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[ADVERTISEMENT.] BIBLICAL CONTROVERSY. To the Editor of i)ie Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,- The statement in my last letter to Mr. Phillips, that I II was calle(I from Newport to do duty for a brother priest, might have obviated the necessity of the first sentence in Mr. ma'n S etter 1X1 ^0ur PaPer ^urday. This latter gentle- as no cause to plume himself on an implied refusal by c o meet htm in a public discussion; for voung recruit (( ■h ai l',e c'lurc'1> I should not fear a meeting with us isupltned controversial warrior, and I think it probable 'a neither a breach of good manners nor good will would a e p ace on the occasion whilst, at the same time, the in- a Hants of Newport would doubilcssly be much delighted «*n edified at the display of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, on the occasion. But, sir, I have other and more sacied ditties to peiform and the discipline of the Catholic church must be rigidly observed by its ministers. In conformity with that iseiplme, piiests have not the same latitude of permission to mount platforms in polemical conflict, that other reverend gen- tlemen enjoy. The first assertions of Mr. Francis, which catch my eye, are that The Latin Vulgate translation was never made from the Hebrew, hut from the Greek, and was revised by St. • dome. Engaged as I am, I must be very brief in my ob- servations, but must really beg leave to dissent from the state- ments here made: and will, therefore, give the reasons why I cannot coincide with the assertions he has thought fit to ven- "[e' Li the first place St. Jerome, who began his biblical labours under Pope Damasus between the years 370 and 380, not only revised but translated the Old Testament. For by in- specting the preface to his New Testament, and his catalogue at the end, you find him asserting: You constrain me," says he to make a new work of an old, that I, after so many copies of the Scriptures dispersed through the world, should sit as a certain judge, which of them agree with the true Greek. I have restored the New Testament to the truth of the Greek, and have translated the Old according to the Hebrew. Truly, i will affirm it confidently, and will produce many witnesses of this work, that 1 have changed nothing from the truth of the Hebrew, &c." [Ward's Errata, page 5) St. Austin, in his work on the City of God, (book 18) speaking of St. Jerome, says: Who, not from the Greek, but from the Hebrew, translated the same Scriptures into Latin, whose learned labour the Jews yet confess to be true." I must now answer the next question which the enquirer will naturally ask: Is the Latin I ulgate the translation that was made by St. Jcromel" In reply to tris, I beg to observe that Saint Isidore, ol Seville, who lived about tbe year 630, says, without any ex- ception, that all the churches followed the version of St. Je- rome, L. 1, de OftffEccl. Bonfrerius, also, in his Prceloquia, chap. 15, sec. 2, tells us that we have, in the Vulgate edition (with the single exception of the Psalms), St. Jerome's trans- lation from the Hebrew 1!J' all. the booh contained in the Jewish Canon, together with (he books of Judith and Tobias. t might quote innumerable other authorities to the same effect, hut shall content myself on this occasion, with referring you to Dr. Brian Walton, the Protestant Editor of the English Polyglot, who, speaking of the Vulgate editiou, in the sixth chapter, of his Prolegomena, says: Qua- maxima quidem er parte Hier- nnymum auetorem ngiwscit." That is, which for the most part, acknowledges Jerome as its author. The opinion entertained by the chuicli of this translation, is a best learned from the decrees of the last of«he Councils. The fathers assembled at Trent, considering it necessary to deter- mine for the faithful which, amongst the numerous Latin ver- sions for the time, was to be depended upon as authentic, de- creed that the old Vulgate, approved by long use in the church through so many centuries, was to be considered as authentic -that it was faithful and true in all that related to faith and morals. Protestant writers have expressed themselves as thinking highly of this translation. When Grotius, a Protest- ant writer, in his preface to his Annotations on the Old Testa- ment gives Ins reasons for choosing the Vulgate upon which to make his notes upon the Scriptures, he has these remarkable words I have always much esteemed the author of the Vulgate, not only because lie delivers liD opinion contrary to faith but also because he abounds wi.h erudition. Fagiu, Prcetatio ad collat. ranslat. Vet. Test., looks upon those as shameless and but. half-leariied, who dare speak ill of this famous translation. Whom, then, will you believe? A writer who now asserts that St. Jerome only revised the transit nonot the Scriptures, or St. Jerome himself, who, when he t i he ,:ad translated it from tbe :i rth™irl v \v^ii defying even his enemies t- as' Vni ^on ^elieve a modern divine, who -ays that the ulgate is only a translation from the Greek, oi a W alton, the greatest biblical scholar that Protestant Eug- land perhaps