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PRES -. :,.YTERIAN. BANNER & ADVOCAT D tiresbyterhui Beiaiser, Vol. VI, Rs. 44. Frubyterfoua Alive/ to. Vol. 1119 Mei 39.1 DAVID IifeKINICEY, Editor and Proprietor. VAENS.-IN ADVANCE. rightal Mtg. The Christians' Rome. We 're traveling home to heaven above To sing the Saviour's dying love; Millions have reached that blessed shore, Their painful trials all are o'er, But still there's room for millions more. We're going to walk the plains of light, Far, far from death, and cares, and night; The crown of life we then shall wear— The °emperor's pajm we then shall bear, And all the joys of heaven share. We 're going to see the bleeding Lamb, With joyful songs to praise his name; Our sun will then no more go down, Our moon no more will be withdrawn, Our days of mourning past and gone. The way to heaven is straight and plain, Repent, believe, be born again ; The Saviour cries aloud to thee, Take up thy cross and follow me, Then shalt thou my salvation see. 0, could I hear some sinner say, 0, could I hear him humbly pray, And all his old companions tell, I will not go with you to hell, I long with Jesus Christ to dwell. Mansfield, May 29M, 1858. for the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. Mrs. Jane C. Patterson. The recent decease of Mrs. Jane C. Pat terson, the venerable relict of the late Rev. Robert Patterson, in the 80th year of her age, after a life so long and so devoted to the, service of her Divine Master, deserves more than a passing notice. Seldom does death claim as his victim one so gentle in spirit, so quiet and unobtrusive, yet so faith ful, in the discharge of every duty, and one who so meekly, yet closely, walked in the footsteps of her Redeemer. Mrs. Patterson was the third child of Col. John Canon, the founder and proprietor of Canonsburg, Pa., where she was born Deo. 20th, 1778. Slue was the . last survivor of her father's numerous family. Her early opportunities for acquiring an education, though extremely limited, were carefUlly , improved; and her taste for reading, joined to her natural quickness of observation, ren dered her the superior in information of merry who had much greater advantages in early life. In' her childhood and youth she shareil in the hardships and trials of the early settlers of the West, of which she retained, to old age, a vivid recollection. Her memory went back to the times when the Indians were no unwonted visitors in the settlements of the whites; and the hospitality of no one did they enjoy more frequently than that of Col. Canon. She well remembered the build.: ing, by her father, of the old inill'in Cadens burg, one of the first in all the West, and to which the farmers from a great distance around brought their grain. On one occa sion advantage was taken of a high stage of water to send a boat, freighted with barrels of flour, almost from the door of the mill, by the tortuous course of the Chartiere, at that time unobstructed by other dams, to the Ohio,- and so onward to New Orleans. The clearing up of the country for more than half a century, may possibly account for the present thread-like appearance of the stream, which certainly does not suggest the idea that Canonsburg was once the head of navigation. Mrs. Patterson also remembered the build ing of the stone Academy in. Canonsburg in 1791, when, though but a child, she assisted in preparing the , meals for the workmen en gaged in its erection. Indeed the entire history of that Academy passed under her eye, from its commencement in 1791, until its charter as a College in 1802. With all its teachers during that period, and with many of its students, she was personally ac quainted; and of the character and standing of almost all, she had some knowledge. Many of the actors in the Whisky Insur rection, in 1794, ware well known to Mrs. Patterson, who could recall a variety of in cidents that showed the intense excitement under which the Western country was at that time laboring. With all the first min isters West of the mountains, the fathers of the Presbyterian Church in the valley of the Mississippi, she was well acquainted, and had frequently heard them preach. This was owing partly to the fact that it was the custom of those times, especially for young people, to attend preaching at great distances -from home, and in other congre gations than their own ; and partly from the fact that her father's house was the usual stopping-place for clergymen. Of his widow, who was his second wife, and the beloved step-mother of Mrs. Patterson, Rev. Dr. Neill, of Philadelphia, in a recent Anniversary sermon, states that " Mrs. Canon, (of Can onsburg,) was regarded as the lady of the place, and deservedly, for she was eminently pious, friendly, and generous. Her house was the seat of hospitality, the favoiite re sort of Christian ministers and serious etu dents." And of the subject of the present memoir he justly speaks, as "a lady of quiet worth, and attractive social qualities."