who were deputed or invited to attend, I believe I had come in too late; but there I was, within three feet of every young lady who came up to the board. Now, Messieurs, have the kindness to ask any question you please,' said the old Count, Mademoiselle, you will have the goodness to step forward.' A question was proposed in English, which the young lady had to write down in French. The very first went wrong; I perceived it, and without looking at her, pronounced the right word, so that she could hear it. She caught it, rubbed out the wrong word with the towel, and rectified it. This was carried on through the whole sentence, and then she retreated from the board, that her work might be examined. Very well, very well, indeed, Miss, c'est parfaitement bien ;' and the young lady sat down blushing. Thus were they all called up, and one after another prompted by me; and the old Count was delighted at the success of his pupils. Now what amused me in this was the little bit of human nature; the tact displayed by the sex which appears to be innate, and which never deserts them. Had I prompted a boy, he would most likely have turned his head round towards me, and thus have revealed what I was about; but not one of the whole class was guilty of such indiscretion. They heard me, rubbed out, corrected, waited for the word when they did not know it, but never by any look or sign made it appear that there was any understanding between us. Their eyes were constantly fixed on the board, and they appeared not to know that I was in the room. It was really beautiful. When the examination was over, I received a look from them all, half comic, half serious, which amply repaid me for my assistance."

Although we are exceeding the limits we prescribed for ourselves, we cannot omit the following samples of the Blue Laws of Connecticut, drawn up by the dissenters who emigrated from England, and who are sympathetically called, by their descendants in England, the "pilgrim fathers."

Their

liberty of conscience" is painted in its true colours, and shows what we might now expect from the dissenting bigots of our times, if they only possessed the power for which they so earnestly long and labour, per fas et nefas. We give the extracts with the cap

tain's own comment:

"No. 13. No food and lodgings shall be allowed a quaker, Adamite, or other heretic. No. 14. If any person turns quaker he shall be banished, and not suffered to return, on pain of death.'

"I was walking in Philadelphia, when I perceived the name of Buffum, hatter. Wishing to ascertain whether it was an English name or not, I went in, and entered into conversation with Mr. Buffum, who was dressed as what is termed a wet quaker. He

told me that his was an English name, and that his ancestor had been banished from Salem, for a heinous crime; which was, as the sentence worded it, for being a dam-ned quaker. The reason why quakers were banished by the puritans was, because they would not go out to shoot the Indians! To continue: No. 17. No one shall run of a sabbath-day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from Church.' 'No. 18. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses, cut hair or shave, on the sabbath-day.' 'No. 19. No husband shall kiss his wife, and no mother shall kiss her child upon the sabbath-day.' 'No. 31. No one shall read common prayer, keep Christmas, or Saints' day, make mince pies, dance, or play on any instrument of music, except the drum, the trumpet, and the jew's harp. I do not know anything that disgusts me so much as cant. Even now we continually hear, in the American public orations, about the stern virtues of the pilgrim fathers. Stern indeed! The fact is, that these pilgrim fathers were fanatics and bigots, without charity or mercy, wanting in the very essence of Christianity. Witness their conduct to the Indians when they thirsted for their territory. After the death (murder we may well call it) of Alexander, brother of the celebrated Philip, the latter prepared for war. And now,' says a reverend historian of the times, war was begun, by a fierce nation of Indians, upon an honest, harmless Christian generation of English, who might very truly have said to the aggressors, as it was said of old unto the Ammonites, 'I have not sinned against thee; but thou doest me wrong to war against me.' Fanaticism alone, deep incurable fanaticism, could have induced such a remark. Well may it be said,' We deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.' And when the war was brought to a close by the death of the noble-minded, high-spirited Philip; when the Christians had slaked their revenge in his blood, exposed his head in triumph on a pike, and captured his helpless innocent child, of nine years old; would it be credited that there was a council held to put this child to death, and that the clergy were summoned to give their opinion? And the clergy quoted Scripture, that the child must die! Dr. Increase Mather compared it with the child of Hadid, and recommended, with his brother Apostles, that it be murdered. But these pious men were overruled; and with many others, it was sent to the Bermudas and sold as a slave. Stern virtues!! call them rather diabolical vices. God of Heaven! when shall we learn to call things by their right names."