ever produced, who tells you that the Vulgate for 'walion Ven '1^ for its author ? he" i\ alton, then, has declared this VulKate to be for the mor ^s'thitTt eonfaf0"1 .Hebrew~when a Grotius has assure.: L-, ihat nf l rln!'t." I11 ",g COntrary to faith—when a Courier oar Catholic transl-^ k ui^ an authorized version—cai innVor -rs. n bl,aniud using it as the founda ii, n n T0 EnLglisb ? They used it as the four, Jv'rmi ihn « ( uI5k A ^id not debar themselvc \nd whv shn°l I ih Tf or bil)'e8 in °tber language- And why should they? for after the Catholic Church had I'm nmn i ^cripturc<; jn various languages, till th' there was nothing To preypxit .neni ;.)r ft n*. (ci^nd tholics have cfeen as well aware as their neighbours, «f the 1 foreign words, as Mr. Home is pleased to call them and hence Eishop Challoncr has put others of the same import in place of some terms, the meaning of which might have been perfectly intelligible, when the translation first appeared, but which have since become obsolete. And has not this been the case even in the Protestant Bible and in the book of Common Prayer? But how can these barbarisms—these foreign words —have come into an English Catholic translation ? and how comes this translation to he called Douay Bible ?" These are questions that an English Catholic, or an Englishman un. acquaint d with the history of past times, may rationally ask, but which a member of the Established Church should never raise. It is called a Douay Bible, because the laws of Eng- land did not permit a Catholic book of any kind to be printed in these realms. It is called a Douay Bible, because that is the name of the seminary abroad, where Catholics received their education, it being penal for a Catholic to undertake edu- cation in this country. On a former occasion, I stated that I considered the Protestant version of the Scriptures mutihded, because the Reformers had thought fit to cut out of the Scrip- tures, books that have, from remote ages of antiquity, been considered part of the canon of the Scriptures. In this sen- ence I did, no doubt, allude to the omission of some of the books which Protestants usually denominate apocryphal. Air. Francis is here pleased to tell his readers, It would have been but fair in me to have stated, these remote ages of anti- quity extend only to about 300 years ago." Now, indeed, Mr. Editor, it would not only have been unfair, but very untrue, to have stated any such thing; for I really never meant it. Three hundred years may seem a long time—may seem ages of antiquity—to a Protestant, vvho can date the commencement of his religion no further back than the time of Henry the Eighth, or Martin Luther, who first rose up against the Catho- lic Church in 1517. But to a Catholic, whose church can show her regular descent for eighteen centuries, a distance of three hundred years seems but as yesterday. If assertion be proof, then here I must acknowledge myself mistaken but what are the real ments of the case ? Were the books called by Protestants apocryphal excluded from all ancient catalogues — were they neier declared canonical, except by the Council of I rent ? In the fiist ages of Christianity, heathen tyrants kept up an almost constant succession of persecutions and during these troubled times, that constant communication which tvould have been desirable, could not be kept up. Constantine, however, had, about the beginning of the fourth century, so far given peace to the church, that she began repeatedly to hold her Councils. This peace was disturbed by the wicked reign of Julian the Apostate. After this last struggle of Infi- delity, the correspondence between the distant churches became easier, and consequently more frequent. In these times lived St. Cyril, of Jerusalem, St. Gregory Nazianzen, and St. Je- rome, who are said to have rejected the books now considered apocryphal by the Church of England. These authorities, even if well established, would Mreigh but little against so many other early authorities, and the traditions of great churches. But if they meant to go as far as the rev. gentle- man who quotes their names would have the public to believe, how does it happen, that in their works we find them quoting some of these very books as forming part of the Word of God Thus we see St. Cyril quoting the Book of Wisdom in his Ca- tech. 9, &c.; the book of Ecclesiasticus in Catech. 6. &c.: Barucli in Catech. 