---. (Prebbyterian Magazine, Feb., 1857, pp. 87.) Of the stirring scenes of the Great Re vival of 1802, she was fond of speaking, for her own heart bad been deeply moved by the pervading and solemn influences of the time. She had been for some years previous a member of the ()herders church, under the pastoral care of Dr. McMillan, by whom she had been baptized, and who officiated at her marriage. Though not herself a eubjeot of the "falling work," she had fre-1 queraly witnessed that inexplicable, and often on the part of the subject, involuntary manifeetation'of the presence of an unknown power. Butuehe loved more to dwell upon the wonderful display of God's grace in that memorable revival, hi renewing the hearts of the impenitent, and in reviving the faith of his people. Her conversation in later life was enriched, as may well be supposed, with many remi niscences of a period whioh, with its simple manners, modes of thought, and way of life, as well as with its peculiar hardships, has so entirely passed away, and of which, during her last years, the decedWed was one of the few remaining relies. Wotild that the unaffected platy and self-denying spirit of our Fathers and our Mothers mightliiviive in the hearts and shine in the lives of their children. The subject of our memoir was married to the Rev. Robert Patterson, Aug. 27th, 1801, and soon after accompanied him to the shore of Lake Erie, where, in the spirit of a Christian pioneer, he had accepted the pastoral charge of two feeble congregations, on the very borders of the wilderness. Eight children were the fruit of this union, of whom five survive. After more than four years of courageous struggle, on what was then regarded as the remote frontier, with difficulties such as sel dom beset the path of the modern mission ary, and under which the heart seemed, on the point of yielding, Mr. Patterson was invited to take charge of the Academy at Pittsburgh, (now the Western university of Pennsylvania,) and deeming it his duty to accept, he removed to that place with his family in 1807. Daring the more than fifty years of her continuous residence in and near Pittsburgh, that city had grown from the inconsiderable frontier town which it was in 1807, to its present importance , as a commercial and manufacturing emporium. We can with difficulty imagine her feelings when, soon after the completion of the , iron track to New Brighton, she took her first ride in a railroad car, and , witnessed many of the vast developments of the industrial resources of a pity which bad grown from infancy be neath her eye, whilst she reflected that more than an entire generation of her acquaint ance had passed away from its busy streets. Daring this long residence the hospitality of Mrs. Patterson was shared by hundreds, more particularly by the ministers and fami lies of our Church-on their way to the Great West, or in their temporary sojourn in the city. The student, preparing for the Gospel ministry, was also, as under her father's roof, a frequent and cherished guest. Many who read this feeble tribute to her memory, will recall the sweet smile of welcome, and the lady-like manners, that rendered her the unconscious charm of the social circle, at her table and around her hearth. lE3 A constant and devout worshipper in the sanctuary and at the prayer-meeting, faith ful in the discharge of every public obliga tion, it was yet in private life, in the domes tic circle, id the humhle, but not less real; trials' and duties of ordinary life, that her gentleness of spirit, her"sweetness of dispo sition, her constant ooneern for others to the ' forgetfulness of self, and her implicit trust in the Divine care and goodness, shone with their greatest lustre: With mental powers, which, if cultivated, would have made her the ornament of the most intellectual circle, she was extremely diffident of her >own abilities, retiring, unobtrusive. Yet when duty was plain, ❑one, was more firm, , though gentle, in, its performance than she. From their earliest years she made the subject of religion.a matter of private conversation and prayer with her children, who can never lose The impression of that mother's faithful and solemn admonitions. It is believed, notwithstanding her shrinking diffidence to approach others upon such a theme, yet that her words of counsel have cheered many a fellow-Christian, and have fallen, not, unheeded, into many a careless heart. In 1840 she removed with her husband to the place of her late residence near Pitts burgh, and here in 1854, Sept. sth, his, death, in his 82d year, severed all that was earthly' of a union which had existed for more than half a century, and which has been rarely, if ever, exceeded in the happi ness of which it was the uninterrupted source. Her husband loved to. pay a heart felt tribute to her worth; and as they de scended together into the vale of years, the infirmities of age but seemed to increase the tender regard of each, for the other; whilst to all around it, was evident that both were ripening for.that heavenly home which was so often the theme of their discourse, and still oftener the subject of their thoughts. A life like that of Mrs. Patterson, spent id the quiet performauce of, humble daily. duties, presents little to arrest and detain the curious eye, though in the eight of God and angels, such an existence is more-re- - garded than the loftiest career of an earthly and selfish ambition. Of the many acts of kindness, words of love, and deeds of Chris tian faithfulness, with which that life was filled, unmarked by the public gaze, un thought of by herself, the record is on high. And though her fraMe became more bowed, and her step more tottering, year by year, the covenant•keeping God of her youth did not forsake her in Old age; the Angel of his presence was with her; the arm on which she had so long' leaned' was now her sure support; and amongst the last articu lations of her dying lips could be distin guished, in whispers, the words—" Blessed Jesus, how much I wish to be with you!" In a few hours afterwards her longing spirit was released from, the dissolving prison of. its clay, and she was with the Saviour whom she loved. Her death seemed to be occa sioned more by the gralinal decay of the vital powers—the wearing out of the frail tenement which confined her here—than by the attack of any' distinctly marked disease. On Monday, the 15th of March, 1858, after a night of peaceful rest, and just as another earthly morning dawned, she entered upon the glories of an eternal day. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hence forth;lea, saith the Spirit, for they do rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." (Presbyterian, and New York Observer, please copy.) "I don't believe in all this fuss about re ligion. Do as well as you can, that is about all which is necessary. If I live an honest life, I reckon 1 have nothing' to fear," said a young man to his friend. " But the Bible takes a different view of the matter," replied his companion. "It says, 'Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enterinto the kingdom of God.' And, 'V er ily, verily, I oily unto you, except a man be born of wa ter, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.' I feel there is everything to fear until this change has come over my soul. I must be born again, I must be con verted i there is not, a minute's safety with out it therefore I must be in earnest about thethings of religion." One went to the prayer-meeting, the , other to the theatre. The =Wrests of eternity , may have turned upon the turns which those young ' A pi a made, during '"that "ONE THING IS NEEDFUL:" "ONE THING HAVE I DESIRED OF THE LORD:" "THIS ONE THING I DO." Making a Fuss. PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTI BUILDING, FIFTH STREET, ABOVE SMITHFIELD, PITTSBURGH, PA. FOR THE WEEK pNDING SATURDAY, JULY 24, ISSS. For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate.; Withered Fig Trees. " Now in the morning, as he returned into the city, he hungered. And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward forever. And presently the fig tree withered away."-- MATT. XXi 18, 19. As the Saviour walks about in the midst t it ' of the churches, he looks upon many profes- se , sing Christians, who, like the fig-tree, bear be no fruit. They may present a fair appear- as ance, and be full of leaves, sound, orthodox 4s , profesaors. They attend church regularly, sit at the communion table,. and pray de voutly ; but being at, ease in Zion, and in active, powerless Christians, alas ! Jesus, as' he draws nigh, finds nothing like fruit; leaves only ! And how many there are, professors and non-professors;: how many ohildren of pious parents, who from their youth up have been taught, the way of life, and to whom, ; - the Saviour returns year after year, expecting to find fruit, and still finds none—nothing, nothing, save leaves only. The Saviour certainly expects Christians to hear. fruit, ,and if they, are branches of the living vine, they, will bear, much fruit. , A fruitless Christian then, is not a branch of_ the vine ; and is not the Saviour greatly , disappointed, •when his. professed followers' bear ,no fruit? Howie the world ever to be converted, if Christians are fruitless ?, Another thought : Jesus visits his Church to see its condition. My Christian friend, the eye of your King is upon you; he sees' you in your public walks and in your Pri vete ways, he watches you if peradventure you bear fruit or not. In your family, at your business, at your devotions, when alone, what are you 7 a fruitless tree ? The Say iour comes to you, his eye' searches you ; what does he behold—nothing but leaves only? Oh, beware, lest, having come often, and time after time gone away , disappointed, .he speaks to you as he did to the fig-tree, " Let no fruit grow on,thee henceforzeard forever!' f. and presently you wither away. You. may be spared for a long time in the Church, but never bear any fruit; you will be a withered Christian, dried 'up from the root. .Ales ! there are many withered trees in the garden , of the Lord, and this accounts for so many dull, worldly-minded Christians ; so inactive and useless, they are withered. . , Christian reader, is there any danger of you becoming so? Are your branches filled with fruit, or 'do they bear nothing but leaves? When the ,Saviour comes nigh, and by the Holy Spirit awaken , many, part ners; when he comes to you, expecting to see you active and zealous in his cause, and bearing much fruit, what does he behold—, fruit? much fruit 7 or leaves only ? Ah if he find you, fruitless, soon, yes, to,day, he may utter the dreadful'words, a Let.no fru4 grow on thee henceforward forever." And what is the result 7 " And presently the fig-tree withered away." What is it to be withered; and of what use is a.withered tree? Is it beautiful to the eye 7 Are men, refreshed by its. shade 7 It is of :no use "=a dried up, barren thing, ‘ unsightly i worthless, save only to be cut down and eas 'into the fire. The Saviour will have fruitful trees, 0 none ; he needs no idle hands, and he wantS no hardened, lazy souls; but as -he gives every facility in soil and in eulture---as he gives the means of grace, invites, threatens, commands, and entreats—so he expects, and has a right to expect, much fruit. And is he always to forbear—is he to come ,again and again, and always to be put off by a fair, display of leaves only? Certainly not; he. will come some day and take a final inspae- I Lion of you, and if he still finds leaves onlY i your doom is sealed, forever I—no fruit, no I fruit to grow on you, oh Christian reader, forever; none expected to grow on you! We don't look for fruit on withered trees. Jesus will expect none, and never, never will he come to you again; but oh, the end of with.; ered Christians—poor 'witheredsouls, withi e red trees I—cast aways, lost Christians 1 To seal the destruction of a fruitless soul' be he a professor or not, God has but to say t " Let him alone." He gives them up, to their own evil Jdesires'; lieivithdriwithitni, self from