who maintain that Christianity is compatible in Catholic Europe only the alternatives of with any form of material civilization. To abject obedience or hostility, and Europe, such men, the only men who stand between unable to obey without discretion, accepts them and the materialists, and the only the alternative. It is not with pleasure but teachers who might in the last resort teach with pain that we record a growing doubt the masses that no dogma can produce hun- whether M. de Montalembert is not in the ger, that freedom is consistent with belief right, whether, if Rome does not change in the Real Presence, and that the unity of her policy, Europe may not see an explothe Church does not increase the conscrip- sion of irreligion, or fanatical hatred to retion, the Ultramontanes, constrained by ligion of every kind, false and true alike, Rome, impelled by fear for themselves, which will make the last quarter of this driven by terror for the future of mankind, century the darkest through which modern offer the Syllabus, under penalty of being man has passed. We like not Catholicism, considered foes like the Voltairians and the with its sarcerdotal claims, or UltramontanMaterialists. Naturally, the intellectual ism, with its machine-like obedience; but Catholics and the laity refuse, being unable either is better, Hindooism is better, we to deny what they see-that civilization is had almost written Fetichism is better, than good; and the Church is really reduced to the foul creed which Papal madness is what its enemies call it, a corporation hos- establishing, the creed which has for solitile to society, and as such, in the judgment itary profession the dogma, “Sugar is of those enemies, to be écrasée, razed off sweet." the ground it cumbers. The Church offers MR. HENRY C. WILLISTON, connected with | liston met with an accident by which he became the staff of this paper, died yesterday, in Brook-partially paralyzed, and from which he had been lyn, at the age of forty years. Mr. Williston a great but an uncomplaining sufferer to the day was a native of Syracuse, and when a child of his death. A few years since he received a came to this city with his father, who was pro- minor appointment in the Custom House of this prietor of the Merchants' Hotel, in Pearl street, city, where he won the esteem of all his assoand subsequently of the York House, in Cort-ciates by his assiduity, kindness of heart, and landt street, and of a hotel at Shrewsbury. Mr. Williston was educated at Professor Anthon's school, where he was a thoughtful and careful student. He early turned his attention to journalism, and was not only a writer, but a practical printer, having been a compositor in the Tribune office. Some years ago he traveled extensively in Mexico, California, and on the Pacific Coast. He was the actual working editor of the paper in San Francisco conducted by James King, of William, whose death at the hands of ruffians resulted in the Vigilance Committee, the execution and expulsion of much of the rascality in California, and the consequent purification of the State. While living in California Mr. Wil fidelity. A year ago he was engaged upon the staff of this paper as the writer of "Timely Themes," a department which he sustained with much quiet humor, frequent flashes of rare wit, conscientious criticism, versatile knowledge, accurate thought, and elegance of style. He was the most amiable and equably poised of men, of a sensitive nature, patient, and thoughtful. He won the warm affection of all his associates, and the regard of all who knew him. Living with a married sister, he had a pleasant home, in which his kindly nature had full exercise, and which his departure has shrouded with profoundest sorrow. Com. Adv., 18 June. JUST PUBLISHED AT THIS OFFICE : LINDA TRESSEL, by the Author of Nina Balatka. Price 38 cts. ALL FOR GREED, by the BARONESS BLAZE DE BURY. Price 38 cts. PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION AT THIS OFFICE: THE BRAMLEIGHS OF BISHOP'S FOLLY, by CHARLES LEVER. FOR EIGHT DOLLARS, remitted directly to the Publishers, the LIVING AGE will be punctually for- to pay commission for forwarding the money. Price of the First Series, in Cloth, 36 volumes, 90 dollars. From The London Times, July 3. WELCOME to England, thou whose strains prolong On hearths as sacred as thine own, here stands Here thou wilt find, where'er thy footsteps roam, strife Than the sweet clarion of thy Psalm of Life? The mimic contest where most yield thee place. Which haunted hostel lures more guests within, Hawthorne's Seven Gables or the Wayside Inn? Turning thy pictured page, what varying dyes Shine through each latticed margin's new surprise! Here the swart Blacksmith, smirched with grime and tan, Tears in his eyes, yet every inch a man. din, So large thy sympathies, thy hand can trace Thou who hast sung, as none but