The Montreal witness, 6 novembre 1869, samedi 6 novembre 1869

[" Thos Bai, COMMERCIAL REVIEW AND FAMILY NEV'SPAPER.Vor.XXVL MONTREAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 0, 1869.re N0.90.\u2014 CORRESPONDENCE.ane orcas Fie spon ser io ue bay au mûr tn soni peels fu set tb id or oe i de si | [For the Mourezaz Wieumes.RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OVERLAND! JOURNEY IN APRIL BY RAIL TO TRE | PACIFIC.BY A CANADIAN, The comforts, say even the luxuriss, furnish.eiby s first-class hotel at Omaba, somewhat enervated us for the expected trials and difs- | culties of & trip to Sacramento, but judge of our | surprise when we bebeld a car, whose elegance and comfort surpassed anything it has been my lot to find on the Eastern roads.A current of | pure air, easily regulated, entered by a latticed | iron ventilator atone end, and baving sn eacape- ment at the other.Time being up the whistle sounds, and we are soon speeding westward, contempiating the nature and probable productiveness of Nebraska's lands\u2014ber waving prairies ns early as April covered with rich pasturage, we predict a future as bright and prosperous as that of her youthful sisters Iowa snd Minnesota.At night-fall we reach Fre- The citadel, with ita immense guns, occupies a commanding positione=towering over all, andis well worthy of visit.Its Dumerous snd jm.mense guns can be brought to bear upon soy and every point.The peaceful scenery, however, of tbe city and the surrounding country is what interested me more than its warlike features.You have, izom ita top, 8 most extensive view all round\u2019 Even at thus season it was beautiful, though the trees, except tbe young ones, being chiefly spruce, there were not tke gorgeous colors of our Western autumn scenery.Here and there à | clump of sott maple and otaer trees would show their beautiful garments before disrobing ; but what is lacking in this one feature is amply com.Ppensated by sea and lake and river.The fine order which marks sll \u2018about the citadel is worthy of note, On its summit i \u201c tignal station\u201d by which the approach of all vessels is made known loag before their arrival in post.Each importing merchant has his distinctive flag, which is homted on the approach of his veesel, and, by a sign hoisted underneath, the quality of stip, steamer, brig or sctcoaer is indicated #0 thal y one caring to know and un- goals, may always know what The heating and cooking apparatus are all below, very extensive and very complete.Gus slso is manufactured on the premises, 30 ag to avoid any moveable lights, and all lights are pendent from the ceiling, Tho men were all ont at the back of the build- lug working, levelling the ground, wheeling i barrows of gravel, using the pick and shovel as handily as any other mar would.ladeed, look- (ing on at twenty or thirty men at work, the sugeriutendent had to point out the two or three bired men amongst them, and while their ints}.ligence enabled them to dir ot and abow the lotbers what was required to be done, there | as no apparent diffsrence between their man- | mer of working, Patients thus willing to work | are paid small grataities iv money or tobacco, «One poor fellow was eogeged at the gas-works, and wanted me to enlist him as « soldier.Poor fellow ! he assured me ha could resd and write, and was s Protestant.In ous of the sitting Tooms was & grand piano, the gift of 8 citizen, who upon being asked to con'ribute to auch an object, said be would order ons himself, and did «0 at a cost of $400, In the upper vestibule also is 8 large and very handsome billiard table, presented to the inati- tution, complete with balls, markers, cues, &:.as ean be pasertajued, they almost invariably obtala the liquor at the grocery which they were la the habit of frequenting, aud which bad reduced them to pauperism, 6th.Because, whilst the grocery-tavern is far of wvern, it fa at least equally injurious to men with any other, Wherefore your petitioners again entreat you to prevent the granting of tavern licenses to grocers, and thereby protect the dearest interests of the community, And your petitioners will ever pray, W.TarLon, D.D,, President, Jcum Dovsaut, Vice-President.Ror.Inwiy, Treasurer, Guorou Brown, Secretary.OPENING OF THE LOCAL LEGISLATURE, Tcnonto, Wednesday, Nov.3.\u2014This day, at 3 o'clock, pm, Hia Excellency the Hon.Wm.Pearce Howland, O.B., Liet.-Gov.of the Province of Ontario, proceeded in state to the Chamber of the Legislative Aesemtly, and bee ing seated cn the Throne was pleased to deliver the following speech :\u2014 more injurious to females than any other kind | mar avd Common School Acts.Judgments recently delivered in onr Couris of Law aad Equity, in respect to lands sold for | arrears of taxer, and for which sheriffs\u2019 deeds 1bed issued, have created à strong impression that there ig scarcely @ sale, uniess lof u late date, of that nature made since {the year 1830 that can be regarded as i valid.Hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent purchasers throughout the province for msny Jears occupying lots and parcels of land so sold, and on which, in very many instances, large clesnngs and costly dwellings, besides ont- buildings, bave been made and erected, are justly end painfully alarmed at the prospect of having uot only their farms, but sleo the accumulations of toil aud Isbor bestowed thereon, ruthlessly transferred to perhaps a remote representative of the originel owser, wbo may bave designedly omitted to pay the taxes, or to his assignee\u2014not unfrequently a groedy and unfeeling speculator.It is well.known that tbe numerous instances of families being Intely ejected from lots which tbe oceu- pane ever regarded\u2014though sold by the Sheritf\u2014as held in fee simple, bave led others to yield to compulsory and extortionate exact- 1007 a8 the only mode of purchasing the forbear.mont, and soon find an excellent supper, Once more en route we peer oat into the twilight, snd aziisted by some struggling moonbeams, gaze rather dreamily upon an expanse of prairie.Wesriness inevitably succeeda a few hours later, and we seek eomfortable positions and delightful repose.Before dawn we are thoroughly awake, and soon witness the pleasing novelty of a sunrise on the plains.The landscape in sight shows little change, and passing Elk River we enter the valley of the Platte, rich in its sgri- cultural and grazing qualities, but at present tbe resort of four-footed and other game, Deer, siartled by the approaching train, scatter bur- riedly in every direction, but are not sufficiently limorous to seek other pasture, At North Platte we breakfast, having sn sppetite that would do bonor to a balf-starved aborigine.Julesburg, some ninety miles farther west, isa desolate and uninviting situation.All who could remove from here bave gone to Cheyenne, of which more anon, This is the region of sage brusb, bunch grase and slkali water, which extends hundreds of miles east aud west\u2014an oc- cusionel oasis of green, a few acres in depth, bordering each side of some alkaline stream.From Julesburg the summits of the blufls are crowned with a mantle of white; and as we proceed we hear of a heavy snow-atorm in the region of Waheateb.The railway bed about a dozen miles from Cheyenne bas been filled with 3D0W, &nd we are delayed some two bonrs by the depth of the required cutiing.Cheyenne i last reached, and the air is delight! cing.Ite height is 7,040 feet, and the grade iz still upward for many miles.Sherman is the highest point (8,42¢ feet) of the cond over the Rocky Mountsina.Leaving thers we begin to descend, and at night seach Laramie at a height of 7,175 feet.The valley of the same name ia about sixty miles in length, and 1a well watered.Stock siting is the principal business bere, and fortunes are being rapidly made by those engaged in ranch- icg.At the station, in the town of Laramie, by the officers of H.M 8 \u201cRoyal Alfred,\u201d on their leaving the province, and the superintendent seemed to value the gift highly, sot only be- cauge it was perfecily spontaneous on their part, but from its being a game 80 well calculated to amuse and divert the mind, and, as he eaid, because of the unconscious exercise Decessitated by the game; each game, be stated, requiring 008 mile of walking.A few of the inmates are acquainted with the ame, and on-lockers are able to learn, as well as amuse themaelves \u2014an all-important result in the treatment of the insane, I was glai to find on enquiry that 20 per cent.or one-fiith are turned out cured in a few months, especially if cases bave not etood over two years ; ebowing that it is mistaken kindness in friends to keep such affi:cted ones at home, Every day's delay confirms the tendency to aberration.All home associations help to feed it, aod, no doubt, the very watchful anxiety of friends belps to foster the disease.In an institution like this, the ubeence of restraint, the removal of all thinga which may have belped to develope the disease, the regularity in meals and bours for exercise, rest, and 60 forth, and the absence of the over-watchful and anxious gaze of loved ones, must contribute largely towards the cure of these early submitted to such treatment, re nearing port.Orossing the harbor by a ferry, which leaves either side every quarter of an hour, you reach Dartmouth, where several pretty cottages and some fine dwellings are already constructed.As the ferry runs all the year, and from early morning till late at nigbt, there is nothing to prevent & germanent residence being established bere, and, independent of this means of transit, row or sil boats, can make the passage ins short time.The harbor in summer must be a delightful place for boating or sallicg.THE LUSATIO ASYLUM.About mile or two from the landing is the Provincial Lanatic Asylam,s fine, plain aubatan- tial building, facing the city, and quite & prominent object in the view.Standing in its owa extensive gronnds-æthe front, towards the harbor, being laid out in terraces, with flawer-beds and brosd walka\u2014it is most admirably suited to its purposes ; and if à diseased mind can be restored io beaith by fresh air, beautiful sod varied scenery, and careful and kind treatment, a large proportion of the unfortunate patients\u2014269 a ow in the housc~ahould be restored to themselves snd their friends, Dr, DeWolffe, the medical gentleman in cbergs, most obligingly showed me round the building.The Arréngements are of & very superior kind, aud all modern improvements are made available here.The partitions of the whole building are of brick, and the outer walls of brick and stone, The chapel ig a light, siry room, about 70 z 30 feet, baving a raised platform et one end, which was the work of one Of tbe patients, and a very creditable piece of work it A pulpit occupies one corver ; an Organ is in the centre.About 120 or 150 are to be found in it every Bundsy giving quiet and devout attention to the respective services==the Roman Catholics in the morning sod the Protestants in the afternoon.The city clergy charge themselves with these services, and aro ready and prompt in the r attendance.All bear willing testimony to the Gentlemen of the Legislative Âs:emb'y, I rejoice that I am enabled, on again meeting you, to congratulate you on the prosperous condition of the Province.Through the Divize Goodness the blessings of » bounteous barvest have been vouchsafed to tbe labors of the husbanJman, wio will thus be encouraged to redouble his efforts in the incessant warfare which the plough is maintaining with the forest.At the game time, activity is everywhere evident among our infant but rising manufactures.Trade and commerce