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Humble Walks of Life-Influence of Ignorance on the Performance of Ordinary Domestic Duty. Good Sense pervades the whole book, and many passages in it are very beautiful and impressive. The opening paragraphs we have transferred to our own pages in an earlier part of this number.

The Inquisition Revealed; in its Origin, Policy Cruelties, and History. With Memoirs of its Victims in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, England, and other Countries. Dedicated to Cardinal Wiseman. By the Rev. THOMAS TIMPSON, Author of Companion to the Bible, &c., &c. London: Aylott and Jones. 12mo., pp. 384.

If any would know what popery is, let them judge of it by such a work as this; which shows us its deeds when unrestrained by the force of enlightened public opinion, or the influence of scriptural and protestant sentiment. The history given in this volume, almost too horrible to bear reading, yet not too horrible to be true, supplies us with records so sanguinary and diabolical, that they "look like a diary kept in hell"-records, which stamp the system of which they are the exponents as of infernal origin; and indicate its only end to be the vengeance of eternal fire.

Wayside Gatherings. By RowLAND ELLIOTT. London: B. L. Green. 16mo., pp. 187.

The pieces composing this volume comprise various incidents and sketches of character, which are improved by the writer to enforce the great duty of seeking diligently and without delay the salvation of the soul; and to commend godliness as the greatest of gains,

both for this life and that which is to come. Originally published in a separate form, they have been already made instrumental in doing good, and in leading some to seek the things which make for their peace.

Oracles Interpreted; or Scripture Difficulties Explained. By the Rev. J. G. HEWLETT, Ph.D., Author of Thoughts upon Thought, Thoughts on the Holy Spirit and his Work, &c., &c. London: Partridge and Oakey. 12mo., pp. xii., 179.

This little work is well calculated to convey instruction to the young student of the bible; at the same time that it will help him to reconcile apparent discrepancies, and induce the acknowledgment that the truth of God is and must be harmonious in all its parts. Each portion concludes with practical remarks, commending the lessons taught by the subject to the heart and conscience of the reader.

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contemplate the life of Gregory of Nazianzum, with the aid of Dr. Ullmann, of Heidelberg. He is then introduced to the Rephaim, and their connexion with Egyptian history, and shown the fulfilment of Balak's prophecy respecting the destruction of Amelek. Alford's Greek Testament is examined in the next article; a favourable opinion of which is given, subject to important deductions. The Nature of a Miracle is then discussed, with especial reference to what is called electro-biology. After this we have a review of Beldam's, Neale's, and Churton's recent tours in Palestine. A translation of Justin's Epistle to Diognetus follows, with some critical remarks; and biblical intelligence derived from a variety of sources concludes the whole.

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Women of Christianity Exemplary for Acts of Piety and Charity. By JULIA KAVANAGH. Author of Women of France," "Nathalie," "Modeline," &c. With Portraits. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 8vo. Pp. 474.

An admirable gift book to a lady, and being elegantly bound, well worthy of a place on a drawing-room table. The subjects are well selected, and graphically sketched. The tendency is decidedly good, though perhaps there may be a dash more of asceticism than we should have thrown in. The portraits, including one of Elizabeth Fry, are finely executed. One Hundred Tunes selected from the Psalmist, and Adapted to Hymns in every variety of Metre Used in Public Worship. The Vocal Score. London: J. Haddon. 12mo., PP.

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terred a congregation from the introduction of Where the expense of the volume has dethe objection will be completely removed by the scientific tune book called the Psalmist, this cheap publication. The selection is made judiciously. It includes twenty-one tunes in short metre, twenty-seven in common metre, twenty-three in long metre, and thirty-three in peculiar metres: an assortment amply sufficient for use,-better indeed in some respects than a larger.

One Hundred Tunes selected from the Psalmist, and Adapted to Hymns in every variety of Metre used in Public Worship. The Trelle Part or Air. London: J. Haddon. Square 16mo., pp. 56.

