PRESBYTERIA:\ BAWER & ADVOCATE. proslortorlsio Boaxor. Vol. VlLtio• 14. prosbytoriam *avowals. Vo XI, if o. I DAVID MoKINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS.-SIN ADVANCE, J)riginal ottrg. My Mother's Boit. There's melody in every land, Sweet songs from foreign clime, Yet loved the most above them all, My soother dear, are thine. The memory of childhood's days Recalls sweet songs to me; The songs we sang, when all at home, Beneath the old roof•tree.. And shall I e'er forget the song, The choicest one to me, The song of love that first I heard Upon my mother's knee? She sang of Heaven, of Jesus there; Of saints in God's employ; Of holy angels' watchful care, Who'd guard her darling boy : And as she'd sing, she 'd press my head (lose to her heart so true; Oh I then, it always seemed to me She was an angel too. My mother's voice, I'llne'er forget, That voice so sweet to me; The song of lore, that first I heard Upon my mother's knee. And now, though all those days are fled, These many, many years, That song recalls my mother's voice, And tills my eyes with tears. Oh, should I, when my time is done, To heaven's bright home attain, I know I'll meet my mother there, And hear that voice again. Till then, I'll ne'er forget; the song, The choicest one to me; The song of love, that first I heard Upon my mother's knee. The 'Presbyterian North-West Seminary. The following very able article, over the signature of " J. M. L.," appeared in, the St. Louis Presbyterian, of December 341, The author requests its traisfei to our' col umns, giving us liberty to issue it at twine ' : Let notie be deterred from reading it. 'The' friends of Synodical control, will, we.thinir, feel that justice is'fully done to'their cause. The article is in a good sPirit. It is very evident, Mr. Editor, as you say, that the Seminary question is now a matter of grave dispute among the churches of the North-West. It is deeply to be regretted that brethren having so much in common should divide upob questions of minor im portance ; yet the ohief duty now for the lovers of Zion is to discuss some of the prin. oiples involved, so that the mind and heart of the Church may be united, and that wise counsels may urge forward an enterprise iso important to the growing interests of our North. Western churches. May I request a place in your columns for views diverse froth those you have hitherto supported, yet urged in a spirit with which I hope you will find no fault ? I do not propose to discuss the nerssity for such a Seminary. Nearly three-foulths of the minority in the Synod of Cincinnati were the avowed opponents of the entire scheme; , ' and a recent writer in the columns of the St. Louis Presbyterian takes his stand for no more Colleges or Seminaries for twenty or fifty years. Where in advance, one genera tion will plane this growing country; •or how far behind the other churches that period of time would leave our lagging Zion; no living man is competent to say. But though, the movement for a new Seminary meets with this kind of opposition, the sentiment of the Church in the .North-West seems truly in favor of the enterprise ; indeed it is a great object before the orethren here, thwarted for many years by various disappointments. Nor is it my design to speak of the per sonal matters, unhappily belonging to this discussion. It is the part of those who have not become entangled here, to keep them selves aloof. For my part, I have never had the slightest acquaintance or intercourse with Drs. Mac Master or Thomas. I have no reason to think otherwise than that mutual esteem and confidence exist between myself, , and Dr. Rice. Since our acquaintance be- gun, no question, that I now remember of, has found us ranged upon opposing Hides until now; and no prejudices against him , have led to my present difference of opinion. The difference of principle between us, I will mention, and will endeavor to maintain, my views. And I may add that I do not design to dimes the vexed question of Slavery. It is my 'firm conviction that with the legisla tive position of our General Assembly upon this subject, our Church is almost perfectly one. So the Philadelphia Presbyterian de ciao after reading all these Western discus gone. So I believe. Yet I use the word legislative, because there are some who die : . like exceedingly the interpretations put upon the acts of the Assembly. The Chnrch. stands upon one common basis; all are agree,4, upon it; but the reasoning is different in the mind of a Northern or of a Southern Pres. bytelian, for reaching the same conclusion. Few Northern men can endorse the reason. ings of Dr. Adger, in the Sout hern Presby. terian Review ; and few will agree with the articles of Dr, Armstrong in the Central Presbyterian. But the great principle of the Assembly's decisions, running through them all and uniting them all together; name ly that simple slave bolding is not a bar to . Christian communion—is one that receives the consent of the Church at large with far , more unanimity than could be secured upon any of the moral questions of ti e day, where a divided sentiment is possible. If legislative action was proposed in our Assem. bly upon the subjects of Temperance, Secret Societies, or possibly of. Sabbath mails, I believe there would be mole division at this hour, upon either of those subjects •in the Presbyterian Church, than upon the subject of Slavery. It seems true, however, that the move ments; understood to be aggressive ,in the . South, have aroused an antagonism in the North. Yet only in one instance, to my knowledge, has this taken the form of