The Montreal witness, 31 janvier 1863, samedi 31 janvier 1863

[" ame = TEE COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPERz + VuL.XVHL TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY OP THE MONTREAL RELIGIOUS BOOK AND TRACT BUCIETY.(Reported for the Montreal Witness.) The Anniversary of the above Society was held lest evening, io the Wesleyan Church, Great St.James S'reet\u2014Principal Dawson in the chair.The mecting was opened by Ier.Mr.Harper, who conducted tbe devotional exercise, The Chairmaa ssid that thia Society constituted one of the most important of religions intereats.Ai ihe beginniog of the glurious Reformation a meltitude of tracts and liv books wera scattered over Europe, disseminating light wherever they went.At the preæ-nt day this Society fulfilled the sam> purpose, nod represented a very important departmer.s of Christian usefulness.Ile congratulated the friends of the Society on this occasing, h-cause of the fact tbat the blessing of Cnd bad, ia a more than ordinary degree, a'ten'ed their exertions.The present year had witnessed a larger amount of prosperity than any previons one.It was a matter of regret that Me.David- eon, the President, was not here to occupy the chair, being at present abroad fo: the benefit of bis health.The Chairman enicluded by observing that the Society owes much to Mr, Davidson for bis carciul management and Christian zeal.The report stated the past year had been one of progress and increased uscfulness regards this Society.Many thousand Bibles and books and tracts had beca i-sned by the Society during the year, ard distributed by Colporteuts and others throughout the country.The So.cioty's income bad been $5.099, and the expenditure $4.833, l-aving a balance in hand of $266.Rev.Mr.Coraish concluded by moving the adoption of the report Also tint henceforth law 2ad of the Constitution of this Society sball read and be as follows : s0n8 who are favorable to the object of JLia uciety\u2014namely, the circulation of Re- ligioux Bsoka and Tracts of an evangelical cha- racter\u2014and who, in any way, aid ita operations, sha\u2019l bs members of this Society.Subscribers of $2 per annum, or upwards, shall be entitled 10 receive Tracts, upon application for them within the year, in vatue to the amount of one- half of their annual subscription.\u201d Mr.T.M.Taylor seconded the resolution In 1he courss of bis opening remarka, he observed, that tbe society had elf-cted more good this ear than on any previous one, and proceeded i an earnest address to urge ita claims on the Christians of Monirent.The society was open to every pious person ia the city who might wish to help it forward, in any way, by sympa- tby, prayers or money, aad it was also open to every one who could suggest the best plan for carrying out its interests.The main objet of the society was tbe holding up of Christ.crucified to every perishing man; and to publish the glad tidinge of salvation to all who manifested aD anxious desire to know the way of the Lord.Rev.Mr.McVicar moved the following resolution : \u201cThat this meeting hay heard with much pleasure and gratitude that this Society has, through the private munificence of friends, been enabled both to continue its Colportage operations, and also to aid in the advancement of the spiritual welfare of a portion of the gallant soldiers now in the garrison of this city ; and it entertsing the hope that these examples of Christian benevolence will provoke oihers to belp in carrying on this good work during the present year.\u201d He began by remarking that the munificence spoken of in the resolution had been spontaneous and unsolicited; aod it had also been prompt.Having shown that the giving of support for the purposes of religion was exemplified fu tho Old as well ss the New Testa- meat, he obsorved that Christians should subordinate all things\u2014time, talents, means, acquire- ments and wealth\u2014to the will of the Redeemer.It was most gratifying to see such an interest 88 was manifested by the Christinas of the city in the spiritual welfare of the brave meu now otationed in garrison.He was bappy in being able to siate that Montreal, in a public way, had already shown, by & public entertainment, the friendly feeling cherished with regard to the military.On tbe ocossion he referred to, the sight was a most beautiful one, and be would tatber witness it then any review of Napoleon's soldiers in Paris.The soldiers needed ali the time and care that Christians had to bestow.These men bad leisure\u2014that leisure was dangerous, and rcquired to be occupied is » Obristian manner.He adverted to tbe circam- stances attendiog the coming of the troops to Montreal, and enjoined upon Obristians to nee tbat, when tbe men returned home, they might be better soldiers of Jesus Cbrist, and followers of the Great Onptain of our tion.(Applause).He had observed at public meetings that resolutions were too emily adopted; bus be hoped that on this occasion every ove who concarred in this resolution did so with a full sense of bis responsibility.Mr.Jobm Dougall seconded the resolution.\u2014 He said that at & meeting of the Young Men's Christian Assoxlation the other night, be found several goidiers there.In the course of the evening he informed a gentleman well acquainted with the military, that be (Me.D.) was Shpolnted ta speak at this meetiog, to a resolu- in tbat referred in part to soldiers, and there fore wisbed to know what he should say about them.The answer Was,\u2014say they are noble éellows, and that tbe Obrietlan eofdier can be depended upon.(Appisuse.) If a plous soldier were wanted in such & otreet and euch a house, to take part in reli vices, thers he was sure to be, uni were upon duty.These soldiers were now not only regelr- ing, but communioativg benefits.They were aiËfog tbe work of the Young Men's Obristian MONTREAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1863.Amsociation ; tad addressed, from fim» to tine, serve] that 27 years ago there was not n print- in an accept\u2026le manuer, the large m'etings ing press to bs found in the whole Persisn em- that assem' od every Sunday afternoon in the Bonaventu > Hall.In fact they were i ing thelr 6h vr= in the great Christian labors of (%- city, Tha institution of tbe family was est ib.lished bu the Creafor ia Paradise, and bad com dow» rough nll generations and ages of the world.intact nod entire; aud ila vitality ena- bl-d ito survive anywhere, except where the © nv notional arrangemests of men rendered it mn sible, The barrack was a convcntusl ¢- ablishment, whero the family was ignored, «1d where its sweet enncbling iuflienc~ contd nut ba ecjayed.Buti the present state of go- ciety, it was neceszary for the genrral geod of all that some should make sacrifices; if sul- diers, then, were called upon to sacrifice their own happiness for the general good, was it not the duty of the community at large to do all in ita power to belp them to alleviate their condition, and help them in doing 50?He had asked a Sergeant-Major of the Guards what was most wanted ; the answer was, the employment of a suitable Scripture-Reader, and the establishment of a library, which, if given to a regiment, would be taken good care of, and used to advantage.The spealier baving es laioed that the Tract Society publishes libraries of 60, to 120 volumes, in veat cises, casily carried about, concluded by saying ttat one of the noblest effurta the soci ty could eng ge in, was to supply cach regiment wick a good library.\u2014 (Applause ) Rev.Me.Webb, of Baston, supported the resolution, After some preliminary observation, he went on to observe that the United States Were now following Great Britain\u2019a example ju the matter of slavery, and, therefore, the people under British sway should not turn the cold shoulder upon Americans.(Applause.) He {cit alao the hearts of the people of Canada wero With the people of tbe States, and he felt also that the hearts of those noble fellows in Lancashire, suffering because of the rebellion, were also with the supporters of the North.He felt also that God was with them, and io His own good time, after chastening them, would bring them out of this bloodshed and strife.CApplause.) Some of the noblest men in the church in the United States were to b= found in the army, and there was the Young Men's Christian Commission, an agency of the church for sending every week, especially after every battle, thousands of tracts, books and bibles to the soldiers.He observed, in conclusion, that Tract Societies should receive every encouragement, for the teact, though little thing, was capable of efivcting a vast amount of good.; Rev.J.B.Bonar moved the following resolution :\u2014 \u201cThat tbis maeting whilat expressing its strong conviction of 1be value of Evangelical Religions Tracts as a means fr the disaemina- tion of Christian trutb, rejoices to hear of the increased circulation of the ssme by this Society during the past year, and wonld here r:cord its appreciation of the valuable aid which has been rendered by the Association of Tract Dintribu- tors, and others, in (bis important work.\u201d He observed tbat the agencise which God employs for the ealvation of men were very Lutme- tous ; and he (Rev.Mr.Donar) valued tracts almost as bigbly as any other agency.For the last two months he had seen the power of tracts exemplifidas bardly ever before ; and he had no doubt but the great day would reveal that huodreds and thousands in the heathen world, who bad never seen a missionary, bad, by means of those little messengers, found an entrance into Christ's kingdom.The speaker went on to speak of the extended influence of tracts, and ju (bia connectiu, mentioned the fact of his having at one time given a tract tos young man io Russia, and afiecwards heard the recipient allude to the circamstauce in Constantinople.He bad found tracts very useful in arresting the attention in every Christisn community where there was a Sabtmtb-gchool and a preached Gospel, they were valuable and important auxiliaries in securing tbat for which every Christian sbould labor\u2014the salvation of souls.He was glad to know that in this city, young men and women who bad found the Saviour, were ulive to the usefulness of the tract, and wore distributing them ju several ways, even through the Post- Office.He earnestly connselled youug mes and women to essociate themselves with the tract distributors, sud they would find such a course would not only be a blessing to themselves, but also to others.(Applause.) Rev.Mr.Shuttleworth seconded the resolution.He began by observing that the Society bad in view the moral and spiritual improvement of the people of this Province.The Teact Society was doiog a mighty work in the evan- gelization of the world.Tua publications found their way everywhere, and seemed to him as if they stood on the street preaching the gospel to the residents of the lanes, the slleys sod the garrets; indeed they tock wing sod flew everywhere, to the heathen and to the Mabom- medan ; they were like busy bees, extracting \u2018honey from every flower, and brioglog it to the Gospel hive; they were like rays of light, llin- minatiog the dark coraers of the earth, and disseminatiog happiness.He prayed, in conclusion, thet the tract might find a response in every stoners heart, Rev.Mr.W.R.Parker moved the following resolution in a brief and able speech :\u2014 Resolved, \u2014\" That this meeting tenders its thanks to the Parent Society for the valuable ald rendered to tis Auziliary by its liberal free grants of Tracts durlog tbe past year; rejolces fn the euccess vouchosfed unto it by Almighty God ; and prays that its future career may be one of ever-incteasing usefulness and pros- petity.\u201d J.A.Mathewson, Euq., seconded the resoln- tion lo & short but esrnest speech, Rev.Dr.Wright, Persla, supported the resolution.He began by commentiog oo the vast power wielded the Press, and, having ob- pire, be described the difficulty that attended the conveyauce of à press from America to that country, aud depicted the astonishment with bich the Nestorian Christians regarded the êt copy ever atruck off, and that copy the Lord's Prager.From that day till tha present time this littla band-prezss bed done wonders; not to speak of the Holy Seripturcs, it bad throws off the works of Eunysn and Baxter, in particular, and now printed a monthly publication called \u201c Rays of Light,\u201d and ray of light bey were, frradia- ting the darkoess of Oromia.The amount of gaud doue by the little Leacts pristed off on this press, was incalculable.Ms meationed the effect prodaced ou two learned Nestorians, who, after reading \u201c The Dairyman\u2019a Daughter,\u201d bad their hearts turued towards the Gospel.Ie dwelt upon the usefulness of tracts, and their itaportance as auxiliaries to the preaching of the Gospel, in Kuzdistan ; for when the missionary was away they were treasured and retained, and served to call to remembrance Lis teachings.Dr.Wright vent on to state that he had known moy persuns brought under God's grace through the influence of tracts, and concluded by expressing an earvest wish for 1be increasod usefulaess of tract-societies, THE BABYLON T0 BE DESTROYED.Henry Ward Leecher in his Geet sermon for 1863, takes his text from Revelations 18, 1-8, sad main'aizg that the Babylon to be destroyed means the despotism of the rich aad strong over the poor and weak, whether exrrtcd through governments, compsuies, or individual employers; in a word, the coricking of on- class at the expense of another by unjust laws and oppressive arrangements.This, he saye,\u2014 \u201cIs the great work of wickedness in our da.Onco the world was warlike, and the pop tions of the earth were destroyed by war and ita attendent evils, by famine, by pestilence, and by the executioner's sxe; but like numbers of men are now deatroyed by coal-mines, by factories, by overtaxed and overtasked labors in cities anû on plantations.And all the wastes snd destroctions of mea that aforetime have been through governments, are now through fems and companies, in (be main ; for Babylon is the modern dynasty of the devil.¢ Gaginet tbis, the Thole gpirit and tendency of ristianit tery its gol posent, an is sacred; not Fabien, EE s, not wll?ings, not cities; but mankind.This is to be- m, or at least the enthusiasm, of modern civilizalion\u2014 the sacredness of m:o- kind; and those who are the weakest are to become the special objects of divine care ; and we Aro to accept that.While hitherto, in the earlier periods of this world\u2019s stroggle, the strong have had the advantage in life, as that struggle progresies, and God is bringing moral things to their victorious periods, we shall be- Zin to gee that be takes care of the weakest and the lowest.We are beginning to res it already.A judgment is decreed agaiust this special wickedness; and it is 80 determined tbat God does pot leave it even to his own voluntary government of providence, hut infires it into the course of nature, and establisbes it by natural law.Ii has been made apperent, and it becomes more and more apparent, that any course which builda un nations! weallb and national power at the expense of the poor and the needy, works in an element of decline, of weakness, and of dealb itself, as well.\u201cThe whole future progress of Christianity requires t'ie overthrow of such a wrong.The essence of Chrisliauity is good-will to the poor and to the needy.It must destroy, therefore, every system whose essence is the neglect, the misuse, the degradation, and the destruction of the poor and the needy.However long delayed, however much socver seemingly overthrown, God bas determined that there yet shall bs victory of Christianity over this form of sin.\u201c Bence the solemnity and the full meaning of our text in its exhortation to every one to come out from such wickedness.\u201c 1 beard another voice from ven, eying, Come out of her, my people, that ye bs not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive mot of her plagues.\u201cEvery man that means to stand safely, every man that means to be recognised and owned of God, is summoned carefully to separate himself from all courses snd tendencies aod parties aud sides that aro seeking their suc.oes by wasting or destroying God's poor snd God's needy.\u201d He then takes a view of the different conti- aents and nations of tbe earth, from the standpoint which be has defined, from which we make a few extracts :\u2014 WH, \u201c Russia preseats the most noble attitude of any nation in Europe.The whole national life is undergoing » change in the direotion of restoring rights to the common people.If we had been called to single out that nation which would most signally illustrate the spirit of Christian democracy, tbe last one that we sbould bave mentioned woold bave been Russia.And yet she is the first in this thing.* The last shall be first\u201d ' This is not the work of the people : it is not the work of commerce.The most remarkable in this movement of the vast Ru emplre, of the enfranchisement of its serfs, fs that itis the work of the Government ; and of that Gorern- ment wblo5 is the most concentrated and autocratic that bas been knowa in the history of tho world, And the Czar of Russia stande, beyond ail question, the emanclpator of the 19:h century.Crown (be bead, then, of thls Cesar.Pluck leaves from the tree of life and immortal blossoms, and put & wreath around about bis hend, who, ataudiog in & place that bas made tan bsfore him harl aut cruel and seifish, kas bien moved by the Spirit of Gad tu take bia position in the forefront of modern progress, and : emancipate (ie uiy ri slaves of his vast empire, Tho whole redoucces of (Lat kingdom are pow embarked in this gigantic refurmation.Iti ihe ouly instuie~ of the kiud in Europe.There is not another movem~utliko it there.Every other king in Europe of which we know anything is fearing and dreading a popular enfrancuisement.All the other governnicnte of Europe may now be said to be resisting the encroachments of the common peopl, nod seeking to build new dykes and levees und dams to keep the people within some bounds.Aud Russia only stanis, by ber Goverameut, and through her autucrat, ber Cz ur, giving liberty to her slaves, \u201c Not in Taly, that old land of republics and of early civilization; uot in Germany, that land of Returmation \u2014the geed-ground and granary of mioderu liberty ; not in France, for an age ia- veulating the world with the virus of democracy, which never takes at boms; not in Eaglund, the lund of the Puritan, nod the sturdy defender of popalas rights, but in Russia, à sytouy m for all that is despotic, is now goiog ou the most illnatrious act of moders ticres \u2014 Gud's drama of emancipation.\u201d CANADA, * From Europe turn we to tbe other conti- neat that ja lefi\u2014 America.Unmentioned in aur inventory of American States is one which bas init perhapsas brigh' à promise as Any on the conlinent\u2014Canaën.With a territory second to none; with climate as favorable as onr own ; with two oc2ans as much as we; and wita the beginning of a population than which no nation could desire to have a better, | know pot why Canada ia not to :nke her place among the natins of time and the world.In so far ns ber present is concerned, it may be torpid in spots, aod inert ; but in all ite activities it ja forward and healthful, and Christian.God bless Canada, and give ber a glorious and illue- trious future.And ns she bears her meteor flag westward, it shall be lier glory above any nation that dwells upon this hemisphere to carry a baoper that in her baods, has never been held over the head of n slave.And when her cities sball be built, and her ports shall bs openrd on the Pacific coast, snd ber commerce shall extend from ocean to ocean clear across the he.mispbere, she shall be the free nation of the North, and tho mother of freedom.Again, God bless Canada.\u201d TUE PRESENT CONFLICT IN THR CNITED STATES.[+ \u201cMrivUKIDg ODOT OUT OWN vount:;, UV SEtor- nal appearance is sed.Civil war is always u spectacle of sadness.Tbe conflict of brethren ; the horrible loss of life ; and the attendant sufferings that hover aronnd about the movements of armies, and that belong to campaigna\u2014il yon look upon these outward things, you shall monrn, and say: \u201clt is atime of darkness, of thick darkness, when there is no light even upon the mountains ;\u201d but if you look at the condition of the country, not externally, but from within, I declare that it is noble.For there is just now & conflict for the government of this continent by two giant forces\u2014the spirit of Christian liberty and democracy, and the spirit of aristocratic oppression.And tho speciucle which is before God, and angels, and faith- seeing meo, is this spectacle of the last great battle of the Lord God Almighty oa tbis coutin- «nt between these two great furcea; the one beatiog in is heart, in its principles, and in its inevitable victories, the welfare of tbe common prople to the very bottom; nnd the otber be-sing in He beurt, in its principles, and in ité intent, the snbjuga- tion of the common people; th ove, by every single element that belongs to it, by its whole Christianity, by all its antecedents, by every single one of the institutions that it has established, living for ths education and the elevation of the ignoraut and the poor, and for the strengthening of tbe wenk ; and the otber, by every radical element of its existence, nnd by its avowed avd Jdeclared purposes, taking tbe poor sud the wenk and the ignorant, ag the viuter takes the cluster, 10 crush ft, that he may drink tbe wine tbat rues from jt.These two great opposiug forces are now in conflict on (bis continent.PRINCIPAL LEITCH ON COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATION.(From the Canada Observer.) A tr appanrs in Good Woods written by the Pole Prorcipal of Queen's College, the subject of which is \u201c\u201ca winter in Canada.\u201d The particularly interesting portion of this paper to which we direct the attention of our readers, is the statement that ** non sectarian education is suited only to the wants of à new country,\u201d and bence that when this country snd the United States become old, asd the churches become strong, non-sectatian inati- tutions will give place to church schools and church colleges.The way in which the learnyd professor refers 10 Dr.Ryerson\u2019s Bill for establishing seclarisn schools is very instructive.Dr.Rjerson bas asserted thai his design was merely to gutter in the neglected children of towns and cities, and we have iven him credit for sincerity.Have we then n deceived by the Chief Superintendent ?Several gentlemen who bad ately conferred with Dr.Ryerson, stated in the Anglican Synod, that they had every resson to satisfied with the proposed ineasure, a1 they would be able thue to establish Church of England schorls to be supported from public funds, The Romish clergy also were satisfied with the prospect of 6 further ertab- lishment of Separate Schools ; and now it appears that tbe clergy of the Church of Scotland, as representad by Dr.Leitch, were satisfied in view of a future establishment of sectauiun schools and coll cs, when the country has become ofer.- The enntences which Le.+Leiseh lightly penned: ote weigtty and ominous.He bas i beeu planning with President Neilis snd Dr.Etyeigon à pw schemo of college cducation-\u2014 eectariaujthe is its cornerston -and the Wesleyan clerzy os well as the Church of Scotland clergy are well satis i the non-sectarian scheme, Strange 1a it! fiay scem, we have the clerzy, Anzlicun, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, and Church of Scotland, alleutisficd with Dr, Ryerson\u2019s bills and plane ; they sll believe that his measares will favour their sectaring purposes; while to the public (we kaow not what he said in private) he pro- terses still to favour non-sectarian education.Docs Dr.Leitch speak the mind of our Old Kick friends among the luiy?Are they prepared to dacrifse our common scheol for the enke bf a'fovéldment ¢ract to Queen's College ?, Arsahey ed to establish by law and supf.qut bya¥kal Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Presbyterian scboola?If not,\u201d it is time for them to let De.Leitéb and others\u201cbnow tbeir mind on the subject.The same questions may be pot to the Angliepn and Wesleyan laity zdo J.H.Cameron aid the Guardian or the Coufer- ence reprekéut their views?There i+ reason to fear that tbe public are eleering, while quietly, in secret confab Dr.Rycr:m is uuder- mining our non-sectarian aystem to please à few glergymen, who cannot think of à national system of (ducation, which shows no favour to sects, but'holds S:mly the Dlilie aud our comics Protestantism : \u2014 « TÉe\u2018system which be (Dr.Psereon) plun- ned aid which hus been adopted by the Legis Iature 4 substantially that of the various reli- givus bodies is entirely ignored.As a neces- eary conbequence, the teaching is exclusively secular, ¥\u201cIn* a new country, tBis system is tho ond moe* .generally acceptable, as the various ob haye tost-vgrie for their existence; \u2018and are glad that the State should take upon iteelfy the burden of cducdtion.\u2014 When, however, Gociety is beiter Orgauised and the churches gain an essier position, educational life is inevitably awakened: and whether with or without the nid of the State, they will engaze in the work of elucating tbe people, Dr.Ryerson aw this tendency, and at sv ently period was constrained to give sapas 2) te Roman Catholics.This anonny could not long be contineed ; aud last winter & bill was introduccd to give s-parate aid tu all Protestant denomigutions that choose to engage in she work of national ivatruction.Canada thus practically wban- dous (surely the wrifer is confoundiag Dr, Ryerson with Canada) the system of the United States and adopts that of England, in which aid is given to sll denominétiots, if - they impart a due amount of s=cular kab ledge.Evidence is affofded even in the United States that she on school system is only provisional and that the State must yield to the educational adtivity of the people acting through their various churches.Al ready, almost every denomination has begun to erect schools for itself, though a% yet no aid is derived from the State.The first demand for separate aid is always made the Roman Catholic ; and the next step of ardive otber denomivationa is ivevitable.We fovs it to be the opinion of \u2018a high educat'sual official in the State of New York, thet in less than ten years thc common school, system would begin to disintegrate, from pèces- sity of giving grants to the Roman Catholics.He cleariy saw that the system of gland was the only one that cculd satisfy the educational activities of a highly developed state of society ; and that the mechanical \u2018uniformity of the common school wad suited obly to the early period of & new country.To Although the educational system of is only in à transition state it has wôrŸêd, 60 fac admirably ; thers i1, perbaps, no, country where the agvactages of a common \u201cschool and academic education are 50 sooessible to the mass of.the population.The result of this is shewn in de very large proportion of the youth of Canads who devote themselves to learned professions.\u2018The aptitude usmally dupleyed at \u2018the university avgurs well for future achievemennts in literatore and science.\" Too Grxmnovs av Haur.\u2014\u201c The most impa- dent men in the Provjace;' as the Globe aptly terme tkew, propose 10 \u2018eave the Toronto Univer sity where it is.They are stermined, ho rover, that thelr virtue shah [not unrewarded, for they stipulate that in consideration of the dé- van « conferred (yes, that's the wi the famishing sects .