insignificant, when compared with those which threaten her from within; and that it is to her internal state, if she is to be saved, that the remedy must be applied. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, GREAT BRITAIN. &c. &c. In the press: From the French, Biographie Moderne or Lives of remarkable Characters who have distinguished themselves during the French Revolution;-Strype's Memorials of Archbishop Cranmer, in 2 vols. royal 8vo. ;-Dr. Sherlock's Discourses, in 3 vols.;-Tracts, Mathematical and Philosophical, by Dr. C. Hutton ;-A volume of Letters, by the late Rev. James Hervey, from 1736 to 1752; - A New Edition of Foster's Essays;-and, An Account of the Kingdom of Tunis, by Thomas M'Gill, Esq. Preparing for publication: An enlarged edition of Dr. Williams's Essay on Divine Equity and Sovereignty, in 2 vols. 8vo. including an Examination of Bishop Tomline's Refutation of Calvinism. At Cambridge, the Norrisian prize is this year adjudged to the Rev. John Taddy, M. A. late fellow of Trinity College, for his essay on the following subject: "The divisions of Christians are not inconsistent with the truth of Christianity.”—The subjects of the prizes for the present year are-for senior bachelors, Utrum in optima Dialogorum ratione Antiqui Recentioribus sint præpenendi ;"-for middle bachelors, "Studiorum quæ in Academia sunt instituta laus et utilitas." The subject of the Seatonian prize is, "the Sufferings of the primitive Martyrs." From a return presented to the House of Commons, it appears that we imported last year, 1,387,020 quarters of wheat, 503,422 cwt. of flour, 533,613 quarters of oats, and 33,226 bolls of oatmeal. Of this quantity the imports were- from France, 334,806 quarters of wheat, and 202,922 cwt. of flour; from Holland, 189,016 quarters of wheat; from Germany, 145,186 ditto; and from Poland and Prussia, 296,756; from Denmark and Norway, 110,955 quarters; from America, 34,829 quarters of wheat, and 210,209 cwt. of flour. The following return of commitments and trials in London and Middlesex, for five The report from the Vaccine Establishment, for 1811, to government, states, that at the nine stations established in London, 3,108 persons have been vaccinated, and 23,362 charges of vaccine lymph have been distributed to various applicants. No case of failure has occurred. In the Royal Military Asylum, and in the Foundling Hospital, vaccination was introduced, by order of government; and con tinues to be practised. The former institution, which contains more than eleven hundred children, has lost but one of them by small-pox, and that individual had not been vaccinated, in consequence of having been declared by the mother to have passed through the small-pox in infancy. In the latter institution, no death has occurred by small-pox. Every child has been vaccinated on its admission to the charity; and in no instance has the preventive power of vaccination been discredited, although many of the children have been repeatedly inoculated with the matter of small-pox, and been submitted to the influence of its contagion. Similar success has attended the practice of vaccination at the Lying-in Charity of Manchester, where, in the space of nine years, more than nine thousand persons have been effectually vaccinated; and by a report received from Glasgow, it appears, that of fifteen thousand five hundred persons who have undergone vaccine inoculation in that city, during the last ten years, no individual has been known to have been subsequently affected with small pox. The reports from Edinburgh and Dublin are equally favourable. The Board have also received very favourable accounts of the progress of vaccination in India; and they subjoin a statement, from which it appears, that by vaccination, the ravage of small pox has been repeatedly prevented, and the disorder exterminated in the island of Ceylon. The Board declare their unabated confidence in the preventive power of vaccination, and their satisfaction with the gradual and temperate progress, by which this practice is advancing; and that they are of opinion, that by perseverance in the present measures, vaccination will in a few years become generally adopted. The governors of Queen Anne's bounty have given in to the House of Commons an account of the disposals of the sums granted in the last and preceding sessions for the relief of the poor clergy. Of the first grant of 100,000l., 15,300l. has been disposed of in the auginentation of 43 livings, by appropriating 3001. for each private benefaction of 2001. Of the 400 livings, not exceeding, according to the old returns, 30l. per annum, and drawn last year for augmentation by lot, 347 have been actually augmented by an appropriation of 200l. to each, making a sum of 69,4001. There remains, therefore, 15,300l. to be disposed of. The whole of this first grant, as also the second grant of 100,000l., has been invested in 3 per cent. consols. On receiving the second grant, notice was given by the governors of their intention to give 500L where any person would give 2001. or a larger sum, or a clear annuity of 15l.; and, afterwards, to aug ment with 2001. such livings as should be drawn by lot, and were fitly qualified. The sum of 11,2001. has been already appropriated to augment by benefaction 32 liv ings, and 25 more are under consideration. The governors have drawn 60 livings from those which do not exceed 50l. per annum, according to the new returns, and the popalation of which amounts to 1000, with a view to raise them to an amount between 80%, and 110l. per annum. Having disposed of this class, they are now proceeding to augment in the same way livings of between 504 and 601, in value, with a population of 1000 and upwards. The dividends received have been re-invested in the funds. