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CAMP MEETINGS.

Tll2lll seems no reason to think religious in-
terests will be neglected in America though
a State Church to look after them is wanting.
The columns of the Boston and Chicago papers are
filled just now with accounts of annual camp
meetings held at the close of August, and we know
not where to turn in these days for similar scenes
of devotional excitement or effervescence. In some
eases, in New England, there are not only tents
and huts on the camp grounds, but elegant
cottages erected for the use of the thousands of
visitors who flock to the spot for a month of
prayer meetings, as our fashionable. flit to Scar-
borough for the sea breeze. These tents
and cottages are scrupulously neat. The
latter, one story in height, painted inside and out,
are of numerous varieties of design. Many have
piazzas and verandas, and are tastily ornamented.
Inside they are furnished with luxurious °olive-
Ili( noes, while baskets of plants, pots of mignonette
and geranium standing on piazzas, cages of cans-
riem, rustic vaw,s, and a hundred other trifles dis-
play the With of the occupants, Several of tho
people take their servants and have their food
prvpand in Chair own houses, though thorn are
rustaurants where board can be obtained. We

find that the small rooms of the cottages being ill
adapted to the display• of fulk drawee and long
traive, "the ladies consequently ass decently clad,
" and the stlident of anatomy !lade nctopportunites.
"for pursuing the study of that science." Large
classes turn an honest penny by the meetings. The
railways advertise excursion trains is deosrous
sums, business, however, being uppermost; and
steam companies do an enormous trade. The
price of commodities and of labour rises in the
agitated atmosphere. Anyone wishing to buy a
new carriage or a yoke of oxen, or to build a
,small house, or purchase a piece of land, goes, it
is said, to camp meeting with moat, or milk, or
vegetables, or eke lets tents, or takes boarders,
or • keeps a barber's shop, and he is sure
to accomplish his desire. At one camp
the young ladies played croquet for the first two
evenings, but on the third day it was strictly for-
bidden. Out in the West the farmers come in large
covered waggons. In the mornings and evenings
" the patriarch. of the congregation and their
" children," says one account, " assemble upon the
" thresholds of their residences, and enjoy a quiet
" smoke or holy intercommunication of ideas." A
glimpse, now and then, of the interior arrange-
manta of a tent may be caught by the visitor as
ho passes an open door. "It is there that the
•' matron of the establishment, assisted by a buxom
" daughter, may be observed busy in the house-
" bold duties, setting the table, well supplied with
" dainties, for the evening meal, or washing the
" platters used at the last refreshment. The father
" of the family, with open Bible, may be seen Sur-
" rounded by his little ones, who with interested
" tountenanece pay him earnest attention as he
" strives to inculcate in their young minds some
" weighty Christian truth. Many of the lately
" converted, with the enthusiasm of neophytes,
" spend nearly ell the interim of the public Ger-
" vices in closest devotion, retiring to their own
" chambers or to the deepest recesses of the
" wood." But this writer regrets to add that
some drawback, to perfect happiness are to be
found "in the presence of numerous insects,
" which, falling from the overhanging trees, or
" ass nding the legs of worshippers from the
" leafy ground, make themselves intensely die-
" agreeable even if they don't bite, giving one
" that crawling sensation which even to describe
"is unpleasant. Tot those absorbed in the great
" duties of the hour are little grieved by these
" miniature nuisances."

