The Montreal witness, 18 janvier 1860, mercredi 18 janvier 1860

[" COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VOL.XV.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1860.No.5.\u2018LETTER FROM REV.MR.DAVIS.POPERY, METHODISM, AND THE COLLEGE QUESTION; Or, the Monopoly Sytem of Collegiate Educati > as embdiieh and exhibited' ma te Toronto University, contrasted with the National Scheme as proposed by the Wesleyan Metho- ists.Dear Ste, \u2014It is supposed to be customary with some medical practitioners, particularly young ones, when called to attend & patient, to convey as strong an impression as possible of the exceeding great danger of the case, that their ability and skill may ap- ar to the greatest advantage in effecting a cure.Now, whether in representing mo as the champion of the Methodist view of the College question, you are adopting a similar policy to that of the gentlemen above mentioned, \u2014 placing me thus on high before the public, that you may have the greater honor in case you knock me down,\u2014it is not for me to say.We d, however, most sincerely disclaim all pretensions to the distingui position which, in your exceeding goodness, you would assign us.With like sincerity we congratalate, you Sir, that instead of deeming it proper to exclude our arguments from your columns, and thus using all the power ou possess to suppress them, after the fashion of His Éroliness, simply because you don\u2019t think them correct, you have at length adopted the more manty aud Protestant mode of attempting, at least, to meet them.We perceive, however, that you are somewhat acquainted with the art of Legerdemain; for, in your issue of Dec.25th, under the influence of your magical Presto! our arguments re-appear, thoroughl metamorphosed.We are not concerned about this on our personal account ; but, as the subject involved is of the utmost importance to the country, we deem it our duty to offer a few corrections, and, if possi: ble, disabuse the public mind, \u2018 Mr.Davis's chief argument,\u2019 you say, is, \u2018 that all the denominations who love their own youth would wish to have them educated in a Denominational College; and, as the denominations comprise the great majority of the population, therefore a Non-Denominational College is only for a small minority ; and why, he triumphantly asks, should the whole public endowment be gives to this small minority 1\u201d This, we confess, is a tolerably conclusive argument, and one that it would be rather difficult to overthrow, But it is not ours, We use altogether different terms; and terms, as you are aware, Mr.Editor, are very importaul things in logic or correct reasoning, Our argument is as follows: \u2014 The religious denominations of the country do not desire to, and will not, peril the eternal interests of their sons _by sending them to a University or College, the Professors of which may be Infidels, Unitarians, or Romanists, &c.; and, as these denominations comprise the great majority of the populs- tion, therefore, such a University or College, às is the one in Toronto, ia only for the small minority; and to sallow the whole public endowment to given to this, for the benefit of this small minority, is 20 evidently and utterly unjust and illibersl as no longer to be tolerated.\"And I appeal to the honest sense of the people of Canada, aud ask whether this reasoning is not correct ?You reply:\u2014\u201c Two points are here assamed.First, that parents would prefer to bave their sons educated in a College connected with their own denomination, even though of a lower standing than à meral College; and second, that that arrangement 18 best for the country which best agrees with the feelings and prejudices of most of the people.\u201d Now, I asl all Christian and candid readers of the Witness whether my argument contains any such assumptions?What, then, becomes of all you advance in refuting them?It is totally irrelevant.My argument, therefore, still remains untouched and unanswered ; and I hesitate not to say, for this simple reason, that it is unanswerable.\u201d The points it really assumes are these : Lirst, that religious parents desire not only a Collegiate, but a Christian education for their sons; and, secondly, that it is not for the best interests of the country to withhold from Colleges simply because they arc Christian or religious, the aid necessary to their support.hese points, we apprehend, will not be disputed.Wo affirm and maintain, therefore, it is as opposed to all reason as it is to justice, that the Government Collegiate Fund, the revenue of which is upwards of £15,000 per annum should he allowed to be monopolized and swallowed up by the one Univer ou.of the character we have described, whilo the older Colleges of the land, which the people love aud patronize, which have done a great and noble service to the country for years past, when the one in Toronto had no existence, are allowed to pine and droop,\u2014not for lack of students, but of funds, \u2014not because the standard of education is lower in them than in the other, but because, simply, they are under & denominational contro), which Hords to the public a guarantee of their Christian character.But to aflirm, you say, that a Non-Denominational College is necessarily not a Christian College, is maonstrous.Who bas affirmed such a thing ?We have not.But you argue, it may be said, upon the he umgtion that \"the University in Toronto may not be a Christian College.Certainly; and we argue correctly, There may be, it is true, Christian influences to a degree in operation there, and it is equally true that there may be Unitarian and Infidel influences in operation likewise.We wish we could affirm there are not.Can you, Sir?Bo far as (ho system is concerned, any number of its Professors may be Infidels, Unitarians, Romanists, or anything else.It may, indeed, become a great central power for the apread of Infidelity or Romanism through the entire country} and yet this is the pet University, \u2014the beautiful model of a Collegiate Institute for Canada, that like the voracious wolf to which you refer in Little Riding Hood, to swallow up all, and before which all the other Colleges of the land are to succumb and disappear.To touch it is indicative of bad taste, an impropriety, a sin.And no sooner do the Methodists move to memorialize the Legislature to inquire respecting some of its acts, than the cry of Popery ! is raised from onc end of the country to the other; and some good people seem almost frightened out of their wits, as though the Pope and all his Cardinals were coming over in the \u2018Great Eastern\u201d to take possession of Cauada at once.The fact is, this ery of Popery! is a mere illusion, like the cry of certain birds, to arrest and divert attention from the place and point of import ance.This we will now evince by showing, as we notice your reply to our second argument, that the present, or monopoly system, is at least as favorable to Popery as that we propose.Whether through misapprehension, or what, we cannot say, but you have misstated our second as well as our first argument.(To be continued.) THE RUNAWAY SLAVES.(From the Globe.) The New York Herald is at this present time in a state of painfu! excitement upon the question of slavery, and negroes in general.The unbendin firmness of the Republican party in Congress an the iudications of weakness in the Southern ranks are exciting it to fresh exertion.When the Southern fire eaters are backing down, extra exertions are necessary on the part of their Northern srmpa- thisers.Hence it is that the Herald is conjuring up an immense number of \u2018 bloody and brutal\u201d facts in connection with Northern abolitionism, all designed to create a re-action of public feeling against Republicanism, and to help the professional Union- savers.Among other efforts having this end in view the /lerald sent a special correspondent to Canada for the purpose of raking up everything that could be said in reference to the fi citives from slavery in this section of the Queen's dominions.The result is something more thana page of Herald small print, containing an immense mass of statements, some true, and others false: but all given with & strong bias in favour of the peculiar institution and its abettors.Three special objects are aimed at; first, to disgust American philanthropists with their efforts to keep the Underground Railway trains in motion ; second, to spread an impression among the slaves that they will be worst off amidst Canadian freedom than in Southern Slavery ; and, third to excite bitter feelings in the States against Britons on account of the sympathy which the runaways receive in Canada.The assertion that the agents of the Underground Railway are paid for their services, that they devote parts of the funds entrusted to them by philanthropists for their own use and not to the fugitives, may be true to & certain extent, When the trains are kept running so regularly, it is impossible to depend upon volunteer stokers and conductors, and money seekers may bave got in among the workers.Such men have obtruded themselves into the church and every laudable enterprise, but we do not find that the fact checks the labours of the pious and charitable.The assertions of the Herald are cu.tirely unsupported by facts, but they may lead to enquiry into the manner in which the affairs of the Underground Railway are conducted, and may do good in a way the Herald never intended.That part of the report which refers to the fugitives in Canad embraces a series of highly coloured siatements, evidently magnified from be allegations of such friends of the coloured race as Mr.Edwin Larwill and others, in Chatham and Windsor.That the fugitives suffer somewhat when they first arrive in Canada, that many of them bring the vices of slavery with them is beyond question.But the facts as we receive them do not justify the sweeping aver- ments of the Herald.That many of these unfortunate fugitives establish themselves in farming and trading, and support themselves and their families in comfort is unquestionable ; that all can do so if| they possess the desire and the capacity to work is undoubted, The condition of the coloured race in Canada as a whole, we say it without fear of contradiction, is favourable to their capability to support themselves by their own unaided efforts, free from tho tyranny of the white man.To say that many of them are convicted of petty larceny, and even of gravor offences, is only what may be said of other uneducated classes.ff there are more black cou.victs than white in proportion to numbers, it is due to the vices of slavery, to the numbers coming in, who find it difficult to procure employment at once, and not to any inherent defect in the race.That the coloured man improves in Canada, and becomes an intelligent citizen, we have abundant evidence.\u2014 That the people of Canada have to undergo some penalties before the work of amelioration can be accomplished, is also true; but we can assure (ho Herald that they are willing, as a rule, to undertake the burden, and will never shrink from the duty of succouring refugees from the Moloch of Southern slavery.The time will come, no doubt, when that duty will bo lightened by the abolition of the fugitive slayo law of the United States.Then the runaway will be safe from his pursuer in hia native country, and will prefer a milder climate to that of Canada.Even with the present law in force, many escaped slaves return 10 the States after the hue and ery bas subsided, and the numbers arriving here do not ac- ually represent those who become permanent resi.ents.The Herald's commissioner, while representing the coloured man to be in a miserable condition in Canada, does not conceal the fact that he possesses considerable political power through the franchise.The two statements are inconsistent, and we can hardly help thinking that poor Cuffee in the South, if he should be permitted to read the Herald's correspondence, will sigh for a land where he can enjoy not only freedom, Bot power : where the leaders in the community will not dare to cast contumely upon him, for fear of suffering from his vote.The correspondent bas a good deal to say against the attempts which have been made by benevolent persons to assist the refuges in Canada, but everything ia tinctured with the same spirit of prejudice, and many statements are made which are positively aise.CANADIAN NEWS.Tos OcTrace ar Sr.Mart'a\u2014It appears that the fellow named Weir\u2014who is a railway contractor, and living for some time at St.Mary's, induced a young lady to accompany Lim during a sleigh drive.They went ag far as Fish Creek, and owing to au accidental upset of his cutter, Miss Christie was thrown out violently, the fall causing a dislocation of the shoulder.In this condition they returned to St.Mary's, and alighted at a tavern kept by one Marshall.Miss Christie appears to have suffered considerable pain in consequence of the state of the shoulder, and was prevailed upon by Weir to take some hot brandy and water, under the pretence that it would assuage the pain, while the assistance of a medical man was sought.A stupor quickly overcame the young lady, who, upon recovering her consciousness next morning, found that she had been foully dealt with.Her state of mind upon discovering ber condition may be well imagined, and especially as Weir bad oftentimes asked her hand.Informations were laid against Weir and also against Marshall, the tavein keeper, who, it appears, was cognisant of the fact that Weir was occupying the chamber in which Miss Christie was, and prevented the access of the females of the house to her.Weir fled to Toronto, where he was arrested by the police but managed to escape from their bands.For a bloated ruffian like Weir to assault a girl under such circumstances, while labouring under stupor and the effects of a severe dislocation, indicates an amount of brutality which bas been seldom equalled.