1 the wc ivp mi arrival from tturopft 9jflce our ian bv n w vuik one days later hrtclligice to the 9lh july vre observe quoted in uie pliilft- dulphia national gazelle via halifax k- s by the falmouth packet in the few extracts given the courier soy 14 that if russia and prussia persist in opposing the enlightened views of more liberal cabinets war it unavoidable the london journalsgivc some details of ihe ounterrevolnlion projected in france by the ducbws of berri in favour of her eon she has proceeded to switzerland accompanied by ge neral bourmont and hi four sons and it is from that countrythifl gallant princess proposes to di rect her plans a million and a half francs have been coined id the young princes name henri 5th this project will have the effect of bringing the parisian incomprehensible to aomc mutual understanding if the king is not weary play ing the demagogue he will perhapi bid the tem pest rosrand let dip the dogs of w his lay brother of the advucm may marinate by misrepresentation or imeacciputiorn iroin ihe iladvisul communications of one pinny ihe claims uf the scotch church and uiutftuulrratton which has distinguished its proceeding will be recorded and remembered wjthhouur when the frivolous anil vexatious attempt of scbfiflti agi tators have paid the forfeit of oblivion amd con tempt his excellency sin jons coloornk nccorn panied by inn two suns and captain rhsi pas sted through hamilton on the 17th fur israiitford to arrange it i uid some disputes concerning the indian lands in thut neighbourhood tlio noble lord stmed ihai as to the tim- j havi j henv pernicious ber duties of which much had been said it paradoxes of peter mac collocb and wpose w was not the loci thai he had abandoned them t the truth wfth the house left hhn in ami- 11 notilv vet ho ctjll nuiild moiniain the proprie ty of altering those duties and he thought ihe ar portugal an arrival at lisbon from new- york brines lisbon dates to the 1 1th june the disagreement with france assumes a more hostile character than the commercial causes assigned would explain pon miguel had in consequence of the operations of the french squadron changed his ministers and seemed to prepare for war but his strength lies in his weaknes and if all be true the goodness of his cause promises him but little aid in thut way letters received say we are on the eve of great events a mclean d mcdonell and j mtacaulay esquires are appointed commissioner on the part of upper canada for ascertaining the boundary line between the two froviitvcs- d q is surveyor lu the commission thomson e the inhabitants of bytown in public meet ing have resolved to apply to the legislature at the next session to have that part of the pro vinces formed into a separate district mr elder ityan is about establishing a new paper in hamilton 11 alteration consistent with the interests of the country und desirable and although he was 11 unwilling lo introduce in the present session a- ny thing which would create angrv discussion he wse nut prepared to say thai lie had aban- doned the principle of that alteration in the late debate u leading member said the government did not propose any violent or sudden measure they imposed merely a gradual diminution of the protection they said thev were willing that the country should conti- tncrit is confined to a rcmmkable dcvelope- i meut of the organ of selfesteem a ton rnble share of assurance and a superabun dant contempt for the opinions of practical meuof busiuess all the commercial mea sures or rather blunders of the cabinet i arc attributed to this gentleman whtfi iu j fuel though not in name is at the beat of ihe board of trade as for lord auck- inud he is like the man appointed absoluto king with a viceroy over him there i in be no doubt however that the reign of lord aucklands vicehoy is fast drawing to a close- indeed tho right hon young nue to pay a portion of that protection but that j geotleman has already obtained io thecity the exwing amount of it was too great andthaf j the cognomen of jonah io ominous allusion a meeting is to be held at hamilton tor the purpose of forming a company to build a steam vessel destined to ply between burlington bay and four other ports on lake ontario has just appeared from the on the subject of the present several arrivals from the west indies at us ports are mentioned from jamaica to the 22d july and barbadoes to the 19th the king of sweden continues hia determined course in st bartholomews it has been ordained that tripl fines will be laid on white persons for injuringor insulting those heretofore called free persons of colour if it appears that the quarrel arose from difference of extraction or colour they now possess the same eligibility to vote and all dis tinctions whatever have ceased we are happy to find that barbadoes also of fers the bame happy augury of the future the free coloured inhabitants enjoy all the rights and privileges of his majestys white subjects ii looks says one of the journals of antigua 41 as if a sudden influx of light and generous sentiment had fallen on barbadoca such as should cover this unfeeling and degraded