The Montreal witness, 28 septembre 1859, mercredi 28 septembre 1859

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.XIV.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1859.No.78.LONDON RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.(From the Montreal Gazelle.) A meetiug of the various religious Societies of this city was beld in the Free Church Coté Street, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of welcoming Dr.Davis, the Secretary of the London Tract Society, who is now on a tour through British North America for the purpose of furthering the interests of that Society.Rev.Dr.Taylor took the chair at half-past seven, and prayer having been said, briefly introduced Dr.Davis to the meeting.Dr.Davis then arose.He said : All classes in England were more or less ignorant as to Canada.His eyes were opened when he saw its cities, streets, houses, churches and schools, and when he saw the numbers he thought of the benefits that God bad showered upon them with sucha bounteous hand.No two trees in the forest are alike; no two countries on the earth are alike \u2014 This showed the diversity of the Great Being's goodness.If they (Christians) could secure unity in their diversity, they would sccure and have furmed the Churcii of Nature, Te was as- touished to sec the number of churches they had erected and the number of pastors they sustained.He was also surprised to sce the great step they had taken towards educating the people, which, in good hands, lie hoped would do a great deal, to wake them godly.He thought Canada a good land, with a glorious future be fore it.\u2014 The end of the fulse European system was approaching, The system of deceit was about to break up, nothing could stay its fall, for an end mnst be put toit.The great hand of Providence would svon intervene and put down that great system offraud.No man should think of leaving Canada for Australin.He looked to the time when its breadth would be covered with a happy and Ciod-fearing people.Momo time ago, in London, the Evangelical Church was depressed\u2014a spirit of diversity had got among its members.he press, that mighty agency, cried out that the ulpit had lost its power\u2014thut strange doctrines fad sprung up and that a spirit of worldlioces pervaded all its doctrines.When suddenly there came forth a young man whom none knew: he spoke from the heart, uttered bare truths, Mul titudes gathered round him touched to the soul with his fervent words, and now none could suy that the pulpit had lost its power.God hud shown that it was not the case.Not only Spurgeon, but a great many other gifted men like Lim had sprung up in town and country.He wus of opinion that the press should be subsidary to the pulpit, and that thereby it would display a greater power of doing good by its sgency.Tracts were despised by many they locked down upon them.How da God convert mankind but by tracts; what was the Bible but a collection of tracts ; what were the Epistles, the Revelations, and other books in the Bible?Nought buttracts spread over thousands of years.The greatest man in Kurope was, by many, supposed to be Louis Napoloow.How did he prepare the extraordinary people ho ruled over, when he wished to effect à great change?By short tracts in the form of newspaper articles.\u2014 What were bis pamphlets © Napoleon aud England,\u201d \u201c Napoleon and Italy\u201d but tracts, intended to propare the minds of his people aud convert them over to his views?He knew that the people would uot read a lengthy work, sv le prepared short articles und grudually prepared thew for the blow he iutended to strike.Le thought that wavy tracts could be distributed in places where missivnaries could not go.These tructs contained two features; namely, none were iesucd which did not show the way of salvation, and they never pretended to extol ove scot of Christians over the other.The Committee of the London Tract Sucicty consist od of wembers of sll sects of the Cutholic Church.They met at the Council Board us Christians, and hoped to weet in th houvenly abode of the Great Fathor.In presonting their tracts, they could ray : take them, they do not contain one thing caloulated to shook the sensibilities of any: He hud heard à Clurgywan suy, that in his carly days Lie had known a celebrated divine who gave him tracts to distribute, and told biw that when he had dune wo, he should come buck und tell him how they had been roceived.Aftor delivering bo returned, when the aged Minister asked him how they had been received, Île answered very favorably.The aged Minister then inquired, * Well, did you pray when you gave thom \"Un being unswered 1 the negative, he seemed quite shooked, and impressed upon the distributor's meniory tho necessity of prayer when delivering a tract.He thought that all should do the same.One class of the Society's tracts was peculiarly adapted to one part of the Canadian population, namely, the Roman Catho- lies When they eaw a class of priests pretending to be masters of the very intellect of their flock, it was their duty to uphold the doctrines of Christianity, and as soldiers of Christ, to put in their way the means of conversion.They