• • • • • ;:r. - A AtKi i;tl :1( I.: • • ; 4 1, .; • T . -, • 4'- 9 " ' , p r ombiterfhua asaiarre ref. VIII !Aft 40. Prribplirleas Aibrieste, Via. =I. Is. 36 I DAVID MoKINNEY and JAMES ALLISON, Editors. Mt NA-IN ADVANCE. rigital tfetrg. On the . Death of Mrs. Mary Hunter. Sweet sister has gone to the land of, the blest, Yes, gone from our presence, with % angels to rest; No sorrow, no sighing, she e;rPr will know— No weeping, no dying, titpatiguish or woe. As a flower transplanted from earth, she will bloom And triumph forever o'er death and the tomb ; No pain, no affliction, Gan fellow her there— ISho 's with her Redeemer, his glory to share. The eonge that enchant her, the ransomed do sing, , ' In harmonious numbers, in ptaise to their Sing; Her bosom Is glowing with: heavenly fire, While the host all surround her look on and ad mire. Could I see her so bright and so beautiful now, With a harp in her hand, and a wreath on her brow; In gimlets of roses, In transporting' bliss, By life's flowing stream, what a rapture is this I 0, may oho yet come ne A guardian to earth, To watch o'er a father thatemiled on her birth ; To bring him some Ini3page of hive from the throne— • • To impress on hie spirits some thoughts' of her home; To whisper some accents of love in my ears, And banish my sorrows and dry up my tears, And Booth my sad feelings, and - lighten my load, And tell me of heaven, her glorious abode. 0, sister, dear sister, how hard 't is , to part I How I ding to thy image so twined round my heart; Thy friendiall lament thee, they loved thee so well, Their fond admiration no language can tell. Can I cease my lamenting, my anguish, my tears, And look to the Saviour to banish my fears; And bid thee farewell,,enraptured in love, Enshrouded in glory with thy Father above! Cumberland, Ohio. BMWS FARNIV. For the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate. The English in India. [BY A RETURNED MISSIONARY MESSRS. EDITORS :—The East India Company, dating its commencement in the time of the "Great Elizabeth, and one *of the., most gigantic ever formed, has with all' its faults, and all its ex cellences, too, been numbered with the past. The millions of Hindoos and Mahommedans who •lately rendered obedience to "'&e Company Sahib Bahadv,r," no longer, acknowledge its imperial sway. India, with her fertile plainri,. i end smiling fields of corn ; her groves and &dens, ai4peiennbil fruits and, flowers heAmountains towering far aboVe all territtial things into regions, of perpetual calm and profound solitude, *line, far below theirffenow-cappedßummits, the dark cloud, riven 3 with forked' lightnings,. thunders as the voice of . planuatert, pours its fertillzlhg shavre t re _On eveggrew forests of majerititroaks and pines, and i gentle slopes adorned with delicate wild•flowern;,of every hue--s-all, by a Vote Parliame nt ? ' have Parient ? have been transferred to the crown of Eng land. Who could have foreseen that the imprisonment of eighty gintine, ' mutine ers, in the North-Western confines of Hincloostan .on the 10th of May, 1857, would have led, in lass than eighteen months, to the entire overthrow of a'power extending from Cape Comorin to the Itimaliyary and from ABBM to the months of the Indus, and embracing a population of one hundred • and fifty millions t The early history of the vast Continent of India is veiled in obscurity. It is generally supra/NI by those beat qualified to judge, that it was, at a very remote period, entered from-the North-West by apeople professing the Braminical faith. Probably from Scythia. Of this supposition many proofs are adduced, Which cannot be - dwelt upon at present. Ilietory informs ue that , the Tyrians car ried on an extensive trade with India, by. means of the Red . Sea, and that the Greeks penetrated the country as far as the Upper Ganges. To them succeeded the Scythian Nomades, who, in their turn, were driven out by the Tartare. About the year 1000, came_ the Mohammedans, who ruled the Hindoos with a rod of, iron, until the middle of the' eighteenth century. Part ly by conquest and partly by negotia tion, the whole of the East India trade passed from the hands of the Saracens to the Italiano. To them succeeded, in order, the Dutch, the Germans, and Span iards, with various success, in this lucrative commerce. At length aristopher Columbus discovered. America, end Vasco de Gama found a way to India round , the Cape of Good Hope. These discove*ries gave a new impetus to commerce. Fleet after fleet WAS fitted out, and every port in India was vis ited by the, Portuguese, and for more than a century the East India trade remained in the power of that once enterprising people. But the high road they had discovered to vast wealth was open to all the world. The Deitch again turned their eyeti-to India, by the way of the sea, and the English, under the able reign of Queen Elizabeth, speedily followed their example. On the last day of the sixteenth century, the first "East IndiaPiimpany," under the name of the " Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East bindles," was incorporated by the Queen. This unpretending " Company" having, with the consent of the different potentates of India, gradually planted their feet as humble traders on the Coromandel , and Malabar Coasts, >and . on the banks of the Ganges, for several generations attracted little notice. But their ultimate success excited the jealousy of France, and ehe too founded an East India Company, and established agencies • at Pondicherry and Chandernagore, which, however, never flourished. In 1745 the corner stone of that series of events was laid, which converted the humble traders into warriors, statesmen, politicians, and potentates, and made them masters of India. At first the home au thorities allowed small bodies of soldiers to be maintained by the Company, to protect their factories from the barbarous and covetous printee in whose territories they were located. These were gradually in creased in numbers, and instead of self defence, encroachments were made on the possessions of their unscrupulous neighbors, and new territory acquired, until •the police force became a mighty army, andbthe great chieftains beheld with dismay the new power which bad •spriing up among them, as by magi's. On the 10th