"exercise the office of a criminal judge, in the case of "the woman taken in adultery, as related by St. John, "are all intelligible significations of our Saviour's sen"timents on this head. And with respect to Politics, "in the usual sense of that word, or discussions "concerning different forms of Government, Chris"tianity declines every question upon the sub"ject: whilst Politicians are disputing about Mo"narchies, Aristocracies, and Republics, the Gospel "is alike applicable, useful, and friendly to them all : "inasmuch as 1st, it tends to make men virtuous, "and as it is easier to govern good men than bad, men "under any constitution: as, 2dly, it states obedience "to Government in ordinary cases, to be, not merely a "submission to force, but a duty of conscience: as, "3dly, it induces dispositions favourable to public tranquillity, a Christian's chief care being to pass "quietly through this world to a better: as, 4thly, it "prays for Communities, and for the Governors of Com"munities, of whatever description or denomination

they be, with a solicitude and fervency, proportioned "to the influence which they possess upon human "happiness. All which, in my opinion, is just as it "should be. Had there been more to be found in "Scripture of a political nature, or convertible to po"litical purposes, the worst use would have been "made of it, on whichever side it seemed to lie." (Lord Lilford then concluded his speech in these words:}

"The measures proposed, appear to me, my Lords, to be entirely in unison with these sentiments, and not tending to any infringement either of civil or religious liberty: I would only further remind your Lordships WHOSE service is perfect freedom ?-It is the freedom of that service I would preserve unimpaired to the people of this country."

ON SPADE HUSBANDRY.

The declared object of our Publication being to disseminate useful knowledge, we with pleasure, at the request of a Correspondent, give insertion to the following extract from a respectable Agricultural Journal.

Ir is calculated that one man can cultivate, and keep in Garden neatness, six acres of land; the soil a Joam of medium quality-divided as under:

1 acres of Flax, to be succeeded by

1 acres of wheat.

ditto of Green Crop, such as Tares, Cab. bages, &c.

1 ditto of Barley or Oats,

* We think this is laid too high; very fair land might, we presume

to say, be had at a less rent,

EDIT.

"The flax might be dressed by the newly invented Patent Machines, and much of the labour attending this crop may be done by women or children. The ground, appropriated for green crop, might be made to produce two crops, (viz.) winter tares, and cabbages, and with the refuse of flax, &c. should support two cows annually; but I have only estimated the profit from one.

"I have made the foregoing calculation in the cottage plan, in order to reduce the detail.”

POPULATION, RENTAL, AND TITHES,

OF

ENGLAND AND WALES.

THE number of square statute miles in

England and Wales is,

The resident population in 1811, (exclusive

of the Army and Navy,)

Number of persons in a square mile,

Agricultural population, ditto,

$ 57,960 £29,476,352

2,353,249

10,150,615

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Scotland and Ireland are nearly equal in area, and

together equal to England and Wales. The assessed rental of Scotland in 1811, was

-

£3,899,364

VALUE OF LAND. Leicester and Somerset are deemed the most fertile, (Middlesex excepted:) averThe whole surface of England

age at 28s. per acre.

and Wales, at 17s. 2d. per acre.

BILLS OF MORTALITY.

A GENERAL Bill of all the Christenings and Burials, from December 15th 1818, to December 14th 1819, according to report made to the King's Most excellent Majesty, by the Company of Parish Clerks of London. Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls 1277; buried, 1149.

Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls 5592; buried, 4143.

Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surry, 13,256; buried, 9,922.

Christened in the 10 parishes in the City and Liberties of Westminster, 4175; buried 4014.

Christened, Males, 12,574; Females, 11,726; in all, 24,300.—Buried, Males, 9,671; Females, 9,557; in all, 19,228.

ACCORDING to a return which has just been laid before Parliament, the number of male and female pauper children, resident and non-resident, between the ages af six and sixteen, who were on the books of the several parishes within the bills of mortality, as chargeable to each parish respectively, on the 5th day of May, 1819, amounts to 13,430. The resident pauper children, are 7,087; the non-resident, 6,343. From 28 parishes no return had been made.

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A POOR Arabian of the desart, ignorant as most Arabians are, was one day asked, How he came to be assured that there was a God? "In the same way," replied he, "that I am able to tell by the print im'pressed upon the sand, whether it was a man or a "beast that passed that way." This simple argument may serve instead of a volume upon the subject.— How can it be otherwise, when the God of Nature has distributed to the most unenlightened nations, the blessings of reason and reflection?

THE FORCE OF TRUTH.

LORD LYTTLETON, and his friend the celebrated GILBERT WEST, both men of acknowledged talents, had imbibed the principles of infidelity from a superficial view of the Scriptures. Fully persuaded that the Bible was an inposture, they were determined to expose the cheat. Mr. WEST chose the Resurrection of Christ, and Lord LYTTLETON the Conversion of St. Paul, for the subject of hostile criticism, Both sat down to their respective tasks, full of prejudice and contempt for Christianity. The result of their seperate attempts was truly extraordinary. They were both converted by their attempts to overthrow the truth of Christianity. They came together, not as they expected, to exult over an imposture, exposed to ridicule; but to lament their folly, and to congratulate each other on their joint conviction, that the Bible is the Word of God. And their enquiries have furnished two most valuable treatises in favour of Revelation, one entitled, "Observations on the Conversion of St. "Paul," and the other, "Observations on the Resur "rection of CHRIST."