LATEST FROM EUROPE. NEW YORK, June 16.-The packet ship Orpheus, Capt. Bursley, arrived on Saturday night from Liverpool, having sailed thence on the 16th ultimo, to which date we have received our regular files of papers, &c., including London papers of the 15th. The political intelligence is unimportant.-It appears that the report received by the last arrival, that there was a prospect of a speedy arrangement between the contending parties in Portugal, was without foundation. The London Times of the 15th says-It has been before mentioned, that the treaty of the quadruple alliance lately agreed to in London, has been accepted and ratified by the Court of Madrid. Our Madrid correspondent, in his letter of the 5th inst., confirms this information. The intelligence received by the last packet from Lisbon states that the government of Don Pedro had likewise sanctioned the treaty by its ratification. The Spanish army is, therefore, now acting in conformity with the stipulations of the convention. From France there is nothing of interest. Arrests and occasional encounters between the gendarmes and people, still take place. It would appear by a paragraph which we copy, that the intelligence received by the last arrival from France of the unfortunate occurrence on firing a salute from the U. S. Frigate United States, is correct. Colonel Ogden, Consul of the United States at Liverpool, was presented to the king on the 14th, by Mr. Vail, U. S. Charge d'Affaires. It is said that the Cabinet of Vienna has consented to an arrangement by which the Prussian Commercial League will comprehend a great part of the Austrian domi nions. Accounts from Holland are to the 13th ult. The Prince of Orange had again left the Hague for the army. The extensive range of stables at Utrecht, occupied by the horses of the Lancers Corps, had been entirely destroyed by fire, together with about 50 horses, and a large quantity of forage. Accounts from Constantinople, mention the death of Prince Milosch, the Sovereign of Servia. Letters from Madrid are to the 6th ult., by which it appears as if no contract for a lean would take place, until the meeting of the Cortes, July 1. It is also stated, that the promulgation of the Royal Statute is producing much satisfaction in all the provinces, except those decidedly committed to the cause of Carlos. The entire arrangement with the public creditors of Spain will be left to the same body, upon the liberal disposition of which, the holders of Cortes bonds will in consequence have mainly to depend. Despatches were sent from London on the 10th ult. to the Governors of the West India Islands, and to the Governors of the American provinces. The British Government are about to restrict the operations of the Trades Unions. Two of the East India Company's ships were sold, May 15, at Lloyd's.-The Canning, 1400 tons, for 59001., and the London for 5750l. The French Government talk of establishing a camp of 80,000 men at Lyons. A Copenhagen paper mentions many particulars of some family fracas among the nobility, which rendered Prince Frederick's situation so intolerable, that he was to be sent to Jutland as colonel of a regiment, after he shall have been formally divorced from his consort, the beloved Princess Wilhelmina. A Committee of the House of Commons have reported in favour of a grant of 5000 pounds to Capt. Ross. Jerome Buonaparte arrived in London on the 10th ult. from Ostend. The papers contain the following extract of a letter, dated Toulon, May 4. "The Maritime Prefect went yesterday on board the American frigate United States, accompanied by the Count de Labrettoniere, Major General of the Marine at Toulon. The master gunner of the frigate was in irons, and about to be tried by a court martial. The commander of the ship has, it is said, sent 5000f. as relief for the families of the men killed and wounded by the deplorable occurrence of the 1st; but the Prefect refused the money, saying that it was an affair to be settled between the two governments. This morning a boat with Americans came to shore. The authorities, having timely notice of her arrival, placed a picket of gendarmes on the quay, in order to prevent them from being assailed by the French sailors, who are in a state of despera tion." FRANCE.-Paris cannot be said to be tranquil.-Conflicts between the students who frequent the Guinguettes (tea gardens) in the quarter of Mont Parnasse, and the police, and between the populace and some soldiers of the 35th regiment, took place on Thursday last, outside the barriers, and appear, indeed to be of hourly occurrence. Great numbers of arrests and domiciliary visits continue in Paris and throughout France. On the other hand, the Chamber of Peers daily discharge scores of prisoners, against whom no evidence appears on the investigation of their cases.-Dr. Gervais, and the Editor of the Messenger, having refused to go to trial on Saturday, they were condemned respectively to fines of 1000 francs, and to imprisonment for an alleged libel on the police. A new trial will be the consequence of this curious proceeding. We regret to learn that very serious apprehensions are entertained for the consequences of the first public discussion of the late melancholy events in Paris.