of May, 1757, just a century before the great Sepoy Re hellion commenced, Lord Clive, in the battle of Massy, gained a decisive victory over Sri Raja Dania, the Nitwit/ of Bengal, and hero of the " Blachhole" tragedy, whioh gave India to England .,`., From this date the ti Company became iridependent, began to build 'forts and - ships of war, to make treaties of alliance, to wage weir, 'and to exercise the . most it the '-ights- of sov-' ereignty. Bat in 1784 a bill was passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, *placing the Government of India under a " Board of Control," composed of the King's Min isters. This checked the power of the " Company," and• gave more protection to the Hindoos. A t Supreme Court of Judi oatare was also established in Calcutta, the English capital, and courts of justice erected in. Bombay and Madras. The political government and patronage of India were placed, .by charter, in the hands of the Directors of the East:lndia Company. They were twenty four in number, chosen Vithe proprietors, and were -Usually selected 'from , the members of 'their own civil, - military, or maritime service, or from among the mei.- Chants who bad acquired knowledge and fortunes in India. Each Director was re quired to ,hold two thousand:pounds of the Company's stock, and the proprietors . who elected him were *only ieligible poisessiOn et one- hrindred pounds "stock, which ear vied with it a ,sirigle vote:' 'There were about two thousand five hundred proprietors, six-of whom retired annually. This Court had-full authority over all matters in Eng land or India relating to the politicakfinan- Cita, judicial, and military' affairs of the Company. Bat their proceedings were enbjeot to the Board of ,Control. In. addition to this home establishm'ent, there were local governments in diffeient part 4 of India. The SuPreme 'Government of India consisted of a Governor. General, two members of Council drawn from the civil; and one from the military service ; also; the Commander in• Chief, ex officio, and one not 111 'either service, generally,.seleeted for: hie legal attainments, and called the law mem= • ben There was no legislative Assembly'of any lind to repreient the interests of any claw of the, people. But all had the right to petition: The Governors:General were nominated by the Crown; and appointed by the Court of Directors. ,They had also power ! to mean them. The Governor- General's salary was $125,000 per annum, and each member of Council received $50,000. A highly, educated civil service, consisting of.- about fotettirldra was placed by Wine' 'aethe disposal of. the Supreme Government. These were called the Covenanted 'Serviise, end until lately they were all educated at the ' East India College, at Haileybury, England. Besides those who held theivcommissioni from 'the Court of Directors, ,there was a large class, composed of Eurasions (half castes) and natives, called the Uneovenanted Service. 4 These were employed in India by the -local authorities, and assisted them, in a subordinate capacity, in administering the affairs of the country. Many of them, however, rose to. &Unction, and acquired much influence. The Company's jtidicial establishments in the interior of the country, consisted of a great number •of courts. At the chief stations •were Circuit Courts, and' in every district or/large city , there was `an English judge, a magistrate, a collector of revenue and ,customs; assistant judges, registrars of districts, and many petty native officials. Tlielawa`which *vaned in Were based on the Mohammedan' code, ex cept at the Presidencies; (Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras,) there English law was idinin istered: Inko this code much of the Hiram) law had mitered, and - , modified by inrinteerible rev:l)l4lone, rules and ordinances pissed by the government from time to time, it be name the law of 'all the country - courts. This mass of discordant machinery was no , less unwieldy than it was costly. It must be obvious, the obstacles to the correct ad ministration of so vast an empire, with such materials, were extremely great. The de graded state of society in general, the cor ruption of the native officers of the courts, the ignorance of the native pleaders, the prevalence of perjury among all classes of witnesses, the imperfect knowledge possess ed by the Anglo-Indian judge of the multi tude of dialects, customs, manners, and ideas, of the natives—all constituted serious impedi ments to the healthy course of iestiee. With such a corrupt, heartless people as the fin does to govern, is it any . wonder great evils did exist in the East India Company's rulel That so few existed, was the greatest won der. We do not wish to apologize for their sins. Their government was doubtless in many things faulty and oppressive. But so far as their connexion with idolatry was con cerned, allowance should be made for the circumstances under which they acquired and ruled the country. There are within whieh oomplaints against thenisheuld be restrained: On-taking the 'country from the Mohammedans, they found the Hindoo religion richly endowed. Large eridow meats in lands and revenues belonged to the temples and priests, which had been 'respected even by that bigotted people. The forcible re-assumption of these, and appropriation to other purposes, would have been highly impolitic. The management and disbursement of these endowments, mixed up as they *ere with the general revenue, gave to the government, duties to discharge which a too hasty consideration of the ,subjeet • might , condemn as wholy inexcusable. Bat gov ernment connexion with idolatry had ceased ` to exist before the exit of the East India, Company. Within the last 'thirty years, much had been done for the moral improve ment of the Hindoos. Then the alters of Darga reeked with 'human blood. The sacred rivers were tinged with that of in fants oast to the deified crocodiles. The smoke of the funeral pile ascended daily from every town and hamlet. The- ponder ous wheels of Juggernaut relied over its thousands of victims. A secret system of organized robbery and murder filled the land, and hundreds mysteriously disappeared forever from their own dome, while sur rounded by suppoiied friends. The widow, however young, was