Wo forbear to quote from the reports of
the religious services. No doubt, in many
cam*, emotions of this kind are like a fire
of straw, soon kindled and soon vent. The
turn of men's minds cannot be judged by
their ruptures, any more than the natural diree-
t L:n of a tree can be judged during a storm ; but
these meetings at least testify to the ear-
nestness of the people, and with all their
peculiarities certainly show a more satis-
factory picture than ono which was given
of some of the States when England was in charge
of them—given by SECR ER, the Bishop of Oxman.
" The first European inhabitants," said that pre-
late, " too many of them, carried but little sense
"of Christianity abroad with them. A groat part
" of the rest suffered it to wear out gradually,
" and their children grow, of course, to have yet
" leas than they, till in some countries, there were
" sauce any footsteps of it left beyond the mere
" name. No teacher was known, no religious as-
" senility was held ; the sacrament of baptism
" not administered for near twenty years
" together, nor that of the LORD'S Supper for near
" sixty, amongst many thousands of people, who
" did not deny the obligation of these duties, but
" lived, nevertheless, in a stupid neglect of them."
Nor did the State supply the aid which its ally
withheld. Fitixtuazigivesananeedote in one of his
letters that may serve in illustration. " The Rove-
" rend Commissary &Ain," he says, " who pro-
.' jected the college in the province of Virginia,
" and was in England to solicit benefactions and
" a I. barter, relates that the QUEEN (Mary) in the
" Klan's abtB nee, having ordered the ATTORNEY-
" GENEIL (Seymour) to draw up the
" charter which was to be given, with
" 2,0001. in money, he opposed the grant,
" saying that the nation was engaged
" in an expensive war, that the money was wanted
" for better purposes, and he did not see the
" least occasion for a college in Virginia. 11LAtu
" represented to him that its intention was to
" educate and qualify young men to be ministers
" of the Gospel—much wanted there; and begged
" Mr. Arron Nev would consider that the people
" of Virginia had souls to bo saved, as well as the
" people of England. ' Souls" said ho,
" ' your souls ! make tobacco.' "

THE DEATH OF SIB JOHN DEAN PAUL,
BART.

Tins name of Sir Joni DEAN P•tri, in the
obituary of this morning's Times recalls the
painful circumstances of thirteen years ago
—circumstances which took the religious as well as
the commercial world by storm, and which had an
appreciable effect upon the private banking in-
stitutions of tho country. It wan early in Juno,
1833, that the well-known and respected house of
STWIAN, PAUL, and BATHS stopped payment ; and
at the first meeting of the creditors on the 26th of
the same month it was found that securities had
been fraudulently sold and " deposited "
or pledged which were the property
of various customers of the bank—Lord
P•Lmaatrroir, the Earl of Csiureavorr, the Duke
of Rum ), Lord JOHN MANNIES, and a variety
of charitable and religious institutions, being to
their amazement and chagrin among the un-
willing creditors. After this, the step from the
Court of Bankruptcy to the Bow-street
police-office was a short one, and following a
aeries of remands the three prisoners were
finally committed for trial on the 13th of Sep-
tember. These proceedings were the talk of
the town. Sir Join, DIAN PAUL had been a
leader of one section of the religious world, and
anecdotes concerning him were rife. He had
been trusted and looked up to by all conditions of
men as a model baronet, a good banker, and a
pious man. Respectability itself was shaken by
his fall ; and the story of his capture in
the train, and of the pity he expressed to the
policeman for his partners Svaataw, who " had
" 180,0001. a few years since, and who has lost
" every penny—he a man with nine children and
" a beautiful home at Dorking," were told mourn-
fully as showing how such a man felt upon de-
tection. After an adjournment on a technical plea,
Messrs. STRAHAN, P•ta., and Bemis were tried on
the 29th October before Mr. Justice WILW, Ma.
Baron ALDWON, and Mr. Baron Meanie, and
were convicted and sentenced to fourteen years'
penal servitude. The Arroam-Gerritam. prose-
cuted, and admitted the case of Sir Joint Data
PAUL to be the worst of the three, but
Baron Awrasoa, in poising sentence, declared all
the prisoners to have been found guilty of " dis-
" posing of tho securities that wore entrusted to
" you as bankers by your customers to be kept in
" safe custody, for your own use. A greeter

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" Wiens" man cash:. ti) learned baron wont on
to ray, 144spn hardly bo committed in is great.
" comnscreipl oonanninity—it tends to Asko aU
" conCdpoce fa est'ablisbnu nts of the dcsosiplion ,
of that Widl4l, you for a cons.derable iinto ins
" doubtedly conducted with integrity and honour,
. . I should have boon glad if it hsi
" pleased.Oon that some ono else should have passod
the sentence. I know that have seen ono of
'.4' you, Ist hest, under very different oinsumstanoos

