The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

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Art ladle Mane, Melean Bermuda, Havanna, Namaa, Header. Newew Orleans. &ad Merino, sad ezeludinp tbeee lee Madeira, ik. Juan.de Nieeripe, Nev &seeds, Ail. and Pau, will be sale up ea Noe. 2. no mails km Delilah Noah America and the United Dales will be made up is the erosion of Nev. 2. The male he Madeira, the BraMa, sad Beam Ayres, will be sale up es Nov. 6. Tb sails an Marwilia, to the Mediterranean, Sept, Ceylon, laths, Heag.Kesg, ts., will be made up ea the amiss a Nov 7. The neat sail, IT Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be male up ea Nov. 7. The mails he Gibraltar, Malta, Game, the lonian laleade, Sept t Coyle.. India, and Cities, as Sentleampten, will be sa ble up es the amettiug of Nay. 2D. 1101 WATilt AT LONDON 1011101 Tsse 1:01-110•0i.10 ,100 . Afbenrsa. Ib. bb Tr.w.abor-11/0001. I ►b. Oa MLIMINI. 1 Irbil!. LONDON, ruzsmir OCTOBER 30. Thy important intelligence we were enabled to announce yesterday, regarding the disposition of America to reciprocate hilly and promptly the relaxations made by oar own government in the navigation lawn, completes—if anything bad been wanting to complete—the satisfaction with which we look back upon that great change in oar maritime policy. It furnishes the highest confirmation which modern civilisation can afford of the wisdom and jostles of that change. It adds the testimony of the freest commonwealth to the judgment of the greatest empire in benne of free shipping. It combines the tree enterprise of the two most commercial, most enliguten - A, and most opulent nations in existence, against the jealous and peddling exclusiveness whereby lees wise and hes generous communities vainly hope to grow rich. It silence all doubt, and cushions every cavil founded upon the supposed anwilliog nese of kindred nations to imitate our example. Had every one of them been foolish enough to mani fest such reluctance, that would not Lave shaken our faith in free trade ; but it is in no degree inooneistent with such a declaration to own that we look wish deep-felt satisfaction on the early adoption by the United States of the same course of Mirlll3lo policy as that cis which we are ourselves about to enter. There were not wanting those who prognosticated a very different issue to toe invitation held faith by oar government to th.t of Washington to abrogate reciprceally all impediments imposed by law in the way of perfect and entire f eedam of navigation be tween the two countries. When the diplomatic cor- INdance on the subject was laid before parliament ntrrch last, it appeared manifest to all who were infileieutly unprejudiced to read plain words in their pain maw that the only matter of diff tepee between Mr. BUCHANAN and Lord PALMERSTON was as to which of the two governments had shown the earlier dean to accomplish an object so mutually beneficial. In a letter address-d by the American Secretary of State to the British Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, 9th February, 1849, copious citations from existing acts of Congress see given to show that the President is thereby empowired to suspend or discontinue all discriminating duties on the ships of any foreign na tion which shall abate the like imp.sts on vessels be longing to the Republic. Toe will thus perceive (adds Mr. B lettenan) that the cower of the tufted Stites more then 20 years ago offered Seep u their ports touts IMO ht of all nations with theirougoes, no matter to what country thee, cargoes might ewe their origin, upon maim of the same duties atoning/ or im post with our own vends, provided such nations should ex tend similar privileges in their pore to the wattle belonging to cilium of the United States, and their cargoes . . Great Britain may, t' *retort, at any moment, by complying with the fah and equiteble conditions requind by this set, place her vessels and their cargos', both in oar eiract and indirect foreign trade, ems the same Whig with vessels of the United Late,. • • • Prosismatioes have been issued at several periods, sonfloriag the baulks which the set pro peace different &reign makes who have furnished the eitiefsetory /vides., required by ha provisions. The Unite d States, therefore ' ea far from having waited to accept ad vances made on the port of finest Bri'sda for peeing the ships of the two eduntries on a footing of equality, had thomeelme, more than 20 yews ago, made advances for this very pumas to Great Britain and all other natimes. I aiglit add that the President (Mr. Polk) has already made a specificpeal, 'drove' Mr. Baneroft, to Lord Palmer ston, dated - Nov. 3, 1847, to conclude a treaty in mordants with the set mined. Protectionism, nevertheless, still clung to quibbles on the text of this and similar communications, and cherished barren hopes that the result might prove illusory. Parties in America had changed in the in terval. The new President and his cabinet were whirs, and opposed to free-trade. Mr. BANCROFT, the nominee of the democratic party, and Mr. BUCHANAN, their Secretary of State, might promise ; but would their successors in the cabinet or the em bassy be fcuud ready to perform ? The act of Con gress was itself merely permissive, not mandatory; and we should see long hesitation and delay mani fested by the newly-chosen ministers of the Com monwealth. The selection of Mr. ABBOT Lawartecr as minister to this country, was wrested into a seeming confirma tion of these anticipations. His sentiments were no toriously very diamenilar from those of his predecessor. He had been at all times avowedly favourable to pro tection to some extent and in a qualified form; and as the representative of a government in which thrive sentiments were supposed to prtdoninate, he would naturally avail himself of any pretext that might con veniently be found far ridding himself of the obliga tio nssrding reciprocity which Mr. Bann no had personally undertaken. Bat the dreams of protectionism have in this in stances proved as light and brief as in every other. The comfort they promised themselves from American has faded suddenly from their view. Presi dent TATLOB has only realised the exoectatioos that bad been formed of his clearness of judgment and high sense of national honour, by the promulgation thus early of the intention' of the American govern ment on the subject of the navigation laws. If any doubts have hitherto existed respecting the disposition of the present cabinet of Washington to adhere to the engagements entered into by that which preceded it, regarding reciprocal relaxations towards this c ovary —those doubts are now ended. The whig adminis tration of General TAYLOR are ready to rbide by the promises held forth by the democratic administration of Mr. PoLK. However their policy en other points may d;ffer, on this they are agreed; and on Mr. LAW. mem, the newly accredited envoy of the republe, will devolve the duty of officially communicating to the British ministry the fulfilment of those pledgee of reciprocity which wera offered by Mr. BANCROFT two years ego. An additional bond of interne Tonal amity and intimacy is established, in which reciprocal benefit is happily combined with honourable Wimule' " thiogs" will ever again "be made pleasant" for railway proprietors, time only can show. But, in the advice which the excellent Lord Mum of York gave the shareholders of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick line, there is much good sense; and it is quite u applicable to :be shareholders of the generality of lines as to thcse his lordship addressed. " People ought not to be too much alarmed." In most railway companies the worst is already known ; it became known at a period when, from Onions causes (such as commercial depression and disinclination to travel pro duced by the cholera plague), railway traffic was at its worst; and now there is a quiet resolute detenni nation,on the part of railway proprietaries and di rectorates, to set thin s right; aid, if possible, to "make them pleasant," in an bonester way than by ▪ =alai!" accounts, publishing fele, traffio returns, sad robbtag capital to pay dividends. IA this Imowledge of the worei, anl in this deter. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 80, 1849. UNITED STATES. O yesterday's publication contained as Nam, receivy electric telegraph, of the news brought by the & . • Our Liverpool earreependeit kik since indwased us ttrit it was stated ea the Ibilepeei Exchange per ea the authrlity of. Capt. 'tidbits, of the that the gmetity of gold on board among .the*resengere was little short of 1,000,0001. That ins peesseger, a shoemaker, who had left Liverpool eighteen menthe ago, has returned from Cilifornia with 30,0004 The gold entered by the steamer is 100,0001. We now present oar readers with a more de tailed nodes of the impereast aetilleation lamed by the peeper department of the government at Wailers& in mose . geence of the meat "'iodide*- *. et ear own navigation lows. The American *Ma e while sonoano.ng the admiseirm of vessels odor the British Bee, after the let of January next, into all parts of the Baited &Meese the same footing as American wimple, deist the heaver of initiating this liberal policy for their own meaty. Andiron of the law of Ist Mara. 1817, amensing the navigation of the UMW Metes, deeketst " Be it enacted, de, That, ether the ISA of September nest, re goads, wares, or acrairadies, shell be imported into the Vetted States, from any fade pert eg g = = in weals of** Called States, or in seek na truly and wholly Woos to the encores/ WOO of whisk tie Roods are the growth, product, it memisfesense, er from which soak geode, wares, or imseimedim em only be, or 'Km asud,y are chipped for treaseenstioe : provided. reverthelest that this regulatier shall set extend %the sods of say foreign nation whisk bee sae siserted hod whisk shall not adopt a similar regulates." For thirty two years this set hes beer spar the statute book of the Coked Stmts. Within elms peeled many go vernments, especially these of she Kam Uwe*, and the free cities of Gummy, as well es the mama powers, Dew mark and Sweeten, and most a the Benlannants of South America, have availed thentselsee of this orshig ca the part of the United States, sad the right of neipreed naviga tion" exists in its fullest lasitade between them and Greet Britain. To the sante 'nudity Greet Britain, by bee legisla tion, has wow establishes herself. end the Not is mode public by the Notional hatoiligreseeer at Weshingtor, ken which mow we =least this earrespedsoer. Nsw York, Oct 2, 11149.--Itir,—We must ask the favour of tour reply to this letter at year earliest esertnienee, to govern as in eating or sedate we have to charter American vessels to premed re the English pearessiees is the East Indies, sad load omen fee Lades, larder the new naviga time ads of Orem Brittle. Three orders are received by us from houses in Begheri, sad we have already chartered the ship Ambassador, of this pert, to load at Calcutta for Loa doe. By the act of parliament wee believe it is required that the President will great the some privilege to ships under the Britsh lag that Borland grants to as. Will a British ship be allowed to niter ben with a cargo of foreign pro duos (not of Great Brimin) alter the let of January ores on the same onnditious u snipe ender the flip of the United States ? We trust you will pardon oar thus trespassing on your time; and remain, sir, your obedient invents, BAR. CLLT and Livororron.—To the Hon. W. Id. Meredith, Secretary of the Treasury, Treasury Department, Oct. 12, 1849.—Gentlemen,—In rep:,' to the inquiry made in your letter of the 2nd instant, I have to state that in oonsequnun of the recent alterations in the British navigation laws, British vessels, from British or other Maio ports, will (under our existing laws) be allowed. after the lit of January next, to enter into our ports with cargoes otitis produce of any part of the word I. I have further to state, that such vessels and their cargoes will be admitted on the same terms as to duties and imports as vends of the United States —Very respectfully, your obe dient servant. W. hf. MiltiDlTll.—To Messrs. Barclay and Livingetoc, New York. The following circular upon the subject has been issued by the Treasury Department : Chador from the Treasury Department—New Series, No. 24.—Instructions to Collectors and other Om oars of the she endue of mepeme and agricultural produce, and 'Wag dative employment us what is at present a compare-. dwell sowprodaLing population. Nec would the United Stews merely furnish the capital kw oar menefeeturea They week d also supply for them the mom extensive market 4. As wield, whitey' the intervenhess of n castonehesee @doer. Railways mid forthwith be cc astrumed by Ansaitaa capital as feed's* foe all **great lines sow app our frontiers ; sad railway enterprhe in gemera r i=, doubtless, be as satire and prosperous ammo; en ea among ear neighbours. The value of our aericultural predates would be Mould ones teepee with dieter tbelJnited States, whilst agricultural implements and many of the nemeaules Of life, such as tea, coffee, and sugar, would be greatly se duced in erica. The vela' dour timber would also be greatly ashamed by free access to the American market, whersat been a high pries, bat is subject to an onerous duty. At the same time there le every reason to believe that oar shipbuilder, as well at Quebec ma en the Great Lakes, would find an unlimited market in all the pats of the American continent It cannot be doubted that the shipping trade of the United States must greatly increase. It is equally manifest that, with them, the priamgal material in the contraction of skips is rapidly dienatehing, while we possess vest territories, covered with timber of e xcellent quelity, which would be equally avail able se it is now, since under the free-trade system our vesesle would sell as well in England alter annexation as before. The simple and economical state government, in which direct responsibility to the people is a distinguishing feature, would be substituted for a system at ewes cumbrous and expeesive. In place of war and the alarms of war with a neightour, there would be rape and amity between this country and the United States. Disagreemeate between the United S atm and her chief if not only rival among nations would net nuke the soil of Canada the sangnin try arena fir their disputes, as under our existing relations must necessarily be the eta. That suck is the unenviable condition of our state of dependence upon Great Britain is known to the whole world, and how far it may conduce to keep prudent capitalists from making investments in the country, or wealthy settlers from *sleeting a foredoomed battlefield for the home of themselves and their children, it needs no roe- toning on our part to elucidate. But other advantages than those having • bearing on our material interests may be foretold. It would tiaange the ground of political contest between rams and parties, allay and obliterate those irritations and conflicts of rancour and rterimlnetion which have hitherto disfigured our social fabric. Already in anticipation has its harmonious WAY. nea been felt, the harbinger, may it be hoped, of a lasting oblivion of dissensions among all slimes, creeds, and parties an the country. Changing a subordin.te for an independent con dition, we would take our station among the nations of the earth.' We have now no voice is the affairs of the empire, nor do we share in its honour. or emoluments. England It our parent state, with whom we have no equality, but to wards whom we stand in the simple relation of obedience. But as citizens of the United States, the public ser vice of the nation would be open to us—a field for high and honourable distinction on which we and our posterity might enter on terms of perfect equality. - - - - Nor would the amicable separation of Canada from treat 1 Britain be fraught with advsn•agee to us alone. The relict to the parent state from the large expenditure now incurred in the military occupation of the country—the removal of the many causes of collision with the United States, which result from the contiguity of mutual territories so extensive— tbe benefit of the larger market which the increasing pros. perity of Canada would create, are considerations which, in the =tads of many of her ablest statesmen, render our in- corporation with the United States a desirable consumma tion. . _ Castes..