generally, would give an incalculable impulse to the School of exertion and diligence. Your Committee have to notice, with much gratitude, the cordial manner in which the Lord Bishop of the Diocese expressed his approbation of the principles of this Institution, and permitted them to record his name among the Vice-presidents, and most liberal Annual Subscribers. Your Committee have received a very flattering instance of the estimation in which the School is held, by a handsome donation of nine pounds, to be expended in Bibles, from the funds of a late voluntary association for the distribution of the Holy Scriptures. They consider the thanks of the Subscribers to be due to the Committee of that Society generally, but especially to Mr. E. Bird, whose good will procured so large a portion of these funds for your benefit. But your Committee have been above measure gratified by an unexpected testimony of the worth of their undertaking, in a present of a printed model of an Altar Screen, neatly framed, sent by Mr. Daniel Mathias, one of the late pupils of the School, accompanied by a most affectionate " acknowledgment of the manifold benefits he experienced through the instrumentality of this Institution, and a desire to throw in his mite, and to tender this his frail offering in testimony of the great value in which he holds the School." Your Committee also invite the attention of the Subscribers to the pleasing fact, that if they add the date of the Institution to the usual age of the children, they will find, that they are receiving in this present token, only the first fruits of that gratitude which the age of experience will teach many more to feel and to publish. Your Committee state with gratitude to the subscribers that the Funds of the School are very fairly kept up, and adequate to the common items of expenditure; but they regret that much remains to be done, to insure the full benefit of the spirited arrangements for the comforts of the master and children, and for the carrying on of the different works of industry VOL. XI. NO. XII. When attached to the Girls' School. the public is fully sensible of the benefit to be derived, a strenuous and complete effort must be made to extricate the School-house from its present incumbrances. Your Committee are very sensible of the obligations they are under for the visits paid by several friends to the Schools, and most particularly by ladies, of whose constant but unpretending watchfulness over the best interests of the girls, they cannot trust themselves to express all their feelings, lest they should offend retiring deli cacy. has had frequent cause of lamenting that discipline has been at a very low ebb, for want of a superior tribunal, which should have authority and be binding on the children's minds. A constant succession of visitors is the only thing wanting to double the ef fect of this system of teaching, for the master and teachers are parts of the machinery only; the subscribers themselves are the prime movers of the operation. In the Boys' School the master Your Committee entreat you to take up, as a privilege, your responsibility in regard to the objects of your recommendation. They would entreat their friends to consider themselves as fathers and mothers in God, and the common faith, to those whom they place here, and not lose sight of them and their conduct, till they have taken upon themselves the management of their actions. The number of children remains the same as at the last meeting. There are at present 105 boys and sixty-three girls. There have been many changes among the boys. Many teachers have left the School, whose places are supplied by boys of considerable promise; some have left under circumstances not very favourable to their credit, but your Committee are pleased with reporting that they have taken cheerfully to hard and laborious callings, and that even those boys, who were irregular in conforming to the strict order of the School, prove themselves still very much more tractable than the other unfortunates, whose friends have not availed themselves of this opportunity of training them. This circumstance appears to them to show, that when once chil 5 G MONTHLY REGISTER. SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. THE Parent Society has lately issued its Annual Report, preceded by the Bishop of Llandaff's excellent sermon at the Anniversary Meeting of the Charity Schools, at St. Paul's, and replete with the most interesting information respecting the proceedings of the Society. Most of our readers have, before this time, received the copy to which they are entitled as subscribing members. We recommend them to lose no time in making themselves acquainted with its contents: while, for the benefit of those who are not subscribers, we subjoin the following extract, which cannot fail, we think, of eliciting an increase of contributions to the furtherance of its laudable designs:~ "The Society has again to perform the grateful task of announcing an augmentation in its annual receipts and expenditure, and a proportionate increase in its distribution of books. But the degree in which the Institution has accomplished the great work for which it was formed, and the rate at which it is advancing towards the completion of its task, will be most distinctly shown by comparing the operations of the past year with those not merely of the year immediately preceding it, but of others removed from it by a considerable interval. Upon a comparison of the Audit Paper for the year 1829 with similar documents for the years 1809 and 1819, a fair estimate may be formed of the progress of the Society during the last twenty years. It appears from these documents, that at the first of these dates, namely, the Audit for 1809, the annual expenditure of the Society amounted to 17,910l. 19s. 5d.; the number of Bibles distributed in the year to 8,881, the number of Testaments to 13,730, the number of Books of Common Prayer to 20,876, the number of religious books to 20,867, and the number of tracts to 127,193. "In 1819 the expenditure amounted to 52,6847. 88. 