\u201cail hâve & ip ln the tic chest, Imagine à ajsbes tobler why has stolen from you your clothes, purs and horse, claiming pubic bounty for the sdyaninge \u2018\u2019 conferred\u201d upon you by ble generously leaving you your bat.\u2014 Grumble.Launcn.\u2014Among the extraordinary things of this most extraordinary winter, we bare so record tbe fact of the launch of a vessel.The propeller \u201c Colonist,\u201d that bad been bauled ont upon the ways of 1be Kingston Marine Railway for repairs, was put back into the water yesterday moroiog, and the propeller * West\u201d In the afternoon was bsuled oot in ber sind.The ard.we are pleased to dearn is matos Jenkins informe us that à merk.\u2014 Kingston News.\u2014 Fifteen Volÿn'st companies of Infantry for Upper Canada Te gazetted on Saturday Te A py - -_ st\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 =: = 66 ) Contemporary Press.THE HON, W.E, GLADSTONE ON CIVILIZATION.The following is the close of a very beau tiful and iostructive speech by Mr.Gladstone, the theme of which ia tte civilization of the present day :\u2014 À grest French writer, Montesquieu, observes + that in the infancy of political ao- ciety the promineut men make and mould the mation, in the maturity of it the nation makes and moulds the prominent men.\u201d If this was true in bis day, it is much more largely true in ours; for more has been done within the last two or three generations towards placiog popular rights on & eecure basis ; towards pro- Rag for their progressive extension; and towards allotting a real share in the manage- meut of public affairs to the different members of the community than had been done for centories befure.In concurrence with this natural aud beneficial chauge, it is highly needful that the members of classes formerly excluded from social power, but now coming to share in its possession, should recollect that society bas much bigber and more extended claims upon them than it had be.ore.Where, unbeppily, slavery prevails, it comes to be thought of very little consequence, sy that the labourer performs a certain amount of work, whether in other respects he lives the life of a mau or of a beast.Bat in pro- rtion as we yet fariber aud further removed Pom slavery, \u201cin proportion ss tbe personal rights of cach individual sre more end more jealously guarded by the laws, as he himself is, by liberal inatitutiors, provided with an influence in the making of those laws b which he is to be governed\u2014society is, on the other hand, more and more entitled to expect frum him, along with such mental cultivation as be may be able to aitain, an ewlightered cun- ecience, » cheerful, steady deference to lawful suthority, an honourable sense of indepeu- dence, an unwillingness to become a burden upon others, and a clearer view in the per.formaoce of his duties as a husband, father, peighbor, parishioner, juryman, a voter at elections, or whatever eise be may be.(Ap use.) Aud all this is no light matter.Human lite rationally viewed is serious aud earnest, and when the image of our duty is placed before us we are sometimes afraid of it, and tempted to run awsy from it, Itis not a wonder that the feeliogis found which makes us think the day is Bo more than sufficient for the burden laid upon it.That which is vari ously felt among every class is felt by the laboring class in its simplest form.When they rise in the morning labor faces them, and when the day closes weariness, following upon toil, depreses them.Yet your pre seace bere to-night, my friends, shows that bis though it may ba true, is not the whole truth.Where there is a brave and gallant spirit in 5 msn it commonly, and in the absence of extraordinary trials, mansges to save something of time, of thought, of erer- gy, fiom the urgent race of his outer life and bodily wants.There is the blessed rest of Sunday, = standing and a speaking witness of the everlasting truth thet \u201cman does not live by bread alone.\u201d And on every day the careful zather- ing of even small fragments of time, some of which well nigh every man, woman, avd Child bas it in his pewer to gather, will, so it be but steadily and constantly continued and made a part of the daily habits of our lives, produce in the end not only considerable, but even surprisiog, results.Yet, after all, it must not be forgotten that the central effectual element in your efforts for civilization is to be foupd in Christianity, Iadividual men living uoder Christiseity,and who will- rhape caring little for Christianity\u2014themsel uo direct connection between the Gospel av many useful discoveries of prosperous industries, may thik they can fashion for themselves civilisation out of tbe materials which earth affords, without ths trouble of taking into view our relatiors 10 the world unseen and Him who rules init.Far be it from ice $0 brivg a railing accusation against them ; bot I think they are mistaken.This world is God's world by right, ours only by gift, and suffrance; wud it cannot go well with us if wo try i, that bim ont of it.(Applause.) Bot in tFuth what we bave most to fear is not the provalence of error of this kind, taking the form of philosophy or wisdom ; it is our own faitblessuess, our own selfisbness, our own worldliness, ever drawing us downward in despite of affections which grow weaker by ne- fect and which are at length wholly stifled > the thorns and brisrs of evil babit growing up into a taogled thicket around them und over them, It is not erroneous belief that ia the cause of widespread ruin, It is the fear, the disci- desires, the pline, the pleasure, the cares, the spretites, Rbich shat out from the mind e the birth of our Lord, at Bet] wor be this\u2014that no wonder, in 80 course of pcople of all ranks ther of the THE MONTREAL WITNESS, vicious indulgences, or selfish enjoyments, or to the schemes of advancement in this world, till be feels himself so full that there is not room in him for the thought that his food and raiment, bis gifts and faculties, his hopes and prospects, all that he aud all that he can ever be, come down to bim from the Most High, and are to be rendered up again to bim from whom they come, in thanks, io praise, and in dutiful obedience.THE TIMES\" DEFENDING SLAVERY.(From the Christian World.) The Times newspaper is both an honour and a disgrace to the country.As an orgau of intelligence concerning the doings and wants of the world it atands unrivalled; and Englishmen are proud to contrast it with the wean-ldokivg prints of France and Germany, or even with the best of the American jour- vals, But on questions of high morality, snd of religious principle, the Z¥mes is generally found io be seriously at fault.It has loog been regarded by the friends of the Abolition of Negro Slavery, ss ranking umong their covert enemies ; but on Tuesday this week it proclaimed its own shame, in an article upon some warm asti-slavery speeches of the levs.Dr.Tyng, Dr.Cheever, and Henry Ward Beecher.\"These geotlemen,\u201d\u201d says the Times, * preach not for an infallible or an established Church, for no such Church bas yet venlured to be as dogmatic and positive on this point as they are.They preach with tbe Bible in their bands.In that book there is not one single text tbat can be perverted to prove slavery unlawful, though there is much which naturally tends to its mitigation, ite elevation, aod ite finn) extinction, Io the New Testament we bave an Epistle written by the man who represents the last revealed phase aud development of the Gospel, sent by the band of a runaway slave, who had sought a refuge with the writer, to his lawful master, to the purport that the master aud his slave were to get on better, and do their duty to ove another more thoroughly for the future.The enme writer tells bis recent converts that if they are slaves they must make the best of that condition, and not try to escape it, at least by any means coutrary to the laws of thecount:y.The only possible doubt about the exact meaning of his advice is, whether slaves are to refuse their liberty, even if it be offered ; or whether they are merely to remain true to their masters, even if chance presents the opportunity of escape.The context which sags thet a fuithful and dutiful Christian slave becomes the freedman of his Heavenly Muster clearly proves that a slave who refuses the offer of freedom has a high scriptural ar- ument for bis choice.If it be said that Invery is at variance with the epirit of the Gospel, so also are a good many things which are not yet laid under the ban of Abolition, | or threatened with the \u2018 War Power.\" Sumptuous fare, purple and fine linen, weslth, ecclesiastical titi es, unmarried clergy, good clerical incomes, and many other things are contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, or, at least, can be proved so as easily as Slavery.of principle and vital essence.creature the thought of the Creator.Many of us have read in this solemn season, in the service of tbe church, the account of flebem.\u2018In that we are told by the evaogelist these simple ds, \u2018There was not room for them in the inn,\u201d What thoughts do these words awaken in the mind! Perhaps the first may rest 8 cog- ; joing up to bolthe Bible su) registered fur taxes, there should be no room few months ¢ in the ion for the poor and unpretending mo-lsion .which took Baviour to be delivered of har first.between But the Roman Catholics have just as much to aay for apy ons nf their peculiar doctrines as the Abolitionists bave for their one article of 8 standing or falling community.Whether the Confederates have done right to throw off the Union is a distinct question, bat they can- uot have a better defence tban a proclamation of war to the knife, a solemn invocation of the ¢ War Power\u2019 against every slave-owner who still claims the duty of bisslave.\u201d Henceforth there can be doubt of the position of the Times on this question; and the friends of freedom may w ment to find so powerful au organ of opinion utterly perverting the teachings of the Apostle Paul by purposely confounding Hebrew eervitade with the atrocious system of man-stealiog aud man selling which prevails\u2014and will continue to prevail, if the Confederates shall be successful in the present atrife\u2014in the Southern States of Ame rica.(From the Daily News.) Advocacy of this sort will not do here.There ate some things which all bonest Englishmen understand, and about which there bas long since ceased to be any doubt in this country, and forcmoat emongst them is the atrocious wrongtuluess of slavery in the eyes of God and man, They know that it is denounced alike by reason and religion, by the uacor- rupted conscience, and the unperverted Word of God.They know that the influence of Christianity, wherever it has penetrated, has uniformly been to break the fetters of the slave, and brand with the curse of heaven the loathsome traffic in buman flesh and blood.Yet tho advocates of the Slave Power come forward, Bible in band, to vindicate this accursed outrage on religion and humanity, A blow of this sort is simed at all that good men hold most sacred.It seeks to undermine the very foundations of our national morality, and break the spring of ail public and private virtue.It attacks Christianity in its central It daringly as saults the position of the Bible, aud seeks to destroy for ever its authority by making it an accomplice in the perpetuation of the most gigantic crimes.In this last assault the advocates of the Slave Power shake hands with the infidel and the Atheist.If an infidel wishes to be specially malignant in bis attacke ou the Bible, be briogs forward the very point argued by the Zïmes, end saya that orts slavery.Within the lust is was done in & public discus.place in the City road the Rev.Mr.Barker end born child.But tbe second thought may be | Iconoclast,\u201d the advocates respectivel that the world is like that jun.i snd harry of its edifices of its gigantic triumph: enterprises, amidst the crowd hed even ite neediest inhabitants, (bere is not room for the Saviour of maokind, Upon this thought another may follow\u2014that that ion, in respect of its bustle and turmoil, is like the world.Man crowds round man, giving himself up without reserve, whether to smidst its (supported pressure of | Qo bles.{ That, amidst [of Modern Atheism\" and \u201cthe Bible.\" ts pomp and magnificence, amidst the whirl usiness, amidst the marble The representative of Modern Atheism as serted with an air of triumph that the Bible slavery relyiog on the usual verbal ï But ble opponent, of course, re plied that Christianity laid down principles atal to slavery, leaving their application to Christian men.We refer to ibis as showing the kind of weapons on which * Modern Atheism * relies in its attacks on the Bible.The advocates of the Slave Power use the same weapons, aud, whether consciously or not, aim at the same result.It need scarcely be said that this kind of assault on the Bible, is, in its nature and tendency, far more dangerous than anything coutained in *\u2018 Essays and Reviews,\" or in Bishop Colenso\u2019s recent work, These rationalistic critics attack the letter oniy, while the champions of slavery would utterly corrupt the sense and destroy the essence of the Divine Word.Such attempts are fortunately predestined not only to atter failure, but to the prompt reproba- tion of all right thinking and honourable men.Our national religion and morality are not destined to come Into serious collision with the wretched advocate of a barbarous sud demoralizing power, much less to perish iguobl in a filibustering brawl, And thet the ill.starred effort to corrupt public opinion on thin great and vital question will be vain, the meetings which are being beld throughout the kingdom to denounce the Slave Power sufficiently prove, THE 8I0UX INDIANS: THEIR DRES SES, CEREMONIES, DANCES, &c., (To the Editors of the Independent.) Yaxxron, Dakots Territory, 1862.While we all watch with feverish eagerness every item from the great war, perhaps some of your readers may feel a little interest in that people whese how is bent upon this whole froctier, The Sioux are peculiarly sggressive and warlike, They have always been at war with their Indian neighbors, and very bard has it been with them to live at peace with the whites.Indeed, the peace that bas existed since the unpunished, or rather rewarded, Spirit Lake Massacie, bas been buts constant series of unredressed robberies, I say unre dressed ; for though agents and traders may have stolen ten dollars for one, and hence bave generally been opposed to such punish- went as will distarb trade, yet the furmers of Northwest Iowa and of Dakota bave annuaily lost & heavy per cent.of their property, and often have been forced to abandou even their homes.The Sioux is nothing unless a warrior or marsuder.No belle of Madison square can torn up her nose more haughtily at a porseless aspirant for ber hand, than will the Dakota maiden at bim who has never taken a horse or a scalp.Every ceremony, every dance, every precept, is directly a\u2018med to foster the passion for war and robbery.Early io the summer was performed at the Yankton Agency, by six young men, the terrible Dance of the Sun.\"To go through with it is a prerequisite to Indian rank, For twenty-four weary hours they continued the almost frantic jump, gazing and ejaculating ut the sun as long as it was up, offering it the pipe of friendship, presenting it with images of the horse, and praying for success in stealing them, also images of the fox, with petitions for successful hunts, and only resting a minute at a time as the priest sees their strength utterly failing.They were then seized by attendants of the priest, forcibly thrown upon their backs, two deep alita about two iuches part cut in each breast, aud a slick like a butcher's gambril thrust at each end through under the skin, and under the stick and around the protruding fiesh, cords were tightly bound, leaving it beld firm to the body by two strips of living skin and flesh, A rope was then fastened to the stick and to a stake a few yards distant, aod the oung Hiawatbas jump up snd renew the dunce The end is only reached by tearing the stick through the skin, and in this instance it was another twenty-four hours before it was done.Often the devotee faints before succeeding iu freeing bimeelf from the stake, and is sided by others in tearing loose.At the close, a piece of flesh was cut from the shoulder of some young female friend of the dancers, and is offered up in thanke for the successful exploit.These ceremonies, with others of a more or less barbarous character, are practiced not only by the Teton Sioux beyond the Missouri, but by those for whom treaties bave long since provided funds for their civilization.Is there anything in the self-torture of the Hiudoo to exceed this ?Our settlers are looking with deep concern to the coming spring.Fro refuges Isontis from Minnesota are now with the Upper Sioux above Fort Pierre, and all accounts agree that, with their friends, they will be down upon us in the spring, perhaps before.Fort Pierre is an abandoned U, 8, fort, about 160 miles above Fort Randall, and now occupied by traders.The great body of the Dakotas are went of the Missouri, occupying the vast country from the Niobrara and Upper Platte ou the mouth, to the Mitsouri and Yellowstone ou the north, and running out to the South Pass and through tbe Black Hills to the hesd- waters of the Yellowstone.East of the Missouri are the Yanktons, under treaty, and now peacefully occupying their Reservation, and the Upper and Lower Yauktonaais, extendin, from the Upper Big Sioux to the Missouri.It is the largest and most warlike nation upon the continent, and only needs consolidation to become a very dangerous enemy.They are sow divided, bat unless the peace party are vigorously sustained, they will all be uwept ibto the war, If so, God save us and them! It in time to consider whether our Indian policy has not proved a failore, To occupy the continent, to wean the Indian from bia wandering life, and to eo govern hito as to civilize and enligbten, offers à pro lem that sorely tries our wisdom as well ae justice.One solution, log adopted by conquerors, though but recently avowed, in that inferior races abould be enslaved in order to be civilised.Another is the system we have adopted in our Indian relations.The former is unjust, and therefore cannot be successful ; the atter, though just, has generally failed.But is it the only just system?Weshould remember that, with all bis native capacity for im- provement\u2014and no one conversant with him can doubt that capacity\u2014 the Indian is à child, and must be directed ; he is 6 wild beast, and must be restrained.In civilized society\u2014 the family aud the school, the farm sud the work-shop\u2014the great educators\u2014are absolute monarchies.The first lesson of a New Eng- lander is to lesrn to obey.The habit of obedience to just suthority alone makes hia fit for self-government, With the Indian there is no such habit.There is no family worthy the name, no school, no industry.There never will bo until generations shall grow up under the cempulsion that every sane white man deems essential 10 save bis own children from vagabondism.Our Indian treaties provide for the education of the children in the arts of industry and in elementary science.How can these tresties be obsery:d bot by eoforcing labor aud school attendaice?Are Indien children, with every example and incitement to idleness, so superior to white, that they will voluntarily do what frm suibority, with opposite example aud incitement, is es sential to obtain from our own?We complain thet Iodisns do not become civilized while we do not give them the habits of civilization.The babits of children, red, black, or white must be bred into them by authority.\u2018The orgies of the gin-hop, brothel, or prizefi ht must be euppressed, or the child kept fron them.But where is the effort, worthy the name, to change tbe influences and overcome the habits that make tbe Indian hut the sinner or the tiger ?Go into an Indiau encampment, see the males basking in the suo or lounging around the fire kept up by the women, Perhaps a few will come 10 meet you, strutting like turkey-cocks, in their paiut aud tiosel, or perhaps you will see them gormaudizing the food of days, with the ce-tainty of destitotion before them.Some \u201cBig Iudian\u201d way be seen galloping a halfetarved pony up and down the village, perbaps toshow bis feathers, or perhaps to see whether bis burem are laz- ging in de cornfield.Their only assemblies are the council and the dance.From the former the bulk of the tribe are excluded, and the latter is at once the charch and the lecture, the fair and the levee.From it the young and old receive their lessons in history, olitics, and morals; to it they sre indebted or every patriotic and social impression.There the brave recounts his deeds of rapine acd blood, and the zeal of all is excited to emulate the successful aseassin or thief.To the bloody rites of some of these dances I have alluded.No sentiment of mercy, no idea of justice, except in its lowest form of revenge; no love for woman, except as a slave ; no emulation in iodustry or stimulant to exertion, except in deeds of the devil; no worship of Deity, except as the pstron of crime; no couception of the manliness of truth, or the meanness of deceit, finds any ac cess to the savage mind, only as platted in our common nature, Who can wonder that children reared in such an atmosphere are savages 7 How would it be with ours?These dances are encouraged by contact with the whites.To us they are amusement, and we reflect not that to them they are the strong cord that binds them to savage life.If ever they rise, they must be loosed from this cord, even though the severance tear out tbe flesh iteelf.We must, by authority, and every possible motive, break up their devilish orgies.We must select the class that by treaty we are bound 10 educate, and they must be compelled at specified seasons to give their time to labor and letters.Certain religious forms should be observed, religious instruction be given every Sabbath, and the whole village should be required to attend.And this instruction sbould be in permsnent hands.Indiun agents are transient, aud wiile they most heartily co-operate, they should not be permitted to change or control the instruc.tore, the resl ¢ fathers\u201d of the tribe.P.Buss.ITALIAN CORRESPONDENCE.(Letler from Rev.J.R, McDougall of Florence, to New York Observer.) I'am happy to mention the arrival of à fourth Italian missionary to the Jews, viz: the Rev.Richard Cotter, of Modena.He and Mr.Lauria, of Turin, are supported by Episcopal Jewish Societies; Dr.Meyer, of Leghorn, by the London Jewish Society ; and the Rev.Theodore Meyer, of Ancona, by the Jewish Committee of the Free Church of Scotland.There bas been suchu favorable opening among the Jews recently, that these brethren bave already their bands full of work.Mr.Cotter, who is a large-hearted and devoted Christian man, has been studying the language for five or six months, and goin out and ia among the two thousand Jews o Modeus, many of whom are wealthy, and all of whom have formed his acquaintance, visit bis house, and enter into unprejudiced discussion.This is greatly owing to Mr.Cot ter's conciliatory manner.He bas come through some trying experience, whils s missionary to the Roman Catholics in Ireland among whom he wus sllowed to etay, and kindly treated, while other missionaries were stoned nad driven swe rudely from his sphere of work, Not only the town, but the neigh borhood of Modena contains many Jews, to whom Mr.Cotter proposes immediately to carry the glad tidings of Christ crucified.Gianuini, ap bumble Christian evangelist in the Marches, bas suffered violent persecution at Vesaro, but continues both there and at Fano, eight miles distaut, to have encouraging meetings with the brethern.At Bologoa there is also an evangelist, Pompei Rossi, sopported by Count Guiccardini, He is an able prescher, an ex-priest, and gathers around him one bundred aud fifty hearers.As yet nothing has been done for Bergame, i, Piacenza, Pavia, Ferrara, in wbich towns there are, from our private information, s pumber of believers in Christ, and readers of the Bible in ssoret.In fact, colporteur has been sent, the avant courier of the evangelist, and now the great want is laborers to enter into the harvest.WOXDERFCL IKCREASE OF SCHOOLS.Beyond the Appenines a great scLool move.went oo the part of the Government, has been Janvany 31, 1663, for soms time in progress.Without troubling you with detailed statistics, let me say that the number of day-schools bss increased during the last two years in Lombardy, Emilia, and the Marches, by the bundre ; while numberless Sabbath schools and ever.ing schools, new things in Italy, have been established in the same districts, The new Minister of Education is indefatigable ig iesuing circulars to prefects sud communities, for the commencement or organization of every Lranch of work in the educational department.Intent upon introducing the normal system of our own country, he Gately appointed an English Protestant lady, Mry, T3u~bidge, who has done good service at Bo.logns, to teach history and geography at Lucea.À great excitement ensued, so that the prefect of the town could not guarantee order, and tLe mayor actually threatened to resigu unless tbe ohyoxious appointmert was cancelled.The liberal newspapers have al] defended Mrs, Burbidge, and spoken not very complimentarily of the Lucchese ; while the Minister of Instruction bas stood firm, and assured the parties concerned that they must.oither have the Jady he has named, or no teacher at all of these branches.Another evidence of the zeal of the Government ard all thinking men, in relievivg the country of the incubus of ignorunce, fostered by\u2019 the riests, is found in the proceedings of the \u2018entb Congress of Scieutific and Literer Italians, (corresponding to our own British Association) which bas wet lately at Sienna, and appoiuted ita next meeting, by acclamation, to be held ot Rome.The questions of civil marriage aud tbe anification of dialects into one Italian langusge, were followed by lengthened and praciical deliberations on the preparation of suituble school books for regi mental schools, evening schools, and Te other clusses In various institutions, Al) these sre needed and more, Only few days sgo the letter, said to bave been written by the mother of our Saviour, from Jerusalem, to the inhabitants of Messina, wus printed for the comfort of the Sicilisoa, to show them bow closely all their ioterests were guarded by their divine patron, the Virgin Mary.KEWSPAPERS.The Providenza del Populo, of Bologna, bas been at last discontinued, owing to the vexatious sequeatrations to which it wes subjected, and the erangelical editor in before the tribonal, charged with language offen:ive to the religion of the State.At the same time, Naples sends us the early numbers of i new evangelical periodical, Civilia Eran.gelica, edited with much ability, snd arrar ged to suit the popular tate, by Signor Perez, tbe ex-Jesuit, who bus been for some time evangelizing inthe Bou'h.The news of the work that is going on in all quarters is given in an unsectarian spirit.The preaching of Signor Appin aud Mazzsrello is equally praised ; the evangelical schools and depots are highly spoken of; avd we are assured that, us in the North, so in the Southern provinces, there are many towus f, om which the demand for sn evangelist is very urgent.\u2014 Tbe jourcal ia very agreeable meinige of theological, controversial, pactical, and anecdotical matter, aud will, we trust, meet with a large circulation.WALDENSIAN COLLEGE.The examinations in the Waidensian College bave just closed with great credit to the students and their professors.It is with no ordizary feelings of gratiiude to God that we see such able aud wellfurnished ren about to enter into the ministry in Italy.