2, &c. St. Gregory Nizianzen quotes Ec- clesiasticus in his 2nd Orat against Julian; the book of Mac- cabees in his Orat on the Maccabees. St. Jerome also refers to the Book of Wisdom in Hieremiam, chap. 18; the book of Ecclesiasticus in his 34th letter to Julianus, &c.; and other fathers, elders in time, as well as cotemporaries, quote them indiscriminately as being Sciipturc. But to proceed. In the year 397 a Council was held at Carthage, which enacted that Canonical Scriptures alone should be read in the churches, the books of which it enumerates, and which Bonfrerius, in his Prceloquia, chap. 3, sec. 2, asserts were precisely the same as the canon published by the Council of Trent. Saint Austin, also, who was himself present at this Council, and subscribed his name to its decrees, gives you, in his work De Doctrina Christiana, the same canonical books as are mentioned by the Council of Trent. It is plain, from the rules he had just laid down in the same place, that St. Austin knew this to be the canon received by most of the churches, and by those of the greatest authority. If in his day this canon was acknowledged by most churches, it must have been much more ancient. Pope Innocent the First, in the year 405, in a letter to Exuperius. enumerates the same books, as being proved by the preserved series of time. It is also evident, as Bergier tells us in his Dictionary of Theology, that the Canon of the Scripture must have been settled from the fifth century at latest, from the cir- cumstance that the Eutychians, whose founder, Eutyches, wat cut off from the communion of the Catholic Church in the Council of Chalcedon, in 451, place in their Canon of Scrip- tures the same books which the Catholic Church receives. The Greek Church, also. has in her canon all the books, which the Protestants exclude from their catalogue of Scriptures for every one, acquainted with the history of the Reformation, is aware of the answers sent to the reformers from different Councils in the east, and amongst others from the Council of Jerusalem, in 1670, under the Patriarch Dositheus; for, aftei giving a list of the books of Scripture, which contains every book included in the Catholic Canon, the Council says We judge all these canonical, and declare them to be HolyScripture; because ancient custom, or rather the Catholic Church, delivered them 10 us." [Page 69, Faberism Exposed, &c.J Will any one, after reading the above, suppose that by the words remote antiquity, I meant 300 years; or will any one say, that these hooks were excluded from all the ancient catalogues, and never declared canonical, till the Council of Trent did so, when he has read, that churches which have separated from the Catho lic communion, for so many ages as the Eutychian and Greek Churches have been, have and do still consider them as forming part of the Canonical Scriptures ? Brentius, a Protestant writer, perhaps more acquainted with the history of the primi- tive church, than some who write on biblical questions, ac- knowledges [Apol. Cong. Wit.] there are some of the ancient fathers, who receive these apocryphal books into the number of Canonical Scriptures; and also some Councils command them to be acknowledged as canonical. It will be well for these two ministers of the reformed churches to agree between themselves, before another attack is made upon the Catholic Church. Is In my former letter, I also stated that the Protestant version of the Scriptures was incorrect; and my assertion was founded on Protestant authority—on the authority of persons who in the Establishment itself have found fault with it, at various periods, from the time of the Reformation to the present age For we find that in an address presented to James the First, by the Protestant ministers of the Diocese of Lincoln, they com- plain to his Majesty, that "the English translation takes away from, and adds to, the text, and that sometimes to the changing or obscuring the meaning of the Holy Ghost," &c. [See the abridgments which the ministers in Lincoln delivered to his Majesty, page 11.] Mr. Broughton, also, a Protestant divine, of great learning, wrote all epistle to the Lords of the Council, desiring them to procure a new translation of the Scriptures; and assures the Pro'estant bishops, that the English translation perverts the texts of the Old Testament in 848 places, and causes millions of souls to run to eternal flames. When members tt the Established Church can write such things as 1 transcribed in my last letter, and such as you read here, a Catholic priest may surely be allowed to apply the term incorrect to the Protestant version of Scriptures. 1 am glad, however, to find that the important change of or into and [1st Cor. c. xi v. 27] is, in part, admitted; but must demur to the assertion, that most of the old and best editions of the. Latin Vulgate authorised this translation. This admis- sion, however, is followed up by a statement, that it was the universal practice of the Church, for upwards of a thousand years, to give the cap to the laity which is completely at variance with what the history of antiquity has handed down. On this subject, I do not wish you to take my bare assertion you have a right to hear the proof. But, not to be ted ous, from the numerous examples of the contrary, I shall content mysell with selecting the following St. Basil informs us, that the h.dy hermits in the Wilderness commonly received and reserved the blessed body alone and not the blood. [Ep. ad Cces. Pat.] In the Life of Saint Leo, by Butler, vol. 4 p: 107, &c., we meet with the following account:—Carthage being destroyed by 'he Vandals, in 439, a great number of Manichees fled out of Africa to Rome but there, to escape the rigour of the imperial laws against their sect, leigned themselves Catholics. They called wine, the gall of the dragon, produced by (he devil or their 'I evil god on which account they always abstained