CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.

A memorial from a number of members of 'the Church of Englandsd- dressed to 'Lord Derby has been published, setting forth what in the view of the •dignatOries•is the duty Of the English Government in India tonal- ing Christianity. Admitting that much that was objectionable has bete abolished they regret that usages inhuman or disgusting still take place, and that certain heathen festivals are observed as holidays in our coati of justice and public offices. They suggest that in future no eleoPiadi on' duties voluntarilyLunk ,ehettid he allowed ,on. the plea of cote. They point out that the overnment has undermined the religion, of the natives without previding a substitute.

That Government should not assume the ftmetion ,of the missionary or the part of the religious teacher—that they should, tate no step to pro- act

,A.,e the natives—your memorialists are fully persuaded. By if Govern- ment to communicate to the natives the knowledge which will raise 7,10 iii the soda' scale, they mast net exclude that instrmeent which; as -periante proves, is the Only effective agent of Moral elevation. Not to o r to the native the opportunity of becoming-acquainted with the truths of Christianity, while the Government lute, by its schools,, shaken his belief in his own religious system, is virtually to interpose a new and most for- midable obstacle to his moral pregress. Your memorialists would therefore suggest that the best mode of. meeting the difficulties of the question is by the stem already partiallyintroduced. into India, which ought to be more extended--that of giving grants in aid 'to any school which secures to children a specified amount of secular knowledge ; and, further, that in erery school maintained by Government the opportunity of Christian in- struction should be offered to all who choose to profit by it, on the system which has been so snceessfullyearried out in the Crown colony of Ceylon." . , parliament has been further aworegued until Thursday the 13th; day of January. It is not stated that it will then meet for despatch of business. The Prince of Wales'eniblirked at Dover on WednesdaY, in the Black Eagle, on his way to visit his Sister at Berlin. A large•eeowd had as- sembled in spite of the bitter' nor:-Caster blowing, and they lustily cheered the heir apparent to the British throne. The Honourable FiedericleBruce, brother of Lord Elgin, who acted as secretary to him during his embassy tin China, and brought home the treaty of Tiensin; has been appointed the first Ambassador to Pekin under the provisions of the treaty. ' Mr. Bruce was attached to the late lord Ashburton's special mission to Washington in 184'2, was Colonial Secretary in Iforigkong from 1844 to 1816, was appointed Consul-Gerie- sal in China in 1847, Charg6 d'Affaires in Bolivia in 1848, at Monte- video in 1851, and Consul-General in Egypt in 1853.

The names of the medical men appointed by the Crown to the Medical Council of Education and Registration have appeared in the Gazette. They are followed by an announcement from Mr. S,ecretary Walpole that the first meeting of the Council will be held on the 23d November in the hall of the College of Physicians.

A number of officers, chiefly of the East India Company's late army, have received the order of the 'Bath. There is one Alight Commander, Colonel John Jones of the 60th Rifles, who saw much service before Delhi, and commanded the cohunn that, moving from Moradabad, co- operated with Sir Colin Campbell in the capture of Bareilly. There are many Companions of the. Bath. Of the Queen's troops—Colonel Henry Richmond Jones, 6th Dragoon Guards ; Lieutenant-Colonel John Hinde, 8th Regiment ; Lieutenant- Colonel Francis Roger Palmer, 60th Regiment.

Of the Company's late army—Colonel Francis Roweroft, 8th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry ; Colonel East Apthorp, 3d Madras European Regi- ment; Lieutenant-Colonel John Byng, 6th Regiment of Madras Light Ca- valry; Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Thomas Wilde, 19th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry ; Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Taylor, Bengal Engineers; Major Charles Henry Barchard, 20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry ; Major George Moir, Bengal Artillery; Major William Alexander Mackin- non, Bengal Artillery ; Major Andiew William Macintire, Madras Artil- lery; Major Joseph Iletcher Richardson, 49th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry ; Charles Scott, Esq., M.D. Surgeon-Major, late of the 32d Regi- ment; John Barrie Ter Inns, E.94., Surgeon, ;60th Regiment ; William James Tyrone Power, Ewe, Deputy Commissary-General ; William Brydon, Esq., Surgeon, on the Bengal establishment of her Majesty's Indian Mili- tary Forces; John Henry Orr, Esq., Surgeon, on the Madras establishment of her Majesty's Indian Military 1 orees ; John Campbell, Esq., M.D., Sur- geon, on the Bengal establishment of her Majesty's Indian Military Forces ; George Mathieson Ogilvie, Esq., M.D. Surgeon, on the Bombay establish- ment of her Majesty's Indian Military Forces.

