tosh, that when two humble mourners of their departed minister, one a bricklayer and the other a carpenter, attempted to defend the lowly grave from violation, by placing over and around it a small monument and a palisade, their pious object was defeated, through the watchful care of his EXCELLENCY the Governor, by whose orders the bricks and timber were torn up, and scattered abroad. Well might Mr. Canning, instead of defending the Agents of Government, say, respecting the whole transaction," that there was no part of it to which he could look with a degree of satisfaction." And it was not wonderful, that so flagitious an affair should draw forth the highest strains of eloquence in the British Senate. The speeches of Mr. Brougham, Sir James Mackintosh, and Dr. Lushington, when the subject was before the House of Commons, do the highest honour to themselves, their age and country. The strongest reprobation of such transactions as these becomes the Christian full as much as the mere Briton. The suffering of personal injury without retaliation is no doubt the duty of every follower of Jesus Christ, for so he did, and so he commanded us to do. But never did any one use more unsparing severity of reproof towards oppressors, and persecutors, and wicked men of every description, than did the meek and lowly Jesus.

Scientific Department.

WE are glad to notice another advocate, and an able one, of the union of Science with Religion. The following paragraphs are taken from a Review, in the London Christian Instructor, of Observations on the Anti-Christian Tendency of Modern Education, and on the Practicability and Means of its Improvement. By John Campbell, of Carbrook, F. R. S. E.

"It is the just observation of Mr. Foster, that 'moral philo sophers regard their department as a science complete in itself: and investigate the foundation of morality, define its laws, and affix its sanctions, in a manner generally so distinct from Christianity that the reader would almost conclude that religion to be another science complete in itself."

"The same anxious exclusion,' remarks Mr. Campbell, 'of every thing wearing the complexion of religion, marks the elementary publications and academical prelections on all the branches of physical philosophy. From the announcement of the first proposition, that matter is infinitely divisible, a proposition, however, which does not seem to be founded in truth, the attention of the student is kept constantly fixed on its properties and combinations, and on the laws by which its relations are determined, without once being directed to Him, who, in the beginning, created the heavens and the earth,' and who created them, with all' their varied and harmonious arrangements, according to the counsel of his will. What would the world say of a public teacher, who should traverse the whole science of optics without making his pupils acquainted with the name of Galileo; or should terminate his disquisitions on gravity and motion, without at all referring to Yet who are Galileo and Newton, the discoveries of Newton.

great among men as they may be, that they should be held up to lasting veneration, while the great Architect of the universe, the Maker of Galileo and Newton, is passed contemptuously by ?? pp. 35, 36.

"There is a mystery in this. It is not easy to account for the awful fact, that an habitual converse with 'the unambigu

ous footsteps of God,' instead of leading from nature up to nature's great Originator, should draw the investigator aside from the ways which conduct to Him, and his true knowledge and worship. If the following animated passage do not give the whole of the solution, it presents one of its most important sections.

66 6 'Although the most influential cause of the growth of scepticism may be the pagan silence regarding the Creator and his works, and the substitution of misleading words, such as the order of nature, in place of the great First Cause, all this would comparatively avail but little, were it not that pride, which is ever struggling for supremacy in the human soul, becomes a powerful ally in the internal war carried on against the government of God.'

"When a man, in the ingenuousness of youth, turns his attention to the visible things of God, whether it be the creature of his hand, or the order of his Providence, his mind is awed by the grandeur of the effects which pass in succession before him. The planets moving free in space ;-the succession of day and night-of summer and winter,-and the whole splendour of the spangled hea vens, suggest a vast idea of power, to which he naturally bends. The earthquake and volcano which convulse the crust of the earth, and the lightnings and tempests which agitate the firmament of heaven, excite involuntary terror, and would naturally drive men into the holes of the rocks for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.' And the spontaneous bounties which gratify his desires, and minister to his necessities, or the unexpected deliverance from impending danger, would as naturally, on the first contemplation of them by an unsophisticated mind, elicit a grateful acknowledgement of Divine goodness. But when the opening intellect is, without reference to revelation, introduced to the knowledge of second causes; when the student learns that the planets are maintained in their orbits by principles which operate before his eyes when he throws a stone or kicks a ball,-that the revolution of the seasons, and succession of morning and evening, are affected by movements which he can communicate to any thing around him ;— when, in the earthquake, he sees only an explosion of gas, and in the volcano, the burning rubbish of a mine abounding with pyrites when the professor exhibits the destruction of a mountain

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in the class-room, and the lightning falls within the mimickry of his own electrical machine ;-when the skill and labours of the gardener enable him to anticipate the varied characters and appearances of the productions of the soil ;-and when he ascertains that the danger he dreaded was averted by a proximate cause, palpable and sure;-when all these circumstances are displayed, one after the other, before him, a veil is as it were drawn aside, the phenomena of nature are exposed in their proximate machinery, and the natural impressions of awe, and fear, and gratitude, are all effaced. The phenomena are no longer directly attributed to the agency of God, and pride elevates human reason to the throne of Jehovah.'-pp. 38-40,

"We regret that we are unable to follow this able and animated writer through his highly interesting sketch of universal physics,' but we very strongly recommend it to our readers, and pass on to the closing pages of this little but important book. Having in a brief but very spirited way, illustrated the connexion between science and religion, Mr. Campbell sums up as follows:

"Shall we not conclude, that whether the student be employed in contemplating the wonders which Astronomy unfolds, or the no less wonderful exhibitions which are every where around him on the earth, instead of repressing that admiration, which such a splendid and varied display is calculated to excite, and instead of confining the active faculties of his soul, to the measurement of the distances, the densities, and the forces of the planets, or to the mere mechanical exposition of those beautiful laws by which the operations of nature are regulated, he should be encouraged, through these various objects of interesting contemplation, to cherish the recollection of that, which it is of vastly more importance to contemplate,Who it was by whom all this wondrous fabric was made.-And who is that Being who commanded the world into existence,-who said, 'Let there be light, and there was light? That mighty potentate, who amidst such an endless variety of his works, pervades, directs, and controls the universe -who is this King of Glory, that the everlasting gates may be opened to admit him in triumph, amidst the glad hosannahs of his creatures?-He is Jesus of Nazareth,-He who was rejected and

despised of men,-He, who died on the Cross on Calvary for the salvation of perishing sinners.-Is there one fact the student can learn in all the range of Philosophy, half so interesting, half so momentous as this? And why is it, then, that when exhibiting and explaining the marvellous works which our Lord hath done, a public teacher should feel either delicacy, or difficulty, in impress ́ing on the mind of a young student, that these are his Redeemer's works, that His are the glorious attributes they display?"— pp. 136-138.

ELEMENTS OF THE COMET OF 1823-4.-We once hoped to have had it in our power to give these Elements from Observations made in Calcutta, and therefore promised them. Uncontroulable circumstances, however, prevented the fulfilment of that promise: but we can now amply supply our deficiency by taking the following article from the Quarterly Journal of Science for April last. We know it will be particularly acceptable to those gentlemen who made observations upon the Comet, in India ; and should a comparison of these results with their own, suggest any thing worthy of notice, we shall be exceedingly happy to receive from them any communication on the subject.

"1. The first received by the Editor were from Mr. J. Taylor of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 2. The second are by Professor Nicolai Schumacher, Astr. N. N. 48. B. 3; giving the greatest error in A. R. +18”, in decl. +11". 3. The third by Mr. Hansen, A. N. 48, B. 3. 4. The fourth by Carlini. 5. The fifth by Dr. Brink, ley. 6. The sixth by Mr. Richardson, of Greenwich.