met Catholics every day at business or in social intercourse, and there they could then dispense these tracts, which perhaps would be the means of converting many.Their tracts on this subject did not contain one thing calculated to hurt the feelings of any one ; they wrote against the error, but the man was always the man.They should make every sacrifice to place the means of conversion within their reach.Another class of tracts was adapted to children.Were they not worth Salvation?They had souls to save.The London Tract Society was the first to publish works of science upon a religious basis.So that when they introduced to young men scientific matters, they also taught them the more substantial theme of religion.Another class of their publications was the periodicals such as the \u201c Sunday at Home\u201d and the \u201c Leisure Hour.\u201d Many objected to this last on the ground that it was not an exclusively religious paper.He would tell them why it was not 50.Some time ago London and the Provinces were flooded with publications containing sentiments of the most depraved nature, which found their way into the bands of their servants, and then into those of the members of their families, disseminating thoughts of u revolting character, prejudicial toall Christianity.Many good men camo to the Society, and said : \u2018 What can you do to avert this calamity : \u2018you have the means ; do try something.\u201d It was decided to establish a periodical of some literary pretension, and the Leisure Hour was started to do battle with the sources of this depravity.The result was that a very great any editions of it were subscribed for, and those papers he had spoken of have been obliged to alter their tone, so that now, though still objectionable, to a great cxtent, they were not still what they used to be.One of their publications, \u201c Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,\u201d had been translated into no less than eleven Asiatic linguages, into two Polynesian and eleven African tongues, and all the known languages of the European continent : so that the er's story of faith is probably the widest spread of any book in the world, if we except the Bible.\u2014 À gentleman was even about to translate a work on philosophy for the Chinese who rejoiced in metaphysics, and philosophy might prove more attractive to them than any other branch of European learning.The cirenlution of their tracts wus something striking.When a new edition of some of them was wanted, a list of those already distributed was handed to him, and from that he made the following extract :\u2014Of the tract cotitled * Friendly Advice,\u201d 11,000 has been distributed in ayear; of \u201cA Word to the Profane,\u201d 17,000; Character is Kverything,\u201d a tract peculiarly adapted to young men in large cities, 17,000, \u201cFriend Escape,\u201d 30,000; \u201c All Right, Papa,\u201d 50,000.Some even Touched the Szure of 80,000 and 00,000; while the band-bills containing short extracis from Mr.Spurgeon\u2019s sermons reached 100,000.In 1851 the number of their publion- tions distributed amount to 19,246,000; in 1854 to 27,376,000, in 1868 to 34,684,000, while in 1839 it had already reached to 37,174,843.If these publications were laid side by side, they would cover un extent of four or five miles of ground.The foreign circulation of the Svoicty\u2019s publications slone amounted 8,000,000 or 9,000,- 000.Some time ago he visited Bolginm, aud asked them how they did there in the distribution of their tracts; he was told that they had poid agents who distributed them.He asked them, do you not yourselves distribute them ?\u2014 He was told not.He then asked them why the young men did unt divide the city into sce- tions and cover it with their publications, thereby they would save the expense of voverslagonts, and do the work all the better.The idea was caught up by them, ar a new one, end six months after, passing through the country, he had asked poral how it had succeeded ?They answered that in six months they bad distributed three times ox many ns their paid agents had in no year.lle wished to know what the Christian young men of thin city had done in this way?Had thoy divided it into districts und canvassed them throughout ?In England noclereyman thought he had done his duty unless he distributed tructs fur and wide throughout hix Parish.Most of the manufucturers also saw to the sume thing, und regularly wroto to tho Society lor tracts to distribute, among their work-people.A great many were also distributed among the army; and he could say that in Her Majesty's service there existed no truer Christians than many of the officers and soldiers.While on this topic, he would mention a gentleman who bad been in our midst \u2014Captain Hammond\u2014as true a Christian as ever breathed.He thought it strange that the Church of England laymen should be the most active in expounding the teachings of the Gospel in Scotland, and more so, that the Synod of the Presbyterian Church should extend the right hand of fellowship and welcome them to its bosom.These gentlemen repeatedly wrote to the Society for tracts, and distributed them to their Congregations after each sermon they had preached.And so wasit with many who endorsed the efficacy of the little publication known as \u201cThe Tract.