thou couldst sing, Thou who around with affluent hand hast The tender legend of the Angel-King: In the tongue of the mother-land. Your lyrics are loved of the household, That knows no Academy's law: — One hand's warm pressure is better Than a whole world's distant awe. It's cold in the clear blue ether, That the king of the eagles achieves :— But the swallows have endless summer, And build close under our eaves. And the voices that bid you welcome Are many, and tender, and trueThey'd not shout for the best of the poets As loud as they're hailing you! Come to the homes of the people, Where your household words are dear; There's seldom a poet has sung them Such lyrics of courage and cheer. The poet who taught "Resignation," Aye, let Universities seat you In Temples of Honours and Arts:The people of England, Sir, greet you, And open the doors of their hearts. Fun. From The Christian Remembrancer. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. By FRANCIS PARKMAN. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1867. |thriftless, he lives happy in the midst of a poverty which would urge the English settler on to redoubled labour, and is content if he can have his Sunday dance, and his nightly carouse. The French colonist in Canada presented a sharp contrast to the THE contrast between English and French colonization is striking. The English settler applies himself to toil with a conscious-stern Puritan settler in New England. The ness that it is the lot of Adam's sons to eat latter bent over his spade and plough, with their bread in the sweat of their brow, and gloomy brow and dogged determination. with a love of the toil which is his heritage. England was no land for which he could He has no liking for idleness, no passion sigh; the wilderness was to be his home, for pleasure; his object in life is subsistence, and he resolved to cut and trim the wilderand, if he can fill his mouth, and support a ness to suit his quaker tastes. The Canafamily, he cares not what labour it may cost dian, on the other hand, cared little for the him. He applies himself at once to till the soil. He roved the forests after game; ground; agriculture is at once his labour consorting with Indians, learning their arts, and his delight. The never ungrateful forgetting his own; acquiring their barbaearth becomes more productive the longer rism, shaking off his own civilization; dartit is tilled. The settler's cabin is replaced ing with them in canoes over the milky foam by a substantial farm, round which cluster of the rapid; stalking the moose with them cottages, and stores are opened for trade. on mocassined feet amongst the snows of The hamlet becomes a village, and the vil-winter, trapping the wolverine; spreading lage grows into a town. From each small his bearskin in a lodge of an Indian vilcentre fresh germs of civilization are cast lage; flinging himself into the habits, purforth, and the work of advance progresses neither slowly nor insecurely. It is like the march of a disciplined army through a hostile country. It has its basis of operations; it sends out skirmishers, it levels obstacles, cuts down forests, fills ravines which may harbour foes, then throws forward a wing to occupy some advantageous point, without breaking the chain of interconnexion with the centre of the force. Presently the whole body is brought up in line with the wing, again to throw out feelers, and grasp vantage grounds, and again, having cleared the area before it, to move bodily forward. It was thus that England colonized North America. There was no one directing genius to regulate and systematize the movement, but Englishmen learn by experience, and are guided by their apprehension of what is reasonable. The French settler is a man of different calibre; he is not fond of toil: if he labours, it is that he may enjoy himself afterwards; he does not resolve to make his home in the new land which he treads, but regards himself as an exile, and sighs over his toil for the charms of la belle France. His tastes are not for tillage; the chase and war are more congenial pursuits. Careless and suits, superstitions and license of his savage companions. Thus the Frenchman failed to establish himself on the continent of America, whilst the English Puritan was rooting himself ineradicably in the new soil. Canada was the true child of France and the Church. The Cross of Christ and the lilies of the Bourbon were planted there side by side. The priest and the soldier, the settler and the nun, went forth together to the wilderness. Feebly rooted in the soil, she thrust out branches which overshadowed half America; a magnificent object to the eye, but one which the first whirlwind would prostrate in the dust.' Canada offered no inducement to French colonists of energy. The Huguenots would gladly have hurried there to exercise their religion in freedom, but the