'gaunt Abbotate. DAVID MoKINNEY, 1 JAMES ALLISON, -plopsurroti, STEPHEN LITTLE, PITTSBURGH, NOVEMBER 5, 1869. Irlitestee;- $l.lO, ti IROVIROOO, OR In Olube $1.9i1 ors delivered at reIddIIMINIII of Subearl. berm, 0600. Sae Prospestual ea Shard SNP. .11 a MIN AL. • diluent lie prelims; a litUi while %gore the year oxplivai that we stay Make full arringentente for a 'toady oupplys CRUM RAD WilAPPlat Indleatee that we desire a renewal.- If, however, la the haste of stalling, this signal skould be °matted. wo Kiva . 41w Wanda will AM not forgot an liAllllN7ANOligi-Bend payment ley sofa kande, when sonvinieht• Ore sold by Naafi, .anemia: with ordinary wet and troubling nobody nit* a knowledge or , what you are doing. for a large amount, "mad a Draft, or Strips notes. Nor one °limo papers. rend Gold or small notes. I/0 DIMICSI 011Allea, Send poatmle stamp's Or better eta, send for snore yalrilj may #lll or Se rangy nunibera, or #1 for likirtr.liiree nunaberal DIRDC7 all lasttsre sad Coaummatelansiax is DAVID NOCIDDIVI a co., Pittsburgh. Pa. Board of Colportage. A meeting of the Board of Colportage of the Synods of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, will be held at the Presbyterian Book Booms, St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, on Tues day, the Bth inst., at o'clock P. M. A full attendance is requested. An election for officers will be heldiand plans of opera tion considered. DAVID M I KXNNEIS Prest. __lHonie,iTufroreigniteaud- DOMESTIC MISSIONS. The Record gives the Board's action in constituting the South-Western Advisory Committee. This we ,had published, from the' True Witness, some time ago. The principles we regard as correct, under the necessity, but we regret the necessity of a seeming sectional action. Several letters of interest, from missionaries in various parts of the Church, are given. There is no state ment of the Board's operations, plans, or prospects. REOIII7O, in September : at Philadelphia, $2,- 501; at Louisville, $386. EDUCATION The Brick church; New York, having re ceived an Associate pastor, from the Union Theological Seminary, has reeolved to ap propriate $175 annually, to the support of a student in that institution: This is becom ing. The Record affirms that every Church • Session is bound to afford an opportunity, an nually, to every member of the congregatiois to contribute to everKscheme of the Gen eral Assembly.. By ." opportunity," we suppose is meant, a call from the pulpit or a personal application. To this we think all Sessions will assent, admitting also that it is their duty to give the people full and correct information relative to thoie schemes, their object, economy, and practical efficiency, so that people may contribute intelligently, and may hold the employees of the Church re sponsible for a right use of sacred funds, and for due energy in promoting the Redeemer's cause. RZOITPTEI im September:.at Philadelphia, $2,435; at Pittsburgh, $129 ; at Louisville, $162. FOREIGN MISSIONS. The demands upon our columns leave us but little space, this week. We call earnest attention to the Foroi:n Board. Lar:el • of very great benefit. REMPTS in September : $7,199. PUBLICATION. RE03117193 in September.: Donations, $1,067; Sales, $4,891. CHURCH EXTENSION. RSCIZIPTS in September : $648. - A Plea for Peace. The Richmond Christian Advocate gives the following excellent reason why the Dis ciples of Calvin and Wesley should live to gether as brethreo gt John Calvin was a Calvinist, and John Wesley was an. '"Arminian, ste every body knows. What the former was in later days to the Rdznish Chinch, the latter was to the Church of England. Both were great Re formers. The great Churches, both found ed under God ) are the best proofs that there is enough in each to make them love one another. Each has already done enough for Christ to inspire a cordial mutual omit : denim and affection. The seal of God is the highest authority. It shines with ce lestial lustre on both. And now let Calvin ism and Arminianism have done with con troversy. The •Churoh that does most for God, has the strongest arguments emits side. Time is the testa Controversy is ;repel lant; energetic, practical, efficient piety, attractive. And as this improves, approxi mation is made to Christian unity. Let the Christian, world resound with songs and shouts of brotherly love, like the peal of great thunders, and the voice of many wa ters, and sectarian peculiarities will be for gotten, and mankind be concerned only about the saving truth -in each Christian sect." Along with this truly Scriptural thought, there is also another which is not to be for gotten, and which is a rule of life. It is this : "'Thou shalt in any wise -rebuke thy neighbor, and shalt not suffer sin upon him." This duty; however, is to be per formed in the true spirit' of charity, with a consciousness-= of our own hnperfections. Rittnility must be manifest on our part, and also a high respect"for the brother whom we would reclaim from 'an error. If evangeli cal Arminians and evangelical Calvinists could but learn to use words, each attaching to them; precisely ' the same meaning, they would 'hod themselves less widely separated than they'had thought they were. Then would discussions no more repel. They would conciliate and attract. Men who