This small book, containing the airs alone of the hundred tunes, is of course cheaper and more portable than the preceding which gives them in four parts.

Hymns Adapted to all the Different Metres, and all the varieties of Accent and Expres sion of the Tunes in the Psalmist. With an Index of Reference. Third edition. London: J. Haddon. 24mo., pp. 96.

This is a convenient collection for singers; but we wish that it had been so compiled as to allow its being used in practising tunes without the recital of words of a character too sacred to be uttered with propriety when the thoughts are occupied only with the music.

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A Lord's Day Manual for the Household of Faith; in Short Spiritual Discourses on a portion of Scripture for every Lord's Day throughout the Year. With Fifty-three choice Hymns, Original and Select. By CORNELIUS SLIM, Minister of Providence Chapel, Maidstone. London: B. L. Green. 16mo., pp. 275.

The Christians by whom this work will be valued most highly are such as are partial to the writings of the late Dr. Hawker of Plymouth, and the late Mr. Stevens of Meard's Court.

A Visit to Jacmel, and the Story of Diane. By T. RADFORD HOPE. Leeds: Heaton. London: Houlston and Stoneman. Pp. 40. A brief sojourn with Mr. Webley and his coadjutors furnished the materials for this tract, which will be found interesting by its readers generally, but especially by those of them who have some knowledge of the Baptist mission in Hayti.

Bradshaw's Monthly General Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Britain and Ireland. April, 1852. London: price 6d.

At the present season, when persons not much accustomed to travel are going to various parts of the country to attend public meetings, it may be convenient to them to be informed that the map, which accompanies this number of the well-known Railway Guide, is a great improvement on former maps, marking in red ink the page of the book at which the proper route may be found.

REC NT PUBLICATIONS

Approved.

[It should be understood that insertion in this list is not a mere announcement: it expresses approbation of the works enumerated,-not of course extending to every particular, but an approbation of their general character and tendency.]

Philip's Commercial and Industrial Atlas of the World, comprising Seventy-five Maps and Charts on a large Scale, constructed from the most Authentic Sources, accompanied by a Concise View of General and Physical Geography. By WILLIAM RHIND, Author of "A Treatise on Physical Geography." With a Copious Consulting Index of Places carefully compiled from the Maps themselves. By J. H. JOHNSON. Contents of Part II.:-Europe, Palestine; with descriptive Letterpress of Europe and the British Isles. Liverpool. Price 28. 6d. pp. 10.

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makes up a remarkable Year Book. London: Houlston and Stoneman. 12mo., pp. 114.

A First Spelling Book, By C. W. CONNON, M.A., Schools of Greenwich Hospital; Author of a System of English Grammar. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. pp. 72.

The Country House. The Ox and the Dairy. By W. C. S. MARTIN, late one of the Scientific Officers of the Zoological Society of London. London: Charles Knight. 12mo., pp. 142. Vol. IV.

What is Death? A Sermon delivered in Poultry vember 27th, 1851, on occasion of the recent Death Chapel, London, on the evening of Thursday, Noof the Rev. John Philip, D.D., for Thirty years superintendent of the Missions of the London Miscontaining additional particulars of Dr. Philip's sionary Society in South Africa. With an Appendix early Life and labours. By RALPH WARDLAW, D.D. London: A. Fullarton and Co. 8vo. pp. 56.

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A School Rate inefficient for insuring National Education, as well as politically unsound in Principle. By E. MIALL. A paper read at the Conference of the Voluntary School Association, holden at Manchester, on the 2nd and 3rd of February, 1852. London: Charles Gilpin. pp. 11.

A Few Plain Words on the Two Education Bills now before the Country. By JOHN HOWARD HINTON, M.A. Issued by a Committee of Friends of Voluntary Education, formed in London, for the purpose of opposing the said bills in all their stages. London: 8vo. pp. 16. Price Twopence.

