placed in the centre of the library.The whole number of class-rooms is nine.They sro finished with neatness and tants, and many of them are nearly ready for use.The Free High Church occupies the east wing of the College.[1 has 8 tower on the ft ngle 9G feet high, in the samc style as the other towers in front of the ge, but seceding for several feet.The designs of the buildiag are by Mr.Playfair.The stone is from the Binny quarries, and the building has boen executed by the well-known firm of Memrs, Alexander and robert Smith, The cost of the College will probably excoed £30,800.\u2014 Witness.Rowe, Nov.18,\u2014~The Guy Fawkes solemnities, und the allegorical auto.du-fés so recently executed in England, have filled the ecclesiastical partic eans here with horror and dismay, and their lamentations over the depravity of the English populace sre truly touching.It is rather singular, however, to observe Lhat, whilst decrying anything Tike violence in a question of conscience, whilst using the liberality of Protertantism, and the freedom of religious opinion granted by an enlightened Government, as arguments for the rights of Papiste in England to à new system of hierarchy, it never nnee strikes them how Just it would be to grant a similiar freedom of religions epinion in this country, and allow Protestants of all denominations to open chapels and make pruselyles in (he very heart of the Eternal City.tis useless to slate that no such exchange of privileges is in contemplation, and that what arc excellont maxims to gu upon in England, even for Catholics them.seives, would be pernicious and damnable heresies if pul into practice in Rome.RoxE anp Ptæpxont.\u2014The controversy between Rome and Piedmont remains unseitled ; the question now is, who holds the power of appointment to the See of Turin, tie Government of Piedmont has removed the Archbishop (av all moderately free countries agree in believing with perfect 7 justice for his interference with the execution of the laws of the (snd,) snd doclares the See to be vacant.Rome denies that the See is vacant, and har refused to hold negutiations with Piedmont on the great questions of difference lying back of this, until the Archbishop be restored.It does not appear that the Court of Tarin has yet decided 10 fill the vacancy byitsown authority, although rumors to thal effect have been some time nfloat, It is wholly improbable, moreaver, thet any Romish pretate would accept the 3ppointment in opposition to the authority of the Pops.\u2018The post must be filled, however, and the Government has silher lo yield to the Pope and take back Monsignor Frosinone, of break with Rome as England did under Henry the Eighth,\u201d Rome never retracts her decisions upon questions of her own tights.She bas judicially approved of the conduct of Monsignor Frosinone in resisting the civil authorities of Piedmont.The Cabinet of Piedmont seeine ae little capablo of yielding on this point ; as that would be nut only to reverse the decision of the Supreme Court uf the land, but to dishonor the revolution to which the Cabinet and the Constitution nwe their existance.Now as conditions of society unce modified can never retu there can never be another crasade, another inquisition, another Robes n revolu.Mon, or anolher Puritan colony, so neither there be anol uccessfuld intervention of Rome to crush the Supreme Court of an independent nation.To predict changes in Piedmont, ezactly like the Lutheran Reformation in Germany, or that vf (he English Pope Henry tbe Eighth, would be contrary Lo the principls juot announced\u2014some great change, however, unguestion.ably a the religious condition of Piedmont, if, indeed, thet change bas dy coms, and ite frat fruits been aircady shown in à resistance of the authority of Rome.Ruman Cor.N, ¥.Evangelist.es \u2014 BIRTHS, Montrea!-2Mà uit, the wife of G R Roberteos, Esq,ofn Juughrer, 1h uit, re A Howard, a.ro E nonouphes aeon.$80 ule, MreF W Sims, ofnson, 29h ult, the wife of J Joy, Eng, RA, of a daughter.Blat uit, the wift'of WE Holines, Keg, of «th inns, Mrs Charles P Watson, of 0° daughter, Hamiiton\u2014-8d ult, Mrs W Cook, of 6 sughter, 841d uit, Mrs 4 Musrtay, of n, MARRIAGES.preside alt by he Rov Was D M'Donsd, Beg, MD, of Far, bp Ll jai hulk, By the Rev M LM Course, Esq, Hull, GE, to Wiss th ult, by the Rev Mr 8 a fier of W Ct y Rev H iason, Mr Jos! Carpenter, to June, youngees.DEATHS.of Alderman Sualey, Moatresi-8lst ait, Marie Jane, wifs of James M Bisck waod, aged 27 yeors sad siz mo Bytown\u2014S5ik uit, Mr Errn Sissdel], aged 84 years, Caledon uit, Mr J Campbell.iclon\u201433d ult, Mr Wm Hale, on Hopton uit, the Rev C B Fleming, aged 48 years.Smith's Fuiis\u201428th ult, Mary Williseran, Taree Riv uit, À Colborue, eo: rer DOME OWANT HFUDEDe | ANALYSIS OF THE EXCITEMENT IN ENGLAND, (From Notes of a Traveler in Europe in the Turento Christian Guardian.\u2019 There iv the political element.This involves the pueragative of England's Queen against the attempted invasion of an Îtation Prince, the independence of England against all gn interference.This is, of course, denied by Lhe agents and wlvocates of the Pope, and the most devoted loyally to the Queen is professed by them.The plea is admitted as fat as the conduct and feelings of individual Roman Ca- shelics generally are concerned 3 but on the other hand, the omissions, the terms, the pervading spirit of the Pope\u2019s Bull are appesled to, the | mteepretalions of its import and objects by acknowledged newspaper ns of the Roman Calliolic Church ou the continent, especially in France\u2014thie oath taken by Bistiops, and nature of the Popes claim to supremacy and Government over the universal Church and over sowntries, and not metely the members of the Roman Catholic Chureh +» these countries.The claim of the Pope to spiritual supremacy volving absolute authorivy over the faith, the understanding, and the sonscience, it is contended, reduces the acknowledged temporal supremacy of the Queen to a mere nullity.it is also maintained by refe- sence 10 the papal bulls and the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, that the spiritual supremacy claimed by the Pope entirely absorbs and annihilates the temporal supremacy of the Queen, us well as the authority of Parliament.Two historical incidetts are referred te in illustration of this point, besides documents without number :\u2014 The one is the interference of the Pope in the question of the Irish Colleges\u2014an impartunt branch of temporal government and legislation in the Queen\u2019s dominions.There is no question more deeply involving the temporal welfare of any people than education re the Pope commands the subjects of Her Majesty to oppose Her and the British Partiument in this maiter, under the plea that it is a purely spiritual one.Here is the exercise of bis spiritual supremacy coming in direct sontact and hostility to British legislation and government.