The Montreal witness, 14 mars 1868, samedi 14 mars 1868

[" Vor.XXIII.=) = _ COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEV MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAR CH 14, 18068.SPAPER.No.22.CORRESPONDENCE.[For the Wirsxas, A DELICATE SUBJECT.We should fail in our duty as public journalists were we to pass over the sad tragedy which has regulted in the suicide of one who might have been an ornament to society and an honor 10 his profession.It is seldom a crime produces such ramifications of sorrow aod distress as that which bas appalled this community for the ! past few days.The crime has met with no palliation, but the universal expression of indigns- tion and borror bas been pronounced distineily and clearly.Words of commiseration for the young medical man who preferred death to a dishonorable exposure, sad pity for the unhappy victim, bave, iudeed, been uttered ; but unsparing condemnation has been meted out to the guilty author of the crime.In a Romau-Catho- lic country, peculiar odium and guilt are attached to the destruction of fœtal life, as without the rites of the church it is believed the soul ia consigned to perdition.The view of Protestants is, tbat, as God alone givas life, it is murder to destroy éven the germ of life.It is these ideas whic have hitherto preserved our community from this crime, which is more frequent in large cities, like London, Paris, and New York.We think it right to call attention to the fact, that in no case can fœ\u2018al life be destroyed without jncurring guilt in the eyes of the law of God and man, and at the same In this connection we wish to call attention to the advertisements which disgrace some of our papers, of female pills aod remedies, which bave of seduction.enormous price, and any one familiar with physiology is aware that they seldom accomplish tbe object for which they are vended.Nevertheless, they hold out a premium for crime, and often suggest a mode of escape from its conge- quences.We have been most unwilling to allude to tbia subject, but recent events which have so borrified the public conatrain us to speak out ; and, we trust, both the press and pulpit will set forth plainly that be who conpives at or aids in the destruction of buman life, even in its germ, deserves to be branded as a murderer.FROM OUR WINDSOR CORRESPONDENT.This bas been tte most eteadily cold winter that I have experienced bere for tbe past thirty- seven years, and the oldest inhabitants do not remember one as cold.Qu referring to the record kept at the observatory cornec\u2019ed with the Windsor Grammar school, I find (hat in tbe winter cf 1866-7 the thermemeter fell on five days to zero and ur.der, while the present winter it has fallen on fourteen days to aud Lelow zero.1 fear the prospect fur a good crop next gee- son of the wore tender varieties \u2018of fruit is not good ; ar, on examining the blossom buds of the peach and finer kinds of cherry, [ find the whcle or greater part have been winter-killed ; otber kinda of fruit, with, probably, he exception of the grape, have, however, not been injured aoy.Last year we bad a fuir crop of cherries, peaches, and grapes, though the thermometer fell twice in January to 17 and 20§ degrees below zero, while this yesr the two coldest days were 13 and 21 degrees below zern respectively, There isa sayiog tere smongat the old French Canadians that winter never gets in till the coulées (runs cf water) are filled.This, the gever- est wioier we bave bad, is an exception te thet rule, as the coulées bave been perfectly dry s'ace midsummer; the farmers bak from the lakes and rivers having bad great difficulty in getting water for \\beir cattle, and many of the stesm-, mills being stopped all winter for lack of water keep tbe steam up.us rest driftiog snow-storm of 1stard 2nd inst reached here ss severely as elscwhiere,though the one of tbe week previcus, Bo severe east of this, was quite moderats bere; but its efectg were felt in gettiog ro mails fcr nearly a week from Montreal, the daily visits of tke Witness being greatly misted : four numbers of it arrived one evening and two the next morning, while we were three dass without Toronto papers.The Detroit tier bas been frozen over Le ater part of the winter, the ice wben undis- Éicbed veiug about 18 inches thick; when broken up by the repeatod passing of the Great Weate:n steamers it is of much greater thickness, often, in rome places, four or five feet thick.Several times they bave bcen almost beat in crossing, taking the greater part of a day to make a trip; but, in general, they plough through itwith con- siderablo ease, liaving been built with a view to this service.It commenced reining last night and hascon- tinued ali day; about balf the snow is melted, two sons, of whom Alfred was the younger) to \u2018 God.able aircle of Christisn people, some of whom : | course, know to be among the excellent of tha earth, Ais elder and only brother 13 a minister of gupe- though it still lies very deep and in great drifts.If the rain continue, We may exçect to bear of g-eat floods caused by the melting snows.The scarcity of water is now at an end, J.D.r MONTREAL WATER-WORRS.(Tothe Editor of tAe Daily Witness.) Sm,\u2014Montreal can boast, at this moment, of I.water-works not inferior to any in the world, for member of the Montreal Corporation; Thomas O.Kester, Eeq., as ciril-engiseer ; and tbe indomitable perseveranceof D.À Macdonald, Esq, M.P., contracter.TLe principle introduced by the great philosopher, Benjamin Franklin, bas been, with all improvements since bis time, of the City of Montres), and à winter of unexampled goverity, together with some parsimony on the part of the Corporation, bas brought on & paic from which Moutreal is suffering at this moment.Let the same parties, whose experi- { ence, talents, knowledge, and energy bave effected 80 much, be again called into requisition, 20d Immediate steps be taken to prevent a recurrence of such « catastrophe.Montreal will from ber commanding position in commerce, the hoj your navigation, and mamafactures, soon possess a population of half a wiilion.Though emivent fe would secure s sup; ly of water for many years, tremenduus account of hidden sina awaits them from insuffic still thers should be a reservoir on the southern at the Judgment Seat; but it is equally true lation bebis d the mountain, and the population | extending the city westward towards Lackive.A and the very means adopted to conceal bave fort sbould also be erected on that spur, where guns would command the country to the St.Lawrence.When this great work shall be com.of Her Majesty ; those of the Viceroy of the Dominion, tbe Lieut.-Governor ot Quebec, the Mayor of the City of Montreal ; together with the names of Edwin Atwater, Thomas C.Keefer, and Donald A.Macdonald, Esq, be engraved où it in indelible characters, 23, \u201c Besure your sin will find you out,\u201d the Rev, Dr.Irvine addressed to bis congregation in similar cases (which God forbid), and if 999 are Knox Church the following impressive remarks on the melancholy case of suicide which has so much engrossed the public mind during the past week :\u2014 recorded experience, shall we search fora pore j ing in | i , strikiog, shall I say 1hrilliog, illustration of the time placing in jeopardy the life of the motber.warning conresed in my text ban in the sad and painful case of suicide which bas recently stunned this community, and 1s this day gazetted in no other object than to prevent the consequences \u20ac¥ery journal of the Dominion?A plan was These medicines are sold at an laid to commit a felony, not only to do a nonprofessional act, but an act forbidden alike by the laws of God and man,\u2014an act endangering the lives of both parties fmmediately concerned, and jeopardizing the lives of the medical gentleman himself and hie accomplices, \u2014if accomplices he had.Whether he was induced by the consideration of pecuniary recompense, or moved by the impulses of an over-generous nature to aid guilty parties in their attempts to conceal sin and screen themselves from the shame of exposure, I know not; perbaps this part of the mystery is reserved for the day of judgment.Yet from the sad and sudden end of Dr.Patton, seems, bien addicted to drink tor some time.He I am disposed to believe that the judgment of bad doubtless made frequent efforts to overcome charity will acquit bim from the charge implied | this propensity, or rather disease, for it Was 4 Winpeok, March 6 1808.in the Grst of these theories.money,\u201d though declared by Inspiration to be: ture deliberately upon the sucha heinous crime.There is evidence, I un- qrdinary circumstances, hive been difficult of derstand, to show that he was naturally &n \u2018cure, but, in the case of drinkers any irjury is estimable and sympatbizing man , vesidrs, it is ! very liable to prove fatal.The brewers\u2019 dray- to be fiared that, at least to some extent, be men, iu London, used bad been indulging in the use of ardent spiri\u2018s body with continual be ment, given way to the jufluence of persussive importuity, and been induced to undertake the ! ull ita horrors set in, rendering it impossible to wicked task which bas ended so fatally.deep recissis of that man's moral nature the, remnants of some early religions impressions, It table view of the case, because [ am in circum- land be would never drivk stances to know something of bis early upbring.: did spare him, but he did nol keep bis vowing, and am glad to be eb\u2019e from th's pulpit to | After he got well, a friend asked bim to go into testify to-day to the fact that be was the child « saloon and bare something, sud be went with of many prayers.His father was a pics man, him and began a and often bave I kn-lt beside him and joined | saloons and taverns are ever open to tempt bim in commending his children (a daughter and ! men to break their good tesolutions, and drag other relatives are among the foremost in every evangelical enterprise in the province of Ulster.His consins are amoung the leaders of the youth of League and the Young which it Is indebted to Edwin Atwater, Ecq., ae ciation.Hence, his deaib, I doubt not, will awaken many a sore pang iu many a Christian heart was | aware that he had Montreal until ! saw bis death announced in one ot our city journals (wbich fell into my bands fully carried out; but (be immense increase in the cars, about 150 miles from the city).On my return, | made every inquiry as to the siate.ments which bad found their way into tle papers; and, without brosding longer upon the incidents which make up the painful tragedy, or bands of the civil authorities, let mo close my remarks by urging you all, but especially the young of this congregation, to beware of the fc lly, the infatuation, of indulging in sin with engineers have decided but piers extending and fast in & career of impiety without detection | form io quality, om the head of the entrauce from the river, and without exposure, and it may be that a \u2018and free from dirt and waste, rom loss arising | Jent tares and short weight, occur- | tion in the past, pur of the mountain, for the use of a large popu- | that, a8 in the recent occurrence in this city, some secret sins bave burst auddealy into view, | been iostrumental in exposing them.© There lis a God in Heaven that revealeth secrets\u201d ; and even should be, in his forbesrance, veil your hidden sins from public gaze, aud wait until tbe Books be opened at the last Aesize, still, fellow- sinner, let me ask thes if these reveries by day, and dreams by night; if these fears and terrors by the way, if this lashing of conscience, if this bell begun in thy wicked heart, if this gnawing of the worm and burping of the fire which renders life 80 miserable\u2014if all this be not even in time a terrible award of thy misdeeds! O fellow- * sinner, if an accusing conscience will chase thee | not only to the grave, but to the very presence | of thy Gr d, without time to cry, \u201c Lord be merciful to me a sinner,\u201d ia it worth all this to indulge in any secret sin?If we have before the public eye to-day, but one single instance of a thousand pleted, let the year of its completion, the name Cos.P.Tuzanweu.L'Orignal, March 5.TBE LATE DR.ALFRED PATTON.At the close of a sermon from Numbers xxxij.