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likely to produce such a result, but because it is given in
The Scriptures as a sign of the end. Thus, in answer to
the question of the disciples, " When shall these things
be, and what shall be the sign of Thy coming ?" our Lord
said in the 24th of Matt. (and let it be observed that,
though this chapter refers, primarily, to Christ's coming,
to the destruction of Jerusalem, it refers principally to
His coming, to the extinction of the apostasy, just as
the 40th and subsequent chapters of Isaiah were spoken
first in allusion to the deliverance of God's people from
Babylon, and yet are now universally applied to the
gospel deliverance), " And this gospel of the kingdom
shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all
nations, and then shall the end come." And then, again,
in the 14th of Revelations, before the pouring out of the
seven last vials of God's wrath upon the earth, the prophet
" Saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having
the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon
the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue,
and people, saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory
to him, for the hour of his judgment is come ;" and then in
the very next verse, another angel follows, and proclaims,
"Babylon is fallen, is fallen" (v. 6-8). So much for the sign
as given. Now for the fulfilment. Preaching is specially cha-
racteristic of the Reformation. Popery does not encourage
it. She commands her votaries to hear, believe, and obey.
No examination or judgment beyond the voice of the
church. That is not all. The present century is em-
phatically the missionary age. Better than eighteen
hundred years ago, our Lord gave the command to " go
unto all the world and preach the gospel unto every crea-
ture." Nobly did the Apostles fulfil their mission ; but
almost with them the missionary spirit died, and for
seventeen hundred years the history of the church on this
point is a blank. The oldest missionary society in exist-
ence is little more than half a century. Now every church
has its missions. To be without them would be to be
deficient in the one great end for which a church exists.
Why did they not see this before, and why do they see it
so clear now? God's word says it is to be, and then shall
the end come, and therefore it cannot but be regarded as a
marked sign of the times.
The third sign is false Christs and false prophets, which
were to precede the coming of our Lord, with signs so
plausible as to deceive, if it were possible, the very elect.
In illustration of this, we need only mention Joe Smith and
Mormonism, with the Salt Lake Valley Settlement, their
miracles, the book of Mormon, &c., all stated so plausibly
that no less than 14,000 persons in the last ten years have
been induced to sell all they had in this country and go
forth into " the desert," as it were, that they may meet
the coming Messiah. The revival of Popish miracles in this
age of intelligence occurring so frequently, and advocated
by such men as the late Lord Shrewsbury and Dr. New-
man, does seem to no so utterly out of place in these 'times,
as to be explicable only on the ground of being the " signs
and wonders " of ' the false Christs and prophets " of the
last days.