are extending.There is & large and increasing demand for all sorts of labor; and although it might be presumed that the capital of the country \u201cwould still be fully absorbed by the ordinary demands of agriculture, industry and commerce, it Jet seems that 8 portion of it can now be diverted to public enterprises in the domain of locomotion and transport, which, generously encouraged as they are by the support of munici pal corporations and lodividuala locally interested in their su promise, if conducted with prudence, to be beneficial to the entire Province.All these labor.employing sources tend to diffuse the bleasings of plenty cvers wider and wider area, and must result in an increased enjoyment of the comforts aud conveniences of life amoogst the great body of the population.I have the pleasure to inform you that the arbitrators selected under the provisions of the British North America Aot of 1867, for the ad- ance of the specalator.Besides the individual of bardabips to which I have referred, there arises { & serious reterdment in the process of clearing : and improving the tax-lands, many of them yet iu 8 state of nature and all owing to the un.: willingness on the part of the present claimants - to embark in any outlay for that purpces, whilst the dark cloud of unéértainty contioues to bang over their title.This state of things, in wy opivio, imperatively demands Four earnest consideration, and a Bill, baviog for ite object the application of a remedy for a grievance : 90 serious, and affecting as it does the interests 4 of so useful à class of our community, will be .Laid before you, i 1 bare caused careful surveys to be made of * certain swamp-Jands, well known to exist in the heart of some of the most thriviog and prosper- { ous counties in the Province.The result of these \u2019 Surveys will shortly be laid before you.They show that there are large tracte of tb land lying in s mate of nature, which = from being eijher generally or periodi- 4 cally overflowed with water, sre now ?utterly unproductive and useless to mag, but which, by a judicious system of drai age undertaken ecientifcally and on à large scale, might be reclaimed ta tllage, thus greatly increasing { the productive capabilities of tbe Province, and, slong with that, the salubrity of the surrounding country.A measare embracing features of a general nature wil be laid before À you for effecting, with tte nid of present ad- 1: Fadi.to & limied exteut from tue public .chest, the reclamation of these or similar tracts of land at the expense ultimately cf tbe owners but re-imbursed ina manner which they woud feel but little burdensome whilst at the esme time no loss of any sort would be entailed on the community.To these and such other measures a3 may be brought before you I would invite your careful attention, and I trust your deliberations will result in the adoption of whatever may be best calculated HOTEL ACCOMMODATION, Itave dwelt thus long upon the subjact, because it is one that should secure s much deeper interest in the public mind tha tdoes.When jastment of Le debts, assets and liabilities of I saw Low little may contribufd to make auch Upper Canada and Lower Osnads respeotively, unfortonates happy and cheerful, and thought of have at length entered on their investigation, the lavish expenditure which is often made on (and have made such progress as to warrant the that which is only prejudicial acd hurtful, I hops of an early decision of the various import- could not but think how large à field was bere ant questions on which they will bave to deli- for the bestowment of such menant, and bow vast | berate prior to making their final award.tbe benefit that would result therefrom.Since lsat year energetic measures have been 1 cannot leave Halifax without à word 83 to taken for attracting to this Province a fair share its hotel accommodation, The * Halifax\u201d is one of that population which continues to quit the of the moat comfortable I have ever atayed in, sboresof Europe, and I am bappy to inform you li i .to promote the welfare of the Pro- \u2018be Railway Company have erected s very orderly and devout attention of the Poor cres- ed After 10 65 Le rT at creas nt memphis ren * brge jo.vince and all Her Majesty's losal sul jects dwel.Bandsome and commodious hotel, where atten- tures, who seem to be quite conscious that when 81 any private house, The meals are well selected Ontario as their permanent abode, [o 178 therein, \u201cire waiters and an excellent bill of face await assembled thug they must te quiet and decorous.-_\u2014 cooked, the food firat-class in quality, and ag varied as can be desired, and the charges mo.derste.Altogether, I have passed a very pleasan: fortnight bere, and shall always recommend it to my friends, aesured,from all l ace, that Warde the promotion of which I believe they may count upon pleasant guartere-a de- a very strong public opinion prevails, [ thougbt aideratum to travelle:s, C.B, |I might venture to anticipate your approval of ÆHaliraz, Oct.21.some expenditure, though not authorised, rather _\u2014\u2014 than that from an over riot Shacrrance of an excellent general rule, should bave let slip na SEFARA TING GROCRNUOR TRAFF 10 favorable opportunity of bringing about what must always be regarded as s Insting bepe- The following petition was adopted by the [fit to the Province.To the best of my in- Committee of tbe Montreal Temperance Society formation, these settlers are generally well last week, to be presented to tke Corporation.satisfied with their reception snd prospects, The subject is ope of the greatest importance, The reports of the country and of the condition in which they found those of their own and it will take all the energies of the better part class who, at & comparatively recent date, had of the population to secure it :m preceded thera from scrote the gen, hich Buxier deals in the article before a aod i they transmit to their friends st ore, wil though his discussion of them is h it is The Pecition of (he Montreal epetnce Society an encouragement to others to follow in their neitbar feeble nor indefinite, We need but to re- Montreal d + Ho footsteps, and I trust that, by a continuation, | mind our readers that they stazd at tbe thresh., or, a8 I would recommend, an increase in jour old of natural theology.The mode in Rssesotroiiy Suowern,\u2014 Liberality, you will enable me to extend more which they are to be answered determines Tbat your petitioners have learned with great {and more widely, and especially among your the relation of modera science to natural thec- satisfaction that @ resolution is proposed by fellow-subjects of the British Empire, à know-\u2018logy.We trust that none of our readers Alderman Bernard and Councillor Stephens 10 ledge of the advantages bere in store for the {will prosounce this & matter of little im.probibit the granting of tavern licenses to 8t0- industrious emigrant \u2014 a knowledge which, prtance.Whsoocver does go goes right in cers; and your petitioners most earnestly pray where it exists, cannot fail to induce countless | ibe face of the Bible, \u201cThe beavens declaro you to carry ont & reform &0 much and 10 long numbers to uoite their fortunes with Jours, and the glory of God, and the frmament aboweta , striving to bring about tbis result I bave necessarily Incurred outlays to an amount beyond the means which 1 had msked from you for that purpose ; but, in a matter to- \u2018he traveller.The pure bracing air of « tion of country, consequent on its gre tude, recuperates invalids (not af cted with pul- onary diseases) it must become a pleasant summer resort for sufferers.Next morning we reach Rawlings, s portion of country about as aiavitlng ag ite citizens, \u201c Stand offs\u201d are frequent, nay, almost of hourly occurrence, and tre 80 undesirable to the inoffensive traveller that be requires much pressing before accepting \u2018he invitation to one.It literally means to take ie paces and do your Quickest with your revolver, The writer was informed by a fighting 240, suffering from an overdose of \u201caudden fo y\u2019 or \u2018\u2019linger-on whiskey,\u201d that be could The large stairwaya from tbe centre of the building leading to each storey are of stone, and the side staircases leading from either end, and, 1 presume, those ordinarily used by the patients, are of perforated iron, and matted with cocon-nut matting in the centre, thus securing ventilation.The drawing-rooms on the first fiat, composed of three large rooms divided by folding-doors, can be thrown into one.The large vestibule over the ball is fitted up for the band, kindly eupplied by some regiment in garrison, or by amateurs, and occasionally the patients are por.mitted to enjoy a dance, which they most thoroughly eater into and relish, The dining and sleeping rooms are on the commodated ; but, strange to ay, could'nt third flat, About twelve seem to be sccommo- tee the poiat, and declined the honor, Lynch dated in one room at each table.The food is law has weeded the towns of Laramie and hoisted into each room from below, and each Cheyenne of their worst characters, and all room algo hess closet, in which is a sink baving futh must soon leave the line of railroad for hot and cold water laid on for washing ap ore luceative, and to them less dangerous lo plates, dishes, &c., and in Sted up with shelving Calities.If a man wantonly gives the lis to to hold everylhiog belongiog to the room, so Atother here they go out and settle it with the that nothing bas to be taken away, and à vait Pistol; but if the stranger is only civil and be- amount of labor and breakage ia saved, The aves bimself, be bas no trouble with thig clean.bedrocms are light avd siry\u2014several for single dt with tbe other class, who are getting baog- beds, and some contaiving siz double beds.ed in their boots, there is no fair play.If tbey They are all epring mattrasses, aud scrupulously Bet \u201c1be bend on & Mao,\u201d to use a frontier clean and comfortable, The windows all open tor Phrase, they murder bim in cold blood, snd this about three inches top and bottom,and the frames THE OLOCK OF THE UNIVERSE.(From the Christian World.) fos review of Dr.Ernest Hasckels work Loir on tbe Natural History of Creation, \u2018which ap.2, pears in the ficet number of & now magasine : called the Academy, Professor Husley takes occasion to touch upon a question, or rather & series of questions, which must, we thisk, be of supreme interest to every intelligent mind.Has the universe a purpose?Can man di- cern that purpose ?Does the progress of science tend to elucidate and reves! tbat purpose, cr to sbroud it in deeper darkteas?Is it n wise or a foolish, a relevant or an irrelevant use of the human faculties to inquire into that pure pose?Sach are the questions with which Mr.Snot soy alleged csuse.All the mines in [are of stout wood, with four-inch wide Pres.needed for tte following reasons im to contribute, by their intelligence and indus.forth His bandiwork\u201d Science professea to So ; auf would'at tempt me to spend the The superintendent pointed out the superiority \u201c14 Because there no proper connection try, to raise this importsnt Province to s sul explore the grandaur and unfold the laws of 1 ae, Sur, life in sucha paradise of out- of this plan over iron bars, and unquestionably between the sale of wholesome provisions and higher rack than it bas even yot attained the universe.During the last two hundred LL Ther age vaut sud alkeli.Soparation ie ano- it ia & great relief even to thore of sane mind to thas of intoxicating drinke\u2014businesses which in among the colonial possessions of the Crown.' years the progress made in this august under.nl wi tein urtber west, and I do not wonder notice the absence of the iron bar, wbich gites most countries are carried on separately, It having been officially announced that t taking bas been greater than it was in tte I 4 being so-named.To the emigrant wagon.