—Treasury Depsrunent, Oct. 15, 1849.—1 n con megaton* of questions submitted by merchants and other', aslung, in consideration of the recent alterations of the British navigation laws, on what footing the commercial re- Maws between the United States and Great Britain will be pared A and after the lit of January next—the day on which the recent act of the British parliament goes into operation--the department deems it expedient, at this time, to hese the tollowing general instructions for the information of the odleers of the customs and others interested : —First, in cos sequence of the alterations of the British navigation laws above referred to British cunt!' from British or other foreign ports will (under existing laws), alter the Ist of January nt at, be &loured to enter in our ports with cargoes of the growth, manufacture, or production of any part of the world. Second, each vessels and their cargoes will be ad mitted, from and after the date before mentioned, on the same terms as to duties, imposts, and charge. as vessels of the United States and their cargoes.—W. Y. YEZZDITII. Secretary of the Tressary. To the United States also the annexation of Canada pre sents many important inducements. The withdrawal mum their holden of so powerful a nation, by whom in time of war the immense end growing commerce of the lakes would be jeopardised—the ability to dispense with the costly but ineffectual revenue establishment over • frontier of many hundred milee—the large accresion to their iecom• from our customs—tke unrestricted use of the St. Lawrence, the na tural highway from the Western states to the ocean, are objects for the attainment of which the most substantial equivalents would undoubtedly be conceded. An attempt was made to get up a riot, ci lo Mont real, at Toronto, on the arrival of Lord Elgin in that city. Its success appears to have been bat indifferent. The question of a ship canal by the line of the San Juan and the Lake of Nicaragua cmitinues to occupy public attention. Plepanitions arc said to bo in active progress for a Panama ragroad. The stream of emigration in that direction continues unabated. Our New York correspondent remarks, in reference to the manifesto of the Canada annexationist' : "But even if the Canadas were unanimous for its consummation, there are obstacles in the way by no means small. When Congress shall be called on to say whether they will receive the provinces, and it does not now seem unlikely they will b.?, we shall probsVy witness the greatest excitement tver known in the United States. The southern states will be violently in the negative, they will threaten a dis solution of the union —not with entire unani mity however, but with sufficient strength to make a powerful impression on the public mind. There will come from the north offers of compeamiee and concession, which can only, however, tab the shape of guarantees in favour of the present %mita dons of the math. In other words, the thrust will say to the latter, we pledge ourselves never to permit your domestic regulations to be called in question; but with this you moat be content. There was a report that Mr. Calhoun, the protagonist of the south, was about to retire from public life; bat it is unfounded. He sets before his eyes impending dangers, with which he alone can grapple. No other leading poli tician of the south is so well able, by his subtle logic, mental energy, and unquenchable zeal, to maintain, not only that slavery ought constitutionally to exist in the United States, but that it is a condition that may indeed be c.mmeoded. This address to the people of Canada will still further animate his exer tion., and impel him to make fresh efforts to resist the project or annexation." The Canada brings intelligence that the Niagara had met with a cuttalty on the 18'h, about 300 miles from New York ; one of her cylinders having broken, rendered it necessary for her to pursue her way under canvas. ' ablation to remedy the wont, there is so much hope that it eight to induce shareholders to bold on, if possible ' and to wait the result. And this is what rational and solvent men are deice. Weak holders mast, of course, give way; and the esenneue depreciation in the value of railway stock involves. we fear, an amount of encoded in solvency that may overtake the eduntry ere a rise in prices can rectifi it. Bit notwithstand ing real sales, ficition sic, eneesied insolvency, anspeesies of dividends, and reduced Mae returns, there is everyressoa to hops that the worst is known; sad "wiles at their worst dings most mend." Already, now that the cholera plague is stayed railway trifle begin to creep up; and though thi extent of mileage cm most hen represented by the treat returns is biennia& the extennons of most of the great lines are now nearly . finished. Some of the trunk lines will yet, it is true, have to sooninter the opposition of lines that will here after compete with them which t 7.0 now in pro gress of coestrectiou and approaching completion; but, on the other band, these new lines will not de pend principally on the traffic which they can attract from the old lines for their revenue; on the contrary, their chief traffic most, it is obvious from a glance at the map. be derived from the new countries which 'hey will open up to railway accommodation. And, by this opting up, they will inertias the general locomotion of the kingdom. Thee, fee example, the opening. from London to York, of the Great Northern Railway may withdraw from the North-Wiren put of the traffic which it now enjoys ; but it will to a great extent compensate the North-Western for this loss by sending on to it a new source of pecfit to be derived from the wealth the Great Northern must bring to light in the South Yorkshire oosl fields, and in the increased value it will give—nay, has already given, to agricultural produce in Lincolnshire. In competing lines there will generally be found a principle of compensation and of mutual devtlepmenr. Nor can it reasonably be apprehended that the trade, the locomotion, and the transit of merchandise of this country, have reached their maximum. The more retinal supposition is, that they are yet sus ceptible of a very great increase. If the agri culture of the empire can rise superior to free imports, it must b' by increased production; increased produc ti-n is only to be achieved by improved cultivation ; and improved cultivation involves augmented demand for labour and better wages. What an impetus then will increased agricultural production give to railway traffic ! The augmented produce will have to be carried into the manufacturing districts; and thole districts in return will send back increasing supplies of clothing. Nor is this an imaginary picture. The process is now going on, and may be peen in Lincoln shire. Scarcely has that fine county been penetrated by railways, than the invading lines are literally op pressed by its produce ; and great as are the supplies of grain which Lincolnshire is sending into the manatee luring districts, they would be largely increased, had the calculations (usually sanguine) of the companies interested in their conveyance at all reached the realities of the case. Lincolnshire has, by means of railways, and within a few mouths after their comple tion, found new markets; sod ir, in exchange, fur nishing new markets And this is the natural ten dency of railways: it may be interrupted or sus pended by accidental circumstances; but there can be no rational fear that railway traffic will permanently fall off. _ . There is, too, comfort and assurance in the hope that means may be found to diminish the expense of railway transit. The average of that expense is pro- bably not far short of 50 per cent. of the gross re ceipts—an amount which appears perfectly enor mous. In the lines over which Mr. HUDSON pre sided, it is only reasonable to infer, that where so much roguery and robbery prevailed, there was, in addition, much internal mismanagement, aug menting the cost of transit. Now one of the Bret taste to be applied to their new management, will be a reduction of this cost. There are two modes in which its reduction may be tried : one is by having the rulllng stock of a first-rate character kept in &st raw order; the other is by reduction ot speed. Cr eap transit with an inferior rolling stock is an impossi bility. The better the engines, the better the car riage', the sounder the rail., the better the servants and officials, the cheaper will be the cost of transit ; for such is the wear and tear of railway travelling, that nothing can exceed the expense of inferior stock. Now railway shareholders ought never, in their anxiety for curn nt dividends, to luse right of this principle of true economy; and when they do, rail say directorates ought to have tl:e mange to enforce it, despite all opposition. Riilway companies, with inferior rolling stocks, might perhaps keep the cast of transit down, by lowering their rate of speed. But, it is obvious, unless a coma redaction of speed be resorted to, any excep tional reduction of speed will tell on the gross receipts of the line making the experiment. It is, however, quit- possible, perhaps it is even more than probable, that there will be a reduction in the number of daily trains, run generally without any reduction of speed; unlese, indeed, parliament shall think it right to revise railway fares. This question of fares is, in truth, the great diffi cult!' ot railway policy. That the public are deeply interested in railway companies yielding a reason able dividend, is a self-evident proposition; tor, un less they are remunerative, railway conveyance can be neither safe norspeedy, neither sufficientnor. regular. And if experience prove that it is not . paesibleto reduce substantially the cost of railway trans', the question of railway fares will sooner or later have to be re zoneidered by the legislature. We have not, probably, at pre sent sufficient materials or adequate experience to decide the problem whether the cost of railway transit can be much reduced ; but hitherto railway locomotion has, itis generally believed, beenvery ex , ravagantly conducted. And another year or two will either have so conside rably raducal its cost as to have raised dividends by means of economy ; or it will have resolved the question of remuneration into one of sufficiency of fares. . _ _ Railway companies as a body have hitherto, it meet be admitted, acted fairly by the public on the point of fires; for it is little known, that while ths legislature has apparently fixed a maximum of fares, the clause in most railway companies' ewe, whereby the maxi mum is enacted, are so carelessly drawn, that no thing could be easier than to evade it. The clause in question certainly limits the fares to be taken ; but it, in most cases, it concludes with this remarkable proviso " Provided also, that nothing herein con tained shall be construed to prevent the company from charging any reasonable runs for the roe e such engines and carriages fin espress trains." Bo that, after providing the compulsory parliamentary trains, railway companies need only call all other trains "express trams" to enable them to increase their fares beyond the maximum inter,ded by parliament. And it is to tl'eir credit that, in th• extr, miry of their fortune:, they have not availed themselves of the care lessness of the legislature. Without, however, offering an opinion on the ques tion of railway faros, it is impossible not to recollect that the present rates were fixed by p Element very much on the assumption that all the great trunk lines would yield 10 per cent. divide nth'; that this usamption was encouraged by the large dividends which m..ny of them were then f, ai.dulently de clsrieg ; and that on this assumption the legis lature beguiled the public into an extemt t.f railway invest- ment which is as unparalleled in amount ea it is at present in worthlessness end clepreciation. COLLISION Aso Loos or LIPS. —On Sunday a fatal cohiden aciaal about Liao miles north-east of Haack, H •ed. emasetunata teener. nee took plum be tween the barque Mot, a large American r.-.eel, and tte brig Oreyrtnund from Amen.= to Eater, heavily laden. It appears y sighted sash titter at about 3 o clock, the weather somewhat hazy. when ahortly atter, by some mis management, tho y came Is annual with fiarful force, the American barque rutting the brig dovoo to ohs water's edge, and tyro png away both masts. She sank almost lamed Moly. only a potties of the mew having time to map* ea bo of the barrier, the remainder were eith-r kitled below, K were carried do.• by the sinking vessel and perished. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND CAPTURE OP THE Butatata.—On Sunday evening last a daring attempt was mom to mb 'he bows of Wt C,ry, E q., 11, Commercial reed, Lambeth. Part of t• - • !.ally had gme It chinch, leaving only Mr. and Kim Cory in the dining ro,m, and the footman below stairs. The fr,txt do, r was heard gently to open, and soma pers.n entered the how,. Mr. Cony ruse from his seat and rushed to the hall, where he eucauntered a fellow w , .0 was already bolt-way woo the plane. Is an instant the 'hide' was piniorld by Mr. Corr, oho is 70 years of age, as is the graver& nee. Frightmied and cver come, he *tamarind out. " Do. to Mr. William, live here r' Getting bet. sett the burglar and tt.e door the t,ld it: =men collo d lustily for the p .bee, who moo made thew 'Nome once, end urn searching the intruder di.eavirei epos him no les. than nine skeleton keys, one of abut exactly Sited the door. He was immediately conveyed to the statism hoses. CANADA. Oar dates from Montreal are to the 14th inst. The only new feature in them is the manifesto of the an nexationist party. It is said to have received 1,200 si.tnatures : the American papers say, " including some of the most distinguished leading politicians . * Ws have found in the list no name entitled to web a oharac'er. We subjoin that portion of the document which I. devoted to the exposition and advocacy of the annexation lacy : Of all the remedies 'bat have been suggested for the ac knowledged and insufferable ills with which our country is afflicted, there remains but one to be considered. It pro pounds a sweeping and imporant chump in our polities] and se nig condition involviageossideratione which demand our most serious exatoinarion. Tab remedy consists in a " Friendly and Peace al Separation from British Connexion and a Union urea equitable terms with the peat North American Couhder -ey of Sovereign States." We would premise that towards Great Britain we entertain none other titan sentiments of kindness and respect. Without her consent we consider separation as neither practicable nor desirable. But the eo.onial policy of the parent state, the avowals of her leading stattsmen, the public sentiments of the empire, present unmistakeable and significant indica- tions of the appreciation of colonial connection. That It is the resolve of England to Jaunt us with the attributes and compel as to mums the bur dens of independence is no longer problematical. The the , atoned withdrawal of her troop from other colonies --the continuums of her military protection to =melees only on the onnsitien that we shall defray the attendant ex penditure, betoken intentions towards our country, against which it is weakness intl. 