The daily witness, 28 novembre 1860, mercredi 28 novembre 1860

[" JOv- city ent per- Te ISA SLR 5 \"Montreal, Nov.2, 1800.AILY WITNE S, COMMERCIAL REVIEW & FAMILY NEWSPAPER.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1860.Price ONE HALF-PENNY.No 91.LS AND DEPARTURES OF MAILS AT ARRIVA MONTREAL.MAILS.DUE.CLOSE.Quebec, Dansille, &e.(except | 8:00 AM.2:00 AM.unaays «sv ees À ML, North Shore (except Tuesday 9:00 A.M.4:00 P.M.Quebec, per Steamer .7:00 A.M.5:00 P.M.U.8., (except Portland).| 10:00 A.M.2:30 P.M.St.Lyacinthe, Melbourne, rt] EM.7:00 AM.VC + + + + + + eo so 3 A.: Le Portland, Island Pond, &c .| 12:30 P.M.3:00 P.M.St.Remi, Hemmingford, o M Plattsburg .-, | 11-30 A.M.2:00 P.M.Carillon, Grenville .6:15 P.M.6:00 A.M.Canada West and Upper Ot- ; 3:00 AM 7:30 AM.aWwa .+ + + 5 + + 5 :00 P.: M.Lower Provinces, Wednesday! 12:30 P.M.3:00 P.M.Registered letters must be posted 15 minutes before the closing of each mail.I MOVEMENTS OF OCEAN STEAMERS.TO DEPART.Steamship.Leaves.For.Canada.Po .\u2026.\u2026.Boston .Liverpool.Vanderbilt .New York.Havre.Teutonia.\u2026.New York .Hamburg.Glasgow.0.New York.Liverpool.,.Palestine .\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.Portland.Liverpool -John Bell .N ew York .Glasgow.Africa.vue.coven ones New York.Liverpool.5 Nova Scotian .\u2026.Portland.Liverpool 8 TaAgo .- + NEW York.Havre.Dec.8 City of Manchester.New York .Liverpool .Nov.14 North Briton.Portland.Liverpool.Dec.8 Arabia.+.Boston.\u2026.Liverpool .Dec.12 Leinster.«oven anes Boston .Galway.Dec.18 ASÎM.200 800000 00005 New York .Liverpool.Dec.19 New York.-.New York remen.ec.22 Vigo.000000000000 New York.Liverpool.Dec.25 United Kingdom.New York .Glasgow.Dec.25 Europa .cocoon vans Boston.Liverpool.Dee.26 TO ARRIVE City of Manchester .Liverpool.New York .Nov.14 Nova Scotian .Liverpool .Portland .Nov.15 Arabia .«oven Liverpool.Boston,.Nov.17 Saxonia .Southampton New York.Nov.18 Leinster.\u2026.\u2026.Galway .Boston .Nov.20 City of Washington .Liverpool.New York .Nov.21 Canadian .Liverpool.Portland .Nov.22 Asia.\u2026\u2026\u2026.arene .Liverpool.New York .Nov.24 United Kingdom.Glasgow.New York .Nov.24 cdar.\u2026.\u2026.Liverpool.New York .Nov.27 New York.\u2026.Southampton.NewYork.Nov.28 Borussia.«.Southampton.New York.Dec.4 Jura.Liverpool.New York .Dee.11 Fulton .Southampton.New York.Dec.12 Palastine.Liverpool.New York.Dec.25 RAILWAYS.DEPARTURES FROM MONTREAL.GranD Trunx for Canada West from Point St.Charles.Day Mail, 9 A.M.Mixed, 4:30 P.M.Night Express, 9 P.M.Gran Trunk for Portland and Quebec from Point St.Charles.Day Mail, 8:30 A.M.Mixed 5 P.M.MONTREAL AND CHAMPLAIN for New York, &c.Express 6:30 A.M.Express, 3:45 P.M.Mixed Local, 8:30 P.M.: LACHINE from Bonaventure Street station 7 A.M, to connect with Ottawa steamers.9:30 A.M.connects with American Line of Steamers.12 noon to connect with U.C.steamers.3:30 P.M.Mail train for various points between Caugh- nawaga and Province line.5 P.M.ARRIVALS: Grasp Trunk from the West.Mail, 8 A.M, 6:45 P.M.Express, 7:20 P.M.Granp Trunk from the East.Mail, 5:25 P.M.\u2014 Mixed 7 A.M.Local and Day Mail, 11.15 A.M.CHAMPLAIN Express, 9:30 A.M.Mixed, 5:15 P.M, : Express, 10:30 P.M.LacHINE 8 A, M,, 10:30 A.M., bringing Hemmingford Mail, &c.1 P.M,, 4:15 P.M,, 5:30 P.M,, with Ottawa steamer\u2019s passengers.: Mixed, STEAMERS.DEPARTURES.Royar Mair LINE for Quebec.(\u2018 Quebec,\u201d \u201c Columbia\u201d and \u201c Napoleon,\u201d) 5 P.M.\u201cPrince oF WALES,\u201d for Ottawa, leaves Lachine on arrival of 7 o'clock A.M.train.BIRTH.Montreal \u201427th inst.; Mrs E.K.Greene, of a son.MARRIAGES.Scotlapd, C.W.\u201422nd inst.,by the Rev.William Hay, Dr, John R.Malcolm, to Sophronia, daughter of Elia- kim Malcolm, Esq.Township of Norwich,C.W.\u201426th inst., by the same, Peter Addison, to Mary Bauslaugh, both of Norwich, DIED.Montreal\u201427th inst.,at the residence of his son, Thos.McGrath; Esq, No.17 Colborne Street, Mr.Daniel McGrath, aged 110 years; AOVERTISEMENTS.CHRISTIAN ALMANAC FOR 1861.EE \u2018Boston Tract Society\u2019s beautifully illustrated Almanac for 1861 is now ready and will be sent by Mail, postpaid, at the following rates :\u2014One Copy 6d, Six Copiès 2s 6d, Twelve Copies 4s 3d.\u201c WITNESS\u201d OFFICE, 36 Great St.James Street.d sw Montreal, Oct 5, 1860.(CANADIAN FARMER'S ALMANAC FOR 1861 \"3d each, or 1s 104d per dozen, free by mail., .BOOK AND STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, \u2026\u2026 86 Great St.James Street, opposite Wesleyan Church.GALBRAITH & BROWN, MERCHANT TAILORS, Mechanics\u2019 Institute Building, GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, HY: JUST RECEIVED a Very Choice Assortment of FALL and WINTER GOODS, to which they invite the attention of their customers and the public in general.Montreal, Oct.16.TAKE NOTICE.SPLENDID REFINED COAI: OIL, 3s.9d.Per Gallon.LAMPS, WICKS, CHIMNIES, &e., &.JAMES FAIRIE, GexviNe Coaz Otz Ann Lamp DEPor, 55 St.Francois Xavier Street, a few doors from Notre Dame Street, Montreal.November 3, 1860.| CHEAPER THAN EVER.GOOD COAT: OIL, FROM 70c.AND UPWARDS, PER GALLLON.\u2014ALSO\u2014 LAMP CHIMNEYS, WICKS, &ec., WM.McCONNELL'S, People\u2019s Coal Oil Depot, 24 Great St.James Street.Nov.15.- d-t.f.b Deodorized Coal Oil.HE SUBSCRIBER offers to Dealers and Country Merchants, at very low prices, according to qua- d-t.f, 1-mo.d.lity\u2014 20 Barrels Deodorized Coal Oil\u2014the last, best production.10 Barrels Kerosene.Half-barrels Paraffin.W.R.HIBBARD, LamP DrPoT, 161 St.Paul Street.Montreal, Oct.16, 1860.\u201d d-t.f.b.INEST KINDS OF COFFEES ROASTED ON THE PREMISES.NEW CROP OF BLACK AND GREEN TEAS.S.ENGLISH & Co.UINCES, ISABELLA GRAPES, FRESH RAISINS SUGAR-CURED HAMS, BACON, AND DRIED BEEF,-RYE MEAL, BUCKWHEAT, CORN MEAL, HOMINY, LOCHFINE HERRINGS, & YARMOUTH BLOATERS.For sale by S.ENGLISH & Co., 266 Notre Dame Street.d-t.£b Nov.12.Apothecaries Hall, Cathedral Block.HE BEST QUALITY London-made Hair, Nail and Tooth Brushes \u2014 Also, Finest London Toilet Soaps, at the Apothecaries Hall.LAMPLOUGH & CAMPBELL.Montreal, Oct.19, 1860.2,m-d.HE BEST STARCH in the world, is the \u201c SILVER Gross Stancy,\u201d made by the Canada Starch Company, at Edwardsburg, C.W., to be had of all respectable Grocers.Montreal, Oct.24, 1860.OMMISSION BUSINESS.\u2014The Subscriber has on hand, and is constantly receiving Fresh Consignments of RAR] ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE, Which he offers for sale at Current rates.\u2014ALSO,\u2014 HERRINGS.\u2014The Finest Labrador, in Barrels and Half- Barrèls.The Finest Canso, 6 se WHITEFISH, of excellent quality, Fall Catch, in Barrels and Half-Barrels.DOMESTIC GOODS.A fresh assortment of Tweeds, all Wools and Satinets.Also, just Received WADDING HEAVY AND EXTRA HEAVY, 1200 Bls Batting and other articles of Domestic Manufacture.JOHN DOUGALL, COMMISSION MERCHANT, 270 and 272 St.Paul Street.nue CIRCULAR published by the Undersigned on every Friday, for the English Steamer, is obtainable at their Office.Arrangements are made for the printing of the names of Merchants on such number of Circulars as may be specially and in quantity subscribed for.; TAYLOR BROS., Brokers.L Union Building, Aug.13, 1860.COMMERCIAL BUFF ENVELOPES, for 28 6d, at the BOOK AND STATIONERY WAREHOUSE, 86 Great St.James Street, opposite Wesleyan Church.Montreal, Nov.10, 1860.Goor MIXED TEA at 2s.6d.per Ib., for sale, by .E.SHELTON.\u2018 By Telegraph To-Day.Arrival of the \u201c NOVA SCOTIAN.\u201d The \u201c* Nova Scotian\u2019 arrived at Portland at three o'- clock this morning.She left Liverpool on the 13th.The weather was fine.Markets dull and drooping.Arrival of the \u201cARABIA\u201d \" Hawirax, Nov.27th, 1860.The \u201c Arabia, \u201d with dates to the 18th, has- arrived.The \u201c City of Washington \u201d touched at Queenstown on the 16th.Consols 931 to 933.Bullion in the Rank of England decreased £582,000.Bank raised its rate to G per cent on the 15th._ GREAT BritaiN.~~The Prince of Wales fleet had arrived.Details show that the fleet had experienced head winds and bad weather during the entire passage.The vessels were within a day's sail of England on the 6th, when a heavy gale prevented any further progress.They had only another week's provisions, and the party for the last few days lived on salt and preserved provisions.They landed all well, and the Prince reached Windsor Castle on the evening of the The return of the Prince of Wales is made the theme of congratulatory editorials by the press, and reiteration of warm compliments to American people.The Timessays that the Prince, while showing strong feeling of true born Englishman bas elicited feelings of all true Americans, aud brought the two face to face, and made them feel that they are brothers.The Empress Eugenie arrived in London on the 14th.She remained two days in the strictest incognito.She will visit Igeland in the hope of restoring her health, Bishop Worcester is dead.The minimum rate of discount was raised by the Bank of England on the 6th, although no gold was withdrawn that day, and none has been since.This movement was telegraphed to the Bank of France, and the contemplated additional withdrawal of more gold from the Bank of England by that Bank was suspended.Australian gold to the value of £570,000 arrived on the 16th, which was immediately bought for the Bank! of France, and this temporarily prevented any further withdrawals from the Bauk of England.Shares of Grand Trunk rallied 3 per cent on the 10th, Itis rumoured that the Duke of Newcastle is to receive the Order of the Garter, now in gift of the Queen, owing to the death of the Earl of Richmond.The Express Mail from Glasgow to London, when at full speed, ran into a cattle train.Nine persons killed, also 30 cattle.The rumours of ministerial changes rife.It is reported that Mr.Laitry, who figured in Savoy negociations, is to be made Minister ot Interior.- It is said that at the Cabinet Council, the plan for an army reserve was finally settled.The commercial treaty between France and England was completed at Paris on the 16th.Cobden was completely prostrated by his labors.Bourse firm at 692.ItaLy.\u2014Report that a conspiracy was discovered at Gaeta against Francis II.Two officers and two men shot.The Piedmontese Gazette of the 15th says that the Neapolitans, under General Sabrear, had proposed to Fanti the surrender of the Neapolitan troops who remained outside Gaeta, consisting of 10 battalions ; but a despatch announces that two merchant steamers, carrying French colors, had left Gaeta with troops, supposed for Civita Vecchia.: The Lazzaroni at Naples indulged in a demonstration in favor of Garibaldi, They were dispersed by the troops.Victor Emmanuel! prohibited the destruction of Fort Stalmes.AvsTrRiA.\u2014Attempts have been made to introduce arms into Hungary.English vessels engaged in the enterprize.: Austrian preparations for war going on at Mantua, &c.SPAIN.\u2014It is reported the Queen of Spain is in an interesting way.Curva.