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TELIIRSDiiY, NOVEMBER 22, 186
BARI:MINIM AGAIN.
The infinite, variety . in the natural world,
the classes, orders, families,• tribes, genera
and species of living things, with theit
fired and well-marked distinctions l present
a formidable difficulty in the way of the
theory which teaclOa the gradual develop-
went of the whole vast ,and multiform sys
tem from inorganic, characterless germs.
Believers iw this theory have what they re
gard as a talisman, or a olne'to guide , 'the'm
through this labyrinth, which they gill
,
aNaturallSeleation:" Granting the great_
law of Nature, that like'begate like, Dar,
win and his" followers tha, anithala.
t e nd to vary *Op' their ,anoestor,s,runder
varying influenope, and =that the ,00natant
c hanges which, from the remotest. ages,
have been taking place in their mirrouna-
ings, are sufficient to 'account for the .varie
ties in all natural , objects. '," •
No such transmutations as the tlaeory de
mands being obseriable in the present age,
it is claimed that our range of observation
is too limited to test it, and that ) the vast,
inconceivable ages, supposed to be indieat,
ed by geology, are needed to give scope to
the workings of this -. , agency of." Natural
Selection," and, in fact, constitute the
theatre of its infinitesimal operations. What,
then, says geology on this - " Selection"
theory of the otigin , of species ?
Without doubt, geology testifies to ineon
ceivably long periods of tiMei„ perhaps quite
long enough for all the exigenciei
. of the
Darwinian hypothesis. Yet, even at this
point, an objection might, be raised some
what in this shape : The, wearing away of
old rocks and deposition of materials for
new, the upheaval of mountain-chains and
of coast-lines, the lives of animals and even
of races, the processes and epochs, which
are marked in . the succession of geological
phenomena, and which' make such great
demands nn nur,ideaa of time, are, to azime:
appreciable extent, within reach, of our
powers of caloulation. Something of the
sort we have seen and do see going on
around us. A partial standard of compari
son and of calculation we have actually in
hand. Niagara Falls, for example, is gradu
ally wearing away the cliff over which it
tumbles, at a rate which allows us to make
some approximate calculation of the length
of time in which it has been working its
way back from Queenstown to its present
site. Sir Charles Lyell names 35,000
years. The coast of part of Sweden is
rising at a rate, it- is supposed, somewhat
less than Tur feet' in a century. Rivers
are forming deltas; currents of the ocean
are washing away shores and altering coast
lines ; here are rates of action of geological
forces within our reach. But there actu
ally is no appreciable movement, and has
been none, of this process of transmutation
from one species into another, since man
began to observe and record his 'observa-
Lions. in books, pictures or sculptures, or
4inoe animals of any kind began to leave
accessible-memorials of their e x istence upon
the earth's surface. The several' housand
years, which have gone by, actually dog not
amount to a single unit iil the calculation.
Hence, it may be doubted whether even the
vast geological ages furnish sufficient time
for the accomplishment of the inconceiva
bly slow processes of development .contem
plated by the Darwinian theory.
But grant these philosophers all the in
conceivable ages they ask—expand the al
ready vast geologidal periods to meet their
demands ; and it by no means follows that
their system has clear possession of the
ground. It would need not only time, but
steady, uninterrupted opportunity, to carry
:its work through all the infinitesimal steps
, of the process to completion. ,Darwinian
ism admitting of no creation of the distinct
girders of living thinga, cannot, of 'course,
allow their destruction. The career of
development, once started, cannot Bur
-dye any of the great geological catas
trophes, which, at different dines, appear
to have swept away all existing forms and
types of life upon the earth's. ,an t rfacl- .
-after each such catastrophe, new•germs ,
%would be required, and a new career...of
gradual, slow-paced development would:
wave to be commenced.
Says Dana, in his Vandbook of Geology,
page 251: "No species of animal survived •
from the beginning 61 life on the globe to the
present time, nor even through a singleorle'
of the several geological ages; and but, few
live on from the beginning of any one`of
th e many periods to its close, or from one
period to another."