ports were closed to them. It was only offered to the Catholic and the Royalist, and for such there was many an opening in the mother country. Consequently, those who went forth to the new world were those who had wasted their substance in the old land, thriftless and improvident, and most unlikely to effect a permanent settlement in another, or they were soldiers sent to guard the forts, and priests to convert the heathen. So thoroughly had the task of coloniza tion failed, that it would probably have been abandoned, had not the hope of dispelling the darkness of heathendom in those trackless forests, by the pure light of the Faith, taken possession of the imagination and religious enthusiasm of France. Champlain, the founder of Quebec, a brave soldier, a statesman, and a devout Christian, had said: The saving of one soul is worth more than the conquest of an empire; and, to forward the work of conversion, he brought with him from France four monks of the order of St. Francis. sailed together on the 18th of April. The vessel encountered many storms, and the missionaries were very sea-sick. At length they came in sight of that miserable country,' as Le Jeune calls the scene of his future labours. It was in the harbour of Tadoussac that he first saw the objects of his apostolic cares; for, as he sat in the ship's cabin with the master, it was suddenly invaded by a dozen Indians, whom he compares to maskers at the Carnival. Some had their cheeks painted black, their noses blue, and the rest of their faces red. Others were decorated with a broad band of black across the eyes; and others, again, with diverging rays of black, blue, and red on both cheeks. It was with the Jesuits that the glory of the conversion of the Indians of Canada rests. The history of their mission is strange, instructive, and interesting. It presents to us a picture of the wondrous On the 5th of July, Le Jeune reached power of faith, impelling men to endure all, Quebec, and settled himself and his companrenounce all, in the ardour of their devotion ions in two hovels on the S. Charles. The to a cause. But above all is it marvellous, Jesuit at once set himself to learn the Inas exhibiting an instance of the mysterious dian language. Winter closed in. The ways of Providence, which are past man's S. Lawrence was hard frozen. Rivers, finding out. The Jesuit scheme, had it forests, and rocks were mantled alike in succeeded, would have rescued the North dazzling sheets of snow. The humble misAmerican Indian from annihilation. It sion house of Notre-Dame des Anges was aimed at distributing communities of Chris- half buried in the drifts, which rose two tianized natives through the valleys of the feet above the low eaves. The priests, sitGreat Lakes and the Mississippi, ruled by ting by night before the blazing logs of priests in the interest of Catholicity and of their wide throated chimney, heard the France; it desired to break them of their trees in the neighbouring forest cracking nomadic habits and their instincts of mutual with frost, with a sound like the report of slaughter, and to develop their habits of a pistol. Le Jeune's ink froze, and his agriculture and trade. The decline of In- fingers were benumbed, as he toiled at dian population would have been arrested; his declensions and conjugations, and transundecimated by internecine war it would lated the Lord's Prayer into blundering have put forth a vigorous growth, and Can- Algonquin. An Indian made the missionary ada would have been the seat of a great a present of two small children, and he at native Christian people in close alliance with once set himself to teach them Christian France, whilst as yet the colonies of England doctrine. As the season grew milder, the were but a weak and broken line along the number of his scholars increased, for Le shore of the Atlantic. Great and noble as Jeune would stand in his door and ring a was this scheme, not from a Christian point bell, a signal to all children that after a lesof view alone, but from a philanthropic son in the Creed, the Pater, and the sign point as well, it was destined to failure, and of the Cross, they were to be rewarded with that from an unforeseen cause. a porringer of peas. In 1632, Paul Le Jeune, a Jesuit father, received the command to embark for the New World. He was in his convent at Dieppe when the order reached him, and he started, filled, as he assures us, with inexpressible joy at the prospect of a living or a dying martyrdom. At Rouen he was joined by De Noue and by a lay brother, and they In May, Champlain arrived to take the command of Quebec, bringing with him four more Jesuits, Brébeuf, Masse, Daniel, and Davost. In October, Le Jeune, determined to obtain proficiency in the Algonquin tongue, started with a band of Indians to spend the winter with them in the forest. Without following his adventures with the |