| concealed, while his bas been exposed, \u2014ob, is | not this calculated to awe thee, and drive thes | to the mercy-seat for pardon and purification by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ?Go, then, fellow-sinner, go to the \u201csecret place of the Most High,\" with all thy secret sins and confess them to Him who has no pleasure in the death .of bim that dieth, but rather that be turn and\u2014 * Lay his sins on Jesus, The precious Lamb of God, Who bears them alt and frees us, From the accursed loa.\u201d Where.in all the range of revealed truth or THE SABBATH-AFTERNUON RELIGIOUS TEMPERANCE-MEETING.The meetings have, since we last reported them, been very crowded and very interesting.At a recent one, Dr.Oarpenter said, his mind was full of an awful instance of the results of drinking which bad just occurred, and be thought that, when such cases were provideatially brought to light, it beboved us to learn the lez- {i they taught.A young, vigorous, accomplished, amiable, and popular gentleman bad, it « disease ; but be would find it very difficult to It ig sca cely credible that the \u201clove of abstain in the fashionable circles in which be moved,\u2014circles where people were trained to \u2018the root ef all evil,\u201d prompted him to ven- drink from childhood upwards.This gentle- perpetration of i man met with a fracture which would not, in be in such à etate of rinking that a very He may bave, therefore, in an unguarded mo- | eminent enrgeon enid, a prick with a pin would kill them.lu this case, delirium tremens, will Bul hold the patient still.The consequence was, to whatever hypothesis we may venture to trace | that be died after a few dass of such suffering the motive, one thing is obvious, \u2014tbat 1he sin aa could not be described, and all this waa the wag soon discovered, and he was not only made effect of drink on one who would otherwise to sit in judgment on the awful deel he tal lave been a bright ornameut of society.committed, but was allowed to become at once A plysician of this ciry had told him (Dr.the law, judge, jury, sud executioner iv aveng-| Cagpenter) that he was greaily shocked at the Ing upon bimself the pecalty of his own crime.way children were taugbi tu drink at children\u2019 i I The very fact that he was goaded by the darta parties.This ho (the physician) bad learned of conviction, \u2014I might say by the arrows of the from hia own little son, who came home excited divine law fests ring ia his conscience, nad thus with liquor from a party, and told his father bow driven to deaperation,\u2014showed that he was not good thie wine was and how much he bad drank.perhay # an adept in that dejartmentof crime.Ît seems wine is pet out on the sideboard at Nay, more, the impression conveyed by the sud- these parties, «nd the children are left at entire denuess of the act of self-destruction would indi- ! liberty to h:{p tbemselves as often and as much cate that there muat bave been lingering in the ! as they like; and, of course, the boys encourage each oluer 10 driuk ax à manly thing.At oue | of these parties, a boy gut 30 tandly drunk ns to does not eeem to me that he bad become callous, | smash glasses, sud any 1li'ng that came in bis way, :\u2014tbat bis conscience was seared.He felt till lie Lad to be shat up in 8 nom, where he that Le had the blood of one human being to, could not do much dumsge till be got suber.saoswer for,\u2014 that of an unhorn infant,\u2014aod that : He (Dr, Carpenter) deplored this debaucking of perbaye, before be swellowed 1be poison, tbe , the youth, and louktd forward with alarm to ita itmmortal spirit of Another, \u2014the parent, \u2014a Con- etfecte în after life, and be bad no Lcsitation in senting accesscry to the deed, had already ap.saying that tbe fasbionable drinking ussgrs of peared as bis accuser before God'a bar ; and con- society were its chief bane, science, ag if inflamed by the fire that shall never | be quenched, hurried bim into des, fever and frenzy caused by the cor {the evil he had thus done, and the dread of ita He saw hideous things coming out of the fire to- consequences in time and eternity, he became wards bim, bis own murderer, and the unintentional exposer of the sin be was laboring to conceal.A soldier said the description which had been In the given of delirium tremens reminded him of what usness of he bad passed through when in the same state.sod felt them seizing and pulling him when no oue else could ses or feel anything ; and his condition was so fearful that be in agony to God to spare him again.God I am the more inclined to indulge this chari- cried fresh career of drinking.These them down to destruction.Thanks be to Gud, His mother fg one of & large aud respect.| however, be had been arregted in bis downward and not oniy ennhled to bicome a teeto- | taler, Lut a follower of Jesus.ior gifts and emineat piety.His uncles sad SUGAR DUTIES.\u2014MEETING OF RETAIL GROCERS.A meeting of retail geocers was beld last relapd in conducting the National Temperance | evening In the Mechanics\u2019 dall to consider the en's Christian Aseo- subject of the sugar duties Mr.Hutchison was called to the chair.He said, standing between the refiner and the consumer, the retailers bad a very good opportunity of sceing how (be thing worked, and so far as bis experience went, the public were well satisfied with the sugar fur- ished by the refiners.Mr.Avax.NcGimsox theo moved the first resolution as follows i= We, the retail grocers of Montreal, met to consider the subject of sugae duties, and the proposed alteration in the present tariff, which is likely to take place st the next meeting of Parliament, resolre :\u2014 Int.That the consumption of yellow refined sugar has steadily increased since its introduo- tion, acd bas, to a great extent, displaced the ordinary raw sugar, being generelly preferred by the consumer, 3nd.That the retailer Bods it more satisfactory to deal in refined sugars, ae they are usi- Ihed mot met him since be was à child, nor become resident of | he guilt of his accomplices, who are.in the of concealment and secresy.a will find you out\u201d It is true tLat some bave run long and far \u201cBe sure ring from tbe drainage of wet suga-, and impuri- | ties which iovariably accompsuy the handling of the bogshead raw sugar.| Srd.That, while the retail-trade are desirous , of having wholesome competition in the supplying of sugar of all grades, they are nevertheless tariff that would operate againet the use of yellow refined sugar, and compel a return to the old system of using only ordini raw sugar, with all the inconveniences and losses already referred to, would be a serious injury to the consumer a3 well ag detrimental to the interests of the retail-grocers.Mr.Onapur seconded the resolution.Mr.W.D.McLaua= supported the resolution, showing the great convenience and saving to grocers by the present system, and deprecating any legislation which would tend to cause consumers of sugar to use it raw instead of ina refined state, Several other speakers followed, in & sense unfavorable to the threatened change in the sugar-duties, and corrcborating what had been said as to the advantage, to both retailer and consumer, in the use of refined sugar instead of raw, The resolutions were carried unanimously.[t was also resolved that the resolutiona should be published, and coples of them be forwarded to the Ministers of Customs and Finance at O1- tawa, and the President of the Board of Trade, Moutresi.THE SUGAR DUTIES.(Extracts from a letter from \u201c Refiner,\" in the Toronto Globe.) It is proposed toestablish a tarifFon all grades of sugar of one cent per lb, specific duty, and 20 per cent.ad valorem.Mr.Boyd estimates the cost of the raw sugar, which, he says, is used by the refiners, at $3 50 per 100 pounds in Cuba.A specific duty of one cent per pound on this would amouat to $1, being two cents more than that which would accrue from an ad valorem duty of 28 per cent.But the bast grades of sugar can be bad in Cuba for $5 per 100 Iba, and 1be specific duty of $1 on this 100 lbs.would be equivalent only to 20 per cent.ad va- lorem duty ; in other words, in a quantity of the value, over 38 cents would bave to be paid on the cheap sugar, where 20 cents would suffice on the dear article; being, in effect, a differential duty of about 29 per cent.against the less valuable grade.What is this but reversing all tbe principles usually acied on by financiers, which are to increase the rate of duty according to the value of the goods, instead of, as sight the proposed 20 per cent, ad valorem duty, as it does not affect the proportions above stated.1 thiuk, sir, tbe refiner may fair y demand that, if importers be anxious to have ail placed on an be charged 29 per cent.more than the importer on à quality of engar of the same selling value, lfthey really want equality, we are content to meet them, but we are nol content to join them in advocating a tariff which would farce us to pay $140 where they would escape with one hundred ; of course there are grades, between 3c.to Bc., but in all cases the weight of the proposed duty would increase as the value of the goods diminished.1 da not think that any person can be found to say that such an increase would be right or politic.The refiners have invested an enormous amount of money; in their factories they employ some 500 men, whose families probably amount to 1,- 500 to 2,000 persons ; if al present the brginesa isin the bands of a few that will alter as the \u201cemand increases, when this business may awe.l into a great industry, giving employment to thousands in Canada and helping to build up a mighty trade with tbe West Indin Islands.Surely, under these circumstances, it would be nothing shert of suicidal 10 enter on & policy which might tend to shake it.The importer, however, may reply that it would not be suicidal todeatroy tLis or any other industry, If it be necessary 1Lat to enppert it the consumer should pay a bigber price for biz goods thaw That at which they can be imported.For the precent, 1 wili grant this theory to be correct, bus avoiding the vexed question of free trade vs.protection.Bat T contend.that the argument used by the importers to prove that refiners are making enormous profits at the cost of the Canadian consumers are fallacious, and this for the following reasons : = 1st.[t han been repeatedly asserted and generally believed that neatly all the sugar import for refining pur- roses is of the lowest grade, paying only $1.68 duty, This is entirely incorrect ; on the con- tively trifling, being in the year 1867 only 7à per cent.of the total consumption of the leading cefinery, 2nd, Itie stated that from such sugars we mak grade dutiable at $2.60 and $3.00.This also incorrect.The class of raw sugars with which our manufactories compete, is never ssresred over $2.25; but often passed at $1 90, snd to no inconsiderabloextent at $1.68.These siatements can be proved to be in accordance with fact by the departmental returns.3.It isalleged that in refining such sugar nothing ie lost; but the fact la that in workirg Ît there reanlts & clesr lons of 7 to 10 Ibs.in every 100 lbs, which consists of dirt removed in the filters, on which dirt duty is pad.4.The statemont that the syrup which is extracted is sold at a profit, is gross'y erroneous, 80 far from its being told at s peoñt, it is sold (ae every merchant knows), for less than de.per 1b., casks \u2018fncluded; while che raw sugar from which it was made, cost 6¢ per Ih, From these statements, which refiners are prepared tn prove b.fore 8 committee of the foure, Importers may, perhaps, be led to see that they have not soclear a case as they bave been led to believe from looking at their own side of the case; the consumer may leara that be put up in convenient packages, , strongly of opinion that ay alterstion in the .cheap and dear sugars of the same aggregate | these gentlemen propose, putting (lie heavier) y duty on the least valuable article, [ leave out of | boxes.i equality, they shall cease to aak that the rifiner | (rary, the amount of that grade used is compars- ; is not being victimised so heuvily as alleged, and that if we have er joyed 8 me slight protec- we are now realy to compete with the markets of the world, aud being so prepared to stand on our own feet, asking only to be placed on ao equal footing with our competitors for public favor.NEWMAN HALL ON AMERICA.: Uncuu Tux's Canin.