à prison-like aspeot tosnyroom.I wasinformed 2nd.Because temptations to drink intoxicate whole North West Territory, lately under the administration of the Hudson Bay Co sis about to be annexed to tbe Dominion of Canada, and looking to the certainty of this measure being cer- ried out, I venture to suggest tbe propriety of your providing for an early aacertainment of the boundary line between that Territory and this Proviace.1 bare the satisfaction of announcing to you that the Provincial revenue for the past yoar bas been more than adequate to tke demands on it.Professor Huzley believes that the whole The publi accounts, with the estimates for world, liviog and not lvicg, hes arises from the ensuing year will be aid before vou; snd on the mutual interaction, according to definite exsmining the latter I trust you will Bad that lawe, of the forces possessed by tbe molecules, they bave been prepared with a strict regard 10 or particles, of which the primitive nebulous economy, yet without neglecting anything resliy matter of the universe was composed, essential to the necessary and efficient require- Whether (his proposition is or is not true, ments of the public service.we do not take upon ourselves to affirm ; bat intervening poriod from the dawn of cu history ; and if we believe thcee words of the Psalmist to have been divigely ins: ired, we are bound in reason @nd couscience to ask whether the additional declaration of the glory of G8 thus made, isoris not explicit, perepicuous, intelligible, Btted to strengthen our assurance that God lives, to deepen our conception of His power, and to enlarge our apprehecsion of His beneficent wisdom, * thoughts of home and kindred, rflecte by such surroundings, must have assumed n som.Lrenes warranting tbe assurance tbat it would HOve n separation for life, He hadn't calcu.ed oa the railroad, tbat fa no instance had soy attempt been made to break either glass or frame, thougb with iron bare this had frequently and sucoesalully been done.The absence of any apparent restraint was quite noticeable and gratifying, (7s be continued ) Another feature which showed design and =\u2014 forethought in the construction of the bulidiog HALIFAX.18, that ail the edges and corners of walls were .; rounded to prevent patients from injuring them.D (To the Editer of the Witness.) sives-=a most praisewortby precaution, bithep oT rome the subject of my trip The roof contains the reservoir of water-=5,000 sad ir, 7 8iving some description of the city gallons of hot, and 15,000 gsllons cold water drives sutFoundiogs.It abouods in besutifal =the latter iutroduced from a Iake at à much aig 1 STEIY point of which the clear blue higher elevation ton the building, so that Tease) 08 ee shining resplendently the war.there isa coatinusl inflow of fresh water.The sud pp.ie barbor, the numerous steamships bo Water keeps the temperature so that the Other craft at tbe wharves, and echooners reservoir never freesss.The building is warmed ing liquors should te limited as much a possible, and so long as the sale of these liquors is cone fined to taverns none are tempted but theas who oeok them ; whereas all have to make purchases at grocery stores, and if these sell liquor sll are throws in the way of temptation, 3rd.Because, whilst the foregoing is true of all classe is more especially trae concerning the wives and daughters of the working classes =\u2014aone of whom would go to a tavern, but all of whom bave to go to groceries; and intemperance, so far as it prevails Among them, is almost invariably traceable to this source, In the tavern grocery they are treated mnd treat each other tll the appetite is formed which leads many to tuig\u2014a ruin which extends to the family of the intemperate mother, and which Includes many and boring with their white gal e fittiog bither throughout by bot water, and the doctor finds young femal Ît is proper that I should announce to you it will be evident to every one who carefully I may add ay Sie sad animation to the scene.that, by Veeping the temperature at 63°, ail| 4tb.Because the selling of liquors is pro- that tho contracts entered into for the erection considers the point that it affords a simple pikes are ali free from turne paris of the building are comfortably warm.| bibited by law in poste: fies, on the ground that of the Asylums, and for the construction of the soda strong foundation on which to rear what \u2018 81.Geo, 's Il | © notices tbat, if a very little below, the pa- All clastez-\u2014old and young, wale and femalem public works intended 10 connect the waters divines call the design argument for the exist.go's Island, like our St, Helen's [iland, have to frequent the post-office, and, consequent | of certain Northern [akes and streams, and for ence of à Oreator, The design argument is that tems are cold, end if a very little above they are dull and lasguid,\u2014a piece of information we might prodt by in beating our houses in Montreal, which, not having eucb facilities for ventilation as here prevail, are sometimes in- 1£0ugh aq bare of eu As tbe latter is laxurisnt, \u2018enge all comers, should AS?evade the mally outposts whieh ses quite © 10 say © hitherto, but no forther,\u201d [me .' ly, all would be involuntarily subjected to temptation ; and precisely the same reason applies to the Grocery Store as to the Post-office, 5th.Because the femal which appropriations were made by you duriog Isat session, ace in all cases within the origival estimated cout, Amongst the measures which I have directed the adaptation of means to en: proves the notion of mind, in other words, that design im- plis s designer.Paley, Chalmers, and others who bave lilustrated this argument, have dwelt 704 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.November 5, 1869, upon particular ins\u2018ances, such as the eye of 8 man or bi Lesrt aad circulating system® in which flaids sand »0.ids are eo iugeni- ously brought togeiter and fitted to each other that we cannot conceive the machinery 10 have ben constructed without tie sgenez of mind.Bat both Chalmers and Paley would, we are confident, have declared bat the more simpie the original particles of matter were out of which the Divine Artist conatraeted the world, he grester was the proof of design in the fact of His baviug constructed it.It is obvious 10 every capacity 1bat, it the ex-sting world lay, as Professor Buxley believes, 1m the original nebulous matter of the universe, the intelligence which embraced its modification into the peopled world which we see,\u2014the intelligence which, in mere nebulous vapor, perceived sun and planete, rocks and oceans, plants and animals\u2018 \u2014must have apprebended the soope of the design of creation on an incomparably grander scale than is implied in the juxtaposition of bone snd sinew aad nerve, say, in the buman band.If our modern physicists would but sdmit that the originel matter of the universe was created by God, every cne of its forces, by the intersc- tion of which the universe arose, being sn expression of Bis will regarding it, they would enable the natural theologian to draw out bia srgument from design with & coherence, a symmetry, and a logical invuloerability such as Le never formerly attained.There are, we understand, not a few good Obristiaus who believe that matter was eternal, and that the creation referred to in the Bible means tte modification of the eternal matter by God.Far be it from us to say that this view may not be i cerely and reverently held, For our own part, hewever, we cannot accept the eternity of matter; and it appears to us that the course of modern science bas tended towards the discovery of that primitive matier which the Almighty created, and to which, in the act of creation, He communicated all thoes forcea by the mutual interaction of which the universe stose.In tte first place, chemistry, astro- somy, and biology, to mention no other aciences, lend more sanction, as they proceed towards perfection, to the opinion that there i a point at which the particles composing all material bodies admit of no further subdivision, sod must be pronouvced ultimate, In tke second place, unless we speak of matter without the ferces of matter\u2014which would be a podentity\u2014we must admit thet the present form of the universe bas proceeded from a begioning, Why?Because, if matter was sternal, sn eternal duration must bave preceded that period at which the primitive neba- lous matter of the universe referred to by Professor Huxley reveals itself to the eye of science; acd, of courie, thers would have been time enough for the interaction of its foress to have resulted in such a universe as we bebold.Therefore, to discover the orginal particles from which the universe has been evolved is to discover the point at which creation took place; and it is to our minds irresistibly clear that the grandest conceivable method of c:eation would be to call & certain number of particles into existence and endow them with properties which weuld, by their interaction, result in tte woimate end ineni- mate universe.If these views are correot natural theology will owe more to modern science than it is possible to oslculate, and for ne more impressively than for the Paslmist of larnel the beavens will declare the glory of God, and the firmament show forth His bandi- work.In all this Professor Huxley will go with us on one suppcsition\u2014namely, thet it is poesible for man to know tbat the purpose for which the universe was created wns the glory of Ged.Professor Huxley appears to bold tbat man's faculties sre too limited to warrant Lim in speaking with any confidence on this question, Man, we understand him to may, may peremptorily devy tbe power and right of any one to declare that tbe universe bas no purpose, but is not capable of proving wat its purpose is.* Cousider,\" be says, \u201ce kitchen clock which ticks loudly, ows the hours, min- ates and seconds, st , cries \u2018cuckoo!\u2019 and Perhaps abowa tte phases of the moon.\u201d À clever clockmaker, having examined the mechanism of this cicck, could of course predict all that it will do.Bupposs that, in the cass of the clock, there live\u2014we are following Professor Huxley \u2014=twa death-watches.One ssys, \u201cI find bere nothing but matter and force and pure mechanism from beginning to end\u201d He declares that it has no purpose.The other, listening to bis own tick, tick, and tbinking it à very sublime thing to make that noise, arrives at tbe conclusion that tbe clock is iteelf \u201ca monstrons sort of death-watch, and that its final cause and purpose is to tick.\u201d This one has a good deal 10 say for bimself.\u201cHow easy to point to the clear relation of the whole mechanism to the pendulum, to the fact that the one thing the clock always did was to tick, and that all the rest of the phenomena were intermittent asd subordinate to ticking.\u201d Both these death.\u2018watches, thinks Professor Huxley, are quite.wrong.The clock hes a purpose; and its purpose isnot to tick.It ie certain that kitchen elocke are Lot contrived for the purpose of mak.iog a ticking noise.\u201d Professor Huxley supposes Jet another deatb.