'sotto provide. An overruling con vietion, then, of its necessity, and a high sense of the slaty we owe to oar country, a duty we can neither d nor postpone, impel us to entertain the idea of espar br VlV; and whatever negotiations may eventuate with Great Britain, a grateful liberality on the part of Canada should mark every bid ging. The prisceeil union world render Canada a American capital, into which it would enter as freely for the prosecution of public works and private enterprise a. into any of the present Stat. 9. It would squats' the value of real estate upon both sides of the boundary, thereby probably doubling at one* the entire present value of property in Canada, whilst, by giving stability to our institutions, and intecducirg prosperity, it would raise our public, e. rporate, and private credit. It wculd increase our commerce bath with the United S'Ates and foreign countries, and would not necessarily diminish to any great extent onr Intercourse with Groat Britain, into which oar products would for the most part enter on tha some terms as at pre sent. It would rends cur rivers and asses the highway for the immigration to, and exports from, the west, to the incal culable benefit of our country. It would also introduce manufactures into Canada as rapidly as they have boon in-' troduoed into the northern data; and to Lower Canada especially, where water privileges and labour are abur dart sad cheap, it would attract =indenturing capital, enhancingl NOVA SCOTIA. Our dates from Hslifax are to the 19th inst. At a council held at Oovernment•hunse on the 15th, it was resolved, in consequence of the general failure of the hay crop throughout the proviccs, to remit to im porters of hay and straw the colonial duties imposed on those articles from that date inclusive. The ex tension of the electric telegraph from St. John's (N. 8.) to Halifax was completed on the morning of Saturday, the 13th October. The first message by it was transmitted on Thursday, the 18th. The Earl cf Dundonald gave a grand ball on board hie flag-ship on the 16tb. THE CALCUTTA POLICE. Th• investigation of the commission appointed at Calcutta to inquire into the state of the police in that city has closed. The oommissioneis have reported, but what steps government may see tit to adopt re mains to be seen. With one exception ail the Euro pean magistrates appear es debtors of a wealthy native, the Baboo Mutty Loll Beal, and to have bee his supple and servile instruments. Of course the native subordinates emulated, and in some casts excelled, their superiors. As samples of the revels tioos elicitedby the inquiry we subjoin an article from an Indian joarnaL TRI OLD OAIL CREST. tFrom the Boseboy Tines of Aug. IL] The revelations now making before the Calcutta Polies Commiseion positively begin to read like • romance : they are, as Boca said of rho lite of Napoleon, more incredible than any fiction, yet every . word of them tine. We propose to print the entire report in a pamphlet, and present it to our readers, the moment the inquiry is ended. This, with the reports of the Union and B:nares Bank., and o th ers which may be looked for by and bye, might aff ord chapters for the Arabian Nights far more entertaining than any one of the thousand we pawn. The wildest incidents in the tale referred to are credible in comparison to the plain matter-of fact statements recorded in the reports. When Mr. Grant spoke of the plundering of the Commercial Bank—the alternate thieving, robbery, and swindling from which other parties suffered—as en indication of a very lax system of management, he was supposed to employ • very mild phrase to • not very excus.ble variety of offence. The following incident, brought under the notice of the police commissioners, indicates quite as lax • system as that of the union bankers. There is, it seems, in the police office • large chest, in which property of all s eta is deposited—cash, treasure, jewellery, and every kind of unclaimed property. The executive police had the charge of it- the magistrate knew of its existence, and was aware that valuables were placed in it but knew not what they were. There was only one key for the Meat, And it was lined to be in the custody of the depcty or assistant superintendent of polke—aching very mnain was known about it. It seemed a bundle of nines or bag of rupees was occasionally thrown into it and allowed to remain for two or throe years or so without being inquired after by the authorities. These were kept, we presume, "as loose cash balances:" we are left to conjecture how this rather open I mode of promediag was found to work, as we have no details as to the sums found in the box or what was taken out. In 184.5, when the new and improved police system was intro duced—heaven knows what it must have been before !—the sites of such of the old thanahs as were net required by the new polies were de ired to be sold ; they were advertised in acme came In the Somali newspapers, in others by the primitive method of tom-tom, where property of the value of thousands drupe's was to los disposed of. Offers were received partly by the chief magistrate, in part by the saparintenient of police, some of those forwarded to the former functionary remain still unopened I—four years after the property has been said! In June, 1848, one of these ekes was sold to !gutty Loll Seal, to whom the whole of the heads of the police—judicial and executive—Mr. Hume excepted, seem to have been d ee ply indebted. The price paid was Be. 1,350; a 9. 2,600 had been menially tendered for it, and It was said to be cheap at this—higher sums may be found in the vet unopened tenders. The money was received In silver, e, my the po ice - it was put into a bag and labelled, the bag being placed in the old oak cheat ; and up to the present date no inquiry after it has ever been made. It is, of course, now not forthcoming. But thentijh Mr. Patton declares that he was officially informed it was received in silver, Mutty Loll Seal swears he paid it In Bengal bank notes and gives us from his broke en extract of the numb er and value of each, for which we presume he holds a receipt. Surely this is a laxity of system the I.Tuina or Desires Bank cannot surpass. The European subordinates seem to have been universally corrupt beyond description • bow timid they be otherwise under such supervision * One deem cones forward and declares that he was dismissed became be was suspected of beirg about to disclose a system of making " dead men chew tobacco '—that is, of the prevalence of the practice of drawing toe large 'Upends of effective men while inefficient men on small salaries were employed, the difference of course being pocketed. We do not see, at the same time, bow the government could well blame a system virtually the same as that Indulged in daily by every pomace of wetronage. It in no way differs from the bestowal of important and highly-paid appuintstaents, on the unworthy or the incompetent, save in this—that in the one ease the inspectors pocketed the balance in hard cub ; in the other, patrons present the belts es to the Mends obliged ; in bo'h eases g.vernment pay for a kind of servant not employed, and a species of service not received. We have meotiuned the Oak Chest sue as a sufficiently notorious oar ; but we dare sr Mr. Patton was as careless of his own affairs as of *hoes of goverr sent, Berry one remembers the Oriental Bank Charter, which all subsenbed but no one read, nor atomised, till long after, aught of the nature of the paper. We have seen the like once and again in private busbies:. Four years sine,, or thereby, • party holding • high govern ment appointtvent was inquired at in reference to certain arrangements then going on in the department under him; he declared he had never so much as heard of them! It turned out that he had set his name to a whole series of the most deceptive pavers that could be, not one of which he had twined. We do not know he was ever found fault with, or could be persuaded he had dine anything wrong. gbe Court. HEALTH OF HER MAJESTY. The eccAnts received at Bocktogham Palace yes terday niormieg Irma Windsor Castle, stns that her if sjesty was well. bat that her medical attendants do not emmider it advisable for the Queen se leave the Cues for a few days. His Royal Mohacs' the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess lily's!, will leave the Castle this asorsbac at nine a a., to be present at the tote m my of opening the Coal Eschany. Wuumaa, Ocr. 29.