handsome salary. Out of 5000 curacies in England, 4000 were under 150l. a year; and it was a curious circumstance, that while at Horsham the prisoners numbered about 300, and the chaplain had 160l. a year,-at Lewes, where the prisoners numbered 900, the chaplain had only 100l. a year. But what did they do at the Lewes House of Correction? They did not increase the salary and diminish the duty, but arranged that there should be morning and evening prayers, and that, including those duties, an average of four hours per day should be given for instruction. The chaplain should hold no other office, but devote his whole time and attention to the moral condition of the prisoners. There should be two full services every Sunday, and he should devote three hours a day throughout the year; for he could not devote his time better. It might be said that it was an irksome duty to instruct prisoners: no such thing-they were clean and humble, and the chaplain had never to encounter intemperance. He believed the curate here had not more than 100l. a year; and what had he to do? To attend marriages and births; to visit the sick, and various other things (hear, hear); but the duties of a chaplain to a prison were not half so irksome ; in fact, they were not irksome at all. There was nothing to counteract the efforts of a chaplain and if the prisoners turned out well, the chaplain had the gratification of saying 'This is my work.' But if they gave him other duties to perform, he could not attend sufficiently to the prisoners."

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It would be very easy to comment on the speech of Mr. Seymour, if it were worth it. The logic of a person who says, that because one set of persons is exceedingly ill paid, a salary exceeding them by 10l. a year must be a very handsome one, and that, because the curate of Brighton has only 100l. a year, it is quite clear that the chaplain of Horsham should have only 160l., might afford some amusement. And his exquisite conception of the duties and the feelings of a clergyman-his notion that visiting the sick was a dreadful duty, while there is nothing at all irksome in having nothing but felons to deal with, because they are not allowed to get drunk, is well worthy of his logic. But this is all nihil ad rem. There will of course always be magistrates who are unable to reason, and who are very ill-informed. But this is not the question. What are we to say of persons in the station of magistrates, and of a nobleman of high distinction, who think that 1607. is a very handsome sum for the whole and sole maintenance of a man just as much a gentleman in his feelings and education as they are, and in all human probability very far their superior in every possible particular, except that of rank and fortune. At Lewes, too, this liberal nobleman and gentleman expect the chaplain to give his services for 100l. a year. Those services are four hours attendance for 365 days in the year, in communication with felons, and two full services on the Sunday! The Duke of Richmond says, that after the two full services, he is to spend the evening in catechizing this his family! This-his family! If there is one situation under heaven more painful and weary to a minister of the gospel than another, it need hardly be said that it is that of a gaol chaplain. Every member of his congregation is accused or convicted of a crime-most of them are hardened criminals-most of them are under his care for a time so short as to preclude all reasonable hope of benefit. Then, worst of all, it is his sad task to do what can be done with those who are appointed to die-to see the struggles of sin, and ignorance, and fear, at the approach of a violent death,-and to attend the miserable culprit to the close. If there is one man on earth who is unfitted by his painful and most irksome duties from any other pleasure or refreshment than those of domestic life, it is the poor gaol chaplain. Common society can have little pleasure for the heart worn and weighed down with the constant intercourse with guilt and misery. The only refreshment for his spirit must be the indulgence of the calm, quiet, wholesome pleasures of domestic life. But these, says the Duke of Richmond, he should never enjoy. £160 is a very handsome salary! He is to have nothing else! As to family-his family, says the

Duke, are the felons; and, if he wishes for anything to refresh the spirits, at the close of a day of heavy duty, let him go and catechize them. Now the Duke of Richmond is quite right in saying that a gaol chaplain should have no other duty. But then they who say so are bound to see that he has a competence. They need not shew their utter contempt for the condition of a minister of God, by assigning 1607. as a very handsome remuneration for years spent in hopeless toil..

But this is not all. It is not only that Mr. Seymour and the Duke of Richmond wish to make the gaol chaplain's situation one of destitution-they wish to make him a slave. They prescribe the exact hours of service, and the exact number of hours which he is to spend every day in the gaol. They begin, in short, with shewing him, that they will not trust him; and 'then think that he can discharge his spiritual duties faithfully!