The catastrophes which closed the Car
boniferous and the Reptilian periods ap
pear, according to this careful inquirer,
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to hale "been 'utfi - versal, sweeping away all
existing Min's of life, unleis possibly some
) ,:apec . 'ie's were an exception. Thus
all 'the' leVeloprnents and transmutations
then going on, were arrested in their pain
fUlly. slow, .process, and, a new beginning
must have.been made with the: opening of
,
the sUbsequent eras. And yet what do we
see, at the .opening, for instance, of the
age following, that represented by the coal
measures ? Not radii ients4 forms strug
gling again for the advanced position'they
had slowly , `suddenly lost; but
entirely new speciei of 'the 'old genera and
!families, , and , Mitirely rieir orders aiid fami-
auimakilattiiiiitof , alfthity for those
4 of`th( -1'64331#-144 afl 'seemingly as
seetirti possession - or 'their speoito oharae
teri; if 0100 altApe.d them by by the
long and ` ` 11!,41 . c1it irociegiti op transmutation
andLidevelOpineot 7 wmagined by „ 'AB Par
.winieris. Word we See a new ,creation
launched : upon ; the Aorld,'„entirely, inde
pendent of andrAisconnected Srom the
one : which- had just: teen swept.. away.
And this., process of destruction and ie
commencement is; in fact, so' frequent, as
alincist to constitute a 'law of the natural
history of living 'things.' The hypothesis
of Darwin - dannot stand before it for a
"Life " says Dana, "has been
•
reintroduced where it had been exterrni
nated,.as, if the system were not , at the
mercy of temporary catastrophes, but
owed its continued restoration and progress
to a power that was independent of all
causes of desolation, and could even use
destilatiOn.as a means of progress!' This
is not the power of - development, but .of
moment
creation.
The Darwinians, it is. true, claim thai
we, have not discovered all that geology
has to reveal; that the seeming breaks
and chasms• in the succession of animal
life may be merely intervals in the records,
which subseqUent`discoveries' . wiil supply.;
and that thuS, by degrees, the whole series
of fedi, now so broken and imperfect, will
be spread before the eye, and will corrobo
rate their theory, ,as it now seems to 4-
pose it. At any rate, then-we might poet
pone the ' serious consideration of the
theory, for the present. Geological science
now understood is certainly most adverse
to its pretensions. Certainly Darwinians
have no right to appeal to it for confirma
tion of any of their positions.
Species are not seen passing into each'
other, in any of the indefinitely long
periods of geology, any more then in the
period under man's observation. The
boundary lines of species, tribes, families,
&0., were :just as distinct • then as they ap
pear to be now. The Post-tertiary Masto
don
. and Elephant of North, America, do
not pLss into one another, or into other
earlier species, or the apes into the species
of man; or, any mollusks, or any articu
lates, through a series of stages into fishes;
or any sea-weeds into ferns or the earliest
land-plants, &c. =
And once more : geology gives the
negative to this whole theory of ;level
opnient, by a , clarions and somewhat
exceptional fact, the powerful . presen
tation of which, in` its, bearing on this
theory, won for the remarkable and
lamented Huai MILLER, .a great' part of
his reputation among the scientific de-
fender's=, of divine. truth. It' is just' the
reverse of what would follOW fronrihe ope
ration of a law of development • 'a new
group of animals appearing at once in the
highest, most elaborate Species of the
group—that which, by the Darwinian
hypothesis, should be the, last—subsequent
groups being.simpler and less advanced in
forms and organization. The first known
fishes are :the highly developed ganoids
and sharks:, - The first of land-plants are
the ferns; the slightly oiganized mosses
come afterwards. Hugh Miller found in
the Silurian or old Red Sandstone a re
markable specimen of a mail-clad fish. Its
remains were then, as far back as 1838, and
still are, among the very oldest
,of verte
brate-..•animals known-to geologists. They
are of the 'first• and 'most ancient knOwn
family of fishes. More than "a quarter ben
tury of 'most active `geblogical inquiry hai
failed to, disPossesg them of that positibn,
and yet these priniitive fishes were so
highly organized as almost to reach the
reptiles. Their ,length, as shown by van
ouslspopimens, was from eight to twenty
three. ,feet. "Instead of taking . their
plitees,”says-..the, Oromarty Stone-mason,
" agreeably to , :the demandsuf the devel
opment hypothesis, among" the sprats,
'sticklebacks and" ininnows of their class,
they ",took their'pliCe among its huge bask
ing-giarks, gigantic sturgeons and billky
swordfishcs.." •
Development philosophers, writing
in
1837, might, have said, as they say to-dayp.