\u2014 The Moniteur asserts the latest telegram from Sir Hope Grant fully authorizes the hope that recourse to arms in China will not be necessary, COMMERCIAL.LiverrooL.\u2014Flour dull, and offered at reduction.Quotations 28s to 31s 6d.Wheat dull, And declined, 1d to 2d ; Red Western 11s 5d to 123 10d, White 12s 6d to 14s.Corn firm; Mixed and Yellow 38s to 38s 3d, White 43s to 45s.Pork quiet.Lard fair at 63s 6d.Ashes steady ; Pots 283 6d to 29s, Pearls 29s to 29s 6d.Sugar dull.Coffee quiet.News by Telegraph.THE SECESSION MOVEMENT\u2014SOUTH CAROLINA ARMING.CuaLesyon, Nov.27, 1860.The Legislature has just read for the first time, a Bill to arm the State, and to raise $400,000 for the purpose.Tenders of aid from other States continue to come to the Government, and so strong and universal is the feeling that the moment the command shall have been given, 7,000 soldiers within her own boundaries, trom the mountains to the sea, will come forward to the defence of South Carolina, and they would all sooner die, than see the State a eubjugated Province, or passively submit to a continuance of Northern en- cioachment ! The Governor will send in the message at one o'clock to-morrow.He will recommend that the Legislature should, to some extent, encourage and foster direct trade with Europe, by taking upon itself a part of the losses which might flow from the establishment of direct trade ; and to this end a proposition of some citizens of Charleston to establish a line, of steamers between that port and Liverpool is favorably 3 thought of.In the event of traitors arising in the State, after she shall have asserted her Sovereignty, it is\u2018probable that he will advise some legislation more particularly defining treason to the State, and settle the punishment for that offence.It is believed that he will recommend that a-law be passed, punishing summarily, severely, and perhaps with death, any persons who circulate incendiary documents, who avows himself an abolitionist, or in any way endeavours to incite the slaves to insurrection or insubordination, and that South Carolina shall bind herself to take $50,000 worth of arms aunually for 4 years from Major Ripley, in accordance with the proposition of that gentleman, and that negociations be entered into between South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, to fix upon a site for the Armory.He probably will recommend what the Legislature has already anticipated him in ; that is, to arm the State at the earliest practicable period, so as to prepare for the first overt act of the Federal Government.Tue RECENT Srorm.\u2014In addition to the accounts of the storm on Saturday and Sabbath last, given yesterday, later news from Buffalo shows it to have been most disastrious on Lake Erie.The number of marine losses heard of there,up to Monday night, was :\u20146 propellers, 1 barque, 2 brigs, and 17 schooners; while there was still some apprehension as to part of the fleet bound down.The greatest amount of disaster occurred to upward vessels.Several propellers were driven ashore on the upper lakes.Reports of disasters on Lake Ontario are heard from every quarter.An account from Oswego on Monday night says :\u2014 \u2019 The schooner \u201cJ.J.Morley\u201d ran ashore near Kingston; \u201c Game Cock\u201d at Peninsular Point ; ¢ Minnehaha\u201d dragged both her anchors and went ashore near Cape Vincent, and \u201c Marquette\u201d went ashore on Nelson's Island.Over 30 vessels, bound to-this port, are still to arrive.The following are reported as having met with disasters : The schooner \u201cForest\u201d is frozen in the ice, near Trenton, in the Bay of Quinte.The schooner \u201c Cascade\u201d has been driven to Sackett's Harbor, disabled, and with sails gone.She is loaded with wheat.The schooner # Jeannie P.Mack\u201d is ashore, with a cargo of coal, ten miles above Port Colborne on Lake Erie.The schooner ¢ Mary Selina,\u201d with lumber, is ashore in Chaumont Bay.The schooner \u201c Comet,\u201d with grain, is ashore near Big Sodus.The schooner \u2018 Queen has lost boats, sails, etc.A propeller coaster ran ashore cight miles below Stone Mills, Canada, and subsequently went to pieces.The schooner \u201c Augustus Handy\u201d is ashore in South Bay ; canvas and boat gone ; leaking badly.A steamer from Kingston reports seven vessels ashore between that place and Sackett's Harbor.There is a blinding snow-storm from the south-east now raging here.i : Schooner \u201c Edith,\u201d of Oakville, was beached in the gale of Saturday, a mile south of Stony Point Light.She had no cargo.Also, schooner \u201c Omar Pasha,\u201d with a cargo of wheat, from Toronto.Both vessels went to pieces, but the crews were saved, except the cook of Pasha.\u201d A special dispatch to the Herald, from Toronto yesterday, says :\u2014 : \u201cIn the storm on Saturday last, on Lakes Erie and Ontario, forty vessels were wrecked, and not less than twenty-five lives lost.Of the vessels wrecked, ten were a total loss.\u201d City\u201d is ashore at Kingston; Court oF QUARTER Skssions.\u2014C.J.Coursol, Esq., Presiding\u2014Oliver Wells was placed at the bar.He had been tried and convicted in 1849, before the Hon.J.'S.McCord, for an assault with intent to ravish, committed in the township of Brome, where he resided.\u2014 After conviction, he managed to escape, and, returning to Brome last August, was arrested on a Bench warrant, and lodged in Jail to receive sentence.When placed before the Court the question arose whether Mr.Cour- sol had the power to sentence him, seeing that he had been convicted before a Judge from whom the Legislature when remodelling the Court of Quarter Sessions had taken.the authority to sit in criminal cases.Mr.Coursol took the case en delibere, and yesterday, prepared to pass sentence on the prisoner.The Clerk of the Peace accordingly moved to that effect, and sentence will be passed accordingly.: \u2014 In the case of the Queen vs.Charles Cummings, for running more than one crib of timber past a toll bridge on the River Ottawa, without giving the bridge- keeper the two hours notice required by law,\u2014the demurrers in which had been\u2019 reserved for decision,\u2014the Court ruled tbat the act under which, conviction was sought, was a public act, so intended when devised by the Legislature, and that the defendant had clearly committed a misdemeanor and rendered himself liable to punishment.Sentence will be passed on first day of the next term.The Connsel for the private prosecutors hoped the Court would deal leniently with the defendants, but that in future the act would be rigidly enforced against the raft pilots and others not conforming to it.\u2014 The Gazette is informed that the nuns of L'Hotel - Dieu are about to build.a row of cut stone stores on' their proferty in littly St.Joseph Street, extending from St.Paul up St.Joseph Street to Mr.Jean Bruneau\u2019s property.The nuns have already taken part possession of their new building at the bead of Durocher Street.This improvement will .increase the elbow-room merchants require for the facilitation of.their business, \\ \u2014 Anthony Vandaw, an old pensioner, died syddes- ly in St.Oatharines on Saturday from inflémmiafion of.the lungs, aggravated by iftémpérddce au exposure.wg fends al I] Ga SB À gr Tee re\u201c CCR IE = Eri te me pe or men fp owing ate TT R: 6 à i Hi Hi CIE an da a - which we find in the Herald, the following points are \u20ac.the vordict and dismiss the action, or, in the event of iy this being refused, to order a new trial, was competent 434 Terms of Advertising in the \u2018 Daily Witness.\u201d For Advertisements not exceeding 2 lines, 12} cents each insertion.For Advertisements not exceeding 5 lines, 25 cents each insertion.Notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths charged on the above terms.For Advertisements exceeding 5 lines, 7 cents per line for first insertion, and 2 cents for each subsequent insertion, \u2014with a liberal discount to such as ad- \u2018vertise largely.ThE WIL ESS.MONTREAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV.28.NEW ADVERTISEMENTS THIS DAY.St.Andrew\u2019s Day.Anniversary Meeting L.F.C.Missionary Society.Photographs of the Prince of Wales for six-pence.\u2014 For Latest Telegraphic News see first page.\u2014 The small Photograph of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, advertised in another column, is an * excellentlikeness, ncatly mounted on an enamelled card.\u2014 The Annual Meeting of the Ladies French Canadian Missionary Society, will be held to-morrow cven- ing the 29th instant, in the Lecture Room of Zion Church, when addresses will be delivered by several Ministers of this city.The sale of useful and fancy articles contributed by friends of the Mission, will take place previously, commencing at 7 ¢\u2019clock.\u2014 A telegram in the proper column, shows the progress towards Secession, made yesterday, by the Legislature of South Carolina.One of the persons who will make money by the Quixotic movement, is a Major Ripley ; it is supposed that a bargain will be made with him for $200,000 worth of fire-arms.He should get his pay in advance; for it must be evident that 10,000 stand of arms, and the small vote of $400,000 to arm the population, will be bat as drops in the bucket, in comparison with what would bc required in the event of the State declaring its independence of that power \u2014the power of the North\u2014which has preserved it hitherto from the inherent decay of slavery.\u2014 The adjourned mecting of the Young Men\u2019s Chris- tain Association was held last evening, the attendance was good.The first Vice President occupied the chair, and after devotional exercises, made some remarks on the duty of Christian Young Men's being willing to undertake any work in connection with the Association, which did not interfere with other duties, and of aiming at a life of usefulness in connection with Christ's cause in a humble self-denying spirit.He urged young men to work earnestly and heartily,-and stated that if they coveted office, the prerequsite was hard work.The members then proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year, which was by nomination and ballot.The following was the result of the election :\u2014 President, Mr.I.E.Grafton ; Vice Presidents, Messrs.H.A.Nelson, J.Baylis, T.Leeming, W.Clendinning ; Treasurer, Mr.P.W.Wood; Corres.Sec.Mr.G.S.Brush ; Rec.Sec.Mr.R.C.Jamieson.Committee, Messrs.A.Milloy, W.R.Hibbard, D.Wark, P.S.Ross, S.Kyte, J.Whitam, J.Holiday, J.Wilson, J.Cruik- shanks, James D.Dougall ; Warden King, G.Wilkes.