\u2018The se- ounuircident is, that the present Pope is said to bave canonized Pope Pius V, aud 10 bave prepared = form of prayer to him praying for lis patronage, &c., in promoting the great work which he (Pius V) had so much at heart: whereas it was the same Fius V who issued the Ball of excommunication and detiironement against England\u2019s great Queen Elizabeth, releasing her subjects from their oaths of allegiauce, and prompting the invasion of her dominions by foreign powers, as well as exciting the rebellion of her own people.That Bull has never been repealed ; and the Pope that issued it is canonized by the Pope who invades England and sets aside her Queen in a new form, awowedly interfering with her efforts to educate portions of ber people md parcelling out her territories in the same style and manner as if they were his own possessions.These historical analogies and references, which | bave very imperfectly stated, produce a prodigious atfect\u2014strengthened a» they ate by intimations in some of the French jparnals, that if the Pope is interfered with by the British Government in bis English Crusade, France and Austria will come to his assis- mnte.[is singular, at the same time, that neither France nor Aus- tia will suffer the Pope to appoint a single bishop in their dominions axcept one nominated by themselves.But the very id-a of this foreign ntatfe: ence with the Queen and independence of England, excites Tohn Buil to the bighest degree of indignation ; and especially when, 2s-it is alluded to in every variety of expression, this arrogance is assemed by a pelty and odivus liatiau Prince, who is most detested by his own countrymen, in bis own metropolitan city, where be and Bis principles are best known, and where he is only kept on his tot- tring throne, not by any patron saint or protecting archangel, but by the dissolute swords of despotic Austria and the republican bayonets of sseptical France.What will be the proceedings of Her Majesty\u2019s Government in respect to this political view of the question, is a matter of conjecture.Lord John Russell'sletter to tbe Bishop of Dutham .adicutes that something will be done ; and it is supposed the patriotic and vigorous mind of the Minister for foreign affairs, Lord Palmerston, will insist, at least, upon defining this question of ¢ spiritual supremacy\u201d by the Pope, and confining it within due limits, and that there all be the same right of parceiling out Roman Italy into Protestant bishoprics, and establishing and extending Protestant worship and doctrines there, that the Pope and his followers have exercised, or ball be permitted to exetcise in England.No Roman Catholic or Frotestant can object to the reasonableness and equity of this recipro- #ity; and the present is an opportune moment for both England and the United States to insist upon it.A second element of British feeling on this subject may be regarded ævirietly Protestant.This feeling is participated in by the 1wo archbishops, by evangelical clergy, and by a very large majority, indeed almost all, of the laity of the Church of England, and by the Wesloyans and Dissenters.This, I think, is undoubtedly the predo- inant element in the present excitement.There are two peculis- tities in the development of this feeling.The one is that which presents the question not as one between the Queen and the Pope, or between the Church of England and the Church of Rome; but as one between Popery and the Retormation, between doctrine and tradition, between the Vatican and the Bible.~All, therefore, that is characteristic of the doctrines and principles, and glorious in the annalsof the Reformation, are reproduced with great ability, energy, and effect.The second peculistity is, that ibis feeling is directed, if possible, with more intensity against the Popery of Puseyism and apostolic sueeession in the Church of England than Popery in the Church of Rome.It is now seen, that ai the Tractarian writers, and ail the advocates for the revival of what bave been called Church principles, are the pioneers and allies of the Church of Rome, and that their labors have already resulted in the secession of one hundred siergymen of the English to the Romish Church, besides many laymen, including several noblemen,\u2014in preparing the way for a still larger secession 10 the Church of Rome, and prompting and encou- rezing, if noyinviting, the present proceed of the Pope in ests- Biishing a Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, Th i of the term 6° Paseyite\u201d or \u201c\u2018 successio ignal fer the stron gent expressions of di je third slement in this excitement a in the productions of the Bishops of London, Exeter, and Oxford and theis sopporters.LAW REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN.{Prom New York Tribune.) While in this Stale we ars bolding back io (he career of law re- firm, and allowing it te be delayed by tbe preju interest of the Jawyers, it is advancing in the country, whe Id common law ie detived, a rale which must aurprise those not acquainted with the facts.For instance, the English Lord Chancellor has lately issued à series of orders, changing the old mode of Chancery pleading in certain cases, and sde tings substantially, the form of complaints provided by our Code.The Code has also been examined at length in the Law Review, the first legal periodical of tbe kingdom, and commended, in the most unqualified terms, worthy model for British imitation.The Times notices our vapprotion of the Court of \u20acbancery, and the conferring of equity jarisdietion on the law Court, 28 à change startling only to ignorance or prejudice, and proper to be England.And it is exp ed that a movement for the abo- MNtion of the forms of action and the substitution, in that respect, of eemmon sense for unintelligible technical lingo, will be succemsful in the coming session of Parliament.What the view of some of the most eminent English lawyers is on these questions, may be judged from the following extract of a late speech of the Selicitor General, delivered in the House of Commons: 1 must warn the Hous, if they attempt legal reforms, that they muet not allow lawyer after lawyer to get up and tell them that the, ware not capable understanding the subject, The House may depend upon It, if they could not reduce a legal proposition to the plain THE MONTREAL WITNESS.\u2014 principles of common sense, comprehensible to persons of oidinary teiligence, the defect was that it was a technical system, invented for the creation of costs, and uot 10 proniote the due administration of justice.