-watch, very modest, very wise.This one would \u201c maintsin thst tbe sole thing desth-watches could be Eure about was tbe nature of the clock-works and the way they move ; and that the purpoze of the clock lay wholly beyord the purview of beetle facaltics Our third death-waich we take to be Professor Huxley himself.Eotirely agreeing with Lim ag 10 the folly of the two otter death watches, we have ihe firmest conviction that the third, modestiy yet iotelligontly contemplating the clock of the universe, can discera not only that it bas s purpose, but what that purpose is, aod ean exclaim, in tle words siready twice quoted, \u201cThe beavenn declare the gl ry of God, and the Brmament sboweth forth His handiwork?TBE CHUROH CONGRE38 ATLIVERPOOL.\u2018The Copgress itael( after all perbaps Is more important than ite work, ing bas arrived at ito ninth year ls the clearest jastificatlon of ita existence, It marke the great change which characterises the time, It is f=.possible to [mice ech gathering in the early daya even of the present generation.The old tone of the Oburch, especially the High ard! Dry Church of the Church aud King days, wap altogether 4 & rent frem that which permie tuch gatherings to ba possible.Dissenters That such a gatter.| put their inst:tut:ous in order, but the Courea was already complete aud perfect, and needed notbing of the kind.The old High Church tone was & little like that of Dr.Marning, but ina diferent ayeech.It did mot cisim intallibility for the monarch, but it lcoked on the Church a8 the most glorious past of uur glorious Constitution.It did wot build its Authority où 8 dogma, but it telt very securely es:ablisbed où Act ot Parliament.In fact, that word Established was ite glory sod strength.The British Oon- | stitution wag the rock on which the Church was built, and the gates of Dissent should mot \"prevail sguinat it.If it lost the sheep from the fold, they wandered by their own fault.But the very fact of n Church Congress being called loto existence indicates s distinct change in this tooe, and every line of Desa Howson's sermon indicates or urges the distinct absndonment of these proud pretensions.The Oburch bas remembered ber yet bigcer origin, and roused berself to her yet higher work.Just to the extent to which her reliance on her Establishment has been shaken, has she been finding a firmer rock beneath ber feet.As sho bas cared lesa atout political supremacy, she bas found ber care for spiritual efficiency growiog stronger, Taese Church Congresses indicate the rise of the Ohutet\u2019a relf-examining mcod.The tone of æelf-admiration ia not altogether absent, but a tone of self-criticism is present, which suggests great hopes of more self-knowledge and a greater charity, Nor is anctber excellent feat re of thesu meetings less the result of this awakened feeling.A Church more anxious for its work than for ita bonoure necessarily calls to ite councilr, as well 29 to its activities, all who are willing to help.The participation of the laity io these Congresses indicates the new position which the laity are asauming in the Church.These Congreescs would be notbing without the Isity.Their discussions would bé as fatile as those of Convocation.Tbe Churchof Eng- Jand is beginning to feel that a Protestant Church is made for the people, and pot the people for the Church.But 8 Church made for the people must associate the people in its goversment.The more it relies on their support, the more will it ensure their sympathy; sud the more it asgociates them with its organisation and government the more will it possess their allegiance.Thais is the great fact which tbe Church of England now 30 happily learning.Dean Howson enys \u201c the Congress seems perpeluaily to be saying to ua, \u2018Sirs ye aro brethren,\u201d and if the glergy learn that lesson as regarde each other, and as regards the clergy and laity of all creeds, the Congresses which bave taught them will have performed a most useful function.\u2014 Daily News.ATTITUDE OF THE GALLICAN CHURCB\u2014 SIGNIFICANT LETTER FROM THE BISHOP OF SURA, The Paris Univers publishes the following letter from the Bishop of Sara and Dean of the Faculty of Theology in Paris to the Pope, when presenting his remarkable work on the * zu menical Council and Religious Peace\u201d This work is supposed to define the general relation of the Gallican clergy to Rome.At date of Sept.8th the Bishop says: * Ia offering these volumes to your Holiness 1 place them before my veperable b:otbers, the bishops of the On- tholic Church.The ancient Church of France believed in ro- maining faithful to ecclesiastical tradition, mod bas always maintained direct communion with the Holy See.Her doctrines have been taught in our day by men wbo bave given the Apostolic See proofs of the atrougest attachment, and of the most iuviolable fdelity since they bave suffered in her encred cause, exile, imprisonment, and death itself.Many of these confessors bave been honored with the highest favors ;by the Holy See ; it is sufficient to recall the names of Cardinals Latuzerne, Beausset and Astr: In conserving all that is true in the tradition of our fathers, and explaining that tradition con.formably to that of the Universal Ohurch, I fulfil an actof filial plety, and in accompliebiog that duty I believe | am tot wantiog in the respect ard obedience due to the Apostolic See and its decrees.Ido not enter on the defence of the declaration of 1863, nor the form of the pro- 8 which it affirmed.The doctrine which I explain has & character of its own, and I bave desired to present it in as precise terms as possible.This doctrine, which appesreirreproach- able to me, ja essentially moderate, and freely harmonizes with the moderate doctrines of the Roman schools.At the base of this doctrite is the affirmation of that indivisible snd eternal union of the episcopacy with the Holy Ste, and of the Holy Bee with the episcopacy : & union which the Divine Master desired mnd founded, and which coexists and harmonises with the rights and privileges that Le has respectively accorded to the Boversign Pontiff and the bishops.\u201d THE BURNING OF TEE STEAMER \u201c 8TONE- WALLY\" Perhaps of all rivors of the woild noce bave been the sseno of such frequent and terrible steamboat disnstera as tbe Mississippi, and ite tributaries, It is bat last January that, on the Ohio, tbe steamboats © United States\u201d and t Americe\u201d collided, the result being that nearly every person on the two boste perished ; and now another somewhst similer horror has starti- od the public ear.This is the loss, by fire, of the steamer, \u2018 Stonewal),\u2019 plying between Bt.Louis wand New Orleans, The telegraphic account of the catastrophe, wlready published by us, geve a sufficiently truthful idea of the nature sud extent of the fearful occurrence, and subsequent more detailed statemento show that the ficat evil tidings wers pot exaggerated.Of course tbe American papers are full of this \u201cMississippi borcor,\u201d as it is justly called by the ' New York Times, frcm whore columns we ex., tract the following harrowing particulars : \u2014 TRE FORXN.Tt beggars description ; words fail\u2014imagloa.tion is at fault.Two hundred sid eighty sculs ushered into eternity I A blizing fire bebird bem, aod a death smid icy watera before them.1t was about 8.30 in the evening.In the cabin the supper-table wag thronged.Some bad left | and were smoking their eveulog cigare==others \u2018chattiog near the stove, Few were on deck, for 1piercing.Down on the deck a motley crowd of w hundred and fifty emigrants and working people were gathered.Many ten their supper ; others were taking their last mouthful, when & small blaze, not larger than your Land, broke out on a pile of bay, and a solitary deck baud ren forward and cried, * Fire! fica!\" From mouth to mouth the soul-stirricg ery ran, and ls & moment the deck passengers were paliied with fright and deaperate with excitement, Hardly beard in the cabin, the first cry was | fegarded as a ruse \u2014perhaps a row among the i deck passengers.Some were listle full of liquor\u2014tben in à second twioklipg, came the second cry\u2014s yell\u2014s maddening, deafening yell of \u201cFire! fire! fire\u201d that pierced the deck and rarg through the ears of the supper-saters {like a deatb-knell, Now thers could be no mistake.It was no foolishness pow.That cry meant life or death, and every one felt it.To the upper dsck, to the cabins sfore and aft, people ran.Panic, fear and frenzy ruled the hour.There were seventy-five life-preservers in the staterooms, but only one man secured ose.There was & yawi, but some of the deck psssen- vers seized it, and, without oars, indiscriminately piled in and paddled asbore with their hands.From the small blaze on the hay near the boiler deck, the fire spread to the coal vil, and the whole ship was in a blez>, Tbe boat was loaded with bacon and other solidities, and the flames spreading with fearful rapidity son found the solid combustibles, acd an inten-e heat was generated, OX DXCE ibe scene wap most fearful, One bundred and fifty passengers, moatly foreigners \u2014 Irish, Italiane, Dagos, Germans and Americans \u2014ecome with their wives and families, all ia confusion, trying to save their lives.The boat grounded two hundred yards from the shore ; the ponderous engines thumped and worked in vain.The passengers were rampant acd wild.Eftorts were made to adjust the hose to the donkey-engine, bat the crowd would not allow it, Some tried to throw out planks and ataginge, but tbe crowd rushed to the edge of the deck, and, in their eagerness to secure positions, prevented the stagiogs from beiug put ont.The poor deck passengers knew pot what to do.Peddlers with their packs, like tbe miser at Herculsneum, clung to their last worldly remnants, and found 8 watery or won a fiery grave beside their filthy pelf, Irishmen, with their picks and shovels, going to work Southern roads, their old clay pipes half filled with tobacco, and their all done up in & red bandanna, were there; and dark- baired Italiens going to the sunny South to expose their wares in a monej-meking mart; Dagos, French emigrants going where their own language wag spoken, were there, Thess people were the first to see the fire\u2014the first to catch the fright\u2014the most uncontrolisble\u2014ibe most lacking in judgment, and consequently the most severely suffering.They rushed to the edge of the vessel and seeing the fiames that illumined the heavens and glistened ou the dark waters\u2014 feeling the heat that scorched and burned\u2014hear- ing the explosion that thundered from the engine- room and machinery department\u2014-and dumb.foundered and frightened by the noise and cou- fusion, as well as blinded by the smoke, they plunged pell-mell into the waters.Some clung to spars and bite of wood, but found nothing to bold, swam or floated for a akort time, and then, beoumbed by the icy chillness of the waves, and blinded by the smoke, they sack to watery graves.Many mules sud horses were on board, with the deck passengers, and they rushed with the people and jumped into the water with them and on them and over them.Some few atarted and swam ashore, but most of them awam around the boat in ciccles, drowning men women and helpleas children.One mule jumped into a crowd of people struggling in the water, and by bis frantic movements drowned six people, IN THE CANIN.The cabin soon flied with smoke, a blinding, suffucating smoke, a smoke that would not be checked, but was the fore:unper of more deathly flashes, There Were only three lady passengers in the cabin, one helpless old lady, a mother with two young children, one a baby still in awaddling clothes, and the third lady a wife going to meet her husband, from whow she bad long been separated, in Louisiana.Out on the boat's edge, what were the cabin passengers to do?They Were