\u2014 Members of the Montreal Horticultural Society will be glad to learn that the annual grant from Government, which has been long delayed, is at last allowed, and that the Treasurer will shortly receive the amount.Those entitled to prizes will be duly notified when to apply.We believe the Society iz indebted to the attention of the Hon J Rose in this matter, \u2014In the Police court yesterday, a number of boys were brought up for stealing maple sugar from a stall.They were remanded for further examination.The young man, St.Jean, for stealing money, was sentenced to two months\u2019 hard labor.A Canadian lad, named Rancour, for stealing half-a-dozen corn brooms, was committed for trial, at February term of Court of Quarter Sessjons.\u2014 There were 18 prisoners yesterday, before the Recorder ; 5 for drunkenness; 9 disturbing the peace; and 4 for assault, &ec.Boox Girrs.\u2014Who can estimate the value of a good book, or the evil influences of a bad one ?Baxter wrote a book which, under God's blessing, led to the conversion of a wealthy gentleman, who cousecrated his wealth and talents to the Lord\u2019s service.This gentleman also wrote a book on Christianity, which was the means of leading an individual to the knowledge of the truth, who became a useful Minister and the author of a book which has been the means of converting hundreds, perhaps thousands of souls.What a blessed stream of good influence has, therefore, flowed from that book of Baxter's! Valuing this influence of good - books, many individuals have made donations of books for circulation among particular classes, especially among Ministers, who exert a great influence over others, with a view to awaken their interest in some important subject.To draw the attention of Miaisters to the subject of systematic benevolence, thousands of copies of \u201c Gold and the Gospel\u201d have been circulated, it being supposed that Ministers, after reading the book, would bring the subject before their congregations.A gentleman in New York bas lately presented 130 copies of the Life of Rev.R.Knill to the members of the Union Theological Seminary, as a stimulus to fidelity in the service of Christ.Another gentleman has presented 160 copies of Andrew Fuller's Backslider to the Students of another Theological Institution ; and à gentleman of this city has purchased 50 copies ol Dr.Tyng's \u201c Forty Years\u2019 Experience in Sunday Schools,\u201d to distribute among the Ministers of his church.This is sowing good seed, and will undoubtedly yield, in some form or other, an hundred-fold harvest.Those who cannot give books can lend, and thus help to spread good thoughts and important trutbs in the circle of their acquaintance, ; HiGGINSON vs.LyYMAN\u2014R&VERSAL OF VERDIOT, &0.\u2014In the report of Mr.Justice Monk's jadgment on this case, brou £htout:\u2014 1st.That a motion praying the Court to set aside THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.3 2nd.That in this case the plaintiff sues a company for breach of contract, when there is no proof whatever that there was any contract with the company.All the evidence went to show, rather, that only one partner had made a promise of partnership, and that the others had never heard of the promise till the plaintiff demanded its fulfillment, when they repudiated it.Now, as it was clearly incompetent for one partner to bind the others in the matter of a new partnership, there was no contract proven with the company, and, consequently, no breach of contract.The jury had assumed this point, not only without evidence, but contrary to evidence, and their verdict must, on this ground, be set aside.| 3rd.There was no proof of any acceptance on the part of the plaintiff of this promise of partnership, the evidence being rather on the other side.4th.As the action was for loss of share of profits, incurred by failure to fulfil a promise of partnership, even if the contract had been proved, it would have been necessary to show what that loss was.There must have been a certain share agreed upon, and a certain consideration for this share set forth in capital or services, or both; but here there is no proof of anything of the kind.Vindictive damages were excluded by the form of action, it being merely for breach of contract, and it was absolutely necessary to show what that contract was.The only thing that was proved was a promise, on tbe part of one partner, to make a contract of partnership at some future time, the terms of which were to be then arranged.* Now,\u201d said the Court, \u201cremembering that the loss of profit alone was to be assessed, how could the Jury arrive at £1,250 as his share of the profits?How could the jury find that he had lost £1,250 of profits, when he had omitted to tell what share of the profits he was to get?Whether as to the realized or prospective profits the same objection applies.No intelligible assessment of the loss could take place.In a similar case Mr.Justice Abbott, afterwards Lord Tenterden, was of opinion that the action was not maintainable, in the absence of evidence as to the terms, and said that he never heard of such a case being supported without\u2019 proofs of the terms (Figes v.Cuthbert 3rd Starkie.) And this is not only sound law; but it is in accordance with the plainest dictates of common sense, and forall these reasons combined I must grant the motion to set aside the verdict with costs.\u201d : ; The Gazette gives the judgment in the following words :\u2014# In view both of the pleadings and the evidence.adduced, the Court is of opinion that the motion to set aside the findings of the Jury and to dismiss the t action must be granted, and the action is dismissed accordingly with costs.\u201d Messrs.Johnston and Cross, counsel for Higginson, have, according to the Transcript, made application for an appeal from the decision of the Judge.Universiry or M'\u2018GieL Coucece \u2014The \u2018University lecture\u201d has been established for the purpose of exhibiting and perfecting the unity of the iustitution.The third annual lecture of the course was delivered last night by Professor Johnson, of the Faculty of Arts.The subject chosen was the \u201cOrigin and Constitution of Universities.\u201d The lecture, which showed in a masterly manner, the origin and exact value of the many terms and titles commonly used but little understood, would have been interesting to a popular audience, and we are sorry that want of space precludes any report of it.One of the most interesting points taken up, was the difference between a University and a College,\u2014two terms whicly were unfortunately very much confused, and especially so in the minds of our citizens.This resulted, in part, from the ordinary name given to our Institution, (University of McGiil College,) à name for which the lecturer could not discover the origin or reason.This name seemed to convey the idea that there was but one College in the University, whereas there were at present two, one at Montreal and one at Ricbmond, with unlimited powers for the affiliation of others.The original endowment had only required that the first College formed in connection with the University should be called McGill College; and the present name seemed only to acknowledge the liberality of James McGill, whereas the citizens of Montreal had all along been most generous in their aid.The Professor, therefore, suggested should any change be made in the name of the Institution, that this element should be acknowledged, by calling it the University of Montreal.(Cheers.) This would give the two great nonsectarian Universities of Cavada a similar position in the two Provinces.St.ANDREW'S FEstivaL.\u2014We call attention to the excellent programme issued this morning for the Scottish entertainment on St.Andrew\u2019s Eve.The Committee of arrangements have secured two of the best Scottish Vocalists on the Continent\u2014Messrs.Cummings and Anderson, of New York,\u2014both of whom are unsurpassed in their reputation throughout the States, The display of home talent in the amateur singing will, we are assured, please the most fastidious, while the addresses can hardly fail to be interesting and instructive.The exhibition building will be thoroughly nnd comfortably heated for the occasion, so that there will not be the slightest risk of discomfort on that score.The tickets have been fixed at 25 cents each, in order that the gathering may be one worthy of the occasion, and of the worthy object to which the proceeds are to be devoted.THE LATE MRS.JUDSON.In the year 1845, a new competitor for literary fame was introduced by N.P.Willis to the world of Magazine readers, and at once took her place as foremost among that class of writers: There was a charming freshness about all that came from Fanny Forester's pen,\u2014a vivacity that gave one the idea of a gay young girl, with a dash of genius, who had trodden the green sward and lain beneath the trees, and drunk the murmur of the brooks, till all sweet sights and sounds of nature had become a part of her very being, Spring, féhe defendants.: as pictured by the old poets, was the image in rdost inculoation of religious truth in the productions of Fanny Forester, but there was always a good tone and a hearty sympathy with nature and humanity, that was next to it.In the winter of 1846, an announcement crept into the newspapers that the Rev.Dr.Judson, whose heroic first wife, and saintly second wife, had so won the admiration of the Christian world, was about to take with him to Burmah, as his third partner, Fanny Forester! Everybody was astonished.The world wondered that talents so brilliant could be contented to be hidden on heathen ground; that a gifted young creature could turn from literary circles in New York and Philadelphia, and bury herself iu a missionary house.The Church wondered more.Was Dr.Judson, then, in his dotage, that he should choose as a wife one so evidently destitute of the \u2018missionary spirit?\u201d ¢ Would the Board send her?\u201d \u201c They would not like,\u201d it was replied, \u201cto deny anything to so distinguished a missionary as Dr.Judson ; Fanny Forester would go as his wife, not as one who was to labor.\u201d The life of this lady has been written by Prof.Hend- rich, of the Baptist College at Hamilton, N.Y.; and O, how it shames those who blamed Dr.Judson's choice.: \u201c At eleven years old, little Emily Chubbuck was piecing rolls in a woollen factory\u201d ; at fourteen, going to school, returning bome from it to sew with a sister ; and she adds\u2014* it was a rule with us that I was never to lay down my work till I had earned enough to clear the expenses of the day\u2014tuition, clothing, food.