property--if they admit no ray of hope to presage a dawn of liberty---then the fact that the Negroes are brother Christians only enhances their guilt. It is this negation of all hope to the slave which is the unpardonable sin of the South. It is because this address ---emanating from men professing to act on the Christian rule of doing justice and loving mercy---contains not one word which can encourage us to believe that the South contemplates ultimate emancipation, that we regard it with a feeling akin to indignation, and wonder at the audacity of those who could present it to the Christians of Great Britain. Knowing, as we do, that the position of the Southern Negro is that of a more or less well-cared for anthropoid beast of burden---knowing that the perpetual degradation, the moral and intellectual paralysis, of the Negro race, is deliberately contemplated by the South---knowing that Negroes in uniform (and Negroes serve under the flag of Queen Victoria), brave men fighting in fair field, have been slaughtered by the Confederates as noxious animals deserving no quarter--we say solemnly, and as in the sight of God, that we dare not lend our sanction to the erection of a Power of which Southern slavery is the avowed corner-stone. This is our answer to the clergy of the Confederate States o America."

It is true that in the same article some notions are expressed with which we do not sympathize; but certainly these extracts show that they have discovered the truth on one or two vital points.

THE WINE QUESTION.-Much has been written in regard to intoxication in wine countries, some writers asserting that it was fearfully prevalent, and others saying it was hardly known. On this point we quote the words of one of the American missionaries in Persia:

"It would be difficult, I fancy, to find greater excesses of intemperance, and consequent demoralization, among a whole people than exist here. During the wine season, the rule is that the adult males, who can obtain the means for it, are intoxicated daily. The exceptions are the few brought into our congregations; and it has become painfully evident that only a vigorous watch will preserve our communicants from the taint of this des tructive vice."

BOOK NOTICES.

THE SERGEANT'S MEMORIAL.-By his father. | the Graduated Sunday-School Text-book I, New-York: A. D. Randolph. 1863. Pp. 231, 12mo.

So deeply interested were we in the reading of this volume, that we did not lay it aside till we had read it through-and we can say, emphatically, if any individual can rise from its perusal "with dry eyes," he must be of a very different temperament from what we are. It is a memorial of John H. Thompson, son of the Rev. J. P. Thompson, D.D., pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church. The book is beautifully written, and is fragrant with piety and with patriotism. It deserves a place in every family library and in every Sabbath-school.

We have also received from the same publisher, A. D. Randolph, The Primary Year of

A Year with St. Paul, or Fifty-two Lessons for the Sundays of the year, by Charles E. Knox. By the following extract from the introduction of the latter volume, the reader may obtain the design of the writer:

"It is my desire and my hope to interest young people who are beginning to study the Scriptures by subjects, rather than by the regular measured lessons of verses. This year with St. Paul is designed to give variety to the course of Biblical instruction in the church, the family and the school, and especially to open if possible a new and attractive department of study to those just ready to

advance from the seven verse lessons to something more general and more continuous."

Between each lesson the author has given ly, containing answers compiled from the best a description of the Apostle's life, as it is il- authors. lustrated by civil history and geographical scenery taken substantially from Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of St. Paul. The plan strikes us very favorably, and well deserving the attention of Sunday-school

teachers.

Also from the same publisher

THE BOOK OF PSALMS, in a series of questions, historical, critical and practical, designed for Bible-classes and private use. By E. Warner Jones. Also a Key, bound separate

The author takes up the Psalms "not in their Biblical order, but chronologically in accordance with Hibbard's arrangement; the occasion of the compilation of each Psalm is quoted from Hibbard, and his work has suggested the historical questions. From the examination we have been able to give these volumes, the plan and the whole arrangement appear to us well calculated to interest young people in the study of those beautiful songs of the sweet singer of Israel.

Receipts

ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CHRISTIAN UNION, FROM THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER TO THE 1ST OF OCTOBER, 1863.