urging another " deliverance" on the part of the Assembly to change our legislative position. This met with but little favor; it certainly found little sympathy among those rith whom I ism accustomed to f " ee • so .1 amounted to nothing. The prevailing feel ing of those Who say anything upon the sub ject is to enlaiu why, we in the North hold to the Assembly's past acts. We and our Southern brethren have reached one common conclusion by routes so 4ifferent, that we wish to map out our 'course; and to show that we have not passed'throngh the swampy grounds—" love for Slavery," and "no eman cipation "—that : seep to lie in the regions round abont polu g kkia, and Norfolk. But this question truly belongs not to the matter of the Chicago Seminary. Whether it is possible for the Church to avoid all dis cussion of this topic, forced as it must be from other quarters' Upon the attention of our members,l need not inquire. On the one hand,'if our position is'the right one, it can be maintained; the views our people must have urged upon them, if. we are wholly silent, are false, divisive and dangerous, and upon either topics we seldom allow errorists to hold the entire field. On the other hand, the'question is much involved in :the party politics of the day, is of an exciting ten.: ,dency, and tends, when dismisied, to close up doors of usefulness against 'us." In view of the whole matter upon both sides, the policy adopted by almost all our ministers is to let the topic alone, and I have seldom known it alluded to in one of our pulpits. Yet whatever feeling exists .upon the sub ject, fer the reasons above suggested, belongs not to'the Movementin favor Of the North- West Seminary, During the meetings of the present Fall, none of the' Synods of the . North-West have taken action in the ease as decided as the aotion'of the Synoatif Ohio, and of Pittsburgh., In the North-Westera Synods, 'le matter came before them ,th'rough the paper of Dr. MacNaster, whiPh i sprung out of the controversy Qllgmapany 'question.' But withoutsuch call,'the Synods , farther EaStlave taken up,. the Matter vol untarily and carried it much farther.' Both of these Synods-have thought proper to re affirm,their concurrence with the Assembly's action in,lBlB. The i Synsd of Pittsburgh, it can hirdly hi'ilkotghtlindesignedly passes. .over the lotion of I.B4s;'ese if it &ai ex istende ;* 'while the aotion'of the Synod of: • Ohio seems yet more significant. That body refused to re-affirm the action' of 1845 in direct connexion with that' of 1818, lest the milder 'termslof the latter 'action Shouldreven 'seem irnpair"the' forim 'the , stronger 'tens Vied in the earlier per. ' ' Upon this eubjedt I firmly 'that the • Nnithern Old SPHOl l Preabyf4riiiii churches, in cOreparilenlwith'the Southern, are bore conservative, hold' More firmly and calmly the Asietably's,gionnd, and 'are less influ enced' by opiniohs outside of the Church. Their outside' biluences are pro-slavery and ours abolitioniet, and they have'yielded more than we. ' I judge thus for these reasons— that the tone of defiance and the disposition to agitate, and the restiveness of opposing sentiments belong to them ; that pro-slivery ' views are uttered frequently by them with out rebuke, while abolitionism is seldom found among us and never Unrebuked ; and that, by newspapers, essays and books, Pres byterians discuss the matter there as they do not here. I suppose two things especially allay disaussions in the Northern churches. Ist. Not through fear, feeling, policy or in terest, but from 'Conviction we esteem the Assembly's legislative position right and wise. 2d. We regard the `spiritual interests of the . colored people of the South as of importance infinitely above their temporal condition' and we esteem it our duty to hold 'thitior matters in abeyance lest we be hindered in doing the great work of the Church, But the chief matter which it is Mypres wit design to disouss, is this : • Is the control of the General Assembly over our Theologi cal Institutions 'preferable to theii. control by the Synods immediately about there.? S.L.O. The questiOn isnot a new one. 'The Gen eral Assembly' of 1809 itibMitted the' Presbyteries three niodes'of establishing such Seminaries; for their views on the question. ht. One Seminary. 2d. Two. 3elj :One for each Synod. The advantages of the first plan are t3tated to be, in brief ; larger finds, larger library, amore perfect system'of 'edu cation and union of views and friendship in the pupils. The advantages of the second " will readily suggest themselves from a.' comparison with 'the other two." " The ad vantages which *mid attend the third, to wit, the of Theological Schools , by the reSpective Synods, would 'be the fol.:. lowing - : The local situations Of the respective schools be peCtiliarly convenient for the several parts 'of a country so extensive, as that for the benefit for which they. were designed. The inhabitants having the Sem inaries brought near would feel a. peculiar interest in their prosperity, and' may be rationally expected to contribute to it mush. more:liberally and generally than 'to a single sewed or even to two. The Synods also, having the immediate care of them and di rectiug either in persou'or ,by delegation all their concerns, would feerammilarinterest, and would probably be Vetter'pleased with .a system formed by themselves and therefore peculiarly suited tdthe wishes and "interests' of the several pails of the Church immedi ately under their direetion. Greater efforts therefore may he expected from ministers and people to promotethe prOaperity of qhese