—The royal family took their usual walking and pony exercise this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, attended by Lord Waterpork, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood. Colonel F. H. Seymour, and General Bowles. There will be no addition to the royal dinner party this evening. Sir James Clark is expected to return to the Castle this evening TUE QUEEN DOWAGER we. OR the whole more eemlortable throughout Sunday, and her Majesty bad a tolerable night. The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Ci'y Remem braneer and Mr. J. Wood, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his racial residence in Downing. street. Mr. Alderman Humphery had also an interview with the noble lord yesterday. Sir George Grey arrived in town yesterday even ing:. from hie seat. Fellodon. Northumberland. Despatcht s were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Canada and the other North American colonies. Tin SEE OF LLANDAPP.—Dr. 011ivant is to b. nominated by the Crown to this bishopric. The doctor is Preboodary of Brecon, Carrot; of Bt. David's, H gins Pro fessor of Theinisy, Cambridge, and Hooter of Bomersham, Huntirgdoneh!re. He was formerly eke-president of Llsin. peter College ' in which many of the Welsh clergy have been educated. Though not a native of Wale', Dr. 011.- vent must be, from his former position and from his long in tere..nrse with the principality, thoroughly conversant with the Welsh langusee. ARRIVAL IN LONDON OP HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.— Yesterday morning, et woe o'clock, the John Bull, one of the General Steam Navigation Cempanv's steam-psckets, arrived at St. Katherine's Dlcks, from Hamburg, btinging with her the following distinguished Hungarians : Geoer.l Klepka and servant, M. Forest, Stroup, Bemoan, lame, Bandezn, and Attedayanaky. THE ELDER BRETHREN OF THE TRINITY HOUSE, London, have contributes 1001. in aid of the hinds of tht committee for promoting the establishment of baths and washhonsea for the labouring classes, towards the completion of the model establishment, Goulston-Anare, Whitechantl. GUNNERY IN PACKET STEAMERS.—Tbe whole el the crews of the steamers belonging to the Peninsular and West IndA Steam Packet Companies are about to be in. eructed in the art of gunnery. Arrangements are now match% in Southampton Docks for that purpose. The ord nance necessary is expected at Southampton from Woolwich in a day or two. They will be instructed by Captain Smith, R.N., tke Admiralty superintendent at Southampton, and the naval offi,ers under him at that port. The crews of the two companies number between 2,000 and 3.000 men, and may he considered some of the finest seamen in the world. DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF STRATIMORE.—We have to ',incomes the demise of the above venerable countess, who expired at Holyrood Palace on Tuesday last, in her 77th year. PRINCE ALBERT'S DEPUTATION TO YORK- SHIRE. LEEDS, OCTOBER 29.—The first of 4 series of meetings to be held in Yulkshire, in promotion of the great industrial exhibition projected by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, toil' place in Leeds this afternoon, at the Court house. The prime* who attended as a deputation on be half of his Royal Righter to explain the project were C. Wentworth D Ike, Req., mad Captain Bescawen Ibbecom. The meeting wee convened by circular by the mayor (Jno Hope Snow, E q.), who presided. The attendance was not numerous, but highly influential. Mr. Lilian, in explanation of the project, addressed the meeting at consiclereble length, and was followed by Captain Istemlow. The proposal of the Prior met with the most cordial approval of all present, and resolutiose expressive or that appribation, and appointing a very influential local committee, were moved and second. d Isy H. C. N. Ingram, Erg., of Timple Newsom, T. W. Totti e , E. g .. G eorge Goodman, Esq., George Hyde, Erg (hanker), J. It Atkin son, Erg ( lax 'pint( r), W. Williams Brows, Esq. (banker), andi the Rev, lb m. Sinelsir. All these resolutions were passed unanimously, as well r thanks to the mayor and the deputation. Meetings will be held at York to-morrow, at Bradford on Wednesday, Huddersfield on Thursday, and at Halifax on Friday. NEW QUARTER SESSIONS ACT.—On Thuredey next, the Ist November, the new Act to amend the procedure in Courts of Gen. rat and Quarter Session; of the Peace in England and Wales, and for the better advancement of jus Lice in cas.s within the jurisdiction of those courto, will corne into force. Its object is to make the law in cases of appeal to quarter sessions more uniform, This Act will avoid techni calities, and establish one practice throughout England and Wales. It will also establish uniformity of time (at least 14 days) in flatlets of appeals allowed by the Act. The grounds of appeal most be stated in writing, which state ments can afterwards be amended. Sessions have now a general power to give casts in all eases of appeals; cad to prevent frivolous appeals, oafs may also be awarded after no ice, although an appeal he net prosecuted. By this statute, power is given, alter notice of appeal by comment of the parties, and by order of a judge (without going to the sessions), to state the facts of a case in the form of a special cue, for the opinion of a superior court, and the judgment of the same to be entered at the sessions. With the view of enforcing orders of sessions, it is provided by this act, that proceedings may be removed into the Queen's B nch, and be enforced as a rule of that sow t, and all the reasonable costs attendant ',upon such application shall be recovered, as if the same were part of the order. This act does not extend to all appeals, and further improvements on the lame subject are expected in the next maim. The bill was framed by Mr. Baines, the president of the poor-law board ; it is now a statute of the United Kingdom, THE LATE BISHOP OF LLANDAFF—At the close of the solemn ceremony consequent upon the funeral of this right rev. presets at Lisette& on Tuesday last, it was sag Rested by come of the laity present that a meeting should be immediately held in the Chapter-house, in the churchyard, for the purpose of forming a committee, and setting a sub scrip ion on toot, with a view to erecting a monument of some kind to perpeteme the memory of the much-loved and lamented bishop. The venerable Archdeacon of Llandeff raving been unanimously called to the chair, and having made a few remarks, eulogising, in his usual eloquent strain, the virtues of him whose remains they had just laid in their resting place, and deeply lamenting the loss which the diocese had sustained, and haying explained the object of the meeting—Vt., to raise a fun d fore some in sp )- prisms memorial of so eminent, excellent, a s benevolent • man—several propoeitions were made to the meeting. Fir. 4, by Sir Thomas Phillips —" That the sum to be raised should be applied to the education of the poor, in the principles of the establishment, by the founding of two exhibitions et scholarships at the South Wales Training Institution, at Carmarthen." An amendment was moved by Mr. Serjeant Bosenquet—" That the money to be raised should be ap plied to the reparation of some part of Llsndaff Cathedral." Upon the general question being put to the meeting, " whether the fund subscribed should be applied to educa tional purposes, or to the repair of the esthedral," the letter proposition was negatived by a large majority; and a third proposition having been made, partly by Mr. Booker, and partly by Mr. E. P. itie.hards—. That the heat mode of com memorating the late bishop's love of general literature, and his benevolence to the clergy of his diocese, woolf be by founding a scholarship at Oriel College, to be called the Co Intent Scholarship, for the benefit of the sons of the poorer clergy of the diocese of Llandaff," this proposition was carried by acclamation. The chairman, in closing the proceedings, named the following gentlemen to act as a committee for carrying out the obiect of the aseetinFtt the Archdeacon of Llandeff, the Archdeacon of Monmouth, Sir Dighv Mackworth, Bart., W. A. Williams, Em. (Llatertibby Castle). Sir Themes Phillips, Knight, and Bruce Pryee, B. P. Richards, C. C. Williams, Iltyd Michell, and T. W. Booker, &qrs. MRS. HEALD AND HER HIISBAND.—The AesPnalle Nationale sive@ soother /otter irons its oorreepondent at Bare lone respecting Lola Moats.. It is dated the 20th, and is Si II Hews: " My previsions are realised. The husband of Lola Month, 48 hours alter his departure wrote to her from Mauro, im ploring pardon. He besou ght her to allow him to return to her feet. Ile terminated his epistle thus--' If you have ever to complain of me, show me this letter, sod it will be your la:Wain.' Mrs. Bald set out next day by the rail way, and some hours after brought bark Mr. Heald. Ac cording to what he states, he declares that others persuaded him to depart, but scarcely had he been separated from his wile when he derired to return. Three times he attempted t t escape on the road. but too good a watch w s kept over him. At last, wlh ahe arrived at Mauro, he Tensaw to go any further, and then wrote her the letter alluded to airiest. When retorted to his wife, he cwnplained to her of all those who had persuaded him to brook his chain. Mrs. Heald is in the greatest anger ; her eyes dart fire ; and Weyer its meets with th. se who w ated to separate her husband frem her, I all not know what may not happen. It is said that she is about t publish a statement of her Late adventures." The Foment°, or Barcelona, of the 40th, ate " Lola has been able to catch her faithien husband, anti Las br u4ht hint back to the wait:nal roof. She was enabled t • follow t is a spa through the inf.rmation given to her by a Frenchdten." A WIDTPER-IN DROWNED WHILE HUNTING —On Mooday, the Ysnd inst., when the hounds of Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., were hunting, the fox took to river, an I the W tipper•in (Mr Jam -s Shaw), who, with his horse, pin q. d nel the Hie, r Dee, near Nant y-bellan Tower, at N w B• i'g for , he purpose of cressing, the hounds being in full cry, we. drowned. The horse, it appeared, jumped upon a I !ante stone, and tell over into a very deep part of the river, throe ing the rider. The body was soon after recovered; and on that day an inquest was held before B. H. Thel eall, krq. Av. rdict in accordance with the evidence was re turned. Deceased was math respected by the srPntlern n who hunted with Sir Watkin's hounds.—Macclesfreld Courier. _, SECOND GREAT TEMPERANCE MEETING AT EXETER HALL. br aa Ce t t ttr g The othienseb edhooedrae oui etuin.s. tisr yo diffusion et oderox::• great dk temperance t i:tgpeityelnisieitnel rea boPoot meeting roneti.taenstrrhi.lns,niain,fige tb°tviadn:fna -ehoi tß tb c'up °"P felt in te rested CiniSresSEuLdLtu,inriElqui.,eot moral oo f bar c ‘ h ud ai e r sp , f t ey and deserving the serious consideratica of t each! fellow men. (Hem.) There was no elass of dbid engaged in any benevolent enterprise who had 1:e upon to endure such an amount of obloquy and a as the temperance reformers. He die not 11 li:1 with the w w ie h e o and w g inv ood tued- 41' t ta tram wt t h h he it o ..ei h re ve seci i va ity such persons opposition was to be ant:eipatid; lin ' et lead th e e n ev in ils h o r f ael in ," te m in en whr) d lat Peeence, v h" t iu ti p of re f ac am h ili ag eo ground et f the o o d th vr r aa Wales e n od e yat that the eh h ame i him ut ft la, impracticable,soudr triumphs millions fellow p h o who were anxious to remove the evils. (Ceeers.) P g oon i tad manifest, learned individuals, doctors of divinity, th consequent with their high characters to step out "let it course and assail the tenets of teetotalism , no t kee t ei t t i r ld hat u dp g ot e ooiftf i sluee.iaene e d.it it.te)n:irfulason:,banuTipot aeln,ai h Eyspe o .dtla y , : e rt un s a tote) t_ in the face of the millioa of teetotalers in Eng! n a s in the United States comprising men of ali ; milli mo oe ty that it wee unccriptural, and that consequentiy n the t o v it o i m n f e ,,, g v r e r o r t y h u n e claim upon ct eighth" to smite for the pews of p De : Ling it. (Hear, hear.) Learned and € loquert div*-;1 tea6' that platform while lecturing y it. (Hear, hear.) When then they saw sea a ie • - ra‘ ege ,, --- don existing . in the minds of the religions countuni n ti l • t ' eursei duirable that one eve nieg of the soekii - , e should be devoted to the purpose of ehowii g th e ce ii i .","" Tah h aa e he e t r r ne w i r e t o nw n cyi ot t hu h wn e y g r eith twh a :B t s a igbd n ole d :lp:u g gi l o e. wd r s o 8: u e s i religion. and ab , ,ve all to show that it wan orietly abstinence was tinscriptural, that it was not in a ~fe net was the cause of every ereitmonelbh,leinacalgodlintit?")..extotalieoecistima. o f) Al Prleyl that ie tehauend ever—select dd t e hi v re e e it, e r every succeeding 'ane a nd u da c c i d e ne e ff o to i d i ai efn i oc c e du nu t g ru : o u t : :: k t mqn efe3;o wouldw. '(' 4 e li ht ab er r e . . 1:11 ) 6- 1 I to w 7x l e d rei ss e k e , th di e d ir n re tt aeo th n e in re g li their benevolence, kr the purpoae of doing gone ohr the opportunity preoented itself (Bear, establish r; were not, it was true, expressly commanded to to. total societies; but, nevertheless, the religion 01 th e Lb lu called upon them to resist everything that tended to snort the progress of the kingdom of God, or to injure the taotek hliah l i n Sundaye t t i t h ui on c ° e s n e ; ri t " a t l es ;4 1, 71 at the p. ople. (Hear, hear.) There was ~n expos% e d . schools mend were h oe e r, Bibleenyt establishedo s promoters that it was their du•y, by noy means in their power, to advance the ;dory of God atd it promote the temporal and spiritual well-bein g if reeekied, (Loud cheers ) They then felt the same. They knew oat some of the best and noblest men that hod ev:r filtered Ike world's history had been abstainers f rom intoxicate/ drinks, and that they Lad the approbation ef Jetenval air such conduct. If even they went to the Slide itself thy would find that teetotalism, as it was technic* ly ealtd,tri" no new thing. In 6th Numbers the Lord exkored th , deL dren of Israel to take the vow of the Naziri•e and aheteia from wine and strong drink. In the 10th L,viticua Schuler exhortation would be found, in order " that she cies, mesh vin known trom the unch an, the holy from Ire unholy:* Again, Sampson. the strongest man the world err we wu a teetotaller, and his mother woe commanded to abstain while she bore him. Let them lot k ale, at tie c sea of D.niel, and of