\u2014 St.Mury's Paper.Tug Lists or Vorers.\u2014The complete lists of voters at the coming municipal election, are at length made up.The results are suggestive, and afford food for reflection fur all those who take interest in the contest about to commence.Out of 9,765 voters, 5,843 are disqualified from not having paid their water rents; and only 3,922 are qualified to vote.The Rodier interest particularly suffers from this state of the facts.Whole streets of bis supporters are disqualified.An energetic effort on 1be part of his opponeats will, beyond question, secure bis defeat.\u2014 Montreal Gazette.ST.GrorcE's Society, MoxTREAL\u2014 The annual general meeting of this Society was held at Dolly's\u201d on the 10th instant, when the following gentlemen were elected to the respective offices \u2014President\u2014R.H.Hamilton, Esq,, re-elected ; first Vice-President\u2014John Lewis, Esq.: second do \u2014Richard Birks, Esq.; Trea- surer\u2014W.8.Walker, Feq.; Secretary\u2014 William Turner, re-elected: Assistant Secretary\u2014W.H.Smith, re-elected ; Chaplains\u2014Rev.Canon Leach, D.C.L., L.L.D.; Rev, William Bond, A.M.; Ven.Archdeacon Gilson.From the Treasurer's report (an elaborate and suggestive document) we make the following extract: \u2014 During the past year pecuniary relief has been bestowed fi 423 cases, independent of a considerable amount of relief in kind, viz.: in bread, firewood, and funeral requisites, at a charge in the whole of $519, 68.Uf this number 3 were admitted as patients to the Montreal General Hospital at the Society's charge ; and 20 immigrants forwarded to thcir destinations in Upper Canada.Besides, 2 persons were forwarded to Boston, 2 to New York, 2 to Portland, and 1 to Cincinnati; and suitable situations provided, by the Society's instrumentality, for three young men, who are discharging their duties with credit to themselves and satisfaction to their employers.San Accinext.\u2014Yesterday a large black dog, belonging, it ia said, to Mr.Thomas Scatcherd, went mad, and left {ts home.During the afternoon it returned, and attacked a little boy named Taylor, whom it bit very severely on the leg, making several gashes with its tecth.The blood flowed pro usely and while the dog was atiracted to it, the poor tte fellow crawled up to the open gate of an adjacent house.The inmates, hearing its cries, took him jnst as the foroclous animal was returning to a second attack.Dr.Lancaster, who was at hand, promptly dressed the wounds, and it ls hoped that sufficient means have been taken to avert ultimate danger.The dog then flew at a cow which was standing in the rond and, about an hour afterwards, bit a son of Mr.McIntosh, of Dundag-street, who was returning from school, in the arm very seriously.The Police, having been made aware of the facts, ahot the dog.At this season of the r canine animals are peculiarly ant te be attacked y hydrophobia, and owners cannot loo careful of their custody.The large black dog referred to was a great favourite, and not been known previously to molest any one.Indeed, it was of a very good-na- tured disposition.Sometimes, however, dogs of that class are more easily affected than animals habitually savage.\u2014 London Free Press.MrLANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.\u2014A fatal accident befol à son of Mr.John Gatbraith, 9th Concession, Williams, on Tus last.Two ofthe young men were engaged In felling a large tree, and, while endeavoring to got out of the way of the falling timber, the eldest son, Duncan, was struck on the upper part of the bead, and instantly kilied.\u2014 Free Prose.Scobes Dzarus \u2014While the people generally bave heen enjoying the pleasures of the holidays, two young ladies of Galt, just budding into womanhood, bave been called to another world, The eircamstances of both cases, combined with the festive season of tbe year, have caused a profound sensation througb- ont the community.The first occurred early on the morning of Tuesday, the 3rd inst, Nancy, eldest daughter of Theophilus peon, Esq.of Galt, had to visit some friends near Hespeler.During the Era was apparently in good spirits.But about 12 o'clock, she suddenly complained of illness, and in Viste more than two hours the young and joyous girl was a cold and pallid corpse.The other case oceurred on the following Thursday evening.At 10 o'clock, Bridget and Mary, daughters of Mr.Patrick Quirk, retired to bed.Both bad felt perfectly well during the day and evening.\u2014 About balf-past 11, Mary was awakened by repeated moans from ber sister.Sbe tried but could not awaken her, and on putting her hand upon ber face, found that it was quite cold.The alarm was instantly given, bat in a few minutes the spirit of Bridget had winged its flight never to return.The eomplaint in both cases, is believed to bavs been disease of the heart \u2014 Gai 'aper.Homicing\u2014A couple of people named Scott, who lived somewhere on the Perth road, and made a living by selling baskets, and who were constantly in the babit of quarrelling with each other, got into an altercation à few days ago, in the course of which the wife stabbed ber busband in the thigh with a knife.The wound being neglected izflammation and mortification ensued, and the man died in the latter part of last week \u2014 Kingston Daily News.Extessive SwispLiyc.\u2014 We regret to learn that David B.Selee, who bas for the past year or two being doing business at North Augusta, bas recently absconded to the United States, leaving a number of creditors to mourn, not his untimely loss, but his untimely flight.Some months since be sold out his establishment at North Augusta, and then applied himself to collect his debts, taking care, at the same time, to pay as little as possible to his creditors, so that he must hare taken quite a large amount of money with him.Several houses in Montreal will be heavy losers by the flight of this accomplished swindler, for such be has certainly proved to be, and several, also, in Brock- ville will lose by him to a greater or less extent \u2014 Brockville Monitor.A Deuivgrest Rannwar Ormcrar.\u2014A young man named James F.Boddy, recently in the employ of the Great Western Railway, but whose services were transferred 10 the Detroit and Milwaukie, has got into trouble owing to a defalcation amounting to $2,000.It pears that the freight monies passed through his bands, and, as is usual, where chesp men are employed in res- nsible positions, the temptation proved too much for im.Fast living is the reputed cause of bis difficulties.He spent money freely, and lived above hia means, a liberal patronage of the liquor trade, and an indulgence in wine suppers, absorbing more cash than be was able to get honestly.The man's salary was $40 per month.\u2014 Free Press.INsPRCTUL UF THE GRaxD Tacsk Rauwar Bripers.\u2014This office, which involves the superintendence of ab ut eight miles of Iron Bridges, tubular and girder, besides others of wood and stone, and whichis of so much importance to the working of the road, bas been, we are informed, conferred upon Mr.Lancelot Kirky; who inspected the building of the Victoria Bridge, an who is qualified, by his practical talent, to discharge theduties pertaining to it.\u2014 Montreal Paper.Tax Purscorr ann Banuix Raitway has been sold to Richard laselden, Esq., one of the principal bondholders, for $11,000 The purchase includes the whole property, right-of-way, iron stations, broken bridge, and all.Thus ends Hamilton's investment of two bun- dred thousand dollars therein.The Hamilton Jdeerti- ser is assured, however, that it is Mr.Haselden's intention to put the road in running order, and it will be re-opened for public travel within a year\u2014U.C.Paper.Caxaplax Botaxy.\u2014We feel much pleasure in informing our readers, on the autbority of the London Guardian, that Sir.Wm.Hooker, the distinguisbed botanist, has been in communication with the Duke of Newcastle for some time with respect to the publication of & magnificent work, at the Government ex- nse, vis:\u2014A complete Flora of the British Colonies.r.Griesback, of the University of Dettingen, was ap- Jointed for the West Indies some time since, and the rst number of bis work has just been issued, and Sir William Hooker has determined to take Canada as his share of the field of coquiy.He and his staff will robably arrive here in t inning of the spring.\u2014 Fhe Botany of the Himalayas, by Sir William, is one of the most valuable additions to botanical literature that bas been made for years.\u2014 Colonist.A Rima Avis.\u2014A rare bird was yesterday shown us by Mr.Rager, who shot it about a mile out of town.Some pronounce it a partridge, which it resembles in size, shape, and appearance about the bead ; but which it is entirely dissimilar to in many respects.It is ofs ure white color, with the exception of the outside athers of the tail, which are coated black; its tail is also somewbat larger than that of the ordinary partridge, and its feet are covered 10 the very toes with a coarse featberly kind of bair, resembling upon » cur sory observation, more the foot of & t than anything we can think of.\u2014 Brentford Herald.Bixrus, Manniaces, an Duarne \u2014The Minerve tates that the Catholic Clergy of the city of Montreal bave registered during the past year, 3455 baptisms, 567 marriages, and 3,343 burials.The French clergy of the parishes of Quebec and St.Roch's have, during 1859, registered 178 marriages, 900 burials, and 1650 baptisms.Two-thirds of the burials have been of children.Seacial Onowxarion.\u2014A special ordination was beid in St.Pants Cathedral on Friday, at which the Rev.Robert Gordon, of Loadon, was ordained Priest.We understand that Mr.Gordon bas received as ap- latment ln Jamaica, and will take his departure Fa London shortiy.\u2014Londve Prototype 34 THE MONTREAL WITNESS January 18, 1860 British Press.A REVIVAL OF AN OLD IDEA.(From the Liverpool Courier.) Five powers, namely, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sardinis, have submitted to the Porte a requisition for a concession to M.de Lesseps relative to the Suez Canal.To us, the at tempt to construct this canal by itaelf should not give a moment's uneasiness.On the testimony of our best engineers it is im] icable.On the evidence of Datoh and French merchants, the canai would not pay, even if completed.If open to-morrow, British ships would be in the proportion of ten to one.To oppose the French ex- ment would now place us in opposition to Prossia, the only ally remaining to us on the continent.As to the severance of Egypt from the Porte, it is not the obstruction to the digging of à canal which can preventit.The firman origi- mally granted to M.de grants his company a considerable portion of land on either side of canal.The Morning Post, Lord Palmerston's organ, states that the firman also gives a right to erect fortresses.If so, that those fortresses should be in the ion of France would be injurious, not only to us, but to Turkey, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia.These powers will hardly insist upon a concession which would the new road to the East entirely in the ion of their traditional enemy.Other circumstances, however, point out clearly that France believes the canal possible, and is Fr eventually to compete with us in the ast.Some time since we alluded to the purchase of an island in the Red Sea by France, under of counterbalancing our little rock of Perim.We now learn that the place granted to France is one of the very highest importance.In the province of Tigre, Abyssinia, there is a deep bay running 30 miles into the land.The bay is called Annesley Bay, and is some 15 miles south of Massowah.Thoogh wide at the entrance, it narrows to four miles in the middle, and then ds again.There is deep water close to the shore, and the land around it is said to be ingly fertile, and to abound in ante- and game of all kinds.This is the place ich France has obtained right in the centre of Red Sea, and in the way of all our traffic.heodorus is the Emperor of Abyssinia; jai Nagrosi is the vassal who rules the proof Tigrè, and the person who has made grant.The latter has long exercised an indent sovereignty, and last year sent an to Paris.Louis Napoleon has ac sredited an voy © him, thus pehmorrledgin g is independence, and the price of this recognition is the Bay of Annesley, or \u201c Adoulis.