"so much: of the dim remote past is.nno
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1866.
attainable only by inference and deduc
tion," that " the argument is decisive for
neither side." But Hugh Miller's discov
ery, in 1838, of the Asterolepis of Strom
negs, called Pterichthys Miller?: by AgaSsiz,
brought to, light a new period of the re
mote past, furnishing the strongest argu
ment that could be desired against the
theory it was expected to sustain. And
the Darwinians of our daymayfind their
patient waiting for fresh evidence from tlie
domain of geology, terminate in just as
great a disappbintment as that of 1338,
must have been.
In fact', the order of fishes, commencing
with the, mail-clad ; Pteriehthys, shop
through its whole histoiy, down' to the pre
sent geological period, a course mxactly the
opposite,to that indicated by the develop.'
merit tbeery. St 4 by step, ,their meta' ,
hers: -undergo' displacement";and loss ,and
distortion ; 'so that 'an ingenious theorist,
according to'lli."lltiller, could get up is
unexceptionable a theory of degradation as'
of development. The truth is, God's
work of mation, as.a whole, has been one
of progress from lower to higher ; hut as
it on- purpose to forestall such absurd de
duotions as these of Oken, Owen, Lamarck
and Darwin, and as if to mark' more clear
ly each era of creative force, " the slope
of- the inclined plane," in parts, "is laid
in the reverse way, and instead of rising
towards the - level of the succeeding class,
inclines downward."
THE SUNDAY LAW , IN. THE
COURT.
With a tenacity worthy of
. better
cause, the. Union Passenger Railway Com
pany has determined to test, before the
Court in bane, the decision of Judge'
Strong, which so completely overwhelmed
them a few weeks ago. They seem deter
mined, if possible, to secure immunity for
themselves and others who may unite
with them, in 'the violation of the Sunday
law of the State. They are utterly re
lordlewof the : irreparable darnagp 71klok,
they would thus inflict upon some Ofthe
oldest churches in our city. They are
quite— indifferent whether pulpits, from
which the Gospel has been proclaimed, for
nearly a century, shall be virtually
silenced; they are ready to become the
wens of loosening and lowering the
divinely-appointed barriers to vice in a
great city ; and with vehement purpose to
defeat the religious men and to override
the religious sentiment of the, city, and
above all in the short-sighted expectation
of making money more rapidly, they are
determined to remove all obstacles in the
way of running their cars on Sunday.
Thus fir, they have signally failed. Last
Winter, - therwere Wee . defeated'il'Har
risburg. Here, they were met by a de
cision from the Supreme Bench, melt as,
we pray God, the disturbers of the-founda
tions of,public order may ever' meet from
this exalted, seat. Whether-in appealing to
the fiillibench they will fare any better, we
have no better means 'of knowingthan our
readers.' We think they Will be defeated,,
as before. Nevertheless 'we - must follow
them by our excellent counsel and re-argue
our case, in-order tolecure the results we
desire. unanimous, pr :even a majority
decision from the court in bane„ in this
case,`*ould be a viduable 'addition to the
precedents .already accumulated on the
law 'for the proteationpf ",the Pea'oe
of the Sabbath." Let prayer ascend for
a continuance of the Divine guidance,.
which, seems to have been vouchsafed, in
all the previous history of this case.
A decision from the Court ire bane af
firming the opinion of Judge Strong, will
no doubt be followed by a new appeal from
the Railway Company to *the, Legislature,
either for a repeal of the law, or for a sub
mission of, it to a popular vote of our cid-,
zens. ' In either C ease, we trust that the
vigilance of the: , friends of thes Sabbath
and of good morals inithe interior distrietfi
of the. State, will once more secure the
defeat of the sehethe.
It is Worth remarking' here, that the
anti-SundaY movement by no Mona Meets
the approval or countenance ".ofall 4 the
4 .
leading, passenger companies in 'the city:
A large stockholder *ens the i ablest of
these companies, informed ,us „‘ that ; -so: far
from desiring opportunity ito run sevin.
days in :the week,: his .?bortipany would
sooner be , re,stribted to five 'days. rOne day
in seven is sea to' be barelY suffiCient for
the needed rest of the hories and men.
And no 'aid Whateier, in carrying out the
proposed scheMA 'of Sunday;fravel,could
be expected from that great pompany.