The Queen has conferred the honour of Knighthood upon Colonel Etienne Pascal Taehe of Montgomery, Canada.

The scheme of colonizing the Cape frontier with-the German Legiona- ries may be considered to have fallen through, for they have been asked to volunteer for service in India or elsewhere. Terms liberal, as no doubt our own native-born soldiers will say. They are these- " They are to consider themselves engaged for ten years certain, and will enjoy the same privileges and emoluments as the British soldiers as regards pay,. rations, pensions for wounds, promotion, rewards for good conduct, and meritorious service, with half-pay after a certain number of years. In ad- dition to this they are to receive a gratuity of a sovereign on signing the contract, are to have a free kit and equipment, and will be entitled, at the expiration of their time of servitude, to a free passage to the Cape of Good Hope from wherever they may happen to be when they obtain their dis- charge, and will then receive moreover a free grant of house and land from amongst those at the disposal of the government.

The reply of the Northumberland farmers to the inquiries of the French Government touching the effects of free trade has been made public. From this it appears that the area of cultivation has been dimi- nished to make way for live stock, but that by drainage the area in low-lying lands is increased, while the diminution has been more than compensated by the extension of drainage and the use of manures. The yield of cultivated lands has increased ; great improvements have been Made ; rents have risen ; the marketable value of land has increased ; and the consumption of bread and meat in the country has greatly in- creased. Improvement has been most rapid and important since the Com-laws were repealed.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, having received her Majesty's approval, has conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr. Henry John Brownrige, C.B., Inspector-General of the Irish constabulary. Lord Palmerston's journey to Compiegne prevented him from presiding over the annual meeting of the Romney Labourers' Encouragement Associa- tion. Mr. William Cowper did duty for him.

It was erroneously stated that Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., was present at the Guildhall banquet last week. Mr. Mime was unable to attend it oaring to a severe domestic affliction. The Duke of Malakoff made a figure in the hunting field last week. At- 1.„Ired. as beseems a fox-hunter he rode with the Oakley hounds. The Duchess of Malakoff drove to the meet with the Duchess of Manchester. The trophy of the hunt, the brush, was presented to the Duchess of MAW. koff by Ceptain Arkerright,

Sir John ?Airington has advanced Dr. William Richard Edwin Smart to the rank 'of deputy inspector of hospitals, the promotion to date from Septi 17, 1858, the date of the promotion of Dr, Burn and Dr. Anderson to the respective ranks of inspector and deputy-inspector of hospitals, for services during the late war with China. Dr. Smart throughout the Chinese war has been staff-surgeon of the hospital ship at Hong-kong.

The Gazette d' Augsbourg announces that the King and Queen of Prussia will leave Meran on the 16th for Florence.

Prince C. Putiatino, Vice-Admiral, and Russian Ambassador in China, who lately concluded a treaty of cemmeree with the Emperor of Japan, and Count Peschouref, the bearer of despatches from China and Japan for St. Petersburg, arrived on Saturday at Marseilles. The Prince proceeded to Paris to be presented to the Emperor at Compiegne.

The Emperor and Empress of Austria amved at Prague on the 11th, and were to inaugurate the monument of Radeteky on the following day. The King of Saxony was expected in that city.

The Duchess Regent of Parma and the young duke arrived at Pontemoli on the 9th. They were well received by the population, and the town W86 illuminated in the evening.

M. Edgar Quinet, the well-known political refugee, has, after residing in Belgium and England,• definitively taken up his residence in the canton d Geneva.

Dr. Francis Leiber, editor of the "American Encyclopiedia," and authee of many valuable works, lies lately been driven from South Carolina be- cause of an anti-slavery article he published fifteen or twenty years ego iu the "Encyclopwdia." He has long been professor of political economy and moral science m a South Carolina College, but the chivalry of the Palmetto State could not endure such a dangerous nuns, and he was compelled to leave. Columbia College has had the sagacity to elect Dr. Lciber to a pro- fessorship.

The Dutch journals announce that the Pope has issued a bull excommuni- cating M. Loos,' who has just been elected Archbishop of Utrecht, and all who by their acts, counsel, or approbation, took part in his election. The cause of this excommunication is that the Archbishop is a Jansenist.

