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FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Etoile, dated 2d and 3d of November): Mmumi, Oc r. 26.—His Majesty the King has *pointed a Committee to deliberate on the re trenchments that may be made in the military establishment. His Majesty presides in person at this, Committee, which had its first sitting the day before yesterday. OCT. 27.—His Majesty enjoys excellent health, and devotes a great deal of attention to the affairs Government. The Queen and the Royal Family will arrive here from Winshurg the Ist of November. It is said that Lieutenant-General Poppenham - will go to Vienna, Major-General Baron Zwey bruck to Paris, and Major-General Prince Lowenstein to St. Petershurgh, to certify to those Courts the death of his Majesty Maxi milian Joseph, and the accession of King Louis. ZANTE, SETT. 19.—The expedition sent by the Greek Committee in France arrived here to day, and will proceed to Napoli di Romania to morrow. It consists of a Colonel, two officers and subalterns of the artillery, a physician, seve ral surgeons, and a number of workmen for the manufacture of arms, forges, &c. According to accounts from Napoli di Romania, Ibrahim occupies a concentrated position near Tripolizza. The Greeks intend to fortify the mills, a small place between Napoli, Argos, and the sea. PARIS, Nov. 2.—Letters from Perpignan of the 26th of October, announce that, in compli ance with a decision of his Excellency the Mini ster of War, of the 20th of the same month, the Aivision of reserve formed at Perpignan and Ba yonne at the time of the return of the Army of the Pyrenees, will be dissolved on the Ist of November. The Camp of Instruction at Perpignan will be raised the same day. The id, 3d, sth, Bth, and 31st Regiments of Infantry of the line, which composed it, will return into the interior of the kingdom, and go, the id to Grenoble, the 3d to Joanina, the sth to Mount Dauphin, and the 31st to Dijon. The 19th of Light Infantry, which is at Seo d'Urgel and Mont Louis, is to go to Avignon. The Divison of the Eastern Pyrenees is re• turned. The troops which forms the garrison of it will be relieved by others. The 43d, 54th, and 58th of the line are mentioned as destined for that service. The Emperor of Austria has just re-established the convent of Capuchins at Padua. We cannot exactly account for the mission of .an Anglican Bishop who has lately come to France—we mean Dr. Luscombe, of the Anglican Church in Scotland. Ile is a Bishop without title, and appeared to he commissioned to evan gelize the continent. Would it be ancient to ask him who has given him his mission ? What power has the King of England, as head of the Esta blished Church, to send a Bishop to France ? However this he, Dr. Luscombe has confirmed in the Church of the Oratory young English of both sexes who are at Paris. Our French Protestants have been a little shocked at the pomp which environed him at his long ceremonies, his velvet cushion, and the use less repetition of his prayers. The Doctor has preached and talked a great deal or his mission and of himself. On the Sun day after the ceremony, the Temple of the Ora tory exhibited the image of a great diversity of rites. After the usual service of the French Pro testants, Dr. Luscombe officiated according to .the Anglican rite. At intervals the hymns of the Presbyterian congregation of the English pastor Wilks was sung. The Doctor visits successively different parts of France. At the end of August, he was at Ca- Jals, where he administered confirmation, as well as in the other towns of the north. From Calais he came to Boulogne, where he preached and confirmed in the chapel of the English Consul. His Lordship, for so he is called, then went to Dieppe, and it is supposed that he intends to visit the coasts, and after his ministry to the English, who at this season in particular resort to the Con tinent. This mission gives the Bishop an oppor tunity to travel agreeably, and see the world, but who bears the expense of this excursion ? The Marquis Lucchesini, who has equally dis tinguished himself in literature and diplomacy, died at Florence on the 18th of October, of apoplexy. The 24 of November, being All Souls' Day, no newspapers were published. PRENCif Fu24139--Paitis, Nov. 2.—Five per Cents., 99f. 7fic.—Three per Cents. 71f. 40c.—Neapolitan Rentes, 81f. 35c..,Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 10c.; three Won ths, 24. 90.—(Court Attiltentique.) AFFRAY WITH SINIUGGLERS.-011 Wednesday night, as Lieutenant H. HOPE JOHNSTONE, of his Majesty's ship Ramillies, who commands the coast-blockade station at Fort Sutherland, near J)ythe, was on duty near the canal between the sea and the town, one of his guard upon the beach fired a vistol, which Lieutenant Johnstone rightly took for a signal of the appearance of smugglers in the vicinity ; and though only attended by his servant, he ran at once in the probable direction which he judged they were likely to take, and almost at the same moment came in contact with a large body of smugglers, some bearing tubs of spirits in slings, and others armed with large bludgeons. He seized the foremost of the fellows, and threatened to fire if resisted ; but he was, while holding his prisoner, beset by the whole group, knocked down, and to gether with his servant beaten severely with bludgeons. In the struggle he,discharged