The fourth sign is the increase of knowledge and the
facilities of communication which the present day presents.
Daniel xii. 4.—" Many shall run to and fro,and knowledge
shall be greatly increased." This refers to the time of
the end, which an examination of the passage will show,
though time will not permit that we should stop to prove
it. First, , then, look at the vast increase of know-
ledge. look at the rapid spread of books and papers,
good and bad. How old are they ? The flood of lite-
rature that is thrown broadcast over the lands is but
of yeSterday. Education throughout the three kingdoms
is one of the chief questions of the day, and such is the
change, that a mere child knows more now than a wise
man did 100 years ago. Then lodk at the extraordinary
facilities of communication, our gteam-boats, our railways,
and the electric telegraph—the 'lightning is God's mes-
senger—but this has now become a medium of everyday
communication between man and man. A journey from
Edinburgh or Glasgow, or even Liverpool to London,
some years ago, would have ',taken some weeks, now it is
done in hours, whilst competing steamers actually contend
about minutes in their voyages across the Atlantic. Shall
we give a description of areaway ? The hollows banked •
up, the heghts levelled or tunnelled through, the angles cut
off, and the line made as straight as possible, and then
the rails laid dawn, or, it) the words of Scripture, " &try
valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill stroll
be made low, and the zereoked shall be made straight, and
the rough places plain;" and then mark what follows,-" and
the glory of the Loritek.ll be revealed, and all fie& shall
see it together."
The fifth 'zign of the times is the troubled andeexcited
state of the world, avers and rumours of wara. As this is
an important pointene shall be a little more fulleapon it.
Haggai ii. 7, says, "Yet a little while, and I will athake the
heavens and theieattia and the sea and the dry-lard, and
I will shake .all nations, and the desire of All nations
shall come." This was primarily accomplished--in the wars
of Alexander 'before the birth of Christ, but wit have, we
believe, its chief fulfilment in the state of the world
prior to his seenell appearing. In the 24th" of Matthew
we are told there shall be "wars and rumours of wars,"
" nation shallerise against nation, and kingdom against
kingdom, and "there shall be famine and pestilences, and
earthquakes ein divers places." " There Shall be great
tribulation-such as was not since the beginning of the
world to and time, no, nor ever shall be, on& except those
days should-be shortened, there should nollesh be saved."
Almost idcbtkal with the words of the first verse of
the 1-2fla übapter of Daniel, " And .at time shall
Michael Christ) stand up that great Prince that
standeth -for the children of Thy peopkaand there shall
be a time-of trouble, such as never weasilince there was a
nation 'to that same time, and at that time. shall Thy
people lx -.delivered." When the 'Word of God, " who
treads the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God," i.e., pours out the lag vials of God's
anger upon an apostate church and)- world, we are in-
formed `"-the blood came out of the wine-press even unto
the horgebridles' by the space of -a thousand and six hun-
dredftiearegs," Rev. xiv. 20, compared. With xix. 16. Under
the sixth vial which is poured out •upon the Euphrates,
ands at this moment fulfilling in the state of Turkey,
threeunelean spirits, like frogs, "gci-fceth unto the kings
of the earth and of the whole world to gacther them to
the •battle of that great day .of God Almighty," Rev-
rvi. 14: and in the nineteenth ehapier, which gives in
detail this last great battle and the 400ntending parties,
the prophet saw " an angel standing in the suh, and he
cried.u-ah a loud voice to -all the,•fawls that fly in the
midst of heaven, come and gather ~rourselves unto the
sapper of the great God, that ye :may eat the flesh of
kings;:and the flesh of captains, and die flesh of mighty
men,: -and the flesh of horses, -and, of them that sit on
thenealid the flesh of all men,'both bond and free, both
smelland g,reat;" and then follows the battle of the kings
of the-earth, and the Word of God and the armies of
heaven, and the Capture and punishment of the beast and
the falee prophet. These details are ;literal quotations from
Cleod'S- Word, and therefore, however terrible, we dare not
withlibkl them. Now look at the .application of these
signs`-to the present times. It would seem as if the
sever ith vial was already poaredout on the air. We have
had famines and pestilences, and we may have them again.
We have not yet forgotten thelorrifying details of 1847,
in Ireland, nor the potato disease which preceded it. That
disease was not in the soil, for then it would have gone
from the root to the stem and thelea£ The leaf went first,
and that often in a night; and then the --dock, and then the
root and the tuber. The most eminent scientific men and