The Eclectic Review. April, 1852. Contents: I. India and our Supply of Cotton. II. The Works of Fenimore Cooper. III. Wilkinson on the Connexion of the Human Body with Man. IV. Merivale's Imperial Rome. V. Patent Law Amendment. VI. Longfellow's Golden Legend. VII. Religion and Science. VIII. Roebuck's History of the Whig Ministry, &c. London. 8vo., pp. 126. Price 1s. 6d.

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INTELLIGENCE.

EUROPE.

FRANCE.

The religious aspect of the political change which has recently taken place in France is thus presented to view in the Christian Times, -a paper which has peculiar sources of information in reference to the Protestant Churches of the Continent.

"We need scarcely remind our readers that, since the coup d'etat of the 10th December, Louis Napoleon has given many decided proofs of his anxiety to bribe and conciliate to his cause the implacable enemies of religious liberty. The restoration to Rome of the church of St. Genevieve, so long known as the Pantheon, the interference with the independence of the University of Paris, and the suppression of colportage in many parts of France, have all been accepted by the Jesuits as an instalment of the price which they shall yet demand in full for their unscrupulous adhesion to an irresponsible despotism. And, as stated in the letter of our Paris correspondent last week, two decrees have been issued, by which another step in advance' has been gained, and a fresh proof given of a fixed purpose that, while the existence of protestantism may be recognised and permitted a little longer, yet that all spiritual freedom shall be trampled under foot.

"With regard to the National Reformed Church, its Presbyterian synodic system' is now utterly ignored and entirely overthrown. While the ancient protestant church of Hungary has been coerced by Marshal Haynau, and placed by Austria under martial law, the reformed church of France is deprived of its ancient organisation, and is subjected to the control of a central council, the majority of whose members are enemies of the evangelism embodied in the confession of Rochelle, and which is in itself the mere creature of the state. That central council appoints the pastors as well as changes their locale as it pleases, with the consent of the government;' and under this regime a rationalist may be transferred to an evangelical congregation, and the faithful shepherd may be dragged away from his beloved flock. If this system be carried out, it will tend powerfully to the extirpation of vital godliness in the national church. Aggressive protestantism only exists in connection with the power of living truth, and we have reason to believe that in their hatred of a common foe ration

alism and popery, like Pilate and Herod, have in this new scheme cordially coalesced.

"But a second decree falls still more heavily on the free churches in France not dependent on or in connection with the state, as the term Independent' in our correspondent's letter signifies. The Presbyterian ministers and people who, under the leadership of Frederick Monod, seceded some time since from the national reformed church, together with a few congregational churches who are closely affiliated with them, are now placed under the power of a law of previous authorisation,' which was only intended, when framed, to apply to political meetings, the liberty of religious worship having been hitherto left untouched. It is quite possible that this law may be armed with a retrospective power, and, if so, the rights of existing ministers and churches being forfeited, all future liberty to meet as separate assemblies may be entirely withdrawn from them. At all events the missionary stations in rural districts-every one of which was a centre of light and influence over a wide district-will now be broken up, and the advanced guard of the army of true protestantism will be forced to retreat, while pressing on to victory.

"It is with deep indignation and profound sorrow that we contemplate this 'beginning of the end.' The powers of evil have formed a confederacy alike crafty in its workings and cruel in its aims: and we cannot but anticipate greater evils for the modern representatives of Coligni and the Huguenots than any which have yet come upon them."

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The French correspondent of the same paper illustrates the alliance between the President and the Romish clergy by the following statement :-"The government papers have lately given us a circumstantial account of the ceremony in the Tuileries, of the presentation of the cardinal's hat to the archbishop of Bordeaux. The pope's envoy made a speech in Latin, of which the following is the essential paragraph: But what, above all, rejoices the heart of His Holiness are your noble efforts for the defence of order and public peace, and the protection with which you glory to surround our most holy religion and its ministers. Your lofty wisdom enabling you to appreciate how efficaciously the catholic religion and its salutary doctrine may contribute to found, with public tranquillity, the true and durable happiness of peoples, the sovereign pontiff has the certainty that your zeal, becoming more and more ani