schools than of any other. The disadvan tages Of' tine mode would be the inferiority of the funds, a smaller number of Professors, a smaller library, and a more limited system of education in each. The students also ~ would be, as now . , strangers to each other. " Should the latit Of these modes be adopt ed, your committee' are of opinion, that every thing pertaining to the erection and' conduct of each'school, should be left to the direction of the respective Synods. If eithey of the first, the school shonld be sibiect to the control of the General Asiembly.” See r Assernbly's Minutes 1809, page '431. The Assembly of 1810; received answers from tvienty.seven Presbyterms--erin voting against' spy. Seminary, one for two, and ten for each Of first and third plans: Even at that tim'e, as many were for Synodical con trol as for- the control by the Assembly. Yet the ASsembly, because of misooncep; tions urged against the first plan, feltit lib erty to adopt the first without further refer= ence ; and in the circumstances of the Church at that time, I have no doubt they *lt .was proposed in the Synod of Pittsburgh, to affirm the Assembly's action of both 1818 and 1846; but, on deliberation, it was regarded as more appropriate to re-affirm the Synod's own action of 1889 and 1841. The former embraces , the Assembly's action of 1818; and the latter is comprehensive of that of 1845.. See the papers in our issue 9c,Sovember "ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD:" "THIS ONE THING I DO." PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH gIiREET, ABOVE SMITHFIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA. FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATVRADAY, DECEMBER 2611857, acted wisely. Neither of these Assemblies was as large a body as the Cincinnati Synod now. At present, the practice of the Church has already ,passed beyond the first two, plans here referred to. We have two Seminaries under Synodical control, and three under the Assembly. As the Church grows, the advantages of Synodical supervision, will be. come more apparent, and will force itself upon our notice. Indeed the sooner we re cognize it; the better for our Institutiens.. The argument for Synodical control as thus presented in the report_ of the, Assem bly's Committee nearly fifty years •ago,is well worthy of being . carefully pondered now. It is quite remarkable that not, one of the objections to this SyStem, as 'present ed by , them; would now be regarded as of any. force by any, intelligent man: In the great ; advancement of ideas, in the Church, few will question that we may have in all the SeMinaries We are likely to establigh,,as good Profssors, &0., is they ex.- peeted to secure for one; while one of the chief advantages, they sought; tmasso oiate all the students of the ,Church togeth er, is now quite impracticable, and, never could amount to much in even the smallest Church. For the students of the same Sem inary ,dt, not know those that are five years before or, after "them. Fifty years ago the Assembly almost adapted Synodical 'control, and spoke favor ably of it. No* the mere discussion of it, is thought to imply a want of confidence in the Assembly. This may be simply dis avowed, We are Presbyterians as thorough as those who coldly bid us leave 'the Church of our' fathers,' our our faith, our vosis, our 'labors. WO 'prove our sincerity by every just,test to which it can busati.: jecte4. Yet we have•no more confidence in the General Assembly than; we •bave in any kTe,, eight, or more Synods, called to act in, unison upon any Subjedf."' We agree 'in the doetrinal•Standards upon Which the As sembly rests; we love the brethren, with whoruwe.are there assopiated ; f ws cordially support important itotitutions that are • `controlled by the . Assembly, bedause their influence is as wide as the. Church;' and be cause they draw their support,from, the en tire Church, and. ever need, te prayers and sympathies of the great body' of the people. Whatever 'the Assembly ought to do; : ;. whativer it is better for the 'Asseixibly ,to !dry shall have our cordial support;; but the question now, is, will,it uot be 4etter.for our ,Seminaries to place the chief in the ,Synodal - •If .; • • ; • I!luestion-the expediency of 'giVing the, Assembly the control of the Seminaries, I. Upon financial, grounds. All future illheoloOcal Seminaries must be established in view of this as the settled policy of our gburch; that we are to have many Seminaries If, this is indeed the policy, then - each new Seminary must draw its endowment chiefly from..the .Synoda about it; and these 'Synods are the=proper and most efficient bodies to , take measures that will secure the needful funds. Indeed it may well be, called in question, whether the influence of the Assembly has .ever amounted to much in securing, the „endow-. ment of any Seminary. Princeton , may seem to be an eioefitioti. But When endowed, Was the :sok Seminary of the. Church •;. it stood ; in the same relation, tattle whole Church.that now a new Senn nary would, sustain to the surrounding Synods'; and as' an exceptfon,-it' makes ev erything in 'favor of the 'present argument: And it may easily lanshown that the whole Presbyterian ,Church of 1810, was inferior in., resources ~the seven Synods, of, the North. West that up to this time, have been engaged to sustain'the Serniriary at-Phica go. In 1810, the entire Presbyterian', Ohnrch contained four hundred and thirty four ministers, seven hundred and seventy twe churches, and twenty eight thousand nine hundred 'and'one coininunicanti; while these Synods in 1857 