\u201d At fifteen, finding that her parents could no longer afford to educate her, the young maiden went to a neighboring town, and engaged herself as a teacher of a district school, and from that time continued teaching and studying, till the Principal of the Utica Female Seminary offered to receive her into her family as a boarding pupil, the fee to be paid when Miss Chubbuck should become a teacher.Surely now the young teacher had but to improve herself.No; her parents were poor; a younger brother and sister were to be educated, and to accomplish this, she began to write.Her leisure hours, often till after midnight, were spent in such toil.Her first book, Charles Linn, breathes the true spirit of the Gospel, for she had early learned to love the Saviour.It bad great success, yet brought in little money.Others followed with the same result, and then Miss Chubbuck tried the magazines.Sometimes she was successful, sometimes not.Till in a happy moment she penned the letter which, signed Fanny Forester, (the first time of using the name,) charmed Willis, and opened the door to fame.Dr.Judson was no common man.He saw some of Miss Chubbuck\u2019s writings, and sought an interview to lecture her on the wrong done to the Saviour she professed to love, in giving her talents to the world.When be heard the motive of her exertions, he was softened.Herproposed to her to write the memoir of the second Mrs.Judson, and while they were arranging the papers, &c., therefor, the missionary fairly fell in love, and woed and won the fair Authoress.It is worthy of observation that Miss Chubbuck\u2019s pupils were not surprized at her going on a Mission.Her influence over them had always been religious.She bad been a hard-working teacher.IHer literary labors had been task work in her play-time.The compiler of the memoir, aware ot the injustice done both Dr.and Mrs.Judson at the time of their marriage, has lifted the veil, as hardly ever was done before, trom the scenes of the betrothal.The love letters that are given, shew both parties in a new light to.many, and under the circumstances, we can hardly regret their publication.Dr.Judsou\u2019s judgment was justified.Few have ever mastered speaking the Burman tongue as soon as did the last Mrs.Judson.The four years of her life in Burmah were filled up with self-denying labor, winning the love and reverence of the good missionary sisters, who bad been almost frightened at her advent.Well did she fill her place as wife, mother\u2014and hardest perhaps of ali-\u2014step-mother.- Her letters to Dr.Judson\u2019s children are models in that kind of composition.But a few years was Mrs.Judson called to tread her solitary way.In 1854, she went to be \u201cforever with the Lord.\u201d We have read no novel more interesting, none more touching, than the volnme entitled \u201c Life and Letters of Emily C.Judson.\u201d We commend it to young and old.Wkoever derives from its perusal half the pleasure and profit which we have received, wiil be grateful.HENRY WARD BEECHER ON SECESSION.Beccher, always great, never greater than on a subject like this, concerning which he recently preached one of his characteristic sermons.From the report of this discourse in the New York Independent, we make the folowing choice extracts :\u2014 THE POWER OF MORAL PRINCIPLE.The invincible might of weakness was never more displayed than in the life and progress and victories of the anti-slavery cause; for there was never a cause more unpopular, more disdained, more opposed by the organizations of society.We ought, therefore, to derive some important lessons from this change.We ought, for instance, to see what is the power of a moral principle, steadily pressed, over all resist ance.You cannot destroy a moral principle, if men are willing to stand up in its behalf, and be martyrs for it.Such a principle carries in it the life of God.A question of tariff, or a question of bank, may go this way or that.A question of economy may be shoved one way or another.Questions of policy, bowever important they may be, have no vitality of their own.But a question that touches human ua- ture at the root; & question of absolute moral justice, of absolute truth, and of absolute purity; a question of right or wrong\u2014it makes no difference how unpopular such a question is, if it has faithful advocates it will prevail.A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.For the orb of time becomes such a man\u2019s shield ; and every step, every year, brings him nearer tothe hand of Omnipotence.If a man takes ground for truth, and justice, and rectitude, and piety, and fights well, there can be no question as to the result.I would that I could inspire you to do right with courage, therefore, by making you feel that rigbt is itself a host.Never be afraid of being in minorities, so that minorities are based upon principles.THE POWER OF FREE SPEECH.I call you, also, to take notice of the powei and safety of free'speech.There wére men of policy and expediency in the days of Christ; and I suspect that there were some who, when the chtld possessed of a minds of Willig\u2019 favorite FF.F.There was no positive Lt demon was brought to him, and he drew near and \u201c4 ; + - V Ld NovEMBER 28, 1860 overshadowed with his influence the miserable vie.tim, and the evil spirit cast him on the ground and tore him\u2014I suspect that there were some who then would have said, \u201cSee the effect of meddling with these things.You have only made his case worse.\u201d I appeal to you, whether it is better to have a child untorn with a devil in him, or rent a little to get the devil out of him.And when the agitation commenced, there were thousands in churches, in parties, in conventions, everywhere, who found that they had a special calling; and that was, not to touch the question of slavery, or be affiliated with the men of bold, free speech, ultra men, radical men, agitating men, destructive men, and other men to whom these adjectives have been applied.And what has been the result?I call you to take notice, in the first place, that free speech, however unpopular it may have been, has been omnipotent.It does not look as though it was; butitis.Ihear men ridicule free speech.They say, \u2018\u2018 Oh! these men that talk.I like to see men do something.\u201d Now doing is very good, and so is speaking very good.I tell you, speaking is God's safety-valve for a free people.In any land where free speech is suppressed, there are dissensions, and revolutions, and riots, and wars ; but if, when men\u2019s hearts and heads grow hot, you give them a chance to speak, you take away the power of revolutions.For thatreasonI do not think we will have revolution in South Carolina.When the safety-valve of an engine is open, and you have the steam whistling and roaring, you may be sure that it is not going to blow up.But when the boiler is tremulous, and there is no escape for the steam except through the rivets aud seams, then take, care ; for there will be explosions! Dumb dogs bite, but barking dogs do not.I value free speech for its use in this respect, if for nothing else.If it were not a vehicle of instruction, if it were not a means for the dissemination of truth, it could not be overestimated as a channel through which men can let off ferment.ID Passions In INNOCUOUS ways.But see how, also, God has made free speech walk in this land with all the liabilities to error and mistake which belong to it.See how he has made, by it, the whole continent to rise up.How men have been driven off frém lies, and banded together in great truths! How that which was in the ascendency has been brought down, and how that which was oppressed and trodden under foot, has been lifted up! And by what?By the everlasting light of God, speaking in the hearts and through the tongues of his own elect people.When, therefore, you are in a cause, see if, when you sound it, it touches the bot tom\u2014God Almighty ; and if you fiud a truth as everlasting as God, stand by it\u2014talk it.And if men would muzzle you, talk on.Talk living, and die talking.And make other men talk.There is no harm that can come from talking to things that ought not to be harmed.The only risk is in reticence\u2014in guilty silence.THE PHILOSOPHY Ol' DEFEAT.* Notice, again, another circumstance which ought to a light for the future\u2014namely, what the results of defeat have been.In all this coufliet of liberty against slavery, see how constantly the advocates of the former bave bcen defeated.And what has been the result ?I cannot tell you how many funerals I have attended of this movement.I cannot tell you how many times I have heard the last ceremonies performed over the dead and defunct cause of anti-slavery.And yet it would not die.It has been carried out like the widow\u2019s son, I suppose, a bundred times; and every time it bas met a Christ that touched the bier and brought it to life.How many times have assemblies killed it, finally! How many times have synods at last got their foot on this thing\u2014and it was not there ! How many times have preshyteries thrown it out of doors with just the same success that a man would have who undertook to throw out of the window the air, which instantly came in again at every crack and cranny, at the sides of the room, and from above and below stairs.The very things that men take to destroy it, give it power.Defeat I\u2014it is the food that warriors live on.It is defeat that turns bone to flint.It is defeat that turns gristle to muscle.It is defeat that makes men invincible.It is defeat that has made those heroic natures that are now in the ascendency, and that has given the sweet law of liberty for the bitter law of oppression.Do not, therefore, be afraid of defeat.You are never 80 near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.Forthem they had Christ when they kissed him ; but that kiss, so foul on Judas\u2019s lips, on the face of Christshone like a jewel.Yes, then they had him when they hauled him before the Sanhedrim at midnight ; but it was like a triumphal march.Then, when they led him toward Calvary, they bad him.And then, when to the music of hammers they lifted him up, and he hung suspended and groaning, aud with implorations of unutterable agony died, and the heavens were dark, their victory was accomplished, and so was their everlasting defeat.For not till he died could he live, or we in him.It was slaying him that gave him power.And so of everything that has the nature of Christ in it\u2014every truth, every cause, every sanctity, every noble thing.Slay it if you can, and, like the gashes of Milton\u2019s angels, its wounds will close by the healing, heavenly virtues of its own nature, and it will stand forth with even greater power than before.\u2019 MORAL PRINCIPLE EMBODIED IN LAW I am to speak of some of the duties which we owe to the times.First, we must deepen the channels of principle.Iam glad, always, when a moral principle is strong enough to take on the form of law.I am glad when a great moral cause is strong enough to take on the authority of political organization.And I bail that day upon which we have touched.But, on the other band, you know, as well as I do, that political organizations are subjéct to peculiar temptations ; that they attract venal men ; that over and above principles, they have loaves and fishes which draw around them ten thousand self-seekers.Now, the party that bas come into power will be in peculiar danger, because they wish to conciliate ; because they wish to take moderate men ; because they wish to have four years of administration such that they shall have four years more.And this is proper, so that they hold the essential principle of liberty intact.I do not care how prudent they are ; but it is your business, and it shall be mine, and that of a thougand other vigilant watches, to see to it, that y the principle of liberty shall not die out for the sake of maintaining victory in a party.I do.not ea ch Te dre are And and busi sha istr whd of ( no, ul Fhe sles tha Mug Its God natty his a pô bri sou O Hi WwW, py RRR pee iN ï Fi 3 NovzmsEr 28, 1860.THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.