his pis tol at one fellow who aimed a violent blow at his Mead, and the fire was said to have taken effect. The smugglers, thus interrupted in their work, scattered in every direction, leaving behind them several tubs of spirits, which were taken posses -Sion of by Lieutenant Johnstone's men, who ran too *is assistance from the fort, but too late to prevent either their escape or the severe maltreat ment of the officer and his servant, who boldly encountered the band of smugglers. A short time ago Lieutenant Fabian was wounded in a 'similar manner near the same spot, and he has not yet recovered from the effects of it. PUBLIC MEETING. At the LONG Rooms,,SouTsramPToss, 6n MONDAY LAST, to establish an Auxtr.leuv WEseF.Yase METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY, in conjunction with the PARENT SOCIETY in LONDON. The business of the evening commenced with a short hymn and prayer. J. BUTTERWORTH, Esq., M. P., was then called to the Chair, and commenced by stating the object for which they had met. All classes of individuals, he observed, must as much rejoice in the success of the Society which has, with the assistance of its numerous stworters, done more during the last ten years in the cause of salvation than the most sanguine could have calculated upon being accomplished, as we rejoice in every effort made in its behalf by our friends; and it is pleasing to observe, that all classes co-operate, and that God directs their hand—it is pleasing too to notice, that the Church Establishment joins cordially in the cause. Those persons who are at all acquainted with the settlements of Sierra Leone, must have discovered long ere this, that by the exertions of the Mis sionaries those settlements have become wholly civilized—in the soldiers, too, so great a reformation has been worked, that , I the officers have been struck with the effects produced. The Missionaries have laboured long in the Islands of the Pacific (and God has crowned their exertions), where the natives have given up their attachment to vice—have entifely al tered their habits—and have given up their gods to be destroyed. In Otaheite their endeavours have been so successful, that no persons of late have been known to be absent from their religious duties on Sundays.— Those who have any knowledge of the Missionary Society, to establish a branch of which in this town we have now met, are aware that it has been largely patronized--the patronage has not, however been sufficiently extensive to keep pace with its wants. One hundred and seventy Missionaries are employed in different parts of the world, at a yearly income of 40.0001. It is very desirable to increase the funds of the society, for the Missionaries from all parts are crying " send more Mission aries—send more help." It has pleased God to inspire a num ber of young men with a Missionary spirit, therefore it is not men of which we are in need, but money ; it is that of which we are deficient. At the present time there are twenty young men ready to proceed to any quarter of the globe ; but we re quire help to send them out. In regard to Europe, the Mission ary Society have directed its attention to Ireland, where in many parts, the greatest misery, wickedness, and viciousness exists • oven at the present time, and have now twenty men acquainted with the Irish language in that country, and those very men were at one time as wicked as those they are now teaching. There are a few Missionaries in France from whom good ac counts have been received, and there is reason to believe that great numbers in that country are seeking after salvation. The Missionaries stated at Gibraltar have succeeded in bringing both the officers and the soldiers to a true sense of christianity. In the Island of Ceylon the Americans have a vast number of Missionaries, who have been very successful; and at Botany Bay a number of poor wretches who have offended the laws of their country, to which they can never return, have been brought to a state of repentence, befitting their forlorn situation. The benefits of the Missionary Society have been extended even to the savages of New Zealand. A number of Missionaries have died in attempting to explore Africa, where in many places, the domestic comforts of life have been afford ed to the poor savages, and entire villages have been formed.— Alluding to the late disturbances in the West Indies, he said, it is pleasing to observe, that I relate it as a fact, that those persons who at one time were their greatest persecutors, LOW number with the warmest supporters of the Missionaries. In Newfoundland, chapels have been built, societies formed, and schools established. In the eastern world there are now thou sands of our fellow creatures sunk in the greatest darkness, looking to Great Britain for instruction, and to bring them oat of that barbarous state in which they live. The Chairman concluded by observing, that as he understood there was no Missionary Society established in the town, he would recom mend the Church, and Baptist Missionary Societies, to form Branch Societies here. He had no wish to monopolize, and had no wish that the Wesleyan Society should prosper, if others more deserving could be found. The Rev. Mr. 