\u201d He then spoke of the peculiar phy sical symptoms attendant upon the religious revivals in Ireland, it was quite evident that they were manifestations of the divine goodness, and pro- produced by the direct intervention of God.A gentleman who saw one of these revivals, told Lim that when the congregation received the Spirit of the Lord, their faces beamed with godliness, and the features expressed such happiness that it was totally impossible to imitate it by any physical power.Great was the conversion in Ireland ; once there was hardly a Gospel preaching Minister in the country.All with the exception, perhaps, of Rev.Peter Cooke, were more or less tained with Arianism, but now the Church contained no more devoted or cfficient pastors than resided in that country.He then alluded to the great revivals that had occurred among the middle and lower classes in London.One minister, a friend of the lecturer's, had taken the Pilgrim\u2019s Progress as an illustration of his cer mons, and with great effect ;\u2014night after night was his spacious church filled with laboring men, hardly rested from their day's toil, and eager to listen 10 the truths of the Scriptures.The Bishop of London calling at an omnibus yard one Sunday spoke with such simplicity of power to the omnibus men, who scarcely know a Sunday in the year\u2014being continually at their labors day by day, thatsomein the meeting had tears in their eyes,to see such solicitude taken for their moral welfare, and to ascertain that at least some one cared for their spiritual well-being.These were but examples of the great work that was going on in that city.They had all heard of Puseyism ; even its gold candlesticks, gaudy vestments and fine music could not attract the people, anxious to hear the truth in its purity.The cou- tinent was looked up to by many who were not conversant with its laws; if the people of this country had them, they would soon wish to come back to the sway of Queen Victoria.Ifa minister wished to deliver tracts in some parts of it, he had to do so privately, and only amongst his own congregation, otherwise the penalty was fine and imprisonment.However, a great deal was done in the right direction.The Tract Society of Paris had issued more than 1,000,000 of their publications during the last year.The Toulouse Society had also done a great deal; they had published a vast quantity of school books and others of a like nature.In Switzerland more tolerance was displayed.An English clergyman once proceeded to Neufchatel, at a time when thousands of Red Republicans were assembled there ; he announced his intention to preach, and was told that no one would come to hear him ; he, however, persisted in his design, and thousands gathered around him and listened eagerly to the voice of truth.Indeed, so well did he succeed, that the priest, socing how well he was going on, had masses said for his conversion.He (the lecturer) would be glad if the priests had masses said fur the conversion of all ministers and preachers of the Gospel, as it would lead their congregations to examine into and gradally be awakened to the truth.The late war was nought but a religious one, France said to the Pope, \u201cwo will allow you to settlo questions relating to the lumaculate Virgin, fix upon forms of prayer and otherwise ace after tho spiritual concerns of tho nations, but further you will not interfere.The tem- power belongs to the people.\u201d But Austria says, \u201c If the Pope is infallible, he must reign over all.\u201d These wero the antagonistio principles which brought about the late war, and destroyed the fuce of such an extent of Italy.Perhaps the groat Powers of the Continent, jealous of the free speech, free press, and freedom of England, may conspire to force Kngland to xequiceoe in the Continental system.Tt would then Lekoave her people to fight for their homes, their frecdom, and thoir religion.le was sure that none would flinch ; but that all would do their duty and fight in the great battle of principle.CANADIAN NEWS.Camanux NarvaacisT ann GeoLoc1st.\u2014The contenta ure :\u2014On the Natural History of the Valley of the River Rouge, and surrounding townships in the Counties of Argenteuil and Ottawa\u2014Meteorologica) Observations at Isle Jesus for 1858, &e.kc.We collect from the last named paper, the followi facts :\u2014the mean barometrical pressure was 0,07 inches higher than that of the previous year; the mean temperature of the year was lower by 0,53 than that of 1857, and 1 © .520 less than the mean tem- erature for a series of years, the highest temperature ing 999 .3, and the lowest 30° .2 below zero ; it rained on 111 days, and snowed on 46; the fall of rain was seven inches greater than in a series of previous years, and the fall of snow 36.80 inches less; excessive rain fell in June and July; evaporation was one inch less than the usual amount ; the yearly mean velocity of tbe wind was a third less thau for 1867 ; the avérage of dew was much less than usual; the amount of ozone in the atmosphere was greater, and of electrity less than ordinary.The song sparroms the harbinger of spring, was first heard on 10th of March ; swallows first seen on the 15th of April; Apple trees in leaf on the 3rd of June; snow birds first seen 26th of October.