from that liquor, which they regarded as, of its own nature, unclean To conceal themselves, they received the holy communion from the Catholic priests, but under one. kind alone. This affectation of the heretics passed for some time unnoticed, as we learn from St. Leo, in his fourth sermon on Lent, A.D. 4f3. But he no sooner discovered the sacraligious abuse, than lie took the ut- most oare to prevent the contagion from infecting his flock" This practice they continued nil Pope Gelasius in 496 effec- tually io prevent those sacj ah,ous and superstitious commu- nions of unworthy hypocrites .commanded all to receive under both kinds; which law subsisted at Home as lonjj as the Manichean heresy made it necessary but. after that daneer was over, th.s ordinance of discipline ceased by disuse Thi very command as Butler elswhere observes, suffices to demon- S,1Yal £ cre icn °r ki-ts was thtn Promiscuous c fpft o fhJdk,J." tSe, early times' then» y°» find that it v..1 kinds as P »h ? i! e comm»n'cant to receive one OI! iiv, under t e g f St 5 and ,ha'il was s0 common to Wt the CUD fbr VN"1 md that these heretics could rrL-overv There i ma"y years without giving a clue to their discovery. 1Jitre is, perhaps, no one circums'ance in antiquity Snrnt heTini than communion under one or both kinds. \ou Will, then, judge whether historians of the time are to be believed, or you are to give credence to assertio n made after fourteen hundred years have elapsed. It is rather an unfortunate circumstance for Mr. Francis, that some people have better memories than himself; otherwise he never, surely, would have asserted so soon after the numerous and rifling remarks on the second chapter of Genesis with which he commenced this attack upon me, That almost all lujidel writers have endeavoiacd to shake the faith of the un- learned Christian, by assertions about the uncertainty arising from various readings." He is not, siifely. a.i.bitious of havine a niche in the temple of unbelief. But to refer to the wretched s'a'c o fiance and Spain, and to declare that the natural ^^7 VVr.ails n,a(lc use of by the Church of Rome is mpmliprnfth "p comes with a very bad grace from a commence 1 Where"du/ [hf^'n fi t°h k'lT d'd an?Th> clerev iiirnprl „,k i le wor^ hl'st behold an example of the temDles of r iCS? e out l'ieir peaceful habitations, and the scaffold LV°L' ^serrated 1 You saw a Lewis XVI on fanaticism bVoughSchaV ^i' E%]™d' hat'ia her and you now see Soainim ? T-0" Sia"- Fl;anCt'' The records of the^S«hPn?°nin8 Vrw* /T dergy- blishinents in foreiHim Pm°n n Ln/llsh Ca,t!°j"' .cs,a- only repeating the lesson h ,ell'lhat Ff^nce andSpain are In Franco tbnv i.~ ^earnt from Protestant England. they are confiscating and^l'r'1 T* PU"e<l and churches. And 1,^?./ ,? ing d°,Wn f0I've,[Us aruI ab le>'s before? Yes, they Co | ey not heard of this being done Tintcrn and its fellows in j^CI?>s? the. waters-they point at which proclaim to the worl.fl )°S med roofless walls of first contry in civilued p' *that I r0,es,ant England was the decking her landscapes whh"T l° glVG ■' ) exar?P,e- °f abodes of exiled charity. A n.l i g/fy ru,n? of ,he mouldering ol Protestant England beih.fi. mcmber. naya minis-er Spain for growing a noxioJ J U" reproach, tran,ce /P was produced and showed LlX pa'ent ?llmt °'.w,hlclJ of ours ? Effects like these WP. baneful Properties in this land mation had spread its light Z5? £ ei,er hea,d of. V11 ,hLe re,or' ceding centuries, when the i ri„ uropf* Durin,? the, Pre; converted heathen nations ^°u,lple.s .0| the Caihohe Church no'hing of lhe kind was ever bXu m 'T1 ^^rous tribes religion, then, will the ihinkinJ- -J dreamt of- 1 o which which, since the "Glorious era TH !,1t!nbulc ,Ir' rV,ls,Kr"'s desolated so many flourishing kiniJi, Reformation," have J wish not to be uncourteous to m rS-' so much unmerited obloquy is .i, y ,nen<ls around, but when majority of the Christian world [!" "u011 ,lle rell8,on ot 11,0 them to pause and examine at |V u Phoned for asking NTay, even to look around us where tl 11 e ,hey ,:ollde,nn Hud Infidelity stalking across the lanrl ll,dlfft'rer*is"1 Iront.than in this our own Pratesta, u-Wl, ,nore unblushing I am well aware some things nil ir"gland 7 fully, but time was wanting a.nd 1 was-!? ^fn treated of mor< much space in your valuable columns rai<l ot occupying too I am, Sir, your obedient servant JAMES KEALY.

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r.