'TOAST, of Portsmouth, urged the duty of sending spiritual instruction to the heathen from the memo rable sentiment uttered by one of them ; ". Ours is a land of ' dark hearts." He took pleasure in the evident spread of the important principle, " that we should not live to ourselves ;" and in the increase of harmony among Christians of different denominations, who, from having become better acquainted with each other, had learned to entertain more favourable opi nions of one another, and were more disposed to unite in doing good, than to waste life in bitter and unprofitable disputes.— Speaking of France, he said he had passed a portion of his life in that country—at the time of the Revolution the people were divided, and every exertion bad since been made for that wel fare, but as regarded religion, he might almost say, that where the Revolution found them, there it left them. 150 tract and missionary societies exist in that country, and are receiving some support. Whilst I was there, he observed a poor woman, residing at a sea port, and entirely lost to the world, become a member of our flock. On several occasions she saw people deposit money in a box for the missionary cause—she was poor, hut she was desirous of adding her sous, which the mis sionaries refused to accept. On her return home her little child read to her, and one passage so fully convinced her she had done wrong in allowing herself to be prevailed upon to withhold her trifling assistance, that she was determined to contribute her mite, and has continued to do so to the present time, and, singular to add, her circumstances have improved, and she is more cleanly and comfortable. And so it will be with all who assist in this cause—small sums soon swell to a large amount. Alluding to the frequency of public subscrip. tons in France compared with England, he said—l attended once a cathedral in France, where, in the short space of twenty minutes, not less than four collections were made—the first was for the seats—the second for a religious institution—the third for the church—and the fourth—l tremble while I think on the barbarous superstition—the fourth was for prayers for souls in purgatory. In conclusion, he related the following circum stance of recent occurrence : at a missionary chapel in France not long since, a man of the name of Castor Benton, who had for some time attended the chapel, one day came up to the plat form, and said=" Because I have been married fifteen years, and because I approve of this society, I shall give fifty dollars." Now (said the Rev. Speaker) let every honest couple assembled here to-night do the same. The ReV. T. Antans, in seconding the first resolution, spoke to the following effect:--Mr. Chairman, I congratulate you and the present meeting on the undiminished interest which the subject of Christian missions continues to excite. It is now more than thirty years since that impulse was given to it, the effects of which have been felt to the present day. During that period, its merits have been canvassed by friends and foes. Philosophy has examined its principles— theology has investigated its doctrines—history has recorded its transactions—and, in some instances, poetry has lavished on it the inspiration of song ; but still it appears before us with all the freshness of an ever-growing. novelty. Thus it is not, as some have fondly and foolishly said a mere exotic flower, reared in the hot-bed of enthusiastic feelings, and destined to fade when they should cool ; but a plant of the Lord's right hand planting, the fruits of which are for the healing of th e na ti ons . -It affords me unqualified pleasure, though belonging to a dif ferent religious denomination, to be present at this meetin g .— It is long since I have seen that the incurable diversity of opi nion existing in the religious world, should not be any barrier to cordiality in feeling, or co-operation in exertion ; but rather that it should serve as an occasion for the exercise of mutual forbearance anti love. And why should not this be the case ? Do we not see, throughout the universe of God, how diversity in the modification is consistent with simplicity in the principle? The prismatic colourS of the rainbow unite to form a ray of light ; music is the harmonious combination of different sounds. And thus is there a moral music in the church of God; our individual notes may be different, but our chorus is one: " Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." I rejoice in the professed object of the missions, as embodied in the resolution which I hold in my hand. That object is—not to transmit to the heathen the little peculiarities of a party, but Christianity in the proper sense of the word. And nothing short of this, Sir, could meet the exigency of the case.—Could you impart to them all our discoveries in science, and all our inventions in art—could you polish and elaborate them into the highest degree of mental and social re finement, and leave the passions unsuppressed, the heart un changed, the conscience unappeased—all the benefits that you would confer would be only as the garland, arranged, in taste ful decoration, round the head of the victim that was marching, in unconscious procession, to the sacrifice. Corresponding with the necessity of the case, is the proper spirit of missionary ex ertions. Rising above the stormy atmosphere of religious con troversy—the narrow lines of sectarian demarcation, it ascends to a purer region ; and from that elevation it looks round, more keenly than with an eagle's vision, and m o r e widely, than an eagle's range,;on the extended prospect of human misery and crime.