" --sitting by my side in the performance of the
" duties of a high oboe. I little thought at that timo
" it would have come to me to pass sentence upon
" you, and it is only another proof how striotly
" wo cbould pray not to be led into tempts-
" tion. • • • • All I can say is, that
" as I consider the case to be ono of the very
" worst under the Act of Parliamont, I am
" bound to pap the sentence for the worst
" offence cx n'erriiis'ed by it, whioh is that
" you bo orally transported for the term
"of fourteen years." The reports say that
the prisoners seemed completely stunned by
Iho sentence, and essayed to speak, but
were unable to give utterance to a word. A
few years since it was understood that the two
survivors were granted tickets of leave, and until
this morning the world has beard little of tho
first celebrated and afterwards notorious Sir lons
DEAN PAUL.

NExT week the revising barristers in the metropo-
lit au constituencies will have many porploxingques-
Cum; before them, but none more trying problbly
then the precise definition of a lodger. On Wed-
nesday and Thursday there wore learned and in-
genious discussions on this point in tho Dublin
ltevision Court, in the course of which the popular
idea that a lodger is simply a person who
lives in lodgings was summarily discarded.
Acarding to fir. PURCELL, 4 who gave the
decision in written form from the bench:—" A
" lodger is a person who occupies part of a dwol-
" ling-house as uis residence, either where tho land-
" lord resides on the premises, or whore, although
" the house is wholly let out in tenements, the
" landlord retains a control over the outside door,
" entitling him to enter the premises against the
" will of the occupiers of the tenements, without
" thereby becoming a trespasser." In cases where
the tenement landlord had no command over
the hall door the claim to vote was disallowed.
It would be interesting to know what a claimant
so circumstanced is if ho is not a lodger.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

The Time is unwiling to admit the authenti-
city of the report that the Italian Ambaesdlor Io;
endeavoured to obtain from the Emperor Napoleon the
del arture of the French troops from Rome. That rucel is
cure enough to come, but it must come by France's own
spontaneous impulse; it must be the result of her weari-
ness and dielto.t ut tho ungenerous part slie is made to play.
For what concerns Italy there is nothing that she can
achieve by begging or bidding, by fretting and lowering
hermit.

ID the proceedings of the congress of working men at
Bros-ela the Times secs some valuable suggestions on the
subjeet of trade disputes, but it &source the working men
that they will dinuorer in time that the present "social
older" is not the device of wicked capitalists, but the re-
sult of laws of nature, and that, though they may modify
it, they must needy recognise it. Whoa they do this, and
are content to give and take like other mortals, the
problem offered by trade disputes will be solved. Another
article in the Times treats of an extraordinary ritualistic
revival which has just taken place at Ilaydock, in Lan-
caster, by way of harvest festival.
The extraoidinnry correspondence between the Duke of
Marlborough and Mr. Brodrick is discussed by most of the
morning papers.. The Daily News says the agent's letter
maker. the landlord's position more di. creditable than before.
In it the duke renews surreptitiously the correspondence
which in Lis own person ho pronounced closed, though he
guys ou'y ac nuch as may bo necessary to screen hilneelf
from thsagresable consequences. He refuses to giro his
tenants the assurance that they may exercise freely tho
suffrages ehii h the constitution confers on them.
Ile tells fie m, therefore, by a silence as eigniti-
tent as speech, that they may not do so. Yet the duke is
one of these conservative ministers who take credit for
eying extended popular rights, and who express un-
bounded confide sae in the country. The Hersh heaps
blame upcn Mr. Brodriek, and thinks it was alnio,t super-
fluous on the 1 art of Mr. Napier, the agent, to reply to
him. The 7ihucap/i assures his grace that, while no
lusting success is to be leered from such tactics, a certain
odium will follow their enforcement: the immediate g Litt
is at beet doubtful, the ult:mate loss is inevitable and
sweeping.

Thu .Siur describes the duke's allusion to Mr. Napier's
position as the argument of a child. Ilia example is an
almot4 direct invitation to the common people to take by
their combined power more than the constitution allows
to them. What a peer does openly, or refuses to prevent
when it is done by those over whom he has authority, the
people may imitate.