\u2014 Auvexsonvitte.| In thy lecture on \u2018\u201c American Institutions,\u2019 i delivered last werk at Exeter all, by the Rev.Newman Hall, LL.B.(the third of à series), so- veral interesting topics were treated of, which we bave not observed in the reports of the lecture given by the daily press.For instance, hs mentioned that in a conversation with Mra.Harriet Beecher Stuwe, that lady informed him (bat the idea of writing \u201c Uncle Tom's Cabin \" came upon her as with the force and solemnity of a religious inspiration, It was firat presented to ber mind whilst partaking of the sacrament at public worship.Qu that occasion the scece of the death of \u201c\u201c Uncle Tom\u201d cawe vividly and suddenly before ber as in a vision.With ths fresh acd clear upon ber memory sbe, immediately on ber return, wrote out 1he chapter describing it, which closing scene waa, in fact, the first chapter of the tale, sud all the other chapters were written afterwards aud adapted to 11, A gr at variety of authentic illustrations of tLe evils of slavery were embodied throughout the work, which, from the extraordinary ic tluenca it excited in deepening 1Le geuerai abhorren ot slavery might, without any irreverence, Le ressonaL'y supposed to have bren providentia!- 1y prompted, even spurt from the statement rondo to Mr.Hall by the gifted authoress.If, in ar- cient days, Bezuleel and Aholiab were divir ely endowed witt mecbauical ekili acd artistic wi dom for the construction of the sere \u20ac and 15p: cal Tabernacle of Witness iu the desert; and i, as the prophet subsequently declared, the vis- dom of the orator, the scrite, and the statesman bave their source in tte bounleous supply of talent implanted by the Spirit of Ihe Creator, surely it is appropriate to conclude alao tbat-the same Divine Providence may bave supplied tha ability for a work which was so effectual in sap ping the foundations vt the eminently anti-chris- tino system of slavery, Mr.Hull received from inany gentlemen in the Northern States tbe most hnrrowing descriptions of the treatment of tbe Federal capiires in tbe Southern \u201cprison\u201d at Audersonvitle.This pri- | son was, in fact, merely a large open peu or | enclosure, fenced in by u bak two fect high, un- roofed, exposed 10 tte wind, rain, and frost, and | every way unsuited for the detention of a single \u201chuman being: yet, in this borrible place, 15,000 : brave northern soldiers perished within nine Ômoutts! Ir was guarded Ly sentinels mounted luw wooden towers, or standing in sheltered ! They were armed with loaded revolvers, aad the instant any captive manifested any dic- ! position to overstep the bounds, he was instant- (ly thot down.The most wanion murders were \"repeatedly perpetrated by the sentinels in this way.Thus, on one occasion a po.r lame soldier ! dropped bis crutch over the low fence, and on Just stepping over to pick it up, waa shot down and left wnthiog in agony for bours, no ore \"within venturing to lift him up and 80 share bis fate, and oo sentry or officer caring to belp a dying * Yankee dog.\u201d Tuo commandant ot ! Audersonville bossted that, on his part, be wou'd take care to kill off aa many Yankers \u2018in the rear of the Southern armien as Ge- | beral Grant could slay in\u201clhe front of them.He fultilled bia word.The men perish- \"ed by thousands, of starvation and agotis- ing disease.Their food wes half-ground, un- couked [ndian-coin, course, bard, and utterly | unfit for buwan stomachs, scarcely ft for x beast, in fact.The supply even of water was also scanty and irregular.A little firewood was (uroished every tew days, but the drenching rains often prevented its use.Meanwhile rheumatism, diarri ma, and pains of every de- \u201c ecription, carried off acores daily to the welcome reacofdeatb, The dead bodich were taken out of tbe great enclosure, and often left in sight of the prisot © > for many Lours, or even a day or two, 5.4 treated with the utmost indignity.Some of tbe miserable captives endeavored to | obtain a little warmth sud shelter by scouping \u2018out the esrth underneath tteir budies vo as Lo form a rude * burrow\u201d to lie down in.They were all crowded together in à space barely affording room enougb for a grave for each.i Fierce bloodbounds were in readiness to chase any runaways.Altogether the horrors of An- dersonville can tcarcely Le exaggerated.The | Generous manner in which the Northern States \u201chave since pardoned ther Southern foes, and forborne to punish them, presente, perhaps, the most marvellous inslacce of nations Christian rosgnanimity in ail thé aurals of bislory.! Faraoav's Disagmaro cp Waits.\u2014Among , some reminisce nces of Faraday given ata recent lecture before the Royal Institution In Loudon, it was gtatet that at one period of bis life the question was brought before Faraday whether ! he should choose wealth or science, and he des termined to forego the pleasures of wealth and devota himeelf to rcience, with its ccmparative j poverty, After the discovery of magueto-slec- tricity, numerous offers were made to him by wblch he might bave acquired a large fortune.fo 1833 and 1833, be did gain, by a commercial use of bis knowledges, £1,000 per annum, and might readily bave made £5,000 a year; but he afterwards devoted his attention exclusively to scientific investigations, and his gains from that source became very small.During the Inst ten years of is life, they ceared altogether ; and, though be might bave gained a fortune of £150, 000, ded a poor man, In 1835, Sir R Lert Peel proposed to grant biot « peasion, and the offer was renewed by Lord Melbourne, tut in such an injudicious manner that Faraday re zard- ed it as an iosult, and would not ees his lordship sgaio till he had apologized.The l'rofee- Jor was very sysiemalio and orderly in bis ex- riments, recording and numbering eacl one.The last one was numbered 16,541, 170 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Marcu 14, 1868._ Contemporary Press.\u2018Tas \u201cALABAMA\u201d CLAIMS.In the Hose ot Commons, oa Friday night \u20acih March, Mr Shaw Lefevre, in rising to call attention to the failure of nejotistions with the Uaited States Government for arbitration of the 4 Alnbamn\u201d claims, said that the cause of com-! plaiut 0a the part of tie United States Govern.| ment arose out of Her M .j+ity\u2019s proclamation of | neatrality, which waa isu -d May 12, 1861, on the advice ut th: law officers of the Crowa.The fall 0: Fort Samt-r Wok place on the 14th of À ri, ».1 was generally considered to be the eommes + a\u2018ut of the civil war.Long before rez, seven of the Cunfelerate Sta'es cat preparations for war, and virtually sep d from tbe Norlbern S'ates.The fali of Furl Sumter was followed two days after- wazd by t :e proclamation of President Lincoln, célling ou: seventy-five thousand men.That was fulluwed by a proclamation trom the Con- felerate States calling out 'hirty thousand men, and inviting privateers to apply for letiera of marge The next day President Lincoln procisimed the blockade of the Southern coast, aad announced bis intention to treat the crew: of the privateers as pirates.These facts reached this country on the third of May, and on the fourth they were 1 ublished in the Times, although it was at till the teath that an official copy reached the Foreign Office.On the sizth of May Her Maj-sty\u2019s Government announced in this House toat they should recognize the South a3belligereats ; end on the 13th of May, as be had stated the Proclamation of Neutrality was issued by the Government.The actual blockade was enforced by the North slong the coast by the ead of April, aud from tha* day forward there were in the Priz: Courts numerous cases of English vessels ca; tired during the blockade, and of vessels of the Southern States captured on the high seas.It was not until some time afterward that the Southe:n flag made its appearance.I: wig the custom of the Ameri car Government to talk as if ail the vessels which carried the Confederate flag Lad their origin io this country, bat there were four cases of Confederate men-of-war, or privateers, which sailed from Southern ports before any one was built in this country.The first, it is belieyed, was a veagel called the * Sumter,\u201d which es- cap-d from New Orleans, and which, after cap- turiog ss58 : \u2018* We cannot carry a measure of this kind until nfter the Southern States are admitted and the apportionment of 1870 takes effect.Thea, I am confident, we shall be strong enough .o control the matter in the West, aud have very little doubt that St.Louis will be the place fix 1 upon for the permanent capital.\u201d \u2014 The Detroit Post comments on Lake freights a3 follows :\u2014* No one expects Lake freights to be kept down to the same low range that prevailed last season.Already offers at improved rates hive been made and refused, and reasons \u2018plenty as blackberries\u2019 might be adduced to show why thay will be higher, but ali combined would not be stronger than the one fact that vessels canno: carry at last year's prices.Many of those which ran at a loss last year, would have laid up only for the fact that owners had on hand a fund left over from the handsome earnings of 1866, and they were led into an experiment to determine at how low a scale they could rua with the existing high scale There is no necessity for repeating of expens: 8.the experiment, and there in no surplus to back thew up in repeating it.Taking the gross receipts of our vessels and comparing them with the expenses, the results would show au agg.e- gate loss.The stocks of grain at Chicago and Milwaukee are steadily incrensing, and it is es-' timated that upon the opening of navigation they will aggregate about 9,000 000 bu:hels, against a nominal amount last spring.There are also large stocks at the sources « f supplr, in | which respect there is a striking difference from inst year.Then, what little wheat had accumu- | scientific manner, & watch was taken from be- namented with moulded base and fluted columns.lated, was neariy all diverted by rail for the sup- neath a pillow, and the premises thoroughly | The roof is covered with the best descrip ious of | Welsh slate, aad all the guiters are lined with ly of the numerous lccalities where destitution prevailed, but next seazon it will take ite old hut, what | with tbe prolongation of the campsign on the! writing to the Com-« Mn.Guapstors ox Sin Wauren Scott \u2014 After Homer and Shakespeare, he thought no name in the whole histury of literature could be compared to Scots.In conclusion, he observed :\u2014Scott died a great man, and, what is more, a good man.He has left us a double treasure : the memory of himself, and the pos- 8 19i0n of his works.Both of them will endure The reco lection of sima'e, so geperous, as his, cannot pas.away.All that was best and highest in the age ofl chivalry is brought down by bim into the ebar nel dowu the lakes.can be apared will go forwari.It has been morement, of increased command over the, come the effects of past reverses, powers of ¢ xtrroal aaa, and possitility of increasing wealth snd luxury, which, by the vse! pt of These powers, we are enabled to Attain.Aa | iad Desyarcriox or raw Win Baasvs.\u2014The to his works, they are immortal, Nothing but the extinction of civilization can possibly extinguish the writings of Sir Walter £cott, 1 we do not now appreciate bim as we cught, it is our misfortune, not bis.The fashion of the moment may prefer the newest to the best, bnt, York companies for $110,000.the Time Te cora crop of 1866 | was a failurs, severely felt ih the carrying trade.Last year, although there was not an average crop, there will be an immense amount over and abo 'e the local wants, and every bushel that, thought that the lumber would show a fulling- off, but the season has been #0 favorable that character Bo noble, #0 this opinion is now r-versed, and large ns was t year's stock, that of this year will fully eq ial pi Upon the whole, the prospects for fair rates ; nN! ; ot the coming season are flattering, and it is to be | euffrrers by the great fire in October, 1865, and mids.of 83 #1 ot invention, of criticism, of | hoped that our vessel-owners will fully over-; Lessgs 8y Tre Fire AT Barnu='a Muskee \u2014 - of the Museum and Menagerie Company is $100,000, on which there are insurances in New The scene in the department where the wild beasts were caged, in the early part of the fre, is thug described by : = Within the building, when the | and eprang, badly burned, to the atreet, ns de- | scribed yesterday.The moment that be reached the pavement, the firemen turned a stream upon him which knocked him into an area, where a is doubtless to be | policeman despatched him with bis pistol.This | feat of the tiger was the last sign of life in the doomed building.