—lt aims to bestow, not the apple of discord, but the bread of life, the food of the soul ; of which perishing millions mustrtartake, or they must die. It is a subject of much gratu latigta, that the agents of the different Protestant missions have srank into this spirit, and acted on this principle. In scarcely an instancealo they appear to have merged the essential in the subsidiary and accidental.—They have acted like men whose minds were so absorbed by the proper object of their mission, as to leave no space to be occupied. They have felt that a jealous contention about the mere question of discipline would beas misplaced as would be the conduct of a physician, who, on entering into a vast infirmary, crowded with the wounded and the dying, should occupy himself in giving directions respect ing the dress and attire of the patients, instead of applying a remedy to arrest the progress of disease, staunch the bleeding of the wound, or stop the fluttering spirit in its threatened departure into the its tenement of clay. And whether they have entered the pagoda of the Indians, or the kraal of the Hottentot, or the cabin of the savage, it has not been with the distinctive badges of their party, but with the cross in their hand, and the salvation on their lips, " Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world !" It is an encouraging feature in the aspect of the times, that this subject has been gaining ground in quarters, where, if formerly it encountered no opposition, it met with no support. The distinguished literary journals o . f the day that give the tone of thinking to so great a number of their readers, have with some qualifications which are but of little im portance in the general question, become its powerful advocates. The necessity of such exertions as those in which you, Sir, are engaged, I hardly need to prove. The destitution of Christillnity is followed by consequences too numerous to be specified, and too appalling to be portrayed. Society is, in general, a source of wretchedness, where we see all that is ferocious in aggression, or tame in compliance. lipiorance has no guide, misery no asylum, despair no alleviation. But it is in reference to man, as an immortal and accountable being, that the evil is magnified a thousand fold. To the mind of the heathen, eter. nity is a dark unknown ; or, if aught of light appears, it is peopled with those spectres which conscious guilt " bodies forth," or those airy phantoms which are the offspring of an Unsubstantial hope. To evince the truth of this, I need not point to die trackless forests of America, whose aboriginal in habitants, wild as the winds of heaven, and wandering as the waves, live without knowledge, and die without hope ; I need not refer to the burning fields of Hindostan, the millions of whose deities are personified in one, the detestable Juggernaut whose throne is the bleached bones of his victims, whose libe ration is human blood, whose music is the fiendish laugh of obscenity, mingled with the din of confusion, and the groan of dispair. I need not refer you to the wilds of Africa, where the inhabitant appears senseless as the soil on which he vegetates, or ferocious as the monster that howls round his abode ; but I will refer to a fact, which, whoever can contemplate without emotion, I en vY.him not either the vigour of his understanding or the principles of his heart. It is this, that according to the most moderate calculations, there six hundred mil lions of immortal , beings, . ivho have not even heard of the way of life. Six hundred millions of immortal beings, one of which is of more value than all the unintelligent riches that Omnipotence ever :ormed, posting down the track of time, to that tribunal where their destiny will be decided, and their character fixed for ever ; and that too, destitute of the only revealed remedy which can expiate their guilt, or alleviate their wo Why are we not more appalled by the fact ? Because we only half believe the articles of our faith ; because the value of a soul,. and the untold realities of eternity, are rather gigantic phantoms flitting through our fancy, than substantial princi. pies, affecting our hearts. Your-motto, then, Sir, must he " onward." And while the divine approbation will repay your exertions, the same power will crown them with success. Mr. Join , / Br: Li-tit—Thirty years ago, while I was yet a youth, my attention was first drawn to the important subject of missions to the heathen, by my venerated pastor, the late Mr. Kingsbury. His congregation was the very first, out of Lon don, that made a collection for the Society now-called the Lon don Missionary . Society. That collection amounted to 2871. From that time I have been a member of the London Mission. ary Society. But . the very constitution of that society is such, that every consistent member of it must necessarily be a well wisher to every Missionary Society. A kind-hearted Christian once gave it as his opinion, that after good men had been a quarter of an hour in heaven, they would have forgotten all their little differences on earth, and would have wondered how they Caine to entertain many of them. One can well conceive, that after a Christian, duly alive to the excellence of his reli- j gion, has been a quarter of an hour in a heathen country, he would heartily wish to see in it faithful and pious Christian teachers, of whatever name or profession, whether of his own favourite party or not. Nay. as we cannot actually make this experiment, we can well conceive, that after a man has spent but a little time, in considering, from the re ports of travellers anti eye-witnesses, the actual state of those who have, not been visited with the light of divine reve lation, be must thenceforward become the friend and advocate of Christian missions. He must be so, in exact proportion as he comprehend§ and feels what true Christianity is, and com pares it with all other systems that the diversified opinions of the heathen afford. 