\u201d } Has anything more decided ever been said by American law reformers?And shall we allow a movement which we have so well he- gun te be defeated through the upposition of interested and prejudiced parties, who, like the lawyers above referred to, would fain make the wotli believe that they have a mouopoly of understanding on the Question ?We trast that the Legislature which is abont to meet, will promptly decide that point, and give the Code à fair trial, which it \u2018as not yet begun to have.lt will not do to let conservative and slow moving England erowd upon us in the work of Law Reform.CORRESPONDENCE OF THE PURITAN RECORDER.Edinburgh, Nov.29, 1850.A MATION WITH ONE IDEA, é Beware,\u201d says the proverb, ¢ of the man of one book ;* if be meet you in an asgument of which this one book contains the smmu- nition, you are as certain as possible to be floored, in (he dispute, for he knows every inch of his ground.There is something awfully formidable in a nation possessed of ore idea\u2014which is uppermost, innermost, outermost\u2014the ull and in all of national thought for the time.\u2014 Apart from the sore inconvenience which it gives to à letter-writer, like your humble correspondent, beating about on every side for variely, and nothing meeting his eye or ear, but # Papal aggression, Papal aggression\u2019 \u2014under such variation us «Cardinal Wiseman, &c., &e.,\u2019\u2014 leaving untold this mirery of the newsmonger who must tind news which he dares not make, and which nowhere exists; it is a matter rather to be felt and to be amazed at than to be described \u2014the all.absorbing power of this one iDEA, viz : the invasion of our Protestant liberty and happiness.You are aware, from my last letter, as well as otherwise, that there is not anything like a uniform identity of sentiment among the different sections of the British nation, upon the question which is now agitating them.But the one idea that wakes up all this furor and phienzy in the British temper, somewhat phlegmatic and slow to put itself into convulsions of excitement, is Popery is in the ascendency.It is the common sense of a civilized, a free, and a religious people, rejecting with the antipathy of mistrust what it cannof bear ; what has been found (and would be again) destructive of its most valued and dearly-bought privileges.Nothing else could account for the universality and intensity of the indignation which this new Papal policy has awakened.Toy this in the fu'l knowledge of the diversity that exists, as to the exact extent of the injury threatened, and particularly as lo the hest method of counteracting it, This diversity may impede the joint utterance of the common sentiment, and give an appearance of division which does not exist upon the substantial merits of the question.But there is only one sentiment in Britain on this point : that it would be the most desolating calamity to the peace, prosperity, and greatness of the nation, if Pope- 1y were (o become triumphant in Britain.And that the prospect of this bein, the case or not depends on the way in which the Protestants of Britain demean themselves in this crisis.TOLERATION, 15 IT LIBERTY OR LICENSE ?\u2018The world bas had a long time to discuss this vital question, and it were well that certain points were by this time fired.We ought not to expect, even from the most enlightened member of the Church of Rome, correct sentiments upon this subject.But when he takes upon him to instruct the British nation in their principles and duty, they may surely take the liberty of ¢ speaking back.\u201d\u2019\u2014 The toleration which a nation can or should allow, must have this limit ; that the religious opinions entertained by any sect shall not interfere with the political safety or quiet of the realm.A religion which pronipted its votaries to break another man\u2019s windows, or break down his fences, or form themselves into a faction to upset the government and take it into their own hands, has no claim to toleration.As little has a sect to unlimited or unrestricted toleration, that holds it lawful when occasion serves, and it bas the power, to imperil and overthrow all national institutions for the securing of its own spiritual domination.Such, we ars prepared to demonstrate, is the oman Catholic Church, and toleration that would give it free scope and encouragement to aim at and accomplish this would be license, not liberty, and, on the part of the nation conceding it, reckless indiscretion, not liberal and equitable administration, TOKENS FOIt GOOD, Although the Queen were (a3 she is reported to be) highly indignant at this aggression ; and her ministers prepared to act with decision, and the al zeal of this nation roused to a white heat, we should have litle confidence in the permanence of a victory which had not its origin and impulse in religious principle.The best result of the Jresent agitation will be to bring ihto mind and keep in mind what the Romish Church is.Lectures on the subject are everywhere announced.The Puseyites were driven to denounce in its abuses a system which they were till now somewhat inclined to honor and laud for its excellencies, while overlooking or not exposing its allowed evils.Even the Bishop of London must speak plainly aod strongly\u2014 in no vague and general terns.He had made a distinction between auricular confession\u201d as practised by the Church of Rome, and as it may be practised by the Church of England.Three of bis clergy instantly demand an explanation, reminding him that « auricular confession\" is only once named in the English service, and that to condemn it.The Bishop comes forth explaining that by « auricular confession*\u2019 as existing in the Church ot England, he meant only the spontaneous consultation of the priest as & apiritual adviser! One likes to see this manful jealousy on the part of the Protestant clergy.The Tract Society, ever ur to the times, has announce Prize Essay\u2014for £100,\u2014on the subject of Popery, for the best popular production on the subject.THE PATHWAY OF NATIONS.