doomed to perpetual widowhood, or to burn with her deceased husband. Infanticide everywhere prevailed. No scllools for the people were in existence, except a fe* at the mission stations. No steamboats ploughed the rivers, nor oars ran to and fro on 'the land. No telegraph wires stretched from city to city, nor passable roads intersected the country. Thofisands of acres of good land, covered with jungle and swamps; hadinever been subdued by in dustry. But now what a change The most of the cruel rites to which ref erence has been made, have disappeared by the fiat of the "East India Company.' Schools throughout all India for the ver nacular, and English languages, and Col leges of a higher grade in all the large cit ies, and a University in each of the three Presidencies of India, have been established. The bestowments of gl Grants in Aid " on all educational institutions, whether govern- mental, missionary, or native, in which car= ' taro prescribed branches were taught, were' sanctioned and carried into effect some three or four years; ago.. The Bible had ceased to be .exoluded from the Public Bchmils and was permitted to be added to secular bp it*NsD.SHO:Hatt 1,21P-0011sJirilWel.;*40:Wirlizf-VlDO*Clafz)o;4aoX-04144;t0ali#C41309.tz:IrelZiabkil.10$:iclbfielOW PUBLICATION OFFICE, GAZETTE BUILDING, FIFTH 'ffitEET,AßOttßititHi'lELD, PITTSBURGH, PA. FOR THE ;,WEEK ENIDING I SATIJRDAY, *TUNE' 25, 1859. struction, in "case any cine ivished to study it. Native Christians were made eligible to offices of trust, both in the civil and mili tary services. The " lex loce" act secured them in the right of their proPerty. Much also was done by the East India Company for the physical improvomentof the country—for agriculture and commerce. In the'North.West of Hindoostan, there pis the Ganges', Canal, made for irrigation, five kindred miles long, and one of the grand eat in the World. In the Punjab there is another almost equal to it in extent, and others, rendering a famine in those parts of India a natural impossibility. A- railroad extending from Calcutta to. Peshawnr, a distance of •near two ,thousand mileti, is `partially completed, and others in different parts of the country are in opera tion. Steamboatsity on'the Ganges and Indes, daily. Macadamized roads, nowhere surpassed for excellence, interseet Many parts of Hirt doostan, and stage coaches'run in all direo ilea& Telegraph wires are stretching= over the land, and eonnecting—the most distant Parts. Thirty years ago, Aracon - was little fifty better than a swamp, and did not export tiousand dollars worth of produce annually. But mark . the progress. In 18541-5 the quantity of rice alone exported from Akyab, part of Amon, amounted to no less than $2,800,600: In 1856, the i e.xpor of rice , , from calcutts, amounted to more ~ Itan $5, 000,606, wheat $500 . 000 and sugar more than $5,000,000. Large quantities of tea are now made every year, on the' Himalaya Mouritaine, and sell readily at a higher price than China teas. In 1855-56, the whole iinPorts into Calcutta amounted to about' /40,00000, and the exports to $60,000,000. Many gigantic schemes of improvement t in agriculture, and internal communication - were Projected, but owing to the many wasting'ware in Which the ContiPani rengaged - with their tronblesomn'neightiors,, during , ther last 'twenty yeara, 'their treaiury 'Vas exhausted, and the public 'work's post poned. For the Prubyterian Banner and 'An Mccitiag Revival orßeligion inNales, Great Britain. ,MESSES. Enrrona:-=--Knocring "as I do, that -Zion's true increase and prcisperity at= all places, and times, lieth (deeply in your minds, I tender to you a brief, statement of the .present condition of God's holy, work as it goes on now in some parts of Wales, and especially in the ,County. of Cardigan. Cardiganshire like other counties, in Wales, had "hing been blestied, to a great extent, with the enjoYment of - religions or dinances and Privileges. Than produced in return 'a beneficial` savor the minds and manners of the people. But, lately, 'post extraordinary revival Of God's holy' converting power and 'Spirit,•harmanifested itself amidst the assemblies of Fthe faithful, in this particular spot; more' so than any. person now living had ever before witnesset This wonderful aspect of things commencea at the close of last year. Abrother who was licensed about three years ago, at Pittsburgh, Pa., tepreach the G-ospel amongst the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, but who found it needful return to his' own native Conrary. for the sake of his health, writes under date of Mar& 25th, 1859 as folloie /el have had the privilege lately of being in some of the 'most wonderful' meetings ' ever held. Not long ago; when present at a ineetingin Llangeitho, (a name familia; to many of your readers, 'being the home place of that t venerable departed man of God,' the Retr: , Danielackflands,) forty.one'oame dm* togethe; to the Society; and shortly after in another meeting I saw eleven more staying. In Tregaron, I ea* twenty-nine staying he hind 'at one time ; there is an increase her e Of about three hundred. In Pontr:hydfen 4igaid, about three hundred: Penarth,,sev env ; almost all of the inhabitants here hive become religions. In Bethinia sixty have been added, -there being only three' persons in the neighborhood left behind. ,Last night, March 24th, I attended a.Meeting at Aber meitrig, when ten persons were received anew. It was aseertsine4' brine last tight, that upwards of six-thousand have'been ad ded 'to' the, Calvinistic Methodists, alone, (who are Presbyterians in every thing but the name, and , it appears now that this also will be soon rectified,) and about two thousand to other denominations." Another' writer from Pontrhydfendigaid, in 'a letter written by hint in February, to his brother'here .in America, says::" Bitten • loses his subjects by scored here now". In every meeting, a. stronger than he Caries' to. the field `and spoils him of his *Oyes. The taverns have become unfrequinted;and the house of God. has become too little by• half to hold the prayer meetings. I will as: sure you that you never saw so many per sons before present at even a special preach ing meeting, as is now to be seen in this church at the prayer meetings. Persons of every age and distinction are saved; from the 'child of ten years old up to the old wo man of eighty: And the feet iNrwhen once 'one out, of a family is converted the iv6le is so, soon efterwards Last`Sunday evening but one, 'fourteen joined the church. Oa Monday 'night 'again, thirteen. Thursday night, thirty. two. 