8d.; the number of Bibles distributed to 31,756, the number of Testaments to 53,635, the number of Books of Common Prayer to 87,885, the number of religious books to 76,203, and the number of tracts to 940,014. "In the year that has just closed, the expenditure has amounted to 72,212 4s. 9d.; the number of Bibles distributed to 60,668, the number of Testaments and Psalters to 79,164, the number of Books of Common Prayer to 151,702, the number of religious books to 115,927, and the number of tracts to 1,197,443. There can be no difference of opinion respecting the inference to be drawn from these facts. They prove that there is an effective demand for the services of the Institution, and a general disposition to support it. And the Society must naturally be stimulated by these circumstances to adopt every measure by which it may merit a continuance of the patronage which it now enjoys, and may be enabled to perform the great work in which it has embarked." CARDIFF SCHOOL FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION of Ir gives the Committee unmixed pleasure to report, that the School still enjoys the privilege of the noble and distinguished patronage which has already advanced it to its present high repute and usefulness. They cannot withhold their sense of obligation to the Noble President (the Marquess of Bute) and his family, who not only contribute munificently to its funds, using every opportunity of showing their bounty, but their President, in his own person, condescends to take a part in the labour of superintendance with an alacrity and heartiness, which, if communicated to the Subscribers dreams; but knowing that heavy national guilt has been incurred, we cannot do other than expect heavy national chastisement; and appearances certainly warrant the supposition that Ireland, the tranquillization of which was made an excuse for open disobedience to the revealed will of God, may become, in his hands, the means of teaching the country that it would have been better to have adhered tenaciously to his commands, and abstained from the slightest union with idolaters. The disruption between the Protestants and Papists has been widened instead of diminished: in our day, as in St. Paul's, the question may be asked, "What fellowship hath light with darkness?" FRANCE. A slight change is about to take place in the French Cabinet. M. de la Bourdonnaye, a person who, from his ultra-royalism, is extremely obnoxious to the party opposed to Government, and who, from his general warmth of language and manner, as well as from the extravagant projects he is continually suggesting, was not very useful to his own, will retire. He was very averse to the appointment of Prince Polignac to the Presidency of the Council, and insisted that either himself or the Prince must give up office. Such being the case, and it being impossible to form a Cabinet on M. de la Bourdonnaye's principles, added to the conviction that it would be worse than useless if formed, the decision was easily taken. It does not appear that his resignation will be followed by any others, though it has been rumoured that M. Mangin, Chief of the Police, and General de Bourmont, the Minister of War, a very clever, but an unpopular man, will not remain long after him. These resignations will tend to strengthen the ministry; for even the virulence of faction has not ventured to asperse the honour or abilities of Prince Polignac; and should he be joined by colleagues less decidedly pledged to extravagant principles, he will probably be able to command the Chambers; a circumstance obviously impossible while M. de la Bourdonnaye continues a member of the Cabinet. These changes are unimportant to Great Britain, ex cept in one respect; the party of which Prince Polignac is the leader, is pledged to preserve the peace of Europe, and to cultivate in every honourable manner a good understanding between the two countries; in any other manner Britons will not require it. The liberals who were in office before them were eager for war, and decidedly hostile in spirit to England; and as war would be equally impolitic in either nation, it is, therefore, for their mutual interest that ministers, who will sedulously endeavour to preserve peace, should have power in France. The RUSSIA AND TURKEY.-The negotiations continue between the governments of these countries; but, of course, every question that arises is settled as the Emperor Nicholas desires. Sultan is endeavouring to raise the first instalment, in which, from the exhausted state, not merely of his treasury, but also of his whole dominions, he experiences serious difficulties, and will probably be obliged to have recourse to a foreign loan. He has recovered in a great measure from the dejection into which he was thrown by his unexpected reverses, and has resumed the training of his troops, reviewing them almost daily, as he still perseveres in his resolution to place his military force on an imposing footing; and his subjects positively affirm, that, with his great energy and remarkable genius for finding resources, he will soon emerge from his present disagreeable situation, and again place his empire in a respectable rank. But it is now too late; the internal weakness of the Turkish empire has been too fully developed for it ever to resume that place among the European states, which it has hitherto occupied. The want of fidelity exhibited by the Pachas, in their slowness or refusal to attend the summons of their master, is a sufficient proof that, at home, his authority is little regarded, and his displeasure little dreaded, which could not be the case if his officers considered he had power to enforce his commands; and a government that cannot make itself obeyed and respected at home, must never hope to have weight with foreign powers; whilst the loss of the principalities ceded to Russia, for the Porte can never hope to regain them,— the restoration of Greece to independence,—and the apparently rapidly approaching separation of Egypt, reduce both the power and dominions of Mahmoud within a very limited compass, and consign him to the rank of a secondary power. General Diebitsch does not make any preparation for leaving Adrianople, and it is expected will remain there till at least one instalment has been paid; in other parts of the Turkish territories partial evacuations have been made by the Russian troops. But the Emperor, though he makes peace, still continues his preparations for war, as if apprehensive that some contingency may arise to occasion a renewal of hostilities; perhaps doubtful, from the nature of the Sultan's employment, that he intends to renew the war as soon as the invading army is completely withdrawn. The equipment of vessels is also going on with great rapidity in the Euxine: to insure the free trade of this Sea, has ever been a matter of the first importance to the Russian government, as by it an extensive communication with the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, tending to improve both the commerce and civilization of Russia, can be maintained. GREECE is gradually consolidating into a settled and civilized country; its boundaries are to be fixed by the three kingdoms participant to the treaty of London, and it is resolved to change the republic into a monarchy; it is generally expected that a King will be selected before the commencement of the ensuing year. No surmise has been yet formed as to who is fixed upon to be raised to the crown; but it is arranged that it shall not be Count Capo d'Istria, who has left Greece, and is now on his journey to Russia. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW CHURCHES. The following Churches have been consecrated : BIRMINGHAM, St. Thomas, at Holloway Head, by the Bishop of the Diocese. LIVERPOOL, the Chapel of the School for the Blind, to be called "The Chapel of the Virgin Mary," by the Bishop of the Diocese, who preached on the occasion for the benefit of the Charity. The following New Churches have been opened for divine service : CLAPHAM, St. James, Park Hill. This is an elegant building, of the Gothic order, and capable of containing 1500 persons. CROSSLAND, near Huddersfield. DONCASTER, Christ Church. The Chapel of St. John's Hospital, Lichfield, which was repaired and repewed at the expense of the Rev. Chancellor Law, on his being appointed Master, has lately been enlarged, so as to accommodate 250 addițional persons; and the expense, which exceeded 6007., has been entirely defrayed by the liberality of the Rev. Chancellor himself. The alterations lately made in the Church of Shoreham, have not only added much to the beauty of that venerable building, but afford upwards of 400 additional free sittings. The first stone of a new steeple to the Parish Church of Walton-on-the-Hill has been laid by the Vicar. dreams; but knowing that heavy national guilt has been incurred, we cannot do other than expect heavy national chastisement; and appearances certainly warrant the supposition that Ireland, the tranquillization of which was made an excuse for open disobedience to the revealed will of God, may become, in his hands, the means of teaching the country that it would have been better to have adhered tenaciously to his commands, and abstained from the slightest union with idolaters. The disruption between the Protestants and Papists has been widened instead of diminished: in our day, as in St. Paul's, the question may be asked, "What fellowship hath light with darkness?" FRANCE. A slight change is about to take place in the French Cabinet. M. de la Bourdonnaye, a person who, from his ultra-royalism, is extremely obnoxious to the party opposed to Government, and who, from his general warmth of language and manner, as well as from the extravagant projects he is continually suggesting, was not very useful to his own, will retire. He was very averse to the appointment of Prince Polignac to the Presidency of the Council, and insisted that either himself or the Prince must give up office. Such being the case, and it being impossible to form a Cabinet on M. de la Bourdonnaye's principles, added to the conviction that it would be worse than useless if formed, the decision was easily taken. It does not appear that his resignation will be followed by any others, though it has been rumoured that M. Mangin, Chief of the Police, and General de Bourmont, the Minister of War, a very clever, but an unpopular man, will not remain long after him. These resignations will tend to strengthen the ministry; for even the virulence of faction has not ventured to asperse the honour or abilities of Prince Polignac; and should he be joined by colleagues less decidedly pledged to extravagant principles, he will probably be able to command the Chambers; a circumstance obviously impossible while M. de la Bourdonnaye continues a member of the Cabinet. These changes are unimportant to Great Britain, ex cept in one respect; the party of which Prince Polignac is the leader, is pledged to preserve the peace of Europe, and to cultivate in every honourable manner a good understanding between the two countries; in any other manner Britons will not require it. The liberals who were in office before them were eager for war, and decidedly hostile in spirit to England; and as war would be equally impolitic in either nation, it is, therefore, for their mutual interest that ministers, who will sedulously endeavour to preserve peace, should have power in France. RUSSIA AND TURKEY.-The negotiations continue between the governments of these countries; but, of course, every question that arises is settled as the Emperor Nicholas desires. The Sultan is endeavouring to raise the first instalment, in which, from the exhausted state, not merely of his treasury, but also of his whole dominions, he experiences serious difficulties, and will probably be obliged to have recourse to a foreign loan. He has recovered in a great measure from the dejection into which he was thrown by his unexpected reverses, and has resumed the training of his troops, reviewing them almost daily, as he still perseveres in his resolution to place his military force on an imposing footing; and his subjects positively affirm, that, with his great energy and remarkable genius for finding resources, he will soon emerge from his present disagreeable situation, and again place his empire in a respectable rank. But it is now too late; the internal weakness of the Turkish empire has been too fully developed for it ever to resume that place among the European states, which it has hitherto occupied. The want of fidelity exhibited by the Pachas, in their slowness or refusal to attend the summons of their master, is a sufficient proof that, at home, his authority is little regarded, and his displeasure little dreaded, which could not be the case if his officers considered he had power to enforce his commands; and a government that cannot make itself obeyed and respected at home, must never hope to have weight with foreign powers; whilst the loss of the principalities ceded to Russia, for the |