Vermont Telegraph

Montreal.—I witnessed, while here one of the great Catholic festivals, and could not help perceiving in it an occasion of the deepest sorrows. The city was all commotion, while the streets were paraded by priests, in gorgeous dresses perfumed by incense. Instead, however of giving my own description, I will request the reader to pursue the account of the Montreal Gazette, bearing in mind while he reads it, that this was religious service, conducted on the Sabbath day!

"The procession of Corpus Christi, which took place on Sunday morning last, within the city with the usual solemnities of the Roman Catholic church, proceeded from the parish church through Notre Dame street toward the Bonsecours church and returned along St. Paul and St. Joseph streets, halting on its way at the Congregational nunnery, the Bonsecours church, and the Hotel Dieu. The band and an officer's guard of the 32d regiment attended upon the procession, as did also a sufficient escort of the volunteer cavalry, who made a fine soldier like appearance. The bishop of Telmesse, it was expected, would have been present at the ceremony, but it is supposed that the state of the weather detained him at the lake of the Two Mountains and the duty of carrying the sacrament devolved upon the Rev. M. Quiblier. In the afternoon the same ceremony took place from St. James' church where the bishop of Tabarca officiated, escorted by captain de Bleury's Rifle company."

Bands, regiments, rifle corps—and all this under the name of religion! To increase the profanation, there was a central canopy, with a large piece of glass in the form of a human eye, having gold or silver rays emanating in all directions, inserted in the front curtain, behind which walked a priest personating the Deity I for how else could it impress the gazing multitude, who were taught to call it the all-seeing eye?' And to crown the folly and madness, protestant gentlemen joined the chief procession of the priests, in order to subserve a political object!—Cox and Hoby.