DAVID M'KINNEY, Editor and Proprietor. Env. 1. N. M'I , ZINNEY, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. TERMS IN ADVANCE. 1.17 $1.59 ~,E n op Till OSTLER 2.00 .17 !2svo Dott,aas, we will send by mall seventy numbs's, ONE DOLLAR, thirty.thrce numbere. vending us etruNtr subscribers and upwards, will ,ere by entitled to a paper without charge. %Is should be prompt, a little before the year expires and payments by safe hands, or by mall. irect all letters to REV. DAVID M'KINNEY, Pittsburgh, Pa. Christ Our Life. Because I live, ye shall live also," .ist said to his disciples when their As were bursting with sorrow at the tpect of separation from • him. This ld be true of their preseut spiritual life, it would be true of their future bodily Because Christ lives, the dead bodies I his saints shall live again after the suspension of their life; and because ives, their• spiritual life shall never be suspended. "Yet a little while the world' seeth me no more, but ye )," and that mind was their life. To esus with the eye of frith,' and hold -se with him by a loving heart, is to " This is life eternal, that they,might thee the only true God, and Jesus et whom thou hast sent." The world Christ, but the world' did not . kh Lst, and so the 'World had not etkikaT lat the world saw in Christ washis and figure, his external appearance, conduct among men. His Messed and dterions life had nottouohedtthcir hearts it had touched the disciple's heart, and when his bodily presence was no longer ig them, he was DO longer among them. so with the disciples. What they saw him was not his face and fisure so much holiness, and sphiptitlyi aid truth, and' \teousness. These things had entered Jr hearts and made'an impression which Id never be effaced. Bodily, he might absent; they . might see his face no more, grasp his hand, still he was present them, animating them, inspiring them, forting. them .in their .sorrows : and 43ghening them in their trials. Thus would see him while the world - would him not. Thus, too; thei*Ould live in while the world was dead. This is the Christian life—to be in fellowship Jesus; to have , his blessed life touch— ; our lives, his divine spirit animating r spirits, his love firing our love, his it inflaming our zeal, hisholiness making . holy, his pity. and. compassion making. pitiful and compassionate. This is life. And the Christian who has )t, of these qualities, whose heart is in rsest fellowship with the heart of Jesus, the most of life, and is the best Chris, I. We have here, too, a ,pledge of eo?,i7 lima life. As long as Christ lives, his pie live. No more can the stream run which gushes out from living mountain ngs, than can Christian ;graces die,nut that heart which is in living fellewshiP ;h Jesus. And the reason wbfehris- - i grace does, in any measure , die out of hearts, ii, that our converse daily is not h Jesus, nor is` du meditation of hinil who, in the 'morning, turns his4face ts;-' 11 the East, will have it all lit with glories of the rising sun, while the lows will fall blick and heavy enough ,he face of him who turns' his back on glorious luminary.. And he Who' looks eons out of his sOrrows, and-his earthly s, and his daily business, will have his all lit up with his glories; and this is secret of a vigorous, Christian life. itual fellowship with Jesus while hi% is absent—who does not understand ? Will the mother tell tut she has no , wship . with her beautifui. , boyi. whose:.. iy purls ~now lie beneiqls flie Winter ? An: hundred .planes ahs meets him it the house, and hears the patter of his e footoud the, ring of his merry, aid murmur of his evening prayer. this she hearken this she sees; though may have ,beed in his grave as many rs as the br(ither of Mary and Martha. days in his. Will thehusband has no fellowship with the wife of hie ith anymore, since the day he deposited i sacred dust n thegrave T. We 'know ;er than that. On the door-step she ta him again, and by the . fiie-side she ; at the , evening altar she kneels, and the bed-side of his children she watches 1 weeps, as she always *Moiled and it. The friends who have gone befoie not lost;' they come to., us Often again spirit, as Jesus came back to his disci in the spirit. In our hearta and lories we live with them . the' game hap- Life over again and walk with them in same familiar paths, and talk over the loved themes. e, are • in living 7n with them Mill,. 'The. world, may not them, but we see, them. just so, the 1 and ascended Sayinur Was not' ost; to. disciples. The bond which bound together was not severed, it had only !me invisible. By that invisible bond 7 were still united' to Iran, and thiough fe, and love, and holiness, and strength, grace were poured over their heads and .ts. Because Christ lived, they lived and beonntalie lives, uie liVe by faith on, and` fellownhipiiviti h ltlin: TM the Presbyterian Beam. Soldier-LIM I have written a little, in .a plain way, It the camp and theynorch.; presuming to some of your readers, these artistes ht convey more clear ideas of soldier than are to be obtained from the Com ' allusions to it in neviipapefe. 