| 435 mé y arty rules, if the result is slavery still.Names ots.Things and principles are everything.And it is our business to see t2 it that we do not hide and quench the light of our princi les.Itis our business to make that light burn brighter.It is our business to lift the wick and trim our lamp, so that it shall flame higher than ever before.For this administration, if true to the thing which is meant by those who have raised it into power, is to walk in the light of Christian liberty.But to build a mill, and have no water to turn the wheel, is folly ; and a Christian ublic sentiment is the water that we need to turn the wheel of this administration.WHAT BECESSION AMOUNTS TO.As to disunion and secession, and all those fantasies, I have tried to speak about fact, not fable ; so that they do not legitimately come into this discourse.Much is said about secession.It is too much feared.Tt strikes me that the only result of secession, where God has bound the body together with ligaments of pature, would be like the result of a man\u2019s cutting his head off to get rid of the ills of life! Every time a part of the wick of a candle secedes, the candle is brighter that is left behind., And there may be some snuff taken off here and there without doing any damage.A smoky wick is of no use to a candle.Nothing will be taken off that will diminish the light, and nothing that will not augment it.; I saw, as Icame down the River last Friday, a noble steamer, carrying herself, and, fastened on either side of her, and behind her, a sloop, two large barges, and four or five bouts, some of them heavily laden.I said to myself, \u2018\u2018 There it is.If those boats behind should say, \u2018 Unless that old steamer acts better I will cut the rope and let ber go,\u2019\u2014that would be like those states that threaten to secede.If they cut themselves loose, they will make the steamer\u2019s burden lighter, and therefore augment her speed ; but they themselves will have rather a melancholy voyage !\u201d Ibeg that they will not cut the rope! We will tug them longer, if they will let us.We are willing to do it.But if there are any that want to secede, and say that they will cut the rope and let us go, we have nothing to say.We can stand it if they can.They cannot scare us by their threats.We are not of the sort to be frightened at such trifles.We have in us something of Bunker-Hill ; something of Lexington ; some of the blood of the old Revolutionary stock; and if they could not scare us with imperial armies and actual wars, I think they will not be able to do it with manifestoes and threats, While I say these things, I say them with the utmost good nature and kindness.COMMERCIAL.MoxtresL, Wednesday Nov.28, 1860.Sleet and rain yesterday afternoon; clear and cold this morning ; thermometer at 7} a.m., 28° ; atl p.m 33°.\u2014 There is nothing of special importance to note in the Montreal Wholesale Market to-day.\u2014 The Manufacturers\u2019 Bank of Macon, Ga., suspended on the 26th., Advices say that business is prostrate in Georgia, and heavy failures are looked for in Savannah, Financial matters in Charleston are reported to be becoming desperdtie; a dispatch of the 26th intimating, that a petition signed by the merchants of that city, praying the Banks to suspend, would be presented yesterday.There had been a decline in Railway Stocks in New York city, on the 25th, and some stringency in the money-market.RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE.Nov.26, per G.T.Railway.\u2014 Ashes, 42 bris; Flour, 894 brls; Wheat, 2,104 bushels ; Pork, I brl; Butter, 82 kegs ; Tallow, 50 brls.Per steamer ¢ Whitby.\u201d\u2014Wheat, 11,000 bush.Per barge \u201c Arno.\u2019\u2014 Wheat, 2,523 bush.; Rye, 2,026 bush.NEW YORK MARKETS.\u2014Nov.28.\u2014By Telegraph.Flour a shade easier, and dull.Wheat dull, and a trifle lower.Cork is a shade eagier.Rye quiet at 78 to 80c.Pork and Lard dull.Ashes dull\u2014Pots $5, Pearls $5,12.Oats steady at 37 to 383c.Barley firm at 68 to 78¢c.for inferior to prime.Peas dull at 73 to 80c.ADVERTISEMENTS.St.Andrew\u2019s Day.HE MEMBERS of the ST.ANDREW'S SOCIETY will meet at the MECHANICS HALL on FRIDAY, 30TH instant, at NINE o'clock, A.M.for the transaction of business.At ELEVEN o'clock they will proceed, accompanied by the CALEDONIAN and THISTLE SOCIETIES, and the HIGHLAND RIFLE COMPANY, to the UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Lagauchbetiere Street, where a SERMON suitable to the Day will be preached by the REV.DR.TAYLOR, one of the Society's Chaplaias.All Scotchmen apd Descendants of Scotchwen are cordially invited to join in the Procession.E.M\u2018LENNAN, Secretary.Nov.28.2-d { HE ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE LADIES\u2019 FRENCH CANADIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY, will be held on the evening of Thursday, 29th inst., in the basement of Zion Church.Refreshments will be provided, and Useful and Fancy Articles offered for sale, .Doors open at 7 o'clock ; Chair to be taken at 8.Admission free: all are invited to dttend.A collection will be taken up to defray expenses.EX CLOSE a six-penuy stamp, with address, (post-paid,) and we will send free, a beautiful Photograph of the Prince of Wales.Nov.28, 1860, B.& B., Box 804, Montreal.1d,18w UMB-BELLS.\u2014The Subscribers manufacture an Improved Dumb-Bell, adapted to receive shot, as Dr.| Windship recommended.Fire Brick, Fire Clay, and Moulding Band, for eale at No.85 Craig Street, Montreal.éd ROGERS & KING.UMB-BELLS AND QUOITS of all sizes on hand, or made to order.WAM.RODDEN & CO.Nov.1 Tth.6-d-3-t-w 1 ONT, A plete of Mink Fur, partly sewn together : \u2018fora Muff.Whoever will biing it to 300 St.Paul Breet, will receive $1 reward.d-t.f.ATOTION SALE By Henry J.Shaw.EXTENSIVE SALE OF STOVES.N THURSDAY, the 29th instant, the Subscriber will Sell at his Stores, St.Francois Xavier Street, a Very Large and Desirable Assortment of STOVES, embracing .\u2014 10 New Cooking Stoves, Hercules,\u201d No.9 9 Good Second-hand Ceoking Stoves 25 Coke and Coal Stoves, various sizes 15 New Box Stoves 8 Second-hand do 7 Dumb Stoves (The Cooking Stoves are generally well furnished.) 1,600 Lengths of Stove Pipes 250 Elbows Sale on THURSDAY morning at TEN o'clock.HENRY J.SHAW, Auctioneer.Montreal, Nov.27, 1860.2-d.TALIAN PASTE, Parmesan Cheese, Fresh Lemons, Fresh Grapes, for sale at S.ENGLISH & CO.266 Notre Dame Street.Montreal, Nov.27th, 1860.d-t.f.b.Stoves! Stoves!! UEEN'S CHOICE COOKING STOVE.\u2014This is, without exception, the best Stove in the market; it has taken the First Prize at both Upper and Lower Canada Exhibitions.Queen's Cuoice ExTENDED Top AND RESERVOIR With tin oven under back, and all the modern improvements.A Large Variety of Patterns of Cooking Stoves, cheap, economical, well made and durable, suitable for town or country.Every Stove warranted to give satisfaction.Box Stoves from 17 to 55 inches long.Fancy Double Stoves, adapted to both cooking and heating.\u2014ALSO\u2014 Large Heavy Stoves, substantially made, and particularly adapted to use in Public Buildings, Churches, Hotels and Railway Stations.Constantly Manufacturing and for sale wholesale and retail for cash or approved credits.WM.RODDEN & CO, Office and Ware-Rooms 91 to 99 William Street.Nov.27th, 6-d-3-t-w LADIES\u2019 AND GENTLEMEN'S FURS IN GREAT VARIETY, FOR SALE CHEAP, JOHN BENDERSON & GO.CRYSTAL BLOCK, Notre DAME STREET.Still on band, a few African Monkey Muffs, now so fashionable.Price, $4.Montreal, Nov.26, 1860.¢-d PATTERNS.RS.MIDDLETON begs to inform the Dress-makers of Montreal and the public in general, that she has just received a new assortment of PATTERNS from New York, in which will be found all the new and elegant designs of the season.She has also a new and accurate system of Dress-cutting from Madame Demorest, for which was awarded the first prize at the Exhibition in New York, and which she is prepared to teach Dress-makers.Mrs.M.feels confident, by experience, that this system is decidedly the most reliable yet invented, and that it must needs meet general approbation.Waist patterns cut to fit the form, price 25c.Montreal, Nov.26, 1860.d-t.f.b.Choice Groceries.OR SALE by the Subscriber :\u2014 Hams and Bacon, cured by \u201c Parsons,\u201d Guelph, C.W.Cincinnati Sugar-Cured Hams.\u201c Stilton\u201d and \u201c Pine Apple\u201d Cheese.Labrador Herrings,\u2014Barrels and Half-Barrels,-\u2014 (Whites \u201c Crown\u201d Brand).No.1 Mackerel aud Sardines, in kits.Fresh Tomatoes, in 2-lb.tins; Lobsters and Salmon, in 1-1b, tins.French and Spanish Olives.Fried Soles.Anchovies.Preserved Mnshrooms.Truffles.English Filberts.New Crop Raisins and Currants.Lemon, Citron, and Orange Peels.\u201cDay & Martin's\u201d Blacking,\u2014quart and ping bottles.\u201c Wix's\u201d Mustard,\u2014jars, 1 and Z-lb.bot Patent Prepared and French do., in pots.Mott's Broma and Chocolate.Taylor's Chocolate and Cocoa.Fry's Cocoa; French Chocolate.\u201c Crasse & Blackwell's\u201d \u201cPickles, Sauces, Potted Meats, Jams, Jellies, &c., assorted.\u201c Wix's\u201d and \u201c Batty\u2019s\u201d Mixed Pickles.Smoked Mackerel and Finnan Haddies.Fresh Lemons, Prunes, Figs, &c.Cracked Wheat, Graham Flour, Indian Meal, Buckwheat Flonr, Oatmeal, XX Pastry Flour.ALEX.McGIBBON, Corner of Notre Dame and St.Gabriel Streets.Nov.24.d-t.f.b.REAT BARGAINS AT M'DUNNOUGH, MUIR & CO0.\u20193.\u2014Silk Dresses for £2 10s.; French Merino for 2s.0d.per yard; Ladies\u2019 Lined Kid Gloves for 2s.6d.; Polkas, fit half price, &c., &c.; New Dresses and Dress Goods, very low ; Mantles, Hosiery, Underclothing, Gloves and Lined Kid Mitts, &c., in great variety, at M\u2018DUNNOUGH, MUIR & CO\u2019S.OURNING GOODS.\u2014A large assortment of Mourning Goods always on hand at the City Mourning Warehouse.M:DUNNOUGH, MUIR & CO.185 Notre Dame Street.Montreal, Nov.22, 1860.6d.2 s.w.[MEoRTANT TO CATTLE DEALERS.