chendets were employed by gevermuent to investigate
the tense and prescribe The remedy but 0, how God
can atoufound the wisdom of the wise. After all
their experiments, they discovered —what every one
knew "before it was in the eeir, and that was
nearly all they could tell •concerning the disease.
It was 'much the same with the chielera. Medical men
all agreed that it was not contagiens it was in the
air. Look also at the present state of-Europe. Who will
venture to say there is no impending al.anger, distrust and
jealousyeaniversally prevailing. France and England are
now agreed, but will any assert -thateeven they may not
fail to aaderstand each other ; and evanethough they did,
if God had a purpose to serve, could thcyprevent it ? Has
he not taught England a lesson already, and by the very
commoneet of plants confounded her •wee of science, pro-
duced a commercial panic such as has Itad:few equals ; and
with her gold and credit without countaibsolutely starved
to death thousands of her subjects in ',the midst of her.
See France with 1,250,000 of an army,efeustria with her
700,000 men, Prussia, a small kingdom,-.sigh half a million
of soldiers, Russia with untold reconrces,7Feagland adding
to her fleet -thirteen sail of the line, and.'evcry country in
Europe preparing for war. And look again at the deadly
-methods oteonducting war ; not the boweeaad spears, and
shields of the ancients, but our artillery wad long-ranges
vomiting forth death and destruction at every encounter.
Only let the apple of discord be thrown iaaand we are
t :fully prepared, awful though the thought be; to realise the
prediction just recited. May God prepare..usefor that try-
:lug hour.
The sixth sign of the times is, the state of tile Ottoman
Wanpire. The -sounding of the sixth trumpet was the
loosing of the four angels from the banks of the'Etephrates
for an hour, a day, a month, and a year, and thatis the rise
ofthe Turkish power, which rose about the year:lofi7, and
settled in Constantinople in the year 1453, the :wry time
predicted, i. e. 396 years—• Now, the pouring out of the
sixth ;vial is upon this same Euphrates, drying it rap to
make ,a way for the -Kings of the East, a. e. the 'Jews to
pass over. If we interpret the year, and month, and:knar,
and day, i. e. 396, to refer, not to the period that -should
elapse between the origin and settlement of the Turkish
power, het to that' which should exist between their
settlement in Constantinople and their dissolution as -a
power, it would bring us -to 1849, the time when the re-
fugee question stirred up the wrath of Russia and Austria
against it. In ,connexion with this, we must not forget
that the 2,300 years dated :from the invasion of Greece by
Xerxes, 480 13X, and the 1,290 years, both of which refer
to the removal of the abomination of desolation which
occupies the plate where the daily sacrifice was once
offered, meet in 1820, when the drying up of the Euphrates
began. Till then Turkey was a powerful and prosperous
kingdom, but then her troubles began ; Greece revolted,
Egypt and Syria became independent, whilst in the north
Russia has wrested from her some of the best ports and
fairest provinces, and placed others under an independent
protectorate. Whether Turkey shall still have the name
of a power, though stripped of all influence, or her very
name be blotted out of the map of nations, a few years
will tell; meantime, though France, and England, and the
world uphold her, she is destined to fall. God has said it,
man cannot prevent it.
And, finally, we have the tripartite division of the great
city. The Roman empire should give birth to ten king-
doms, " the woman sat on a beast witfi ten horns," i. e.,
ten kingdoms, which, with small changes, still mark the
powers of Europe. But immediately before the end and
the fall of Babylon the city shall be " divided into three
parts." Rev. xvi. 19. And at this moment there are but
three powers in Europe that are able to exercise indepen.
dent action. Austria is the mere creature of Russia. •
Prussia would be independent, but dare not. The shadow
of Russian influence has already passed over Sweden and
Denmark, whilst a very short time may see France give
laws once more to Spain, Italy, and Belgium. But what-
ever be the result, present appearances indicate no ordi-
nary changes in the national boundaries of the continent,
and thus give another striking sign of the times. The
manifestation of so many and extraordinary signs, and the
agreement of so many periods of prophetic history which,
by prophetic interpreters for more than a century back,
have been applied to the times stated, should surely cause
tuhslitowsp.ause, and seriously and prayerfully to ponder theale.
The rev. lecturer then concluded by a practical and tell
ing appeal, as to the duties of God's people under such
circumstances, urging more of personal preparation, of
Protestant and Christian unity, both amongst Churchmeh
and dissenters;. a careful avoidance or patronage of re-