'We sum up the Christian system as we find it in the Holy Scriptures, and one comprehensive word describes it in a single syllable. It is love ;—love to God with all the heart, and soul, and mind, and strength ; and love to our fellow-men as to ourselves. From the contemplation of this fine moral element, this source and foundation of rational piety and elevated virtue, we' turn to another quarter, and call into examination the false religions of the earth. Cruelty, im purity, selfishness, imposture, are their elements, moulded into all Monstrous, and prodigious, and fantastic shapes ; de basing the mind with superstitious terror, or inflating it with proud self confidence. As this sublime principle of love, or, in other words, of affectionate reverence to the Great Supreme, and of benevolence to man, is the moral element of true Christianity ; so light is the medium in which it seeks to operate. Try, judge, examine, see, know, search, come to the light, that your deeds may be manifest,—is it constant language. Our God is light, our Saviour is light, our religion is light ; its disciples are com manded to be children of the light and of the day.' Darkness, on the other band, is the medium of heathenism. It dwells in the region of the shadow of death. Its legends are dark fables. Its priests are impostors that love darkness rather than light.— , It flourishes most in the dark places of the earth, that are full of the habitations of cruelty. Its professors are the blind led by . the blind. That it is the duty of Christians to place their reli gion, if possible, within the reach of all who are ignorant of it, is manifest enough from two passages of Scripture alone, that are constantly on the lips of every man bearing the Christian name. The one is the petition in the Lord's Prayer—Thy kingdom come. If these words are uttered with any meaning at till, they pledge the man who utters them to the support of Christian missions in what way he may judge to be best adapted to promote their great end. The other is—Whatsoever ye would that others should do to you, do ye even to them. Let the man who admires this sentiment, and applies it readily to all the intercourse of ordinary dealings, put himself in the place of a neglected heathen. Let him ima gine a gleam'of light to pass over the mind of such a one so as to bring him acquainted with this one precept. His commen tary on the text would be, that the Christian, who neglected necessities such as his, was disregarding one of his most urgent duties. Conic, then, and if you are already pledged to the Christian missions, pledge yourselves to the support of this ; or, without delay, to some other more consonant to your own views. Or if you are pledged already, give this at least your' countenance, your encouragement, your prayers, your best wishes. Whaothe most barbarous of the heathens now are, such were once our forefathers. But. for the influence of Chris tianity, and its benignant process, the oaks of yonder forest might still have witnessed the human victim slowly bleeding to death beneath the Druid's sacrificial knife : and the place where we are now assembled, in the happy participation of the warmest sentiments of mutual goodwill, might have been the temple of an idol, worshipped with impure and cruel supersti tions, instead of resounding with the angels' message of glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people—glory be to God in the highest, on earth peace, goodwill towards men. • Rev. Mr. MAsoN, Secretary to the Parent Society, next addressed the meeting. He stated that the operations of the society had been highly successful. It has now in its employ in various parts of the world 170 missionaries, one or two of whom return occasionally, and,give the most gratifying state ments. In the different foreign stations belonging to the so ciety, 32,000 persons have united with us, and in the West Indies 25,000 slaves form part of the congregations : in Ja maica from May 1824 to May 1825 one thousand more had been added, more missionaries arc required there, and it is not in our power to send them. Many of those we had there felt so deep an interest in the cause, that they have died martyrs to it. ln one part of the West Indies a black man requested some time ago to be allowed to preach ; and his popularity is now so great that numbers walk four and five miles to hes, him. Several others in the West Indies have offer ed their assistance; and in South America, five have vo lunteered thier services. We have lately received letters from the Burman Empire—at Rangoon the temple of D - gon has been converted into a meeting-house for Christian worship, where the soldiers regularly meet and hear the Gospel preached.. In respect to the South Africans, a few years