Union Passenger Company must, therefore,
foot .a considerable kill of expenses, if this
.struggle, including the making and break
ing of contracts, the feeing of. lawyers,
printing, etc., to say nothing of the
chance of large expenditures at Harris
burg, is carried much further. Whether
proposals , for a first ,mortgage loan of
$lOO,OOO, at ,90, lately advertised by this
company in our city papers, has any
bearing upOn the financial aspect -of the
struggle; we cannot tell.
ANNIVERSARY' OF THEN. M. Cs A. OF
The anniversary exercises of this institu
tion, held in the Academy of Music' . on last
Thursday evening, were of; 'a 'highly en
auratg:.cheracter. The large audience
Ptive.neet'in: i oe2if tlie c hea4y i rain,'ShOwed
the deep interest taken its operations. The
services were well ,planned and effectively
carried
.The addresses .f of theßresi
dent, Peter B. Simons, Esq.,-of Rey. Dr.
Clarke, of Albany, Bishop Simpson, and
Mr. Moody, President of the Young. Men's
`Christian ''Association of 'Chicago, were
admirable, Dr. 'Clarke's address being ip
preciative of what has been accomplished ;
Bishop Simpson taking large views of the
work yet to be done, and Mr. Moody press
ing home, in the most powerful manner,
the duty of the boldest, personal efforts for
the rescue of young men, - and the evangel
ization of the neglectful classes of society.
The statement = read by the Secretary,
Rev. Win. B. Culliss, showed marked and
cheering developments in the recent history
of the Association. A very great expan
siohas been gi'Ven to the .efforts of the ,
Asseciation to furnish attractions to the
young,men of the city,, liable, to be drawn
into folly_aud dissipation. A programme
of entertaining exercises for every evening
in the week, embracing vocal music, free
lessons in elocution, German, French,
ereek. and Latin, a - course of free leotures
on scientific sUbjects, lyceum debates, reli
gious services, etc., has just been put in
operation,'which has met a most enthusias
tic response from hundreds of young men
who_ crowd the rooms and present their
names for membership.. The Library has
,been revised, and entered ; and the reading-
'room is mply supplied with periodicals.
Recent subScriptioifs have liquidated the
entire indebtedness upon the Association,
and in every respect the. Association holds
a most favorable attitude •for enlarged use
fulness.
As in Chicago, New York, Albany and
Washington, so here there is need of a large,
commodious and attractive building to put
the specific effort for the reclamation of
young
,nien on a par with those.which are
ainaed at their destruction. The Associa
tion, by its recent demonstrations of vitality
and vigor, seems determined to prove itself
worthy of the liberal co-operation of the
friends , of order and sound morals in our
city, in their building enterprise. ''Accom
lodations for four 'or five hundred ring
men might be deemed sufficient for a 'lan
do-nothing organization, but when
committees and sub-conmditees of live
Christian men, by their wise and energetic
efforts, are crowding.theSe halls, night, after
with those who , otherwise would b a p
running the : gauntlet , of a thousand tempta
tions, the question -comes up for sour citi
zena, Whether means of usefulness approaCh
ing the vast exigencies of a city-full of
young men, should not speedily be, put into
-their hands.
gor our part, we most earnestly hope
that the career of the, Association will be
onward, and upward. It need have no con
lid:with specific church action, but may
largely contribute to the success of every
other Christian enterprise.
MINISTERIAL SUPPORT AMONG THE
ENGLISH BAPTISTS.
At the Sbision of the Baptist Union of
Great Britain W and Ireland, held in 'Octo
,ber, the inevitable question of ministerial
support was introduced. In the discussion
which arose, •Mr. Spurgeon took a part.
Ile said '
His church comprised 3500 members, but
by meeting his elders" and deacons, and
supervising their work, he was enabled to
maintain a completepastoral hupervision
over the whole. Mr. Spurgeon deprecated
any cant 'or scineamishness as' to ministers
mot claiming their due reward. The laborer
was worthy of his. hire,,and a -minister who
could earn a large income "by devoting "him=
Self to . triae or professional pursuits, had.a
right to have this fact recognised inthe
consideration of his salary. Tie himself had
an,offer once of a partnership id a mercantile
concern, with £3OOO a,year, and perhaps,
might erp
this, he have made his fortune and
retired, had he acPepte'd the arrangement.
