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HARCOURTS "CLOTHING STORE, tlecs gan KiNG STALE FT HAST HE Subscribe thas just received a very su- yet 'assortment of West of England Broad Cloths, Cassimeres, Doeskins, 'Tweeds, Vesting of the newest pattern and material. Every article belonging to a gentleman's com- plete outfit a reg on hand, rae BEBE: ie KO, HARCOURT, 11, King Street East. "ma. 13--Im. Poetry. For the Provincial Freeman, Lines On THe Buriat of THE VENERABLE H.T. S.----x. Lie there, thou noble man of God! Thy friends all weep around thy tomb, While fall their tears upon the sod, Which above thy lowly grave shall bloom; Diffusing thro' the air perfume, While we'll bemoan thy solemn doom, A dastard wretch, his hearse refused, * A vassal to his filthy gain,-- A frame without a soul infused ! Yet passing o'er " life's solemn main," And love of lucre gives him pain, While servile acts his person stain, Alas! thy brows were shaded o'er, And thou wast numbered with the race, Whose destiny we oft deplore: Though calm composure graced thy face, And saint-like smiles we oft could trace, Yet, thou wast treated with disgrace ! '** But sleep on now, and take thy rest," May naught disturb thy deep repose: Thy son, while beats his guileless breast, May note each sprig or vine which grows Upon thy grave--and sigh when snows, Shall shroud thy mound--its turf enclose. "C." or CHaTHaM. * The keeper of the Livery refused the use of his hearse, solely because the venerable deceased was coloured; say- ing he would lose the patronage of his "' white customers" --thus selling principles for shillings! Literature. A Mail Agent's Story. The following account of a transaction, in which the narrator was one of the parties concerned, is given to show the terrific dan- gers to which persons in the railroad employ are subject, and also as a remarkable in- stance of escape from what might seem a certain death. Thestory is related as near- ly as possible in the words of the mail agent himself. I was at one time in the employ of the Government as Mail Agent, and on the day in which the following event occurred, which was of a Saturday, about the middle of May, 18--, I was running down with one of the English mails from N. Y. to B. The dispatch of these trains was irregular, and depended upon the will of the Chief Postmaster, and they have since, I think, been entirely given up. At about 6 P. M. we reached S----_--_, that busiest and prettiest of all the inland New England cities. The trees were just putting on their first garments of fresh leaves, and the wide fields began to shine with verdure, and every boy and girl seem- ed to have found some new sport and to ut- ter some new kind of shout, as we dashed into the old depot, with a shriek from the engine (a very powerful one of the first class, called the Attna,) enough to take one's hair off his head. All I had on the train was-just one car behind the tender, carrying the great mail, some valuable ex- press matter, and alive brakeman. I used to think myself a great man in those days, when | was entrusted sometimes with half a million of property, but I had good reason to chauge my mind before I was over with this special trip, that I'll be bound. What is any amount of dollars and cents, compared with the risk that a man must run who is at the head of an express mail train ? We halted in the S------ depot just long enough to wood and water, seize upon a mug of piping-hot chicory coffee, and a bit of greasy paste, concealing a slab of dried of dried apple-sauce, and called in courtesy, apie. When springing on the train, we left the station somewhat before sunset, and were soon flying along at a headlong pace, in the direction of the seaboard. Now I doubt not, to you and other gentle- men who are in the habit of sitting in a com- fortable railroad car, on a stuffed seat, read- ing the last news from Europe or the pages of some entertaining novel, the mode of travel and the varions little incidents on the road seem very delightful. But the thing is very different when you are perched on the seat of the engine, and going down the road at the rate of fifty miles an hour, a velocity not rarely attained where the track is in good order, and getting over the ground, the sole consideration in view. I could not endure the solitude of the mail ear, and almost uniformly sat forward, even -when it was stormy, and I can conceive of few things more astonishing, at the same time overpowering to a sensitive person, than that of a night trip, when you cannot see an inch ahead, unless you are at the engineer's window, and you sit swaying about after the engine, (or machine as it is invariably called by the employees) which seems every moment as if it would fling it- self off the track, as it continually sags and leans from one side to the other. In the passenger cars no idea whatever of the speed, or the momentum, can be obtained ; this can only be got by standing near the track as the train whizzes by, or being upon the engine or tender. 