them, and thus withers them for! ever. ' If you, my dear reader, are fruitles.s, .oh take warning now, before the dreadrul sen tenee is uttered against you, which shal wither you away, and you be lost=lost, for. ever ~ " And:now also the axe is laid unto th root. of =the trees. - Therefore, every. tree, whielrbringeth not forth good= fruit, is hewn down, and east, into the fire." S.L.O. For thp'Premitditerisp. Banner ma Advoami Sabbath School Celebration at Tarentum, Penn' a. DEAR DOCTOR :—The Sunday Schools of, our village celebrated the eighty.second An niversary of American Independence , in grove selected for the purpose, on Monday / the sth instant. The grove is the property of the M. E. Church, known as the far famed << Tarentum OamptGround,"=—a plaui of singular attractions, .and admirifily suited to the purpose of Sunday School celebrai tins. ,The towering , hills on the North and West—the ancient- forest on either land; with the smiling fields of active industry waving in front—present a pleasing combina-' tion of, varied scenery, rarely met with in any other grove. There is also an abun dance of excellent water. ' The Sunday Schools of the three princi-: pal denominations in our village were repre sented by many smiling faces, and joyous hearts. It was a lovely scene- , There, in happy groups, mingling promiscuously, were seen the youth and children of Prt.slute roam, United Presbyterians, and Method ists, seeming only to vie with each,other in the exhibition of the degree of enjoyment afforded by their mutual intercourse. The ,opening services were conducted' by Rev. John Grant, pastor of the M. E. con gregation. The singing had a pleasing ef fect, as the voice of praise reverberated through the grove. • ThS Throne of Grace was addressed in terms appropriate to the occasion i,'when, after proper restrictions as to moral deportment'and good behaiior, the children were permitted to enjoy themselves in a variety of innocent recreations, under ,the care of the officers and teachers, and a lumber • of parents who, had come up from their homes ,tube partakers of the joys of their children. The whole affair passed off very agreeably. Not an accident occur-, \ r ,or any misbehavior to mar the general ha piness, or, serve the most scrupulous as ex eptions; although it hal; been urged that I dr , uninteresting lectures of great k Ath, ar essential to restrain the childre rom act of impropriety. We trust the yof is notions is well nigh past,. The object celebration, being not " merely viand !a fication " and " frolic," nor yet plegrig Le i hone" of stale and tedious lectures, or f :ve al WconsecutiVe sermonsi"! but,' flias :en practically demonstrated in our — Mit; ' w 11 as repeatedly in other , place llthat and y School , children can , under th '.,care of their Barents and teachers, conduce-dim:a -t selves'with'propriety in inftocent plc Vie ; whilst parents and teachers ' in social din -tellectual intercourse, can• spend ada eas antly,and profitably together, agreeabl °Abe dh;tates\of nature and oommon,nnee , ,I, That ur celebration was . a, seats o enjoy ment ' log to be remembered, by ib4,,ohil dren, as a golden - link in the chat& that hinds thin to the past, , we cannot , oubt, That it , y lead their minds to the ntem plation\oghe sublime , scenery of nat, e, and, fromnature up to nature's God ;) a tend ultimately`to their transportation to climes infinitely more fair; to realms of 'u fading "oy, is the earnest prayer of the r.':, 1 FRIENDS OE THE C SE. From the Presbyterian. The New Jersey Case; ' [ Y BEQUEST OF THE AUTIIOB.*' ' 1 MESSR EbITORS :—A number Of the members of he late. Assemblylat. 1 eV/ Or leans have quested the insertict in the - Preskyterian, of the report of tie l ommit 7 tee on the ,de isten of the base fr m New Jersey. - Som entered- their dis Sett; frOM the final sod a of the Assemblyf on the adoption of t et•substitute ; but the hurry.; incident to th close of the Assep,:khly, pre- vented others rom taking such,ffltion,as they. wished; - d this publication see Med to be the only ,ernatire left. ' Thgylard 'sat- isfied the paper, adopted did not• extirearthe '1 sense of the liouse, and was neC•properly passed. After \ some discussion on, i the.-re-, port; it Wei laic on the table, to' ahh up the substitute presented by Dr. Palmer. - The substitute was then discussed, and'also laid Co the table, and the report taken4up again: Finally, all ,the l papers aud motiotts were,' laid on the table, and, the 'sabstikkte,takem . Up by a bare Majority and Pissed. .This as clearly wrong; as a two-third'yote was eoessary to take .nikthe iabstitatii, ikulet, itely laid gat the table. , ' 1 • , '" 1 f - ' - 'The Report proposed, nothing;inrelation o the subsequent action of the par i ties ap sled from. The Committee felt that such ssues were not'' before the ' AlSeinidy, ilia ' herefore deblineltiany report 'tthe flint disposition of such alleged ' cti::-. , : , The ' House, had sustained the • appe4 by : a very, large majority, and the—Qommittee were;to.. et forth the 'rations for'this decision. The ear lest further trouble" might the, rnnfusion of motions and 'counter-inotions, d the.deterrnination of many to leave that evening; hurried the substitute through, Lnd led the Assembly into something of the same error they had just;condemned in others: ,` The Report of the Committee is as fol lows : The Committee to bring in a Minute on he decision of the appeal of the Rev. ebert S. Finley - and' Mr. Smith Blooinfield gainst the 'Synod 'of New Jeisey; report-- at. That the Assembly sustainirthe appeal, ecause the Synod shoald not have : allowed he Presbytery of glipal•othtown,to dissolve r. Finley's pastoral` relation withMit ,the onstitutionecourse r iii the case. Oar-Feria ofAovernment, chap'. tVii, &fines the inn= er in,which the .pastoral relation -shallobe issolved. The power of the Presbytery to' ' visit" churches, &0., in chapter x, does of clothe the Presbytery - with arbitrary ower to make a summary settler:tient of a Ise like this. Neither Mr. Firileynor the p any formal and proper application for the dissolution of the pastoral relation between them, -. 