ago, Barnaby Shaw, the minister at the Cape of Good Hope, went up the country and succeeded in affording spiritual comfort to the Hottentots, a great many of whom have become not only civilized but christianized, and they now sow their corn, and have regular harvests. He christened a whole population, whose children in respect to morals would not disgrace those of England. Soon after Mr. B. Shaw be gan his holy work there, he found a man of strong powers and a line genius, whom he baptized Joseph Links, who afterwards was desirous of preaching to his countrymen ; the outline of one of his sermons was sent home to the society, and so much approved that he has been retained as a regular preacher there. This same missionary (as we understood the Secretary) Mr, B. Shaw some time since had an inward feeling, which in spite of his exertions he could not conquer, that he must leave the station, and accordingly wrote home to the society for permission to do so, but the next packet conveyed to him a request to con tinue his pious endeavours. He however, still felt an inward working that he must leave, and accordingly he retired a short distance up the country. Surely it was God who forewarned this poor fellow of his danger (observed the secretary), for short ly after he left, a party of savages, who came down to attack a native chief, took possession of the Missionary's residence, which they completely ransacked ; iu searching for plunder, they discovered a bag of gunpowder—(Here the chairman ex plained that it was customary with the missionaries to have a • small quantity in their possession for their protection) which they tasted, and said it was food, but not good food. The next morning they held a council, and again tasted it, and were still of the same opinion, when one of them recollect ed seeing the white men fry their food, and this plan, after some preliminary operations, was adopted with the gun powder, which of course exploded ; the men fell,• with the ex ception of one, who went and proclaimed the circumstance to others of his tribe, telling them the men • were killed at the mis sionary's house by something that went "tutu." Shortly after, the men who fell at the explosion, arose, and ran away, fearing they might encounter another "tutu." The missionary soon after resumed his station, and was considered by the natives as an extraordinary man, by venturing to a place where a short time previous they had been so roughly used. Ultimately, however, their surprise abated, and by the exertions of the missionary they were converted. The Secretary continued : A gentleman who previously addressed you mentioned that the greatest unanimity existed amongt all classes of missionaries. I will now tell you how this good feeling is produced : on the 3d Thursday in every month, at 5 o'clock in the evening, the secretary and treasurer of each missionary society meet at the rooms ()lone or other of the society, and take a friendly cup of tea, and afterwards we join in discussing some important subject connected with the missionary cause—thus each party knows what the other is doing. These societies, as every one knows, are supported by subscription, and though we receive donations of three, five, and ten guineas, from the rich, the penny a week subscription from the poorer classes forms the chief support. I have no doubt the branch society will pros per, but it never can succeed without the aid of the females . they can do more than we can ; and I am certain they will give us assistance. They shall be provided with subscription books, and there is no doubt they will get plenty of money. Rev. Mr. H. Fox, from the island of Ceylon, said, it was pitiable to behold the worship of the people he had just left.— Infatuated slaves to the most horrible superstitions, they of fered their bloody sacrifices before idols as senseless as their ce remonies were disgusting. It was a melancholy thing to see 60,000 people falling down before an imageof their imaginary god Vishnu, the Preserver, scarce 6 inches in length ; to see them at an incarnation of Ishmul, throwing themselves under the car or temple borne in triumph amid the deafening shouts of the people, the sound of the tom-tom, and the heart-rendi ng cr i es of the Coolies, who like beasts of burden are forced to drag the instrument of their superstitious reverence through the principal streets ; what a contrast did this present to the pure worship of the Christian faith. The lower class of people are invariably wor shippers of the devil, an image of whom is their household god, and this respectable personage they are in the habit of flogging when any crosses either in fortune or temper annoy them. An enlightened Bramin gave it as his opinion, that a sensible de. cline in the belief of the Hindoo mythology had taken place, and the new form would be Christianity. Is not this a hope that must stimulate every friend to humanity to an un ceasing exertion ; to know that any effort of ours could possibly raise to their proper rank in society, the unfortu nate females whom they have degraded to the level of the brutes, or relieve them from the disgusting practices of expos ing or burning their dead ; and the immolation of their unfor tunate widows on the funeral pile ? It is a common occurrence for them to carry the dead bodies of their friends and relatives to the jungles, and let the tigers become the buriers of the