'There is, in addition to the jerks and motion ahead, a universal compound hideous noise, made of steam fizzing, the shriek of the whistle, which never seems to be over on a fast train, as it is the custom to whistle at every crossing, and a general groaning of wheels, chains, and axles, and the sough of the wind as it draws through the engine. In fact, take a quiet man out of his parlor some stormy evening, with an easterly breeze, from a comfortable confab with his better half, and vouring the darkness" at the rate of. 45 miles an hour, and if he recovers from the shock in six months he will have consider- | ably more iron in his nerves than most slow | coaches I know. | put him on the engine of a mail train, " de-. But on the evening in question, we had fair weather, and daylight sufficient to last us a good way down, a first-rate engine, and a clear run to W , so far as we knew. " A fair prospect for a good trip," said I to the engineer, before starting. " Tt looks well enough now," was his re- ply. "And little enough time to do it in, I only wish the merchants of B had to run these mail trains for themselves, and take the beggarly wages I get for the business. I'll be bound they would not scrape their precious bones over the road more than once, and.then twenty miles an hour would take the breath out of their bodies." Thompson, the engineer on this trip, I had ridden with before. He was a tall, black-haired man, from the State of Con- necticut, a great driver, and silent as death on the read. He kept his eye fixed stead- ily on the track, except when he was timing his speed. That he possessed the unscru- pulous presence of mind, some persons may call it recklessness, that is positively de- manded by the incident that follows :-- We had come along very well, and were some way past N------ W I think we might have been going at the iate of thirty-five miles an hour, common running time. There was here a slight curve in the road, and on getting around it, I heard Thompson cry out at the utmost power of his lungs (not of much account to be sure in the din of the engine) "There is some- thing on the road. Hold on for your lives." And as he said this, he put the whole force on the engine, and let off the full power of the whistle in.a shriek of concentrated agony, that it appeared as if the entire chorus of pandemonium had been let loose, and then, in another second, there was a tremendous crash, a mighty jar that threw me flat on the floors of the engine, and a universal crashing of timbers, rattling of wheels, and something like the death-shriek of man or beast. And in another second all this agony was over, the engine was re- versed, the brakes put on, and Thompson exclaimed, " We have run down aa train, Mr. Collins, and though our time is short, I believe it is but a duty to run back and see if any one is killed." Thompson and I thereupon jumped off and ran back about twenty yards, when we saw in an instant the terrific danger we had past, and the na- ture of the accident. A party of Irish laborers were now standing by the side of the road, and the engineer of the train we had run down, a red-haired Lowland Scot, by the name of McGillies, told us 'how it had all happened. " You see, men," said Mac, "Thad come aiong down to back up into the gravel pit, with about thirty men on board the dirt cars, and a car with two Horses In it ; I knew you would be along, and I believed I had time enough to set the switch, back off my train and put every- thing in order before you would be here. But as true as I live at this moment, I hadn't run down more than far enough to get my last car on to the gravel track, and as for the switch, I had not seen it, before I heard you. I believe I considered a second about it, and I said to mysel!, if this switch is set now, both trains will be altogether broke up; if I leave the train, my men will at least. be safe, and he will have some chance of running over through it. ' Jump men--jump for your lives !' was all I said ; and we did, and cleared ourselves, and that is just it; and ' what will the Governor be speaking about?' as the Irishman says. The nature of the ground was all that saved the mail train. A little plane on the one side had been cut down for the gravel, and the road. lay sliding, while on the right hand an embankment went down a considerable distance, and in a small pond or pool at the bottom of this bank were the victims of