reported. four hundred' and , seventeen "ministers, six hundred , arid seventy-four churches, and- thirty-fiva thou sand two hundred and -forty-two communi cants, These seven Synods then, are larger than ' the whole Church that established Prineetcor Seminary. ' When farther we. consider the altered times `>and= views, the eallaupon the A:hurdles the, habits of , giv ,ingl and, the amounts; contribrited,:it is as easy to ice that the entire' Chfireh could then less easily endow Prineeten; than these Synods . can Chicago. '`ln-fact,-the whole re ported, contributionag 1810 were $5,439; while in 1857 these Synods, i exclusive of Presbyierial and congregational eipensei, report of 'benevelent contributions raised upon their field, $87,000. r If the Assembly was as small now as it was then, if ,the en• - ergiea•ot all the Church were directed to the control of a single Seminary, our, present argument Would be needless. But 'aside *oil Princeton,' which had much the same advantages that we now seek for the NortipWestern Seminary, what, other Institution,has i derived any, real advantage from its • being under the Assembly's control?' Is it the 'Western Seminary it Allegheny? How long was that Institution- left to strug-. glein feeblenees and. embarrassment; only increased by the may in which, members of the Assembly, and upon the , tloor,of that body, Suffered theinseltres `to speak' of it? TheSynode' around that Seminary , did fur its support, substantially, all that was done; and , they; w,01114. llaY,ff, done it better and, sooner if,,relying Apbn their ‘ own resources; they had been relieved of the chilling influ ence exerted by the AsSembly: It may be. very well now that Alleghenyiefter the strug- . glen of a quarter of a century, has risen above a bare existence to a rank of honer and respectability, to point'to it as showing the Atseinbly's fostering Care. 'But 'how can we forget, , that outside of the adjacent Synods, Allegheny was a scoff• for years 4 that the echo of these railings has scarcely yet died away from the tails, of the Assam:- bly that the uselesi jaaironage of the As-. setably held. out hopes that were never real ized) that the fear' constantly excited that the Assembly would remove the Seminary, hindered the exertions ; of its , friends, and kept back contributions upon their own field for yetita ;' and that the final'success of Allegheny has been secured, not by the As, sembly's efficiency to endow it, but by the rise in value, and •by the sale of property granted' for its use by the State of Penn sylvania. Shall we then have the Seminary at Dan ; villa pointed out in proof of the Assembly's . . efficiency in raising funds.? Danville gives no such proof, The friends of an institution at that point came to the General Assembly 'in 1858; With the means IP their hands to make the Sethinary as successful' as it has hitherto proved, before.the 'Church at large knew, one woad upon the sukeet. The funds thus secured, were raised by an energy which the Synods could put fortih better than the Assembly coeld. Whitnowthas the Agsem bly added? , ITwo years'after it , bsd 'estab lished that Seminary, the Trustees officially informed the!General Assembly that,spplica- :, tion for funds outside of file Synod of Keil . tuoky " had sigma* fail d." . Aitirwards we are informed that thhomiSsioenfaDra: Humphrey and Hill meta' vorable, response, . 'Very well, they could h a'done all this", had. the Seminary been controlled by thaynods ' about it. There is le fraterdal . feeling per vading the Presbyterian , Milt& which w'ould. have given' them, weleo eqis cbriiiii phlid.:4 they been respectfully s 4.: a lu t tkipsilak - Itir: mi l t Synod of Keetucky. ~,, a ypt 0,9. oollegeST` even those under inereryPresnyteral,‘ not to say Synodical control; have received large assistance from distantontribittiorsi , VPar may the. day be ,distant when ourinstiontions , --Presbyt,,erial or Synodipal- n are .shpt. out ' from the sympathies of the cihurehaatle'rge, because; hus' controlled:'` It is 'Oertidliffr no wish or'mine to I cut afPilteee 'Elyniflithies; , nor do I believe that thisrekgurnedrtifids at all in that direction. Eierythipgr,J4tt:his been „done , for Danvillp l eptdd,,,han t iliien. , done—better dorm and, sooner done , if i in stead of taking tlindNitteti by eurpriti ) riiio ' establishment, theft, hihrbeen 11 inii' 'enti' openand above board, te reata,blish it,' . go ,Synods. . 1 ; : ~ li4 ; ' r.r.itt ' , ' After all, to, what haye tire,,Asee ~,. blyl ' ' Pledges amounted ? . Not a stelae has et,' l yet;' - ' been atDanville,4vitij , dollar EA ute'd'i could I have been otherivine'igatherif ; l ite. - especial friends, feel:grieVed that; they. Ave''. leaned upon the ,Asfembly'A ~p.roridae4 .gid i ,", only ,to .be disappointed 4, and, the, rein 't,ers, ' and churches North of, the Ohio rive will' 'easily recall 'With 'what ininise and Ind pa-' , Con ,they found, Altemselvesr eterrity. inia` harshly, arraigned before therflepeKal'Astern,-:' blyas COVENANT illizek ; lFEßsr for-pegleceng a work which we had' in ,no wise felt our,' selves' bound to"do,' and 'Concerning 'Which' we lierevprite unaware thatkwe 'sierepledged; And since the charge; our consciences ;have' not responded to.it,. , D,r,„ltlee,, on 4,44;13 2 , sembly's floor, disavowed any such, , pledge, , an f d "achuiaieed ' in' 'tibe . reinarle of another meiribef &lit the Athietribly does - --Whietthii Direothrs Arid Trusteetamppointed ;by titria. „In other words to . endow. , an, , Asette4dO'S ' Seminary, is to,appint,:Directors wA9 ;it'll raise 'funds where the Churches are disposed to receive them Thm him been, and ever will be, the practical result. - . [CoNcLirsrombagrr Trßrit:] From our London Vorreopondent.