only atout forty ia number, but their plight was one of peril.All around tbem the lurid flames ; beneath them the dark waters, welcoming them to anything but bos- pitable graves; just under, the frantic deck passengers, the maddened animals, rushing to and fro, uncontrolled, uncontrolisble \u2014 all sbrieking, shouticg, praying and imploring for life aud pafety.To jump thedistance was fearful, and the leap was certain to be to leap to the grate ; to remain was death by burning.Every one Wes frantic; officers tried in vain to keep the crowd quiet, but the danger was too immi- nent\u2014tbe death too certaln, The little children elung in vain to the arms of their mothers; the Indies abrieked and fainted too late ; the men tushed to and fro, and selfish ivatinet prevailed, and every one ehifted for himself ss best be or she could.Had people kept cooler, more would bave been eaved; but the blind instinet or infatuation of a mob to follow leaders ruled, and the exemple of the deck passengers was followed by the cabin passergers above.The flames were approschivg them, and when 60 many were jamping into tbe water, why abould not all ?! Many jumped, struck bottom and bad their feet carried from under them by the swift and treacherous undercurrents ; others, blind with frersy and excitement, rushed to where the crowd was thickest, avd jumped in among the mules strugglicg sod kicking, snd among the stout and bearty laboring men, whese pressnce of mind bad left them, end whose only thought seemed to be that safety was only eecured by ail jumping togeiber in one vast grand heap, on top, ln between, and among each other.Thauea sute death wan secured.The flames rolled and crept and licked their way along, now stealtbily, now rustlngly, now with ermcke and enap of spark and cinder, and anon busetizg forth in lurid fercenees.Many were burned and scalded, and not à few never reached tle deck to make even fruitless efforts for safety.Over the side of the boat the lambent flsmes rap, down rear the ergice, over the wheel, over the 1cza3, aud away up round the | blackened smoke » The intense beat burst | tbe pipe, and the expios:on only added to the copmernation, The * Stonewall\u201d wasbursed tothe water'sedge in sbeut coe hour and a balf after ibe fre wag wight meet to dircars their little matters, and to tbe might wes dark eal the air chilly and dircovercd.Bat long before this there was no living soul iv it.\u2018The scene was & terrible one «eons never to be forgotten by the survivors.Tie lamentations, grcans, and sbrieka of dying men and women wingled with the noise of the cracking timbers, and, to intensify tue borror of the moment, butning eps, feaders and beams fell over into the water where pearly 200 buan jaws of death, + * 8 88 One account of the cause of the fire is, that a deck passenger dropped something bstween the bales, and lit a match to find it, and hus set fire to the bay, the natural result of which was u rapid conflagration.oe ce .se se The following is the experience of the carpenter, and fearful and touching as it is, prodably others, now no more, could relate tbiogs yet more sad :\u2014 The bost was about 200 yards from the bank of the river\u2014on tbe Missouri side\u2014and I was trying to get there au quickly as practicable; the water was almost slive with people, mules and borses ; the mules were loose previously on the deck, and some ons, I suppose, cut the horses looee, and the turmoil drove them overboard.The bundle of clothes I struck dido\u2019t support me well, and I went for a ladder.Grasping, the ladder was a negro.He kept tarning 1t round and round, until I thought I would be lost and I called to him * For God's eake, dcn't keep turning the ladder and we'il both get ashore! He must bave been out of Lis wits, for ha kept turning the ladder, fell oft and went under.1 made & dash for a bale of bay and gat on it The band burst, and the hay bale fell to pieces.I'then got s small board under each arm, and by tbis meane, and a good deal of kicking of my heels, got to the bank, I was almost too ex: hausted to stand, and » kind farmer came along and helped me to the house close by, where I received much attention, While I was io the water l eaw agwoman down right alongeide of me, but I could not help her.She was an Irish woman, and had been a passenger on the deck.The shrieks and cries of the people drowning, or about to go under, were heart rending, and made me almost crazy.One of the most terrible sights I ever saw waz a drowning child.It came floating past me, bat I saw only the lit- tie band, aud wrists raised, and I thought ber last and smothering words were * mother, mother!\u201d Her lips, head, body, #0 scon to be cold and lifeless, were floating, sivking beneath the rushing watera.The total number saved appears to be between forty and fifty, and the pumber lost about 230.POLITICAL DICTIONARY, This Canada.A contemptuous expression of Ool.Prince respecting these Provinces, which occurred in & letter of bis to a Canadian editor, defending himself from some well-deserved criticisms.In the same letter be spoke about \u201c you men of the press.\u201d Clear Grit.A coinage of George Brown's, conferred on Macdougsll, when the present Governor of Sundown was carrying on the \u201cNorth American\u201d in Toronto.Nicknames, Like curses, often * Come home to roost; \u201d and it was not two years till George Brown himself waa considered the great Clear Grit.Casual Advantages.An expression of Egerton Ryerson's; who described ns \u201ccasual advan.ges of office\u201d hia plan of lodging school mcneys in the bank and pocketing the interest.He said he told Hincks about it (who was then Financial Minister), and Hincks * smiled\u201d m= nothing more.The *Inteccolonial\u201d people are in hopes he will begin to \u2018smile * their way ! Liberal Conservative.A Tory invention to catch Reform votes at electio:s, Nobody ever bears anyone call himself a * Conservative Reformur.\u201d Itis \u2018 Reformer\u201d without the handle.The difference is tbat the Reformer drops the \u201chandle\u201d before the election; tbe Conserva- uve drops Ais handle of * Liberal\u201d when he gets to tbe House! fenate.Bome years ago there wat & proposition made in Parliament to call our Upper House the \u201cSenate.\u201d It was denounced by all the Tories in the Legislative Acsembly as teing \u201c Yaukee and revolutionary.\u201d There same Tories are now all in hopes of being pitebforked into that same Senate.\u201d No objection to be pame=nor to the mode of entry ! \u2018\u2019 Better than election\u201d they all eay ! Looking to Washington.\u2018A phrase of Mac- dougall\u2019e in a parlismentsry speech ; and which was tortared into s confession of annexation proclivities on his part.He never did really \u201clook to Washington,\u201d unless it was to tbe Village of Washington among his coostituents in Oxford, and be could not now, Without the 1088 of his precious \u201c C, D\u201d Pap.À species of support whiob a grateful Adminisiration afforde to thick-and-thia supporters in the Press.As for instance when lighthouse tenders and fishing regulations for the Gaïf of St.Lawrence are advertised in little inland papers à thousand miles from salt water, Lambs.Active promoters of the election of such men as Tom Ferguson and Tem Daly.Their political strength lies not so much in v ing \u201cright™ themselves, as cracking the h \u2018of those who are going to vote * wrong.\u201d agree with the late Artemus Ward.that the name must have been given in \"a geak.\u2019 Steeped to the lipt in corsuption.Bald of Hincks by Jobn A, Macdonald, Dignified Neutrality, A saying of the late Lord Elgin, with respect to bimaelf and the state of parties in Canada.As a man seldom speal of Aimself as being * dignified \u201d in bis conduct, the expression seemed a little 0dd to the public, and has been often quoted.\u2014 London Advertiver.NOMINATION DAY IN NORTH RENFREW.Psupioxs, Nov.3.= A) morning the electors have been pouring in from the dillerent townships, and tke villsge ia full, Canvasters are going about with thelr lists.The Bherif of Onrleton bas just driven up in state, Govern.went Officials are canvassing for the Finance Minister, Mr, Cotton, of the Times, is here looking after the interests of the Crown.Mr.Mac uiay, tbe Speaker's Secretary, who very fortunately bappebs to be on the apot, is takiog a deep iuterert in the result.Tie Uerman element of population represents the Emigration policy.The law is here in tbe shape ot Mr, Mo- Kay, of Ottawa.The lumbering interest musters strong and every patriotic feelivg is ap.pesled tc=-Railwais are promised ; macadam.faced ronds are beld out ss foducements, a= a'y ope who hes travelled in these re.glots knows ttey ere badly wanted.The Oc- tawa is to be mode Lavigable (rom its source to ita mouth, and the mau who could resist such a policy 18 an enemy 10 his country, aud £0 friend ta tir Jobo A.Macdonald.Builjigard bribery ate to be the orders of the dwy., Tle effect of the late traveactions between Sir Francis Hincks and tbe former member mud capdidates bag been mot demoralizing.Muny of the electors, ! beings were trying to cave thempelves from the | apparently respectable men, say that Mr.Rankig 1 got bis price; Mr.Murray bas made bis bargain, \u2018sod Mr.Supple bie\u2014why ï should they not paid?Such is the talk.The nomination oi place at tbe Court-House, in front of which bustings bad been erected.Sheriff Morris, on being spoken to, arranged seats tor reporters, and everything was very woll managed.Shortly before twelve o'clock tbe people began to alream towards the place of nomination, aud ir was difficult to tell bow the feeling ran a first.All morning tbe hotel has been owarming with Hincks' men, and to judge only by thet it would seers ws if huis sige was certain to win; but the feeling at the nomination went ail the otter way.Shortly after one o'clock the Shen appesred followed by the candidates, and tte usus! procls.tma*ions being made he requested 8 fair bearing for both aides.Mr.J.Crawford proposed aud A.Foster, Reeve of the tuwnahip of Pembroke, seconded the romination of Sir Frag.cia Biucks, the nowinstion being rec-ived with dead silence.Thomas M.Carswell, Reeve of Weatmeath, and Thomas Deacon, barrister, prc.poeed James Findlay; the name beiug read was received with loud cheers It is Lou: coaaery to report the 8peeches at length.Carswell charged the Government with makirg a pocket borough of Nortb Ranfrew for brokea-dowa po- liticiaus and he hoped the election would put a stop to this.Mr.Dascon first tock up the personal and local changes that had been made, and defended himself for bis course He ouly followed the lead of the whole eon.servative press in opposiog Hincke, and asked if it was possible that but for the accidental presence of Hicks, and hia being asked to join tte Government, the whole country would bave been ruined.He referred to similar declarations at previous elections and to the case of Cayley, who not six months after he had been admitted to the Government way spewed out.He thought if Sir Francis was 89 essential to the preservation of the countrya apecial law should bave been passed to allow him to take cffice withont seeking a Constita- ency.His influence would be most detrimental to the country; aad what brought him back was the scent cf new Governorebips and large railway jobs He referred to the debentures\u2019 job, and to the sale of the courty to the outside inflsences that bad been brougbt to besr, The speaker waa greeted throughout with loud cheers, the feeling of the meeting being evidently in his favor.Bir Francis was received with booting, cheers and some coufusion.He attempted