- Morning Herald. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.-It was announced on the authority of a telegraphic despatch, received at Paris from Bayonne, and dated the 6th May, that an arrangement had taken place between Don Pedro and Miguel-that Don Carlos had given up the contest in Spain, and embarked for England, and as a necessary consequence, that the civil war in Spain and Portugal was at an end. The statement was very circumstantial, and no doubt was expressed of its correctness. It now turns out, however, to have been nothing more than a stock-jobbing report, wholly without foundation. By the African steam-boat we have intelligence from Lisbon to the 5th inst. She brings despatches from Lord Howard de Walden to the British government, the nature of which has not yet transpired. They are said to relate to the reception by Don Miguel of the proposition made to him, founded upon the treaty of amity between the Four Powers. The tenor of his answer is not known, but from all that can be gathered, it was repulsive. The armies are still idle, and remain in the same position as before. Miguel is still represented as strong in force, his troops well found and well disciplined, and the country in his rear well cultivated and productive. Of his other resources, too, there is no lack reported of the stock of obstinacy, for the Don has expressed his determination to hold out to the last extremity. Letters from Paris state that the fortress of Elvas had proclaimed Donna Maria on the 27th ult., as soon as the Spanish troops crossed the river. The garrison of the fortress had previously been ordered to encounter Colonel S. on the frontiers of the Algarves. The statement as to the movements of Don Carlos, turns out to be equally untrue. Instead of retiring from the contest, it appears that he was meditating an expedition into Spain, in propria persona, the effect of which would certainly be to encourage his partisans and protract the war. The last accounts mention several trifling successes of the Carlists in Biscay and Navarre. The Cortes are convoked for the 1st of July. A correspondent of the Morning Herald, who writes under dates of Lisbon, May 5th, states that intelligence had been received of the capture of Coimbra, by the Duke of Terceira, and that Admiral Napier had started with 300 men in the City of Edinburgh steam-boat for Figueras, though he expected that the port had already surrendered to Captain Bartram of the Don Pedro frigate. LONDON, May 15.-There was no foreign intelligence of the least interest yesterday. A hope is entertained that the arrival of the new crops of the East and West India produce, will tempt purchasers into the market to make investments. There are complaints amongst our merchants, that Portuguese and Spanish securities are absorbing such large portions of capital, as to leave but little for investment in mercantile matters. Trade generally is much brisker on the continent than it is here, and our neighbours are taking away our business. By advices from Vienna, we learn that it was understood in that capital, that the Congress of Germanic ministers would continue to sit to the termination of June. Austria, it is again asserted, will join the great Germanic Commercial Convention; but that the union will be confined to the provinces north of the Danube, which will include Vienna. This arrangement is understood to be adopted on the conviction, that the manufactures of Bohemia, Moravia, and the provinces north of the Danube, have attained such a degree of perfection, as to enable them to compete with those of Prussia and Saxony. To the provinces south of the Danube, such a competition would produce the most serious consequences. Accident at Toulon.—In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, M. Eschasserieux begged leave to remind the Chamber of an unfortunate event, which took place at Toulon the day of the King's fête, when an American frigate in that port fired seven times upon a French vessel called Le Suffren, and killed two of the crew. He was inclined to think that this misfortune must have been the result of mistake or accident. As a proof of this, I shall read a letter written by the captain of the American frigate to the Maritime Prefect. It is as follows:-"Sir, it is with the profoundest regret, that on my arrival from Marseilles, I learned the sad accident occasioned by the salute given by my frigate in honour of the king's fête. It is impossible for me to express what I feel upon this occasion. To understand it, I beg of you to put yourself for a moment in my situation, and I beg of you to accept the most positive assurance I can give you of the profound grief of all the officers and crews of the American vessels, who were at Toulon when this fatal accident happened." The letter then states, that the man whose negligence had caused the accident, had been put under arrest, and should be brought to a court martial.