\u2014-THE CANADA STARCH COMPANY will be able to supply, at a low rate, a few \u201ctons weekly of INDIAN CORN CAKE, a moat suitable article for Cattle Feed.Apply to ALEX.WALKER, St.Peter St, daw\u2014t£b 1 Thistle Societies, and the H ham House, superintended by Great St.James Street, on the MONDAY, Nov.26\u2014¢ The Ego Sadlier\u2019s, Pickup\u2019s, Thomas's, the door.ST.ANDREW'S FESTIVAL.A GRAN D MUSICAL EN TERTAINMENT, under the auspices of the St.Andrew\u2019s, Caledonian and ighland Company, will take place in the CRYSTAL PALACE, on the evening of St.Andrew\u2019s Day, 30th November, 1860, Particulars in a future advertisement.Montreal, November 20, 1860.EVENING CLASSES, from 7 to 9 o\u2019clock, will be opened next Monday at the Proprietary College, Dur- the Head-Master, the Rev.A.Stone.The studies will include the English, French and Latin Languages, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-keeping, ete.Terms : Ten Dollars per quarter, payable in advance.Montreal, November 19, 1860.12448 w M* HENRY GILES has been engaged to deliver A COURSE OF LECTURES, in the MECHANICS\u2019 HALL, following Evenings : THURSDAY, Nov.22\u2014 The Egotist in Life.\u201d tist in Literature.\u201d THURSDAY, Nov.29\u2014¢ The Enthusiast.\u201d The Lectures will commence each Evening at EiGHT o\u2019clock.Tickets 25 cts.; for sale at Messrs.Dawson\u2019s, Rose\u2019s, S.J.Lyman\u2019s, and at IQUID SOAP.-PELLY & LUPTON\u2019S LIQUID SOAP, for Washing and Cleansing Linen, Woollens, &c¢., to which was awarded a Bronze Medal at the late Provincial Exhibition in Montreal, excels all other Soaps in being much cheaper, labor-saving, thoroughly cleansing in its properties, and, at the same time, perfectly harmless to the material, as well as pleasant to the hands, when used according to directions, which arequite simple ; doing its work equally satisfactory on coarse cloths or fine fabrics, plain or colored.Is is also good for scouring Floors, Tables, &c., rendering them white ; for Seouring Tin and Brass utensils, &c.; for cleaning Carpets, completely removing grease spots, and for general domestic purposes.It is also valuable for scouring wool, and is recommended for cleaning Painted or Varnished Work.In a Lath a very small quantity renders the water delightfully soft and pleasant.N.B.\u2014For whatever purpose it has to be used, the Soap must first be dissolved and blended with the water, and in no case need a heavy lather be looked for, as with most ordinary soaps, it being only necessary to follow the instructions toobtain a satisfactory result.For sale by PELLY & LUPTON, -Sole Proprietors and Manufacturers, at the Manufactory, 24 St.Nicholas Tolentine Street, [off St.Mary Street, or at 53 St.Francois Xavier Street, Montreai, C.E.Montreal, Nov.22.&d-28 W.-iW.Montreal, Nov.17th 1860.NOTICE.HE HON.JOHN YOUNG having made arrange- _ ments with the Grand Trunk Company to extend their line of Railway from Point St.Charles across the Lachine Canai to those large Stores, now in course of erection by Mr.Young, on the Wellington Basin, the d3,tw\u2014sw,3 Trade to the facilities which will thus be afforded for delivering, during navigation, at these Stores of such FLOUR, &c., as may be intended for shipment to Portland, or intermediate places, during winter.It is expected that the proposed track will be com- pieted about the 15th December, and, as the New Stores will also be finished about the same time, the undersigned will then be prepared to RECEIVE PRODUCE from the INTERIOR, DIRECT FROM THE CARS, thus saving the expense of cartage from Poiut St.Charles.JAMES HOLIDAŸ & BROTHER.November 19, CARPETING ; AND FLOOR OI L CLOTHS, Just Received by the last steamers, a Large Addition of New Designs at THE CARPET WARENOUSE, 74 Great St.James Street, Forming an assortment unsurpassed in the Province, An inspection respectfully invited, James Baylis, MONTREAL : 74 Great St.James STREET, TORONTO : 2 ConmErciAL BUILDINGS, YoNGE STREET.Montreal, Nov.16, 1860.t.fb SALLY LUNKS AN NORFOLK DUMPLINGS, Economy, Dispatch, Luxury and Health.AVAGE'S GERMAN BAKING POWDER ILL secure the following important results :\u2014 Bread will be made cheaper, more digestive, and in one-fourth the usual time ; Puddings and Pastry will be made light, wholesome and delicious, with half the usual quantity of Eggs or Butter; and Flour will be converted into Tea Cakes, Bunns, Sally Lunns, Norfolk Dumplings, &c., in a few minutes, and at a trifling cost.In purchasing, be particular to see our name on the wrapper of each parcel, to avoid disappointment.Sold by most respectable Grocers in packets at 4d., 6d., 7id., and 1s.3d.LAMPLOUGH & CAMPBELL; Apothecaries Hall, Cathedral Block.Montreal, Oct.19, 1860.2.m-d.(CARRIAGE FACTORY, No.5, ST.ANTOINE ST., OPPOSITE ST.ANTOINE LANE.\u2014The undersigned, acknowledging the patronage which the public of Montreal and its vicinity has kindly accorded to him, has the pleasure of announcing that he has on hand a large assortment of Summer Vehicles, of which he intends to dispose at cheap rates.He is at present occupied in the construction of Sleighs, which, for solidity, elegance, &c., will be in no way behind those of other Establishments.His prices are reduced, and he hopes that by faithfully serving his customers as in the past, they will be willing to continue the liberal patronage which he has, since the opening of his Establishment, received.B.LEDOUX.Nov.14.d-2m.TORAGE, at Low Rates, in Mr.Judah's new first- class Store, No.202 St.Paul Street.Apply to ALEX.BRYSON & Co, No.275 St.Paul Street, Montreal Nov.24.6-d.O LET,\u2014At a low rent, until Ist of May next, possession on 1st of January, the premises, No.375 St.Paul Street, as at present occupied by the subscribers, consisting of Front Shop and Store connecting in rear.A lease extending beyond lst of May can be had from their lessor.ALEX, BRYSON & CO.Nov.24.d-s t t-t.f.b.OUSE TO LET, No.19 St.Joseph Street, opposite Henry Street.Apply to Douglas & Co., Wellington undersigned would beg to direet the attention of the |.Montreal, Nov.24, 1860.LATE MANTEL-PIECES.\u2014Enamelled to imitate the most expensive Colored Marbles.The only agency in Canada for the Fairhaven Slate Manufacturing Company.Every description of Sculptured and Plain Marble Work ~ selling at lower rates than anywhere else obtainable.MAVOR & MORGAN, MONTREAL MARBLE WORKS, - Corner Craig and St.Peter Streets.6d2sw1w LACKING.\u2014 PRESERVE YOUR LEATHER AND KEEP YOUR FEET DRY\u2014A VALUABLE ARTICLE.\u2014FRANK MILLER\u2019S LEATUER PRESERVATIVE AND WATER-PROOF OIL BLACKING, for Boots, Shoes, Harness, Carriage Tops, &c.\u2014More than twenty years this article has been extensively used in the United States, and demand constantly increasing.But in consequence of heavy duties, it is comparatively but little known iu the Canadas.The proprietor has, therefore, established a Branch Manufactory in Toronto, C.W., under the firm of Frank Miller & Son; that they may be able to supply the Canadas on the same terms as the States.For sale by BrowxN & CHILDS, : SMITH & COCHRANE, LINTON & POPHAM.SCHULES & AMESs, NELSON & BUTTERS, LYMANS, SAVAGE & Co.Montreal, November 22, 1860.6d2sw ELIEF FOR COUGHS AND HOARSENESS.Fletcher\u2019s Hoarhound Candy and Ipecacuanha Lozenges, manufactured at G.MocHRrIE\u2019S Confectionery, 130 Notre Dame S{., nearly opposite the Court House.Montreal, Nov.23.{mo d.AISINS, CROP 1860.\u2014Just Reccived from Malaga selected to special order.Boxes, Halves ard Quarters, Layers and 3uscatels.J.A.& H.MATHEWSON, McGill Street.Montreal, Nov.20th, 1860.10-d 4-sw ¥ ARD, PORK & HAMS.-The Subscriber offers for sale\u2014 Lurd, in tinnets aud kegs, Fresh and Salt Pork and Beef, Corned Leef and Tongues, Smoked Hams, At his Stalls, Nos.26 and 27 St.Ann\u2019s Market and No.3 Guy Street.Montreal, August 21.WILLIAM BAUDEN.HEAYY WESTERN MESS PORK.GILMOUR & CC., 43 St.Peter Street, Montreal.October 11, 1860.WINTER MANTILLAS.J.& W.CALDWELL & GO: HAVE NOW READY THEIR Winter Mantillas, IN French, English and Ameriean Styles, Which, for variety, beauty and finish are not surpassed 294 St.PAUL STREET.Montreal, Nov.22, 1860.6-0 MONTREAL CARPET WAREHOUSE.31 and 33 Sr.FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET.A Large Assortment of New Patterns in TAPESTRY CARPETS, \u201cJOHN CROSSLEY & SON'S\" MAKE; \u2014 AND ALSO,\u2014 NEW PATERNS IN FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, \u201c John Hare & Co's\u201d and * Michael Nairn & Co's\" Makes, Just RECEIVED AT THE MONTREAL CARPET WAREHOUSE, 31 & 33 St.Francois Xavier Street, R.CAMPBELL & Co.Montreal, Nov.15, 1860.t.£b.NOTHER FACT.\u2014Gentlemen's Fine Black or Mixed Pants made to order for $4, at the CLoru Hawi, fifth Store from McGill Street.Montreal, Oct.6, 1860.d-t.f.MR.BARNBY, Street.Nov.21.plying at 64 St Mary Street.No.71 St.Antoine Street.Montreal, Oct.6 1860.* \u2018 \u2018 , d-10.T OOMS TO LET.\u2014Two or three spacious Rooms can be had on moderate terms, to a suitable party, by ap- QARDING.\u2014A few gentlemen can be accommodated with Board and Lodgicg at Mrs, HALL's, Oct8\u2014d t.f.b BUSINESS FAQT.\u2014Gentlemen's Full Suits made to order of excellent Cloth or Tweed, for $12, at the Crore Hair, 292 Notre Dame Street, West.d-t.f, | ORGANIST CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, Teacher of the Pianoforte, Organ and Singing, has now resumed his professional duties.Terms can be ascertained by ap lying to Mr.Barnby, 3\u201d Wellington Terrace, St.Catharine Street.Montreal, August 23rd, 1860.DR.W.E.BOWMAN, MOGILL STREET, MONTREAL.d1y.GEORGE VAN BUSKIRK, SURGEON DENTIST, 35 GREAT ST.JAMES STREET, With twenty, years\u2019 practical knowledgeJof thelprofension, .Office Hours from 9 till 6, \u2018 Lame 00.rene ci E > Sn | 1 i ; | fH | PEE EE ES ERE RER 5 SEED = sw > a 436 THE MONTREAL DAILY WITNESS.NoveMBER 28, 1860 ; rer rer rer ve _\u2014 \u2014 Ld Land fy The Miscellany.[For the \u201c Montreal Witness.\u201d THE DELUGE.The night cometh! Brethren, list ye of the night! It is the voice of Noah\u2014Noah that walks with his God ; It sweeps with mournful cadence o'er the land,\u2014 It sounds a warning and a prayer to the deaf ear.They hear not\u2014 They wot not\u2014 They are turned from the paths of light\u2014 They are sunk in the abyss of darkness\u2014 They are fast in the snares of hell ! The sun no more on high glides on its splendid way; It hath hid affrighted far in the low horizon; The Daughter of Motn hath put on her mourning\u2014 A vast, dank, murky cloud blotteth the heavens.\u201cTis the mist of Noah,\u201d saith the scoffer\u2014 Blacker and yet blacker! No lurid glare from the eye of God\u2014 No sound of His awful voice! Blacker and yet blacker! Slowly God raiseth his hand from the cloud,\u2014 Big herald drops are falling; They are fallen on the hand of the assassin, And the dagger hath slipped to the ground ; They are fallen on the bosom of the harlot, And she hath fled to her house; They are patting on the roof of the ark, And the voice of Noah ascendeth in prayer.\u2018Spare them, O God of mercy!