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to France, with a high reputation for eloquence, 

 being invited to Paris by the celebrated natu- 

 ralist Baron Cuvier, who was also connected 

 with the Reformed Church. In 1833, he be- 

 came a member of the Protestant Consistory, 

 but soon found himself involved in a contro- 

 versy with the leaders of the Reformed Church, 

 who, from the liberal opinions which he put 

 forth, accused him of having abandoned their 

 cardinal doctrines of exclusive faith and pre- 

 destination. A division ensued, and M. Co- 

 querel became the acknowledged leader of 

 the Liberal or Rationalistic section, as M. Gui- 

 zot was of the Orthodox Calvinists. The con- 

 troversy between these two sections was main- 

 tained, with increasing divergence of views, 

 until the death of the Rationalistic leader. Of 

 late years the number of adherents to his 

 views had considerably multipled, and his son, 

 M. Athanase Coquerel, Jr., who, like his father, 

 is a clergyman of the French Reformed Church, 

 has become a leader of the Rationalists, going 

 to much greater lengths in his departures from 

 orthodoxy than his father. In the revolution 

 of 1848, H. Coquerel came forward as a candi- 

 date for election to the National Assembly, and 

 was chosen; receiving 109,934 votes, as a 

 moderate republican. The Abbe" Lamennais 

 and the great Dominican friar-preacher Father 

 Lacordaire were among his colleagues. He 

 was one of the commission to frame the new 

 Republican constitution, supported the admin- 

 istration of General Cavaignac and Prince Louis 

 Napoleon Bonaparte, and advocate the aboli- 

 tion of capital punishment. As a whole, how- 



ever, his legislative career, which continued 

 till the coup d'etat in December, 1851, did not 

 enhance his reputation. He returned to his 

 pulpit services, where his really extraordinary 

 power as an orator always insured him a large 

 audience. M. Coquerel was a somewhat vo- 

 luminous author. In 1831, appeared his first 

 work, "The Protestant." This was followed 

 in 1834 by " The Free Inquiry." He also pub- 

 lished "Sacred Biography," "Analysis of the 

 Bible," "Answer to Strauss's Life of Jesus," 

 "Modern Orthodoxy," " Experimental Christi- 

 anity," and eight volumes of sermons. M. Co- 

 querel was amiable, tolerant, kind-hearted, and 

 charitable, and greatly esteemed by all who had 

 the pleasure of intimate acquaintance with him. 

 COTTON. The cotton crop of the United 

 States for the last year (ending September 1st) 

 was 2,430,893 bales, an increase of 478,905 over 

 the preceding year. The quantity produced or 

 exported for the last three years in each State 

 was as follows (the crop of Mississippi being 

 included in Louisiana and Alabama) : 



EXPORTS OP COTTON TO FOREIGN PORTS FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 186T, TO AUGUST 31, 1868. 



The quantity of old cotton remaining in the 

 country, September 1, 1868, not brought to the 

 shipping ports or interior towns, was unusually 

 small, say only 15,000 to 20,000 bales, against 

 30,000^0 40,000 same time last year. The 

 stocks in the interior towns, September 1, 1868, 

 not counted in the receipts, were 3,897 bales, 

 against^ 5,703 same time last year. We append 

 approximate growths of previous years. 