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. THEOLOGY. Redemption; or, a View of the Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion, from the Fall of Adam to its complete Establishment under Constantine. By the Rev. M. Penhington, M. A. Vicar of Northbourn, in Kent. 8vo. 7s. 6d. The Nature and Perpetuity of the Influence of the Holy Spirit; a Sermon delivered at a Monthly Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches. By W. B. Collyer, D. D. 2s. Sermons, by T. Laurie, D. D. Minister of Newburn. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 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Ireland has received little or none of the cultivation bestowed upon more fortunate regions. From "To the philosophic and benevolent eye, a variety of causes, which it does not seem Freland presents a spectacle at once singular necessary to specify, she has profited little and affecting. Touching on the very con- from that spirit of moral and scientific enterfines of civilization, the lower classes of her prize by which Great Britain labours to repeople are in a great degree uncivilized. form and enlighten the world. Now it is imNor is any natural incapacity of the Irish possible to contemplate Ireland under such either the real or the pretended cause of this circumstances, and especially if we are led, in inferiority. As a people, they are character- any degree, to refer them to her connection ized by an uncommon quickness of parts, with ourselves, without feeling that it is and even by a peculiar benevolence and high time to adopt some measure for her generosity of disposition, which cannot fail to advancement. And the question is, what is yield, under due culture, a future harvest of the best measure to adopt? Municipal regood and great qualities. One source, bow-gulations alone do little for the civilization of any people; their object is not so much to instruct the ignorant as to restrain the vicious. The developement of mind, also, in consequence either of an increased and more friendly intercourse with other more enlightened nations, or of the gradual removal of political restraints, is too slow in its progress to satisfy the desires of the benevolent. Edueation, however, supplies an instrument at once peaceful and powerful for the improvement of this people. It has been found, however, extremely difficult to carry into effect any general plan of education for the Irish poor. In this country, very few competent persons could be found, who were disposed to quit a certain and secure provision here, for precarious subsistence, and perhaps some degree of personal hazard, in Ireland. Among the Irish themselves, the number was perhaps still smaller, to whom so important a trust might be confided. Advertisements for masters were accordingly in vain sent over to this country and circulated in Ireland. In this state of things, a clergyman projected the "Seminary for the Education of Schoolmasters." His object was to form a body of virtuous and well-disciplined men, to act in the pacity of parochial teachers. This end, it was conceived, might be best effected by combining theory with practice: by supplying them with the general principles of the art in its present improved state; and by attaching a large school to the institution, and directing and superintending their administration of it. ca "This institution, as far as the meagre state of its finances would admit, has been carried into effect; and a committee of gentlemen, who would have felt it criminal to let such a project fail through want of co-operation, have now the satisfaction of reporting to the public the success of the undertaking. "Twenty-one young men, educated since 1806 at the seminary, have been sent out to superintend parochial schools; and the committee are happy to record the high testimony which has been borne by their various employers to their virtues and talents*. Some alarm was at first excited by their introduction into various villages. But as the tolerant spirit of the teachers, their correct morals, their peaceful demeanour, and their improved system of education, became more evident, they have been welcomed, as they deserved, by all orders of the community. *Letters to this effect, from several most respectable clergymen, are in the hands of the secretaries, to whom the public are referred for further information. The acknowledged love of instruction among the Irish has now more plainly manifested itself: the schools are crowded; and appli cations are daily pouring in upon the society to grant to many districts what it has so profitably supplied to some. "Whilst, however, the committee have thus to report the prosperous state of the institution as to other points, they have to lament that the funds are by no means commensurate to the magnitude of the undertaking. The Society" in Ireland "for discountenancing Vice," the "Hibernian Society," the Bishop and Diocese of Limerick, with some distinguished individuals, have, indeed, lent their aid and patronage to the society; but the large demands for charity in that country so absorb the funds dedicated to the purpose of benevolence, that no adequate subscription can be raised upon the spot. In England, certain individuals have already contributed to suppport the institution; and it is hoped that this statement of its designs and its wants may direct the sympathy of our countrymen towards the sister kingdom, and turn a portion of the general beneficence into this channel. Our vicinity, our commercial relations, our political alliance, the aid she may furnish to ourselves, the vantage ground she may supply to an enemy, the sacred call to provide for those of our own family, one and all proclaim that Ireland should not want while England has any thing to give. The following committee have undertaken to receive and apply subscriptions for this institution, and, at proper intervals, to communicate reports of its progress to the public, viz. Right Hon. Lord Calthorpe; Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. M. P.; W. Wilberforce, Esq. M. P.; Charles N. Noel, Esq. M. P.; Thomas Babington, Esq. M. P.;. Robert Williams, Esq. M. P.; Henry Hoare, Esq.; William H. Hoare, Esq.; Z. Macaulay, Esq.