\u2014 Year after year their vumbers will increase, end their influence tell with greater effect.How a Feperal GENERAL BECAME uN EmaxcirationIsr,\u2014There was stationed at Cairo at an early period of the war, a General noted for his autipathy to, and harsh treatment of slaves.On one occasion, the scl diers of his camp gathered about the shore to witness the struggles of 8 negro who bad been washed down the Ohio river, aud was strugglin toward them.Presently the negro gaine the shore, aud stood trembling snd entirely unked before them.A white man shouted across the river, * That is my negro, send him here I\u201d Some of the soldiers hea a voice which said, ¢ I was naked, imprisoned, sick, and ye ministered unto me;\" bat the general heard it not: he sent the negro over, in a boat, to his owrer, who whipped him with a cowhide in sight of tbe camp.A month or so later, at the battle of Shiloh, that General was taken prisoner, In à Southern town, & lady was insulting him grossly, aud he soceriogls turned his back upon ber ; whereupou the busband of tbe Tey took à cowhide, and inflicted upon (he defenceless Major General about as many stripes ss be bad seen fall upon the defenceless egro he bad returned! When that General was exchanged, he celebrated the first night of his arrival at Washington by a glowiog appesl for the immediate abolition of slavery.Toe Rev.Dr.Rarrixs\u2014Tbhis venerable and much-esteemed minister in counexion with the Congregational denomination receut- y officiated at (reat Georgestreet Chapel or fifty years the scene of bis zealous an successful labours as à minister of tbe Gospel.When he entered the pulpit it was evident that he was desply touched on again standing in the Place which wis so familiar to him, and ou beholding in their accustomed places so many that were before bis retirement under bie pastoral care.When, however, in bis rayer, be commended to the care of their eavenly Father tbe pastor and people now worshipping in that place, his feelings over came bim, and tears of deep tenderness and sympathy dropped from bis of the congregation were also moved to sonra and it was some seconds before the devotions) exercise was proceeded with, Although now in the seventy-fifth year of his age, there is little apparent decay in the rich musical voice of the reverened doctor, and he preached an affecting sermon from a portion of Genesis xIvii, 9, \u201c Few and evil have the days of the aged eyes.Many years of my life been.\u2014 Lit reuryà ons trey ERIN tn January 31, 1863.« THE MONTREAL WITNESs 67 WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE OF NEW YORK INDEPENDENT.Wasnixcrox Jan, 19, 1863, Though the week that has closed contained some of the darkest hours of the Republic since the day when Sumter was attacked, yet 1 have noticed tbat one class of people in this city weroin good epirits\u2014the colored people.Porhaps for the very reason that they did not fully understand the political, financial, sud military situation, they bad the stronger fuith in God and in priaciples.Whatever the cause may be, the colored ople in the District have not abated one jot of their entbuainsm nnd hope.Th-y be- Tieve, now that the President has pro: aimed liberty to the slave, thst God will no: desert him and tbe cause of jus:ice and bur:an freedom, Feeling thus, they propose a public demonstration in view of the Proclamation.A few nighrs ugo, 4 larze numlur of them came together 1 maky the nece:sary arrange ments.A few white rowdies were outside the buildi-g in which the mecting was held, and to show theic superiority over the colored race they seut au occasional shower of mis giles against the outer walls of the edifice.A colored preacher prescut noticing signs of fear in his sudience, advised them to prepare ! to fight the mob, adding, * Any man who will not, bad better make bis peace with G 4 and go to heaven!\u201d Since the Proclamation the colored people increase in manhood.Thay begin to talk of fi;hting, of refusing to s1:bmit to outra ges enforced upon them by brutal sud ignoraut white man, At the meeting teferred to, one of the speakers said, * He would do all be could to enforce the Pro-lamation.When God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt he did not give them possession of Canasn until they had conquered it | He believed Dixie was the Canaan for the colored race, but they must conquer iv!\u201d This is sound doctrine, and the only doctrine that will save the country, even ifit be taughtat \u201c negro meetings.\u201d In fact, these are the Tory plages it should be taught in, or else how is Mr.Liocola to ge! bis ne; army that Con will provide for him in a few days ?I have given one picture of the condition of the colored people here, I will give another.Blavery is nominally extinct in this District, but many cruel slavelaws remain.The Republican\u201d majoriti.s in Congress have never repealed the infumous Fugitive-Slave law\u2014 and let no mar.tell me that it is an obsolete law, for it is wot in this city.A few days ago I saw a black man chased as if he were a ruoaway tuief down the broad Pennsylvania avenue, justling honorable members of Congress na he rap, with a hideous Maryland slave-catcher close at Lis heels.At last he was caught, and tbe man-catcher began to shake his victim, as if to remind him that he vas uot s man but o beast, a thing\u2014and this was at noonday on the principal street of the capital, and in eight of the flag upon the Capitol building, as well as in full view of the Presidential mansion.A white citizen of 8 free state, unable longer to bear the sight of such cruelty, stepped up end demanded of the negro-catcher if had a warrant fo: the arrest.He had vot, bat the Northener was arrested by a city policewan for interference with an officer! 82 long as such acenes are possible in the capital of the nation, we sre not a free people, and the Republican majorities in Congress have not performed their entire duty.The condition of the colored people of the District, in their relstions with the white race here, fs upon the whole very pleasant, If there was no slave-catching from Maryland, and if it were not for a few low and drunken miscreants, they would have no complaints whatever to make.Whites aud blacks get along together in this city with comfort to both.There is very little prejudice against the colored man.bave often been aston: ished to see the familiarity with which white sud black workmen get along together.\u2014 Some time since, & piece of work, requiring the services of a tiuner required to be done in my house.Two young men were sent by their employer, one white and the otber black, sud buth were nest and smart workmen, a8 well as neat in their dress and sp- nce.They were on terms of perfect lamiliarity, and when the job was done they passed out together, talking as pleasantly as if both were white, or both black.Tle were accustomed to this, sod the vile anti- negro prejudice was not aroused.It was for- otten.So will it be over the South when the black race is acknowledged to be free by the whites.Whenever the two races bave occasion to work side by aide, the prejudices will subside.LETTER FROM NEW YORK.Trax aorxa vp Towx\u2014Eisoaxt Maxsions TURNED INTO Eatixa Hovsss\u2014 Waar WILL THE ARISTOCRACY DO?\u2014Dxpica- TION Fruxca Cuuacu\u2014Eanur CLosixe Movement.New York, Jan, 14, 1863, To the Editor of the Boston Journal : Trade has taken an uplomn movement, and has already overtaken the quick march of the rich denizen.À few years ago Bowling Green vas graced by the dwellings of the rich men of New York, One by one they left as trade came in.Toll, Lenox, Whitney, and a few such alone represented the aristocracy of the lower part of Broadway.Dut they had to succumb ; sud then their once stistocratic abodes were levelled with the dust to make room for the pile of the granite and marble, or became the dwelling places of Mammon bim- self.Fifth Avenue then became the centre of attraction.Up as far as 10th street was as much out of town a8 61st elveet now is, The Church of the Ascension old out their house in Canal street and went up to 10th and Gth aveuue.The aristocratic abode gave little promise of its coming flog.It was not opened.It was unpaved, ud was deop\u2014s single plank led to the new sanctuary.d the of the committee putting a church out in the fields\u2014with no population near, and then wa up out of town~ was the theme of unive remark, But Gib avenue is doomed.Trade like a leak in a ship, ia gaining.The palatial of 14th street, has become a restaurant\u2014an ele aut one it is tee, but still an eating house.\u201d The magnificent house of Penneman on Union square, at one time the most costly we had\u2014 whose furniture and upholstery were made in Frauce, imported at great cost, and was the ten days\u2019 wonder of New York is a French eating bouse, and the splendid furniture gracea the Clarendon Hotelut Saratoga.Four of the most elegaat privat: mansions are used as Clubs.The famad Spingler Institute, the aristocratic semiiary of the Abbotts, where ator tune waa made \u2018hat was lost in an Iudian rubber specalatior, has been changed iuto à hotel, Clear op to 2:i.d street, and under the very nose of tht noode of aristocracy\u2014the [ith Avenue II .|\u2014a block of stores bas heen built, op-ni 1g on 5th avenue and running back to Brosdwuy.Up on the corner of 2Gib street, */1 «re the creme de la creme of the tou put d'.#a their fouvdations, as bezond Lhe reac\u2019.ci vulgar trade, Ridgeway, late Stewart, Las oj«ned an immense candy shop, having rer,oved from Hadaon street, Paint shops, Hz stores and little ones; trade, large and -.oull, are lining the way from Washington P.rk to Central Park.And what will become «I the aristocracy, 80 shubbily treated sud so trampted on, is not yet kuown.No spot is safe, no street or avenue secure, An elegaut Freach Episcopal Church was dedicated last Sunday by Bishop Porter.The congregation is not farye, but quite wealthy.Owning à valuuble site down town the sale of which bas enabled the congregation to go up aud build, hes pat the charch on a fine footing.A few earnest men undertook an early closing movement iu this city, and by toil and perseverance have gaised 04 names of most of the retail establishments to close each evening at 7 o'clock, except Saturday, and to close that night at 9 p.m, The movement has been successful with good feeling all sround.So the clerks can attend lectures und otherwise employ their time to sdvautage if they will.GEN.HOOKER.(From N.Y.Tribune.) This general ¢ Fightiog Joe,\u2019 as his \u201cboys\u201d are proud to cail bim, though be is reported to bave enid that be takes no resl pleasure in fighting, for iteelf, bu.would rather be at home on his furm, were it not for the principal involved\u2014this General as the records show, was bora in Old Hudley, Massachueetts, sud received a military educa tion at West Point, in company with such men as General Benhum, Seammon, Arnold, French, Bragg aud Pemberton\u2014the latter two, rebels.\u201cAfter graduating in 1837, he joined the lat Artillery, a regiment which has since given so many brave officers to command oor forces.The next year ho was as signed to duty op the Subsistence Department, and iu 1841, was sent to the Military Academy to act as Adjutant.From this post he was recalled in October, 1841, which he held vn- til 1846, when, the war with Mexico baving cowmenced, he was appninted an Aid-de-Camp to Brigadier-Gen.Thomas L.Hamer, of the Volunteers.Gen.Hooker was distinguished in the several conflicts of Monterey, and was brevetted Captain for his gallant conduct.In March, 1847, be was appointed to the general staff as Aesisiaut-Adjutant General, with the rank of Captain ; and for gullaut and meritorious conduct in the affair at tbe National Bridge, June 11, 1847.and ut the battle of Chepultepec, Sept.13, 1847, was brevetted Msjor and Lieut.-Colonel.At the close of the war he was appointed to 8 permanent Assistant Adjutant Generalship, and thereupon relinquished bis rank in the line, but retained bis brevet rank of Lieutenant.Colonel.In 1853 he resigned altogether, ond retired to his farm in Sonoma County, California, which he bad bought while serving in that State on she staff of Gen.Persifer I.Smith, subsequent to the Mexican war.Tbe oatbresk of the Rebellion, however, found him atill à soldier, aud he was one of the first to offer his services 10 the Government.They were accepted as a matter of course, aud his tame appeared fifteenth on the list of thirty-four Brigadier-Generals ap- -ointed by the President on the 14th of May, Ésel.is first duty was under Gen Dix, but he was soon assigued to the command of a brigade uoder Gen.McClellan.The dis turbed condition of Prince George and Charles, Maryland, were effectusliy reduced to order without any casualty.He next served on the left bank of the Potomac, aud made occasional visits into Virginia for the purpose of looking after rebels there.At Williams burg, on the 5th of May last, Gen.Hooker's division of 8,000 men was mora than 8 match for 20,000 men under Longstreet and Hill.The licbels were nobly held in check from morning until evening, when Kearney\u2019s division came up and drove them through Williamsburg, \u201cair Oaks, Nelson\u2019s Farm and Malvern Hill, bis division upheld the vame it wou at Williamsburg, aud bis men proud! hoasted that they had never left a attle-field under the enemy's fire.At South Mountain and Antietam be commanded the First Army Corps.Oo the 15th of September his corps, with that of the late Gon.Reno, carried by storm the heights commanding the Hagerstown road, taking over 1,000 prisoners.Ou the renewal of the fight next day be was wounded in the foot by a Minie ball.When he had nearly recovered from bis wound, he 100k the command vacated by Fitz John Puiter, who was ordered to Washington to be tried by courtmartisl.On Gen.Burnside taking the place of McClellan, the army was divided into three Grand i \u2014Rigbt, Centre, and Loft\u2014and Gen.Hooker was appointed to command the Centre \u2014 His present rank is Brigadier-General in the regular army, and Major-General of Volun- ore.It may be further ssid of Gen.Hooker that he ie à lineal descendant from the Rev.Joseph > Hooker, the first settler at Hartford, Conn.Penoually he is a splendid specimen of tbe old Now ruddy face, aud a brizht piercing eye ; an is, Buruside\u2019s Graud Army.WOOD PAPER.Mr.Rogers of the Boston Journal, arc J.Willard Rice of the extensive paper commi sion warehouse of Rica, Kendall & Co., visi 8 few dugs since, the mill at Roye:s Penusylvania, wÈcre the manufacture of from wood has been successfully tested.1.\u2026: report, drawn up by Mr, lIcllingeworih, we swe below: \u201cAt lle request of Mr, Jumee Carson of New York, the uudersizued, on tke Gib inst., visited the paper mill ut Rogers\u2019 Ford, Penn sylvanin, for the purpose of secitg thy opera tion of wood (common white wood or pop- iur) being converted into paper pulp, ud wanufactured into puper.We arrived at the will at 10 o'clock a.w.Mr.Walsh, the iu- telligent proprietor, sud part owner of tbe patent right, received us iu a very friendly aod polite manner, and iuvited us into the mill.As we cotered the mill yard a novel sight presented itself.Tastead ofaceing balca of foreiga rage, Leajs of old cauvass and other domestic tags, 8s is usual, we saw piles upon piles of wood, aud wagon loads of wood being unloaded ; in fact, the paper-mill yard, bordering as it does ou the Selisenl river, presented the appearance of 8 wood wharf, thirty years since, in the city of Boston, Mun were engaged iu stripping off the bark from the wood, avd splitting it into quarters.At one end of the yurd, and where we entered the mill, the woed was being cut up.This was done in the usual way of chipping dye woods, and ut very little cost.The chipped wood was then shoveled into a box placed on wheels, and by the labor of one man, easily drawn over a rude railway 10 the room where the wood was converted into pulp.And this was dune, 60 far as our obsei vation extended, by putting the wood into a close irou tank or boiler, and subjecting it to the solvent action of caustic alkaline, witb the application of à powerfulheat.This operation occupied some hours, and was ottended with considerable ¢x- nse, a large quantity of sods ash and lime ing used, and a good deal of fuel required ; and the services of an intelligent and practical chemist being necessary, in order that the proper result should be obtained, in this operation of dissolving the wood into a fibre suitable for paper.There lies the secret as well as the dificully of making paper from wood.When the dissolved wood 1s drawn off from the tank or boiler into a vat or cistern, the blackish brown liquor is permitted peatedly filling the vat or cistern with clean water and drawing it off, leaving the wood pulp that remaivs of about the same color as the criginal wood.The pulp 18 then put into a common rag engine, and bleached in the usual way, with chlorine and sulphuric acid, and emptied into drainers where it remains to whiten.It is there mixed with twenty, thirty, or forty per cent.of liven or cotton fibre, and made into paper, in the nenal way.\u201c The paper made on the machiue, the Gtb Înat., was of good fair quality for nowspaper, and contained vot more than twenty per cent.of liven fibre, and not less thun eighty per cent of wood, snd was produced at a cost not exceeding six cents per pound.This statement of 1he cost and per cent.of wood used was mude with great sppavent fairness on the part of Mr.Walsh, and we have no resson Whatever to doubt the truthfulness of his statement.OUR WONDERFUL REVENUE.(From London Christian World) People naturally expected to \u2018earn from the annual Revenue Tublea when they should be published that the National income bud fullen off considerably this Cotton Famine yesr.They were, therefore, by no means prepared for the gratifying intelligence that so far from upon the year's receipts over those of 1861 of £2,392,578, neatly two millions and a-half; and a total revenue of £70,996,429; onl: some two thousand short of seventy one wil lions.As the Z'imce puts it, this is not a casual, or a sudden, or an accidental result.It is the aggregate growth of à steady, unwavering increase.If we compare the Quarterly Returna of 1862 with those of 1861, we find, with one exception, which amounts only to a few pounds, that they have a proper relation to cach other.Every quarter in each of the two years rises or falls, when compared with other quarters, according to the wholesome periodical vibrations occasioned by the usual trade causes.There is aimply an increase as compared with the quarter of the previous year, Tt is not a lumped sum all in one quar ter, and arising from some accidental cause, like Chinese ransom money or the happy re covery of s bad debt ; it is ail ordinary income, such as we may expect to get again next year, and we may hope to get again with a further increase.Nor does this increase arise from a prosperity which has been in action during the early portion of the year, but which is now yielding to unpropitious causes, The last quarter was the best of all.In the last quarter there was & total increase of £1,310,889 over the corresponding quarter of 1861, and in that quarter even the Excise, 80 sensitive à measure of ithe comforts of the people, an excess of £164,000, We cannot, indeed, boast of our Excise daring the whole year.It bas felt the influence of the cotton famine, and shows a loss which had to be made up from other sources.Dut these compensating sources are of the most perennial character.Qur customs have grown as though they fattened upon the troubles that vex the world.Upon the year they show an increase of £262,- 000, being £24,036,000 against £23,774,000 in 1861.What a mighty course of trade these figares mark, aud how handsome an increase does this extra quarter of a million show! The Stamps are good for nearly half a million of increase in the rear; aud the Assessed y ngland stock, being about 45 years residence of Moses H.Grinnell, on the corner of age, tall, aud well proportioned, with a: a trifling deficiency of £12,000 on the quarter, moreover, one of the best looking soldiers ia | to run off, and the operation is assisted by re- P, this being the case, there is an actual increase |g Taxes, which are entirely a gauge of luxuries, show 4 small advance upon the year, although The miscellxnevus sources bave been abundant, end have yielded an extra million ; and the post-office gives £100,000, which we fear bas been too dearly bought.That willing boree which every Chancellor of the Exchequer loves to ride with whip aud spur, aud which we need hardly ray is the Property T «x, bas earned this last year an sugmerted nvenue of £1,142,000.\u201cIt may surely be * loped that under these circumstances the Gov- : «went will aunounes upon tbe mreting of Parliament that it is their determination to propnge the remission of sume considerable taxes.MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, Sgarovs Ranway AccipExt ar Ksor- TISGLEY\u2014TWELVE ERsoNs INJURED.\u2014A Be- rious collision tuok place on Tuesday morning at the Kuottingley Junction, between the first Great Northern u;-traine trom York aud Leeds.The etation ia approached in à dizect line from Leeds, but tke York trains rou into the hin line by a loop from Burton Sutmon.Ou reaching Koottingley the traine are linked together and theuce to London form one train.On Tuesday morning the two left ai the usual time, ard reached the junction exscty at the same time.The York train wes slightly in advance of the Leeds, ard the latter, runging upon the same metals ns the York train, burles two carriages from the line\u2014in fact, cut the train into two parts.The driver of the Leeds train, Thomas Knapton, states tbat the dis tance signal indicated that he could approach, sod thet when he neared the main Foe he saw that à collision wus ivevitable.After using all mesns to preveut a collision, and fuiling, be jumped off, sud was much buet.His fireman, who remained upon the engine, escaped though the engine cat right through the teain, and ken fell over, Two passenger carriages were literally smashed to pieces, aud most of the passengers in them were run over or fearfully injured.Oue poor fellow wag jammed by a portion of one of tbe carriages agaiuet the bridge; and others, with limbs broken or mangled, culled piteonsly for belp.Mes.Brooke, wife of Mr.George Brooke, bookseller and stationer, Doncaster, wag dreadiully injured about the bead, and she has also sustained u great shock to the sys tem.Medical uid was immediately obtained from Pontefract, and tbe sufferers were al- tended to.At present no lives are lost, bat, from thé extent of be injuries some have sustained, it is difficult to eay what may be the result.The cause of the accident will be strictly inquired into.The morning was foggy and the rails very slippery.\u2014 English aper.Frigorrrr Deatns From Intoxicatiox.\u2014In London on Christmas-day au intoxicated cripple fell with his head under his body, and, beiug unable to get up, was suffocated.\u2014A lamentable case of death from drunkeouess is reported from Liverpool.A woman, named Hull, seventy years of age, went to her room in a state of intoxication.Afterwards she was found dead in the apartment, aud at the same time her son, a middle-aged man, wns discovered in the same room, also druuk, and unconscious of the death of his mother.\u2014A drunken engice diiver, at Sackey Brook Colliery, uear St.Helens, started his engine the reverse way as two men were about to dus- cend tbe shaft.The men seeing their davger jumped out of the cage, but only one escaped, the other falling down the aba, MetaxcHoLy Death.\u2014The officers and men of the 86th Regiment stationed at Waterford have been thrown iutoe the deepest grief by the welancholy and sudden death of Dr.Sawyers, the medical officer of that regiment.Ov St, Stzphen\u2019s Day, when the officers of the regi ment were about to retire to dinner, Dr.Sawyers, who, it is said, bad imbibed a little ton freely of the boltie, sent bis servant for tbe phial contaïnin; pruseie acid, ns bo intended taking a few drops of it before entering the dining-room ; but baving put it t his lips, he ravk à quantity of it, and in about five minutes ho was no wore.\u2014 Irish Times.ANOTHER COILIERY Accimesr.\u2014 Early on Monday morning last a frightful accident oc curred at ove of the pits of the Lileshali Colliery Cumpany, situate at Prior\u2019s Lee, near Sheffield, by whi -h twelve persons lost their lives, It appears tbat the wen were being lot down the sbaft 14 their work, and that nine men and three boys had got in the cage at once and were being lowered, when one of the pins of the gearinx zave way, and they were ail recipitoted to the butiom of the shaft.They fad great deptb to fall, end were all killed on the spot, tbe bodies being much mangled.This deplorable accident leaves five women widows and twenty-seven children fatherless.\u2014 English paper.Tue Frexou Buparr.\u2014Tbe Moniteur publishes M.Fould's Report on the financial condition of the French empire.The deficit (or the present year is sisted to be 35 mil: lions of france, which is caused by the ex- penscs attendant on the Mexican expedition, which is estimated at 83 millions of francs, or nearly tbree millions and a balf sterling.He states that the Mexican expedition assumes proportions which could not have been foreseen a few months before, and that ita expenses in 1862 have exceeded by about 14 million frencs the special resources which ve had been set apart to meet it.Alluding to 1863, M.Fould calculates on a surplus of 110 million francs, which, he estimates, will moot the expenses for that year of the Mexican expedition, as well as any unforeseen expenses.Dratn or Davip Grxenavey.\u2014According to à provincial Demepaper, David Greenbur.died of diphtheria at Scarborough lately, age only forty-eight.Io early lifo, it ap be was à coal-porter at Malton, and after a short religious profession became wm notorious pugilist.In buight upwards of six feet (wo hes, he possessed immense strength, and constituted bimself the champion of the weak and defenceless.Ho was at last defeated by 6 little man, at which he was so exasperated that he bit off part of bis adversary's ear, This was his Jast fight, and in 1841 he set off to Seamer fair on what ho said should be bis last \u201cspree.\u201d A gentleman travelling by the seme coach gave him a tract which contained a hymn beginning \u201c Stop, poor sianers.\u201d\u2014 Theas words so struck Greenbury's mind that he returved bome a penitent.For some ears he was occasional preacher among the Melhodist, chiefly at Scarborough aud Mal ton, He went about exhotting for some time.\u2014 English Paper.Portiasn, Me\u2014The Prices Current of Portland gives full reports of trade, commerce and business in that city, during the year 1362, As Portland is not only the second seaport in Now Eugland, but really the second city in importance, some of the items will be of intere:t.The amount of tonns; built was 7,518 tons.Number of vessel arrived 3,428, of which 601 were from foreign ports.The total value of foreign exports wus $4,117,292, \u2018Tbe shipments to Cuba of box shooks was 1,050,160, They have two flour mills which reduced 120,000 bushels of grain to flour.The value of fish smounted to over a half million dollars.A few yenra ago they looked to Boston and New York for flour, but last year they shipped to Europe 84,000 bbls.In 1851 there were bot five dealers in flour, where now are fifty wholessle dealers.The stock of flour the first of January by actual count was 57,884 bbls., with about 3,000 op tke wag.Of lumber 100,000,000 feet were brought into the ort.The molasses imported wus 38,774 Ed, 4,355 tierces, 184 puncheons and 1,574 bbla.; total in gallons 5,824,042.The sales of Kerosene oil at times bave been 15,000 gallona per week, The trade in fish oil is above 1,500 bbls, a year.The Port land Suzar Company was in active operation nearly tbe whole year, giving active employment to an average number of 196 men encl month, with a pay roll of $5.000 acd the gross product for the year was 60,000 bhls, sugar, sod 16,000 bhde.and 5,000 bbls.sugar house molasses.That establishment cousumed 30, 900 hids of molasses.Harnep.