\u201d The most high God is a just God : The word of the Lord that shall stand.The wrath of God cometh in the cloud\u2014 Faster and faster falls the rain - It drifteth o'er the land ; It roareth through the forest.The bird is swept from the nest ; The tree is stripped of its branches; The founts of the deep are rent, and their waters come seething up ; * The valley is filled to the plain ; The earth leaps from the hill-side ; The sod is reft from the grave ; The tomb is rent asunder ; The vast works of sages and the bones of their founders are dashed on together.The water hath crept into the caves of the earth, And brought forth the groan of the wild beast; It hath sought out the crevice of the rock, And the strangling serpent hisseth; It hath swallowed the pitched tents, And rageth in the upmost rooms of houses; The food for the banquet is licked up, And chill ig the lustful couch.The men are fled to the mountains; The women and young children haste o'er the plain; But the wrath of God is upon them.The flood passeth o'er the child on the plain, And its reaching arms are covered ; It clutcheth the woman on the hill-side, And drowneth her shriek in its roaring ; It hurleth the man from the mountain crag, And the wave trampleth on him; It eddieth a moment on the mountain-top,\u2014 The flood covereth the earth\u2014 The ark rideth the waters.God keepeth the ark ! The eyelash of God, dimmed with tears, Hangeth, a rainbow, in the sky.God is mighty and good,\u2014 .All the earth doth acknowledge him.E.C.TERRILL.DANESBURŸ HOUSE \u2014Cuarrer XXI.( Continued.) ANOTHER DEATH-BED.Most men, who have given themselves recklessly up to intemperance, know that this disease will creep, or is creeping upon them, that it will probably be their end : and yet they cannot bring themselves to abandon the courses which are inducing its approach.Lionel knew it.Faint hopes, half-formed resolves arose, that in time he would thrust from him this insidious vice, and embrace uprightness and peace.In time, take you notice; not at the present moment; at some future one.Many a day had he awoke to intense suffering of body, to physical depression almost unbearable ; but those pains were as nothing, compared with his mind's anguish ; for he had not been brought up a heathen, and the dread consciousness of a world to come, shone out in strong, fiery, scarlet colours.Marvel not that the illusion of devils, and other frightful phantoms, attacked Lionel Danesbury.Again dawned the morning light on the patient.It was his last day of life, though he might know it not.The fits of delirium continued with unabated violence, broken, as before, by interludes of quiet\u2014if it could be called quiet, when the whole frame was shaken, as with a fierce ague.\u201d His mind wandered distressingly, yet in those wanderings might be traced a recollection of his present state, of the life he had led.© They keep me here, you see,\u201d be exclaimed to Arthur, \u2018 and I want to beout.I want to\u2014\u2014 Father, is that you ?\u201d \u2018 It was Mr.Danesbury.Though very near the grave himself, he had insisted on being brought to Lionel's bedside.William was also present.\u201c4 That's good,\u201d continued Lionel ; \u201c I wanted to see you.I'm so hot you know.They have been coming round, such a lot of them, millions and millions, Where's Robert ?\u201d With one hand he swept the cloths from his head, and Dr.Pratt, who had come in with Mr.Danesbury, though protesting against his old friend\u2019s visit, replaced them.\u201c Who says I am dying?\u2019 he shouted, \u201cIt is no business of theirs.See how they sneak up\u2014oreep, creep, creep! That one in green only date in this morning.= Ab, is that you ?\u201d \u2018have the time I want first.he cried agaip momentarily recognizing his father and holding out his hand, which was vibrating like a pendulum.\u201c You don\u2019t think I'm going ; go you ?\u201d Mr.Danesbury was taken by surprise, the quesion was put so rationally.He did not know what to asswer.Oh no, no,\u201d reiterated Lionel, with a shriek of anguish that none present would ever forget ; \u201cnot yet, in mercy! A little respite! A short period for reformation and redemption! Take away the drink: take it away, I say! I have led an evil life,\u201d he added, his mind a strange mixture of consciousness and insanity, \u201cbut I won't touch another drop : it's burning here.\u201d He pointed to his chest, and then lay still; recommencing, after a short pause.\u201c They came round me in the night and told me I was dying; but it's not true.Hold me! hold me! at least till I have got through this multiplicity of work.Do you see all the duties that have accumulated ?I have done nothing, you know; nothing but drink: but I can get through them.Not if you let those devils come upon me: I thought that little one was gone !\u201d \u201cHe has been raving all night about this accumulation of work and duties,\u201d whispered Katherine.\u201cIt cannot be, that I am dying! I must Yes, I told you God would give it to me.Katherine, my poor wife, you say you have been miserable, but we shall be happy now.You need not be afraid of me any longer: I'll keep my promises and leave it offi.Hark! hark! don't make a noise\u201d (though the room was perfectly still), there's that little one again.He has got another\u2014and another! and another! They come creeping on ! the room is full ?\u201d .With wild shouts and sad imprecations, he strove to raise himself, to escape, it would seem, the fiends he thought he saw.And, though firmly prevented from moving, none could prevent the convulsive throes that shook his frame, Tho paroxysm of violence over, exhaustion supervened, and with it partial recollection.\u2018 William, is that you ?Come bere; closer.I have had such a horrid dream.I thought I was getting towards the prime of life, and that all the years given to me had been wasted : that I had been constantly drunk.Drunk.I thought\u2014and it made me burn here,\u201d tossing the cloths from his brow, \u201cthat the time had come for me to die, and then I found that all these years had not been mine to waste.Who spoke then ?it was none-of you.Who says it\u2019s true?It is not true, I tell you it was a dream.Be off; be off! how dare you drive me mad ?And if it were true, I am to have the time.What do you know about it ?I say the time is mine.That's one of those devils speaking: he says it was given to all but me.Who says I had it once, and threw itaway?How dare you say it?Oh, mercy, mercy! a little time for the love of mercy! I am not drunk now.Father, is that you ?Ihave sworn not to touch another drop.Keep those devils from me.How can you let them come here, with this weight of sin upon me?What are they calling out that Robert had no time?What's Robert to me ?I am to have it.I am.Doyou see how they are coming on?Hold me! hold me! keep off that little one.I won\u2019t die! he is mocking me ! I won't die, I say.Hold him back.No time for me! No time!\u201d \u201c My dear father,\u201d said Arthur, approaching Mr.Danesbury, \u201c this is no place for you.Let me take you away.\u201d \u201c Arthur,\u201d said the old man, with quivering lips and trembling hands, as he grasped those of his eldest son, \u201c there is no place for me much longer on earth.I question, whether he or I shall go the quicker.My heart is broken.William,\u201d reaching out to take his hand, and bring him side by side with Arthur\u2014\u201c can you marvel at it?My son can you marvel at it?Few and evil have the days of my old age been: my substance destroyed, my peace of mind wrecked.One of my children has gone before me ; another\u2014he, poor madman,\u2014is going with me, and I have no hope that I shall meet either of them hereafter.Do you act\u201d\u2014he wrung William\u2019s hand\u2014\u201c so.as to come to me.\u201d They took Mr.Danesbury from the room; they =lso took the unhappy wife: for Dr.Pratt saw that the end was at hand.In a paroxysm of violence, more acute than any which had gone before it, the troubled spirit of Lionel Danesbury flew away to Him who gave it.Yes! he asked for time, in bis half conscious ravings : but time upon time had been vouchsafed him, and he had used it not! Was it not enough to break their father\u2019s heart ?This is no imaginative history, it istaken from a family\u2019s life.The one son rushed into the next world a suicide; the other was brought, in the early years of manhood, to his dreadful death-bed.Not one good action could they remember to have performed in their whole lives; not one hour of the precious time granted them had been used to good account.Their manly forms, their ta lents, tbeir health and strength, had been offered up, and sacrificed, on the shrine of INTEMPERANCE.\u2019 \u201c Oh, reader! should the temptation to exceed ever assail you ; should the\u2019vice, with its insidious steps, approach very near to you; and threaten to be habitual, take warning by this unhappy story! I tell you if is no ideal one.Look nut 5 \" vomi, thou upon the wine when it is red; flee from it in your earlier and thoughtless years : resolutely keep it at arm\u2019s distance, if you would obtain peace in this world and in the next.(To be continued.) FATHER CHINIQUY AND HIS PLANS.There was an interesting meeting held on the 6th inst., in Exeter Hall, under the auspices of the Colonial Church and School Society, for the purpose of introducing Father Chiniquy, who is in Britain, seeking to raise funds for the purpose of establishing a college for the iraining of missionaries, who will hereafter preach the Gospel to 500,000 persons speaking the French language in America.The chair was occupied by the Hon.A.Kinnaird, M.P., who, in introducing Father Chiniquy, gave a brief sketch of his life and present position.Mr.Chiniquy, on presenting himself, was received with great applause.He said the most precious privilege that could be given to a poor simple man like himself was to publish abroad the mercies of the Lord and he hoped when they had heard him they would unite with him to praise the Lord.They had, he presumed, heard of the great revival movement which had begun in Illinois, in the United States.He was happy to tell them of the conversion of 6,000 of his fellow-countrymen, and he would tell them the way in which this had been brought about.Having been a priest of the Romhn Catholic Church, until it pleased God to open his eyes, that was a reason why he should not abuse his brethren of the Church.(Hear, hear.) He asked God to bring them into His ways in the same way as he had been brought, and he believed that the best way of converting the members of that church was not only to go to them with the Bible in our hands, but with the spirit of the Bible in our hearts\u2014love and charity.(Cheers.) Mr.Chiniquy proceeded to explain at great length, with much minute detail, in a very graphic and occasionally pathetic manner, the origin of the colony in Illinois, and the causes which led to his own conversion and the severance of so large a body from the Roman Catholic Church.