1 2. The,Asseinhly sustains the appeal, be cause.the Synod' should not have allowed the' Presbytery to haVe dissolved' the pastoralre-' laden , of Fir. 'Finleyovhile the discipline of the Church ,was in exercise. The Presby- tery not only did this, but they went:-fur ther. They arrested the .progress of ,disci pline by a siinple ' net. They also forbade the exercise of diScipline until such time . ris the same might :be< agreeable toqrthem.' Their action in the premises could only be an appeal regularly brought before them, and this interference was therefore clearly unconstitutional. 8. The Assembly sustains'lthe Appeal, because the Synod should not have al lowed the Presbytery to,,have- tolerated . the unlawful and violent breaking up of aneet. ing of the c6ngregation for worship, and the election of additional Rifling Elders. Neither should the presbytery have been alloiredio appoint a Committee of `their body to, call another meeting: of "the. oorigiegittionlqind to preside in place ottheModerator of Session; thrust aside, and at which meeting pew : . holders; not members. of the church, were permitted by this Committee to, vote, and elect some of the menlo the office of Ruling Elder, who. were under discipline', Mid' prominent in these unlawfullproceedings, and contrary to the feelings and wishes of a majority of the members of the church. i 4. Your Committee, ' therefore, conclude that the action' of 'Synod should be reversed;' and that the conduct of the Presbytery has been unconstitutional. However desirable the dissolution of the -pastoral .relation in this case, it should have been brmight about according to the plain proviiionii of the Con stitution. By Order of the Committee. ' R.D.M. Employment Essential to Health: - In the course of my literary labers,llound that the mental exercise which accompanied them was a little beneficial to my health. The motives which' exciteffnie . to write, and the objects I. hoped to"tiecomplisb, were of a nature calculated to cheer the mind, and to give the animal spirits a Bain—. tarp impulse. lam persuaded that if.l. had suffered my time to pass away with little 'or no employment, niy health' would have been still more'impaired, my spirits depressed ) and, ` perhaps, my life considerably shortened. I' have therefore, reason to, deem it a 'hay pi- nesi, and a source of gratitude to Divine,.. Providence, that T- Was enabled, under my bodily4eakneiniotletd cceilftitiitherlt, to tiiie my attention to the subjects which have, for so many years, afforded me abundant ocen potion. I think it is incumbent upon us, whatever maybe our privations, to cast our eyes around; and endeavor to discover whether there are, not some means yet left us of doing good to ourselves and to others ; that our lights may, in some degree, shine in every situation, and, if possible, be extin guished only with our lives. The qUantum of good which, under such circumstances , we do, ought not to disturb or affect'.us. If "we perform, what we are able to.performihow little soever, it may be , it , is . .enough; it will ba'acceptable in the sight of Him who knows hove to estitnatc'exactlY all our actions; by comparing. theni with our disposition and Iffurray. From our rondon Correspondont. The Detith and Burial 'of Doctor Buating---Yotice, of his Vitreer4; l TheW.Funerall , ..Troasisron:=The - City Road ,Chapel—The Services and - Interment.=. The Position,Character and Prospects of English AlethodlintLCheap Bread and Harbest Prospects 77 Duty on Paper and ite,Foreshadowed Abolition —Press Prosecutions rAbanclonerb—The 41.[Asscss . sination" Pamphlet—:A''Lictu'h tO"GOverninents -, s 's-The'Enslaised French Tressa—ltirAbitie of Rai ' land--The Reason Why—The Pope,'s Navy—An Armada in; future—'The Confeseional, and the Homilies`—Education Grants and iTuvenile Labor —Grants to I,lomanism—Post.senpt.: r Lorin* June 25th,{ 1858. The'D.narli AND Bureim. ! of the,Bev. Dr. Buliting, have excited deep and mournful * interest not only in London, but throughout the country," and that ithefig i all Evangelical' Christians. 'He watia,' native of Liirtateihire, 'the child of humble but pious parents' and early, gave , himself , to the service' of &riot: Although barn in the conntry, his parents IreinevAn t gliite Manchester, a turn was there by given to his destiny. He early attracted the. attention=ofiDrs Peroeval; President of a Literarylnstitute who employed him as an amanuensis '"He, had thus abundant ioppoittinityof' acquiring knowledge, and he , made large attainments. His patron "Was' a tnitarian, and amongst _polished 'blase of persons_, at Man Chester, like-minded with Dr.,,Perceval„ young, Bunting moved Con stantly., Bat religious faith Ar n aB, - !:kot shaken, and tienty-orie years ,of age he beeime Methodist preacher. ' traded • notice early; by his pulpit talents. His- style was, tasteful, fluent, and fervent. Dr. Liefchild,, an, aged ,and, revered Inde pendent minister in London, . when speak- , ing of his early reminiscences of Bunting's preaching, saidihat ' 44 lie was' . lin imitator of none„,and his own style of:preaching was inimitable." ; Bat it was as a man,of wisdom and count eel; that this good an shone , tre-pminent. Nhile' l still young, 'he spoke with ability in the 'Ceciferenee'• "aild ras , ; another:aged. Minister,: Mr.Seett; ,who: gave an address at . his fkineral; * said, amongst others who observed young Bunting was, the. late iiiehardjiriettiOn, who remarked, He„: io t a great Man; and all that he does done in the fear of GOV adininistratiVe ability, and judicial clearness, hive, been Owerfully helpful to the, eonsolidation and advancement of Wesleyanism all over the em pire: He was the father and founder of the Foreign Missionary' Society, *hose income this year reached the large sum of, £123,- 000, and , whose agents are found in almost every ; part ,of the world. Whe schism was threatened , w Conference, some years 6r violent men. 