- Iron. Cam, ...4batinia,priz i N, ' front.:hicla- - ,!,-, Offiewl - bispatchtia rr gavgack 4a * *O A , "made Baroketi:-Wha a llkelfial Di c es -The ' India Comiany Doiniiedr'-The i" Times" on the Ainerican: Crisis, anci,„New Tel* Street Demonitriirijea's-,-- ~ The Moral Dedu4d-LTbe Dissenters, and ..ezete:r Mall Preaching The'Use of Me Literrii-I-Mr3 Brock' a 4,36.70mi 1 1 -The 4 ' Union," , 7 Me Bishop of .London,' : ondok,' and the, , g Presbyterian Canventick '— ' Neto Carit'ature.s--mal. 'Spurgeon. iind'Re Bithoi, ' The; Slow:"c'oach And the , .Expreas ! Engine-4 . . Sponsorship for the thousadd kat .r,,0),1d0p ,Wo4-, ' hause-'-tSfionsarslin' 'de' Wstab'tiihinitir-2-/titoitly --Remarkable load/ of 'Religion itz - Seotland The and -i. e Lay-•fach t ct the„broblemata T Thi,Queep. Rim and Mr.' * Cair , - arid Evangalirm—" s Mistreat Albert'"! -and- bee Dyisightii—The *gine:est “Jea -; Godly , Girr—pr, . kivingratone—Dr. • ,Oullen's i Pamphlet---The railer-The Indian Relief And— The Mo'rnicin Question:* ,* ,g. • ; 'l' ' ' •.; ' ' ' ' ThrinoNi Noveiribei 27, 1857. L , The , ship whiCh bean this leter , ' , will early out good riewsf '+ . . e . .1 First, the , Commuituisr. Cuisis,-is , fast abating.. , ,Months, indeed; must r.PqR 9, AWaYI and much sufFermgmust be endured throng t `the dark - and' dreary 'Winter 1)3 , the itniiking blattseg. -Mit still"the country ii , not ruined, - and.% the midst of chastisement; God: re: members mercy. If one was sure.of, ngen : oral eleyation„ of, the , standard, of, coninler-,. cml moderation and morality on boat' sides, of the Atlantic, and a reduetiOn in those habits of luxury,Whichalways,Markfthe morel' decline 4 great, nittitms, „there, w,ottlytbe, res. , • son, to bless God more and more • for the re 'fining fiie of affliction. , FROMINTA comes , cheering newe,, also The frigitive „mutineers ` .from pelhi 'pursued and roitted. LuCknOw, we trus,t,,,, sate, and' a'' largh ' force".and'ertvilafelock! 'there, The. /most Central- India-quiet; and Agra saved from, messacre„ 3 f ( The, Bout= bay Prssidencgwith some exceptions,r)quiet; - and "liladran'tiaiquil. There 'is :Mitch re- Mains, to lie done,. but India is' virtrially re conquered.. In many parts of Bengali there, ,will be a wasting famine among the,,popribi; The Adel dispa chea ° from ; India, cx ' tending' hack' over several raohtlis, irk Many of 'them-written)* officers who lavereither suceumbed,to:diseasei or have , felledlirribar, tle, ,have just ; _ been ,published, The brief.,, but spirited' reports by of. his battles; and his frequent referencei AO hie Highlanders, stir the' blood,' tur you. read them. , The,,gallant Neil and Nicholson give more detailed accounts,. in. a style admirably clear. Alas ! both have, since periehed. The East India Company are ihout tO'settle 14, pension on the widow of General , Neil, ofs. 4500, per annum, besides :the .usual allow . 1 ances for the family of an ahem- of his rank wholes been killed, in battle. There isbut little doubt that there will be monument* erected both to 'Min and Nicholson; it the nation's expense. ' Havelock And Wilson have,been.,creataill Baronets, s with f.Pensi.olls4, This ~haS, given gieat satisfaction. The Times calls it, step in the right direction," but argues that both should be made them. It is to be remembered ,that. all, that has been accomplished in India, htes been done before the arrival of troops sent fr4m. Eng , These were beginning to reicili Ind* , :toward. the end of October. , •But ithe /East , India Company hired. sailing, , instead of F steam vessels, at first, and the former :were.- very very slow in their program, being toted by winds and calms. The increased expense of steam ships was the bigbetir—wa penny wise " policy which might have cost us , the, loss of India. Bid; thanlt Providence, we shall now get rid of the Company. As soon as Parliament meets, the total abolition' the Company's gOverittnent will be- Ordpouni, by Ministers. This, be a mostpopular. stroke. If there , ; was anything c needed to intensify the national desire for the direct control of the Crown and Parliament, it would be doings and mis.doings of the Su preme Council at Calcutta, apparently a set of rod-tape, heartless, and godless men. They have !iri,nally insulted the. European residents, by requiring there to register their arms, in common with the natives. Lord Canning hasrnot 'been independent enough to controlAbeii folly, or false ''• - , -The PROTAGATION SOCIETY held dgreat! meeting here, yesterday. !Thechief .apeak ars were , the,Bishopdof Lon4pnand.Oxfor4. The missionaries of the Society in India are to be doubled, Bid a voiide" minisiiA es pecially is to bee-lined at: That is the true policy for all Christian! missions there.!! The: Church Missionary !Society is to be asso ciated in the erection of an intended church at gew,npore ti: gym the well into-.74:biehl tin!) Aleek4.;h4aleir anaerciee Laken revs -s ll . l l )3 Ffb 1- ,°r't 7 7o9#9FP , %-) °Pinta I thig*: cowardly policy of protecting caste !and.! of Concealing'Chriatianity, to the,sprit!and; , conduct the'Jeitiel ;"..11 let Will Man go, the Ramans will come. and- take‘aWii our.t)tate, Itrid parenationll •,v,f 1. Last night;: Lord. Shaftsbury give, lea' public ! , address, Bernet horrible -details, of English indignities ; and-sufferings 54., Ca;svnPo t re,i and iCtf,:ttlekildTOn ,reserved, in cold, blood s , to. be mtVbioruf3lV, and anatoniit" callyput to death, . ; before being finallypdt