The Weekly Review 7 commenting; upon
Mr. Spurgeon's remarks, takes occasion to
urge the plan of payingthe ministry trout
of a common, fund. It says:—
Mr. Spurgeon, we• are assured, has too
much ot,ia statesman's brain not tufeel that
'the, perfect independence and perfect self
respect of ministers can never be counted
upon until their salaries are- paid, either in
Genesee Evangelist, No. 1070.
whole or part, from a common fund. We
have no hesitation in adding that the noble
ness of giving, when payment is made into
a common fund, is enhanced as surely as the
dignity of the minister is considered. It is
a larger and higher idea ,to give in order to
support the ministration of the Gospel over
a country, than to give a certain amount to
an individual minister for preaching to your
self. In one word, the principle of a Sus
centation Fund, as proclaimed and insisted
upon by the grand practical genius of Chal
mers, is the best of all principles on which to
arrange the financial operations of .Christian
churches. The Free. Church has .the best
paid, ministry, And the most independent
ministry, and, on the whote, the beet' edu
catdd and most refinect-ministiY, of any Non
conformist Church in Desistence. The Free'
Church owes that' ministry, under God, to
:the Su.stentation Fund.
We give these suggestions as throwing
light upon a subject which our •churohes
in America must meet, either individu
ally or •in a dendminational capticity, or
suffer irreparable injury.
LETTER FROM IL JESSUP,
BEIRrr, SYRIA,- Oct. 13, 1866
EDITOR. AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN :
The American colonists 'from' Maine have
landed at Jaffa, the ancient Joppa. On
landing, they numbered one hundred and
fifty-six souls, and the same day
.a new
oomer made their number one hundred and
fifty-seven. They have come to await the
appearance of the Messiah, to till the soil
and become permanent residents. They
believe that they belong to the tribe of
Ephraim, and are coming to the Holy
Land in fulfilment of prophecy. There is
a numerous sect in England who believe
that the Anglo-Saxon race are the lost ten
tribes, and this American colony, under the
direction of Mr. Adams, believe the same, :
only in a more restricted sense. I under-
stand, from a gentleman who has seen their
manifestoes, that they are- very exclusive,
refusing to commune with outsiders, and
believing something similar to. Baptismal
regeneration.
They came in a ship chartered for the
purpose, bringing all their own houses, fur
niture
_and implements, having , purchased a .
small tract of land outside of Jaffa on the
Jerusalem road,before their arrival, through
the American Vice-Consul.
We who have resided here for many
years, and know something of the East and
the jealousy of the Turkish government
with regard to all foreigners, apprehended
disturbance and , opposition on the arrival
of so large a colony to locate permanently
on the soil of Palestine. But thus far,
nothing has occurred.
Three months since, Mr. Noel T. Moore,
British Consul in Jerusalem, hearing of the
prospective arrival of a large American
colony of fifty•six families at Jaffa, went to
the Pasha of Jerusalem and told him that
a colony of religious persons was en route
for Jaffa from America, having no political
design, only desiring peace and protection,
and that if he suffered ,theut to be harmed,
he:and his government would be reproached
as barbarians by the whole civilized world,
whereas if, oil the other hand, he gave
them protection' and - :issistancej it would
redohnd greatly to his credit personally,
and to the honor of the Sultan. The
Pasha took the idea at once, sent orders to
Jaffa to have all aid given them, and the
result has been that the Jaffaitesi have 're:-
ceived them with open arms. How hp*
this 'will last, no one can tell.. For the
honor of the American name, it is to bp
hoped that the colonists will demean them
selves honorably and peaceably, and not al
low their religious self-complacency .to
Make them overbearing in their intercourse
with their neighbors and the local Turkish
authorities
The great plain of Sharon, which'
lies east and south of Jaffa, is roamed
over by the Bedawin Arabs, and a few
years since an American family, named.
Dixon,was attacked 'by them, their house
near Jaffa was entered, and some members
of the family brutally - murdered. The
TUrks do not profess to be responsible for
the outrages of .
,the Bedawin, and this new
American. colony, should any difficulty
arise with the government, will no doubt
soon: find the open country unsafe for them.
Therels no use in reasoning .with• t,,he
colonists. , Men who- have' a :Diiine
fulfil prophecy, cannot be expected to heed
the advice of mere uninspired Gentiles. It
is astonishing to 'what extremes` of exclu
siveness and intolerance men will go who
believe that the old, wall :of Partition be
tween Jew and Gentile is rebuilt, and that
they are on the Jewish side.