The Reverend William Goode and Mr. Thonias Winkworth, two of the trustees of the Gourrier Paris Church Fund, had a preliminary interview with Mr. G. A. Hamilton on Monday, at the Treasury respecting the appli- cation of it towards the purchase of the chapel in Rue d'Aguesseau, under the Consular Act, and the endowment of a service in the French language for the use of Church of England Anglo-French residents in that city.

Mr. Montgomery Stuart, whose lectures on Italian literature attracted much notice in the summer, began on Wednesday a course of lectures on the " Philosophy of Shakspere," beginning with Die Teonpest. The object of his teaching is to make the public acquainted not so much with Shalt- spire himself as with the German critics who have illustrated him with their comments. However, Mr. Stuart is not the mere mouthpiece of Ger- man inspiration. Inquiring for himself, he shrewdly asks why Prospero can only perform his supernatural practices in the absence of political- duties. Have we here an adumbration of the antagonism between spiritual and temporal power that belonged to the age of Elizabeth, just as in the Utopia projected by old Gonzalo we find a pendant to the ideal republics of the Mores and the Harringtons ? The next lecture will be delivered on Wednesday.

Mr. Leslie, who is known to be engaged on a life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, writes to Notes and Queries that he will be obliged to any one who will fur- nish him with any particulars relating to Theophila Potter, the mother of Sir Joshua Reynolds, or with any copies of letters to or from Sir Joshua. Mr. Leslie says also he is partiCularly anxious to obtain copies of any letters written by Sir William Chambers to Reynolds. The address of Mr. Leslie is Abereorn Place, St. John's Wood.

Grozolier, of Boston, is executing ft lithographic portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Theodore Parker, who has been seriously ill for some time past, is now stated to be convalescent.

A statue of Dr. Isaac Barrow has been set up in the ante-hall to the Chapel of Trinity College Cambridge, as a companion to the statue of Lord Bacon.

Robert Dale Owen, widely known as the founder of " Socialism," died at his native, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, on the 17th, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. He passed peacefully and imperceptibly away, dying with- out pain, saying " relief has come," and that he was " very easy and com- fortable." His last moments were soothed by his son, the Honourable Ro- bert Dale Owen, lately United States Minister at Naples. Mr. Owen had lived an eventful life. As manager of the " New Lanark Twist Company" he acquired an almost world-wide fame, and the acquaintance of some of the most distinguished men of his day—Brougham Macintosh, Zachary Macaulay, Clarkson, Dr. Barrington, Bishop of Durham, Hume, Cobbett, Lancaster, Place, Ricardo. He was the founder of infant schools. He was visited by the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia ; the Duke of Kent pre- sided at a meeting held in London to propound his system ; Lord Castle- reagh presented his memorials to the Sovereigns at Aix-la-Chapelle; he travelled extensively, and sought to found institutions in accordance with his views in England and America. But his career as a social reformer is pretty well known. His last public appearance was at the Liverpool Social Congress. He went from Liverpool to Newtown, to " leave his bones in. the place where he got them."

Mr. Cobden's brother, a resident in Australia, recently died there. He was much respected. Mr. William Since, who for nearly twenty-eight years filled the post of chief accountant of the Bank of England, died on Wednesday at the age of eighty-three. He had been more than fifty-seven years in the service.

General d'Orgoni, whose departure for the Birman Empire has been an- nounced, carries out a brief from the Pope, which appoints the bishop who superintends the missions in that country legate of the Holy See. The brief, which is written on gold, and is enclosed in a box made of citron wood of precious workmanship, is to be read to the Emperor in solemn au- dience in presence of the prelate and of the general. A Paris letter in the Brussels Independence states thel "M. de Rothschild has sent through the representative of his house in the Pontifical States, the sum of 10,000 francs to M. Mortara, to enable him to continue his exertions for the restitution of his child, without sacrificing the interests of his family."

Cabs are extensively used in London to convey the bodies of children in coffins to cemeteries. Dr. Bristowe has asked the advice of a Police Magis- trate on the subject. The practice seriously endangers health. Mr. Norton. said he had no power. His advice was to get the numbers of the cabs 80 employed. He did not say whether Dr. Bristowe, when he had got the numbers, might publish them. The la ar men :111- Llitrr:Pdtvta b earmowlert,1,5183e47.1 This is 200 a ve the corrected average. The excess e 'e y among the young and old, among whom diseases of the respiratory organs have proved

unusually fatal. _ Shad Off th large nal4er.