\u2014 Advertiser.Tons Baxk Notes.\u2014In a suit brought by Mr.Hewitt, a hardware merchant of Toronto, against the Bank of Toronto, to recover the ostensible amount of a mutilated note of that Bank, a j de ment has been rendered in favor of the plaintiff.The defence set up by the Bank was that notes are frequently intentionally mutilated, and the portions cut off pasted together to form.new notes, and that if the Bank were compelled to pay mutilated notes, it might have to redeem seven for six it issued; it tendered, however, half the face of the note.The defence of the Bank strikes us as essentially paltry.Admitting for the sake of argument that bilis are thus fraudulently cut and multiplied by pasting, the fragments together, it is not sufficient for the Bank to set up this practice, but it is bound to show that it had been done in the individual case in dispute.One of the motes in question had the upper right corner cut of by some sharp instrument.bat it bore the signatures of the President ard Cashier, and was in other material points complete.\u2014Adeertiser.Loss or toe SteaMer ¢ Baxsuee.\u2019\u2014From one of the hands employed on board the Steamer we learn a few particulars in reference to the loss of the \u2018 Banshee.\u201d She left Port Dalhousie on Tuesday evening at nine o'clock, and was out in the heavy storm of that night and the following day and evening, when she labored very bard, and 350 brls of four, shipped from the mills of Messrs.R.& J.Lawrie, Port - housie, had to be thrown overboard.She reached Kingston on Wednesday night between 9 and 10, and remained there about a couple of hours.The sea was extremely high during the e of the steamer down the Jake, Lui when the river was reached the weather moderated, and it was supposed all danger was paesed, and sil hands \u201c turned in\u201d to have a good altep, having been unahle to obtain even a nap from the tire they left Port, leaving a man named Patrick Finnizan at the wheel.Finnigan bad not strength to hold out, and Le also went to sleep, and the steamer being left to ber own guidance, ran ashore om ¢ Whiskey Island,\u201d a small island on the American side of the River, and about 3 miles below Alexander Bay.She struck au sunken rock, which stoves hole in her bow about two feet square, and also splitting her down about five feet.In fifteen minutes after, she sunk, with her bow out of the water.During the down the Lake, Captain M'Crea very nearly ost his life, by being struck with a barrel of flour, but just as he was going overboard, the second en- gincer, Mr.Swails, caught aud saved him.The fishermen of a little place called Rockport bebaved in 8 most unchristian and unmanly spirit toward the sufferers, for instead of affording them assistance they did all in their power to injure them, and even were 60 inhumau as to steal their provisions, leavi them nothing but à few potatoes, which the men to obtain by wading up to their waists.No trouble will be experienced in raising the * Danzher, as she is about two feet from the bottom, and anchered to a trec.The insurance, however, may be forfeited.A Mariciovs Acr.\u2014It secms as tho\u201d there is to be no end to acts of wickedness in our neighborhood, this week.We had scarcely recorded two acts of in- cendiarism and one of thievery when u most inb cowardly and brutal act came to light.On last Monday night, or early yesterday morning, 8 fiend in bumau form entered Mr.James Brown's stables and destroyed his best horse, by cutting the hamstrings of its jeft hind leg, just above the knee, with an axe.The blow was a heavy one, as there was a considerable jug in the Bone.\u201d The horse died about eight o*clock yesterday morning, having apparently, suffered the moet dreadful agonics.tis to be hoped that the perpetrator will speedily discovered and pnished.\u2014 Millbrook Messenger.Watetroo VinLace Fair.\u2014 This fair came of on \u2018Tuesday the 13th inst, and was in every respect profitable \u2018und successful.Some 200 head of cattle were expossed for eale, and nearly all disposed of at the following prices :\u2014Oxen from $30 to 6974; steers from $20 to K30 ; cows from 820 to $25.Mr.Craig, of Toronto, bought a large number of stock, and Mr.Seutt, of Galt, was also an extensive purchaser, A great deal of business was done in the village during the day.\u2014 Berlin Chronicle.FATAL, AccipExT.\u2014Mr.James Peel, 8 pwitchman at the Ferth depot, was so severely injured while coupling à car to the tender, on Monday muinisg last, that he died the same evening. 618 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.SEPTEMBER 28, 1859 THE - LyNDON TIMES\u201d ON THE ST.LAWRENCE ROUTE AND SUBSIDIES TO OCEAN STEAMERS.(From the Times lug.