and unthoughtful of that which is to come. He ought to call himself to an account daily, and see whether he gets the mastery of his corruptions, and whether he does not often fall into the sins he has repented of. He ought to Lave some good assurance that he grows in grace, and that he is in some good measure restored to the image of God, in which he was at first created. This, I say again, ought to be the work of a man's whole life; and he that leaves it to the last moments of his life, must not expect the comforts of a happy death. All Christians are most highly concerned to lay these things to heart. They should imitate the wise builder, who sat down and counted the cost whether he was able, and whether he was resolved, to go through the work. So should every man seriously consider what it is he undertakes, when he promises to be a Christian; namely, that he will no longer be the devil's subject and servant; that he will no longer follow his own corrupt inclinations, but be governed by the law of God, and do that which he believes will best please him. That he will receive the Gospel as the law of God, without doubting its truths, or disputing the reasonableness of its injunctions. That he will obey the laws of God, as the only way of pleasing God, and of qualifying himself for heaven and happiness.Bishop Wilson.

THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY AND THE CLERGY.-It was with feelings of deep sorrow and regret that we noticed the reply, reputed to have been made by this distinguished nobleman and eminent member of the Conservative ranks, to an address delivered to him from a body of the Clergy, with reference to a recent duel. Viewing this subject according to the laws of that false code of honour, as it is termed, it could scarcely have been requisite for an individual so distinguished for his prowess in the field of battle, to have engaged in a single combat as a proof of courage. But this is a view of the subject with which we have no concern. We must view it on far higher and more weighty grounds. We must measure it by a Divine and not by a human standard. We must not consider the nice subtleties, the fine discriminations of a worldly sophistry, which would perhaps tell us of the necessity of punishing an affront, and of the prevention of insuit, or the protection afforded to the weak, by such a practice; with all this we have nothing to do; we do not subscribe to the justice or force of such arguments; nor, if we did, would our duty as Christians permit us for a moment to listen to them. The law of God says, "Thou shalt do no murder;" and before this plain and direct commandment of the Deity, all argument, all reasoning, falls to the ground, refuted and answered!

THE RUINS OF HUMANITY.Of all the ruins on which the eye of man can gaze, or on which his memory can dwell, none are more painfully sublime than the ruins of humanity; and what are they? Not the deep furrow which time ploughs on the cheeks, or the silvery whiteness with which years cover the head-not the curved spine, which bows the face to the earth, as if looking for a grave to rest in; for the wrinkled check, and the stooping frame, are the appropriate accompaniments of old age, and as beautiful in the system of life as winter with its leafless trees and frozen streams in the system of the seasons; but the ruins of humanity are seen in wrinkles which time has not made, in a frame trembling with anxiety, shaken by sorrow, humbled by sin, withered by despair when the beauty of youth is gone, and the beauty of age has not supplied its place; 'tis as melancholy as snow in harvest.

HENRY V. Whilst Richard Courtenay, Bishop of Norwich, one of the victims of the dysentry, was lingering in the agonies of death, we find Henry in the midst of his besieging army, at the height of a very severe struggle, war and disease raging on every side not in a council of his officers, planning the operations of to-morrow-nor on his couch, giving his body and mind repose from the fatigues and excitement of his opening campaign,but we see him on his knees at the death-bed of a dying minister of religion, joining in the offices of the church, so long as the waning spirit could partake of its consolations; and then not commissioning others, however faithful representatives they might have been, to act in his stead, but by his own hands soothing the sufferings of the dying prelate, and striving to make the struggle of his latter moments less

bitter. Had Henry visited the tent of the good bishop when he first knew of his malady, and charged any of his numerous retinue to pay especial attention to his wants and comforts, it would have been regarded, at such an hour of pressing emergence, as an act worthy of a Christian King. But Henry, who in no department of his public duties ever willingly deputed to others what he could personally attend to himself, carried the same principle into the exercise of the charities of private life; and has here left a pattern of Christian sympathy and lowliness of mind, of genuine philanthropy, and the sincere affection of true friendship, worthy of prince and peasant alike to imitate. Bishop Courtenay is said to have been among Henry's chosen friends, recommended to him by the singular qualities of his head and his heart. He was a person (we are told) endowed with intellectual and moral excellencies of a very high character; and Henry knew how to appreciate the value, and cultivate the friendship, of such a man. Having enjoyed the satisfaction and benefit of his society in life, now, when he was on the point of quitting this world for ever, Henry never withdrew from his bed; but, watching him with tender anxiety till the ministers of religion had solemnized the last rite according to the prevailing practice of the Church in those days, even then, "in his own person," he continued to supply the wants of sinking mortality, "with his own hands wiping the chilled feet" of his dying friend. The manuscript proceeds to say, that, when life was extinct, with pious regard for his memory, Henry caused his body to be conveyed to England, and to be honourably buried among the royal corpses in Westmins ter. Memoir of Harry of Monmouth.