island with shame the crops in barbadoes are very large ame rican flour was extremely cheap 158 barrels sold for 87 per barrel united states feck tradc the friends of free trade and a revision and reduction of the present tariff in the united states have appointed a general meeting at philadelphia to be held on the 30th september 11 the question says mr calhoun the pre sent vice president of the union h must press 11 for decision at the very next session of con- u grcss it cannot be delayed longer withouj 11 the most distracting and dangerous consc- qucnees cherokee countt a letter from thu rev mr macleod methodist missionary gives the intelligence that another eompany of missionaries have been taken chained by the neck to a wagon transported beyond tho tribe and thrown into a georgia nsoil we remark in the montreal jujnervr that a compendium of the tocography of canada has been published and is now used in the college ofchambly nothing can be more fitted to a- waken and enlarge the youthful mind on this subject wc would also express oursa- ti6faction to find in lower conada such activity in the great and good cause of education the gentlemen appointed by his excellency the governor in chief to visit the schools of that province have nearly completed their inspec tion they have expressed themselves most favorably of the prospects and progress of its elementary instruction the general character of the scholars and tho remarkable evidences of their talents and disposition to improvement the number of scholars is estimated at not less than 50000 agricultural reports from the lower pro vince represent the crops as generally of good quality aud the quantity an average his excellency lorp atlmer was expected at quebec in the course of the past week letters had been received at quebccfrom the hon mr viger dated london 6th july his interviews with the minister for the colonies c are stated to have been agreeable to the expectations of mr v a pamphlet patriot office boundary line of the provinces messrs leslie 4c sons have established circulating library in this town in the new novel of the young duke mr macaulay whose reform speech has ex cited such premature renown is thus foreshown to the world h if he speaks half as well as he writes the house cill be in fashion again- i fear that he is one of those wbolike the individual whom he has most studied will give up to party what was meant for mankind at any rate he must get rid of his rabidity he writes now on alt sub jects as if he certainly intended to be a re negade and was determined to make fhe con trast complete is it credible the author of the young duke ran talk of mankind as opposed to party who could have anticipated such a relapse to old- fashioned ideas wc learn by the n y mirror that mr bul- wers forthcoming novel is founded on the well- known newgate story of eugene aram it i not for us to doubt the taste displayed in this choice but wc remark in a philadelphia jour nal that a young swindler or housebreaker re cently apprehended there was found to have as a travelling library the history of tho pirates and mr bnlwcr novels wc leave to more subtle minds to analyze the value of writings so singularly patronized the york courier in replying to the colonial hkrtx endless and grievous loyalty has stated the following information norom offi ciate but from undoubted authority in respect to the clergy reserves that a communication has been received within the last few days from lord goderich in reference to messrs ryerson and macken zie late pack of petitions in which com tuxtnicatiou lord godtrkh states that his majesty government heme finally determined that they uht on no consideration consent to the appropriation of the clergy reserves or any putt of them to any other purpose than that for which they lm originally granted viz the support of the established clergy bui thai his majestys ministers have it in contemplation to admit the claim of the scot tish kirk to a participation in thor reserves on the ground of its being one of the esta blished churches of the empire and fur- thti in tht interim his majentys pre- tnt minister have increased the an nuatap pro prhttionjvf the jcirm ministers front 750 roloj0 on the supposition of us accuracy wc my certainly remark with impartiabty that a final eottlencatofuus long vexed subject i most dc- biruc vuwcr ic cluioua 0 jofdiua or j n oi the ciaoeix cfthe eichcoj timber duyfu is an observation to be hold in full remembrance and constantly hat while men are readily and exactly brought to agree on matters of sen nee and experiment- from the sublime calculations of agronomy to the most minute inquisition into natural pheno mena the great leading and vital question af- frtins the prosperity and weubrinflflfsoeietv are little more than a held u angry con tention we find there not only the most eon- flieting views but the fullest opposition of fuel and deduction laid before the publie with the most perfect confidence and ftppomultgood faith the propounding questions of state and of poj litieal economy to the public at largcf9as paley remarks a consequence of a free