The Clerk read as follows: Rome, January 4, 1867. For 6 years and more the Scotch Presbyterians have had a stationhere. Indeed theyhave two: oue the Free Church, the other the Church of Scotland. The chaplains have held service every Sabbath in their own apartmentswith a few of men, rarely morethan 30 their country or 40 being Present No sign or notice is allowed to be put up on the house to designate it as the place of worship. The stranger finds, it advertised at his botel, and coming to number, prowls up the dark, stonestairways the to very upper some o, and there, as secretly as early Christians in the catacombsof Rome or in the dens and caves of the earth, he finds a few like minded, who pray and hear the Word. These services disturb no them. They afofneectand the authoritiesdo not notice to ignore their existence alto o ther. On Saturday, December 29, 1866, the chap ainsof thesetwo missionswere servedwith the following warning, issuedby the British consul. I copy itterbatin from the original now beforeme: BRITISH Consul, ATEAT Roy F, December 29, 1866. siSgInRo:rIetRaisndmi,y official duty to informyou that Mon Governor of Rome, has just commu nmiceaetteindtgosinmyeotuhrath, yoouusearwehhicohldiynogu ilmleugsatl krneoliwgioaures prohibitedby the Romanlaw, and that you havethus. yourself in the power of the Inquisition, both r arrestandimprisonment. But as theMonsignore permitsme to give you this notice I would seriously taidovniss, ethat you at once put an end to theseinnova and that you visit Monsignore Randiat Monte Citorio and assure him that you will never again repeatthese illegal acts. hope in this way you may possibly suspend your exile which is now hang; oavne, sryiro, uy.our most obedient servant. JOSEPH SEVERN, British Consul. ToRev.JAMEs LEwis. January 5, 1867. Worsethan our worst fears, the blow has been struck and Presbyterians are ordered to desist from publicoin the Papal dominions! Yesterday Mr. Odo Russell, as the acting representativoef the British Government, had an interview with Cardinal Antonelli, the Prime Minister of the pope. Mr. Russell expressed his surprise on being informed that, an order had been issued reworshti the Scottish Presbyterians to desist from the have been holding in the private houses of theirpastors. He asked the Cardinal if he had beenawarethat these meetings had been held for 6yearspast, without objection being madeby anyone, andif there was any special reason why they winetirmenaotwesdine sruemplymatrhilyat stuhpeprGeossveedrn.mTheentChaarddinfoarl manyyearspast been under restraint; but now that foreignprotectionwas removed, they would administerit accordingto their own viewsof duty; that one English chapelwas open, and that was enoughfor theEnglishin Rome. Mr. Russell said that the Cardinal mustbe aware tphraot dtuhceaseugpreparetesxscioitneomf e Pnrteisn by Britrain, waonrdsthhipewacotuioldn CdfetmhenePodn.Tthifiiscaslu Ggogveesrtniomne, nhtowwoeuvlderb, eprlooduudclyed conno effect and Mr. Russell remarked that the Amerithaen Csaarredailnloawlaendstwoehreadvethaaptlatcheeo Gfowvoerrsnhmipe.nT two otuhlids attendto that also 1. Finding argument and remon strance yain. Mr. Russell retired and reported the resultof his interview. The two, placesof worship ore, therefore, peremptorily closed. There is, fore, there no place in Rome or in !.Presbyterians the Papal dominions, are permitted to Worship. meetfor divine Paul could preach 2 whole years in his own house in Pagan Rome. But Papal Rome forbids the Protestantfollower of the Apostle to worship God with his friends in his own hired house. agan one was more tolerant in Rome Paufs doy, than Papal in ours IRENAEU.S. "; the hammer fell]