THE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.-The Rev. Joshua King, of Woodchurch, near Manchester, in a letter to the South Lancashire Anti-Poor Law Association, thus describes the New Marriage Registration Act:-" It is inquisitorial—subversive of morality and religion-destructive of the peace of families-can be productive of no possible advantage to churchmen-and, it is calculated, will add to the poor-rate 70,000l. a year, towards which churchmen will have to contribute somewhat more than 68,000. The appalling fact that in North America, where civil contract marriages' prevail, in the state of Cincinnati alone there were no less than five hundred divorces in a circuit, should surely induce every right-minded man, of every religious denomination, to unite in attempting to prevent the spread in this country of a moral pestilence, a legalised concubinage, and to erase from our statute-book so foul a blot, outraging the feelings of every virtuous woman, and insulting the Majesty of Heaven!"

THE LORD BISHOP OF SALISBUBY, at his last visitation of the Clergy of his diocese, lately, at Warminster, stated that he would have preferred that the number of Bishops in England should have been increased to the present arrangement of their territorial possessions, although equalising their incomes did one good, namely, in lessening translations. He congratulated the Clergy upon the small number of marriages which had taken place in consequence of the Registration Act, and that the love of the people for the Church had induced them to bring their children to be baptised as before the passing of that Act. His lordship disapproved of the Tithe Commutation Act, saying, as the only test of the value of tithe was the price of corn, it was not improbable but that the rights of the incumbents might be materially injured in any future valuation. His lordship disapproved of the Clergy in small parishes giving only one service a day to their flocks, and directed that in future the same duty should be performed as in other and larger parishes,

CANONICAL DISCIPLINE.-It appears strange, that at a time when the Church is threatened by its enemies, open and concealed, with so many innovations in its discipline, certain of the Clergy of the Establishment should themselves set an example of laxity in matters appertaining to the forms of public worship. At the Archdeaconal visitation, held at the Abbey Church, Bath, lately, the Venerable Archdeacon Brymer took occasion to enforce the necessity of following implicitly the forms of canonical discipline, as the best means of rendering the word of God triumphant. Entertaining, as he did, this opinion, he should not discharge his duty if he did not allude, with the sincerest regret, to a de

viation in the mode of administering the Lord's supper, which had obtained in some churches that of delivering the consecrated elements to more than one person at a time, and substituting the plural for the singular in the form of words which the minister was directed to use; and he must further state, that the same opinion was contained in the recorded sentiments of the bishop of the diocese, who had a deep and deliberate conviction that the Church doctrines, discipline, and ordinances were but parts of one coherent whole, and that none could be safely separated from the rest. On the subject of psalmody, the venerable Archdeacon said, that no books could be lawfully used in the Established Church unless they had the stamp of public authority; and until the royal permission was obtained for the adoption of other versions, none could be legal except those printed at the end of the Church Prayer-Book.-Herald.

THE EFFECTS Of the ReformaTION IN ENGLAND." Papal power, thus extinguished in England, was divided among many sharers therein. And first, 'Give unto God the things which are God's.' "Who can forgive sins but God alone?' This paramount power, no less blasphemously than arrogantly usurped by the Pope, was humbly and justly restored to the high God of heaven. Restitution was made to the second Person of the Trinity, of that universal jurisdiction over the whole Church, as belonging to Christ alone, who is the Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, and a badge of Anti-christ for the Pope proudly to assume the same. To the Holy Ghost was restored that infallibility which to him doth properly pertain, as being the Spirit of Truth,' and which hath promised to lead his Church in general into ‘all truth,' but never fixed any inerrability on any particular person, or succession of particular persons whatever. And now, "Give unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's.' In order whereunto, the Parliament did notify and declare that ecclesiastical power to be in the King which the Pope had formerly unjustly invaded Lastly, Every English layman was restored to his Christian birthright; namely, to his judgment of practical discretion, (in perusing the Scriptures in his own language,) formerly swallowed up in the ocean of the Pope's infallibility. Thus, on the depluming of the Pope, every bird had his own feather; in the parlage whereof, what he had gotten by sacrilege, was restored to God; what by usurpation, was given back to the King, Church, and State; what by oppression, was remitted to particular Christians."-Abridged from Fuller's Church History.

ROMISH PICKINGS.-O'Connell's disinterested services have been secured to the present Ministry by a very liberal share of state appointments for his Popish. friends; the following are selected from the list:

"Sir Michael O'Loghlin, Master of the Rolls, 5,500l. a-year, and his two sons-in-law, with 8007. a-year, and 600l. a-year.

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Mr. Richard Lalor Shiel, Vice President of the Board of Trade, with 2,5007. a-year.

"Mr. Woulffe, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, with 5000l. a-year

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"Mr. Ball, Judge of Common Pleas, with 3,500l. a-year.

"Mr. More O'Ferrall, Secretary to the Admiralty, with 30007. a-year.

"Mr. Wyse, a Lord of the Treasury, with 1000l. a-year.