[As this part of his address was very much the same as that which he delivered when he appeared so suddenly at the anniversary of the French Canadian Missionary society two years ago, we omitit.] He went on to say :\u2014 Upon being ordain: ed as a Catholic priest, and while engaged in advocating the temperance cause, he was struck by the fact that out of a large number of French settlers who emigrated from Canada into the United States, no preparations were made for keeping them apart from the Protestant population, and feared that thus exposed they would fall away from what he considered the only true Church.- He, therefore, to counteract this tendency, proposed to find some place in the Far West where they could settle, and maintain not only the associations of their native country, but that unity of faith which he then prized so highly.He selected the spot himself in Illinois.He planted his cross on a fine high prairie, and invited Roman Catholic settlers in the Union to come to him, in order that they might be strong in their numbers, strong in their unity of faith, and strong in the fertility of their soil.They would see that the ways of God were not as the ways of man.He meant to establish a purely Roman Catholic French colony in 1851, and in three years not less than 12,000 of his countrymen came around him.He knew that in both the United States and England it was said that Roman Catholics were permitted to read the Bible ; but no thanks to the Church for that.Roman Catholic in these countries were too near the light to be kept wholly in the dark.But they were constantly warned of the evils that arose from Protestants reading the Bible for themselves, and exhorted rather to hear the Church, which alone had the power of putting a right interpretation upon it, and within whose pale alone could salvation be found.The consequence was that they read the Bible without eyes or understanding; both were furnished them by their priests and confessors, and the permission was altogether illusory.Sup: posing a young lady was extremely anxious to make a tour in France, and after much entreaty persuaded her father to let her go, how would she be astonished if he made it a condition that during the whole of her journey she wags neither to see nor hear, that she should be accompanied by an aged Mentor who would see and bear for her, and after her return to this country would tell her what she must believe she had heard and seen.(Laughter.) That was precisely the case of the Roman Catholic with respect to the Bible in free countries.In those where the Church had full power it was absolutely and entirely prohibited.During his labours in the temperance cause in the United States, he studied the Scriptures most earnestly, as well as the Fathers, for the purpose of strengthening his faith in his Church, but somehow a voice was constantly ringing in his ears, * Don\u2019t you see that your Church does not follow the laws of God, but the laws of man?\u2019 He struggled against what he thought was a suggestion of the Evil One to lure his soul to perdition, and cried to God to silence the voice of the tempter; but in the end the truth was made manifest to him in an extraordinary way.Three years after they settled in Illinois, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Chicago did an act which he and his people thought an act of great injustice before God and man, and they senta protest againstit.In reply, the'bishop ordered them to withdraw the protest on pain of being excommunicated.They refused, and the excommunication was made out, but not signed, in consequence of a conversation between himself and the bishop.It was, however, brought to the colony by three priests.They had some distance to journey, the day was hot, and they had drunk some water by the way which had had a bad effect upon their tongues and their legs, so that they could scarcely either stand or speak, so as to beunderstood.The sham excommunication, however, produced a curious state of affairs.The bishop wanted to: frighten him out of the Church, while he wished to remain in and to reform it.His sincere desire on that head was, however, counteracted by the course aftérwards pursued.After much correspondence and conversation, he, \u2018consented to submit himself to the bishop, in accordance with the laws of God and of the Church.The bishop received his submission on these explici¥ terms, and there was great rejoicing thereat.But a short time pftetwards he was summoned to the presence of the bishop, who had with him the Superior of the Jesuits an AT @ nin we ms ket wn Lt Ab \u2014a bad omen\u2014and theré charged with having deceived the bishop, by not making an unconditional submission.The letter jn which the bishop Ded accepted his written submission on his own terms wag obtained from him by a fraud, and burned in the stove before him, and he was again ordered to submit unconditionally and to do anything the bishop wished.To that demand he af once replied, that such would not be an act of submission, but of adora- tion\u2014adoration that he reserved for God alone, and not for guilty men like himself, even though they were bishops or Popes.Then, retorted the bishop, you are no longer a Roman Catholic, and must be expelled from the Church.The speaker here described with great force and minuteness the agonizing struggles in his own room with the old and the new convictions that were at war within him ; the terrible prospect, after having first left father, mother, and sisters to enter the Church, of finding himself friendless in the world, with the pulpits, the press, and the confessionals of the Roman Catholic Church all put in motion to hunt him down; of his never being aware {from what quarter the secretly instigated hlow was to be struck, and of his anxious, tearful, and agonizing prayers to be shown the way, the truth, and the life.After a longtime thus spent, he opened his New Testament, and the words on which his eyes first fell were, Ye are bought with a price, do not make yourselves the slaves of men.\u201d\u2019* These words were 50 appropriate to his case that the book fell from his bands in his astonishment.He found himself surrounded by a light far more dazzling than any earthly light he had ever seen, and in the midst of that light he saw his dear Saviour on the cross, the blood running from His wounds to the ground; and, turning upon him (the speaker) His eyes, the Saviour said, * Why do you not come to me, sin- ver?\u201d That look pressed upon his heart, and in a moment he saw all his sins, which had formerly weighed upon him like a mountain, lifted off; he became a disciple of the religion of Jesus, a member of His Church, which was neither the Church of Rome, Paris, London, nor Quebec.He was doubtful how far his people would believe his own statement that the bishopthad demanded the unconditional submission, but his arrival at the colony had been anticipated by a telegram from the bishop himself, announcing he hadrrefused to submit unconditionally.His people met him in large qumbers, and they immediately repaired to the church, where he placed the whole matter before them, and left their future conduct en tirely to their own decision.The result was that they determined to support him, whatever might be the result, even'to separation from the Church.An attempt on the part of the bishop to bring them back within its fold failed most egregiously ; and then, the other bishops seeing that Bishop Smith had committed a great error in driving out a fearless exponent of Scriptural truths, he removed to another place, and two other bishops were sent successively in his place, whose labours ended with a like result.Since that time the conversions had been very numerous.He had now seven congregations around him, all animated with the utmost piety, and zealous in their love of the Gospel of Christ.The awakening of the French Roman Catholics in America was not, however, confined to his own colony.He had visited Montreal and Quebec in Canada, notwithstanding he was told that he would be murdered if he did so.His life had been threatened, but he had passed safely through the small bands of his opponents, and everywhere French Roman Catholics were eager to receive the Holy Scriptures.' He had had immense and enthusiastic audiences, and in | Quebec, where he distributed 500 Testaments, the struggle to get possession of them was so great that in some cases they were divided into seven pieces.On his return to Illinois, after this visit to Canada, he saw that the work needed more labourers; but not from whence they were to come.He assembled his people and told them his difficulties, and then asked if any of his flock felt that God had called them to preach the Gospel.Thirty young men at once answered him, amidst the prayers and joyful tears of their fathers, mothers, and sisters.It was to establish a college to educate, feed, and clothe, these missionaries that he now appealed to England for aid; and, remembering the pious zeal which this country had ever shown in the propagation of the Gospel, he felt- certain that an appeal which was intended to make so many French-born subjects of the Queen in Canada Protestants, would be listened to with favour, and responded to with substantial liberality.Indeed, this college was only the small beginning of a great work, if it was intended that the Gospel of Christ should be placed on the same footing with the Roman Catholic Church in Canada and the United States as to colleges and seminaries for the training of preachers.There were at present no less than thirteen colleges established for educating priests to preach in foreign languages to the Roman Catholics in the States.Mr.Chiniquy concluded a deeply interesting and fervid address by an eloquent appeal for help in the great work be had undertaken, and sat down amidst continued applause.Major Powys seconded the resolution in a few words, and the proceedings closed with a benediction pronounced by the Rev.E.Auriol.*i We are bought with a price ; be not ye servants ofmen.> ~\u2014 English Bible.\u2014\u2014 SHINGLE Bottoms ror SBo:s.\u2014The Shoe and Leather Reporter says: The plan of using shingles in the bottoms of shoes originated -abont thirteen years ago, the first lot being cut in New Hampshire ; the use of paper and straw began ahout the same time.To give some idea of the extent of this branch of the business the past year, five or six acres of heavy pine timber bave been used for wood filling, nearly all by the manufacturers of Natick, Mass., and the adjoining towns, in the soles of brogans.FRENCH GUNBOATS AND WHITWORTH GUNS.\u2014 The French Government, according to the Paris corres pondent of the Morning Heratd, has contracted with private firms for the immediate manufacture of 150 iron-cased gunboats, of small draught,\u2018 \u2018each to carry one rifled gun at the bows.It is also stated that Mr.Whitworth\u2014since our own Government will not take his rifles\u2014has contracted to supply that of the Emperor with any number, at £4 each., & .Pr The « MONTREAL WITNESS\u201d is printed and published by JOHN DOUGALL, Proprietor, at 38 Great St.James Street, Montreal.& , Street.House, head.of Drummond af CTE ; ; even gras il The N "]