'With same design, and in ,the .same style, .1: speak of the battle. - - - tale is the- great event of'.war. ',Ta , the drilling and discipline, the strategy movements, all tend, and In this they sinate. Battle 'is the - trial of the ;th, skill and valor of opposing hdsts. expected to decide the nisei) of war. one.' doss' not icoomplish this oatilte ter or a series of them does.. A York• secures independence to the American As, a Waterloo settles the controversies Europe. Defeats are always damaging it losing party, and often destructive to power and hopes. It may sometimes ti long series of disasters to convince a gerent party of his incapacity to con- the contest, A single serious reverse, afford argument sufficient, -at other . A consciousness of right and of may inspirit a people to bend the manfully to the oargi, when adverse sweep strongly aud„long against_ , while, in other easee,::desperation nerve ambitious and usurpiag leaders srsist in a contest after all hope of ulti suceess has forsaken them and their This I take to be about the phase he forlorn cause of our. Southern aris. its. We have lost some battles, but not rota of our hopes of suppressing the re= lion and of restoring the unity of the nment ;_they have gained some bal. and yet the gloom of despair settles , in unmitigated darkness, on all their sets. To an impartial, observer of in '. and of the yvorle •Of hn. For the Presbyterian Banner into :__ . • . . .. II •• . .r.---, ~.. .14 ' ' ~' -:'. '• 11 ~, _,.. ._ . ~,, . .. • . . . . . ...._ ...._. _ .., t.,.. k , $ .. . . -- -, - - . ....,,, . . . %,........... • -L."/ ib.. . . . . . . VOL. XT.. NO. 2,4 man nature, no stronger proof of the utter hopelessness of the Southern conspirators can be presented, than is found in their ostentatious malignity and vituperative railings against the North. These are ex hibitions of conscious impotence and infe riority in the conflict which they have begun. And the demonstration of despair is the more palpable, as these revilin g s pre accompanied by whining appeals ' to the' West; and` both are the legitimate succes sors of the empty boasting of former days, that they 'could nagily ' Whip: both the North and West. 'The mighty bragging of last year, arid the equally mighty -bil lingsgate of this, show that neither the bat tle of Fredericksburg nor the. Northern elections have added a feather . to the pin ions,of their_.fiagging hopes. Our victo; ries inevitably hasten, the downfall of i the despotic usurpation in the Sonth; :theirs can, at best, only postpone it. A battle , may" coins: on unexpectedly to both parties ; their scouts may meet and ,engage, , and, so . inaugurate a,zeneral con flict., 'n intended attack _on an 'enemy' is preceded by indications:not diffictilt to detect.' The vigilant'surVey of thecOnntry, by competent officers, the activity of cav-' airy 'scents, the Close inspeotion of arms, 'the issuing of ammunition, the sending away of the sick; theledndentration • of troops, are, among these indications., The,- ittrangement of' the ambulance corps, the, appearance of stretchers in their hands, and the approach of the army to the knoWn positions of the enemy are evi deuces that the battle is near at hand. I have noticed one sign of an expected battle, which is not, I presume, laid down in* the books on the art of war. During our march froin Maryihrid;thereirai at one point a good deal of cannonading between' Gen- Pleaatinton's cavalry and the'enemy' It was' fiVident that:rebels were- net very distant. Indeed 'at one place feir of timid were captured; and lest more Should' he near, and make a dash on our train-; of. -wagons, stretching; for miles along' the Joads, a regiment, the 14th Reserves, was sent over the hills, , as skirmishers. It seemed to me to' feel as though there Wag to he a collision: New, time iign that this feel!. ing was not confined - to the bosom of the chaplain was this. 'Along the road I no tieed a profuse sprinkling of playing-cards, which MA had lost nut br their-pbek'etg:' Again, 'when the troops converged and col lected; with a punctuality-andin a:number that was astonishing to me, , epPosite. , Fred. ericksburg, on December 11th, I happened tego down the following morning, alone. If Vas four or five milea, !Many-brigades hid passed in the night. I noticed, at va gobs points, the-Phenomena 'of 'tlre7eards `again. Some new and some with the cor ners rubbed off-by ame, some plain-backed and. some pictured, they were scattered siting the, road in great numbers. Thiatm usual deposit of Cards a . i . eng the high Way, I took to Id;itleast, indication that a considerable number ".of the' Men thought that a battle was near. It might also be reckoned an evidence - ef genie reaction of conscience` or' of some littering regard for post morteni, reputation 'in the - Minds of men geinginto,a.hattlewiththe contingency heti:ire them of possibly not coming out of-it. alive. Cards in' the ptiCket,'lritfer then, are poor ballast to a soldier's eourage. infer,lifither,"that *hen a Min's conscience begins 'te 'quake, it *ill Seen shake playing cards .out 'of his pockets -and out of `his hands. And - still again, if these imple menteof tithe-wasting and-gatibinfg pockets of. a - dead ilioldierlaiiildentail dts grace on his memory, they are not crediti.