pery as a system ; more active efforts for its overthrow,
mingled with the kindness which Christianity teaches to
all Romanists ; a more prayerful spirit ; and, whatever
troubles may befal the kingdoms of the world, the most
unshaken confidence in Him who of old wrought such
wonders by sea and land for His people, and who, by the
mere breath of His mouth, can utterly destroy the apostate
Babylon. (The lecture, of which the foregoing is a full
report, was listened to throughout with the deepest atten-
tion and interest, and concluded amidst loud and enthu-
siastic applause.) The benediction was then pronounced,
and the meeting separated.

LORD HAMILTON CIIICHESTER died on New-year's Day
at Malta.
GUANO.— Several vessels, the Lanerk, Thorndike, Carlo
3fauran, J. Q. Adams, &c., have recently arrived at ports
in the United States, with guano brought from islands in
the CArribean Sea, called the " Musquito Keys." The
quality of this guano is not claimed as equal to that from
the coast of Peru, as the prevalent rains wash out some of
the salts. It sells for about po per ton. The Peruvian
guano sometimes brings as much as s46.—Boston (U.S.)
Daily Advertiser.
MORETON BAY.—The rising importance of the northern
districts of Australia is shown in the return of its exports,
which has just reached us. It appears that in the year
ending June 30, 1853, the nett value of the exports from
the districts lying northwards of the 30th parallel of lati-
tude was £370,110, or a hundred thousand pounds more
than the estimated value of the exports as stated in the
last petition from Moreton Bay, praying for a separa-
tion from the Sydney Government, from which it is
situate some 500 or 600 miles.

THE CHASE.
THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS MEET

To-morrow, (Wednesday,) 11th, at Belmont
Thursday, 12th ' Ttaton Park
Saturday, 14th . Astle
Monday, 16th Twemlow Hall
Wednesday, 18th
Thursday, 19:h Cholmondeley
Saturday, 21st
Each (lay at half-past ten o'clo, k, except Saturday, the 14th,
and Wednesday, the 18th, at eleven.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS MEET

This Day (Tuesday), 10th, at Hawar.len
Thursday, 12th Acton Reynald
Saturday, 14th . Baschurch Station
Each day at half-past ten o'clock.
THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS MEET
To-morrow (Wednesday), 11th, at Whitmore Station
Friday, 14th Woore

Each day at half-past ten o'clock.

PRICES of STOCKS for the )V.E'ER".

BRITISH FUNDS.
"Tusday. Wnsdayrhraday Friday. Satdy.
Bank Stock 2174 217 .. . 218 17 217 19
SioCent•Rd.Ann. 93/ 1 334 934. i 3 93424 31 93 21 /
3 r Cent•Consolts 931 21 924 4 4
New 3/ vlOent.. 91/ 1 944 941 4 / 94 / 3/ 4 94 34 /
Long Ann, 1860. .... 5/ 5/ .... 5 5-16/
D0.,30 yeal•s,lBs9 I .... 5 1-16 .... 5 1-16
Do .30 yeara,lB6o .... I .... • • • . • • • . • • • •
India Stock .
In•Bands,el,ooo par 5 pm .... .... 3 4 pm
Do. wwder.el,ooo 1 p,n 1 pm .... 4 par
Sot* Sea Stock. .... • • • • • • • • • • • •
Do.,`Old Ann... .... • • • • • • • •
Comfor Account 93 1 / 1 fr 934.4 931 2/ 3/ 93 1 24 3 931 $4 2
Jelxiao E.Billa,2d S 10 pm 7 10 pm 10 9 pml7 10 pm 6 9 pm
300 ditto, 21 .. 8 5 9 pm .... . . • . 7 10 pm 69 pm
Ditto Small. 2d .. 8 5 9 pm 7 10 pm 7 10 pm 6 10 pm

Sad to 60, and a few left at the close. The number of sheep
much the:same as last week, from Gad to lad, and all sold up
at the close. Calves Gad to 7ad, and all sold up.—Number of
beasts, 1625; sheep, 5276; calves, 45.
DUBLIN, JAN. s.—The rai:roads to-day brought a larger
number of stock than could hare been expected from the
weather. Butchers bought freely. Beef, 50s to 60s per cwt
in sink; mutton, Sad to lad; veal, Sd to 811 per lb in ditto;
house lembs, 32s to 33s each. In the pig market, a good
demand at 45s per cwt for prime ; inferior, 45s to 465. The
supply also was considerable, chiefly by ritilv‘ays. Pork, Sad
per lb.