(From the N.Y.Evangelist.) The project of a railroad from some part of the Mississippi to the Pacific, originally looked upon as chimerical, is becoming of great importance.It has such relations to the rogress of civilisation, and to missionary enterprise, (hat we have no 5 t our readers are ready to feel à deep interest in it.The very grandeur of the conception has something that powerfully appeals to the imagination, and the evident beneficial results which would flow from its realization, are sufficient to awaken an universal desire to see it accomplished, if complishment lie within the verge of possibility.We have been much interested by a lecture delivered in Washington, by Rev.Calvin Colton, dilating ape the moral aspects of the enterprise, and demon- stating asibility.Its argument we will endeavor to present at another ti Meanwhile, s word of explanation of the plan of the road may not be without interest, The rosd will he about 2,000 miles long, 1,200 of which is through poor and unsalesble land, and it ie estimated, that the road will cost sixty millions, The plan at present most in favor is known as Mr.Whitney\u2019s plan, hy which it is proposed that the Government should set apart the land thirty miles in width on eac of the road, asa fund to build and furnish the road complete.This land Mr.W.is to have, if ha builds the at ten cents the acre, good and dad together, which the Committee of Congress, who bave reported in favor of the think q as much as the Government could realize from i other way.This 9 to be divided into sections of ten miles wide, and os Me.W.has ten miles of the road completed and running, he has the right to sell the first five miles of the first section, the price of which is to be paid into the public treasury, and drawn out only to pa properly authenticated bills for his actual disbursements for the oud and so on for every section of the 800 miles good land, thus ng half the good land with ite incressed value unsold.For the remaln- y [ing distance through the poor land, to the Pacifie, as soon as & section of the road is done, the whole of that sestion of land is to de sold and apprepriated, instead of the half section as before.And if it be not Jax.1851.me sufficivat to pay the bills, the unsotd hall sections of good land are to be resorted to, to make up the defiest.The whole is io be under the supervision of a Government Com oner, and it is to be finished and furnished, and kept running ast as completed (at Jow legal rates) ; and when it is entirely completed fo the Pacific, and accepted y the Government, Mr.W.is to have all that is left of the lands and the avails of then, deducting the ten cents an acre.All lands unsold in any section ten years after the road is made through that section, are to be sold at auction in parcels of not more than one-hundred and sixty acres.he rom is to be kept running as fast as completed, at cost rates and is to carry the mail for nothing.The Government has thus ample guaranties for the progress oi the road, which will be the property of the nation, worth sixty millions of dollars, witheut having cost the Government a dollar.1t the estimates of the Senate\u2019s Commitiee, that passengers can be carried over the whole line, 2,000 miles, for $20, a bushel of corn for 25 cents, a barrel of tour for $1, a ton of merchandize for $10, and other thinws in proportion, be correct, the indirect value of the road cannot be estimated.TERRITORIES OF TH UNITED STATES.(From the Concord, N.H., Journal.) A short time previous to adjournment of Congress, and before the admission of Californi State, a gentleman in Washington furnished the geographical statistics of our territorial domain.The general ignorance on this subject, will render the absiract we make acceptable to our readers.Our possessions on the Pacific extend from the forty-ninth to the 324 degree north latitude, giving à seaboard twelve bundred miles in length, while on an average the territory reaches back into the interior about twelve hundred and fifty miles, including an area of almost one million six hundred thousand square niles.Oregon is bounded by the 29th degree of latitude on the north, by the Pacific op the west, by the Rocky Mountains on the east, and California on the south, and contains an area of 341,460 square niles, or is equal to 38 States of the size of New Hampshire.California, now a state of the Union, is boanded by Oregon on the north, the Pacific on the west, Mexico on the south, and the 115th degree of longitude on the east, including à lerritory of 175,363 square miles, or eighteen times as large as New Hampshire.Utah, or Deseret, as the Mormons call it, is bounded by California on the west, by the 37th degree of latitude on the south, by the £13th degree of longitude on the east, and Oregon on the notth.The territory embraces 125,000 square miles, or thirteen times the territory of New Hampshire.+ The Colorado territory is a section of the country, bounded upon the lower west portion by the lower eastern boundary of California and the Colorado river, and the south by the dividing line between Mexico and the United States, on thie east by the Sierra Madre, or western limits of Mexico, and on the north by the curved ridge, or 37th degree of latitude, which constitutes the southern boundary of Utah, until the line extends to the 42nd degree of longitude, and is farther bounded north by the same.\u2018This territory covers an area of 225,715 square miles, or is as large as 23 States of the size of New Hampshire.The whole or the greater part of this territory was incorporated with California, upon the admission of that State into the nion.New Mezico, as defined before the final settlement by the compromise, which took from it 25,000 square miles, is bounded on the west by the territory of Colorado, on the south by the 324 degree of latitude, on the east by the one hundredth degree of longitude, and on the north by the Arkansas river, and 42d degree of north latitude.Its area belore the compromise was 110,000 square miles ; as reduced by that act, it is about 85,000, or nine times the size of New Hampshire, and twice the size of New York.The Indian Territory, on which, besides the savage tribes, (he civilized and christianized Cherokees and Choctaws are located, is bounded on the south by the Arkausas river, thence in a straight line south to the Red River, which bounds it remotely near the 34th degree of latitude, on the west of the Red River, on the north by Nebraska, and on the east by the States of Arkansas and Missouri.