to death." ;:Probably ; the -nation.:would' not have been. aroused-:to, its ',neglect, and ;,future „duty,' but' fordthese.things.l,, sub"?; ‘jeetlf i Mead rfireuggeitir l e "les i ding licielte the It'relintirks on the long 'utcliroyeli" prosperity ifninterrepied ipt,O grass :`of Cilia' Neiv Iltrorld-? Anaierit-ii hits hardly had " r tiliatdry,Litt the Modern ;anal sombre sense Of the Veruilu' itWhile the Con- Itinent his - "been bOnifithiedilif ait rev whild'eteri:Englindlies IA to fight fier way thiongh•tvaiii,oinsuireetioni;land'"stlikesr America has'seen 'hertivilyebleitr‘liefeA her, and "'has , only te Id. Ind oectiriy, to • plant and reafk"thblinereikeyeo elfin:ate and receive the hle'seihgs of 'edu'cation"' I i , 3 . The very Pieseetity of the United' States has.mailetheipeaple' weary and ir"r"itable, •time4eflthe#.'haksiiiiike. Ma'freciple t 'S' eel camenal PettidUially"'toward: England;'lof their 'deidre'toytteriteirery, conviisati•Or' it ''channel' 11 shall, draw --fortY America and her iniltitaliOnsi Much' of ' their eneouri ' agement to'filiiisteriiir end 'etberinisi t itul: tins, and such`'like • ''elcestieS,' arise 3 !Fein -a• feeling that the lardy ; great enough for-her. --Prosperity is not a sufficient :spbstitott3:ifeclglory. It is ; enough to conquer the wilderness, to build vest cities where the Indian' and the pan'., ,- ther wandere'd in the life-time of men still young ; the Anierican people seem to tire ;; of this , monotonous and uneventful.prosper"-, af- thiii•ver and: the unbrokettHstnnOthnekstial:Athkii pat they :tread." • • • , Americans cap hest estimate how much of truth' and ,justiee ' are, to be found. in these, staleibeUti:; 'MY object is them` What the- fiEtijriftg alietietlietieserie Itigoes-on to dwell:toddle' novelty of-enforced" s idleness, of raultitudehfitho l depand on:laboir for their daily 133.c:843 1 ,1mA lays ,tliat,wp : 11 , 139 ; have 'suffered so otteb in this way, m3d : isho. even' non , ' hive so' many ` 'age or age to eutirvirt'hy:Pbor , La*" " feel. for the.-imsery tritiwwhioh the , popnlaJi 'Lien, of, the :A.tlantid,.eitiee, are t:_hreateemi. l l , . Reference W is theumade to, the sufferings of, the Irish and 'alirmani, to the hunger - ineetitlo," and hantiaril - cribtid with the' words, " Work or Deitlilm , these demonstrations-not-to native America'' feeling as: to :propiiity and political econoinyi: but to the multitudes, that haye gone to Ain:erica from Parlaisulynikehops, from Ger many,`Sivitierland, and Italy. The' Times exPresnei strong ' ' confidence that 4orsf :is last, that the vast( pro:Aube of the West and "South, bring :Wealth. into. the country, and,lhat the merchants who, "have fallen . *3ll Spring up, with, true . American elasticity, 'their"Plices Will filled by; 'others," that kenerai'priliparity, er•3 twelvemonth's eVer, will 'return. in=. dividual sufferings will =: be great, and with this the heartiest sympathy is expressed. i . The article closes by,the deduction of " moral, rhthar a' principle." The ilesti= tntioli in the ithintio"cities remind' American! , how inubh their social condition' is, tending ,to similarity with our own,- and : they may ,learn to look onus *ith more indulgence. , The .. facit „which, all re ' oent' more - ,indulgence ieachet4 u is' the '847.4,164 of economical over political laws. Mit that Forms of Government have not their effect: Northern sealboardr States,. orewded With arnigrants, will have . ; great ~diffionities' to .str4gloe„,ith7, ;Bat, !,‘ here,f4 power of amalgamating the races, gives ai surance that Americana even' with the most stblhOrn materials which Ire land. and eentrif Viiiope"can Piodiee." natal is rolil friend 'to limanitY; •to tion, to the.progress of liberty and truth, all the world over, who does not heartily : Wish that such suemsgcmay be yours. To win stioh.encoess„the Bible and theAospel, the. College, the,'RlllPi, ,common Schools,' will he amid "an arniory l of,prool. Without these dimacritCY fell in olden es. With. ening theseffnlly leaysoojety, times... glad`-` , den angels, mbody before the, nations what a Christian people ought to be, and radiate, hallowingitwide a benign and in nenee,as as, the limits of, the globe: The DISSENTERS OP LONDON. have opene4, a series of Winter services on the evenings of :Lord's - , Hall., This is done ;ins consequence ?of.,thet legallobstruiti tons thrown- in; the : way.of the resumptioii: of Episcopal and Evangelical preaching In, that central poiition. Mr. Etionardithe fri cumbent, complained that it s injured the al,- ftenda,noe; 'on ..the ~0133ireh of ',England , set` vices, and • took advantage, of a• slaw' forbade, another 'clergyman :trespassing on ;the parish of, the regular incumbent,`' Driven thus • from Exeter Hall,' i the .Evangelicali bad arranged for preaching in St. , Martin's Halt-; but here, too, a High Churoh rector said " and thp movement is arrested: A Clergyman of the Church of Englanti" writes admirably on the subject,: in a, letter to the Times. He takes Mr. Edouard to task. I.f,by, his prohibition he meant that his chinch :4d been sbern, of its congrew tionor z oilier, neighboring, churches, or :if he meant that the Church of England gen erally suffered by aervice in an " uneorise , crated building,' then there are two alter. natives. If the fornrer is his meaning, then the matter of moment with him is not, how can the greatest 'number of ,ignorant! and perishing souls, be ipstruoted.and saves`.but how can the greatest number be brought 'to his own and other ,ilnrtioular' ohnrches.r But if he meniiii the' latter, then whit does he think of , the :wisdom: of this.,course? Dissenting ininistersithe i ablestilio*,,preaoh. in Exeter,Hall,:and crowds of„Churohmen: will be there. "Who sir," says Lire der, Omen, " 'snow the damage of the Church? Whd is baiting her Ministration's Into the hack-ground, and:diving 'needless promi nence to Dissenters? And yet such me the men, who boast oflheir Ohnrchinauship, 'are readito denounce .others as enemiesr-Of 4,14 Establishril'ent." TheiMorain:q=Pokrhawalways sfaid,ih the name of Fl ighz , ehurahmetr, g,f.:WhYtio t , open r . t lgitilEfittferarSsd eStLeR r arediffiqultcot in ci ththry * lfwtit3hoPe. Hest, oven ff Chapters''and . ad` , `might no ber able: Co' hear in .thnseq vast bull inge j ~fit t &ply t , far ,ithe. , tolianthig .I!salins,,,and,ithn i strairts of t the p,ealingorm- • Next, half the„neople themselves would not be ispoaecl to R, to t3neh;places Shat the td attract lain; is `a#plane; the mini go Vithdtite fielinglkeds nau church, lag di thus, he is .-we4beii( offshisnare-, 497= .Ent A49,mi.thox i ilicP •1•0 tbA. 'Oathectyais will try the esperiment,,then let } diem sanction tits PAnigiios; such Were'ininhaert to iireadh Gospel "—=%.irords to -which," ,says., the, reporter of, the Time=s. = - e 4 74 4k, e nnastike, l ue• most n i gt#, , Chri t hrnaii." "Very'munii mistaken Yoilire,, deazt Reporter. 4Wliat I ree , °game ,Brook; any nther like him, ",a pastor'?" Afather, ,such pastors„desertel • the doom . of Korali;Dathan, and Abiranr.4 "was' it the Other day, when the,. itialihOriiiiina at oe Tait's 'attekidainito , at 4 . a: Prenhyieriat Cdriventi, ctle," t , whonlhe was.last - (atteritiotr Print:ielleny; l WilidoWs: ney , represent two otnnibuies tin tthe,atteete of LTI4PLitt , 4 tPf- o ,ne.9f the#eiAr-. §lpsfirg4on is 'the conductor. 'The likeness gob& `VViih'bnis 4 foet on his proper stan d, and t h e etilif;stietehed out; ati'd.witli raised,, and tspltaking oPen , • smiling countenance, be, invites passengers 10, enter the om nibus, ,ori! the; back , which,„tjuit• above the ; door, apPear, the, words "patent " 'safety, Olutle, on the door'iteelf, is prifiteti n "Sorry Gardens ;'' and '"'"Park, • Street Chapel:" The'omnibtulappearsquiie` , I,apth outside, and in: ether has for its ,conduqtor ) 11 , Bish l ep ? with ,d"rooped hat,ittnii;blaCk artrot,2. A'ilpepy , dignitary is inside l The pied The 4 , Fares,P , 16 fainted' on the dooi, the words,•'! St". Paul'si"WestininstentlfulliaraP appear above and arnnod l it t ri, , But, a still „,better, pair of caricatures, I pre‘ume fioirt,the ante' hand, and the jeots the sei ne, 1 / 4 0T1 Coach, ";, and` ' 1 ( The Modern ' Eipteis?' • ' for i mer,' yon. see, it four.wheelektplivati m car. • with ; *s.bewieged old coachman on the' boc, ? arit:l a Bishop inside 3, in,the jatier l , Mr: Spurgeon ' sits joyously t 'aetride (with — hairs itreathitig 'in the wind,) eittinft,.• • as it rushes on' at; the rate of sixty wiles hour:. - .0 7., • RED-TAITIBM IN - THE entritar; hia - just received an extraordinary :elucidation: "Well-wisher of. the Church who I hife reason tO . ,,belir3,,is the Surgeon of a West; End parish, in a letter to. The I?e&ird, der, tailirfaatsl6 the following purport': There lately' died, the' 'workhouse, -an old -man named Samuel --Allday.. a• god-4` filer 49 All Ma*: . ',.4t 3 Eit.9 0 .4:g94-flit , kfir for pariy.years, to all , the obildrdn born the work house. it Mattered' t'o'hifti' wliCilier Wilithe *retched Wife, 'deserted': by ilititqilnfeeling husbas ;of the fisunting, frail ; onepwith unblushing frent; of brsss • or of the poor hreken-hearted victiM of the vile seducer; asked'ikl kindly Mood foi" mall: lresitatnd , not to renounce the .'devil and all hie. works, the vain pomp arid glory, (exotiesAn work-house,) and carnil,dcsiree of ike world ix:pre-Si his surd faritleelinf, hid desire for bapfiiiiiit—in`short,Ttcliii,dmidS every'" thing' for' the inoondoions inrioddntti; r,oay, eyony promisedqo: briog(theioAll Bifh,l ) Po • and to tR1A94 11 ,°1 4 in t'4, ;vlilgtql „ton* (whic h was very epmpe the .ue n t i The oldlifintid bric to f Mica' ton.** ifbr afikae. ; amid ehi/VeivP- ' F \ This is an extreme oase„ but it 'of a fedifillY into n k 'To recognize ' , sponsors ' ` as Church of England does, other tl}4h the parents, and actually to thrust the paimitiT to'one side and. to make persons Ithkkivoti have'no intention to perform- them, and ; PT a clergy man tVii bat service,- with Tetoome , befete him; giq ing assent to his questions, who, as faill ionabie IrientisizhaVe , come tc,47bitge thehi genteersecisilitinoei;- initeterinitio to go home with therm " , to 'dinnermaking ;pre& Philadelphia, 111 'South Tenth Street, below Chestnut By nail, or at the Office, *1.50 p e r., Titr4SEE PROSPECTUS. Delivered in the City , 1.75 WHOLE NO. 274 ~• . „ . entato the ,bithy'of the ," white robe" and the,'„" silver ' spoon,") or _else, poor persons' sponsors,. who. are either notoriously igno rant, or wicked. S The Evatiplicals must groan under these Tti:e,reli A ltion of discipline in this Way is shacking; and often, in Ulster, for *example, Episcopal ministers will baptize uthelhildierr of Presbyterian parents, who will not sub r mik i to.seresure from their own ;so*.; rnitnis ern. 