colony. Oh! that the Lord may interpose on our behalf. You can scarcely imagine how much we have had to endure in consequence of the rebellion of the Hottentots, it has occasioned such a bitter feeling against the missionaries. All our actions are suspected, and everything that could be said in the way of taunt and slander has been tried to draw away the faithful few composing our congregation from the rebels as we are styled; some few have not been able to stand the test, but I am thankful to say our numbers have not much decreased, and those who remain are more decided than ever. On Monday we had our bazaar for the sale of the articles received from the Camberwell South African Working Society, and other frends in England; I was laughed at for attempting such a thing, but we disposed of a great many things and placed £13 5s. in the hands of our treasurer. All the fancy articles I have received are now disposed of. We nearly had an uproar at the meeting held in the evening. A large party of men came determined to put down the meeting if anything were said in excuse of rebel Hottentots. But information having been given of their intention, great caution was used not to refer to the subject, and the meeting was quietly dispersed; the only way in which these gentlemen manifested their feeling was by putting leaden bullets in the plate instead of money." EUROPE. AUSTRIA. The Christian Times of January 23rd informs us, that the Constitutionelle Blatt aus Bohmen states that the members of the London Missionary and Bible Society, who have for many years resided in Pesth and other Hungarian towns had been ordered (it is not said by whom) to leave the Austrian States, and to direct their journey in obedience to a proscribed route. This route excluded Vienna, and the reverend gentlemen in question were consequently forbidden to visit the capital. It is further stated that these missionaries, most of whom are family men, solicited in vain a short respite for the purpose of arranging and removing their households. In reply to this request they were peremptorily informed that they must proceed on their journey on or before the 15th instant. We trust, it is added, that this will strengthen the expression of our desire that there should be public meetings of a devotional character throughout the country to consider these significant events. FRANCE. A. correspondent of the Christian Times, writing from Paris, January 21st, after giving a lamentable account of public affairs adds,"In the midst of all this it does not appear that we are to enjoy less religious liberty than under previous Governments. The Court of Appeal at Biom, in an affair that interested to the highest degree the liberty of worship-that of M. Lenoir, has just given a sentence which, adopting the doctrines of the Court of Cassation, acquits the pastor." After giving an account of the meetings of the Synod of the Union of the Evangelical Churches of France which have just been held, the same correspondent adds :-" The question of the freedom from military service of the young men preparing themselves for the ministry was examined. You know that all Frenchmen are called to the conscript urn at the age of twenty years; if they draw a bad number they are obliged to pass seven years in a regiment; a sum of money may exempt them from this service. It was said that the synod could guarantee nothing; and besides that the yonng men should not be in a more assured position than the churches themselves. An interesting fact was mentioned on this subject; a young and pious student, who was obliged to go as a soldier, found at Rome in the catacombs, an Englishman, who ensured the substitution, and sent him back to his studies. The situation of the Central Treasury is better than we had dared to hope. The friends who have kindly aided it, will hear with pleasure that our little churches are learning to give. It has been calculated that the thousand members which compose them have given 30,000 francs, £1,200. HOME. BURTON ON TRENT. The Rev. James Pulsford closed his pastorate with the baptist church at Burton on Trent on Sunday the 21st of December. His removal was caused principally by the increasing necessities of his family, and is much regretted by the church who are thereby left without a pastor. RAMSEY, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, A valedictory service was held in the baptist chapel Great Whyte, Ramsey, on Tuesday December the 30th, to pay a parting tribute of respect to the Rev. M. H. Crofts who, after sustaining the ministry in that place the last eighteen years, has removed to Andover, Hants. At five o'clock nearly four hundred persons of all denominations were provided with an elegant and substantial tea by the ladies of the church and congregation; and at six o'clock a public meeting was held, and after a few preliminary observations from the chairman, Mr. S. Newton the deacon of the church presented the late pastor with a purse of forty sovereigns, which was followed | by a suitable response from the minister, and three or four interesting speeches from other gentlemen. The usual doxology then closed one of the strongest demonstrations of public attachment and esteem ever witnessed in the county. Subsequently, by the divine blessing on his labours, a chapel was built and a church and congregation were collected. Mr. Grafftey is, we understand, now about to supply the pulpit of a baptist church, with a view to the pastorate. ANDOVER. The Rev. M. H. Crofts, late of Ramsey, Hunts, having accepted a cordial invitation from the baptist church in Andover, Hampshire, commenced his labours there on Thursday evening the 1st of January, 1852. The congregations are already increasing, and it is hoped the great Head of the church is affording some other tokens of his gracious presence. DARLINGTON, DURHAM. Mr. John Lewis, second son of the Rev. W. G. Lewis of Cheltenham, having accepted a cordial invitation from the church and congregation assembling in Archer Street