\u2014 This territory embraces 120,000 square miles, or thirteen States equal to New Hampshire.Nebraska is bounded on the west by the eastern limits of Oregon and upper angle of New Mexico, on the north by the 49th degree of latitude, (or line dividing the United States from Canada,) on the south by the Indian Territory, and on the east by the State of Iowa, and Tersitory of Minnesota.1t comprehends 400,000 square miles, or an area larger than forty States of the size of New Hampshire.Minnesota is bounded upon the west by Nebraska, on the south by the State of lows, and on the east by the State of Wisconsin and Lake Superior, and on the north by the dividing line between the Us Staten and Canada\u2014424 degree of latitude, including a territory of 105,000, square miles, being equal to eleven States of the size of New Hampshire, or two and one-half of the size of New York.The aggregate of these Territories is one million six hundred and two thousand five hundred and forty one re than one half of the whole of Europe, which contai millions of square miles.Europe contains seventy inbabitants to & square mile: with an equal density, these territories alone would contaio a population of above one hundred and twelve millions ; with the populousness of Massachusetts, the population would exceed ons hundred and sixty millions, or two thirds of the entire populstion of urope.CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN NORTH CAROLINA.The Wesleyan Methodist Connection of the United States has citeuits and preachers in North Carolina, two of whom, Jesse McBride and Adam Cook bave recently undergone a violent prosecution for the crime of « giving the Ten Commandments to a litile girl,\u201d\u201d The trial took place, Oct.7, at Salem, a Moravian village, The indictment charged them with circulating & tract, called \u2018 The Ten Commandments,\u201d with intent to excite insurrection, conspiracy and resistance in the slaves.The following is the material evidence : Washington Kenedy.\u2014That defendanis staïd over night st my house in Liberty.1 left early in the morning; returned in the evening and found the pamphlet at my bouse, They behaved like ministers.Lora Kenedy.\u2014MeBride gave me (he pamphlet in the absence of Crooka.Île said nothing to me when he gave it.1 think tisfs is (he one he gave me ; I put no mark on it by which to distinguish it from any other pamphlet of the same name.I go to Sabbath-school ; there are no colored persons at school or at home.Heary Marshall.\u2014I hesed McBride preach at\u2014\u2014.He said he was not in favor of amalgamation or insurrection ; wi posed to war of all kinds would not \u20ac wo une and murder their mastera; he was the friend both of the nd his masts Newel Sap.\u2014Heard McBride say he would preach the truth Im- dependently, and Crooks thet be would suffer his right arm t¢\" bs cut off rather { an withhold the truth.The jury acquitted Crooks and found McBride gui the Court (Judge Manly) pas following sente That Bro.McBride should stand in the pillory one hour, receive twenty stripes, and be impritoned in the county jail one year, snd tbat the sheriff proceed to inflict the penalty immediately.An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, which arrested the execution until Janoary.The True Wesleyan says that Mr, McBride in of Quaker origin, and a most meek, harmless and pious man.The object is doubllers to drive the Wesleyans out of the State ; and it is as truly a case of religious persecution as that of Qaeken in Hamburgh, The tract is a very harmless little thing; snd we venture to predict that if this is the policy pursued, the courts in North Carolina will bave plenty of business.Slavery cannot long survive where such 3 whereupon trisls aad convictions become common.The True Wusleyan adds : Jan.1851.4 One word to Bro.MB, You have the consol in your suffering and trials, of knowing that you suffer for the cause of truth, for righteousness\u201d sake ; and of such Jesus Christ says, * Rejo and be exceeding glad, fur great is your reward io the kingdom of heaven.He who sustained those who suffered for the truth in olden times will sustain you, and you shall come as kold out of the furnace.\u201cOur light affliction, which is but for a momant worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.You may rest assured that you have the sympathies and Jrayers of all your brethren.We await the result of the appeal, snd if Bro.McBride must be imprisoned for a Year, some one else must take his place, for it will not do to abandon the work.\u201d TEZ REVIEW.SACRER ANNALS : 0H, ResRarcies snTo TE Histony asp Rscioron or Manzinn.By Gzonok Switi, F.S.A., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and breland, &e.In 3 vols.8vo.London : Longman & Co.New York: Lane & Scott.Hamilton (Canada): D.MeLellan.16: 34 per vol.Vol.st contains the Patriarchal Age, or the History and Religion of Mankind from the Creation to the death of Isaac, deduced from the Sacred Writings, and illustrated by copious references to the Ancient Records, Traditions and Mythology of the Heathea World.It embodies the result of twenty years study of the subject, and supplies a desideratum in this department of Bible illustration.As a book of reference, it supplies the place of Shuckford\u2019s Connection, and Pirideaux\u2019s and Russells do.;\u2014Stockholm's History of the Bible, and Bishop Gleig\u2019s do.It is certainly much mare valuable than any one of these\u2014and embraces the same field as both Shuck- ford and Prideaux.The 1st vol.is more concise, comprehensive, and valuable than Shuckford or any other Historical Coniection on the early bistory of mankind ;\u2014and is, perhaps, the best and safest guide to the student of the Antiquities of uur race.It contiing a most valuable preliminary Dissertation on Ancient Chromlogy and Learning.Of the Bat vol.your London Cortespondent says :\u2014\u20186 The most valuable work of the season is, perhaps, that of Geoge Smith ; entitled the Patriarchal Age,\u201d &c.¢ It is written with ensummate ability and an excellent spirit.\u201d The 2nd vol.is entitled-\u2014 The Hebrew People;\u201d or, he History and Religiun of the Israelite, from the origin of their nition to the time of Christ.\u201d It is illustrated like the former volume.It states very clearly and concisely the authors views or the Jewish Dispensation and Polity, and the History of God\u2019s Ancieit People.\u2014 It also discusses many important and intricate Biblica Questions, calmly, judiciously, and learnedly, in a valuable Appadix.The author manifests a calm, judicious, and truly Christian sicit throughout the entire work.The 3rd vol., (not yet published, but expected soon) Is intended,\u201d the author says, < to embrace the History and Ruigion of the Gentile Nations, from the death of Isaac to the ChristianErs.This vol.wiil probably receive assistance from the late discoveres in Egypt and Assyria, &c.For the benefit of the Student of Biblical Antiquities, ke.I will add the titles of a few of the best works on the same deprtment :\u2014 Tomkin\u2019s Prize Essay on 4 the influence of the Hebrew andChristian Revelations on Ancient Heathen Writers ; read at Cambrdge College, by Samuel Tomkins, as the Hulsean Prize Essay tor'B49, and published at the same place 1850.This work proves that most of tbe heathen traditions were derived from a common source-\u2014Revelation;\u2014and that many of the sentiments of the heathen writers are to be traced to their acquaintance with the Sacred Scriptures.Jahn's Antiquities; Davidson\u2019s Connection of Sacred and Profane History, &e.Newton and Keith on the Prophecies ; Moses Stuart or, the Sacred Canons ; Kitto\u2019s works, namely, the Pictorial Bide, or Iilus- trated Commentary ; Illustrated Histories of the Jews and ¢ Palestine ; Daily Bible Illustrations, 4 vols., and a Cyclopedia of Bilical Lil ature, with Jumieson\u2019s Paxton\u2019s Hlustrations; Dr.Join Wilsm\u2019s Lands of tbe Bible, Edinburgh, 2 vols., 8vo., 16s sterling.The Stu- of dent of Biblical Antiquities who has these works, is furnishd with the mest valuable assistance for the prosecution of his studies Ingersol, C.W, RW.BEGUILEMENT TO ROMANISM.4 PERSONAL NARRATIVE BY ELIZA SMITH.