including a bookshelf, and a swinging lamp. They were at breakfast in the gunroom at the time, and in a moment officers, teacups, lumps of butter, servants, and red herrings were all floundering together on the deck in three feet of water, and it was some minutes before the ship recovered herself from the shock. Eating our meals was a violent gymnastic exercise; and, as to writing, it was out of the question. Ten days of this work brought us up to the north point of New Zealand, and it took three more to beat down the east coast to Auckland, where we arrived on the 25th ult., after the longest sea voyage we have made since our first arrival from England. We remained at Auckland for nineteen days. We sailed from Auckland on the 12th of the present month, and have been fighting with head winds ever since, with the exception of two days, when the wind favoured us for a few hours, and, therefore, though we are nine days out, we have only advanced 400 miles, and are still 700 from Sydney. The day before yesterday we encountered a most extraordinary danger-one that few ships have ever witnessed; that is, we were caught in a water-spout. The day had been very squally, and we had been compelled to take in sail several times, and, therefore, we who were below were not surprised to find the ship heel gradually over; but when she went further, and the deck became almost perpendicular, we could see that something happened beyond the common order of squalls, and I felt a sort of faint, sick feeling of anticipation and vague dread that almost stifled the prayer that rose to my lips. The suspense was horrid, and the dread of being strangled below by the rush of water gave me strength, and I climbed over the others and managed to reach the deck. There everything was in confusion, and no one was giving any intelligible orders, and the ship was lying over on her broadside, with all of one side buried in the water, ropes and sails flapping about, and men standing aghast, with despair in their faces. I noticed one man in particular, who was sitting on the deck, seemingly in a state of utter idiotcy, with his hands clenched and his face livid, deaf to all that was passing around him. The sight of so much anarchy restored my self-possession, and I began to drive the men to the ropes to haul down the after sails, and after a couple of minutes' work the ship slowly righted. The captain's gig was stove in by the water, and

the davits (strong carved pillars of iron, as thick as my leg) had been bent double by the pressure. It seems that a whirling mass of water had been suddenly seen near the ship, and before anything could be done it was upon her, bearing her down, and whisking her round and under water, while the whirlwind by which it was, of course, accompanied and caused, pressed her over by the sails and increased the danger. It was indeed a fearful minute, and nothing but God's hand could have saved us, for man was utterly powerless against the tremendous manifestations of our Creator's might. As soon as I could get by myself, I returned Him thanks for mercifully sparing myself and my shipmates, and saving us in our hour of extreme peril. This was really a very uncommon adventure, for, though ships frequently see waterspouts, it does not happen once in 500 times that it strikes a vessel.

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WE were agreeably surprised the other day, in looking over the debates, in the Morning Herald, on the peace question in parliament, to find our opinions corroborated by Mr. Gladstone and Lord John Russell. We have long been of opinion, and have never hesitated to express our opinion, that the system of the Church of Rome is the most demoralising and immoral that ever existed in the world. looking throughout all history, there has scarcely been a great crime committed, or a conspiracy against governments, since the first rise of Popery in seventh century, but a Popish priest has been at the top, the bottom, or the middle of it; the truth of which is exemplified in a third edition of a small work, called the 'Spirit of the Church of Rome,' recently published by Harrison, Pall Mall. But what we have at present to do, is to shew the opinions of these statesmen, whose political leanings have hitherto been favourable to the miscreancy of that Church, which has so frequently punished them both, in that same house where they delivered the following opinions. In reviewing the chief features of the recent settlement of Europe, Lord John said :—

'I found the condition of the people in the Roman Lega

tions was such as I could hardly have conceived. The police having a suspicion of any man, however respectable or of whatever rank, seized him, placed him in a filthy dungeon, where they kept him for months, and, when asked, they refused to grant him a fair trial; but at last tell him that they are convinced that there is nothing against him, and therefore they let him go. They let him out in a place where he had no home, and no means of following his profession, where he was subjected to a variety of restrictions, such as not being out after eight, and of not speaking to any suspected person. When he asks who are the suspected persons, he is told 'You know better than we who are suspected, but you must not speak to them' (hear, and laughter). This is not only a tyranny over those unfortunate persons, but it is an oppressive atmosphere for all whom it encompasses (hear, hear). It must destroy the whole enjoyment of life, especially to men who, like the Italians, are quick in idea, sensitive in feeling, endowed with great imaginations, and aspiring to live under good government; to such, a tyranny of this kind must be quite intolerable (hear).'

These are matters of fact of which his lordship is personally cognisant; but which he is only now able, when out of office, to declare in public.