\u201d |, Iueeacamnse \u2014The Tribune gives the following account of the opening of the lmpeachment Curt in the Senate: \u2014 The Chiet-Justice then advanced up the aisles, clad in his officinl rote, and escorted by Mr.Pomeroy, Chairman of the Commi tee appointed for that purpose, with Judge Nelson of the Su- pr ms Court on his right, Messrs.Buckalew, ! Wilson, and other members of the Committee, | bringing up in the rear, with members of tbe House, who stood behind the bar of the Senate.The Chief-Justice having ascended to the Presi- deot's chair, said, in & measured and impressive voice :\u2014 \u201c Esnators,\u2014In obedience to à notice, ! hare rppcared to join with you in forming & Court of Impeachment for the trial of the President of the United States, and [ am now ready to take the oath.\u201d Judge Nelson then administered to the Chief.Justice THE OATH.#1 do solemnly swear that In all things per- taini~g to the trial of the impeachment of Andrew John.on, President of the United States, | will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so belp me God.\u201d The Obief-Jus-i e Lhen said :\u2014 \u201c Senatore, \u2014The osth will now be adminie- ter« à to the Senators, as they will be called by the Sacretary in succession.\u201d The Secrctary called the rol\u2019, esch Senator advancing in turn and taking the oath prescrit.d in tbe rules as given above.The only Senators absent were Doclitile, of Wisconsin ; Eimunde, of Vermont; Patterson, c: Hampsbire ; and Saulabury, of Delaware, CANADIAN N ONTARIO, \u2014 Mr.P.Cosgrove, \u201c The Allumettes Bard,\u201d has been reading selections from his own poems in Pembroke, VS, Oshawa, died on the 24th ult, aged eighty- oix years.\u2014 On the night of the 4th, a fire occurred io Almonte, by which three stores\u2014belonging respectively to Mr.G.R.Robertson, Miss Re- burn, aud Dr.Pattersion\u2014were burned down.Total loss, $5,000.\u2014 In Ottawa, there is a \u2018 hair-dresger, by appointment, to His Excellency tbe Governor-Gene- ral\u201d The lucky man who has the nobby custom of the capital is E.Miles.\u2014 Business is at a complete stand-still in the north-western c>uoties, in consequence of the obatructed state of the roads.\u2014 Fifty-two licensed taverns and twenty-five lignor-seiling shopkeepers will supply the re- quirementa of London in that line for the ensuing year, with the aid of à corresponding Dumber « f unlicensed groggeries, \u2014 The danth of snow ia the vicinity of Gode- rich surpasara tbe memory of the \u201ccoldest babitant\u201d down a tree in the bash some days since, aud went to, and his wife had been stupefied in the most ! ransacked.\u2014 The residence of Mr.John R.Swa: ze, near Paisley, a costly building, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 24tb ult.The family were in bed when the fire broke out, and saved little besides what they had on their backs.Loss, about $2,000, with an insurance of $1,500.\u2014 The s1m of $3,580 bas been raised in the city of Toronto for the relict of the Nova Scolia fishermen.Two thousand four buntrel and the anourt collected for the relief of the Quebec which was not forwarded at the time.| Liuor.-Coz.Duxs, V.C.\u2014Lieutenant-Col.! Duan, of H.M 33rd Regiment, who was lately i accidentally killed in Abgesinia, ag the second son of the late Ron.J.H.Dunn, of Tcronto, who for more than 20 years held the importaut cffice of Receiver-Gen.in Canada.He entered thearmy as Cornet in the 11h (Prince Alberts Own) regiment to the Crimea, In the ever-memorable \u201cCharge of the Light Brigade\u201d he cspecta''y die- New- \u2014 James Hall, one of the first settlers of That venerable individual chopped bas mot jet succeeded in finding where it eighty-six dollars of this sura waga halazce of with th The deceased were both natives of Ireland, QUEREC.held ite nonnal meeting at Mue's river og the 2516 ult, society.\u2014Tte St.Johns Nræs Las lutely been great- 1y enlarged aud improved.It.Johns and Frelighsburg.week, aged 75 of Mil tis 18 years.$1,000.It went to the Buston market.that M.Alfred Langevin, who has just been not the case.brother.\u2014 Minerce.acres of land upon the St.Maurice, and of their value.\u201d strove to ob* acres, ori and Piles Railroad Company.NOVA FCCTIA.Scarcity or Water.\u2014The Pictou Standard says that, in that barbor 18 over three fect thick in places.ingly scarce.Tus New Provinciar BuiLpine.\u2014This edifice, which is a credit to both the city and the province, is sow completed and ready for occu pancy.side, Bedford Row, aud George street.attic.the quarries the North-West Arm.The wall above the bisewsnt sre of freestcne, from the Wallace quarries, and most of (le bl zeks are of \u2014 Burg!ars who use chloroform in their prac- uniform color aod sbade.There are two main tice are operating at Toronto, Oa Sunday night, | entrances in the centre of the building, one from 1st 10st, the residence of Captain Douglas, Par- | Chespside, and the other from George street, liament street, was entered, and after the captain and a spacious Fall running all the way through.auder- | These entrant 3 are lined with freestone, copper, and protected from the action of the The root is surmonnted by & dome, which 18 covered with copper sheathing.This dome supports a | tail fag-staf, on the summit of which is fixed « vane, representing a lion rampant.The carving on the stone columne, capitals, and other exterior finish of the edifize, is executed in artistic being graceful in outline, and delicate in The western gable end is ornamented c coat of arma of Nova Scoiis, neatly wr ught out of a solid bfbck of freestone.Tue p-dimeut in the southern front is surmounted by 1a figure of Britannis, also carved out of the The western half of the atruc- ture will be devoted to the purposes of the post- i office department, snd will comjr'ae rooma for weatber upon tbe most approved plan.style, finish, same material.ceiving, ) the keeper of the department, dation of the customs aud excise, snd tte ti have recognised him, He lingered till Monday, Znd inst, in great agony, when he expired.The body of Bifton was reduced to à blackened mass.\u2014 The Compton County Temperance Union Nearly ail the olergymen in the couaty were present and are assisting in the work of the It is published nt \u2014 Mr.Btegens Baker died at Dunham last years.He was Justice of the Peace 30 years, and held the rank of Lieut.Col.i ~\u2014 Mr.Vinton Barns, of St.Armand East, sold, last week, 77 tubs of butter ai the Stan- bridge station, being the production of his dairy for the twoseasond of 1866 aod 1867, receiving 276.per pound, in silver, amounting to over NeroTiam.\u2014We were in error in announcing poiuted to th- Quebec custom-bouse, was a brother of the Hon.Becretary of State.This is He is bis cousin and not bis Wips-Aware SPECULATION.\u2014ÀA French contemporary, L'Evènement, exposes a little game which, if successful, would have done the Province of Quebec out of thousands of pounds.It says :\u2014* Some of our political men, al ways ready for a good apeculation, having learnt that an American company was in treaty with the heirs of the late Honorable J.B.Turcotte, in order 10 acquire the contract for the Piles Railroad, which was given to the former member for Three Rivers, for a certain number of years, conceived the idea of getting hold of this contract and of obtaining from the Goveri ment, as aid to the construction of the road, 12,000 to 15,000 coming to terms with the American company, who would have undertaken the work, by transferring to them a few thousands of acres.The adroit members would thus become owners «f 8,000 to 10,000 acres of land, to which the opening of the railroad would give considerable We are informed that the company was not so modest as all thig; that they actually a grant of a million and a balf of y asked by the old North Shore county, in places where the grouud bas been excavaied, it is found | frozen to a depth over four feet, and the ice on the Many of the streams in the country are frozen to the bottom, and the water in some places is exceed- It 18 situated on Hare's lot, forming square at the junction of Hollis street, Cheap The building is 125 feet long by 54 feet wide, and i three stories bigh, exclusive of the basemeut and The basement walls are of granite from the Postmaster General, money-order office, resorting, nod despatching rooms, and | also convenient and com ortable aparments for : Rs A portion of the Hussars, and soon afterwards accompanied his | eagtern half will be set apaet for the accomac- | but one House, will be so suucess'ul as to enable the Government at the next «ession to briog in à bill to abolish the Council wltogether.~ 1b., NEWFOUNDLAND.Distan:a 1x NawrousoLarp.\u2014The fishing po pulation of Newfoundland sre in simost as dire ueed of the necessaries of life as the Sahermen of Nuva Scotis, judging by accounts which have recently reached us The St.Joho Tule graph publishes letters from & Newfoundland M.P., which show the Ll rule condition of sme of these poor people.Writing from Greenspond on the last day vf Deceriber, this gentleman says :\u2014\u201c The distreea in this place aud the out-harbors is n grest desl worse than we expected.We cannot lell what will be the result before the firat of March, saying nothing if it ie a late spring.The people already have told the owuers und sealing-manters thay they will break io on their ice-hunting stoc.They bave broken into Messrs.Brooking's store aud taken \\eo bags brend.There is not provision enough io the pluce to lest until April, if every ove was put on two meals per day.The people talk very bard ok getting on board tle s.ea.er and guitg to S.Johos, and not starve bere with their families.Uiherg say that tle: should be a petition got up by the v owners and merchaute, stating in full tke trees from Freshwater Bay to Cape Freels, a: asking for the steamer to come again, as tiey heard there were some provisions left bL.n4 that she could not bring.One instance of 4::- tress bas already occurred here.Benjamin li.loway, an Eoglishman by birth and a cooper ty trade (past his Iabur), was found frczen to dh in bed, by the ride of hia wife, who bad ouiy a piece of an old blanket on ber, and that waa frozen with the snow that came into their i us.The people bad to make u fie and thaw :*, or she would bave txen dead in a few hours, T ©) were others at tbat time in the came stare w.0 bave since been provided for.There ure cute sixiy-four prions on Swain's Is'and who tad one gallonof provisions uutil (Le s\u2018eamer çn:n Governor Musgrave, in Lis epeecb at the ing of Parliament, gives a gloomy pic affaire.He :\u2014# 1 regret that einer (Le close of the sion, the fortunes vf tbe colony have not been eulficiently prospercus to enable me to congratulate you upca the pre., on your re-assembling for your legislative dut.cs The greatly reduced value of our staple produce in foreign countries bag Ceprived the mercan lo community of remunerstive markets for our exporta, and tbie, c\u201cmbinsd wirh the conti: 1 4 high prices of jrovisions, bas produced effets wbich have been painfully felt by the opernii © population.The trade of tbe colony Las t« u most injurioualy effected by tbe opprecs + quarantine imposed in Spain upon vessels fro- our ports, where no digease within our bor 8 justified wo eerious 8 restriction npoa our cu.