\u2014SEELEYS, LODOX.CFrom the British Banner.) ad this book with very unusual emotions ~ emcions not y nation against the system of which it treats, butif_wonder at the silly generation that so readily believes Popery tibe mother, a new, and a very harmless, if ant actually a meritorios thing in these days.This is a kind of publication that cannot betoo ex- temively multiplied.The young lady was well born au tred, thoroughly educated in the midst of a pious family, entertainng and cordially cherishing evangelical sentiments\u2014a fact of some s0ment, as showing that neither culture nor evangeliem is, in all cases à protection against the empoisoned influence of Popery.It is imonible to peruse this affecting volume without contracting a strong sseem for the Authoress, an becoming deeply interested in her alutive history.The book is dedicated to the Rev.W.W, Havergil, MA., Rector of Saint Nicholas, Worcester, «in token of gratitu for the signal services he rendered her in effecting her return tclight and liberty.\u201d The Authoress, it appears, was reluctant to publia a d issued her firat tract in a form calculated to enfeeble tbe force 7 her satrative : she has, nevertheless, yielded to wiser counsel the case of her present production, rendered the narrative t ronal.Her object may be ascertained in a word, Sh \u201c Fain would |, at any cost of individual fesling, prevent ot wn fasting the bitter chalice it has been my lot to drink.Fain wed I, by any lawful 9, huwever difficull, shield th pure-mindd and sincere from 1 ud ordeal through which 1 h 5 adfain would | warn the ardent and imaginative of th ecept © ahrcter of the glittering snare spread out to entangle them, With this Hew alone I have Written.\u201d Mise Smith has very properly entered somewhat at length ib the bistory of her studies, the character of her temperament, and tb cie- cumstances which attended her first deviation from Protestantiaws, Here comes out, for the thousandth time, the fact that, in thease of individuals, once heated, and commenced their downward com all attempts at recovery are generally hopeless, Miss Smith wr: , à reference to such conversations, \u2018 they ajware ended in the reach between us being widened.An able and Christian minister f the Gospel visited me, and, from time to time, discussed the subje with me ut allto ne purpose; continued opposition only gthoid my enthusissm.** ere is à great principle involved » Shsiaies THE MONTREAL WITNESS, 3 she went on # persevering in a one-sided course of rea g 3\u2019 | 8led, and almost fell before the strength of my conscie on itst loved, and then believed the lie.In the course of aflains, stranee.Again, however, sophistry did its work, and the infallibility she met with a young lady of deeply fascinating manners, who seemed of the Church came in t ts own defence.\u201d a perfect impetsonation of the spirit of deception in angelic garth, and] We can scarcely advance without an appeal to the Parents of by this young lady her conversion was completed.\u201cStep followed Great Britain, They have here had à glimpse at the Confessional, at slep, (ill she found henelf in the midst of the Church of Home ; but Baptiom, and at the Mass; and is this the system they desire to see she had not been long there when she began to make discoveries fui filling the laud, and to form (be inhesitance for their children\u2019s chil which, in het simplicity, she bad not been prepared.The terrible |dien?Can those Protestant parents, who, to their deep disgrace\u2014 day of the Confessional drew on, where we find her kneeling for disgrace involving much guilt, and, to their children, great hazard, \u2014 hours together at the foot of her ghostly inquirer, who applied the send them to Catholic schools, have any conception of the true state engine with such power as almost to bereave her of ber senses, The of the case?Let not such parents murmur, if, in due season, they account she gives of herself is most agonizing.She had been taughi reap a terrible barvest of the seed they so recklessly have sown ! to glority Confession as a wondrous means of grace.Let us hear ts Smith, again referring to the Gospel of her new creed, speaks her:\u2014 of the diffieulty with which she received the doctrine that lost mea \u201cTIE CONFESSIONAL.could merit, praedenmed men interceds ; still, she contended goin her \u201c The theory had appeared just, fair, and rational, but the reality was lb, and did her best to sw ow whatever potion the pnestly cup terrible, Di ;, ted forthe public gaze of its darkest ingredients, and Ps jo ber.She refers with much emotion, also, toa young dressed up in false and meretricious hues of truth and purity, it seems = wi oi o ed.th Nop bad 0, 10 the course of subsequent conver- but a dogma calculated to exert a beneficial influence upor.\u201d mankind, By on emis % at e ha dun mainly moved by ner example.and prove a source of morality and usefulness.But, oh! like gli BY (bis time she bad discovered the true state of the case, and was se h : ; : deeply afflicted that she could scarcely contain her emotions, whee ideals, how unlike the actual.\u201d It was a dark page in uy experience, CF: friend told bi he ii , and one 1 cannot dwell upon.But [ wae strangely startled, utter) edit rien told ber so.She tus closes one of her bitterest confounded : under other circumstances, nay, a few months before, jt Meditations i « would have put to rest my longings ulter Catholicism for ever.But ; (THE Mass, _ _ the mantle of evening had already cast its shadowy folds around me,| \u2018It is to be feared that myriads of immortal spirits, who through ibe and they were fast enveloping me in darkness as of midnight.The ate clinging to a lie, will die with it in their mouths, and with it purity of mind and delicacy in which [ bad been educated, ill prepared descend fo eternity, there Lo regret through never-ending ages their me for what I had here to encounter; and my own sincerity and Ditiable folly and delusion.ltisto be feared, that to this awiul reseit dread of committing a sacrilege, by magnifying circumstances the thousands are this dey tending, and being helped to it with au ment- most trifling into sins of vast account, occasioned the augmentation ed speed, by tke spurious toleration and supine indifference of their