dead. The children, too, are offered in a very solemn manner to the devil. The casts into which the people are divided offer the greatest bar to our progress ; among the children of my own school, I took a very simple, yet very effective plan of equaliza. don : I directed :hem to take their several places in the school room, which they accordingly did, the higher caste placing them selves nearest my own chair, and so on in proportion. Well, said I, are you all seated ; yes, was the reply. Now, then, it is my turn to choose ! which I did, taking tny situation at the other end of the room ; thus the first became last, and the last first. Rev. Mr. DEAPEJt described at some length the vast im portance of Missionary Societies without distinction of party or sect—highly eulogised the liberality of the people of Great Britain, through whose assistance so many thousand human beings had been instructed in Christianity—and disclaimed any distinction of party, by observing that missionaries sent out by any particular sect could be denominated only as Christian mix sionaries. He gave it as his opinion that the branch society would succeed in Southampton, though it would be slandered, as every good project had been—malignantly slandered. Rev. Mr. BRADBURY, of Salisbury, next addressed the meeting, and related several anecdotes, among which were the fbllowing :--" A poor woman addressed a respectable-looking person, and asked his assistance : he had nothing to give away ; she did not belong to his parish, he , observed, and there were many of his own parishioners who were in want. I not only want money, said the woman, but also assistance for the salva tion of my soul. That you shall have, my good woman—it is my prokssion. How far have you pursued your religious stu dies ? Do you know the Lord's Prayer and the Belief ?—No, Sir, she replied, I have forgotten them ever since I was a girl. He then requested her to kneel down and repeat after him— ' Our Father, who art in Heaven.' The woman repeated it, and the gentleman proceeded—' hallowed he thy name.' Stop, stop,' said the woman, Our Father, who art in Heaven—then lie must be your father as well as mine; therefore, good brother, can't you afford your poor sister a shilling ?'" Now, my good people, continued the Rev. Mr. Bradbury, the inference which i would draw from this is, can't you afford its a shilling, or two shillings, or five, or if it is a pound, we will not refuse it. Another anecdote he related. A negro in a missionary's house (we forget where) was observing the motions of the pendulum of a clock ; presently the clock struck, and out popped a cuckoo—" Look, look Massa, (said the negro) what tomshing ting, God 'mighty make man peak, but buccra man (white men) make wood peak." He concluded his address as follows : Now, my brethren, feel in your pockets, and give us a solid proof that you feel for the salvation of the whole world. Rev. J. CILABB observed, that from the accounts which had been recited to night of the success of the missionary cause, he was now more fully convinced of the necessity of continuing to it the greatest assistance we could, and called upon those who could not afford to contribute their mite, to assist it by their prayers. Jim T. MORGA Y being called, rose and said, he hoped he should meet his grave in a missionary land. The CHAIRMAN observed, that the last speaker was destined for the West Indies. Thanks being voted to J. Butterworth, Esq., M.P., the meeting dispersed.—( Southampton Town and County Herald.) We are ham): to find, by a letter which we have seen from Jamaica, dated the 15th of September last, that the new Bishop of that island has entered on the duties of his sacred office with great zeal: on a single day he baptized be twixt eighty and ninety negroes on one gentleman's estate.— (Liverpool Courier.) The workmen are busily engaged with the new Law Courts, to get them ready if possible by Monday next, the first day of Michaelmas 'Venn. The greater part of the wood work in them consists of wainscet, and that is polished instead of being painted : so that there ill be no thing offensive to the Court's olafactory nerves ; but the entrances to the Courts for the Counsel and public, from Westminster Hall, are yet al most unapproachable, on account of the lumber, old wood work, carpenter's benches, &c. which now nearly block up the Hall. Last night as Count Wonoszow, accompanied by hi, Secretary, was returning in his carriage through Brentford, he was suddenly overturned with violence in the High-street, by which the coachman, William Findlay, was thrown off his seat, and the body of the carriage coming against him, he was killed on the spot ; the footman was likewise thrown to the ground, and received such tevere i►►juries that he is not expected to survive many hours. Ti-.e populace, on witnessing the accident, ran to the carriage and rendered every possible assistance. The body of the coachman was taken up and carried to the Waggon and Horses, Old Brentford, where it lies waiting the Coroner's Inquest. The footman was also con veyed as soon as possible to the same house, and surgical assistance procured ; he remains without the slightest hope of recovery. The band of the unfortunate coachman (who had been in the ser vice of the Count for forty years) was completely torn off. On extricating the Count and his Secre tary from their perilous situation, it was happily