Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

THE EVANGELICAL CGNFERENCE AT BERLIN.'

BERLIN, Sem • 12.
Last Wednesday evening the evangelical Conferences,
or the meetings of Protestants from all comities, were
opened in this city in the Garnison Ktrche, a building
capable of accommodati❑g 4.000 persons, well lit up for
this occasion, and provided with an ample carpetted plat-
form, easy of acccess to the membe-s. Tae number of
persons who have inscribed themselves as members eV
these Conferences —that is to say, who either take
active part, or sympathise, or in any way co-operate
towards the object in view—amounts to 1,400.
This is exclusive of all those who have flocked hither
merely to figure as auJiences. The arrangements-that
have been made as yet furnished me with no matter for
unfavourable comment ; the office opened for the members
of the Conferences in the bureaux of the House of •
Deputies supplies every information ; as to hutel or
lodging accommodation, the latter is in many cases
furnished gratuitously, and nothing is left undone to
facilitate the whole affair to strangers The tickets of
admission for members are so ingeniously cmtrived
as to contain on the various sides of a folded map
the town of Be lin all the necessary information ti
to the subject-matter of every day's Conference, the
names of the speakers, preachers, and religious
institutions of the city, and an indica•.ion where the
members can best meet for refreshment and mutual
intercourse. The long and heavily-laden railway trains
during she early days of this week proclaim d how nume-
rous the intended, visitors were ; the German that one
hears talked in the streets near the Garnison Kirche, each,
word planted slowly and painfully, like ill-fitted stones in
a coarse mosaic, tells how large a proportion of theta
consists of foreigners, while our own countrymen shine
out, as usual, in that wonderful lingual production they
call French, for which we seem to have an exclusive right
of infliction, but which right is most liberally and success-.
folly infringed on, like most of our patents, by our Trans-
atlantic cousins, •
The first meeting on Wednesday evenirg,was opened by
the Dora Chor singing the 100th Psalm i and as this and
all the other psalmody introduced into the meeting is
printed with the music and an English and Fronds_
translation of the text, it can be easily conceived
what an. effect this appropriate choin • produced. Th..
exercises of the evening consisted solely of reading,
potions of Holy Scripture, and offering _prayer in Ger-
man, French, and English. Of the °loan'nt and fervent
prayer put up by Pastor Kuntzel, from Eberfeld, our
countrymen who could follow him summed up their fall
admira ion. by the exclamation, " He prays like Spurgeon!'
Like those of M. Fisch, from Paris, and of the Rein
Baptist Noel, who followed, etch reading a chapter from
the Bible in his own tongue, these prayers implored God's
blessing on the object of the meetings—viz , the spread
of brotherly love among all Protestants, the invi-
goration of the churches of the Protestant faith, and
the extension of its truth over the whole world, together
with a. blessing on the King and his family, and on ties
people and capital of Prussia. The lion. teed Rev.
Baptist Noel also included in, his prayer our suffering
fellow-countrymen in India, and certaisly no There else
out of-Great Britain and her dependencies can this prayer
find such warm sympathy for the sufferers, or such deep
execrations of the heathen, miscreants that have ect
barbarously maltreated women and children and unarmed
prisoners.. After further singing and a cloeine blessing,
the meeting separated, deeply impressed with this opening
act.

Exclasively for CLOTH IN BOYS from Six,iq.
Twenty Years—
& COMPAIST, Itanelitgli-street.

The rectory of Newbury, which became vicant threw.
moatbs since, by the death of the Rev. Dr, Binney, has,
been conferred by the Bishop of Oxiord 'on the Res..
James Leslie RaudAll, M.A . Ft llow of New College,.
Oxford, a son of the A•eadeacon of Be;kshire.
OLD COINS DUG. Ih.„—A correspondent in Dankeldln-
forms us that, on Tuesday last, while. some workmen were
engaged forming a trench in a street in Dunkeld, with a
view to lay some gas pipes, for the purpose of ligWng
TOJM for the benefit of the Du.nksld pipers, there was
discovered in the toil not les3 than 500 to 700 small silver
coins. They are generally abort: the size of a sixpence, but
so mach defaced that there is.dificulty in ascertaining the
precise reign. On some of them, however, LIN is quit.
visible, and the coins bowing a Roman inscription.—
Alloa advertiser. _ _ _

CaretsN BOGrRS ANTI BARON WATSON,—It will be.
remembered that. Baron Watsua was the pruiding judge.
at the trial of Rogers ; and a cotrespemtent assures et
that tte minister of the law and the prisoner at the- bar
spent many of their early days in the same neighbour-
hood, within two mil,s of each other ; and he believes,
were not uofrequently in one another's company. If this
be so it may possibly account for the emotion, which the
reporter described as " surpri.e; manifested by the.
Baron when the people in court gnve vent to their satis-
faction with the verdict of " Guilty," by a burst of
applause.—Northern Daily Erp,ress.--[ti iwiensel
Wurritnowslt.—On the night of the tat inst. a party of
men called at the house of Martin Conway, at Burgessbeg,
in the absence of the owner, and demanded admittance,
which was stoutly denied them by Conway's wife. They
then commencad battering" the door with stones, at the
same time using the most obscenea and threatening language
towards Mrs. Conway. The door, however, being strong,
and well secured from the inside, resisted all their efforts tra
break it in ; and they were compelled to desist without
effecting their purpose, whatever that might. have been.
The persons suspected of this outrage are the worst
T-
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in the neighbourhood. Conway and his wife
Ihave refused to lodge informations in the ease.-IYeraget
Guard man.