government but their difficultiesor thedifficulticswith which men have pleased to invest them and the use which selfish demagogues make of them in or der to live upon the curiosity and alarms of the country render it almost impossible that cmy thing like just views can be fully impressed on the public if we rely on the capacity of the human mind for arriving at truth the only natural conclusion is that men would equally agree upon this last class of subjects at least in theory were their interests and passions not involved in the dis cussion these interests joined with prejudice and bjan artfulalliance withexistinginfluences exercise a greater power than the pretensions of the present time would lead us to expect it would be creditable to this age we think were the most informed andleadingtuen in pub lic councils and in questions of general interest so far to unite as to join issue on the theorynd then put their opposing sentiments on its appli cation to the sense and foresight of the country such a conduct would give a stability and satis faction to the public mind and mens opinions would take a new start from admitted truth it appears to have been held a maxim say a foreign writer by a great majority of politi cians that a definitive conclusion on matters of public interest would be productive of a stag nancy of enterprise and that this indecision and emulative contention keeps more irons in the fire this beyond a certain extent is verv er roneous wc need not fear on this subject the nature of mn is too ingenious and venture some to remain long without discovering new fields of rivalry and competition and it would seem most likely to favour improvement aud ad vance to open rttto subjects fortius spirit were there a general admission cither in theory alye or in practise on any public matter of moment thre would be something added to the certain ty and intelligence of mankind and men easily and willingly reconcile themselves to what is made satisfactory to their reason the timber trade has m a parlicularmannor exhibited this obstinate and uncompromising spi rit of opposition the principles of the present ministry remain unaltered and their determi nations the same as will bo seen by zhc dclra- it must be diminished rut even if it were cal dilated to throw the half of the ships out of em ployment he would contend that it would be more economical to ktfep those ships sailing a- boul doing nothing and to buy up the whole of the limber which wos cut down for exportation in canada and bring it to the coast and burn it there than to be paying for it at the rate which the country paid at present by such an arrange ment a that even the country would be a loser by l20000icss than it lost at present mr auwood a prominent speaker on the op posite side observed u he would refer the house lo the report of thecornmiltee in 1s21 which went into the his tory of the timber trade it stated that previous to 1810 our supply of foreign timber was princi pally from the baltic ports but in 1809 and islv we had recourse io our canadian colonists what was the object of the alteration of the du ly was it in order to obtain cheap timber or to derive a greater revenue neither the duty was protective and it was intended to be pro tecting and prohibitory the price and quality of canadian timber were as well known then as now ft was not to enable this country to pur chase cheap timber but in order to guard against the danger which then threatened us from eu rope and which the committee said as it might occur at a future period it would not be proper to place us entirely at the mercy of the northern powers for the supply of timber which might be interrupted by the same polittcaldanger it was no lees than this that at a time of great peril n in n i iluw utki itaueu agojutua vfi a- dopted the measure and on the faith of an act of parliament our merchants embarked their ca pital on a pledge as sacred as parliament could give that it should be safe but the danger had passed away there was no longer any pro bability of oanger from the great northern states he wodd be content to put that out of view to consider that there was no probability that the gretrt northern states would not continue to cul tivate the arts of peace he would suppose that we mipht get cheap timber from thence without any nessity of alarming tbc country but was the hotftt prepared to sacrifice the men who had saved is from danger 7 he differed from the noble lord in that part of his speech where he had laildown the principle which should govern our trait which proceeded from the common error uflus school of political economy- mr hiss in his much cried up pamphlet fol lows ui this view with btill more violence in one pasgc he remarks it is the general colonial policy that is put io uestion no less than the trade of cotoohl wood it is oo less than the ship ping merest than either it is no less the integriy aod marititne ascendency of this em pin than altogether whoever is con cerned in the prosperity of our colonies east or west northern or southern who ever understands them to be aod wishes to remain integral parts of thn empire