to make a point against Findlay that 8 proposal was made to make his supporters acd himself speak first, so thst po opportunity would be given to rebut charges, but this was sobsequently explained by the Sheriff at the request of Findlay.The plain issue before the Electors was whether they would support Sir John's Government or not, to which & voice answered, \u201c The Drunkard\u201d He Jaid great streess on his Governorships and hia two orders of Knighthood, and said it was the duty of Findlay and his supporters to show why Bir John's Government were not worthy of their support, to which the answer was because they are rotten.He referred at considerable length to the charge of buying the members, He denied any interference on the part of the Government, gave hig theory of party Government, and in anawer to the charce of the appointment being distasteful to the Conservative party ssid, tbat if 20 they would have made represen: tations in the same manner as they bad done with the Banking Bill.He declined to discuss tbe charges of corruption made upon him as two Oommittees of the House had cleared him.The speech eontsiced no reference whatever to any policy, and wes very ccolly received throughont.Mr.Findlay was received with great applause wien be , After speaking of personal questions he charged Sir Francis with trying to change his political name, to bury bis past hietory, or to do any- tting else to secure bis election.He went at some length into the history of the charges of corrupt practices, perticularizing tbe Grand Trunk job when Sir Francis had been sent to negotiate the loan on the Imperial guarantee; at which Bir Francis rose io great excitement and denied in the most emphatic terms.Mr.Findlay continued to abow the enormons crai of the construction of the Grand Trunk vrer what it shculd have been, and spoke of the $250,000 of mysterious ehares put st the credit of Sir Francis by the contractors.That gentleman based his claims to the cone sideration of our Ottawa coastituency oO { tbe construction of Chats Canal n fit embiem of his work, extravagence end ineffi:isncy, aod now he returned to reap tbe benefit of tbe larger public works and tbe grea! improvem\u201c0 s effected during his bappy absence, while he beld out hopes that sll the works on tte Orne were to be completed, and navigation perfected probably after the manner of the CLs Case.The rest of the addresses referred to matlers = purely local interest.Mr.Findlay «| throug! bis addresses reemed to be tbe favorite and hire lustily cheered.Bon.James Skead uaving ersed the meeting, the proceedings Were er minated with the nual formalities.The feet ing was unmistakably favorable to Findlay b a every engine is at work to secure tbe electioi of Hiocke and the contest will evidenily tr rer keen.\u2014 Special Telegram to ths Montreal Heraid.ENGLISH RELIGIOUS NEWS.\u2014 Tbe vacent bishoprics are now all filed op, tbe Desn of Ely, Dr, Gocdwip, haviog be appointed to the tee of Osclisle.Besides © University attainments, Dr.Goodwin bition great religions influence in the town of et bridge as an elcquent preacher.He has se been prominently known in connection party controversies.He bas published ror in volumes of esrmone, snd & commentary 08 ho of the Gospels.At one time be wa 1simed 21 & Broad Churchman, but of late he bas beta a leaning to s wore Conservative theolugy is consis eat with that title.J == The great topic direnased in Epoch ! clrelcs within the last fow days is the are) ment of De.Temple to the Bisboprlo o Shoe The opposition of ibe High Chu:ch ne Pr gelleal rectiors to this pe mination, Isr ie a organ sed sEApe ; and Lord Bbaîteatuiys \u2018 MB ue mn ma = NovExser 6, 1869.THE MONTREAL WITNESS.705 Dr.Pusey, in a letter published, denonuces the appoint.most unmeasured terms, and declares tor disestablisament as tho Church's only remedy.Even al the best tho Church may make up fie mind to be dises:ablisted in ten years; aud better free it at once when in its suecgil than whes paralyzed, Such ie the pus poet of the Doctor'aietier.Archdeacon Denison gpeaka after a similar fashion, and further states that Dr.Pusey bag broken up his long and intimate friendabip with Mr.Gladstone oa account of Dr.Temple's appointment.\u2014 The Arcbtishop of York bas been holding a Church Conference at Middlesborough, and the bishop of Gloucester at Cirencester and other A number of questions have beso discussed at them of a public character, such ap intemperance and education, as weil as those more strictly appertaining to the Church's own peculiar sphere.seem to be now vieing with each other who shall make the most of the laity ; but not the slightest spproach to be made to admitting them within ths sacred precincts of doctrine and discipline.At the Middlesborough Conference # remarksble paper was read by Mr, Palmer, a member of the extensive shipbuilding firm at The paper was entitled, \u2018 Some Necessary Church Reform,\u201d and, as one of the lergest employers of labor in the North of England, Mr.Palmer said be was interested in the welfare of the population, and in the proper efficiency of the Church of England as & national He condemned the system of patronage, end said tbe people should have a voice in the election of their pastors.should be much greater power exercised over the whole body of the clergy, and he recommended the cstablishment in every diocese of a court of mixed laymen and clergy, to be presided over by the bishop, which should consider the complaints of parishioners.3 Church could not justly be called the National Qhurch, sud he called upon the clergy and laity .to sim upitedly at the improvement of her posi- As was to be expected the propeeitions in parte of his diocese, At present the leader of tho latter, and Dr.Pusey, of the former, | from the constant preyera of the churches.It bave agreed 10 act together on a comwities ' wag tte poiat of bgtest lotérest in the whole whick Las been formed in Loudou for the purprse .of oppasing (he election.| meeting.\u201d EXTRACT3 FROM LATEST ENGLISH PAPERS.\u2014 A Paris correspondent states tbat Father Hyacinthe\" sister bas followed his exatople and left the Convent of Carmelites, and that several other * fathers and sisters are about to throw off the Roman yoke sad re-enter the world.\u201d \u2014 The Prince of Wales having announced bis intention to discontinue bis pack of harriers st Windsor, su sppeal was made to Her Mojesty to carry them on; but it was steted at a mest.ing held on Saturday that the Queen regretted she could not comply with the request.\u2014Vice-Chaneellor James has dismissed tbe twc petitions to wind up the European Assurance Oompany with Coste, aa be did not consider that it had been satisfactorily made out that the Company Was in an insolvent condition.He bas also appointed Mr.Young the Official Liquidator of the Albert Assurance Company, to set along with Mr.8.L, Price in room of Mr, Kirby.\u2014 Mr.Nicholson, who was recently fired at in Meatb, and whose coachman died from bis wounds, is preparisg to leave Ireland 5 200 Iaborers on hia estate have been discharged.A farmer, named Hunt, has been waylaid at a place called Coolaney, in Sligo, snd so brutally besten that he died in à few hours.Some ar- resta have been made, \u2014 The O'Donoghue, M.P., in a letter to tbe Amnesty Committes ia Da-lin, takes them to task for the way in which the movement in favour of the release of the Fenians has been mismanaged by endeavouring to bully the Government.He states that if the Government is approached respectfully he bas no doubt of the result, bat be has nosympathy with the heartless spouters\u201d who keep the prison-doors shut.Mr.G.H.Moore, M.P., characterises this letter as \u201csorry nbaldry.* «= Telegrams bave been received conveying the gratifying intelligence of the safety of Dr.Livingstone.In a communication received by Dr.Kirk at Bombay, dated Banglewo, 8th July, 1868, Dr.Liviogatone writes :\u2014* I have found Mr.Palmer's paper were assaded as Radical what I believe to be the source of the Nile, be.ones; but it is most significant when a large tween 10 deg.and 12 deg.south.\u201d More recent employer like him epeaks in this outspoken | nowa by car manner at 8 Church Conference presided over by i an Archbishop.The Biskopa of Rochester aud | announces the arrival of the Miyi, and as the road fe, there ia good pro- Ely are slso holding conferences in their dio- | spect of Dr.Liviogstone's speedy return to the ceses.The question of proportionate almsgiv- abodes of civilised men.ing is ore which is engaging a good deal of attention at these meetings of the clergy and laity, and the vecessity of & more liberal spirit ia AMERICAN NEWS, \u2014 A free trade meeting was held at Roches- generally enforced, while Instances are con-|ter.A resolution was passed favoring the ticually occurring where large sums ars promised abolition of the duty on coal.towards Church extension and the better support of the clergy.\u2014 There seems to be little doubt that a new gold clique is laying its plans in New York for Oats v2 tra Rev.Dowarp Feasse raox Lox- another artificial rise in price.Oae well-known pox.\u2014The Marylebone English Presbyterian con- broker took every dollar of gold that the Go- gregation, a number of months ago, gave a call vernment offered at its last sale, and, as he b.« to the Rev.Donald Fraser, ono of the Free Church longs to a clique which is reputed to bave netted misisters in Inverness, but he declined it.Ever over a million of dollars by toe late fall in stocks, since then their thoughts have been turned to t him, and they have again resolved to give him another call.A meeting of the congregation |p, he circumstance is significant.\u2014Am.paper.=A Bt Louis minister, travelling tbrough ndisns, says : \u201c Soon after passing the capital and of the Londor Presbytery was held for that of Todians, my attention was called to the bit purpose, when, after the usual eervices, one of wade by one of the pictorial papers as to the the elders, neconded by a member of the congre-| rage with which divorces'are obtained in that gation, moved that the name of Mr, Fraser be State, A railrosd conductor is represented as inserted in the call.This was unanimously aaying,\u2014* Indianapolis! Fifteen micutes for agreed to, afier which tbe cali was signed by divorcer\u2019 That morning's State Journal \u2018ace 188 communicants aud 68 adberents.It was knowledged the force of thefcaricature, but eug- then sustaived by the Presbytery, and ordered gegted that injustice might bave been dore to to remain in the hands of the session for addi- Chicago.\u201d tional signatures.Professor Chalmers wes pointed to prosecate the call before the Inverness Presbytery for the congregation, but the London Presbytery deferred the appointment of theirs.The congregation are in hopes that Mr.Fraser may be induced to accept the call.\u2014 Glasgow Herald, Oct.15th.= A cape has recently been tried at Naw York, tbe result of which shows that the courts of law are not eatirely subservient to the interest of railway companies.An Act is in existence which provides tbat the Hudson River Railroad Company shall charge passengers two- sad-a-baif cents per mile during the winter [The above does not appear as if the matter months, aud two cents per mile during the other were at ail decided as the previous extract led months of the year.Passengers charged more us to believe.