rather than lessened the suffering and annoyance.Every delicate more highly favored and enlightene-! brethren around them.Oh ye and better feeling, prevents full delineation here.Noram'[ blaming if any such scan these pages\u2014 remember it is one who has felt the individuals ; it is the system which is at fault, A system which | direful working of the system, who now addresses you.It is ome teaches that things which degraded humanity must blush, in the Who bowed beneath it long, striving to force her spitit to its sway, presence of heaven und its angels, even at the remembrance of, and neither in haste nor anger tore herself from its embrace.Its should be laid open, dweit upon, and exposed in detail to the one who has seen God imsulted, his dignity mocked, his mercy sullied ears ofa corrupt and fallen fellow-mortal ; who, of like pas- Outraged, and his mediation made of none effect, in the so-called sions with (he penitent at his feet, is thereby exposed to temp- house of his friends, Would that I could write with a pen of fire, er tations the mo dark and dangerous.But what shall we say ofjspeak with a voice tbat must be heard, to advocate the cause of the woman! Draw a veil,\u2014oh ! purity, modesty, and every feminine fee}- Kedeemer ag t enemies so Judas-like and teacherous.If God be ing,\u2014s veil dark as oblivion, over the sad outrages too often committed God, serve bim ; if Mary, lend your countenance to her worship.\u2019 against thee.Ou ! there are things too strange for record, truths too (To be continued.) pungent for easy acquiescence ; facts too startling, and at the same lime too delicately intricate to admit of public portrayal, or meet the popular gaze.Bit the cheek can blush in secret at the true images HANNAH MORE\u2019S CHEAP REPOSITORY.of memory\u2019 evoking, and the outraged mind shrink back in horror at From N.Y.Es ti the recollection of the dark realities which have oppressed and over- (From N.: Érsngetiet.) wheimed it.[appeal to converts, 10 converts of the gentler sex, and ask] In the memorable conflict with infidelitv, with which the last cen them, fearlessly ask them, what was the first impression on their minds tury closed, es cially in Europe, there was hardly & more conspice- and feelings, when some of the truths of the confessional struck home ?ous or successful combatant for truth and the Church than Hannak Lask not the impure, the already defiled,\u2014 for to such it is sadly sus-| More.With a venatilily aod power of mind, a strength of principle ceptible of being made even a darker source of abuse and shame\u2014 and faith, admirably fitted for the crisis and the function, and ai but F appeal to the delicate and bigh-minded, to the pure in heart and by extraordinary accessories of station and cultivated life, she exerted sentiment: was not your first impression one of dread and bewilderment an influence for good which gave her an immortal title to the grati.almost stunning, to i followed by a sense of humiliation and degrada- tude of the church, and Placed her writings among the classics of our tion not easily to be defined or supported 7?religious literature.During her life, and for years after, there war Still, feeling herself a Papist, she determined to vindicate the choice 10 religious writer whose popularity was comparable with bers ; and she bad made, struggling hard to believe that what she saw and felt though time bas made the world insensible to many of her claims, it to be wrong must nevertheless be right, but in vain.Nature was true, Would still be dificult to recali a more honored name.Tle most ef aud conscience was faithful.She subsequently goes on\u2014 fective of her writings, perbaps, if aot the most illustrative of her genius and power of thought, were her light-winged and telling Little ANOTHER GLANCE AT THE CONFESSIONAL.tracts, which won all hearts by their simplicity and tenderness, and As [ write, it even now rushes back upon me fresh as then, and [ spread broadcast in this novel and impressive form, the truths that had tremble at the abyss on which I have stood.Things, the meaning been discussed in vain in more elaborate form.Het cheap Repository of which I did not understand, were then brought before me, and my Tracts marked a new era in religious publications.They were cir- tears of contrition supplanted by the burning blush of wounded delica- culated by the million, and achieved a success which suggested (he ey.One circumstance [ well\u201d recal, which had occured in early idea of the Religious Tract Society, and of all the kindred institutions youth, and my scrupulous conscience persuaded me I was obliged to which bave borne such an efficient part in the history of the half cen- name it, though I never attached an forge amount of sin to its com-| tury now closing.The reader of these tracts, at this Iste days will tission, if indeed I fully comprehended ifs meaning.But the ques- nof wonder at their success.The Shepherd of Salisbury lain,\u201d tioning which it elicited, and the ideas supplied by it, lacerated my | *Tis all for the best,\u201d\u201d « The Two Shoemakers,\u201d and most of the feelings to such an extent, that forgetting all respect for my confessor, series are unsurpassed as fascinating natratives, or as beautiful moral and careless even at the moment, whether 1 received absolution or lessons.aot, 1 hastily exclaimed, « I cannot say & word more!\u201d while the A new and very Leautiful edition of ibe series bas just been issued thought rushed into my mind :\u2014s¢ All is true that their enemies say by the Tract Society.They are elegantly illustrated with desi of thew.\u201d Hare, however, prudence dictated to my questioner to by Gilbert, a London artist, and engraved with exquisite finish, and push the matter no further; and the immediately kind and even finely printed For young readers they will have the attraction of respectful tone he assumed, went far towards effacing an impression novelty, and the influence of truth admirably illustrated.We should so injurious.On rising from my knees, when 1 should have gladly suppose it would prove one of the most attractive of the Society\u2019s fled to any distance rather than have encountered his gaze, he ad- poblications, aad to Sabbath schools it way be commended as one of dressed me in the most familiar manner, an indifferent subjects, and the cheapest and best works that could be obtained.The publica- detained me some time in talking.What share I took in the CON- | tions of the Tract Society ate, latterly, executed witb extraordi versation I never knew.All that | remember was my confusion.beauty.Some of their juvenile books show a degree of artistic fini But the conclusion was, my acceptance of an invitation 10 breakfast which is not surpassed by any similar issues