\u201d The Abyssinians are a brave and warlike race; they once overran Egypt, and lately defeated the Turko Egyptian troops which were sent against them.D: by French officers, tbey would make short work of the Egyptian army; and it is just possible that while M.de Lesseps is cut- tiog into Egypt from the West, the Abymsinians wil be organizing for an inroad on the East.Looking at the whole matter dispassionately, one is inclined to give a sinister interpretation to the inscription on the statue of Napoleon at Cher- bourg.\u201cI will renew here the marvels of Egypt,\u201d may refer not so much to architecture as to policy, and may point to the revival of the great \u201c idea\u201d of the first Napoleon.There is a most striking in Lord Valentis's Travels, vol.iii, 253, which bears almost prophetically upon this subject.It may enlighten our sceptios as to the designs of France if we disinter it.The passage runs thus :\u2014 \u201c The crescent of Mahomet nu longer forebodes danger to Christianity, but the oqually terrible eagles of regenerated France threaten universal destruction to ancient establishments; and it is spparent that their formidable master has more particularly formed his plans against the Eastern Empire of England.frs for tbe furtherance of this object that Egypt was conquered, and it is a continuation of the same policy which has brought Beid Mohammed Akil to the Red Ses to cultivate the friendship of \"ie Arab powers.Abyssinia is of infinitely more mportance than SFE FE these, but fortunately France .7ew not that Abyminis was accessible.From \\bysinia the whole English navy could be supp.with provisions.It is in our power to fu.that connexion with Abyssinia which will for ever shut out the tes bat La we your RE oad the portanity, i t our folly, and the ovaries made on the Eastern shore of Africa, instead of becoming national benefit to the English, will ouly tend to increase the alread too preponderating power of her implacable adversary Can any one now deny that the \u2018Idées Napo- liomemnes\u201d are rupidly receiving develo) t?Bain 5 x.Finch sutrpy.Conte ily is à French estrapy.Central Ital may be converted into a kingdom for a Prenoh Prince.The Roman territory is garrisoned Frenchmen.Naples is won over by the forbear ance of France.The Algerian portion of Africs is French.Spain is acting in accord with France.To checkmate Gibraltar, Morocco is sssailed ; and with Tarifa on one side, and Tan- fortress would be isolated.ier on the other, that ÉISES terranean is fast becom French ls are in Abyasinis, to close us from on that & The words the Morning Pos epocially considering the influcnos under which th be assumed to be written, are ant with suc serious meaning, that we cannot forbear quoting the following passage :\u2014 M.de Lesseps may never succeed in making his canal.M.de Lesseps may never succeed in making the commerce of Eorope and Asia pass through bis canal if made.But the moment he shall have vb- tained the firman of the Porte sanctioning the scheme he will have succeeded in severimg Turkey from Egypt.The terms of the concession secure to the company not merely the right of making the canal; they confer on it the absolute possession\u2014in plain Ianguaze, the sovereignty\u2014of several miles on each side of the banks along the whole extent of the dis trict.They confer on it the right of erecting fortresses.M.de Lesseps\u2019 undertaking, whether rapidly execated or protracted in its execution for years, whether 8 source of great commercial gain, or destined to prove a mere commercial bubble, will still be, politically and militarily, a very momentous fact.It will realize those schemes of the house of Orleans which Lord Palmerston nipped iu the bud in 1340.This is the beginning aud the end of the Suez Canal scheme, which the fine sounding phrases about commercial intercourse and oriental civilisation are merely used to cloak over, as Ephraim Jenkinson em: ployed his cant about the \u2018 cosmogony of the creation of the world,\u201d to mislead and betray his dupes.The Porte has refused to grant the firman, and it has done weli and wisely in making the refusal.To have acted otherwize would have been virtually to surrender its sovereign rights.For England to have acted otherwise than to lend an unbesitating support to that refusal would have been to prove false alike to her own interests and to her obligations as an ally.The united Governments of France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Sardinia, bave no more right to force the band of the Sultan on such a question than Russia and Austria had, ten years ago, to demand the surrender of Kossuth, than Russia had, seven years ao, to demand to he recognised as the legal protector of the Greek subjects of the Porte.\u2014 On both these occasions the policy of England was clearly traced out, and the principles which guided ita policy then continue to inspire it now.It forms to part of the policy of England that the independ ence of a friendly state should be wantonly assailed.It forms no part of the interest of England to assist in carrying out a scheme either wholly impracticable, or of which the practicability would be shown in creating, for the especial benefit of France, an Egyptian elles or an Egyptian Gibraltar.\u2014 And such a feel, we may venture to add, is not yet contemplated in the statesmanship of Lord Palmer- son.If the designs of France are in accordance with the \u201cideas\u201d of the first Napoleon, their success will shut us out from the whole trade of the Mediterranean.Mr.Bright may be willing to surrender that from his \u201clove of peace.\u201d But India took ten millions\u2019 worth of cotton during this year.Perhaps Mr.Bright may not view with equal complacency the loss of such a market ; and yet the establishment at Adoulis, is evidently formed with a view eventually to deprive us of it.Tradeis ndent upon power.Merchant ships can mil only where war ships are at hand.If our fleets were dismantled, and our sailors dismissed, we should soon be without merchantmen.By our fleets, and our fleets alone, we secure the \u201c freedom of the seas ;\u201d and they who counsel our disarmament suicidally surrender our trade with the East and the Levant.We hold the Mediterranean by our ships, and if we mean to hold our trade there we must not haltan instant in our preparations, for all things point to an assault upon ngland by shutting out her manufactures from half the world.It is well to guard our own territory from invasion; but in the present warlike proceediugs of France it appears to be Egypt, and not England, thatis immediately threatened.THE CONGRESS, THE POPE, AND THE EMPEROR, We read in the Times Dublin letter : \u201cThe Freeman's Journal publishes a monster report of the Pro-Papal demonstration in Killar- ney on Tuesday last.The h of the Roman Catholic bishop(Lir.Moriarty) was clearly a hit, and its ability is not to be questioned.In the course of its deli the bishop made a passing allusion to the receipt of a letter from Rome, written by a distinguished ecclesisstic, which con- veya in substance the sentiments attributed to the Pope in the au h communication which was erroneously said to have been roccived by a high authority in this country, \u201c Before many days (mid Dr.Moriarty), the civil society, the pote power of Europe will be represented at a Congress in Paris.Certain noble earls and counts, invested by their respoctive sovereigns with plenipotentiary powers, will sit at a round table to scttle the affairs of Italy, and they will deal specially with those of the Roman States.Now, we want to tell these plenipotentiaries that they have not merely to treat with 3- 000,000 of the Pope's subjects, but with 150 000,000.Lord Palmerston, who no doubt, guided the plenipotentiaries of England at the last Paris Congress, is reported to have said that acta of tyranny were done by those who govern in the by uame of His Holiness, and that Rome was never better governed than in the absence of the Pope.These sentiments will most probably find an cx- ent in our Plenipotentiary, whoever he may , at the pext Con, jad tho pire of Ca- vour\u2014(groans)\u2014 per e himself, will there; and there will he behind the aoenes who, if 1 may express my own oonjestures, invites Engiand to the Congress merely to cast upon her the hisown act.(Hear) He asks her to do the duty of the lark in the funeral of Cook Robin\u2014 \u2018Ttis 1, said the lark, I'll be the clerk, I'll say Amen.(Laughter) Many will refuse to share my estimate of His Imperial Majesty ; but here is 8 lot- ter I received a faw days ago from a distinguished eoolésiastio in Rome who has the best means of information :\u2014\u2018 The Emperor will do nothingto odium enr) mhamed to avoy as He will allow no intervention in favour of the Pope; and he allows the intervention of all the Massinians, Red Republioans, and Socialists of Europe, to keep up and consummate this wicked revolt against ead of the Church.\u2019 (Hear, hear).And yet, Sir, that is the man whom some would advise the Catholics of Ireland to look to as a deliverer ?Delivery from what ?\u2014 From freedom to despotism.(Cheers) When I think of the lessons of liberty we received in our youth from the great O'Connell\u2014(loud choers)\u2014I cannot understand this infatuation.Lord Palmerston will influence the Congress, a Parliamentary majority will influence Lord Palmerston, the Members for the county of Kerry and its borough influence the majority, and you can influence them.(Loud cries of * We will.\"\") I would never wish to see the representation of Kerry or Tralee change hands in my lifetime.(Hear) For our three Members entertain eclings stronger than respeot\u2014feclings of warm admiration\u2014and, if they would permit me to say 90, of sincere friendship.But this is a cardinal question, and if Lord Palmerston's Government will consent to take away one rood of the Papal territory they must give up Palmerston, or we must give up them.(Cheers.) I would be glad to see Italy for the Italians, but as long as preach the Gospel I cannot sanction rebellion unless where tyranny isexoessive.(Hear.) Put down revolution.Pius the ninth will lead the way, as he did before, in the path of liberal and enlightened reform, and yon will have the Italian \" people free, happy, and contented.(Applause.)\u201d COUNT CAVOUR IN CONGRESS.