\u20141f the whole Yunkee race shoald fall down in the duet to-morrow aud pray us to be their masters, we would spurn them even as slaves.Our only wish is t.be sepa rated from them finally sud furever\u2014never to Bee tho face of one of them again\u2014uever to bear the voice of unother Yankee on the south side of the Potomac or the north\u2014to bave no traffic and no intercourse of any de scription whatever with them, Wa are fighting for separation, and we will have it, if it cost the life of every mau in the Confederate States,\u2014 Richmond Despatch.Poor Wir.\u2014 The Cleveland Plaindealer prints what it doubtless thinks 10 be an ex.ceediugly sarcaetic report of an Emancipation Jubilee in that village.If there is anything more disgraceful than serious abuse of a help less, dowr-trodden race, it is making fun of them.There is no wit 50 melancholy\u2014no suvarinees 80 certain to reflcet infamy upon the perpetrators.Aud they call hemeelves whito mcn!\u2014N.Y.Tribune.Ax Etcrry Doran Breskrast.\u2014 At Tifin, Ohio, the elephant Hunvibal, Leouging to Vau Awmbucgh's wenngrriv, lately treated biw-elf 10 a repast which ccm over eight; dollars.A candy pedlar bad stucked bis wagon with & supply of delicacies, und had goue to the botel stable for his horse, when Hannibal Lroke loose from bis fastenin, smushed the wagon to finders, and \u2018 gobbled\u201d down, in a few misutes, six thousand gingerbread cakes, seventy pouuds of assorted candy, aud forty pounds of \u201c French kissea.\u201d\u201d \u2014The health of the venerable Lord Lyadburst, who is now in his ninety-fret year, is greatly improved ; bis Lordship takes a lively interest in ull that is going on, and exhibits all tbe intellectual clearness and vigour of his younger Yeara, \u2014 Icis onid that the trustees appointed to carry out the intentions of Mr.Peadody in his munificent gift to the poor of Loudon, have visited various localities, and selected sites for improved dwellings, Plaos have beea drawn, and contracts are in progress.\u2014 The Japanese, not to be behind other na- lions, have ordered two sloops-of-war and one gunboat, mounting in all 64 guns, to be constructed in America, * = The Marquis of Abercorn bas proposed to pay £10,000 into the funds of tbe notorious Bank of Deposit, uow being wound up, in order to put & stop to litigation so far as be is concerned.\u2014 The square of St.Mark at Venice, and the Ripa de' Schiavone, have been under water owing to an extraordinary movement in tbe Adriatic.The city wells ceased to furnish fresh water, \u2014 Nr.Jobn A.Donaldson, late Canadian Emigration Agent at Londonderry, in a report just issued to the Government, urges on them to give every encouragement to the sullivation of Flax in Canada, on account of its present great value asa crop.~~ Over fire thousand pounds sterling have already been contributed in Britain towards the Madagascar Memorial Obhurch Fund of £10,000.\u2014 The whole story of a duel between Garl- baldi's soa aud Qol.Faliavacino, is pronounced à fabrication.\u2014 The Prince of Wales is presenting bis future bride with a magnificent dress of Alencon lace.The value is said to be £1,500, = Colonel Gawler was stabbed by a thiefin bis tent in the Lisad-quarters camp on the night of the 18:h November, on the march from Agre on the Gawlior road, \u2014 A Boston paper, referring to the annual meeting of the Homamopatbic Dispeasary of city, states, that over one thousand pertons had been, under medical treatment during the year, at an expense, including rent and office expen 4, of $520 60, -\u2014 A man in Now York went to ad ¢runk the other night, rolled out of bed ¢ 4 broke his neck ; bis wife found bim dead I, tbe morniog.\u2014 The extreme mildness of (bq winter in the North-west is the theme of \u2018emark in the news papers of tbat region. THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Janvasy 3L, 1863.Coxtexts or Ixsinr Paces.\u2014Second Page : \u201cThe Hon.W.E Gladstone on Civilization.\u2019 \u201cThe Times Defending Slavery.\u201d The Sioux lodiane: theic Dh.esies, Ceremonies, Dances, Act * ftalisn C spondence.\u201d \"shington Cotrespnudence brdcpendent\u201d \u201cLetter from .Hooker\u201d +# Weod Pape.\u201d levenne\u201d * Miseclaucoua i Sixth and 8 \u201cThe Lesson: of tke Y.n:\" chs acd Brick Houser! \u201cA plea fur briate A:yluma\u201d \u201cThe coming Contest in Brazil\u201d * Tle Soldier's Mother\u201d \u201cVoices\u201d \u201cInser Life ja France.\u201d \u201cThe Ervemis of Snake: \u201cA Shameful Waste,\u201d \u201cTue Yo-sem-i-te Falls, California.\u201d 4 Birds\u2019 Nene of Dagon\u201d \u201c1th Pages \u2018 i 1 THE WAL SBS.NONTREAL, SATURDAY, JAN.31.FIRE AT BELLEVILLE.(Special Telegram to Witness.) BeLieviLLE, Jan.29.\u2014 This morning about 4 o'clock, a fire broke out in a small wcoden buildiog, occupied by McCarty, sboemaker.\u2014 The fire rapidly cowmusicated itself to the adjoining shops uecupied by Roche Bullen, Sboe- store, Hugh Walker, Bookstore, Mizs Byrne's millinery ebop, and J.Cummins, saddler.These buildirgs being ail of wood, burnt ra- pdr.The fi.» now extended itself to the stone nilding owued by the Commercial Bank, aud occupied by J & W.Sutherland as dry-goods store, and to he adjuiving building occupied by the Intelligencer printing cftice, and by Wesley Bulle, Orockerystore, all of which were totally consumed.McCarty was insured for $600; Walker, $400; Cummings, $600; Sutherland's stock partially, and building fully insured, part of stock saved; the Intelligencer building and printing material were insured for $6,500; Urqubart's shoe store, Miss Frith's mil- lioer\u2019s shop, und Dawes\u2019 residence and brewery escaped, but much damaged, and totally stripped of their contents.It is not koown how the fire originated.Total loss supposed to be about $25,000, Zouave mode of fighting of the Rebels, states that their balls seem to have providentially avoidud tbe French-Cauadians ia the army, as fewer of thm proportionally bave fallen than of the Americans.This he attributes to the fact that the Freach-Canadiana have retained, even in camp and on the battle field, the habit of eaying their morning aud evening pragers; and that they thus secure a special divine blessing.ToroNtu Solnitns\u2019 InsrirtTE\u2014The acnus) meeting of this Institute was held last Satur day.The report represented tbe Institution us successful.In December 1bere were 272 sub- seribers.The attcndance ranges from 40 to 60 per day.The Committee consists of civilians with all officers of the garrison as ex-officio members.The citizens provide all funds, The ; lostitute in Montreal is almost allogetber under | military management, and recuives £250 ster- jing from (he British Government.At the Toronto Institute meeting the officers recommended that beer should be provided for the soldiers to induce a larger sltendance.It is singular (hat aome individuals cannot do anything without driok;aod itiasurprising tbat cfficers wbosbould know the evil consequences of drinking among soldiers should #0 often place temptation in their way.The counlenance given to moderate drinking is virtually belping men to become drunkards.We are glad that the Toronto Ia- stitute bas succeeded so well, and hope that it may continue to prospec on its present plan.GENERAL BUTLER, Our old friend the Peterboro\u2019 Review makes a great outcry about our recent article on General Butler, and seeks eagerly to involve the Witness ja the odium that attaches to that general's name wherever the pro-slavery London Times and such papers are considered good authority.We will therefore briefly give our reasons for publishing the article in question, premising that General Butler has never been a favorite of ours, being a pro-slavery Democrat LATEST NEWS FROM QUEBEC.[By Special Telegram to Witness.) The jury, at 10 c'elock this morning, rendered a verdict of manslaughter sgainat Cronier, for the murder of Sergeant Bewley last fall.The jury were coufined thirty-nine hours.The verdict was what the defence asked.Abbott aad McGee bave returned from Montreal, Agprvars or Sreawzss.\u2014The \u2018 Saxonie,\u201d from Southampton, arrived at New York on the 27th.The \u201cEdinburgh,\u201d from Liverpool, arrived at the same port on tbe 20th.Tux Wan.\u2014Nothing of particular interest bas transpired since our last, Tue AxsivErsary Meztixos.\u2014These meetings bave passed off with their usual interest.Brief reports of the addresses will be found in other columns, AcxmowLsnuxzuT.\u2014The proprietors of the Witness have recently received and banded over to the Treasurer of the British Operative Relief Fund, the following amounts, viz.: \u2014 From Smith's Falls, by the bands of A.Ne- Doogall, Eiq., Reeve, $275 40 for British Operatives, From Stratford, per Mr.Marshall, $20 for Coventry weavers.This latter gift the Tressurer will, we underatand, transmit direct to the Mayor of Coventry.The former will be transmitted as previous contributions bave been\u2014to the Lord Mayor of London.Ravivak iN GrirrenTown.\u2014We are informed that the meetings in the Grifiatown Wesleyan Church are crowded every evening.About 100 individuals have expressed the hope that they have found the Faviour.There are also over 50 inquirers.The Rev.Mr.Jobnson meets the latter at bis bouse in the afternoon, and we understand his visitura are numerous.Among the converted, are individuals who had been remarkable for their carelessness and wickedness, Drunkards, swearers, and even persecutors, have yielded to the Divine ioflcence.Mr.Caughey will continue the meetings to the close of the present week.Fazscu-Cananias Socniæes.\u2014A great many French-Canadians are serving in the army of tbe Potomac.They do not form separate companies of their own, but are mixed up with the American soldiers, La Minerve publishes tbe letter of one of them, which contains details the more relisble because tbe writer is free from all political feelings.He was in the Bull-Ruo, Antietam, and Fredericksburg battles.He represents the sufferings, privations, and dissp- pointments of the army ss great, and sighs for home.He attributes the want of success of the Federals entirely to the incompetency of the officers,\u2014a cooviclion which Le wide-spread among the soldiers.The latter fight bravely, bat are paralyzed by a want of conbdence in their leaders; and the Government, which tries to remedy (be evil by a frequent change of generals, only increases it; as only time snd long acquaintance with each otber create that mutual reliance so essential to success.The bolding back of their pay is also very discouraging to the wen; and the careless manage- went of hospitals damps their ardor ia battle, They prefer being killed to being wounded, on scoount of the ghastly prospect of s Federal frvm bis youth up of the bardeat kind.rity io ordinary times, but then in a state of moment bave been massacred by the angry citi- zeny, bad they been permitted to inflame themselves by insulting the soldiers, boisting the Confederate flag, issuing treaconable papers, or organizing and concerting their attacks.Not only the saccess of Lia mission, but the lives of| bimself and the soldiers under bim were at stake.The most vigilant and vigorous admi- vistration of (be power iu bis hands could alone eave either New-Orleans or bis army.And he proved, unlike other generals of the Union, equal to the occasion.lu such circumstances no man of ordinary sense will deny that coercion, apd that of a stern kind, was necessary.As well m:y the governor of a penitentiary be called a Haynau, because be enforces the most rigid rules in the most rigià manner.As the military governor of New Orleans, the only question is, Did be use unnecessary severity ?and of this we find no evidence.He found a traitor hoisting the Rebel sg, after the city bad surcendered, and be hanged him: a warning which proved effectual.Ha found the so-called ladies of New-Otleans insulting bis soldiers in the grossest manner in the streets, as the most likely way to bring about a collision between the populace and the garrison ; and he ordered that all who should thereafter be found so doing should be treated a8 common streot-walkers, that is, persons liable to arrest and imprisonment.The ides that this proclamation gave license to Lis soldiers to ravish the said ladies, is the offapring of such pro-slavery brains as preside over the London Times; for tbe very obvious reason that that is not the punishment inflicted by any law or custom on vagrant women.This measure also was effectual : there were no igsults afterwards, and it 1s not even alleged that any lady or anybody else was punished under it.He found tbe poor, who were generally tolerably loyal, starving; and be forced the rich, who were aot only rebels, but were employing their wealth in rebellion, to contribute liberally to their support.He found life and property everywhere in danger, and made Now Orleans, for tbe first time, à quiet, orderly, safe city, The severest measure alleged against bim was, bavishing a lady to a barren island.This tslaod bad just before been occupied by United States troops; and if it was good enough for them it was surely good enough for one whose mischief-makiog powers could in no geatier way be restrained.We shall best arrive, however, at a true judgment respecting tho leniency or atrocity of Gen.Batler's administration, If we compare it with that of other military commanders with a small force in the midst of rebellious people.He did not slaughter man, woman and child like Orom- well at Drogheda, or Tilly at Magdeburgh.He did not blow rebels from tbe cannon\u2019s mouth, like the British in India ; nor roast them to death in crowds like the French in Algiers.He did not even kill men actively engaged in the.rebellion when taken prisoners, as the Oon- federates have killed in cold blood tbe negro teamsters whom they took, when they recently defeated a portion of tbe Union Army.In fact, the greatest cruelties inficted upon rebels by General Butler in time of war were less than tbe rebellion and anarchy.His troops could at any | time of peace, upon negroes; and yet, the ope.sided men who pretend to be public teachers through some of our newspapers, but who are over the crueltice of Butler, whilst they Lave {no our view, Butler is the only Uniun ststesman or General who hag dene bia work thoroughly ; and bis vindication and retura to his command, doubtless, with jocreased powers, are tbe best signs of the times for tbe Union cause, FINANCIAL REVIEW.The Auditor's summary of Bank statements appears in last Saturday\u2019s Official Guzelle, aud the results are no follows :\u2014 Capital authorized.$35,266,666.00 Capital paid up, .26,416,503.00 LIABILITIES, Notes in circulation,.£.9,868,99700 Balances due to other Banks,.839.006.00 Deposits not bearing interest,.10,214,449 00 Deposits bearing ioterest, 9,600,240.00 .$30,522,752.00 Total liabilities ASSETS, Coin and Bullion, Landed and other property, Government securities, Notes of other Banks, .Balances due from other Banks.Notes and bills discounted, Other debts, not before included, $60,927,945.00 Comparing this with former returns we remark the following changes : \u2014 +.Circulation has decreased cousiderably.\u2014 Low as it was in November, it has again fallen some $550,000, and it ia now only little more than it was in December, 1858.Low prices of produce, failure of crops in some districts, a remarkably mild winter, preventing the formation of winter roads, and keeplng ordinary roads in 8 condition all but impassable for produce, go far to account for this state of things.The depression in the lumber trade must also be taken into account, for the circulation connected with this business, though not to compare with that 6,171,677.00 1,944,783.00 5,040,661.00 1,133,383.00 2,376,734.00 41,601,270.00 2,659,437.00 + General Butler was sent with a small force to arrising from tbe produce trade, is still con- govern a city famed for rowdyism and insecu-|, iderable in some paris of the country.The low state of the circulation accounts for he scarcity of money in various localities ; for where the produce still remains undisposed of lu tbe baron, or bas been so small that the greater part baa bad to be reserved for seed, it is evident that debts to storekeepers have not been paid, unless the farmer had a reserve-fund in the shape of s deposit in tbe bank.As to borrowing to make up euch a deficiency, it is % most unsatisfactory business; for the loan must of necessity be for a considerable time.If obtained from a bank, it must give rise to dissatisfaction ; if obtained from a shaver, it will be at a rate of interest entirely ruinous to a farmer; and if obtained on mortgage, the farmer will God that be has, in mortgaging bis farm, pat s collar round his neck that be may never get rid of as long as be lives.The great point (foancially) in farming as in any other business, ie not to lock up too much means in stock or otherwise.Ifa trader keep too many goods for his business, or embark his means in real estate, he will be continually cramped; and if a farmer, anxious to extend his business, buy an adjacent farm, or make provision for his family by purchasing wild lands for his sous, neglecting meanwhile to Keep & margin of ready money for emergencies, be may find that his additional lands yield him vo additions! income ; and that the wild lands may pass away from bis possession just when they are about to be wanted.2.Balances dueto other Banks have increased from $627,000 to $839,000.The increase is unimportant, 3.Deposits bave decreased nearly a million dollars daring the month, and now are below $20, 000,000 agaia, Last month they were $20,717,- 000, this month they are $19,814,000.The decrease la principally jo the deposits not bearing interest and the banks from which money has been drawn are mostly those whose head office is in this city.Still tbe amount of deposits is satisfactory as compared with former yea They ate now $700,000 more than they were last year at this (ime, and $3,000,000 more than they were two years ago.Deposits have ruled low in December for some years back; and ss winter progresses, bringing business with it suitable to the season, wa bave no donbt tbat they will rise as customary.We have before pointed out that deposits here are far from large as compared with other and older countries.We have little enough in reserve, and it should be the general aim to in- creass the store.Of course, our olreumetances are different from those of older countries.\u2014 Money is more valuable.It is easier to invest; and consequently banka have not the large sume Iylog in their hands waiting investment, whith form s0 considerable a portion of the deposits of Boglish banks.As à whole, however, we owe too much own capita), before we can progress aa we ought ; and nothing can be more delusive than the gotion of bringing greater prosperity by an enormous scheme of borrowing.If Parliament is 6o infstnated es to sanction the Crédit Foncier, it will be che begivning of a train of evils, which \u201cwill last for generations.4.Specis has decreased from $6,930,000 to $6, bospital.The writer, after praising the Freoch {every-day atrocities of these very men, even in 171,000, The reduction of circulation and de- nothing but praise for the rebel slavebolders.\u2014 | abroad.The country must bave more of its posits fully accounts for the decrease, and the \"Banks are still io as strong a position as their , best Iriends could desire them to be.They have evidently totally destitute of the faculty of now two-thirds of ber circulation in spocie, judging righteous judgment, bowl in concert land of their immediate liabilities their specie; cd to bave a reverence far the inspiration of amounts to nearly à third, Bome person: em to appreber-l that when matters bave come Lu a crisie lo tbv neighboring States, our Bauke may be so aifect-d as to Le { obliged to suspend payment in specie.No a;- { pretension, however, uced ba entertained on the subject.Oar Binka lave now scarcely any- thisg 10 do with the United Stutes, ex epton a cash Lapiz.Tuey bave little or no ¢ reulation I there, and consequently need fear no crisis sending bills in for redemption ; and they have no paper maturing there, the dishocor snd return of which might put them out io their cu'cula- tions.The Bauks are fully prepared for any emergency, and when tbe crisis urises\u2014which may be within a few months, or even less\u2014it will be tound that their engagements are me without the shadow of a difficulty.8, Goverument Securities buve increased frcra $4,102,193 to $5,040,661.The increase is pri- cipally in tue two Banks which took the Government loan lately on the market, viz., the Bask B.N.A.$743,000, and the Ontario Bank $200,000, 8.Balances \u2018lue from other Banks have decreased from $3,121,000 t0 $2,376,000.Thede- crease jo this item is almost entirely in the Bank of Montreal and Ontario Bask, 7.Discounts are remarkably steady.Last month they were $41,413,000 ; this month they are $41,601,000\u20141be difference being most trifling.Discounts seldom show much difference during the month of December ; but after the turn of the year, and as winter progresses, we may expect an increase.8.Other Debis have decreased from $2,736,000 to $2,659,000, The movement is in the right direction.We should, however, have been glad to gee a greater reduction during the year, then has actually taken place.On the 31st December, 1860, It wis $4,142,000, so that the reduction last year was more than a million dollars.This year, itis only $400,000.Taken as à whole, the Banks closed last year in a highly eatisfactory position.What changes may take place this year, nune can foresee ; but they commence the year under favorable auspices ; and, we truet, it may be one of uninterrupted prosperity.MEETING OF THE MONTREAL AUXILIARY BIBLB SOCIETY, The forty-second annual meeting of this society took place on Wednesday, in the Wesleyan Church, Great St.James Street.The building was crowded ; the chair wae filled by Hon.J.Ferrier, vice-president.The proceedings commenced with reading appropriate portions of Scriptare, and with prayer, by Rev.Dr.Taylor; after which an abstract of the report was read by tbe corresponding secretary, T M.Taylor, Esq.Tt stated that the parent-society bad issned three million Bibles during the past year; and the Upper-Canads Bible-societies had aided in the work of distributing the Bible amongst Frecch-Canadians.The total receipts were,.$11,125 Expenditure, .11,003 Shewiog a balance io band of.$122 Oapt.Noble read extracts from the third annual report of tbe Ladies\u2019 Bible Association of Montreal ; also from the journals of the bible women employed in this city; and both these and the main report contained much of a most gratifying natare.Considerable good had been done amongst the female inmates of the jail, by the visits of one of the bible women thereto, and increased means were in contemplation in respect of this Sgency.The Ourresponding Secretary thec moved, \u201cThat tbe Report, an abstract of which has now been read, be adopted, printed snd circulated, with the request tbat the friends of this Aurilisry tbroughont the country will carefully peruse the extracts from the Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Rev.Mr.Kemp, in seconding the resolution, said it gave bim great plessure to sea the report wearing ratifying an ct, and that the bible was still dear to the bearts of the ple of Montreal.Amongst all changes, political, social, aud natural, the bible remained the same, d like an ever flowing and ever widening stream, would at length cover the whole earth.The reason why such great efforts were put forth, and so wavy thousards of pounds spent by the society was because the bible was God's word, the lamp that lighted the lost and the Tear.It wag delightful, acd tkey loved to dwell on the topic of the inspiration of this precious bible, Hence they pressed it to thelr hearts, and cherished it ss their most sacred treasure.But there was also another aspect which this beavenly volume wore.It contained « human element, and sll the bostility of its detractors was directed against that boman element, even as of old the enemies of Obrist bad directed their carpiog compinints against bis merely human qualities \"4 notions.Mes were not satisfied to receiv .+-1ne revelation in a way comprebensible to I.xn intellect.Bat it bad been given ln «4 turm in con- ê descension to our infirmity, and ui +1 bad adapted bis wisdom 10 our imperfect vuderstandings.Where would they find avotber well of consolation.Let the wouaded and bursting spirit go to the where palms for expression.Theres and elee- lo the divise volume would be found from hearts which had felt even ss they themselve t.The learned, the ignorant, and the profane might seek to tarnish and tooppose the blble because it spoke in a form adapted to humao necessities, bat let its earnest and belleviog readers continue to rejoice in it, aod stand fast in the glorious liberty of the sons of God.: Rev.J.Irwia supported the motion.He had read the work of Bishop Oulenzo, page after page and chapter after chapter, snd found its 1 Obj: cllogs, with all its arithmetic, baseless ag a ; vision.And yet this Bishop Culetzo pretend- the Ecriptures.lle was afraid that (he heart went wrong before the head.When men had lo:t their religion, there was no telling where they would not wander to.Having lost the love of Christ fn (beir hearts, Sat:n perverted their sou's, and made them instrumental in the perversion of others.The Bible-Soclety would «grow in importance year by year: let them reverence nod assist it.As 10 the Bible itself, ) the more meu opposed it, Jet his hearers oly the mnrm read, study, and ciccuiate it over the wold.The Rev.Mr.Harper then moved,\u2014! That although the annual distribution of Scriptures by all agencits is now supposed to be nearly 6,000,000, it still faits far short of the world\u2019s wants and it stems therefore to be the duty of Bible-societies, not only to provide more Bibles, but to do more in the way of the direct offer of them to perishing men everywhere.\u201d He sald the hume n race, apart from revelation, was immersed fo durkness, and their ignorance was a guilty igooruuce.If Lin hesrera were impressed with this, it would be worth 6 volume of argument.Let them look at the state of the world, If ila present ppulation wese to remain stationary, at the present rate of irsue of the word of God, it would tuke two hundred and ten years to sur;-ly each individual with a Bible.The Bible introduced tree ideas of God : it alone liad introduced a true cis ili: m.The Greek and Roman civilization wes, after all, buta splendid barbarizm.Even io countries to which the Gospel might be said to afford but a faint and rcflectéd light, it was superior to theirs.The worst countries of Christianity were better thao the best of heathen-lands.Garibaldi had said that the Bible was the cannon to deliver Italy; and it was the cannon that should contribute to deliver the wotld.