"Mr. Howley, Chairman of Sessions of Tipperary, 12001. And a host of of others from 500l. to 8007. a-year.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We ought to apologise to “ G. H. P." for our delay in noticing his communication, appear in our next. We shall be happy to hear from him again.

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"P. P." Chapter III. in our next.

W. M. P.'s letter on "Morning and Evening Hymns" came too late.

We duly received the several hand-bills put forth by the Rev. Mr. Faulkner and Dr. Dillon, at the recent election of Minister for Clerkenwell Parish Church. our limits nor inclination will permit us to make extracts from them.

WILLIAM EDward painteR, STRAND, LONDON, PRINTER.

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LORD BROUGHAM ON NATIONAL EDUCATION.

THE cause of education on the principles of the Church of Eng land, has obtained a new triumph, and one moreover of no mean or unimportant character. Our readers will doubtless understand, that we allude to the statements which have appeared in a pamphlet lately published by Lord Brougham, in the form of a Letter on National Education.

When we consider the prominent position which his lordship has so long occupied as the advocate and promoter of a system of secular education; the confession and acknowledgement which he has made in this publication, and which would seem to be wrung from him by the force of stubborn and incontrovertible facts-that the cause which he has befriended has sustained an overwhelming defeat, and that no system of education will ever succeed in this country, which is not based upon religious principles-cannot be otherwise than gratifying and cheering, in the highest degree, to all true and sincere churchmen. We subjoin the passage to which we allude:

"Then let us be well assured that no Government in this country ever can carry a plan of National Education, in which a perfect absolute equality between all sects of religious professors shall be established, according to your principles and mine-according to what I humbly presume to think the only sound and just principles. So far we must make up our minds, looking our position steadily in the face, to admit that we are completely defeated, and defeated without any hope of a favourable reverse of fortune another time. A controversy of thirty years, with all the reason and almost all the skill, and, until very lately, all the zeal on our side, has ended in an overthrow somewhat more complete than we should in all probability have sustained at the commencement of our long and well-fought campaign. Such is the force and effect of our establishment, the growth of ages, pushing its roots into the hearts of the people, entwining its branches with all other institutionslet us in justice add,

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adorned with eminent gifts; let us in candour confess, bearing but seldom the bitter harsher fruits of intolerance; for assuredly if the Church of England is a nursing mother to her own children, she is also, generally speaking, a quiet neighbour to those of other families. Now, there are some among us of so hot a zeal that they will not consent to see how entirely we have been discomfited, nay, are somewhat impatient of being told the truth. Nevertheless, I have always made it the rule to keep the eyes of such worthy and thoughtless persons as wide open as I could to the real state of things; well knowing that the operation, though painful to them, is salutary to the cause they so manfully espouse, prevents them from throwing their pains away in pursuit of impossibilities, and secures them from the dangers which beset the walk of the blind. But why do I so confidently affirm that we never can rally with any effect round our beaten colours, that the Lords spiritual and temporal should be converted to our faith? For, observe, the Commons are substantially of nearly the same opinion with the Lords. All that the Government plan could there obtain, was a majority of four, and that on a question where all the minority were strongly of the opinion expressed by their votes; while many of the majority, who agree with them in their hearts, gave their voices to the Government, rather than turn the ministers, including some of themselves, out of their places. I know myself at least a score of men who disliked the Government plan on its own merits, yet voted for it to keep the Government in; I don't know one who voted against it in order to turn them out, and yet approved of the plan."—From Lord Brougham's Letter, as quoted in the Times of September 30.

It is perhaps unnecessary for us to say, how widely we differ from Lord Brougham with regard to the nature of a plan of popular education; our only motive in citing the above passage has been to show, from the confession of an opponent, and one also whose opposition has been most strong and active, how lofty and impregnable a position is occupied by the cause which we advocate, how deeply fixed in the hearts of the people of England, is the desire for a religious, a Christian, a Church of England education. And what renders the statements of Lord Brougham still more important and valuable, is the circumstance, that, as a means of proving his assertion, he makes some most striking admissions in favour of our national Church; and acknowledges her eminent gifts, her mild and tolerant spirit, and the deep root which she has taken in the affections and sympathies of the people. Honouring and revering the Church of England as we ourselves do, and we would fain hope that all her members are actuated by similar sentiments, we need hardly say with what cordial pleasure we hail these admissions; coming from such a source, they form the very best proof which could be desired, how widely spread is the conviction of the truth, the excellence, the great and urgent claims, and the invincible strength which the Church of our forefathers possesses.

We would then, with the greatest earnestness, urge upon every member of the Church, the absolute necessity of taking a part in the truly pious and holy work, of bestowing a Christian education upon the people. The means for carrying this great object into effect are ready at our hands, and only require the exertion of a little liberality on our side to make them available to the good of the community. In almost every diocese of the kingdom, a Diocesan Board of Education is established, under the presidency of the Bishop of the diocese, for the purpose of superintending and conducting a system of educa