\u2014Ep.] tl han these rates can recover the overcharged RELIGIOUS NEWS, \u2014 Father Hyncinthe goes West next week, = An altar in s New York cost sixty thousand dollars, = The Pope bas received, of the bishops invited to the cil, seventy-two \" regrets,\u201d == The Asbfleld Presbyterian church, erected church, just com- among the replies Ecumenical Qoun- sum snd s fine of $50 for each instance of being overcharged, A party by the pame of Johnson, finding that the Hudson River Railroad overcharged him, determined to avenge himself by means of the law.He therefore continued to ride up and down on the road, protesting each time that he paid Lis fare.Oo one occasion he refused to pay, and was ejected under protest.He baa now brought a suit against tbe Company and has recovered the overcharges, fines, interest and costs, in all under the nuspices of the Church of Scotland in $27,819.He thinks railroads s great invention.Canada, has been voluntarily banded over to the Canada Preabyterian Church, Tes Somisu it ras Mormon Cmpscr.\u2014St.Louts, Nov, 1\u2014An Omaha despatch says that = Mr.Phillip Philips returned to New York parties from Sit Linke report that several Mor.last week from his long and extended singing Mon dignitaries connected with the Zion Co- tout in the West.He will remain there until Operative Association, bave been publicly ex- the last of November, when he will leave for the communicated by the Mormon Chareh.Con.Ostsdian Wesleyan Missionary Anniversary, to Mderable excitements prevailed among their bebeldin Montreal, November 29, After that friends, be is to sing, it ie eafd, for twenty evenings i Canada.& h y ge in Cn0469, Oct.26.\u2014The freight bouse and depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, together =~ A corroapondent writes :\u2014The Congrega- (With a block of business bouses, were destroyed tional Obapel, the first place of worship built at by fire last night at Manteno, Illinois.Twenty.Port Stanley, was Inst week transferred by pur- 6 ix business frms and 18 families were burced chase to the Canada Presbyterian Oburob, the Out.Loss $80,000.Presbytery of London having taken up the Port sud its neighborhood ns & mission station.Mr, much depressed at the prese t present A stu- price, compared with former yes: dent at Princeton, Now Jersey, ard others, have decline, Three years ago it ichmond, & young Cansdisn Sraam Oz \u2014The market for sperm oil is very ime, and the ling at $2 85 been laboring there through the summer with per gallon, while now it is difficult for our much acceptance, whalers to get more than $1.65 by the cargo.== The Christian Indes; publisbes & note from This is owing to tbe introduction of numerous & missionary among the Ghoctawe, which says : Substitutes which bave largely taken the nlace * According to recent statistics there sre thir.Of sperm oil for lubricating purposes.\u2014 Loon | teen Baptist churches, and four hundred ang Journal, sixty-coven members in the Choctaw nation; four native ordained (one died recently) and B Finn im au Inrinmant=\u2014Trm Insann Pansoxs orxsD.\u2014Cuicago, Oct.31.\u2014On Friday morn.native unordained preachers, and\u2019 two ing « fire occurred fn the Lickiog County Iu- white missionaries.Population of Choctaw fi tmary, near Granville.The stone and frame astion over 25,000 ; ares, 15,000 equare miles.buildings were destroyed, The former was Mrssowant ro Jarax.\u2014The American Board Ocoupled by ten insane persons, and when the of Foreign Missions bave decided on sending a fire was discovered [t was too late to rescue missionary to Japan.The Rev.D, Q them, they being locked in tteir rooms, aud ail Greene is tbe bonored individual selected 7 perished.The victime\u2019 names are John Devon, lead the van of Ghristian aggression upon the Moses Osrroll, B.J.Morten, William Ven Dyne, superstition of the people of that newly-opaned George Oriner, Samuel Clark, Jubn MeMenus, tt country.A gentleman press: Pittsburg meeting of te allusion to the services of hi T ther, Rev, David when th Frank Martin, Julia Morgan and Mrs.Rostover.\u2018ho fre originated from the furnace.Tra Oass cr vus \u201c Horwer.\"\u2014Tha Govern.ttens, and of bis gramifather, Jeremiah ment bas received the decision of the United ts, awakened a very deep interest, and Biates Commissioners at Wilmiogton, N.C., joing misslonary came forward to |befcre whom 25 officera of the steamer \u201c Hor Speak, be was welcomed by bearty applause, nel\u201d were arraigned for violating the neutral- He spoke modestly and with Otting words, ap.ity laws.Accordin, to the decision, but two Pealiog especially for that support which oomes acts were shown to Eve been committed within the eolistment of ons man by one of the de- fodauts usmed Gordon, aud the taking in of 8 ! ©.1go of coal from tte \u201c James Freimore ?Tbe evidecces showed bat when the Horcet\" | received tl.e arms, stores and wen she WAS more than three miles from shore, and consequently | without be jurisdiction of tbe United States, | Oap:.Higgive aud 14 of his officers were, consequently, dis barged, and seven were committed i to appear at the term of the United Siates D:a- trict Court, which wes to meet at Wilmington to-day.The Government council moved for the discharge of the seven officers held on their own recognizance, but the $500 bail was insisted upon.Tax Eranies Gosmars.\u2014On Saturday five more of the Syanish gunboat fleet arrived from Myatic, and were moored at tke foot of Thirteen- th-st., North River, where they will receive their machinery and foal equipment.The probability ia that the question of their Governmental supervision will not be decided uutil after Congress meets, but tke work on them in Ecing on ss if thers was no obstacle in the way of their ing a3 rapidly as each one is completed.It is said tbat the coutractor, Mr.John Ericeson, in addition to these thirty vesaels, ie designiog vessels for other foreign governments, which probably will be constructed in tbe navy-yerds of their several countries, The naval tugs etiil continue their vigilant watch over the Spanish canonerag, and will do 10 for some time to come, The revenue cutters also keep a bright lookout upon them.» marine league of the United Btates\u2014namely, | + DOMINION NEWS.\u2014 The shoemakers of S:ratford struck for higher wages a week since.Their \u201c bosses\u201d have conceded the demand.\u2014~ The \u201c City of Baltimore,\" of the [nman line, made her last trip from Liverpool to Halifax in seven days aad a half.\u2014 The bakera of St.Catherines, Ontario, have reduced the price of the 4!b.losf from 124 to 11 cents.\u2014 The R.0.R'fls R-giment atationed at Kingston, Oatario, waa inspected by Gepersl Wsndbam oo Saturday last, Oct.30.\u2014 Could not John A.mansge to get Hincke, King and Galt sll in together in tbree Finance Departments ?\u2014 Hamilton Times.\u2014 Adolphus J.Wilson, a Canadian, formerly resident in the neighborhood of Prescott, has been elected member of the legislature of the Oape of Good Hope, \u2014 As Ottawa lumbering firm bas obtained a contract for erecting a saw-miil ia California, Men are now being hired to perform the work, \u2014 At the recent meeting of the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance at Brantford, the reports represented the body as increasing in numbers and usefulness, Mr.B.Stacey, Kingston, was elected Grand Worthy Scribe, \u2014 Thers lives in the township of Kenyon, near Glengarry, a venerable matron, & native of Scotland, and a member of the Presbyterian Church.Ske is now 127 years of age, and is still able to do = good desl of household work.= On Saturday last cord-weod was $5 a cord in London, Ont, but the following Tue:day, derable cost a pateat for the dyemg of wools| &c.Bymeans of this ingenious process the\u2019 skins of abeep and other animals may tedyid of all colura 80 &6 to serve for gi risge rugs, 48.\u2014Fays MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.Taa FLowse or rus (Rourem) Frock.\u2014Hys- igh-robee, ca:- ' cintre.\u2014d'uneh.\u2014 The questicn, wbat becomes of all tte \u2014 Extract frem us ssleiter, dated Chur-}.COunter/e.t American Currency, is solved.It ill, County S.me\u2026, 30 Oct : cold and clous groucd.Crops o kinds good ; prices low, and Jears.\u2014G.AcLan, Co.Simcoe, Oat.beld last cigbt, tbe municip subscribing for $30,000 Colonization R.R This is an example worthy of beiog followed, and we hope 1t won't remain of singular.~\u2014 Minerve, Bairren LiBSzALITT và Auemican Rairaio- tion.\u2014The following paragraph appears in the Globe this morning :\u2014The American steamer * Washington\u201d arrived at Montreal from Cleve.t oO agent of that city, made epplication to Mr.#6] with & lord of flbur for & port in one of the LU Lower Provinces.Mr.Daliste refused, declaring it to be against the law that an American sel sbould trade from one British port to another.Mr.Freer, however, applied to the authoritics da: in Newfoundiaud and Oape Breton.We are ated placing every reatriction within thelr reach upon at Ouaws ought to supply an explanation of terference, but which will not te permitted to ington\u201d in the port of London she, could, under | tbe law\u2014an Imperial, not Colonial act\u2014Iload a ol argo thers for any port in Great Britain, and, of ru course] can load at Montreal for Newfoundiand atd Cape Breton.The United States, no doubt, à; ars not 60 liberal\u201438 their porta are closed to a similar clearance by British ships.\u2014 Hamilton Times, 26th Oct, 0.A Oomxorion.\u2014Not a hundred miles from the of plessaut village of Gananoque lived an excel- tu lent man and s good citisen.In August lest, be died, He was & Roman Catbolie.His wife, an excellent woman, is a Protestant, of Orange porsussion, with & very icflated temper.She of was immense, All tbe Oatholic: the last cffices of affection and respect to bis and many were unable to get in, from the 26tb, it fell to $3\u2014the Lopdon and Port Stanley Railroad baving brought 'lnto the city 8 very Isrge quaatity of the much-needed article, \u2014R.8.Cassels, E:g , of Ottewe, has received from Prince Artbur & magnificent set of shirt studs, as a memento of His Bighness\u2019 trip up the Ott sod a recognition of Me.Ossiels\u2019 unremitting and successful exertions to render the excursion ploasant in ail ite details.\u2014 Io Saturday's Detroit Free Prets is an enquiry respectiog 8 missing man, who left the Great Western train at Thamesville, about a week since.His name is Davis ; bi iny Galesburg, II); of weak mind.He, it is supposed, was the person whose dead budy was found lately at Mount Beydges.= Mr.Morton, of New York, President of the Intercolonia) Ocal and Railway Company, and Duncan McDonald, Esq, of Montreal, arrived here (dalifax, N.5.) on Thursday evening in the ateamer \u201c Etos\u201d from New York, and will proceed at once to Cape Breton for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements connected with the building of the railroad from Sydoey to Bridgeport.\u2014Z/alifaz Citizen, 231d.\u2014 The Cobourg, Ont, Advertising World anncunces the sudden death of tbe Rev, WH.Schofield, of Lakefield, who graduated at Vic.toris Uuiveisity in 1862; and since that time haa filled the position ot Wesleyau minister with great acceptability.His remains were conveyed to Brockville, the residence of his parents, where they were interred.= At Prioceton, on tbe 25th, a r;fis match between tte Drumbo sud Princeton volunteer cowpanies, took place.\u2018The Princeton company won the 5th prise, $6, and as the contest for the 8th, 9th, and 10th prises proved ties, the money was divided equally between both companies.Drumbo won the following prix: 1ot\u20145 watch valued at $17 50; 20d \u2014cash, $13; 3rd\u2014dn, $10; 4thdo, $8 ; Gtb\u2014do, $6 ; 7th \u2014do $3.