- F0RE1&N INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The Paris daily journal the Temps was sentenced in a most severe manner, on Saturday, by the sixth chamber 01 correctional police, not for any political offence but for an irregularity with regard to the registering of its pioprirtoiy and the deposit of its caution money. The tribunal 01. dered the suppression of the jou!nal, with a fine on tin gcranls, Messrs. Cost and Conil,of 102,300 francs. Should this sentence be confirmed on appeal to the superior court, the Temps must be given up, and the gerants must either pay the fine or submit to a year's impnsonment. We advance from step to step," exclaims the National "inthehinh road which leads to the destruction of the press. The court of correctional police pronounced a judgement on Saturday, which surpasses all that had been previously known. Perhaps it may be said that the court were impelled by a species of rage against the press. Bv c) no means. The court merely applied the minimum of the fine; they might have inflicted the penalty of 231,000f, and made the proprietors personally responsible for having been guilty of a mere informality." THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT VERSAILLES. On Friday week the funeral mass oidered by the Arch- bishop of Paris for the repose of the souls of the victims in the late accident was celebrated in all the churches. We learn that the unfortunate widow of Mr. George, the Englishman, engineer of the railway, who lost his life by the late terrific accident, has received a letter from the di- rectors of the railroad, expressive of their sympathy for her sad bereavement, and assuring her of a provision for life-an act of prompt and generous humanity which re- flects the highest honour upon the parties, and well merits i^eneral publicity. Men under the superintendence of police-officers have been employed in sifting the ashes at Meudon, and evety article thus obtained is carefully preserved. The opera- tion has produced fragments of linen, laces, and other parts of dresses, twenty gold rings, a considerable quantity of money in silver and gold, and parts of watches, chains, and ornaments; gloves, canes, umbrellas, and various other ■ Lings, which may, in many instances, be recognised as having belonged to sufferers. Already one gentleman has I found among these relics a chain and medallion which belonged to his young wife, to whom he had very recently been manied. One of the chief cleiks in the office of the Minister of Finances has ascertained the loss of a young person to whom he was affianced, by seeing among these remnants the case of a watch which he had presented to her. A mother has also found the fragment of a box, and a ring belonging to her only daughter, who went on Sun- day to Versailles with her cousin, but neither of whom has returned or been heard of. One of the most afflicting results of the late railroad accident is the case of M. Brioche, the meichant from Nantes. lie has lost both his legs and both his arms, and remains a mere trunk with the head upon it. In the en- deavours to draw him out of the fire, the hook of the pole which was used caught him by the mouth,which was dread- fully lacerated. Nevertheless, he has recovered his senses and his speech, and is able to give a relation of the horrors he has undergone. He was accompanied by the nephew of M. Sicard, a merchant of the Rue Thibeautodc, and a traveller of the house, who had arrived only three days be- fore from Nismes, both of whom were by his side, but pe- rished in the flames. In addition to the death of M. le Pontois, the advocate we have to announce the death of his own brother, a mer- chant of Lorient, M. Lemarie, jun., and his nephew, all of whom were together in the same wagggon, and perished in the flames. The only one of the party who escaped was Mademoiselle Lepontols, fourteen years of age. She was put out of the vehicle by some one, but whom she does not know. She was so much injured that her life was des- paired of, and it was not till Wednesday evening that she was able to speak and give any account of the frightful scene. She still fancies herself surrounded by her lost re- lations. The announcement of the death of Mile. Descottes, of the Theatre of the Folies-Dramatiques, was erroneous. She returned from Versailles by the ten o'clock train of the right bank.-Galigllani's Messenger The Left Bank Railroad resumed its services on Satur- day. Several ladies were in the engines. The following alterations had been made in trains.- 1. The discontinuance of the four-wheeled locomotives, and the use of the six-wheeled engines only. 2. The baggaue-waggons, usually placed behind the tiain are now placed between the engine and the passengers, and, independently of this precaution, an additional wag- gon, loaded with stones and sand-bags, follows the baggage one. 3. The speed has been slackened. 4. The doors of the carriages can now be opened by the passengers. MOST TRAGICAL EVENT.—M. Larochette, between 35 and 40 years of age, belonging to a family of weahh and consideration, formed an attachment to his niece, Made- moiselle B., between 17 and 18, and had formally de- manded her in marriage, but the parents objected to the alliance on several grounds; amongst which were near re- lationship, disparity of years, and a project of uniting their daughter to another person. On the 6th instant M. Laro- chette went to the house of Monsieur B., at Cluny, near Macon, in the Saone-et-Loire. He was gone to the fair 01 Sologny, but Madame B. was at breakfast with her daughter, her married sister Madame D., and her daugh- ter, Mademoiselle D. M. Larochette declined the invita- tion given him to partake of the meal, and at once entered on the subject of his proposal. On receiving an indirect refusal from both mo'her and daughter, M. Larochettt became infuriated, and seizing a knife