discovered that both had escaped without hurt ; some hours elapsed before the Count and his Secretary could leave the place where this melan. choly event occurred ; and the accident is sup posed to have happened in consequence of the carriage wheels passing over a heap of stones improperly left in the road. THE Sl?N• SOLEM QUIS DICERE PfILSUAI "al"' LONDON, ;); SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, oa The Paris Papers of Wednesday came to ' )a 5 at last night, and inform that the French CanlP Perpignan and Bayonne were to break LIP oO th e Ist of November. They also mention t he arrive of the expedition sent by the Greek Committee at Paris at Zante, an account of which, end th supplies permitted by the English Government o be furnished to them, is announced in the c°7 l tents of the German Mail. Extracts will be Ott° in another column. Dr. LUSCOMBE, deputed by the El' isc°P ; Church of Scotland as Bishop to France, has, • of th e seems incurred the displeasure of some t Journalists of that country. They ask , 411 j to 6° e right has the Ki ng o f ENGLAND a Bishop to France ? Perhaps, indeed , 11°11 , but Dr. LUSCOMBE derives his ecclesiastical a of thority from the nomination of the Bishop s , Scotland alone, and do e s not and ne ver Pre , tended to be the s e r v ant of the King of 11146 / LAND. In our turn, l' we ask what righ t French Journalist s to complain. re ,no ,1 1 The ni s "; wishes no submi s si on b u t w h a t is voluntary 0"t e part of English P ro t es t an t s resident in F rariC and who, we a r e g l a d t o s e e, arranging then' , selves under his ban ner s, and availing t he selves of the oppo r t un ity to let their co il' dren go through th e rite of Con fi rreati" which otherwise they might never have h ad ' ho Had the Bishop excommunicated tl'os® I c ri. declined to att e nd, had he fulminat ed his Onto ders on those wh o sece d e d f r om hisopini c ' s ' ° l a was there cause to c om pl a i n ; but that auger s° be excited beca u s e an E ng lish Bishop offeribl ins ts, to confirm such child ren of English Protests n iit who are volunta r ily ( a nd with t h a nks) br °l3B thi unto hips, does appear to us a most unw°l"tri proceeding, and to savour not a littl e of big and intolerance. ze l u ' u h n e g subjoined Observer, re fer to tho Austrian tr ra ic:nszofrbose go r e eirS 6 t war in Greece. Their contents, however, not very satisfactory, and the intelligence the , Convey tat e Hai is said to be still at Tripolizza co ce p' The siege of Misiolonghi is still continued, oci and every thing going 09 ' le it d is wonderful how nobly this town has wi tbst° piossiaisio:ligne and uncertain as ever. laar f the furious attacks of the Turkish °r( f . r , and repulsed every attempt to carry the e dit, tress by storm. It reflects the highest eCat, upon the besieged, and presents a n O il ' 0 ( ing example for the emulation an d knittiti°ooo, their brethren in arms. Had the same ilevi°4o4 to their country's cause, the same disi nteresten i devoted courage displayed itself through 0100, leaders and promoters of the insurrections 5.0 its thing more satisfactory as more deci sive 10 effects must have crowned the glorious struggle which this nation is engaged. (From the Algemeine Zeitung, Oct. 28 ' ) Z S eyrie The expedition sent by the French Committee of e te. the Greeks, which left Marseilles on the G th, arrived ht,el(lo. day. The E ng li s h G over n m ent here has , without stidjoys culty, granted it permission to remain here for son' e , get fresh supplies. The Neapol itan G e neral Rosa foot for this plac e yest e rd a y eveniNg for GaStUD O, When tO 11.elOtOr to go by land to N a p o li di Romania. Acc ording tion which he took ca r e t o obtain before han d, the 0 6 l ch ild dei ke tl en biso to be perfe c tly sa f e , an d h e has therefore tak ;c o with him, amon g whom i s a boy eight years of ag e ' ha is Il e° from Napoli di Rom a ni a direct say, that Ibrahim left Tripolizza, in a con cen t ra t e d position, to which P iv i 3 a net t 4 add in jo u rn a l terms , all g oes well, and tha t they c°° k • it "1 more particular. The Egyptian fleet had not yet joined the itsJ.ol*--i9 grorsl not known whether it had left Alexandria: howver, a Cod' is daily expected. Nothing certain is known of li 3 : err oe o rane ; it is reported he has required of the Greek. G° be e r 150,000 pounds sterling to fit out two frigates, Gra nd thapropool4 pected the answer before he would set out. Sli elt othe r P et ' rcouldesp respect not ti ng beth the acceptedna nature re of b y w the c h G n r o e b e okdGovernor i s et ' ente rPri f; sons say Lord Cochrane does not want money fo r rot' i n doubt' Austrian Observer, Oct. 23.) t VI ~ Yx 7 1 : We have the Greek Chronicle till Sept' T at Wilin i Ch6c:;:t4.l4; that the re l reierretirki by theaccounts oss of the enemy, giti : e siege of lUissolonglii still continued• 1113 itoP h as eit Pala others tt e ih r e eeiss h m a d i ge ri nu n having fnenaggll quiten o y u o r of n a nr g o l e i mt i d sl et best In T troop s ' e a k i sermon,delivered slico' 3041ita`list, 6"l'r kier's ontoins, th tipatri° The G speech ornoftboy7retuitiuiersnleelaiprotnerunclaebtileorpracinvott. jort? ..., ______ ..... 2 _........—.--- r, rot GUNPOWDER PLOT.—Holiday at the Bank,E%checlue India and South Sea Houses. --.... FOREIGN MAILS. 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