Bartholomew's day, 1572, has been made the ground of an, accusation of the Jiost monstrous de;crip tiou against the Pope and the Court of Koine ; and forma one of those cut and-dried charges which are repeated again and agun by platform orators and itinerant parsous upon the Uatholic church and the Catholic religion. It would be simply impossible to understand tue real bearing of the case witto'jt some previous infor mation as to the kiud of pjople t!ie Huguenots were ; what it was tuu. mide thtm so obnoxious to the ruling powers, aud infuriated the populace agaiust iuein ; aud in shott what was tbe train of circum^ stances that led to the perpetratio i of so terrible a crime. The Protestant party were not coutent to be left at liberty to i hold their own opiuioua, and serve God according to wuat their descendants call their conscience. What they wanted waa ascendancy, aad the extijction of Catholics root aud branch f.oiu France as it had been already rooted out of Germany and England, iam ia no wise coaceinei to defend tne conduct of the Government of France, Charles IX and his wily unprin cipled, vindictive mother, who, according to Kanke — 'he Protestant hietoriao. — .vas the iustiga'or of it. But it should be , remembered the modes of punishing male factors w-re at this period much more vigorous in all countries, than they luve since become. Death by fire was v capital punishment in use over all Euio >o and certa nly did not exceed in atrocity tne , ordinary mo ie of executing trui'ors in , England aud Ireland during the reign of tbe goad Virgin Queen I'jpe Hess, winch, was tir.-it to hang a in us, then wmle the sufferer stil breathed to tear ou; bis bowel* aud heart, aud la?t'y to cut up his ooly into four parts, in other word", J hang, draw and quarter ; a punhameut, be it remembered, which was inflicted on 128 , English priest 3 (uot to mention lay pur. som) during her reign simply for pructis , ing the duties of their sacred calling. 