Mr. Gladstone's opinion, however, carries more weight, and is much more worthy of being accepted; for he enunciates both a great fact, and also an opinion founded, not only on that fact, but on his experience whilst travelling in the Roman and Neapolitan States. But more than that, he puts the saddle on the right horse, and traces out the causes of this horrible state of things; nevertheless, he does not go far enough, for we beg, with all modesty, to enunciate another great fact, for the truth of which we have the infallible word of God; although it may certainly be new to Lord John, peradventure to Mr. Gladstone, and possibly to the Apostle Drummond; and it is this, that the devil gave the Pope, who is, in conjunction with his clergy, the False Prophet, 'his power, and his seat, and great authority;' and as that same dragon, has but a short time now, in which he can play his pranks, commit his murders, and tell his lies, for he was a murderer and a liar from the beginning of the world, 'he hath great wrath; because he knoweth that he hath but a

short time' to exist at liberty, before he shall be chained up for a thousand years, that he may not deceive the nations. Accordingly, Mr. Gladstone traced out in few words the cause of this horrible state of things in the Papal States, as follows:

"That Papal Government which Mr. Bowyer represents as a Government favourable to happiness and to national freedom, I believe to be not only bad, but incurably bad (cheers). And that is the real distinction between the case of the Papal Government and that of other Governments, whose institutions, whose laws, or whose actual policy, for the moment, may be bad. There is nothing in the nature or character of the latter which renders it impossible to reform them; there is no principle involved in their constitution which is of an inflexible and unchangeable character, and which may not give way to the demands of civilisation. But a system which establishes a clèrical caste, itself appointed and founded for quite other purposes, viz., sacred and spiritual purposes, which takes that clerical class from its own proper sphere, and makes it, now that it has ceased to be superior to other classes in general literature and mental attainments, the master of the temporal concerns of 3,000,000 of men— let the hon. and learned gentleman rely upon it that not all the speeches that can be delivered here or elsewhere, can ever prove that there is even the hope of a cure for such an evil. (loud cheers).'

So far two sober members of the Church of England; but we have also the just and well matured opinion of Mr. Drummond, the member for East Surrey, expressed also in his place in parliament. Mr. Drummond is the Pope's rival in a small way; for he calls himself the head of the 'holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,' which is altogether a distinct and separate Catholic Church, from that over which Pius IX. calls himself the sovereign pontiff. He says, most truly:-Mr. Speaker, Sir,-'You may rely upon it that the dominancy of the ecclesiastical power has been the secret of all the corruptions of Christendom, from the earliest times down to the present day.' Although Mr. Drummond's opinion may proceed from a not unnatural jealousy of a more ancient and far-descended rival; yet, it is not to be despised, inasmuch as with all his crotchets, Mr. Drummond is not with

out the feelings and predelections of an Englishman, and in parliamentary debates, he often hits the right nail on the head.

The know-nothing party in the United States have begun to find out that the Romish priesthood is the secret cause of much of the mischief that happens there; and it would be well if their society were extended to Canada, for there we find that a complete tragedy, in five acts, has just been enacted in Quebec, constructed after the most approved Popish models:

I. A few weeks since a Protestant was murdered in a most brutal and fiendish manner by a gang of Irish Romanists, at a place called St. Sylvester, in the neighbourhood of Quebec. A case more horrible and revolting in all its circumstances could not be found in the bloody annals of the 'Irish Aceldama.'

II. The perpetrators of the crime were arrested and tried in Quebec. The clearest and most conclusive evidence proved the guilt of the accused.

III. The Judge, however, throughout the case acted in the most unrighteous manner, altering the testimony in his charge to the jury, and laying down false principles of law.

IV. The jury, of French and Irish Romanists, acquitted the prisoners; and the murderers departed from the courthouse in a triumphal procession, with banners flying.

V. The case was brought before the Canadian parliament, by a motion for an address to the governor, praying for an inquiry. The Ministers opposed this motion, but were beaten. They then neglected to present the address to the governor. A fresh conflict was commencing, when the Ministry succumbed, promised to present the address to the governor, and to institute an inquiry. And so the matter stood when the last advices came away.

In addition to facts of the most revolting nature, which are patent to everybody, we now have the authority of two eminent statesmens' opinions, long concealed and now unwillingly given, that the Popish priesthood is the incarnation of all evil, the moving cause of all rebellion, murder, and robbery, and the perversion of justice. Mr. Spooner has laid the axe to the root of the tree, in attacking Maynooth, where a Protestant people pay for the maintenance and edu