(From the Daily News.) More indeed is meant by the nomination of Count Cavour to Congress than an expression of dissent on the part of the Sardinan Government to the restoration of the Dukes.Cavour not only repudiates this scheme, but insists that any other arrangement than the creation of a t kingdom, under the House of Savoy, in North and Central Italy, must fail.Of this opinion he is the most zealous supporter, and most able expounder.A Congress that should exclude him, would be a tribunal to decide upon the affairs of Italy refusing at the outset to hear the principal evidence.it be true, as alleged, that the Court of Rome has determined upon sending Cardinal Antonelli himself to Congress, the two Italian rivals, the champions of retrogression and of progress, will meet in the arena, and we trust the public will be allowed to know something about the arguments employed.If the Cardinal precipitated the treaty of Villafranca by statements that will not bear the test of truth, the French Emperor will be the better enabled to discern all that he sacrifices by embracing the cause of the Popedom against Italy.The disputation between Count Cavour and Cardinal Antonelli may soon be decided by se rious politicians.The one holds the peace of Traly in his hands\u2014the other holds anarchy, weakness, and war.At the present moment the Court of Turin alone can exercise a salutary influence.It has on two or three recent oocasione gone as far as it could to show itself grateful and obsequious to France, In ing Garibaldi to withdraw, in the substitution of Buoncompagni for the Prince de Carignan, it proved at once its influence, its adroitness, and its desire to reconcile the new engagements of France with the necessities of Italy.But Victor Emanuel must feel, what all who observe his position must see \u2014that he walks the lengthened summit of » lofty ridge with a recipios on cither side.To retrograde or stand still are alike impoesible ; onward movement, without a false atep, can be his only safoty.To have sent any one else than Count Cavour to Congress, would have been a icvous error.For how more flagrantly desert taly than by leaving it virtually unrepresented in the Congress ?The same reasons which rendored Count Cavour's presence in Congress inevitable, must ge to his recommendations irresistible force.very power, save one, which is Austria, must bo most dosirous to settlo the affairs of Italy, with out the employment of coercion and compulsion.France has solemuly promised this; and were he to break his Fromise Napoleon would let loose upon himself all thomad extra ce of ltalian vengeance.England, Prussia, Kumis itself, whatever the bribe kept in reserve for it, must fecl equally interested in taking the swords of other military empires out of the balance.The declaration of all the non-bolligerent powers, that the restoration of the Dukes could only be effected by a ronowal of war, must suffice to liberate France from the engagement which it procipitately took to labor in their behalf.The ear that prevailed some time since, that Sardi nis might be induced or obliged to abandon or compromise the question of Italian independ.assist in quelling the revolution he has excited.|*P 1 $600,000 bave reached the Roman Exchequer, con- ence is now completely removed.The nomination of Count Cavour is a powerful demonstration and a sufficient guarantee that Piedmont maintains or resumes the attitude which that statesman at first gavo it.Indeed, Napoleon's censent to is re-appesring in the councils of Europe may be taken as a sign that even he is lose Bowed down to the exigoncion of the Court of Rome than he was.The ecclesiastics have dared to threaten him; and the Emperor, whatever his faults, is certainly endowed with the irit that resents such dictation.Whilst Frag.ois Joseph seems determined to conciliate the Popo at all risks, and even incurs the danger of an insurrection in Hu to please the of Rome, Napoleon the Third, on the contrary, appears to think that Pontifical support aay fe purchased at too high a price.BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.DrrionasLe CoxpiTiON Or TRE Parar Stares\u2014 The correspondent of the Duily Telegraph, writing from Rome, says: \u2014Arrests are continually made without regard to age, sex, or condition.The volnn- teers who served in the late campaign, and were weak enough to return, under a kind of amnesty promised to them by the Government, bave been nearly all arrested, without the least pretext for such an unjustifiable proceeding, except the burning vindictiveness of the priests.Many, just arrived, have been obliged to take to flight to avoid falling into the hands of these demons.At Ancons, several women, mothers of large families, who have incurred the displeasure of the Sanfedisti, bave been dragged to the dungeons of the Roman prisons, leaving their r children totally unprovided with the means of exisience.\u2014 Persons are arrested for having in their possession portraits of Victor Emmanuel, Garibaldi, Cavour; and even some for baving those of the French Emperor and bis Generals! \u201c Pocker-Hesr\u201d* ror Tus Porr.\u2014It is stated that tributed by bishops and others who feel that empty talk is no use without sending cash.This is the right sort of thing.Let the sympathising breeches pocket bleed freely for the Court at Rome, but let not the Romagnols be bled or hanged or incarcerated for that establishment.This is all the more necessary a3 every laraclite banker in Europe is agreed on re fusing a loan on any terms since the capture of the boy Mortars.Maria Christina gives & million of dollars, and whether the siller came from Cuba or other queer sources will not be inquired after.\u2014 Globe's Paris Correspondent.AUBTRIA AND THE HUNGARIAN PROTESTANTS.\u2014 The danger of a conflict between tbe Imperial authorities and the Hungarian Protestants daily increases, as the latter, altogether ignoring the edict published by the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs on the Sth of Nevember, continue to hold superintendental assemblies, and to petition the Emperor to suspend bis Patent Law of the 1st of September.Travellers from Pesth state that the ¢ Reformed (Calvinist) Superintendency on this side of the Danube\u2019\u201d met on Monday leat, and unanimously resolved ¢¢ to present to his Majesty a petition exactly like that drawn up au Kæsmark some aix or seven weeks ago.\u201d The excitement of the Hungarian Protestants must be very great, as Seniorat\u201d assemblies are being beld in all parts of the kingdom.At Balasss Gyarmath, in the Neograde county, there was a day or two ago a great Lutheran Assembly, at which it was unanimously resolved \u2018to decline to accept\u2019 (ablehnen) the Imperial patent of the 1st of September, and also the Ministerial ordinances which accompanied it.\u2014 Several persons, as well ecclesiastics as laymen, addressed the assembly, and they one and all based their objections to the Imperial octrof on Pa: hb IV.of the 26th article of the law of the year 171.As usual, the assembly determined humbly to petition his Majeaty the Emperor to suspend his patent, and to deign to order the convocation of a Bynod.On Monday the German Lutherans residing at Pesth assembled, read the Patent Law from beginning to end (which consists of 58 lon ragraphs), and then unanimously resolved to Écline i, \u201candto hold firmly to the law of 1791, which secures self: overnment to the Protestant Church.\u201d It in stated in the Vienna correspondence of yesterday's Daily Telegraph that at Pesth the deacons of the Protestant Church of Hungary have been prevented from holding an assembly for the discussion of clerical af- fuirs.\u2014 T¥mes Cor.Tex Eesxixe MoxuxEnT ar Srinuixa.\u2014Pev.Ebe- nezer Erskine is well known as the founder of the Secession Church.The Associate Presb: vas formed in 1733, a church was shortly afterwards built in St, John street, Stirling, for Mr.Erskine, where be continued to preach the Gospel with fervor Sloguence until his death, which took place on June 2, 1754.His remains were interred within the pre- clucta of the church in front of the pulpit.i building bas since been removed, and a new and more comodious church built à few yards further south.On the site of the original building the foundation stone of a monument to the memory of the founder of the Secession was laid in the spring of the rent pra and the erection is now completed.\u2014 Falkirk PainceLy R&wanns ro Eurorzans.-\u2014Some of the Europeans of Lucknow, who lost perhaps more than ay class, and did soldiers\u2019 work besides, bave been * ondidly rewarded.Mr.Schelling, for example, e two Captains Orr, the two Hearsoys, and Cap tain Bunbury has received jaguires worth £1000 8: oar, Almost the whole of the eschented estates in ude have now been given away, some of them in enormous slices.One man has got more than Wellington received for Waterloo.donot myself think this lavishness bad policy.An ide that the British were incurably moan wax very widely spread, and it required large gifls to remove au impression fatal to hearty service.We must not forget that the Asiatic notion of life is still very much of the * Arabian Nights\u2019 \" type.They expect to see a man raised from poverty into wealth aud power by the mere will of the prince.\u2014 The \u201c Royal Osk\u2018* and ¢ Belvedere,\u201d both 91 n scrow.ateamors, will be commenced immediately t slips are vacant.\u2014 The marine barracks at Chatbam are to bo greatly enlarged, at the cost of £100,000. Janvany 18, 1860.THE MONTREAL WITNESS 35 American Press.THE COMING CONGRESS, {From London Cor.N.Y.Tribune.) The first unex development of events was, that though expelled Archdukes and the Princess of Parma have got an intimation of the approaching Congress, they have not been invited to it, and are to re ted by Austria, while Victor Emmanuel, as king elect of Central Ita]y, has promised to advocate the claims of the Duchies and Legations.Still more ificant was the fact, that while France, Russis, Prussia, Austria, the Pope, and Spain will be represented at the Co by their Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Sardinia sends instead of the Chevalier Da Bormids, the ex-Minister Count Cavour, the very msn to whom Austria attributes the last war and all the discontent of her Italians subjects.The fact that Napoleon did not endeavor to prevent this nomination at Turin, speaks volumes in the eyes of the Austrian party.Still more important is the pamphlet just published by Mr.de la Guerroniere, the samo Councillor of State who expounded the Napoleonic ideas about Italy previous to the late war, and who had ever since n intrusted with the task of directing public opinion in the way most agreeable to his imperial master, this important dooument even before it was officially published at Paris, and we ean therefore safely state that it might have been written by any advanced English Libera).It comes to the conclusion that the Pope, in order to maintain world, his sovereignty must be as 28 possible, restricted, in faot, to the soven hills of Kee, On tho other hand, all Roman Catholic powers are to pay him a liberal tribute for maintaining the state which befits the spiritual ruler of a com- muaity of 160,000,000 of Roman Catholics.The Romans are to pay no taxes, and to be exempt forever from the calamities of war, in exchange for their exclusion from political life, the cultivation of ruins (lu culture des ruines), and prayers are to bo their lot, while those who may og inclined to lend a dreamy existence, may easily find a field for that ambition in the surrounding Italian States.If Napoleon has such schemes for the future of Papacy and of Rome, his views will be most heartily supported in the Congress by England and Russia, by Sweden, Prussia and Sardinia.The agitation for German unity has come to an end for want of sympathy in North, and by the open hostility of the South, which has an aversion to Prussia.The concordat of Baden still excites the irritability of the Grand Duchy, but it is not probable that the opposition will have any result.Much more serious is the agitation in the Austrian domivions.In Hungary, the Protestants defy the orders of the Minister, Count Thun, and continuo to hold their moet- ings to protest against the Imperial decree for the organization of the Protestant Churches ; the ministers, on the other hand, instituting criminal prosecutions against those who take part in these meetings.The Roman Catholic priests and bishops are likewise opposed to the centralizing and generalizing endeavors of the Cabinet ; all the country waits only for a good opportunity for enforcing its claims by a gencral rising, which, however, will not tako place during peace, but only when a war shall once more threaten the em- ire, or a revolution again shake Europe, In olemia, and the so-called hereditary provinces, the aristocracy and landed gentry are opposing the bureaucratic system of centralizing functionaries.~The landed interest feels its importance, and wishes to have eome influence in the government, while the Emperor stubbornly opposes any reform, and belicves ho can silenos the complaints of his subjects by severity, Such a system cannot last long, THE BIBLE PROHIBITED IN ROME.