The hypocrisy and cruelty of these "liberty of conscience" dissenters is only to be matched by the cruelties they practised here in England, in robbing, and plundering, and turning out of their houses and homes above

seven thousand pious Clergymen, many of whom they harassed snd murdered to satisfy their tender consciences. Our heart turns sick at such hypocrisy and cruelty, and we feel within ourselves, that we will labour night and day to keep down such hypocrites, lest we and our children should be again brought under the insufferable yoke of such callous and cruel bigots.

Captain Marryat exposes the misrepresentations of writers who have preceded him in describing America, and especially those of a revolutionary woman of the name of Martineau, who ought certainly to have staid in America, as we could well have spared both her and her mischievous politics, and her religion too, if she have any. Again do we thank God with all our hearts, for Old England and our English institutions. And we are grateful to Captain Marryat for his admirable work, which has afforded us as much information and amusement as we doubt not it will to all other persons who may do themselves the pleasure of reading it.

The National Psalmist consisting of Original

Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Chants, Responses, and Anthems. Compiled and arranged by CHARLES DANVERS HACKETT. Dedicated (by special permission) to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon. London: Coventry and Hollier, 71, Dean-street, Soho. 1839. Fo. P. 187.

To all true and enlightened lovers of sacred harmony, the National Psalmist will certainly prove a most acceptable acquisition. The standard Psalm Tunes are well arranged, and there is much original matter of superior quality. Many of the Chants, &c. are very beautiful, and exceedingly well adapted for public worship. The popular tune, commonly called "Denmark," (to which is here applied the words "Before Jehovah's awful Throne," &c.) seems arranged so as to avoid the usual errors in the harmony we do not esteem it well calculated for churches. There is a degree of vulgarity inseparable from the tune, and the introduction of so many quavers and semiquavers, is always offensive to an ear well tutored to the grave solemnity of church music. We are much surprised to find any National Psalmist omitting the tune called "St. Stephen's" or " Nayland," composed by that eminent Divine, Jones, of Nayland. The acknowledged excellence, and universally-established celebrity of that most sweet and correct composition, ought to have claimed a prominent place in Mr. Hackett's collection. We must also add, that we are truly sorry to see good music joined to words of a very objectionable cast. allude to the Hymn beginning "Vital spark of heavenly flame." These words might very well suit the poet, who, in composing his "Universal Prayer," could see no dif ference between "Jehovah, Jove, or Lord,"

We

but are quite unbecoming in the mouth of a professing Christian. The warblings of the Church Militant ought most strictly to harmonize in sweetest concord with the Church Triumphant, whose incessant hallelujahs pour forth, through heaven's boundless expanse, in comprehensive epitomes, nought but the veriest glories of atoning and sanctifying love. Neither in verse, nor prose, have we any sympathetic affection whatever for creedless rhapsodies, faithless vagaries, or anti-scriptural elegances. Without any intention, at present, of either commending or censuring, what have been designated the peculiarities of the late Rev. Augustus Toplady, we beg to remind Mr. Hackett, that a beautiful, and strictly Christian Hymn, was written by that Divine, in direct imitation of these identical verses by Pope. We recommend that this should be substituted in place of the one now adopted. The Hymn alluded to, is called "The Dying Believer to his Soul," and begins thus:—

"Deathless principle arise;

Soar, thou native of the skies," &c. Strictures on "An Address delivered on occasion of laying the foundation stone of the East Parade Chapel, Leeds, on Monday, September 2, 1839. By the Rev. John Ely." By the Rev. GEO. AYLIffe Poolf, M.A., Incumbent of St. James's Church. Leeds. London: Burns. Leeds: Harrison, 153, Briggate. 1839. 8vo. P. 76