- hie to a living soldier, when seen in his' hands or carried his knapsack The moving out of an army tothe battle- , field is the most goleinia - acid affeetineotnll" 'sights. Nor is it the less so, that they - go with LA cheerful, look and with , a brave heart. - It is a grand sight'; sublime;` in the, terrible Annightg which' 'it -7 iniggeiti,' The heir`" artillery thunders; `alongl "drawn' by its spirited horses, to, take its advanta geous positions ; the quiet columns .of in= fantry march to their assigned 'posts,: firm 'and' bitiVe; the ambidadeetorpe, • *Wit badge on each hat td dietmgoish them; - and' with A supply of Stretchers on which :to, bring off the wounded, file along quietly in the rear of Divigiona ;The roar of cannon` usually itiiingfirates':iffe''contlieer hips the eharp, arid?,r4ieeled Volleys frond the Skirmishers introduce : In, a pitched_ 'battle, the opposing hosts soon" become gen.- erally'erigaged, _although it rimy' rage - more fiercely et ene'point of,the'eXtended line, that:Litt:another, and; for a`tinde, it May be *aged with various: success at different portions of ..therfield. !ICetidlteslne that the popular idea of, the destructiveness of artillery `rect. It is 4 indispensable, indeed, *bile tls' combatants are at-Odistance- from each other, too great for4tlie range - or muskets or rifles. . During this preliminary artillery duel, the, infantry, are inactive, lying, as much as pessible, under cover; that is, be hind any elevation Of - ground, piece of weeds, fence, or wall that may be available., SOme,POrtion of them are near the 'cannon,' as supporters, ready if the battery , is at tacked by infantry; to repel the attaeln, I depict-it one ef thellieverest trials of nren's courage to support a' battery; lying -per 'haps for hours on the ground, doing pith ing; and exposed all the time to the enemy's, shot and shells. The casualities from this kind of firing are ,Often very serious, but they are far less numerous than'result from musketry. In one contingency, it is the efficiency of artillery is terrible :')it - when the enemy attempt to take it hattery ,by assault, or on any other occasion when it is discharged into their columns' at short range. On such occasions, the-- missile vis• 'changed from the Imavier single shot f 1 .64,1, to the graPeshot or canniater. The' former of these discharges nine or. ten iron balls, of the gimlet a blacg-walnut, scattering among the foe; and the latter Sends forth from fifty to eighty bnllete; winged with death, into the crowded ranks., -=I noticed in the'progress of the battle' of Fredericksburg, that while` only the bat:" i teries were engaged, ilidnilither - orateribe ed brought off the — field - ikfiS comparatively 'snail!, but that it increased rapidly as soon as the volleyEkof the infantry began to roar along the lines. It may be, that laui correct inmy. estimate Of the eernrial'atiVe o tf l i ddtty44ess" of 'artillery nffiririfintiy. It is tornied frOiny own very limited cb- 1 servation. I am aware that _at :Malvern' Hill i ;the frightful slatighter of the rebels was chiefly by our batteries • i _hut cause enemy',persisted in the' insane effort to approach- and capture them, over. an open and extended field It is ,not often, ndeed it very seldom,' 7 • 'lO 1.50: PITTSBURGH, WEDNESDAY, FE BRUARY 25, 1863. WHOLE NO. 544 that a large army is all engaged at the same time. The lines may extend for several miles; and portions, here and there, may be engaged, while other portions are held in.reserve,`eitber to relieve or to reinforce them. Some may be engaged with the en emy in front, while others may be moved around, with the design of attacking them on their flank or. rear. In the midst of the fight, the ambulance corps, consisting of musicians and, other unarmed men, are busy carrying off the wounded and taking them to the field-hos pital, which is some. sheltered .position;as near the field-as cOnvenien,e 'requires''.or. 