- merce, and one so detrimental both to Brith trade and Spanish interests.The disnstro 3 result of tLe severe gale on Lhe comat of Lebra- dor ia the early part vf Octuber, was à Cala y inflicting severe loges upon mary ship-05 n°13, depriving numbers of the ficlermen and heir families of a large part of the pr duce u\u2019 tia Inbor of the season, and causing heavy daa upon the resources vf the Goverument fur t'\u2019e relief and support.On intelligence of tbe misfortune, a steamer was at once despatetei w.t: provimona to feed those who were left des.iut and helpless on a barren shore, sud to bi bask to their homes those who tad no oth means of conveyance; but these measures of humanity were not aAccompligicd without co: - siderable expenditure from the public funde, It is not surprising tbat the uotoward circu stances to which [ hive nfurred should base caused a diminution of imports, and consequently considerable deficiency in the estimated reves 11 for the year ; while ut the same time large out- ley wag rendered hse ntely ua: voidable, both in the last winter and the present senson, t> prevent starvation in most of the (utports a: d io Bt.Johns.The short fishery of 1866, urd the almont entire failure of the potato crop «f that year, reduced the people to disteess, whic: bus been aggravated hy the low value of ihe produce of the fisheries aud high pricea of previsions during 1867, and which bas been suit further beightened by the Labrador disaster.The financial position of the colony is ther - fore, at present, fur from satisfactory, bt iy Government have acted noder the obligation ta snetain the public credit, relying upon euch p °- vision being made for meeting the uv iv exigencies as, in your judgment, shall seem mo 4 expedient.\u201d Faiantr \u201c1 Stok.\u2014Timn1y Persons Loar \u2014 The 5.wfoundlander enys:\u2014\u201c A snow-slorm lite thet of Monday, the 3rd February, Las often teecfelleved by melancholy consequences to \u2018eel thig country; but this leat one has pos veda columits the ment diatressing of ita = Den wild beasts were confronted with the fire, the scene, according to the testimony of several trustworthy eye-witnesses, was terribls 'n the extreme, \u2014terrible in its possibilities should those bensts burst their prison-bars, an event con- jy anticipated, but more terrible as ap ex- ibition of helpless terror on the part of these mighty brutes, When they first smelt the fire, they howled and roared in fury, but as the calm order of nature is resumed atter 1he | and landing waiters will ~1so bs provided with storm, 80 that permanent judgment of mankind will regain its equilibrium, and will reoder bono- to poetical and literary achievements.Tas Awrssixia¥ Exerommion.\u2014The last intelligence from Abyssinia is not likely to gratify | the public at home, The cost of the expedition, is exceeding in maguitude all estimates of the probable charge ; little progress is reporied from shrunk back into Lhe corners of their ca, tinguished himself, And was selected as one of the quarters fn this part (f the buildio.The re- first men to rece\u2018ve the Victoria Cross, which was | pining portion of he edifice will te occupled presentud to him by the Queen Lererif.Avtheend iby railway and otber departments under ibe of the war, he leftthe 1 ith and came to Canada, Dominion Government.The windows, of which where, in 1868, be exerted bimselfin raising tbe I there is a nr-nber aufficient to thoroughly light 100th Royal Canadian Reylment, and was ape the building, are circular-besded, ard glazed pointed Major of the regiment, of which be | with stout, clear glass, of good quali:y.The afterwards became Colooe'.Île bad lntely \u2018 gtyleof architecture ie Italian, The vpper stories been sppointe to the command of tbe 33:0 ry reached from (be main hall by staircases, the seat of war; our expected allies bave keen and lay there cowering and shuddering and Duke of Wellington's\u201d Regiiien\u2019, and was the wich are firm, spacious, and easy of ascent.driven from the field ; our enemy is said to have giving vest in low wh'n's and growls a0 long 'youngest Colonel in the British service.\u2014\u2018dobe \u2018Tye means devised fur ventilation are of the recovered possession of hie atronghold ; and the {as ro person was in sight.Whenecec any one | Friearset.Accipent \u2014The Orill'a Æpositor | mo-t approved description.The edifice is bested Egyptian forces are pursuing a courss which of the numerous persona engaged in Lha efforts \u2018saye :\u2014On the night of the 28th ult., two young throughout by steam, which is genera\u2018ed by two must almost necessarily create trouble in ove to save the \u2018bay Animsls\u2019 from the flues passed men named Alex.Brown and Thos.Sifton, were large tub ilar boilers loceted in the cellar.The way or another.None of these difficulties, it \u2018before oue of the cages, tbe beast would spring sleeping in & shanty in the woods, near the princinal offices in the building are furnished is true, can be described as urloreseen; but it! from his corner, vowl in helpless tector, and South Falls of Muskoka, Aboutmidaight they ; with fire and burglar proof vaults, the iron doors is hard to contemplate, without dismay, the |shake the bars of his prison in #7 vage fury, as | awoke suddenly and found the whole shanty in of which were manufactured in New York.prospects of certain cost which are opened be- if, poor bruce, be kasw the danger that menaced flames.They sprang out of bed and attempted ! Nearly all the rooms in the structure are orna- fore us.It is now actually stated, and wich him, and was spre liog in his furious way for to escape, but Brown ouly saceeeded in reach.\u2018mented with handsome marble mantels, im- some appearance of anthority, that the expense siccor.The person withdrawn from sight, the | ported from Montreal.Of the charac'er of the Estetr tlat ve can tem ker.It apjears that come thirty persons are known to bave been teavelling that evening between Heart's Content and Harbor Grace, mod that up to yesterday thirteen dead budies bad ben discorered, wbilo the re is every reason to believe that the remaining seventeen, yet unaccounted for, base met 8 similar sad fate, Searching parties bare been on tbe track since Tueatay, and no doubt theic search will be continued 1ill the further extent of this dreadful visita'ion hus been accertained.Meanwhile, it ceen.s vain to hope that their per- Sererauce can effect ans thing beyond recoveriog the corpses uf those who linve been thus suddenly sna\u2019ched away,\u2014many of them too, in all likeli yod, from families deprudent upon them for support.Further particulate will doubtless soon be forthcoming ; but remembering the pr?sent condition of so mapy of out poor, itis much to be feared that want was in most cases the of freightand transport slonc, between Bombay and Abyminis, exclusive of the charge for coal, amounts to £392,000 s month, Ia other words, we are spending money at the rate of nearly £8,000,000 « year on his one exigency of the campaign.All the expenditure incnrres in this nd Bombay, or in Indie itself, or in Abysmicia itself, remains still to be added.These £5,000,000 go for freight alone betwee the Indian and Abyssinian coasts, and thovgh the work of the expedition bas been six months in hand, one army bas only just made its fret march from the bass of our operations at Senafe.After all, too, as must again be remarked, we are but at the beginning of our work.The army bas just commenced its march upon Mi brast slunk back to his corner again, and once more whined in agony.Lions, tigers, besrs, leopards, all alike seemed to shrink affrighted from tbeir fiery enemy, and only when human beings came ia view did they seem roused to make an exertion for their lives.The great Asiatie lion, making one such effort, seized two of the iron bars of his cage in bis teeth, end compressing them like so much butte., thrust bis bead through the increased futerval.But the stout Jron resisted his further effort.His head became wedged in the spare, and at the sume moment & tongue of flame leaped down upon it from the story above, The great king of beasts gave « loud roar of Tage end pain as the flames closed around him, and then the only round heard wag the subfued end min: ed dala in quest of King Theodore and his captives, Our evemy, King Theodor\u201d, appears to be growls of all the beasts.At nearly the moment one of the Beogal tigers burst Lis bars barred it, and as [t bad oo binges it fell ia upon bien, and be was obliged to crawl over it upon bis hands and knees, When he got out be bea:d 8ifton shrieking inside, and he then nitempted te return for him, but the flames were issuing from | the door 80 violent that be found tbis impossible.He then tried to extinguish the fire hy throwing snow upon it, but found this ineffectual.He kaew Bifton must be dead, 97 feeling weak and obilled, he ran to the nearest habitation, a mite and a quarter distant, which be suceseded in reaching, completely exhausted, aud with both feet an! legs frozen.He wae taken care of by Me.P.Prunty, and medical aid immediately sent for ; but before Dr, Elliot arrived mortification bad commenced, and it was found impossible to prolong his life beyond a few hours.The whole surfaceof bis body was very badly burned, end there now.bs was so disfigured that bis friends would pot ment now being tried In Ontario, where there is ing the door, which he found fastened.He un.| | competent jidges speak in the highest terms © praise, faz Unionist, NEY BRUNSWICK, New Junez or Prosarss.\u2014=It is reported that Mr.Skinner bas accepted or will accept the of- retiring altogether fice of Judge of Probates, from political life.~8t.John Globe.Urpsn Cuaxsen Not Wantao.\u2014The Legic- lative Council is ecarrely heard of at the present Messrs, Chandler, Todd, and Seely, and ime.ons or two others, comprise ail that is valuable in it; nnd they mast fest greatly out of place {tis to be hoped that tbe experi- k hi for, workmanehir, both of the futerior and exterio f homes on that fatal day.The weather was such The building is a decided ornament to the city, and is, without doubt, (be handson: 8: public edifice in tbe Maritime Prorvinoes.\u2014//a'6- evil that drove thote unhappy victims from their bat even the beit fed and clothed who wers long expesed to it would bare succun.bed, aod it ig easy to understand bow soon such aurdabip would prostrate those who perhaps for weeks or mooibs kad been without food or clothing balf suficing for nature's demands in this tryiog winter.The occurrer.ce is in nll respects one of a most painful claracter, forcibly remiv-ding us of the sufferings and trials of our pour an their claims upon the utmost jractical sympathy we cau afford \\hem.\u201d Wong ron tas Dastiruin.\u2014=Through the private enterprise of a mining firm, about five hug- dred persons have recently tound «wployment in 8 copper-mine at Tilt Cove, It is also hoped that others will be employed in a similar men ner, THE MONTREAL WITNESS.Marcx 14, 1868, \u201cBam, Manniaoes, axp Duarse.\u2014 No vo! There sre, at present, three 3 pline, alike acecptable to the Christian, the the great d be the w but all vastly the beu What .| e ¢ , d ë dome, are two groupe, some 3 thing in which Mabhowime Jans, Hindus, Par- [iraelite, aud the Moslem, they proclaimed to exhorting, and others saying their prayers.|an mense treasury we shouli have!\u2014Ex- ing their subterfuges,\u201d but courageous as hic] they were, !*wevertheless, they dured not sdored by the idiot and vulgar under the nume openly propagate their doctrines.\u201d # Could of Religion.\u2018 When this ritual was adopied, they,\u201d asks the editor, # when Catholici aad when Dr.Dalcho copied it, the prevailing | was the avowed religion of the states, pro or # reigning religion\u201d was Christianity.The | certainty of martyrdom, by reviving the an- religion ef masonry, then, is not the religion cient mysteries, obnoxious as identified with of boris nity.he religion of masonry paganism ?\" not deism, will the Mystic Temple begood: 4 But i enough to tellus what it is?Toh Judaism gong of light {adiug the nie he dagucions If we knew the woe and beart-ache \u2018Waiting for us down the road, If our lips could taste the wormwood, 1f our backs could feel the load, Would we waste the day in wisbiag For a time that ne'er can be?