are taught by the Spirit ortiod must have, in fandamentals, a 'common faith. All who are born of God, being renewed in the Di vine likeness, will greatly resemble each other. Those in whom is the same mind which was in Christ Jesus, cannot but ex hibit similarities in sentiment and taste. Let all then who would, promote Christian union, manifest distinctly the lineaments of Christ. By these will they be known. For these will they .be loved. These will at. tract. tor the Presbyterian Banner and Admata. The Irish Miseion. The, undersigned acknowledges the re eeipt of a draft, (at eight,) from C. Arbuth not, Esq., for twenty pounds sterling, in aid of the Clogher Schools, under the superin tendence of Rev. John Edgar, D.D. JOUN DOUGLAS. Pittsburgh, Oct. alst 1859. Yor the Preabytenalt Bauer sad Advocate. SUPlies for, the Sixth Church, Pittsburgh. First Sabbath in Noiember, Bey. Burchfield, morning; Rev bl'eartney, evening. Second Sabbath in November, Rev. Braddock. Third Sabbath in November, Nev. Sabbath Observance:; 'MING Tiß ARPORT Of A OOMMITTIZ'OF 87A• OD OF PITTSBURGH, OCTOBER,, 1869. ADOFTXD BY Till SYNOD. ,Man,, him two grand. interests. of these concerns him as mortal, and the other as immortal. One is earthly; the, other is heavenly. One is temporal ; the other eter nal. These interests are not antagonistic. The one wise and good Creator, has arranged for their simultaneous advancement. The Sabbath is a' part of this arrange ment. It was made FOR MAN—for the na tion as well as for the Church—for the com munity as well as for the individual. It is revealed and enjoined in the Bible. It•be longs to the existence of true religion. 'lt is essential to a sound morality. Its proper observance results in a knowledge of God, and of man's social relations. It produces an intelligent mind; an enlightened, and quickened conscience ; a reverence for law; security for the rights of person, property, character, and family—it causes a well-or dared, peaceful, industriMrs, and happy so ciety. Its instructions and worship commu nicate a knowledge, and put forth an influ ence which are entirely for man's benefit. It was intended as ahlessing, and has proved a blessing. The people of the - United States, beyond those of any other country, have been a Sabbath-keeping people. A' large portion of the pritnitive settlers; that is, of the seed whence the nation and its institutions sprang, were religious men—yea, they were the most devoted of the most Protestant and moat Sang ally Wffgent : nations of ttie old world. They were the' Puritans, and Huguenots, and others who desired an open Bible, a quiet Sabbath, and undisturbed worship; and they iere followed and joined by men of a kindred' spirit. These immigrants brought their institu tions, and taught them to their children. They marked the Sabbath, and kept it strict-. ly. It. was their day of rest from all "worldly eteployments and recreations." It was their unfailing season of worship. They at once adopted regulations protecting its quietness. As soon as they had regular. ly octietituted governments, they secured to themselves their Sabbath. When they be came free States, they revised and i;sotitivi ued their Sabbath laws. The Sabbath,, then, is coeval with our existence, as a people. It has been the crown of every ,seven days of our being. It was deeply planted on the James River, and firmly set tied on Plymouth Rook. The shores of the. Connecticut, the Hudson, and the Delaware, AS also the plains of the Carolinas, received the Sabbath with the'first dawn of eiviliza tion. . When white men crossed the• Alle ghenies, they carried their Sabbath with them. Western Pennsylvania, Weetern Virginia, 'ltexttuoky, Tennessee, the - Missis sippi, the Lake country—all the ,great West and North-West---received the Sabbath with their earliest inhabitants. A Sabbath, then, a Christian • Sabbath, is no new thing to this nation. A Sabbath, a Bible Sabbath, pro tected by civil law, belongs emphatically to the people of these United States—a Sab bath giving character to their intelligence, their spirit, and their morality—a Sabbath hallowed beyond, that of any &lei nation. And have the people _suffered from their Sabbath? Yee, have they not, by it, been more free, more enlightened, or more pros porous 2 Where can its equal be found, in all the elements of true greatness—in all that belongs to man's earthly joys, and his immortal hopes ? Will you compare this people with those who have no Sabbath—or with those who have but a desecrated Sab bath—with heathendom ? or with the na tions of continental Europe ? or with Mex ico and South America ?. To lose our Sab bath! 0 what a fall I Sabbath laws have not, with us, been stringently enforced. Rigidity was not needed. Early instruction, established habits, und the respectability worship, so protected the day that there was bat little requisition for the exercise of the civil power. Public- sentiment, the grand ad ministrator of law, has, however, of late been injuriously affected.' This has result ed from a laxity in family discipline, the corrupting influence of prosperity, and a new and large immigration vastly different from the early fathers. Recent importa tions, men who have fled to ns , for an, asy lum, embrace tlaose who would rob us of the most blissful