chapel to become their pastor, commenced his stated labours there on Lord's day, January 4th. BINGLEY, YORKSHIRE. Mr. J. Dawson, late pastor of the baptist church, Princes Risborough, having received a unanimous invitation to the pastorate over the baptist church Bingley, entered upon his labours on the first Lord's day in January. BEVERLEY. The Rev. John Gregson, late of Elgin, Scotland, has accepted a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of the baptist church Beverley, vacant by the removal of the Rev. R. Johnston to Glasgow, and entered upon the duties of his office the second Lord's day in January. SHOTLEY BRIDGE, DURHAM. On Lord's day, December 21, 1851, a new chapel at the above place was opened for divine worship. The Rev. John Green of Newcastle-on-Tyne preached in the morning and evening; and the Rev. Wm. M'Leзn of Bromhaugh in the afternoon. On the following Thursday, being Christmas day, the public recognition of Rev. E. Le Fevre, late of Hail Weston, Hunts, as pastor of this very ancient and important church was held. In. troductory service by Rev. W. M'Lean; recognition prayer by Rev. Mr. Long of Stockton-on-Tees; the charge by Rev. John Green of Newcastle-on-Tyne; the address to the people by Rev. J. Walker of Hexam; and the concluding prayer by Rev. W. M'Lean. Suitable hymns were presented by Mr. Town, of Leeds. In the afternoon a public tea party was convened, when nearly three hundred persons sat down to enjoy the beverage that refreshes but not inebriates. In the evening two brethren were set apart to the deacon's office; introductory service by Rev. J. Walker; the charge to the deacons by Rev. Mr. Long; designation prayer by the pastor, Rev. E. Le Fevre; and concluding prayer by Mr. A. Sharp, of Bedlington. Thus closed a series of interesting services, all of which were well sustained, both by ability, attendance, and contributions. A considerable debt still remains to be liquidated, respecting which an appeal will be made to the liberality and sympathy of the Christian public. KEIGHLEY, YORKSHIRE. The Rev. J. Harrison has resigned his charge of the church at Keighley. LEICESTER. The Rev. George Grafftey, independent minister of Brassington, having changed his views on the subject of baptism, was baptized, along with Mrs. Grafftey on the 14th of January, in Charles Street Chapel, Leicester, by the Rev. T. Lomas. The processes through which his mind had passed in arriving at his present conclusions, and the reasons which had induced him to renounce CARLTON RODE, NORFOLK. the pastorate of the particular baptist church The Rev. P. B. Woodgate has accepted meeting for the worship of God at Carleton Rode. ROMNEY STREET, WESTMINSTER. infant sprinkling for believers' baptism, were We are informed that the Rev. H. J. stated by him with much clearness and force, Betts has resigned his charge at Romney so that the service was one unusually impres-Street, Westminster, and is expected to sive and interesting. Mr. Grafftey commenced the independent cause at Brassington is Romney Cottage, Portland Place, Clapham vacate the pulpit next month. His address in the year 1844, by preaching in a house. Road. The eighteenth annual meeting was held at New Park Street Chapel, on Wednesday, January 14th. prosperity, was preached by the Rev. J. The sermon, on spiritual George of Horsley Street. the Rev. W. Walters presided at the public In the evening meeting, when letters were read from twentyeight out of the thirty-two churches in association. Addresses were delivered by Benjamin Overbury, Lewis, and Fishbourne, and devotional exercises concluded by brethren Miall, Wallace, Howieson, Hinton, Blake, and Groser. The attendance was cheering; the reports from the churches on the whole encouraging, as showing a clear increase, though not so large as last year, and calcu lated to excite gratitude to God for his past mercies, and increased devotedness to his service for the future. RECENT DEATHS. REV. J. PRICE. This aged and esteemed servant of the Lord sweetly and calmly fell asleep in Jesus on Thursday December 18th, after a few hours' illness, consequently the baptist church at Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, is deprived of an under shepherd. He fought a good fight, kept the faith, finished his course with joy, and of him it might indeed be said, "For me to live is Christ, but to die is gain." MR. T. WHITTINGHAM. Died, December 18, 1851, aged seventyone years, Mr. Thomas Whittingham, thirtyfour years a member and thirty a deacon of the baptist church at Whitchurch, Salop. Throughout his lengthened course he was a faithful and consistent advocate of the doctrines he professed, and illustrated them by his conduct in domestic and public life. He was remarkable for steady attachment to the house of God and constant attendance upon the means of grace, sometimes under the most trying and discouraging circumstances; and for his activity in promoting the various objects which commend themselves to the enlightened servant of Christ, especially the scriptural education of the young,-having been superintendent of the Sunday-school for many years. After a life of active service he was enabled by divine grace to exhibit during a very trying illness an eminent degree of fortitude and patience, and entered the unseen world full of confidence in the Saviour he trusted and loved. Before his removal he had the pleasure of seeing some of his descendants, of the first and second degree, united with the church he had served so long and so well. MR. R. NORTON. Died, after a short but severe attack of typhus fever, December 23, 1851, aged thirty-five years, Mr. Robert Norton, of Lower Guiting, Gloucestershire. Mr. Norton survived his sister, Miss Sarah Norton, only six weeks (see Baptist Magazine for December, 1851), and thus has the church at Naunton and Guiting been unexpectedly deprived of two youthful but valuable members. Mr. Norton was baptized August 4, 1839, and to the end of his pilgrimage he was an honourable and