'Friday night, tvienty. five; " and last Sucidaj, forty•one. In all, two hundred and eight persons joined the church here within six weeks, being swih; I hope as will be saved. So you 'see that Satan loses his subjects, and if things con tinue in this'reitiner, he will be soon on the Common without one to serve him." At Aberystwyth, £I,B many: as four hundred and twelve persons have been added to the Cal vinistic Methodist church, within two months; thus bringing the whole_ number of that r vigerouehurch to amountat present to about one thousand menlbers. FrOm a correspondence' of ; : the Rev. Thomes• Edwards,' of : Pentlwyn, who is a brother to Professor Edwards, D. D., M, the Theological Tutor at the Calvinistic Methodists' Academy, in Bala, North Wales, wbieh has been printed in the Treasury, a monthly Teriodical belonging to the said denomination of Christians, I select the following rerna'rks Religion and its advancement has be come the topic of the day. One of the characteristic Ifeatures of the present revival is seriousness, in all places, at all times, and by all classes. It is'astonishing what an in- 7 clination people have to come to the means of grace—nut only to the sermons, but to the prayer meetings as well. The ;hurdles are thronged every meeting, and the meet ings are held every night nearly, if not of tener.' The additions made to the churches in so short a time has been almost incredible. I could name now in the end of February, twenty churches or more that hid about one hundred new converts added to each of them, and more than two hundred to some of theni. At-the same time, you may perhaps be afraid that the whole of this is superficial r and that Uteri:are drawn to the societies without being converted. We hakie feared, : nauelo so- ourselvesneither are we yet freed from fears that many have joined themselves with religion, who will turn out in thii end to be deceitful. But yet for all that, the maj l ority of us now haie been com pelled to believe God has'come out to save sinners. We see wonderful things coming upon men that overpowers theta entirely, whether we have tasted of the same or not. You can see at times twenty 'thirty or more, of the worst charaeters rising up at the end of a sermon in diffetent parts of the congregation, and directing themielvec to a bench near the minister,,appearingas their consciences had beep shot through; shaking as leives of the trees, put yet as_ easily - conducted' as litiabs;this-icari f running freely." Suppose you 'beard som'es, of t them - quo& tioned, you would wonder at :the ,honesty and simplicity of their answers. For in stance "What is your name, brother ?" "David." ;have yon ".been se.: (painted with c ireligion befora.?". "No, minter?"' , ; , "Whit inclined Yelute`Oome now ?" "1 6'0111(1'12ot " You lave beets fora long time faithfully: serving your old . 4 1 0 ,N0r "Yes, yes; sadly ,too, mpati." " How do thinh of doing now ?" "I think of trying Jesus for my life." "Do you mean to leave those things the Bible prohibits ?" "I s will leave all things for. Jesus." " Are you temperate ? . " , : _ (meaning _ an ab stainer from all into x icating drinks.) " "I will be so from this time out "have you ever prayed`?" "No, never." " Will you try?" "Yes, as well as I can." "What think you of doing so in the film ily ?" , " I will try. touight." "There has been some who persecuted this revival, but many of them have been after ivards heard to cry out, What shall I do, to 'be saved? -Mt ificidff; a W hat 'Chad the age of fifteryypigti o ttgps *sly to re ligion from an irinligious family. It is laid, that hiis`fathertieli , make a pet of him, and his by`taying,that' hekanst , get new s every time, and not " pray the'llsi t tne things over again. By Si*day nigh4boili of these were caught;and the',,young Man overjoy r ous, said to his friends, 'This is fright; ;' they also must now look out for new, ,prayers.' Messrs. Editors Lute that neither time nor any, thing sloe ,allow me to pronged on ill this luY-a,„n3rlf4.rt.tier- But alloir me just to remark, that these wonder fnl of dstid,ara'O.xteiplizii to other parts of Wales ,espenially M4ioneih shire, North Wa les, rnitand' aMidst every, oe nouitiensChristians: "Let' Mt 'thank God and'take coirke," and earnestly pray for a renewal of the same invaluable hies . - sings amongst'oirselies in Ameriba. Your well-wisher, JOHN ILLIAI4I3, W elsh'o.'lll: Minister. Ebensburg, June 18th,1859. . For the Freelipterian Banner and'Afiio4te. Annals - of the Aiiterican. Episcopal Pulpit ` . This is the title of a large and -beautiful volump,,of more than .ehght, htmdred pages, in crolev,,iestied lsit*srs.Cirter Itros.,, New `Y o r k , L ied of which the . Sprague, of Albany, New York,' is the au thor: It' is one of the of Vfslutries— entitled "'The' Mint& of the Ar:merieati pit." 'oU . this'great work, the first two'-vel-' macs, relating to the' Corigregatieriat Churches, , ippeared` some two years - age. These were followed a year`-'since by two more volumes, relating , to the- Presbyterian Churches of the Oldt and' New School, as they are termed. And now we haveanoth er volume of about, same size, relating to the . Protestant Episcopal .ohuroh, com prieing commemorative notices of .distin guished clergymen of ; that ,ChtKob, .from the early eettleMent of the eounkry,,,tp the close' of,,the year 1855. gther, yelpmes will Alin* at ho . feridistent interva l s, re-' d a ting to all Otiochis` or religioin denominations id:our lend. The. entire aeries embrace at keit eight; perliips nine or ten volumes. The conception of shah - a work Wag - a grand ..one'. ' Se, too, is the plan - of its & cation. e eon. Itlas -been the` aim 'of - the' author to give ta hrief, but sufficiently - full portrait ure of, the.life, character and sea - of all the most distinguished ministers of the 'Gospel of every,branch of the Christian' Church in our country, who. have ' passed from the , scenes of this life. In doing thie, he has