stabbed Mademoi- selle B. in several places, and mortally wounded her and her mother, who went to her rescue. Mademoiselle D., also, in attempting to interpose, received a severe wound. The cries of distress called in the servants and some men from the vine-yards, but they were kept at bay by the des- peration of the assassin, until one of them stunned him by a blow on the head from a large stone which he threw at I him. While thus laid senseless,he was secured .disarmed, and delivered over to a party of gendarmes, who had been sent for. M. Larochette, since his arrest, has been per- ivfC j but has refused to answer any questions. Madame B. and her daughter are both dead. Mademoi- selle D. still survives, but is in great danger. AUSTRIA. A calamity similar to that of Hamburgh is announced to have befallen the Austrian town of Steijer, not far from Lintz, where 400 houses were consumed and three-fourths of the inhabitants, who were celebrated for their iron ma- nufactures, were left without shelter. CAMPAIGN IN AFFGHANISTAN. KYBER PASS. The following letter, which appears in a London con- temporary will engage much interest from all who devote attention to the stirring events in India:- I have some knowledge of the present Douranee kingdom, by which term I meau the countries of Cabul, the Damaun, the Derajat, and the territories eastward of the Ilelmuud, and if my knowledge will serve to explain some of the movements of the intended campaigns iu Aff. ghanistan, I shall be happy to occupy a short space in your columns. The last overland mail has brought intelligence that General Pollock did not intend to force the Kyber Pass (some your contemporaries had gratuitously added), until he has sufficient force to ensure success. Those who know the Douranee kingdom, and the countries bordering upon the Indus, are hoping that the forcing of the Pass will never again be attempted, until the countries both in flank and rear of the Passes shall be in the occupation of the British. If there be—as we think there is—a route by twhieh both the Bolan and Khyber Passes may be avoided, it is worse than needless to sacrifice inilitaiy re- sources and human life for the gain of a few days in time. The co-operation of the Sikhs of the Punjab clears away many difficulties; formerly, when Lord Auckland pro- posed to the Maha Rajah Rurijeet Sing that the British army, destined to place Shah Soojah upon the throne, should pass ihrouah his territories,the proposition was met by a cold assent, and as this coldness made it more than probable thatr we should convert a luke-wann friend into an open foe, anpther, but prolonged, route was chosen; but now that the Sikh routes and resources are at our dis- position, a different and moie speedy plan of operation must be adopted. We have at this lime a large force on the left bank of the Indus, and for our friend General Avi- lahlp, a noble-hearted Frenchman, of the Imperial army, who commands in Peshawur and the surrounding districts, and as he has hitherto assisted us, lie will now no doubt afford us all the aid we need; if this be so, General Pollock need not hazard a single company in the Kyber Pass. There are three routes by which the Kyber Pass may be avoided; one by a road which runs in a north-west direc- tion from Peshawur to Mucknee, crossing the Caubul river at about 30 miles from Peshawur, and keeping along the valley of the stream until you come at a point opposite the old fort, where the stream must be again ciossed, and the end of the pass, turned at Duke Khord and the Hu- zarnow. It is true, that for any route other than the Kybei, it will be necessary to bring boats for the transpotation of the heavy baggage and artillery from Attock, a distance of 80 miles; and that by the Mucknee route there is strong ground between the Kaffir fort and Bussoul,and that at this port there will be some hard fighting, and also that the movement cannot be effected in less time than one month. But what are these obstacles compared to the possibility of defeat ? The other routes, from the rfpo'ts of intelligent SokJ, officers at Peshawur, are only by the Tartaree Pass, and the other by crossing the river at Caubul, 20 miles above Peshawar, and using the valley of the Lundye to Hush- nugger, and then by the Cheeroppa pass to Lulpoora but this country is inhabited by the Eurofyzels, under the rule of the Rajah of Swat, and as they have never beet. subdued by the Sikhs, it is doubtful if they will tolerati any armed force in their country, without at least attempt- ing resistance. The Gilzees, Oolges, Caukers, and Kybe- rees, are like our ancient Highlanders, impatient of con- tioul. The Kyberees have several times defeated thi Sikhs, not that they are powerful or good sotdiera, but the country is the sliongest in the world. The route from In din is across the Indus at Attock, and from thence by wjr good ro?,d itrpMhawur, city ihai formerly belongeti >, — C4 to the Douranees, but which was wrctted from tlieui by the late Maha Rajah, and whose possession in it was con* firmed, together with some other conquests on the riflM haok of the Indus, by Lord Auckland,* in 1838-39. Fiom the city there