The Alaine‘,Ephraimites must suppose,
themselves in Aremost ,favorable circum
stances possible:riow'fbr the revival' of the
Judaistic theocracy: When the apostle
taught us that " they -are not all Israel
which -are of Israel," .and " there. is ne
di f ference between the - Jew and the. Greek,"
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dTerence. When he says " there is
neither Jew nor Greek . . . for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus," he does not mean
that the time will come when there will lie
Jew and Greek, and all except lineal blood
descendants of the Jews be in a subordi
nate position in His glorious and glorified
Church. But he does say that " they
which are of faith, the same are the chil
dren of Abraham!' Yet there am some
who belfeve that the temple of,Jernsalem
is to be rebuilt with its altar and sacrifices,
and that the Jews are again to ben distinct
people. In the light of the New Testalkent,
ideas 'seetn'ehinieriCal.. "'There is
neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
unthrournoision, Sarbarian, Scythian, bond
nor free; 'butChrist
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is not strange tliatA jeii who rejects Christ
and believes that the Messiah has never
came, should'have such Materialistic fan
cies; but that a Christian believer with his
Bible , iri his hand arid his eyes open should
thus make void the Gospel, is passing
strange. There must be some "vail upon
their heart," or they could not so learn
Christ '
We have learned with sincere sorrow of
the death of two of your noblest Christian
citizens, Dr. Brainerd and Mr. M. W. Bald
win. The beautiful edifice of the Beirut
Female Seminary owes not a little to the
mun,ificerice of the latter. Truly, his works
do follow him. The slight acquaintance I
had with Di. Brainerd led me to respect
and love hink. May others inherit their
spirit and follOW in their footsteps. The
Church of Christ-has too few of such men.
H. H. J.
CHURCH' ERECTION.
A CARD.
It is very desirable that congregations
making application for aid from the Church
Erection Fund, should furnish as wide a
iango of ,facts as, possible respecting the
churches to be aided. So long as there
•were simply loans and very limited and
prescribed- donations. to be made, only a
general knowledge of the field was indis
pensable. But now, when the amounts
called' for are widely various, and the work
of distinction is rendered correspondingly
more difficu l lt and responsible, too wide a
scope of information cannot be given.
Whatever concerns the character of the
house, the number of the congregation and
of the Sabbath-school, the . population of
the place, the supply of the means of grace
by other denominations, the prospective
inorease of the population to be reached
and the promise of general influence upon
the surrounding country, will be of service
to the Con4ittee.
Tltiitse,congreg,itions whose applications
afready been made, are desired. to im
part any, additional information which may
suggest itself.
And itis.furthermore requested that all
such applicants (who would have been re
sponded to ere this, had it been possible)
will
_Wait as patiently as may be till after
the ;December collection in the churches, as
the kvailable resources of the Committee
are now too low.for,an adequate response.
,F. F. ELLThrwoon, Cor. Secretary.
POPERY' ON ITS OWN GBOUND.—The
Governor ofSeville, in Spain, is endeavor
ing to carry out a decree by which heavy
fines are levied on all who say anything
irreverent of the Virgin, or of sacred
things ; cir;:of Catholic dognrs. English
visitorg"-iiTte especially ann'Oyed by this
legislation. Some of the expressions
which are prohibited are those with
which Englishmen are proverbially
liberal. One day an Englishman passes
the host and omits to kneel—he is fined.
HO passes a chnich or a cross and keeps
onLhie het—arfine. Already, it is stated,
one Englighman refused obedience, and.
calling liih fists to his aid, freed himself
alikedrom the policeman, the fine and
the -lockup. A Prussian, the other day,
thiniini of the laurels of his 'king, was
guilty' of disobedience, and claimed his
nationality as alPrussian as a defence ;
biit this seems , to have been bad policy,
for the fine - in=his case was doubled.
These facts are communicated by a
'Seville correspondent of the Paris
:Temps.
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'AFFILIATED DENOMINATIONS.—In East
liitxingtbn;" gass., the Unitarian and
Universaliat Societies have united under
one pistol., and under the arrangement
enjoying, as says The 'Aegister, the
-Unitarian 'organ, a high degree of pros
perity." In 'Newark, N., J., the 'quiver
sahsts Waie obtained a-new pastor, key.
Gibbs. The Ambassador; the Uni
versalist Paper, says , that since his set
tidnent, the Unitarians of that city
haild abaribned their purpose of organ
izing a eeParate society, and attached
therimelies to the ministry of fr. Gibbs.