It may safely be put to the country at large, dissenters included, whether this is the way to deal with men who are to discharge spiritual dutieswhether they who think so are qualified to have a voice in the matter?

After the debate, the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Seymour retired, of course, to their carriages, their fine houses, and their luxuries, having sentenced one, probably their superior in every way, to slavery, toil, and destitution. What spirit can such persons expect such proceedings to inspire?

FEELINGS OF RESPECTABLE DISSENTERS.

(From the Evangelical Register; or Magazine for the Connexion of the late Countess of Huntingdon.) "THERE are certain things which a large and respectable body of the dissenters call 'grievances,' and which they desire to see removed. Let us not, however, class among these, 'Admission to the Universities:' they who object to the constitution of the establishment-they who have withdrawn themselves from her on doctrinal grounds-can surely have no claim to share in the instruction which that church, as a church, bestows on those who, in after life, are to be the pastors of her flocks, the spiritual guides of her people.

"There are some, however, who call themselves dissenters, and who, therefore, in the eyes of the world, are one and the same with those who are really and truly upright and sincere Christians, though less hasty in their modes of expression, but not less firm in the performance of their duties-there are some, we say, calling themselves dissenters, who, not content with the excitement which a general election naturally produces, seek to add fuel to the flame by intemperate addresses to the legislature: we are referring to the document presented to Sir Robert Peel from the_Dissenting Deputies' at Birmingham, bearing the signature of the Rev. (the Reverend !) TIMOTHY EAST. What must be the principles of such a deputy as this? Be what they may be, they are an insult to the body of dissenters, who, we hesitate not to pronounce, are as intelligent, well-educated, and gentlemanly in their conduct and deportment as any class of his Majesty's subjects. The language of this address is that of a spoiled child, who will consent to receive an orange at the hands of its nurse, but spurns at the same gift when presented by an affectionate mother.

"But should the dissenters consider that inertness on their part, on the present occasion, might be construed into carelessness, then let them come forward, as one man, with loyal addresses to the throne and the parliament, stating in respectful, yet firm language, like honest men, as they are, what they would have. Let them declare that they are not inimical to a church whose existence in connexion with the state is the best charter for their own; let them resolutely set their faces against all crafty and designing partizans and politicians; let loyalty to our King,' attachment to our constitution,' the preservation of rights, civil and political,' be their mottos, and they shall

prosper; yea, and not they only, but, more than all, the church of God shall prosper; peace and happiness shall be the lot of the nation, as we trust an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away, shall be here. after to every individual in it.

"Follow not the multitude to do evil!' is a motto which should have as much weight and authority with Christians now as when it was first uttered. Let us not be misunderstood: it does not follow that the most numerous party in any question is the multitude' whom we ought not to follow; else would there be no truth in the declaration—' in the multitude of counsellors there is wisdom.' But when we hear of threats and intimidation -when, as in Ireland now, we have a 'death's head and cross-bones' at the door of every one who acts contrary to the wishes of some great mischiefmaker-when force, not argument, is the order of the day, then that multitude follow not; and if you ask us why, we think we have already said sufficient to shew that only misery, in its utmost extent, can be the consequence. But it should ever be borne in mind, that this very anarchy and confusion is the sole object at which Destructives aim: they, we know, exclaim loudly against the charge, but their noise resembles more the clashing and the fury of the battlefield than of men seeking after truth for the truth's sake: they want equality, and they thus want an impossibility."