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mated, you will neglect no means of favouring its progress in France, and of extending afar its action, its prosperity, and its empire.' The President answered: I hope by all my acts to deserve the august confidence of the head of the church, and to justify the opinion of which you are the worthy interpreter.' And, when in his turn, the new cardinal said: 'You have, my lord, by the addition of several members of the French episcopate to the senate, overturned the wall of separation which it had been thought proper in these latter times to raise between the spiritual and temporal powers,' the President replied: "Your eminence could not doubt of the high value that I attach to that peculiar prerogative of my position which permits me, a layman, to place upon the head of one of the princes of the church the insignia of the high rank he is about to occupy. This ceremony is not a vain formality; it is the emblem of the union that should exist between the spiritual and temporal powers, whose concord and perfect harmony aid so powerfully the happiness and peace of the world.""

PRUSSIA.

virtually anathematised by men whom we are taught to regard as thoroughly catholic in their spirit, and who, as such, have been received with enthusiasm on the platform of the Evangelical Alliance in this country. We need not say that we are not writing either for or against the peculiar view which 'baptists' take as to the mode and the subjects of baptism; but we write as evangelical protestants, remembering what services to the general interests of the whole church, and what a revenue of glory to the Saviour, have accrued from men holding these views in every part of the world. And we are confident that-independent of the prestige attendant on the names of a Hall or a Fuller, or the personal affection which draws so many hearts in the church catholic towards the many cherished brethren who labour amongst ourselves, as well as in the United States, where their denomination is more numerous than any other-there can and will be but one opinion in Great Britain among the true sons of the reformation as to the infamy which attaches to the system of persecution now being carried on towards protestant dissenters in Germany. In Prussia, as elsewhere, despotism in the state, impelled by fear of revolution, falls back on that accursed system which professes to hush the winds and waves of political discord into peace. The day of retribution for both is "While we thus record the oppressive coming, and when it comes, how tremendous conduct of the French government, and the crash of their fall! Meantime, the denounce it as it deserves, we feel that a heavens grow darker, protestantism on the peculiarly humiliating duty further devolves continent is imperilled, and who can tell, but upon us. It is only natural that popery that if Britain be in any measure faithful to should persecute whenever it has the power; her sacred trust, as the guardian of truth but what will our readers say to the same and liberty, that she may ere long be comconduct on the part of the protestant king-pelled to bear the onset of the combined dom of Prussia? We never ranked ourselves among the admirers of Frederick William. We could not endorse the intelligence and piety of a monarch who one day endowed a protestant bishopric at Jerusalem, and the next poured forth his treasures, and prostituted his patronage, to aid in the completion of the popish cathedral at Cologne. And since we heard from undoubted authority last summer that Jesuitism and kingcraft in Prussia had made a paction' that the one was to preach passive obedience to the people, while the other was to protect and facilitate, we were prepared to hear of overt acts of anti-protestant policy, such as have been recently indicated.

The article in the Christian Times to which we have referred above speaks thus of the state of things in Prussia:

"It is then the disgraceful and lamentable fact, that protestant Prussia is at this moment persecuting the protestant dissenters, and this either with the direct approbation, or the

forces of European despotism? Let prayer be made to God without ceasing for our brethren who are suffering wrongfully, and let all good men unite in a loud protest against the oppressors and their atrocious policy.

SPAIN.

A few months ago the Roman Catholic newspaper called the Tablet published an English version of a Concordat which had been agreed upon between the Pope and the Queen of Spain. It contained evidence as conclusive as any that the history of the darkest ages can furnish of Papal enmity against all liberty, civil or religious, especially the liberty of the press. An edict has just

The Concordat contains forty-six articles, the following are the first four:

"Art. 1. The catholic, apostolic, and Roman religion, which, to the exclusion of all other worship, continues to be the sole religion of the Spanish people, shall always be preserved in the states of her Catholic Majesty, with all the rights and prerogatives which it ought to enjoy according to the laws of God and the dispositions of the Sacred Canons.