\u2018Would we wait in such impatience For our sbips to come from sea ?If we knew the baby fingers Pressed ugsinst the window pane i! s Would be cold and stiff\u2019 to-morrow\u2014 Never trouble us again\u2014 Would the briglt eyes of our darliog Catch the frown upon our brow ?Would the print of rosy fingers Vex us then as they do now ?Ab, those little ice-cold fingers, How they point our memories back To the hasty words and actions Strewn along our backward track ! How those little bands remind us, As in snowy grace they lie, Not to scatter thorns\u2014bt roses\u2014 For our reaping by and by! Strange we never prizs the music Till the aweet-voiced bird bas flown ; Strange that we should slight the violets Till the lovely flowers aie gone ; Strange that gummer skies and sunshine Never seem one half so fair As when winter's snowy ptnions Shake the white down in the air! Lips from which the seal of silence None but God can roll away, Never blossomed in such beauty As adorns the mouth to-day; And sweet words that freight our memory With their beautiful perfume, Come to us in sweetest accents Through the portals of the tomb.Let us gather up the sunbeams Lying all along our path ; Lot us keep the wheat and roses, Casting out the thorns ana chaff; Let us find our sweetest comfort In the blessings of to-day, Witt a patient band removing All the briars frem our way.THE MASONIC QUESTION.The Mystic Temple, the new masonic paper sla-ted iu this city, gives its readers the following extract from the Baptist, with an appended comment : \u2014 EXTRACT PROM \u201c AMEBICAN BapTiEr.\u201d \u201c1 We are informed that several of tbe Congregational churches have washed their banda of this iniquity.Now is the time for our Bap- \u2018\u2019at chorcbes to mose.We call upon every b: other tbat reads our paper to put his band «0 the work.We do not expect any immediate ouiccess in driving masonry out of politica and out of the nation, but we do expect su \u2018cess in driving it from evangelical churr'ies.With the wave of infidelity that is setting in upoi us, it cannot but be popular among rationalists and free.thinkers ; all, therefore, that we can bope for, at present, is a total sepatasion of evangelical people from the iniquity.We Lrow of Christian professors, and ministers of the go.- pel, too, who say that they will give up the\u2019 church rather than their lodge; all we ask that they should have the opportunity.What we demand is, that they shall not hold their relations to bob.CUMNENT OF \u201cMYSTIC TEMPLE.\u201d \u201cThe above extract from the American Bav- tiat, published in this city, is the most striking Miustration of the truthfulness of the adage, \u2018whom the gods wish to destroy, they fret make mad, we have ever geen.\u2018The arrogance, ignorance, vindictiveness, suicidal and absolutely devilish spirit which must have prompted whoever committed such sentiments to paper, is so painfully apparent that we are at à loss how 10 leat the subject of such a singular ballucina- tion.Charity, however, us t) suppose that the writer is really in earncst in the proposed work, but to believe that any intelligent and sane human beivg, in this ealightened ae could evince such stupidity or deliberate an unwarrantable slander upon sny respectable body of men, is not within the power of credulity.In either case, it would be unpardonable to let such conduct pass unnoticed and unre- buked, and we call upon the author to retract bis base insinuations, or furmiæh evidence © warrant the declaration of the \u2018bare-faced deism of the upper degrees, © heatheoish doctrines, \u2018iniquitous and hidden works of darkness, etc.Masonry ueeds no defence at our hands, and we bave only to say, in conclusion, that self respect, and a desire to promos the dissemination of the truths of the holy scriptures, will induce the writer of the above to make the a uende honorable.\u201d REPLY OF © AMERICAN BAPTIST.The point which seems to have greatly excited our contemporary is our reference to the \u201c bare-faced deisin,\u201d and, \u2018\u201cheathenisb doctrines\u201d of masonry in its higher degrees.We should be very sorry to attribate to apy man or body of men a creed which they do not hold.If the religio1 of mason something different from deiem, we shall be most happy to ackuowledge the fact, But our charge rests on the testimony of so msny unexceptionable witnesses that we could not admit it to be incorrect, without e ually good evidence on the other side.When it can be shown that any of the higher orders, speaking through their regular officers, have repudiated or renounced the deism taught by their present standard authorities, then it will be time to call us to account for stating what masons th mselves liave taught use have, in our late discussions, made quo tations from various masonic wiiters of the highest standing, who a!) unite in affirming the same masonic creed.We published * ortion of the Lasonic ritual, copied by Elder Bernard from the official degrees wrilten out by Rev, Dr.Dalcho, the grand head of ma: sonry, containing the * requisitions to make a good meson; amongst others ibat he ahould \u201cshake off the yoke of en ine dice, concerning the mysteries of ng atheists, can juin.What religion is there | braide deism that can ute alt these discordant elements without infringing upon any of their doctrines ?Lineup 7 In the last masonic work on the higher degrees, by McClenuchan, we not only find that mnusonry givesus a \u2018universal religion,\" but we lsarn exactly what that religion is.It in what the European masons call the \u2018\u2019 religion of God; i.e, deism.If McClena- chun\u2019s 4 Book of the Scottish Rite\u201d does not teach deism, it would be impossible to teach itinany words that cou'd be invented, But we will forthe present, waive sll these testimouies ; admil the supposition that Dal- cho, Macoy, McClenachan, and other illustrious musons of the thirty-third degree, have been mistaken ; and louk to the columns of the Mystic Temple, to find out what the religion of masonry is.As only three num! rs of this periodical have been ub- lished, we shall have rather a scant field fom whence to gather up the several points of the masonic creed.But we trust that what we do find, in this small compass, may not be d'a uted ; aa there can, of course, Le n obigher authority with the editor than bis own care- fuliy digested aud clearly expressed opinions.To begin with the number containing the criticism at the head of thisarticle.Ita leading editorial is on the * Religion of Masonry.\u201d We do not find in it any formal definition of this religion, but the whole scope of the article shows that it is deism.Atheism is condemned.The substance of it is, that * sweet religion unfolds to man bis brilliant destiny ;'* that the soul is immortal ; that nothing is the ofl:pring of chance; that the chain which binds man to earth is not à heavy oue; that when death, \u201cthe blind divinity, bas burst the thick crust of matter which, envelop: his soul, he shines in space like au | angel of light, Leyoud reach of the shafts of affliction.\" * The patb leading to tbe Temple of the Fub- | lime Architect of the universe ia not rough an thorny ; it expects not that morta\u2019s shall suffer superstitious fear, or that, breaking the bonds which bind them to surrounding objects they tall condemn themselves to austere principles and practice, or to a life of coatemplativn which is contrary to bis law.\u201d Whatever this may be, it certainly has no Christianity about it; it carefully eschews the | \u201céstrait yate\" and the \u201c rarrow way\" of the New Testament.Another editorial on the next pa_e, concludes with the following lau- dation of masonry a: the sure passport to eternal life: \u201cAs & tree is known by its fruit, we challenge an impartial compa ison of the virtues and benefits of masonry with those of any of | ali the evangelical bodies of the Any ; and should | it be accepted, and the dignity of the order re- j quire it [at?] our bande, our opponents will find | that the mildness of masonry is only equalled | Ty her firmness and ability to establish bev claim to be the bet and most ancient and honorable institution known oa earth, and fAe surest pazs- port to everlusting enjoyments in the life to come.\u201d | } | It is not our object now to disute or disturb our contemporary's comfortin, opinion that masonry is à better passport to salva- tir 1 than Christianity; all we ask is that he should not pretend to be a Cristian and a heathen at the same time.Holding these deistical doctrines, let him not be ashamed of | them, noraccute others of slander because they apply to them the proper a ellation.We lay down this third number of the paper, and take up the one for January 4th.Here we have first 8 \u201cealutatory,\u2019\u2019 and then a Jung and glowing editorial on \u201cmasonic toleru- tion.\" The editor begins with stating that \u201cthe fundamental basis of our institution rests upon the adoration of s single omnipo- ten Deity, and that [the] method we observe in bis worship varies as the neophytes have rogre:1ed to the acquisition of purity in ight.\" He then shows bow \u2018the wise and intelligent of arccessive generations have been compelled to descend to dissimul ation in pandering to vulgar prejudices and in avowing absurdities, repugnant to moral convictions;* how these philosophers bave, nevertheless, been themselves supe: ior to these oputar delusions, and have {¢ congregated ln hidden aceenblies aud disseminated their teachings and symb lized their oral precepts hy the invention of parables, legends, inscriptions, aud graven devices, which while conceal ing an occult interpretation, served to gratify the fantasies and superstitions of wonder-loving multitudes, accepting as enunciations of fact ingenious fictions, inculcating moral abatrac- tions.\u201d Warming with bis subject, theeditor continues : « Aided by the light of Truth and of Reason, we, to whom have been teanamitted revelations of ancient mysterivs, admire and respect the depth of primitive philosophy, with the soundness snd securacy of whose teachings we have become imp-essed.At each stage of masonic exaltation, we are tempted to wonder at the sublimity of their docirines, and bo pause in admiration, viewing the comprehen:ire scope of that enigmaticil symbolism designed for their porpetuation ; as the veil is grauually uplified from the portals of the Mystic Temple there is disclosed & vastness of expanse, a newly discovered world, pec pled with the shades of sages and philosophers, messengers from & transmun- dane sphere, bearing to us revelation ofa religion consonant with the laws of Nature, fneuleat- ing a dogma simple in truthfulness and beneficent through its universality.\u201d Alter the errors of the derk ages and 4 during the dawn of resuscitated light,\u2019 the philosophers concelved tbe iden of À discurd- sees, aud men of every religious lvlief, except the world thas they had combined to re-crect a | mystic tewaple, physically extinct, still capable of recous:ruction.Unwilling to be identificd wilh the templars and other monk knights, sworn enemies to the Moors, persecutora of the Jews, and oppressora of Christians of lower degrees, the new order assumed a grade in mechanical labor, and beneath this unostentatious guise sought to cumbine humarity iuto a bar- moony of religion, race, and privilege.\u201d Observe it is the Mystic Temple vot we, that tells this story of masonic trickery, men making up & religion of their own out of the old pagan religions, and palming it olf\u2019 upon the world under the\u201c guise\u201d of *\u2018a grade in mechanical Inbor,\u201d und using the Hebrew book of laws as the basis of their discipline, simply because it was ¢ convenient!\u201d The editor proceeds: \u2018\u201c As every religion boasts a demigod, every nation & must-r, and every dogma of faith a legend, the misons invented the fable of the Widow's Sou, the outline of whose imaginary existence and martyrdom coincides with the mythological actions attributed respectively to Osiris, Hercules, Woden, Arthur, Pendragon, and to J su3 of Nazareth.\u201d Could there be a greater libel ou Christianity than to say it \u2018boasts a demigol?\u201d No Christian, of any sect or name, with the exception of Unitarisus or Sucinidns, hold that Christ is a * demigod,\u201d or anything les thun the * fulness of the Godhead.\u201d And yet this masonic ~ditor asserts that every reH- gion buasts à demigod!\u201d\" And that masons have \u201cinvented\u201d the story of Hiram Abiff, with an outline that coincides with the ¢\u201cmythologi cal actions\u201d sitributed to \u201cJesus of Nuzs- reth!