portions of our heritage. They must be resisted. They Must not be per mitted, irreligious minority that they are, to take the _Bible from the schools,, nor the Sabbath from the land. In our own State we are now waging the third contest, within a few years, for the rights of the Lord's day. When the canals were opened, trade, on them, claimed a superiority to law and religion _ ;"but trade was compelled to succumb greatly. When the railroad system was established„travel ing claimed to be exempt from interruption; . but soon it also yielded to the Christian sentiment of the country, all but a single train. Then"came the Passenger Rail Cara in cities and their suburbs, claiming a‘ free dom to disregard the Sunday law. But the law still has strength. There is virtue yet among 'the people, and honesty in magis trates ; and we trust that a regard for flub lie morality will, by the firmness and wis dom of Christians, prevail over the spirit of dissipation and the love of gain. We would not now speak largely of the positive observance of the Sabbath. Our Church has often reiterated ,the Seripturat instructions. Ministers habitually make this a subject of teaching from the pulpit, We would simply urge pastors to increased efforts in this line; and exhort the people to nee the day,'wholly, lovingly, and zealously, for the purposes of its institution. With regard to the negative observance of the Sabbath, the " times " can upon us for wise consideration. A Christian people must protect their day of worship from , out rage, and conserve their liberty of enjoying it, to the end of ice appointment. Just now there is being made a powerful effort to procure a legal sanction for the running of Passenger Cars upon the Day of Rest. This day some would make a. season of amusement. The Street Railroad Com panies, and the panderers to the appetites of the depraved, would use it as a time of pecuniary gain. To'Such men, a Sabbath can be made more profitable . than any , other two days in the week. Against the desecration, the ancient customs of the country, the en actments of the Legislature, and the dein dons of the Courts, unitedly Pretest. Some' '." -7-- A .--\ :IDDVLIMCIIIIV ' AND ADVOCATE. new and reverse.aet, by State authority, is hence to be obtained; and this attainment, they would make, by electing Men adequate to such a deed; by petitions, and by prose ciitionsOlnder the " existing law, of *chirch going people who- are conveyed , thither. in vehicles. Let Christians, however, not be impelled to seek either the abolition or the disuse of our 'good: and- salutary 44 Sttnda3r laws." The following resolnticns embrace Synod's ieafting , thanghtsi. on this great sub. jest } in the-aspect in which it is now pre sented : L Resolved, That this is a Christian coun try. The government'was established by Christians, and as Christians, the people have a riglt to protect the institutions of their choice. t 2. Resolved, That the province of the .civil power, in regard , to religion, is not to ordain a belie, nor to enforce an observance, but to protect and restrain from a trespass. 3. Resolved, That it is the . privilege, and the.duty of Christians, as citizens, to em-. ploy the el t iotive franchise, and the right of petition, and the power of the civil courts, for the procuring, the upholding, and the enforcing of such laws as are adapted to, se cure to all who may desire it, the enjoyment of a quiet Sabbath. 4. Resolved, That attending upon public worship is not a (( worldly occupation," in the legal sense of those words. It is a re ligious service. It is aright, and embraces all the means'needful for its due enjoyment. The day, with all its privileges, belongs to the hired man as really as to any other man; and because a man hires himself 'by the month for a livelihood, he is not"-there - - fore-to be , hindered from %riding ttol church ivittilits — ettiployer; -- Vneir men go ipiiiitly! to the place of worship, BO officer of the law, and no ether person, has any right to inquire into their relations to each other. The law: asks not .which is the em ployer andt:which the t employee. , Both- are alike in the law's eight. 5. Resolved, That we deplore the increasing tendency , even in. Christian families, to spend the Sabbath in idleness, s in social calls, worldly conversation, and mereunnecessary, wan dering abroad for ere pastinie, or to super intend worldly interests which might be at tended =to on weekdays, and- that it be earn estly recommended to the members, of our churehes-and their families, to abstain from all these violations of 'the Lord's,day. ' 6. Resolved, That it ie the duty of heads of families to furnish facilities for all the , members Of their household', - to attend the public, ati:well as private, worship of God.. Domestics as .well as children, are to,be cared for. Males as well , aa females, , s and field help, if lodging with the family, as well. es house help have their rights, and should enjoy the Christian's care. Especially are Christians bound'not to 'make any ustneees. sorry requisition upon their employees, inter; fering, with their proper attendance at the house of God. ' Synod hence Condemns,' most emphatically, the requiring' of hired men to spend hours of the Sabbath morning in ' grooming horses, and the causing of drivers of carriages to abide on We street . while the proprietor aitendi upon 'the wor ship of the sanctuary. If faroilies need a carriage to convey them to meeting, let them enjoy it, of the-abundance,which God has, given them, but let Ahem so arrange matters, that their drivers may enter the house of God with them, or may go elsewhere to wor ship according , to the order of their choice.. 