©.) In most ages of mankind the destinics of States have depended on the track of commerce.Cities have been made and uamade, and kingdoms elevated or depressed, by simple and rip oh in the course of trade.The mighty ruins in Asiatic plains mean often nothing more than that the adoption of some new route by a line of caravans left a proud and statcly emporium stranded and desolate.The ancient ports in the basin of the Mediterranean whose historical names arrest every traveller's attention have become what they arc because commercial revolutions took away their shipping, and with their shipping their vitality.Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam have felt in later days the ebb of trade, while its flow has been sufficient, as we see, to create in San Francisco, Singapore, and Melbourne such interests as in former days could never have been conceived.There was once a time, when the critical region of the world was India, and when upon the communications between that country and Europe the fortunes of intermediate States seemed ently to turn.But India hasnow been compelled, if not to relinquish, at any rate to divide her pre-eminence.here is another ion with more important commerce, though a less romantic history.Instead of the diamonds of Golconda and the silks of Bengal, we see the breadstuffs of Ohio and Michigan absorbing the expectations of Europe.The West is eclipsing the Fast \u2014all the more so because it is new, limitless, and inexhaustible.We may trade with America for centuries and yet find it more productive than India is now.That prodigious continent is a perfect nursery of States, and the link connecting the two worlds is strengthened by the fact that more pe to the commerce between them than gold and goods.We supply America with people.The tide of population, which from the earliest set in from the East, is now carried onwards to the West more marvellously than ever.It is transported across the Atlantic, and then again p to the western extremities of the new continent, until no thing but a second ocean separates it from those castern highlands in which our race took its rise.We are not indulging in these reflections without a practical object.At this moment the route of commerce far more important than that by which Augsburg or Bruges was left to rise or fall is trembling in a political balauce.How are the products of Western America to reach the expectant consumers of Europe?By what track are the swarms of European emigrants to be carried into the spacious and fertile provinces of the West?Through what channels is this interchange of exports to pass ?hat cities are to be enriched Phat States to be clevated ; what nationsto beaggrandized ?There is a double choice before us.The alternative is Canada or the United States, and the rivalry for the noble prize Las been gallantly maintained.Unfortunately, the fight is not a fair one, and England stands chargeable with unwittingly damaging the chances of that competitor whose interests she might naturally be expected to prefer.The phical position of Canada places its territories between those of Western America and the Atlantic Ocean.The t river St.Lawrence and the vast inland lakes with which it is connected offer a natural and convenient highway for the trafic of the West.Were it not for the ice of winter and certain difficulties in the navigation, it is probable that Quebec would have become the great emporium of this commerce in spite of all competition.But the ple of the United States, fully alive to the interests at stake and animated by the import anos of the contest, omitted no efforts to give this lucrative traffic n turn towards the south.A slight deflection would do the work, and carry it off to the ocean by New York and Boston, instead of through the waters of the St.Lawrence.At first the Americans succeeded.While Ca- nads was engaged with locks and lighthouses, casals and tugbosts, the United States pushed on their chain of railways, and Boston and New York became fairly the termini of Atlantic na- igation.Canada, however, was keen, resolute and unconquerable.She held on her course with steady pertinacity, and the British Government encouraged her exertions by guarantecing a loan.Atlast, after an expenditure of millions, the route was complete, and the course of traffic to the mouth of the St.Lawrence was as clear rte, But here there arose another difficulty.The Americans had, 5 i were, lon of the ocean.Liverpool ha been ated by great steam navigation companies to New York and Boston ; in those ports, therefore, would commerce still tend\u2014that of corn from the West, that of men from the East.Not to be outdone in the struggle, Canada then built steamers of ber own, and suddenly appeared with an Atlantic fleet, like the Romans against the galleys of the Carthaginians.Thus, at length, the dela seemed fair, and if, other things being equal, Canada bad really the best ground, now was the time for Canada to win.In these days, however, commerce, like wur, is an affair not merely of and resolution, but of loans and subsidies.Canada found ar- as to the American rayed against her not only steamers, but subei- dized steamers\u2014not only rival lines, but rival lines established and maintained by the contributions of her own natural protector and ally.The Cunard line and the Galway line both run.