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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

their pro
Ni

ins and elothirg, and, failing to give redress,
pursued
_into their village, some thflty miles in the

The Copper Mines of the Quebec Company, at Lake
Superior, have been surrendered to the Indians. Addi-
tional troops were sent for to the British station in Geor-
would be retaken

gian Bay, and
without much

,upposed the a

A great excitement was produced in Montreal lest week
by the rumour that Lord Elgin had written a letter to the
Roman Catholic Bishops of Lower Canada, urging them
to exert their influence against the Annexation movement,
and promising them as a recompense to regrant the Je-
suits' Estates to the Clergy, and bring back the Govern-
ment to Lower Canada. The estates in question are the
lands and buildings owned by the Jesuits before the con-
qu:st. At that event tl-e v

us religious orders were
sion of their property, except the
iwed to die out. The last survivor

secured in t _
Jesuits, who wer
died in 1801, when the (

,ed to the crown

LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston: Mr. Tassit and
lady, and Mr. Tassit, jun.: Mr. R. B. Carter and lady;
Captain R. Taylor, 97th Highlanders; Miss Lewis; Mr.
Garrett and lady ; and Mcssrs. Denholme, James, A. W.
Suis, P. Cambard, Virtue, P. Haram, J. Roaf, jun., G.
Coggill, J. Gibson, Chas. Sander, and Macauley.--From
Halifax : Mr. Walter Grieve, lady, infant, and servant ;
Rev. B. O'Connor, Captain Songean, and Messrs. John
Hawes, Thompson, Watkins, and Sarinour.

THE COTTON TRAD.

On Saturday. on ti

yew York, Dee. 3.
this port, it was

arrival of the Canada

discovered that the r
failed, and that but fel

lit from Havre, via SouthaMptOn, had
of the French trade consequently were

This Niue interfered seriously with business. The sales
of the day did not exceed 80 bales, and the market closed with
less spirit. To-day's transactions, as reported on 'Change,
were 60 bales.
• Quotations of this day :

Florida 8. N. 0. Texas
Uplands. and Mobile.

Inferior

Ordinary to Good Ordina

9i to --
101 -10 f
102 -- 11
111 -- 11+

Fully fair to fin(
Statem(

:ock in this port on the

;Stock Nov. 10th

import, IGth to 27th

42,199 bales
24,716

Export,

A pparei
Of this qt

38,805 bales.
)Id for export, and in the
20,805 bales, of

course of 'shipment, leaving
which not to exceed 15,CC) Us
Freights to, Liverpool activ

available stock,
!s are sampled.
.t 7-32 d; to Havre active at is

No The-estiina sof .the crop differ as widely as at any period of
the season. . 2 New York opinions, it is true, generally in-
cline to 2,250 to 2,400,003 bales, but Southern estimates
from well-infor ed sources, vary from 1,850,000 to 2,250.000
bales.

Ernest Vane.
_By W. Baillie Cochrane, Esq.; 2 vols

London : Richard Bentley

This first effort at authorship may not placelfr. Cochrane
upon an equality with the first novelists of the day—our
Bulwers and D'lsraeli's ; but it establishes for him a
standing somewhat above the mass of the Young England
school of writers, amongst whom he is evidently desirous
of shining. He los displayed in it considerable fancy,
and even eloquence, with a keen perception of many of
the hidden phases of the human character; and notwith-
standing many extravagances which it contains, Ernest
Vane will interest a large portion of the reading public.
" Your words are full of kindness, and show a warm and
feeling heart, Mr. Vane," said the good man ; "but there is
still a want of religious earnestness and religious charity.
Take, for instance, the feelings entertained against this insti-
tution : they are worthier of Illiberis than Ancyra, of Spain
than Galatia. We are spoken of with contempt by those who
have never studied wherein our faith differs from their own;
and there are men who would persecute others for some trifling
form, just as I have read that furious contests were excited in
the, fourth century between those who spelled homoouisan'
without a dipthong, and those who spelled it homoiousian.'
lam not now alluding to our Church that Church unhappily
at one time represented persecution, and the hatred which per-
secution engenders remains when the active cause has long
since ceased to exist, so we must be content to be hated in this
country; but I speak of a body of the Protestant Church, who
have within the last fcw years given great energy to your
Church, and done great good in the service of religion. Why
are these men subject to contumely, and spoken of as apos-
tates? It has been written to me that in a town in the west of
England there Has an orphan girl, who with some other friends
devoted herself to succouring the poor in their affliction, to
praying by the bed-side of the dying, and performing in gentlest
fashion all sweet and holy duties; ut because in their house
there was an oratory, and that oratory was decorated with
flowers, and a small crucifix was placed on an altar, the people
insults
upon up against these ministers of goad, and heaped
upon them. Is not this persecution, Mr. Vane?"
"It is worse than the persecutions of old ; for at least there
WAS some palliation for these in the violent shock of opinions,
and in the necessity for self-defence," replied Ernest.
" I remember," continued the Prior, "the language in which
this excellent lady explained her reason for putting flowers in
the oratory, and for wearing crosses. She said, 'Friends gave
us some flowers. Some of the sisters, when the days labour
was over, amused themselves in twining a wreath, and placed
it on the cross. Men may think it a frivolous act, but to us it
is natural. Women may give their whole heart to God and his
poor to labour for them • but we are women still, and have
women's tastes. We still love flowers and pictures. We have
done with gay dresses, for they are expensive, and would be a
mockery to the poor; but we like the brightness and gaiety of
flowers, and friends give them to us : why may we not use
them as we will? And when, perhaps, too weary with our
day's work to do anything else, why may we not plait a wreath
of flowers, and think of the unfading crowns in heaven? But
we wear crosses; and what lady does not? And if there may
be a cross on the Queen's crown—if ladies may wear crosses of
diamonds, pearls, and rubies in courts and assemblies, who
shall grudge us our simple wooden crosses ?"
"It was beautifully and truly said," remarked Ernest.
"And when such things can be, when such bigots are to be
found in this age of improvement and civilization, am I not
right in saying than the danger in this country is a want of
faith ? Yes," he continued after a pause, " I tremble for the
future—for you, and all like you, who are embarking in trou-
bled waters, verything is shaken around you; crowns are