7. Resolved, That, it be enjoined on. the wernbeis of our churches, to attend, sedulously, to the sanctification of the Lord's. day; not Pharisaically, but using it for the instruction of their families, and for the: public and private exercises of God's wor-, ship • that in reaching the house of God.` they go as quietly, and with as little shoiv • • =4 ..t;ereasonaTif" practicable • and that in all things they stud,y' to give no offence, and strive to be examples to the world. Editorial Correspondence. NEw YORK, November 1, 1859 So much has been said concerning the general featnres ohserved by, a visitor in this great city, that we hardly know how to begin, or of,what to write. Correspondents , of various journals have almost exhausted' , the vocabulary of the English language ha , describing the rush, the noise, the count less multitudes, the confusion , the trade,, the wealth, the poverty, the virtues, and the crimes of the metropolis. Nor have its charitable institutions, its churches, and its ministers been neglected. It is even said by some that certain preachers here owe more of their ,popularity to newspaper writers than to any special gifts separating : them from and elevating them above many of their brethren, in more retired localities, where the industrious reporter is not to bw found. And it will not`do for us to attempt to describe the splendor of the stores, „the • . ' rich silks that sweep ,the streets or bewitch, ing ribbons, or "loves of bosnets.” These do not oome,within our province—for this, 'we have no qualifications. But Mr. Willis and his school of writers, manage to keep' the world pretty well informed of these matters, "ard others of like importance. We will attempt to give some , statistics of the business of some of the great publishing houses.. For every, body is interested in books ; -even many who never read- books, like to talk about them and look wise ; but we do not presume that many of this class are to. be fotrad among our readers, for they are a thinking and reading people- And though, some may affect to ;neer . Gradgrind and his facts, who does mot. like to see statements of facts! It cannot be de 'flied that there is a magic in rows of figires • whether rndiciting money, population , or extent of bigness. After all that has been said of the extent to which the pub-- fishing of hooks is carried- on in New York,,- but few have any accurate idea of the amazing number of volumes sent forth every year front these prolific presses. The korper's have acquired, a reputation that is 'world-wide:, their buildings , are im-, mouse, and their issues are ceaseless. In another place, and at another time, we men tioned the 'size of their'buildings, the num-, ber of presses' in operation and the number of men employe& , We wili.now give some statistics of their works, which have had the largest circulation, and, are best known to the public, not mentioning the vast numbers of books of travel, learning and research in , every department, to be found in, their catalogue. Of " Barnes' Notes " they have • issued three' hundred thousand vol umes ;. of a Morse's Geography," one. mil-, lion.; " Abbott's Histories," one, hundred and fifty thousand. of " Anthon's Glassiest Series," volumes beyond' computation ; and from. one hundred and fifty thousand to one hundred' and seventy thousatid copies`; of their. Magazineis circulated, every month. This house has undertaken the pubhcation of a full series 'of' Greek and -Latinp Texts' from the hest -European editions,- for tha use of schools and students, Smell ind "portable volumes, 'with flexible bindings, aid haytili n4ithernote nor comment, except sos far at map be • necessary;to, indicate the different readings. They will be printed on excellent teper, , and from the noble Greek type` Pima, the same ' ' as -employed in their edition of. Alford's prew,'l'estament." This edition will effectually displace, the small q-erman editions now current in_thie country, - but on Miserable paper and from wreteliid type. The waling energy, rare tact, said eor diallibeiality Of Sheldon , it-- Co.-, has been duly rewarded. Of,‘ Grace Truman ",_they have sold more than thirty thousand copies; of " Olshausen's Commentaries," thirty thousand volumes; of 44 Spurgeon's Works," two hundred thousand. In ten years, they have eirealated one million five hundred thousand copies of " Stoddart ; s School Se ries;" eight hundred thousand of 44 WeWs Iteiders ;"lwenty , five thousand "Loomis' Physiology;" of " liagen's:Speller and. De finer," ,two hundred and fifty thousand ; " kilted's; Egypt," thirty•five thousand; " Napoleon's Dynasty," ' ten thousand;', "Linen Toy` Books," one'hundred thousand. They haViChbar in course of preparation, several new and valuable works- that will attract attention; and 'sell The sixth volume of " Spurgeon's Ser mons " is just out of the press, and prom fires to be as