is a good road over the plain, twelve miles to Jamrood two miles further the Kyber Pass be- sin!. Abmit sixteen miles up the pass is an old fort calknd A)t-Mu"het),and al Shopeca is the remains of a stone well, but neither the Kyberees nor their ancient masters havo erected any fortification that could resist an European force; the natural difficulties are the strongest barriers. Huge piles of almost perpendicular rocks, 2,000 feet high, rise upon each side of the pass; for several miles the road itself is hut the bed of a stream, which is so narrowed in some places that a single cannon only can pass; with large masses of broken cliff scattered over the widest part and last, but not least, the Kybtrees, armed with the jazils, a native rifle, fixed upon a rest, and which can carry nearly 800 yards, concealed in the crevices of the precipitous hdt-side. The British troops, Jbacked by artillery, cart force this pass, if defended by the united tribes of Aft. ghanistan; but is it wise to risk life and stores, when anol dier road, comparatively safe, lies open ? The late failure of Brigadier Wild arose from his not having sufficient light artillery. Those who have followed the operations of the French against the Guerilla bands in the Spanish peninsula have seen that the French were never successful but when their corps were supported by light mountain Runs; not that the Kyberees can be compared to the Spanish Guerillas, as they have no patriotic feeling to sti- mulate them to combal,-plunder alone urges them to fight and they are equally indifferent if their antagonist be Per- sian, Caubulle, Sikh, or European, so that the plunder be sufficient to reward the foray. If, as I have before written when we have occupied the rear and flank of the pass, we conquer the banditti who inhabit it, the Indian Government must not only build forts at the further and nether eftd of the pass, but they must erect field works on the create of the hills, to command the centre of the pass. The ne- cessity of erecting forts in all the passes was pointed out to the Anglo-Indian Government, but it was urged that our presence in the country would be but of short duration and that having placed Shah Soojah upon the throne, our mission would he accomplished and that the Indian Go". vernment were not justified in incurring the expense of I such extensive strongholds. This was a weak argument, for if the compaigns of 1839 were undertaken to defeat tlis designs of Russia, or to paralyse her supposed influence,, we should at once and for ever have taken away from her every power, both European a r d Asiatic, the means of shutting up the country, which in this land of mountains, those who possess the passes can easily accomplish. Great Britain has paid pretty smartly for this policy. Notwith- standing the vapouring of those semi informed writers who would have Great Britain inflict chastisement on the Affghans for their treachery, and then abandon th country, those who appreciate our position in Central Asia, and study coming events, know that Great Britain should for cver iiold the passes of Afghanistan and of the Himalay- as; those in our hands, we may laugh at the dreams of Russian statesmen, and the armies of the Autocrat, or the wild tribes of Khorasin, excited by the intrigues or gold of any Power in the world, should they menace t ur Indian empire. We may, holdiug the passes, allow these artuie*. or these hordes to perish either by starvation or disunion, and calmly defy all their attempts at onward march. The lesson of the past will not be lost upon us. We have suf- fered temporary disaster; but we are not yet in retreat. "The ftowning sierras of Spain were never barriers 10 British valour. The heroes, of Marengo, Jena, and Aus- terlitz, backed by the most skilful artillery in the wodd, could not delay the onvard stride of England's legion- and shall a band of fierce barbarians stay the onward course of British civilisation in India? No Sir the British lion has been stung by a hornet in his slumber, but the insect will be crushed in the first launch of his avenging aDler, YOUlS, &c., AN ANGLO-ASIATIC." Treaty with the Maha Rajah.

DOMESTIC NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.—The demand for InoneY has subsided as suddenly as it sprung up; and it can now be procured at the rate of 2! to 31 per cent, per annum* Funds firm. Some hopes of improvement at Manchester are appear- ing; the quantity of stock on hand is so small that Ileo orders will have to be manufactured. Little news in the French papers. The suppress!0" 0 the Temps, by the government is banding the press it. The Temps was ihe first papei that fanned the flame of July, 1830. The farmers have presented a fine piece of plate to the'r friend" the Duke of Buckingham. A conditional order for a criminal information has bee" granted against the proprietor of the Packet, an Oraoge paper, in Dublin, for a libel on a Catholic Clergyman. THE EXECUTION OF THE MURDERER GOOD.