« Rev.Mr.Saodgrass seconded the motion, He spoke of the material improvements of the age, and how they had been pressed into the service of the Bible.Ia all lands thers was now ade- mand for the Bible, and it was their duty to provide for the demand.Sinunch Protestants contend for the Bible, and tke whole Bible.It was the palladium of our liberties, apd the best way of showioz lheir regard for it was, In giving liberally towards its circulation, Giving was the compliment of receiving, and the connection between tbe two was inseparable.Dr.Wright, of Pezsia, support À tbe motion.Ha gave à most interesting accou:.t of the preservation of, and regard for, tbe Dinle amocgat the Nestorian Christisns in Persia.Since the Bible bad been translated into their vernacular language, à great aud beneficial change bad been effected amongst them.So much were Liey occupied with it, that they could scarcely be brought to study any viber book.In couclu- sion, be said, he waz glad to bear the sentiments uttered towards America which be bad beard.\u2014 There should be po coldue:3 between Eugland and America.Tbe hope of the world was in their union, and it should be the prayer of ull, thut they be one in carrying ont the tidings of the word of God to all nations.The resolution waa then carried ; and Rev, Mr.Sullivan moved, \u2018 That this meeting adopts fur i.s concluding resolution, or sentiment, the tupic for prayer suggested by the Evangilical Allisnce: ¢ The Word of God ;\u2019 the universal recogoition of its - Divine inapiration and authority, (he power of the Holy 8pirit to accompany its circulation and perussl.\u201d He observed that he scarcely knew where to begin or end with such « wide resolution.To give in Gfteen minutes an idea of the weight of evidence for the fospiration of the Bible, was impossible.Amonget otber proofs of its inspiration was the fact tbat the prophecies bad been fulfilled 10 the letter.The very existence of the word of God amongst them, whilst so many things bad perished, was & proof of its inspiration.The nvanimity of ts digorent writers, all independent of each other, and differing time and station, yet all giving the same account of the character of God, aud of man's depravity was another proof.Where- ever civilization reached its highest mor al level, there was tho word of God in free circulation, Take the isles of Oceans, and see how polygamy, infanticide, and cannibalism had beew abolished ; while trial by jury, written laws and the couveniences of civilize life bad taken their place with the introduction of the bible.The finger of God testified to the efficacy as well as to the heaven-born origin of the bible.Yet infidels were continually servin up a rehash of the old objections\u2014whatih:y call ed uureconciled, and usreconcilable dificulties.There were difficulties in the bible, but no con- tradictione, save apparent ones ; and though these difficulties should prove to be inaupers- ble, what then ?Were they to throw away the word of God?These mev did vot enquire lato the commonest things of life with the cxactitude which they did into tbe word of God.They could not fully explain apy natural phenomenon.The speaker would Jook with suspicion on the bible ifit contained no difficulties.These very difficulties were iotended to encourage a spirit of Christian faith, for if there were no difficulties there would be no faith.If the truths of revelation bad been made 20 self-evident, God would not bave dealt with man as à rational being, but merely as & creature of instinct.Things belogas they were in this matter, rather made for the plenary inspiration of the word of God than otherwise.But the best of all evidezoe on tbe question, was the internal evidence in tbe Christiane own heart.\u2018 Ian, man domy will,\u201d said Olirist, *'be shail know of the dootrine whether it be of God.\u201d To the sceptio or worldling, this testimony might seem worthless.\u2018The speaker would not depreciate external evidence, but tbe great attention apent upon it in the present day bad n tendency to make as forget the internal evidences and t morsl beauty which the aeriptares contained.They should be read for their own intrineto worth and authority.The uverring inoigbt with which they depict man's fallen nature was one of the very strongest proofs of their inaplra- tion.Let Obristians getber up more and more into thelr hearts auch testimony from day to day, snd let their lives be à testimony to the world\u2014resd and known of all men.Io a w let them live, and practice out the bible, remember thet If they indeed loved the word of God, as they professed to do, they would be fo- cousletent if they did not do the'r shace in ez- tending it ta others.Ospt.Orr seconded the motion, in a few brief but appropriate remarks. January 81, 1863.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.69 PRENCH OANADIAN MISSIONARY 80- CIETY ANNIVERSARY.This Society beld ita twenty-fourth snnusl meeting lsat night in the Wesleyan Church, Great Bt.James Street, Lieat.Col.Wilgress in tbe obair.The church was full, and after de- votivunl « xercises, and singing by the pupils of the Pointe aux Trembles Lostitute, the Secretary read the report.It stated, that though at the beginning of the year the prospect had beeu somewhat discouraging ; yet, ths floancizl and other prosprcis were mote cheeriog.S:ill the society was unable to overtake ita work; increased funds and more lubore:s were required.The schools at Pointe aux Trembles were rising in estimation, and had an increase of scholars.A considerable number of tracts had been distributed, and $4,200 had been obtained towards erecting a Mission Church and premises in Montreal.The gum required, bowerer, was 12,500 The increase in the collections fur the prescut year over the preceding one was $2,033, and there was a balance on hand of $544, the only balance on hand thut the society bad ever bad.À site on the curner of St.Elizabeth and Craig Streets had been purchased for the contemplated church and mission premises, at a cost of $2,800.Rev.Dr, Wilkes said it was their duty to be (bankful for the measure of success with which their efforts bad been crowned.There were about a million French Ospadinns in Canada, and ho did not sympatbize with the cry that they were an inferior race.They bad been robbed of their birthright, \u2014traioed to mental and spiritesl submission.How bad they been robbed of their birtbright?They had been robbed of an open Bible all these sears, and woe be to the men, and woe be to the system that robbed men of their birthright! They had been trained to mental subserviency by a sacerdotal caste, What was the Church?It was not a hierarchy, but à body of good and God-fesring people, Their church bad undertaken tg save them if they would yield themselves up to its keeping, aad not think for themselves.He bad seen the effects of this during last Bummer in Catholic Europe.Yet they were uot quite so bad in Cauuda, thaoks to the countcractiog influence of a neigbboring Protestantiam.This society began its work 23 years ago; and they began witb the conviction tbat if they could get the Bible open to them; the Lord would prosper the work.[t hind indeed been a work of faitb, ant must be 53 to the end.The socle- ty's agents had told these to whom they bad spoken that religion was an individual matter, and ihe pra- tical recipients of this truth bad in consequence become mauly, and walked men- taliyerect.À gr-st change bud laken place in the fecljogs of thes: people.lustead of driving the colporteurs frem their doors, they showed a desire to peruse the Bible.Frem 800 to 1000 pupils bad passcd through the schools at Pointe aod carried with them into their avorable impression of the in- atitution when they returoed home, In tbe matter of a church, be protested against building & mere baro.Let them bave something worth looking at.He expected yet to see several French Protestant churches erected in the city.The city was doubtless the best place for the church.Cities exercised a vast iaflaence over the country, and so dil Montreal ; although be would not pretend that it was the Paris of Canada.A piece of ground bad already been bought as a site, acd to raise the sum yet required for it let each rich member take a share of $100.He knew that there had been many calis upon their liberality of late, but be bad been thiokiog the matter over in his study thus: Had they poi been without sickness in their families, thereby having been spared the doctor's bill 7 Had their religion not saved them much?Was not Canads at peace?Had not Christ giren them their riches sa being his stewards?Look at the example of Obriat, who bad given them, not money, not millions, but himself.Rev.D.H.McVicar observed that this society was not sectarian, He respected the religious differences of sects, but despised narrow sectarianism.Had not Peter snd Paul differed 7 There had always been differences of opinion in the Church.This Bociety proposed not to make proselytes, bat to make meu more spiritual.It proposed to them tbe question, \u201c What must 1 do to be saved 1\u201d.You might teach them to hate Popery, yet leave tbem Catbolic ; to epura superstition, yet leave them atheists.It was not 80 much the destruction of Popery oy a system, Lhat was sought, for if it could exist with the light of God'a word upon it, let it lire.Popery was an organized system: it bad ils prieats, friars, nuns, etc., who knew their part, rod performed it, too.It moulded, to a great extent, our legislature, and it yet hoped to destroy the common-school system of Upper Canada.The society bad always worked iu a spirit of love.It had no ill-will, even towards the Pope, It gave the people the Bible, which would teach them, instead of kneeling to a priest, and bresth- fog thelr confession into bis ear, to pour out their beart direct to God.Inatead of believing Christ to be daily vffered up in the mass, the Bible would show them that be bad been offered up once for all; that Peter was a married man, and consequeatiy bad broken their own rule of clerical celibacy ; tbat Paui deciared he bad & right to lead about a sister or wife.The Oatholle should be ever grateful for this Society; {t waslove for them that had brought it into being, and it was the same motive that sustained it.\u2014 The Freoch-Cauadiau Protestants wanted a Church, they could not build one ; we could, and it was our duty as the custodisos of God's ifte, both temporal and splritusl, to assist them.heve people would yet rise out of their darkness, and form a Ohvroh distinot from, yet in tarmony and love with those of their fellow.Protestants of other origins.We should give liberally towards the erection of & Oburch and Mission buildings fo this city, to be a centre round which they could rally, and which should be the means of making them much of what his bearers were.If Protestants did their duty, there would be s Church built here equal to Dr, Wilkes\u2019 desire.Rev.Mr Duclos then delivered an address in French, after which a collection was wade, the Pointe aux Trembles pupil in the meantime, singing one of thelr most besutifal pieces.v.J.B.Bonar then moved, \u2014% That the persevering attempts of tbe Uburch of Rome to extend its influence, already dangerous to the lands of Canads East, demand the serious ate | tention of Protestants, snd a more zealous prore- cution of evangelistic efforts among their French speaking fellow-sut means of counleract:ng these designe of the Romisb Hierureby,' He ruid ke resolution would scam, at the first glance, to be political and partizan.Île, howeser, bad nothing of the politician about tim, 80 he should leave that, and Le hud visited 100 many countries Lo wish to see bis own race occupy any one 10 the exclusion of cilier peopl.+ Tue epesker referred to the patient pe verspes shown by the Catholic bivenrchy carrying out ile cherished designs.lug tiie pelseverence was pot for a nuble purpose, but \u2018for the enslavement of their people, We wire apt to uuderrate (hese efforts.We bad seco on the other pide of the line, the evil of uuderraling an ndversary.They were seeking lo occupy be lauds by means of (heir emigrant co-religion- ists feem France; and if we desired lo see Caunda great And free, we must counteract them by wraas of the work of evangelization being carried into tLeir mides.Tue welfare, the grandeur, snd the ultinate prosperity of Canada called upun vs to do this; and, more thay ull, our love to their immortal souls.A great revival work was going on in this city; there was resson to believe that God was hovering over thig land.Freely we bad received, and let us freely give.Rev.W.R.Parker seconded the resolution ina brief address.He was surprised to Sind that the term Canadian wes resiricted to the French portion of the population, This was an injustice to the remainder of the native population.In Lower Canada they Lad the beaver, and ia Upper Canadu they had tbe maple leaf.Now, be was quite willing that they should have the beaver ia Lower Osnada, but not that it should eat up the maple leaf.There was now inthe States a war said to be for the extension of bodily slavery, and the work of this Society was to prevent the exteasion of spiritual tbraldom.Ita weapons were not car- ual.The bible was their cannon to free from mental and opiritual oppression, and let them not reat until they were ju religion, in ame, and in heart one people.Rev.Mr.Lafleur supported the motion in the French language.Dr.Taylor, and Rev.Dr.Wright, of Persia, also took part in the meeting.EDITORIAL NOTICES.New Mar or Nonru Amenica\u2014Tbis is the best map of Nortb America that we bave yet even, the portions north of Canada being given very fuil from Dritish Admiralty charts and maps.All the recent Arctic discoveries of Fraukliv, Kune, McClintock and otber travel.lets, are carefully poud.All the railroads are lined oo the map, with distances, and whether double or siugle tracks.There are alio tables to calculate the distance betweon places on tbe same latitude; and by a simple arrangement the difference of time between any place and Washington or Greenwich, can be immediately ascertained, The map is well furnished with oscful tables, and contains n large amount of information.There is also a map on an en- Jarged scale of tho Islsnd of San Juan, two maps of railroad routes, and the two Hemispheres, on polar projections.The map is well engraved, and the boundary lines between States and Countries are distinctly marked.\u2014 The map bas been examined, and {s bighly recommended by several State Buperinten- denis of Education.It is published by J.H.Goldthwait, Nassau Street, New York, and is for sale by Messrs.R.& A.Miller, of this city.A Boox ox Orsorr Foxorzs.\u2014M, DeBoucber- ville is engaged writiog a book on the Crédit Foncier, which will give ample information upon its workings io various parts of Europe, and show its adaptability to the circumstances of Canada.The volume is expected to be ready in about three weeks ; and as M.DeBoucherville does not wish to incur tbe risk of Laving it published at his own expense, an early application will be made to the legislature to order ite printing at public cost.The work, it is said, will extend to 300 oc 400 pages, and will be published in both Freach and Eoglish, provided the aid of the legislature be obtained.This is surely cappiog the climax of absurdity.\u2014The r« marks of Henry Ward Beecher about Canads, in bis first sermon for this year, are suggestive of better feeling for the future, between causiries so nearly connected as the Northern States aod Cannda.Our extracts from this striking discourse will be continued.\u2014 The exbsusiiog conflict which has been golog on so long in the States bas greatly weakened and depressed both sides; and it ap- peara 10 be just a question which shall bold longest out.The Southern papers call for a conscription which shail bring out the various classes bitherto exempted.\u2014 We continue to bear of a growing interest in religion in various parts of tbe Province.Ministers nnd others will greatly oblige us by giving brief accounts of the state of religloo in their several localities.The churches of Canada ought to expect great things in answer to the prayers of God's people during the first week of January.\u2014 Under tbe caption, * Important if True,\u201d Tbe Hemiltou Evening Times bas she following : The St.Catherines Journal says that in consequence of the refusal of the customs authorities to receive American money, sud tbe high premium commanded by Osuadinn baok bills in tbe Ualted Biates, wo understand the Northern Transportation Oompsny bave come to ths con- olusion pot to go through the Welland Caael during 1be enauiog season, butto run theic boste to Port Oolborne and Buffalo, on Lake Brie, aud welfare of this Province, by promotiog French Roman Oatholic Immigration {oto the unsettled between Port) Dalhounie sud Ogdensburg, on Lake Ontario.; cts, ag the most «if cual: \u2014 À large addition has beer made to (he Berkeley-Sinet Wealejac-Methodist Church, Tor:nto, \u2014The dead body of à Dewly-bora infant was fonnd on Saturduy Jas in front of the Loman Catholic Bichoy's palace ut Toronto.An ivqiest | Was held, bat co c videnee beyond the tindisg of | the Leds could be obtained, = Un Fiiday of last weck Me.Julio Miller, | of ile towc-live, Maryboro ard Murniniston, was i killed, owing to hia clothes having caught In Jo the coupling of & threshing mnchine, which caused Lim to be curried round sever) times, striking his head cach rime egaingt the fluor with tutsl force, \u2014 Thu Victoria Duily Chronicle, V1, says, .tpwarda of 2,000 Canadians landed in that city duriog the last Spring nud Sommer.Dusisess is brisk, but numbers of able-bodied men of re- speclability are wandering to and fro, pot knowing where their next meal will come from, Great jealousy seems to exist between the colony of Vancouver Island and that of British Columbia on the mainland.\u2014 The Cincinnati Gazelle bas accounts of the deplorable condition of the contrabands within our lines in the Mississippi valley.Mary of them are chbeated of the rations slotted to 1bem by tbe guveroment; dis- hunest pæymnsters retain the wages of those employed by the government, avd they are subjected to more brutal treatment from drunken eubordinates {Lan they bad irom their old overseers of the plantation.They are kicked, cuffed and knocked down without provocation and with uo redress.From insufficient shelter and improper food many of them sre tick, and thou- sauds will perish during the winter.\u2014 Governor (pro.tem.)Robinson of Kentucky, gives us a very fuir exhibition of Border-State Uvionism in bis Message recently.He gays tbat, © the whole South\u201d will be fired by President Lincoln's Proclamation, \u201c into one burning mass of inexbaustile hate, \u201d\u2014but we trust he don't include the late Slaves in this \u2018whole\u2019; for, if be does, he is mistaken.Wa don't forget that Kentucky refused to send ber quota of Militia to protect the capital, and declared herself neutral in the contest between the Union and the rebels.That neutrality Jost us East Tennessee, which was fully equal to adding 100,000 met to the rebel army.\u2014 Tribune, \u2014 The Scandinavian Union makes some progress io the North.The King of Sweden baviog ouly a daughter, the proposition has been made to alter the law of succession, extending it, ia tbe Eaglish fashion, to the female line, and to betrothe the heiress of Sweden and Norway, now ten years old, to the beir of the crown of Denmark.\u2014The Richmond Examiner denouuces all tbe feople of New Orleans because none of them were bad enough to assassivate Gen.Butler.Ic says hig departure north alive * is a stain on the character of every man io New Orleans who bas Lbe strength to raise a weapon.The paper ig getting wild.\u2014 The New York Tribune says, a Canadian compositor employed in that office, named Geo.E.McMullen, hss been missing since the 26:h December, Information respecting him is requested by Mr.Thomas N.Booker, of the Tribune office.\u2014 Ttis stated that for:y-cine millions of dol- lers in gold have been received at San Francisco during the past year.This sum would weigh one hundred tons, and freight a train of fourteen railroad cara.\u2014 À few days ago the Chicago Times tbreat- ened to leave New England \u2018 out in the cold.\u201d By the action of the Chicago Board of Trade, the Times finds itsell out in the cold.\u201d Per- baps êt can tell New England how it feels.\u2014 Detroit Tribune.\u2014 Petroleum gas bas been introduced into tho St.Nicholas Hotel, New York.With crude petroleum at Gfty cents per gallon, the proprietors estimate that they will make a saviog of sixteen thousand dollars per annum ju their gas ills.The Manhattan Company charged them pearly $33,000 a-ycar.\u2014 Tbe gnantity of cons in this country is estimated to be larger now tban at former periods, notwithstandiag the shinplaster plague.À Évancial writer says tbe United States now contains $716,000,000 in bard money \u2014Amer.paper.\u2014 À correspondent of the London Mining Journal, siguing himself \u201cA Cornish Agent in Csnads,\u201d says, rpeaking of the Acton copper- mives,\u2014* The most important mioera) deposit which bas yet come under my notice ia that at the Acton Mines.This is without doubt & wonderful discovery, and one from which immense profits will be reulized for 8 period impossible to atate; and my opivion is, that a district which will surpass it, when developed, with copper-ore, is not yet discuvered.I cocsider the preseat an unusual opportunity fur the in- restment of Euglish capital; and the sdvaata- ge attending mioing here are not to be equa led in any otber British colony, especially as regards the abundance and cheapness of labor, aod transit of ores to market.\u201d == The British bave established a line of steamships on tbe Pacific, belwevn San Francisco, Japan and China.The first ship, the \u201c Scot- Iand,\u201d sailed from San Francisco on the 12th tast., with $190,000 in treasure, sud produce valued at $60,000.\u2014 A very satisfactory and almost unprecedented fact as regards the health of Patis is that, on (be lith of November, not a single death took place in the Ist, 3nd, and 3ed arrondissements, which contain & population of more than 240,000.That circumstance is doubtless owlog to the works which are being daily carried on by the city for improviog the sewerage.\u2014 The French bave taken Jossesion of Ma.tamoras with 4000 troops.Their army is to be reinforced by 10,000 men, but Ir losses, chiefly by disease, will soon conen.s i =t number.They make slow progres hi - bh, .gating the country.\u2014 M.Fcucaalt has aucertained thaï, fnstead of the velocity of light being 307 millions of metres per second, as celculated by Delambee's astronomiesl deductions, it is 298 millions of metres.\u2014 Recently half an acre in the village of Southampton was sold in bulidiog lots by avc- tion ; it was purcbased entirely by residents, and fotohed 1,429 dollars cash.\u2014 From Melbourne we bear of the shipwreck of the Olty of 85duey steamer, on Cape Green.At Kaollls there had been a violent gale, by \u2018the Intenayers suspecting a false assessment TAXES ON NON-RESIDENT LANDS.; We bave frequently beard complaints made that jo some of the municipulities the lands of non-residents ure unfairly as.essed, It is pros batle that in some cass the complaints ate groundless aud that in others they ura but too well founded.A case bas lately come to our knowledge, which we think 11 well to publish as a warning to the assessors or Council ofnuy mubicipality for the time to come.The case is this :\u2014Io tbe year 1858 the nesertor fur the towuabip of Nottawasaga asserge 1 (he latds of non-residents fairly, but those of residents at rates greatly boduw their real value.One cf exsxmined the rolls, and found his suspicions just.He appealed Lo tho Court of Revision, but, not obtainiog relief, be took the case before the County Judge and proved the assese- ments to be falee in several iostances.The rolls were amended by the Judge 80 far as they were proved false.Tbe Council, instead of levying the additional amount, took the promissory notes of the various parties thus pewly assessed, and Also the notes of various other persona for taxes, and then returned and cancelled masy of them, and refused to collect the others.The members of the Council alto gave votes for their owa taxes, thus allowing » large sum to temain due to the Corporation, and which they refused to collect.The party who bad taken all this trouble intended first to proc.ed agaiost the assessor and bave bim puuisheë under the slatute.But that officer praying for mercy, and expressing great contrition for the offence of which be bad been guilty, und, it appeariog also that his proceeding bad been dictated or iofluenced by the Council, no action was brought against him.But a bill in Chancery wes filed in April, 1862, sgainet the members of the Council of 1858 and the members of the Court of Revision, praying that the defendants sbould be made personally responsible for all monies dus to the Corporation by their means, After fome delay the defendants filed an answer, but the matter beginning to look serious for them they proposed a compromise which, after some hesitation, was agreed to.The compromise was to this effect, that the Council should collect the notes taken for taxes, and enforce the payment of those which had been cancelled or returned, and to pay the costs of tbe suit.In case the defendants do net perform this agreement within a reasonable time the suit is to be continued.\u2014 Toronto Leader.COMMERCIAL.Moutazat Witvees Office, Friday, noon, Jan.30, 1853.Suow fell yesterday tos depth of some inches ; last night was clear and beautiful ; barom.at 74 am, 29:80; therm.22° above zero ;\u2014at noon, 32° above ; barom.29:84.FixanciaL \u2014 Business of the Week.\u2014Sterling Exchange bag been very dull and flat during the week, owing to the pressure of Commissariat offerings on Wednesday.As stated yesterday, the public purchased the 30.day Treasury-bills on 28th inst, at 10 to 10§ prem.; but there is a pretty general impression that the balance (which must have been considerable) was taken by & Bank ata lower rate.The accounts received from (reat Britain, of ao advance of 1 per cent.in the Bank of Eogland rate of icter- est,\u2014now 4 per cent.,\u2014will enka: ce that purchase to the holder ; the relative value of 30- day Exchange over 60-day bills being grester in consequence.: Bankers' G0-day drafts on London bave been sold since our last weekly report at 9j to 10 prem.for cash; the Banks keepiug their counter or credit-rates at 104, 10}, and 11 prem.There is little or no Private offering; and we cannot quote higher than 9 to 9j prem,\u2014tbe beat signatures being held for a bigher figure.The range in New York exchange, since Friday last, bas been considerable; sales were made as low as 36 dis, but the market recovered under quieter quotations for Gold in Wall Street.Previous to the receipt of the dispatch, given below, there were transactions to-day in Caoadisn Bank demaod-drafts on N.Y, City at 34 dis.; American Baok and Private, 344 to 35 dia.A telegram from New York at noon to-dsy reports snother great advauce, the quotations buing :\u2014Bterling Exchange, 173; Qold, 55 prem.; Silver, 494 prem.American Silver continues at 4 to 4j discount.Rates for Americas bank-ootes at Exchange.offices here are,\u2014buying 374 dis., selling about 854 die.Businens aT Tur Orr Reotons.\u2014The Oil Springs Chronicle of 220d inst.esye, the sudden stoppage of the \"flowing wells\u201d has crested much excitement, and unhioged busioces in that region.Prices daring the preceding week bad ruled at $3, $2.50, aod $3 per barrel for Crude Petroleum ; and a ou nber of stills in Refine ties bad been atopped, iu the bope of rates being reduced again.The demand is said to be already great and increasing ;\u2014the Chronicle says, shipments are now not one-tenth of what thay were, and contracts for lots of more than 100 barrels are dificult to busin, The Editor remarks that the question now to be settled is, tbe permanency of the supply; avd suggests that an experimental well be auok 2,000 feet deep,\u2014or deeper if necessary, \u2014to reach a great reservoir of Petroleum which many confidently believe exists.For (bat porpose à Joiat-Stock Company should be formed, under the Limited- Parinerabipe Act, with shares placed at $10 each.