popular, and command as ready aide, as any 'Of its predecessors. It is char acterized by the same,doetrinal features, and thnsame vigor and, earnestness, while there pis an ohviozw, improvement:lw literary Merit. f have 'eery a letter from Spurgeon, in Willa he plonotincirs any priblioation of his books in this country, by any other than Sheldon & Go.; to be piracy. Charles Scribner has acquired a deserved. ly high- reputation for enterprise and liber ality, and for "thee character of his beaks. His sales "Of the works of a few . popular authors, in addition to ,the amount of his trade in theological, historical, and literary works of standard , value, have been as fol lows " Hendley's Napoleon and His Mar shale," fifty, thousand copies.; " Washingten and His ' "Generals " forty , thousand; " Sacred Mountains," forty thousand; "Ike Marvel's It r erfrieti of a Bachelor," foity thousand.;:4"„Dream Life," thirty thousand; -"Timothy Titcomb's Letters," twenty thou; sand; Bitter Sweet," - ten thouuand ; of " Bushnell's Sermons," ten thotusand. He has paid Ike Misrvel over $26,000, and Mr. headly more than $50,000, as their share of the. roceeds of these large sales. " Killen's' History of the Anoient Church," lately issued by this house, is receiving the highest commendations from those most . competent to form an opinion, for accuracy, . , thoronghness t r"iid vigor. Presbyterian ministers and` Presbyterians, generally, will find this volutrie rich and reliable in the account which it gives of the Ancient Church. Both author and publisher have done their parte well. This house ~bas just issued a work that has oast the anther a vast amount of labor, and the publisher a great outlay. It is en titled " History of the Church of Christ, in Chronological Tables, Synchronistical view of the Events, Characteristics, and Culture of each Peritig; ,History of Polity, Worship, ; Literature,. and Doctrines; together with'lta Supplementary Tables Rev. Prof..ll: B. Bfilith, D.D., in 1 vol., folio. It differs Tfo g ai!, 'a' Mere manual, by pre seating in parallel columns the various de partments,of the ~ hiato>y of each period. It is not a mere. collection of dates and facts, but is also a t complete digest 9f the _subject matter. The whole history ofthe Christian Church is divided in this work into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. To the student of Church Ilistery, it will be almost invaluable. The Appleton's have one of the, finest book stores in the World. `They'import great,quan titles of the Choicest European works in, all departments of literature' and science, while , their own publiciitionis are vast in 'number, Comprising some of the finest editions of English classical literature, rare works in science and ,philosopliy, and - SchOol books without numbers. Their Encyclopcedia is a prodigious' . undertaking, requiring an ex penditure of,means, and the, employment of skill in selecting - editors and contributors; of which the uninitiated have but little con . ception. Theriggregate of subscriptions to this great work will amount to more than half a million•of dollars, before its comple tion. They annually over a million: and a quarter -of , gf Viebster's Spelling took," for the printitig'Of 'which they have an sr . rangement, by which both sides of the sheet are printed. SC onee. And so perfect is the' machinery--sorapidly d,oes it Work—that an 'average of from four hundred to five hun-, dred 'copies4 ;this work pass threngh the press,. are 'folded up, bound •and ready for use, every hour. In the printing and bind ing department alone, notwithstanding the amount and 'variety of work performed by machinery,. ,more than.three`e hindred hands are constantly employed. ,This house is just ilowbringing out some 'valuable new works, The Carters are known every - where. Seagelecitit'a'Sablith' School or a fireside` library be (Ound any,where in the ;United . States , opEritish America, in which, there, are not some-books ,bearing the imprint of the Carters. They publish Theological and Histerical works, Uommentaries' on the 'Holy Scriptures, Sabbath School books, and roll glees books of a miscellaneous character in numbers so great that ,it is , impossible to form any accurate account, without involv ing considerable- trouble. This house has "always - been rloted'for the sound doctrine of its theological publications , and for the pure morality for,, which all their books are die. tingnished. ,!‘ D'Aubigne's History of the, Reformation," published by this house, reached Scirculation of at leatit three hundred thouiana Volumes; and more than ten thou , sand . volumes of Dr Jacobus' notes on the " Gospel and.the Acts," have been sold with in a little over six months. Our &Au= of book notices shows something of the until , ing energy of the 'Carter's, and also givei evidence of the ghat demand for works such as they publish. The Educational publications of Bison & Phiwney have reached a circulation, almost incredible. The' =saleof 18one/ere series of "Readers, 4ellirs," & e., has been twelve , million Copies, and is now one million per . annum. The yearly , sales of " Thompson s Aririznpetios', is oierone hundred,and fifty thousand, and of " Colton & Fitch's Geogra phies". abont . onehundred and 'twenty then. 