-The captain terminates his letter by entreating, that as a testimony of the regret felt for the accident, a sum of 5000f., which had been subscribed by the officers and crews of both the American vessels, should be given to the families of the sufferers. Cholera in Paris-Some of the French Medical journals, state a certain number of cases of cholera have been met with in Paris during the last month; it does not appear, however, that they have been of great severity; indeed from those which are given in detail, they should be disposed to say that the disease was no more than is usually met with when the weather becomes warm, and such as would not have attracted the slightest notice anterior to the irruption of the more formidable disease from the east. NOTICES. The late appearance of our number for the present month, has been occasioned by the editor's time being entirely engrossed for three weeks, by his duties as a member of the last General Assembly, and of the Boards with which it is connected. To the same cause is to be attributed the omission, for the present month, of the whole department assigned to Reviews. And, indeed, if leisure for writing had been at command, the space which a Review, or short notices of recent publications, would have occupied, was urgently demanded for other matter, which seemed to require immediate publication. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. We doubt if any periodical publication in our country has been paid for more generally and punctually than the Christian Advocate; and this is acknowledged by the editor with gratitude and pleasure. Still, there are a number of his subscribers who are indebted to a considerable amount; and the avails of their subscription are urgently needed to pay the printer, to whom for the want of these avails, and from this want only, the editor is in arrear. Will others pay their debts, and enable him to pay his? All parties will feel better when this is done. "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another." **The Editor begs indulgence for a little egotism while he states, that the first article of the present number, consists of the first sermon he ever wrote. The text was given him as the subject of a popular discourse, when he was on trials for the gospel ministry in the Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J., and was composed in his room, in Nassau Hall, when he was a tutor in that institution, in the summer of the year 1785. After being read to the Presbytery in private, it was, several months afterwards, delivered memoriter, in the church in Princeton, the first time that the author preached after his licensure— Dr. Witherspoon sitting in the pulpit with the preacher, and insisting that he should not show a note. His injunction was obeyed, and as the young licentiate walked from the house of worship with his highly respected teacher, he received from him, for his encouragement, the only praise ever given him to his face by that venerated man. It was moderate praise-Gently tapping his pupil on the shoulder, he said—" Well, well, continue to do as well as that, and we'll be satisfied." It was a maxin with this eminent scholar and divine, to which he admitted of but very few exceptions" Never to praise a man to his face, and never to speak evil of him behind his back, unless called to do so, as a matter of obvious duty, and for a useful purpose." After the lapse of nearly half a century, the Editor finds himself in possession of the very same sentiments on the great doctrine of Regeneration, with which he commenced his ministry. None of the fancied improvements in Theology have moved him a hair's breadth on this topic. He endeavoured in this discourse-and he rejoices to observe that he began to preach on this plan-to sustain every one of his important positions, by the quotation of a plain and pertinent passage from the Holy Scriptures. The word of God can never change; and boast of improvements and the march of mind, as innovators may, and do, there can be no improvement on the dictates of the Holy Ghost. They are, on all important points, perfectly clear and full; intelligible to every careful, prayerful, and candid reader; and have been as well understood by generations past, as they will ever be by generations to come. Human reasonings and opinions fluctuate infinitely, “but the word of God shail stand forever." THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. ADVOCATE. JULY, 1834. Religious Communications. THE SIN AND DANGER OF BOASTING OF TO-MORROW. PROV. XXVII. 1.-"Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." The complaint has been long and justly made, that the conduct of men is frequently in open hostility with their reason and sense of propriety. It is against an evil of this description that the text remonstrates. We all acknowledge the impropriety and imprudence of trusting to an uncertain futurity, for that which may, and ought to be ensured, by present attention. Yet, in direct opposition to this acknowledgment, and the sanction which its truth and importance receives from the constant experience of the world, procrastination, or delay, is a fault of the most frequent occurrence. Present reluctance, or the imaginary prospect of more favourable circumstances, disposes the mind to postpone, till some future period, the performance of a duty which now demands regard, and which conscience might