European Clergy

Rev. Mr. Pomeroy of Maine, in relation to the use of ntoxicating driuk by clergymen in Europe, said - " Tliey use them almost universnlly, ]ke the rest of the neople. In England and Scotland therenrc few exceptions. - In tho churchcs in Erigland there is a little vestry room noar the pulpit, where the minister deposita his hal and cloak. - When he goes in, the dcacon, whosa duty it i, osks him if he will lake some refreshmnts - that is, intoxicnting drink - the sime after. service. This is the case siso on the continent. The Protestant clergymen use lesa distilled liquor than wine." (Lƒ Tfie chivairous Legislnture ol Virginia wero not at all pleased with the Wilmot proviso. While it was pending, the House of Delegntes of Virginia passed a series of resolutions, by au unanimous vote, denouncing the Wilmot proviso as a violation of the constitutionof the United States, and asserting that Congress has no right whatever to interfere in any manner with th queation of slavery, which belongs cxclusively tu the state government. The resolutions declare void, in prospeclu, any act which may be passed by the federal government having for its object the imposition on the free aclioB of the governments which may be established in territorios acquired in any manner from Mexico, relative to the recognition or prohibition of negro slavery, declaring it the right of any citizen to emigróte to nny territory with and hold there any property recognized as lawfully his. This e.xhibition of foliv was ordered to be forwarded by the Governor to the Executive of every State in the Union.