SEABORNE MAILS.
Day. when made From what' When
COUNTRIES. up in Gen. Post- i Port due in
office, London. 'despatched England.
America(by Br. pk.).. Every Friday.. 7. :Liverpool . Jan. 16
America(byU.S.p.).. 10th of Jan. .... 'Liverpool . Jan. 18
America(by U.5.p.).. Southamp.
Australia (via South-
ampton). ,4th of Mar. .... Southamp. Feb. 4
Ditto (via Cp.of Good
Hope) .... Liverpool. •• • •
Africa (West Coast).. 23rd of Jan. .... Plymouth . Jan. 26
Alexandria 2oth of Jan. .... Soot hainp. Jan. 21
Bahamas ...• l7th of Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 16
Belgium
Brazil . ,
Buenos Ayres 24th of Jan. .... Liverpool ~ •• • •
Canada ll2th of Jan. .... Liverpool .
Cape ()Mood Hope l4th of Jan. .... Plymouth . Nov. 36
Cape de Verde ll4th of Jan. .... Plymouth . _Nev. 26
Ceylon l4th of Jan. .... Plymouth, ov. 26
Channel Isles 1N
Mon. Wed. & Fri. Southamp. T. Tb. Sa.
Chili l7th of Jan..... Southamp. Jan. 16
China (see India)
Constantinople. ... 19th of Jan...... Southamp. Yen.
16
Continent of Europe Twice daily Dover .... Twice da.
Egypt (see India)
France 'Twice daily Dover •_„ rw ice da.
Gibraltar . ..... ...... r 7,17,20,27 of mo, Southamp. Jan. 9
Gfeece (see 'lndia) I
Greytown .. 12nd & 17th of mo. Southamp. Jan. 16
He_mbarg 'Tuesday & Friday London .. Tne. Sat.
Havannah .... ,2nd of Feb. .... Soutliamp. Feb. 1
Holland
Honduras
India(viaS'ampton) 2oth of Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 21
stadia l4th of Jan. .... Plymouth . Nov. 26
lonian Isles (seelndia)
*lreland . wice daily Holyhead . rwiceda.
Lisbon 7,17 &27 of month Southamp. Jan. 14
Madeira
Madeira
Malta (see India)
Malta
Mauritius (see India)
Mauritius
Mexico
'Naples '3, 15, & 25 of mo. Dover .... Jan. 19
New Granada l7th of Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 16
Papal States
Peninsula . 7, 17, & 27 of mol Southamp. Jan. 14
Peru l7th of Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 16
Port Natal
Sicily . is, 15, & 25 of mo. Dover .... Jan. 19
Tuscany
Venezuela
Van Diemen's Land
(see Austraiia)
West Indies .

LIVERPOOL SHIPPING.

TUESDAY, 4AN. 9.

NARK

Dreadnought, Samuels
N et/7'1.1'0 rk
Ocean Queen, Cooper
Pugwash
Star of the South, Phillips
Quebec
Sir Henry Pottinger, Crag
Shanghae
Arabia, Boutelle Nevraork
Robert Hooper, Spencer
Ditto

John Francis, Stewart
.Quehec
Reliance. Watson Alexandria

.5.4
Mho , Duguid Mobile
Arabia, M•W hirter Bahia
Barrow, Turner Melbour ue
Erlymion, Withycombe

4 •
Rio Janeiro
Engineer, Sellars Barbadoet
Elizabeth Ann, Lidetone
Azores

Henrietta, Fieldmann
J. Juana, Ojiaga
San Francisco
Jessie Munn, Duckett_ _

•Wind•E:S.E., tight.

Giutxquil;

V SD.