'Safety allows, where the-surgeons are occu pied ii dressing the wounds. The wound- - ed, who are unable to walk, are 'carried on stretchers, a convenient sort of hand-litter on which they are extended, at full Jength, and gently borne from the bloody field by their comrades. The ambulance, proper, is. a 'covered spring-wagon, which is used for the conveyance of the woundedi to greater distances. • . ' While the conflict is ragingat its height, and near, it is not easy to distinguish the .musketry 'firing from.thatut the moderate 7 - sized field , artillery: .The volleys are, espe -Cialli at' the- .commencement, so uniform And simultaneous, that the report may, at a short distance, belreadily mistalten , foriAat of cilium The combined roar of both,, ; in the earnest, heat of battle, is tremendous, even apart from 'the ConsidhiatiOn of the ,work 'Of "death which accompanies No thunder storm utters more terrific tones. - The field presents scenes that sheck, ‘ hu nniuity,,beyond any , others which ; guilty: man is the agent.or Ihnoutrerer.,..lThese, l l -have net. witnesied. , The precincts of the, battle-field, wher6;,mangled.: and • bleeding menare brought together,,, for. the -relief. of their'Sufferings, offer,Ao l ifiethmnaue -eye a sight sufficiently,„frying.. ,T he- : sympathies of patriotitlm and humanity are : Aimed 4o t their bonest and honorable depths on visit ing, for the first ; tincut,qaca one„0 1 019 stkijrct xnerous, hospitals,lin , - our cities, where our brave young men are confined _by wounds. llut the first scene of hespital suffering, presents that suffering in its most affecting stage. The shatteredlimb yet hangs by its lacerated integuments; the fgaping. wound ,is yet bleeding; the clothing-is ; drenched with blood yet fresh; every form of muti lation 'and injury awaits the skillful hand of the surgeon; and the air resounds with - the groans and screams 'extorted by agedy from the brave men, in the intensify of 'their 'sufferings. Thiti a scene that, 'at first, stupifies = one - with horror, and then engrosses every humane feeling of the heart, and 'eveily helpful . effort of the hand. - I have had no sight of a: hattle-field im mediately,afterthe cessation of the conflict. I haVe not seen the dead lying in heaps or 'scattered over the ground. The horror of this'sighels for the victors, who retain pos :seesion of the bloody scene. A feW weeks or a few' days after , the battle r Where-large 'numbers-`have 'fallen, one •seeir *tough `to distress every 'Christian sensibility. At Pittsburgh Landing, the old oak forest'was converted into a cemetery. < At Antietam, the - cultivated fields were ridged with graves---those of Union men individual and well inarked mounds; . and those' of the infatuated' and unfortunate rebels, long ridges of indiscriniinate sepulture. At the end of..one, Among many, of these, .I no ticed on a stake the ,melaucholy, memorial, 4 ,158 buried, here.” On the diy after the battle of Fredericks hilt& I had my .first exrietieitceiri the office: burying the dead from the 'battle-field. `S.it , of the brave men who had died of thelr wounds, were laid, uncoffitted, the bosom or their -mother-earth, side by eide; their. names' were written on strips of board, and placed "severally at'their heads; and they Were rovirontlyocivered from sight by the hands of their commodes in arms. I thought, iorrowfully, of their „Mends - and kindred, in their :Pennsylvania"hOines, whose hearts will be wrung with anguish when the tidings of, their' untimely death shan't - 40h `them:' - I . thought sadly of our country;by'the horrid wickedness of a few ambitious oonspirators converted into_ one oast house'of deuthAnd of mourning . . May the time soon"Come‘*hen the battle , of the wittier shall ~ oesic. ; when peace, unity; and prosperity "' shall' shall' smile over all our broad land; when government_ and lib -fel Elia threll together in univers al amity, '4l`And Peace, -with sunny cheek of toil, .Walk p'sr the free, Unlorded soil, Effacing, with her splendid' share, , The drops that war his sprinkled there." 'Mc LAREN. Granville _ .Church. MESSRS. EDITORS :—Permit Me to ex presamy :grateful acknowledgments to the. members of Greenville church, and to the kind Maids and members of sister church es, -who united in Making a' donation 'visit on thiP6th - of February. The occasion was a delightful one. It was like the - home gathering of a large and scattered family, where friendly greetings and pleasantyords,, were exChanged; reniitidin 6 one of thelan guape of the Psalmist', " B:hdli:Vho4 good' and' oir pleasant -its islor_brethren to dwell together in tinily!? An ,excellent dinner, prepared by theiadies,•contributed to the Sociarenjoyinent of the day. - After a little season 'spent in- religious :exercises, _atm friends retired to 'their, homes, leaving ,a variety of valuable and appropriate gifts as new --tokena of their thoug,htfrit Care for our comfort. Itteaddition - to this cheering demoristra , tion - of- kind feeling, would , record- my heartfelt appreciation of a handiome:Pres ent from the young gentlemed who have gode ' from this c,huroW :and" . vicinity, And are now iethe 148th Regimeht"P. V: It was accepted in compliance Wieh.their earn.L. est entreaties during visit while, they were in 'camp- near Coekeyiville, l Md , Since then' their regiinent has beef( ordered t 6 the 'Rappahannock; and alreadY , one manly form with which - We were' all fairlii jar, is cold in -.death. J. - Mnnson Corbett's grave farlronV.his' earlrhonie. 