our speed and Thomhson's presence of mind, namely, the locomotive, the dirt-cars and cars in which were the horses, the latter, of course, " kilt entirely." Our engine struck the hindermost of the dirt-cars with the most terrific force, and literally piled the whole train one over the other upon the en- gine, and the impetus still keeping up with a violent strain to the right, the locomotive, and in fact the whole concern, had gone over In one mass olf the road and out of our way. "Come, Mr. Collins," cried Thompson, " we have not half a minute to lose ; on board, on board !" and springing on the machine, we were again piling down the road at an awful rate to make up for lost time. On reaching the next station, we found that every thing moveable in the front of our engine had been carried clean away, our lamp, cow-killer, rails and wood- work, but the heavy solid engine-head had literally acted like a cannon ball, and swept the whole gravel train off the track as if it had been so many bundles of straw. "You look pale, man," said Thompson, as we got down from the engine in the sta- tion-house at W : OT 'eel pake?-said Tp. 2 By the way, it appears to me you raised steam when you saw the train ahead. " Did you know it was a train?" " I cannot say much about that," he re- plied, with a strange look about his eyes. " The fact is, | knew there was something ahead, that we were going 35 miles an hour, and that to bring up was totally out of the question, The only chance was in run- ning the thing down. I have played the same game before, and [I should again if my life was hanging in it.. You must do something, and you must do it short metre. But let me tell you one thing, Mr. Collins, itis the last day that --_---- red-headed Scotchman will drive a train on the W. road." " What has happened, Charles?" asked my wife of me, as I entered the sitting- room of my house in W , for I went no further than this place. " You look more like a ghost than a living man." Out of curiosity I looked in the glass, and it was literally the Jact, that my cheeks were a ghastly white, my hair as wet as iit had just been duck- ed in the river; in fact, I was the exact picture of a erimina, who is led out for exe- cution. i Bd) " Happened, Mary !' was my reply, "this has happened, that I have taken my last ride as special ayent on a mail train, if the house must be sold over our heads." And then I detailed. the above circum- stances, « Horrible, horrible !". exclaimed the poor girl, unable to keep the tears from flowing down her cheeks, "what an awful escape from death. Grant Heaven that you may never go again !" I learned beyond a doubt, for I made every enquiry, that McGillies, the driver of the gravel train, was an intemperate man, and had been seen hanging about the grog shops of N---- W----- that afternoon. Rum was the cause of this near escape that Thad from a horrible death; and I would say in conclusion, never on any occasion ride on special mail trains, and beware of strong drink as you would of a raging poison.-- lV. Y¥. Tribune. @ a A Frenon discoverer has, at last aligh'- ed upon the world's bonne bouche of com- bination in woman--the blending of Span- ish blood and Trish, that is found in the North of Ireland and (almost exclusively) among the higher classes and aristocracy of that country. We have elsewhere recorded, that, in all our travels, we had never seen such perfection of spirit, beauty, mien, man- ner and captivation, belonging to a class, as in the black-haired, dark-eyed, tall and_bril- liant-complexioned women of this blood.-- It sprang from the large Spanish emigration to the North of Ireland, a century or more ago, but it has descended in apparently im- proving graduation and intermingling A French writer, giving an account to a Paris newspaper, of his visit to Ireland during the late Fair and Industrial Exhibition, digress- es to say :-- "Treland was anciently called an. ' Island of saints and pretty women.' As for the saints, when I find one I shall record the faet, if it were only for its rarity ; but, for the beauty of its women, it has not only main- tained, but increased its reputation."-- After eulogizing the freshness of their colour, the rare purity of their skin, the rich abun- dance of their brown hair, and the mysterious depth of their soft grey eyes, he goes on, with characteristic modesty of his country to say :--"If we dare compare them, we would say that the Irish resemble the French more than the English. In regularity of features and purity of outline they are excelled, pos- sibly by the hot-house blossoms of English aristocracy, where severe statuesque beauty is hereditary. 'The vivacity, the expression, the nobility of Irish features are the very re- verse of this cold, calm, Saxon distinction.