Shadrach, Blesbach and Ab here Nebuchadnezzar appointed that they should be fed wide 'peat and wino from his own table E,r three leare,but Dad would not defile himself with the meet or the wine, we t he refuted it the chief of the eunuchs Y... wall rot danger my life if you lock leaner than th e others." Bit 'Luca asked fur tet. days; at the end of the. time he vu fatter and healthier than those who took the meat cad ty wine. (Hear, hear ) Again, look at the peotle called Ea ambit.", mentioned in tea 35th cairn of J. remise, eke reused to drink wine. God approved of their eiandert, sad they were abstainers to the present ley. fat en.) John the Baptist wee also a tcetraller ; fait be might go on ae great length instancing came to eirst that the principle wan no new theory, but Ike the men eminent individual. that hail ever firer II in the weed's history had been abstainers from intoxicating drink.. th• y met individuals well vented in Behr.. and Choi, who talked learnedly about the wince of toe en ere.. eerie very little for the Buffeting' of bleeding butnasitr. Tema men his nn.wer was, that he could not argue die gunk with them, because he did not understand Hebrew w Greek. He hp ked at the case as a • philanthropist; and at the evils caueed by the an of intoxicating drinks among the people at the present Lay, (Hear, hear.) And if such individuals preeeded to contend with him that such drinks were Riven to man as a blessing, he would answer that. sap. posing they were originally give.. to roan as • Kerne, their use had been so perverted in later days, as to make tuem actually a curse. (Her, Mu.) pad commanded Moses to erect • brazen serpent as a protegee 'gothic the fiery salon' s of the desert; bat in aWlbir en, his successor did not hesitate to have it destroyed, boom the people, by bowing down and worshipping it, Led sot. vert^d what was intended for a blessing into a core (Beer, hear.) They (the teetotailers) said the SODS to the pool biblical scholars who came forward to con tit , them with their Greek and H brew. They said, " We have muting to do with what the ancients drank. We have to deal with modern times and our own country, and we Moine' ea to say, that the greatest curse ever inflicted on a nation n the use of intoxicating liquors." (Cheers) Lark at whet it ou producing on the right band and on the left. Win they considered the quantity that was consumed in this king ion, it was utterly appalling, (Hear, hear ) The pteechen of • the gospel had been advocating temperance. and set think ' ing had increased. (Hear, hear.) be.. Livesay, of Ponca, ' had estimated that toe quantity of spirits consumed is Grad • Britain in a year. would make a river three f , et deep, they feet wide, acd 168 milts in length. (L•tud cries of "Heir, hear.") And yet they wondered at the spend of ?identity, prostitution, and crime. (Hear, bear.) When he tbosgkt ..1 the way in which intoxicating drinks were spreading denr lation on every hand, making wives widows, and ehifirm • fatherless, in tact ruining the working closes, be unlit sat but shudder at the result. Why, the judges on the bead stated that, in 14 out of every 15 e4+lll brought h feu , them, intoxicating drinks had been the Mat inede • tive to crime. (Hear, hear.) A•d the evil vet not confined to our own country, f.r we wire the means of spreading it far and wide ov.r the writ r (near, hear.) Our ships carried it to distant i.landa, gal I with it poisonee the inhabitant,. They wire pimple meet , —what had they done that we should intrthluce the fraiM MIMI of so much sin amongst them ? (Heat, hear.) Bra feasedly our mission/ were for the extension of 'Milani; f but we introduced intoxicating drinks among people eke • had theretofore been innocent and ignorant of their sea By our means youth was cut off in its vigour and asamei in its strength, and deserts were crea id in luny ergo v:ously smiling land. (Cheers.) What said the H.vMr. f Williams That strong drinks had proved a care Moe; f ever they were introduced. They were brought into TM I during his absence, and on his return he found the unedeeert station devastated, and scarcely 100 pencils in the ini2e:! • who were not coutaminated by the new vete. Mr. silo showed that intoxicating drinks formed the er ekes obstade, to the progress of the gospel among the heathen . Whe soa ; • a native chief to Daniel Wheeler, a memh, r of the Bent, o f friends. He said "I have a menage to send to Great lin. lain : tell your countrymen to have mercy on us, sad rion. , ° send us poienn to destroy our neiglibotre friend., sod red.. • Mom. Then go to the Americans and tel', teem not o tee: us their New England rum." (Hear, t art) So much! ' the sending of intoxicating drinks abroad. He was It t formed that the prairies of America were covered with the 1 bleached bones of the poor Indians who had been dedoeye . : I by " the fire water." (li• ar.) He askd them,. hh" , :t l . t men and Christian women, when the y saw their eustfe its 600 000 drunkards, and were told that 60,rf! • 'Jaime to drunkennew y year, whether I' ey eh? n pen r resist .tale curse, and say, " Stay, hold thy hand, 14, f 0 al enough ?" (Hear, hem.) Should they not do everythleg in their power to root out from the land this gigoetie op en tree, until every drunkard had been cured of hia son.(Lni cheore.) Their principle had already effected much ; 1..4g not only reclaimed the drunkard teem his vice, hut tte, he many cases, turned hie attention to the eoreilepoome le eternal things. gill they found no email d.ffieutty in etale ' 'hieing the people of the evils of intempt ranee red of the efficacy of teetotalism. They a id. " W knot this is a moostrous evil, but we differ wi•h yolo as to the remedy. What we want its this c. only in more places of worship. Let us erect m ire elaurehes gad chapels and schools ; let us have the gospel more latthlully preached ; and if that will not effect the reformat!, n ef tee drunkard, we are sure that your "extern will foil." N.. it was hie decided opinion that the religi ,, us people did cot use derstand the nature of the evils of drui kanni se, as ot,terwiee they never would introduce such an argument. Whet was intemperance cr the passion for Wong deka ? It was not en'y a moral, but a physical evil; but it WAS not one which required passion, and was added to allourotlvr evils. (Ileac) was a necessary consequence of our fallen nature. It eve.. sa They were told by physiologist, that the breie was the organ of the mind, and how important, then, was it that they theta not introduce into the system anything calculated to derange its Inactions. Alcohol was dangerous not only to the Lines lunge, and Ecinach, but it mounted to the omen, the pod rout of the soul, arid there made its dr.* mad ranee'. (Hear, hear.) The necessary communication b e tween and matt , r WWI suspended and the man tell into • o. •t• 0 1 absolute insanity. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Canonry sails that mind strong drink was one of the most prolific sour .• LI of HASUACIS in this country. (Neer, bear.) He would ask thine who looked to she mere building of churches and chapels as . a paeaces in what state would men be to ate std th curs hle .... on a Sunday I/ ho had sat up driukizg 11 " previous Saturday night. He would of course lien the hereon upon him, and WAS that fit state in which to hear the truths of the gospel? (Hari hear) It was no use preaching . the gospel toe drunka r d any more than it would he to an Insane man. (Hear, belt.) Tree gospel was never intended as a remedy for ohY 4 F` evils, and it was a physical evil which they beught totems* The founder of that go feel bad been compared to a bat bondman, and the gospel -was his seed. But if they wee the seed to be sown successfully, there must be an edger tion between the land and the seed. 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