It ought likewise to be mentioned, that Mr. John Clayton, jun., has addressed a letter to the " Record," declaring, in terms highly creditable to himself, his own repugnance to a great portion of the language and proceedings of many persons who undertake to lead and represent the dissenting interest in public, and his conviction, from his correspondence with many dissenting ministers, that they generally reprobate the violent political proceedings, and unchristian attacks on the church, of the would-be leaders of the party. The "Record" justly says, however, that after all which has been said and done by so many public bodies of the dissenters, they who do not like Mr. Clayton openly express their reprobation of these proceedings, must expect to be included in the number of those who approve of them. This, perhaps, has become even more necessary than ever lately. For one of the most eminent and learned of the dissenting ministers-Dr. Pye Smith-who has usually maintained a tone of Christian feeling towards the church, has been goaded by the violent leaders of the party into the expression of sentiments almost as violent as any which have disgraced the hustings, or the Morning Chronicle," or the " Patriot" and "Christian Advocate." No one can dwell without severe pain on the remembrance that a person like Dr. Pye Smith should have allowed himself to be driven into saying, that among the English clergy ungodliness is the rule, and godliness the exception,-into actually calculating the exact number of respectable men among them, and other statements equally unchristian and unjustifiable. The only way to account for this is, that he could not go on, in any comfort, without freeing himself from the imputation under which he laboured, of being too charitably inclined to the church, and of being guilty of the crime of friendly intercourse with some of its members and ministers.

It is only fair to the dissenters to mention the important fact, that Mr. Robert Winter, for many years the secretary of the Committee of Dissenting Deputies, has resigned his situation, and has stated as one of the express grounds of his doing so, his objection to the line of policy pursued by the committee-his inability to be their instrument in carrying on measures which he thinks NOT CONSISTENT WITH CHRISTIAN OBLIGATIONS-his fears that these measures are sinking the dissenters into A MERE POLITICAL PARTY— his conviction that the unwillingness of the committee to oppose the violence and imprudence of certain dissenting leaders has delayed their cause, and injured their friends-and his belief that that violence is opposed to the wishes of a large majority of respectable dissenters both in town and country. Still this violence continues, and the authorized body-this committee-does not

oppose it. Consequently, it is impossible to give this large majority credit for sentiments which it will not express.

Mr. James, of Birmingham, has, on the part of his congregation, disclaimed Mr. East and his proceedings.

In the year 1833, the number of deaths in the whole Austrian monarchy was 065,731, which is 76,917 fewer than in the preceding year. The number of births was 815,293. Among the deaths were-by suicide, 724; hydrophobia, 35; by casualties, 5003; murdered, 422, (in the preceding year, 466;) executed, 36, (fewer by 17 than in the preceding year.) There were 450 persons who were above 100 years of age. The greatest number of murders was in Gallicia-viz., 105; those in Lombardy, 89; Dalmatia, 50; Venice, 46; Moravia, 30; Bohemia, 30, &c. &c.-Frankfort Paper.

This may be differently stated thus, as is more commonly the case:

DISSENTERS' SUBSCRIPTIONS TO CHARITIES.

“WHILE it (dissent) has done this, it has been made to contribute its proportion towards the support of an endowed church; and yet it has, as if refreshed by its exertions, greatly surpassed that church in its contributions of service and money to those greater efforts of Christian benevolence which are not of a sectarian, but of a general character."-(" Case of the Dissenters.")

INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING, AND REPAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS.

A MEETING of this Society was held at their chambers, in St. Martin's Place, on Monday, the 16th of February; his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair. There were present the Bishops of London, Lincoln, Lichfield and Coventry, St. Asaph, Gloucester, Hereford, and Bristol, the Right Hon. Sir John Nicholl, M.P.; Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., M.P.; Rev. Archdeacon Cambridge, Rev. Dr. D'Oyly, H. J. Barchard, Esq., George Bramwell, Esq., J. S. Salt, Esq., Samuel Bosanquet, Esq., Joshua Watson, Esq., George Gipps, Esq., Rev. H. H. Norris, Wm. Davis, Esq., Rev. Dr. Shepherd, Wm. Cotton, Esq., Rev. John Lonsdale, and others of the Committee.

Among other business transacted, grants, varying in amount according to the necessity of the case, were voted towards rebuilding the church at Much Birch, in the county of Hereford; building a chapel at Shotley, in the county of Northumberland; building a chapel at Brereton, in the parish of Rugeley, and county of Stafford; enlarging the church at Tarrington, in the county of Hereford; erecting a gallery, and re-arranging the pews in the church at Beyton, in the county of Suffolk; enlarging the chapel at Meltham, in the

* The object of the March Charity is to relieve the sick poor with domestic comforts. + Of the sixty subscribers to the Lying-in Charity (all of whom are ladies) fourteen are members of clergymen's families.