'lth a/4-iab "is thus, in Ul - naive ere now applied to a Church, which welcomes Presbyterian fugitives from a _ , . A.4IEMARICABLE REVIVAL of true relig ion has taken, place in the North of Scot ,land, marked ,by features peculiar, and in sonic degree unprecedented. To say, noth ing of the large circulation of religious tin by , the Tract and Book Society of • Seotland, and ita Numerous Colporteurs who pervide - avety town,-and _hamlet, and visit dtbttlit .rests are tieing athieved toy-preaching, in connex ion Th. 0.1 ion wit tract tat!'" ahem • several` Epia copalian gehilleik;en , of 'rank and 'fortune, have bee - eine d6tiVerts to Christ, and that after ii t fOr 'Yeara in "Carelessness. One of Fthissetteganibliranda patron of the Turf, T V/Es ~plyietttpcl s by, conviction at the open Efev t e,,e,f, ?le its!, bis,,boon t companions. • To.oir of,'two of them, the pulpits of the Pree Estatillihreent, , and Con ' iieratioftilbits'aitgthroivik 'eon; andlens of tliotteands.havethus heard the Gospel, with ettgeAos,a it from the lips of laymen, as in the days of the Haldanes. ,At Aberdeen,where the u.se,, , etl P one of: the Established Church n 'pkiiitiikWatiailied r , the clergyman refused. t'etJtAlidiseliat the 'Speaker miglitetand. flanitsitieltirectdipit on "theistairs, sheik also bargained-with-him-that he was not to pro noutge .thp*..A.losroliollienediction. These t t eplis t waro„asseuted t to, and fi fteenkundred were addra'Se9d With . ancitiort and power, and ' ere n ci itti the aenti:reluetant Chnrchman IVA; drat WM° `-the-ipulpit would be openttb3thefia3ripreaoher.i . „The young Eearl of. Ken Ore, brought to f i tilltleeie z ien, ,by the, influence of Mies M'aritk; ( kautlier of the Memoirs of il'edleYirioars',f4taiiiig at his house, has liiriachlistfitheitifdagketinel into a Chanel, cwliere Ahisitenantry are legtilarlY assembled ,stprehip.:. iii Vie, Earl and ,his „Countess are most actiTe ,in doing good amo n g the tenantry. Bat=4nd this I have from the best autherity e r-wilat ilk still more inter eaten, tao re important , is that the • Queen; - rT rinee Albert, an d the Princess lioyalOiavelfedome inore and more Evan , gelical: in„..their views and feelings, this chiefly front tharesialts of Mi. Caird's cele ibrated iserreeit at the parish church of Ora tts(iei lasi year:' This year, at the Queen's "desireilhe.preachted again, and with the /greatest faithfulness. , Weighty and solemn ~: d iscourses, also, were delivered by other em inent men,, amen. the rest, by Dr. Robert 'eon; of Edinbtirgh, in whose ischeme for vtitlildinetridNindehliiirg' a large number of 'new chapels for destithte - lietriettri the Queen has.-taken- the deepest interest, and subscribed to:it £5OO. „Iler.„,Majesty is accustomed to, go out, When at: lialmeral, among the cottagers, in 'he 'plainest - dress, and the "simple people called her "."Misitress Albert," and feel quite at home with her. From her hands A they,reikeiye many a precious book or tract. including f , our. Tra ct Society's "Leisure Hour," arid "Sunday at Home." The Prin ' Ceis - 'ola!, the bride-elect Of the young yiinde tf , Prubsia, liar 'been equally active and useful. This last Autumn, the young i l ady,Aook,a most affectionate farewell of the cottagersoind in several, cases - she wept on parting" with them. Indeed, to use the lineage of one Trim whose lips I heard all thin; L'an'd *bet he said to be true to ,-`fact p ‘f there is r rbason to believe she is a godly ; girl." Sorely, _ , for these tokens of and revival in, these dark days, praise sh ould ascend W to the ng of kings. 1, - Du. LIVINGSTONE left England this day for Portugal. _Re visits the King, at Lis bon, with i nv;iew.to secure the zealous co operation 'of the " P'ortiiguette Government, *hese territories, on the Eastern odast of :Africa,-'the: adventurous traveler :-.Patriesat passint, to reach the heart of the great,Africen Continent, to pursue his mag pitieent discoveries,. there, and to open cen tral' .Africa`' to tome; through the great poises through •theriPorttigueria -possessions, and empties itself into the -Mozambique Channel. I be . lieye _that Dr. Livingstone will not take his final deg:attre from this country for Africa, toiieree thiie.N I was informed last week by -Tr:. Tidnien, ^Secretary of the London Missionary Society: 'Curiart has published a monster 'finifihret reply to Lord St. Leonard's letter of denial, that the Crimean Charitable Fund had been perverted to the education of RomishAdren in the . Protestant faith. ; in it fully analyzed by tille r papers - The Pope has forwarded money contiibhtion of £4O in cluded,) for the sufferers from the Indian Mutiny, but arOullen is to be the distribu 4wiliffaiguprobably be sent 'tint to 'iltrebisilltrifeits in India, for the restoration o,fdemglished chapels,. or the use of the nun . neriesin India ' The general Patriotic Fund ,;• d now fast approaches the magnificent sum of .E300',001). - ' Part of this is from the Conti . tient; ..E.14200,and upwards, has come from Hainbu.rgh alone.- The' news' of the DELAY or THE EXPEDI TION Ta•t of American troops, has been receive&with regret here. The Times ItiWtrn aFttAc-on ; Mormonism, in connexion "".,,temporary triumph." The .li4 rinims are' ti c fond of Old Testament al lusiniut.;"( & t it the. Federal forces will be com !pare* to thenrmY of the four Kings whom Abral la i nov artook,=to the Ave Kings whom t hshrlsovertook," - Ac. M. Buchanan will t atikd for , Obederlaonier i ;,'thOKing of Elam; lor'itSliik; 'for Gohah; or Nebuchadnezzar!' As to Motiridn 'hoirrage, it is "a brute pas rsiou—the. rage oflegata disturbed near their feed." 1 4,1wanaprojty clear that the United States croxefumput must have a large army for this business An overt sot of treason has andthese &ratios seem fisit;f6ll6 - 'llishink on thifir own destruction. Alas for the dupes and' victims of this vile imPostlWe t J.W. P. S.—Prhicipal MacFarlane, of Glasgow, ~long: knows ass leader of the gt Moderates," in the Scotch Church, is dead.