\u201d Whatistbis?Deism or blasphemy?Around the ares are dervishes reading the Koran aloud.Aside from the few who are kueeling, there is no more apparent reverence than - there is in an American town meeting when au exeiting topic is up for discussion.The scene is very much like one I once wit- sessed in the \u2018 coal-hole\u201d of the New York gold-room, when gold was at 250 and on a! rise.Boys are capering acroes the room, huving great glee upon the carpet, the entire area being spread with carpeting.GREAT CIRCLES, Every mathematician knows that grea! cir cle is a term for any live passing arvund the earth xo as to divide it into twu equal parts.The centre of all great circles is the centre of the earth.The meridians and the equator are great circles.A small portion of a great circle is called a straight live on the earth\u2019s surfuce, or an air line.Such so called straight lines (they are really circular, with the centre four thousuud miles beueath our feet) never keep to the same poiut of the compass unless it be due north and south, or at the equator, and due eust aud west.A live running continually tive, ten, or forty-five degrees north of east would tun rorad aru round the earth till it cume infinitely near the pole without ever reaching it; fur a line caunot hit a point without going straight towards it.Such a line is called a loxodro- mic curve.If one place be exactlyjeast of another, the nearest course to it would recede from the equator and approach it again.If they are exactly one hundred and eighty degrees apart, and buth noith of the equator, the Let our readers judge.The editor goes ou: By means of this simple narrative (that of Hiram Abill), devoid of supernatural and marvel lous embellisbment, they inculcnted the dogma of ua identity in all religions ; for, by whatever pame history or fiction may designate the demigod, H.À.answers for them the type of 8 d perfected man-martyr through\u201d supercxcellence of virtue, who died, aroes from the dead, and now lives in life eternal.\u2019 This is alittle bolder deism than we have seen in sny of the masonic works that have come under our notice; but, for substance, they are all inaccord.The Christian plan of salvation is subvested ; Christ and his cross are thrust aside lo give place to a vile substitute, a dramatic representation of an imaginary martyr, Hiram AUifl'; Reason is entbruned as the eupreme God; and speculative masonry, 8 human in vention, assuming fur à mere \u2018 guise\u201d the bumble garb of * mechanical iabor,\u201d is pronounced the \u201csurest passport to everlasting enjoyments.\"\u201d he Mystic Temple bas our answer.We have given the proof demanded.If the editor wishes for more, it shall be given.We say, as wedid before, that the higher degrees of masonry are incompatible with membership in an evangelical Christian church, We call for a separation in no vindictive spirit.Every man has the right to choose bis religion, but he bas no rixlit to sail under false colors.If he prefers the deism taught in masonic hooks, fet him come out boldly aud avow it before the world, and toi come to us wilh the absurd \u201cdogma of identity inall religions,\u201d claiming to he Chris ti.in belief, wile be puta Baal and J: hovah side by side, and worships at an altar inscrit 1 # Soli Sanctissimo Sacrum\u2014Sacred to the Most Holy Sun l\"\u2014 From the Ameri can Baptist.THE GREAT MUSSULMAN CHURCH.As St.Peter's at Rome is the grandest cathedral of the Romish church; so is St.Sophia the most esteemed by the Mussulmane, It stands on elevated land, and may be se n far up and down the Bosphorus.Obtaining & ftrman\u2014tiat is, permission to visit it\u2014we entered its portal, leaving our boots at the door.1 shall give no figure of length, breadth, or beight, for statistics will convey no clear idea of its appearance ; but you see a building with white walls, an immense central dome, anil a score or two of xmaller domes, arranged as you might build a miniature mosque, with & iarge bowl turned bottom up for the central dome, and tea-cups and saucers, ulso inverted, arranged aroun] it.There are small windows high up the walls which admit lizht, end four small minarets, like light-bouses, piercing the sky.It is the fast of Ramadan, which lasts one moon; nothing can be eaten or drank from sunrise to sunset.The follower of the Proghat may he ready to faint, or on the point of famishiug, but to eat while the sun is shove the horizon during Ramadan is to lose his soul, and be esteems bis soul of far more value than do many residents of Christian lands, It being Ramadan, the place is especially holy, and we infidels had beiter take care lest we fan the dying members of fanaticism Ly appearing in: side the holy place.We wacend fiest tu the galle upon the interior from a point hig above the pavement, It is sn immeuse area.The dome is supported by pillars of porphyry, ser- pentive, and marble.Sime of the pillars we e brought from Iijhcsus, others from Egypt, others from Balbee, There are three thousand years of genius in those sculptured marbles, Incense to the gods\u2014to Iris, Astarte, Jupiter, and Diava\u2014bas been of f-r-d around those columns in heathen temples, Christians liave kneeled at their base, end now before them hundreds of devotees are bumping their heads against the floor.So religion, in all azes, bas had possession of the firmest convictions of manu.and gaze | Chicago to Canton the line would pass north nearest course from one to the other would be through the north pole.At a less distance, as from Boston to Japan, the shortest course would begin northwest, aud strike Japan while running southwest, The introduction of steam on the ocean his mude great-circle sailing a practical question.The immense streiches ou land within the bounds of the Union make the great circle an element of practical calculation, und to overlook it leads to no little error.Instead of speaking of Boston and Jupan, 1 first take places much farther south\u2014Pailwlelphia and Canton.Ask a Philadelphia child to point towards Canton; if he does not point to the antipodes or the antec, he will point straight west.lu reality, the shortest route\u2014the air line\u2014passes through Hudson's Bay.From Philadelphia to Sau Francisco, a degree further south, the air line comes within about twenty miles of Lake Michigan.Virtually, then, the shortest route from the Atlantic sea-board to San Francisco and all the region north of it passes through Chicago, because it must keep south of Lake Michi;an.From of the Strait of Fuca, and as this is the south ern boundary of British Columbia, this strait, like the southern puint on Lake Michigan, | must be a northern limit of any practical route.The air line from Fuca to Canton passes through the Aluskan peninsulu; the | practical route would be therefure crowded | south again by this, to pasa among or south lof the Aleutiun Islands.The air line from | San Francisco to Japan passer just south of {these islands, Now, as all courses from our seaboard to China and Jupan must pass \u2018through one of these points or between them, | we muy safely conclude that en entrepôt will ; be established on one of these ixlsnds near which they all pass, » half-way house between America and Asia, the post-ollice for whalers and col fishers, Let us assume that this point shall be on Tanaga, west of the middle of the group, but not hal(-way to Jupan, and thata\u2019l trade between the United States and China and Japan will touch at this island.\u2014 Fev.I F.Holton.WHAT ONE DAY'S ABSTINENCE WOULD DO.There is one circumstance in the effects of |the drinking habits of the country which, I'while it ought to arouse our sympathy, ix i really one cf those facts which assist to para.|lyze the efforts of many people working for the promotion of good, and thal is, there ix no | specisity in the sufferings and outrage caused by drunkenness.In that recent outrage at Clerkenwell, which has called forth so much sympathy and indignation, there waa one feature which I think hes very much added to its atrocity, thet the suffering fell so much upon women and children.That is à great feature in the results of drinking in this country\u2014 that the blow falls heaviest on women and children and those who are innocent, Therefore, while we feel indignation and sympathy for those special evils, do not let us neglect this daily and hourly sorrow around us, Ha times no doubt we shall have, snd yet in the deminnds made for funds to assist the dintrers, there often occurs Lo me & ready way of meeting it.If the people of this country would stop their drinking, aud pay the price of it into the treasury of these benevolent associations, there wonld be £200,000 as the result tract from a Recent Speech by Mr.John Taylor at Fxcter Hall.?y i y MISCELLANEOUS.\u2014 The fascination of liquor selling is explaiued by the fact that & gallon cf brandy, costing $lZ, yields $51.10 when r tailed by the glass.\u2014 Whiskey, at §5, yields $27.70.\u2014 Dr.Lardner once attempled to prove that ocean at am navigation was an impoasi- bility; and Thiers, in 1x39, sail railroads would never be useful or successful.\u2014 Lord Stanley is about forty years of age.fo manner he is very grave aod ausere.On the occasion of (Lie cable banquet where mirth and hilarity were he order of the evening, Jord Stanley was strict as a beadle.At an early hour Le requested to be excused.* Now,\" said his fatter, the E rl, \u201c we can have some fun\u2014 the old min bas gone!\u201d \u2014\u201cDo you smoke, Sennrita?\u201d said a gentleman who discovered Madame y of the Italian Opera, refreshing herseli in that way on her travels from Boston to New York, The answer had a zood deal of Tuscan naivdte.\u201c Yes,\" responded the lady; «I smokes, and I drinks, \u2018ad I does everything vot is vicked !\" \u2014 Every one has heard of Frederick the Great's passion for playing on the flute, and how, spite of his father's prohibition, he used, on pretence of going out bunting, to organize concerts in caverns aad wood, at which be could indulge in his favorite amusement.Quite recently the famous flute, on which Frederick used to play has come into possession of the Paris Conservatoire de Musinue.The instrument is valuable, not only as an historic relic, but on account of the richress o! its ornamentation aud its excellence of tone.\u2014 In New York and Phi\u2019adelphia, many of ibe Episcopalian ministers and Presbyte-ian ministers {ruternize, exchameing pulpits, It may be assumed (hat this was nol taken juto the account when the American bishops were invited to the Pan-Anglican Synod.Th se bh .ve returned to their duties more high pie latical and exclusive than they were Lelure, with much loftier notions of espiscopal privilege, and much less inclined to admit the competence of any Preshyterian or Conyrega- tional minister, But if the American ed English churches are to be closely welded, it may become a question, Shall the Church of the new world thaw that of the old, or the old freeze up the new?There is yet another osaitility\u2014and we should eayitis the pro bability\u2014that an importation of stiff High.Churchiem into tie American Epi.co) al body will split it up; and the Evangelicals, who have not the same inducement for clinging t> it there that they lave in England, will zo off and form a new community, which will exchange the pretence of apostolical succession for that true ark of churchin.ioship\u2014aposto- lical humility.\u2014 English Independent.Errictaor ALconor.\u2014Experiments made by Drs.Ringer and Richards on men and animals go to show that the temperature of the hody falls nearly as fust alter the use of alcohol in doses ruilicient to produce iutoxi- cation, as siter death itselt, The facility with which drunkards freeze to death, is explained by this fact.Dr.Jolly declares that An increasing tendency towards mental disease has been genernied by the increesing consumption of apiits.Official reports show that the abuse of alcohol accounts for one-fifth of tbe iuesnity in France.\u2014 Exchange.Wnex Rain Faurs Most.