useful disciple. By his death the sabbath school at Guiting has lost its superintendent, and all the members of the church a sincere and attached friend. His last hours were peculiarly peaceful and happy. Just before his decease he inquired of the nurse if she thought him dying, and on her replying, "I am afraid you are," he answered, "I hope you will not fear, for I do not." His remains were deposited in the burying-ground of the chapel at Naunton, in the same grave with his sister, December 27th; and his death was improved by his pastor, in the presence of a crowded congregation on the evening of Lord's day, January 4th, from Samuel i. 23, "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided." MRS. GOLDSMITH. The holy life and peaceful death of Mrs. Goldsmith, wife of Mr. Goldsmith, a deacon of the baptist church, Lewes, Sussex, affords a pleasing illustration of the power of divine grace, and as such is briefly recorded. the church of which she was a member a In the early part of last year Mrs. Her end was From what has been said of the character of her illness it will be seen that the case of our departed friend strikingly illustrates the admonition, "Seek the Lord while he may be found." She was deeply sensible of this, and was earnestly desirous that her relations and others should receive the lesson. "What should I do now," she said "if I had a Saviour to seek?" FRANCIS EARLE, ESQ. M.D. For nearly thirty years Dr. Earle was known to the writer of this notice, as one who rested on the one foundation on which the church of God is built and secured. 'Mid many changes, and, were he here, himself would add many failures, his faith and his hope were ever the same. As an infant in the arms of its parent, so he reposed on the Christ of God, well knowing that his security Mrs. Goldsmith was baptized and admitted arose from the loving heart and Almighty to the fellowship of the church in 1825, and arm by which he was upheld. He clung as was enabled to maintain the character of a one who saw all else to be untrustworthy-all consistent and faithful follower of Christ, there to be security. If others wearied and until she fell asleep, July 25, 1851. By went away his word was, "To whom shall I this event, her husband lost a most attached go but unto thee? thou hast the words of helpmeet, her relatives a faithful friend, and everlasting life." Blessed is such an one, "for flesh and blood hath not revealed this to him, but our Father in heaven. "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be the glory." Thou who hast begotten such art He who hast kept and dost keep them by Thine own power through faith unto "salvation ready to be revealed." Dr. Earle, though baptized on the profession of his faith in Christ Jesus, and from first to last in connexion with the baptists, was no denominationalist. He belonged to the church in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. His love there fore was to that which is the Lord's, and these were welcome to his heart, his hospitality, his pecuniary contributions and his professional counsels, whether found among conformists or nonconformists. His very extensive field of practice made too large demands on his time and strength to allow him actively to enter on many things for which he was qualified. It is the province, however, of the Holy Spirit to distribute gifts and draw forth their exercise in accordance with His own will. The sick room with its cares and its sorrows was the well-defined sphere of Dr. Earle's service, and in it he was ever found as the servant of God, and of man for the Lord's sake. In the family of the writer, as in many others, there are who can tell how his visits were desired, and his footsteps hailed by those who are no longer in the body; how a smile played on pallid and pain-stricken countenances as he entered their apartments and spake of their sufferings and mercies; how he cheered them as from a full heart he told of a Saviour, while he also prescribed for their bodily relief; and, where failing strength forewarned of approaching dissolution, how he directed the eye to Him who has abolished death and brought life and incorruptibility to light by the gospel. Often did he thus soothe the dying pillow, and stimulate the faith and hope of those whom Jesus was putting to sleep, and often indeed, where no other voice than his own was allowed to speak of Jesus, that voice has told to the declining sinner his awful condition, and the remedy divinely provided. It was on the 16th of May that the writer and his deceased friend last met and last parted. Neither party had a thought that their next meeting would not be until the first resurrection. But such is the fact. On the evening of the 20th he was attacked with vomiting of blood, and after thirty-six hours of severe suffering, with alternations of severe faintings, Dr. Earle fell asleep in Jesus, at his house in Ripon, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. Those dear to him, and who, as they tenderly loved him in life, survive to sorrow for his removal, but not as without hope, were with him from the commencement to the conclusion of his struggles. May the Lord's blessing be their portion, and in the lack of his valued care as a medical attendant may many with them be led to lean on Him who qualified and comforted Dr. Earle. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN GREAT BRITAIN. (From the Catholic Directory for 1852.) THE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Dioceses. Bishops. When consecrated. Popula tion of Diocese. Arch-Card. Nicholas Wise- June 8, 1840; translated from 2,413,589 man, D.D., Primate Westminster diocese. and Metropolitan ... ... Wm. Turner, D.D...... July 25, 1851. James Brown, D.D. July 27, 1851. 1,082,617 Thomas J. Brown, D.D. Oct. 23, 1840; translated from 883,773. O.S.B. Thomas Burgess, D.D.. July 27, 1851. Joseph William Hen- Sept. 10, 1848; translated from 1,202,619 Apollonia, Sept. 29, 1850. George Errington, D.D. July 23, 1851. dren, D.D. |