'sand.:` Wells' English Gierainar," of which anew edition has just been published, has' sold to the extent of about three hundred thousand copies. This house pays annually about thirty thousand dollars for copyrights; and up to , the present time has paid an ag gregate of five hundred thousand dollars in the sama,way.. The lecture season has fairly set in ; the onurses have been announced; ; _ and the names of the lecturers are known. Beecher, Chapin, Curtis, author of the gi Potiphar Papers," J. G. golland, author " Tim othy Titoomb," " . Bitter Sweet," &c., and *Prof. Mitchell, are the most ;a:lnept:mous in this line. Mr. Beecher's new lecture, " Bargain-Makers," which has been re peated three times this week, is a failure, as is acknowledged by his admirers. It is greatly wanting r in tbo vigor, strength, and raciness for which some of his productions are noted, while its spirit is in several parts highly objectionable. The .ovangetist has a rasping notice of the lecture, that must oit the author to the quick. The Evangelist certainly has Mr. Beecher direetly on the raw this time. Mr. Curtis, so far, has failed to draw good houses ; the publh3 ear seems to have tired* of him. Mr. Chapin alwayi has large audiences. Dr. Holland, editor of the Springfield Republican, the most influential secular, newspaper in New England, is a most accomplished lecturer as well as writer, destitute of all clap.trap, and distinguished for literary culture ; correct sentiment, and great sprightliness. Prof. Mitchell is too well known and too successful .to requir e any- speoial notice. But, after all, the great mass. of thepeople take hut little interest in these public lectures and , many of the substantial citizens knoW as little about the commotions and agitations of which we read so frequently in the news papers, as those who live hundreds' of feller The church of whioh the Rev. James W. Alexander was pastor, has rint taken any decisive Flaps toward' securing a successor, notwithstanding the reports that have gone abroad. A memoir of Dr. Alexander is in course of preparation, by Rev. Dr. John Hall, of Trenton, N. J. Dr. Hall was the life-long friend of , Dr. Alexander, and is admirably adapted , to the labor of love he has now Undertaken. -The work will con tain many of the letters and other private writings of. Dr. Alexander. The > Rev.. Mr. Farnham, and Wife, mis sionaries of our Board of• Foreign Missions, sailed last Saturday, in the ship In,dian, for China. No successor has been yet secured, fof the church of which Dr. Bethune was, formerly . pastor, on Brooklyn Heights. The determination of the Episcopal Con: vention, , at Richmond, not to restore Bishop Onderdonk upon any of the conditions pro posed, seems to meet with the highest ap probation of the best men of all denornina•- tions: To have restored him in any-of the ,ways proposed, would have produced a high degree of excitement throughout the Epis pocal denomination in this city. Dr. Tyng and his coadjutors have, been taught a lesson that should render them more cautious in the fattre,•when inclined to undertake any ecclesiastical engineering of doubtful pro priety: The fact is, it is about time for the Church to frown, a way not to be mistaken, upon all trickery and manceuvering Church courts, Church enterprises, ,and benevolent institutions of all kinds. It is not likely that the Sabbath arming services at the Academy of Musio will he re - slimed this Winter. ' The expenses last Win : ter exceeded the aggregate of contributions made at the Academy, by about 33,000. But this-was not all. • The amount of care and effort expendeffin securing preachem, and in providing for the comfort of the audience, was 'very great. And, in addition to this, many of the most judicious pastors and lay- Men doubted the expediency of, the whole • movement, however liberal and excellent the intentions of its originators.. ' It is now proposed by some to have a greater number of churches than usual open on Sabbath evenings during the Winter, and especially of the Presbyterian churches. , We maybeullowed to suggest the thought, if it would not be better for a greater num ber of PresbYterian churches, in New York and some other large cities, to be open throughout the year, on Sabbath nvenings. It is true that some of Ate members of the church might in this way be prevented from attending the second Service, but, this would be more than compensated for; `from the fact that many of the faung people in, all city and town congregations, who will , go 'tome place to ditty& on. Sabbath evenings, would, have the opportunity of attending their own churches, and Many who. will not gut* any church in day time,- but will attend at night, would have the' privilege of at tending our churches. It cannot be doubted that in some places one cause of the success of some denominations among the careless and ungodly, is to be found in their having their churches. open every Sabbath evening. , Bat enough for the present. Our next will be from Boston. A. Ecclesiastical. Rev. GEO. W. &wag - , of Steilacoom Puget Sound; W. T., wishes to be ad dressed, till December 25th, at Limestorie Post Office, Clarion County, Pa. Persons desiring information respecting Washing. ton - Territory, can address Mr. Sloan as above. He expects to return to his field of labor in January, and to be accompa. nied by help; that is, by preachers and teachers. The Rev. H. R. WiLsom, D.p,, having re moved from Sewickley, Allegheny County, to Mansfield, Ohio, to take charge of the Presbyterian church at the latter place, requests editors and his correspondents to address him accordingly. , Rev. GEORGE D. PORTER'S Tog Office ad dress is changed from Tipton, Cedar County; lowa, to Crow - Meadow, Marshall County; Illinois. Rev. THOMAS J. 