| Conception.This journal is conducted, it is well known, by ministers of the Established Church, and contains letters from known clergy- wen approving its principles, There is mo reason at all to doubt that priests connceted with ning from British, mot to Canadian, but to: ths Church of Rowe, and probably with the American territory, were founded upon subsidies | Jesuits, have entered the 7 ! Establishment, with the approval of the highest from the British Government, so that our own loyal dependency was likely to be worsted in the race through the aid which we ourselves contributed to her competitors.What was Canada todo?She had aheady ushed abreast of lier rival at all points; she had opened communica tions, constructed railways, and launched a steam fleet.There was only one thing more to be done, and that was to subsidize her own line, as we had subsidized the lines against her, and this she did.She had spent £650,000 in building her steamers; she now paid £45,000 a year to t them on a level with ours, and the enterprise Ba succeeded.The Canadian line is ns good as the Cunard line, and it would be hard to say more.One of its vessels\u2014the \u2018\u201c Hungarian \u201d\u2014 has actually made threc consecutive voyages across the broad Atlantic in less than 28 days altogether, THE RIOTS IN ST.SEORGE'S-IN-THE- E (From the Scottish Guardian.) À succession of riots has recently taken place in one of the parish churches of London, on various Sabbath afternoons.The rector is away, and the churchwarden states that he does not know where the rev.gentleman is, nor who is \u201cin charge\u201d of the parish.There is consequently no one who is responsible for the eccleisastical condition of the parish, and the churchwarden is at the mercy of any strange clergyman who may appear to take the duty.On last Sabbath week, the Rev.Frederick George Lee, S.C.L., of St.Edmund Hall, Oxford, appeared at the commencement of the morning service at the altar, to which he did reverence, in the vestments of a Roman Catholic priest, the ordinary ecclesiastical habit of a clergyman of the Church of England being entirely dispensed with.He knelt in front of the altar and intoned the prayers, and when the time came for reading the lessons, that duty was performed by a layman, who ascended the desk, habited in a plain white surplice, of a pattern similar to that which is worn by acolites of the Church of Rome.At the usual time, after the reading of a portion of the Communion service, Mr.Lee ascended the pulpit attired in a yellowish white cloak fastened close round the neck, all the trimmings consisting of broad gold lace embroidery, with a cross woven into the back.He gave out the text\u2014 I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work.\u201d After an exposition of the text, he passed a general condemnation of the press on account of its malignity; of tae Church on account of its apathy; of the public on account of ita antipathy to the High Church party ; and, lastly, of the \u201cmob\u201d of St.George's parish, who, he chserved, * were dis ciples of the gospel of Belial and followers of Beelzebub.\u201d In the afternoon the Rev.Hugh Allen, a well-known evangelical preacher, who has been nominated as afternoon lecturer by the vestry, addressed a very large and much excited congregation, which determined to wait on at the close to put a stop to the Tractarian service, expected to begin at four.This service was, however, given up, and at length a man with vigorous lungs gave out the doxology to be sung in due form.\u201cIt was executed with consider ably more strergth than harmony,\u201d and after a few hisses and groans tbe church was clearcd.Such was the scene enacted last week in a London parish church, We cannot be surprised at the excitement of the le.The Established Church of England, with its boasted broad and liberal basis, is put to the test.Romanism, not under the concealed garb of Tractarianism, but in ité native form, is appearing rapidly in the Church of England, and no one appears to possess power for its expulsion.The Union newspaper, and even the Guardian, the high class organ of Tractarianism, publish exhortations to clerical celibacy, the conventusl life, the practice of confession, praying for the dead, the reverence of relics, the use of images as aids to devotion, penances meritorious alme-giving, The Union decries Protestantism ; laments the Reformation as a departure from the pure faith of the Western Church ; recognises tho Pope as the Church's rightful head ; urges the Church of England to return to the forms of the Church © Catholic\u201d; \u2014and now the Unionist clergy boldly perform services in their churches in the garb of Romish priests, and without let or hindrance on the of the authorities if there arc any such, go through Popish forms and perform Popish ceremonies.