\u2014\u201cKapps,\u201d the Washington correspondent of the Buston Transcript, under date Nov.lst, teports:=\" À Canadian lobby are making preparations to secure the negot of anew reciprocity treaty at the coming a, Beveral leading men belonging to the Canadian Government are hers and bave rented sumptuous spart- ments, where they propose to give dinners in grand style\u201d \u2014 The directors of tbe Grasd Trunk Railway of Oanada have fesued & circular stating that, owing to the absenca of the President in Canada, who is now eagaged in the Company's affalrs, the balf-yearly meeting convened fo+ the 28th instant will be held merely pro forma, and adjourned to mn early date, of which due notice will be given \u2014Zondon paper.«== The report of the Great Western of Canada Railway Company shows that the receipts on capital account during the half-year amount to £258,050, snd malaly aries from the first instalment of the isiue of 5 per cent.preference stock.The agprepate expenditure to the game dato amounted to £5,392,503, leaving a lance to the credit of capital account of £126,284.= féid, = [adian Railway Stocks bave been quiet, and Osnadian Shares have sold along fbid.Parent von Drmise \u2014Mr.Robert Wright of a sudden crash, causing great consternation in door.Those outside thought there was a row th became empty with no serious damage to any one.Upon subsequent inspection, it was found ; that the catastrophe had depended simply upon is the substructure, and dry rot, the natural conge- News, 30th Oct, all tbe evils of which it is already too ful), we & Powell goes round with Sir Francie to all bis one, whom in his Parliamentary di to oppose with the utmost bitternes who know anything of our politice and of the of ba used} op degree of self-respect would surely Lave pre.| yoara spent as the Q ieen's representative have |p, \u2018arded Gi ver - 4 disgrace.Tino was when the co followed in tho nomination everywhere of red.bot partisans, and 1he consequent frequent prostitution of the office of Returning Officer from that of an impartial arbitrator between the candidates into that of an uvacrupulous abettor ofthe one Who rau in the Mivisteriai Intereat, These rosndals were 80 often repeated az at length to demand » remedy; ani the appointment of Returning Officers befog taken away en ce be other duties of their important offices.But what the Sberif of Carleton at the next election, now tbat be bas bera leaving the proper business of bis sbrievality in that county to stomp an ad- Jolning constituency ; no doubt showing that re- tb spect for opponents, and that delicacy in tbe ase St.George d'Henryvilie bas purchased st consi.Montreal Herald, Delisle, Collector of Customs, to clear the ves.108 cattle, occupy American routs\u201d The Globe should fe know that, were the American steemer \u2018 Wash- ue oo où H * Weather very ads lis way to Wisconsin, and ia paid cut to wii a little snow on the the [odiuns for crauberries.\u2014 The largest tannery in the world is at Îleue: times are dull.Tuinis tbe Jatest barvest I bave Mc seen during 48 years\u2019 remdence in Canads, bas aix bundred vats in operation, and consumes Ploughiog is fer behind compared with past | fifteen thouzand tons of hemlock bark per year.\u2014 A briiliant meteor descended at Buffalo, Nowruxsw Covosizazion R.R \u2014At a meeting Yesterday, apparently the sizs of a full moon, y of Bt.Jean 80d by Baptiste village, resolved to take measures for iBnumerable sparks #0 bright as to light up the ck of the Northerp entire city, \u2014 À London despateb atates that the Viceroy an county, Penn, It isnot yet finished, bat with u crackling noise, throwing of Egypt bas concluded another loan of 35.000,- 000 francs ; bas forbidden tbe official Turkish journal to enter Egypt, aud caused the Sultan's ter, which was placarded ia public, to be torn wa, \u2014 Tho Jewish Messenger says & remarkable j testimony has lately been given to the value of land à few days age, aud Mr, Freer, » shipping the Jewish method of sleugbte:iag and examin- Quite a number of Christian chers bare resoived to purchase their ment from Jewish carcags-butchers, their customers preferring their meat slaughtered in sccor- nes with the Jewish law.\u2014 Jon Stevenson, formerly employed as a foot- at Ottawa, and Mr.Detisle received orders to al- man in the Byron establishment, who now re.low the vezsel to load and clear for British ports tides in Three Rivers, Quebec, bas communicat- the materials for an article in reply to Mra.# loss to uadertand the motive for this action Stowe's story to a Montreal writer, who is econ the fart of the Government.It is gaged in preparing an elaborate vindication of certainly not the time, wheu Americans are Byron's memory.\u2014 Deeertion from the ranka of the Pontifical our commerce, that we should give them a pri.army ia continuing to so alarming an extent, vilege which they deny to us.The Government that General Kangler, the Commaader-in-Chief the Papal Forces, has earnestly urged the through 1heir journals.There are Canadian Holy Father to give him instructions to apply vessele engaged in the lower part trade that (be severest penalty of martial law, in order to may be driven off their routes by American in- put à etop to this growing evil.\u2014 À fatal boiler explosion tock place at the .Bramley, Accrington The roofs and walls of two buildings were demolished.In the drilled were four youths, who were baried in tbe ins.One, named Lawrence Howarth, 16 years of age, was eutitely buried, acd has since 2d from the injaries he received.\u2014 Miss Mery F.Hovey, deughter of Prof.F.Hovey, D.D., of Wabash College, Orawforas- ville, Ind., bas been elected to the Professorship the German Langusge and English Litera.re in the Kangas Ntate Agricultural College, and is to have epecial charge of the departmest the young ladies of the inatitution, \u2014 The Montreal correspondent of the Lon- would permit oo wake upon her dead busbaud'e don Free Press says: \u2014 I igs disgrace to Mon- corpse, It required the judicious offices of a tres), with her immense wealth, and rapidly-io- worthy neighbor to perausde the zealous creasing population that there is not a grand widow to allow the burial to take place accord.| free library, whose volumes are numbered by the ing to the rites of the Church in which the good hundred thousand, mod where the buibles: man lived and in which be died.Tte fanersl mechanic, the richeat merchant, or the prod all the foundest scholar, can obtain tue information he Protestants in the neighborhood repaired to pay desires.\u201d \u2014 A foreign letter states that the Duchezs memory.The Oatholic chapel was crammed, d\u2019Aoëts, ia & recent serious il!n:as, when Ler - ; fe was despaired of, vowed (0 heaven tust, if throng.The coffin was in the aisle, in front of ber days Jans spared, ste would send 8 mort the sitar, and candles were burzing around it, valuable ; , ; present to the Chapel of the Holy E.In the midst of the imposiog cervice there was palehre at Jerusalem.The F.orence ce.jewellers have just Guisted this votive cffer- the assembly.The coffin toppled end fell.The ing.Some of the most precious jewels in the lights followed the coffin.The maltitude lost Duchess\u2019 casket adorn this crown.Among the ita centre of gravity aud were piled in heaps.diamonds aud peatla is a pear] more precious Women shrieked, and there was a rush for the than the diamonds, which has been for more an one hundred years in her family, and inside, while those inside, recognized only an| gp; i tk earthquake, cre judgment.But the church soon Thich passos for the most valuable earl in tte Farmze Hyacixra bas gota successor.[It saserted that the Archtisnop of Paris bas es.the existence of dry rot in the joints which sup.lected Father Monssbre of the or-er of the Do- potted the floor, the builder of the church having minicans to preach the Advent sermocs in Notre ignorantiy neglected to provide ventilation to Dame.\u2014Minerve.A Lynx SHor.\u2014Two gentlemen residing at quence, having resulted.Moral \u2014 Ventilate Winteborn, Unt, while out buntiog for racuon, your timber if above ground or water, and don't came on the track of n lynx which the dog believe in supernatural agencies.\u2014 Kington chaged into a tres.Ignorant of the sort of an: mal be bad to deal with, one of them got into Tue Nontu Renrnsw Evrcrion.\u2014 Among tbe the tres to drive it down, but, when be saw Mr.scandals of the election now going on in| Lynx awaiting him, Le came speedily to earta North Renfrew, and which sbow that the return 8gsin.À charge of buck-ahct soon brought tte of Sir Francis Hincke to public life will add to |yDx to the ground.The Resve of Woolwich anted $10 for killing the animal, and the deg notice the employment of Mr.Powell, the Sheriff tbat bad treed him was made tax-free for life, of Carleton, pe pe electioneering agent.Me, Translatedfrom Berliner (Un!) Journal.Powwow OoosoiL om Paner Isuawp.\u2014A meetings, and does whatever his presence and special collection was rade at the Party Bound bis barangues can do to promote ihe cause of camp-meeting, io August last, for the purpose of gaging an Iodisu missicnary to preach the For nil! Gospel and teach tbe more elementary branches seculur education amongst the band of Pagan relations of these two men during the Hiocksian [udians who reside on Parry Island.In pureu- era, it would, we think, bave tesmed almost 10- | anço of this resolution, Me.Aboer Elliot, of Cape credible that the ex-Governor should, under | Qroker (tbe miswor ary chozen tor the work), and any circumstances, appea with such patronage family bave taken up their residence on the Is.before & Canadian constituency.The smallest land, Ou the 13th a deputation of gentlemen, usisticg of W, Beatty, 3 P.P.,, the Rev.C.A.veated him from coming on the hustiogs With Bayon, and Dr.Stepheus, with Mr.ElNot ag in- Mr.Powell; but it would seem that several terpreter, Ead a big talk\u201d with Pagohmegok- wo, the fret Obief; Paçotmawwstorg, the done #0 ilitle to raise the scnro of personal gecozd Cbief ; Sshgohdob, ilo priest, aud tLe dignity, that Sir Francie Hincks is willicg to Foung braves of the village.The res.'t was accept aid which Lr.Hincks would Lave re |unfavorable as far na religiovs icatructicn wag ncerned\u2014ail tho In 8 relusisg to abandon mt named tbe returning officers at the Great Spisit's teaczi x fur that of tho White elections.specially for the purpose of such elec.Magy book: but they wero williog to accept tiens.We nll koow that tbe naturel result the services of & secular instructor, Loxoom, Nov, 3.=R+v.Dr.Temple, the re.oily appointed Bishop of Exeter, la reply to au address, expressed the hops that as a bishop might know nothing of parties in the Church, but co-operate with ali.The Times to-day, io an article on the irfiu- ice of Rome, esys ; Tho Catholic Church must from the Goverament, the duties of that post were be withdrawn (rom undus Roman preponder- conlded, se afleio, to Sheriffs and Registrars as ance, and the city of Rcme from ecclesiastical sarvants of the publio at large, who, |t was domination.It is only by ceasing to be an thought, ought to be, snd would be, fres from Italian Sovereign, that tho Pope can aspire to politioni blas in tho excutlon of this, as of all become unive Pontiff.Paws, Nov.3.=There is to be another Coun.confi tance can any oze have in the impartiality of cil of Ministers at Compiegne to-day.The Constitutionnel says, the English\u2019 Gor- ernment is much precccupied at present with je question of the Dalmatian Insurrection.The Constitutionnel says that Count B:emarck of means for wbich be bas always been noted.\u2014 bag lost à great part of bis former influence in Germas politics.isl SEP re AD 706 THE MONTREAL WITNESS.= Novemper 6, 1869.ERs UF THE * WITNESS\" DAILY WITNH