4 ll "cts - a: ;;May theseiisihti lingeiivfifthe-tehtedlfieldi and thoie whodwell in- their quiet homes, who have so liberally :giVeri, 'enjoy the choicest blessings of heaven.. " May. God supply all tbeir need, according to his riches ; in; glerY . by this churelq . which has experienced dark days,- be made .to rejoice id-'the i light of pod's counteriande,-is the earnest - prayer of its` present pastor. S. ELDER. An idle man always thinks he has a right :to be affronted if a 'fraty*an does. not de- Note to'binijuit'sia plush of his time as he himself has leipiinlo"waite. "'- .For the Presbyterian Banner : jil.4 Bar the Presbyterian Banner Presllyterial. The Presbytery of St. Clairsville, at its late meeting, held in :Kirkwood on the 3d and 4th inst., dismissed Rev. John Moffat to join the• Presbytery Of Washington. A call from the second churelkof W heel- ing, was presented and put into his hands, which call he accepted. The. Presbytery and the congregations in* which our good' brother has been BO adceptable and useful, were sorry to pert with him: , ,But a sense. ofiduty impelled him to 'enter, this .new ftel4 of labor where weliope ,lite.may be as. much blessed in his efforts to'build up th'e SaiioUr's kiegclotd 'as he 'has`beeii - in other pastoral' Chita. - " = • A Indicial.iibU Wairliettled Without coin itik to a trial; doubtless , to 'the benefit 10t... the paities, and for the beet interests of the . ehtireh, Rev. John B."GralUitu i ris - elected Stated" Clerk and' Tielistiier - oPPreibyterY!' ,-"“ 'the , fellliwitfeiesblitin'dwaS , ntranimoUsl' ly'adOptbd and orderWto - le - publishid.t , aL -" It is clearly the conviction of ,this,, Presbytery, that it threatens immense_ to the Church of 'God, Midis 'alanieroiLt prstedenC for Presbyterf to nitti*' tinfide== ple„pn require "" their ininiiterrilkhepti t ipitV't to giie publicity to anypciliticaPsentintent-:. lie may,• entertain, or, to, identify with any .. political question in the , State;; , but, the cdatrary;tbak in 443 public'' ministrations" he Ise guided by the •ivord4iif Gin' in, presenting the Gospel 'and in no-way,favor, an, lalliatteesot Ohurah and State, and that every.minister r equally, with the,,laymen, is peqeetly free te,enter 7 tato and exercise, his Rritittetuifitieel vain inns, but'sbnulditni way introduce them into his public tainistrations." , IL-1 .A esneiderable length.of time ivas spent , in devotional ,exercises. ~As f teji • cdl, the: linsiness.-for which the mueting, was held*fit finighed, I"risliytery , hajhurned to Meet' in - ori tiketfourth`itfiSsdel'Of=Aprif ioxt. J. 4:r;GßAtiti . m' S ED ROPEAF CORIPPONDENCE, ' htediration," arid thi FrehCh 1"-inPer'94.:-.4Pecuta=' tions and ; • Conjectures=-The4nsurrectiont-in: -80-- luncl 7 -Prussia anA,4l4strfa r ,.. l -teDoctor C01en.94 and; .Bishop Bickersteth:—ColensO Refuted by Learied :Tcwi—The Present ConClition oftl a J:evish "as ea Docpine - and Cerernoniesr--11r. Stern and the .'eats, of Abyssinia—European Jews and their brfiede - Parties=Prench Jews' and M. SalegdOr --Boity • , :Pretensions of; a, MoettieJfillefunk" - P.rayer for the Jews—lts iffg,,Ye!--7, 4rodern..!-Mi 4 7, sions to the Texes,-Zeal of Cornish Christiaiis "fir Ismel4-..-Cornishl•Miners---014ffigte--Backed Spits Postscript. • , "January 'BO 1868 .•" MEDIATION is now much talked of; and considered a probable event; since the arri= vat of the •news that seems' -to indicate'a. desire.. for it on, both sides in America., When Atot.only , t t lie detunerstic Mr. yallan, dingham makes 3 p,peecti favoring an armis tice or &reign mediation and 'when ou the other . side the New-York Tilbfine says that- Mediation should' bcc acceptedi- - should ferson,Davis ask for ititit-isAbolight ,p9BBi ble that ere. long.,there will be snme.,deft-... nite movement. The. commercial intelli gence, also, which.. arrives,. indicating ,the feeling of the New-York-bankerS-4A refer ence 'to Mr. Chase's - financial proposals, and the rise of gold, weighs much with, our. inercanlike clapses. Money is a tyrant; tied' many IC good cause has been . lost for want of aliiiiident Supplies' of " the sinews of. war" this-sense of the term. The 'Shipping 'Gazeite seems to think it possible, - that Napol eon 111, makes_ the ,offer of, mediation- a secret, understanding with , England. Of this, we have , no evidence . . Mit many persons think that IT the Ern i:tarot:a' proposal of an armistice, or - of a conference between .'Northern. or -Southern delegates" is rejected ~by the; North,. the, South wAbezecognized at once by #ritice. He is evidently taking advantage orNorth=' ern troubles to proseente* deSigns in Mexico, and will only be too glad, if he can do it with impunity, to fortatclose ai Hance with .the Confederate States. All. Europe waits anxiously for the -arrival of fresh news Lancashire: too-is , anxions, pa— tient, but -scarcely hopeful, afterr , thellong. aid unexpected frolongation of-the drug-, gle. The late newsfaf thevepulse at Vicks burg, and ,the - incomplete .victory.. of Rose • ertios, eeems . to