"Art. 2. Consequently instruction in the universities, colleges, seminaries, and public or private schools of what class soever, shall be entirely conformable to the doctrine of the Catholic religion, and the Bishops and other diocesan Prelates, charged by their office to watch over the purity of doctrine, of Faith, and of morals, shall never meet with any obstacle in the exercise of this surveillance, even in the public schools.

"Art. 3. The Prelates and the other Sacred Ministers aforesaid shall never meet with any hindrance in the exercise of their functions; no person shall molest them on any pretext in whatever relates to the fulfilment of the duties of their office; on the contrary, all the authorities of the kingdom shall take care to render, and to cause to be rendered, to them the respect and consideration which are due to them according to the Divine precepts, and will see that nothing be done which can bring on them disrespect or contempt.

"Her Majesty and her royal government will lend their powerful patronage and their support to the Bishops in cases where they shall ask it, principally where they shall have occasion to oppose themselves to the malice of men who attempt to pervert the minds of the Faithful, and to corrupt their morals, or where they shall have occasion to hinder the publication, introduction, or circulation of bad or hurtful books.

"Art 4. In all other things belonging to the right and to the exercise of the Ecclesiastical authority, and to the ministry of the Sacred Orders, the Bishops and the clergy depending on them shall enjoy the full liberty which the sacred canons establish."

individual members; to ridicule the Roman Catholic worship or offend its ministers; to excite to its abolition or change, or to the permitting of any other form of worship; to suppose bad intentions in official acts; to publish, without previous permission, anything said either in writing or in conversation; to abuse or ridicule the constituted powers of any nation not at war with Spain; to publish, without the consent of those concerned, facts relating to private life, &c., &c. So closely reticulated is the snare which the priest-led Government of Spain has laid, for the smallest and least adventurous friend to liberty left in that fine but degraded country.

The following are parts of an extended description of offenders :

"Art. 28. Offends against public order :"1. He who publishes maxims or doctrines directed to disturb the tranquillity of the State.

"2. He who incites to disobedience of the laws or of the authorities.

"3. He who by menaces or sarcasm seeks to coerce the liberty of the authorities.

"4. He who provokes or foments dangerous rivalries amongst the bodies of the State or classes of society.

5. He who publishes alarming or false news with relation to public affairs.

"6. He who manifests fears of events which may disturb the general repose.

"Art. 29. Offends against society: "1. He who makes the apology of actions qualified by the laws as criminal.

"2. He who propagates doctrines contrary to the rights of property, exciting the poorer classes against the richer ones.

"3. He who attacks, offends, or ridicules classes of society, or corporations recognized by the laws, or offends the same classes or corporations for the defects of one of their members.

"Art. 30. Offends against religion or public morality :

"1. He who attacks or ridicules the Roman Catholic Apostolical religion and its worship, or offends the sacred character of its

Now then for the result. The Patriot of ministers. April 12, observes :

"The restoration of despotic power in Spain has been inaugurated by a stringent decree against the Press, which 'outherods Herod,'-in comparison with which the decrees of Louis Napoleon seem mild. Sarcasms levelled at public authorities, the promotion of rivalries among different classes of society, the publication of alarming news, and the manifestation of fear of evils which might disturb the public repose, are among the public offences to be restrained by law! It is further made a punishable offence, to attack, offend, or ridicule classes or corporations, either as such, or in the person of

2. He who excites to the abolition or change of the religion, or to the permitting of the worship of any other one.

"3. He who publishes writings which offend decency and good manners.

"Art. 31. Offends against the authori ties :

"1. He who publishes calumnious or injurious facts against persons who exercise public charges, employments, or functions, individually or collectively, of whatever origin or nature they may be.

2. He who supposes bad intentions in official acts.

"3. He who ridicules the official acts or the

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