THANKS to those who have manfully attacked dissent, and shown its unscriptural and dangerous character, by sound and unanswerable arguments; because, by such a course, the dissenters, instead of acting on the offensive, as they had generally done previously to the last six or seven years, are now thrown upon their defence, and obliged to find arguments whereby to justify or palliate their schismatical conduct, in separating from the Church of Christ in this land, and setting up new churches or conventicles of their own. The position of the parties engaged in this controversy has thus become entirely changed, and a decided advantage thereby obtained to Churchmen. Although we have not had time to read Mr. Ely's Address, yet we discover, from the quotations given from it, by Mr. Poole, and from several of his statements, that it is a "defence of schism," rather than one of those direct attacks on the Church which were so much more frequent seven years ago. The truth is, that Churchmen have become more alive to a sense of their duty to God and the people, and having studied the controversy more than they had previously done, hesitate not to show the unscriptural and mischievous nature of dissent, and to caution their people against it. This is producing all the good effects which wo always foresaw and foretold would result from a faithful but temperate and charitable

exposition of the errors of the various forms of dissent, together with a promulgation of the great principles of the Church. The primary business of dissenting controvertists is now, therefore, to defend their own positions in reply to what they now find generally produced against them; and Mr. Ely's address may be considered, in this respect, a fair sample of the more respectable publications of his brethren. And as he is far superior to many of those who unfortunately misdirect the talents which Almighty God has given them for better purposes, Mr. Poole thought it worth while to controvert some of his positions and opinions, and we are exceedingly glad that he has fallen into such able, practised, and skilful hands. We are the more pleased, because Leeds having been long a hot-bed of every schism and heresy which have too long afflicted" the religious world in general," and the Church in particular, has now, within her own boundaries, men who will take anxious care of the Church and truth of God, and no longer allow them to be opposed or misrepresented with impunity. Mr. Poole being a sound and consistent Churchman, has produced a work which forms a striking contrast to what an invisible or half Churchman, or half dissenter, would have produced, and which the dissenters will find to be incomparably more difficult to answer. He has not indulged in any of that mawkish religious sentimentality which is so common with some Churchmen, as well as with the dissenters, but has produced facts and manly reasoning not to be overthrown. The first error, omission, or misrepresentation which Mr. Poole corrects, is one common to popish and Protestant dissenters; namely, that of representing that Christianity was not known in England until it was introduced by Augustine, the popish monk, in 596. The papists utter this falsehood to make it appear that theirs is the ancient religion, and that we are indebted to them for our Christianity; and the Protestant dissenters utter the same falsehood, to make it appear that we have received our religion, and have dissented from popery; and to bolster up their accusations against the Church, of her being half popish at present, and to afford something like ground for their pretences to a further, necessary, and full reformation. This misrepresentation, or whatever else it may be termed, Mr. Poole has corrected, by showing that Christianity existed here long before either papists or popery were heard of either here or anywhere else in the world. It would occupy too much of our room to follow Mr. Poole through his course of argumentation; and we, therefore, can only add our cordial recommendation of his sound, able, and admirable pamphlet, as well calculated to do great good in Leeds, and wheresoever else it may chance to be read. The respectable publisher, Mr. Har

rison, also deserves great credit for the manner in which the pamphlet is got up.

Both One in Christ; or, the Middle Wall of Partition Taken Away. By Alfred MoRITZ MYERS. With an Introductory Preface by CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. London: Wertheim, 14, Paternoster-row. 1839. 12mo. P. 314.

As we have already manifested, we feel exceeding great interest in reference to our elder brethren, the Jews, the seed of faithful Abraham, their father and our father. We have, therefore, much pleasure in calling attention to this volume, which is the production of a converted Jew, or, as we will call him, a Christian Jew; for, though now a believer in the Messiah, he is still, by nation, a Jew, and needs not ever consider himself otherwise, until the Lord's appointed time for destroying the distinction between Jew and Gentile. Mr. Myers is a Prussian by birth, but he believes that he is a descendant of either Judah or Benjamin,-he cannot tell which,-and we believe it to be a most remarkable fact that such has long been the state of the genealogy of the Jews, that they are now unable to prove the descent of the Messiah had he not appeared, and are consequently destitute of one important proof of his Messiahship.

The book contains much interesting infor mation respecting the habits of life, religious belief, and ceremonies of the Jews, and the state of their nation, at the present period. The writer details with great modesty and simplicity the details of his conversion to the faith of Christ, setting forth the great obstacles in the way of the conversion of a Jew, and the temptations which he afterwards meets with to draw him back again to the faith of his forefathers. Mr. Myers will be soon led, we trust, to embrace sounder views of the nature and constitution of the Christian Church, than he now seems to hold. A little conversation on these matters with his brother convert, the celebrated Dr. Wolff, might, under the blessing of God, be of great use to him. The preface to the second edition of the book is no recommendation to it, being written by Charlotte Elizabeth, who is a most excellent and praiseworthy lady, but unfortunately a sort of believer in that presbyterian and unchristian newspaper, The Record. We would not hurt this good lady's feelings unnecessarily for the world; but we cannot conscientiously give currency to opinions and sentiments which we think mischievous to the great cause of Christianity; nor will she wish us for a moment to act contrary to our consciences; for it seems necessary to say that sound Churchmen really have consciences, as well as those who are half Churchmen and half dissenters. With these remarks we will recommend the work as valuable and interesting.