depress the people `here.; as if. the North.had been -favored with decided successes, there might hive •been---_--so it is thought by-some—a willingness to come to some consiliatory ME , EDIVEROIPor RUSSIA once more hi:deep -waters. His fanatical 'father. left him a shattered heriage—finances broken down,,;and the country, exhausted by the riinean war then came the strug gle with ihe nobles as to''the enieneipa tion - of the Serfs—to which' they were opposed revolutionary feeling among students and military then, the mentos in, Poland, assasSina7 tions, inilftary massacres, and liberty trod= den in the dust, because. Poland was re-* fused'her Tights as a- kiegdom. - - A-Neme , sis always tracks-the heels of a despotism; 'e9en though for a time its action = may `'paternal. Austria has bled at every`pore," from her `retention< of Venetia; Russia is , still endorsing 'the."-partiti6n" 4 ,ef Poland; ' Mid•sed how the issue's are . still disastrous: , Afresh uprising has taken placeln connex, - ion ;with the barbarous practice (which must surely henceforth be abolished;) of Surrounding a whole village . or town by , , sight with 'cordon of troops, waking up the whole population, and enrolling and carrying away at enee,,all the men . that are needed ; for the ertuy.,,,..The bruiality of this, system has been especielli felt all over Po land. When we add 'id thie, that shit still ih'bende, - that her people desire free?' dom, and that all their attempts have hith: , erto failed, we'need not wonder that the .peasants should Strangle soldiers in their beds, 'attack aid - slay' officers, and form themselves into. bands to resist' captures. • Greatexertions will supprese theie- trOttb leg; especially as the towns and the middle classes' do not jinn in the insurrection But .cui. bonoias lotig aa:ConistitntioeSl , GoVernment is denied ? - GERMANY sees Prussia and Austria More . and more jealous, each other: The Prime liiinieter of Prussia has returned an Answer to the address Of, the ,Chamber the King,,whieh- indicates no intention to , rslax the dangerous Polley, alreadi inangur ated. The King is tosolent, and his no= hies, almie all other nobil ity in Europe, are 'deipiseis "of the middle and lower classes, and form a caste of the most el elusive eharactoi. Many.of theni . aiteeper= sonally amiable, as well as. • highly aocom- Plishod. 80, tthOs policy is essentially .retrograde ,the cry of " ri,",. .Divineglit - and monarbh worship, are their great fail- .ngs. . • By accident, the illustration of the working of the gambling tables, sanctioned in'several States of Germany, was left out of my kat letter. I now inclose it. It runs as follows`: ' ii. "A letter from Baden'says that nothing has yet been done in the matter of gaming tables. Thfe Chamber left it in the hands of the Government to give or not tO sive the notice which would close, thebank (without its' having any claim. to indemnity) in November 'of - this year. A very, general feeling has latel3r:manifested itself in various parts of Germany these licensed hells, the objection to which it,ie Considered, has been greatly increased by the introduction of raOways, and the con seqUint faCility for reaching, at small cost of title and-money f iladen, , Hamburg, and °Hid places' of the kind: Thonsands now, re aLr <-whgT9 , ,fc#ll4.TllYl diklY 1111R keds , the, seductiona- of the j gaiihling-table are'fatal to thecomfert,.-iiid we'llheing! Ofininineratillelflitrillicas of the Sedrietive:adArtisementa, aeap-olicurniontrains,,,ctinningly.dabri ;9oolo.:AinfilMlB,e, 1:9 11. P.r bold n 44 fortunate „players, are put " forward,ass edirotintis: to travellers.' The reverse 'of the picture is carefully ke4t 'But'of sight; Only:those whe , theinselves witness it 'can forth an idea,of the mass bfltoseyAiragged 41-I.by benic,,of, the amount of misery, occasioned, and of the jives sacrificed : In. to year 1801 the' contractors tar the play; at Baden 'diVided - imingthernielies -no than ;1 400 000 f - (X 56 000).4W-the gains of the Summer:season,- If_we reflect what expenses the, bank has, koyy, high a.,triltute ,paye,tothe State, hoi many salaried ser„ vantS it taii, iiiiae,heavy charges for saver tispnents and for -propitiating` the Press; ied, that it , gives , splendid;:b:lla, , find.-•con -certs, ; Ana _theatrical.,performanees,:to ,say. „;nuthing,of manx ‘ a thousand franc note em .ployed to purchase the silence ot whose Tither, or brOther, or: son has de -1 :Prived , hhiself of life, 'We may be •.,Very afire that the untoprofits - .lof the ?establish= went ate,not,on4-half of the gross inporne, ;Three millions . of francs,l, :wretchedness, how many ; tears,. what count less curses of'Others, wives, and 'Cling -the coin I ''Snicide is 'here eon.