who prefers home trade aod production to fo reign the wealth aod employment of brit ish subjects to the industry of norway aod prussia whose pride is the navy of eng land whoever believes the riches the safe ty and the glory of these kiogdoms under the good providence of god to depend up on ship- colonies and commerce let him stand ready to come forward and support their cause and let all who cau be mo ved to cherish and niaiotain it uoite aod speak and vote for its defence to those lm ii loifclr n miltel full v juno ih whom noithertho disposition to support his majesty ministers nor mere disinclinati on to oppose them has preveoted from ral lying round a cause paramount to all ephe meral theories abortive budgets or changes of udmiuistratioo the most grateful ac knowledgements are due and have been paid and will ever be retained by all the interest concerned at home and throughout the whole colonial dominions of great britain we see here that theory history and systems past arc all confounded in these defences of opposite views nd gratitude and other excit ing arguments employed quite irrelevant lo fu ture duty and interest those who advocate the colonial system as they artfully call it in their wonderful caution a- gainstany future hostile position of nations for get that this scheme of an independent colonial empire would be about the most certain contri bute means to bring on sueh a state of things this colonial empire demands the very opposite system that the world may look on the power o britain as a general benefit aud blessing to eve ry nation- how then sre we to estimate that ultraprecautionary wisdom which consists in taking for granted the evil it would shun and a- dopting ihe desperate maxim of preparing for the worst by the principles and practice of fret trade nations are rendered necessary and great ly needful to each other all the chances and motives of peace arc improved and those of war diminishedinsuring thus two positive and encreasing securities in our favor if such is the irreconcilable antithesis of opi nion amongst the distinguished legislators of the day we may naturally infer that their echoes the journals will keep up his discrepancy in their usual ratio of violence with them words arc things their object is not in such cases to in form but to prove their zeal hv their blindness and their talents by onfttfubig iftheycannotoul- arguc their opponents wo do not marshal these jarring opinions to show the vanity of human wisdom on the contrary it is to show hat nothing but the prin ciples of free trade can put an end to these le gislative factions who blind no one and who tattghten no one a london intifrte trade journalist thus treats ills antagonists the principal ministers have suffered themselves to he misled by the minor mem- hers of the administration men entirely un6t for office both as respects their under standing their evpeiience aod theirsratioo in society wo allude more particularly to the right honorable young gentleman air fculth thomson whose knowledge coo- to the necessity of t beiog thrown over board io order to save the remainder of the crew one thing appears to be quite cer tain namely that he will not be 1eter- maccullochising in the government six months hence but this will be a serry com pensation for tbe ruin nf he canadas and the mulcting of the manchester calico print ers of several hundred thousand pounds- let us now hear the defenders of frectridc the prayer of the petition of the mer chants and shipowuers engaged in the colonial trade is one which we are sure is not likely to be disregarded by the go vernment it is as follows that your honourable house will resist all proposi tions which may be submitted to it subver sive to the british colonial shippiog and maoufaciuriog interests the house and the ministers would indeed be culpable if they were to attempt to subvert such im- portaot branches of industry as those in question and we greatly laraeot the preva lence of the impression that any such inter ests are either despised or neglected by his majestys ministers we believe the very reverse lo be the fact the principle upon lvhieh the govern ment is acting io commercial as well as in constitutional matters ii this ver simple one that the public good is to be preferred to private interests be they who or what they may if the interest of the british consumer be that he should be allowed to buy a good instead of being forced to buy a bad article that the baltic traders should have fair play against the traders ofcsna- da and that the recommendation of the parliamentary committee of 1821 so loog unaccountably neglected to be acted on should be carried iuto effect it is upon the principle referred to perfectly clear that any supposed interest of the canada traders ought not interfere with justice being done to the public ity the reduction of 5s per load oo baltic timber the land owoers aod the public in general will obtain that com modity ma cheaper rate than heretofore and at the same time the revenue will be nefit by the augmentation of the colonial timber duty for the purpose of equalization the shipping