'amines Post Office ad. dress is changed from Montezuma, lowa, to Wintersett, lowa. Mr. J. D. HOwEv was Ordained by the Presbytery of Erie, on September 21st, and, installed pastor of the Mill. Creek and Sugar Creek churcheis. His Post Office address is Utica, Venango Co., Pa. Mr. JoItN J. WOLCOTT ,has has received and ac cepted a call from the church at St. . Charles Mo. • Rev. N. - CHHVALIER has accepted a call to the church of Gonzales, Texas. Hie correspondents Mill please address him .at that' Post. Offwe. Rev. N. SHOT'vwx. hie received - slid ao 7 cepted qallifrom the churches of Ruth erfordton and tittle Brittaiir;N. ' Quarterly Review of Literature, Science, . and Art.;` NUMBER 1.11 [BY OUR LONDON OODDXSPONDII Z 3 LONDON, Oct. rC l ir!69. 1 begin with an important and most start ling announcement. I make it on high an thority—no less than Cardinal Caen 6 , favorite Dublin newspaper, The Freez man's Journal. And " did you_ ever"__. hear any thing like or equal to the an nouncement which it makes to the world f What is it about ? "A literary matter, of course I" Well, but is it about DOM old MS. discovered . in a monastery or in the Library of the Vatican ? No ! Well, and what is it'? Why, about the " Progress" of—l was about to say, " van's Pilgrim's Progress "—but that name is henceforth to be omitted, " by desire " of the _Freeman and Rome. For lo ! says that miradh-mongering, heretic hating organ An interesting literary discovery has just been brought to light. It was asserted some time ago that Bunyan, who wrote the ,4 Pilgrim's Progress," was an impostor, and that the whole story was made up from so ancient manuscript. Several erudite members of the Reformed Church wrote letters to the newspaPers, denouncing the libel, and claiming for honest John Bunyan the whole credit of having conceived and written the famous " Progress." Mies Catharine Isabella Cast has, however, taken up the gauntlet thrown down by Dr. Cumming and other admirers of MI. Bunyan, and has shown, beyond all possibility of doubt, and on the most irrefragable evidence; that Bunyan,the 4 ' Star 'of Protestantism," was - a mere iffer, and a shabby, unprincipled duffer into the bargain. She has pnblished . (this,day)a translation from the - French" manuscript copy in the British lidueetini of the s , Pylegremage of the Bowie," by Guillaume De Guiieville, a churchimn who flourished in the fifteenth• century.- The original work was translated in, England seventy years before the Reformation, and was printed by Caxton in 1483. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro gress " is nearly a verbatim copy of this, rare, work, with a few alterations here and there, to give it"the tinge of originalityl Well now, is not that very startling and even very trying I Startling it certainly is, even in ,an age when we are being. taught that Henry VIII. was not a Bluebeard and a spouse-killer at all, that Richard -111. did not murder the princes in the Tower and, moreover, that instead of carrying, a hump on his back, as the vulgar tradition of four hundred years , would- make us believe, he was a very - " proper " and handsome man. It is " startling," I say again, even though History : is being proved an old , almanac, and we, arp assured that many of the greatest beauties, in what we call the works of ShaksPeare, were never written by him, but are-the orations of blun dering compositors; and of the carelessness of proof readers in the printing offices; and , are farther instructed, that not one of the dramas called. Shakspeare's, were written by William, the " Swan .of Avon," but`by Lord Baoon. And then, this announcement, is " trying," first , to the Protestants, because our Bunyan, hated Popery.; and now, the real " Pilgrim's Progress" was the work of Itoutish .hands. And what. will Macaulay say, after his splendid panegyric Upon the. tinkcr of Bedford jail'? What would Southey, who wrote his life lave.said ? And what will my venerable friend at,Hack 7 ney, the antiquarian Bibleopole, and the en thusiatitie editor and collector of ' every scrap of Bunyan'or writings—in whose house I saw the early editions of the "Pilgrim," and honest ig John" himself furnishing, the portrait for the pilgrim in his dream ; what 412 tinker's, scales, in which he weighed- gold -and silver, aye, and the very pens with which 'he *rote—what can he say under this " trying " disoovery. " The fact can no longer be disputed that John,, Bunyan, of pious memory, was nothing more,, nor less than a literary swindler, and that the sublime sentiments enunciated:, in the Progress,' were those ''of a OatholiC Divine who , lived and died before'. John I3unyan, saw' the light—whose wcrk_ , was translated by Catholic pens, and printed by• Catholic hands, in.the little printing room called ye :presse closet,' within the abbey