'who eiight have 4,3 r violent ~(who „lot seized the 'opportunity to agitate' for 'a lay element in the Conference , similar to our elders in Synod or -Assembly, but, did not,) BUnting confronted - ; the furious waves, like an unshaken rock. When the Evangelical .Allianee was being forined, his counsels and voice in eases of d iffi ty 'Were generally decisive in making ' , Matters plain, , ltina, `the Senior Secretary. of the •Alliance since its fortnation..in : ,lB46, he,has lent it his powerfil, although qniet As you.' may already km 4, the English Wesleyan, although a strongly ConserVatiVe body both .in politics and 'religion, t.hized from the first with the non-intrusion party in the -Establiehed Church of .Soot land, sustained their cause., by , petitions. to the Legislature ; and When a Disruption was forced on the Evingelleal inajoilty; then, with * unanimous enthusiasm, the Methodists 'rose ,up to theiraid, opened, their pulpits to the ministers, and stood , , l)ythem on .plat forms and with large and liberal sifts, in, their Movements'for'providinineW chinches for expelled' congregations. • Ai Di: 'Otithrie ! aid, leas than two months ago in Exeter Hall Dr.-Bunting was ,4 a statesman.? He saw the glorious principles # and issues , in volved' in the Free Church controversy,, and his intense Eviingeliee sympathies Must, through,any 'barrier Of a hereditary venera tion for Establishment, such as, alas ! then made, and still makes , the Episcopalian Evangelicals, untrue , to themselves, . • With bhalrafkrake` - haa a delightful inter view, near the close of that great maree life, and at the peridattEluifiliiitiviiiti&LOndon, iMinediately, before his death. ,The record of this interview will be found in theletters of Dr. °hairnets. The'tuneral was a public one. Depute lions fromithe Committees of the Bible, and" of variona ,Missionary Societies, incliiding ,the Church Missionary Scoiety,,(represeuted by Mr. Venue,, the Secretary,) , and also, a Deputation from the Evangelical Alliance, including Sir C. B. Earaley, bar', . the President; and Dr. :Sanwa-Hamilton; were present;and: formed* , part of thaiong pro= cession which. passed.,down the City ,Road on Tue4ay The most impressive part of the spectacle; was the;large body of Wes leyan ministers ' who went two and two after the hearse. Arrived in front of the City' RoaaChapel, built , by' 'John Wesley, (be- hind which lies his dust as :well as that of his brother Charles, and around whose walls are marble tablets to the memory of these inirtliiesi as' " of' sueli - inen as Dr. Adani-Claike Dr.`Coke, Fletcher of Mad e - . ley, and , :Ric hard' Watson,): thn procession; with the coffin borne in front, entered the ,area, and„passed , into the,spampus which Was sPeedily filled by a nympathisieg congregation. Hymns' Were sung; Prefers were offered, and leinons"readiniitabletO the occasion. Then followed 'addresses, to which kave already referred, ~ The body was then removed to Atie litury,ing : grouni t and the` Chdreka Englarialtineral servile lead'; and as the solemn . *aids, :" Ashes t i t ashes,/ dusto ditst,"-• were Uttered; the (latent • Thomas Farmer,-Estr.i tlie - Treastirer, of WePIPN3 tigitiT3M PiektYm B uP - 1 ported - on the grave's brink' by tke,Epkeo i , pafßector of the Parish, in whase 'bounds Dr. Bunting lived and died, dropped the eloquent mould, on the et after another, the three other relatives, with 01 counsel and toil; and'iiim who loved their father, in the burial service, thi ley's funeral, changed took their last tearful ,1 place of this remarkable I believe that the Wei with the happy death-bci called and remembered Bunting he overrulk and, increase,. the; unity :wherever '0 is' was 'most' impressive. • I outline Ire& personal of recognized more' With it, ,tho.tval ,onenese of, the,- people - ,;)f „The,modern 'Methodists aro:wog, in ism — they pn owe: Saviour:a sacrifice, ton-, the , ',doctrine , of justi4eatiow! by-faith-, only, and of t Vyk. ,ne , eessity of, ; „regeneraqon And ,sanctificatiowhy, the coupled With' their earnest i and 'indefatigable iabora fcir the ' eitenhion'd! (lhrietiai ity prove them el)e ) a. noble -hind ' in: the:" host ,of. God'o7,cleeo "I`hqTe! -Or Of course, certain degree tftf sec;, arianism,Ft,4-oie eicWon,ofMothodism: is, .'not entirely Shivered to *nig, and very lengthened biographical and efildaiitic prayer at the funeral service, was (Methodists inclnded,:-J.: doubt fjaot , ;) ;yet, still,, onr l Wesleyan, friends err : .rother : in log c of their theology, than in their 14eart immdtiesik, the faith once de livered''to the 'saints. The QM - faience; too, 'wants an - eldership; and more than - this; an ,elected, ministry; yet. still:At -.has increasing I. ; regard ,to, the., will and rights of. the, Chris-. tian ; people, withagdcwith true } Presbyterian power and marches on in a glerioui career spiritual viotort. • CHEAP BREAD is a great mitigation of the still prevailing dullnese in' trade and 00113•. ineree. 