interest will be a gainer in some degree by the reduction in the price of timber for sbiphuildiog and for all pur poses of ordinary life and the inhabitants of this country will all be gainers in a great degree although tho duty is not to be re duced to30s per load ns sir henry par- nkm and other financeirs have so strongly recommended but is to be fixed at 50s per load the united states aro the best possible proof of tho readiness with which our ma nufactures are received in all parts of the world to which they are valuable on ac count of their cheapness and excellence and no man in the least degree acquainted with trade supposes that the fact of cana da or jamaica beiog colonies has aoy in tluenco upon the sale of those cottons and hardware in he veut of which the great- oessof this kingdom io respect to other powers mainly coosists it is hardly possible to express sufficiently ourdisgust at the ignorant nbuse which was levelled on the occasion of the meeting at the freemasons tavern at those illustri ous philosophers and statesmen who have beeu labouring for the last fifty years to aug ment the wealth and prosperity of great britainbythe application to her peculiar cir cumstances of ihose principles which politi cal science has demonstrated to be true in the abstract we say it is disgraceful that a man of good understanding like mr al derman thompson should congratulate his audience at their common disregard of the theoretical aod visionary dogmas of philosophical statesmen whose advice would prostrate in the dust the shippiog and colooial interests c c so ihe bor- oughmongers say their properly is to be prostrated io the dust by the reform bill for to them russets purge is what at throps purge is to tbe canada timber mo nopolists to both ooe and the other jus tice is hateful but they may nevertheless alike be assured i hat justice will be dooe by the government and that peculiarinterests will only be set aside so far and no further andthotfc two branches of tho montreal and york batiks which are 6aftoncd in tva town in reference lo tho spiders 1 conclude thai the former ire no more favourably treated in regard to their necessary dealings with the latter than the wretched flies wore by the ravenous spiders which so greedily devoured notonly lh con quest of the wretched hies also fwl upon their carcases while they were so industriously supporting themselves agreeably lo the laws of nature as i have no doubt many of the disrrminp public will admit the justness of ihe forgoing remark i will venture further lo state what i consider to he the mot eflectual means of re medying the evil and averting the baneful con sequences it is my decided opinion then that were we to have a town and district bank es tablished in this place agreeably to the tenour of the bill passed by our lust two houses of ghccrfuliitftiify ihemufake and lione so ffood an example may net be lortt on the conduc tor of an evangelical press especially saint egorton whostill henri to retard sfamifilil as far too feeble to expose his determined persever ance in a wilful and mtuigmnt lie proved point blank to ids reverences head the saint has cer tainly arrived at rnlalhbility for he lies wilfully to the whole country and tin n proves his false hood lo be truth by a meek and ni r nh i e pvrse- verence in it no doubt he fancies himself pro secuted for righteousness sake when his vdlan- rcs are exposed your unbiassed readers will perceive that my arguments lose not one jot of their force or im portance by this lapsus memorix and that not a single point is weakened in the least degree 1 conceive the cose to be fairly and fully made out namely that in the present condition of the rights and dictates of conscience and the popu- assembly in favour of the commrrcm bank of i nolaiw concerning ihe right of every prhmte upper canada but known to have been rejected i in makc a c for imiclf if heean 1 whenever a country follows the example of the yankees in regard to church and slate that the people will also follow their example in the arti cle of religious factions scrambling for political power as they are now doing and as tbe me thodists arc now doing in this province the only remedy far which is a state religion if zim herald and his confreres deem the salvation of the canada dependent on their separation from the parent state il is but fair to conclude that our independent scion from the yankee zion has been put into operation against the go vernment of this province for the effectuation of this evangelical work- this argues forthclcib- muian scheme ot pre- established harmony and optimism being adopted by those theological nochurch and state politicians in order to effect the salvation of ihis country and since also ihe necessetarian scheme jut mentionsd forms by the undue influence of the directors and stockholders of the york bank in ihe legisla tive council many advantages would accrue to the public at large of whichthcy are now igno- rantly deprived but which not a little tend to contribute to the aggrandizement of others kingston being the most populous town the district the most extensive and