-- Less beautiful than English beauty, in the artistic sense, Irish beauty is immensely more attractive. We are not unfrequently surprised by the antique perfection of the faces in Ireland, but we find ourselves far oftener saying, " What a_ pretty girl! what a charming woman!' In short, they strike us less, and please us far more. We would not choose them so soon as models for the engravings of an annual; but we would pre- fer to talk to them--to live in their society. We would be more apt to love than admire them. And now comes the very highest compliment a Frenchman could pay :--"tIrish women recall the French, especially by the elegance and good taste of their toillette, by the ease and flexibility of their movements, and the gracious, frank cordiality of their manner. Many atime, during the first days of our stay in Dublin, seeing a lively group of women passing through one of the galler- ies of the Exhibition, we have been tempted to believe in an illusion, and have felt sur- prised and disappointed to hear, flowing from their arch lips, the guttural English tones instead of the soft jargon of the Paris- ians. 'To finish this resemblance in one word, Irish women possess the secret of feminine grace. They know how to walk: do not laugh: it isa serious matter. A French woman can walk--so can an Italian. A Spaniard excels in this eminently feminine art --sometimes she even exagerates it. We will not push our want of gallantry so far as to say that there are female nationalities of which their walk is their stioma. He who has ever seen, in the streets of London, a:wo- man, of middle height, walk beside a horse guard of six feet, and keep step with him, has no need of our rhetoric to convince him. On this subject, we Suppose, we must accept, as satisfactory, a mot of a cultivated English woman, who had travelled so much in France, and in the south of Europe, that she had almost lost her distinctive nationality--' You deceive yourselves, gentlemen,' she said, in reply to remarks similar to ours, made in so- ciety; 'they are not quite so ignorant of walking in England as you fancy. Only the women who do not know how, never walk there--they always go abroad in a car- riage!" re 28-9 Hippen Treasure.--A_ person in Eng- land lately rummaging among his family documents, found written on the back of an old deed some words indicating that a pot of goid was buried in a certain place in the garden. It was at first regarded as a hoax, but on digging in the spot an iron pot came to light, containing fifteen thousand guineas, and a scrap of parchment much decayed, on which was written, "The devil shall have it sooner than Cromwell." Extra Supper Soup. A young acquaintance of ours who puts up at a $2 and 50c. boarding house, relates the following incident, which may afford a useful hint to those ladies who undertake to provide nutriment for boarders with strong stomachs and weak purses. One day last week, says our friend, the soup produced for the noon-tide meal, was uncommonly rich and. unctious, possessing a flavour which proved very conclusively that an extra quantity of meat had been used in its preparation. The boarders were all very much surprised and delighted, but the landlady seemed to be less pleased by their frequent draughts on the tureen.-- A short time after dinner our friend hap- pened to pass by the kitchen and overheard the hostess rating her cook for putting too much of the shin of beef in the soup kettle. « Half of it, (said the economical provider) would have been enough for eight boarders that pays no more than they does for their vittles." "T didn't put half the shin in, ma'am,"' said the cook. "You needn't tell me that story," cried the excited old lady : « I know you have been wasting the meat, so just take the ladle and dip up the bones, and we'll see whether you're a liar or I'm mistaken." The cook obeyed, and after diving the la- dle two or three times into the kettle, she brought up something that explained the mystery. : "Lor, ma'm, I see how it is," said she, "the kitten has been jumpin' about the kettle and dropped into it, and it's all boiled up in the broth." "Bless me!' cried the hostess, "sure en- ough it is," then after a considerable pause she added: "Cook, have we any more kit- tens? We might drop in one you know, every time we havea soup dinner. You wouldn't believe how the boarders seemed to like it." Our friend paused to hear no more, but started to seek another boarding house. --Philadelphia Mercury. The Boy whom Nobody Wanted. Reuben Ramsey came into the house one day, roaring with all his might. It was no uncommon thing to see Reuben in this con- dition ; so nobody became greatly concerned to find out the matter. This is always very provoking to young gentlemen who under- take to make a noise in the world, and so it proved to Reuben Ramsey. 