The Devotional Year, or the Companion to the Liturgy: By the Rev. E. D. Jackson, B. C. L. Master of English Literature in the Grammar School, Manchester, and Assistant Minister of St. Michael's, Manchester. London: Longmans, 18mo. P. 354. As the time for making Christmas Presents and New Year's Gifts is now at hand, we gladly call attention to this excellent little work, as a very appropriate volume for such a purpose. Mr. Jackson first takes up the leading portions of Morning and Evening Prayer, and gives an appropriate and illustrative passage extracted from the writings of the fathers of the Church, and the most approved Divines of later times. He then proceeds through the whole ecclesiastical year, commencing with the first Sunday in Advent, and ending with All Saints' Day. The Communion and the other offices of the Church are afterwards proceeded with in a similar manner. Take, for example, the fif teenth Sunday after Trinity, and the Epistle which is taken from Galatians, the sixth, beginning at the eleventh verse and ending with the chapter is referred to, but only a part of it; the fourteenth verse, is quoted, and then follows an extract from St. Chrysostom, containing some of that Father's choice remarks upon that text. The Gospel taken from the sixth of St. Matthew, beginning at the twenty-fourth verse, is then referred to and the thirty-third verse given, followed by an extract thereon by St. Ambrose. An appropriate hymn succeeds, and then a prayer by Bishop Jeremy Taylor, which ends the course for the Sunday. The extracts appear to be all from Churchmen, and the book is consequently well adapted for the perusal, and for presents, of Church

men.

A Citizen of no mean City. A sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, before the Right Hon. The Lord Mayor, and the Corporation of London, on Saturday, the 28th of September, 1839, before the election of a Lord Mayor. By the Rev. Charles Cator, M. A., Rector of Stokesby, Yorkshire, and Chaplain to the Lord Mayor. London: Rivingtons. 8vo. P. 40. Although we spoke of this sermon in our last, and gave a quotation from it, we thus formally notice it, because, whatever may conduce to make its faithful contents known we shall be anxious to contribute, as far as we can. Mr. Cator's speaking of the "baneful effects of Wesley's and Whitefield's zeal" in the quotation we allude to, was not altogether approved of by some members of the Corporation who called in question the accuracy, or the something else, of the Rev. Gentleman's statement or opinion. The bare idea of the members of the Corporation pretending to set themselves up as theologians is sufficiently absurd upon the very

face of it. Were Mr. Cator to enter the laboratories of any of these Corporate candlemakers, soap-boilers, or the like trades, and question their processes, and attempt to give them instructions in their business affairs, we dare say the worthy Aldermen, Common Councillors, or Liverymen, would soon hint that he could not possibly understand the subjects; yet, how much less can they understand divinity, a subject at all times much more difficult than their trades, and owing to the numerous divisions and subdivisions, schisms, and heresies, prevalent in "The religious world" now more difficult than ever. A class of men more grossly ignorant of matters of religion than the Corporation of London, and London tradesmen generally, can hardly be equalled by the same number of men in a similar relative position in society throughout the kingdom, We state this, not as reflecting particularly upon these worthy gentlemen, because, occupied as they so incessantly are, from Monday morning to Saturday night, in matters of mere business, with scarcely a moment's time to think of anything else, it can hardly be otherwise. Wemerely blame such persons for setting themselves up as judges of what they do not understand, and are almost unavoidably ignorant. Ne sutor ultra crepidam is an admirable maxim for the guidance of the conduct of the worthy members of the Metropolitan corporation as well as for other people. However, there is nothing like agitating these subjects, and stirring up the popular mind and turning public attention to such matters in connection with the scriptural nature of the government discipline, doctrines, and formularies of the Church. The sermon will do much good, and we heartily recommend it.