church of Westminster" f Is not that moat excellent information for "the faithful ?" Is it not quite clear that the, tinker did prowl about amongst neglecb. ed French, MS., and found the "Pilgrimage of the Soul," and then " made a few liter ary 'a'lterations heri and there, giving ` ,it, the tinge of originality,?" But thousands of &monists, perhaps,, will believe this, even though a journal which' many of them read, thus writes We might conceive that, in , his time, John -Bun yan was capable of giving " the tinge of original ity " to a superannuated pot or pan, by putting a new bottom to it, or furnishing it with a brilliant lid-; but we must that .lady, whoever she be, who rejoices in the name of Miss Catharine Isabella Gnat, that tinkers have done scarcely anything in this World, - in the way of liter ary bnposture. They have •left that offence to people of geuteeler pretensions; and this story of Catharine Isabella Cust's is about as rank and as stupid an attempt at literary imposture as either man or- woman was ever guilty of in= this world. Imagine only the absurdity of telling us that the book oP the Calvinist tinker, in the seventeenth century, is .wholly stolen from the work of a clergyman of the Arminian Chnrch of Retie in the fifteenth - century I Neal, the notorious Tractarian, published a revised edition of Bunyan, in which he brings in. Baptismal Regeneration, Priestly Absolution,- and all the rest of his creed; that was an'outrage, but this last exceedsit in brazen 'impudence. Mr., J. ,B Elliot, a well knowsredition 1540, &rife paper, X 44; Heliodorus Latine, 1552, in the superb binding of Grolier, £110; although copies of the book in the:usual condition have never sold higher than five shillings. The. first edition of Seneeile works was sold for £35.10x;; of the works of Tacitus, .E.lB ; Epistles, £26; _while a superb specimen of Xenophon's Cyropedia, from the, library of Edwaxd VI., brought £34 10s. A - new Stationer's , School being, about to be built in Gough Square, the. City Press refers to No. 17 as the'former residence of Samuel Johnson when in 1754 he com pleted the folio edition of his Dictionary, consisting of '15,799 words. It adds that a gentleman has founds table ofi the deriva tions -of English 'wards; 6,722 from the Latin; 4,812 from the Freneh; 1,146,fr0m the Greek; 211 from the , Italian; .95 Welsh; (Ancient Britain, how hut thou been ignored!): 59 Spanish; 30 Swedish; 16 Hebrew; 13 Arabic; 4 Runic ; 4 Erse; 3 Scottish; Turkish; 1 Portuguese ; 1,665 Sean ; 6,691 --(7) ; 106 German ; 75 Daniell; 50 :Icelandic +; 31 — Gothic; 16 Teutonic 6 Irish ; 4 Flemish g Syriac; 2 Irish and Erse ; 1 Irish end Scottish 1 Persian ; one,Frisee (T) ;. And 1. uncertain. Whether this table be literally accurate or not, it is very suggestive as to' the language increasingly 'dominant, in its literature and ieligious teachings, among the nations. 'POETRY and POLITICS oft have gone to. gather in days past, and even now there is inspiration to be ferried, when "freedom's battle "'in Italy is the the Me. .Witness the following sonnet, by Mrs. Mary Cowden Clarke, (dated Nice, §epteinber 11th 1859 , ) addressed— TO THOSE y wBo TOUOITT POT TTALIAN,INDMPENDINCII Dr TSB . S.P.R.lld4lt Bravely ye, fought for - freedom, bravely bled To liberate your ionritri from the ybki Of foreigietyrinity; 'many a fierde-atroke Bore witness lo the binning. hope thatied You on aggvimst the bated foe, that:fed YOU hig4, with patriot ardor and awoke Responsive sympathy from ; ,. 11. Then spoke The fiat which blank consternation spread; That bade you stint from seizing on your prize In moment of success; decreed yonr cause Should halt tutgain'd, Mad the very. cries That hail,d,it won. ,The.torture this slangs Ye bore as raloronily as.your wounds in fight; And—harder" task than action--waieibe oombg right. " Kingsley's Account of Milton."' takes rank side by side with "Mary-Poiel," and " Deberah," (Milton's first- wife and his daughter,) in thrbwinglight wilds domestic • habits. A literary man, cannot but read the folloWing with interest:- It is a good speei. men, moreover, ofiKingisley's "pure well of English undefiled':"; - DOMBSTIO MANATN OR MILTON THIS . kOZT.-At his meals he never took 'much of wine or any other fermented liquor ' and he was not fastidious in his food; yet.his tas te seems to have been deli cate and refined like his other senses, and he had a preferenee for such viands , as were of , an agree able flavor.' In his early years he used to sit up late et-his studies, and perhaps' he continued this practice While his sight was good ; but in his lat ter years he retired every night at nine o'clock, andilay,nlll four in Summer, till five, in Winter, andif not then disposed to rise, he had some one `to sit at his 'bedside and read'to him. When he rose he had it chapter of the Hebrew Bible read for him;. andthen, with of course the intervention of breakfast, studied till twelve. .He then dined, too Boone exercise for an hour --generally in a chair, in which he ,usedto. swing himself—and afteriards played • on the organ or the bass viol, and either sang himself or made Ids' wife sing, who, as he said, had a good voice hut no ear. He, then resumed,* studies,,till six, front which -hour till eight he conversed with those who came