(Latter from an American Traveller.) After service, I called on tho ol , in order to converse little in rd thi outer.prise, and also to procure a Bille, having had the at the oustom house for six months, but could not got thom.They wero not allowed to pass : 8t loast under a varioty of protonces, they were detained, This is evidently a triok of the Papal government to discourage and oppose Protestant.ich relics primarily upon inspired truth, applied By the Holy Spirit to tho consciences of men.This ahows how Jesuitio potio may evado and nullify the force of troation ¢ promise toleration in religious worship and imply froo pe to tho moral, Soripturos: A promise which, ental rosorvation and artiful dodgi oaroful not to fulfill.odging, 1 .Imet with tho came illustration elsewhore, only in « little differont form.A day or two before à \u201cReading Room, English and American,\u201d to purchase a Bible, Theo was a large sortent * Hnglish and American books but no Bibles, A reply my inquiry, was told that thoy dared not keep them; that's singlo copy would be a sufficient provooation to the government to break up their establishment.And yet here, it must | bles it that jewellery be remembered, the Po ! regulations he follows his own choice, undisturbed by foreign influence, and so discovers his own policy and the policy of the Church.liberty in this country is a fact home to the comprehension of The latest manifestation of the spirit which it brin, num| or to make upon the liberty of speech.To the South, whero liberty of the been nothing but a shadow, we might naturally have locked for recommendations squinting te- wards a censorship, a mew series of laws of libel, of alien and sedition laws, &e.; but until lately we have not had the hardihood to believe that in the North the in this adopted pular favor for its support.A recent article in the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian, a paper in the interests of by jobs from Washington and assessments upon The London Ti ta i politicians, has, however, with great explicitness, es BOL trsualation of taken ground in favor of new and eu old more stringent restrictions upon the guarantied right of every man to examine and discuss in public or in private, the slavery question.To state the case more accurately, the Pennsylvanian is will- his independence, must remain a temporal Sove.| iDE that the arguments in favor of the divinity ign, but in order not to lose th {and democracy world, his soveraignts must Da respoct of the dwelt upon at any length by the Mitchells and O'Connors of the Irish tribe or by any any others to whom d best form of government; but when Cheever, Wendell Phillips, or any man of milder manners chooses to attack the iniquities which are bound up with this patriarchial system, the thunders of the law shall fe plied.We do not know what more forcibly than the article to which we refer, and which will without rebuke by any Democratic contemporary, illustrates the complete debauchment of the pu lic mind in reference to the great questions which all men supposed that the Revolution of 1776 had settled forever.Liberty of the press superseded in the South by a despotism more odious than that of Dahome tacked in the on the growth of tyranny which none can affor to overlook.So is slavery doing its work.EXPULSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM an act was Btate the alternative of migrating before Jan.1, 1860, or of becoming slaves.probation has now expired, while some few individuals have preferred servitude, the great body of the free colored people of Arkansas are on their way northward.W upward-bound boats are crowded with them, and that Seymour, Indiana, on the line of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, affords a temporary howe for others.arrived in this city last evening by the Ohio an Mississippi Railroad.They were welcomed b; a committee of ten, appointed from the colore people of the city, by whom the refu; escorted to the Dumas House, on MoAlister St, at which place a formal reception was held.They were assured by the Chairman of the Re- |Lar coption Committeo, Peter H, Clark, that if they were industrious and exemplary in their conduot, they would bé sure to gain a good livelihood an many friends.The exiles, as before stated, are mostly women and children, the husbands and fathers bein, concerning freo colored men of Arkansas have left for Kansas, and hundreds more are about to follow.driven from Arkansas by the Anti-Free-Negro women and children.of the women aro slaves, and of course were left behind.They say that many of their people have gone to Kansas.They roport that many vanced in age will to Slavery rather than try the chances of as! country.They are mostly from Little Rook.credit a large number of good New E: 1 A the other day, bad called at a book-stors, to which is attachod Winsted, Conn, J.L.Vanwert, President, E.Van- wort, Cashier,\u201d a swindling concern which has no legal existenco and is intended for speculations in Canada and the West, Mr.Vanwert, according to com; yielding an ore which, if not gol made therefrom ia equally saleable with the genuine scales from California.Mr, FE of ta be ble in circulation in is sovereign.In these ut $100,000 of the Still River Enoads, where he says they are Winsted express and post offices, and proj to es \"tablish the jewellery business in connection with his banking operations, for which be intends to get a new or buy an old charter, if necessary! His principal business he intends shall be at the West asd in Canada, and should be at any time find the business not to pay, all he has to do is \u201cpay up my notes and quit it\u2019 This is Vanwert's rendering of the ebjeet and he really scems to have found dupes.The Hartford Press states that $200 of Vanwert's bills were received at Adams &Co.\u2019s express office in that city, on Wednesday, from St.John, N.B., for collection! The letter stated that there were several thousand dollars of them circulating in the vicinity of St.John.There were tens, fives and ones, printed on coarse Paper with common job printer\u2019s cuts, rough type an r ink, requiring an effort of imagination to conceive that they would cheat an idiot.Mr.Vanwert has been arrested on charge of swindling.\u2014 Boston Journal.Crock Maxie 1x Commecricer.\u2014 Clock-making was commenced about 1815, by Elias Terry, of Plymouth, who made wooden clocks, whittling out the weoels with a knife.The running was regulated by & heavy bag of sand, and was wound up by à ball at the other end of the cord.Terry to meke two clocks, swing them across his horse, and ride on in search of a market.Very soon he introduced the use of \u2018brass movements,\u2019\u2019 using old kettles because brass was scarce.When he undertook to make two bundred clocks, people laughed at bim, they thinking it would be impossible to sell them.1823 Hon.Chauncey Jerome commenced the busi and with progressive improvements the business now stands more perfected than any other in the country.In 1829 a wooden clock cost eleven dollars\u2014now DOING ITS WORK.(From Chicago Press.) That slavery is sapping tbe foundations of infully brought thinking men.into play, is the attack which a great of Democratic journals have tacitly agreed press has for years licy of the servile States icular, could, by any possibility, be gs single journal depending upon poe Democracy, and supported mainly of * the institution\u201d should be a much better one can be bought for $1,50.The business previously transacted C.Jerome &Cois now done by the New Haven Clock Company.In 1857 the company commenced to make castings.Then it was thought wonderfal that it turned out 75,000 clocks.In the year just ended, the company turned out 150,000 complete clocks and 176,000 finished movements, InPORTATIONS BY THE CANADIAN STEAMERS.\u2014 We are gratified to notice that Boston merchants are be- ginnning to import goods by the steamers plying be tween his cit and Liverpool.The Bohemian, which arrived on Thursday evening, brought about two bundred packages of goods on Boston account, We understand that the same system is now adopted here in reference to the entry of goods, which es been iu operation in New York, by which the business is very wuch facilitated, and the delays which bave heretofore occured, prevented.New York merchants can now import by 8a route with the same facilities.Goods can imported by Portland and placed in their stores in New York more speedily than when brought direct to tlat port.The press of business there occasions great delays at the custom house, whereas here no such delays occur.We have no doubt that our Bostonand New York rh will tism may be commended as the called into play and the ap pass ; freedom of speech openly at- orth\u2014thesa things.are a com- find it for their interest to import largely this line of steamers, and we bave no doubt they will do so as the advantages of the route become developed by its practical operation.\u2014 Portland Argus.ExronTATIox or Bees.\u2014 During the past two or three years the North Atlantic Steamship Company have done quite an extensive business in the rta tion of bone bees to California and other places on the Pacific t.At this season of the year the trade is particularly brisk, and during the last week upwards of one thousand hives have been brought to iis city over the Hudson River Railroad.The hives are brought mostly from the Central and Western parts of the State, Utica and Syracuse furnishing the largest number.When shipped, the hives are stacked on the upper deck in order to give the bees lenty of fresh air, but we are informed by Mr.Wick- fam, the agent of the Company, that not more than fifty per cent reach their destinction alive, When entering a warm climate the wax melts and drowns the bees, and many are otherwise killed by an insect called the miller.In all cases the bees are tracs- ported in the hives they have filled, and some of the ealers fit up the hives very tastefully, arranging on ventilation,\u2014 \u2018ge numbers are sold in San Francisco and Oregon, where the bees prove very thrifty, swarming three or four times a year.The hives are sold at auction mostly, and bring from $35 to $100 each.Exrexarve Fravns sv U, 8.Crsrox Hovse Opn ricans.~Namerous well-sustained affidavits have been placed in our hands with regard to the conduct of immediate, coufidential subordinates of certain federal officers, which develop an un leled degree of corruption in the examination of passengers and their effects.The signers of these papers testify to robberies of their property upon their persous, and to the purloining of their goods in the public store, ARKANSAS, (From the Cincinnati Gazette, Jun.4.) At the late session of the Arkansas Legi giving the free negroes of that the time of \u20ac learn that the À party of forty, mostly women and Shildren, were one side a wire gauze to insure g held in servitude.The rt c emigration, that hundre oh of the The Commercial says :\u2014The colored persons misfortune to leave mine on the way.He had .{to the amount of many thousands of dollars.Valu.no Bibles to sell: said it was > aifioult to et heen she Hemet ee able diamonds, emoraiis pearls, and other jewellery, obtain thom here, Ho had had à of them cd in the ice.Thoy are forty in number, mostly witches, laces, shawls, confectionery, &c., have been ruthlessly torn away from their owners; and ever af: ter their restoration has been ordered, valuable asti- cles have been found missing, and the invoices mutilated in order to make the correspond.Some of the details in these affidavits are revolting in the highest degree.For reasons of public \u20ac , we shall publish the entire facts at present, but shall forward them to the President of the United States trange himself, and request an immediate and through in > ion.He owes it to the communitr per to diemise, , Or to insist u i by others, of every official who shall have been con- The husbands of most n ns, and many who are far ad- foo will allow th ves to be reduced AMERICAN NEWS.corned in the tbe peculations, Abstractions wd, Wito Car Bawama iv Cowmwxeriorr.\u2014Thomp- Te gret to compelled to indecencies, whic son's Bank Note Reporter, which attempted to db the afidavits enumerate.New York Herald banks Tox Inxertarss\u2019 Hous.\u2014For some months past advertises for \u201cStill River Bank, the temperance people of this city have had under considoration the establishment of a home for inebriates, an institution to which tbe broken-down drunkard might be taken and reclaimed.An \u201cInebriates\u2019 Friend Society\u201d has been formed, and its the Winsted Herald, states that Lis bank has a ca- committee are now mogoliating for the opening of an pital of $1,000,000, principally held in Canada.The establishment on a small scale, at No, 184 Chatham haa street.It ia very much desired that the advocates control of à venir discovered mine , 80 closely resen: [and friends of temperance everywhere may lend a , sod says that by tbe ea readily taken by the banks.He redeems at the be helping hand te this i With s view to caning out the objects of po atic i >, nd of ing it upon a i ie com maituee solicit dbontions in the form of bedding, and other articles of furniture which .Friends desirous to patronize the fort may do so by placing themselves in communics.tion with the Hon.C.C.Leigh, No.563 Broadway, amis Bnodgrass, No.133 East Broadway, ew-) orK, Licerwixo Accivexts.