not suffer us to neglect, did we not flatter ourselves that it might hereafter be performed with more advantage. Let me then, possess your serious attention, while I endeavour, in discoursing on the text before us I. To ascertain, distinctly, the evil which it condemns. II. To show how unreasonable and malignant this evil is in itself, and how dangerous in its tendency and consequences. a First, then, let us endeavour to ascertain distinctly the evil which the text condemns. In doing this, it is proper to begin with observing, that it cannot be intended to condemn, indiscriminately, all concern about the future events of life, nor all provision for meeting them when they shall occur. Both reason and revelation are opposed to such an idea. The business which cannot be completed to-day must be delayed till to-morrow, and we may indulge a degree of concern, as well as make the necessary arrangements, that it may then be accomplished. In the very chapter which contains the text, its author tells us, that prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself; but the simple pass on and are punished;" intimating plainly that there is on the one hand, a lawful and commendable anticipation of the occurrences of life, and preparation for them, which is productive of advantage; and that, on the other, there is a foolish and blameable thoughtlessness and improvidence, the certain consequence of which is inconvenience and injury. While this allowance, then, is fairly and fully conceded, we may recognise the evil after which we inquire in the two following particulars; First, in placing a too confident dependance on futurity for the performCh. Adv.-VOL. XII. 20 ance of things lawful in themselves, and necessarily demanding delay; and, Secondly, in placing any dependance at all on the time to come, for that which we ought immediately to perform, or attempt, and especially for that which we ought never to attempt or intend. It has already been intimated, that to provide for the support and comfort of ourselves, and of those who depend upon us, is not only a permitted but commanded duty. He who neglects to do this is declared to be "worse than an infidel." In discharging this duty, it has also been stated that plans of future industry and management must be laid and pursued. But be it now remembered, that these plans are to be concerted and executed, without that excessive anxiety which implies a distrust of providence, and a supreme devotion to worldly concerns and acquisitions. "Take no thought for to-morrow," says our Saviour, or as it should be rendered-" be not anxious for to-morrow, for to-morrow shall be anxious for the things of itself; sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." But if painful and distrustful solicitude about futurity be contrary to the spirit of the gospel, much more so is that confident and presumptuous reliance upon it, which implicitly denies our dependance on God. This is boasting of to-morrow in a very impious manner; even though the design which we propose to pursue be not unlawful in itself. Hear how pointedly this presumption is condemned by the Apostle James-"Go to now, ye that say to-day, or to-morrow, we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell and get gain;-whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that. But now ye rejoice in your boastings; all such rejoicing is evil." We see then that the offence condemned in the text, is committed by those who, in contemplating and planning even the necessary occupations and pursuits of life, do not keep in mind that they may die before their purposes are accomplished; that they are constantly and absolutely in the hand of God,entirely dependant on his sovereign will, not only for the prosperity of their schemes, but for the continuance of life itself. 2. But the evil we are seeking to ascertain is chargeable, in its highest degree, on those who place any dependance at all on the time to come, for the doing of that which they ought immediately to perform or attempt; and especially for doing that which they ought never to attempt or intend. The author of our text elsewhere admonishes us in these words "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, for there is no work, nor knowledge, nor device, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest." We are here reminded, that as life is utterly uncertain, we can have no assurance that duty neglected or delayed, shall ever be performed. Whenever, therefore, it calls for discharge, and we do not immediately set about it, we give up a certainty for an uncertainty; we risk the danger of final delinquency, with all its endless train of unhappy consequences-In every such neglect or delay then, (as we cannot be supposed to intend our own injury) we boast of to-morrow. We arrogantly challenge and count upon it as a certainty; we act upon it as a matter of which we have the possession and disposal. But especially, when the things which we purpose to do at a future time are things unlawful in themselves, and which, consequently, we ought never to do or to intend, this boasting reaches its ultimate point of criminality. It is, at once, to claim to-morrow as our own, and to |