\u2014Mr, Glaisher bas tabuluted the records of rain-fall at Greenwich Observatory for & ,eriod of six years, 1861 67, with à view to ssertain whether an connection could be traced between the fai of rain and the periodical phenomenon of magnetism, \u2014whether there werean bours in the tweuty-four more rainy the« others.Ha finds that he greatest av ounts of rain at apy hour in one year do not correspond with those of other years.Un the average of six years, ruin is most frequent between noon and widuizht than between midnight and noon.No connection could be discovered between the dailg.movements of the declination msy- net and the daily fait of rain.There does appear Lo be roms connection between the daily rain fall aud the position of the sun; for the smallest falls take place in the morning hours while the sun is going up, and most rain falls during the afternoon while the sun is dropping.Jos Brisut looks s hale fifty-five yeurs.In stature he is about the height of Lenery Ward Beecher, though considerably stouter.He has à face of the finest En lish type, full and open, with gray side-whisker, and à healthy, ruddy complexion.The mouth, chin, and lower jaw express reat firm ees and vigor.The nose is full, nostrils broad, while the space is b oad beiween the clear, of one day's abstincr.ce 1 It seems strange lo apeak of the amount of suffering, and\u2019 the difticulty of reliesing it, when the people of this country spend upon this one article alone Lach an enormous sum.Some time ato 1 Was at a meeling called lo raise funds to relieve the distress, aud especially to provide means of education for the freedmen of America.There Was à very generally expressed feeling that, as we have so wuch suffering in London, we could not be ex- full, gray eyes, wbichappear capable of gre expression, In repise they are mild an kindly.Both brow and head are broml, full, and arched high in the coronal region.The whole figure ia cast in n massive mould, He looks the orator and leader of men, even when silent ; aud there is in his presence it sell a prevading sense of power, His mun- ner is'pleasant, grave, and cordial, yet not ua- mixed with a ds-h of auteur and brusqueness that one can readily trace to his business pected to send anything across the water.pablic life.\u2014Galazy. 176 THE MONTREAL WITNESS, MarcH 14, 1868, TELEGRAPHIC NISWS.'toreport for the passage of the bul introduced | (BY ATLANTIC CABLE) Lorpow, March 9, evening.\u2014The Fenians cn trial at Sligo bave been brought up bere for trial.Baron Giflurd bas been appointed Vice- Chancellor.The Mcrning Post, in an editorial on the sub- jeot of Irish reform, says the plan which will be | pursued by fue new government under Mr.Disraeli, in regard to Ireland, is as follows :\u2014I.The consideration of the eburch question will be put off until tbe commission on tbe Irish Church Establisbment, siready appointed, shall bave made their report.3.Another commis- mon Will be appcinied 10 inquire into the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland.3.A charter will be granted for a new Roman-Catho- lie university.4.Irish railways are to be sub- sidixed by the govercment.Dracim, March 9\u2014Messrs.Fitzgerald, Do- honey, and McCarthy, arrested for seditious eon- duct, have been discharged from custody.Mr.W.G.Joboson, Ora ge Secretary, refuses to accept the fer of release from bis sentence of imprisonment on the terms proposed by the Lord- Lieutecant of Ireland.Lowpox, March 9.\u2014There has been a general change in the Tuskish Cabinet.All the miniaters bave resigned except the Grand Vizier, Mehemed Ali.Ali Pasha aud others bave Leen appointed to succeed them.Pasm, March 9, evening.\u2014In the Corps Législatif, to-day, tbe debate on the bill for the regulation of the public press closed, and the bill #8, from time 10 time, amended, was passed with remarkable unanimity, the vote standing 242 affirmative to 1 negative, The Ministerial budget for the ensuing fiscal year, ending in 1869, was Isid before the Corps Législatif to-dey.The following are the totals of the receipts and expenditures, as estimated by M.Maque, Minister of Finarce :-Rectipts from ordinary sources, 1,699,000,000f ; receipts from extraordinury sources, 93,000,00Uf ; total estimated receipts, 1,792,000,000f.; expenditure ordinary, 1,627, 000,000f.; expenditures extraordinary, 184,000,- 000f.; total estimated expeuditure, 1,811,000, 000f.Lownox, March 9.\u2014In the House of Commons this evening, in reply to an inquiry from Mr.J.Harvey Lewis, Mr.Gathorne Hardy, the Home Secretary, stated that the police had been pra- viously informed of the plot for blowing up one of the walls of the Clerkenwell prison, and thereby effecting the release of tbe Fenian pri- sonera.Their informer, who was within the prison, was to give them notice when the conspirators approached to light the fuse by throwing a white ball over the wall, whereupon the police were to teize the guilty parties.Qu the Bight before the explosion, a cask of powder wae seen in the street, but as no attempt was made to blow up the wall that night, the preconcerted signal was not given.The powder wag allowed 10 remain, and uo arrests were made.The police supposed that the execution of the plot was postponed to the following evening, and were off their guard when the explosion took place, unexpectedly, during the day.Lord Stanley informed the House that an ex- baustive investigation bad been ordered in the case of the vessel \u201c L'zzie Line,\u201d seized in the Chess) eake.Loxpos, March 10.\u2014J.McLeary Brown left the British Legation in China, and was accredited to act aa Secretary of Legation to Mr.Burlingame on his mission for tbe Chinese Go- ernment, with full consent of the British Am- bessador at Pekin who indorsed his credentials Panis, March 10.\u2014It is reported to-day that the Emperor Napoleon will pay a visit to St.Petersburgh in Jue.ST.Paranseonas, March i0.\u2014The Nicolay railroad is to be disposed of to a newly forme Russian company.The terms of the snie have already been settled.The property rights of Americans oo the material and rolling stock of the road are protected by provisions of sale.Bssuix, Mar:b 10.\u2014A commercial treaty between the Zollverein and the Austrian Goverz- ment has been concluded and signed.Lowpow, March 10.\u2014The Prince of Wales will soon make & visit to Ireland, where be is to be made a Knight of the order of St.Patrick.The Fenisns who were captured at Merthyr Tydvil in Wales Fare been indicted for treason, and will be-tried at the Swanses Assizes, Despatches from Acnvley Bay ssy that King Theodorus bad arrived in the immediate neigh- borbood of Mngdala with his troops and war material.\u2018The advance of the British expedition \u2018was steadily pushing abead under Gen.Nanier, and at last accounts was within two days\u2019 march beyond the village of Aiteregat.Conx, Marcb 10.\u2014The Grand Jury yesterday presented an indictment against Capt.McKay for murder, and against Manix and Walsh as being accessory Lo thie crime.Cosx, Msrch 11.\u2014The trial of McKay bas concluded with a verdict of not guilty, Banuis, March 11.\u2014A treaty bas just been con- eluded between the North-German Confederation and tbe United States of America, providing for the protection of naturalised citizens, and was to-day unanimously ratified by the Federal Council, It is reported that a proposition was recently male to Lord Stavley to submit the \u201cAlabama\u201d claims to tbe arbitration, of Prussis, and that He \u2018wea willing to entertain the proposition so far as it applied to the question as to indemnity, but he refused to submit the other points in dispute.Louvon, March 12.\u2014Gen.Diz, the American Minister to France, bas arrived in this city, end will remain two or three weeks.Tt ia esid, be same on tusiures concected with the question of the \u201c Alabams © claims.Lonvox, March 11.\u2014ln the House of Com- moos last night, 8 warm debate took place on the condition of Ireland, and the following resolution was istroduced, tut further considera: ion thereon postponed till to-morrew,\u2014\u2018 That the discontent of Ireland is a source of uneasiness to tbe empire, and must be remedied ; that laws for [relat should ba framed to suit the wishes of the people; tbat the present church, school, and land-tenurs systems ara unjust; and thal, in the opinion of this House, these wrongs should be righted.\u201d Roms, March 11.=One bundred Canadian Zouaves, who volunteered for the Papal service, have arrived bure.to Lonpos, March 12.\u2014The House of Commons Jast evening, ia Commities of the Whole, sgresd | by Mr.Gladatoe for the abolition of church- rates.Mr.Waters, recently arrested, has been discharged.The case of Mullaney is to be ! brought up in the House of Lords next week.| New York, March 10.\u2014The /feraid's London | special says, advices from the army in Abyassini represent the military situation at tbe Eoglish front remained unchanged.It is said that King | Theodore treats the captives more leniently, and thiat he begins to regard them in & more kiendly ! spirit.Mr.Rassam, the captive official of the Queen, irdeed says that be thinke tbe King detains bim merely until the English troops arrive at or near the Roysl headquarters, and tbat he + will then be set free.New You, March 11.-~The Tribune's says, the board of managers of impeachment will file their replication to the President's return to the | summons on Monday, and ask that the trial proceed at once.Should the President ask for longer delay, the managers on the part of the House will resist it, and will be prepared to argue the question before the Senate.One of the managers expressed the opinion to-night ibat the trial could nol consume more than two weeks.The President has a plan of his own for the transaction of the business of the Wur- Department through Gen, Thomas; and Representative Boutwell has prepared a bill, which he will present in a few days, providing that all communications of an official character between the President and Gen.Grant shall pass through the War-Department.New York, March 11.\u2014Secretary Seward was in consultation wilh tbe Foreign Affairs Committe, urging immediate action in Mr.Ban- erofle treaty relative to the rights of American citizens in foreign countries.He informed the committee that it was of the utmost importance that speedy action should be taken, and it would sid the Government in bringing about the nego- listion of other treaties under consideration.The members of the committee assured him that action should be taken at an early day.Hancock is to be relieved in a few days, and transferred to the new division of Washisgton, which was created a fw weeks ago.It ig hinted that the President will insist upon bis right, as Commaade:-in-Chief of the armies of the United States, to issue orders to him direct, instead of sending them through Grant.Naw Yosx, March 11.\u2014 Panama advices state that the cholera continues to make terrible ravages in the Argentine Confederation.The inhabitants of Buenos Ayres denounce the cowardice of the physicians, and continue to fly to the counirg.In Cordova, there bad been 7,000 victime.Rosario was bombarded on the 9th of January by the steamer * Naciola\u201d without notice.Foreign Consuls had protested againat the act.Gen.Balta will be the Presidectial candidate of Pern.Another revolution is on the tapis.Yellow-fever was at Lima, Goparion, March 10.\u2014Tbe ice went down Maitland river last night, and, being stopped by ice in the lake, piled up in the harbor 30 feet high in some places, throwing the steamer \u201c Bonnie\u201d and the tug ** Eliza Fox\u201d entirely > it of the water, and landing them on the dock.The gunboat \u201c Prince Alfred \u201d haa ber bow resting on the dock.The seboouer \u201cUntaris\u2019 was jamined against the G.T.R.freight-abed, completely smashing the side of the building.Eight or ten fishermen's shanties were carried away, and nearly the whole dock destroyed.No lives lost.Vessels not much damaged.Toronto, March 12.\u2014The adjourned inquest In the Manion poisoning case again met last evening.Prof.Croft was examined as to the contents of the stomach of the deceased.He said (hat no trace of poison could be detected ; but the appearance indicated that morphine had been used.Drs.Bovell, Ralph, and May agreed that narcotic poison bad no doubt been adminis tered.The inquest was adjourned until Monday, Bierss, Manniaoes, amp Dzarus.\u2014No notices inserted unless paid in advance.Births and deaths, 35¢.; marriages, 50c.BIRTHS, WALKER.\u2014In this city, on Lhe 0th inst.Mrs, John Walker of a dunghier.McDotaaALL.\u2014un 9th Inst, at 600