-rdr. Al- derman and Sheriff Magnay has had an interview with the Secretary of State for the Home Department, relative to the execution of this enormous criminal. We understa" that it was deemed right, in his case, to abridge the 1'°^ usually allowed between the sentence and execution; *D Monday next, the 23rd inslant, is fixed as the period his life will be sacrificed as the penalty of his crimf* leaving the Home Office, the worthy sheriff proceeded Newgate, and, in company with the ordinary, visited convict, to whom lie communicated the intell»gen^ Good, without appearing moved, affected a disbelief the period fixed was so short, and intimated a that the sheriff was practising on his courage by the rep £ sentation he had made. Mr. Sheriff Magnay replied tn it was no part of his wish to make any such but that it was a part of his painful duty to communis to persons in lhe crimimaPs situation, the knowledge of day on which the sentence of the law would be execul upon them. Good seemed convinced of the fact, bo1 re" mained unmoved. He adheres to the statement made 0 his trial, notwithstanding the inconsistencies and c°nt|#9 dictions with which it abounds; and, judging from present demeanour, it appears likely that he will of the world with the same hardened indifference hot ilie crime and to its conseqnences, by which his cono has been hitherto characterised. THE HIGHBURY MURDEK.—Thomas Cooper, whom the grand jury at the Central Criminal Coufl» .y turned a bill for the mutder of the policeman, Daly, was on Friday last placed at the bar, when tion was made by his counsel for a postponement trial. The application was granted by the court, an trial was consequently postponed till next sessions. probability,a second bill for murder will be preferred » sessions, as the baker, Mott, who was wounded shoulder by the ruffian, Cooper, is since dead. ff( SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR "ROBERT KER t'oltTFFt-- distinguished painter was brother to Dr. Porter, a» e' nent physician, at Bristol, and his sisters are the two e^f brated novellists of lhe same name. Sir Robert wraS jgfl Charge d'Affaires at the Carraccas; he married a Princess, by whom he had one daughter; she 'es"!eS|jrjj' her maternal relatives,at St. Petersburg. He was in tol three or four months ago, to see his relatives there¡ tbe also the Gieat Britain, steam-ship. His paintings 0^g(ff Battle of Agincourt, now in the Mansion-house, ^°D ,ain and the very large picture of the Siege of Sering»R will imortalue his name as a painter. On the 3rd 01 month he paid a visit to the Emperor of R«ss,3,slld- on his relurn from the Imperial Palace was takcn. denly ill in his carriage, and died a few hours after o plexy.. "lice, THE QULEN'S MASQUE.—It is a gratifying circu1 j|Sp!»y t disp that notwithstanding the unprecedently magnificent be joic of diamonds and jewellery which took place at the arc Cs splendid entertainment of her Majesty, very few sustained, and those were generally of articles of value. The only loss of any moment was by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, from the B # whose gorgeous dress is supposed to have > luable brilliant of the first magnitude. THE CONFLAGRATION AT HAMBURG.— The 9uee^f Ilic I her usual sympathy and feeling for the suffcr»t,&s«.e}jrS- distressed, has ordered £ 200. to be transmitted Coutts and Co. in aid of the fund for the y po'' | Hamburghers deprived of their homes and all |ia* sessed by the recent calamitous fire. Prince sent i, 100. for the same benevolent object. i.0usan ibus deprived of shelter is estimated at thirty tn Ten thousand pounds was sent over in dollars and by the steamer, subscribed by some public co^'P merchants, bankers, and others in the course of &o0- after the news of the catastrophe was known in I'0 reve"1 There exists in some parts of Germany alaW toP<( drinking during divine service. It runs thus <•" person drinking in an ale-house, during Divine ,ut Sunday, or any other holyday, may legally depar* paying • hbotf*irt!! The Stamford Mercury states that in a j u°' town, a number of methodist servants have gin'1 lice from Church of England employers, thatA.Jghai#1* either quit or discontinue attending chapel.—' Herald. The corporation of the Trinity House have ment on the 23rd, inSt., when the Duke of '• Sir R. Peel, &c., will honour the banquet with sence. je(J The Hibernian Society of United Irishmen Par city on Whit Monday as usual, and made a wnh their handsome banners,and smart sashes an ^el of their favourite national colour. In the a^e.rn-j0g dined at St. John Porter-house, and spent 4 p'ea convivial evening.— Bristol Gazette. Thfl scbo°flC EXTRAORDINARY SAW ING PASSAGE.— VDa>t Kate, Richard Bragg, master, left this port at ,,a "j(j, a o'clock, A.M., on the 30th of April last, laden d•Oj cargo, arrived at Cork at eight o'clock, *•#*•' °tao,s9'1^ ollowing, discharged, took in another f"" rom Cork, at eight o'clock, A.M., and arrived a ind Basin, at three o'clock, P.M., on the efot^ 0( passage of nearly 600 miles (afier deducting •in) rjod charging and loading), in the almost incredible p 54 J hours.— Bristol Times. Oltt .f A clock maker of Chalons, M. Rabit, has ta #tft patent for B new clock, which winds itself «P 1 imp|#»' riking. The mechanism is said to be (use wjw CIQGITS can a low pnc*' (use wjw CIQGITS can foi4 ;It a low pnc*' f I