'Ihe more folks would not hear, the louder he roared, until his grandfather dropped his newspaper, and exclaimed, ' What now, what now, my boy.' ' They--they--they don't want me?' cried Reuben. ' Who don't want you" said grandfather, looking at him through his glasses. 'The boys! screamed Reuben; ' they won't let me play ; they call me a cross lit- tle rascal, and tell me to go home.' ' Not much out of the way, either,' mur- mured grandfather, as he took up his paper again. ' Nobody's to blame for not wanting you. Go look into the glass, boy, and see if you want yourself.' ' Want myself?' thought Reuben, as he stopped crying, and sat down ; ' that is queer. What if I don't, how is it to be helped? I can't say, as the boys do, ' there is that cross Reuben Ramsey ; nobody wants you, Reu- ben; so you had better be off home.' And yet I don't know but I would say so if it woulddo any good. I will look in the glass and see if [ want myself.' So Reuben posted into the drawing-room, |: where there was a long mirror, in which he could see himself from top to toe. What a sight was here! A face covered with all manner of dark lines, made of tears which had been turned out of their course by dirty hands ; eyes that were dark and clear enough when they were made, but which now look- ed like two radishes in a glass of muddy water ; a nose that might have gone for an- other radish, only that 1t was pinched out of all shape; and a mouth that looked as though it had never opened except to scream. Added to this, was hair standing on end, torn jacket, and muddy trowsers. Heuben looked at this ugly fellow in the glass, and did not wonder that he was not wanted. 'JT am sure, thought he, 'be it Reuben Ramsey or not, I don't want him.' But then the thought came back to him again, 'Tt can't be helped; that is myself; it will do no good to say, ' Go away you cross little rascal ;' it won't go. So Reuben sat down upon the chair, and covered his face with his dirty hands, and eried as though his heart would break. He did not roar and scream ; but sobbed and sobbed, until his heart came swelling up, and he was well nigh choked. Reuben knew he was not beloved, and his good mother had often told him why ; but Reuben, like most wicked people, thought the. blame belonged to others. He thought that his relatives ought to love him, and if they did nét they were cruel and wicked. Reuben did not stop to think even that the great God does not love what is unlovely, and of course does not require it. of others. "T am a very unhappy boy,' Reuben would say to himself; 'nobody wants me. The teacher don't want me at school ; the boys don't want me to play with them on the green ; father don't want me in the store ; grandfather don't want in me the library ; Frank and Helen don't want me anywhere ; mother don't want me in the nursery, be- cause I scare the baby--the baby cries when he sees me ; Becky don't want me in Christian public. kitchen; and Tom says that the horses kick the minute that I go into the stable. So thought Reuben, day after day ; and even in the night would the poor boy wake up with the bitter words on his tongue, ' Nobody wants me--nobody wants me ;' but never, till the day in which he looked in the looking-glass, had he made the curious discovery that he did not want himself. The Religion of the Russians, Public attention being very particularly directed towards the Russian nation at the present time, a few remarks regarding some peculiarities in their manner of worship, &c., which probably are not generally known, may be interesting. Whenever a Russian passes a church, his custom is to cross himself, (some do so three times, accompanying it with bowings.) In every room in their houses an image or pleture is placed in the east corner, before which they uncover their heads and cross themselves on entering. The churches are filled with these their representatives of the deity, and it is very curious to see a devout Russian kissing the toe of one, crossing himself before another, while to another, he will in addition prostrate himself, even with head to the ground; the latter is also very frequently done at inter- vals during the celebration of their services; but their churches are always open, so that if any one wants to pay devotion to any particular image or picture while no service is gcing on, he can do so. The Russians also believe in relics, in their efficacy in healing diseases, working other miracles, d&c. Notwithstanding this, a very short time ago, a new relic was found in the south of Russia, and a courier being immediately dispatched with it to the Em- peror at St. Petersburg; on his arrival, his Imperial Majesty (expecting some important news regarding his operations in Turkey, when told his errand, exclaimed, "Away. with the relic! it is time to put an end to such nonsense." Would this were to be carried out. But their superstitions seem too deeply rooted to be done away with in a short time. aE Furure HousrEKEEPERS.