[¢ is expected that the news about the wells will cause prices to advance ia Europe.The stocks in Liverpool, at tbe begianiog of tbis year, were:\u2014American Crade, 2,500 casks; Onne- dian do, 1,000 casks ;\u2014 American Refined, 12,- Stocks or Bamapitorrs iv LIVERPOOL AND Grasoow.\u2014 We have already given the quantities of Ficur and Grain jo store at Liverpool and Glasgow ou 31st December last ; but make rom for the fullowing comparative statements \u2014 Liverpool.Flour, Wheat, Coro, sacks.bris.4#2801bs.$280 ibe 1582,.137,245 280,47: 705,888 203,890 1901,.54,854 145118 305,206 205,035 Glasgow.Flour, Wieat, Qorn, =40K6, bole.4 2801bs.4 2801be 16,371 73,930 575,852 19,520 19,987 53,155 228,807 50913 15,493 70,235 385801 15,567 1059,.51,437 40,707 383,144 20,130 Boston Burren Mauker.\u2014There is little Bat- tee reported arriving from Canada, and there wag no alteration to vote in prices during the week ending Jen.24tb.Demand moderate, but holders are firm.There base been sales of New Yurk and Vermont, good, choice and extra dairies, al 24 to 2Gc; common ranges from 18 to 2lc per lb, as to quality.Canads and Western sell at 16 to 23c per lb, as to quality, including common and extra.SuIFu£NTS FROM PurtLaso.\u2014The exporte of Canadian Produce, by the * Jura,\u201d on 24th inat., were, Ashes, 593 brls; Fiour, 400 brls, ; Butter, 626 kegs ; Pork, 30 bris., Lard, © kegs ; Bacon, 148 box 3.New Taxnixa Procrss.\u2014 The Qu: bec Mercury says :\u2014 We belicve a pateut js atout being applied for by A gentlemso in this city, by which Abe eszontinl tanning qualities of two cords of bemlock bark will be extracied so as to occupy the space of one and a lislf gallons by measure.By the application of this extract, sole leather, usually ri quiring from nine to twelve months, may be tauned in so many daye, and ligbtatuff in lwo dnys, equal to oak tanning, and quite light in color.The extract is obtained by steamivg aud distilling the bemlock bark, and, if equal to the description given, will be of incalculable benefit to leather manufacturera.\u2014 The Oil Springs Chronicle speaks of embarrassing delaysin the transportation of Petroleum, occasioned by tho inability of the Great Western R.R.Co.to furnish enough of freight cars.It is said the sheds and platforms, and acres of land at the station, are filled and co vered with casks of oil awaiting shipment.MONTREAL WHOLKSALE PRODUCE PRICES CURRENT.Montreal, January 30tA, \\B\u20ac3.Frocr\u2014Pollards, $2.25 to $2.50; Middhags, 82.65 to $2.80; Fine, $3.75 to $4.10; Superfine, No.2, $4.30 ; Superfine, $4.45; Fancy, $4.60 to $4.05; Extra, $4:95 10 $5.05; Superior Extra, $5.15t0 $5.20; Bag Flour, $2.33 to $2.42§.\u2014 Market very dull.Oaruzar per brl.of 200 Iba., about $4.50.Warar.\u2014Cunada Spring, 81c.to 940, es-cars ; U.0.White Winter, nominal, $1.02 w $1.03.Pras per 66 lbs, Tôc.to T2Jje.Nominai.Aenrs per 112 Ibe.,\u2014Puts, $6.35 to $6.40 ; laferiors, be same ; Pearls, no demand, any quotation would be nominal.Borran, per 1b, still continoes dull, the demand being almost entirely for local consumption ; we quote, Inferior, 10c.to 10fe¢.; medium, Ne to 1%c.; fine, 12jc.to 14c.; choice, 144c to 17e Las pre lb, Tc.to Se.TatLow pee lb, 8c.to 8jc.Haus pec lb., nominal, Tc.to 9c.Pons per brl,, Mess $10 to $10.30 ; Thin Mess, $8.50 to $9; Prime Mess, $7 to $7.50; Prime, $7 to $7.50.Daxssko-Hogs per 100 Ibs, are ia full supply, and are Beld at from $3 to $4, according to quality and condition.Srkos.\u2014Clover, Te to Tic.per ib.; Timothy, $2 to $2.25 per 45 lbs.JOHN DOUGALL & Co., Proouon Oommission Mxacuants, 270 St.Paul Street.MONTEKAL RETAM MARKET PRICES, FOR MARKET-DAY, JAN.30, 1563.(Carefully Corrected for the Finest.) \u201c sd sd.-13 0 to13 6 11 9 to 13 0 76t 80 3 3to3 4 4 0 to 48 yd 18¢%120 DNuckwheat.2 0¢t 223 Tudian Corn, Cauada, do, 391040 Fix Seed do, 86t90 Tarteys, covple.T1111 8 9 10% 8 rkeys, per couple.7 Geese, do 5 0t 60 Ducks, do 30¢t 3 ¢ Ducks, (Wik 26t00 T 990to1W00 201286 0 6 to 7 20 to 2 00t13 00¢t 072 ¢0to03 20t0 328 2030 13to16 Do.sit, osto09 Beans, Canadian, pe 76%W80 Fotatoca, per bag.3206033 Dressed Hogs, per 108 lbs.20 0 to 28 9 Maple Kugar,-.o Sito 0 0 Maple Byrap per None for pale.Hobey, per lb.00t008 ee ihe KR, .per a Tigger 100 bandioe.BUFAWE sc s0a vec to Ramanes \u2014 The attrndance tc-day was fair, but not what it was formerly, at this time of the searon.There is no bicdrande on account of roads, they are ssid to be gevcrally good.\u2014 Sales were dull, and demand limited; prices remaio as they were on last market day.TORONTO MARKETS\u2014Jau.28.Fall wheat, 93e to 950 per bush.Spring wheat, 80c to 84¢c.Barley, 95c to 81,00 Os 38c 10 400.Peas, 50 10 55c.Heavy bogs sell at $3 10 $3.80 per cwl.; light ones $2 50 to $3 per ewt.Floor, superfine at $4 to $405; fancy at $4.10 to $4.15; nod extra at $4.50.\u2014 Globe, NEW YORK MARKETS\u2014Jasn.30.(By Telegraph.) Plour, 5e.to 100.better ; receipts, 5,547 brie.Wheat, 1c.to 2c.better : réceiptr, none.Corn, firmer ; receipts, none.Rye, firm, st $1 to $1.10.Pork, firmer.Ashes, firmee ; Pots, $8.61 ; Posris, nominal.Oats, steady, at 676.to Tle, for common to prime Canada, Western, aod State, Barley, firm, at $145 10 $1.70.Poss, quiet at $1.08 to $1.10.Freighta, dull aod which ten Spanish sbips were wrecked.000 carks ; Can-dian do, 359 casks.rooping. THE MONTREAL WITNESS.January 81, 1863, Literary Extracts.THE LESSON OF THE YEAR.\u2018 Go bence, {ll Year, with robes that reek of war, Hands that struck down the labor of our North; My curse go after thee beyond the door, That derkers at thy ghastly going forth.\u201c Away, fou! beldame! give the Young Year room, ; What be is like none who await biw know ; At worst biz Jooks will mend thy face of doom, Worse yer thas thou, the world can never know.\u201d The Old Year on the thresiold paused and turned, Red stains were thick upon the sLroud she wore, Ap awful light in thejeunk esc-balls glared, That looked upoa me from the darkened door.And thin snd hollow-soundiog, as from far, A voice came to me, sad at once and stern: \u201cWho art thou, that arraign'st at thy blind ber The Power who guides the milliva orbs that barn \u201c About this sphere, wbere thy poor life is past, Ephemera), in ephemeral grief cr glee, , \u2018That ban and blessing, like & chi:d, dares't cast, On years 1kat owe not an account to thee ?© God's chastisements and bounties is it thine To measure with hy stefl; weigh with thy brains ?1 work His bidding : His the will not mine; Koow I how ill dies out, and good remains?\u201cBut evn with reverent judgment, meet for man, Marking the dcings of tbe twelve months gone, The roof of blessing ic my bitterest ban Methinks een thy poor wirdom might have knows.\u201cFrom civil war's high-heaped and festering grave, By means unguessed of those who fight or rule, Grows, slow but sure, the freedom of the slave, While buman foresight gapes, a baficd fool, \u201cIn War's rude gripe, what lies, which stoutest thrust Of Peace, and all her train, could never shake, Are shattered into rotteness and dust\u2014 What powers of unguessed nobleness awake! \u201cWhat lessons are made clear by Wars red light To tbose who fight and those who watch the atrife ?Out of the soil awept bare by battle\u2019s blight \u2018What seeds of new strength sudden leaptolife! & For cotton-desrtb, with pain and misery rife, Tbe blessing hidden in it all must own, \u2018Who see how suffering calls lore to life, How of endurance comes a strength unknown.Then curse me not, but bless me ; there is balm For every bruise that God inflicts on earth; His ways are in the storm, as in the calm, In war and misery, a» in peace sud mirth.\u201d \u2014 Punch, BRICKS AND BRICK HOUSES.Surely it is a triamph of art to fiod mec set down in a district without a particle of stone in it, building their dwellings of the plastic clay, and of the same unpromising materials crecting their stores, factories, monuments, and temples.Yet bis- tory tells us that, at the remotest periods, men fashioned bricks of clay, and built, so that after the lapse of some thousand years, traces are found whioh speak of durability and dezigo, 60 mature and finished, that we cannot impugn their art or resources.It was not time which defaced thoir structures, but the barbarism of succeeding ages.\u2018We questioned this in presence of Prick.maker recently.His indignant response was an appeal to the pyramids of Egypt, and the ruins of Babylon, for the age of his craft, and the durability of his work.Ure refers to the tower of Babel which was formed of brick.Many of the greatest cities of the old-world monarchies, weru built of the dried clay.The Egyptians, we know on the most reliable of all histori- oal authorities, were great brick-builders, The Hindoos bave made bricks for ages.The brioks and tiles of ancient Rome were master-pieces of cunning snd ekill, and have been copied, and only recently excelled by Mintoo, tho most famous tile-maker of modern England, The Lollard\u2019s Tower, of Lambeth Palace, erected in 1454, is a brick-building; and the oldest part of Hampton Court, built of brick, was erected in 1514, Durability, therefore, combined with finished workmanship, gives some eclat to the answer of our friend the brick- maker.The objection is made that bricks are rous and brick houses dap.This is a rofound mistake.We have slept in a Friok mansion ia the East of Sootland, in s place where stones are expensive, and drier, warmer, more comfortsblo rooms, we pevor clsewhere possessed.There were only nine inches of solid building between the internal and external atmospheres, but there was à hollow air-space betwcea the outer and inner skins of wall, siogle briok- on-bed.We bave lived, for weeks at a time, in a workman's Louse, the walls of which wero the 40 called \u201c alim,\u201d but solid nine-inch briok, and we never saw a spot or trace of damp on either walls or furniture, although the house was exposed, front and flaok, to the prevailing westerly gales and beavy rains.Brick houses aro mid to be unsightly, Humble, to our is our want of knowledge.Who will! spesk so, who has seen the magnificent warchouses of Manchester\u2014the truly grand public offices of bright red brick, relieved with the pure white stone window upstarts and corner rybats\u2014some of the handsome, recently erected English places of worsbip \u2014the lovely parti-coloured intoriors of some pointed Gothic churebes\u2014and, above all, the protty tasteful cottage ross which radiate outwards from many English towns, Taste assurcdly gives itself expression in brick as it docs in stone, or better\u2014in both combined.Utility adopts and profits in the combination.Experience finds comfort and convonience in it.And as for strength, a well built brick wall is a3 firm as a pillar of iron.It is sheer prejudice which debars us Scotch from the uso of a material so economical.so adaptable, and 50 beautiful, wrought with art, aa that of which we write.Wo should like muoh to sec our workmen\u2019s houses of a different description from those into which so many are, literally, crammed.The model lodging-houses have been a heaven-sent gift amid the prevailing crowding of our pent-up populations.The model tenements sre good in their way.But they are only improvements on a worse thing.You can never have a little parterre of pretty flowers at your window, two or threo pair back, The flowerpot 19 a feeble disappointment.You cannot have your little yard of sweet, wholesome vegetables at the kitchen windows of a smoke surrounded \u201cland.\u201d The winds fly over a sixty feet tenement, and will not dip isto the close back courts, alleys, and slums.The clothez-green on the top of a five storoy house is rather out of place\u2014 better, however, than none.ideas, their sppearance may be.All this: efforts to combat the demon passion, but most unobserved sign of uncer, hidden in 60 deep seated is the malady and so sur\u2019 rounded with difficulty, that wo fear not: boldly to declare that it cannot be lefe to private interference, nor indecd is it advisable, that in a matter of such consequence, involving the liberty of the subject, and it may be, distarbing family relationships, private interposition should be per- witted.\u201d Few, perhaps, if we exc: pt the clergy, bave the tame opportunity wlich medi men possess, of witnessin; thu cffcet of habitual drunkenness on the incbriste snd his obildeen, to say nothing of the awful wi- sery of a drunkard\u2019s home, the blank de- solution and despair, without a gleam of hope, which settles oa his family ; and bo yood all these that unkuown future, when a life of weariness and wretchedpess is closed.\u201cThe records of our criminal courts annually furnished a long list of cages, from the crime of petty larceny to that of wurder, which are traceable to Lours misspent in debauchery\u2014to days and nights wasted in drunken revels\u2014to the companionship of fools, who gloried in the degradation which they worked one with the other.Painful as it may be to look on the stupid sot, decaying in body and wind, how much morc sad, to realize tbe train of wretohed- ness and misery which follow in the track of bis depravity\u2014a cheerless homo awaits bis return from the haunts of his folly\u2014a broken-spirited and care-worn wife, negleot- ed and ragged children\u2014these are sharp irons which enter into his very soul, and add bitterness to a heart not dead to the obligations of duty.But experience proves that by this as by every other vice, the conscience becomes more and more seared until at length, regardless of all consequences, feelings of shume cease to arise, domestic Our populations require to be spread, to bave light, air, and room.Take a walk any day slong the roads from an Iinglich town\u2014say from Manchester to Failsworth, Hollinwood, ænd Oldham\u2014you find short rows of self-contained lodgings, with rooms more or less numerous, to tuit the wants of various sized families, Each house for the most part, bas its little front flower-pot, bordering the road with trellised paling, yielding the sweet perfume of humble mignonette or gorgeous rose ; each has its little back garden, prolific with full-bolled cabbage, pungent onion, mealy potato, oclery, dainty cress, and rarer asparagus.Along front and rear, and coursing through open windows from front to back aud back to front, is the sweet, fresh air of heaven, cleansing every apartment, \u2014bearing on its wings sound, balmy slumber for the weary sons of toil, and bestowing on his young ones bright-eyed, red-checked, plamp and happy health.Were we tonsme the price of all this, in the shape of rent, we fear our readers would not credit our statement, These lodgings are all brick\u2014vo better, no finer, no pretticr than our average Sootch-made brick\u2014put up strongly and firmly enough no doubt, yet with & due regard to economy.The rents are moderate \u2014most moderate to the tenants, The returns, io ordinary times, are to the owners handsome, better considerably'than the average roturns of Scotch tenements.Mr.Taylor of Birmingham, a talented, worthy, energetic man, and good abstainer, bas the proud eminence of establishiog the frechold system in that city, and the workmen who tbere own and live in their own houses, may now be couatod by the hundred.\u2014 Scottish League Journal, A PLEA FOR INEBRIATE ASYLUMB* \u2018There is no more common source of individual degradation and wretchedness, than the inordinate use of alcholic liquors ; ot there is no vice so prevalent, none so Title hemmed in by law, or so lightly eon- demned by public opinion.The slow but sure steps which tho habitual indulgence in drinking to cxccss leads its viotims to disgrace and misery, are not only daily witnessed, but are permitted to progress with soarcely an effort being wade to stay them, and often without any apparent compune- tion on the part of those who appear to he models of propriety, philanthropy, and trust in the mercy of God.+ Shall we reclaim the drunkard ?\"* aske De.Bovell : \u201c It seems strange that ono should con- sidor suob & question nesessary, but really if we reflect on the spathy which existe amongst us as a body of Christians or ws a Nation, it docs seem to bo very necessary that our people should be asked whether they intend to reolsim the Drunkard, ond to interpose to save the rising generation from falliog isto evil courses, Unfortunately we have not yet folly recognized the magnitude of the evil, nor realized the important bearing which it hason our social amount of crime which is begotten by it, and how certainly intemperance supplics viotims for tho prison and the gallows.Every- thiog bas hitherto been loft to private benevolence ; and strenuous have been the * A Plea for Inebriste Asylums, commended Bystem ; we are not yet quite awaro of the ] miseries arc not recoguised, and a career of crime, or the sudden perpetration of some desperate criminal act, plunges the wretched victim ints the felon's cell.\u201d All this is but too trae.It was written three thousand years ago: * Who hath woe ?who hath sorrow ?who hath conten: tion?who hath Labbling ?who hath wounds without cause ; who hath redness of eyos?They that tarry long at the wize ; they that go to seek mixed wine.\u201d It is the same to-day.The records of our prisons and asylums tell the same story, and bring that story to its sad close.Consumption, broken health, roined con- stitation, imbecility, insanity, are the fear ful words attached to the names of the intemperate inmates of the prisons and hospitals cited by Dr.Bovell, The remedy propoeed for the increasing evil of habitual intemperance, proposed by Dr.Bovell, is to provide an asylum for in- cbriates, supported in part by the Govern mont, in part by the labour of inmatea and by private benevolence.\u201c It is proposed at present to ask the Government to establish two Institutions to serve as models for management and construction of others, es well as to illus trate the benofits which arise from well di reoted efforts at reclamation.Itis however an open question as to whether two large Asylams would be better, one in each section of the Province, or Asylume in each County to be supported by a local county rate, and therefore under the control of the County Councils.\u201d Dr.Bovell's work is illustrated with a plan of an Inebriate Asylum, from which an excellent idea of the system proposed to bo established may be drawn.Workshops, libraries, roadiog rooms, garden, racket court and gymoasium are supplied, to wean, by healthful employment and exercise, the inebriates from the fatal desire which reduced them to the sad necessity of becoming su occupant, snd to prepare them for once again taking their part in the dutics of life with their fellow-men.The whole scheme is distinguished by that philanthropy sud singleness of heart which is well known to obaraoterize the author of \u201c À Ples for Inebriato Asylums.\u201d THE COMING CONTEST IN BRAZIL, The Revue des deux Mondes bas recently contaiued some papers on the state of Brazil as novel as thoy are instruotive, The great empire of South America is in many respects so very like the great republio of the North that it is all but impossible to read the flaming history ofthe one without being brought to think of the other, and, scoing the cfleot of slavery on demo- eratio institutions, to follow with ourious eyo its result in 8 monarohy., The same ritish ships which had brought back our troops from the United States escorted Kiog Joss over from Portugal into Brasil, and while a new topublio grew up on one side of the Atlantio 8 new kingdom of equal extant developed iteell on the other.t was to be a singular trisl between monarchy and republic, such as the world never saw before.A territory of three million square miles on either side; an ondless shor, splendid rivers, and every- thiog that conduces to the greatness of nations, were supplied in abundance by nature.There was not a spot in the whole to the consideration of the Legislators of Canada.By James Bovell, M.D., Trin, Coll,, Toronto, the one ¢ domestic institution.\u201d The first visible sppearante of the disease was almost stimultaneous ip both countries, The influence of Great Britain having destroyed the main sources of the traffie in human flesh and blood, almost identiesl phenomens began to develop themselves in the great republic of the North and the great kingdom of the South, In both free labor began to cnoroach upon slavery, pushing the institution\u201d onward from the moderate zone toward the equator, and fixing a geographical boundary between liberty and bondage.Previous to the treaty between England and Brazil for tho abolition of the slave trade (1826) a full grown black min was to be bought at Rio de Janeiro for about £20, whilo à few ycara after his price rose to double the amount.The treaty was not observed by any means ; but the commerce in \u201ccbony wood\" giew more hazardous, and the trader had to be paid for bis risk, For about thirty years longer some fifty thousand slaves were annually imported into Brazil, the cargoes gradually rising in prioe, and completely changing in character.hile the traffio in black men was open and undistarbed, the trader loaded bis ships in the easiest possible manner by embarking whole families of negroes ; but when the voyage became difficult the cargo had to be picked, and only strong bono aud muscle were carried to the market, while the weak, the women and children, had to stop behind.This had the double conse- quenob of restrioting the ficld of slavery, and of altering the mode of slave industry.It was at the same period that both the American and Brazilian slaveholders began to neglect the old system of husbandry, and to confine themselves to the more profitable caltivation of a single srticle\u2014 the cotton plant in the north, coffee in tbe south.It was found that the black machine, not much given ta, snd oot much allowed to think, was not able to compote with the free white in the ordinary branches of field labor, which are directed to the production of food, and require, on account of the diversity of cultivation, à certain amount of intelligence.The freeman, on the other hand, had no desire to be connected with a most monotonous exercise of mere physical force, and contented himself, both iu the North and South of America, with confining the new staple industry within a given boundary.It was thus that the slave power, having en- ticely changed its old form, grew up into à political, social, aud commercial monopoly forming a state within a state.Neither tho ultre-demroratio institutions of tbe North American republio nor the monarobie form oË governicent in the South, were of any avail to c! eck the growth of the dis ease, but both led exactly to the same result.There is reason to believe that the Emperor Pedro II.has not only been long ago fully alive to tho dangors of the situation, but that he bas a strong personal antipathy to the traffic in human flesh and blood.His majesty and at least two of his constitutional advisers in the present ministry have long stood forward egninst the en- croechments of the slave power, but with, on the whole, as little sucoess as the abolition party in the United States.This is the more couvinoing in respect to tbe important question whether a monarcbical government would have prevented the present awful strife io North America, because tho Brazilian emperor is by no means eonfincd within arrow limits.According to the charter of 1831 the goverament of the empire is vostod in two powers, tho legislative and the excoutive, the latter entirely under tho control of the sovercign.The legislatare consists of a Sonate of fifty-four members, appointed by the emperor, snd a House of Represeutatives elected by the suffrages of all free citizens having property to the amount of two burdrod mil- rens, or about Æ35 annually.This must be acknowledged to be à strong monarchical constitution, yet it bas boen as ineffective hitherto in dealing with the institution as the most advanced republio.The slave: power in Brazil, so far from being ropres-' sed by tho strong arm of an enlightened, sovereign, is, on the contrary, increasing ita influence from year to year, to the absorption of nearly the whole administrative machinery of the state\u2014a phenomenon well worth studying by both the friends end the enemies of republican institutions.The present political situation of the great South American empire is of a vor extraordinary kind.Tho country, over ol its vast oxtent of territory, bas only some eight million inbabitants, but of these nearly one-half are slaves.Thanks to the vigilance of English oruisers, the African traffic is at this moment all but suppressed, and the coffec-planter on the Amazon, like the cotton-planter on the Mississippi, bas to look for his supply of hands to home grows material.Thus slavery is concon- trating itself in the northern regions of| the empire, whilos continual stream of free labor is flowing in st the south.It is true, the immigration into Brezil of German, Swiss, Dutoh, and Danish laborers pioture to mar its brilliancy, exoept tho although highly encouraged by the imperial government, is but small as compared with the human tide whioh continued rushin, into the northern republic up to the lest year or two; but it has been most effective, nevertheless, among à more limited population, snd has prodaccd already some of the results visible in the United States in the pressure of white crowds against black, The Germans, in particular, have established in the prozince of Rio-Grande-de- Bul some very flourishing settlements, which are likely to become, at no very distant time, the 3Iassachusotts of Southern America.It is a noticeable fact that the nucleus of these Sazon colonies was formed on an immense estate belonging to the Prince de Joinville, the heir apparent (or father to the heir apparent) of the throne of Brazil.The prince received the territory as a dowry on bis mariage with the sister of Pedro IL, and by making it over to au enterprising community of the settlers has very probably done more for the abolition of slavery than by enrolling his nephews under the banner of General M'Clellan.So much is certain, that wherever these colonists are setting their foot in Brazil, slasery is retreating before them.The lubor of the black man had previously degraded sgrioultural industry in the country to such an extent that not cven the plow was known to the masters of the land some thirty years ago, and was looked upon, in the bands of the German immigrants, ssan absolutely new invention.No wonder, then, that the empire of Brazil, which might produce corn enough to feed tho whole globo, has not sufficient for its own inbabitants, but must import food from the neighboring states uneffliioted with the \u201cinstitution.\u201d These aro all signs that the battle of slavery must be fought one day quite the same in monarchical Brazil as it is now in Republican North America, though in all likelibood the struggle will be loss severe.LaNoAsHIRE MEN AT ScHooL.