'fhb extraordinary Miner of-May, and unusual beats; ofi.June;- , contribute- to , the joyful, prospect of an early And an abun dant harvest. With the exception of famine iiiitation, or of / great wars, the . priee of corn' in Enitland is likely to rule low: - A cycle of Cheap food' now Seeing - to haVe c set in. .Increased} prosperity would certainly lead to increased consumption. Wheat s. which in Sune,lBss was;-upwards of 775. per 4uartei, was last Week 445.7 d. per !ear ter. - 'sinde repeal of the:Otiiii'lawsite 1847; - we have had's period Of - healdear , rare, then of six cheap, years,, afterwards :Of fPurAooc,rorOr-and Row) !Pr ,5,e991 to hfive readied' the first of ,another,seies of cheap years. '"if this shouldheen,, remarked;." it ;Will he' Si ireat mitigation - of -the evils of-diminished trade;; and ,- will itself ;be a,principal means of, revivingirne pros , ,perity.'' . THE DUTY ON PAP2a, by which a large revenue has seemed to ; the Rxehecierk, at the expere, of a free prase, ',pure literature, and national enlighten - Meat; has just been condemned 'MI i‘impolitio," by a reselution of theHouise'.of Commons. ~ The Times is paying duty at the rate, of £l6lOOO, ler-an, num; the Stfiridard, a new perningßenny paper, LlO,OOO ; and a - Manchester penny paper, :t8;500. - 'Religion, literature, and acienee, all would profit by the repeal of-the There is aneddr to TELE Pates 'PROSECIT=' TroNs which-the English' Goierriment had. resolved on.in connexion with the attempted , murder of the French, Emperor.,, dietments came, ibis - week:, before . the fueesn'i Beneh; - against 'bOokaellere-4the one an Englishman; the other a Pole—for Publishing al pamphlet -in which :it wasi, averred the, doctrine _of assassination : was openly advocated. Had thisertheen tried two months igo; it Seems to me that a eon, viction Wag ineVitable. I have I seen, Wtia 'in' Freeoly Writtentliy a' refugee ;..anif: the time of its: appearance, as well as its:whole ,tene, clearly pointed, to the justification, if not to the ; recommendation of tinieotirse in Which Orsini had enibeilted l and failed." Bat *hen theludg,6l'ire on the Bench,. and the fOouriSel - ready,' and the Court crowded, the defendants; byLthe mout,h,of - , air Oqunsel; eta_ ate that they 44 not the ,sqgigest intention (Iyofadvooating,, in any manner the horrible doctrine of as= sassmation, and that they were perfectly willing to discontinue the dare 'say the Attorney General of the Tories, who waoso foiled by the fiery,, , eloquence Mr. ,Edwin James -the , Counsel for Dr.. Bernard, was only too ; glad to get out" of position; * false alike for = hibiself — and his party': But • that • deeOnot , alter the fai ture of things, - or the: fact that political assassination is; .a -cherished doctrine , with: many refugees. in England. The Mae/ reads ex•OOirerning_nnd governing' powers'Jeanie on of bringing into notoriety snoh' obscure -phleta from the backalleyivof the Metropolis, and in this it is right. "Had these cases been seriously tried, we.have little doubt, but `that the result would have been the: defeat= of the Pali° 'Prosecutes . ; and`the . tempOiarY popularity of the authors and menders.ef this wretched stuff. They, would have: been pept.. Shirt no,booltllse the 8, 603 .4 PePple feel:NW; -particular delight in . killing kings, but A be-,.1 cause, by WeOrient ideS, they woubi r have hien - exalted into the 'fiery heaven of poliis Thal martyrdom!' ' The French' tam itself is fearfully en:. slaved. Those papers .thit dared to differ from Imperialist opinions and interests„,,have 'been erippressid, With the exception of the . Debats, which suffers in silence, or carpi' indirectly at Toreignlpolicy in the affairs "of Turkey, and by its, very -redeem proves. how true liberty, lies crushed iiiiderthoiron, keel of despetism, ti The Goyernment papers fake their inspiration, of of `course, 'from . their Lpiymasters; and, this week, are fiery:and furious.against Lord MalinekburY becinse, Nyaph,hp had the pluck and honesty,: (unexpected from him;) tu t declare that France Boas reviving We, slave : tiede by ',the. importation of Afridenliegroes into her,ool onies. Under the name, of " tree negiieS " this has been , attempted; and- wits:alit case of a cargo of poor creatures. mid and bought,. who rose, on Ole ship's,-.crew, and Were all. or nearly all, afferwaids massacred,; has "reused particular abhorrence here. Renee 'the rage 'of' thelFiniiich tittektae They charge. upon T England - all -manner 'of evil. "But " at, tips rmes gaped ef, donseitutionel, " this g uogue' is only. i intended to distract attention from acts Philadelphia, 111 South Tenth, Street, below Meeting, By Mal,. or at the Oleo, $1.50 pr Year, BIR pßospzero sa Delivered in the. City, 1.75 I' s WHOLE NO. 804 which are disgraceful ii thifSperpetratora, and will be disgraceful to the Emperor's government, unless it reprobates,and pun ishes them." The , leading, journal goes on to say, that British authorities on tlie coast of Africa must not only give - no assisAnce to the trelfic;, but must, fOrtid it on every vet subject to our Crown, and induce, as fai,asnspossibleop,African , -Ohiefst , to , oretil . French speculators, My own inipressien that'll the force cif public . opin ion, aid . fy . a detipelledtegiirdticeitsisteriey4--kis slavery ' has been ,formally 'abolished the s.Fienoh. colonies—the traffic will be arrested and put elia -to/ ,One : French,paper,..the - S'eicte, writes temperately , ,and, says that if there (ire "abuses . inseparalile from the system, abandon the System iiself, with the eininfrankiiiiii , with which 'she had adopted it" - ' • _ Lliam - X4P,Aniaovatttrisma Gorily think 11 , ' " re 150116 - , r- - ( 14- pe,eaToViited"-tiol , :to lie astonished--" means to increase its c.navy." So says the .PAris,Correskontient of .Times, adding, to consist, at present, of two corvettes ! and his Holiness intends increasing' the number to ten. ' after:this,' you neglect to - fortify Your ''Obirit;' 'thereds no, more Ito be saitir,'• The. Pope and the jestilts: had, better sari the. money . thus t.p bei i spent, for the', rellef, of , the poverty their reginietinnainied. ' If a %pal. blessed " Armada" set out from the:Frew* port of Cherbourg, up Chan; mei ) . a true• Protestant -Briton.