availed himself of. thee aid, by correspond ence, of, a, large number of the ' most dist*. gushed Hyin g men,„ed,..onr country, - -tokh, clerical aid lay. This has, been, done,;, of ; ;. eourse, mostly in cases , whsre the corm]. pandents have been personally „acqnainted with the persons respecting ; whom, they write, and' their leMiniscericesgo to increase the interest which the ahthor has given. to hie sketches of thosei'vehoii has !nide, the subject , of his works. There'll; nothing :like' this great ' work to be found' in any other Ciitintry. The task may *Cilia `called , hei•cutectul What sesearobr Whit coriesikindefiee; What arid , perseverance execution ' have deMandisd ! Arid - What and all-pervading charityf What tale 4, Loci We do not believe' are another man' in our country who weild'have ixecited tiler work so well. No CongregatioUalist, no Presbyterian, no Bpiseopalian hai'any vilid reason to be dissatisfied with , the which relate to their respective. rObiliehes. And wesre quite aura_ that . nollethodist, - or Baptist, or , Lutheranor Renianist, , will - have reason to .find fault,with the ,volnmes. which: relate ,to theirs. We sincerely .hope 'that the distinguished author may live to accom-1 plish hie_ oble enterprise. ti As to th'e volume whose, title we, have, placed, at the head , of ; this,artiele, it, is one pt. which every , member pf the Protestant, BPiscopil Church in our country may well be proud, for it embalms the, Christian &- tiles and useftilneis of mor&than, one'hurt -dred and fifty, of its' diitinguished clergy men now deCeased, and in doing so, it in twi c e thaenumlier of 'teeliMonies , to the preciotisness of their memories.. But the volume will be read by hundreds ,and theta. sands `who belong to other churehes,' who have liberality enough to respectand love' s good Men, whether within or withent the . pale of their reapeotive deneminatione, and who believe that there is a noble serum in which Christianity is abeve Sect.' R.B. tar the Preebyterlen - Binner and Advocite. Members of Licking Presbyterian congre gation (Presbytery of Clarion,) lately, raised and presented their esteemed pastor, Rev. J. Mateey, one hundred and,thirty dollars, to purchase a new buggY. Peelle and bar mony, above all, 'love, the beet evidence of' true piety or discipleship, appears to be on the ascendeictin the congregatiOn. ONLY-good arid *die inervosib bi &aids . ; otherii are but ocimpauloub. For the Presbyterian Banner and Advorete. Presbytery of Dubuque. The Presivtery, of Dubuque, met, at Independ ence, on the 8d of May. There was a good at tendlincm,both of =fast:ere land elder Rev. J. P. Conkey. of, Bellevue, was. elected, Moderator, and the Rev. John Smalley, of Waverley,.Tem porary, Clerk. The state of religion in most of the churches was reported as very good ; and some, churphes reported very , precious revivals as having ocoirre4 during the past year, and a large number of hopeful conversions. Within our bounds, vital piety and sound doctrine are evi dently on the increase. Mr. Jsmob Conset, a licentiate of this Presby tery, was .ordained to the work of the holy min istry, according to the apostolic example, "by prayer and the laying on of the hands of the Pres -1:143,17." , . „ The Rev. Alexander Caldwell was received into the Presbytery from the Methodist Protestant Chnrch. Theßev. Dr. Phelps requested the Presbytery to diedolve_the,pastaral relation now, existing be tWeen,him and the First Presbyterian church of Dritinqrie. The reqiest was gaited, and the 'foligwing minute 15118,adOpted unantmously: ; The Presbytery ; of Dubuque in yieldiog their assent to,, dissolution of, the pastoral relation batiteedthe tea. J. 'Phelps, D. D., and the First Presbyterian church of Dubuque, adopt the,Al - expression' of their views in regard to the subject: Resolved, That while we do not feel called wpon to,sssume the ,responsibility danying, the re cfuest of Dr Plielps;it is with sous* that we contemplate ; his departure from that,people ; and that our sorrow be greatly arigmented, if the matter shall result in his removal from .our . bounds. .Resolved, That we ,beer testimony ,t0,.111q, zeal, fidelity, ability, abundant labors and success as a minister of Jesus Christ, riot only in kis own pas• total'abarge;,btdelso :throughout. the different parts of - the territory embraced within the, limits of, this Presbytery ..ffero/eq; That our best .wishes amd„prayers shall attend li,rether, Phelps forhis irsefulness,and happinesshappiness;iii whnteyer part of Hie:Nester's vine yard he . Shall be called in the proyidence of God to labor 2i'ssklueff, :That . the „Presbytery lames , their deepsympathy with the First Presbyterien church of Dubuque, on - the occasion, of their separation from a faithful and .dpviited, : pasior; malt is Our earliest prayer that .the gieat Head Of the Church. will speedily,supply.their loss. Jogs SMALLZY, Temporary Clerk, From our London* Correspondent. Death ,of the King ,of Naples—His Career and Cruelties--Pope and ,Sing in Harnumy—The Young Kingi:-The` Future of the Two Sicilia— The War_and the, First' Battles—French Prestige and Austrian Obatinaey—The Pope's Tranquility and- Cardinal' Wiseman's Testimony—r Whither is ' the Pope to Flee ?—beague between Popery - , and Derbyism—The Times and the .; Dissolution -Lords Russel and Palmerston Threatening the Cabinet—The Free Church Genera/ Assernbly The Established,Church Assembly—Female Edu cation in inVia--Funeral OraliOn on Humboldt. LONDON, May 24th, 1859. , Ten KING or NAPLES '6 dead. One of the worst of tyrants has passed , a,Way, What adds to the defeataele Character of his kingly career is; that violation of the Moe spkm and, ; e s peated paths „And_ vow, ; arirlais t aerocions cruelties inflicted ort,the , 'pefest patiilo;' we're all' done in 'the name under - the'z sanction of the 'Poise, the "the Church." E When Pio -Norio declared. for liberty and Reform', Ferdinand Of Napiee,denounced him as a Jacobin s ,andlA Revolutionist. When Pio NO9 repented in hot 'haste, then Ferdinand became his I " dear son," and in slavering= abjeotness, prostratediiimself at .the Holy Father's" feet. ~;All.his massacres ie ;were ',then' '.,endorsed, and applauded, the political prie oners hig tioniinions, amounting to between ; twenty` thousand` and `thiitYih,Ousand; were t ‘ treated hi the Pop; as "Teretiihimideserving iihe black . bread, the • fretting , chain, the noisome dungeon..; l , have, recently, seen, , in_ Italian, , ,the rallegetfeno of a teepees of ingetry, Aent by the dying mouirehto the Pope, together 'with the ,reply. Touched with , some re morseful apprehensions, Feidinand asks the highest authority a question to this effect If a vow has been Made, And a, !Aaiun promise has been ,givelvaed neither have been bathed, is there no sin ? To which the Pope, we ate told, replied, " God judges' kings by their intentions, rather than, by thfir . Mords. ' Onirthitsiis pertain that, such ,teaching is in, perfect harmony with the_ principles and ,practiceS , of the Jesuit' School. And .that, Ferdinand was ruled by the Jesuit' FAthers we well. .know - :In his ridiculous and 'seperstitions reverence for Ignatius • Loyola, he actually nominated the. dead 'Arita Major General in the Neapolitan army I 'AI. Loyola fought rand. was wounded as a soldier bitfore he entered on vocation;" as the founder of A new Order, it has beee, titiggMited that hiving seen service,,, he shoeld , have been. nominated a Field Mar shal, lather than a Major General. . No abehrdify wee inconsistent in a Mem try; and ender a, royal reginze, where the, liquefaction of the hlood of St. Januarins in a State inquisition, at which King and Qneen,.archbislieps and 'ministers; 'Mile-. tart' and civilians, how 'Own „in., reverence, I Let' it alio:he remembered, that: t there are now, in ,1859, - neariy seven hundred mentos, teries and convents in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, tenanted by about twenty thousand priests and monks, and fifteen thpitelind 'nuns. , Under such a system as this, and with a highly educated aristocracy, is it to be expected that things will re main quiet I The new, King has alse, like his father, been an alumnus of - the, Jesuit Fathers. He will try no doubt, to'keep up the in fainons system of the past. The father actually added to the civil' code, or rather altered' completely, three' hundred s tied sixty decrees, with his own hand. Hi was cun ning, as well as cruel, - Idirlitirrip Money in - yanks, and had itivetiielaige suds in the Vglishfunds,, ,expecting Abet " a., rainy dafil J. might arrive. , suspect one or two, rif re: Continental despots have done the 'sane! Bat he'died at last in a royal pace, , aithata of disease; and yet, as the Times of 'this morning remarks, " it May be that his legit moments were soothed by some priestly :juggle, and that • he passed away without feeling that extremity - of misery which he, had inflicted on thousands and thousands of his fellow creatures." The FIRST BATTLE has been fought in Italy, and singular enough that it icing utiles a stern strife with Austria on the same field.of . Montebello which is associated in' history, with the first successful encounter . of "Napoleon I. with his Gertiiait foe, fifty years ago. The Austrians have doni much berm in those portions of Sardinia into which they crossed, but they were totally unable, strictly speaking, to invade that. country, still less, to advance triumphantly . .upon its capital. Tbe, Austrians were very severely handled in the resent fight) and were compelled to retire' behind the river Po, The French had serious loss also, in officers of superior rank. The combat was very flue!, for , five or six hours, and , it , giyes a suggestiVe indication of Piedmontese pluck and iatriOtism, that a Sardinian cavalry regiment, in the course of th ' e action, cliiirged their hated foes not less than six tlnsee ;ii f i = , a 14, LW: .'+' !The prestigelef..the first success restslvith the ,Allies. The Sardinians surprised a hand Of AuSeriiis at Vercelli ) and` drove Philadelphia; South West Corner of Seventh and Chestnut Streets them baok, and thuifa,•second blow was in flicted. Bat all-this while,..Austria, has her strongholds behind her, and one would say has thus the odds in her favor. Meantime, her attention is being dis tracted` by Garibaldi a famous 'guerilla General in the time of Roman Republic, who, with his volunteers of various andel* is about to pus the Ticino. So likewise a greet body of troops is to enter Tuscany, and amongst these is found thellungarian General Klapka, the famons defender of the fortress of Remora. Distarbancee are spoken of in the Duchy of Modena; and while the telegram says; "Rome.is.quiet," its quietude may, be but the pause before the bursting of the storm, or the belching forth of the volcano fires. Pio. Nono is, we are toldi very calm.. .So says no, lees an authority than Nicolas Cardinal Wisentart, at , the opening of, a Bazaar yesterday, at Leeds, for a Popish Orphan Asyluth there. True, the Cardinal, admitted that to the Holy:, Father 'the present , was a moment of great, anxiety, u to Ig the doubtful complexion of,affairsin his own domielps." Bnt,neyerthelees ; lie had been able, forgetting every Other care, to send a cameo all the way from Rome, for the Leeds Fair! ; Within, these few days:" says .the very cious Nicolas, ,kave , seen; some pewee who, conversed with the Holy Father last week, and all, with one 4biee,lieve assured ins. that he; isLas trairquil in -niiiiesit , thinigh the ,had no.personalintereet in the dispute. ni B remarks were these : A ; " Whether in Rome or inexile whether. .free or in prison Ism the same. I. *hall ,still be Vicar of Christ and head of the .Churoh." • .It is ; plain, however, from words, that ,the Pope and-the... Cardinal- are in "terror lest ere long they may_be seat,a. ipaoking. The new King of Naplee will ' i nanely have the face to offer , hira another retreat' att.the Gaeta, that received 'Min in 1848. Whither -.then - shall he,. go Y. ,To Jerusalem, say some. That is-not:likely. There there has, been a yegulari",Chrihtiap fight" in the church of the, Sey s ikl; chre, and the Greeks and Armenian priests have been tearing down the - furniture of the Latin.portion of <the building, '.