The Miracles in Egypt, Sketches of Socialism, and other Poems, by George Beddow. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., 1839, 12mo. P. 240.

A volume of very respectable poetry, by a religious and estimable son of Galen, in Birmingham. The sketches on that monstrous abomination,-Socialism, are well hit off and very timely. Some of the pieces are of a high order, and manifest a delightful spirit of christianity.

An address to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich, by the Rev. George Burges, Vicar of Halvergate and Moulton. London: Wex. 8vo. P. 86.

The burden of this pamphlet is education, respecting which the author holds sound views, and is consequently opposed to his Bishop, whose waywardness and inconsistencies are ably exposed in this well written pamphlet

PSALM CXXXVII.

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In mute oblivious silence ever rest!
Yea, if my soul, inconstant in her love,
Prefer not Thee, all alien joys above!
Remember, LORD, how Edom's vengeful cry
Exulting pierc'd the portals of the sky:
Thy holy Temple trembling to the sound-
"Down with it, down with it, even to the
ground!"

Daughter of Babylon! foredoom'd to know
The just requital of inflicted woe,

Blest shall he be to whom the task is given To deal the righteous recompense of Heaven; And, deaf as thou to deep maternal groans, Tear from the breast thy babes, and dash them on the stones!

R. B. EXTON.

CHRISTMAS.

BY MRS. WILLIAM BAILEY.

Lord of Glory, Lord of Might!
Dwelling in unclouded light!
In whose presence Angels fall,
Praising Thee, the Lord of All!

Babe of Bethlem! Human child! Weeping in the manger wild! Making now thy humble bed, In the stall where beasts are fed ! God from all Eternity! Maker of all worlds that be! Measuring Heaven with a span ! Tracing forth Creation's plan! Deigning on our Earth to dwell! Saving sinners, doomed to Hell! Leaving Heaven's all-blissful plain, Suffering woe, and death, and pain! "God of God, and Light of Light!" Very God"-the Infinite! Thou the immortal Lord Supreme ! Glory's pure effulgent beam! * Thou our God, our Savour art; Thou hast, too, a human heart! God and man we view in Thee! Our Brother, and our Deity! Westminster, 18th Nov., 1839.

*'Araúyaoμa Ts Sons.-Heb. i. 3. This sublime passage of inspiration, which ascribes to our Emmanuel-our God-man, Jesus Christ, the unparalleled splendour, of Jehovah, did, doubtlessly, expand the soaring genius of Milton to one of his sublimest bursts of sacred song, at the opening of the third book of his Paradise Lost. Milton there addresses Deity, nnder the Scriptural image of "Light"- thus Bright effluence of bright essence increate." Now, as the solar beams are co-existent, co-essential, consubstantial, and of the same duration as that glorious Luminary himself so Jesus, being "the Son of God," and the "word," and the "image," and the power," and "the fulness of the Godhead bodily" of the eternal Jehovah, is, exactly as his natural emblem, co-existent, co-essential, consubstantial, and coeternal with his Heavenly Father. Christ, being "God over all," is, in truth, " GOD OF GOD AND LIGHT OF LIGHT." The Apostle, then, in that expression, sets forth "the eternal glory of God, with the essential beaming and brightness of it in the Son, in and by whom the glory of the Father shineth forth to us." (Owen on Heb. in Cor.) Therefore, they who receive not the Son as thus revealed, cut themselves off from any knowledge whatever of the one true God. There cannot be any middle path between true Faith and arrant Atheism. The self-denominated Deist is an absurd moral anomaly. He is a downright Atheist. His Deism is some idolatrous fancy-some idol creation of his own puffed-up mind-which, though it be not visible, is certainly spiritual idolatry. With no less depth than truth did the great Lord Bacon confess, in his celebrated "Confession of Faith,"in the person of the Mediator" (says Bacon), "the true ladder is fixed whereby God descends to his creatures, and his creatures ascend to God."

NEW CHURCH.-On Thursday the 10th of Oct., the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford consecrated the chapel of St. John the Evangelist at Stock Cross, near Newbury, a church erected and endowed by the unassisted piety and munificence of the

Rev. H. W. Majendie, vicar of Speen. Seldom has it been our lot to witness a scene, upon the whole, more gratifying to the Christian phil anthropist and the churchman. At half-past ten o'clock this noble edifice, which is computed to hold about