\u2014Mr.Meriam writes as follows :\u2014Our memoranda of lightning in the year 1659 Sontain a fecord of seventy-six (76) deaths on the land, lorty-one (41) persons inj ightain, of w om thres were nok ered eon Ny death by lightning is reported, in the field of our research, within the year 1459, in a building or vessel furnished with metallic Lightaicg condactors, reared for the pu of protection.Persons within steamboats, within railroad cars, iron vessels and iron buildings, and telegraph operators while operating with the wires, continue to soley absolute protection from lightning, no death by igbtaing aver baring been exported in a steamboat, rail car, iron vessel, or iron building, or to telegraph o since the introduction of these several inventions.ArrLE Growisc 10 Puarose.\u2014 The rt Aérertiaer has by means of circalars and caref inquiry ascertained, as near as e, quantity and valve of appies shipped from Nagar county New York, during the present season.It places the number of barrels shipped at two hundred thousand sent in all directions, to Oswego, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York, Oregon Bay, and numerons west- om ports.The a price per barrel is pot at $1,50, which would e the value of the amonnt sent away $300,000, Adding the quantity dried and marketed, together with the amount sold for domes USIDESS, tic use, the Adrertiser estimates the vaine of the Niagara county apple crop for the past year at balf a million of dollars, P pasty £6 a ne Sar \u2014 feo fey ntrolling of Grand Rapide, Mic! controlli interest in the Peninsula Bank $157,000 at Detroit.It is estimated by bis neighbors that be is worth from $300,000 to $500,000, and it is said that about 14 yearssince his stock in trade amounted to a jackknife, a clay pipe, and a plug of tobacco at the time be ente e Grand River Valley, in Michigan, where he superintended a gang of hands in opening np the plaster beds at dhnd Rapids, leading of with the spade himself.Rereex 10 Pesanie À bill bei pefore the Legislature of Virginia for re] of anti- duelling law, by which all persons engaged in a duel, even to sending or receiving à challenge, both principals and seconds, are ren incapable of hobling or being elected to any post of profit, trust or emola- ment, civil or military, executive or judicial, under the government of Virginia.\u2014 Sharply says Mr.Wood of The Evening Tors PA Brooks, of New Yk, who makes Christ the apologist of Slavery, has an imitator in Massachusetts.t neither of these blasphemers bas carried their argument to its legitimate conclusion, viz :\u2014That the Saviour's silence, if it means anything, means that it is right to enslave white men not negroes.The Ethiopian of the New Testament, whose conduct is commended, is represented as a close student, riding in his chariot and reading the Seriptares.The Ethiopians of our day, down South are, to a most barbarous extent, precluded from reading the Scriptures, or any thing else.\u201d \u2014 The x Y- Herald states that Messrs.ty Stewart & Co.have this week discharged over clerks, ¢ in consequence of the t falling off in their Southern t occasioned by the i ion of merchants below Mason and Dixon's line at recent incendiary proceedings at the North.\u201d We are informed that the persor:s discharged are not from the wholesale department, as the Herald would imply, but from the retail department.The inference wo: rather seem to be that tbe business of this extensive establishment bas fallen off, not at the South, but here.Is it because Mr.Stewart has put himself pro- minenily forward as à supporter of the great Southern Disunion Conspiracy that the Noi friends of the Union are withdrawing their custom from his shop?But, after ali, the dismissal of healthy young fellows from the business of selling tape and bobbin behind a counter cannot be regarded as a calamity.Let them go to work on the land, or in some other manly occupation.\u2014 Tyibune.\u2014 The Jerusalem correspondent of the Boston Tyaveller says that Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second son, who is midshipman in the British Navy, while in the port of Jaffa, received a severe thrashing from # brother middy, whom be had insulted ; and it is related of him, aly to bis credit b his brother officers, that after is feat ho begged the victor\u2019s pardon for having commenced the quarrel.\u2014 The Petersbury Express advocates the of a bill by the Leçaiatue of Kirin to False the testamony of slaves against Abolition taraperers.\u2014 Some of the newspaper letter writers assert that the free blacks and slaves in Staunton contributed money to the Harper's Ferry movement.\u2014 At a public meeting of the merchants of Richmond, on detarday, 17th inst, to further the ested lishment of packets between that port and Liverpool, with a capital of $150,000, the sum of $36,000 was subscribed.Several individuals and firms put down their names for $3,000 each.\u2014 At a mass meeting of the people of Alexandrie, held à few days it was resolved to wee and wear no article of apparel not manufactured in the State of Virginia.E neatly oll the cities and towns, it is stated, Homespun Clube are being formed.\u2014 Ata late Sabbath School Convention in Ando- ver, Mass., Rev.Mr.Murad, a converted Turk from Bethlehem, where the Saviour was appeared in his native costume, snd gare some incidents of his conversion.Ile is t forty years of age.\u2014 There are, où an average, nine thousand pianos mannfhotured every year in the United States, their production giving employment constantly to one thousand uine hundred persons, and cost:ag ovez two millions of dollars.\u2014 The Richmond Enquirer -r that hero i a secret committee organised in on u ence the South in favor of Douglass the Presi: dency. rte ai \u2026 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.January 18, 1860.VUS VIENESS MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN.18.Coxraxts or Irmpe Paoss \u2014Second page :\u2014\u201c À Revival of an 01d 1dea.\u201d \u201cThe Congress, the Pope, and tbe Emperoe.\u201d ¢ Count Cavour in Congress.\u201d Third page :\u2014 The Coming Congress.\u201d Bible Prohibited in Rome.\u201d « Expulsion of Free Negroes from Arkansas.\u201d Sixth and Seventh pages :\u2014 Telling Tales.\" \u201c The \u201cThe Cause and Cure of Way \u2018eo Spoil Girls.\u201d Scepticism.\u201d \u201cThe Stranger Guest\u201d \u201cThe Better Way.\u201d Nice Place for Nervous People.\u201d \u201c Christian Treasury.\u201d Sixcrran Cosprer or 4 Pamst.\u2014A French Cana- diam was tried in this city last week on a charge of bigamy.He rearried bis first wifo in the States.A year or two after he married his second wife in Canada.The priest who officiated on the latter occasion being aware that the accused bad a wife living.The counsel for the defence pleaded \u201c that if there was no intention there was no crime; that if the prisoner was guilty of bigamy according to civil law, he was not so according to tbe creed of the R.C.Church.He regretied that be could not examine the Curé on the reason why Le said that the prisoner could not live with his first wife.The Court had ruled that such gramination could not be allowed: be was, therefore, debarred from this point in his client's favor.\u201d The Crown Prosecator contended that the prisoner should bare been guided by the laws and not by the Parish Priest in this question.A counsel to marry in the prisoner's peculiar case was equivalent inlaw to a counsel 10 steal.The Court thea charged the Jury.The case was of the bigbest importance.Numbers left the country to seek fortune To the neighboring Republic.Was it right that.should they do so, they lose the protection of the laws.The first unfortunate woman bad plighted der faith according to the creed of the church, and was she now to be told that her marriage was to be set aside because the Parish Priest who married the prisoner to bis second wife bad doubts of its legality.By doing so, the Priest bad exposed himself to an action of damages.Asit was, tbe proof against the prisoner wae complete, and it was their duty to find the prisoner SU Jury retirod, and after remaining out a few minutes, handed in & verdict of \u201c Guilty.\u201d Tux Sr.Mauys Ocrnacze.\u2014On our first page will Be found, copied from à St.Mary's paper, an account of the outrage recently committed at that place, the perusal of which soggests the following thoughts :\u2014 1st.That this is one of the most treacherous, meanest, and, at the same time, most diabolical crimes ever committed in Canada.pd.That an investigation should immediately be beld on all concerned in allowing the perpetrator to escape from arrest, first in Toronto and then in Port Hope, and those proved guilty of corraption or conni- wance should be punished with the utmost rigour of law, 3rd.Government should offer a handsome reward »t once for the arrest of Weir, and if be Las fled to the t5tates, should send detectives after bim with a requisition for his rendition under the treaty.Gh.We beg leave to draw spacial attention to the lesson afforded by this case to young ladies to be exceedingly carefal respecting the company they keep, sad especially never to go out singly with a person of the other sex, unless his character be very well estab- Esbed, indeed.REV.MR.DAVIS LETTER.Rev.Mr.Davis claims insertion for the letter which will be found on our first page, on the ground that we have misrepresented him.He also says it will be the last.All we can say in reply is, that we gave bis letters in full, with our remarks there- cm, 80 that our readers could judge for themselves it we tisunderstood or misrepresented him.Would that vach justice bad been rendered .to us in the columns of the Christian Guardian snd elsewhere.We make no remarks on this letter, a3 we think we have alresdy answered his arguments fairly and con- clasively, and we donot see tbat those arguments are strengthened by repetition.The main questions in this controversy, and those west worthy of the attention of the people, are the following :\u2014 1st.Are they willingtohave s fresh denominational struggle lar results.2nd.Bball public property be given for Roman Ontbolie education by endowing two Romsa Catholic existing in Upper Canads, and as many mere as that Church chooses to establish?This, the Wesleyan body actasily demands of the State, in order that their College may get à share.What wue Protestant, \u2014what Christian men will second them?We know politicians whosesk Roman Catholic and Methodist votes will belp them ail they can, as they would vote for any other job; but will upright, patriotic, Christian men, of whom we delight to be- Lieve the great majority of the Methodist membership Colleges airesdy and winistry is composed, countenance such an agits- sion ?AU other questions Isvolved in this controversy are slither, we think, irrelevant or of small cORSqUANCS COD \u201c The \u201c Doing its Work'\u2014 « American Institute Parmers\u2019 Club.\u2019 \u201ca thrust upon thew like that about the Clergy Reserves, which was the curse of Canada for upwards of thirty years, snd which was not settled without the iafliction of substantial injustice sad wounds which ill rankle.We believe, and we suppose few doubt, that this struggle for College endowments, commenced by the Wesleyan body, will, if successful, lead to simi and equaily open to the whole people ?than half of Mr.Davis letter in this number.THE \u201cTRUE WITNESS\u201d ON IDOLATRY.fallible, and whose infallibility comes by ordination.Were one layman, however learned or able to reason Such an anomally would clearly be subversive of the whole Romish system.The editor of the Thue H'i- ness then must necessarily keep a Priest constantly on band, to write his doctrinal articles.number, came out in reply to our observations on Beaurcgard's Spiritual Will, making out that ther¢ was no idolatry about it, to which we rejoined, and in\\last number of the True Witness Le returns to the subject with unabated vigor.He says that the cases of invoking the Pope and invoking a deceased Saint, are not at all parallel, seeibg that the one is clogged with a mortal body, and other is not.Ile objects to the term dead Saint, seein; that departed Saints are living in glory ; and he add: that to attribute to the glorified spirits of Saints the knowledge of the invocations offered to them on earth, is not to attribute omniscience to them, seeing that such knowledge is only a small part of what is passing in a very small part of creation.He concludes with substantially the following syllogism from Scrip- tare :\u2014 The saints reigning with Christ are as the angels in Heaven \u2014 Matt.xxii, 29.There is joy ia the presence of the angels over one sinner that repenteth.Therefore, the saints in Heaven know what is passing oa earth.We think we have done justice to the argument of the clerical editor: and in the first place we fully admit not only ita ingenuity but in some respects its accuracy.We never bad the slightest intention, when