#4), hid .on eaoh others' heads. : The, three priesthoods, that live there are certainly worthy renre-, ientatives of the Religiori,,pt Love I ..The Pope would 'la ' find himsep attiorati in Jerusalem. Others talk of an island iii the Mediterranean; but a Romans , Cithelic gen , tleman told a, friend of mine, the other day, 'that if, compelled to leave Rome England, would he , his chosen .destination Well, either England or America Would, be piifelit for. the fngitive from his own aubjedte. - ttereties would protect hinubest, arid , show , hincrwhat practical :Christianityis, in heap ingsolls of fire .on the head, ofome,who, lhowever mild pepioeally, yet emlorses all the barbarous perseeutions which England both endured and survived. The LEAGUE EETWEEN, POPE RY , AND, DEEBYISM ) thetecent oleitions, has excited intense disgust, and will; I helieve, tate:, the doom of the Cabinet. -Since. my list, letters have been wrAtten.,,,by the. earth; . . Ina, designed to in fluence an ,Irith 4 litorough election, in one of which it is thus written, ",I am bound to say that from the pitient Gov pranient Twe have received more attention; more courtesy, and more - ready arts-in-Once of redress, when we have had to, treat of matters of religion, than, we have expe penned from others." The Cardinal, in the .sanie spirit, yesterday, at Leede, 'expressed his hope that the day was not far distant when „the • people( of England.: wthild=nebly, justly, and eqnitably, give-to the Church of Rome ,that which, waejustly her due. . An endowed Xotnish University ' ,in Dab lin, the break up - of the National System„of education, the granting of gaol chaplains With fall salaries, and ,of army. chaplains richly endowed ad libitum, are some oU i the instalinents of whit is" due "expected from the Derby Cabinet. The Tablet, speaking - is' the °Qin of ' Wiseman, thus refers to the:" two aides " in the war, and - furnishes . one reason' for:: its support of a government which Ayinpathiseck with, Atietria, that hates Evangelism,,and that true Protestantism which form the ba sis of all true national : liberty : The atwo sidee" are, a Indulgences, maculate Conneption, Intetteseion of the Virgin. Mother of Goil,,prayert, for, pence, and Holy See on the one side • ate Walden sea, Church-robbing Cavour; Victor..mnien uel, end - Lord Shaftslaitri, -on the nther." The Times bitterly laments- thewthe Lib kids did not -accept andiimprove in- , Com, mittee, ,the .Ministerial ,Referin have prevented that dissoltittoii which, by corruption and- PoPighl : co-opkttion, given to the Cabink twenty-flit' new - sup porters, or fifty additional .notes ou sion. It says, with, some truthi that it was, a; great concession for, the Tories to,propost, a, £lO county franchise; and ails, lahr measure to Lord John Ruesel as a ' great mischief maker. Nevertheless, it hints' that on or before the .Anniversary of Waterloo, the united forces of the Liberals may upset: the Cabinet. The Morning Adtertiser okra that Lord John and Lord Palmerston have made up their differences, and hive °mato. a distinct underatanding as to the course to be adopted of , ridding theeountry of a government whiph,if, permitted to re main.much longer, will certainly plunge the -nation into a war on „the side of Austria. We must have in their 'stead, a men who abhor _Concordats,- Jesuits, and Ultramon tanism. , .140Palinerston the, only man for, the crisis; and the,,country will , never, be secure being dragged into,this way, for Austria, for the Pope and Poper y , until l e he again at the head of affairs. " But what •will Messrs. Roebuck, Bright; and the Ultra Radicals. do?, The Advertiser only caloutates on a majority against the .Cabinet of from fifteen to twenty: five. • D'loiraki is so, wily that it will be strange indeed if the Cabinet"perish this year. If; however, 'it remain, the peril is imminent. of evil being, dime.- Palmerston ;at the . F o r e i g n office would be equal to a fresh . division of fifty thoueand men added to the Branco:Sardin ian army. TEE FREE CHITEMi ASSEMBLY 4 now in, session at Edinburgh. The gathering is held in a new and magnibcent Hall, built; on the Mound in close prorrimity to,the new s , College. ,Doutor Beith, ;in Anost felieitqua, terms, proposed Principal OunninAnuir ss the new Moderator. Lord Patimure admirable speech, supported the- proposal. He took Inii. l 4°V 4) -TllSNAteltoßcKvtgAi the:Assembly in their new hall ;,an uoicyNn . moat suitable , be' 'confide - a, iener;rig their Disruption vows, ind their aahisiiiii to those great principles of which-the .Princi... pal had , been the ,powerful;;; defender., )11e, also indicated how, by the death o f many . of the Disruption Fathers, a new, era was xi)! inaugurated. He , paid a touching"trial steno thevverrerable fittlfersit4ey;Bufnii, aryl Mak.ellar, iwho ha& 4ecently passed ; t tt #l4 :IhR new Moderator's opening address . , was, characterized bi both modesty =a 6 '6 1 5 t' By &op; 1111 opa Oar. "raw upErmus . DeliMetirthaTelit*,,, ;2.00 " " 7- ~ WHOLE N 0.8521 It was observed that he wore a shade• over his eyes, on entering the hail, and be re ferred-to the affection of the eye as likely 'to cause his absence from - the Chair occasion ally, in the evening sittings, from the irri tating.. effect of artificial light. Of the American Revival, he said he believed it to be the greatest event of a religious nature, since the Reformation: Religion in Ameri ca had, to a large extent, been produced by a truccession of revivals •' in this country, the process had_ been of a quiet nature. Ile thought that the great - work still going on•in America had not yet received the at tention, or , produced the effects in this country which might be expected from it. Referring to .the situation of China and India, the Moderator said that it ought to fill them with the irrepressible conviction that a loud call was addressed to them to do, more for the heathen. Referring to the Continental nations, he announced • that in the ter-centenary of, the first Protestant Synod'of „Prance, which occurs to•morrozo, and Which Wiltbe observed by all the Pro testant Churelies in France, he would call the attention of the Assembly to the history of the. Protestant Church in ..France. His next tonic was the state of the home population with reference to intemperance and other..,ferms,of, immorality. The grand Ussion :deri i ved from a review of all these ni ciii3ustancei, Was, that they needed and must lance, so to speak, a great outpouring o'fithe.. Holy. Spirit: He:•called upon the .brethrew to dedicate themselves anew