in the country or world; with him the next morning ; which, I was too embarrassed to refuse.and though so elegant, are exceedingly cheap.1 went, and, to my anno ance, found bim alone; and the reader may fudge of my feelings.The tendency is apparent\u2014Lhe fam tion the wind, under the most insidious disguise, with shame and im- A REVIEW EXTRAORDINARY.utity.Banishing, owever, as far as sible, every deleterious .ouai, [ endeavored to feel grateful for Chat Ydeamed bis kindness, (From the Presbyterian.) ; ; acd schooled my heart to believe that all was tight, atleast on my| For the last few quarters the radical Westminater Review has part; while the determination I made, never to give any occasion for been taking a decidedly anti-religious, certainly aoti-evangelical, a repelition of the annoyance, communicated a sensation of great} direction, It is even affirmed that à party bas bought the right of relief.The preparation too for communion, which occupied some publishing an article in each number assailirig the faith of Christians, time, and subsequenly the thanksgivin also, now very much ab.| The course has been more and more undisguised, in some of the last sorbed my mind.It was a subject on which I felt en usiastically, numbers ; but in the October issue, the disguise becomes so thin and every lower idea seemed ainiost profanation.Present and pal-| that all concealment may be thrown aside at once, and the Review pable objects grew insignificant in my estimation, and the mystery of] may avow itself as a champion of infidelity.The closing pape: ia the real presence of the Saviour in thy crament, and the holiness of this number is upon ¢ Septenary Instituiions,\u201d and the design is te beart and life which ought to distinguish those admitted to such close| show that à Sabbath for worship and observance of religious duties union with bin, at length completely engrossed me.\u201d exclusively, is not a Divine appointment ; that the observance of suck Such was her fist experience of the Confessional\u2014a subject to| day® was introduced trom the practice of celebrating certain changes which she re again and again, and which increased in horror asp Of the moon; and hence four of them came in a month, with an inter- she grew in acquaintance with it.On the subject of the Mass she| T8! of seven days; and that there is no authority whatever for regard- has algo recorded ber experience.She was accustomed to attend) ing the first day of the Week in any sense as a Jay for religious wor- this in the early morning, and + often,\u201d says she, [remained for| hip.But not contented with thus making war upon the Sabbath, the hours upon my knees repeating forms of prayer | The fatigue of this| Writer denies the Divine authority of the Old Teatament, thinks the was overwhelming.But to such human emotions I had but one reply Books of Moses are collection of miscellaneous writings, pat together \u2014 i i by Ezra or somebody else ; the story of Eve and the serpent is sa Saviour for pest sing, and a worthy reception of our Lord and Alger, and of Joshua and (be sun a fable ; that Christ commanded ; PR his disciples to search the Scriptures, that they might distinguish the Miss Smith then foro fo intimate, that as fo the Atonement part to bo believed from the rents and that he express] ight the made by Christ and Bis righteousness, these Somiderations were hot that some things said by them of old time in tne Bile wore not cop ve pia west a ber orn co Stingto ba edritic Divine authority j and this writer thinks it is high time that the pub- , \u201c| hi This rson hud been \u201ca a character,\u201d wd u 1 knew,\u201d says tao be taught to regard the books of the Old Testament in {bei phe pa mell us the sequel abundantly proved, by no means, at This article bas heen called out by the recent tation of the Sab- prets es ae ee she o he to be\" She nm pevartheless, bath Post-office question of Great Btain, TL poco thal there, 8s ia bod ve, thin or Lat A be touch of his omnipotent this country, infidelity regards the Sabbath as the great obstacle in the \u2018and, vet everything right, us hear ber :\u2014 way of its success.Bnet break down the distinction of days and pes SC BAPTISN, suade the nation that it is to devole one day in the week to re- * The rite consluded, the priest said a few words of advice and con-| ligious worship, and you have struck a blow at the nation\u2019s heart.tulation, She had, i seemed, never been baptized before ; so that| There is no religion without a Sabbath.t was unconditional baptism which had been administered, whish,| We bave been thus particular in defining the present position asd putting aside the necessity of confession, was supposed at once fo character of his Review, that its miechief may be lomened by the regeneraie ber nature, and bist out hitherto actually committed.foreknowledge of ihe public as te \u2018is aims.That it is Sow under the Placing hia band on her head in be ction, Father Eustace told her| contro! of an infidel corps, there can be Little doubt; and the publies- tbe nature of the graces she had received, and pronounced her, if she tion of such an article as this on septenary institutions, is an open aad were then to die, ft for heaven.How | started : I knew from in- malignant assault open Christianity, that deserves the rebuke ores table facts, even recent one\u2019s, the gitl\u2019s general character, and] Christian in the old world and the new.1{ serves to shew that n how very i A was such a change could have been so suddenly enemies of our ho! religion are becoming mora bold.The contest of wrought as would justify the assertion.The awfulness of the delu- the day is to be between Rationalists and Seripturaliste ; between sion smote upon me in all its actual force; the lie seemed no plain] those who claim to be guided by human reasen, and those wbe eub- and palpable, that it glared forth mockingly ; the uiter fallacy and| mit to Divine authority in Holy Scripture.Te this all {boot impiety of such a dogma, could not but stand out in meridian ¢leatnem,| controversy is now tending.The friends of God\u2019 truth bave wothi with all its blasphemous cousequenees ; and for a brief space I atrug-| to fear but their own indifference. residing out of Montreal : Simeoe, J #2, 100.WW, 10s; Chambly, Dr R, 55; Babyritle, 3 M, 5s; 'the Churches of his dincese ard rem wo overy vestige of Pupish parapbar- 1'V, 10s, R L.|nalin Lachute, J MO, 10s, T H, 10s, J C, 10+; Thtee Rivers, 10s; Kingston, Baroness de E, 15#; Acton, J tH, 1th; WE, 10s; Westmeath, TE, 10s; Port Hope, RY, 2 Fevre, FC, 106; Oxford, R 1 10s, Rev R W, 10s; St JY, mene, 10s; Huntingdon, J VM, Se, Mrs S, lds 6d: Amherotburgh, J 8, 10s; Quebec, A © B, 10s, H B, 10s; 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