certainly ae res pectable and independent in point of both talent and wealth as any other district in upper ca nada why should not its sources be more gene rally circulated within its own bounds rather than be so unreasonably lavished on other parts of the country there are various considerations which enti tle this subject to a more clear and minute in vestigation and active exertion for were we to have a bank of our own the profits should remain with ourselves the accommodation nia t i i ihc substratum oi the soil m which have snrune would be more general the results would he a hius r ur the national religions imnmtjwnn rfe iut nw would hroportionahly great not to spak of the hur ttnd credit which it would reflect on our ro account myself among the second class of lt9 ndependent yeomanry supposing then n the bank is established that i take stock he amount of l2000 and that 1 deposited l whole in the bank by which according to t proposed charter for the commercial bank l might be issued now supposing also haj i required l4000 occasionally to carry on my even then l2000 would remain in bank which sum might be given to appli- cail to enable them to manage their own pur su more conveniently and more profitably w commercial or agricultural phalanx belleville 24th aug- 1831 kingston lofft august 1831- wr eoitor that there arc many real ad- sri of virtue and morality in the world is as und no despisers of these excellent cjualilicsand li may and with no less rectitude of assertion be rcm that there are those to be found nn although they may reverence virtue ond cct morality yet do not permit their p rat io be influenced thereby there are also vidua and to whom i would now more p allude who do not perhaps belong or c not with propriety be classed with any oftl tho op the national religions imfitijtion i m- lum- of jonathan and since pree3lablished harmo ny and optimism that is predestination ha led those econornicievangclicaisto try theirstrength in politics for the cause of religion in various ways and especially in the house of represen tatives in massachusetts in which dr beecher the orthodox revival political candidate for the alldenomination religious liberty chaplaincy went only 27 in 155 ahead in the race of evangelic political popularity with the universalist and the unitarian since i say e t scribe is a eogwheel in the machine of pre- est abli shod harmony it should not bo matter of surprise to any one aware of the fact that ihe synod have mado application to the british ministry to be made hirelings of the state to consume ae pee- money paid to ihem by the canada compa ny 1 desire to hear ezra explanation of this curious business and lo be informed on what principle this stipend is risked for whether to subserve british principles and build up british church and state or to assist in carrying into effect the optimism of the new england states ticc iiuh liable a truth as that there are many well of the united north american states in particu lar as mr david hume decrees pshaw i always mistake the name of joseph for oeid but no matterbotharo philosophical politicians a herald of zion now lies before me which in regard to optimism and the optimists of the land of jonathan most petulently asks the questions are our friends willing to be bribed to admit calvanistic and hopkinsian works into our sun day school libraries in preference to our own publications if they are they will find that there are supporters of the national institutions the national institutions who will furnish a- ny amount offonds requisite to effect this object xyil nw h- afb ft i i il and if wc rtn- iose characters above describe they are se who affect to regard virtue hut who in arc only labouring to strip her of her chaste bml and substitute if it were possible de- font rrmi lmpei these individuals in conveying to u5 their sen- 1 the gullibility of john bull timents adopt a peculiar style the languago made usc of contrasting strangely with the pro fessed purity of the end in view that they are enemies to vice and friends to virtue those who ey of supplying our libraries with ttefi books not be put down cither by argument or abuse both of which have been largely tried it may perhaps yet be accomplished by the matter p than the interest and safety of the public require the colooial interests will not be neglected or subverted but they must bo taught that there are other interests some what paramouot to those of monopolists for ihe chronicle the bank question sir having had occasion this morning lo enter some obscure part of my prcmist my at tention was very forcibly directed to a certain object which instantly suggested lo me one par ticular subject which nol unfrcqucntly for some tiinc past beeanic the theme of my cogitations in one comer of the apartment lay u cask of sugar the contents of wliichwas the constant prey of as many of ihc common houseflies as could have access to it immcdiatclyuhovcthis spot two immensely large and formidable spiders had most artfully contrived to weave their airy cohwchs and which were so designedly cir cumscribed around the cask a to render il al most