to the service and glory of God, and to abound in -Labors and in prayers. , . ' FEMALE ` EDUCATION IN INDIA is receiv- lug apeoial attention in Scotland. Last week a public meeting was held in Edinburgh, of the Free Church Female Society, for this eanse. The number of pupils sustained by tb,e,Sopiety, are—at Calcutta, four hundred and ,eighteen ; at Madras, eight hundred; at Bombay, four hundred; and, Poonah, one hundred and seventy. These ladies have • some •• aid from 'friends in England, and a c box .of work from' the ladies of my own congrogation, is sent annually to Mrs. Dr. t, Wilson, of Bombay, for the female school there. THE ESTABLISHED ASSEMBLY had been opened as nenehin State- by the Lord Coro- the Earl of Hopetown. The, re- Atirink Moderator Was Dr. Leishman, of Go van, : near Glasgeiv, 'an Evangelical " rat" Ei# the time .of the', Disruptien, or rather as „i . he w,as.the foremostuf a band of defaulters of thirty.nine • and one over, the leader of " the fifty thieves," as they were called at 'the time. The new Moderator is Dr. Cook, .!of 'St. Andrews, , one of the true, moderate :31)yeed, and whose, claims to the Chair were -said,to rlst mainly in his efforts" to preserve ,the Christian obaracter , of the, parish: schools Sootlaid," 'which being translated, means Abitfor an exclusive Parish system, it was iriropoivid to establish a national one, the Bible , the-text book in them all! A trikm,to of respect was paid by Dr. Hill to :the learning and character of the late Prinapal tee. Dr:Bryce reported that the Government I.4ied been very liberal in appointing an in ;crease of chaplains in -India. The Conver sion of the Jews occupied the attention of the Assem.blynn the , first day of its meeting. It haimissionaries at Darmstadt and Karls ruhe, in Germany; , Salonica Constantincple, and= Smyrna, In 'Turkey. The collections ~amounted, to £2,043, less by £lO2 than last year, and the whele income from collections, Subscriptions &o is £2,580, less by £754 .1 than last year. THE - DEATH OF HUMBOLDT, referred to in my last,' was the occasion of a funeral , pronounced by a German Divine ; which seems so illustrative of a misty, per ilous theology, that I have thought it well tolay a portion of it before your clerical 'readers. It is not to be forgotten that Hum boldt was, if not an Atheist, or a Pantheist ; Theist .at - -the' most. Yet the Bithop, i first ,pregeher of-the Protestant Estab lished Church of Prussia, Dr. Hoffman, spoke, thus strangely : :1. - Lovii never ideepeth, because it is derived fromthat one eternal love given to the world by Godin.Christ Jesus, ; our. Master. 44, put how far the deceased entered into this source'' "of all love, and really and forcibly sok' nowledged and confessed. peace to be exclu sively,gained by the forgiveness of sins, it is dit. &tilt ttrsay; owing to the almost bashful reticence which Alexander Von Humboldt was wont to ob serve in all matters relating to things of eternal moment. We know, _however, ,that not in all forms which DiViriectiuthAins' been - Made to as * intim 011. earth- did he recognize the original *eider of all things. We know that he was apt 'to slider hiedislike of that zeal which in its holy earnestness will repose upon nothing but the love of God. It is likewise certain that theological dootrinee, although but the earthly vesture and embodimentiof revelation, yet were very likely to Anake-him doubt as to whether human theories had been installed in the place of Divine truth. The eye of his intellect, accustomed to the con templation.ofthe visible world, and the laws reg -tdating-Hti arrangements, was more open to the understanding of the wonders wrought by the breathnf, God, as shown in created nature. than tothe reception of the moral miracles effected by the Almighty gratie in the microcosm of the hu man heart. But whenever a friend interposed to shoW him the Divine nucleus within the external husk—the DiVille essence contained in the human 'fortii—,he did not• shrink - from the recognition of - it; confessing at the same time, with the fell sin cerity of his heart, that this holier world of -mir acles was not equally-opened to his insight as was the natural one.., He, nevertheless found himself ,canstantly attracted to the contemplation of this , highonworldp brought near to him by the spirit ual beckgmund ‘ which underlays all his researches into nature. More, than once, in the midst of qtdetconversation,l was rejoiced by remarking this unconscious teedermy of hie mind, and pointed it meta him. But it was only by fragmentary utterinees that he stowed the manifestations of his longing for the eternal grace of. God, which, as sinners, we stand in need of for obtaining our sout' , salvation. "From,this coffin we raise our eyes to the cora -1 passionate love , of God. That God who has al ways lobed the dilarted one; and whose spirit has been secietly striving•withitt him—that God, like aliun of , justice, we Tay hope, will irradiate the glowing heavens of his loving soul; and this never ceasing love will be caught by him, as the gift of a merciful Father." § ll O-j l e the trChanty" that Geiman ittitionalisin endorses, mixed. with something e very mtiehlike'that of a state of salvation b'eyond the—grivel yor the Presbyterian Banner and Advocate Death. • There le hut one death that mortal man should prepare for, viz.: The death of the righteous." " Let me die the death of the righteous, and, let my last end be like his." Those who received , the ordinance of hap than in johilclho4 enjoy a peculiar favor; 'lnky they, when they come to mature age, deny , the name of our Lord and Saviour Jeans, Cbriet,Aey will , be in a condition far ( worino, then..,the heathen.. It would have - been ',hotter for their„ souls if their bodies had never had existence. If revealid rt liglon were a fiction, and we should embrace it tit leould .olcv us .no harm:. But if it is trAte,And we reject it, how infinite the loss I And it, is Arun. ~Let 4 ue.thervxnake it ,ours. the i n, t heie a good conscience in Mme, andj ' sall be gainere throughout eter. .nity. *ha live and die in the dark ;Melo of heathenism, shall , have torments in the inture world, light compared with thole . „ wire neglect the great salvation. MUM
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