- - demned.to silence; and only the hank em tp/0.y4-4especially tharged : to ,hush up, all ,troublesome, complaints, and lainentations prodUctive of .scandal, can tell hoNv, often his services are required by cases of it; 'and hoVritiiieh such - silence costs the Mr 'den ,bank: 'Some of those who. survive Atelr, ruin Are in:a manner.doomed to obliv ioa;: and few; know, that an Englishman of, ,high family; ,and a chamberlain of the Duchess —', still langiiish in the debtors' '' prison, because they 'ruined 'themselves at 'Baden.”. • . . A+ DOCTOR Gomm) is still beforethe pub lioti He sayi that hey has read almostev erything that has yet.appeared in the form ofireplies to,, hie book,un the Pentatenth, hut that they have not in the least shaken is conclusions an movie tons, an is issuing-a new book .to - confirm and estab lish them. It is now said 'that the only way he'ean-be reached is by,his heresy_ be ing examined, and _condemned by Donvo cation,nna then 'by a confirmation' of the sentence the Groiin. But observnthat :the oc:invocation " Ithertn has been but u_ehadowless, powerless, State , -crippled stiintion. It is not free .Assembly of -- Bislo,ps-...and Presbyters. - a Aave, and. must ' remain so , as long as payment is tiled& and a;National -- Eatablishmetit.is Maintain ed.: Very true, the cry for freedom has so .far prevailed that , Convocationmeets ;there are zatherings of the,, Upper and Lower "House. speeches are made, great questioni - • are ventilated ; arid resolutions are-passed. -lint none of these' things affect` legal reali lies ; '"and- canuot,, -deprive,any Jitishop- br clergyman, however' zdenotioceslnef rights secured,to bim. The. Ecclesiastical _Court can " anipend ." but then the 'Privy Court: cil (that is rLatiyers, and nabinet Minis ,Orsi) with Bishops as adseditors, but-'net judges;(ltualijr. 'determines .-every- thing..: But even : the. Privy ,Council:eattnet , touch Bishop. Coleus°. .gondemnation by gnriyo-, Cation might Shatie:bini into resignatien ; that-1S" not' very- likely. He esti:ally . thinks "'himself' a,.champion of both- truth And freedomi , and ibis , while accepting his• salary;as the ; Bishop of Natoli:who endors ed by his signature ..the whole of the 39 'articles including the' Canonical Books-of *Scripsnre — , - inelniiiiiithe`Tentatench itself. r`srfrie Bishop of Ripon (Dr. Bickersteth,) has speketr cunt. On Dr, Qolenso's. work. ,The following is a summary.of his .48er:ea- 4 On Monday the annual. meeting of the Yorkihire Church of England Scriptare 'lteede r re Sooiety was held at Leeds, the Bishop of Rip'on in Ihe•chair. His lord . ship„in the course of hia remarke, said it ,was particularly painful to 41 a man, in high office, in the Church miserably_ per verting his 'talents soy as to 'employ them, npt.fer — the advancement cif Divine truth, but falter in- fiisparageinent; of the *claims' 1 of the-inspired Word of'God. For his own part, painful as that was, he did not anticipate that _any very great. evil would 'result from the. attempt to,which he, had 'referred. Theohightiorig which had been .hrought forward against the historical curacy of the Pentateuch were very old and threadbare; there was nothing new them. Nor, was it. difficult to perceive how easily these ObjeCtiiins might 'be - disposed 'of by those who had their mina firmly Tooted in the persuasion that the Bible was ,the inspired ::Word :,'of ,; God. Let ;it be ,borne in miud,what the conclusion : ; -really. was, suppoking they , took Dr. - Colenso s View 4 to be eccorate: view was a jjiat One, then - We 'May:Suppose . the Ponta- teuchto be the production-of, a very clever' imposter. Ifan.imposter, the writer .of the Pentateuch:must.have been.,an expeed ingly ,clever one. BtO was it tobe sup .posed for one moment that, being such a clever iniPester!,"he have allowed such "=palpable -absurdities as , ft 'they be lieved!the Bishop to be , Tight, existed. in the book ; The very openness of the Pen tateuch, the, matters which lie on the sur face of the' beak, and which 'Dr. Coleus° would hive' `us take as a sufficient ground fOr deubt were in theniselves a sufficient answer ;the - objections .which had been raisede on the point of historical accuracy. They „must also bear this in mind, that every part orthe Bible _ so interwoven With the other parts, that to invalidate any one portion was to - 3hrow discredit - upon. „the Test yea- that :if you undermined:Vie authecity.ef the Pentateuch, you. ould albo invalidate the `authority of'the PrOpheiK of • r the historical portions of the Bible, and of the New Testament. Each part so inter twines with the rest, that to throw discredit upon one portion was to throw discredit upon the whole. If they could success fully disprove the historical accuracy of the Pentateuch, they would scarcely have any thing left in the Bible on which the mind could lay hold for peace and comfort, as .truth to be relied upon, as, truth saving in its nature." Tfq, j.ww,s in. London are rallying round • Moaes, as their great Leader and Legislator ; and so* the' Chief" 'Rabbi, Dr. Adler; and also Dr.- Bersiset,: the editor of 'The Re breio Chioniele Aid Jewish Observer, have been earning out with ,-replies,,in the form (onthe part, of the Rabbi,) of a letter, and. in a series, of 'elabOrite articles by. the Jew iSh 'editor. Dr."Benisch is a - fine Hebrew scholar .