impossible for any of the hies to make their escape without being entangled in lhe snares which were so ingeniously set lowaytay them and of which many became the food of ihe spi der few escaped with only the los of cg or wing and fewer still had made their way safely through but not without perceivingtht subtlety and experiencing the cunningness of heir ene mies i cannot forbear to acquaint the puhhc with my own apnhcauon of the above viewinc i thtreiw u commas tn telauoa t ij ji have had sufficient nerve to wade through their effusions have been able ere this to form their o pinion that the cause of virtue has been by them eloquently pleaded placed in an exalted light and ita modcsl beauties its rain of excel- lencies held up for admiration few will be dispos ed to assert many to deny that writings de voted professedly mark to the upholding of a cause so sacred as that of virtue and good morals should be only rendered conspicuous by hav ing rioted in obscenity by having departed with so daring a confidence from that chaslcness that delicacy of expression which ought lo have been so carefully studied that writings 1 eay thus distinguished should be read received into families perused by those whose native purity and innocence it is our iiiost anxious care to pre serve is as highly culpable on the part of ihc community a arc these precious composition calculated effectually to reflect infinite discredit upon the writers this subject mr editor could be enlarged up on to an extent which would preclude the possi bility of an insertion but as in the few preced ing remarks feeble indeed as they are it will at least be perceived that these moralise are not permitted to moralize without that meed of praise which they so justly morit being ascribed and in attributing which the object of this communi cation is attained ilsinserlion in your respecta ble journal will exceedingly oblige an inhabitant for the kingston chronicle mr chronicle i beg leave to correct an error of which your neighbour the watchman complains as of a wilful falsehood and which he appears to me to regard as of sufficient weight against the cause i have undertaken to defend to annihilate all 1 have said and to neutralize the eloquent facts and documents i have laid be fore the public through your indulgence 1 con fess that what i said relative to a proposition to st egerton and his valiant band appears as if i meant to convey the idea of a stsooal proposi tion ot union whereas it was only by an indivi dual through tho column3 of that evangelical journal the colonial advocate on my part it was an inadvertence perhaps as ezra tho saint and pharisee informs me that 1 am in the habit of letting an enemy run down my throat br the purpose of evacuating my caput i was then wholly oi paiiully zlt cmi-c5- ivuh to asisl the american sunday school to make donations of a certain amount of books on condition that others be purchased of thc7n we understand that large bums have been con tributed or pledged by wealthy individuals for ourselves we do not entertain a doubt that the policy wo have mentioned above is at the bottom of these operations it is perhaps notge- nlrally known that the american bible society also assists the american sunday school union with large donations but it affords no such as sistance to in this is curious intcllicence from a free coun- where there is no law but the rights and and try dictates of conscience and no rule but tbe will of the people how these sectarians love one another ttovf admirably they preserve the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace every one looks not only on his own hut his neiehbours affairs and docs neither co- vfft nor swindle in the cause of religion this is optimism a part as zions herald would say of the eternal decrees this is par no6it with the orthodox nf new england in particular se ducing the children intrusted to their care in pub lic schools to attend for days in succession the anxious and inquiry meetings for the evangeli cal purpose of hearing the foulest abuse fromthe sewers of religious liberty discharged at the mi nistry and formularies of the episcopal church has not mr home a few children who need e- ducation if he has he may there have them trained out of the reach of the evils which all established sects bring in the community bay wig st egertons civil secretary may there send that poor son of his who bos tasted so much of the sweets of paternal affection and why not bundlo off minor college under egertons guar- dumship to enjoy the benefits of a revival with in m the borders of a free country but let us be patient the watchman assures us that these provinces of british name may ait these rights and blessings claim and mr hume has promised the worthy chair man of the committee for the promotion of reli gious liberty that they shall not only be es tablished in canada on the yankee plan but that the whole british empire shall receive them at his hands i wish the watchman to reap the full benefit of these remarks and illustrations in order to makc good the deficiency occasioned by my mistake which he was so obliging as to point ou