using the term \u201c dead saint,\u201d for convenience, of implying that the said saint was not reigning with Christ, but merely that he was removed by death from hearing us a8 much as another was removed by living at a distance on earth.And for this view of the case we have quite as much autbority as the True SWitness has for Lis, inasmuch as neither of us know anything at all about the relations of departed spirita with those still in the body.Again, if the capacity of hearing and attending to invocations offered by thousands of different individuals in all parts of the world at the same time, be not a proof of omniscience and omnipresence, we can scarcely conceive what would be a sufficient proof.The creation of this earth is surely a proof of the omnipotence of God, as much as the creation of all worlds.Finally, upon this head of the argument we would say tbe question is not what may possibly be the knowledge or functions of departed saints, but what does the Scripture teach us concerning praying to or invoking them ?snd our clerical opponent who never fails to base his argument on Scripture, when be can, however shadowy the inference may be, does not even attempt to give the slightest color or ground for this practice from Scripture.We particularly asked him to give attention to this the only important part of the subject stating that ali the Scripture in- prayer liad reference exclusively to Deity.There is no prayer ifered to ssiot or angel in the whole Bible.There is no precept or example authorizing us to in- voks tbe prayers of angels or departad saints.And the fact that we are authorised and even enjoined to seek the prayers of good men on earth affords not the slightest presumption in favor of the doctrine of the Invocation of Saints in Heaven.We think the clerical editor must really try again and give his attention this tims to showing what is the teaching of the Holy Spirit on this subject, instead of what might, could, would, or should be tho powers of glorified spirits.porary is mot equally plansible.He shows that God used as objects of worship.should do with thelr images.pared with the above, and many of them are mere side issues to withdraw attention from the main points.The cry about the monopoly of Toronto University appears 10 us wholly without foundation.low can that be a monopoly which is established by the representation of the whole people, for the whole people, Since writing the above, we find that on account of ita great length we cannot possibly make room for more When the True Wilness began its career it was stated for the assurance of the faithful, that whatever ofa doctrinal nature appeared in the paper would be under the supervision of an ecciesiastic; and this indeed must necessarily be the case in a Church which is in- or teach in doctrinal matters, why might not others ?This spiritual editor as we intimated in a former junctions to prayer, and all Scripture models of Upon the other branch of the question our contem- commanded the making of cherubim and of a brazen serpent, and infers, from these facts, that tbe probibl- tion of images is only in case they are made to be To us this appears a very small and uncertaln foundation for filling churches and houses with images and pictures.For in the first place, there are only two instances of tbe authorised usc of images, whilst there are hundreds of cases where bey are condemned.In the second place, the serpent was à type of Christ, given 28 & special test of faith, and was called à piece of brass, and broken to pieces whew the people venerated it, @ clear indication what Roman Ostholics With regard to tbe cherubim upon the Mercy Best, they could scarcely be an object of veneration or worship, sesing that the visible presence of Jehovah Himself dwelt between them.These two instances, therefore, do not afford any foundation at sil for the prac- ties of bowing down before Images or pictures or venerating them, a practice which, however guarded, Las a constant tendency to degenerate into absolute and gross idolatry.The general rule, as laid down in the Second Commandment, is against using images in any way in worship; and the exceptions are only and can only be authorized by special commandment.If the True Witness will show us a special commandment in Scripture for Romuh images, we will conoede the question.The True Witness gives no reason why the Church of Rome neglects and practically banishes the word of God, which is so frequently commanded to be used, whilst it lavishes such profuse attention on the images which are so frequently forbidden.The third branch of this controversy the True Witness practically gives in; all the answer he can make being an extatic rapture about the sab- lime mystery of the Incarnation.We are not to understand how the Virgin is the Gate of Heaven till we bave grasped that doctrine at the contemplation of which the brain he says grows dizzy.Seeing that this is the result of speculation about the hidden things of God, wo earnestly advise our neighbor to turn bis attention to the doctrine which is plainly revealed for our salvation, namely, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ as the only and all-sufficient Saviour, Mediator, and Advocate, CANADIAN BANKS.The New York Herald bas an article on Canadian Banka, (copied into the Globe without note or comment,) which displays either great ignorance or great malevolence, as will be seen by the following extract \u201c No paper money stood better in this country than the issues of the Canada Banks till the last few failures, just as was the case with the bills of the United States Bank up to the time of its failure.The cent bursting up of the Colonial Bank and tbe In- ernational, which were considered perfectly sound, startled the community, and well it may, for the circulation of the Canadian Banks in the United Slates, particularly in the towns ali along the Lakes, is \\immense, and the greater part of these banks are just as rotien as the two which bave exploded during the\\past year.There is no security whatever for the notebolders, and it is unsafe to have much of such pape} on hand.\u201d To \\intelligent Canadian readers we need not point out thi absurdity of the above paragraph, but to persons at a distance we may say that the two backs which failed were quite mew concerns; that their charters were vehemently opposed by all sensible men as affording no sufficient security to the public; that they were looked upon as exceedingly doubtful, if not bogus concerns everywhere\u2014and that other Banka declined taking their notes from first to last of their short career.To jay that such banks were considered perfectly sound, pnd that the otber banks are just as rotten, is therefyre as truthful as it would be to put the worst Wild, Cat Indisna Banks upon a par with the Bank of Commerce, or to put the character of the New York Herald upon a par with that of the London Times.It is the coolest thing we ever heard of to blame Canadian banks with the conduct of the American brokers who bought and used the above charters.The Herald goes Ym, with equal accuracy, to enlighten its readers as\u2019 to the difference between the Chartered and Free Rabks of Canada.The former, he saye, offer no security ab all, while the security of the Iatter, deposited in the Receiver General's hands, is ample.Now, whilst we are prepared to admit that chartered banks offer no security to the public beyond that of the character and antecedents of the parties engaged in them, (for, as fer as official returns are concerned, a bogus bank can make & more flourishing appearance than a sound one,) yet we contend that that security is, in tbe case of nearly all our chartered banks, ample.Indeed, it is about sll the security that can be had in any case.It is only the character and antecedents of Duncan Sherman, or Rothschilds, or the Bank of England, or the British Government that gives confidence and security to those who deal with them.With the Free Banks the case is otherwise\u2014thoir notes bave a currency, independent of the character of the bankers, on account of the certificate of the Re- celver General upon them, that stocks have been deposited against them; and it is of importance to the public to know what that security amounts to.Buppose one of these banks were to purchase stocks at 10 per cent discount, deposit them, get the same amount of its bills certified, and passed off for what cost nine hundred\u2014buy more stock, get more bills certified and passed off, and soon! This would be à handsome speculation to begin with,\u2014and this, we believe, was actually done.Now, suppose such a bank were from any cause to fall, the Receiver General would have to appoint an assignee to wind it up, who, getting « good salary as long as the process lasted, would probably be In no hurry to close it \u2014and when be did wind it up, between sacrifices to realize stocks (if in a time of depression) and expences, there would not probably remain over 60 or 70 cents on tbe dollar to be divided\u2014and this, perbaps, after a delay of years.Huch banks, managed by well-known responsible men, are worthy of credit; but if maoaged by speculators the public has no security in case of failure for much over 50 cents on ihe dollar, if that.Speaking of the two failed banks above mentioned, W.L.McKenzie, who bas about the sharpest scent for corruption of any man in Canada, asks, significantly why the leading journals ou both sides of politics are perfectly silent about them, and call for no investigation of such gigantic frauds.He farther very per tinently asks that the following points be cleared up by Parliamentary investigation :\u2014 1st.Who recommended, puffed, and got these bank Into credit ?2nd.Whether the responsibls parties who appeared in the foreground as seeking the charlers ever took stock, and if so, bow soon they sold it out to irresponsible speculators 7 3rd, Whose debts were paid in the notes of these banks?4th.Who got the benefit of the balf million of dollars, to which their circulation is understood to bave amounted, no part of which has yet been refunded?We think these are very pertinent questions, and hope that men may be found with sufficient independence to ask them in Parliament, and to see that answers are obtained.It is monstrous that hard-working farmers and tradesmen should be victimized to this extent by worthless bavk bills sanctioned by Parliament, and no investigation be had into the matter, In conclusion we would remind the public that several other equally loose charters were granted about the same time with the above, which may be sold to char.acteriess speculators for the purpose of playing the International Bank over again.INCIDENTS OF THE LAWRENCE CALAMITY.Rescuers in pursuing their melancholy task came upon a little boy confined beneath the ruins who, when they proceeded to extricate im begged them to leave him and get out his sister who was near him.