\u2014The schools, whose benches and desks sre occupied by rows of grown.up men and grey-besded students, are full of inter est.pupils wandered for the first time into the groves of Academe.00 less than 380 men of all ages are assem- Late, indeed, have some of the hoary In one of the schools bled.As you glanced down the line of faces the scene was not s little touching, You saw men clasping their bald heads as if to keep them from splitting over sums of addition; jou saw some belping each other ; you saw others who, for their superior attainments, probably had beon selooted as monitors, And sometimes you eaw men, youvg, strong, energetic, giving their whole capacity to what they were about, awing at bighor things than their neighbours as they felt themselves stronger on the wing, and laying, perbaps, then and th:re\u2014es they tastod the awcctness of the first sips of knowledge, and wero taught to think and reason\u2014the seeds of future greatness.I saw one young fellow of this sort who was working a problem of Kuelid on his slate.These were not the men for whom it was necessary that monitors should be provided, part of whose duty it was to keep them awake, dutios of the monitors, slecp not being al- Yet this was one of the lored in echool hours, and brein-culture baving 8 tendenoy to produce romnoleney in some constitutions, These old boys are good boys, and the superintendent of this very school of which I am speaking, told me there had been no insubordination during thewhole six weeks that it bad been in operation.Old boys, indeed! There wasa man there fifty-sovon ycars old, and this was the first time he had ever been in à echool.\u2014 Dickens's All the Year Rouud.No LineaTY WITHOUT THE GosPEL\u2014 One balf the country, smitten by judioial blindness, refuses, by law, to four millions of her people the privilege of reading the word of God ; and the remaining half has brought judgment upon itself by conniving, for the rake of ungodly gains, at the receding of the first trom its primitive prinoiples, and siloncing the prophets which would have forewarned our doom, But the very struggle in which we are engaged is hopeful, it shows that the right is resisting the wrong, and if we bold to the truth end follow our noble leader, may we not hopo that God will give us victory.He who hath chosen aud blesced us and given us au open Biblo and the spirit of prayer, and bath eo richly endowed us, morally and materially, to publish his evan- gel of Christ and of liberty in all lends, will not lightly abandon us.But let us re- momber that liberty oan ooly be re-eatab- lished and consolidated and tramswitted by the Gospel.\u2014N, ¥.C.Advocate.\u2014 The Lord defines faith to be ® coming to God in Christ; to bo a resting, or staying, or rolling of tho soul upon Christ, And it is always safest and sweetest to define as God defines, both vices and graces, This is the only way to settle the soul, and to seoure it against all the wiles of men and devils, who labor by false definitions of grace to keep precious souls in a doubting, saggeriog, and lau- uishiog condition; and to make their ves a burden and a misery unto them, January 31, 1863.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.71 The Miscellany.THE BOLDIER'S MOTHER, It is night\u2014slmost morning\u2014the clock has struck three ; Who can tell where, this moment, my datliog may be ?On the window bas gathered the moisture, like ew ; 1 can see where {he moonbeams steal trembliogly throngb ; 1t is cold, but not windy\u2014bow dreary and damp It maat be for our soldiers, exposed in the camp! Though I kaow it Is warmer acd balmier there, Yet I shrink from the thought of the chilly night air; For Lie seemed like a boy, till be went to the war.Helis tweaty, [ know ; and boys younger than he, In the ranks, going by, every day we can ses; And those stronger and prouder, by far, I bave met, But I never bave seen a young soldier as yet, With 30 gallant a mien or so lofty & brow\u2014 How the sun and the wind must have darkeoed itnow! With his beard shutting out the sweet smiles of bis mouth! And the tremulous beauty, the womanly grace, Will be bronzed from the delicate lines of bis face, Where of late only childhood\u2019s soft beauty I saw, For be seemed like a child till he went to the war! Ue was always 80 gentle, and ready to yicld\u2014 And so frank, there was nothing kept back or concealed ; He was always so sparkling with laughter and Jon ; I had thought be could never cease being a boy ; But when sounded the cannon for battle, and when Rose the rallyiog cry of our nation for men, From the dream-loving mood of his boyhood he passed; From his path the light fetters of pleasure he cast, And rose, ready to stand in the perilous van, Not the tremulous boy, bat the resolute man\u2014 Aud I gazed ou bim eadly, with trembling and awe; He was only a child, till he went to the war! There are homes that are bumbler and sadder than ours, There are ways that are barer of beauty and flowers ; TLere are 1h82 that must suif-r for fire and for bread, Living ouly to sorrow, anl wish they were dead ; I mnst try ta be patient\u2014! must not repine\u2014 But what heart is wore lonely, mcre anxious than mine?Or what hearth can be darker hao mine seems to be Now the glow of the fire-light is all [ can see\u2014 Where my darling, in beauty, so lately I saw\u2014 He waa only a child, till he went to the war ! VOICES.The face is a faithful index of the physical condition.On it as on a waxen tablet the iron stylus of pain and soffering writes the sad record of feverish nights and weary days.Thre, too, is carved the monumental inseription of a brokea heart, and the sorrowful story of a wounded spirit.But the voice alone tells how these trials have been borne; whether they have proved the hammer and the anvil by which God works human hearts to his own will, or whether thoy have tended to embitter life and sour the disposition.You oan seldom sve a flaw in a bell; you must hear its ring: so a voice will speedily tell whether there is a crack in one's temper.Mr.Milburn, in one of his lectures, says that if a blind man were to judge of human faces by the voices he hears around him, he would say there was an expression of pain sad unhappiness on every countenance.The remark is startling, but measurably true.Vory fast looked do we think our Bluebeard chamber to ba; we keep the seoret of it in our possession; yet all the time a crimson stream is flowing acrose the door-sill, telling of murdered hopes within.There goes o happy man, à weil- to-do soul in the world's esteem.[no church or on * \u2018change\u2019 he is honored ; his word ie as good as his bond; many envy his oasy life; but when he speaks there comos up from the Vehmgericht of tho heart that stifled ory of confined yet unsubdued passion, Promethenn-like, it may bo, ohained to the rook of moral pria- ciple, restless and undying.Bat all voices have not such marks of the Borrow and the strife, Somn souls are like orange-trees, where fruits ripe for the present life minglo with blossoms that shall be perfected only in the life to come.They have overcome the world ; they have subdued the flesh ; they have looked within the vail, aud from much converse with God have come to speak like angels.You will find such more generally among mo thers\u2014mothers who strive to walk blameless bofors their childron, as well as before Everybody remombors the nursery tale about the good fairy who made the words of ono little girl to all pearls and jewels, while another spoke only toads snd serpents.The stor: ly represents the character of speech.nd words, kindly gxprossed, ato indeed jowols, and precious.Like God's sunlight, they cost nothing, yot are necessary to some souls, Many a po, dropped carelessly by the roadside of ife, is picked up and worn as an amulet.Bo gentle in tone as well 88 in word.man for half an hour, and sn eyebrow call « tuan & ecoundrel ; so I havo heard words.that, \u201cfairly writ,\u201d would have seemed friendly, but spoken, sounded much more like curses, DBestow a charity with a smile, and not witha frown.When you give the crossing-swoeper a penny, if you add a pat on the head, it may possibly scil your glove, but it will purify your heart.And perhaps in that day when good und evil shall be brought to judgment, when you will need just such a cloak of oharit- able words and deeds to cover a multitude of sins, a gentle voice will bid you come up higher because you ministered to his bicthron.\u2014J'rof.Warring Wilkinson of the N.¥.Deaf and Dumb Institute.INNER LIFE OF FRANCE.An American correspondent of tbe New York Commercial Advertiser, who has resided several yours in France, and evidently knowe that whereof he writes, has furnished that papor with an interesting account of the French modo of living and their house hold oustoms.PECULIARITIES OF HABITS AND CUSTOMS, We have no idea that cur customs and habits sre pcouliar or different from those of any body else till we see them described by some one to whom they are not familiar, In France it is more universal, per haps, thao elsowliers, in families, hotels, restaurants, and all other places where meals are served, to furnish any person with à \u201cserviotto\u201d at table.IF it isa place one is in the hubit of frequenting, he is expeot- ed to fold his eervictte, and mark it in some way ty be retained for him till be comes agaio, as this saves washing and a sou.But if one is invited to dine ono or only occasionally, it is almost an insult to fold his serviette on leaving the table; as this is the same as to say he expects to be invited again soon.A gentleman who did not know their custom, dined and returned home without suspecting that he had failed in any poiat of etiquette.The next day a recvant came to tell him that dinuer was waiting.\u201c Dioner,\u201d he exclaimed in surprise, \u201c but I did not know that any one expected mo to dinner.I have received no invitation.\u201d \u201cWhy, you folded your napkin yesterday.\u201d This information only increased his amazement, as he had no idea what tbe act bad signified.In some parts of the country it would not have been a hint that he expected to come again the next day, but only that he Loped to come again soon.I was caved from such a mortification by hearing a family exclaim one day, after some guests had departed : \u201cWhat vulgar people: did you not see thoy folded their Sphinn.\u201d I bad not remarked it, of course, as 1 did not know that it was a matter of any consequence, and should certainly have done the same myself the next day, where it would bave been almost a disgrace, bad I not thug been puton my guard.In speaking of it to a lady, who had been in America she said it was a custom rimilar to ours of putting tho teaspoon in the saucer, if one wished another cup of tea, and leaving it in tho cup to signify the contrary.Not knowing this she had bcen served with two or three cups more than she wished the first time she had been invited among strangers to partake of this beverage, yet it never ocourred to us before that it was anythiag pecaiiar, The details of housekcoping are in some resprots the sawe among all oivilized people who live by three moals a day, and yet we aro amured and astonished to see how the routine of houekeeping and three meals a day can vary ia civilized countries, The first thing to be done in every house is to sweep and dust and put thingsio order.In America it is to sweep carpets, in Germany to wash the floors, nod in France to wax them.The ta-k of the last operation is decidedly the most laborious.It is performed by fastening a picce of yellow beeswax to a sort of prong at the end of a lon stick and rubbing it over all the floors, and the fastening of a stiff brush at the bottom of the right foot ta cqualize the quantity upon cach part and givo a polish, after which it wust be awopt with a soft brush, and afterwards wiped with a soft cloth.Itiss long and fedioun process, and the first footstep makes a spot which only a similar process can obliterate.Tho stairs over which fifty people pass every day are oleansed in the same way.WASHING DAT.In the cities of France household washing is done every weck, though io tho country, as in Germany, it is performed only onoe iu six months ora year.In Paris, io a family, the family of a Mur.chioness, we have clean sheets once in two months, and believe this is the custom in most \u2018 good families,\u201d which is only balf as often as we had them in Germany, water is 80 dear.The preparation for à wash are to write every article down on à book kept by the washorwoman, who is responsible for every artiole lost, and obliged to pay ita full value.Addison says ho has scen an eye curse a 8 ury, it is 8 poor 8, or families in Paris, the clerning process being performed by ohloride of lime and | potash, for clothes, dishes and all articles.| Chloride of lime is sold vverywhere at a | cent a (nart, ready for use, clear as pure water.It removes the most obstinate staing of wine, fruit or ink, without rubbing, and if used very moderately is ssid not to injure the clothes so much as coup und friction.It is also employed to clesn unpainted wood, kettles, pots, and any stone or brick.For washing glass or earthenware, they us¢ sods, potash or pesrlash, eayiog it nots quicker and better upou greasy substances, But quite as often they use nothing, leaving upon the dishes all that pure water will rot have the complaisance to remove, and it is astonishing to one who has been accustomed to rivers and Croton fountains, Low little water they think sufficient to purify and cleanse, or rather Low content they arc never to be clean, water is 50 very «xpensive, We should prefor to dispense with our mueeum or gallory of paistiogs and have plenty of water, but this, we know, is evidence of our vulgar taste, which cannot appraciate art, which we confess to appreoiating below cleanliness, THE ENEMIES OF SNAKES.A very interesting paper bas been received by Mr.Hayes, a Government official at Chandernsgore, on the animels which are considered in India to bo the destroyers of snakes.Tho first in order is the Viverra ichneumon.Mr.Hayes bad a very tame one, which be once had caused to be shut up in a room with a cobradi ca- pello.No sooner did tho little creature perceive the snake than it rushed at it with rage, and ecizing it by the head, shook it violently.The anske meanwhile hed inflated its hood, which, as is well known, bears 8 mark resembling a pair of spectacles.The conflict lasted a considerable time, and towards the end it became necessary to poke the snake with a bamboo, in order to excite it against its enemy; but it soon became unuble to move, its head being terribly torn, and it evidently could not live much longer, Meanwhile the vi- verra was Btill much excited, its hair being bristled up; it often rubbed its nosc against various parts of its body whero it had probably becn bitten.The door of the room being opened the viverra rashed toa little point of couch-grass, where it rolled about for some time.It then weot to sleep, and did not seem to have suffered anything but fatigue from the conflict.The plot was examined repeatedly with great oare, but no other plant but couch- grass was found to grow there.Mr.Hayes thinks that the viverra, besides beiog protected by its thiok fur, must exude a kind of oil or fatty substance from its skin, whereby the poison is prevented from producing its cffcet; but as to its eating any articular grass as a cure, this popular be- Éer seems utterly unfounded.In America, thc common pig, and the Peccary, à pachydermatous animal, very like the tormer, are well known enemies to the rattlesnake, which they rush upon as soon as they perceive it, and tearit to pieces ; while there ia apparently no case on record of their having died of its sting.Nay, it would scem from all accounts, that the rattlesnake instead of inspiring these creatures with dread, itself evinves terror at their approach, and anxiously tries to find a place of refuge against their attacks, Few of us are aware tht the peacock and pintado arc both determined enemies of the serpent tribe.In India the pes- cock will pursuc à souke, and mot destst until it bas kiled it, The pintado cun- not cope alone with any large reptie; but it will call its comrades tu its aid, when they will all form à circle round the intruder, fixing their eycs upon him, with outstretched beaks; and the snake rarely sucoceds in cecaping from this magic circle.A SHAMEFUL WASTE.Of fermented liquor, I shall say no more than this\u2014that à grest part of it is no better than good water spoiled, and that us the great mass of healthy people can say no more of it, than that it is a 200d lux- imen of good feeling, and far worse of Christian charity, fur any one in time of famine to guzzle pecks of the poor man\u2019s mesl in the shape of beer.For banishing this curse from our lacd, we are not to depend solely or chicfly on sots of parliament, They may do much good, but our chief dependence is on moral reform.Wo must havo an cducation based on temperance, whiok will take hold on the conscience, not only of the epirit- drinking poor, but of tbe wine-drinking rich\u2014even of the imperial parliament themselves\u2014and teach them not to oreate temptations to drunkenness, as they.do, in barrack canteens, for example, and in serving out spirit rations to the army and the navy.I stand before you as the advocate of God's poor, who have sank to poverty among us through no fault of theirs ; and I beseech you not to suffer the food Very little soap is used by the washerwoman for them to be swallowed in spirits by the vile drunkard.I stand here this day as the advocate of the fatherless orphan; and I beseech you not to suffer the fend: ful of meal, which is all that his modesty asks, to be converted to poison by the selfish distiller.Ia the name of the motherless child, I address myself to the mercifal, as they hope to obtain merey ; and if there be one with no bowels of compassion before me, I address myself to bis fears; for \u201cIn their dark hour o' anguish, the heartless shall learn, - That God strikes the blow for the mitherless baira.\u201d Into the quertion of legislative interfercnce I have no incliostion to enter further, with its difficulties we need not trouble ourselves now ; but while the food of millions of our poor is warting away, and famine, with all its horrors, scems flying towards us on the wiugs of death, let mo improve the present solemn and great occasion, to warn the many and influcatial even now before me, of the coormous and destructive scourge which sweeps our land in the use of distillcd spirit\u2014so tempting, s0 maddening, £0 poisoning, as 8 customary drink.The landed proprictor is affucted by it, for his tensntry sre impoverished ; the merchant is affected by it, for what support can he derive from a besotted and beggared population ; master of all classes are affected by it, idle, and disobedient, and faithless.The patriot sees the wealth and strength of the nation wasting away before distilled spirit; the friend of education sces it stopping everywhere the march of improvement; tho Christian philanthropist mourns over the victims which it makes, not alone of degraded out- caats, but of those who were once the idols of the eocial circle and an honour to bu- manity; all who love their species and their God, deplore the dcmoralisation which distilled spirit is spreading over the community now, and the ills it is Jaying up in store for gencrations usborn.Whatever this mectiog may do, or whatever the government may do, the doom o! our meo- ster curse is ecaled.Public opinion will yet etamp with infamy, the whole manufacture and sale of the drink of drunkards; and the day is coming\u2014coming fast\u2014when a Chsocellor of the Exchequer dare no more sanction the conversion of food into poison, then be dare re-establish the market for buman flesh, or rivet once more the obains on the arms of the slave \u2014 Rev.Dr.Edgar, THE YO-SEM-I-TE FALLS, CALIFORNIA.The Rev.H.C.Benson, in the Circin- nati Ladies\u2019 Repozitory, gives an account of a visit to the Yo-cem-i-te Valley, io which he thus describes its wonderful falls : 1 We arc now ready togsze upon the falls, The Po-ho-no, or Bridal Vail Falls, are the firat seen.They sre formed by a tributary of the river leaping over the right wall and dashing down upon tho rocks a distance of eight hundred and thirty-seven feet.The water falling such an immense distance is converted into spray, and rises like a flecoy clouds and floats around the forest trees aud granite rocks eugpestive of the immoderate drapery that envelops the virgin bride as she stands ready to assume sucrcd vows at the hymeneal altar.Journeying three miles up the river we come to the Co-mi ne, or Yo-sem-i-te Falls, This is formed by another tributary of the Mercod rolling over the left wall of the amphitheater, It dashes downward a distance of fifteen hundred feot, then runs aver a ledge of rocks snd makes another leap of a thousand feet.The roar of this cataract is heard at a distance of two miles.It is not.a uniform and monotonous sound but with the fitful changes of the wind the falling volumes sways back and forth, giving almost endloss variety to the sounds produced.At times you imagine that huge rocks are being blasted by the explosion of power, then you are listening to heaven's own artillery, distant and continuous peals of thunder, and anon you are charged and lulled by the music of the drum, Here we build our camp-fire aud spend the night elcepiog in a shanty, and gettin our meals at ono of the hotels.We fad speckled trout caught from the river, in our bill of farc\u2014a most delicious fish.Thursday morning we sot out at an early hour for the Py.icy-ae, ur Vernal Falls, which is the great attraction.It is at the head of the valley, and is on the river.Long before wo aro in sight we hear theroar and mect the mist.Our road is rocky and preoipi- tous ; wo are journeying upward toward heaven.Now the fallsare seen.We halt aod with an overwholming awe and indes- oribable emotion contemplate the majest and grandeur of God's word.Then, wit] increased energy and painful excitement, wo pross onward, olambering over the rocks and clinging to the atinted shrubs which w from their clefts.Soun we meet tho lense oloud of vapor, and arevailed in the wilk-white spray.Now we cannot sco the more appropriate, for every particle of spray serves asa prism to seperate cach ray of sunlight into its primary colors.We are dazzled, well-nigh blinded, with their glowing brilliancy.At length we emerge from the cloud drenched and dripping, and stand on rceks, three bundred feet above the river's bed below the cataract.Wo stand in heaven's sunlight above the cloud, and the rainbows are beneath our fect.We feel the presence of God, hear his voice in the flood, snd witness the thunder of bis power,\u201d We are not yet above the falle ; there is yet a granite wall one hundred feet high, to resch the top of which wc must scale à rude snd frail ladder, which is ouly sccured to the rocks b; wooden pios.It ia attended with ol but we may not falter, we must pot turn back, We atand above the flood and witnees the plunge of the river over a precipice a distance of fonr hundred feet, The Nevada Falls are a short distanco above us in fall view.Woare now in the region of eternal snows, It is the twelfth day of July, and yet every mountain peak is hoary, and the world seems wrapped in its winding sheet.Hard by two rocky domez rise in msjes- tio grandeur on either side of the river, the highest of which is four thoussud nine hundred and seventy foct sbove the bed of the river.Our object is gained ; we have scen the forest of mammoth trees, the Yo-sem-i-te Valley and the Catarsots.Are we compensated ?Most certainly a hundred fold.At no dictaot day travellers will cross the continent, aye, they will come from Europe to visit the caves, the groves, the mountains, and the cataracts of California.BIRDS\u2019 SENSE OF DANGER.The power of judging of actual danger, and the free and essy boldness which results fiom it, are by no means uncommon, Many birds seem to have slmost correct notion of a gun's range, and, where torupu- lously-careful to keep beyond it, confine their care to this caution, though the most obvious source would be to fly right away out of sight and hearing which they ao not chouse to do.And they sometimes appear to make even au ostentatious use of their power, fairly putting their wit and clever- Bess in antagonism to that of man, for the benefit of their fellows.I lately read an account, by a naturalist in Brazil, of an expedition he made to one of there islands of the Amazon to sheot spoonbills, ibises, and other of the magnificent grallatorial birds, which were mcst abundant there, is design was completely bafiicd, however bys wretched little sandpiper that preceded him, costinually uttering his tell-tale ery, which arouscd all the birds within hearing.Throughout the day did this individual continue its sclf-dispored duty of scotinel ofothere cffectually preventing the approach of the fowler to the game, and yet managing to keep out of the range of his gun.\u2014 Gosse's Romance of Natural History.ErricTs or EATING BETWEEN MEALS, \u2014Among the maoy slighi causes of impaired digestion is to bs reckoned the very general disregard of eating between meals.The powerful digestion of a growing boy makes light of all such irregularities ; but to ece aduits, and often those by no means in robust health, eating muffins, buttered toast, or broad snd butter, a couple of hours after a heavy dinner, is a distressing spectacle to the physiologist.It takes at least four hours to digest a dinner; daring that period the stomach should be allowed repose.A little tes, or any other liquid, is beneficial rather than otherwise, but solid focd is n mere cocumbrance ; there is no gastric juice ready to digest it; sod if any reader, having at all a delicate digastion, will attond to his sensations after eating muffins or tonst at tes, unless his dinner has had time te digest, he will need no sentences of cxplanation to convince hi of the sorious error prevalent in English families, of making tes a light moal, quickly suceceding a substantial dinner.Regularity in the hours of eating is far from neoersary, but regularity of intervals is of primary importance.It matters little at what hour you lunch or dine, provided you allow tho proper intervals to clapse between breakfast and luncheon, snd botwoen luncheon snd dinner.What aro those intervals?This is a question cach must settle for himself.Much depends on the amouat eaten at coch meal, much alo on the rapidity with which each person digeats.Less than four hours should never bo allowed after s heavy meal of meat.Five hours is about tho average for me in active work.- Lewes\u2019 Physiology of Common Life.\u2014 The worst of men are in a dead sleep, and the beet of men are too often in 6 sinful slumber, and therefore faithful ministers have need to ory aloud, they bavo need to be courageous and zealous, to awaken both sinners and saints, that nono may go slee, oataract, for we are groping our way whioh their Father in heaven has provided through a wilderness of rainbows.Pra ae signifies crystal, surely no name could ing to bell.Cowardice in a minister oruelty ; if ho fears the faces of men he is à murderer of the souls of men.\u2014 Brooks. THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Janvarr 31, 1863.BY TELEGRAPH.Arrival of the \u201cSAXONIA.\" Naw York, Jao.35.\u2014The steamship * Saxo- nia\" arrived at 10 o'clock, wilh dates from Southampton to the 14:b.The \u2018 Btna\u201d arziv- ed at Queenstown on tbe 13th.; 1t was rumored Napoleon had renewed his proposal of joint mediation is America.The London Observe) says, that no euch offer has been made to England.Th: Empcror dlatinet- ly intimated to Mr.Dayton bis refusal to submit any propositien for the settlument of the Amo- rican dispute.The Times thinks the only way to settlo tbe dispute wili be for tbe Federal Goverament ig dissolve itéell apd deciare tke sovereign inde.penderce of eich State, leaving each jurfactly untrammeted to form its own connection for the futare,\u2014a position of affairs which mizht evable, ander mutual compromises, à new fideration to be formed that should again comprise the whole of them.The Metropolitan Railway is opeaed.Fuancz.