9 65

30 72

14 50

2. 00

2 00

37 66

7 35

1 90

384

4 25

THE seizure of Mexico by the French Emperor, and the invitation of an Austrian Archduke to fill a throne of wrong and robbery, in that unhappy country, are events of vast significance to the American people. Compelled for the time to forego our practical enforcement of the Monroe doctrine, we are more than ever bound to keep our wits awake, and to watch every straw that indicates the hostile policy of foreign powers, and the ends to which it is directed. It is with such views that we direct attention to the officious and offensive character of the Pope's intermeddling in our own public affairs, and its dangerous tendencies. In every country of Europe, the political intrigues of Popish prelates are a sore nuisance; and even in countries where the Sovereign and the people are alike of the Romish persuasion, the most stringent laws are necessary to keep them in their place. Louis Napoleon has just suppressed the manifestoes of no less than seven French Bishops, under the old Gallican Church Law, for abusing their spiritual position for political ends. And at such a juncture we are informed that about as many of the Roman Catholic prelates in this country are empowered by their master to take hold of our public business, and to reprove, rebuke, and admonish our rulers and people by Papal authority! A more daring and insolent kind of Foreign interference has never been attempted. To what will it grow? We propose to look at this matter in the light of what has happened during the last ten years, and the last few weeks.

In 1854, the Pope sent to this country, as an intermeddler with our affairs, the well-remembered Gaateno Bedini. That so infamous a man should present himself on our shores, and that in the character of a Papal nuncio, was enough to stir the spirit of the nation. But when he was, for political purposes, treated with great consideration by public men, and carried about with ostentatious ceremony in a National

vessel, a stronger feeling was manifested than could be justified. Amid mobs and personal dangers he found it convenient to make his escape from our shores, and to seek the reward of his bloody and impudent career from the master whom he had served, if not wisely, yet as well as he could. He has been well paid. Among the creations of the present pontiff, we find that of a Cardinal, Gaetano Bedini, who had been previously raised to the Archbishoprick of Viterbo and Toscanella. His career is approved of at Rome, it would seem, by the Head of the Papal Communion, so that there is nothing more to be said among those who regard him as infallible. But it was understood, at the time, that the shrewd and cunning Irishman who presided over the Romish diocese of New York was not wholly pleased with the visit. Whether, convinced that he could manage things better himself, or disliking the presence of a superior, or whether he foresaw how it would strike Americans, or whether, as was more than hinted, he had a wholesome fear of mobs-he retired to Cuba for the benefit of his health, till matters were mended. Rumor has it that this conduct did not mend matters, at Rome, however, so far as his credit was concerned. He was not obscurely threatened with being put under the same kind of nursing as he formerly administered to old Bishop Dubois, when poor Dubois received as coadjutor the "Bishop of Basilopolis." To avert this calamity, perhaps, he has since appeared more than ever abject in his devotion to the Pontifical throne. Italian Bishops, and ten thousand Italian priests have dare'l to remonstrate with Pio Nono for his tyranny and madness. They have told him, to his face, that he must reform his government, and not a few have added that he must also reform his Church. But, while such a spirit shows itself even in Italy, nothing of the kind is heard of here. And among the foremost to defend and palliate the Papal guilt, and to justify the abuses against which all Europe cries out, has ever been the noisy personage who calls himself "the Archbishop of New York." The visit of Bedini marks an all-important epoch in the history of American Romanism. Modest and unassuming, comparatively, before that event, as if it had become inoculated with a fresh virus, it has shown itself most unfavorably ever since. It must be remembered that Bedini, with hands bloody from the carnage of Bologna, started a new succession of the Romish Episcopacy, by a pompous ceremony, in Bishop Hughes's Cathedral. The old Carrol Succession was defective, if not invalid: besides, it had something about it which was not hostile to America, and its historical associations. Carrol was very little of a Papist. He cherished Gallican ideas, and was, at heart, a lover of his country. The time had come to set on foot something more thoroughly after Rome's own heart, than Baltimore Romanism. It was remembered that several of the Baltimore