• could wish nothing‘better -than that some modem 81ake.... , should meet it , and that if the Ripe and all ~ the. Cardinals, sailing in their' `°On little ,fleet, and bringing up the reat,shotild es.' `cape a general "bbiwup - ," that-they :should , - at -least, get ii",thorough fright, auk :ouch begin to mntter, 140 disappointed ; and :covetous dream ;,„ " How 'shall I curse whom _ bath" not crifie.fi, and how ' 'whom God bittt'not defied The CONFESSIONAL IN .BELGIIATIA still excites attention s ind ; manifests more and more` plainly ihelendencies i 'lloninisiiii'd ; of • theanglioanli,iiit spiteriif all their iirliteire: but the 'development , of the.old„virns.,of "compromise:4 and of ,the , " element, • ,:Qeel- thieg , pertain, that it is pointblank tho,.thind of the English Balinheri. "" It is `m ost evident; easißepeetaiee; - "thei' this Aurieulariooufesiiion hethinot Goire4Woka.; * 7.**, I .49,aat-8V but that. ic..l4Y id.° find, themselves t r onmea,britopscnejioe, tlifty t may `-to '`their ' le arned curate or pasior, or fa' 'seine and oevettlie , :itroubles ;of theirt-'ednicionoe to• • them' (that j they may,receiviiiat their,:haids the oomfortableealve of,Goirs Wort,- but.it is . agal : no Am" 94n8,496 Liberty, tha t ~ any main boihte Milli - 4 , 6mi* Or his 'Sim, as it bath been used - linieniforeAnt - ::time of blindniiii - AqlParirt s :" The ,Homilies, it reiiiiiiitteend, are de plareduitrAlie'ithirty-nineArtiblesitornibioli' .." 610 4 Olillgrnittt'Sutvicribesitemoutaint i henhi wholesoine,doetfins,"! hOwOrit„ As well ; as s the plain Spesking.,,of the'' SOarlet of Babylon,;, " and withered " of the honest old -Holuiliei of ,Ring Edwiirdl most " infirbolesonieP— in' the ; estionite,,,aud ; , , bitter ,Anthe lade of Dr. Posey, and hundreds, if not thousands, ..of the English clergy 4 - The Ertuce.Tiorr EBTrMATSs, for•the,preek..„, ;; amount tothe large sum of 000; a large inCrease being made annnally.., . In this *ay iitliintirj; 'effortS---in' the case Of those ..who. do . not, zlike4he Coneregatibni alists and Baptists, object to all State grant& on princip,lare supple,mente4,,an4,schoofi fees atigniente'd. Normal .?Ichpolitre o also I. snitained';'ind sehool:buildinisegrea4 gifted. ' "Economic pres;tite ' words, the stern necessities of the poorAol.• avail themselves early,. even in rural dig ' triets, ofithaabor efltheir. :manufacturing.. and „ A mining Adistriek" thqi temptatiOn of ,high wagea, cute short, and ; renders imperfect in its results, the work, of the :sohnolnassitif.' qteifianists are' making` 'the , beitt , Of these Liustlyear they receive4:aa _much aa There is no donbt.bnt that prieAs, and nuns are • power sided , to, do minhier by' these, gifts of the krtvS , council. , ,;.T ; W. p . .t:l-Thel;test.news from India indi ~atokness among our troops at ',miaow , ,nitthe intense heat; an army of rebels in leo*, of that place ;, Bir4o. Campbell coming • froulllareilly will troops after them ; and a e imminent: between Rose and the in surge. its at Calieti. Central India is threat ened* with disturbance, and it is to be feared that part ' of the Bombay Presidency may The latest dates are Calcutta, May 18th. Yon will have still more recent news eye these lines appeatimrint.--- The Thames river L is t p,etteh a state of , impurity, that members of Parliament and • person in piblie offices are suffering ; Chie f • barge min , has 'died of Asiatic cholera frOrit the effluvia. The, weather is much - eoolet ,than last weekahut_at_any time an epidethic might break„npt. The, remedy for the evil is most ditinult, and will involve a vast ex pense. „ Losses' CtriPeniated. Consider, even,, the undoubtede and trials of ; this mortall life. ' , "Sweet are the .->us6B of adversity.;.' ii With all:Pk43B !mil losses there are sent blessings, or,ronmclies, or, at 'leiast; alleviationi; if we Will `only receive , Ifieni: -Of 'old times'iiiirtiot found that iliWhOtlieli:Ohuroli lost I:6: martyrdom was th Arillgall repaid by new sonession of min , , . ;and; ner,fkrvor of zeal ? The Church ita.•a diavin,Stenhen ; ,but how rich and " A " ''t 'le jU (4. t . from t he • ge e ompensa lon, as,. ilea itls'iliialtyred dust there !Trani an'apoitte, '-'1 4 4# 1 - I Tor , the individuil , , tat), V well as .7.418 ooppnutity, disetwe 'an& .calamity have 3tkektms, their Alleviations, eyes their api iltioOmpeosatiolui. Uses 7 -fornemuch a 8 they "Efeive to refine, humble, - and tillow the char aUter. AlleiJiationsinee ti - God stayeth his rough wind.irothe day- of his East wind." And .eveni ,compensation_--for , some help, tome vantage r pot open at fLret,iNeure to rlk veal itself to those.. ) that are , watchftd ADA wise. When Pail cline to MaciedOnia Ittas flesh had no rests' 'fivrithout were' hting' 'within were: fearar.bektiod oomforted'him "by the coming id Titan." Thud, often when we are ~ in gr. pit ,e!milsolom,ei Titus comes--Some' friendly oompeireation—and . 1•., , w eaker , .. .•:,s .• , r.. we are not Tamer stronger ; and after 64 tekie; •soMStiEnes in Our tears, Wiiire hap pier!, than before. Itlis• true 'of lifii, t its with nature, that with the dark cloud God sets a rainbow in the sky. 1 4