\u2014 At tte oprniug of tbe Legislative Chambers the Emperor eaid, the condition of France would be flourishing if + + American war bad not dried one of the most fruitful sources of our industry.A public grant will be asked for the cotton operatives.1 have attempted to send beyond the Atlastic advice inspired by sincere sympathy, but the great maritime Powers pot thinking it aiviealle, a3 jet, tu se: in tbo coatest with me, | sm cblig- ed to postpone to & more sui\u2018xble opportunity an offer of mediation, the object of which was to step tLe «fusion vf blood and prevent the exbaustion of America, whose future cannot be looked upon with indifference.\u201d Ren'es lower at 704\u20ac, 10c.Îracy.\u2014 Garibaldi bas mccepted the Presi dency of the sew Roman Committee of action.He asks tte Romana to Jisten more to l-is cuun- sels, aud have confidence in themselves alone.Grzxce.\u2014Riog Ferdinand refused the crows.Arrival of the \u2018' EDINBURGH.\" New York, Jan.29.~The \u201cEdinburgh\u201d from Liverpool, 141, Queenstown, 15ib, arrived at 11.30.- Official documents explaining ike Foreigu policy cf the French Government, wer- distributed amoug the Legislative Corps.These documents gay mediation in America is postponed in couscquence of the refusal of Fagland and Russis t- join France, but the Emperor bas not refrained trum acquaicting the Cabinet at Wash.inglon, that his Goveroment is ail re.dy to mediate, provided American Government desires.News by the \u201cScotia,\u201d particularly as to the movements of the Democrats, is construed as favorable for peace, but tbe \" Etna's \u201d advices expelled the idea.The Exarcipstion Proclamation claimed serious attention, bt was received too late for much newspaper comment, The Morning Post terms it the desth warrant of the United Sintes, and says it would be a terrible act if it could be enforced, but regards it as wholly inoperative.The Stor thinks that whatever iy its immediate effect it rings the death kxell to slavery.Tae Telegraph says the rancor and contempt of the South must be in- creaged immensely, and if the measuce is suc- eesaful, never will military triumph bave been purchased ot so awful a price.Bympathetic sati-slavery addresses for Mr.Lincoln contisue to be adoptcd in various parts of Eogland.8ir Charles Wood in a speech said he thought it of little good at present for the Government to ettempt aoyibing like friendly intervention.The Paris Bourse is heavy et 704.COMMERCIAL.Liverpool Breadatuffs closed quiet and steady.Provision market heavy.Lonpon, Jan, 15,\u2014Consols closed at 92} to 92] for money.The Bank of Eogland bas raised its rate of discount from 3 to 4 fer cent.Sax Francisco, Jan.27.\u2014Fartber particulsrs of the bombardwest of Acapulco explain its object.The French fleet wanted supplies and the Mexicans refused.They could not fight them op the Atlantic aod feed them on the Pacific.The sbips then commenced entering tbe barbo: The Mexicavs opened fire from their shore batteries and tbe Fort, three miles from the fleet.\u2018The shore batteries were soon silenced, but the fort maintsiced iteslf.Afier destroying twelve houses and damaging fifiy, the fleet put to ses without supplies, the Mexicans continuing their fire from the fort, Nw Youx, Jan.28.\u2014The Herald's Wasbiog- ton dispatch saya a list of more than 80 army- officers bas been prepared, who are to be summarily dismissed the service for violating the army-reguistions by the use of improper lan.in reference 10 their superiors and the Jommander-in-chief, in connection with the remove! of Gen, McClellan and the court-martial and sentence of General Fitz John Porter, Nzw Yonk, Jan.28,\u2014The World's Washiog- ton dispatch states, that Governor Andrew lefi for Boston to-day, takiog with bim an authority to raise Regte.of negroes resident in the Bite ef Massachusetts for tbe United States service.The Tribune's Washington dispatch says, that Gen Cameron will soon resign his office of Minister to St.Petersburg, and to-day offered to tbe Waer-Department to lead à brigade of colored Unionists ioto tbe beart of the rebellion.Naw Yoax, January 39.\u2014A frightful boiler- explosion took place yesterday st 11 a.m, at the manufactory of Mr.O.A.E.Hart, 6 Ade- Inide Street, 8t.Mark, NJ.Tbe boiler was driven through 3 buildings, and across 2 vacant lots.3 meo were killed and 3 injured.The building in which tbe boiler was located, was entirely destroyed.Times Washington diepatch says the committee on the conduct of the war at their meeting to-day took up the resolution ofthe Sonate, to inquire who were the generals in the army of the Potomac who frostratud the plans of Gen.Burnside.Gen.Parker, chief of Burnsid otaff, was examiced in reference to Gen.Burnside's plans and opinions.It is seid Gen.Burboide's order fora movement was frustrated, and by tbe President revoked.Who the parties were bas not trepspired.In the examication, when Gen Buroside and other officers are ezamived, the names of geuerals who meddied ia the affair, will be made knowp.Tbe Times editorislly gives currency to a œ'atement that Mr.Gre.loy bas entered into personal pegociations with M.Mercier for tbe pro- motion of French intervention.The Times says,\u2014* Unless we have been misinformed, and we are open to correction om this point, Mr.Greeley bas held personal interviews with the | French minister, and bas written him letters: assuring him that the people are tired of the war, that they desire peace above all things, and that they are ready to welcome the in: vention of the French emperor, or of any disi terested European power, for the adjustment of the controversy beiween the Government and the Rebel States.We bave furthermore been | told that Le has toierated if not opened a correspondence où this aubject with Mr.Valls digham, of Ohio, will a view to co-operate in} some plan of mediation, as the most fensible plan of prttiog an end to the present wa The Tribune's special Washington d states, hat Gen.Burnside yestordsy informally tendered Lis resiguation as an officer of the Army to tbe I'iesident ; but Mr.Lineclo declined to receive lt, remarking (but be had other fish for blin to fry.Geo.Burnside rejoined, that he | hoped to be set to work at once, as be would willingly accept any command, be cared not} buw small; bu: be was extremely reluctant to\u2019 wear n Major-General's stars and draw a Major-i General's pay whils doing nothing to earn bis hooors or his money.Trustworthy information from Kentucky states that, on the 13th, General Wolford made o speech to bis men, telling tbem to go home for 20 days, and if within tbat time, Lincoln did} not modify his emancipation proclamation, he would not call upon them to fight against the South, but he would himself take the Geld in be- balf of the South agsiost the North.FayerTEviLLE, Ark,, Jan, 28.\u2014An eothusins- tic Union demonsirstion occurred here yester- day\u2014over 1,000 loyal citizens of Arkansas were prèécent.Speeches were made by Dr.Jobnson, a prominent Union refugee, Col.Bishop and others.15 Homo Guard Companies were organized, and wished to be accounted as Arkan- #ag Militia.Hundreds of citizens sigoed a petition to Congress to order an election for member of Congress from tbis State.All citizens baving arms io their possession have given them up to be used for the defence of their homes.\u2014 Another meeting is to bo beld at Huntsville in a few days.The Union sentiment is daily : Kingaiop, C.W., | vIving and dearly beioved som of leabells Patton, ! At Hemmiogford, C.on Sunday night, the 25th inst , Kmily sea Mary only danghter of Thomas R.Johnston, Esq., of this city, aged four years and + six moothe.Margaret On tho 23th last., at Grenville, C.¥.Edie, tag.Murray, relict of the late Christopher , Aged 88 years.Ounthe morning of the 6th Dec, at Peterborough, C.W., In his2iat 5 esr, Thomas Patton.the Inst sor.escott, aud of the Ile John Patton, Ksq., of ADVERTISEMENTS.Vy INING & MILLER, iG & Cv.) (FORMERLY Lo RB VIN: WAOLRSALE MANUFACTURERS or BOOTS & BHOES, 26 LEMOIND STREET, CORNFK OF BICULLL STREET.Serâisw ANTED, a Situation as Gardener by cue who understands Landscape Gar- dentag In all its brane] ratisfaclory tertimonials can be given, Addre Wiliam Taylor, Witness Uffice.HWE law = ?rd NENDERS FOR STEAMERS IN THK GULF,\u2014Pro- posals addressed to the Chief Com- miesioner will bo reeelved at the Department of l'ublio Works, Fredericton, until nooù of FRIDAY, the 20th FEBRUARY next, for the following service during & period of four years :\u2014 To run x good and well appointed ses going Steamer or Steamers, adapted boih for the carr log trade and conveyauce of paseeogers, of such power, sizc, speed and capacity, as may be fully adéquate 10 1he required duty, onee 8 week cach way, between Shedieo and Csmpbelton, touching at the intermediate Forts of Richibucte, Chatham, Newcastle, Bathurst aud Dalhousie, during the open season, Also will be received like proposals for a Steamer to perforin an additional trip per week each way, between Shediac, hichibueto, Chath mn, and Newcastle, during the same period.\u2018The proposals are to apecify the sum required for each service, the tize, capacity, age, sud character of the vcsselu proposed to be necd, with the kind aud condition of the Jollers and Machinery ; aod to include a tariff of the proposcd rates of fright and passage between the several Ports ve named.\u2018The required Steamer or Steamers are Intended to growing stropger in this section.The U.8.maii steamer Kearney left Havana on the 23rd, but returned the game p.m., having been fired into by the Spanish mau-ot-war \u201c Princess d\u2019Asturiss.\u201d Tho American Consul ordered the ¢ Kearney \u201d to proceed ou ber voyage, and the gunboat \u201cOneida,\u201d which had just arrived, was sent out ag a coovoy.The * Kear- ney\" bad tbe American flag flyiog when fred into, and bad the Amcricau mails and Government despatches on board.The commander of the \u201c Princess d' Asturias\u201d first Sred a blank shot at the Kearney, which ber comm .nder tock for signal fur salute, as we were only six miles from Moro Castle, and consequently paid no attention to it.Soon after their came another abot at the Kearney, when the Captain ordered bis vessel to be stopped, and just as this was done, two more hots came from the * Priccess d'Asturiss.\u201d Tbe Captain of the Kearney then went on board the Spanish man-of-war, 8 boat being sent to bim for the purpose; but Captain Bell not uuderstandiog what was ssid to him, returned to Havana.Advices from Mexico confirm tbe reported defeat of 4,000 French under Gon.Berthier, by 800 Mexican cavalry.It occurred in a fog at two o'clock a m., December 17:h.The French were completely routed.The Mexican General Perseda had captured a convoy from Jalspa for Perote.Tbe Mesican General Negret witb 10,000 men made a sortie from Puebla and attacked a French ion 14,000 strong, at Acugate, eight leagues frem Puebla, completely routing tbe latter.The French had to retreat to Orizaba.The French communication was almost cut off, Jalapa and Tampico are aban- doped by them.Sr.Louis, Mo, Jan.29.\u2014-Ia the cate of Benjamin Williams, & black man, indicted for grand larceny before a Criminal Court, the question, whether ho was a free man or a slave atthe time of tbe larceny, the Gh of January, was argued at length, the penalty in the former case being incarceration, and in the latter corporeal pun- isbment, Evidence was elicited proving that he was born a slave in Missiseippi, but previous to his arrival ia this state two or three months ago, be was the property ofMajor Thoilkaim, of Arkansas, who at that time was a prisoner in the bands of the Union forces.Judge Clover has just given an elaborate decision, declaring the said prisoner a free man by virtue of the President's proclamation, and being once free he is forever free, the judge koowing no power or law by which a man, being once emancipated, can be agein enslaved.New Orleans Delta of 17th contains following interesting paragraph :\u2014The news from Berwick Bar last evening brought official confirmation of tbe total destruction of the Rebel irop-clad ateamer \u201cCotton\u201d In the Bayou Tecbheit by tbe land and naval forces ander the command of Geo.Weitzel.She was blown to atome, and there is an end to this formidable vessel, which has been a kind of stumbling block in the way of the advance of our force on the Techeit, tr BIRTHS.MARRIAGES, DEATHS.BIRTHS.ln this city, oa Thursday, 9th inet., Mre, J.Un- darhill, of » Gangbters 0\" \u2019 In shiv city, Wednesday, 8th inst, Mre.A.G.Davidson, of s son, In thie city on the 25th inet , Mrs.John Porter, of sdaughter, MARRIED.At Qeobec, on the 27th instant, the Hey, W, Qemley, Mr.W.DD, Meikle, of Morrisburg, C.W., to Georgian Jans, relict of the late Mr.James Mcludoe.bp, At Laprairie, on the ath laat., James Thomeon, Keq , à Dative of B.imarnock, Ecotiand, in tbe Sith Fear of his CT Vackteek Hill.\u201416th of Jav., 4 8% years, Janet MoCandii-h, the beloyed wife of W.Frrgusnon Undertaker, and daugtiter ofihe late Wm.McCaudlish, vag, Provost of New Galloway, Scotland.Bhe was u consistent member of the l\u2019rrabyterian Church for years.Mick in disporition ind gent! il her ways, thoogh nuturelly bashfal.she had s superior Judgment and extennive hnowicdge, especially In spiritaal things.During her )ifor he lived for Christ, end bre lave 10 Him and trust fn le Word were un.felgned to the last.Her loving manner gained her the universal esteem of a vide cirole of friends of all denominations Îfer drath wae regretied as 6 pab- lio Joss to the community st orga No dvubt, however, our joss was ber gain.At Bmith's Falls, on the 36Lh inst, of raralyuls, Fbenizer Frost, Kiq, (senior partner of the frm of Frost and Wood, 1 uaders,) aged 72.ron - the fart that no other Tun in capnection with the Haliway terminating at Shediac, to carry Malle, If so dirécted, and to te under such rules and regulations as to hours of departure, tariff, and other particulars, as the l'epart- ment may from time to time prescribe.GEO.L, HATHEWAY, Chlef Commissioner.DEPARIMENT PUBLIC WORKS, Fredericton, 9th Jan., 1863, | 18-3 & pW REAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE GF FIRST-CLASS BLWING MA- CHIX XB.c.w.WILLIAMS & CO.\u20198 UNXQUALLED DOUBLE THREAD FAMILY Sewing MACHINES.Whiletkeyaro from $15 to $20 less in price, than other first-claes Machines we Warrant them their equal in every reapect.Belter Machines for family usc have never been made, They\u2018 are à mple, durable, reliable ard warranted, and kept in repair ya one year without charge.First-class elty references given If requlied.Office and Kalcs rom No, 20 Great St.James Street, A, FULLER, General Agent for Canada.gen +28 &8sw Eub-Agents wanted.EWING MACHINES FOR SALE.\u2018The Genulno Siuger\u2019a Sewing Machine.and the $40 Combination Shuttle Machine, for Tailors\u2019 use, former price, $65; also, Townsend's Wax Thread Machines, Atl kinds of Machines repaired at ehort notice, and at low prices.277 6 1.9 L Eh, 29 Great Bt, James Street.NGINES for SALE \u2014Onve 40 H.P, Horizontal Engine (new).One 7 HP.Horizontal kngiue end Boiler.One combined 5 H.P.dlito with loro.link motion and Tubular Boiler (new.) Onc H.P, Uscilating Kngine, with Copper Boller.(pe Iron Plainlog Machine (uew,) 6 feet 3 feet broad.with Countershaft and Puilies complete.Also oae Screwlog aiachine, from 5 to 1% inch.Apply to % ln Prir R.HASELDEN, B7&8ew Mo.! Exchango Court.X()\\ REWARD offered for the ape ° rchenslon of any one sciling a counterfeit of Lewle\u2019 Estend Rosch Exterminator.The sDuine article can be oblaioed wholesale of Mesrs Frans, Clare & Co , Lamplough & Campbell John F.Henry & Co., Kenneth Campbell & Co, Kerry, Uros, & Crathern, of Montreal ; B.A.Mitchell, Loa.don ; John Robeits, Ottawe, and at Retall by all dealers in Canada.HARBY LEWIS, Sole Proprietor, Dee.8 6-4 31,8.Montreal.REVIVAL HYMNS AND TUNES, NOW READY.\u2014 PRICE FIVE CENTS BY MAIL, SII CENTS.Thin cdition of RaviyvaL Hrymxa AND Tuxus includes a number of the pleces recently introduced by the Kev.Mr, Hammond.\u2018The selection of Musioand Words hss beet carefully made from very low price at which the work js issued wilt bring it within the reach of ail classes, ft will be especially useful fn FamiLius and in SUNDAY SCHOOLS, as well a8 In INQUIRY snd UNION PRATER MEETINGS, Ministers of the Gospel, Fuperintendents and Teachers of Euuday Schools, and Christiaus throughout Caneda, sre earneatiy requested to as- slat tn giving This work an extensive cireulation.While Ls in very chexp,\u2014lte chief merit consists in k kaown tothe compiler contains all the Hy mos aud Tunes given.Poetry on merely sentimental or tridiog character has been carefullyexcludod, CONTENTS: Awskemy foul to Joyful Late Behold, behold tho | amb of tod.ot Holy *pirit, Come.+ Just now, re Bluners, poor and needy.soule.no louger monrs.ous Jesus.foi Come » I em.without one plea, Lord, l bear of showers of blesalng.Moat Jesus bear the cross alone ?Nearer my od to Thee.Nothing either great or small.Now 1 have found s Friend, OU happy day thet fixed my chotee.Return, © wandirer to thy home.Rock of Ages elefl for me.\u2018Take ms beset, (0 Father, take it.There Le n fountaiu Glivd with blood, PUBLI DAT THE * WITNESS\u201d OFFICE, 36 Great Bt.James Street, Montres),\u2014where orders from the country wilt be received.Price per dosen 80c, Parties fending orders from the eountry, to be for.\u2018warded by mall must remit 8, additional per doxen, fpr postage,\u2014 that charge baving 10 be prepaid here.Price per 100 copies, #3.Lhe parties ordering must psy the Kxpreas cf es.A few coples handsomely done up in cloth, with gilt label, price 12)c.each.sted Jf.various sources ; and itis believed that, while the ©.Firsr-CLass FARM FOR BALE.\u2014That valuable Property in Cots ~t.Luke, formerly owned and cultivated by the late Honxrr CRAIK, is now for sale, Possestion to be given on the Int of MAY next, or partis) possession immediately, if required.\u2018The FARM iu situsted at the extremity of the Western Blope of the Mountain, about two miles from the 8t.Antoine Toll gate, and in full view of \u2018 Monkiand\u2019s\" (formerly the residence of the Governor General) It comprises about 133 arpents of the finest land, unsurpassed for fer tity by amy in Canada, and le thoroughly watered by never-falling Spring nd Rivutets, one of the latter winding picturesquelly through the Orcharde within a few yurd» of the Dwelling and Out-houscs.\u2018The isnd is in the highest state of eultivation.being ¢laborate laid out, and thoroughly drained an nor, expense to render 4t in every respeet a model farm.With the exeeptisn ofthe dwelling house.which is old and considerably out of repair, the bulldings, Including Baras,Stubles, Granarice, Root bourse, Work-aliops, Sheds, &e, &e.are commodiour, comparatively new, and In good order.The property His bcen commuted, ard the Title in indisputable.For further pasticulars apply to DR, CRAIEK, 130 Crag Street, from 10 to 103, tu the \u2018forcaoon 2 vr-0.0r, 2.AD 259-70 FARM FOR SALE, containing 100 ARPENTS, more or lees, beeulifuilr ated on the porth bank of the ATHAUGUAY RIVER.There js an CIIARD of choles FRUIT, nd a good VEGETA :N.\"The DWKLLING HOUSE is Ci OK: BLE GARDEN STONE, Two-Jtories high, very finished.\u2018the OUT-ILOÛSES and FKNCES arc in targe and well the best order.This FARM ls about 3 miles from the Basia or Steamboat Landing, from h there is daily communication with MONTREAL ; two miles from CATHOLIC and PROTESTANT CHURCIIES, SCHOOLS, &C- For particulars Inquire of ALEX, KSDON the Proprietor, on Farm, or WILLIAM WALKER, Bt.Gubrlel Loek Mills.Sw OMESTIC MANUFACTURES, The undersigned continues to offer his services to manufacturers fur the sale of their goods, which bis arrangements will enable him to effect romptiy and satisfactorily.Drafts at three months or Bout three-fourths of net value of conuigns ments, will be accepted in advance, A Supply of warps, from goud factories in the ttates, conrtantiy on hand, ¥or sale, consignments m various factories of Tweeds, Ktoffes aud Satiuetts ; also, from Manufacturers In England, of Black, Blue and Brown Ladies\u2019 Cioths, Mixed Melton Cloakings and Fancy Cost.3.A riers for dry goods, accompanied by carb or satisfactory reference, will receive prompt atten tion.JORN DOUGALL, COMMISSION MEECHANT, 272 Bt.Paul Stres ow&w- I-dLLb ; O CONSIGNERS OF PRODUCE.\u2014The Undersignsd respectfully tender thelr services to consigners of Produce, whose interests will have thelr most careful attention.Short drafts for about three fourths of net value of consignments will be accepted in advance, and the balance remitted with the ntmont promptitude.Prices Current arc published in each issue of the Montreal Witness.N.B.\u2014Potash_ Ketties and Coslers will be furnished at Manufacturers\u2019 prices.: JOHN DOUGALL & CO., McK.COCHRANE, e AGENT FOR WOOLLEN MANUFATURERS, Keeps constantly ou hand u large assortment of MANUFACTURKRS' SUPPLIES.SUUTTLES for bacd or Power Looms.REKDE\u201438 in , 43 in.and 40 ju., all sizes, from 250 to 1000 picks.HEDDLES, 9 and 12 Inch, Coar.¢ and Floe Wire, HARD E88 FRAMES, 43 snd 90 in,, Rods avd Bars complete, MACHINE CARDS, Doffer, Eheet, Filletivg and Fancy PRESS PAPERS, \u201c CATSKILL\u201d Brand.BOBBINY, Warp and Filling, all sizes.RUBROLLER and lace Lesther.HARNESS HOOKS, Comb Plate, Card Clamps.BURLING IRON«, Tenter Hooks, Tape on Spools, {ud almost cvery article wanted a Woollen \u2018actory.No 1 REFINED LARD OIL, The very best for Manufacturing purposes.Orders promptly exeented.A.McK.COCORANE, AGENT FOR WOOLLEN MANUFACTURERS, 1B&swtld 292 51.Paul Street, EATHER.-\u2014The Subscribers offer for sale, IBPANISH SOLE No.fi.ENGLISH BEND No.1, SLAUGHTE à SOLE No.1, SPANISH SOLE No.1,2 & 3, \u2018' Glasgow Tannery.\u2019 \u2014ALSO,\u2014 COMMUN BHANDS Nos.1, 2 and ?CALCUTTA CITY BLAUGHTER, whole Kips, + 8t, Plo Tannery,\u201d CALF KID do do.DAVID TORRANCE & 7- for 1 mo, & | \u201c =t.Pie Tannery.\u201d HINGS NEW AND OL D\u2014A HE NEXT TERM of the SCHOOLS of the PROPRIETARY COLLEGE, DUrRAN USK, Bt.Lawrence Main Street, (sshort disiance above Bherbrooke Stroet,) Montre il] commence on MONDAY, the 26th JANUARY, 1863.Head Master, Rev, ALFRED BTONR.Mr, JOHN GODWIN.Music Master, - - Mr.F.TORRINGTON.Sup.of Ladies\u2019 Depart't, Mrs.BToNs.\u2018The EXGLISH, FRENCH, LATIN, and GREEK lan- Furs, WHITING, ARITHMETIO, BOOK-KZEPING, (ATHEMATICS, HISTORY, GEOGRAPAY, DRAWING sad MusiO re Included In the studies.\u2019 Ladies are likewise taught Plain snd Ornamental Needle Work.Tha whole of the com Hooms of Dur Boor un estes à ak ants Cia can reoe! can pi greater TRES FOR GENTLEMEN.= = FERS YOR LADIES.In 49% pee era.$8 Jet Cisse, per Term,¢8 00 700 80 800 400 300 AU Fees Payabis in Advance.The above charges Inelude, Music, Dra: d the whole cf the studies exumeratéé.The only extra eh are\u2014 fifty cents per Term for \u201ctation- ery, and Oty centa for Fuel.Boarders are received by ihe Kev.Alfred Stone, No.3 Montetth Terrace, and by Mr.John Godwin, No, 122 81.Urbain Bureet.Night Behool every Monday, Wednesday, and Fri day evenings, from 7 to 9 o'slock.14-30 & Baw, JEW CROP GREEN TEAS, in STORE and to arrive, of Season 1562-°63.J.A.& B.MATBEWSON, 14-1101.w #6W Mogi Brest.fenced, the lato owaerthaving spared neitlier pana © NARCIS3E DUVAL, A.M.C \"JDPURCHASERS OF DRY GROCER.1\u2018 1ES TFAB, OILS, &C., ON COMMISSION.\u2014 undersigned.In addition to their Produce Com.ion business, are prapsred to fll to the best ; adventage, ordi for the above elasres of goods for's viry moderate Commivsicn Orders to ae- companicä by thé moncy, or à namo known to the trade here, which the sellers of the goods will ac- eept without a guarantee.Consignees of Produce may, of coarse, urder Groceries to the value of their galgaments.cornes - JOBN DUUGALL & CU, Dec 10 s.w&w 3m ss SLIGHT COLD,\u201d COUGH IMOARSENESS, or Sore Throst, which might be checked with a simple remedy, if neglected often terminates seriously, Kew are awsro of the im.pring & Cough or \u201cSL1on ¢ Corp\u201d io its first stage; that which the beginning would yield t mild remedy, if not aticaded fo, soop attacks the lungs.The cfiicacy of BROWN'S BLUNCHIAL TROCHES 1a demonatrated by testimonials from Physicians, Surgeons lu the Arm;, nod cmincnt men wherever they have been used.They were llret introduced In 1850./f Aaz been proved that they are the best article before the public Sor Covaus, COLDS, BROXCUITIA.ASTHMA, UAT- TAR), the Hacking Cough lu CONSUMPTION, and numerous affcetions of the THROAT, giving imnk- diate relisf.PUBLIC SPEAKERS AND SINGERS will find them cHectual for clearing and strengthening the voice.From MR.T.DUCHAKMF, for many years Chorister of French Parish, Church Montreal, \"It gives me great pleasure to certify to the efficacy of your Bronchial Treches, In an affcetfon of the Throat andvoles, induced by public singing.They have suited my cate exactly, relieving my Throat and clearing the voice so that [ could sing with ease.\u201d From Rev.HANRY WILKES, D.D., Chureh, Montres) When somewhat hoarse from cold or over exer- tlon in public speaking, I have vaifermly found Brown's Troches afford relief, \u201cI have been much affileted with BroncHIAL AFFECTION, producing Hoarsences and Cough, \u2018The Troches are 1he ouly effectual remedy, giving power and clearness to thevoice,\u201d G » Pastor of Zion Bxv.; ÉLACK, Mlcister, Church of Eoglahd, Milton Parsonage, Canada, \u201cTwo or three times I have been attacked by BRONCHITIS 50 ws to make mc finr that | ehonid te compelled to desist from ministerial labor, through disorder of the Throat.But from a moderate use of the Troches, I now find myecit able ta presch nightly, for weeks together, without the slighteat Inconveniearc,* Rav, ¥.B.RYCKMAN À.B., Wcelegan Minister, Moutreal.* Your TROCHES 27e too well and favorably known to Léed commendation.\u201d Hon.Cuias.A.PRELPS, Pres.Mass.Senate.My communication with the world hasbeen very much enlarged by the Lozenge, which I now carry siways in my pocket; that trouble io my Throat, {for which the TROCHES are a specific) having made me often a mere whisperer.\u201d N, P.WiLLIS \u2018I have never changed my mind respecting them from the frat, excepting to Think yet Teter of that which I began thioking well of.Rv.HENRY WARD BENCUEF.\u201cThe TROCHES are à staff of life to me.\" f.KDWARD NORTH, Pres.Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y, aol simple and elegant combination for Coughs e Dr.G.F.BIGELOW, Boston.\u201c1 recommeud their ase to Public Speakers.Bev.E.H.Caps pola Ly all Dealers in Medicines at 25 cents per x.2703tawd.,1a ws wh w.5 mo.BUSINESS CARDS, Ww ILLIAM NIVIN & CO, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FORWARDING AND GENERAL AGENTS, 26 St.NICHOLAS ETEEKT, MONTREAL, AGRNTS for SALE of WHEAT, FLOUR, ASHES, BUTTER, PORK, and GENKRAL PHODUCK.ALSO, for the PURCHASE of GRoCERIXS, HARD- WABE, and GANERAL STORES Tyraw War & SIMPSON, COMMISSION MERCHANTS, AND DEALERS IN FLOUE AND OATMEAL, BUTTER.EGGS.HAMS CHEESE, CORN-MKAL, PORK, OATS, BRAN, &c., YOUNG'S BUILDINGS, No.2 McGILL STRERT, MONTREAL REFERENCES :\u2014Measrn.Janes, Oliver & Co., Messrs.Edward Maitland, Tylee & Uo., sy K Wm.Parkin Fag.ALL KINDS OF PRODUCE Bovanz & SOLD OK COMMISSION, Baw (CHARLES ALEXANDER, (ESTABLISEED 184%.) WHOLKSALE & RETAIL CONFECTIONERS, 243 NOTRE DAME STREET, Dally manufactures all descriptions of Confectionery suitable for City sad Country trade.Also, Losenges and Conversation lozenges, English and Framed, Gum Drops, Liquorice Drops, Jujube Paste and roam, Don ons.Qrders Tom all part of tbe country ewefully snd promptly supplied.Prives reasonable.Terms eash.943 Moraz Daux STREAT, Montreal.Baw D P.CAMPBELL M.D., .PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ATMOL, C.W.JOHN AMERY EVA ) HARDWARE \u2014 tore as Thon yoy ro Nicholas Btreet : Warehouse and Office Panl Street, MONTREAL.December 1, 1069.DR.J.A.BASIN, BURGEON DENTIST, 30 GREAT BT.JAMES STARET, MONTRRAL.MONTREAL WITNESS\" Is prates Fo JOHN DOUGALL Sox, Brive 36 Great 8%.James Bireet Evous Head of Drummond Street, Montreal."]