\u2014 It cannot bo wondered at that the laity should determine by any weans to bring this state of matters to au end.The question is seriously ruised, and is bo- coming daily of more importance, whether the Church of England is so broad in its constitution as to embrace, without meuns of redress, avowedly Dopish ecclesiastics.We have seen with increas ing surprise the boldness of the organ of the extrome re ri \u2014wlih maintains every a of the Church of Rome, and has lately been defending the recently introduced and most debasing heresy of the Immaculate ers of the English Romish authorities, who feel that they thus ssess a double advantage for the dissemination of their principles among the le.It is impossible otherwise to account for the fact of such writers as those of the Union, who defend even the Papal supremacy, maintaining a nominal separation from the Church which they adore.The momentous question is thus raised, Is the English Establishment really Protestant, or ie its discipline so lax that there is no means of ejecting from its communion men who entertain ull the dogmas of the Church of Rome?May, in fact, the Church of Rome, without let or hindrance, establish a branch of its communion in the endowed Church of England?This question is becoming daily of increasing import ance, and an snswer is impatiently awaited by the people from the ecolesiastical authorities.If the boasted breadth of the Church of England mean simply that there is no bound to its liberality ; that there is mo class of opinions which can bo excluded from its all-embracing communion, then we believe that the laity of England are not thus prepared to sacrifice their Protestantism ; and that, whether by mob-gather- ing or more peaceable means, they will not rest till they bave forced on a change of the ceclesias tical constitution.It is a mistake to suppose that this is a ques tion which concerns only the Established Church of England.The Protestant people of this country cannot afford, to whatever church they belong, to look on with indifference while the principles of the constitution are violated.The Church of England is in possession of large endowments which were guaranteed to it at the time of the Reformation as a Protestant establishment, for Protestant purposes.If we are not willing to grant endowments to the Church of Rome in any form, it is least of all to be tolerated that we should allow her to share the revenues of 2 Protestant establishment.The agents of the Papacy obtain access in the Church of England to many persons of iufluence in the State from whom they would be shut out if they avowedly paid allegiance to Cardinal Wiseman.They have also opportunities given them, from their false disguise, of gradually insinuatiog dogmas which, if openly asserted, would startle their victims at the outset.It would be better, so far as expediency is concerned, to endow the whole Popish priests of England then to allow such a monstrous abuse as this.We cannot wonder that the love of fair play aod honesty in the English mind rebels against such Jesuitical proceedings as these ; or that the parishioners of St.George's-in-the-East, when they see s clergyman mount the pulpit in Popish vestments, are so indignant that they break out into open tumult.1f no other means of redress can be found the people are justified in taking the remedy into their own hands.It is evident that a crisis is approaching.The Church of England, through its wretched laxity of disciplive, as well as through the remnants of Popery in its services, has left the gates open for the entrance of many abuses.The Romish party see their advantage, and crowd in to find shelter under the branches of the wealthy Establishment.À new phase of so-called Tractarianism is manifesting itself, The \u201c Tractarians\u201d do not now hurry as formerly out of the Church on reaching the stand-point of Romanism.They remain where they are, and sow broadcast the leaven of Popery.The country will not, we believe, tolerate this.It will insist on important changes of some kind to bring to an end such foul abuse.The parishioners of St.George's-in- the-East represent in this matter the voice of the public, and, sooner or later, that voice will be eard.The Church of England herself may be shaken to her foundations if no means can bo found of further reforming her institutions and circumscribing her all-embracing tolerance.BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.Revivar 1x NEWTOXLIMAVADY.\u2014 À young woman was stricken down in the Roman Catholic Chapel on Sunday moming, the 14th instant, and the doors were immedi.lely closed to prevent her screaming being heard Ly those outside.Another young woman, 8 Romanist, was stricken down here on Batu.day last, in her own house.Her father was nent for and, on his arrival, he began to pray for the \u201cDllassed Virgin to come to banisb the evil apirit\u201d out of hin daugliter ; but she still cried, \u201cNone hut Jesus\u2014 none but Jesus,\u201d much to the annoyance of those present, who wished her to pray to some favourite saint, instead of Jesus, who alone can du poor belp- less sinners good.Mectinga aro held fore every evening, and pre well attended by all parties, lto- manists included ; but à great many of the Intter are prevented from attending, as meetings srs held in the chapel every evening to prevent any of the poor creatures attending where Scriptural knowledge can be oblained.But, thank (lod, Homo in daily losing her power over the deluded people in this place.Taue Diavity,-