- He . has' given. !to his own people' and i noble trill:lid - Mimi of part,: at ;least of the Old Testament into: Eng lish. ,Attention has' been directed to this, iii porinexiou with the Coleus° controversy,. as by its c accuracy:and purity correcting Bode of those errors 'Which (weir in -the English - Bible,, (King-Jainee'‘translationo and. as obviating some, of the. objections of -Coleeso. - The present condition of the Jewish people and - their leader l / 2 - is - very reinarkable and euggestive. The Rev. 11: , Stern," - an eminent" missionary of the,. London -Society for .the., . promotion. of, Christianity among the Jewshas juit,pn,blisbed 'a work enti tied; anderings among the Polishes 'in Abylisiiiia?' The' Palashas - '(" Ekiles,"as - the- word signifies,) have, - as a - d'istinet:ebol any af 'Jews, z lived in 'the,; very heart of Abyisinia,sinee long before thee.. Christian t They make, at ler themselves a rung nifieent Pedigree. They say that :their an °esters- bailie - Ethiopia reign of Maqueda Queen. - af Sheba, and that at one Period f tiley were 'independent and ruled over by a King and _Queen, called Gideon andr,jUdith. *They are now a subjeot race, scattered dyer five provinces .of Abypsinia, inCt EitClliri tint to about quarter' of a Million of souls. Their synagogues are to be distinguished a„,- red pot on the top of each them.: They have been sternly es elusiveand ritua istic. , They forbid 'all intermarriages with nnlielieiers, and if one them even .visit ''"a Gerilile,` he 'must under-• go i thorough back lustration before he can be repeived_into,Ote efon,„.areption,, together :with 'a complete ? „nod....tharough &tinge of dress, They . are moral in their conduct, 7ndustriaais in:their''hiliffs, and 44 devoUt " affer.their formalistlashnin ' • The Abyssinian - Choral - , like that Of 'Rome ? has been " so : .corrupt: that , the Jews. Were thoroughly repelled by its idolatry. As -for Israel, she had the foul taint of idol-adoration burnt cintinßabilon!s "'iron furnace ;"- so the' Greek Church, with its lareplighted pictures, and "Rotriatiism, with its _images of Virgin and saints, creates loathing and abhorrence. Mr. Stern estsb halted a mission among, their people ; and having brought with him the Hely„ScriP - - tUres, and expoUnded tlieui to'the'peopl"e' and' their leaders the`' High Priest—and they finding that' Christianity ',was ,not idolatry, a _marked progress has been accomplished. MODERN JUDAISM presents remarkable phases; indicati . n,s- a wonderful triznsitiots state of mind and feelieg, and' a gravitation ever atcelerating toward •that - Central Cross' which.yet is "to draw all men " to Jean=- 'enee:the Divine Victim, and now -the. En throned King of Saints, Sing, of : Nations, and King of the Jews. It is quite a mils • take to" suppose that the faith Of mederni Jeers is -unchangeable. Their Talinudic and traditional past creed has - beenAtiite. inconsistent ,with the letter and spirit. of their own "Moses ; and tbe Prophets.' l g 4 This creed,_' says the Edinburgh Reek*, 4 ,is in a state of .flux; new doctrines, new "ptietiees, new points of contact with other efileds„ and interchange of thought with 'Gentile brethren, , all present themselves. Much - Of this arises from the cessation of the 'persecution and contempt heaped on the 'Jew in fist ages. - These compelled 'Vie. to be resentful, bigoted, exclusive; While now the, increasing accordance.. of 'civil} rights, especially in Protestant coin _tries, including the United States', 'leads -them. to' midgle freely, to' catch Christian ideas - in :spite. of themselves :and to read._ `iillet the New Testament itself:" . ,•• The., Talmud ; ,was .the !!ploak fable as to 7the traieller and the storm. The! raging ftiry, of the tempest 'Which biLret,.pr exiled; or prescribed, or robbed the'aelyemade them hied their- .traditiosui to: their.-. ' hearts; and. to,:regiird the Talmud ee oabsoltitely , P,ivine.'.? • . • , :Now we . fitllatilibizkical .Schools in. Ger niany rare, and few . pupils in attendance. A:.(Prineh) Jewish' writer admits that ,in the Mishap and' Gemara, there -are grave 'mistakes, and declares that they contain an infinity of errors which . a man of sense otianotiasent to:. The ; eiatieg pa.rties are tie' follows : Ise'The Talinudically orthodox ''-.istrietly:iiihering:to - traditions; yet' yieldd- - ing colaras to . ,allow. that women :mayrbe educated.. ,2d. The new ; orthodox , party; . 'illinging to the ancient . ritual, .and yet not - oCridenaning,doufita and 'disquisitions as' to its origin, and 'idinitting that Ritualism may. be :modified. :3d. The-Biblical - Jews, who regard the Old Testament as alone binding, : (not. the Talaiud,) and ; who admit reforms into tliCeld Hebrew Pr ayer who ., we have tlitts'a Reformed ' jeivish gligne in ' , Louden - presided qier, by Dr. Marks, hut on.the- ' Contitrent