(ne man found two young women in A comparatively comfortable position, aud handed them coffee, with the cheering assurance that in fifteen mioutes they would be rescued.But alas for the delusion of hope, The fire approached, nnd as it gradually neared the two suf ferers, their entreaties to be saved were enough to make the stoutest heart quail.Men redoubled their exertions, bat in vain, the Games enveloped the poor creatures, who perished before the eyes of their would-be deliverers.One entire family of five persons, all employed i the mill, were providentially saved, and the poor mother, gathering her chiidren about her, amid the darkness that surrounded her, her heart bursting with gratitude for their deliverance, offered up a fervent prayer to Heaven, A marvelous escape from death ia related of a little girl about ten or twelve years old.She was found with her feet spread wide apart by a huge mass of iron that probably weighed a thousand pounds.Close on either side were heavy pleces of machinery, and over her back s large timber, while one of her arms was thrust through an iron ring.All these heavy articles wers in close contact with ber body, so that she could pot move, and yet, strange to say, she was rescued with only slight injuries.How she could have got into such position is a marvel.Another young girl was buried ten feet deep under rubbish, but her screams being heard, parties set to work to extricate her.After toiling long and hard, they succeeded in removing the superincumbent mass, when, to their astonishment, the girl jumped nimbly up, and ran skipping away, greatly pleased at her liberation, and vot in the least hurt! At the depot, last evening, our reporter met three young women, members of a family of seven, named Luck, who were all in the mill at the time of the fall, all of whom escaped without serious injury.One of them, Jane Luck, after being buried five hours beneath the ruins, was rescued without receiving so much as & scratch.Anna Luck, one of the oldest sisters, was standing near ber loom when the crash came.She instantly threw herself under the loom, and called Elizabeth Fish and Phelia Barnes to follow her example, They did so, and were all three saved.An affecting scene occurred during the early part of the evening, which melted the bearts of all who witnessed it.A litile boy, whose ouly friend on earth was his mother, and that mother employed in the mill, wandered about among the crowd, sobbing as if his little heart would break, and begging the bystanders to save his mother.The prayers of the little fellow were answered ; his mother was saved, and clasping ber son in her arms, bis joy knew no bounds\u2014one extreme succeeding another.A boy at work in one of the upper rooms, hearing the crash, hud the presence of mind to jump into 8 waste box, which, with its occupant was buried several feet beneath the ruins.When the rescuers raised the pile of rubbish from the box, the young hero sprang rom his narrow prison, and walked away as coolly ss if nothing had happened.From nearly every bole and crevice in this vast piles from the top, from the sides, and in fact from every ssure from whence a voice from the inside could make its way, came shrieks for help, groans of anguish, prayers and moanings, and in many, very many cases, the poor sufferers could be distinctly seen, talked to and even reached by the hand (rom the outside.Many thus imprisoned were encouraged and sustained by assurance of safety, and in some cases cups of coffee, could be, and were, passed down to those below, who alas?after all thia near approach to safety, saw hour after hour pour away, until at last, the frightful cry of fire, and the greedy licking of the flames as they approached with fearful rapidity, crackling and hissing all over the remains on the ground, told them too plainly that sll hopes of life was gone.At one point, when a rope bad been fixed to a projecting timber, a call was made to the crowd to take hold and pull witha will, but for a few moments, such was the danger of the attempt\u2014for the beam in falling might engulf all near it\u2014for a few minutes, we say, the call wasunheeded.Men shuddered and drew back \u2014\u2014thoy would risk much to nid those below, but Life was ewcet, nnd (he danger great.At this critical juncture a women rushed from among the crowd, and daring the spectators to follow, seized the rope and attempted to mount the pile of smouldering rulas, to clear away with her hands, The example was enough, not a word was said, but strong hands at once drew tho female back, and thon there was no lack of hands to the rope, the beam was drawn out, and at least two sufferers released from the 0; ning thus made.One poor girl, alive and fully conscious, was dragged from the east ond of the fallen mass, with her left arm torn from the socket, and her body and legs awfully mangled.She was taken to her frionds, but could not have survived long.In one place the bodies of three le were found locked In each other's arms, but quite ead.They could not be removed without mangling the bodies, and belag abandoned for a time the flames broke ont bafore another atlempt was made.Next from the ruins we saw (he dead body of a 1ad, and following bim was borne & girl with one of ber ankles burnt to a crisp, She been confined by one foot between two beams, and only b the utmost exer- tlon was she recovered.She was also taken home by her friends.As one body after another would be rescued from the rulos, the excited and almost maddened crowd of motbers, buabande, wives, brothers or sisters would Janvary 18, 1860, to the spot where the body could be seen, and if spectators lo the outer circle heard but a geoeral ail and lamentation, be sure the body was not recog- ized.The shriek of the Irish wife or mother, on the ther hand, too plainly told that ono heart at least had it its deepest bitterness, and soon the body and the ailing mourner bebind were seen wending their way the City Hall.The rest of the crowd would remain, ful to look upon each fresh removal, and but balf lieved that as yet their worst fears had not been alized.Among the sufferers in the ruins at the time (he fire roke out, was Maurice Palmer of Itochester, N.H., an vergeer.le was much beloved by his friends, and hile the digging was going on his voice was recog- ized.He was nearly reached when the flames broke ut.He implored his friends to save him quickly or e should die.They struggled to reach him, but the es swept around them, He was confined and could Mot assist them.As the the heat of the fire began to felt, bis horrible death seemed inevitable.He wasable move one hand and draw his knife, saying ho should mmit suicide rather than burn to death.His rescuers ressed on but his hope of aid gave out, and be drew knife across bis throat.Soon afier they succeeded removing bim, and his self-inflicted wound was ound not to be dangerous, but he had suffered severe ternal injuries, which rendered his recovery impossi- le.He was taken to the City Hall, and expired hortly after from the effects of the injuries reccived by is fall, and his sufferings while immured within llea walls, \u2019 Beneath the ruins many sufferers could be seen and nversed with, and drinks and refreshments, in some ustances were passed to them.When the fire spread ver the ruins, and they found cscape hopeless, they bade adieu to their friends, and in several instances ve directions as to what disposition should be made their cffects.F Lawsexce, 12th Jan.Those bodies which are still remaining at the City 1, will be kept as long as possible for identification.\u2018The greatest attention is paid to the wounded, and a umber of physicians and nurses from neighboring cities have arrived to relieve those who bave been on uty since the falling of the building.The ladies of city are unceasing in their attentions to the wounded, and whenever assistance is needed, some one of them is to be found.Efforts were made to throw down the remainder of the wall, which is still stand- ng, and which threatens to fall at any moment.Great numbers of the operatives who were in the mill at the time of the accident fied on the first alarm and so escaped unbarmed, their safety not being known uptil the city was canvassed whicl accounts for the difference between the number first reported as among the sufferers and the actual number.The crowd of visitors swarming into the city from every direction was immense yesterday, and increased rapidly during the afternoon.A large majority of the operatives employed in the mill were foreigners, principally Scotch and Irish.Most of the American girls engaged were employed in the dressing room, and but few of them were killed.\u2014 \u2018The hair-breadth escapes, and remarkable preservations of those rescued, continues the general theme of conversation, and the preservation of many were indeed miraculous.THR NUMBERS OF THE SAVED AND LOST.There were 965 persons entered on the pay roll of the corporation, all but 200 of whom were employed in the main building, but the pay roll having probably been destroyed, it is impossible to ascertain with certainty names or figures.It is supposed that at the time of the accident there were 700 persons in the main building and 150 in the wing.During the night about 25 dead bodies were recovered, and during, the day yesterday, nearly as many more.By orders of the Mayor and the City Marshal, the police on Wednesday made quite a thorough canvass of the city, and reported the following figures as the result of their inquiries : Denad.Missing Woun EDITORIAL NOTICES.\u2014 Attention is directed to advertisement on last page, of the concert in Nordheimer's Music Hall, on Friday evening.\u2014 The annual meeting of the friends of the Colonial \"Oburch and School Society will be held on Thursday evening, in the Bonaventure Hall; chair to be taken at 7 o'clock.We hope there will bea large attendance of the friends of education on Christian principles.\u2014 À pamphlet bas been published in France, emanating, it is sald, from Louis Napoleon himself, in which he takes the ground that the Pope must be a Temporal Sovereign, in order to the exercise of his spiritual government, but that the cxtent of his territory has nothing to do with the question.He therefore sug- gosts that the city of Rome is all that is requisite for the Pope's Temporal Sovereignty, and that he should there be supported by a sort of tribute from the Catholic powers, and defended by a guard furnished by the proposed Federal Government of Italy.These Propositions have fallen liko a bombshell among Ultra- montanes, especially in Ireland.\u2014 The Charitable Committee of the St.Andrews Bocioty gratefully acknowledge from James Law, Esq., by the bands of William Murray, Esq., a donation of «$20, for the \u201cHome\u201d and other charitable operations of the Boclety ; and from Mr.Geyle, 1 cord of firewood; Mr.Ramsay, 8 pairs old boots; A.Urqubart, Esq., a parcel of clothing ; Mrs.William Darling, a quantity of vegetables; Mr.Robert Brodle, farmer, 1 small bag barley, 1 do.beans; Mrs.McDonald, 1 bag peas ; Mrs.Johnston, 16 lbs.beef; Dr.Taylor, 3 cords firewood.Tho demands on the Charitable Committee are numerous and urgent, and the usual fncoms of the Society inadequate to most them.Additional contributions are therefore solicited, and may bo sent to the Ion, Mrs.Rollo, Mre.D.McDonald, Miss Gardiner, 108 Bt.Denis Street ; John Greenshields, Esq., President ; A.MUloy, Treasurer, or J, O, Becket, Chair- wen of the Committee.Farmers in the vicinity of the city could materially aid this useful institution by contribution of farm produce.~ The Hungarian\" arrived at Portland on the 14th, and the \u201c Buropa\u201d at Halifax on the 16th.The follow.THE MONTREAL WITNESSing are the most interesting items of news :\u2014It is not known when Congress will meet.\u2014The Pope refases to be represented unless the rumored authorship of the pamphlet entitled The Pope and the Congress,\u201d be denied by Napoleon.\u2014\u2014A fight bad taken place between some militia men and the soldiers of the 241h regiment at Aldershot Camp.Several men were shot dead.Sixty men of the 241h are under arrest.\u2014\u2014Baron Macaulay and Lord Hastings are dead.\u2014\u2014The Ex- Duke of Modena was advancing upon his old dominions at the head of troops.\u2014\u2014European affairs are apparently becoming more complicated.No change in markets, \u2014 The annusl meeting of the Protestant Orphan Asylum was beld a few days ago.The Treasurer's report showed the expenditure to have been $1,807.At the commencement of the year there were 15 boys and 20 girls in the Asylum; since that period 7 boys and 4 girls have been admitted.To this number, if the Superintendent and Matron and one servant be added, the annual cost per Lead, per annum, will only amount to the sum of $34,88.There are 24 children now ser- ing their apprenticeship under indenture, for whose In.nfit the Treasurer bas at interest in the Savings Bank the sum of $306 40 cents.\u2014 The gas supplied in this city continues to be very impure, notwithstanding the assurance of the Company last week, that the nuisance should be abated in about 24 hours.The Company ought to be indicted fur causing & nuisance.The Gazette writing on this subject says :\u2014\u201c The gas is bad still, a8 we write on Monday evening.It is enough to stink people out of rooms lit by it.Oa Sunday might it was istolerable in the churches.In sick rooms lit by it, it bas been something more than a nuisance.It has in fine been injurious, in a very high degree, to the health and comfort of the citizens of Montreal.And the beauty is they pay sweetly for the luxury.The prices charged by the Company sre extortionate, compared with those id for gas in other cities of Canada and the United tates ; and we are quite unaware of the reason why they should be.\u201d \u2014 A man named Walsh was taken to the Police Station on Saturday intoxicated, by a carter ; the next morning he was found dead.\u2014 A correspondent, after referring to the recent Municipal Election in his township, states, that so many of the electors got drunk, that some persons supposed the chief business of a Municipal Election was to drink.Does not the law regulating Municipal Elections require that all drinking places be closed on such occasions ?We think it does.Men are not fit for much whilst under the influence of drink.\u2014 The congregation of St.Andrews Church, Seymour, recently held a social tea-meeting; the proceeds of which amounted to $10.OU (Ut UPXL Es