--We sometimes catch ourselves wondering how many of the young ladies whom we meet with, are to perform the part of housekeepers, when the young men who now eye them so admiring- ly have persuaded them to become their wives, ' We listen to those young ladies of whom we speak, and hear them nut only acknowledging, but boasting of their ignor- ance of all household duties, as if nothing could so lower them in the esteem of their friends as a confession of an ability to bake bread and pies, or cook a piece of meat, or a disposition to engage in any useful employ- ment. Speaking from our own youthful recollection, we are free to say that taper fingers and lily-white hands are very pretty to look at with a young man's eyes, and sometimes we have known the artless in- nocence of practical knowledge displayed by a young miss to become rather interestin : than otherwise. But we have lived long enough to learn that life is full of rugged experiences, and that the most loving, ro- mantic and delicate people must live on cooked or otherwise prepared food, and in homes kept clean and tidy by industrious hands. And for all practical purposes of married life, it is generally found that for the husband to sit and gaze at his wife's ta- per fingers and lily hands, or for a wife to sit and be looked at and admired, does not make the pot boil or put the smallest piece of food in the pot. COLONIAL MISSIONS. --_# On Sunday, the Rev. 8. R. Ward, a man of color, and a congregationalist minister from Upper Canada, preached two sermons, one in the morning, in Horton Lane Chapel; the other in the evening, in College Chapel. On Monday evening, a meeting was held in Salem Chapel, to enforce the claims of the Colonial Missionary Society upon the At this meeting, Mr. W. K. Glyde presided, opening its proceedings with a short address. After singing and prayer, the Rey. 8. R. Ward delivered an address, of which the following were the principal features. The rev. gentleman, alluding to the Colonial Missionary Society, said that he came to speak of it chiefly as to its workings in Canada, not because he as- sumed that that country was the principal scene of its labors, but because it was the scene with which he was best acquainted. The population of Canada would be about one million ; half of these would be native- born Canadians, the other half would con- sist of a mixed population, the greater por- tion of which would be from the United Kingdom. 'There were also included in the above numbers, fifty thousand Indians and furty thousand Negroes. Now it was amongstthe kith and kin of the people of the British Islands that the Mission- ary Society, whose interests he was advo- cating, sought 1o spread the truth of the gospel, the gospel with its relief for the moral wees of our natute; the gospel whose free development in England, had formed the basis of this country's greatness. The rey. speaker then, in a humorous manner, went on to say that the people of Yorkshire had the reputation of being a shrewd calculating people, with plenty of shillings amongst them, but with a great ob- jection to spending them, except when they knew they were spending them in a proper manner; and, therefore, when he came amongst them to obtain money from them, \ 'the interests of the religion he preached 75 had joined. the missions to the Indians and Negroes, Then, the poor 'whom they had degraded. The speaker he deemed it necessary to show them that -- there was both need and reason for their -- gifts. In October, 1851, for reasons which he needed not to explain, he had found -- himself under the necessity of leaving the -- United States, and going to Canada. After that, as agent for the Anti-Slauery Ass ciation, he had travelled over the whole of Upper Canada, visited all the congregational churches there, with the exception of fou seen all their ministers, and found them all = to be friends of the poor slave. -- But this a8 was apart from the question; and turning = to it he said, that these visits had furnished _ him with abundant proof, that the congre- gational churches of Upper Canada were worthy of every sympathy, prayerful and -- pecuniary, of English Christians. Inthefirst place, beeause they were our own kith and kin. 