-Treasurer, Henry Thornton, Esq. M. P. Bartholomew Lane.-Secretaries, Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Harrow near London, and T. G. Babington, Esq. 26, Birchin Lane, London. Auence of religion is operating powerfully in checking the profligacy and wickedness which has hitherto prevailed in that colony. Some remarkable instances of conversion had taken place among Roman Catholics, and others, who seemed the most unlikely to profit by religious instruction; and who had, for months before the letters were sent off, conducted themselves in a manner which was consistent with their professions. The other clergymen, and the schoolmasters, who went over with Mr. Marsden, are actively and usefully employed. All the children in the colony, who are old enough to attend the Schools, are now receiving religious instruction, as well as instruction in the rudiments of other branches of useful knowledge. One school of an hundred children is established near Mr. Marsden's residence, in order that he may himself superintend the religious education of those children. At the time the letters left Botany Bay, Mr. Marsden had with him Duaterra, and two other New Zealand chiefs; through whose means he hopes to be able, ere long, to introduce the knowledge of Christianity among the New Zealanders. MISSION SOCIETY TO AFRICA AND THE EAST. On Whit-Tuesday last, June 4, was held the Eleventh Anniversary of the Society for Missions to Africa and the East, conducted by Members of the Established Church. The annual sermon was preached at the parish church of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe and St. Anne, Blackfriars, by the Rev. Mclville Horne, late chaplain to the colony of Sierra Leone; after which a collection was made for the benefit of the institution, amounting to 2751. 2s. 74d. Of Mr. Horne's energetic and eloquent discourse we shall probably hereafter have occasion to speak. The annual General Meeting of the Society was afterwards held at the New Lon don Tavern, Cheapside, when a Report of Proceedings during the last year was read. From this Report it appears, that upwards of fifty persons, adults and children, are dependant on the Society, at its settlement on the Rio Pongas, in Africa; that the schools of native children in that quarter are in a flourishing state; and that the missionaries have been invited by friendly chiefs to extend their labours. These invitations will be accepted as soon as several missionaries, who are now waiting for a passage to Africa, shall arive at their destination. The Report contains interesting communications respect ing the diffusion of the knowledge of Chris CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 114. tianity in India; also from the Rev. Samuel Marsden, respecting New Zealand, and the best means of extending the light of the Gospel through the islands of the Southern Ocean. The Society's funds were stated, however, not to be adequate to the objects opening before it. MONTROSE AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. An auxiliary Bible Society was formed at Montrose, in the month of January last, on the plan of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Its exertions will be directed in the first place, to supply the poor in its own neighbourhood with Bibles and Testaments, either gratuitously or at reduced prices; and in the next place, to aid the British and Foreign Bible Society in its extensive plans. Here," they observe, "there are no bounds to our exertions. The field is the world, Christian, Pagan, Jewish, Mohammedan, the old and the new world; and the ultimate object is, that men of every climate, of every colour, of every language, may all read in their own tongue, the wonderful works of God." " Every one who prays with sincerity, that the name of God may be hallowed; that his kingdom may come, and that his will may be done on earth as it is in heaven, must wish and hope that the knowledge of his word should prevail throughout the world. Every one, who really entertains such a desire and expectation, must be satisfied of the necessity of employing means to advance its accomplishment; and every one, who approves the use of any means for this purpose, must allow, that the Bible itself is one of the most approved and effectual that can be employed. Why then should not every one, who approves such an object, lend his aid in promoting it? Can any one deny, that it is as much his duty as another's, to contribute, according to his ability, to the advancement of so great and so good a work? Who, that has ever known the value of divine truth, experienced its power, or tasted its consolations, but must earnestly desire to convey the same blessings to his fellow-creatures? To assist in sending a Bible to some poor Christian country, or to some dark heathen land, is surely the least that any man can do to testify his sense of his own spiritual advantages, his regard to the divine will, and his love to the souls of men. While we thus honour God with our substance, we may reasonably hope that he will prosper the work of our hands; and, while we thus help to convey a heavenly light to the dark places of the earth, the blessing of them that are ready to perish may come upon us." 3 F |