Chipman, Bap
St.-Stephen's, N.B.
William•Vail,•Wishart

New Orleans
4taidius, Murray Ditto
Innustrie, Fever Pnrurund
L4vonia. illan t9t.Thonias
Violet, Peck St. Michaels
Levant, Folner Maracaibo
.Marshall, Krause Havre

St. John
AlexanderCochrane, Waldren

Rio Grande
Robert Whitewsy, Whiteway
Valparaiso
Samuel, Baker Dantzic
Margaret Pictou
Lucretia, Such Santander
Niagera (r.na.s.), Boston and
Halifax

Sumatra, Grivel Sydney
Salonica, Faulkuer Demerara
Samolet, Eberth Revel
Webster, Lawrence

'New York
Rita, Joblin &kenos Ayres
Eleanor Thompson. Foster
G uay ra
Fairy Queen, Edward Bahia
Oberon, Goldwffthy

New-foundland
Xerelaw, Easdale Mauritius
Martin Frederich, Peters
-Bombay
Xgir, Schuck Stavanger
.Daring, Milligan
Santagtiartha
Camalan, Bate Rouen
-Wan, Cove Gibraltar
Tbe.Dee, Tannahill Ditto

Ilarion, hence at Savannah.
Margaret (a.), hence at Havre.
Susan Hinks, Gay, hence tit Boston.
. Braziliera (s.s.), hence at Lisbon,. in.i days 20 hours.
International, Brown, and Consul, -Smith—both hence at
New Orleans.
Mountbars, Olive, from Santauder at Camaret; with cargo
damaged : bound for this port.
John Barbour (packet ship) hence at :ISt. John. N.B.,•in
thirty days ; all well
Mar.- caret, Hamon, from Quebec for this port, at Crook-
haven, .30th Dec.
ltuaerica (r.m.s.), Lang. hence at Halifax, at 8 a.m., 22nd
December.

China, hence for Savannah, off -St. John, N.B. She had
experienced the effects of the recent gales.
• Valiant, Kelly, for this port, at Caldy Road?, Ist Jan., in
distress.

The Grace Macvea, of Ardrosean, from -Quebec for the
Clyde, wasefallen in with on the 24th Dec., waterlogged. The
crew were taken off.

Countess of Elgin, from Bombay; Australia, and New York,
from New York; Euxine; Zenobia; Alcyone—all of this port.
Washington, Comings ; Elisabeth ; Prince de Join-
ville (with loss of sails and quarter boats stove); West Point.
Mulliner; and A Z, Chimney—all hence at New York.
BRouwcabutvEN, Dec. 28.—Vigilant„ from Newport, has
been got into harbour.
YARMOUTH, Jan. 2.—The Courier, of London, for 'lnver-
ness, is wrecked on Scrobia Sand, and abatidoned.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A cotton laden brig, on are, was
;passed by a vesel arrived at Charleston.
RHYL, Dec. 31.—A hoard (supposed trout the briv.antine
wrecked on West Boyle) with." Sophia, of Relfast;" on At,
has been washed on shore here.
BusroN, Dec. large ship on fire. attpposed to be
cotton-laden, was passed on the 2nd Dec., in tat 28, lon 64.
Two-ships were seen to leave her. [item.: The Irwin. from
Charleston, was burnt on the 2nd Dec.] The brig Oscar, of
Nova *cotia, was wrecked on the Bahamas. The crew were
saved.
Lisaott. Dec. 28. =The Elizabeth, from Beyrout, put in
here on the 19th, damaged, and part of her cargo thrown
overboard; she must discharge. The Mark, from London,
put in here on the 23rd, very leaky, and must discharge.
The Anoromague, from Marseilles, has foundered. The
Anna Maria, from Riga, has been wrecked.

WEDNESDAY, .1
ARRi

'AN. 4.—Wind B.
Y B D.

Good Intent, M'Kenzie Pictou Frankfort (s.s.), Loch
lonian, Colley New York, &c. Naples, tkc.
R'lodes, St. John, N.B. Louisa Antwerp
Laconic, M'Henry Ditto Amelia (~s.), Aikin Bristol