'Then they had to contend with many difficulties. In Canada, before a meeting like the one before him 'could be brought together, they who composed it would have = to walk or ride some four or five miles over roads, according tv the rev. gentleman's- ; description, were almost as bad as no roads. - Yet these people had many of them come from England, and when here, they had every convenience for public worship close at hand, and of course the wants they were subject to were much felt. He himself -- could speak of this, for he had grown up in _ New York, and the change had been griev- ous to him. Then the way in which '¢on- gregational churches were formed. Some few men holding the principles of Independ= ency, lived some 5 or 6 miles from each other. For a long time they lived without any re- ligious communication or fellowship. By and bye each learned his neighbor's profes-_ sion, then they met; talked with each other; organized a little church, which -- soon would number some twenty-five mem- bers. Now, they would obtain an oceasional -- preacher to visit them, but mostly: they had to learn by Sunday school teaching to teach -- themselves, for they were too poor to main- tain a minister; indeed nearly all the Cana-_ dian Independent Churches were too poor for this, for out of sixty there were but six -- who could doit. It was true that their church at Toronto maintaine | its own min--- ister, and gave £100 a year to the missions. It was true that even the poorest church amongst them was trained in habits of - liberality towards missions, and that, on an average, every one of their members gave to missionary objects 4s. 6d. per annum, while in England, the average was only -- 12d. per head, or perhaps this year, when -- more liberality had been exercised, 2d. or 24d. The rey. gentleman then spoke of Canadian congregational preachers, saying that those who were brought up to take -- their place amongst that body were invari- -- ably young men of fervent piety, great zeal, -- and sound education, equal in this latter -- point to ministers at home. With respect -- to their piety and zeal, they had need of these qualifications, for they were educated side by side with those who were intended -- for legal, medical, and mercantile profes- sions, in every one of which success- wealth, was certain. Yet these a not tempt these young men ; they - new them, but at the same time they could give them up--give them up for a toilsome life -- in the ministry, with the prospect at best of emoluments varying from £35 to '£70 per annum, 16s. to the pound. Then again, in Canada, they were not in the habit of encouraging people to build chapels before © they could be paid for; indeed, many of them would not join in' opening a chapel, while a debt was hanging over it. On this _ subject, the speaker told some anecdotes that -- well illustrated the zeal and industry which - the congregational churches in 'Canada. brought to bear in erecting places suitable for the decent worship of God ; and, on account of their zeal in this and all. things; the efforts they made to help themselve: ves, -- yet which were not sufficient for their help; he appealed to their brethren and friends in England to assist them somewhat if they could. 'The rev. gentleman then said, that the labors of the congregational churches of Canada were eminently successful In September, 1852, he had visited a pastor of a district church, and had found that man in the greatest depression from family misfortune, and the gloom which hung over In 1853, he had prid' that man another visit, and had found all things changed. T spirit of God had been with him in the min- istry. fifty-five persons had joined his church, and before he (the speaker) left, It was thus all over ; they made no great noise, but the reli- gion they preached was spreading et the country. At one place where the speaker had found himself last year, a revival had taken place, nineteen had be- -- come members of the church, eight more followed them, and the last account sta that 500 had been converted to God. | haps when they heard these things En : a lishmen would help them, and_perha S not; but at any rate God would "Mr Ward gave a deeply interesting account of So and especially of the self-denying labors of Mr. Raven, "a man of great piety, zeal, liberality, and energy," at Colpoy's Bay. Negroes who had escaped from the States had to be taught the prin- ciples of that religion, which in the States they heard so little of, and the slaveoor ts had to be shown what men those could be here made another eloquent appeal in favor -- of the missions he represented, and resumed his seat. PO ok The collection was then made, after which -- Mr. W. E. Glyde made a few observations, -- the Rev. 8. R. Ward offered a short prayer, and the proceedings terminated.